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Posted on February 9, 2019 by Point Pleasant Register
Blue Devils sweep Portsmouth, 55-37
GAHS senior Cory Call completes a fast break with a layup, during the Blue Devils’ 55-37 victory on Friday in Centenary, Ohio.
Gallia Academy senior Brendan Carter (21) goes up for a layup, during the Blue Devils’ 55-37 victory on Friday in Centenary, Ohio.
Gallia Academy senior Caleb Henry (3) brings the ball up court, during the Blue Devils' 18-point victory on Friday in Centenary, Ohio. (Alex Hawley|OVP Sports)
Gallia Academy senior Bailey Walker (44) knocks down a three-pointer over Portsmouth's Miles Shipp (32), during the Blue Devils' 18-point victory on Friday in Centenary, Ohio. (Alex Hawley|OVP Sports)
CENTENARY, Ohio — Every time the Trojans got close, the Blue Devils just pulled away again.
Ultimately, the Gallia Academy boys basketball team led wire-to-wire on its way to a 55-37 victory over Ohio Valley Conference guest Portsmouth on Friday in Gallia County, giving the Blue Devils the season sweep of the Trojans.
Gallia Academy (11-8, 7-5 OVC) — which defeated PHS by a 62-44 count on Jan. 15 in Scioto County —scored the first nine points on Friday and led 12-5 by the end of the first quarter.
The Trojans scored the first bucket of the second quarter, but the Blue Devils claimed the next 10 and led 22-7 with three minutes left in the first half. Portsmouth, however, closed the half with a 10-to-4 run, trimming the GAHS lead to 26-17 by the break.
The Trojans were within six points after opening the second half with a three-pointer, but Gallia Academy scored 13 of the next 18 points and led 39-25 with eight minutes to play.
Portsmouth started the fourth quarter with a 12-to-5 run, cutting the GAHS advantage to 44-37 with 2:50 remaining. The guests didn’t score again, as the Blue Devils scored 11 unanswered points to seal the 55-37 victory.
Following the win, GAHS head coach Gary Harrison talked about his team’s strong defense, but admitted there’s still work to do before the Blue Devils are ready for the postseason.
“I feel like we’ve played great defense all year,” Harrison said. “Even against Fairland the other night, it was 37-31, we held Fairland to 37 points. Coach (Jared) McClelland has the defense and does a great job with that. Portsmouth’s good, and they’re getting better.
“I still feel like we have a long ways to go before tournaments. I really think we can come together and be a tough out. Logan (Blouir) has been hurt, and I feel like guys have really stepped up and did a great job playing while he’s been hurt.”
For the game, Gallia Academy shot 20-of-44 (45.5 percent) from the field, including 4-of-14 (28.6 percent) from three-point range, while Portsmouth was 13-of-38 (34.2 percent) from the field, including 4-of-13 (30.8 percent) from deep.
Both teams attempted 14 free throws, GAHS making 11 for 78.6 percent, and PHS making seven for 50 percent.
The hosts won the rebounding battle by a 24-to-21 clip, with both teams grabbing seven offensive boards. The Blue Devils combined for 14 assists and 10 steals, while the Trojans ended with five assists, five steals and three blocked shots.
GAHS senior Cory Call — who recorded a game-high four steals to pace the Blue Devil defense — led all scorers with 19 points, combining eight two-pointers and one triple. Caleb Henry was next for the hosts with 14 points, followed by Bailey Walker with nine points on a team-best three trifectas.
Damon Cremeans scored six points for the hosts, while Cole Davis, Justin McClelland and Ben Cox tallied two points apiece, with McClelland dishing out a game-high six assists. Blaine Carter rounded out the Blue Devil scoring with one point, to go with a team-best five rebounds.
Matthew Fraulini led Portsmouth with 15 points, including nine from long range. Daniel Lattimore and MyQuel McKinley had six points apiece in the setback, Richie Bowman added five, while Miles Shipp had four points and team-highs of eight rebounds and two assists. Amare Johnson capped off the guests’ total with one marker.
Portsmouth’s defense was led by Lattimore with two steals and a block, and Shipp with two blocks and a steal.
Prior to the contest, GAHS honored its seven seniors, Justin McClelland, Cory Call, Bailey Walker, Cole Davis, Blaine Carter, Brendan Carter and Caleb Henry, playing in their final home game as Blue Devils.
Coach Harrison commended the Blue Devil seniors for their part in restoring success to the Gallia Academy program.
“I’m really happy for the seniors,” Harrison said. “I think it’s a nice way to go out, they all got to play, they all contributed and did a great job. They’ve been an asset to our program, they’ve really taken our program from being low to now being really successful. A lot of that is those guys being here for four years.”
After a non-conference trip to Point Pleasant on Saturday, the Blue Devils will get back to work in the OVC when they visit to South Point on Tuesday.
http://www.mydailyregister.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/02/web1_2.10-GA-Call.jpgGAHS senior Cory Call completes a fast break with a layup, during the Blue Devils’ 55-37 victory on Friday in Centenary, Ohio. Alex Hawley|OVP Sports
http://www.mydailyregister.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/02/web1_2.10-GA-Carter.jpgGallia Academy senior Brendan Carter (21) goes up for a layup, during the Blue Devils’ 55-37 victory on Friday in Centenary, Ohio. Alex Hawley|OVP Sports
Gallia Academy senior Caleb Henry (3) brings the ball up court, during the Blue Devils’ 18-point victory on Friday in Centenary, Ohio. (Alex Hawley|OVP Sports)
http://www.mydailyregister.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/02/web1_2.10-wo-GA-Henry.jpgGallia Academy senior Caleb Henry (3) brings the ball up court, during the Blue Devils’ 18-point victory on Friday in Centenary, Ohio. (Alex Hawley|OVP Sports)Alex Hawley|OVP Sports
Gallia Academy senior Bailey Walker (44) knocks down a three-pointer over Portsmouth’s Miles Shipp (32), during the Blue Devils’ 18-point victory on Friday in Centenary, Ohio. (Alex Hawley|OVP Sports)
http://www.mydailyregister.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/02/web1_2.10-wo-GA-Walker.jpgGallia Academy senior Bailey Walker (44) knocks down a three-pointer over Portsmouth’s Miles Shipp (32), during the Blue Devils’ 18-point victory on Friday in Centenary, Ohio. (Alex Hawley|OVP Sports)Alex Hawley|OVP Sports
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The most expensive car ever sold
Imagine a car that is worth more than the GDP of a number of countries. There is a popular phrase that goes “there are levels to this life thing”. If there was ever a situation that is befitting of this phrase it is the Ferrari 250 GTO or its price rather.
The car itself is extremely beautiful but the subject of this blog post has little to do with its aesthetics and more to do with its pricing. Regular readers will already be familiar with the GTO because it featured as part of the shortlisted cars in a recent article about the most beautiful cars ever made.
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While the Ferrari 250 GTO failed to make it on to the number one spot for the most beautiful car ever made it totally outdoes any competition when it comes to pricing. Nothing comes close.
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A 1962 Ferrari GTO broke the record for most expensive car ever sold at an auction. The car went under the hammer for R738m! Just to put this into perspective this means that the car alone was sold for more than the GDP of Tuvalu. This is a single car that cost more than the total market value of all goods and services from this country in a year!
The car was sold by Greg Whitten who is a former Microsoft executive and one of Microsoft’s first employees. Having bought the car in 2000 Whitten describes how at the time of purchasing and selling the car it was a better investment than buying Microsoft shares. He states that his reason for selling the car is that he prefers to race his race cars as that is what they were designed to do and not simply collect dust. The value of the car no longer allowed him to comfortably do this.
As if R738m was not enough, a 1963 version of the 250 GTO was sold in a private sale for R1.07b! This one was sold to Weather Tech founder David MacNeil.
Part of the reason for this cars desirability could be the fact that only 36 of these were ever made and its racing pedigree. Experts predict that if trends continue as they are the GTO will be valued at R1.5b within the next five years! The history and Pedigree of this car deserve their own comprehensive write up, but for now it surfaces to just say there are levels to this car thing.
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Remembering Duane Eddy’s Influence on Rock’n’Roll
Before The Beatles, this guitarist paved the way to top-40 hits.
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Before The Beatles came along and upended the established order, instrumentals were a staple of Top 40 radio, and guitar-slinger Duane Eddy led the field. Guitar Star picks up the story in 1962, after Eddy had scored his biggest hits, including “Rebel-Rouser,” for the Jamie label, but it’s a fine introduction to his music regardless. In fact, this engaging 22-track set makes a strong case for Eddy’s surprising versatility, encompassing everything from his signature twangy riffs and slinky blues to creamy easy listening. Among the collaborators are Lee Hazlewood (composer of “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'”), David Gates (future leader of Bread), and Darlene Love (from Phil Spector’s Crystals). If Eddy seems hopelessly dated today, there’s still no denying the enduring appeal of these kitschy gems.
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Subaru Impreza Replacement Coming, WRX Being Dropped?
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UPDATE: Previous rumors that Subaru might be dropping its WRX and sedan bodystyle when it launches the next-generation Impreza are claimed to be false, according to Subaru officials. The new Impreza range is still expected to be unveiled at the 2007 New York Auto Show in April.
Subaru’s not going to let Mitsubishi and its Evo/Lancer steal all the limelight. The company is set to strike back with the unveiling of its all-new Impreza during April’s 2007 New York Auto Show. Subaru will offer a new five-door hatch bodystyle in addition to the sedan, based on the unsightly B5 TPH concept car pictured above, which was previewed at the last Tokyo Auto Show.
The new hatch will stick with a horizontally opposed powerplant in either 1.5L or 2.0L guises, with drive being sent to all four wheels via Subaru’s symmetrical AWD system. To help its standing in Europe, Subaru will be launching a new range of turbodiesel engines that will most likely coincide with the launch of the new Impreza. There will be both 2.0L four-cylinder boxer versions as well as a 3.0L six-cylinder variant. However, the first models to get the new diesel engines will be Subaru's Legacy and Outback range.
Performance fans will be hurt to know that Subaru could possibly drop the WRX model in favor of focusing on its more potent STi range. According to reports, there are no plans to carry over the intermediate WRX model and instead the STI will move downmarket to fill the gap. Our own thoughts are that this information seems unreliable. The WRX brand is well known throughout the world for its promise of cheap, accessible performance and dropping it would be a mistake.
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Home Movie News Chris Hemsworth Becomes Superman In DC Movie Fan Art
Chris Hemsworth Becomes Superman In DC Movie Fan Art
Chris Hemsworth as Superman
A new piece of fan artwork shows Chris Hemsworth as the DCEU Superman. Thor and Superman have both been mainstream superheroes for decades, with the Man of Steel dating back to 1938 and the God of Thunder making his debut over 20 years later. As if people weren’t familiar with the characters before, their film appearances in the last decade have ensured everyone knows exactly who they are.
Hemsworth made his debut as Thor in the character’s first solo movie back in 2011. Thor had a big role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by becoming one of the six original Avengers, as well as returning for a total of six movies after his debut. There have been a few different versions of Superman in the last decade, but the most well-known is probably Henry Cavill, who made his DCEU debut in Man of Steel in 2013. Cavill has had a rougher time in his superhero role compared to Hemsworth, with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League both getting mixed to negative reviews. The actors have become known for their superhero roles, but what if Hemsworth took over the role of Superman?
New artwork from Apexform imagines what Hemsworth could look like as the Man of Steel. Hemsworth can be seen in the artwork wearing Cavill’s Superman suit, with the Superman statue from Batman v Superman appearing in the background. Apexform’s original tweet can be seen below:
What if @chrishemsworth was the Man of Steel?? #whatif #Superman #manofsteel #fanart #fancast pic.twitter.com/3GXbEzwEEm
— Apexform (@Apexform1) April 15, 2020
While both actors have become known for their roles, the possibility of their characters’ returns differ. Hemsworth is confirmed to return in Thor: Love and Thunder in 2021, and Thor might team up with the Guardians in Guardians of the Galaxy 3. While Hemsworth could keep returning as Thor for years to come, Cavill’s fate as Superman is currently unknown. As mentioned above, the poor critical reception of Justice League forced Warner Bros. to rethink their strategy with DC films, which resulted in them not solely focusing on building a cinematic universe like Marvel. Man of Steel 2 is still unconfirmed at this point, and with Robert Pattinson replacing Ben Affleck as Batman, its possible Warner Bros. could recast Superman as well. That being said, Cavill still wants to return as Superman.
With it being possible that Cavill’s time as Superman is up, fans have already started to wonder who could replace him as the Man of Steel. With all the actors to choose from, Warner Bros. picking Hemsworth would be unlikely. Hemsworth is still committed to Marvel at this point, and he is too recognizable as Thor to be given an even bigger role in the DCEU. With all that in mind, it doesn’t make the above fan art any less entertaining.
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5095_0065 "Lost in Space" Guy Williams, June Lockhart circa 1965 © 1978 Gene Trindl
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0758_0230 Marilyn Monroe "All About Eve" 1950 / 20th Century Fox
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3/22 Knob Noster
Varsity TBD Win 8 - 1
3/23 Cameron
3/27 at Hannibal
Varsity 3:00 PM Loss 0 - 6
4/3 at Mexico
V, JV
Varsity TBD
Junior Varsity TBD
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4/9 Fulton
4/10 at Kirksville
4/11 at Stover
4/12 at Moberly
Varsity 5:00 PM Win 10 - 0
4/16 Mexico
4/18 St. Paul Lutheran (Concordia)
4/23 Moberly
4/27 at Mexico
6 - 1 1 - 0
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4/30 Kirksville
5/1 at Boonville
5/4 Hannibal
5/5 Warrensburg
12:30 PM, 11:00 AM
2 - 3 (1 OT) 1 - 2
Varsity 12:30 PM Loss 2 - 3 (1 OT)
Junior Varsity 11:00 AM Loss 1 - 2
5/7 at Odessa
5/9 at Fulton
5/14-16 District Tournament
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49 killed in New Zealand Mosque Terror Massacre. TRANSCRIPT: 03/15/2019, The Rachel Maddow Show.
Guests: Julian Castro, Adam Serwer, Mehdi Hasan, Norm Ornstein, Cornell Belcher, Aisha Moodie-Mills, Marcy Wheeler, Elie Mystal, Carol Lamb
March 16, 2019, 1:00 AM UTC
Show: ALL IN with CHRIS HAYESDate: March 15, 2019Guest: Julian Castro, Adam Serwer, Mehdi Hasan, Norm Ornstein, Cornell Belcher, Aisha Moodie-Mills, Marcy Wheeler, Elie Mystal, Carol Lamb Show: THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOWDate: March 15, 2019Guest: Brigitte Amiri, Gavin Newsom
MADDOW: Thank you very much, my friend. Appreciate it, Joy. And thanks to you all at home for joining us this hour. Happy Friday. This has been a very, very newsy week and it is a very newsy Friday. This is going to be a big show. We`ve got a lot to get to tonight, including somebody who is here for the interview you are very much going to want to see here with me on set later on this hour. Of course, the dominant news story in our country and around the world is what happened in New Zealand, where New Zealand is still reeling, and I think much of the world is still reeling today after yesterday`s shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch. As of tonight, the death toll from the shootings stands at 49 people killed. Over 40 people were injured, including a dozen people who were described this evening by Christchurch hospital as, quote, critically ill. Initially, there had been four people in custody in conjunction with these killings. One of those in custody is believed to be the gunman. He`s already showed up in court in New Zealand today. Interestingly, New Zealand authorities announced that his court proceedings today and presumably his future court proceedings as well will be closed. They will not be open to the public. Nobody will be allowed to observe them. They`re describing that as a security decision. That may also have implications in terms of how much this guy wants to continue to try to be a propagandist for his terroristic ideas that led him to do this as he`s done in his online writings as well. Of the other people who were arrested besides him, police had said originally that it was two men and one woman who were arrested in addition to the guy who is believed to be the gunman. Police initially said they were picked up because at least some, if not all of them, had firearms near the scene of the crime. Authorities are now no longer characterizing those three people in any way, except to say that one of those people has since been released from police custody after it became clear that that person was actually trying to help police in stopping the event and he was not part of committing it. But these other two people who were arrested besides the guy who is believed to be the gunman, those other two people as of right now remain in custody. Now we know nothing about them and we know nothing about their potential complicity in this act. We also really don`t have a clear timeline as yet. The vast majority of those killed, 41 people were killed at the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch, but seven other people were also killed at a different mosque, at the Linwood Mosque, which is about three miles away. One other person later died at the hospital. We do know from the way that law enforcement has described that happened, the man in custody, the gunman, the man who is in court today, he drove to the Al Noor mosque first and killed those 41 people there, and then we know from the way police have described what happened that after the killings at the Al Noor Mosque, he got back into his vehicle and drove away. It is possible when he drove away, he drove to the other mosque three miles away and committed the other killings there. But I should tell you, that has not been explicitly laid out that way by police. They haven`t given us that level of detail. So that sort of hole in the timeline thus far, that in combination with the fact that other people are still in custody without police saying what their potential involvement in this might have been just means that some of the basics here remain unsaid and we still have a lot to learn about what happened. But as of tonight, a lot of people are still being treated for injuries. As I said, Christchurch hospital just said that as many as a dozen people are viewed as critically ill, which means, you know, the death toll may yet rise above the almost unbelievably high number of 49 people already known to have died. So, we will have more ahead on this still unfolding story tonight. This in part is going to be the subject of the interview that we`re going to do here on set tonight. But before we get to that, we`re actually going to start tonight with an exclusive, with a bit of a scoop. At the beginning of the Trump administration, there were a lot of somewhat strange personnel choices made by the incoming president. I mean, even in the cabinet.
Rick Perry for energy secretary, right? Rick Perry had not only proposed abolishing the Energy Department, he also appeared to believe that the Energy Department was the oil and gas part of the government and not the part that deals with, like, nuclear weapons. He didn`t even appear to understand that once he had been named the secretary of energy. So that was a weird choice.
Also remember the party planner for Eric Trump`s wedding was put in charge of housing in the northeastern United States. That was a weird choice.
Also, the president`s personal bankruptcy lawyer, his bankruptcy lawyer was named ambassador to Israel for the United States.
Also, the president really did make an effort to try to make his personal pilot the head of the FAA.
So there were some weird choices right off the bat.
One less high profile but equally weird choice came when President Trump picked a man named Scott Lloyd to be the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. That was a weird choice, too, because Scott Lloyd had never worked with refugees ever. He had never worked with resettling anyone, so the idea that he would be in charge of resettling refugees was odd.
What Scott Lloyd had done in his life is he had been a conservative activist lawyer from a Catholic group called the Knights of Columbus. He basically was an activist anti-abortion guy.
His body of public writings included stuff like this, quote: Facts about abortion, why you can`t be pro-life and pro-contraception. This was all about how birth control is the same thing as abortion and women shouldn`t be allowed access to either in this country. All abortions should be illegal for American women and birth control should be illegal for American women, too.
So that was his public profile before he got put in charge of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. If you want to know what happens when you put somebody with that pedigree and that experience in charge of randomly refugee resettlement in this country, well, now we`ve done that as a country. So, now, we know how that works out.
Here is a headline from the "L.A. Times," December 2017, Trump official sought to block abortion for 17-year-old rape victim. Scott Lloyd is the Trump official in question. Part of this scandal was him writing a memo outlining his reasoning for blocking a teenage rape victim from accessing abortion.
Quote: I`m convinced that assisting with an abortion in this case is not in her best interest. I am mindful that abortion is offered by some as a solution to a rape. I disagree. And then he tried to block her from getting an abortion, using his status as a federal official in charge of this Refugee Resettlement Agency in order to do it.
The 17-year-old in that case, the 17-year-old girl who had been raped, she was one of many kids who arrived in the U.S. applying for refugee status. She was sent alone to a shelter operated by the Trump administration. At some point along the way, she found out that she was pregnant as a result of that rape.
In America, it does not matter whether you are an immigrant or not. It doesn`t matter your age. It doesn`t matter where you`re from. In America, you have a constitutionally protected right to get an abortion if you want one. The government is not allowed to stop you from getting one if you want one. That is a decision that you are allowed to make for yourself. It is protected by the Constitution.
But when Scott Lloyd took over the Office of Refugee Resettlement, he became the guy who was in charge of all of those kids. And he decided he would make it his first priority in that job to block any girl who came into the clutches of that agency he was running, he would block any girl under his purview at that agency from getting an abortion.
The only reason that 17-year-old rape victim from that 2017 case, the only reason she eventually was allowed to get an abortion, and the only reason we know about her plight is because she found her way to lawyers at the ACLU who took her case, who sued the government on her behalf and won. She was the first Jane Doe in the case. She decided she wanted an abortion.
It`s interesting, in her case, she had raised the funds needed to pay for it herself. She had gotten a judge in Texas to explicitly grant her permission to get the abortion, despite the fact that she had no way of getting parental consent for it. She had arranged for travel at her own expense to and from her doctors appointments necessary for her to get the abortion.
But still, Scott Lloyd`s agency, the federal government agency he was running wouldn`t let her leave the shelter to go to the doctor. That is what ultimately became a class action lawsuit led by that pregnant teenage girl who has literally being forced to continue this pregnancy against her will by the U.S. government until the ACLU intervened to take her case and won it.
Brigitte Amiri is the ACLU attorney who sued on her behalf and we talked to her about it at the time.
BRIGITTE AMIRI, ACLU ATTORNEY: They were literally holding her hostage, blocking the door, preventing her from obtaining an abortion. And I do believe that that was their goal, to hold her hostage until she carried this pregnancy to term against her will.
MADDOW: Brigitte Amiri talking about her client who had the name in court of Jane Doe.
As that case made its way through the courts, the ACLU kept turning up more Janes, more girls who were being held in shelters overseen by this guy, Scott Lloyd, who were being blocked from getting an abortion.
And it soon became very clear why. This was not just some fluke thing where somebody, like, wasn`t properly trained or something. This was an official policy of this agency under this Trump administration official, Scott Lloyd.
Brigitte Amiri, the ACLU attorney, she got to depose Scott Lloyd as part of that ACLU lawsuit. Here`s how part of that went.
AMIRI: You`re personally opposed to abortion, correct?
SCOTT LLOYD, OFFICE OF REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT DIRECTOR: Yes.
AMIRI: You`ve written on the subject?
LLOYD: Yes.
AMIRI: You`re personally opposed to contraception, correct?
LLOYD: Depends.
AMIRI: You wrote an article that said in order to be pro-life, you need to be anti-contraception?
LLOYD: That was the title of the article. Something along those lines.
MADDOW: Yes, something along those lines. Something like the title of the article "Why you can`t be pro-life and pro-contraception." Something along those lines. So those are his views.
Brigitte Amiri from the ACLU goes on to ask him about how it is when he`s running this agency that essentially controls the fate and controls the physical movement of all of these girls who are in this country because they`re asking for asylum, how it is that all of these girls in that agency that he`s running keep getting blocked from accessing abortions. And watch what she gets him to admit.
AMIRI: Have you ever approved an abortion request in your time as ORR director?
LLOYD: No.
AMIRI: Are there any circumstances under which you would approve an abortion request?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Objection. Calls for speculation.
LLOYD: I`m not going to answer that.
AMIRI: You can still answer it even though --
LLOYD: I don`t know.
AMIRI: You`ve denied abortion requests, correct?
AMIRI: You`ve denied abortion requests even in the context where the pregnancy is a result of rape, right?
MADDOW: So the way the system was working under the Trump administration is that Scott Lloyd was in charge of this agency. When a teenage girl who was a rape victim made her way to the United States seeking help in this country, she has to get permission from Scott Lloyd personally to get an abortion, because he`s weighing in on all of these cases, blocking these girls from getting it.
And so, Scott Lloyd has appointed himself the gatekeeper about whether or not the girls are allowed to access the thing they`re supposed to have a constitutional right to get. He`s appointed himself a gatekeeper and it turns out he`s never granted that permission any time someone has come to that gate. And he doesn`t know under what circumstances he ever would grant that permission. So, this was starting to look like a de facto U.S. government Trump administration policy.
That deposition with Scott Lloyd was released in February of last year as the lawsuit was still ongoing. Then in April, "The New York Times" reported something that began to shed a little bit of light on how that policy was carried out. "The New York Times" reported that Scott Lloyd, quote, has instructed his staff to give him a spreadsheet each week that tells him about any unaccompanied minors who have asked for an abortion and how far along they are in their pregnancy.
In at least one case, he directed staff to read to one girl a discrimination of what happens during an abortion. And when there is a need for counseling, Mr. Lloyd`s office calls on someone from its list of preferred life affirming pregnancy resource centers. So, he was keeping a spreadsheet with details that amount to a record of pregnant teens` menstrual cycles and he was using that information individualized to these individualized girls, teenagers, and some of them younger, to block them from accessing abortions that they wanted to get.
After "The New York Times" reported that that spreadsheet existed somewhere inside the federal government, a progressive super PAC called American Bridge filed a Freedom of Information Act request asking the government to hand over that spreadsheet, since that`s apparently federal government property and federal government employees are doing that, tracking these individual girls` menstrual cycles and how far along they are in their pregnancies as federal employees, as people who are working at a federal agency for the purpose of controlling what happens to those girls` pregnancies.
Well, this week, much to the surprise of the people at American Bridge, as far as we can tell, the Trump administration did hand that spreadsheet over, and tonight we have obtained it. And it`s -- it is a -- it is a remarkable thing to look at.
Here it is. It is 28 pages long. Let me just show you what we`re looking at here, as best as we can tell. When the government released this document because of the Freedom of Information Act request, they sent it as a PDF document. So they didn`t send it as a spreadsheet you could look at as a spreadsheet. That just means the titles of the columns are collapsed in some cases, but we think we know what each of these things means.
The first column, we believe, is the date where the pregnancy was reported. Second column we think is how the pregnancy was reported. How government officials found out about it.
The next column contains an alien identification number, which is a unique identifying number for each of these kids who has come over to ask for asylum. The government has redacted those here because that would identify these specific girls in this document. But Scott Lloyd had access to that unique identifying information for each girl. Next is each girl`s age on this document, the girls` ages range from 12 to 17.
Next is the name of the shelter where each girl is being held. Then we think this next column is the day each girl was admitted to the shelter. We`ve partially redacted this column ourselves because it seems like this kind of information could be used in some bank shot if somebody was trying to identify some of these women at some of these shelters, so we`ve redacted some of that ourselves.
And then you have in this U.S. government document the results of their pregnancy tests. They all say positive, positive, positive. Then you have the U.S. government`s calculation of the estimated gestation age, how far along these pregnancies are, tracking them for each of these girls.
Then, the next line is whether the pregnancy is believed to be the result of consensual sex or not. U.S. government keeping track of that for each of these girls on this federal government employee-provided spreadsheet. Then whether or not it was reported as a sexual assault, all those column lines, either reported, not reported, reported, not reported.
Then the second to lamb column is TOP requested. TOP in this context we think means termination of pregnancy. So the question of whether or not this girl has asked for an abortion.
They`re keeping track of that with each of these girls, including their age, how far along they are in their pregnancy, the gestational age of the fetus as believed by the federal government, the circumstances under which the girl may have become impregnated, whether or not it was reported as a sexual assault. And is she asking for an abortion? The federal government is tracking all of this for each individual girls, down to age 12.
And then, finally, the last column is reserved to notes on each case. You can zoom in on that notes case. In one case they`re talking specifically about the timeline of the girl`s last menstrual cycle as being tracked by the Trump administration, except they spell menstrual wrong.
This is literally the federal government tracking a 15-year-old`s period because of what the federal government plans to do about it.
Let`s look at one entry and detail here. This is sort of one at random. Just so you can see the kind of data they were collecting.
This is a case from March of last year, March of 2018. It`s a 14-year-old girl being held in a shelter in Illinois. She`s believed to be about one month pregnant from nonconsensual sex, 14-year-old girl. As you can see in the notes column, it says assaulted by unknown assailant in COO, which we believes country of origin here.
So this is the federal government with your tax dollars keeping an individualized record of pregnant teenage girls` menstrual cycles, whether they`ve had a positive pregnancy test, what the government knows about how they believe the girls got pregnant, how they believe this individual girl got pregnant and whether this girl has requested an abortion and then the last column, the last column supports what the federal government is doing about it. And this record was being kept for the express purpose of subverting any of these girls` ability to get an abortion. This was essentially a spreadsheet designed to facilitate federal government action to block these girls from getting any abortion they might want, can`t imagine why any of them would want that given the circumstances described in the cold, hard spreadsheet cells.
When you look through this 28-page document, I mean, it`s full of teenagers, in some cases girls who aren`t yet teenagers who report being raped and being pregnant as a result. And here is Scott Lloyd, Trump administration appointee, compiling this information about these girls and using it so he can intervene as a government official to block each after these girls individually from being able to get the abortion they have asked for. All the while he was tracking in an ongoing way how far along each girl in her pregnancy was. How long he could delay it until it was illegal, right? How much he had to keep blocking her from leaving the shelter that he controlled until she`d be legally forced to give birth thanks to the U.S. federal government.
So this document has never been seen before. This is not the sort of thing we`re used to seeing. This is not the sort of thing we expect our government to be keeping tabs on in the modern era.
But there is one other element of this that I think is, for me, part of this that made me want to sort of close the door and yell at this story a little bit. The part, to me, that is actually the most shocking part of it, because, remember, the ACLU had sued to stop Scott Lloyd from blocking these girls` access to abortion, right? They did very well in that suit.
On March 30th of last year, they won a major victory in that case. Not only had the original Jane Doe been allowed finally to get the abortion that she had been seeking, on March 30th, a federal judge granted class action status to that case and ordered Scott Lloyd and anybody else in charge at the Trump administration`s Office of Refugee Resettlement that they need to by court order stop interfering with or obstructing any class member`s access to a judicial bypass, to a medical appointment related to pregnancy dating, nonbiased counseling, abortion counseling or any pregnancy-related care.
So, as of March 30th last year, the courts have stepped in and stopped this. The court March 30th tells Scott Lloyd, this Trump administration appointee, that as a federal official, he needs to stop interfering with these girls` decisions about whether or not they`re going to get an abortion. March 30th was that order from the court.
So, we called up Brigitte Amiri today when we obtained access to this document, this ACLU lawyer who had fought this case. And one of the things she told us is that among the things that was most shocking about this document, which she had never previously seen, was that the dates on the spreadsheet show that Scott Lloyd kept tracking all the girls` pregnancies and their menstrual cycles for months after that court ruling. That court ruling ordering him to stop interfering with access to abortion.
I mean, all of these dates on the first page are from June of last year. He was supposed to stop this stuff in March. He just kept doing it.
And we don`t know if Scott Lloyd continued to physically block girls from access to abortion services the way he was before the court ruling after he was ordered not to by a federal judge, but we do know thanks to this document uncovered this week, which we are making public for the first time, we do know he kept on tracking them regardless of what the court told him.
Why would he want to keep a detailed record of individual girls` menstrual cycles and the pregnancy status of girls and the means by which they became pregnant and the desires whether or not they wanted to have an abortion? Why would he want to keep all of that detailed information, up to date, week by week for all of these girls if he had pledged that he wasn`t going to do anything else to block them from getting what they wanted?
I mean, we don`t know. We put in a request to HHS to speak with Mr. Lloyd or get a response from the department tonight. An HHS spokesperson told us, quote, we can`t comment because of ongoing litigation on the matter.
But the fact that this spreadsheet is being produced on your dime, this is what the federal government does now with individual girls in this circumstance -- well, that`s where we are.
Joining us now is Brigitte Amiri. She`s deputy director of the ACLU`s Reproductive Freedom Project. She`s the lawyer fighting this case in court.
Brigitte, thank you for being here. I appreciate you helping us validate this document today and understand what we`re looking at.
AMIRI: Thanks for having me.
MADDOW: I`m right you had not seen this document before we obtained it today.
AMIRI: I had not.
MADDOW: There had been reporting that the Trump administration was tracking girls at this level of detail in this one agency. Seeing the document, to me, first of all, has a visceral effect. But it`s also -- it struck me when I read that earlier reporting, I had no idea it was going to be this detailed.
Did you know that this was the level of information the government was tracking?
AMIRI: I had a sense it was. I asked Scott Lloyd at his deposition in February about what kind of reports he was getting, because at that point, we knew through emails that we had obtained that he was getting weekly reports. So, I had a sense it was at least this level of detail.
But you`re right, seeing it together and all of these young women and their specific requests for abortion was really quite surprising.
MADDOW: As you told us today when we called you to get your take on this and before we asked you to come on the air tonight, you said that it seems shocking or it at least surprising that this level of tracking information about all of these individual girls continued, even after the court order in your case, which blocked Lloyd from intervening, blocked the Trump administration from intervening to stop these girls from getting abortions.
Is there any reason that you know of or that HHS might have put forward in your litigation that would explain why they`d need to track this information about these girls, up to and including the date of their last menstrual period if they weren`t going to use it to try and continue blocking them from getting abortions?
AMIRI: There is no legitimate government reason to track this information at all. We don`t know that there has been any attempt to block any of these young women, but it`s curious and I would say creepy that Scott Lloyd was continuing to get this level of information about these young women and their pregnancies, even after we got the court order, and I think you`re right, for what purpose? We are not aware of any obstruction attempts, but it is concerning and kind of bizarre.
MADDOW: Mmm-hmm. Yes, I mean, seeing this -- seeing -- the other thing, to me, that I think was visceral. You first look at it, it takes awhile to figure out what you`re looking at. Then you realize the level of personal information that they`re getting here and then you realize you`re looking at 28 pages of it.
AMIRI: Right.
MADDOW: Part of it is also the volume that there was this many girls that they were tracking at this level of detail. Did you know that it was this many girls who they sort of had their eyes on in this way?
AMIRI: I didn`t know it was this level of girls they had information on. We knew there were hundreds of young women who were pregnant in custody. A number of them, some subset of them were seeking access to abortion, but I did not know there was this level of detail for this many women.
MADDOW: Brigitte, as I mention, the HHS spokesperson late tonight contacted us, returned our call when we had asked for comment and they just said they can`t comment because of ongoing litigation. What is the status of the litigation here?
AMIRI: So our injunction is still in place and the government appealed it. We`re waiting for a decision from the court of appeals, but in the meantime, the government is prohibited from obstructing or interfering with access to abortion for all unaccompanied pregnant minors in their custody. And if anyone has any issues, any concerns, any witness to any problems, they should give the ACLU a call.
MADDOW: Do you anticipate on privacy grounds or on any other ground -- I don`t think you can sue for creepiness, maybe Margaret Atwood can sue for copyright infringement. But do you anticipate there will be further legal action simply on the basis of the fact that the federal government has been tracking this level of personal information on uniquely identified girls at such -- to such an extent and for so long. Might this be a cause for additional action on its own?
AMIRI: It`s a good question. I just saw the document a little bit ago.
Certainly I`ll be talking to my team and we`ll discuss it further.
MADDOW: All right. Bridget Amiri, deputy director of the ACLU`s Reproductive Freedom Project, again, thank you for helping us today, even before you knew you could come on tonight. And thanks for being here.
AMIRI: Yes, thank you.
MADDOW: All right. Yes, as I mentioned, that is an exclusive here you won`t have heard that story anywhere else.
That document was not obtained by my staff. It was obtained by this super PAC American Bridge. We are being transparent about that sourcing. They provided it to us so that we could make it public.
But, again, we expect because it was handed over by HHS as a result of a FOIA request that this is now fair game for further reporting by any other news organization.
All right. Much more to get to tonight. Stay with us.
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MADDOW: Today at the White House, the president expressed condolences for the people who were killed and injured in the horrific terror attack in New Zealand, where at least 49 people worshipping at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, were shot dead by a man who appears at this point to be a white supremacist anti-immigrant gunman who apparently proclaimed his intentions and his motives in a rambling online manifesto where he ranted about how immigrants were a terrible invasion and how someone needed to stop these invaders, and how he was going to be the one to do it.
So, President Trump expressed condolences for that attack today. When he chose his setting for expressing those condolences, he chose to make those remarks at the White House photo-op where he was set to make a big show of vetoing the bill just passed by Congress that would stop him from using an emergency declaration as a way to try to build a wall between the United States and Mexico. So, he is using the veto photo-op to talk about New Zealand.
The way this goes in order is that he starts off by expressing his upset over the New Zealand massacre carried out by the anti-immigrant zealot who wrote his manifesto about stopping his invasion. Then the president immediately went on to his next thought which was saying about his border wall, quote, it is definitely a national emergency. Rarely have we had such a national emergency.
Quote: It is a tremendous national emergency. It is a tremendous crisis. We are on track for a million illegal aliens to rush our borders.
Quote: People hate the word invasion, but that is what it is. It`s an invasion, these immigrants. It`s an emergency. We have to stop them, the president says today, moments after expressing his condolences for what happened in New Zealand less than 24 hours ago.
Right now, the largest state in the country, the largest state in our country is pretty much openly confronting the president on his position on the border and on immigration. California Governor Gavin Newsom has already announced the withdrawal of some California National Guard troops from the southern border. He said that troop withdrawal was intended to, quote, refocus on the real threats facing the state.
Governor Newsom redeployed a third of those troops to prepare for the upcoming fire season in California. I should tell you, California is also one of the 16 states suing the president over his emergency declaration to try to build his wall.
Joining us now for the interview here in studio is California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Governor, thanks very much for being here.
GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM (D), CALIFORNIA: It`s great to be here. Thank you, Rachel.
MADDOW: So when I asked you to come in and be on the show tonight, I didn`t exactly know what was going on in the news.
NEWSOM: Yes, tough.
MADDOW: I have to ask you in the wake of what we believe has happened in New Zealand. I mean, we know about the extent of the violence and the terrorist attack that was committed. We are learning more about what the gunman may have intended.
What`s your reaction?
NEWSOM: Well, it`s interesting. I mean, the way you just set this up, invaders. It`s just an interesting fact last week when we opened an asylum center for people that are coming through the border legally, coming through the border, San Ysidro border, the busiest border in the western hemisphere, legally surrounded during my announcement were all these Trump supporters with signs saying invaders.
MADDOW: Wow.
NEWSOM: That language is real. It`s out there. It`s part of the body politic. It is intentional.
And to hear him say that tonight in light of what happened in New Zealand is an outrage and people should be, I think, more -- well, more intense about that than pretty much anything else that they heard today.
MADDOW: Let me ask you about -- I have interviewed you a few times. You`ve had different jobs in public service, as mayor of San Francisco and as lieutenant governor in California. Now as governor of California, and California is such an important state in terms of size of its population, the size of its economy, its influence in the country and around the world.
NEWSOM: Yes.
MADDOW: You obviously have a totally different take on the issue of immigration.
MADDOW: And asylum and the border than the president.
MADDOW: But there is a question about governing differently when it comes to those issues that is different than how you win the argument, how you win the fight with somebody who is using those issues for the kinds of ways the president -- this president is using it. Do you see those as two different things? Is it the same challenge?
NEWSOM: No. I think they`re very distinctive challenges. I love what you just said.
Look, let me sort of set this up. California is the most diverse state in the world`s most diverse democracy. We are a majority minority state. We`re a universal state that practices pluralism, meaning we are actively engaged in diversity. Meaning we are celebrating not just tolerating our diversity.
We`re a universal state also in this respect, we brought in 112,000 refugees just in the last 15 years. Where the federal government walks away, we step up and step in. As I said, we were dumping people out on the streets and sidewalks, 60 to 180 families every single night legally coming through our border were being dumped off in the bus stations, dumped off on the streets and sidewalks.
The federal government doing nothing for them. The state of California put 25 million up to create a first of its kind migrant shelter. And we did it because of our human capacity to empathize and also because we`re a welcoming people and we believe in the American dream and we believe it should be afforded to anyone who seeks it legally.
The Trump administration does not feel the same. They are making this a national emergency -- legal migrants seeking asylum. Last year, here are the facts, last year, we had the fifth lowest illegal border crossings since 1973 in 46 years, the fifth lowest in 46 years.
The crisis is nothing more than legal asylum seekers coming through the border, a crisis that is not just manufactured in the context of the larger issue, but is substantively manufactured with intentionality by the Trump administration that is metering those crossings, doing nothing to help support these people and actually creating the conditions that they`re condemning.
This is a farce. It`s political theater. And the fact is California is not going to play part of that.
Now, how do I make that an argument that can attach itself --
MADDOW: Leading by example in a different way is one thing. Confronting them, defeating them in argument, winning the battle, winning the war of ideas around this stuff is --
NEWSOM: Harder.
MADDOW: Something in addition to that.
NEWSOM: That`s it. Look, so that`s the separate question. It`s a more challenging question. You can intellectualize it. You can -- facts.
But then you`ve got a guy who uses emotion. And he knows the vulnerabilities of his base and he exploits them every single day. And the politics is, you know, it`s pretty -- it`s not particularly novel. It`s about fear, anger, fear, anger. It`s a golden oldie.
MADDOW: Mmm-hmm.
NEWSOM: And it`s an old saw and he plays it very, very well.
We`ve got to push back with facts, but we also have to push back with positive alternatives and I`d like to think our state`s that.
MADDOW: Governor, I have a bunch of other stuff to ask you about, will you stay there?
NEWSOM: Let`s do it.
MADDOW: California Governor Gavin Newsom is our guest.
Stay with us.
MADDOW: Back with us in studio for the interview tonight is Governor Gavin Newsom, Democrat of California.
Governor, thanks for staying with us.
You made national news within the last few days by making an executive decision in your authority as government to basically stop the implementation of the death penalty in your state.
MADDOW: You have made executive decisions in other leadership roles in the past. You made a very controversial decision around gay marriage within your powers as mayor in San Francisco.
MADDOW: In this one, though, I`m struck by the fact that California voters have been asked if they want to get rid of the death penalty and they`ve said no, as recently as 2016. You nevertheless decided that this was the right thing to do, not just for yourself, but for your state.
NEWSOM: Yes, Prop 22 in California said marriage is between a man and a woman as well.
MADDOW: And that passed in 2008. Yes.
So there is right and wrong and there are the whims of the majority. With respect, you know, we`ve had 164 people in this country since 1973 that have been exonerated from death row, five in California. One since the voters approved a measure to fast-track the death penalty.
We have the largest death penalty, interestingly, again, in the Western hemisphere, not just in the United States, 737 people.
MADDOW: California has 700 -- more than 700 people --
NEWSOM: Seven hundred and thirty-seven human beings on death row, the largest in the United States; 120 have died on death row.
MADDOW: Without being executed.
NEWSOM: Without being executed -- suicides or natural causes, including someone just a week or so ago.
What`s remarkable, we spend $5 billion. We`ve executed 13 people, spent $5 billion. And yet we`re still in a debate, for good reason, because we know that we`re putting people death that are innocent. We don`t think that. We know that.
We estimate by conservative estimates 4 percent of people on death row today or innocent. Do the math on the 737 in California. That means I`m being tasked to literally exercise my authority to execute someone every single day for two years knowing that it`s likely 30 of them are innocent.
And with respect, that`s not an intellectual exercise, that`s an exercise the governor has the power to execute or reprieve. I chose reprieve.
I choose not to do this for another reason. The racial skew is overwhelming, 2/3 on death row are people of color, 1/3 have severe mental illness. Many of them are there for crimes that are more modest, as horrendous as they are, than folks that are out on parole in California, based upon as a judge said, lightning.
It strikes some defendants, the death penalty, and others it does not. But it strikes those people of color and those that commit crimes against whites more than others, and those without wealth are more likely to end up on death row. I cannot support that system.
MADDOW: I was surprised this year when you went out early with an endorsement in the Democratic presidential primary.
I tell you I was surprised for a couple of reasons. One is because I think a lot of people looking at this race and the way it`s going to shape up think that you`re a potential vice presidential choice even if you choose not to run yourself. And so, somebody who is in that -- I know you`re not hot for it. Nobody ever says they do.
But as somebody who wasn`t talking to you about it and was thinking about you in the abstract.
NEWSOM: Sweet.
MADDOW: I thought you`re somebody somebody might consider. And given that active possibility, I wouldn`t expect you to endorse. Two, California is going to be very, very important in terms of picking a nominee.
MADDOW: It`s going to put the spotlight on you and on Democrats in your state in a way that is going to burn hot in the national perspective. And so, for you, early on to come out and say that you support Senator Harris was a not expected bold choice.
Why did you choose to do that?
NEWSOM: Because I think she`s the right person at the right time. And I`ve had an up-close opportunity to get to know her over the course of decades. I saw her firsthand as district attorney in San Francisco.
I saw her stand up weeks after we both were elected on principle against the death penalty and against the overwhelming majority of people that wanted an individual executed. And she said I cannot in good conscience do that. That was a profile in courage early on.
I saw her as attorney general when I was lieutenant governor first hand doing work on mortgage settlements, on issues of implicit bias, on the issue of overt bias, on issues of independent police investigations. I saw the work she did when she got into the Senate and aggressively engaging in some of the national debate.
I think she`s impressive. I think she can take on not only those that are in the primary but she is the right person to take on one-on-one Donald Trump. I have great confidence in her and I could not be more enthusiastic and supportive.
MADDOW: Are you going to campaign for her around the country?
NEWSOM: I am. Yes, I think I`m doing it right here.
MADDOW: You did.
MADDOW: Governor Gavin Newsom of California, it`s nice to see you.
NEWSOM: Great to be with you.
MADDOW: All right. More ahead tonight. Stay with us.
MADDOW: When the president`s campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to federal prison for the second time this week, that led to a lot of expectations that maybe everything related to the special counsel`s office was wrapping up now, too. I will say I hope that by now everybody`s learned to be at least a little bit humble about predicting what`s going on with the special counsel`s office, since you`ve all been wrong, we`ve all been wrong, right?
But when Manafort`s federal criminal cases came to a close this week, it at least, even if you were being humble, it at least seemed safe to guess that, OK, at least we now know the Rick Gates case will come to an end now, too, right? I mean, these were linked. Gates was the deputy campaign chair when Manafort was the campaign chair. Gates was initially charged alongside Manafort in the first indictments that were handed down by Mueller.
After initially pleading not guilty alongside Manafort, Gates was the one who first took the plunge, changed his mind, pled guilty, became a cooperating witness. That included a couple of awkward weeks with him serving as the star witness against Paul Manafort in Manafort`s trial in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Now over the long duration of Manafort`s trials, Gates` sentencing has been delayed again and again and again. And that made sense. He was being used as a cooperator and a prosecution witness against Manafort in the Manafort trial, as long as the Manafort case was still alive, it made sense that prosecutors might want to keep their claws in Rick Gates. Keep him from cooperating. Stop him from going through with this sentencing and moving on with the rest of his life.
When the Manafort case finally came to a close in federal court with the sentencing on Wednesday, it seemed like, OK, Gates will now finally wrap up, too. Gates` case scheduled for a status update in federal court today. And I think it`s fair to say it was widely assumed that everybody thought today that we`d learn that Gates was finally coming to the end of the line. They`d finally be ready to move forward with sentencing him, too.
Nope. Nope. Nope. Wrong again. Prosecutors today asked for another delay in Rick Gates` sentencing. They asked for four separate delays in Gates` sentencing over the course of the Manafort trials.
Now that the Manafort trials are over, today they just asked for an extension in Gates` sentencing for a fifth time. Mr. Gates, quote, continues to cooperate with respect to several ongoing investigations, says the special counsel`s office.
And so at least another 60 days, at least until mid-May now before Gates` case will be back in court after yet another extension. Gates is still an actively cooperating witness in several ongoing investigations. No, we still don`t know what those investigations are, but, again, trying to stay humble here, given everybody`s record on predicting stuff in these cases.
We might surmise it has something to do with gates was number two in the Trump inaugural. Trump inaugural didn`t appear to be under law enforcement scrutiny at the outset of the case against Manafort and gates, but it`s clearly under scrutiny now. Trump inaugural was a subject of subpoena from the Southern District of New York recently. It`s also been subpoenaed by the New Jersey attorney general and by the D.C. attorney general.
It`s also the subject of extensive document requests from the Judiciary Committee in Congress and Rick Gates was the number two guy -- number two guy in the Trump inaugural committee. So it`s possible that that`s some of what he is still cooperating on and why they can`t move forward with his sentencing.
But given how good everybody`s been at predicting things from here on out and guessing how things are going with Mueller, it`s also possible it has something to do with the moon and green cheese, and don`t hold me to it. We`ll see when we see.
MADDOW: It is not uncommon for kids to cut class, especially on Fridays, but it is uncommon for them to do it on this kind of a scale. Today, kids and teenagers in over 100 countries and 1,700 cities skipped out of school to demand that adults finally do something about climate change.
This was in London. "I bet the dinosaurs thought they had time, too."
This was Lisbon, Portugal. "You are killing your mother."
In Berlin, Germany, "Our house is on fire."
Children marched in Bogota, in Seoul and Dublin with signs that said "There is no planet B," as in no plan B, no planet B. In Italy, kids painted their hands to say "Our future is in your hands."
In Cape Town, South Africa, school kids chanted outside the parliament, "We need change, we need change, we need change."
There were crowds in New Zealand. Yes, even today in New Zealand.
In Prague, Ukraine, Uganda, also here at home in Washington, D.C. This was Paris. "You are never too small to make a difference."
More ahead tonight. Stay with us.
MADDOW: The bad news is deadline approacheth.
The good news is they still do have the weekend. Eighty-one different people and the entities got document requests from the Judiciary Committee a couple of weeks ago. They are all, all 81 of them, facing the same deadline this Monday for getting those records up to Capitol Hill.
Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler is asking these 81 people and entities for information about a gazillion different scandals and issues, everything from the president`s hush money payments to the Trump Tower meeting with the Russians, to details about the inaugural committee. It`s a ton of stuff.
Some people who are targeted with these document requests have apparently said they`re not going to comply. But Nadler`s office tells us they actually think they`re getting a good response so far. They say they`ve also been working with people who might need a little bit more time, if not potentially a friendly subpoena.
But, again, deadline for all of them is on Monday. We shall see as of Monday what they get.
Have a good weekend. That does it for us now. We will see you again Monday night.
Now it`s time for "THE LAST WORD" with Ali Velshi, sitting in for Lawrence tonight.
Good evening, Ali.
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The Top-level Research Initiative (TRI) is the largest joint Nordic research venture to date. During the last five years, many of the region’s leading researchers and their industrial partners have…
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The Top-level Research Initiative (TRI) is the largest joint Nordic research venture to date. During the last five years, many of the region’s leading researchers and their industrial partners have come together to find ways to respond to climate change, with emphasis on six selected fields of climate research. Some of the initiative’s impressive outcomes were presented at the TRI Flagship Conference in Stockholm on November 18-19.
The initiative aims to involve the very best agencies and institutions in the Nordic region, and promote research and innovation of the highest level, in order to make a Nordic contribution towards solving the global climate crisis. The Top-level Research Initiative consists of six sub-progammes of which Nordic Energy Reseach is the administrative body of two sub-programmes totalling 10 Top-level research projects. The sub-programmes cover Sustainable Biofuels and Integration of Large Scale Wind power
The conference opened with the premiere of a new film about TRI (approx. 20 mins.). The film presented some of the many faces behind the research and provided insights into the outcomes of each of the six sub-programmes. Evaluations show that TRI has made a significant contribution to climate change research, as well as developed a range of innovative mitigation and adaptation solutions.
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Jan. 25
Posted By Collin Yeo on Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 4:00 AM
Earl Thomas
Tonight is a good night for hearing the human voice in its most spectacular setting: the live stage. Up the hill at the Van Duzer Theater Ladysmith Black Mambazo brings its South African gospel finesse and Zulu footwork to crack the boards at 7 p.m. ($49). Although many in the industry of sound refer to Paul Simon's Graceland album as the best example of a gated drum sound from the big production days of the '80s, it is better known among fans as the introduction of this group's stunning vocal harmonies and melodies to the world stage. The years haven't slowed the singers down at all, so come join members old and new as they cover the group's half century catalog of peace songs. You can read my interview with tenor Albert Mazibuko at www.northcoastjournal.com.
Earl Thomas was born in Tennessee but he cut his teeth as a singer in our small town of Arcata while he was attending Humboldt State University in the 1980s. Perhaps best known on the charts for his tune "I Sing The Blues," which was a minor hit for Etta James, he has spent the last three decades building up a reputation as one of the greatest blues singers alive today. When he plays Humbrews tonight at 9:30 p.m., expect a fiery gutful of glorious heaviness ($18, $15 advance). Treat him like the returning hometown hero he is with a champion's welcome. He's earned it and then some.
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The Humboldt County Elections Office is zeroing in final election tallies, and has inched closer to determining the final number of ballots outstanding in the nail-biter of a race for Eureka’s Ward 3 city council seat.
When the dust settled from Election Day, incumbent Mike Newman led challenger Kim Bergel by 104 votes, having taken 50.76 percent of the vote to Bergel’s 48.8 percent. The Journal did some numbers crunching the following morning and estimated that Bergel would need there to be at least 1,200 outstanding ballots in the race to have a chance at bridging the gap, barring some kind of statistical anomaly in voting patterns. Well, it looks like this one’s going down to the wire; the final tally of yet-to-be-counted ballots is right in that neighborhood.
Humboldt County Registrar of Voters Carolyn Crnich said today that 1,065 vote-by-mail ballots remain at play in the race, a number that includes those dropped off at the polls on Election Day and those that came into the elections office on Monday and Tuesday of election week. Additionally, Crnich said 236 provisional ballots were cast at Eureka polling locations that have yet to be vetted and counted, and another unknown amount of damaged ballots from the polls still have to be tallied (Crnich estimated this number to be “fewer than 100”). So, all told, that leaves between 1,065 and 1,401 ballots still at play in the race, depending on how many of those provisional ballots are valid and the final tally of damaged Eureka ballots.
In the final election night results, Newman took 56.61 percent of the early vote-by-mail ballots, but just 45.51 percent of the vote at the polls on Election Day to Bergel’s 54.13. Traditionally, late-arriving vote-by-mail ballots trend more in the direction of the Election Day tallies.
So, if we chew the numbers Crnich provided today, here’s what we get: With 1,065 outstanding ballots, Bergel would need to take 54.92 percent to take the lead; with 1,401 outstanding ballots, she’d need to take 53.75 percent.
In the three-way race Newman won to take office back in 2010, Newman took 48.18 percent of the early vote-by-mail ballots and 41.98 percent of the Election Day tally to take a 171-vote lead over runner-up Ron Kuhnel. Newman then took 43.12 percent of the ballots tallied after Election Day to push his margin of victory to 183 votes.
The outcome of the Bergel-Newman race remains too close to call, but Crnich said she’s hopeful the county will release a post-election update tomorrow that should provide some clarity.
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January 01, 2009 Arts + Scene » Book Notes
Earthrise: How We First Saw Ourselves
By Robert Poole. Yale Press.
By William S. Kowinski
On Christmas Eve 40 years ago, Frank Borman looked out the window and saw something no human had ever seen before. He saw the Earth rise.
At the time Borman was in a space capsule, with the first crew to orbit the Moon. They were on the dark side, in their fourth orbit of looking down at shades of gray on the lunar surface, set against the black of space. And then suddenly, the blue and white Earth dawned over the Moon's edge. Apollo 8 astronauts Borman, James Lovell and Bill Anders scrambled to take pictures through the small window with their hand-held camera. One of those photos became the iconic image dubbed "Earthrise," splashed across magazine pages and posterized on classroom and dorm room walls all over the world.
NASA hadn't given much priority to such a photo. "We had been trained to look at the Moon," said Anders. "We hadn't been trained to look at the Earth."
But later it was that first view of Earthrise that these astronauts remembered most clearly: The Earth in the context of space, the whole Earth with all the visible color and life in one fragile body.
This smart and exciting little book sets the historical context for this photo, and is especially fascinating about the almost forgotten Apollo program. Its spaceflights lasted a mere four years (1968 to 1972): 11 missions, nine voyages to the Moon and six moon landings. While Neil Armstrong's first step on the Moon in Apollo 11 is the soundbite moment, Apollo 8 was the most significant and the most awe-inspiring at the time. No manned spacecraft had ever left Earth orbit, traveled that far into space, or spun around the Moon. A number of complex technical achievements had never been tried before, requiring split-second timing: all with an on-board computer that was "tiny in comparison with modern pocket calculators." The details of this mission are astounding, and full of amazing ironies.
This book is rich in the relationship between past and contemporary imagination and the realities of these missions. Poole rightly reminds us that the Earthrise photo gave evidence and impetus to holistic thinking and the ecology movement that blossomed in that period, leading to a certain credibility for some sense of Gaia: the planet as an interdependent organism. That this was not Apollo's purpose makes it all the more powerful. This book is (Poole writes) "the story of how the mightiest shot in the Cold War turned into the twentieth century's ultimate utopian moment." He suggests how, almost invisibly to us today, this has become a lasting legacy.
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March 31, 2011 Letters + Opinion » Publisher
The Envelope, Please
By Judy Hodgson judy@northcoastjournal.com
We have our own version of March Madness. Once a year we gather up what we think are examples our best journalism and send them off to be judged by our peers – writers and editors of other newspapers throughout California. The California Newspaper Publishers Association, which runs the annual Better Newspapers Contest, delivers the results the old fashioned way, via the U.S. mail. In March we anxiously await that envelope.
The North Coast Journal has been on a streak in our circulation category of similar newspapers, winning writing and design awards, ever since we became a newsweekly in 1998. This year is no exception. We, as a team, won an all-time high of 10 awards – seven CNPA plaques that indicate a first- or second-place finish (we’ll find out at the convention in June), and three also-rans: Certificates of Merit.
What is unusual this year is that nine of those 10 awards are due to the writing of one person on the editorial staff. While we are green with envy, we all wildly cheered his success at last Wednesday’s staff meeting.
The awards were for the following stories, published from late 2009 through 2010, all available online:
Investigative or Enterprise Reporting: “The Plane That Wasn’t There,” Dec. 17, 2009
Local News Coverage: “College in Revolt,” April 1, 2010
Businesses or Financial Story: “Reinventing Scotia,” Nov. 26, 2009
Businesses or Financial Story: “Humboldt: The Brand,” Feb. 11, 2010
Environmental or Agricultural Reporting, “Redemption Value,” June 17, 2010
Writing: “Chloe’s Legacy: Mourning parents hope to educate through the suicide of their teenage transgender daughter,” Oct. 14, 2010
Feature Story: “Hooked: Blood, masochism and the shocking thrill of human suspension,” Sept. 9, 2010
Local News Coverage: “Mega-Village,” Aug. 5, 2010
Best Video, “Human Suspension: The Video”
The final Certificate of Merit -- Best Website, www.northcoastjournal.com -- was truly a team effort led by former editor Hank Sims, who is now with Lost Coast Communications. (Sims launched a new website for LCC just this week at www.lostcoastoutpost.com.) Contributing to the design, functionality and implementation of the Journal’s new website – a two-year project -- were members of every department here at the Journal, especially our graphic designers, and Katherine Topaz, of Topaz Design in Portland, Ore.
Finally, the staff writer responsible for those nine winning stories?
That would be Ryan Burns, who last week graciously agreed to take over as acting editor of the Journal for a few months while we conduct a search. We sincerely thank Ryan for stepping in during this time of transition.
Yes, we know we picked a winner.
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Redevelopment districts are established by local government agencies in response to conditions that are considered blighted, as defined in Chapter 163, Part III, Florida Statutes. If an agency, such as the City of Ocoee, is located within the jurisdiction of a Home-Rule County, then they must be delegated redevelopment powers by that County. If an area is determined to be blighted, and they receive delegation of powers, then the next step is to establish a community redevelop agency or CRA. Once a CRA is created then they oversee the development and implementation of a redevelopment plan to guide revitalization efforts over a period of years.
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Once an agency is established and redevelopment district created, the Agency gains access to a revenue source called Tax Increment Financing (TIF). It is important to note, this is not a taxing authority or a new tax. TIF revenues are generated based on the incremental growth in property values within a district overtime as public infrastructure projects are completed and private reinvestment is realized. These funds are deposited into a Redevelopment Trust Fund and can only be used for programs and projects geared to revitalizing the redevelopment district.
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The Ocoee CRA is comprised of seven (7) members. These members include the five (5) member City Commission plus two additional at-large members. One of the at-large members are nominated by Orange County.
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The City of Ocoee’s Fifty West Redevelopment District was created in 2006 and is currently set to sunset in 2036, unless Orange County grants an extension of up to an additional 10 years.
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These telephone numbers often encompass various types of unwanted, unsolicited, spoofed, or spam phone calls, such as illegitimate marketing (e.g., free cruise offers), and typically originate from telemarketers not registered with the National Do Not Call List (NDNCL).
A “spoofed” number can appear as a string of digits, such as 000-000-0000, a random number, or the number of a company, person or government entity. Telemarketers making sales calls to customers in Canada have an obligation to accurately identify themselves. Callers who use technology to spoof their Call Display with inaccurate, false or misleading information violate this requirement.
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List of accredited nursing schools in Springfield, Massachusetts
The nursing programs in Springfield, Massachusetts, provide students a wide range of training specialties, favorable career opportunities, and abundant practical experience.
An overview of nursing roles
Nurses play a critical role in the healthcare industry, as they are the primary contacts between patients and healthcare providers. With jobs ranging from basic bedside care and administering of medications to patient plan management and conducting research, nurses provide versatile services that make them valuable on any healthcare team. Education and training lengths vary greatly among programs. Nursing assistants require an eight- to ten-week course, licensed practice nurses (LPNs) typically enroll for 18 months, and registered nurses (RNs) undertake two to four years of intensive training. First-hand experience and internships are available for graduates in local hospitals and facilities.
Career prospects for nurses
The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a growing demand for all nursing roles in the coming decades. In fact, nursing is one of the top ten professions with the largest job growth. Nearly 13,000 nurses are employed in Springfield, Massachusetts, with the typical registered nurse earning over $73,000 per year. MedPro Healthcare Staffing offers generous job opportunities, representing 300 organizations that provide healthcare service to over 2,500 national facilities.
Top schools for nursing in Springfield, Massachusetts
Located in the heart of Massachusetts, Springfield is home to several high-quality nursing programs. Springfield Technical Community College and American International College are the two most notable schools, providing intensive training programs and plenty of hands-on experience. Students may seek part-time jobs or internships at major local hospitals, including Baystate Medical Center, Mercy Medical Center, and Holyoke Medical Center.
If you are interested in a nursing career in Springfield, Massachusetts, see the attached list of available local programs.
Springfield nursing schools by NCLEX score
577 Western Avenue | Westfield, Massachusetts 01086
Holyoke Community College
303 Homestead Avenue | Holyoke, Massachusetts 01040
Springfield Technical Community College
One Armory Square | Springfield, Massachusetts 01105
181 Presidents Drive | Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing
MSN: Clinical Nurse Leader
Post-Baccalaureate PhD
American International College
1000 State Street | Springfield, Massachusetts 01109
MSN: Nursing Education
RN-to-MSN Degree Completion
College of Our Lady of the Elms
291 Springfield Street | Chicopee, Massachusetts 01013
Westfield State University Bachelor of Science in Nursing 89.0% 2014 to 2018
Holyoke Community College Certificate in Practical Nursing 88.2% 2009 to 2018
Springfield Technical Community College Associate's Degree in Nursing 87.3% 2009 to 2018
University of Massachusetts Amherst Bachelor of Science in Nursing 87.1% 2009 to 2018
American International College Bachelor of Science in Nursing 86.7% 2009 to 2018
College of Our Lady of the Elms Bachelor of Science in Nursing 81.8% 2009 to 2018
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MSHSAA plans to play basketball despite CDC recommendation to cancel events with gatherings of 50 or more
UPDATE:MSHSAA cancels remainder of basketball championships
Previous reporting:
MSHSAA still plans to play its basketball state championships at Missouri State this upcoming week despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendation that events consisting of 50 people or more throughout the United States be postponed or canceled for the next eight weeks.
The CDC said Sunday that mass gatherings and large gatherings can contribute to the spread of coronavirus in the United States via travelers who attend these events and introduce the virus to new communities.
Examples include conferences, festivals, parades, concerts, and sporting events.
Previous coronavirus coverage:Why is MSHSAA still playing its state basketball championships at Missouri State?
MSHSAA is scheduled to host the Class 4 and 5 state basketball semifinals and championships on Missouri State University's campus this upcoming week.
MSHSAA spokesperson Jason West told the News-Leader, as of Sunday night, it is still planning to play the games.
"We're in the process of making some adjustments even to what we did this past weekend," West said. "We'll be in contact with Missouri State and local officials to see what they have to say. As of right now, as of this evening, we still plan on playing basketball on Friday."
West said MSHSAA has yet to be notified by schools that they can't participate. That includes programs from St. Louis who have recently had their schools close in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
West said there will be limited spectators for the second weekend in a row. While 150 wristbands were given to each school before the Class 1, 2 and 3 championships, West said schools have been told that number will drop down to 100.
Players, coaches, media and anyone at the event level will be screened before entering the arena, according to West. Anyone with a fever will be sent home and if one player on a team has a fever, the whole team will be turned away.
"If we get more recommendations, we may make more changes," West said. "As of 7:30 on Sunday night, this is the plan. It may change by 7:35. That's the plan moving forward right now."
Semifinal action is scheduled to begin Friday on Missouri State's campus and conclude Saturday.
MSHSAA condensed the weekend's schedule to just Friday and Saturday in both JQH Arena and Hammons Student Center. The schedule follows:
Class 4 Girls - Notre Dame (Cape Girardeau) vs. Lincoln College Prep @ noon in Hammons Student Center
Class 5 Girls - Kirkwood vs. Blue Springs @ noon in JQH Arena
Class 4 Girls - Incarnate Word Academy vs. Carl Junction @ 2 p.m. in Hammons Student Center
Class 5 Girls - Rock Bridge vs. Hazelwood Central @ 2 p.m. in JQH Arena
Class 4 Boys - Notre Dame (Cape Girardeau) vs. Raytown South @ 4 p.m. in Hammons Student Center
Class 5 Boys - Chaminade College Prep vs. Stayley @ 4 p.m. in JQH Arena
Class 4 Boys - Vashon vs. Helias Catholic @ 6 p.m. in Hammons Student Center
Class 5 Boys - Kickapoo vs. Chrisitan Brothers College @ 6 p.m. in JQH Arena
Class 4 Girls - State Championship @ noon in JQH Arena
Class 4 Boys - State Championship @ 2 p.m. in JQH Arena
Class 5 Girls - State Championship @ 4 p.m. in JQH Arena
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Bad week for train service around Oslo
Norway’s long-struggling train system has been receiving lots of extra public funding for improvements in recent years, but commuters in the Oslo area have been subjected to more service breakdowns during the past week. On Thursday the entire central station also had to be evacuated.
Trains ground to a halt twice on Monday, because of what officials at state railroad Jernbaneverket called a “technical error” that left central train operators unable to communicate with those running the trains. That brought all traffic to a halt between Drammen, Oslo, Hamar and Østfold. Even the Airport Express Train (Flytoget) was standing still.
The problems were eventually fixed but it’s not the first time they’d occurred. Train service was also disrupted several times in August, because of signal errors and other problems.
On Thursday Oslo’s central sttion (Oslo S) was evacuated after fire broke out in an escalator. The fire generated enough smoke that firefighters felt it necessary to evacuate all commuters, just as the afternoon rush was beginning, until the smoke could be cleared.
Two people were being treated for smoke inhalation. The station reopened around a half-hour later.
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Total War: Warhammer Post-Launch DLC Plans Isn’t All About the Money
Not completely anyways. Outside of the Chaos Warriors Race Pack, Creative Assembly hasn’t talked much about Total War: Warhammer’s DLC. That changes today. And the news is good. For the most part.
The developers tooted their own horn about free DLC in past Total War games and said to expect more of the same for Total War: Warhammer. That means new units, new heroes and even new playable races.
Creative Assembly dove deeper into detail in a blog post today.
“Perhaps most importantly for long-term replayability, you can also expect to see the occasional new Legendary Lord who will shake up a race’s strategic potential in interesting new ways. Last but not least, towards the end of the year we will add a new playable race to the game, including new Legendary Lords, magic items, quest chains, and units.”
Here’s an image that gives us an idea of what to expect free DLC wise. It could change, but it’s a rough outline.
As for premium DLC? It isn’t going away. And we shouldn’t expect it to. Creative Assembly described what some of these premium DLCs would look like.
Lord packs – The developers describe these packs as focusing on a “specific rivalry or conflict from the Warhammer Lore.”
– 2 new playable Legendary Lords with their own narrative quest chains, campaign bonuses and quest items.
– 2 new Lords to serve as generals.
– A new unique Unit.
– New elite Units of Renown*. (These units are elite versions of existing units. They may be themed after a specific Lord pack or have upgraded stats.)
Race packs – Pretty self-explanatory. New playable races added to the Grand Campaign and Multiplayer. And the race-specific units, buildings, technology and more that go with a race. Creative Assembly does note that the new race may either be a completely new race, or an existing non-playable race from the core game.
Check out the rest of Creative Assembly’s blog post for more including Campaign packs (adds a Challenge Campaign themed around an event from Warhammer Lore).
Creative Assembly’s approach to DLC for Total War: Warhammer will be interesting to watch. This is the first entry in a planned trilogy, so you know they will hold races, heroes and legendary lords for the next entries. What race do you want to see them add in the months following the game’s release?
Check out the Chaos Warriors in action in the clip below.
Wondering why the dislike ratio is a little higher on this video compared to others? Gamers aren’t huge fans of preorder DLC. And I’m not either. If the content is ready, ship it for everybody. Don’t force it with pre-orders or as premium DLC.
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The Fall of Netanyahu and the Future of Israel
If a series of corruption scandals force Benjamin Netanyahu out of office, he will leave behind a country that is deeply, perhaps irreparably, divided.
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After Tweets, House Oversight Chair Looking Into Ethics Office
By Lauren Stephenson
Rep. Jason Chaffetz sent a letter to the director of the Office of Government Ethics on Thursday.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, seems to have threatened the Office of Government Ethics.
On Thursday, he sent a letter to Walter Shaub Jr., the director of the office, requesting information and an interview. The oversight committee seems concerned the office has blurred "the line between public relations and official ethics guidance."
The letter stems from a series of tweets the office sent from its official Twitter account in November urging President-elect Donald Trump to divest his businesses.
Shaub has said he sent those tweets to "use the vernacular of the president-elect's favorite social media platform to encourage him to divest."
He also said, "My thinking was that more pointed language would have been too strong at a time when he was still making up his mind. I reiterated my view in a written response to questions from the Senate, which is posted on OGE's website."
Related Story House GOP Backtracks On Changes To Independent Ethics Review Office
Chaffetz said the office's mission "is to provide clear ethics guidance, not engage in public relations." He also expressed concern the tweets confirmed private conversations the ethics office had with Trump's lawyers.
The letter came a few days after Shaub responded to questions posed by two Senate Democrats. In it, Shaub said he was concerned about several of Trump's Cabinet nominees having confirmation hearings before they completed the ethics review process.
Just one day before Chaffetz sent the letter, Shaub criticized Trump's plan to distance himself from his businesses.
"Stepping back from running his business is meaningless from a conflict of interest perspective. ... The idea of setting up a trust to hold his operating businesses adds nothing to the equation. This is not a blind trust — it's not even close," Shaub said at a press conference at the Brookings Institution. His remarks followed Trump's press conference regarding how he'll handle his business dealings once in the White House.
In the letter, Chaffetz reminded Shaub the oversight committee "may at 'any time' investigate 'any matter,'" and it has the power to potentially shut down the ethics office.
The letter sent Thursday follows one Chaffetz sent to Shaub in December 2015.
The subject of that letter centered around a statement the office released when former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came under fire. She hadn't disclosed donations paid to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for speeches given by her and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, during her tenure as secretary of state. The office said Clinton was not required to disclose those speaking fees.
In the letter sent on Thursday, Chaffetz mentioned the 2015 statement and cited it as one of the occasions the department blurred the line between "official OGE policy and informal commentary."
According to Politico, Chaffetz said he'd consider subpoenaing Shaub if needed.
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Cider tasting
The top three key areas to cider tasting and the best way to drink it
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Your guide to Cider tasting
The approach to tasting cider is broadly the same as that with wine, not surprising given that many of the sensorial properties are shared between the two drinks. What is also shared between these two drinks is the importance of fruit. The variety of apple utilised in the cider will entirely determine the product that is achieved.
It is very hard for a single apple variety to achieve all of the properties that are sought after in a cider, therefore the best ciders tend to be a blend of different varieties.
Of course, some people have personal preferences over their cider, and the great thing about cider is that it is a wonderfully diverse and versatile drink. There is a cider suited to every occasion, whether that be quenching a thirst, to savour, to act as an accompaniment to a meal or to celebrate a special event.
There are 3 key areas to cider tasting:
Colour and clarity
Someone far wiser than I once said that ‘the first taste is with the eye’. In terms of colouration, cider ranges from between pale straw to deep, ruby red. This is, of course, entirely dependent upon the apple varieties used. There are no rules or expectations with colour, but I would always treat anything green or black with great suspicion!
Most consumers expect a cider to be crystal clear and this is achieved through filtration. The cider will naturally contain a mild haze, which, if controlled, may befit the product and shouldn’t necessarily be dismissed out of hand. A bottle conditioned product will contain sediment at the bottom. Careful pouring will ensure the sediment is not transferred to the glass.
The smell of a cider is critical to presenting a quality product. Even if the cider ends up tasting fabulous, if it has a challenging, or just plain unpleasant aroma, then you’re not going to want to bring the glass to your mouth. A full gamut of aromas could be expected with cider, again dependent upon the apple variety used and what microflora gets involved in the fermentation and maturation. Typical aromas can range from green apple, baked strudel and tropical fruits through to spicy, earthy and even downright funky.
A little bit of funk can go a long way, but it has to be modest and contribute to the overall structure and not dominate. New Zealand sensibilities will dictate that there is a low tolerance to these ‘bretty’ aromas, but they are true to type of English style ciders.
Flavour and mouthfeel
The key to a great cider, much as to life in general, is balance. Cider, without the assistance of the alcohol of wine, or the variety of ingredients of beer, has the potential to be bland or one dimensional. Cider has 4 heroes which, when balanced and working in unison, bring this drink to another level:
Acidity – vivaciousness, freshness, crispness and sometimes sourness
Sweetness – palatability and softness
Phenolics – body, structure and complexity
Fruitiness – richness and mouthfeel
These properties are primarily borne from the apple varieties selected, demonstrating once more that their selection is entirely crucial for determining the end product.
How to serve cider
Cider sits in a unique space between its more heralded alcoholic siblings – it is made like a wine but served (mostly) like a beer. Crucially, cider is equally as versatile as both of these drinks, with a multitude of different formats, styles and occasions to consume this product.
Naturally, like a wine, cider is a still (non-bubbly) drink. However, this form is predominantly reserved for traditional ciders made in England, purchased from the farm gate. The vast majority of consumers understand and expect their ciders to be sparkling, either through a carbonation process, or through bottle conditioning.
It is important to note that the level of carbonation is important. One needs to make sure that when serving cider the carbonation level isn’t too high, as this can mask the palate and upset the flavour balance due to the impact of the carbonic acid.
Draught cider is served in typical beer measures: halves, handles and pints. However, when consuming bottled cider, depending on the style and quality, a tulip glass will be better suited to present the drink and allow the full breath of flavours and aromas to be showcased.
Crucial to cider’s presentation is the serving temperature. There is a great array of highly subtle aromas within cider which can be lost or obfuscated if the drink is overly-chilled. A room temperature cider, however, would be unpalatable to most consumers and would not provide the adequate levels of refreshment expected.
One should treat serving cider at home much like a white wine, such as Pinot Gris or Gewurztraminer: take the cider out of the fridge and put on the table, open and then keep going back to it.
For all of cider’s comparable complexity to wine, relatively speaking it lacks alcohol. Sitting at an average of 4.5 – 7.5% abv, this is why cider is normally consumed like a beer. This lower level of alcohol also has cellaring implications. One of the major reasons why wine has the ability to age well is due to the protection afforded by a high alcohol content. Without such protection afforded, most ciders become oxidised after a short number of years. However rich, robust and highly tannic ciders have the potential for cellaring for up to 5 years, with the benefit of time allowing these drinks to soften and mellow.
Take a look at The Ciderologist for more.
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Member for Geraldton Ian Blayney has slammed the State Labor Government after education announcements last week highlight Labor’s failure to recognise the importance of education in the Midwest.
Last Friday the State Government announced funding to help revitalise the North Metropolitan TAFE at the Midland and Mount Lawley Campuses along with Central Regional TAFE’s Moora campus, but no funding has been allocated to the Geraldton campus which has frustrated Mr Blayney.
“There has been a constant pattern over the last three and a half years whereby Geraldton is continuously overlooked by this State Government,” Mr Blayney said.
“We have already seen the primary education sector in Geraldton being sidelined by this Government with only $25,000 being allocated to four separate primary schools under a $17m Science in School program established nearly a whole four years ago.
“With further education now also being discounted by the State Government, Labor’s lack of spending in the region only further highlights their disregard for Geraldton residents and our school and college communities.
“Education plays a vital role in the Midwest and is an industry that cannot afford to be ignored, especially at a time education and training will play such a critical role in the recovery from COVID-19.
Mr Blayney said the previous Government spent nearly $31million providing upgrades and improvements to TAFE facilities at the Geraldton Campus which he says illustrates the significant value the Liberal/National Government placed on regional education.
The funding spent by the previous Government is outlined in the table below:
Date TAFE Project/Commitment Total Funding Royalties for Regions funding
2016 Central Regional TAFE interactive hub – Geraldton Campus $2,700,000.00 $1,800,000.00
2016 Health, Education and Community Service facilities – Geraldton Campus $16,720,000.00 $15,020,000.00
2015 Resource Sector training centre $9,000,000.00 $9,000,000.00
2011 Skills workshop $2,500,000.00
2009 Central West TAFE – Alternative employment opportunities for Midwest lobster industry workers $26,393.00 $26,393.00
“Over two terms of Government we provided new state of the art health, education and community service facilities, as well as constructing an interactive hub and a resource training sector, which not only promoted shared learning experiences for students but also boosted training opportunities across the Midwest,” Mr Blayney said.
“These two projects introduced in 2016 totalled over $19m, and this was just for the Geraldton Campus.
“I would have expected to see more funding allocated to education in Geraldton over the last four years to match what had been spent by the previous Government but they tried to close the Schools of the Air and Moora Residential College instead.
“It’s disheartening that we have to continue to wait for initiatives that will benefit education in the Midwest,” Mr Blayney said.
Having recently visited Central Regional TAFE with Hon Mia Davies MLA earlier this year, Mr Blayney acknowledges the commitment of teaching and support staff at the Geraldton campus to ensuring the best educational outcomes for our young people and calls for the State Government to start showing gratitude to such workers in the industry.
“It was a pleasure to tour around the campus and to see initiatives and projects implemented by the previous Government still in use by the latest cohort of students,” Mr Blayney said.
“I have seen firsthand the fantastic work of our local TAFE to train and educate the next generation of workers in the Midwest.
“It’s time the Labor State Government start showing their support for our local educators and their students, and injecting some much needed funding into the Geraldton Campus would be a good starting point.”
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8/19/2016 - The public's trust in Whole Foods took a serious dive after the chain was exposed for selling food with artificial ingredients and unlabeled GMOs, and it appears that the store's new offerings are not going to be enough to win people back. The Whole Foods in Boulder, Colorado, has launched an all-vegan...
REVEALED: Vaccine ingredients cause tumors to grow
7/25/2016 - As a parent, you only want what's best for your child. However, on multiple different fronts, parents are bombarded with the idea that vaccines play a crucial role in raising a healthy child. From pushy public schools to trusted pediatricians, the message is always the same: vaccines are the one and...
Judge says EPA not required to disclose extremely dangerous 'inert' ingredients in pesticides
6/29/2016 - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not required to force pesticide companies to disclose "inert" ingredients in their products, even when those products are known to be toxic, carcinogenic or otherwise dangerous, a federal judge recently – and reluctantly – ruled. The Center...
Health Ranger warns: Popular survival foods are loaded with chemical ingredients that promote DEATH... MSG, GMOs, pesticides and more
6/20/2016 - It's time the survival food industry had a wakeup call. Nearly all the popular survival food sold today is loaded with GMOs, MSG and chemical pesticides, and this fact is obvious from looking at their ingredients labels. Eating survival food in an emergency shouldn't mean poisoning yourself with...
Dog treat recipes for lifelong wellness: Top ingredients from 5 food groups for a healthy and vibrant dog
6/14/2016 - Everyone loves a good home cooked meal, especially when made with fresh, whole food and organic ingredients. Similar to men, the way to your pet's heart is through their stomach. If you want to make them the happiest member of the family, try whipping up some of your own homemade, delicious but healthy...
Research finds that 45 percent of common sunscreen ingredients interfere with the normal functioning of sperm cells
5/29/2016 - Researchers have found that a myriad of ultraviolet (UV) filtering chemicals in common sunscreens disrupt the functioning of normal sperm cells and mirror the effects of the female hormone progesterone. Head author of the study Niels Skakkebaek, MD, DMSc, a professor at the University of Copenhagen,...
Depopulation globalist Bill Gates investing in meat alternatives made with toxic ingredients like GMO canola oil
3/18/2016 - A new era of fake, toxic meats is upon us. While tofu, seitan and veggie burgers have been around for ages to satisfy the growing vegetarian and vegan community, in the last few years the food industry has been on a mission to win the hearts of the health-conscious carnivore, too. According to the...
Have a prescription for penicillin? You may already have the best natural alternative in your pantry
3/15/2016 - Not only are antibiotics commonly over-prescribed, but they can also have a negative impact on your health. Why use them when you can make an inexpensive and powerful natural alternative out of ingredients you probably already have at home? The pharmaceutical industry encourages doctors to peddle...
Pesticide manufacturers, EPA don't have to list most hazardous ingredients on pesticide labels, judge decides
3/11/2016 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has repeatedly denied a petition filed by environmental groups asking for better pesticide labeling. In March, Beyond Pesticides, the Center for Environmental Health, Physicians for Social Responsibility and other advocacy groups sued the EPA for failing...
Science backlash after EPA to add totally inert argon to list of banned pesticide ingredients
1/27/2016 - The scientific community is in an uproar after it was learned that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to ban an inert gas, one that occurs naturally in the air we breathe, from being used in pesticide formulas. According to the agency, the natural element argon is considered...
DOJ cracks down on low-quality supplement companies: see the ingredients list to learn why
1/12/2016 - The federal government is finally taking notice of all the garbage dietary supplements flooding the market these days, many of which are loaded with synthetic fillers, artificial flavors and in some cases, illegal additives. As part of a massive sweep, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is indicting a...
US Dept. of Justice announces criminal charges against dietary supplement maker that scammed consumers with dangerous ingredients and false labels
11/18/2015 - In conjunction with the FDA, FTC and even the DoD, the US Dept. of Justice announced criminal indictments against a dietary supplement manufacturer that appears to have a long history of falsifying ingredients, intentionally mislabeling its products and knowingly harming consumers with chemical ingredients. According...
Homemade toothpaste recipes - better oral health for less
11/2/2015 - If you're shopping for an all natural toothpaste, the list of ingredients to avoid includes diethanolamine, propylene glycol, fluoride, aspartame, saccharine, sodium lauryl sulfate, Triclosan, glycerin, sorbitol, and microbeads. After careful examination of the ingredients, the discerning shopper will...
WE ARE WINNING the clean food wars: Food and beverage companies ditch HFCS and toxic ingredients in frantic effort to catch up to the clean food movement
10/6/2015 - Note to those who work for large food manufacturers: Yes, this is the article you're supposed to forward to your corporate executives. This is your gateway to the pulse of the rapidly growing clean food movement that has now become unstoppable for reasons explained below... Every time I walk into...
Top 10 ingredients to avoid that cause dementia
8/25/2015 - Food affects our bodies and minds. Many people would be surprised to discover just how many food ingredients are linked to cognitive disorders, like dementia. Dementia is considered by many people to be a disease that accompanies age. Contrary to popular belief, however, dementia isn't a specific...
Toxic toothpaste ingredients that make us sick
8/22/2015 3:12:27 PM - Conventional toothpaste is full of toxins that make your teeth look pretty and feel clean while they slowly erode the tooth enamel and gums. Conventional whitening toothpastes are very toxic to the mouth. All of the conventional brands and many of the "natural" brands put chemicals in their toothpaste...
Top 10 toxic ingredients used by McDonald's
7/28/2015 - McDonald's has a very complicated brand image: entirely unhealthy, yet an affordable option that is almost universally available. McDonald's isn't a place we go to get our nutritional needs met, and with most research connecting our Western/fast food diet directly to various diseases, such as diabetes,...
Flu shot ingredients and how they are manufactured
6/15/2015 - There are 16 different flu shots approved by the FDA, made by several pharmaceutical companies. Some of these vaccines are designed solely to protect against the H1N1 influenza virus A strain. But most flu vaccines distributed in the U.S. are designed to provide protection from three strains of influenza...
Try this delicious natural cookie recipe
6/5/2015 - Do you love cookies but want to avoid the nasty ingredients found in most commercial varieties (e.g., trans fat, artificial colors)? This recipe is made from natural ingredients! It's gluten-free, dairy-free and egg-free, too; and it's guaranteed to satisfy your sweet tooth. With the help of the grocery...
Kale's active ingredients combat cancer
5/7/2015 - Kale has become increasingly popular in recent times as more people not only discover its delicious flavor but also learn more about the many health benefits it can bring. And more evidence shows that one of these benefits is a reduced risk of cancer development. Cancer remains a serious threat to...
BAM! Chipotle goes 100% non-GMO; flatly rejecting the biotech industry and its toxic food ingredients
4/27/2015 - The free market victories against the sleazy biotech industry are coming at a rapid pace now, and the latest announcement is a real game changer: Chipotle Mexican Grill has outright rejected all GMOs and, as of today, is now serving all non-GMO ingredients in its foods. "When it comes to our food,...
Five ingredients that poison your brain
4/10/2015 - There is no shortage of things driving us crazy in the world today, but there are some things that could do it in a shorter amount of time. These gut disturbing, liver compromising, and brain damaging ingredients have come from the "infinite genius" of man, and have clearly ruined our ability to think...
Toxic ingredients in McDonalds' French fries
3/13/2015 - Nineteen different ingredients go into McDonald's French fries, including genetically modified (GMO) foods, additives, and preservatives. Antifoaming agents, hydrogenated soybean oil, natural beef flavoring, Dimethylpolysiloxane and Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate are all ingredients in McDonald's French...
Beware the dangerous ingredients in pickles and pickle juice
2/28/2015 - Millions of people love pickles and their juice has been widely touted for many uses health benefits and remedies, including use as a post-workout drink and athletic performance enhancer, flavoring for foods, flavor enhancer in recipes and drinks, vinegar replacement, meat-tenderizer, hiccup stopper,...
The Food Babe Way book review: Breakthrough guide exposes harmful factory food ingredients that are still poisoning our children
2/10/2015 - A hard-hitting new book just being launched today blows the whistle on toxic ingredients in the food supply. It's so compelling that Big Food and Big Biotech corporations hired armies of negative P.R. trolls to try to crush the book even before it was published. Ever wonder what's so dangerous about...
Mythbusters host becoming food ingredient activist by revealing crazy ingredients in McDonald's fries
2/7/2015 - French fries: a basic combination of potatoes, cooking oil and salt, right? Not at McDonald's, where a shocking 19 ingredients go into the U.S. version of the chain's "World Famous Fries," which based on their contents are more chemicals than actual food. Mythbusters host Grant Imahara recently toured...
McDonald's serves healthier ingredients in the UK, uses potentially dangerous additives to feed US population
12/2/2014 - Why do other countries get safer versions of McDonald's food, while Americans are fed unnecessary and potentially dangerous additives? Does McDonald's have it out against Americans? Is there a conspiracy to destroy the health of Americans, using food ingredients as silent weapons? Are Americans being...
How to avoid GMOs when you're on a budget
12/1/2014 - Story by Daisy Luther, republished from Eat Local Grown with additional editing by Natural News. What's the most controversial topic at the grocery store these days? It's GMOs. Should you consume them? Are they okay in moderation? Should you strictly avoid them at all times? And if so, how...
Are smoothies really so healthy? Here's how to make sure yours are
9/18/2014 - Smoothies are popular these days. We drink them as an alternative to unhealthy drinks or as a meal replacement. But are they really healthy? They can be. The question is: What's in your smoothie? At some smoothie stands, smoothies are made with 3 basic ingredients: frozen fruit, fruit juice,...
Lexapro ingredients exposed: You won't believe what this drug is really made of
7/17/2014 - Sure, we all know that drugs aren't made of sugar and spice, but sometimes the ingredients that are included in even the most popular and widely used drugs can be pretty disturbing. Although Lexapro is marketed as a drug for fighting both depression and anxiety, many of the ingredients contained in...
Xanax made with GMOs, allergens and artificial coloring chemicals
7/14/2014 - Just like nearly every other drug, the anti-anxiety drug Xanax contains fillers and additives that are listed as "inactive" ingredients, but which actually can pose significant health risks. The only way to avoid ingesting those potentially dangerous chemicals and compounds is to avoid taking the medications. But...
Hidden GMOs identified in popular beers
6/21/2014 - Americans love their beer. But because of the way beer is currently regulated in the U.S., there is no way to know for sure which ingredients are added to a particular brand unless its manufacturer voluntarily labels them -- and most don't. A recent inquiry into the ingredient contents of several...
Ben & Jerry's switches to non-GMO, Fair Trade ice cream ingredients
6/16/2014 4:06:30 PM - The restoration of America's food supply powers on. Companies are beginning to hear the chants of consumers, calling out for traditional, unadulterated food ingredients. The call for cleaner food now includes ice cream. Major ice cream manufacturer, Ben & Jerry's, has announced a major shift in how...
The Big Beer Cover-Up Exposed; MillerCoors Caught Hiding Ingredients Facts from Consumers
6/12/2014 - Less than 24 hours after the Food Babe launched a petition demanding beer companies publicly disclose their ingredients (yes, beer ingredients are a long-kept secret and they are not required by the FDA to disclose them), the MillerCoors company has been caught deceiving the public over its use of corn...
Homemade dog treats: How to make your own, save a bundle and improve your dog's health
6/5/2014 - Most of the world has awoken to the dangers of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), seeking healthier choices such as organic, all-natural and gluten-free. The healthy food movement has burgeoned from a trend to a necessity and, for many, has become a way of life. Processed foods produced by Monsanto's...
Conventional kibble could be slowly killing your pets
5/2/2014 12:37:05 PM - If you have pets, you probably see them as an extension of your own human family and care for them accordingly. You may even purchase premium pet food in the hope that your furry loved ones will live long, healthy and disease-free lives. But many conventional kibble products, or pet foods that come...
Pesticide formulations up to 1000 times more toxic than active ingredients tested for safety
2/11/2014 - The same university academic whose controversial research exposed the cancer-causing effects of genetically modified (GM) Bt corn and the Monsanto crop herbicide Roundup (glyphosate) has made another groundbreaking discovery, this time with regard to the understated toxicity of pesticides in general. Professor...
Natural Grocers pledges no aspartame, no trans fats, no irradiation, but GMOs still present in 50 percent of products
1/14/2014 - Whole Foods Market says it is aiming to phase them out completely by 2018. Trader Joe's says absolutely none of its private-label products contain them, and haven't since the early 1990s. And Natural Grocers, another major U.S.-based grocery chain, has been pushing for their removal, or at least their...
Top six tips for choosing the highest quality supplements
11/8/2013 - Americans enjoy the fact that they have many choices in their lives. Yet, having too many choices when it comes to one's health can be confusing and daunting. The $27 Billion U.S. dietary supplement industry provides consumers with hundreds of thousands of products to choose from, and it is growing...
Processed foods contain healthier ingredients in foreign markets than they do in US
11/6/2013 - It is bad enough that many processed foods currently on the market today still contain artificial dyes, chemical stabilizers and preservatives, refined sugars and various other toxic, yet FDA-approved, ingredients. But a recent investigation by FoodBabe.com reveals a shocking double standard within...
Wal-Mart, Walgreens found selling chemical used to manufacture deadly nerve gas weapons based on Nazi science research
9/4/2013 - Wal-Mart, Walgreens and other large U.S. retailers have been found selling a chemical that can be used to manufacture deadly nerve gas weapons. The chemical is found in numerous products sold by Wal-Mart and Walgreens, and it is the same chemical that raised alarm when it was discovered that UK companies...
If you argue not to label GMOs, then you must argue for no ingredients labeled on anything at all
8/24/2013 - It is more than obvious that anyone who wants to keep genetically modified food unlabeled is either making money from the biotech industry or doesn't mind eating insecticide and pesticide daily. Any argument supporting hiding this "modification" of food means that you would also support all food going...
Consumer alert: Most common vitamins, including children's vitamins, found to contain GMOs
7/30/2013 - A Natural News investigation reveals that an alarmingly large number of multivitamins and individual nutrient vitamins are formulated with ingredients derived from genetically modified corn. This is the "dirty little secret" of the vitamin industry, but it's not one the mainstream media will touch...
Chipotle becomes first US restaurant chain to voluntarily label GMOs
6/13/2013 - The recent decision by Whole Foods Market to label all genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) sold in its stores by the long-off date of 2018 looks silly and almost meaningless compared to the right-now policy of fresh food chain Chipotle, which is officially the first and only major U.S. food supplier...
A must read for women
5/13/2013 - My friend, Andrea Donsky, that has the website www.naturalsavvy.com, wrote an incredible article that is extremely relevant to all women that have a monthly cycle. She has given me permission to submit it here. As you read the article and become upset there is a link to go to to sign a petition. It...
Pepsi to begin using unlabeled, sweetness-enhancing 'mystery' ingredients developed by 'aborted fetal cells' company
3/28/2013 - Beverage giant PepsiCo has once again partnered with Senomyx, the San Diego, Cal.-based chemical company that gained nationwide attention back in 2011 for using aborted human fetal cells to develop flavor chemicals, to create even more flavor chemicals for its products. According to reports, the new...
Shock finding: Most probiotic supplements made with genetically modified flow agents, fillers
1/22/2013 - A Natural News investigation into the probiotics industry has turned up alarming information about how probiotics are formulated and labeled. We've found that nearly all probiotics available in the U.S. market today are secretly formulated with genetically modified ingredients that are intentionally...
NEW: Bearded Bros raw food bars deliver organic, wholesome ingredients in a not-too-sweet bar that's a perfect snack
1/10/2013 - I'm always on the lookout for the next great food bar, and a relatively new company called "Bearded Bros" has just topped my list with an amazing new lineup of (mostly) raw food bars made with nearly all organic ingredients. Check out the ingredients of their Bodacious Blueberry Vanilla bar: Organic...
Avon and 5 Hour Energy team up for breast cancer pink washing
10/23/2012 - In the spirit of breast cancer awareness month, 5 Hour Energy and The Avon Foundation for Women Breast Cancer Crusade has teamed up to help stamp out breast cancer. Living Essentials, LLC., owner of 5 Hour energy, will be providing a minimum $75,000 donation to the Avon Foundation but that amount can...
Coke bottles may require cancer warning label if drink ingredients not changed
6/5/2012 - Back in January, the state of California added to its list of cancer-causing chemicals an ingredient commonly used in flavored soda beverages, which has sent major shockwaves throughout the processed food industry. And according to numerous reports, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and even Whole Foods are having...
Health Basics: The 11 most toxic vaccine ingredients and their side effects
2/29/2012 1:20:33 PM - It's been only 70 years since World War II, and the mad scientists from companies like I.G. Farben, BASF, Hoechst, Dow and Bayer, who created the gas chambers and tested dangerous vaccines on innocent Jews, didn't just go away. In fact, they went to work for U.S. corporations and pharmaceutical companies...
McDonald's forced to disclose all chemical ingredients on food sold in Russia
1/30/2012 - A Russian consumer rights' group recently filed a lawsuit against McDonald's at Moscow's Tverskoy Court. The consumer groups involved in the suit say that McDonald's milkshakes are falsely named because they contain little milk. McDonald's shakes don't deserve to be called milkshakesAnalysis of milkshakes...
Fact: 80 percent of U.S. pharmaceuticals made with overseas ingredients, nearly half produced in foreign facilities never inspected by FDA
1/18/2012 - Big Pharma advocates (the few that exist outside the corrupt government structure and the drug industry itself) regularly defend the industry with claims that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains strict regulatory protocols that ensure safety. But a new report reveals that not only are...
Fast food nutrition facts - mystery ingredients are industrial chemicals
12/3/2011 - Many people think occasional junk food indulgence can be balanced out by skipping meals later in the week or by putting in some extra time on the treadmill. The truth is that the consequences of this type of eating can turn up in unexpected ways, often years later as toxins accumulate in your body and...
You may be eating food additives without even knowing it
11/17/2011 - It is common knowledge that candy bars, chips and fast food aren't healthful, so it's no surprise to find food additives in those ingredients lists. However, there are a surprising number of additives lurking in more innocent-sounding products like applesauce and sour cream, as well. Shoppers may logically...
Avoid toxic ingredients and create your own mask with calcium bentonite clay
11/4/2011 - Skin is the body`s largest organ and one of the primary ways toxins make their way into the body. Therefore, it`s important to read the labels of skin care products and learn what to avoid when it comes to ingredients. The marketplace is abundant with prepared "natural" clay masks. An alternative to...
There's wood in my food? Wood-derived ingredients common in processed food
10/4/2011 - Lately there have been rumors about sawdust used as fiber filling in processed foods. Well, not quite sawdust. The cellulose used in many foods is processed powder or pulp from virgin wood. It's becoming more common. Though not toxic, what good is it? Wood cellulose explainedSince the virgin wood...
Top five ingredients to avoid in deodorant
8/19/2011 - Deodorant is an essential toiletry that most Americans have in their medicine cabinet today. Many are still unaware of the hidden dangers in the active ingredients of modern day deodorant. They continue to use these potentially hazardous chemicals on their underarms as a way of reducing perspiration...
What's really in the food? The A to Z of the food industry's most evil ingredients
7/28/2011 - Ever wonder what's really in the food sold at grocery stores around the world? People keep asking me, "What ingredients should I avoid?" So I put together a short list that covers all the most toxic and disease-promoting ingredients in the food supply. These are the substances causing cancer, diabetes,...
FDA's scheme to outlaw nearly all nutritional supplements created after 1994 would destroy millions of jobs and devastate economy
7/7/2011 - Yesterday we reported on the FDA's new scheme for outlawing nearly all nutritional supplements formulated after October, 1994 (https://www.naturalnews.com/032912_FDA_dietary_supplements.html). That was just the beginning of this story, because a detailed analysis of the proposed new regulation reveals...
Are you eating pesticides? Canola oil, soybean oil used as key ingredients in pesticide products
6/29/2011 - In a shocking new video, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger) reveals that common cooking oils such as canola oil and soybean oil are used as key active ingredients in pesticide products because they work so effectively to kill bugs. The video shows how one pesticide product that kills insects is made with...
The Horrors of Commercial Pet Food
6/28/2011 - The global commercial pet food industry is astonishingly profitable and continues to grow (sadly) by leaps and bounds. Let's define commercial pet food, for our purposes, as anything that is packaged in cans or bags, even if labeled holistic or natural. Hundreds of generations of pet guardians have...
Anti-foaming agent found in Chicken McNuggets
6/26/2011 - Ever wonder what's really found in Chicken McNuggets? Some of the ingredients, it turns out, seem to belong more to an industrial factory of some kind, not a food retailer. According to the McDonald's Corporation, its famous Chicken McNuggets are made with ingredients including autolyzed yeast extract...
Green gardening secrets: How to eliminate bugs and pests without using poison
5/4/2011 - As people are turning away from chemical ingredients in everything from cleaning products to beauty products, they are also turning to chemical-free foods by growing food in their own backyards. In order to keep your homegrown produce as free from harmful chemicals as possible while keeping crop-destroying...
Nature provides best ingredients for anti-aging skin care
2/2/2011 - Anti aging and wrinkle creams are a dime a dozen. A vast majority of the wrinkle and anti aging products on the market today contain harmful chemicals. However, there are several 100% natural ingredients you can look for that will make you look younger. The first on the list is vitamin C. Vitamin...
Taco Bell beef faked? No more than the rest of the FDA-approved toxic food supply
1/29/2011 - The word spread like wildfire across the internet: An Alabama law firm had filed a class action lawsuit against Taco Bell in California, saying its meat fails to meet the definition of beef set forth by the U.S. government (and even that's a pretty low hurdle, if you ask me). The lawsuit claims Taco...
What's in your future kitchen? Food fabrication technology prints out your meals in seconds
1/26/2011 - In the not-so-distant future, instead of buying manufactured food items at the store, you may instead just "print" them right in your own kitchen. The technology is called "food fabrication," and it allows you to fabricate foods right in your own kitchen, layer by layer, in much the same way an inkjet...
Beware of Hidden Animal Ingredients in Food
10/22/2010 - Vegetarians and vegans are usually known for making wise food choices, seeking healthy foods. They, along with other consumers, might be surprised to find out that some seemingly harmless foods actually contain hidden animal ingredients. Some newer nutrition labeling has helped vegans. For example,...
Say No to GMO Food: Buy Certified Organic
10/19/2010 - Organic food is gaining in popularity as consumers learn about the dangers of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). In fact, recent polls show that an overwhelming majority of Americans would actively choose to avoid eating genetically modified foods. Despite these findings, the FDA does not require...
It's not the bugs in Similac that make me sick - let's recall the other ingredients (opinion)
9/27/2010 - It has been a few days since Abbott Laboratories, makers of Similac infant formula, issued a recall after discovering some of its products may have been contaminated with beetles (and beetle larvae). The mainstream media ran with this story and parents everywhere suddenly got concerned that their babies...
Even Negligible Ingredients in Soda are Bad for Your Health
9/21/2010 - Natural News has long reported the dangers of soda, both regular and diet. The Health Ranger and other reporters here have methodically documented the dangers of high fructose corn syrup (HCFS), aspartame, caffeine, and phosphorous. There are multiple stories about the effects of these products on consumers'...
Use Natural Liquid Castile Soap for Safe and Wonderful Homemade Shampoos
9/10/2010 - Many of us look forward to shampooing our hair with visions of beautiful, shiny, bouncy hair as portrayed by those enticing shampoo commercials that we have become so familiar with. Little do we realize that the very shampoos that are giving us that lustrous look may at the same time be endangering...
Organic Labels: Know the Meaning of the Different Kinds
9/8/2010 - The word itself emits a certain energy. But what does it really mean when a product has the word "organic" on it? Or when an entire package is labeled "organic"? The word "organic" refers to the way foods are produced and handled. Food labels that include the word "organic" mean the food was produced...
Superfood meal powder review: Garden of Life Raw Meal and Boku Superfood
8/17/2010 - It's time to review two of the industry's most popular superfood products: Raw Meal from Garden of Life (www.GardenofLife.com) and Boku Superfood from the Boku Superfood company (www.BokuSuperfood.com). I'll also mention some other notable and important superfood products at the conclusion of this article. Boku...
Raw, sprouted nuts from LivingNutz taste like heaven while supporting good nutrition
7/14/2010 - The more you study nutrition, the more you learn about the health benefits of raw nuts. Nuts offer nutritious oils and vitamins (like Vitamin E) that continue to surprise scientists with their ability to support and enhance good health. But the problem with most conventional nuts is that they're either...
Toxic Corexit dispersant chemicals remained secret as feds colluded with Big Business
6/11/2010 - After weeks of silence on the issue, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally decided to go public with the list of ingredients used to manufacture Corexit, the chemical dispersant used by BP in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. There are two things about this announcement that deserve...
The best organic pet food brands revealed
6/1/2010 - A stroll down the pet food aisle at the local pet store can be overwhelming. The shelves are full of countless brands all claiming to have the best formulations for your furry friend. Many brands are now selling "natural" and organic lines in order to attract discerning shoppers who are concerned about...
Make Your Own Safe, Natural and Healthy Toothpastes and Cleansers
4/23/2010 - Virtually all commercial toothpastes contain one or both of two problematic ingredients: fluoride and glycerin. Fluoride, a mining by-product, is one of the bigger scams perpetrated on an unwitting public. Instead of being beneficial it actually damages teeth. Glycerin coats the enamel and prevents...
Susan G. Komen for the Cure makes mockery of self with KFC pinkwashing campaign (opinion)
4/22/2010 - Susan G. Komen for the Cure has now crossed the line into asinine idiocy thanks to its new alliance with Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), where pink buckets of fried chicken are sold under the slogan, "Buckets for the Cure." I'm not making this up. See the ad image yourself at: https://www.naturalnews.com/images/KFC-PinkChickenBuckets.jpg This...
EPA may soon require pesticide manufacturers to finally disclose secret toxic ingredients
3/5/2010 - After 11 years of secrecy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to reverse a prior decision that allowed pesticide manufacturers to conceal the inert ingredients from their product labels. Since many of these ingredients are toxic, the agency now believes that consumers should...
Broths Contain Mysterious Ingredients
1/18/2010 - There's a company that dominates the soup business, but its products are at best bland and mushy. You probably know who I'm talking about. Some of the company's soups contain so much salt that they're the human equivalent of a salt lick. For example, its chicken noodle soup dishes up a whopping 890...
Toothpaste Ingredients Your Dentist Will Not Warn You About
12/22/2009 - One of the fastest ways to absorb anything into the body is through the mouth. This is why certain drugs such as heart medication nitroglycerin and some pain relief drugs are administered under the tongue. Because of this, you should be aware that potentially toxic ingredients in your toothpaste and...
Cut the Chemicals and Enjoy More Energy
9/20/2009 - Good health, radiant skin and vitality always begin with what we take out of our bodies as opposed to what we put in. This is one of the reasons why many people feel much better, rejuvenated, lighter and brighter after a proper detox in the form of elimination, fasting or even half-fasting. In our...
Essiac Tea is a Cancer Cure Big Pharma Does Not Want You to Know About
8/28/2009 - A simple inexpensive four herb tea that cures cancer? Even AIDS maybe? This has been a critical concern since Essiac tea was introduced in Canada during the early 1920's. For over 50 years, a humble nurse, Rene Caisse (pronounced Reen Case), used the tea successfully with many terminal cancer patients...
PepsiCo Chooses to Continue Using GE Ingredients Despite Evidence of Harm
8/23/2009 - PepsiCo's 2009 shareholder proxy report contains a proposal (pg. 61) that paints a clear picture of the company's use of genetically-engineered (GE) food ingredients and its attitude toward this issue. The proposal describes a loose plan to remove GE ingredients from Pepsi's products in order to maintain...
Health Ranger Launches "Valley of Longevity" Shampoo - 98% Organic and 100% Fragrance-Free
6/10/2009 - For years, I've tried to find a truly natural shampoo that I could feel good about using and recommending to family, friends and NaturalNews readers. It's been a virtually impossible task: Many of the so-called "natural" shampoo products sold today are loaded with fragrance, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS)...
Save Money: Make Your Own Tasty Nutritious Bread
2/24/2009 - Home made bread saves money both at its production and in the long run. Using fresh ingredients will cost less than a store-bought loaf. The bread which results will be nutritious and tasty, with endless variety. Many people fear that making bread is a long and complicated process. Instead you will...
Make Your Own Skin Care Products
1/28/2009 - There are compelling reasons to make your own skin care products. Federal law doesn`t require companies to provide data on product safety nor does it demand full disclosure of ingredients on product labels. Evidence continues to mount that personal care products are brimming with unsafe ingredients....
How To Choose Products That Keep You Beautiful And Healthy
1/8/2009 - Millions of Americans are adversely affected each year by a silent from of chemical warfare that's taking place every day within the comforts of our own homes. While we worry about the chemical weaponry of terrorists and lead-contaminated imported toys, we are literally poisoning our immune systems...
Dollar Store Discount Dog Treats Might Cost You More
1/5/2009 - Recently in a Dear Heloise article, a pet owner wrote she buys treats at a Dollar store for $1 that are "almost the same as $5 treats from the pet store." Unfortunately for this pet owner, discounted dog treats might cost her far more in the long run. The old adage 'you get what you pay for' usually...
Horrifying, Laboratory Animals Rendered in to Pet Food
12/12/2008 - Millions of laboratory animals are yet used each year to test new drugs to be approved by the FDA for safety. While some labs have been discovered to provide horrific conditions for test animals, most follow the 'Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals' protocol. But have you ever thought about...
Lessen Your Baby's Toxic Load (Part 3): Skin and Bath Products
11/27/2008 - Baby care products such as shampoos, lotions and powders fall under cosmetics` regulations and the FDA is not required to test their safety. The only way to be assured a product will not contain harmful compounds is that it be certified organic, and better yet, certified organic to food standards. Infants...
Rawvolution: Part III, Begin Your Own Raw-Volution with these Must-Haves
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Chapter 1 - Marseilles -- The Arrival
Chapter 2 - Father and Son
Chapter 3 - The Catalans
Chapter 4 - Conspiracy
Chapter 5 - The Marriage-Feast
Chapter 6 - The Deputy Procureur du Roi
Chapter 7 - The Examination
Chapter 8 - The Chateau D'If
Chapter 9 - The Evening of the Betrothal
Chapter 10 - The King's Closet at the Tuileries
Chapter 11 - The Corsican Ogre
Chapter 12 - Father and Son
Chapter 13 - The Hundred Days
Chapter 14 - The Two Prisoners
Chapter 15 - Number 34 and Number 27
Chapter 16 - A Learned Italian
Chapter 17 - The Abbe's Chamber
Chapter 18 - The Treasure
Chapter 19 - The Third Attack
Chapter 20 - The Cemetery of the Chateau D'If
Chapter 21 - The Island of Tiboulen
Chapter 22 - The Smugglers
Chapter 23 - The Island of Monte Crosto
Chapter 24 - The Secret Cave
Chapter 25 - The Unknown
Chapter 26 - The Pont du Gard Inn
Chapter 27 - The Story
Chapter 28 - The Prison Register
Chapter 29 - The House of Morrel & Son
Chapter 30 - The Fifth of September
Chapter 31 - Italy: Sinbad the Sailor
Chapter 32 - The Waking
Chapter 33 - Roman Bandits
Chapter 34 - The Colosseum
Chapter 35 - La Mazzolata
Chapter 36 - The Carnival at Rome
Chapter 37 - The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian
Chapter 38 - The Compact
Chapter 39 - The Guests
Chapter 40 - The Breakfast
Chapter 41 - The Presentation
Chapter 42 - Monsier Bertuccio
Chapter 43 - The House at Auteuil
Chapter 44 - The Vendetta
Chapter 45 - The Rain of Blood
Chapter 46 - Unlimited Credit
Chapter 47 - The Dapopled Grays
Chapter 48 - Ideology
Chapter 49 - Haidee
Chapter 50 - The Morrel Family
Chapter 51 - Pyramus and Thisbe
Chapter 52 - Toxicology
Chapter 53 - Robert le Diable
Chapter 54 - A Flurry in Stocks
Chapter 55 - Major Cavalcanti
Chapter 56 - Andrea Cavalcanti
Chapter 57 - In the Lucerne Patch
Chapter 58 - M. Noirtier de Villefort
Chapter 59 - The Will
Chapter 60 - The Telegraph
Chapter 61 - How a Gardener may get rid of the Dormice that eat His Peaches
Chapter 62 - Ghosts
Chapter 63 - The Dinner
Chapter 64 - The Beggar
Chapter 65 - A Conjugal Scene
Chapter 66 - Matrimonial Projects
Chapter 67 - At the Office of the King's Attourney
Chapter 68 - A Summer Ball
Chapter 69 - The Inquiry
Chapter 70 - The Ball
Chapter 71 - Bread and Salt
Chapter 72 - Madame de Saint-Meran
Chapter 73 - The Promise
Chapter 74 - The Villefort Family Vault
Chapter 75 - A Signed Statement
Chapter 76 - Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger
Chapter 78 - We hear From Yanina
Chapter 79 - The Lemonade
Chapter 80 - The Accusation
Chapter 81 - The Room of the Retired Baker
Chapter 82 - The Burglary
Chapter 83 - The Hand of God
Chapter 84 - Beauchamp
Chapter 85 - The Journey
Chapter 86 - The Trial
Chapter 87 - The Challenge
Chapter 88 - The Insult
Chapter 89 - A Nocturnal Interview
Chapter 90 - The Meeting
Chapter 91 - Mother and Son
Chapter 92 - The Suicide
Chapter 93 - Valentine
Chapter 94 - Maximilian's Avowal
Chapter 95 - Father and Daughter
Chapter 96 - The Contract
Chapter 97 - The Departure for Belgium
Chapter 98 - The Bell and Bottle Tavern
Chapter 99 - The Law
Chapter 100 - The Apparition
Chapter 101 - Locusta
Chapter 102 - Valentine
Chapter 103 - Maximilian
Chapter 104 - Danglars Signature
Chapter 105 - The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise
Chapter 106 - Dividing the Proceeds
Chapter 107 - The Lions' Den
Chapter 108 - The Judge
Chapter 109 - The Assizes
Chapter 110 - The Indictment
Chapter 111 - Expiation
Chapter 112 - The Departure
Chapter 113 - The Past
Chapter 114 - Peppino
Chapter 115 - Luigi Vampa's Bill of Fare
Chapter 116 - The Pardon
Chapter 117 - The Fifth of October
The night-light continued to burn on the chimney-piece, exhausting the last drops of oil which floated on the surface of the water. The globe of the lamp appeared of a reddish hue, and the flame, brightening before it expired, threw out the last flickerings which in an inanimate object have been so often compared with the convulsions of a human creature in its final agonies. A dull and dismal light was shed over the bedclothes and curtains surrounding the young girl. All noise in the streets had ceased, and the silence was frightful. It was then that the door of Edward's room opened, and a head we have before noticed appeared in the glass opposite; it was Madame de Villefort, who came to witness the effects of the drink she had prepared. She stopped in the doorway, listened for a moment to the flickering of the lamp, the only sound in that deserted room, and then advanced to the table to see if Valentine's glass were empty. It was still about a quarter full, as we before stated. Madame de Villefort emptied the contents into the ashes, which she disturbed that they might the more readily absorb the liquid; then she carefully rinsed the glass, and wiping it with her handkerchief replaced it on the table.
If any one could have looked into the room just then he would have noticed the hesitation with which Madame de Villefort approached the bed and looked fixedly on Valentine. The dim light, the profound silence, and the gloomy thoughts inspired by the hour, and still more by her own conscience, all combined to produce a sensation of fear; the poisoner was terrified at the contemplation of her own work. At length she rallied, drew aside the curtain, and leaning over the pillow gazed intently on Valentine. The young girl no longer breathed, no breath issued through the half-closed teeth; the white lips no longer quivered -- the eyes were suffused with a bluish vapor, and the long black lashes rested on a cheek white as wax. Madame de Villefort gazed upon the face so expressive even in its stillness; then she ventured to raise the coverlet and press her hand upon the young girl's heart. It was cold and motionless. She only felt the pulsation in her own fingers, and withdrew her hand with a shudder. One arm was hanging out of the bed; from shoulder to elbow it was moulded after the arms of Germain Pillon's "Graces,"* but the fore-arm seemed to be slightly distorted by convulsion, and the hand, so delicately formed, was resting with stiff outstretched fingers on the framework of the bed. The nails, too, were turning blue.
* Germain Pillon was a famous French sculptor (1535-1598). His best known work is "The Three Graces," now in the Louvre.
Madame de Villefort had no longer any doubt; all was over -- she had consummated the last terrible work she had to accomplish. There was no more to do in the room, so the poisoner retired stealthily, as though fearing to hear the sound of her own footsteps; but as she withdrew she still held aside the curtain, absorbed in the irresistible attraction always exerted by the picture of death, so long as it is merely mysterious and does not excite disgust. Just then the lamp again flickered; the noise startled Madame de Villefort, who shuddered and dropped the curtain. Immediately afterwards the light expired, and the room was plunged in frightful obscurity, while the clock at that minute struck half-past four. Overpowered with agitation, the poisoner succeeded in groping her way to the door, and reached her room in an agony of fear.
The darkness lasted two hours longer; then by degrees a cold light crept through the Venetian blinds, until at length it revealed the objects in the room. About this time the nurse's cough was heard on the stairs and the woman entered the room with a cup in her hand. To the tender eye of a father or a lover, the first glance would have sufficed to reveal Valentine's condition; but to this hireling, Valentine only appeared to sleep. "Good," she exclaimed, approaching the table, "she has taken part of her draught; the glass is three-quarters empty."
Then she went to the fireplace and lit the fire, and although she had just left her bed, she could not resist the temptation offered by Valentine's sleep, so she threw herself into an arm-chair to snatch a little more rest. The clock striking eight awoke her. Astonished at the prolonged slumber of the patient, and frightened to see that the arm was still hanging out of the bed, she advanced towards Valentine, and for the first time noticed the white lips. She tried to replace the arm, but it moved with a frightful rigidity which could not deceive a sick-nurse. She screamed aloud; then running to the door exclaimed, -- "Help, help!"
"What is the matter?" asked M. d'Avrigny, at the foot of the stairs, it being the hour he usually visited her.
"What is it?" asked Villefort, rushing from his room. "Doctor, do you hear them call for help?"
"Yes, yes; let us hasten up; it was in Valentine's room." But before the doctor and the father could reach the room, the servants who were on the same floor had entered, and seeing Valentine pale and motionless on her bed, they lifted up their hands towards heaven and stood transfixed, as though struck by lightening. "Call Madame de Villefort! -- wake Madame de Villefort!" cried the procureur from the door of his chamber, which apparently he scarcely dared to leave. But instead of obeying him, the servants stood watching M. d'Avrigny, who ran to Valentine, and raised her in his arms. "What? -- this one, too?" he exclaimed. "Oh, where will be the end?" Villefort rushed into the room. "What are you saying, doctor?" he exclaimed, raising his hands to heaven.
"I say that Valentine is dead!" replied d'Avrigny, in a voice terrible in its solemn calm.
M. de Villefort staggered and buried his head in the bed. On the exclamation of the doctor and the cry of the father, the servants all fled with muttered imprecations; they were heard running down the stairs and through the long passages, then there was a rush in the court, afterwards all was still; they had, one and all, deserted the accursed house. Just then, Madame de Villefort, in the act of slipping on her dressing-gown, threw aside the drapery and for a moment stood motionless, as though interrogating the occupants of the room, while she endeavored to call up some rebellious tears. On a sudden she stepped, or rather bounded, with outstretched arms, towards the table. She saw d'Avrigny curiously examining the glass, which she felt certain of having emptied during the night. It was now a third full, just as it was when she threw the contents into the ashes. The spectre of Valentine rising before the poisoner would have alarmed her less. It was, indeed, the same color as the draught she had poured into the glass, and which Valentine had drank; it was indeed the poison, which could not deceive M. d'Avrigny, which he now examined so closely; it was doubtless a miracle from heaven, that, notwithstanding her precautions, there should be some trace, some proof remaining to reveal the crime. While Madame de Villefort remained rooted to the spot like a statue of terror, and Villefort, with his head hidden in the bedclothes, saw nothing around him, d'Avrigny approached the window, that he might the better examine the contents of the glass, and dipping the tip of his finger in, tasted it. "Ah," he exclaimed, "it is no longer brucine that is used; let me see what it is!"
Then he ran to one of the cupboards in Valentine's room, which had been transformed into a medicine closet, and taking from its silver case a small bottle of nitric acid, dropped a little of it into the liquor, which immediately changed to a blood-red color. "Ah," exclaimed d'Avrigny, in a voice in which the horror of a judge unveiling the truth was mingled with the delight of a student making a discovery. Madame de Villefort was overpowered, her eyes first flashed and then swam, she staggered towards the door and disappeared. Directly afterwards the distant sound of a heavy weight falling on the ground was heard, but no one paid any attention to it; the nurse was engaged in watching the chemical analysis, and Villefort was still absorbed in grief. M. d'Avrigny alone had followed Madame de Villefort with his eyes, and watched her hurried retreat. He lifted up the drapery over the entrance to Edward's room, and his eye reaching as far as Madame de Villefort's apartment, he beheld her extended lifeless on the floor. "Go to the assistance of Madame de Villefort," he said to the nurse. "Madame de Villefort is ill."
"But Mademoiselle de Villefort" -- stammered the nurse.
"Mademoiselle de Villefort no longer requires help," said d'Avrigny, "since she is dead."
"Dead, -- dead!" groaned forth Villefort, in a paroxysm of grief, which was the more terrible from the novelty of the sensation in the iron heart of that man.
"Dead!" repeated a third voice. "Who said Valentine was dead?"
The two men turned round, and saw Morrel standing at the door, pale and terror-stricken. This is what had happened. At the usual time, Morrel had presented himself at the little door leading to Noirtier's room. Contrary to custom, the door was open, and having no occasion to ring he entered. He waited for a moment in the hall and called for a servant to conduct him to M. Noirtier; but no one answered, the servants having, as we know, deserted the house. Morrel had no particular reason for uneasiness; Monte Cristo had promised him that Valentine should live, and so far he had always fulfilled his word. Every night the count had given him news, which was the next morning confirmed by Noirtier. Still this extraordinary silence appeared strange to him, and he called a second and third time; still no answer. Then he determined to go up. Noirtier's room was opened, like all the rest. The first thing he saw was the old man sitting in his arm-chair in his usual place, but his eyes expressed alarm, which was confirmed by the pallor which overspread his features.
"How are you, sir?" asked Morrel, with a sickness of heart.
"Well," answered the old man, by closing his eyes; but his appearance manifested increasing uneasiness.
"You are thoughtful, sir," continued Morrel; "you want something; shall I call one of the servants?"
"Yes," replied Noirtier.
Morrel pulled the bell, but though he nearly broke the cord no one answered. He turned towards Noirtier; the pallor and anguish expressed on his countenance momentarily increased.
"Oh," exclaimed Morrel, "why do they not come? Is any one ill in the house?" The eyes of Noirtier seemed as though they would start from their sockets. "What is the matter? You alarm me. Valentine? Valentine?"
"Yes, yes," signed Noirtier. Maximilian tried to speak, but he could articulate nothing; he staggered, and supported himself against the wainscot. Then he pointed to the door.
"Yes, yes, yes!" continued the old man. Maximilian rushed up the little staircase, while Noirtier's eyes seemed to say, -- "Quicker, quicker!"
In a minute the young man darted through several rooms, till at length he reached Valentine's. There was no occasion to push the door, it was wide open. A sob was the only sound he heard. He saw as though in a mist, a black figure kneeling and buried in a confused mass of white drapery. A terrible fear transfixed him. It was then he heard a voice exclaim "Valentine is dead!" and another voice which, like an echo repeated, -- "Dead, -- dead!"
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La Grande Bretèche
"Ah! madame," replied the doctor, "I have some appalling stories in my collection. But each one has its proper hour in a conversation--you know the pretty jest recorded by Chamfort, and said to the Duc de Fronsac: 'Between your sally and the present moment lie ten bottles of champagne.'"
"But it is two in the morning, and the story of Rosina has prepared us," said the mistress of the house.
"Tell us, Monsieur Bianchon!" was the cry on every side.
The obliging doctor bowed, and silence reigned.
"At about a hundred paces from Vendome, on the banks of the Loir," said he, "stands an old brown house, crowned with very high roofs, and so completely isolated that there is nothing near it, not even a fetid tannery or a squalid tavern, such as are commonly seen outside small towns. In front of this house is a garden down to the river, where the box shrubs, formerly clipped close to edge the walks, now straggle at their own will. A few willows, rooted in the stream, have grown up quickly like an enclosing fence, and half hide the house. The wild plants we call weeds have clothed the bank with their beautiful luxuriance. The fruit-trees, neglected for these ten years past, no longer bear a crop, and their suckers have formed a thicket. The espaliers are like a copse. The paths, once graveled, are overgrown with purslane; but, to be accurate there is no trace of a path.
"Looking down from the hilltop, to which cling the ruins of the old castle of the Dukes of Vendome, the only spot whence the eye can see into this enclosure, we think that at a time, difficult now to determine, this spot of earth must have been the joy of some country gentleman devoted to roses and tulips, in a word, to horticulture, but above all a lover of choice fruit. An arbor is visible, or rather the wreck of an arbor, and under it a table still stands not entirely destroyed by time. At the aspect of this garden that is no more, the negative joys of the peaceful life of the provinces may be divined as we divine the history of a worthy tradesman when we read the epitaph on his tomb. To complete the mournful and tender impressions which seize the soul, on one of the walls there is a sundial graced with this homely Christian motto, 'Ultimam cogita.'
"The roof of this house is dreadfully dilapidated; the outside shutters are always closed; the balconies are hung with swallows' nests; the doors are for ever shut. Straggling grasses have outlined the flagstones of the steps with green; the ironwork is rusty. Moon and sun, winter, summer, and snow have eaten into the wood, warped the boards, peeled off the paint. The dreary silence is broken only by birds and cats, polecats, rats, and mice, free to scamper round, and fight, and eat each other. An invisible hand has written over it all: 'Mystery.'
"If, prompted by curiosity, you go to look at this house from the street, you will see a large gate, with a round-arched top; the children have made many holes in it. I learned later that this door had been blocked for ten years. Through these irregular breaches you will see that the side towards the courtyard is in perfect harmony with the side towards the garden. The same ruin prevails. Tufts of weeds outline the paving-stones; the walls are scored by enormous cracks, and the blackened coping is laced with a thousand festoons of pellitory. The stone steps are disjointed; the bell-cord is rotten; the gutter-spouts broken. What fire from heaven could have fallen there? By what decree has salt been sown on this dwelling? Has God been mocked here? Or was France betrayed? These are the questions we ask ourselves. Reptiles crawl over it, but give no reply. This empty and deserted house is a vast enigma of which the answer is known to none.
"It was formerly a little domain, held in fief, and is known as La Grande Breteche. During my stay at Vendome, where Despleins had left me in charge of a rich patient, the sight of this strange dwelling became one of my keenest pleasures. Was it not far better than a ruin? Certain memories of indisputable authenticity attach themselves to a ruin; but this house, still standing, though being slowly destroyed by an avenging hand, contained a secret, an unrevealed thought. At the very least, it testified to a caprice. More than once in the evening I boarded the hedge, run wild, which surrounded the enclosure. I braved scratches, I got into this ownerless garden, this plot which was no longer public or private; I lingered there for hours gazing at the disorder. I would not, as the price of the story to which this strange scene no doubt was due, have asked a single question of any gossiping native. On that spot I wove delightful romances, and abandoned myself to little debauches of melancholy which enchanted me. If I had known the reason--perhaps quite commonplace--of this neglect, I should have lost the unwritten poetry which intoxicated me. To me this refuge represented the most various phases of human life, shadowed by misfortune; sometimes the peace of the graveyard without the dead, who speak in the language of epitaphs; one day I saw in it the home of lepers; another, the house of the Atridae; but, above all, I found there provincial life, with its contemplative ideas, its hour-glass existence. I often wept there, I never laughed.
"More than once I felt involuntary terrors as I heard overhead the dull hum of the wings of some hurrying wood-pigeon. The earth is dank; you must be on the watch for lizards, vipers, and frogs, wandering about with the wild freedom of nature; above all, you must have no fear of cold, for in a few moments you feel an icy cloak settle on your shoulders, like the Commendatore's hand on Don Giovanni's neck.
"One evening I felt a shudder; the wind had turned an old rusty weathercock, and the creaking sounded like a cry from the house, at the very moment when I was finishing a gloomy drama to account for this monumental embodiment of woe. I returned to my inn, lost in gloomy thoughts. When I had supped, the hostess came into my room with an air of mystery, and said, 'Monsieur, here is Monsieur Regnault.'
"'Who is Monsieur Regnault?'
"'What, sir, do you not know Monsieur Regnault?--Well, that's odd,' said she, leaving the room.
"On a sudden I saw a man appear, tall, slim, dressed in black, hat in hand, who came in like a ram ready to butt his opponent, showing a receding forehead, a small pointed head, and a colorless face of the hue of a glass of dirty water. You would have taken him for an usher. The stranger wore an old coat, much worn at the seams; but he had a diamond in his shirt frill, and gold rings in his ears.
"'Monsieur,' said I, 'whom have I the honor of addressing?'--He took a chair, placed himself in front of my fire, put his hat on my table, and answered while he rubbed his hands: 'Dear me, it is very cold. --Monsieur, I am Monsieur Regnault.'
"I was encouraging myself by saying to myself, 'Il bondo cani! Seek!'
"'I am,' he went on, 'notary at Vendome.'
"'I am delighted to hear it, monsieur,' I exclaimed. 'But I am not in a position to make a will for reasons best known to myself.'
"'One moment!' said he, holding up his hand as though to gain silence. 'Allow me, monsieur, allow me! I am informed that you sometimes go to walk in the garden of la Grande Breteche.'
"'Yes, monsieur.'
"'One moment!' said he, repeating his gesture. 'That constitutes a misdemeanor. Monsieur, as executor under the will of the late Comtesse de Merret, I come in her name to beg you to discontinue the practice. One moment! I am not a Turk, and do not wish to make a crime of it. And besides, you are free to be ignorant of the circumstances which compel me to leave the finest mansion in Vendome to fall into ruin. Nevertheless, monsieur, you must be a man of education, and you should know that the laws forbid, under heavy penalties, any trespass on enclosed property. A hedge is the same as a wall. But, the state in which the place is left may be an excuse for your curiosity. For my part, I should be quite content to make you free to come and go in the house; but being bound to respect the will of the testatrix, I have the honor, monsieur, to beg that you will go into the garden no more. I myself, monsieur, since the will was read, have never set foot in the house, which, as I had the honor of informing you, is part of the estate of the late Madame de Merret. We have done nothing there but verify the number of doors and windows to assess the taxes I have to pay annually out of the funds left for that purpose by the late Madame de Merret. Ah! my dear sir, her will made a great commotion in the town.'
"The good man paused to blow his nose. I respected his volubility, perfectly understanding that the administration of Madame de Merret's estate had been the most important event of his life, his reputation, his glory, his Restoration. As I was forced to bid farewell to my beautiful reveries and romances, I was to reject learning the truth on official authority.
"'Monsieur,' said I, 'would it be indiscreet if I were to ask you the reasons for such eccentricity?'
"At these words an expression, which revealed all the pleasure which men feel who are accustomed to ride a hobby, overspread the lawyer's countenance. He pulled up the collar of his shirt with an air, took out his snuffbox, opened it, and offered me a pinch; on my refusing, he took a large one. He was happy! A man who has no hobby does not know all the good to be got out of life. A hobby is the happy medium between a passion and a monomania. At this moment I understood the whole bearing of Sterne's charming passion, and had a perfect idea of the delight with which my uncle Toby, encouraged by Trim, bestrode his hobby-horse.
"'Monsieur,' said Monsieur Regnault, 'I was head-clerk in Monsieur Roguin's office, in Paris. A first-rate house, which you may have heard mentioned? No! An unfortunate bankruptcy made it famous.--Not having money enough to purchase a practice in Paris at the price to which they were run up in 1816, I came here and bought my predecessor's business. I had relations in Vendome; among others, a wealthy aunt, who allowed me to marry her daughter.--Monsieur,' he went on after a little pause, 'three months after being licensed by the Keeper of the Seals, one evening, as I was going to bed--it was before my marriage--I was sent for by Madame la Comtesse de Merret, to her Chateau of Merret. Her maid, a good girl, who is now a servant in this inn, was waiting at my door with the Countess' own carriage. Ah! one moment! I ought to tell you that Monsieur le Comte de Merret had gone to Paris to die two months before I came here. He came to a miserable end, flinging himself into every kind of dissipation. You understand?
"'On the day when he left, Madame la Comtesse had quitted la Grand Breteche, having dismantled it. Some people even say that she had burnt all the furniture, the hangings--in short, all the chattels and furniture whatever used in furnishing the premises now let by the said M.--(Dear, what am I saying? I beg your pardon, I thought I was dictating a lease.)--In short, that she burnt everything in the meadow at Merret. Have you been to Merret, monsieur?--No,' said he, answering himself, 'Ah, it is a very fine place.'
"'For about three months previously,' he went on, with a jerk of his head, 'the Count and Countess had lived in a very eccentric way; they admitted no visitors; Madame lived on the ground-floor, and Monsieur on the first floor. When the Countess was left alone, she was never seen excepting at church. Subsequently, at home, at the chateau, she refused to see the friends, whether gentlemen or ladies, who went to call on her. She was already very much altered when she left la Grande Breteche to go to Merret. That dear lady--I say dear lady, for it was she who gave me this diamond, but indeed I saw her but once--that kind lady was very ill; she had, no doubt, given up all hope, for she died without choosing to send for a doctor; indeed, many of our ladies fancied she was not quite right in her head. Well, sir, my curiosity was strangely excited by hearing that Madame de Merret had need of my services. Nor was I the only person who took an interest in the affair. That very night, though it was already late, all the town knew that I was going to Merret.
"'The waiting-woman replied but vaguely to the questions I asked her on the way; nevertheless, she told me that her mistress had received the Sacrament in the course of the day at the hands of the Cure of Merret, and seemed unlikely to live through the night. It was about eleven when I reached the chateau. I went up the great staircase. After crossing some large, lofty, dark rooms, diabolically cold and damp, I reached the state bedroom where the Countess lay. From the rumors that were current concerning this lady (monsieur, I should never end if I were to repeat all the tales that were told about her), I had imagined her a coquette. Imagine, then, that I had great difficulty in seeing her in the great bed where she was lying. To be sure, to light this enormous room, with old-fashioned heavy cornices, and so thick with dust that merely to see it was enough to make you sneeze, she had only an old Argand lamp. Ah! but you have not been to Merret. Well, the bed is one of those old world beds, with a high tester hung with flowered chintz. A small table stood by the bed, on which I saw an "Imitation of Christ," which, by the way, I bought for my wife, as well as the lamp. There were also a deep armchair for her confidential maid, and two small chairs. There was no fire. That was all the furniture, not enough to fill ten lines in an inventory.
"'My dear sir, if you had seen, as I then saw, that vast room, papered and hung with brown, you would have felt yourself transported into a scene of a romance. It was icy, nay more, funereal,' and he lifted his hand with a theatrical gesture and paused.
"'By dint of seeking, as I approached the bed, at last I saw Madame de Merret, under the glimmer of the lamp, which fell on the pillows. Her face was as yellow as wax, and as narrow as two folded hands. The Countess had a lace cap showing her abundant hair, but as white as linen thread. She was sitting up in bed, and seemed to keep upright with great difficulty. Her large black eyes, dimmed by fever, no doubt, and half-dead already, hardly moved under the bony arch of her eyebrows.--There,' he added, pointing to his own brow. 'Her forehead was clammy; her fleshless hands were like bones covered with soft skin; the veins and muscles were perfectly visible. She must have been very handsome; but at this moment I was startled into an indescribable emotion at the sight. Never, said those who wrapped her in her shroud, had any living creature been so emaciated and lived. In short, it was awful to behold! Sickness so consumed that woman, that she was no more than a phantom. Her lips, which were pale violet, seemed to me not to move when she spoke to me.
"'Though my profession has familiarized me with such spectacles, by calling me not infrequently to the bedside of the dying to record their last wishes, I confess that families in tears and the agonies I have seen were as nothing in comparison with this lonely and silent woman in her vast chateau. I heard not the least sound, I did not perceive the movement which the sufferer's breathing ought to have given to the sheets that covered her, and I stood motionless, absorbed in looking at her in a sort of stupor. In fancy I am there still. At last her large eyes moved; she tried to raise her right hand, but it fell back on the bed, and she uttered these words, which came like a breath, for her voice was no longer a voice: "I have waited for you with the greatest impatience." A bright flush rose to her cheeks. It was a great effort to her to speak.
"'"Madame," I began. She signed to me to be silent. At that moment the old housekeeper rose and said in my ear, "Do not speak; Madame la Comtesse is not in a state to bear the slightest noise, and what you say might agitate her."
"'I sat down. A few instants after, Madame de Merret collected all her remaining strength to move her right hand, and slipped it, not without infinite difficulty, under the bolster; she then paused a moment. With a last effort she withdrew her hand; and when she brought out a sealed paper, drops of perspiration rolled from her brow. "I place my will in your hands--Oh! God! Oh!" and that was all. She clutched a crucifix that lay on the bed, lifted it hastily to her lips, and died.
"'The expression of her eyes still makes me shudder as I think of it. She must have suffered much! There was joy in her last glance, and it remained stamped on her dead eyes.
"'I brought away the will, and when it was opened I found that Madame de Merret had appointed me her executor. She left the whole of her property to the hospital at Vendome excepting a few legacies. But these were her instructions as relating to la Grande Breteche: She ordered me to leave the place, for fifty years counting from the day of her death, in the state in which it might be at the time of her death, forbidding any one, whoever he might be, to enter the apartments, prohibiting any repairs whatever, and even settling a salary to pay watchmen if it were needful to secure the absolute fulfilment of her intentions. At the expiration of that term, if the will of the testatrix has been duly carried out, the house is to become the property of my heirs, for, as you know, a notary cannot take a bequest. Otherwise la Grande Breteche reverts to the heirs-at-law, but on condition of fulfilling certain conditions set forth in a codicil to the will, which is not to be opened till the expiration of the said term of fifty years. The will has not been disputed, so----' And without finishing his sentence, the lanky notary looked at me with an air of triumph; I made him quite happy by offering him my congratulations.
"'Monsieur,' I said in conclusion, 'you have so vividly impressed me that I fancy I see the dying woman whiter than her sheets; her glittering eyes frighten me; I shall dream of her to-night.--But you must have formed some idea as to the instructions contained in that extraordinary will.'
"'Monsieur,' said he, with comical reticence, 'I never allow myself to criticise the conduct of a person who honors me with the gift of a diamond.'
"However, I soon loosened the tongue of the discreet notary of Vendome, who communicated to me, not without long digressions, the opinions of the deep politicians of both sexes whose judgments are law in Vendome. But these opinions were so contradictory, so diffuse, that I was near falling asleep in spite of the interest I felt in this authentic history. The notary's ponderous voice and monotonous accent, accustomed no doubt to listen to himself and to make himself listened to by his clients or fellow-townsmen, were too much for my curiosity. Happily, he soon went away.
"'Ah, ha, monsieur,' said he on the stairs, 'a good many persons would be glad to live five-and-forty years longer; but--one moment!' and he laid the first finger of his right hand to his nostril with a cunning look, as much as to say, 'Mark my words!--To last as long as that--as long as that,' said he, 'you must not be past sixty now.'
"I closed my door, having been roused from my apathy by this last speech, which the notary thought very funny; then I sat down in my armchair, with my feet on the fire-dogs. I had lost myself in a romance a la Radcliffe, constructed on the juridical base given me by Monsieur Regnault, when the door, opened by a woman's cautious hand, turned on the hinges. I saw my landlady come in, a buxom, florid dame, always good-humored, who had missed her calling in life. She was a Fleming, who ought to have seen the light in a picture by Teniers.
"'Well, monsieur,' said she, 'Monsieur Regnault has no doubt been giving you his history of la Grande Breteche?'
"'Yes, Madame Lepas.'
"'And what did he tell you?'
"I repeated in a few words the creepy and sinister story of Madame de Merret. At each sentence my hostess put her head forward, looking at me with an innkeeper's keen scrutiny, a happy compromise between the instinct of a police constable, the astuteness of a spy, and the cunning of a dealer.
"'My good Madame Lepas,' said I as I ended, 'you seem to know more about it. Heh? If not, why have you come up to me?'
"'On my word, as an honest woman----'
"'Do not swear; your eyes are big with a secret. You knew Monsieur de Merret; what sort of man was he?'
"'Monsieur de Merret--well, you see he was a man you never could see the top of, he was so tall! A very good gentleman, from Picardy, and who had, as we say, his head close to his cap. He paid for everything down, so as never to have difficulties with any one. He was hot-tempered, you see! All our ladies liked him very much.'
"'Because he was hot-tempered?' I asked her.
"'Well, may be,' said she; 'and you may suppose, sir, that a man had to have something to show for a figurehead before he could marry Madame de Merret, who, without any reflection on others, was the handsomest and richest heiress in our parts. She had about twenty thousand francs a year. All the town was at the wedding; the bride was pretty and sweet-looking, quite a gem of a woman. Oh, they were a handsome couple in their day!'
"'And were they happy together?'
"'Hm, hm! so-so--so far as can be guessed, for, as you may suppose, we of the common sort were not hail-fellow-well-met with them.--Madame de Merret was a kind woman and very pleasant, who had no doubt sometimes to put up with her husband's tantrums. But though he was rather haughty, we were fond of him. After all, it was his place to behave so. When a man is a born nobleman, you see----'
"'Still, there must have been some catastrophe for Monsieur and Madame de Merret to part so violently?'
"'I did not say there was any catastrophe, sir. I know nothing about it.'
"'Indeed. Well, now, I am sure you know everything.'
"'Well, sir, I will tell you the whole story.--When I saw Monsieur Regnault go up to see you, it struck me that he would speak to you about Madame de Merret as having to do with la Grande Breteche. That put it into my head to ask your advice, sir, seeming to me that you are a man of good judgment and incapable of playing a poor woman like me false--for I never did any one a wrong, and yet I am tormented by my conscience. Up to now I have never dared to say a word to the people of these parts; they are all chatter-mags, with tongues like knives. And never till now, sir, have I had any traveler here who stayed so long in the inn as you have, and to whom I could tell the history of the fifteen thousand francs----'
"'My dear Madame Lepas, if there is anything in your story of a nature to compromise me,' I said, interrupting the flow of her words, 'I would not hear it for all the world.'
"'You need have no fears,' said she; 'you will see.'
"Her eagerness made me suspect that I was not the only person to whom my worthy landlady had communicated the secret of which I was to be the sole possessor, but I listened.
"'Monsieur,' said she, 'when the Emperor sent the Spaniards here, prisoners of war and others, I was required to lodge at the charge of the Government a young Spaniard sent to Vendome on parole. Notwithstanding his parole, he had to show himself every day to the sub-prefect. He was a Spanish grandee--neither more nor less. He had a name in os and dia, something like Bagos de Feredia. I wrote his name down in my books, and you may see it if you like. Ah! he was a handsome young fellow for a Spaniard, who are all ugly they say. He was not more than five feet two or three in height, but so well made; and he had little hands that he kept so beautifully! Ah! you should have seen them. He had as many brushes for his hands as a woman has for her toilet. He had thick, black hair, a flame in his eye, a somewhat coppery complexion, but which I admired all the same. He wore the finest linen I have ever seen, though I have had princesses to lodge here, and, among others, General Bertrand, the Duc and Duchesse d'Abrantes, Monsieur Descazes, and the King of Spain. He did not eat much, but he had such polite and amiable ways that it was impossible to owe him a grudge for that. Oh! I was very fond of him, though he did not say four words to me in a day, and it was impossible to have the least bit of talk with him; if he was spoken to, he did not answer; it is a way, a mania they all have, it would seem.
"'He read his breviary like a priest, and went to mass and all the services quite regularly. And where did he post himself?--we found this out later.--Within two yards of Madame de Merret's chapel. As he took that place the very first time he entered the church, no one imagined that there was any purpose in it. Besides, he never raised his nose above his book, poor young man! And then, monsieur, of an evening he went for a walk on the hill among the ruins of the old castle. It was his only amusement, poor man; it reminded him of his native land. They say that Spain is all hills!
"'One evening, a few days after he was sent here, he was out very late. I was rather uneasy when he did not come in till just on the stroke of midnight; but we all got used to his whims; he took the key of the door, and we never sat up for him. He lived in a house belonging to us in the Rue des Casernes. Well, then, one of our stable-boys told us one evening that, going down to wash the horses in the river, he fancied he had seen the Spanish Grandee swimming some little way off, just like a fish. When he came in, I told him to be careful of the weeds, and he seemed put out at having been seen in the water.
"'At last, monsieur, one day, or rather one morning, we did not find him in his room; he had not come back. By hunting through his things, I found a written paper in the drawer of his table, with fifty pieces of Spanish gold of the kind they call doubloons, worth about five thousand francs; and in a little sealed box ten thousand francs worth of diamonds. The paper said that in case he should not return, he left us this money and these diamonds in trust to found masses to thank God for his escape and for his salvation.
"'At that time I still had my husband, who ran off in search of him. And this is the queer part of the story: he brought back the Spaniard's clothes, which he had found under a big stone on a sort of breakwater along the river bank, nearly opposite la Grande Breteche. My husband went so early that no one saw him. After reading the letter, he burnt the clothes, and, in obedience to Count Feredia's wish, we announced that he had escaped.
"'The sub-prefect set all the constabulary at his heels; but, pshaw! he was never caught. Lepas believed that the Spaniard had drowned himself. I, sir, have never thought so; I believe, on the contrary, that he had something to do with the business about Madame de Merret, seeing that Rosalie told me that the crucifix her mistress was so fond of that she had it buried with her, was made of ebony and silver; now in the early days of his stay here, Monsieur Feredia had one of ebony and silver which I never saw later.--And now, monsieur, do not you say that I need have no remorse about the Spaniard's fifteen thousand francs? Are they not really and truly mine?'
"'Certainly.--But have you never tried to question Rosalie?' said I.
"'Oh, to be sure I have, sir. But what is to be done? That girl is like a wall. She knows something, but it is impossible to make her talk.'
"After chatting with me for a few minutes, my hostess left me a prey to vague and sinister thoughts, to romantic curiosity, and a religious dread, not unlike the deep emotion which comes upon us when we go into a dark church at night and discern a feeble light glimmering under a lofty vault--a dim figure glides across--the sweep of a gown or of a priest's cassock is audible--and we shiver! La Grande Breteche, with its rank grasses, its shuttered windows, its rusty iron-work, its locked doors, its deserted rooms, suddenly rose before me in fantastic vividness. I tried to get into the mysterious dwelling to search out the heart of this solemn story, this drama which had killed three persons.
"Rosalie became in my eyes the most interesting being in Vendome. As I studied her, I detected signs of an inmost thought, in spite of the blooming health that glowed in her dimpled face. There was in her soul some element of ruth or of hope; her manner suggested a secret, like the expression of devout souls who pray in excess, or of a girl who has killed her child and for ever hears its last cry. Nevertheless, she was simple and clumsy in her ways; her vacant smile had nothing criminal in it, and you would have pronounced her innocent only from seeing the large red and blue checked kerchief that covered her stalwart bust, tucked into the tight-laced bodice of a lilac- and white-striped gown. 'No,' said I to myself, 'I will not quit Vendome without knowing the whole history of la Grande Breteche. To achieve this end, I will make love to Rosalie if it proves necessary.'
"'Rosalie!' said I one evening.
"'Your servant, sir?'
"'You are not married?' She started a little.
"'Oh! there is no lack of men if ever I take a fancy to be miserable!' she replied, laughing. She got over her agitation at once; for every woman, from the highest lady to the inn-servant inclusive, has a native presence of mind.
"'Yes; you are fresh and good-looking enough never to lack lovers! But tell me, Rosalie, why did you become an inn-servant on leaving Madame de Merret? Did she not leave you some little annuity?'
"'Oh yes, sir. But my place here is the best in all the town of Vendome.'
"This reply was such an one as judges and attorneys call evasive. Rosalie, as it seemed to me, held in this romantic affair the place of the middle square of the chess-board: she was at the very centre of the interest and of the truth; she appeared to me to be tied into the knot of it. It was not a case for ordinary love-making; this girl contained the last chapter of a romance, and from that moment all my attentions were devoted to Rosalie. By dint of studying the girl, I observed in her, as in every woman whom we make our ruling thought, a variety of good qualities; she was clean and neat; she was handsome, I need not say; she soon was possessed of every charm that desire can lend to a woman in whatever rank of life. A fortnight after the notary's visit, one evening, or rather one morning, in the small hours, I said to Rosalie:
"'Come, tell me all you know about Madame de Merret.'
"'Oh!' she said, 'I will tell you; but keep the secret carefully.'
"'All right, my child; I will keep all your secrets with a thief's honor, which is the most loyal known.'
"'If it is all the same to you,' said she, 'I would rather it should be with your own.'
"Thereupon she set her head-kerchief straight, and settled herself to tell the tale; for there is no doubt a particular attitude of confidence and security is necessary to the telling of a narrative. The best tales are told at a certain hour--just as we are all here at table. No one ever told a story well standing up, or fasting.
"If I were to reproduce exactly Rosalie's diffuse eloquence, a whole volume would scarcely contain it. Now, as the event of which she gave me a confused account stands exactly midway between the notary's gossip and that of Madame Lepas, as precisely as the middle term of a rule-of-three sum stands between the first and third, I have only to relate it in as few words as may be. I shall therefore be brief.
"The room at la Grande Breteche in which Madame de Merret slept was on the ground floor; a little cupboard in the wall, about four feet deep, served her to hang her dresses in. Three months before the evening of which I have to relate the events, Madame de Merret had been seriously ailing, so much so that her husband had left her to herself, and had his own bedroom on the first floor. By one of those accidents which it is impossible to foresee, he came in that evening two hours later than usual from the club, where he went to read the papers and talk politics with the residents in the neighborhood. His wife supposed him to have come in, to be in bed and asleep. But the invasion of France had been the subject of a very animated discussion; the game of billiards had waxed vehement; he had lost forty francs, an enormous sum at Vendome, where everybody is thrifty, and where social habits are restrained within the bounds of a simplicity worthy of all praise, and the foundation perhaps of a form of true happiness which no Parisian would care for.
"For some time past Monsieur de Merret had been satisfied to ask Rosalie whether his wife was in bed; on the girl's replying always in the affirmative, he at once went to his own room, with the good faith that comes of habit and confidence. But this evening, on coming in, he took it into his head to go to see Madame de Merret, to tell her of his ill-luck, and perhaps to find consolation. During dinner he had observed that his wife was very becomingly dressed; he reflected as he came home from the club that his wife was certainly much better, that convalescence had improved her beauty, discovering it, as husbands discover everything, a little too late. Instead of calling Rosalie, who was in the kitchen at the moment watching the cook and the coachman playing a puzzling hand at cards, Monsieur de Merret made his way to his wife's room by the light of his lantern, which he set down at the lowest step of the stairs. His step, easy to recognize, rang under the vaulted passage.
"At the instant when the gentleman turned the key to enter his wife's room, he fancied he heard the door shut of the closet of which I have spoken; but when he went in, Madame de Merret was alone, standing in front of the fireplace. The unsuspecting husband fancied that Rosalie was in the cupboard; nevertheless, a doubt, ringing in his ears like a peal of bells, put him on his guard; he looked at his wife, and read in her eyes an indescribably anxious and haunted expression.
"'You are very late,' said she.--Her voice, usually so clear and sweet, struck him as being slightly husky.
"Monsieur de Merret made no reply, for at this moment Rosalie came in. This was like a thunder-clap. He walked up and down the room, going from one window to another at a regular pace, his arms folded.
"'Have you had bad news, or are you ill?' his wife asked him timidly, while Rosalie helped her to undress. He made no reply.
"'You can go, Rosalie,' said Madame de Merret to her maid; 'I can put in my curl-papers myself.'--She scented disaster at the mere aspect of her husband's face, and wished to be alone with him. As soon as Rosalie was gone, or supposed to be gone, for she lingered a few minutes in the passage, Monsieur de Merret came and stood facing his wife, and said coldly, 'Madame, there is some one in your cupboard!' She looked at her husband calmly, and replied quite simply, 'No, monsieur.'
"This 'No' wrung Monsieur de Merret's heart; he did not believe it; and yet his wife had never appeared purer or more saintly than she seemed to be at this moment. He rose to go and open the closet door. Madame de Merret took his hand, stopped him, looked at him sadly, and said in a voice of strange emotion, 'Remember, if you should find no one there, everything must be at an end between you and me.'
"The extraordinary dignity of his wife's attitude filled him with deep esteem for her, and inspired him with one of those resolves which need only a grander stage to become immortal.
"'No, Josephine,' he said, 'I will not open it. In either event we should be parted for ever. Listen; I know all the purity of your soul, I know you lead a saintly life, and would not commit a deadly sin to save your life.'--At these words Madame de Merret looked at her husband with a haggard stare.--'See, here is your crucifix,' he went on. 'Swear to me before God that there is no one in there; I will believe you--I will never open that door.'
"Madame de Merret took up the crucifix and said, 'I swear it.'
"'Louder,' said her husband; 'and repeat: "I swear before God that there is nobody in that closet."' She repeated the words without flinching.
"'That will do,' said Monsieur de Merret coldly. After a moment's silence: 'You have there a fine piece of work which I never saw before,' said he, examining the crucifix of ebony and silver, very artistically wrought.
"'I found it at Duvivier's; last year when that troop of Spanish prisoners came through Vendome, he bought it of a Spanish monk.'
"'Indeed,' said Monsieur de Merret, hanging the crucifix on its nail; and he rang the bell.
"He had to wait for Rosalie. Monsieur de Merret went forward quickly to meet her, led her into the bay of the window that looked on to the garden, and said to her in an undertone:
"'I know that Gorenflot wants to marry you, that poverty alone prevents your setting up house, and that you told him you would not be his wife till he found means to become a master mason.--Well, go and fetch him; tell him to come here with his trowel and tools. Contrive to wake no one in his house but himself. His reward will be beyond your wishes. Above all, go out without saying a word--or else!' and he frowned.
"Rosalie was going, and he called her back. 'Here, take my latch-key,' said he.
"'Jean!' Monsieur de Merret called in a voice of thunder down the passage. Jean, who was both coachman and confidential servant, left his cards and came.
"'Go to bed, all of you,' said his master, beckoning him to come close; and the gentleman added in a whisper, 'When they are all asleep --mind, asleep--you understand?--come down and tell me.'
"Monsieur de Merret, who had never lost sight of his wife while giving his orders, quietly came back to her at the fireside, and began to tell her the details of the game of billiards and the discussion at the club. When Rosalie returned she found Monsieur and Madame de Merret conversing amiably.
"Not long before this Monsieur de Merret had had new ceilings made to all the reception-rooms on the ground floor. Plaster is very scarce at Vendome; the price is enhanced by the cost of carriage; the gentleman had therefore had a considerable quantity delivered to him, knowing that he could always find purchasers for what might be left. It was this circumstance which suggested the plan he carried out.
"'Gorenflot is here, sir,' said Rosalie in a whisper.
"'Tell him to come in,' said her master aloud.
"Madame de Merret turned paler when she saw the mason.
"'Gorenflot,' said her husband, 'go and fetch some bricks from the coach-house; bring enough to wall up the door of this cupboard; you can use the plaster that is left for cement.' Then, dragging Rosalie and the workman close to him--'Listen, Gorenflot,' said he, in a low voice, 'you are to sleep here to-night; but to-morrow morning you shall have a passport to take you abroad to a place I will tell you of. I will give you six thousand francs for your journey. You must live in that town for ten years; if you find you do not like it, you may settle in another, but it must be in the same country. Go through Paris and wait there till I join you. I will there give you an agreement for six thousand francs more, to be paid to you on your return, provided you have carried out the conditions of the bargain. For that price you are to keep perfect silence as to what you have to do this night. To you, Rosalie, I will secure ten thousand francs, which will not be paid to you till your wedding day, and on condition of your marrying Gorenflot; but, to get married, you must hold your tongue. If not, no wedding gift!'
"'Rosalie,' said Madame de Merret, 'come and brush my hair.'
"Her husband quietly walked up and down the room, keeping an eye on the door, on the mason, and on his wife, but without any insulting display of suspicion. Gorenflot could not help making some noise. Madame de Merret seized a moment when he was unloading some bricks, and when her husband was at the other end of the room to say to Rosalie: 'My dear child, I will give you a thousand francs a year if only you will tell Gorenflot to leave a crack at the bottom.' Then she added aloud quite coolly: 'You had better help him.'
"Monsieur and Madame de Merret were silent all the time while Gorenflot was walling up the door. This silence was intentional on the husband's part; he did not wish to give his wife the opportunity of saying anything with a double meaning. On Madame de Merret's side it was pride or prudence. When the wall was half built up the cunning mason took advantage of his master's back being turned to break one of the two panes in the top of the door with a blow of his pick. By this Madame de Merret understood that Rosalie had spoken to Gorenflot. They all three then saw the face of a dark, gloomy-looking man, with black hair and flaming eyes.
"Before her husband turned round again the poor woman had nodded to the stranger, to whom the signal was meant to convey, 'Hope.'
"At four o'clock, as the day was dawning, for it was the month of September, the work was done. The mason was placed in charge of Jean, and Monsieur de Merret slept in his wife's room.
"Next morning when he got up he said with apparent carelessness, 'Oh, by the way, I must go to the Maire for the passport.' He put on his hat, took two or three steps towards the door, paused, and took the crucifix. His wife was trembling with joy.
"'He will go to Duvivier's,' thought she.
"As soon as he had left, Madame de Merret rang for Rosalie, and then in a terrible voice she cried: 'The pick! Bring the pick! and set to work. I saw how Gorenflot did it yesterday; we shall have time to make a gap and build it up again.'
"In an instant Rosalie had brought her mistress a sort of cleaver; she, with a vehemence of which no words can give an idea, set to work to demolish the wall. She had already got out a few bricks, when, turning to deal a stronger blow than before, she saw behind her Monsieur de Merret. She fainted away.
"'Lay madame on her bed,' said he coldly.
"Foreseeing what would certainly happen in his absence, he had laid this trap for his wife; he had merely written to the Maire and sent for Duvivier. The jeweler arrived just as the disorder in the room had been repaired.
"'Duvivier,' asked Monsieur de Merret, 'did not you buy some crucifixes of the Spaniards who passed through the town?'
"'No, monsieur.'
"'Very good; thank you,' said he, flashing a tiger's glare at his wife. 'Jean,' he added, turning to his confidential valet, 'you can serve my meals here in Madame de Merret's room. She is ill, and I shall not leave her till she recovers.'
"The cruel man remained in his wife's room for twenty days. During the earlier time, when there was some little noise in the closet, and Josephine wanted to intercede for the dying man, he said, without allowing her to utter a word, 'You swore on the Cross that there was no one there.'"
After this story all the ladies rose from table, and thus the spell under which Bianchon had held them was broken. But there were some among them who had almost shivered at the last words.
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M359 - RARE FINEST LARGE NEANDERTHAL SHOULDERED MOUSTERIAN POINT SPEARHEAD IN GOLDEN FLINT
Mousterian Levallois Point
Indre-et_Loire - West Central France
MOUSTERIAN: 80,000 - 40,000 years
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This is ONE OF THE FINEST, most impressive and beautiful Mousterian Levallois Point / Spearheads we have ever offered. It is a rare Neanderthal artifact - much more so than hand axes from the same period. This Mousterian Point was fashioned of stunning warm gold flint known from the Indre-et-Loire region from which it was originally collected.
The concept of a "projectile point" was FIRST KNOWN in human history during the Middle Paleolithic Period, whereas, hand axes had been around for over one million years by that same time. This might explain the sheer scarcity of fine grade point specimens. The Mousterian Point or Levallois Point would be humanity's first spearhead. Lashed to a wooden pole, it would have gave rise to the invention of a new weapon for hunting large game. Now, the megafauna of the day such as mammoths, bison, rhino, and horse, could be hunted with greater success. Such a weapon would have also given prehistoric humans a more effective weapon against each other.
This robust example was made on a Levallois point, retouched for perfect form, tapering to the base, with "shoulders" flakes on both sides to make for an extremely secure method of hafting this spearhead point to a wooden pole. The entire piece is PERFECTLY PRESERVED AS ORIGINALLY MADE WITH NO MODERN DAMAGE. The edges show evidence of use and re-use from re-sharpening by its former Neanderthal owner. Surface shows prehistoric patina and mineral deposits still embedded in the hinge fractures - irrefutable evidence of an authentic specimen. A rare, rare invention of Neanderthal intelligence improving a new design. NO RESTORATION, REPAIR OR MODERN DAMAGE.
This Mousterian point / spearhead was made by Neanderthals over 40,000 years ago and was discovered in France. France is home to some of Europe's most spectacular Paleolithic sites nearly all of which have long been closed and off-limits to any collecting, which makes this scarce prehistoric weapon a highly desirable acquisition piece for the best collections or investment! This Mousterian Point came from a very old French collection as is the case with all the best material being stashed for decades and decades in private collections of yesteryear when collecting was possible. Today, sites are depleted, closed and protected, preventing further digging of any new artifacts.
Mousterian Points are theorized to have been used as spearheads mounted on the ends of wooden poles and employed to stab large prey by Neanderthal hunters. Certainly a specimen like this would have been a formidable weapon and such a size would have been needed to take down large prey such as Woolly Mammoth, Bison, Aurochs, Cave Bear and Woolly Rhinoceros. The form and execution of this extraordinary spearhead is superb. By this period in time, Man had not yet invented the bow and arrow but intact Neanderthal wooden spears have been scientifically documented in situ. Triangular pointed tips first made by Neanderthals were the precursor to the arrowhead!
The Levallois Technique is a method of flake tool manufacture that was first employed in the Acheulian Era about 250,000 years ago by archaic Homo sapiens but perfected in the Middle Paleolithic Era by Neanderthals. It consists of starting with a core of stone and using heavy percussion hammering on one side to remove large flakes in a radial fashion, creating a "turtle-back" profile on one side of the core. A single heavy blow at one end of the core struck the flake off and the end result was a prepared flake (a la Levallois) with a convex shape on one side (from initial flake removal when still attached to the core) and a flat side on the other (from the side split off the remaining core). Edges of this struck flake were then retouched to create the desired cutting edge but the geometry of the two sides remained. It was the Levallois method employed by Neanderthals to manufacture a variety of early tools including the first points that were hafted to wooden poles for use as spears. These were the first known human-made spears and were likely used by thrusting, rather than throwing.
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“I can’t believe it. My mother has gone and sold me! Sold me to the most notorious sea captain ever to sail the wild west coast.” And so begins The Smuggler’s Curse, Norman Jorgensen’s thrilling, award-winning historical novel set in Broome in 1897.
Norman may have the body of an ageing historical novelist but often taps directly into the mind of his adolescent 12-year-old self, writing successfully for Australian kids just like himself. No humour or thrilling adventures are spared as his fictional characters do battle with pirates, killer storms, ruthless pearlers and monstrous sharks off the Western Australian coast.
Norman has written sixteen children’s and YA books. His historical titles, In Flanders Fields, Jack’s Island, The Last Viking and The Smuggler’s Curse have sold thousands of copies and won many prizes including children’s choice awards.
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Her professional dance career began in 1991. She performed both company and commercial work in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, and South America. She performed with Ballet of the Dolls, Winifred Harris’ Between Lines, and Cirque Productions among others. She has been a practitioner of Ashtanga and Anusara yoga since 1996 and started teaching Pilates in 1997 while dancing professionally in Los Angeles. In 2002, she earned her ACE & NASM certifications.
In 2004, Cari trained in Dance Medicine with the prestigious Harkness Center for Dance and has lectured at national dance summits at the Edge Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles and in Minnesota for the Minnesota Dance Medicine Foundation. She also served as Education Chair for the Minnesota Dance Medicine Foundation from 2011-2018, and started their “Ask the Experts” outreach program.
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President Rajapaksa felicitates spin wizard Murali at Galle cricket grounds
Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma – (Pix by: Sudath Silva)
President Mahinda Rajapaksa made a special visit to the Galle International Cricket stadium this afternoon on July 22 and congratulated the spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan (Murali) who made a World Record of 800 Test wickets on the final day of the first Test between Sri Lanka Vs India.
It was Murali’s last day of Test cricket and President Rajapaksa felicitated Murali by presenting a special memento at the Stadium for his achievements in cricket and contribution to cricket in Sri Lanka.
When the first Test started in Galle five days ago, Sri Lankan star spinner was in grasping distance of the World Record. He is probably the best test and one day bowler in the world.
Sri Lanka won the match by 10 wickets and Murali grabbed 5 wickets in the first innings and while in the second innings he grabbed 3 wickets to achieve the unique milestone of 800 test wickets. Muttaih Muralitharan who is retiring from test cricket was awarded for his excellent bowling as he reached a target of taking 800 Test wickets which was never achieved by any cricketer.
At the ceremony Murali said “I’d like to thank the president for coming to support me. Thanks to my wife Mathimalar and family for their support. My team-mates, past and present, the Cricket Board and officials and everyone else for supporting me through the 19 years”.
“I started playing when I was 8 years old and I still listen to my coach from school days. Arjuna Ranatunga and De Silva and all those guys helped me through the tough times in 1995.The umpires make their judgments through naked eye, so nothing against them. I have no grudge against them and happy to have made it through the tough times. I always thought if something goes wrong I can bowl leg spin and continue playing cricket”.
The outgoing cricketer further said that he is available for the World Cup if the selectors need him. “I want to play some more Twenty20 cricket. I made a lot of friends through cricket and sometimes my team-mates said I talk too much with opposition players” Murali concluded his farewell speech.
Victorious Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara said “From the start, winning the Test was the aim that would have been the perfect send-off for Murali too. I am very pleased that he got to 800 and all the best to him. Lasith Malinga was truly the Man of the Match, the way he bowled turned things around and made things easy for Murali and the rest. Malinga’s stand with Rangana Herath made a big difference. We must appreciate the grounds men under Jayananda Warnaweera for his efforts. On another ground, this match may not have been possible after all the rain.”
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni congratulated Murali and said it was a great moment for Murali. “We all knew he will come up with a great show being the great bowler he is, but that did not put us under pressure. Glad that he reached the magical figure of 800” he further added.
At the end Commentator Tony Greig said that Murali will always be remembered fondly for what he gifted the world of cricket and especially for those eyes and smiles of his.
President Rajapaksa is seen here sharing the joy with Murali and his family members at the memorable occasion. Minister of Sports C.B.Rathnayake, officials of the Sri Lanka Cricket Board, players of the both teams and Murali’s family members were present at the occasion.
2 Responses to President Rajapaksa felicitates spin wizard Murali at Galle cricket grounds
sasi says:
The king of spin bowling and the king of sri lanka. good luck
ganesh says:
Yes yes he is the only person who makes us proud as a sri lankan, u are the current n long future 2go cricket legend, don’t interferes for mr.prasident or mr.ranil politician dramas please, be like a real human bean with full of love
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Dairy Processor Would Be Welcome First Tenant In Phelps Countys Iron Horse Industrial Park
Dairy Processing, Dairy Producer, World Diary Expo, Dairy Farm,
Bring on the ice cream! Phelps County, Nebraska, is open for business with a shovel-ready site available for a dairy processor.
The 134-acre Iron Horse Industrial park just west of Holdrege in Phelps County is seeking its first tenant, and a dairy processing plant would be a welcome neighbor.
Phelps County is one of five Nebraska communities featured in a special dairy recruitment presentation by the Grow Nebraska Dairy Coalition at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis., the first week of October.
A 2016 Targeted Industry Study revealed that Phelps County should focus its recruitment efforts on seven key industries when looking to fill its new industrial park. Crop and animal production and related manufacturing, including food processing, rose to the top of the list.
Iron Horse is zoned industrial and is owned by the Phelps County Development Corporation, a vibrant group of community leaders led by Executive Director Ron Tillery.
PCDC and its government and utility partners can coordinate incentive packages for primary job creators who make a significant capital investment in the community.
“We are open for business,” Tillery said. “Phelps County recently passed a sales tax initiative that gives us the ability to provide a great financial package to our first tenant in the Iron Horse Industrial Park. We are looking forward to partnering with a growing business to create new opportunities and a bright future together.”
The industrial park sits within the Holdrege city limits and is just two minutes from the intersection of U.S. Highways 183 and 6 & 34. It is just 20 minutes from Interstate 80 and has rail access on the Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado Railway (NKCR).
The City of Holdrege, has pre-engineered the water, sewer and electricity extensions to the site.
Rite-Way Milk, a commercial milk-hauling business is also located in Holdrege, which could provide transportation options.
Holdrege is a small city with a population of 5,555 and boasts a low-cost of living and hard-working citizens. Its main industries are agriculture, manufacturing and health care. It has abundant water below its surface thanks to careful resource management by the Central Nebraska Public Power & Irrigation District that is also headquartered in Holdrege.
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Phnom Penh Post - Meth dealers’ jail sentence upheld
Meth dealers’ jail sentence upheld
Kim Sarom | Publication date 14 March 2019 | 10:18 ICT
The National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) destroyed 64kg of illicit drugs at the Koh Pich Centre on June 26. A new report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warns that there has been a significant increase in methamphetamine production in Southeast Asia over the past year, leading to an oversupply of the drug in East and Southeast Asia.
Kim Sarom
The Appeal Court on Wednesday upheld the lower court’s verdict against two men from Koh Kong province who were sentenced in 2015 to 10 years in prison for trafficking methamphetamine.
Presiding Judge Kim Dany read the verdict in absentia of the convicts – Sam Phearum, 25, and Puthi Van Vithou, 33 – following a hearing on February 25.
“But this time the judicial council decided to uphold the 10-year prison sentence that was handed down to each of the convicts by the lower court,” Dany said.
The Supreme Court had upheld a previous Appeal Court ruling but referred the case back to the Appeal Court believing there had been a misinterpretation of Article 88 of the Criminal Code.
Article 88 stipulates that “if a person against whom a final judgement has already been entered for a misdemeanour commits the same misdemeanour within five years, the maximum sentence of imprisonment incurred for the new misdemeanour shall be doubled”.
Judge Dany said that before his arrest on June 15, 2015, Phearum, who lived in Village 3 in Khemarak Phoumin town’s Smach Meanchey commune, had asked Loeun Mom, from Veal Veng commune, to purchase approximately $200 worth of illegal drugs from Van Vithou.
Van Vithou delivered nine small packages of drugs to Phearum on Mom’s orders, the judge said, but police were only able to arrest Phearum and Van Vithou.
Koh Kong provincial court on December 27, 2015, sentenced the pair to 10 years in prison and fined each five million riel (about $1,250) for drug trafficking and committing the same misdemeanour for which they had already been sentenced.
The convicted men then filed a lawsuit at the Appeal Court to have the verdict overturned, but the matter was rejected.
Phearum and Van Vithou then filed a complaint to the Supreme Court, which on April 27, 2016, upheld the Appeal Court’s verdict and ordered to review the case
Judge Dany said Phearum had already been imprisoned twice for theft. In 2010, he was sentenced to one year and he was subsequently given another 18 months.
Van Vithou had been sentenced to one year in prison for fraud and five years for theft, Dany said.
Contact author: Kim Sarom
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“But what if this data is objectively accurate?” a presence inside me asked. “After all, everyone agrees that a good deal of progress has been made since the Civil Rights Act was signed in 1964. What should we do to take advantage of this good news?
First, the news should be publicized and celebrated. The data supporting this accomplishment should be discussed in as many media outlets as possible. We should thank civil rights activists, faith community leaders, corporate executives, educators, and anyone else who has played a key role in slaying the beast. We should seek their suggestions concerning what next steps we should take to build on this accomplishment.
Next, we should do anything we can to try preventing this “discrimination dinosaur” from rising from the dead. Many women wonder if they’re hearing its rumbling roar when they listen to the blowback when someone suggests that preventing rape is not just a female responsibility, or when some communities and media talking heads seem to support the rapists instead of those being raped. Many blacks wonder if the dinosaur’s tail might be thrashing about when they hear about continued efforts to make it harder for them to vote or when they experience law enforcement officers who “search and frisk” them as an act of intimidation. Many Hispanics wonder if this dinosaur is opening its beady eyes when they hear a Congressman use the word “wetback.” These and other incidents awaken scary, humiliating memories, and feelings, not thoughts, lead to action.
Thirdly, we should remember that scholars ranging from Charles Murray to Cornell West agree that we are doing an increasingly poor job of preparing all children (not just children of color) who live at or near the poverty line to succeed. Most agree that public schools are failing due to underfunding, bloated bureaucracies, burned-out or inexperienced teachers, disconnected parents, and poorly-calibrated expectations for students. Activists on both sides regularly toss out examples of how certain public, charter, or private schools are assisting students to flourish. Let’s promote these successes more widely, and work together to encourage more schools to adopt those practices that are most relevant to their needs. And let’s work together to implement “best practices” to support those below or near the poverty line to move on up.
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PNC News has learned from several sources that the island’s 108th COVID-related fatality was a DOC officer named Glenn Martinez.
The death was reported by the Joint Information Center Wednesday morning. The JIC says it was notified that Guam’s 108th COVID-19-related fatality occurred at the U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) at approximately 6:50 p.m Tuesday night.
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October 11, 2018 By Michelle R. Wheeler
Have you heard of the Gutenberg Page Editor for WordPress? By 2019, the default page editor you’ve come to know (and have finally come to understand) is getting a major overhaul. Although this will be a big change when you’re creating new pages and posts, it won’t have any effect on the functionality or appearance of your website. Gutenberg will have a learning curve for many, but its creation by WordPress is forward-thinking and a step in the right direction.
A big change to your WordPress website is heading your way.
So, a big change is coming, but what does that actually mean for you? Well, let’s take a look at the standard page editor in WordPress:
Default WordPress Page Editor
You’ve probably had some type of website training that showed you how to use this page. In fact, I was probably the person to deliver that tutorial. You enter the page name, type the body text, add a featured image, and click publish. Easy peasy.
Well, with the implementation of Gutenberg next year, the default will now look like this:
New Gutenberg Visual Editor
The Gutenberg WordPress editor is a new page builder that is being designed to integrate with WordPress core. Gutenberg will add content blocks and page builder-like functionality to every up-to-date WordPress website. When in use, it will replace TinyMCE as the default content editor. With Gutenberg, content is added in blocks of various types from the WordPress backend.”
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This new format is called a Visual Editor because it’s much more focused on images, video, and other graphic elements of a page or post. One reason WordPress likely developed Gutenberg was to stay competitive with other visual editing platforms such as Square Space and Wix. From the standpoint of an end-user (aka…you), the new default editor will be much easier to use. Here’s a short video tutorial exploring Gutenberg:
For some clients, we probably have you using a plugin called WP Bakery, which means your page editor looks like this:
WP Bakery Visual Editor
If that’s the case for you, then you don’t need to worry about Gutenberg. WP Bakery is a much more robust visual editor than Gutenberg, so you’ll want to continue as is by disabling the Gutenberg Editor in the WP Bakery settings page.
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Link Building Services: Preparing for AI Content Automation in Link Building (via Qpute.com)
While link building remains one of the most prominent signals for obtaining high organic search engine rankings, search engines continue to deliver less organic results on a year-over-year basis. Advertisements drive revenue and the incentive for search engines to manipulate results in their favor. Even if more searchers once preferred organic results over paid, search engines have found ways to slowly change consumer sentiment, likely by delivering better results aligned with searcher intent.
In technology-driven industries, the only real constant is change. Change in such sectors can happen quickly and heavily disrupt the status quo, eviscerating once vital companies. The word processor killed the typewriter, VOIP changed the model of the landline telecom sector and the bidet (should have) killed toilet paper. Alas, the next touted future disruptions in AI are set to disrupt nearly every industry, stealing many viable jobs in their wake. The following represent a few:
Machines in manufacturing, logistics and processing
3D printing for everything from spare parts to consumable products
Self-driving cars in transportation (including the subsequent decline in insurance claims)
Blockchain and robo-advisors in financial services
Internet of Things (IoT) for device tracking and management
Spatial and quantum computing
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in coding, communication and marketing
Job and industry-shifting technology will prove a boon in some areas and highly-disruptive in others. Content marketing, and link building in particular, is not immune to the coming wave of business bots, artificial intelligence and automation.
Impact of AI-Driven Link Building
Whether judging email or backlinks, artificially intelligent crawlers are getting better at filtering for quality. But, the AI-powered content creation tools are improving in lockstep. Here’s what this means for the future of the web, including the heavy-lifting activity of building links for SEO:
Infinite Content. When the cost of content is fixed and not variable, it gives anyone with the machine capable of creating it, the ability to produce an unlimited supply. Yes, the demand for quality content will always be present, but what happens to the price of content when the supply is infinite and the cost is virtually zero?
Link Velocity. In a world where the speed of content production (and thereby the speed of link acquisition) is unlimited, the velocity of procured links can be manipulated to highly-unnatural levels quickly. However, programming an AI content bot to build content and links at a natural frequency that meets the threshold of appearing “natural” is as simple as a line or two of code.
Services Becomes a Product. When a service-driven industry, powered by humans, is overtaken by AI and bots, what was once an expensive, time-consuming link building service, quickly devolves into a systematized commodity product, complete with a minimal cost and monthly service plan.
Quality Deserves Freshness. When content supply is infinite, it smacks in the face of Google’s QDF (quality deserves freshness) algorithm. Massive amounts of even meaningful AI-produced content may not hold the same ranking value of existing pieces deemed more “evergreen.” In a future day, content is likely to require some type of bifurcation or visual categorization to separate live alerts from long-form informational pieces. But, in the end, how will one know whether such information was created by a human or a machine?
But, when services become commodity products, nothing is left for differentiation. Publishing more content inevitably becomes a race to the bottom.
Penny Wise and Publisher Foolish
Tempting as it may seem to eventually automate one’s external content marketing and link building, there remain a few key hurdles:
Not all content is created equal. Bots have yet been able to replicate the complexity and beauty of Mozart, the Mona Lisa or Rudyard Kipling. Similarly, quality-crafted content is timeless, evergreen and is what truly drives traffic and eyeballs. In short, it’s tough to replicate the wit and style of a truly gifted writer. This is one of the reasons, search engines heavily track spam, discount links whose content is created simply for contents’ sake and punish abuses that make backlink profiles appear unnatural. AI is smart, but it’s not that smart, yet.
Not all content serves the same purpose. Content created by bots is generally used for shorter, timely, news-like pieces, not the long-form, witty and educational content typically seen in most written online pieces. When bots finally do emerge en masse, they’ll likely be performing the more mundane tasks of regurgitated news pieces and automated Twitter posts. We’re already seeing this in pockets, but not at a larger scale. The most beautiful, timeless pieces are more likely to be created by those with creative minds, something AI has yet to fully master.
Content is not created in a vacuum. Content often does not stand alone, especially online content. This is the very reason hyperlinks were invented in the first place. As a reference they allow the user to further explore the arguments, details or claims of a given topic. They lead users (not just webcrawlers) to various cited sources where other quality content exists. A single piece of content, regardless of how good it is, is always best augmented by another piece, whether linking to it or linking away from it. Why does this matter as it relates to AI? Because not all content serves the same purpose, it stands to reason that even the best AI-driven content will lack the human element of reference (e.g. “here’s what my friend John Doe, says on the subject” –with inserted hyperlink). No, loss of the human element may mean we lose the attention of those that matter most–the humans.
While it may ultimately be tempting to outsource content production to AI bots or even overseas firms, the reality is that both the quality of the content and where it is placed is not something that should be left to chance. No, even the most deliberately-built content and links require a focus on the upper echelons of quality.
The Link Builder’s Dilemma
Even with deliberately-created quality content, risks remain for those hunkered to the idea that link building is the end-all of SEO and content marketing. In-line with the tenants of the famed book by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen The Innovator’s Dilemma, innovation in link building and content marketing includes a similarly-structured framework.
Like any good disruptive innovation, content bots will focus on and begin to dominate niches like those news pieces previously discussed. Smaller markets, according to the framework, have more fluid futures that are more difficult to predict. Larger existing players are therefore more reticent to become an entrant. In addition, demand for AI-powered content remains low as it still sits on the sidelines, but its eventual rise could quickly quell the current status quo.
Worse still, and even more likely, is the eventual shifting of search engine algorithms to move away from backlinks as one of the primary signals of value and authority for websites. Artificial intelligence may eventually find other ways to determine searcher intent and truly add value to those seeking information via online search. Dwell-time, social shares and other signals are more likely to prove the basis for delivering meaningful content to users.
Passing Judgement Carefully
When judging among various link building services, reading various online reviews of different services will at least help in determining one’s own quality score. But the future’s biggest threat to today’s status quo when it comes to bolstering traffic via relevant links is not the offshore link builders in India or even the AI bots, its the search engines.
Building links–and a business–with long-term staying power in mind, requires a strict focus on quality–something bots and foreign solution providers have yet to master. Whether outsourced or in-house, quality written content–for the foreseeable, immediate future–will likely remain in the hands of on-shored, human beings.
Frank Landman
Frank is a freelance journalist who has worked in various editorial capacities for over 10 years. He covers trends in technology as they relate to business.
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Hey future doctors, here you have the top medical schools in the United States, as determined by the Ranker community. Starting a career in medicine as a doctor, surgeon, nurse or hospital administrator begins with a solid education and that's exactly what the best medical schools in the world provide for thousands of students each year. While U.S. News and World Report ranks Harvard University as their number one medical school, this list ranks the best medical schools by votes. Add which colleges and universities you think offer the best medical programs by adding your list below!
Just as the same colleges routinely rank above and beyond others in general college rankings and for having the best law schools, those universities also come in atop the list of the best medical schools. Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University come in as just a few of the best medical schools in the United States.
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RED BANK: ‘SURPRISE’ RIFT OVER YOM KIPPUR
Newly sworn council members Kate Triggiano and Hazim Yassin flank Council President Erik Yngstrom at the council reorganization meeting in January. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
[UPDATE, October 4: Yom Kippur council meeting canceled for lack of quorum after mayor and council members who voted against having it say they won’t be there, he says on his Facebook page.]
By a split vote, the Red Bank council decided Wednesday night to stick to its schedule and hold its next meeting on Yom Kippur.
The 3-2 outcome of a vote at the council’s workshop meeting caught Councilwoman Kate Triggiano, who had argued for a change, off guard.
“We’re going to have the meeting?” she asked. “So we’re keeping the meeting on Yom Kippur?”
The conflict with Yom Kippur came to light at the end of the last regular council session, when Andrew Sobel, sitting in for his law partner Greg Cannon as borough attorney, appeared surprised to hear the next meeting would be held October 9, Triggiano told her colleagues.
Other towns, including Fair Haven and Aberdeen, aren’t holding meetings that would otherwise be conducted that night, and Red Bank schools are closed for the holiday, she said.
The council should not meet when a significant portion of the population cannot attend because of their religion, Triggiano said.
Each January 1, at its reorganization session, the council approves its own meeting schedule for the year. The draft of the schedule is created by Clerk Pam Borghi, who told the council that she tries to avoid having sessions land on major holidays.
When she’s overlooked one, someone usually points it out before adoption and she tries to work around it, taking into account the fact that the council meeting chamber is used most weeknights, Borghi said.
Thought it had not previously been called out, the October 9 meeting would conflict with “a time when people are breaking fast,” Triggiano said, referring to Yom Kippur, a day of atonement in Judaism that this year begins at sundown on October 8 and is considered the holiest day of the year in Judaism.
“It’s a major holiday,” she said.
Borghi said that rescheduling the meeting to an earlier date wasn’t feasible, given requirements that meetings be two weeks apart and advertised in advance.
Business Administrator Ziad Shehady said the council has “nothing of a critical nature” on its next agenda, and given he a choice, he’d prefer that the meeting be canceled rather than rescheduled.
In light of that, cancelling the meeting “seems like the respectful thing to do,” Triggiano said.
But what might otherwise have been a routine schedule tweak going into a new year turned into an extended debate that divided the council, all of whose members are Democrats.
“Are we setting precedent here?” asked Councilman Michael Ballard. “We met on 9/11.”
“It’s not like 9/11,” Triggiano said, after noting that the council never meets on Christmas Day.
“Can we open this up to other religions as well?” asked Councilman Hazim Yassin, who was elected on a ticket with Triggiano last November, becoming the governing body’s first-ever representative of the Muslim faith. He said Ramadan might also be considered a day on which to avoid meetings.
Triggiano agreed. “If somebody’s religion is going to prevent them from being present, I don’t think we should ever have a meeting,” she said.
Yassin said he was focused on where to “draw lines,” if any. He asked if a meeting would be rescheduled if the Red Bank Humanists, who are non-believers, had a significant holiday.
“I just want to know what the line is,” he said.
Councilman Ed Zipprich said that all religions need to be considered.
“Let’s be clear that nobody’s dismissing the significance of Yom Kippur,” said Ballard. “That’s not what we’re saying here.”
While borough hall is open on Yom Kippur, noted Mayor Pasquale Menna, the council “in the past has shown deference to those members of the community” who would have trouble attending a meeting on a holy day.
No argument was offered for sticking to the schedule. But when Menna polled the table, only Triggiano and Council President Erik Yngstrom voted not to meet October 9; Ballard, Zipprich and Yassin voted to stick to the schedule. Councilwoman Kathy Horgan was absent.
Triggiano told redbankgreen afterward that she was “surprised” that her request generated pushback and rejection.
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Alström Syndrome: A Rare Cause of Cardiomyopathy
Síndrome de Alström: una rara causa de miocardiopatía
Santiago Colunga Blancoa,
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, Elena Velasco Alonsob, Cecilia Corros Vicentea, María Martín Fernándeza, Laura García Péreza, César Morís de la Tassaa
a Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
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We present the case of a 27-year-old woman admitted to our hospital for heart failure. When she was 5 months old, she was admitted for acute heart failure. Echocardiographic studies showed a dilated cardiomyopathy with severely depressed left ventricular ejection fraction with subsequent recovery in the follow-up and the patient was diagnosed with myocarditis. She had nystagmus, cone-rod dystrophy, and atrophy of the optic pathway from the first months of life with bilateral blindness and perceptive hearing loss since adolescence. She had had a history of obesity since childhood and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and hypertriglyceridemia at 14 years of age. All these findings raised the alarm for a mitochondrial encephalopathy but muscle biopsy and Sanger genetic study were negative for the A8344G mutation point involved in mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS), and myoclonic epilepsy with ragged-red fibers (MERRF).
At the current admission, the patient complained of dyspnea for the past few months that progressed to New York Heart Association functional class III/IV.
Transthoracic echocardiography revealed mild left ventricle dilatation with severe systolic dysfunction without areas of hypertrabeculation, hypertrophy, or thinned myocardial areas after administration of echocardiographic contrast. The patient progressed favourably with standard medical therapy with resolution of congestive symptoms and was discharged with a scheduled magnetic resonance imaging to complete the assessment of her dilated cardiomyopathy.
The presence of a dilated left ventricle with severe systolic dysfunction was confirmed at magnetic resonance imaging, with pathological contrast enhancement in the subepicardial region at the insertion point of both ventricles and with intramyocardial enhancement at the septal middle segment, compatible with myocardial fibrosis (Figure A, Figure B, Figure C, Figure D, Figure E and Figure F).
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A, B: echo-gradient images long-axis 4 and 2 chamber view exhibited a dilated left ventricle. C-F: late gadolinium enhancement in the subepicardial region at the insertion point of both ventricles and intramyocardial enhancement at the septal middle segment (arrows).
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On the basis of these findings, and after previous exclusion of a mitochondrial disease with a high degree of certainty, Alström syndrome was diagnosed as the patient met the clinical diagnostic criteria (Table). Genetic study by next-generation sequencing was requested for the ALMS1 gene, which is involved in this disease. This study was positive for 2 mutations on exons 8 and 11 of the gene with pathogenic significance establishing the definitive diagnosis.
Marshall's Age-specific Diagnostic Criteria
Age, y
Major criteria
Minor criteria
Other supportive evidence
≤ 2* • ALMS 1 mutation in 1 allele and/or family history of AS
• Vision (nystagmus, photophobia) • Obesity
• Dilated cardiomyopathy/congestive heart failure • Recurrent pulmonary infections
• Normal digits
• Delayed developmental milestones 2 major criteria
1 major + 2 minor criteria
3-14 • ALMS 1 mutation in 1 allele and/or family history of AS
• Vision (nystagmus, photophobia, decreased acuity, cone dystrophy by ERG) • Obesity and/or insulin resistance
• History of dilated cardiomyopathy/congestive heart failure
• Hearing loss
• Hepatic dysfunction
• Renal failure • Recurrent pulmonary infections
• Delayed development milestones
• Hyperlipidemia
• Scoliosis
• Flat wide feet
• Hypothyroidism
• GH deficiency
• Recurrent UTI 2 major criteria
> 15 • ALMS 1 mutation in 1 allele and/or family history of AS
• Vision (legal blindness, history of nystagmus in infancy/childhood, cone and rod dystrophy by ERG) • Obesity and/or insulin resistance and/or diabetes mellitus type 2
• Renal failure
• Short stature
• Males – hypogonadism
• Females – irregular menses and/or hyperandrogenism • Recurrent pulmonary infections
• History of developmental delay
• Alopecia
• Recurrent UTI or urinary dysfunction 2 major + 2 minor criteria
AS, Alström syndrome; ERG, electroretinogram; GH, growth hormone; UTI, urinary tract infections.
These diagnostic criteria should be reevaluated when the patient becomes older.
Our patient was the first case of this disease to be described in her family. Genetic study for these mutations were negative in her parents and, for this reason, she seems to have a spontaneous mutation on this gene.
Currently the patient is 29 years old and is in New York Heart Association grade I/IV without new episodes of decompensation, despite persistant severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction in follow-up visits.
Alström syndrome (AS) was first described in 1959 by Alström et al.1 It has a prevalence of < 1/100 000.1,2 Alström syndrome is a rare genetic autosomal recessive disease characterized by multisystemic involvement and produced by a mutation in the ALMS1 gene located on chromosome 2p13.3 This gene encodes a protein whose mutation leads to progressive fibrosis of various organs characterized by cone-rod dystrophy, hearing loss, childhood truncal obesity, insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia, type 2 diabetes, hypertriglyceridemia, short stature in adulthood, cardiomyopathy, and progressive pulmonary, hepatic, and renal dysfunction. Symptoms first appear during childhood and the progressive development of multiorgan pathology reduces life expectancy.2–4 Prior to the discovery of ALMS1 mutations, the diagnosis was made solely based on phenotype. However, the high degree of variability, even within families, creates difficulties for a universal definition.5 Marshall defined AS using age-specific criteria (Table).6
Ocular involvement is a cardinal sign of AS1,5,6 that leads to progressive visual dysfunction and blindness, usually during the second decade of life. In addition, around 80% will develop neurosensorial hearing loss that will progress throughout life.4–6
Childhood obesity is a common and early manifestation. It is usually accompanied by a characteristic phenotypic expression and affected individuals often develop type 2 diabetes with insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia, as well as hypertriglyceridemia. For these reasons, the metabolic profile leads to an increase in cardiovascular risk.1,5
Cardiac involvement is characterized by the development of dilated cardiomyopathy with systolic dysfunction, myocardial fibrosis, and decreased myocardial mass.2,3 Cardiac involvement is a common manifestation, the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in these patients and the first cause of death in childhood. It can manifest as acute heart failure at any time of life, although the onset is often in the first weeks or months of life as the first manifestation, as in our case.2–6 Subsequent recovery of cardiac function is common as well as recurrence during adolescence or adulthood.2,5
The prognosis is variable and will depend on the progression of the involvement of the different organs and systems. Life expectancy is usually less than 50 years.5 Although there is no specific treatment, and measures should be targeted to treat damage to each of the different systems, early diagnosis, a multidisciplinary approach and appropriate prevention strategies will slow progression and thereby improve patient survival.2,3,5
Genetic syndromes are often difficult to diagnose and in most cases lack a specific treatment. A high degree of suspicion is crucial to establish the diagnosis, which will not only allow us to improve the care of our patient, but will also be necessary to provide genetic counselling and screening of family members, if indicated.
C.H. Alström, B. Hallgren, L.B. Nilsson, H. Asander.
Retinal degeneration combined with obesity, diabetes mellitus and neurogenous deafness: a specific syndrome (not hitherto described) distinct from Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome; a clinic endocrinological and genetic examination based on a large pedigree.
Acta Psychiatr Neurol Scand., 34 (1959), pp. 1-35
A.N. Makaryus, M.E. Zubrow, J.D. Marshall, L.D. Gillam, J.R. Mangion.
Cardiac Manifestations of Alström Syndrome: Echocardiographic Findings.
J Am Soc Echocardiogr., 20 (2007), pp. 1359-1363
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2007.04.033 | Medline
F. Corbetti, R. Razzolini, V. Bettini, et al.
Alström syndrome: cardiac magnetic resonance findings.
Int J Cardiol., 167 (2013), pp. 1257-1263
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2012.03.160 | Medline
T. Hearn, G.L. Renforth, C. Spalluto, et al.
Mutation of ALMS1, a large gene with a tandem repeat encoding 47 amino acids, causes Alström Syndrome.
Nat Genet., 31 (2002), pp. 79-83
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng874 | Medline
T. Joy, H. Cao, G. Black, et al.
Alström syndrome (OMIM 203800): a case report and literature review.
Orphanet J Rare Dis., 2 (2007), pp. 49
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-1172-2-49 | Medline
J.D. Marshall, S. Beck, P. Maffei, J.K. Naggert.
Alström syndrome.
Eur J Hum Genet., 15 (2007), pp. 1193-1202
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201933 | Medline
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The original Batmobile—or at least, the first real-life car that was licensed by DC Comics as a Batmobile—sold at auction for just $137,000 on Saturday.
That's a disappointing result considering the importance of the car in the pantheon of Bat-kitsch. And even though the George Barris TV creation that was created afterwards traded hands for $4.2M last year, this one brought a tiny fraction of that.
Which isn't to sell the Forrest Robinson Batmobile short.
This video, which shows the car in motion, details its creation by avowed Batman fanboy and amateur car customizer Robinson. The interviews with its restorers and prior owners show why it's special— and why it was expected to bring in a lot more cash at auction.
Moreover, it's a proper early 1960s hot rod in many respects, packing a Olds Rocket V8 on a 1956 Olds 88 frame.
It was built by Robinson as a private venture, the only car he's known for, and was restored after being abandoned for decades—an expensive proposition. No word on whether the seller recouped their investment, but it's a surprising snub for a genuine, unique Batmobile.
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I had heard that Brenda Romero was working on a new, serious game which in part explored the relationship between Mexican culture and food, but Gunman Taco Truck [official site] wasn’t what I was expecting… Oh, wait, this isn’t that? This action game about blasting your way across post-apocalypse United States and selling tacos to the survivors was actually designed by a nine-year-old Donovan Brathwaite-Romero and co-developed by him with his mum Brenda and stepdad John Romero. It’s now out on Steam and there’s a trailer below.
The setup is that you’re fleeing mutant-infested America in order to make a new home in Winnipeg, Canada, where there are no taco trucks and your family business can thrive. You shoot at various colourful mutants during the driving sections, and then sell tacos to the survivors in each new town you reach. The two are connected in various ways, in that the mutants you kill provide the meat for your tacos and the money you earn helps you buy condiments and petrol with which to reach the next town.
Donovan Brathwaite-Romero pitched the game to his parents and they liked the idea enough that they decided to make it together as a family project. That process has taken two years, with John Romero first creating a “‘fill in the blanks’ game design document” in which Donovan had to expand his original idea, and development taking place during a series of game jams with a team of six. Donovan has also been learning to program for three years, with the game partly conceived as a way of helping him learn. Here he is, now eleven years old:
You can hear Brenda Romero talk a little about the other game she’s making, which is called Mexican Kitchen Workers, at 8 minutes and 10 seconds into this video, and about the other games in the Mechanic Is The Message series at her site.
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Without a doubt, it is our job as SEOs to keep an eye on the future and anticipate what Google is planning, testing, or looking to drop on our doorsteps. Over the past 12 months alone, we have seen several changes in Google Search — each impacting how we plan, implement, and report on campaigns.
In this article, I will take a look at what is in store for SEO in 2020 and how these factors will change the way we formulate strategies throughout the next year and beyond.
Artificial intelligence will continue to evolve
Over the past half-decade, artificial intelligence has become a pioneering force in the evolution of SEO.
In 2015, for example, we were introduced to RankBrain — the machine-based search algorithm that helps Google push more relevant results to users. Although RankBrain is coming up on its fifth birthday, we are only now catching early glimpses into how artificial intelligence will dominate SEO in the coming years.
The most recent step in this progression of artificial learning is, of course, the introduction of Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding (BERT), which Google announced at the end of October. For those who missed it, BERT is Google’s neural network-based technique for natural language processing, and it’s important because it deals with the very fundamentals of how people search. Google itself says that the algorithm represents “the biggest leap forward in the past five years, and one of the biggest leaps forward in the history of Search.”
Affecting one in ten searches, BERT gives Google a better understanding of how language is used and helps it comprehend the context of individual words within searches. The important thing to know about BERT (and also RankBrain), is the fact that you cannot optimize for it.
There’s nothing to optimize for with BERT, nor anything for anyone to be rethinking. The fundamentals of us seeking to reward great content remain unchanged.
— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) October 28, 2019
But what does this mean for SEOs?
BERT is just one signal of how Google understands language, but it is one of the most important in the search engine’s arsenal. This means that now more than ever, webmasters and SEOs alike must focus their efforts on creating the most useful, natural, and highest-quality content. Quite simply, as Danny Sullivan says, “write content for users.”
It’s also worth understanding how BERT interprets questions, which you can find out more about in the Whiteboard Friday episode below.
Voice search is here to stay
It’s hard to imagine at the dawn of 2020, but when voice search was released in 2012 many assumed it would be just another project consigned to the ever-growing Google graveyard.
Today, however, we know so much more about the technology and, thanks to schema.org, where it is likely to go in the future. The adoption rate is slower than predicted, but it has nevertheless leaked into our lives, so we must not completely ignore voice search.
A new form of markup is released nearly every month, with one of the latest developments being markup for movies. Although this might seem insignificant, the fact that we are now seeing markup for films shows just how granular and far-reaching structured data has come.
With smart speakers now numbering 120 million in the US alone, webmasters should be taking the time to investigate where schema can be placed on their website so they can take advantage of the 35.6 million voice search demands taking place every month. What’s more, website markup has a monumental influence on featured snippets, which can be highly lucrative for any website. Take a look at this Moz guide for more information on how voice search influences featured snippets.
If you’re in the US, it’s also worth noting that Speakable (BETA) is used by Google Assistant to answer people’s questions about specific topics. The assistant can return up to three relevant articles and provide audio playback using text-to-speech markup. Implementing such a markup can be highly lucrative for news sites, because when the assistant provides an answer, it also attributes the source and sends the full article URL to the user’s mobile device. If you’re a news site that publishes in English but doesn’t yet have Speakable markup implemented, you can read up on both the technical considerations and content requirements necessary for eligibility.
Actions on Google, a development platform for Google Assistant, is also worth your consideration. It allows the third-party development of “actions” — applets for Google Assistant that provide extended functionality. Actions can be used to get things done by integrating your content and services with the Google Assistant.
Actions allow you to do a number of things:
Build Actions to ensure Google Assistant uses your apps
Allow users to search for and engage with your app
Provide your app as a recommendation for user queries
Check out this fantastic article by Andrea Vopini about how to optimize your content using Google assistant.
Google is heavily invested in using entities
Entities aren’t something that you hear SEOs talking about every day, but they are something Google is putting a lot of resources into. Put simply, Google itself states that entities are “a thing or concept that is singular, unique, well-defined, and distinguishable.”
Entities don’t have to be something physical, but can be something as vague as an idea or a color. As long as it is either singular, unique, distinguishable, or well-defined, it is an entity.
As you can see, Moz shows up in the knowledge panel because the company is an entity. If you search the Google Knowledge Graph API for the company name, you can see how Google understands them:
In 2015, Google submitted a patent named “Ranking Search Results Based On Entity Metrics,” which is where the above entity description is sourced from. Although few patents are worth getting excited about, this one caused a stir in the technical SEO scene because it takes machine learning to an entirely new level and allows Google to accurately calculate the probability of user intent, thus giving it an understanding of both user language and tone. What’s more, entities place a reduced reliance on links as a ranking factor, and depending on what your SEO strategy is, that could result in the need for big campaign changes.
The most important aspect you will need to consider is how Google understands the entities on your website.
For example, if your site sells shoes, you need to think about how many different types, colors, sizes, brands, and concepts exist for your shoes. Each shoe will represent a different entity, which means you must consider how to frame each product so that it meets the expectations of users as well as the learning capabilities of Google — which is where we meet markup once again.
Sites themselves can also become entities, and that provides huge rewards as they appear in the Knowledge Panel, which I will discuss next.
The knowledge panel will be important for personalities and brands
Although Google’s Knowledge Graph was launched way back in 2012, its expansion since then means it is still a core part of the search matrix and one that will reach far into the next decade.
Closely tied with featured snippets and rich results, earlier last year Google began allowing entities to claim their own knowledge panel, giving them access to edit and control the information presented to users in search results. They can make specific requests, such as changing the featured image, panel title, and social profiles provided within the panel.
The benefits of claiming your knowledge panel are numerous. They help users gain quick access to your site, which thanks to the Knowledge Graph, displays trust and authority signals. Knowledge panels also provide brands and personalities with the ability to control what objective information is shown to users. However, there are still many brands that have yet to claim their own panels.
You can claim your business’s knowledge panel in a few easy steps:
Ensure that your website is verified with Search Console.
Update your panel by suggesting a change to Google.
As you can see from the above examples, being in the Knowledge Graph can improve trust and add authenticity to your business or personal brand, as well as providing additional visibility. But it’s easier said than done.
Unless you’re a recognized, famous person or brand, claiming space in the Knowledge Graph is going to be difficult. Having a Wikipedia page can be enough, but I don’t recommend creating pages just to get there — it will get deleted and waste your effort. Instead, build brand mentions and authority around your name gradually. While having a wikidata page can be helpful, it’s not guaranteed. The goal is to get Google to recognize you as a notable person or brand.
Queryless proactive predictive search is getting better
Google Discover was released in June of 2017, prompting a new kind of search altogether — one that is queryless. Discover is an AI-driven content recommendation tool and claims 80 million active users.
Using the aforementioned Knowledge Graph, Google added an extra layer called the Topic Layer, which is engineered to understand how a user’s interest develops over time (this article by the University of Maryland offers an in-depth explanation of topic layers and models).
By understanding the many topics a user is interested in, Discover identifies the most accurate content to deliver from an array of websites.
To appear in Discover, Google states that pages appear “if they are indexed by Google and meet Google News content policies. No special tags or structured data are required.” It ranks content based on an algorithm that inspects the quality of content alongside the interests of the user and the topic of the page in question. The exact formula is unknown, however, based on several studies and experiments we now have a pretty good idea of how it works.
This screenshot from a presentation by Kenichi Suzuki highlights some of the factors that help pages appear in Discover.
According to Google, there are two ways to boost the performance of your content within Discover:
Post interesting content
Use high-quality images
As ever, ensure that you generate high quality content that is unique and creates a great experience for users. If your site tends to publish clickbait articles, the chance of those articles appearing in Discover is low.
Other tips for appearing in Discover would be to arrange your content semantically so that Google finds it easier to understand your work, and ensure that your website is technically proficient.
Like any form of search, you can use Google Search Console to see how well your articles are performing in Discover. You can find Discover stats under the performance section.
Google Discover analytics data is fairly new, and therefore limited. There isn’t currently a native way to segment this traffic inside Google Analytics. To track user behavior data, this article provides a technique to track it inside Google Analytics.
We have yet to see the biggest changes in visual image Search
It could be argued that the biggest change to image search happened in September 2018 when Google Lens rolled out. Not only did featured videos begin appearing in image search, but AMP stories and new ranking algorithms and tags were also released.
But while speaking at a Webmaster Meetup in New York last year, John Mueller shared that there will be major changes in image search in the coming year. Rather than merely viewing images, very soon people will use itto accomplish goals, purchase products, and learn new information.
Google has always said that images should be properly optimized and marked, so if you have not started to add such data or information to your images, now is definitely the time to start.
In the past six months alone we have seen Google introduce small changes such as removing the “view image” function, as well as colossal changes, such as totally revamping image search for Desktop.
Furthermore, people don’t even have to search within it to see images anymore. It’s common for the SERP to present a universal search result, which encompasses images, videos, maps, news, and shopping listings. The opportunity to appear in a universal (or blended) result is just another reason why properly tagged and marked images are so important.
Finally, Google has added visual image search attributes to search results. The interesting thing with this update is that these attributes are now available as image carousels within the main search results.
With so much to play with, webmasters and SEOs should consider how they can take advantage of such changes, which could prove potentially very lucrative for the right sites — especially when you consider that 35% of Google product searches return transactions in as little as five days.
E-A-T doesn’t apply to every site — but it still matters
E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) is something every SEO should know back to front, but remember:
E-A-T isn’t a ranking factor
E-A-T is critical for Your Money or Your Life (YMYL) topics and pages
Although these two statements might seem contradictory, they make more sense when you consider what Google defines as YMYL.
According to Google’s Rater Guidelines, YMYL is a page or topic that “could potentially impact a person’s future happiness, health, financial stability, or safety.” This means that if your page has information that could potentially change a person’s life, it is considered YMYL and offering E-A-T is important. If your site is merely your personal collection of cat pictures, then showcasing authority or expertise is less critical.
The issue, however, is that the majority of websites (and certainly the ones invested in SEO) are generally going to have YMYL pages or topics, but Google is taking big steps to ensure that low quality or questionable YMYL content is weeded out. As you might know, you can’t optimize for E-A-T because it isn’t an algorithm, but you can implement changes to make sure your site sends the right kind of quality signals to Google. This Moz article by Ian Booth and this guide by Lily Ray offer great tips for how to do that.
Topics and semantics over keywords
Google is putting less priority on both links and keywords, which is where topic modeling and semantics come into the conversation.
Google has become very clever at understanding what a user is searching for based on just a few basic words. This is thanks, in part, to topic modeling (as Google itself admitted in September 2018 when it introduced its “topic layer”). Indeed, this algorithm has a deep understanding of semantics and yearns to provide users with deep troves of information.
This means that it has never been more important to create high quality, in-depth, and meaningful content for users — but you also need to think about information structure.
For example, if your site sells running shoes, you could create long-form educational pieces about how to choose shoes for specific running environments, athletic diets for runners, or tech accessory reviews. These articles could then be clustered into various topics. By clustering your topics into compartments through your website architecture, both users and crawlers can easily navigate and understand the content provided.
Studies have also shown that Google’s crawlers prefer pages with semantic groupings and sites that are designed around topic modeling. This 2018 presentation by Dawn Anderson gives a brilliant insight into this. If you want to know more about topic modeling and semantic connectivity, check out this Whiteboard Friday by Rand Fishkin.
SERPs will continue to evolve
Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen search results evolve and transform like never before. In fact, they have changed so much that, in some cases, being placed first within the organic search results may not be the most lucrative position.
This is something that would have been unthinkable just a few short years ago (check out this Moz article from 2018) that works to quell the panic from zero position SERPs).
With the introduction of Voice Search, rich results, rich snippets, knowledge panels, Google My Business, and updated Image Search results, SEOs now need to consider a whole new range of technical marketing strategies to appear in a multitude of organic search results.
It’s hard to know where Google is taking SERPs in the next year, but it is fair to say the strategies we use today for the search environment will likely be outdated in as little as six months.
Take, for example, the recent addition and subsequent removal of favicons in the SERPs; after backlash, Google reversed the change, proving we can never predict which changes will stick and which are blips on the radar.
Ensure that your strategies are flexible and constantly prepare for changes in both your business sector (if you do not work within SEO) and the constantly evolving search environment. Pay attention to the seasonality of searches and use tools such as Google Trends to cover any out-of-season deficit that you may encounter.
You can use tools like Moz Keyword Explorer to help plan ahead and to create campaigns and strategies that provide useful traffic and lucrative conversions.
SEOs need to move away from the ideology that links and traditional search results should be priorities for an organic campaign. Although both still carry weight, without investment in technical strategy or willingness to learn about entities or semantic connectivity, no SEO campaign can reach its full potential.
The world of SEO in 2020 is bright and exciting, but it will require more investment and intelligent strategy than ever before.
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Jeffrey A. Ireland, 57, of Pontiac, died Monday, July 30, 2018, at OSF Saint James-John W. Albrecht Medical Center, Pontiac.
A celebration of life open house will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, at Pontiac VFW Post 886.
Born April 9, 1961, in Fairbury, Jeff was the son of Francis M. (Bill) Ireland and Patricia (Haner) Waggoner.
He is survived by his mother, Patricia Waggoner of Pontiac; one son, Colin Ireland (Hannah Shepard) of Streator; two grandchildren, Maycie and Mallorie Ireland; two siblings, Kay (Sam) Slown and Susan (Aaron) Wikner of Cedar Falls, Iowa; his significant other, Carol Raube; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Jeff was preceded in death by his father, Bill Ireland; his maternal grandparents; and his sister, Judy Parks.
Jeff enjoyed fishing, music and his family and friends.
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Roots manoeuvre: embracing grey hair
Social media communities are helping reframe the idea of going grey, from something shameful to something to embrace
Suzanne Bearne November 19, 2018
Martha Truslow Smith was just 14 when she spotted her first strand of grey. Distraught, she started dyeing her hair. But, two years ago, aged 24, everything changed. “I realised that what started as a happy act of love for myself had turned into me feeling ashamed by it,” says Truslow Smith, a graphic designer who lives in North Carolina, US. “My now-husband had no idea I was dyeing my hair or about the anxiety from the shame I felt about this secret. I knew then that I had to stop dyeing it.”
Three months into letting her natural colour grow, Truslow Smith began to get cold feet. “I needed inspiration and started searching the web for photos of grey-haired women. But I wasn’t finding what I was hoping to see – photos of natural grey hair on different women. I needed a sense of community.”
So she set up Grombre, an Instagram account for women of different backgrounds to share their experiences with natural hair and support others in the process. The account now has over 46,000 followers. “It has given women a sense of encouragement and empowerment,” says Truslow Smith. “It’s been wonderful to watch.”
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Most people notice some grey hairs appearing around their mid-30s and, on average, 50 per cent of the population will have 50 per cent grey hair by the time they are 50. But many people – particularly women – shun the change: one survey found that 88 per cent of women try to cover it up immediately.
Online communities such as Grombre and Gray and Proud, a Facebook group that is open to men and women and has close to 20,000 members, are packed with people confidently showing off their natural hair, from flowing grey tresses to silver-flecked bobs.
Lauren Derrett, 44, was inspired to go naturally grey after she discovered Grombre. “I looked at the photos and saw empowered women who were owning who they are,” says Derrett, an author and mentor from Essex, who started spotting silver strands when she was 20. “I was envious of their bravery and I wanted to feel that freedom.”
Truslow Smith set up Grombre as an online community for women to share their own grey-haired photos
Instagram has encouraged her. “I’ve had an amazing response: women comment on how lovely my hair looks.”
These grey-haired communities are part of a wider movement on social media that encourages people to embrace their imperfections, whether it’s acne or large noses. “It’s a feeling of empowerment,” says Truslow Smith, “that nothing can stop you – not caring what others think.”
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Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets vs. Virginia Cavaliers Pick
by Matt Lowry | Feb 27, 2019 | cbb
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (12-16 SU, 17-11 ATS) vs. Virginia Cavaliers (24-2 SU, 19-7 ATS)
When: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 – 7 p.m. ET
Where: John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, Virginia
TV: ESPN2
By: Matt Lowry, College Basketball Handicapper, Predictem.com
Point Spread: GT +21 / UVA -21 (MyBookie Sportsbook)
Total: O/U 118.5
Last Time Out: Georgia Tech lost 80-65 to Miami / Virginia won 64-52 against Louisville
Scouting the Yellow Jackets:
The Yellow Jackets are obviously struggling this year and find them themselves at 12th in the ACC with a conference record of 4-11. GT had a chance at winning two games in a row for the first time since Jan 5th in a game they lost to Miami. Prior to the the Miami loss they dropped 7 straight games and fall to 2-8 in the last ten games. During this stretch, the Yellow Jackets offense has been almost non-existent as they are averaging just 57.3 points per game. To make matters worse they must go up against the best defense in the country, and do so on the road, making this matchup an uphill climb.
Scouting the Cavaliers:
The Cavaliers are clearly one of the best teams in the country and it all starts with their defense. When you allow an average of 54.5 points per game you are going to win a lot of games. The quality of their defense was evident recently when they held the Louisville Cardinals to 15 points in the second half. This allowed their offense which had been struggling to make a furious comeback and keep pace with Duke and North Carolina for a potential regular season ACC title.
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Overall, the Cavaliers have dominated the Yellow Jackets over the past seven years. Virginia is 8-2 against Georgia Tech in the last ten meetings dating back to 2012, and when they play the Yellow Jackets at home they are 5-0 during this span.
X-Factor:
One of the biggest question marks for the Yellow Jackets coming into this game is who is going to step up and provide a solid scoring performance? Part of the reason the Yellow Jackets are so bad this season is their leading scorer, Jose Alvarado, is only averaging 12.6 points per game. After Alvarado, the next highest scorer is James Banks III. Banks III is averaging 9.9 points per game and was held to a big fat 0 against the Hurricanes. So, whether it is Alvarado or Banks III or someone else, the Yellow Jackets are going to need several scorers in double-digits to keep pace with the Cavaliers.
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Georgia Tech may not be winning a lot of games outright, but surprisingly they have been able to cover the spread often this season. When the Yellow Jackets come off a loss they are 10-5 against the spread, with a record of 4-1 in away games. Bettors like to bet against sorry teams and this likely plays into the bookmaker’s spread until the pro gamblers suck the value out and the line sharpens. Getting at this line early may be important here.
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Georgia Tech will Cover if:
They can speed up the game and get buckets in transition. With the style of the Cavaliers, this is likely going to be a very low scoring game. With that in mind, Georgia Tech will need to counter this by forcing turnovers, getting fast break points, and taking the crowd out of the game. Georgia Tech will also need to run the Cavalier shooters off the three-point line. The Yellow Jackets allow teams to shoot 29.2% from behind the arc (8th in the country). And considering the Cavaliers are shooting the three ball at 39.2% (11th in the country), this will be a huge key for the Yellow Jackets to avoid getting blown out.
Virginia will Cover if:
Their “big three” each have a productive game. By “big three” I am referring to the trio of Kyle Guy, Ty Jerome and De’Andre Hunter. Any three of these guys have shown they can go off at any point, but if Virginia wants to avoid a massive upset, all three guys will need to contribute. Both Kyle Guy and Ty Jerome were completely shut down against Louisville, which is why the Cavs found themselves in a huge hole. Luckily their defense made up for this in the second half as mentioned earlier and the struggles from Guy and Jerome were not the narrative for a Viriginia backers loss.
Matt’s Pick to Cover the Spread:
When looking at this game, it just feels like a trap for Virginia. MyBookie has Virginia giving up 21 points, and with both teams being low scoring offenses, I just do not think they will score enough to be anywhere close to covering. Georgia Tech also has nothing to lose and will be looking to play a spoiler role in terms of handing the Cavs a bad loss and potentially knocking them off the one seed line. We have seen much crazier things happen in college basketball, so the Yellow Jackets and the points are my best play.
Matt’s College Basketball Pick: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets +21
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Protesters arrested as scuffles break out at Algiers demonstration
Wednesday, 09 October 2019 12:20 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 09 October 2019 12:26 AM ]
Scuffles broke out in Algiers on Tuesday after police tried to stop thousands of anti-government protesters from reaching a central square.
At least 14 people were arrested.
The incident reportedly marks the first time in eight months since the protests began when police prevented the movement of demonstrators.
The protests, dubbed the Smile Revolution, began on February 16, after 82-year-old Bouteflika announced he would be running for a fifth term in office. While he dropped his bid and ultimately resigned in April, the protests continued, demanding a complete renewal of the ruling class.
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Official photographs released for The Queen's 90th birthday
A sequence of three official photographs of Her Majesty The Queen, by the renowned portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz, will be released today, 21st April, to mark Her Majesty's 90th Birthday. The photographs were taken at Windsor Castle just after Easter.
The first in the sequence features The Queen walking in the private grounds of Windsor Castle. The Queen is seen on steps at the rear of the East Terrace and East Garden with four of her dogs: clockwise from top left Willow (corgi), Vulcan (dorgie), Candy (dorgie) and Holly (corgi).
The second is a portrait of The Queen with her five great-grandchildren and her two youngest grandchildren that was taken in the Green Drawing Room, part of the Castle's semi-State apartments. The children are, from bottom left:
Mia Tindall (holding The Queen's handbag), the two year old daughter of Zara and Mike Tindall; James, Viscount Severn (aged 8) and Lady Louise (12), the children of The Earl and Countess of Wessex and the youngest of The Queen's eight grandchildren; Savannah (5) and Isla Phillips (3 at time of photograph), daughters of The Queen's eldest grandson Peter Phillips and his wife Autumn; Prince George (2) and, in The Queen's arms and in the tradition of Royal portraiture, the youngest great-grandchild, Princess Charlotte (11months), children of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
The third portrait in the sequence is of The Queen with her daughter The Princess Royal, taken in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle.
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When did you first play?
I joined a local club, Dumfries Saints, when I was at primary school and stayed there until U17s.
How did the move to Leicester come about?
I played for Scotland U18 with Corey Venus from Leicester and he said they needed a scrum-half, so I wrote to them and got a week’s trial in the summer of 2011. I got invited back for the JP Morgan Sevens and was given an academy contract, then a two-year full-time contract in 2012.
Have you played in different positions?
I was a wing, then a full-back. I moved to scrum-half at about 15. My dad John suggested it because I wasn’t that big.
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To get more opportunities to play at Leicester so I can show what I can do.
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The concerned Other - How to change problematic drug and alcohol users through their family members: a complete manual
Product code: ISBN: 978-1-905541-48-5
By Phil Harris
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mother wracked with anxiety for her once loving son who is now transformed beyond recognition
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The concerned other is desperate for change in the user, but often ends up feeling helpless and frustrated - let down by his or her own inability to help and by a lack of professional support. Professional helpers, on the other hand, may find that their training, geared to the individualistic theories that requires the user to make change, find they are unable to employ effectively the concerned other and his or her willingness to help.
In this book Phil Harris sees the concerned other as the person most to effect change in the user's life. He presents a thoroughly researched and carefully argues theoretical underpinning of his work, and offers practitioners a clear and comprehensive, intervention-based programme to help the concerned other bring the change that he or she most wants to see.
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Save The Bay opens registration for the 44th annual Swim fundraiser, now a virtual event offering new ways to “exercise your right to a clean and healthy Bay”
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – May 6, 2020 – Today, Save The Bay opens registration for its annual Save The Bay Swim fundraiser. The Swim traditionally invites swimmers to tackle a two-mile, open-water swim from Newport to Jamestown, R.I. in support of Save The Bay’s mission to protect and improve Narragansett Bay. This year, following statewide event guidelines for Summer 2020, the Swim will be transformed into a virtual challenge. Save The Bay invites participants to register for a remote swim at the traditional distance of two miles, while also offering the option to register for a half-mile swim, or a number of other physical challenges.
“We hoped that we could hold the Swim, originally slated for July 11, in-person, later this summer,” explained Save The Bay Executive Director Jonathan Stone. “But when we heard the Gov. Raimondo’s updated guidance last Wednesday, we had to confront the reality that holding the event as we typically do—with hundreds of committed swimmers, kayakers and volunteers—would not be possible. We’re excited, however, to find a way to continue the tradition of connecting the community to the Bay with our virtual event this summer.”
While swimmers will have the option to register for either a “Classic Course” or “Short Course” remote event, athletes in other outdoor sports will also have the chance to participate in this year’s fundraiser. Save The Bay is offering opportunities to kayak, stand-up paddle board, row, run or bike in support of Save The Bay.
“With gyms, public pools and other preferred training areas closed, we expanded the opportunities to join this year’s Swim to anyone interested in taking on a challenge for a cause this summer,” said Leanne Danielsen, Save The Bay’s events manager. “We invite everyone to exercise their right to a clean and healthy Bay by selecting the challenge—or challenges—that interest them.”
“Since we can’t gather to show our common support for the Bay, I will be doing my part by participating in the virtual Save They Bay Swim privately,” said longtime Swim participant, Dan Force. “I enjoy contributing to Save The Bay’s efforts. It’s about being part of something larger than yourself.”
Completed challenges can be submitted to Save The Bay any time now-August 31, 2020. Participants are invited to be creative in their approaches to meeting their event goals, and to promote and celebrate their accomplishments on social media, using #SaveTheBayOpen and #SaveTheBaySwim.
“We’re looking forward to seeing the ways participants will tackle their virtual challenges this summer,” said Danielsen. “Whether they jog up and down their driveway or paddle in a pool, the effort counts—and we can’t wait to see and share the updates!”
In honor of the organization’s 50th anniversary, registration fees for the virtual Swim have been reduced by 50 percent, and signing up for the Swim or any of the optional activities will only cost $25. Participants are welcome to register for multiple activities.
As one of the most storied open-water events in the country, the traditional Swim attracts more than 300 swimmers from across the country, as well as more than 150 local volunteers, every year. The event is Save The Bay’s largest annual fundraiser, providing critical support to the organization’s mission to protect and improve Narragansett Bay and its watershed.
“The Swim, which began as a call to action for the entire Bay community, continues to remind us all of the benefit and importance of clean local waters,” said Stone, also a Swim participant. “This year, the fundraiser celebrates the value of a healthy and beautiful Bay more than ever, as so many of us are rediscovering outdoor activities during these uncertain and changing times.”
Additional support for the Save The Bay Swim comes from our 50th anniversary and 2020 event sponsors: Sage Family Foundation; Navigant Credit Union; CVS Health; REI Co-op; F.L. Putnam Investment Management Company; Absolut; Amica Insurance; Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island; Moo.com; Roger Williams University; Brown University; Coast-to-Coast Promotional Products; F.L. Putnam Investment Management Company; UNFI; Bank of America; National Grid; Rhode Races & Events; Rexel Energy Solutions; Conanicut Marine Services, Inc.; BayCoast Bank; Hallman’s Septic and Portable Toilets, LLC; Green Energy Consumers Alliance; Regency Plaza / Chestnut Hill; and CASE Construction.
Those interested in registering for or donating to the Swim are encouraged to visit swim.savebay.org/2020 or to contact Leanne Danielsen at ldanielsen@savebay.org or 401-272-3540 x140.
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Winning start for Springbok women
The Springbok women produced a positive display to kick their European tour off with a victory over the UK Armed Forces in Richmond on Friday night, with Stanley Raubenheimer’s team scoring five tries over the hosts to win this match by 31-12.
Aseza Hele and Alana-Lee Horne scored two tries each to add to a try by Nosiphiwo Goda, while Kirsten Conrad kicked two conversions and Zintle Mpupha one. The hosts could only reply with two tries and a conversion.
The UK Armed Forces struck first with a converted try to take a 7-0 lead, but the Springbok Women found their rhythm early in the second quarter and scored back-to-back tries, by Horne and Hele, within five minutes for a 12-7 lead.
The South Africans built momentum as the half progressed and Horne crossed the tryline for their third try, six minutes before halftime, for an encouraging 17-7 lead at the break.
The second half was closely fought as both sides defended well, but the hosts managed to break through and touch down with nine left minutes left on the clock to reduce their deficit to 17-12.
While the try gave the home team some hope, it was not to be as the Springbok Women bounced back strongly with two tries in the last six minutes. Goda and Hele crossed the chalk, while the conversions were added by Conrad as they secured a confidence-boosting 31-12 victory.
The match, which marked the first of South Africa's our games on their European tour, will be followed Test matches against Wales at Cardiff Arms Park on Saturday, 10 November, Spain in Villajoyosa on Saturday, 17 November, and Italy in Prato on Sunday, 25 November.
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Biography: “Understanding the ambiguities of the human nature” That’s what captivated Tadeo De La Barra, and introduced him into the world of art. Of course, as the son of one of the greatest Peruvian artists, it could not have been any other way. Being told by his father that the human body presented both the greatest difficulties but at the same time the greatest achievements in art, he pursued figurative art drawing and painting at the young age of seven years old.Tadeo was born in Lima, Peru in August 30th, 1977. In his continuous search for artistic development, Tadeo enrolled in the prestigious School of Fine Arts at 18; and as the first student in his class he was invited to participate in the Quimera ’99 exhibit in Mexico, where his art is highly regarded as one of the best from South America. His paintings are a window to an intelligent and creative mind; his strokes are the voice of a true artist. His art transcends hyperrealism exposing the observer to a surreal and delightful experience. Brilliant, gifted, and spontaneous, his artistic achievement elates the senses and portrays the exuberant and yet down to earth, and humble mastermind behind the canvas. Simple, as any great man should be.
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Part of a new Western New York TV series on insurance and complementary health.
The show will be co-hosted by Lester Robinson and Linda Ellson. They will discuss how this series helped them improve their lives and opened up doors of opportunity for them. The series goal was to teach people how to reduce stress, relax, enjoy life and become healthier and happier in their day-to-day lives without wasting time and money. This show will review each guests testimonial. Special guest host Scott Leffler of WLVL 1340 am host of Dialog will be doing a special interview in this show.
The following guests will be Dr. Tim Liffiton, Rev. Renee Karen, Larry Castellani, Deborah Rose, Steven Hartman, Kathleen Brooks, Scott Leffler and Kirsten Blackley. Each of these guests will talk about how their lives improved, and how their field of complementary health opened up new opportunity for them to help more people to become healthier and happy by using their teaching in complementary health. This is the last episode of a 41-episode insurance series exploring complementary health topics ranging from the practical to the metaphysical. The ABC’s of Insurance Complementary Health TV Series is hosted by Lester J. Robinson and airs Thursday June 30, at 6:30pm and Friday July 1, at 2:00pm, Tuesday July 5, at 8:30 pm on Niagara County’s LCTV Channel 20. The series also airs Wednesday June 29, at 10:35pm on Erie County’s Adelphia Channel 20.
Other programs in The ABC’s of Insurance Complementary Health Series explore self-help stress relief techniques ranging from meditation, organic food, cooking and Rieki to self healing with Bruno Groening Circle of Friends to medical practices including special programs set up by health insurance company. This is an interactive TV series. To find out more go to WWW.CHSWLR.COM or WWW.WNYINSURANCE-QUOTE.COM
The basic idea of an interactive TV show with using the Internet is to bring the next level of TV to Western New York now. Presently interactive shows are being test marketed around the country. The shows are set up for being a total interactive show once the technology becomes more available in Western New York. Once this happens “The ABC’s of Insurance” will be one of the first shows in Western New York to be interactive. Right now the viewers have to get to their personal computer to get more information on the topics from the series. An interactive TV series, the viewers can get more information on the topic after the shows airs from the website. For more information on the interview go to www.wnyinsurance-quote.com or www.chswlr.com and click on the complementary.
To interview Lester J. Robinson on The ABC’s of Insurance Complementary Health TV Series, Linda Ellson, Dr. Tim Liffiton, Rev. Renee Karen, Larry Castellani, Deborah Rose, Steven Hartman, Kathleen Brooks, and Scott Leffler of how holistic therapies help in the healing process—or to receive a list of experts featured in this complementary health series—contact Lester J. Robinson at the numbers above. Thank you for your consideration.
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A woman's wedding band most commonly is a gold band over the centuries, but with the modern materials and techniques of today, even the popular wedding band can be very exquisitely detailed and be an item of unique beauty. The plainest wedding band is made of white or yellow gold typically with no other ornamentation. Obviously the narrowest band is the least expensive if there are no other features or gemstones attached. Depending on the length of the fingers and the size of the woman's hand, she may choose a wider band still with no other decoration and have a wedding band that is classic in beauty and elegance.
The plain gold wedding band can be one which nestles up against a matching engagement ring. The woman's ring may or may not match that of her spouse. There are even wedding bands which don't look like much if worn by themselves. They are designed to shadow the shape of the engagement ringand to be fastened together permanently after the wedding ceremony. Other bands are worn on the left hand separately while the engagement ring, if any can be worn on either the left hand above the wedding band or on the right hand.
In addition to the use of white gold, yellow gold, or various other gold alloys, resulting in colors from red gold to black gold, a woman's wedding band can be made of other metals. For example, the use of platinum in wedding rings has been popular even prior to World War II when the use of platinum for jewelry was forbidden so that supplies of the rare and costly metal could be used in the war effort. Since the use of platinum was allowed again, it has proved increasingly popular with women who want a wedding band which is durable, resists action of everyday wear and usage and has an attractive luster.
Another type of metal which is growing in popularity for a wedding band is titanium. Titanium has an attractive color, is extremely durable and has a natural luster which holds better than some of the other metals which are available. Because it is still somewhat exotic, the titanium wedding band still has a certain 'snob appeal'. In terms of price, it is hard to find a better choice for a wedding band than stainless steel. It is nearly indestructible in ordinary usage, holds a shine better than most of the other metals and is very inexpensive.
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What to see in Northern California: Bodega Bay, “The Birds” movie locations by Hitchcock and the story of The Tides restaurant
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Simona Sacri / May 28, 2017
It’s one of those places that “it’s worth it the journey”, in the full meaning of the expression.
And they are by rights in the top ten of what to see in Northern California, above all if you are going to explore the north to be swallowed up by fairytale views dropping straight to the sea, discover unexpected Redwoods forests and enjoy the savors and the smells of the sweet and luxuriant hills of the Sonoma County.
What to see in Northern California: “The Birds” locations in Bodega
Try to think about an authentic fishermen village swallowed up by the Pacific fog.
A simple story on the background.
A school, a church, a restaurant on the harbor, a small local community and a giant flight of crazy birds. Then screams, panic and finally silence.
What am I talking about?
Alfred Hitchcock and his masterpiece “The Birds” and Bodega Bay, the location where the movie was set and where many of its cult scenes were shot.
“… and remember, the next scream you hear could be your own!”
(Alfred Hitchcock – “The Birds” tagline, 1963)
Hitchcock and its “Birds”
What to see in Northern California: Bodega Bay, travel’s inspirations
Bodega Bay keeps jealously the locations which made it famous and that still today attract tourists, onlookers and lovers from all over the world.
Visit it means to set out on a downright journey back in time.
Enjoy the welcome and some among the most suggestive views of the Pacific Ocean this amazing stretch of the coast is able to give and at the same time relive the most famous scenes of the movie, also through the words and the tales of the locals.
What to see in Northern California: Bodega Bay Marina
You will run into the school and the road of the dramatic scene of the kids’ desperate run outside the school to escape the attack of murderous bird’ flight, the church on the hill, the grocery store, the call box where the female protagonist recovers, the restaurant where some important sequences of the movie take place and the area where the house on the hills of the bay was located (do you remember the last scene, don’t you?)
Everything together with quite a lot of curious issues about shootings, director, locations and its actors.
Down here there is the detailed report, the precise addresses and info to be able to visit all “The Birds” locations with a few useful tips for the stay in Bodega Bay, tastings and relax included.
What to see in Northern California: Bodega
What to see in Northern California: Bodega, “The Birds” playbills exhibited on the buildings
Bodega is a small town – little over a crossroads actually – located on the hills about 7km far from the coast and Bodega Bay.
Coming from the Santa Rosa area, the heart of the Sonoma County, you run into it following first the Hwy 12 and then reaching the 17110, Bodega Hwy.
Here there are the old Potter School, the St. Teresa of Avila Church and the Grocery Store – next to it there’s the call box where Tippi Hedren recovers in a dramatic sequence – used by Hitchcock as the set of many movies’ sequences.
What to see in Northern California: Bodega, the St. Teresa of Avila Church
What to see in Northern California: Bodega, Grocery Store
What to see in Northern California: Bodega Bay
Bodega Bay, literally a paradise on the earth, is crossed by the suggestive Route 1 towards San Francisco, about 100km southwards.
A bay – and natural habitat included in the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary – protected by the rocky and indented Pacific coastline, a quay separating it from the small harbor of fishing boats and boats for the excursions and all around nice typical buildings on the hills.
The Tides Restaurant – where some sequences of “The Birds” were shot – is still there at 835, Bay Hwy.
After have been damaged by a fire at the end of the 1960s, it was rebuilt a few dozen meters ahead, directly on the bay.
Today is a part of a tourist facility including a market with local products, a picturesque fishing market (with factory), a souvenir store and the suggestive Inn at The Tides beyond the road, the ideal place for a stay among suggestions and relax in Bodega Bay.
What to see in Northern California: The Tides restaurant, Bodega Bay
The whole area was purchased by the Italian-American Robert Bugatto directly from the first owner Mitch Zankich and turned into one among the most appreciate places by tourists and visitors.
Today the facility is run by The Galazzos, guardian of traditions and history of the facility, Bodega Bay and the movie.
And it’s right thanks to Marco and Christian Galazzo, their helpfulness for dedicating to me some time and the welcome received that I had time to find out really many anecdotes and curious stories tied to Hitchcock’s presence, “The Birds” and the protagonists of the movie.
What to see in Northern California: with Marco Galazzo at The Tides’, Bodega Bay
What to see in Northern California: Bodega Bay, anecdotes and tales about “The Birds”
Did you know the location was personally chosen by Hitchcock?
It seems the director visited Bodega Bay for the first time during a rainy and foggy day considering it simply perfect for what he had in his mind. But when the shooting began it was sunny and a clear sky so he was forced to use some special effects to “reconstruct” that gloomy and dull atmosphere he was inspired by at the beginning.
Christian tells me the female protagonist Tippi Hedren every year comes back here in the days near Labour Day to meet her fans (it looks like they are still really many coming from all over the world).
Tippi Hedren, a photo taken at The Tides’ in Bodega Bay during one of her visits
Christian Galazzo tells some anecdotes about “The Birds” at the Tides’
The Tides, details recalling “The Birds”
Adding that many of the extras and the secondary roles were inspired by locals and that the old owner of the restaurant where several scenes were shot wanted to appear in the movie, to name the male protagonist after himself – Mitch – and to make repeat more time in the movie the name of the small town and its restaurant to increase publicity, in fact giving it a success and a fame that lasts still today.
Ah, I forgot.
It exist really the birds in Bodega Bay. Really many. You will sight them everywhere, you’ll hear them everywhere.
They will glide on your heads, like in the movie. And you cannot help to feel a shudder… a Hitchcock shudder!
What to see in Northern California: “The Birds” in Bodega Bay
What to see in Northern California: cues and tips for the stay in Bodega Bay
My tip is to stop at least one night.
So you can visit all the locations quoted calmly, exploring the neighboring area and enjoy – maybe talking to the very kind owners Marco and Christian about the movie and Bodega Bay – a savory and relaxing seafood and local specialties dinner right at The Tides’.
What to see in Northern California: the Tides, the inside of the restaurant
What to see in Northern California: Inn at The Tides
What to see in Northern California: Inn at the Tides, the view of the bay from my room
As I was writing above, the perfect place to stay is right the Inn at the Tides, a suggestive building with rooms and suites – many of them with a view of the bay – swallowed up by green, with swimming pool and Spa where events, theme dinners and special wine and local products tastings are organized.
Don’t forget we are a stone’s throw from the heart of Sonoma County.
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My work revolves around identity — driven by the influences physical and emotional values exert on personal connections.
By focusing on subjects as objective visual records, and applying controlled brushstrokes I want to circumvent the issue of romanticisation. I reject the abstract expressionist’ spontaneous, subconscious approach; and instead choose to create on the basis of careful planning and intrinsic value.
I believe strongly in the nouveau-realist’ tendency to want to bring art and the outside world closer together by incorporating elements from life into their work - and maintain that as a principal part of my process and source of inspiration.
My goal is to depict something as I perceive it — a subjective representation, whilst stripping it of unnecessary visuals and still maintaining its essence. I aim to break figurative elements out of context and re-insert them into new ones to represent a more primal and essential narrative.
I wish to break away from the stigma of a set realistic form and any external responsibility to bear witness, emphasize, or criticise, instead opting to focus on my subjective impression and building upon principles from various movements —
Fluxus: “embark on a piece without having a conception of the eventual end. It was the process of creating that was important, not the finished product.”
Expressionism: “to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person”
Sturm und Drang: “emotional extremes and subjectivity”
Realism: “choice and treatment of subject matter that defines Realism as a movement in painting”
“accurate depiction of lifeforms, perspective, and the details of light and colour”
“represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions”
I do not see myself as a traditional realist, as I do not reject all methods of idealism and do not seek to represent a universal objectivity in my work — only a subjective objectivity (as true objectivity seems unachievable from a singular point of view).
I want to distance myself in my work from a need for justification or defence. I don't feel that anyone should have to feel obligated to defend themselves for what they believe in. I believe that our principles and decisions should be based on an internal awareness of our reasoning - and that we should accept the consequences that come with those decisions.
I do believe strongly in standing up for our own ideals, and I want my work to reflect that. The freedom of expression through selfish, direct, inexcusable, plain, self-contained observation.
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As the early days of robotic surgery give way to more precise control and better patient outcomes, early pioneers like Intuitive Surgical Inc. are seeing increased pressure from large companies like Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic PLC, which have made major M&A investments to crack into the market in recent years.
Intuitive's da Vinci system was first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2000 for urology. Since then, the number of companies staking their future on the growing space — either in general surgery or orthopedic — has only grown.
Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci system
Source: Intuitive Surgical
Analytics firm GlobalData reported in November 2019 that the surgical robot market is expected to reach $275 billion by 2025, almost tripling in size compared to 2018 when the market accounted for $98 billion.
"The reason for this incredible growth rate is that robotics can revolutionize almost any type of surgery, including cardiology, oncology and neurology," GlobalData Data Scientist James Spencer said. "It is just a matter of how the technologies can be applied."
Hospitals are adopting the surgical robots at increasing rates, with general surgery procedures using the da Vinci system rising 32% from 2017 to 2018. GlobalData said robotics is one of the most promising technologies changing the face of healthcare.
A representative from George Washington Hospital in Washington, D.C., told S&P Global Market Intelligence that surgeons there have performed more than 6,600 procedures in urology; colorectal; general surgery; gynecology; oncology; and ear, nose and throat. Companies that make these robots also make the implants and surgical tools that come with them.
According to an analysis in the journal the Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery from May 2019, the da Vinci system costs hospitals between $500,000 and $2.5 million in up-front costs depending on the model, configuration and geographic location. Annual service contracts of $80,000 to $170,000 and accessory costs of $700 to $3,500 per procedure add to the costs. Instrument revenue for the system exceeded revenue from system sales at Intuitive in the third quarter of 2019.
"The recurring revenue per procedure is the biggest value creator for these companies," SVB Leerink analyst Richard Newitter said in an interview. "For Intuitive, it was always the view that you would see utilization per system increasing and then a growing install base that would then lead to accelerating revenue increases down the road — the robot is essentially like a Trojan horse."
Competition on the horizon
Intuitive CEO Gary Guthart acknowledged on the company's third-quarter earnings call held Oct. 17, 2019, that, although the company pioneered robotic surgery, competition will continue to take hold.
"The opportunity for computer-aided and robotically assisted surgery and acute intervention more broadly is clearly substantial and clearly durable," Guthart said. "And that's going to draw new entrants. ... Those new entrants will help accelerate broader adoption more generally — and customers will appreciate that choice."
In general surgery, J&J and Medtronic are both developing robots that will compete directly with Intuitive, but the da Vinci continues to hang on tight to the market it created. Intuitive this year launched its newest system, called Ion, which is designed for lung biopsies.
SVP Leerink analyst Richard Newitter predicts that the number of procedures using Intuitive's system will grow 17% year over year in 2020. Newitter also believes the entry of newer systems will serve as validation for robotic surgery as a whole, negating the zero-sum-game model of market share.
"Clearly, competitors will enter the market and make claims, and I guess what I would say for both customers and for shareholders, due diligence is really important," Guthart said. "It's really easy to make claims on trade show floors, and it's pretty hard to back them up in real life — and our experience in the world has been that there's a lot of noise in the beginning as those claims are made."
Auris' Monarch Platform for lung surgery
Source: Auris Health
M&A in robotic surgery
Although Intuitive grew its business organically, some of the biggest names in medical devices — J&J and Medtronic, as well as Stryker Corp. and Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. — have used their deep pockets to stake a claim in surgical robots by acquiring smaller companies with promising systems.
"Each one of these larger companies made a very specific bet on robotics and acquired the technology off of which they were going to grow their robotics initiatives," Newitter said.
J&J in April 2019 completed a $3.4 billion acquisition of surgical-robot maker Auris Health, which makes the Monarch platform for lung cancer diagnosis and treatment. The system, which received FDA approval before J&J's acquisition, comprises a flexible endoscope that can navigate the lungs when controlled by a surgeon.
With Auris, J&J picked up an already marketed system with a developed commercial team that could make for a tough competitor to Intuitive's newly launched Ion system, Leerink analyst Danielle Antallfy said when the deal was announced. The Ion and Monarch systems are intended for lung biopsy diagnostics.
Even before picking up a marketed product, J&J had dipped its toe into the market through a partnership with Alphabet Inc.'s Google on the Verb Surgical joint venture to develop a robot for general surgery. The healthcare giant bought out the remaining stake in that project at the end of 2019. J&J also in 2018 purchased France's Orthotaxy SAS and its prototype orthopedic surgery system. Both the Verb Surgical and Orthotaxy systems are in development.
Medtronic's Mazor X spinal surgery robot
Source: Medtronic
Similar to J&J, Medtronic entered the orthopedic robotic surgery space with the 2018 acquisition of Israel's Mazor Robotics, which executives have said is expected to contribute to revenues moving forward. Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak said on the company's third-quarter earnings call in November 2019 that the Mazor X robot has contributed to growth not only in equipment sales, but also in spine implants.
Executives declined to provide specifics on Mazor placements in hospitals, but Medtronic President Geoffrey Martha said that over the past several quarters, the company has placed more systems than its competitors.
"When you stack quarter after quarter after quarter of meaningfully more placements than the competition, our installed base has gotten pretty big," Martha said. "We've got a lot of momentum here."
Also in orthopedic surgery, Zimmer bought the Rosa robotic surgery system through the acquisition of MedTech SA, while Stryker picked up Mako by buying the company of the same name. Both, along with Smith & Nephew PLC, are leaders in knee replacement surgery performed by robots, Newitter said.
Newitter said the number of Rosa systems installed in hospitals is set to rise significantly in the next few years. He modeled 39 installations in 2019 for $33 million, 66 units in 2020 for $56 million and 85 units in 2021 for $72 million.
Stryker, which sold 51 Mako robots globally during the third quarter, has almost 800 of the systems installed and performing more than 27,000 procedures. The company has also employed an M&A strategy to improve the Mako robot, picking up Mobius Imaging and sister company Cardan Robotics for $370 million in October 2019, offering new improvements to the system.
Into 2020 and beyond, Newitter sees robotic surgery advancing less in M&A deals and more in both technology and uses of the robots.
"None of the players or any of the new ones are sitting still," Newitter said. "Additional players are coming in because they see an underpenetrated, long-term opportunity that hasn't been guarded yet — and that just validates and expands the market."
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Resources for combating sexual harassment in the newsroom
The Society of Professional Journalists has compiled the following resources in light of the increasing sexual misconduct allegations against high-profile male journalists. These are for journalists everywhere, but especially for those being harassed, those whose employers don’t provide employee training or those colleagues who know harassment is taking place but aren’t sure what to do about it.
Demand, insist, urge and establish: Four steps for a healthier newsroom culture
SPJ National President Rebecca Baker advises journalists to:
1. Demand your newsroom, no matter its size, has a sexual harassment policy on the books.
2. Insist the sexual harassment policy be read by every employee and acknowledged in writing.
3. Urge your human resources department or newsroom leaders to host annual sexual harassment training for all employees.
4. Establish a peer-support network of employees, outside the chain of command, that can be a go-to place for victims of sexual misconduct. Make sure they are trained to bring reports of sexual misconduct to those who might be able to make it stop.
• The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma produced Let's Talk: Personal Boundaries, Safety and Women in Journalism, a 12-minute video designed as a newsroom conversation starter. It features interviews with nine leading journalists about their own experiences and best practices.
• The Dart Center also published this tip sheet about maintaining boundaries with sources, colleagues and supervisors.
• Politico reports media outlets are looking at their newsroom cultures and setting up hotlines and new training procedures in response to the wave of sexual harassment claims. Women who say they were sexually harassed or mistreated by powerful men in television news have formed a support network aimed at changing newsroom culture, according to the Associated Press.
• SPJ Ethics Committee Chair Andrew Seaman writes that the SPJ Code of Ethics says journalists should “abide by the same high standards they expect of others.” The Code also calls on journalists to “expose unethical conduct in journalism, including within their organizations.” SPJ Ethics Committee Member Alex Veeneman says news organizations should be transparent when investigating and reprimanding employees who have been found guilty of harassment.
• The American Association of University Women offers these excellent guides for employees, employers and colleagues, and an FAQ about Title VII and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission process.
• The EEOC’s Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace recently launched a training program for employers. Sign up to be notified when there is a training in your area.
• The Newseum released a report, “The Power Shift Summit Report: Ending Silence and Changing Systems in the Media Industry,” that identifies seven key Power Shift Principles, lessons learned from the summit about workplace imbalances that protect the powerful and intimidate and silence others, especially young women. (Press release)
• The New York Times shared evidence-based ideas for how to create a workplace culture that rejects harassment.
• Learn more about what sexual harassment is and what you can do to help Press Forward change the culture in newsrooms.
• For more than 40 years, The National Women’s Law Center has championed for policies and laws that help women and girls achieve their potential throughout their lives — at school, at work, at home, and in their communities.
• TIME’S UP is a unified call for change from women in entertainment for women everywhere. From movie sets to farm fields to boardrooms alike, the movement envisions nationwide leadership that reflects the world in which we live.
• The Personal Injury of Workplace Bullying: With so many people working so hard, it is easy to see why so many Americans complain of stress. What is impossible to understand is why so many American workers are also subjected to workplace bullying and personal injury.
Questions? Contact SPJ at (317) 927-8000 or ethics@spj.org.
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Organic Ocean pivots to bring sustainable fish to home cooks in Metro Vancouver and Toronto during pandemic
Leading Vancouver chefs share how-to videos for seafood like Humbolt squid, sockeye salmon, sablefish, and more
by Gail Johnson on May 6th, 2020 at 1:19 PM
Over the decades, B.C. fishermen have had to come up with inventive ways to adapt to ever-changing market conditions and survive financially. The COVID-19 crisis has proved no different.
About 10 years ago, a group of fishermen banded together to shore up their livelihoods. They sough to connect the province’s top seafood producers with chefs who prioritized working with fresh, high-quality, sustainable fish.
They formed Organic Ocean. Since then, some of the top culinary talents at home and abroad, including chefs working in Michelin-starred restaurants, have turned to the group for B.C. seafood.
“In addition to wild-harvested fish, Organic Ocean branched into responsibly cultured seafood, as well as products supplied by Indigenous fisheries on the strict proviso that everything needed to meet the highest sustainability and socially responsible production standards,” says Organic Ocean’s Steve Johansen.
Once COVID-19 hit, nearly every market for the company's seafood stopped operating.
Instead of laying everyone off, the team pivoted. It came up with a way to make premium seafood available to individuals on an affordable basis via wholesale prices and contactless, refrigerated home delivery. It’s now delivering throughout Metro Vancouver and Greater Toronto, keeping fishermen, drivers, and other workers employed.
The first seafood supplier in the world to provide DNA certification of its products’ authenticity, Organic Ocean is producing prepackaged kits of 100-percent sustainable seafood.
The Couples Pack--Self-Isolating Together Edition has wild sockeye salmon, wild B.C. halibut, wild B.C. lingcod, wild Albacore tuna, and wild B.C. humpback s0hrimp tails.
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The You’re Shrimply the Best Prawn Pack, for example, contains a pound each of wild B.C. side-stripe shrimp tails, spot prawn tails, and humpback shrimp tails, as well as wild blue shrimp ($87.72).
The Wild West Pack contains 10 pieces of wild sockeye salmon, 200 grams of wild B.C. sockeye-salmon lox, close to 500 grams of wild B.C. salmon candy, and a 160-gram can of Babine Select smoked sockeye salmon, all Ocean Wise ($115.72).
There are smaller options for singles and larger ones for families. Other types of meal-ready fish include sablefish, ling cod, and halibut.
Leading chefs such as Takayuki Omi of Fairmont Pacific Rim, the Fish Counter’s Rob Clark (an Ocean Wise founding chef), and Pino Posteraro of Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill and Enoteca have shared short videos with cooking tips and suggestions on the Organic Ocean website.
The company has also launched its Neighbours Helping Neighbours program to help people in need amid the global pandemic. It started out by donating enough seafood to social enterprise Goodly Foods Society to make approximately 10,000 meals available to the residents of the Downtown Eastside.
“Many people stood up to support this initiative,” Johansen said. “Fisherman Jeff Belveal volunteered to run his boat 30 hours to the West Coast of Vancouver Island, with only his 17-year-old son as crew, to harvest 3,000 pounds of lingcod. Then the team at Coldfish Seafood worked overtime to portion the fish so that it could be quickly distributed to those in need.”
In addition to Goodly Foods Society, Organic Ocean is partnering with the Squamish Food Bank and the Stop Community Food Centre in Toronto.
In B.C., Organic Ocean delivers to West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, New Westminster, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Pitt Meadows, Delta, Surrey, White Rock, Maple Ridge, Langley, and Squamish. Pickup is available on Saturdays from its False Creek location.
In the GTA, it delivers to Toronto, Scarborough, Richmond Hill, Vaughan, Concord, Brampton, Mississauga, Milton, Oakville, and Etobicoke.
For more info, swim on over to Organic Ocean.
Follow Gail Johnson on Instagram @gailjohnsonvancouver and Twitter @GailJohnsonVan.
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Kevin Esvelt is an Assistant Professor of the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the Sculpting Evolution Group in exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering.
In 2013, he was the first to identify the potential for CRISPR “gene drive” systems to alter wild populations of organisms. Recognizing the implications of an advance that could enable individual scientists to alter the shared environment, he and his colleagues chose to break with scientific tradition by revealing their findings and calling for open discussion and safeguards before they demonstrated the technology in the laboratory.
At MIT, the Sculpting Evolution Group develops local “daisy drives” for community-based environmental editing, which may be able to save endangered species and restore populations to their original genetics. Guided by the people of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, they are the technical hands of the “Mice Against Ticks” project aiming to prevent tick-borne disease, and are working with Māori and other New Zealanders to explore daisy drives as a way to humanely eliminate invasive rats. Other research interests include unraveling the workings of molecular evolution and reducing animal suffering in the laboratory, the city, and the farm.
An outspoken advocate of freely sharing research plans to accelerate discovery and improve safety, Esvelt seeks to use gene drive as a catalyst to reform the scientific ecosystem. His work has appeared in major scientific journals, including Nature and Science, and is commonly featured in popular media, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and NPR.
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By Gabe Comos, Clarkston, MI
Hockey is probably one of my favorite things in the world I’ve been playing it for a long time, since I was three or four years old. Hockey is a fast moving game that takes a lot of practice and effort. Hockey is also fun and enjoyable.
It all started the first year I actually played on a team, I was six years old. I was playing House the average or normal league. Then when I turned nine I and my dad decided we’re going to tryout for a travel team and see what happens. We tried out for one or two and I didn’t make it. I got discouraged because I thought I was going to show up and be on the team. But my Dad told me there’s always the spring bud. So that was my goal that I had to reach, be on a travel hockey team. The next year I went to a lot of tryouts, three I didn’t make but at one, Lakeland, the Coach saw something in me and I made it to the last cut. I didn’t make it now I felt angry and upset and I felt like I’ll never achieve my goal of making a travel hockey team.
The next year I turned eleven I started to get better and better as years went by. By now I was one of the best in the house league but again I made it to the last cut of two tryouts this time but both said no. I became sad but promised myself that I would make a travel team. The next year I was on the Troy lightning house, I had a breakout year fifty goals and over thirty assists so in the spring I was invited by my old coach to come to a fun skate for his son’s travel team. I didn’t feel like going so I stayed home, but then I went because my friend from House was going too. So I went and did pretty good even though it wasn’t a tryout after the practice the coach, Coach Mike, caught and asked to come tryout for his spring team.
I did go tryout and I made it after the first tryout! I was thrilled and I achieved my goal of making that travel hockey team. In the fall I got cut from coach Mike’s Macomb team but I went to a new team, Summit Plastics. That year my level of play really went up and I was now a stand out player at that level. Then I felt I became an even better player after that season I went to a better team, the Fraser Falcons which is were I’m at now.
So my journey was long and discouraging but I did it, I got discouraged but held my head high and achieved my goal, I can’t believe it.
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Tesla Wants to Enter India, Hold Talks with Government: Report
By Girish Shetti
Tesla Wants to Enter Indian car market.
American electric car maker Tesla, founded by talismanic entrepreneur Elon Musk, has started discussions with government to get entry into the Indian car market. A report in Times of India claims that Tesla wants to enter Indian market through single-brand retail route, which would mandate the company to fulfill several conditions including sourcing of up to 30% of goods from Indian market.
The report comes months after Musk resorted to twitter to complain about the high import duty imposed by the Indian government and demanded relief for the same.
“In discussions with the government of India requesting temporary relief on import penalties/restrictions until a local factory is built,” he had tweeted.
Although sources claim that it won’t be easy for Indian government to give exemption in import duty, but many important ministers in the government are supportive of Tesla’s entry into the country. It must be noted that none other than Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited company’s headquarter in 2015, presumably to make an effort to pave way for automaker’s entry into the Indian market.
Tesla’s push to make debut in India comes amid government’s effort in convincing Indian auto industry to take electric car market seriously. In fact, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari recently dictated that only electric cars must run on Indian roads by 2030. However, Gadkari’s suggestion was not welcomed unanimously by the auto industry, with Suzuki claiming that complete transition to electric cars is not feasible for the Indian market.
While there is no doubt that Indian electric car market is still in nascent stage, but in neighboring China the electric car market is already growing at impressive pace. Tesla’s impressive sales in China are reflection of this fact. The company is also building charging stations across the country and is already in talks to build full-fledged plant in shanghai.
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Big changes could be coming to Twitter very soon
By Mike Moore 13 August 2020
New Twitter API build opens up possibilities for third-party developers
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Twitter could soon look a lot different after the company announced a major step forward in enabling more third-party developers and apps on the platform.
Twitter has unveiled a new API as it looks to build bridges with the developer community following years of separation.
The social media titan has launched its API v2, meaning that developers and third-parties may soon get more flexibility into creating new tools and services for Twitter.
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The "new and improved Twitter API" could open the door for a new world of opportunities, with the company noting that it hopes, "developers can help the world connect to the public conversation happening on Twitter."
The launch is only the second such release since 2012, when Twitter announced a major crackdown on third-party access to its site.
V2 was set for release earlier this year, but had to be postponed after the site suffered a huge cyberattack that affected a number of its most-followed accounts.
Twitter says that the new Twitter API is, "rebuilt from the ground up to deliver new features faster", and the company has taken a wealth of feedback from the developer community to help create.
"We’ve always known that our developer ecosystem is diverse, but our API has long taken a one-size-fits-all approach," the company noted in a blog post announcing the launch, saying that the new Twitter API will be, "more flexible and scalable" to fit developer needs.
As well as a "cleaner" API that Twitter says is easier to use, the new release includes a number of the most requested features previously missing, including conversation threading, poll results in Tweets, pinned Tweets on profiles, spam filtering, along with a more powerful stream filtering and search query language.
The Twitter API will now include multiple access levels to make it easier for developers to get started and to grow what they build, replacing the previous three-tiered system with more options to get elevated access where needed.
There's also new product tracks to better serve different groups of developers, such as business users and academics, offering tailored tools and services for their needs, and a new developer portal to get started, manage apps, understand your API usage and limits and access a new support center.
The new API is offering early access now to those with a Twitter developer account, with new features being rolled out over the next few weeks.
"This is just the beginning," Twitter added. "Developers like you push us and inspire us every day. Your creativity and work with our API make Twitter better for people & businesses, and make the world a better place. Thanks for your partnership on the journey ahead."
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This Data Privacy Notice describes the collection and further processing of personal data by companies of the Swarovski Group and its affiliates (together SWAROVSKI). In the event that the activities covered by this notice are governed by other data protection policies, are evident from the circumstances, or are governed by applicable laws outside of the European Union and the European Economic Area, then such applicable law and resulting policies shall control. The term personal data shall include all information relating to an identified or identifiable person.
This Data Privacy Notice describes in Section I processing of personal data by SWAROVSKI in general. Section II contains specific provisions for specific applications (e.g. online-shop, newsletter and banner advertisment) and Section III contains specific provisions for customer programs.
If you provide SWAROVSKI with personal data of other persons, for example data about the receiver of a gift, please provide their personal data to SWAROVSKI only if you are allowed to do so pursuant to applicable data protection laws and only if the other person would agree to you providing its personal data to SWAROVSKI for the purposes the data are collected and the processing of its personal data according to our data privacy notice.
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users of WIFI provided at SWAROVSKI stores and other locations;
registered participants of customer loyalty programs or individuals purchasing or using customer loyalty programs of SWAROVSKI (CUSTOMER PROGRAM) (together CUSTOMERS).
The personal data of CUSTOMERS is generally collected directly by SWAROVSKI during the course of using the WEBSITE, as well as in stores or at events of SWAROVSKI as well as through direct communication such as email, telephone or in any other way. Personal data can also be collected indirectly, such as through third party processors, (e.g., SWAROVSKI’s PARTNERS (as defined further below, including wholesalers, dealers, retailers, suppliers and further business partners such as customer services vendors). SWAROVSKI also collects data when the CUSTOMER making the purchase does not correspond with the person benefitting from the purchase or if the purchase is shipped to a different person (e.g. as a gift), based on the recommendation of a third party (e.g. recommendation by family or friends of the CUSTOMER) or through further acquisition of supplementary information from third party data sources (e.g. social media).
In particular, the following categories of personal data are processed by SWAROVSKI:
Personal data and contact information including but not limited to first and last name, maiden name, address, residence, telephone number, email address, age, date of birth, gender, marital status, relatives, contact in case of emergency, pictures;
Data pertaining to orders and purchases including but not limited to payment information, credit card details and other payment details (in accordance with other laws and regulations), billing and shipping address, products and services ordered and purchased, information and queries and complaints relating to products and services, or respective contracts entered into such as warranty claims, after sales services, repairs, customer care and services, rescissions and disputes;
Data in connection with product and services marketing including but not limited to information relating to newsletter and other communication channels, opt-ins and opt-outs, invitations to and participations at events and special activities (as far as they are not part of a customer loyalty program), personal preferences and interests, and customer segmentation information;
Data concerning the use of the WEBSITE including but not limited to the IP address and other user identification (e.g. user name of social media, MAC address of smartphones or computers, cookies), date and time of WEBSITE visits, visited sites and contents, and referring websites;
Data in connection with communication including but not limited to preferred means of communication, correspondence and communication with SWAROVSKI (including records of the communication);
Data which was collected in connection with a customer program including but not limited to membership numbers, access codes (including passwords), preferred language, number of gift certificate, date and duration of the membership, payment information of the CUSTOMER or a potential third party, information concerning the recipient of a gift, number of visits of the WEBSITE, purchase history, products acquired (all WEBSITE accounts, activities and events for which a CUSTOMER must register with his or her personal data and thus enter into a contract with SWAROVSKI shall be deemed a customer program for the purposes of this policy, other than traditional customer loyalty programs); together CUSTOMER DATA.
In addition, SWAROVSKI collects:
Data of users of the WEBSITE, who do not register with SWAROVSKI (VISITOR) but may constitute personal data for example with social media (VISITOR DATA), the provisions of this notice regarding data collected from a CUSTOMER in connection with the use of the WEBSITE shall apply accordingly even though the identification of a VISITOR usually is not possible for SWAROVSKI;
Information pertaining to employees and other individuals acting on the part of wholesalers, dealers, retailers, suppliers and further business partners of SWAROVSKI (hereinafter natural persons shall be referred to as PARTNERS, their data as PARTNER DATA) including but not limited to contact details, information regarding their function, information relating to the previous contact with these individuals, data regarding marketing activities (e.g. receipt of newsletters), information regarding business transactions, requests, offers, tenders, conditions and contracts, information related to professional or other interests of the individuals.
Within the framework of their business relationship, CUSTOMERS will be required to provide CUSTOMER DATA necessary for the establishment and execution of the contractual relationship and the fulfilment of the associated contractual obligations or if required by law. Without these data, SWAROVSKI will generally not be able to conclude or execute the contract with the respective CUSTOMER. This also applies analogously to the PARTNER DATA as far as business relations with the wholesalers, dealers, retailers, suppliers and business partners of SWAROVSKI are concerned; contracts in principle cannot be concluded and processed without information on their employees and other contacts. As any access to the WEBSITE is logged, connection data (such as the IP address) will always be logged; this is done automatically during the use and cannot be deactivated for individual VISITORS, CUSTOMERS or PARTNERS.
3. PURPOSE OF PROCESSING AND LEGAL GROUNDS
3.1. PURPOSE of the processing
In accordance with applicable law, SWAROVSKI may process CUSTOMER DATA for all lawful PURPOSES including but not limited to the following:
In connection with services offered, conclusions of contracts (for example purchases), executions of contracts (for example purchase contracts and contracts regarding the participation at customer programs and events), maintenance and development of customer relations, communication, customer service and support, promotions, advertisement and marketing (including newsletters and mailing of promotional materials);
Management of the users of the WEBSITE and other activities in which CUSTOMERS participate, operation and enhancement of the WEBSITE (including the provision of functions which require identifiers or other personal data) and additional IT systems and identity verifications;
protection of CUSTOMERS, employees and other individuals and protection of data, secrets and assets of and entrusted to SWAROVSKI, and the protection of the safety of systems and premises of SWAROVSKI;
compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, including the internal rules of SWAROVSKI, enforcement and exploitation of legal rights and claims, defense against legal claims, litigation, complaints, combating abusive conduct, engaging in legal investigations and proceedings and responding to inquiries of public authorities;
sale or acquisitions of business divisions, companies or parts of companies and other corporate transactions and the transfer of CUSTOMER DATA associated therewith; and
for other lawful purposes where such processing was evident from the circumstances or indicated at the time of the collection (together the PURPOSE OF CUSTOMER DATA PROCESSING).
3.2. LEGAL GROUNDS of processing
SWAROVSKI uses the CUSTOMER DATA for the PURPOSE OF CUSTOMER DATA PROCESSING based on the following LEGAL GROUNDS:
performance of contracts;
compliance with legal obligations of SWAROVSKI;
consent of the CUSTOMER (only insofar as the processing is based on a specific query and can be withdrawn at any time, for example the receipt of newsletters for which the CUSTOMER has registered for);
legitimate interests of SWAROVSKI, including but not limited to
purchase and shipment of products and services, also in connection with individuals who are not direct contractual partners (such as e.g. individuals receiving a gift);
advertising and marketing activities;
efficient and effective customer support, maintenance of contact and other communication with CUSTOMERS outside of the processing of contracts;
understanding CUSTOMER behavior, activities, concerns and needs, market studies;
efficient and effective improvement of existing products and services and development of new products and services;
efficient and effective protection of CUSTOMERS, employees and other individuals as well as protection of data, secrets and assets of or entrusted to SWAROVSKI, protection and safety of systems and premises of SWAROVSKI;
maintenance and secure, efficient and effective organization of business operations including a secure, efficient and effective operation and successful further development of the WEBSITEs and other IT systems;
reasonable corporate governance and development;
successful sale and acquisition of business units, companies or parts of companies and other corporate transactions;
compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and internal rules of SWAROVSKI;
concerns regarding the prevention of fraud, offences and crimes as well as investigation in connection with such offences and other improper conduct, handling of claims and actions against SWAROVSKI, cooperation in legal proceedings and with public authorities as well as the prosecution, exercise of and defense against legal actions.
In accordance with applicable data protection laws, SWAROVSKI may process VISITOR DATA for the purpose of maintaining and developing the WEBSITE (including the provision of functions which require identifiers or other personal data), for statistical analysis regarding the use of the WEBSITE as well as for combating abusive conduct, for purposes of legal investigations or proceedings and for the response to inquiries of public authorities. The VISITOR DATA shall be processed in accordance with the principles set out for CUSTOMER DATA above.
In accordance with applicable data protection laws, SWAROVSKI may process PARTNER DATA for the purpose of entering into and performance of contracts and other business relationships with PARTNERS, promotions, advertisement and marketing, communication, invitation to events and participation in promotions for PARTNERS, organization of joint activities, compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and internal rules of SWAROVSKI, enforcement and exploitation of legal rights and claims, defense against legal claims, litigation, complaints, combating abusive conduct, engaging in legal investigations and proceedings and responding to inquiries of public authorities, for the sale or acquisition of business units, companies or parts of companies and other corporate transaction and related transfers of PARTNER DATA. The PARTNER DATA shall be processed in accordance with the principles set out for CUSTOMER DATA above.
All the purposes of processing shall be applicable for the whole SWAROVSKI Group, i.e. not only for the company which initially collected the personal data. Personal data of CUSTOMERS, VISITORS and PARTNERS is collected for the purpose of all SWAROVSKI companies subject to this data privacy notice, any other policies developed by SWAROVSKI and pursuant to applicable data protection laws.
4. TRANSFER AND DISCLOSURE OF DATA
In accordance with applicable data protection laws, SWAROVSKI may transfer CUSTOMER DATA, VISITOR DATA and PARTNER DATA to the following categories of third parties who process PERSONAL DATA in accordance with the PURPOSE OF DATA PROCESSING on behalf of SWAROVSKI or for their own purposes:
service providers (within SWAROVSKI as well as external), including processors;
wholesalers, dealers, retailers, suppliers and other business partners;
customers of SWAROVSKI;
local, national and foreign authorities;
media;
the public including visitors of WEBSITES and social media of SWAROVSKI;
industry organizations, associations, organizations and other committees;
acquirers or parties interested in acquiring business units, companies or other parts of SWAROVSKI;
other parties in potential or actual legal proceedings;
other Group companies of SWAROVSKI (together THIRD PARTIES).
SWAROVSKI may disclose CUSTOMER DATA, VISITOR DATA and PARTNER DATA within SWAROVSKI as well as to THIRD PARTIES and in every country worldwide, including namely all countries in which SWAROVSKI is represented by Group companies, affiliates or other offices and representatives (see ANNEX 2, as updated from time to time) as well as to countries in which service providers of SWAROVSKI process their data (see ANNEX 2, as updated from time to time). If data is disclosed to countries that do not guarantee adequate protection, SWAROVSKI will ensure adequate protection of data disclosed of CUSTOMERS, VISITORS or PARTNERS by putting adequate contractual guarantees in place, (e.g., on the basis of EU standard clauses), binding corporate rules, on the basis of the EU-U.S. and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework for transfers to THIRD PARTIES based in the U.S., or transferring data pursuant to consent, conclusion or performance of a contract, or in connection with the determination, exercise or enforcement of legal claims, or pursuant to overriding public interests, or in order to protect the integrity of these individuals. The CUSTOMER, VISITOR or PARTNER can obtain a copy of the contractual guarantees from or will be advised where to obtain such copies by the contact points named above (see para. 1 above). SWAROVSKI reserves the right to redact such copies for applicable legal or secrecy reasons.
5. RETENTION OF DATA
In general, SWAROVSKI retains personal data for no longer than it is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed. Notwithstanding the general principle, SWAROVSKI may process personal data for longer periods subject to the following rules and obligations: SWAROVSKI retains personal data as long as SWAROVSKI (i) is obligated to do so (by way of contract, law or other provisions) or (ii) has an overriding interest (e.g. an interest for reasons of proof in case of claims, documentation of compliance with certain legal or other requirements, an interest in non-personalized analysis). Deviating rules are reserved with respect to anonymization or pseudonymization of personal data subject to applicable law.
As a rule for contract related CUSTOMER DATA and PARTNER DATA (including business records and communication) SWAROVSKI retains personal data as long as the contractual relation is ongoing and for ten years after the termination of the contractual relationship unless (i) a shorter or longer statutory storage obligation is applicable on a case-by-case basis, (ii) the retention is required for reasons of proof or another valid reason based on applicable law, or (iii) the deletion of the data is required earlier (because e.g. the data is no longer required or SWAROVSKI is required to delete the respective data).
As a rule for operational data containing CUSTOMER DATA, VISITOR DATA or PARTNER DATA (e.g. protocols, logs), Swarovski retains personal data for a period of 3 - 12 months.
6. COOKIES, GOOGLE ANALYTICS AND SOCIAL PLUG-INS
SWAROVSKI uses cookies on its WEBSITE. Cookies are a widespread technique that allocates an identification to the browser of the user of a WEBSITE which the user saves and shows upon request. On the one hand, SWAROVSKI uses session cookies which are automatically erased when the user closes the WEBSITE and which enable the server to establish a stable connection to the user (so that the content of a shopping basket is not lost, for example) as long as he or she browses on the WEBSITE. On the other hand, SWAROVSKI also uses permanent cookies which are only erased after a period defined per WEBSITE. Permanent cookies allow the saving of certain settings (e.g. language) for several sessions or allow for an automated log-in. The user consents to the application of permanent cookies through the use of the WEBSITE and the respective functions (e.g. language settings and automated log-in). The user may block or delete the application of cookies on his or her browser but this activity may impair the use of the WEBSITE.
In accordance with applicable law, SWAROVSKI may install coding in newsletters and other marketing email which allow it to determine if the recipient has opened an email or downloaded pictures contained in the email. However, the recipient may block this application in his/her email application. In any case he/she consents to the application of this technology by way of receiving newsletters or other marketing related emails.
In the event that SWAROVSKI places advertisements of third parties on the WEBSITE (e.g. banners) or places an own ad on the website of a third party, cookies from companies specializing in the use of such advertisement may be employed. SWAROVSKI will not disclose personal data to such companies, i.e. they shall only place a permanent cookie with users of the WEBSITE in order to recognize users and do so in the sole interest of SWAROVSKI. This allows SWAROVSKI to place aimed advertisements for these individuals on external third party websites (e.g. in connection with products for which these individuals showed an interest in the online-shop). SWAROVSKI will not disclose personal data to the operators of external websites.
SWAROVSKI may use Google Analytics or similar services on its WEBSITE. These applications are third party services which allow SWAROVSKI to measure and analyze the use of its WEBSITE. The provider of these services may be located in any country worldwide (in the case of Google Analytics which is operated by Google Inc. it is the U.S., www.google.com). The service provider uses permanent cookies for these applications. SWAROVSKI will not disclose any personal data to the service provider (who will also not save any IP addresses). The service provider may, however, monitor the use of the WEBSITE by the user and combine this data with data from other websites monitored by the same service provider which the user has visited and the service provider may use these findings for its own benefits (e.g. control of advertisement). The service provider knows the identity of the user who has registered with the service provider. In this case the processing of personal data will be the service provider's responsibility and data shall be processed pursuant to data protection and privacy laws and according to the data protection policies of the service provider (for Google see policies.google.com/privacy). The service provider will provide data on the use of the WEBSITE to SWAROVSKI.
In addition, SWAROVSKI may use plug-ins from social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google+, Pinterest or Instagram on its WEBSITE. In the default setting of the WEBSITE plug-ins are deactivated; the user can thus choose when to activate them. Should the user do so, the social media providers are able to establish a direct connection to the user during his or her visit on the WEBSITE, which allows the provider to be aware of the user's visit and may analyze the respective information. The subsequent processing of the personal data will be conducted in the responsibility of the social media provider pursuant to data protection and privacy laws and according to its data protection policies published on its website (such as www.facebook.com/; www.twitter.com/; www.youtube.com/; www.google.com/; www.pinterest.com/; www.instagram.com/).
You can find more information about Cookies used by SWAROVSKI and how to manage your Cookie settings on our WEBSITE.
7. RIGHTS OF THE CUSTOMER, VISITORS AND PARTNERS
Any affected individual, including any CUSTOMER, VISITOR and PARTNER, may request information from SWAROVSKI as to whether data concerning them is being processed. In addition, they have the right to request the correction, destruction or restriction of personal data regarding them as well as to object to the processing of personal data. Should the processing of personal data be based on consent, the affected individual may withdraw consent at any time. In countries of the EU and EEA the affected individual may, in certain cases, have the right to obtain data generated during the use of online services in a structured, common and machine-readable format which allows for further use and transfer. Request in this respect shall be submitted to the contact point (see para. 1 above). SWAROVSKI reserves the right to restrict the rights of the affected individual in accordance with applicable law and e.g. not to disclose comprehensive information or not to delete data.
In the event that SWAROVSKI makes an automated decision with respect to a certain individual which may have a legal effect for the affected individual or seriously affect him or her in a similar way, the affected individual shall have, in accordance with applicable law, the right to communicate with a controller of SWAROVSKI and to request a reconsideration of the decision or to request the prior evaluation by the controller. In this case the affected individual may no longer be able to use certain automated services. The individual will be informed thereof subsequently or separately in advance.
Any affected individual may also raise a complaint with the competent data protection authority, which in the case of a SWAROVSKI controller in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner in Switzerland (http://www.edoeb.admin.ch), the SWAROVSKI controller in the Principality in Liechtenstein is the Data Protection Office (Amtstelle Datenschutzstelle, in the Principality in Liechtenstein (https://www.llv.li/), the SWAROVSKI controller in Austria is the Austrian Data Protection Authority in Austria (https://www.dsb.gv.at/). In all other cases a list can be found here.
8. CHANGES TO THE DATA PRIVACY NOTICE
SWAROVSKI reserves the right to amend this Data Privacy Notice at any time and without prior notice or announcement. The latest version posted on the SWAROVSKI WEBSITE shall be applicable. Should the Data Privacy Notice form part of an agreement with CUSTOMERS and PARTNERS, SWAROVSKI may inform them of an update or amendments by email or in another appropriate manner. The amendments shall be deemed to have been accepted unless an objection is raised within 30 days of notification. In case of objection SWAROVSKI shall be free to terminate the agreement exceptionally and with immediate effect.
II. SPECIFIC PROVISIONS
The following provisions shall supplement the general provisions in Section I for certain activities of SWAROVSKI. In the event there is any inconsistency, the following provisions shall control.
1. ONLINE-SHOPS
The creditworthiness of CUSTOMERS may be evaluated automatically in online-shops in order to offer the purchase on account based on this decision. In this case the credit rating is evaluated on the basis of information from an external credit rating agency, which will provide SWAROVSKI with a credit score of the respective CUSTOMER. The agency will calculate the score based on a secret formula based on data on the payment history of the CUSTOMER, its debt and insolvency history and possible limitations of its legal capacity. Should the score be below a certain threshold no payment by invoice will be offered. In this event the CUSTOMER may contact the contact person shown on the imprint of the respective website of the online-shop if he/she is not ready to accept the decision.
Online shops of SWAROVSKI may automatically decide whether to enter into purchase agreements. However, SWAROVSKI does not deem this an automated individual decision (according to article 22 of the GDPR). In the event the CUSTOMER does not wish such an automated entering into an agreement, it has the option to purchase products and services from SWAROVSKI physical stores.
2. PARTNERS, INCLUDING WHOLESALERS, RETAILERS, DEALERS, CUSTOMER SERVICE VENDORS ETC.
As previously indicated, CUSTOMER DATA, PARTNER DATA and VISITOR DATA is generally collected directly by SWAROVSKI but also indirectly, (e.g. when SWAROVSKI requests THIRD PARTIES to act as processors, such as SWAROVSKI’s PARTNERS). In these cases, SWAROVSKI’s PARTNERS process personal data on behalf and under instruction of SWAROVSKI and are bound by specific processor agreements covering the terms and conditions of their duties in a manner to ensure the protection of the rights of our CUSTOMERS, PARTNERS and VISITORS and the processing and security of their personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
3. NEWSLETTER AND BANNER ADVERTISEMENT
SWAROVSKI may send newsletters or other commercial communications in connection with its products and services to CUSTOMERS and PARTNERS. In accordance with applicable law, SWAROVSKI reserves the right to do so without prior consent of existing customers and business partners. However, the respective customers and business partners may object to a further mailing of newsletters or other commercial communications at any time through their account on the respective WEBSITE or through the link indicated in every mailing. However, the termination of one newsletter may not entail the termination of other newsletters. SWAROVSKI reserves the right to place personalized advertisement during WEBSITE visits. Such banner advertisements displayed to the CUSTOMER contains products offered on the WEBSITE which have previously been looked at by the CUSTOMER. The advertisement is generated by SWAROVSKI by the means of cookies (see Section I para. 6 above).
4. SWEEPSTAKES and other PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES
The following provisions shall be applicable for the processing of data by SWAROVSKI in connection with customer SWEEPSTAKES and other PROMOTIONAL ACTIVTIES.
The data in connection with the SWEEPSTAKE and other promotional activties is processed by (i) the controller of the respective local Swarovski company which sponsors, promotes and organizes the sweepstake and as the case may be by (ii) Swarovski Aktiengesellschaft, Dröschistrasse 15, 9495 Triesen, Liechtenstein, as a joint controller. Other companies and affiliates of SWAROVSKI may however use the collected personal data for their purposes according to Section I para. 3 above.
With respect to SWEEPSTAKE and other PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITES, SWAROVSKI processes the personal data of participants according to Section I para. 2 above. for the purposes listed under that respective provision, and in particular also for the following purposes in accordance with applicable laws:
carrying out the competition;
contacting winners;
publication of the contact details of the winners
promoting winners on social media, and
other promotional and marketing activities.
Further information regarding the SWEEPSTAKE and OTHER PROMOTIONAL ACTIVTIES can be found in the specific terms and conditions applicable to each SWEEPSTAKE and PROMOTIONAL ACTIVTIY, as published and organized from time to time.
5. VIDEO SURVEILLANCE
Some premises and offices of SWAROVSKI are under video surveillance. The controller of personal data collected on surveillance recordings with respect to collecting personal data according to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and provisions other applicable local data protection laws (collectively as: “Data protection laws”) is the SWAROVSKI entity indicated in the SWAROVSKI premis-es. The processing of the personal data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pur-sued by the SWAROVSKI, that is ensuring security in the premises and protecting the property of the SWAROVSKI. Personal data shall not be used by SWAROVSKI for the purposes of making decisions automatically, including profiling. In general, SWAROVSKI retains personal data for no longer than it is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed. Recordings are overwritten after a lapse of a short period of time unless they include events that could be potentially subject of legal claims. In such a case personal data shall be processed for a period of limitation of any claims. In accordance with the Data protection laws, SWAROVSKI may transfer personal data to the following categories of the third parties who process personal data in accordance with the purpose of data pro-cessing on behalf of SWAROVSKI or for their own purposes: service providers, including processors; local, national and foreign authorities; other parties in potential or actual legal proceedings, other group companies of SWAROVSKI. If data is disclosed to countries that do not guarantee adequate protec-tion, SWAROVSKI will ensure adequate protection of data disclosed of by putting adequate contractu-al guarantees in place, (e.g., on the basis of EU standard clauses), binding corporate rules or transfer-ring data pursuant to consent, conclusion or performance of a contract, or in connection with the de-termination, exercise or enforcement of legal claims, or pursuant to overriding public interests, or in order to protect the integrity of these individuals. Any affected individual may request information from SWAROVSKI as to whether data concerning them is being processed. In addition, they have the right to request the correction, destruction or restriction of personal data regarding them as well as to object to the processing of personal data and the right to data portability. Any affected individual may also raise a complaint with the competent data protection authority. If you want to exercise any of your rights regarding or you have any queries or concerns about our privacy policy or the processing of your personal data can also be addressed to The Group Data Privacy Team at dataprivacy@swarovski.com.
III. SPECIFIC PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CUSTOMER PROGRAMS
The provisions in this Section III shall specify the general provisions in Section I regarding customer programs of SWAROVSKI.
1. SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL SOCIETY (SCS)
The following provisions shall be applicable for the processing of data by SWAROVSKI in connection with the customer loyalty program Swarovski Crystal Society (SCS).
a. Responsible for the Personal Data (Controller)
The PERSONAL DATA in connection with the membership at SCS is processed by two joint controllers, in particular (i) the controller of the respective local Swarovski company which issues the membership according to the application form and which receives the membership fees, and (ii) the controller of Swarovski Aktiengesellschaft, Dröschistrasse 15, 9495 Triesen, Liechtenstein. Other companies and affiliates of SWAROVSKI may however use the collected PERSONAL DATA for their purposes according to Section I para. 3 above.
b. Processing of Personal Data and Source
Swarovski collects and retains the personal obligatory data provided on the SCS application form (including but not necessarily limited to the title, name, contact details, birth date, pre-existing SCS membership number, language preference, order information, as well as the name, contact details and SCS membership number of the gift giver, where applicable) by the SCS Member him or herself or by the person that buys the SCS Membership as a gift and provides Swarovski with the PERSONAL DATA of the SCS Member (“Form Data”).
Swarovski receives such PERONAL DATA from the points of sale where the membership is ordered and paid. It assigns to each new SCS Member, a unique membership number, tracks the membership start and renewal dates, service and mailing options chosen by the SCS Member, services provided (including gifts sent), and, as the case may be, further data about the SCS Member's use of the Swarovski Group's online offerings and mailings (e.g., newsletter open rate, click rate, visited online web pages, social media interactions), interaction variables (such as click rates, time of interaction or social media interaction). Swarovski may also process payment information, directly or through a third party, where necessary for the payment of SCS Membership fees. Additionally, Swarovski records the purchase history of each SCS Member, in the form of items purchased (product designation, price) and place and time of purchase. The purchase history is recorded only if the SCS Membership number is communicated at the checkout for purchases in stores offering the SCS program. Where Swarovski believes that two different SCS Memberships belong to the same individual, or where a valid request is received, Swarovski may merge them.
c. Purpose of processing
SWAROVSKI collects and processes the personal data of members of the customer loyalty program according to Section I para. 2 above and as specified below for the purposes listed under that respective provision, and in particular also for the following purposes:
administration of SCS memberships;
operation of SCS, namely personalized offers and communications regarding products and services of SWAROVSKI, providing of advantages and awarding special conditions, participating in surveys, requiring feedback and act in social media.
The personal data collected is used by Swarovski to administer and manage the Membership (including also for accounting and payment purposes), to provide the Member with the benefits and other services that come with the Membership (the legal basis for this is the Membership) and to provide the SCS Member with commercial communications (such as newsletters, product information, services and exclusive offers of the Swarovski Group) by e-mail, mail, mobile messaging or a phone call based on the contact information provided by the Member (for which Swarovski relies on the SCS Member's consent). In all these cases, SWAROVSKI may personalize the information sent to the Member so that the Member particularly receives, where possible, information which SWAROVSKI considers interesting for the Member. For this purpose, SWAROVSKI analyses the Form Data (and in particular, information as to age, sex, interests and preferences) and other information that can be gleaned from the purchase history or has been given to SWAROVSKI by the SCS Member voluntarily at any later time. Furthermore, SWAROVSKI may use the personal data for compliance with its legal obligations and, where it has a legitimate interest, for statistical and research purposes, including for better understanding of SCS Members, consumer and market analysis, improvements to the SCS Program and the development of new products and services.
d. Disclosure of Personal Data
In the course of processing personal data in connection with SCS, SWAROVSKI may namely disclose data to the following categories of recipients:
PARTNERS, including business, marketing and promotion partners (including social media partners) and all participating retail shops or other authorized specialists dealers, irrespective of whether the company is run by SWAROVSKI or another sales or cooperation partner; whereas these stores may be located within any country worldwide and they may use data received from SWAROVSKI only for the purpose of operating SCS, including personalized offers to and communication with Members on behalf of SWAROVSKI;
to a SWAROVSKI company to whom the processing of data (operation of the database) regarding SCS has been outsourced in technical respect (processors).
Each recipient may be located in a country without an adequate level of data protection. If that is the case, SWAROVSKI will ensure an adequate level of protection according to Section I para. 4 above.
e. Rights of Data Subjects
SCS Members and membership gift givers are entitled at any time to ask SWAROVSKI for information relating to their saved personal data, and other information as provided for by applicable data protection law. Further information about the RIGHTS of SCS Members is provided in Section I para. 7 above.
f. Data Retention
Personal Data will be held and used for the duration of the Membership; thereafter, it will be retained as long as necessary for the aforementioned purposes, but not for more than five years, unless required for legal reasons. The purchase history is generally recorded for five years. As exception to this rule, the purchase history on SCS exclusive products will be kept during the entire duration of the Membership in order to recognize member life-time value to the Society. Should a SCS Member not wish to have his or her SCS exclusive product history stored above 5 years, he/she can request deletion by contacting Customer Relations informing of his/her explicit wish to have this history deleted Further information regarding SCS can be found in the General Terms and Conditions of the customer loyalty program on www.swarovski.com.
2. SWAROVSKI CLUB
The following provisions shall be applicable for the processing of data by SWAROVSKI in connection with the customer loyalty program Swarovski Club.
The PERSONAL DATA in connection with the membership of Swarovski Club is processed by two joint controllers, in particular (i) the controller of the respective local SWAROVSKI company which issues the membership according to the sign-up form, and (ii) the controller of SWAROVSKI Aktiengesellschaft, Dröschistrasse 15, 9495 Triesen, Liechtenstein. Other companies and affiliates of SWAROVSKI may however use the collected personal data for their purposes according to Section I para. 3 above.
SWAROVSKI collects and retains the personal obligatory data provided on the the Swarovski Club sign-up form (including but not limited to: title, name and address, and e-mail address) plus any personal data provided voluntarily by Swarovski Club Members on the member page: date of birth as well as styles/interests (e.g. in Jewellery and Accessories, Home and Style, Wedding, Figures and Collectables and/or Watches; Classic style) (“Form Data”). Swarovski also saves data on Members’ purchase history in the form of items purchased (product designation, price, discount), place and time of purchase and membership number. The purchase history is recorded if the Swarovski Club membership number is communicated at the checkout for purchases in stores participating in the Swarovski Club program. In the online store Members’ purchase history is recorded if the membership number is quoted when making a purchase or the Member makes a purchase when logged into an online account associated with a Swarovski Club membership. Swarovski also collects and saves all vouchers sent to the Swarovski Club Member and, as the case may be, further data about the Swarovski Club Member's use of the Swarovski Group's online offerings and mailings (e.g., newsletter open rate, click rate, visited online web pages, social media interaction). Where Swarovski believes that two different Swarovski Club Memberships belong to the same individual, or where a valid request is received, Swarovski may merge them.
At the start of their membership, Members receive an e-mail containing a link to an overview of all currently participating stores in the Swarovski Club program. This overview of participating stores is also available to view online at swarovski.com/club.
As far as Swarovski Club is concerned, SWAROVSKI namely collects and processes the personal data of Members of the customer loyalty program according to Section I para. 3 above and as specified below for the PURPOSES listed under that respective provision, and in particular also for the following PURPOSES:
administration of Swarovski Club memberships;
operation of the Swarovski Club, namely personalized offers, advice and communications regarding products and services of Swarovski, providing of advantages and awarding special conditions (e.g. vouchers), invitations to special events and promotions reserved for members, participating in surveys, requiring feedback and act in social media.
The personal data collected is used by Swarovski to administer and manage the membership (including also for accounting purposes), to provide the Member with the benefits and other services that come with the Membership (the legal basis for this is the Membership).
In participating stores, the Swarovski Club allows Members to take advantage of an extended customer advice in which, upon presentation of the membership number, the store employee can call up the Member’s purchase history data and provide the Member with additional sales advice based on his or her past purchases, style/interests selected or wish list.
On presentation of the Swarovski Club membership number, e-mail address or the Member’s name and date of birth (or another unique authentication attribute), the relevant store employee has access to the relevant Member’s saved purchase history data and wish list.
SWAROVSKI may also use the PERSONAL DATA to invite selected Members to special events and promotions, such as the presentation of new products or discount promotions. In addition, SWAROVSKI also uses the PERSONAL DATA to send Members birthday congratulations.
SWAROVSKI also uses the data collected in the purchase history to grant Members membership benefits in the form of Discount or Loyalty Gift vouchers. Based on the data saved in the purchase history, SWAROVSKI evaluates what type of voucher the Member is granted.
If a Member has given SWAROVSKI his or her consent, SWAROVSKI may send the Member further information about SWAROVSKI, product information, services and exclusive offers by e-mail or in any other way chosen by SWAROVSKI. Based on the Form Data and the purchase history reported by participating stores, interaction variables (such as click rates, time of interaction or social media interaction), style/interests selected as well as other information voluntarily disclosed to SWAROVSKI by the Swarovski Club Member, SWAROVSKI may personalize the information sent to the Member so that the Member particularly receives, where possible, information which SWAROVSKI seems interesting for the Member. For this purpose, SWAROVSKI analyses the Form Data collected at the start of Membership and, in particular, takes account of the saved information relating to age, sex, interests and preferences, interaction variables as well as the vouchers received, and other information that can be gleaned from the purchase history or has been given to SWAROVSKI by the Member voluntarily at any later time.
In the course of processing personal data in connection with Swarovski Club, SWAROVSKI may namely disclose PERSONAL DATA to the following categories of recipients:
PARTNERS, including business, marketing and promotion partners (including social media partners) and all participating retail shops or other authorized specialists dealers, irrespective of whether the company is run by SWAROVSKI or another sales or cooperation partner; whereas these stores may be located within any country worldwide and they may use data received from SWAROVSKI only for the purpose of operating Swarovski Club, including personalized offers to and communication with Members on behalf of SWAROVSKI;
to a SWAROVSKI company to whom the processing of data (operation of the database) regarding SWAROVSKI Club has been outsourced in technical respect (processors).
Swarovski Club Members are entitled at any time to ask SWAROVSKI for information relating to their saved personal data, and other information as provided for by applicable data protection law. Further information about the RIGHTS of Swarovski Club Members is provided in Section I para. 7 above.
Personal Data will be held and used for the duration of the Membership; thereafter, it will be retained as long as necessary for the aforementioned purposes, but not for more than five years, unless required for legal reasons. The purchase history is recorded for five years.
Further information regarding Swarovski Club can be found in the General Terms and Conditions of the customer loyalty program on www.swarovski.com.
Annex 1 – List of SWAROVSKI Legal entities
SWAROVSKI Argentina Sociedad Anónima, Comercial e Industrial
Av. Juan B. Justo 637, 4to Piso, CP 1425 Ciudad de Buenos Aire, Argentina
SWAROVSKI Australia Pty Ltd
Unit 1, 4D Huntley Street, AU-2015 Alexandria, NSW
D. SWAROVSKI Distribution GmbH
SWAROVSKIstrasse 30, AT-6112 Wattens
D. SWAROVSKI KG
D. SWAROVSKI Tourism Services GmbH
Swareflex GmbH
Josef-Heiss-Strasse 1, AT-6134 Vomp
SWAROVSKI Austria Vertriebsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Feldkreuzstrasse 3, AT-6063 Rum
SWAROVSKI Austria Vertriebsgesellschaft m.b.H. & Co. KG
SWAROVSKI Mobility GmbH
SWAROVSKI Multibrand Distribution GmbH
S.A. SWAROVSKI Belgium N.V.
Nieuwstraat 47, BE-1000 Brussel
SWAROVSKI Cristais Ltda.
Alameda Itú, 852, 8th Floor, BR-01421-001 São Paulo
SWAROVSKI Crystal Components Ltda.
Alameda Itú, 852, 13th Floor, BR-01421-001 São Paulo
SWAROVSKI Canada Limited
80 Gough Road, Unit # 2, CA-L3R 6E8 Markham, ON
SWAROVSKI Chile Limitada
Marchant Pereira 150, Region Metropolitana, CL-Providencia, Santiago
Signity Hong Kong Ltd
1063 King's Road, 20th Floor, Quarry Bay, CN-Hong Kong
SWAROVSKI (Guangzhou) Trading Co. Ltd
02-07 Room,17 Floor,Central Tower,No.5,Xiancun Road,Guangzhou,510623,China
SWAROVSKI (Macao) Ltd.
Avendia da Amizade, n 555, Edificio Landmark, CN-Macau
SWAROVSKI (Shanghai) Trading Co. Ltd.
168 XiZang Road (M), Room 1601, The Headquarters Building, Huang Pu District, CN-200001 Shanghai
SWAROVSKI Greater China Limited
1063 King's Road, 9th Floor, Quarry Bay, CN-Hong Kong
SWAROVSKI Hong Kong Limited
SWAROVSKI Taiwan Ltd
3F, No. 27, Chung Shan North Road, Sec. 1, TW-10441 Taipei
SWAROVSKI Bohemia spol. s r.o.
Štětkova 1638/18, CZ-14000 Prague
SWAROVSKI France S.A.S.
15 Boulevard de Poissonnière, FR-75002 Paris
SWAROVSKI (Deutschland) GmbH
Hüttenstrasse 27, DE-87600 Kaufbeuren
SWAROVSKI Hellas S.A.
114, Vouliagmenis av. & 5 Spetson str., Glyfada, GR-16674 Athen
SWAROVSKI Hungary Retail Limited Liability Company
Hermina ut. 17, HU-1146 Budapest
PT Crystallized Elements
Cyber 2 Tower, 31st Floor Unit B, JL HR. Rasuna Said, Blok X5 No. 13 Ku - ID 12950 Jakarta
SWAROVSKI India Private Limited
1A-D, Vandhna , 11, Tolstoy Marg, IN-110 001 New Delhi
SWAROVSKI Ireland Limited
70 Sir Rogerson's Quay, IE-Dublin
SWAROVSKI Internazionale d'Italia S.p.A.
Via G. Giulini 3, IT-20123 Milano
Signity Japan Ltd
Daisan Watanabe Building 6F, 2-1-33 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0014
SWAROVSKI Japan Ltd.
Ichibancho Tokyu Building 12F, 21 Ichibancho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0082
SWAROVSKI Korea Ltd
10,11,12,13F Baekyoung Bldg. 456 Dosan-daero, Gangnam-gu, KR-135-949 Seoul
SWAROVSKI Aktiengesellschaft
Dröschistrasse 15, FL-9495 Triesen
SWAROVSKI International Distribution AG
SWAROVSKI Global Business Services Americas, SRL
Centro Corporativo Plaza Roble, Edificio Terrazas A, Oficina Regus, 5to piso, San José, Costa Rica
SWAROVSKI Global Business Services Asia SDN BHD
Unit 1.01, GBS@Mayang, Jalan Mahsuri, Bandar Bayan Baru, 11900 Bayan Lepas, Pulau Pinang
SWAROVSKI Global Business Services Sp. z.o.o
Ul. Cypriana Kamila Norwida 5, “Yoko” Building, 80-820 Gdansk, Poland
SWAROVSKI Malaysia Trading Sdn Bhd
Suite 19-03, 19th Floor, Menara Keck Seng, 203, Jalan Bukit Bintang, MY-55100 Kuala Lumpur
SWAROVSKI Crystal SA de CV
Av. Ejército Nacional Mexicano No. 579 Piso 11, Col. Granada, Del. Miguel Hidalgo, MX-11520 Mexico City
SWAROVSKI (Europe) Holding B.V.
Dam 6, NL-1012 NP Amsterdam
SWAROVSKI Handelsonderneming Benelux B.V.
Oosterdoksstraat 80, NL-1011 DK Amsterdam
SWAROVSKI International (NZ) Limited
3/45 Queen Street, Auckland 1010 New Zealand
SWAROVSKI Poland Sp. z o.o.
Crown Tower, ul. Hrubieszowska 2, PL-01-209 Warsaw
SWAROVSKI Ibérica, S.A - Sucursal EM Portugal, Lisbon
OOO SWAROVSKI Russia
Dolgorukovskaya street 7, RU-127006 Moscow
SWAROVSKI Brand License AG
Alte Landstrasse 411, CH-8708 Männedorf
SWAROVSKI Immobilien AG
SWAROVSKI Subotica DOO
Batinska 94, 24000 Subotica, Republic of Serbia
SWAROVSKI Management Pte Ltd
2 Alexandra Road, # 03-01 Delta House, SG-159919 Singapore
SWAROVSKI Singapore Trading Pte Ltd.
SWAROVSKI Ibérica, S.A
C/ Llacuna, 10-20, 1a planta, ES-08005 Barcelona
SWAROVSKI Sweden AB
c/o Matrisen (Redovisning&Rådgivning), Box 22059, SE-10422 Stockholm
Daniel SWAROVSKI Corporation AG
SWAROVSKI (Schweiz) AG
SWAROVSKI Crystal Online AG
SWAROVSKI (Thailand) Limited
849 Vorawat Building, 16th Floor, Room 1601-1602, Silom Road, Silom Sub-district, Bangrak District, TH-10500 Bangkok
SWAROVSKI Kristal Ticaret Limited Sirketi
Abdi İpekçi Cad. No:57 Reasürans Han E Blok Kat:5, TR-34367 Istanbul
Chamilia Europe Limited
Unit 48 Hoults Yard, Walker Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE6 1AB, England - UK
SWAROVSKI International Limited
21 Sackville Street, London, England, W1S 3DN
SWAROVSKI Middle East FZE
Roundabout No. 6, P.O. Box 17128, AE-Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai
SWAROVSKI UK Limited
1st Floor, Building 4, Chiswick Park, 566 Chiswick High Road, GB-W4 5YE London
SWAROVSKI Digital Business USA Inc.
1, Kenney Drive, US-02920 Cranston, R.I.
SWAROVSKI Financial Services Corp.
SWAROVSKI North America Limited
1 Kenney Drive, US-02920 Cranston, R.I.
SWAROVSKI Retail Ventures Ltd.
Amazar Americas, Inc
Chamilia, LLC
Signity Americas Ltd
SWAROVSKI Lighting, Ltd
61 Industrial Blvd., US-Plattsburgh, NY 12901
Touchstone Crystal Inc
Marigot Vietnam LLC
Lot 204, Amata IP, Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province, Vietnam
Annex 2 – List of Countries
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2018 Homecoming Begins with Spirit of Mercy Day Celebration
Saint Xavier University (SXU) kicked off the excitement and festivities of Homecoming Week by coming together and celebrating the Spirit of Mercy Day, which marks Catherine McAuley's opening of the House of Mercy in Dublin, Ireland. To begin what promises to be a week of unity and memories, SXU students, faculty and staff united for the Homecoming Liturgy in the McDonough Chapel. The pastor and students from Queen of Martyrs' parish and school also joined the SXU community in celebrating the Mass before sharing small gifts of their appreciation for SXU, showing that the ongoing love and support in our community.
During the celebration of Mass, SXU junior Emily Malchow had the opportunity to speak about her recent trip to the House of Mercy in Dublin, Ireland.
"As a transfer student, this experience really helped me feel a part of Saint Xavier University," said Malchow during her speech. "A core component that attracted me to Saint Xavier University a year ago was the chance to develop my leadership abilities and my Catholic faith. This pilgrimage allowed me to embrace my faith and helped give me the confidence I needed to stand up here and talk in front of you all."
The importance of the Homecoming Liturgy is to honor the University's 172 years of Mercy heritage and to further the charism of Mercy in our society. SXU's legacy can be traced to the arrival of the first Sisters of Mercy to Chicago in 1846. Led by Frances Xavier Warde, the sisters opened Saint Xavier Academy for Females, which we now know today as Saint Xavier University. It is in that tradition of faith, courage, leadership and service that Homecoming Week begins with the celebration of the Eucharist and the ringing of the Academy Bell.
The Academy Bell is rung for three annual traditions: Founder's Day, Mission Day and Mercy Day. The tradition of honoring the University leaders in front of the Warde Academic Center on the Spirit of Mercy Day is one rooted in SXU's mission to continue inspiring professional growth, compassion and respect among students, faculty and staff. SXU representatives each took their turn ringing the ceremonial bell, not only acknowledging their ongoing commitment to the University and its community but also reminding all present that the works of SXU continuously reverberate outward.
"We at Saint Xavier are committed to carrying on the legacy of servant leadership," said SXU President Laurie M. Joyner during the ceremony. "In this tradition, we commission, today, leader-representatives of our community."
Visit the calendar for more information on Homecoming, or contact Alumni Relations at 773-298-3316 or alumni@sxu.edu for upcoming alumni events.
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Two days at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
Hogwarts castle towers above Hogsmeade at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
I follow the robes.
They belong to two teenage girls from Louisiana who are wearing them proudly—they should for $100 each—as they head over to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter tucked in one corner of Universal Orlando’s Islands of Adventure. www.universalorlando.com
“Harry Potter tops Disney by far,” declares 17-year old Heather Lirette.
“Get ready for fun,” adds Mercedes Hebert.
And crowds. The much anticipated Wizarding World of Harry Potter has just opened and even the most avid fans who planned their trip to Orlando around the new attractions seem unprepared for the crowds.
The lines are everywhere. Two hours to eat lunch, said Sue Gauta, here with a gaggle of kids from Naples, Fl.
“We waited on line an hour just to get in the store to by the kids wands,” she said. “And then we felt dumb because we waited an hour to spend $150!”
Her nephew, Jake Waleri, 9, thought the wait was worth it. “You can’t get a wand like this other places,” he said, adding that the park’s Butter Beer—it tastes like cream soda with a shot of caramel—is his new favorite drink.
There were long lines, of course, for the Butter Beer too and even to get into Honeydukes shop with green Candyfloss, Pepper Imps that make you smoke at the mouth, and Sugar Quills; the Three Broomsticks restaurant the Owl Post, and Ollivanders, where the Wandkeeper might choose you to determine which wand best suits you.
The area is just 20 acres and early in the day people were waiting in line just to get into the Wizarding World, much less get on one of the three rides—the Dragon Challenge coaster, Flight of the Hippogriff family coaster and within Hogwart’s Castle—and the attraction generating the most buzz—Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey.
The ride uses cutting edge technology. We enter through the gates of Hogwarts—guarded by two winged boars. In Dumbledore’s office, the Headmaster welcomes us and asks us to hear a lecture but once we move into a classroom, Harry, Ron and Hermione convince us to join them instead and we begin the Forbidden Journey, soaring over Hogwarts, narrowly escaping a dragon attack (feel his fire!), having a close encounter with the Whomping Willow, getting involved in a Quidditch match and more.
It is fantastic!
I admit I got dizzy. I also admit that I somehow forgot the number of the locker where I had left my bag—you can’t take anything with you and put everything in lockers that use fingerprint technology. Security had to help me. “It wasn’t the first time and won’t be the last,” assured Hosmel Cruz, the Universal employee who helped me. ”It happens a lot.”
Was the ride worth the long wait? Mary Dosch, a professor from North Dakota and her 13 year old daughter Emily waited an hour and a half. “It was pretty awesome to feel like you are flying,” she said. Her tip: wait until late in the day when there isn’t such a long line to get into the Potter area.
Another tip– if you stay at a one of the Universal’s three hotels, you can bypass lines at Dragon Challenge—two dueling coasters (choose Hungarian Horntail or Chinese Fireball dragons) –or the Flight of the Hippogriff through Hagrid’s Pumpkin Patch (great view of the castle too!) and you can get into the park earlier. www.Expedia.com is touting packages with deep discounts at the resort’s three hotels as well as additional savings when you book flights, hotel and theme park tickets. You can get a three-day park ticket for the price of two.
But none of these deals will get you into Hogwarts faster or into the shops. “The kids didn’t want to wait,” said a dejected Melissa Branch, here with her family from Winston Salem, NC . “I didn’t get to go on anything.
It’s kind of disappointing.”
Others just smiled through it all. “It’s an experience we’ll talk about, a memory,” said Elizabeth Navarro, a big Harry Potter fan who came with her kids from Fort Lauderdale. “It’s crazy but we came for the experience,” she said. “We’ll talk about it for a long time.”
Besides she adds, when you are waiting- there is so much to see—so much detail –caldrons and scrolls and owls, talking portraits Triwizard Cups and more.
“If you are a Harry Potter Fan,” this is a dream come true,” said Cory Arnd, 11 , from Colorado, who wasn’t minding the wait so immersed was he in the atmosphere around him. “It took me two hours to even realize I was here.”
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Sailor tennis looking ahead to regionals with Aspen, Vail in town Friday
Austin Colbert
If you go...
What: Tennis triangular with Steamboat Springs, Vail Mountain and Aspen
When: Friday, beginning at 10 a.m. with SSHS vs. Vail. Aspen vs. Vail will follow, with SSHS vs. Aspen to finish.
Where: The Tennis Center at Steamboat Springs. Matches will be played both inside and outside.
Steamboat Springs — Jack Burger, the Steamboat Springs High School boys’ tennis coach, remembers fondly what it was like to play in a Sailors’ home match. A 2011 SSHS graduate, Burger will have the chance to re-live some of that excitement Friday, only this time, without a racket in his hand.
“I can’t wait for it, and I hope the guys are just as excited as me,” Burger said. “It’s awesome. I really hope the guys are excited for their first home matches, because it’s a great environment. The whole community is really supportive of the high school team.”
SSHS will get its first chance to show off at home this fall when it hosts Aspen and Vail Mountain on Friday at The Tennis Center at Steamboat Springs. Action gets underway at 10 a.m. with Steamboat vs. Vail. Aspen and Vail will compete in the second match, with Steamboat vs. Aspen finishing play off in the afternoon.
“I think tomorrow will set the stage for regionals quite a bit,” senior Matt White said. “Those are two very important regional matches. I think we can win both matches as a team; we just have to come out with confidence and just try as hard as we can.”
Both Aspen and Vail compete in Steamboat’s Class 4A regional, meaning Friday’s competition could be only a preview of what’s to come. The Sailors took second in their regional last season, falling short of Aspen.
Both Aspen and Steamboat competed in the same tournament earlier this season, but never faced each other on the court. Still, the Sailors were able to watch and believe they’ll have a good chance at topping Aspen this time.
“They are a pretty good team. They are always pretty strong,” Burger said of Aspen. “I know they have a good one singles player. Other than that, I really think we can take the win this year against Aspen.”
Steamboat, in its first season under Burger, is off to a hot start. The Sailors were very successful in their two early season tournaments, and won both their matches. The most recent win came Wednesday, a 6-1 victory over Air Academy in Keystone. SSHS was challenged, with three matches going to a third set, but was able to win each en route to another impressive team victory.
“Jack brings a lot of energy to the team,” White said. “All the kids are really excited. That’s huge if you are excited to play. You will do your best, most likely.”
White and fellow senior Joe Borgerding make up the Sailor’s No. 1 doubles team, their second year together in that spot. The duo brings a lot of experience to SSHS, having played together for three seasons. They advanced to the state quarterfinals last season, before losing to the eventual runners-up.
This season, they are hoping for more, and beating Aspen in regionals is at the top of their list.
“I know there are some kids on the team, especially some freshmen, that are more skilled, individually,” White said. “But when Joe and I are together playing doubles, the experience kind of outweighs a lot of skill.”
“We’ve got some goals for sure,” he added. “Like, one of our goals is to win regional and beat Aspen. There are some really good teams at state, but I know we can do well.”
The Sailors will host a match only once more this season after Friday, when defending 4A state champion Kent Denver visits the Yampa Valley on Sept. 26. Steamboat’s regional takes place Oct. 8 and 9 in Grand Junction.
To reach Austin Colbert, call 970-871-4204, email acolbert@SteamboatToday.com or follow him on Twitter @Austin_Colbert
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10 Hated Stocks Loved by Value-Guru Berkowitz
Bruce Berkowitz has a knack for crushing indices. Here are 10 of his portfolio stocks that are overlooked, or disliked, by investors and analysts. They offer significant upside to risk-loving contrarians.
Jake Lynch
Sep 27, 2010 3:55 PM EDT
BOSTON (TheStreet) -- Bruce Berkowitz, Morningstar's U.S. stock manager of 2009, has half of his fund's assets in "hated financial-services and real-estate-related companies."
A value-investing guru, Berkowitz is greedy when others are fearful.
The investor runs
Fairholme Capital
, a mutual fund company with only two funds: the flagship
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Fairholme Focused Income Fund
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, which debuted this year.
Bruce Berkowitz of Fairholme Capital
Fairholme Fund has delivered a 255% return since its 2000 inception, compared with a 15% loss for the
. Berkowitz has delivered outstanding results, in up and down years for the market, by holding a concentrated equity portfolio and a cash coffer, with about 20% of assets in short-maturity corporate debt and cash equivalents. Value-conscious Berkowitz concedes that timing is difficult, so he always has cash on hand to scoop up securities under duress.
Fairholme's mantra:
Ignore the crowd
At the end of the latest quarter, Berkowitz held 23 securities in his equity portfolio. Many of his value picks are laggards, such as
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Here are 10 cheap, unloved stocks that Berkowitz owns. They've performed miserably over a three-year span and analysts mostly pan them. Still, they may have tremendous potential. The stocks are ordered by book-value multiple, from cheap to cheapest.
St. Joe Co.
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is a real-estate development company in Florida, with 580,000 acres in the northwest region of the state. It manages timberland operations in rural areas and works with residential, commercial and resort planners. Its second-quarter loss narrowed 81% to $8.6 million, or 9 cents a share, as revenue fell 44% to $22 million. The operating margin remained in negative territory. St. Joe's stock has fallen 12% a year since 2007 as revenue dropped 38% a year. It trades at a book value multiple of 2.6, an 8% premium to its peer average.
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offers a target of $32, implying 27% of upside. Fairholme owns 29% of outstanding shares.
RSC Holdings
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rents construction and industrial equipment at 465 locations in the U.S. and Canada. Its second-quarter loss nearly doubled to $22 million, or 21 cents a share, as revenue declined 7.8% to $301 million. The operating margin tightened from 7.4% to 4.4%. RSC shares sell for a forward earnings multiple of 35, a 116% premium to the industry average. A sales multiple of 0.6 and cash flow multiple of 2.3 reflect discounts of 68% and 78% to industry averages. The stock has fallen 26% a year since 2007. Of analysts following RSC, five rate its stock "buy", five rate it "hold" and one ranks it "sell." A median price target of $11 suggests a return of 53%.
Hertz Global Holdings
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is a car- and equipment-rental company with over 8,000 locations in 145 countries. Hertz swung to a second-quarter profit of $25 million, or 6 cents a share, as revenue grew 7%. The operating margin rose from 10% to 11%. Hertz's stock trades at a sales multiple of 0.6 and a cash flow multiple of 2.1, 75% and 81% discounts to peer averages. It has fallen 21% a year since 2007. Of researchers following Hertz, seven, or 78%, advise purchasing its shares, one recommends holding and one suggests selling. A median target of $17.50 suggests a return of 60% in the next 12 months.
MKM Partners
forecasts a rise of 83% to $20.
TAL International
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leases intermodal containers and chassis. It has a market value of $743 million and offers a lofty dividend yield of 5.8%. TAL's second-quarter profit plummeted 87% to $4.7 million, or 15 cents a share, as revenue declined 3% to $87 million. The operating margin widened from 35% to 37%. TAL's stock sells for a forward earnings multiple of 11, a book value multiple of 1.8 and a cash flow multiple of 5.6, 34%, 43% and 46% discounts to industry averages. Of analysts covering TAL, two rate its stock "buy", three rate it "hold" and one ranks it "sell." A median target of $29.50 implies 22% upside.
Robert W. Baird
expects a gain of 36% to $33.
Daily Journal Corp.
(DJCO) - Get Report
publishes newspapers and Web sites with a professional focus. Daily Journal is a micro-cap company, with a market value of just $97 million. Its fiscal third-quarter profit dropped 20% to $1.8 million, or $1.34 a share, as revenue decreased 13% to $9.5 million. The operating margin contracted from 33% to 29%. Daily Journal's stock trades at a trailing earnings multiple of 12, a book value multiple of 1.6 and a cash flow multiple of 9.8, 45%, 55% and 39% discounts to media industry averages. There are no sell-side firms covering Daily Journal. Three insiders control 64% of the float. Fairholme's position is comparatively small at 0.8%.
Leucadia National
(LUK)
is a diversified holding company with telecommunications, manufacturing, oil and gas drilling, and property-management divisions. It swung to a second-quarter profit of $235 million, or $1.01 a share, from a profit of $411 million, or $1.67, a year earlier. Revenue soared 51%. The operating margin turned positive. Leucadia's stock sells for a book value multiple of 1.4 and a sales multiple of 4.1, 64% and 171% premiums to industry averages. Just one brokerage,
EVA Dimensions
, follows Leucadia, rating it "sell." The stock has fallen 21% a year since 2007. Fairholme owns 8.1% of the float, but lessened its stake in the latest quarter.
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offers health and supplemental benefit plans in the U.S. Second-quarter profit increased 21% to $340 million, or $2 a share, as revenue expanded 9.5%. The operating margin rose from 5.9% to 8.2%. Humana's stock trades at a trailing earnings multiple of 7.4, a forward earnings multiple of 8.9, a book value multiple of 1.3, a sales multiple of 0.3 and a cash flow multiple of 3.7, 53%, 34%, 50%, 61% and 60% discounts to health care peer averages. Of analysts following Humana, nine rate its stock "buy", 11 rate it "hold" and one ranks it "sell." A median target of $56 implies 12% upside.
Sanford Bernstein
forecasts an advance of 20% to $60.
Winthrop Realty Trust
(FUR)
is a real estate investment trust, focusing on commercial properties. It offers a distribution yield of 5.2%. Winthrop swung to a second-quarter profit of $4.5 million, or 25 cents a share, from a loss of $71 million, or $4.50, a year earlier. The operating margin declined to 49%. Winthrop's stock sells for a trailing earnings multiple of 13, a forward earnings multiple of 21, a book value multiple of 1.2 and a sales multiple of 5.2, 80%, 78%, 50% and 13% discounts to REIT industry averages. Just two analysts cover Winthrop, both rating it "hold." A median target of $13 suggests a return of 3%. Fairholme owns nearly 15% of the REIT.
MBIA
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provides insurance for fixed-income securities. Second-quarter profit increased 45% to $1.3 billion, or $6.32 a share, as revenue more than doubled to $1.8 billion. MBIA holds $18 billion of debt, converting to a debt-to-equity ratio of 6.9. Its stock trades at a book value multiple of 0.8, a 94% discount to its peer average. The company has suffered losses in six of the past 10 quarters. Of analysts following MBIA, one advises purchasing its shares and two recommend holding. None rate the stock "sell." A median price target of $12.25 implies 12% upside. Fairholme controls 11% of outstanding shares.
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provides commercial-, retail- and mortgage-banking services in the South and Midwest. Regions Financial's second-quarter net loss expanded 47% to $277 million, but its per share loss remained steady at 28 cents. Revenue fell 16% to $1.9 billion. The company has suffered five consecutive quarterly losses. Regions shares sell for a book value multiple of 0.5, a sales multiple of 1.1 and a cash flow multiple of 2.8, 61%, 38% and 68% discounts to financial industry averages. Of analysts following Regions, two, or 9%, rate its stock "buy", 17 rate it "hold" and three rank it "sell." A median price target of $8.30 suggests a return of 20%.
-- Written by Jake Lynch in Boston.
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The Tech Style > Top 10 > World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway
World Wide Technology Raceway
Following a period of doubt where closed looked a distinct possibility, World Wide Tech Raceway in Gateway, Illinois, is currently emerging as success story under new ownership, with a roster of high-profile occasions attracting back the crowds once again.
The present oval and road course goes in the mid-1990s, but this isn’t the start of gateway raceway racing at the St Louis.
Drag racing first surfaced in 1967, when Wayne Meinert developed the first St. Louis Raceway Park as a straightforward, 1/8 –mile strip.
Four decades later, the inclusion of land enabled the raceway to develop into a complete quarter-mile, at which point the facility had been re-christened St. Louis International Raceway.
Drag racing was the most staple amusement throughout the 1970s and in the 1980s but soon need rise from road racers, who desired a neighborhood facility to relish their branch of the game at gateway motorsports park.
The course has been level but rather fast and became host to a number of road racing series, Trans Am Series, Can-Am along with an assortment of Sports Car Club of American (SCCA) regional and national occasions.
A 1/20-mile dirt oval also started in 1985 to appeal for yet another popular branch of the game.
For another 10 years that the trail carved out a great, if mostly unremarkable existence, but in 1995, the facility was bought by former Long Beach Grand Prix promoter Chris Pook that had big plans to make a new oval course to catch Indycar and NASCAR races.
Alongside is a different NHRA-sanctioned drag strip. A shortened variant of this road course stayed in use for a part of 1996 while building occurred elsewhere.
The oval has been an odd oval affair, with a end a wider radius-turn compared to the other, although both comprised 11-degree banking.
Even the infield road course was a mile shorter than the one it replaced and possibly less of a struggle of wwt raceway, but could nonetheless cater for regional and club racing perfectly satisfactorily.
The first significant event held in the facility was a CART ChampCars race Saturday, May 24, 1997.
This was in the peak of those CART/IRL wars and has been held a day before the Indianapolis 500, together with Penske driver Paul Tracy running out the victor since the series adopted its first Memorial day weekend out Indiana.
1 month after the National Hot Rod Association hosted its first-ever National Event in the place to a close standing-room just audience.
Joe Amato (Top Fuel) and Ron Capps (Funny Car) became the first expert group drag racing winners in Gateway and made an event which has continued to become among the most popular on the tournament excursion.
The first event proved thrilling to the fans using 14 warnings and 15 lead changes in what stays the greatest NASCAR race contested at Gateway in 300 miles.
NASCAR improved its presence in St. Louis with the inclusion of this Camping World Truck Series in 1998.
The exceptional form and banking of this facility was ideal for the Truck Series uses a pole qualifying rate of 131.218 mile per hour plus also a hotly contested race which saw Rick Carelli was the first of 13 truck series winners between 1998 and 2010.
At 2010 Dover Motorsports, Inc., that had previously purchased the facility by Pook, hosted two Nationwide Series in Gateway after their closing of Memphis Motorsports Park.
But, audience figures showed unsatisfactory and the Dover group, citing their inability to conduct the operations together with acceptable returns, formally declared that Gateway was formally stopping and closing operations on November 3, 2010.
Just under a year after, retired race car driver and property developer Curtis Francois declared he’d bought the 160-acre facility and could open it to the 2012 season.
With one of the most significant racing programs from the track’s history, Francois rebranded the trail since Gateway Motorsports Park, to reflect the varied motorsports events and actions planned for the long run.
A significant key to reopening Gateway has been that the dedication to drag racing as well as also the partnership with the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA).
Francois filmed a long-term deal with all the NHRA beginning with a touch event in September 2012, which has been a huge success.
Gateway Race Track
Now, Gateway has experienced an $11.5 million revitalization project, which has witnessed the facility expand to over 200 acres, together with the accession of a world class karting facility, enhanced grandstands and a newly finished fan pavilion.
In 2019 naming rights were obtained into the faciility from World Wide Technology, and also the re-named World Wide Tech Raceway is currently the biggest outdoor amusement facility in the area.
A new 2-mile road course was developed for its 2019 season, although the elderly 1.6 mile course stays in use. Deisgned by Tony Cotman, the monitor improvement produces a lively course configuration for your Formula Drift Series.
Beyond racing, the circuit is expanding into new paths to develop its organization, using a two-story convention centre being inserted into the infield of the oval track.
Gateway is also incorporating more chances for auto enthusiasts to take part in racing tasks.
Its Gateway Challenge events set people and corporate teams behind the wheel of new Chevrolet SS Camaros with full driving education and competitive actions.
It is a remarkable turnaround for a course that was just weeks off from disappearing permanently.
Planet Technology Raceway is located at Madison, Illinois, across the Mississippi River in St Louis, Missouri, USA. The closest airport is Lamber-St Louis International, approximately 18 kilometers or 21-minutes’ driveway along I-70.
The circuit is situated just outside St Louis itself and round the State line in Illinois, however is only a couple of miles from the downtown region of town.
By road, the circuit could be hit in the Caribbean area by simply taking I-70/I-64 East, subsequently merging onto I-55 North/I-70 East. Take the IL 203 North exit to the first stoplight in Ohio and turn left to the monitor.
Continue east on I-70 (don’t depart I-64 East) and unite with I-55 North. Take the IL 203 North exit to the first stoplight in Ohio and turn left to the monitor.
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on Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 10.01 am by Simon Kershaw
10 Downing Street has announced that the next Bishop of Gloucester is to be the Venerable Rachel Treweek, currently Archdeacon of Hackney.
Diocese of Gloucester: Venerable Rachel Treweek
The Queen has approved the nomination of the Venerable Rachel Treweek, BA, BTh, Archdeacon of Hackney, for election as Bishop of Gloucester in succession to the Right Reverend Michael Francis Perham, MA, whose resignation took effect on the 21 November 2014.
The Venerable Rachel Treweek (nee Montgomery) aged 52, studied at Reading University and trained for the ordained ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. She served her first curacy at Saint George and All Saints, Tufnell Park in the Diocese of London from 1994 to 1997 and was Associate Vicar from 1997 to 1999.
From 1999 to 2006 she was Vicar at Saint James the Less, Bethnal Green and Continuing Ministerial Education Officer for the Stepney Episcopal Area. From 2006 to 2011 she was Archdeacon of Northolt in the Diocese of London. Since 2011 she has been Archdeacon of Hackney. In 2013 she was elected as Participant Observer in the House of Bishops for the South East Region.
Rachel is married to Guy, Priest-in-Charge of two parishes in the City of London.
Her interests include conflict transformation, walking and canoeing.
Gloucester diocese has a page welcoming the new bishop-designate including the following quote
Following the announcement, Rachel said:
“It is an immense joy and privilege to be appointed as the Bishop of Gloucester. I am surprised and, I have to admit, even a little daunted by the prospect, but my overwhelming feeling is one of excitement to be coming to join with others in sharing the love of Jesus Christ with the people of this diocese.
“I am looking forward to encouraging Christians to speak out with confidence about their faith and the good news that the Gospel brings. It will be my privilege to work with churches as we connect with people, wherever they are and whatever their concerns.
“My calling to the role of bishop has been shaped by human encounter. I believe profoundly that relationship is at the heart of who God is. I have been with people through the joys and pains of their lives and it is these experiences that I will reflect upon as I take up this new role.”
The diocese of London also covers the appointment of one of its archdeacons. The Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, is quoted:
As Richard of Gloucester is reinterred, Rachel of Gloucester is revealed. Rachel has served her entire ministry in the Diocese of London, excelling wherever she has been. She has twice acted as Archdeacon, in Northolt and then Hackney — two highly demanding and contrasting areas where she has shone in equal measure.
… While we are very sorry to see her go, Gloucester has appointed someone with real quality and distinction. We look forward to continuing to support her in the years to come.
There is also coverage in the press including
the BBC
the Church Times
several of which note that she is expected to become the first woman bishop to sit in the House of Lords.
Susan Cooper
Excellent appointment as anyone in the Diocese of London who has experienced her ministry will know!
This is third appointment of a woman and in each case they have an ordained spouse.
Northern Province 2 – Southern Province 1
Or does One Diocesan trump two Suffragans?
David, I think it does 😛
ExRevd
So you don’t have to be married to a cleric (of the opposite sex) but it helps.
Pete Broadbent
Being married to a cleric keeps the headship ConEvos happy…
Pete Broadbent,
that made me laugh out loud. Thank you.
Is the idea that the bishops will take instructions from their husbands who will be the power behind the ceremonial throne?
Chuchu Nwagu
Many Congratulations to Rachel on this appointment. She’s an able and experienced individual; one who will be a great asset to the Diocese of Gloucester.
Good wishes to Rachel and those that rejoice at her appointment.
Mo (Revd) Christine
Love and blessing to Ven Revd Rachel Treweek! I suspect that Rose Hudson-Wilkin will be amongst the next ones appointed but I wish that she’s appointed for the right reasons and not the wrong ones.
JCF
{sound of ice cracking}
“Let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream…” [Amos 5:24]
Pete Broadbent that quote is gold. It is surpassed only by the Church Times report that apparently “GLOUCESTER is to have the Church of England’s first diocesan bishop, it was announced today.”
Rachel will be in good company in this diocese of Gloucester. We have some outstanding women clergy, highly esteemed by society at large and loved and honoured by layfolk.
Especial acknowledgement is due to Bp Martyn, Suffragan of Tewkesbury, who is currently shepherding the diocese with generosity and level-headedness. He will now have a new (woman!) boss.
Peter, I know that Gloucester was only created as a separate diocese in Tudor times but surely the honour of being the first Diocesan Bishop thereof belongs to John Wakeman alias Wiche in 1541. Methinks that the Church Crimes omitted to mention the gender of Bishop Designate Treweek.
Bishop Pete – I presume that’s a joke at the expense the of the headship Con Evos in your episcopal area, and not what they really think?
Charles Read
Pete’s comment was very good…..
but I had a (female) conservative evangelical ordinand once who was told (in all seriousness) at some evangelical conference that at least now she was getting married she would have some male headship to be under!
Is it worth raising a concerned voice at what appears, at least, to be a steady procession of Evangelicals of both sexes being advanced to the Office of Bishop in the Church? They are not the sole strand in Anglican tradition, and there is the danger of a serious imbalance being created on the bench of bishops. It would be reassuring to see some fitting candidates who have a firmly Catholic ecclesiology and sacramental theology being consecrated to the episcopate.
primroseleague
cuts both ways though – in the Trad AC world about 5 years ago I met a girl who became engaged to the curate. At their engagement party she was only half joking when she said:
“Of course I’m going to have to find another church now because I don’t approve of married clergymen”
‘Twould be quite nice, now, to have an Anglo-Catholic woman priest appointed as a diocesan bishop – if only to keep a right balance. And then, of course, there must be room made on the Bench for Jeffrey John.
James Allport
Martin Seeley is going to St Edmundsbury & Ipswich, so that’s one catholic appointment at diocesan level.
Neil Patterson
I join cheerfully with all the justified applause for Bishop Rachel, and am sure she will be very good. However, quite apart from the contrast between gender revolution and churchmanship conventionality, it is also interesting that a ministry spent entirely in the Diocese of London is accepted without question as good preparation to lead the church in Gloucestershire. Although many in this diocese would say suburbia begins at the Severn anyway.
Thank you @Barry. I didn’t want to jump in and look like I was dampening the fire of real joy at this appointment. But, it’s true: another Evangelical (with an Evangelical suffragan in post). From Catholic scholar/liturgist to Evangelical is quite a shift for a Diocese. And I don’t think we’re going to see Rachel challenging the LGBT status quo. Yes, a predicted pattern is emerging and I’m not holding my breath for a catholic/liberal female diocesan soon. The weight of expectation now falls on Nick Holtam and Martin Seeley to lead the way with their suffragan appointments.
Julia Redfern
Father Ron – such a bishop would indeed be nice. Thank you for making me smile. Perhaps we shall one day have such a priest at St Mary’s Bourne Street where we are, yet again, sadly, lacking a vicar.
Remember that she was one of the advisers to the Pilling Report, and therefore part of the group which opened the door to change on LGBT issues.
Yes, Francis, you may be right. However, did the Pilling Report actually OPEN the door for LGBT people or has it ensured that it be closed for ever?
Julia, if you would accept an 85 year-old A.C. as your interim Vicar, I would gladly move over from ACANZP to fill the gap, temporarily, of course!
Simon W
And top marks, with delicious irony too, to Wycliffe Hall for producing the C of E’s first female diocesan bishop. As well as one of the first female deans.
Congratulations to Thinking Anglicans in reaching the dizzy heights of having received an honourable mention on the Sunday programme on the wireless, thanks to Bishop Broadbent’s witticism on “Headship”
Simon W – you must remember that Wycliffe under the last principal was an aberration. Rachel trained there when it was sensible.
Thank you, Father Ron, for the very generous offer across the miles! At +Londin’s instigation, a Priest in Charge will be licensed to St Mary’s after Easter, for a maximum of one year. Who knows what dizzy vistas may open to us after that …?
Charles – I do indeed. I know plenty who have trained there over the years and also sent a good few ordinands in Wycliffe’s direction as DDO. When one views this appointment in the perspective of the past 30 years in the C of E it’s still pretty remarkable.
Julia – All Saints Clifton dropped the Resolutions in 2013. Have faith. All things are possible! And Fr Ron as an interim would have been fun.
Simon – as far as Resolutions are concerned, I think it is probably quite likely that FiF will work very hard to get what are now ‘A&B-only’ parishes to pass a ‘Resolution under the House of Bishops’ Declaration’. I don’t think that the considerable amount of material on the subject already on their website should be under-estimated. But yes, all things are certainly possible, and lovely to have the positive anecdote!
Rachel trained at Wycliffe before the staff debacle and the swerve towards Reform (now corrected), but it wasn’t an easy place to be. She (and several of my female ordinands) got a lot of stick from fellow students of a “headship” persuasion. But they survived…
Jenny Petersen
Slight correction +Pete – Rachel trained at Wycliffe when Reform was founded. I know – I was there in the room next door.
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Third Factor Reads: This Star Shall Abide by Sylvia Engdahl
Jessie Mannisto
Issue 4: Non/Conformity
THIS STAR SHALL ABIDE
By Sylvia Engdahl
252 pp. CreateSpace Independent Publishing. $9.95 (paperback) / $2.95 (Kindle)
Noren was a heretic. He defied the High Law and had no faith in the Prophecy’s fulfillment. But was defiance enough, or could some way be found to make it come true?
With a back cover blurb like this, you can probably see why we picked Sylvia Engdahl’s This Star Shall Abide as the Excitable Read for our issue on nonconformity. Who, after all, is more nonconformist than a heretic?
This Star Shall Abide the story of a gifted young man named Noren who rebels against the repressive society he lives in by openly declaring that he believes the Mother Star—the central symbol of their religion—is fake, made up by the Scholar caste to keep everyone else in line. The story follows what happens to this dangerously divergent thinker after he does so. It’s the first volume of the Children of the Star trilogy, and though it certainly has several dramatic external conflicts, Noren’s inner world is where the most important action happens.
In this respect, the novel offers a great example of the theory of positive disintegration (TPD) playing out. For starters, it’s chock-full of overexcitability (OE). Noren’s most obvious OE is intellectual—he is constantly analyzing his society and the motives of all the people in it—but he exhibits very strong emotional OE as well, and this proves crucial to his development in exactly the way Dabrowski would have predicted. Meanwhile, Noren’s betrothed, Talyra, is a great example of someone who is highly intelligent but apparently not intellectually overexcitable (since these are not the same thing). Talyra’s evident emotional OE, moreover, makes her both an upstanding citizen in the eyes of her community and highly compassionate to those the community considers less upstanding.
The story is also very likely to be of interest to anyone who relates to our notion of being a human catalyst. Such catalysts must engage with all different sorts of people, at all of TPD’s levels. The story will introduce you to people at all of TPD’s levels, with a focus on power and the various motivations of those who desire it (and those who don’t). Some characters, like Noren, are adjusted to what ought to be; others are very solidly grounded in what is.
There are a few things about this book that some people haven’t liked. For one, the society in which Noren and Talyra live is sexist, which some who read young adult fiction may find out of step with modern norms. Ms. Engdahl has said that this is just part of the repressive nature of this society. Personally, I found it valuable and thought-provoking to see how a woman born in the 1930s who has worked as both an elementary school teacher and as a programmer depicts a repressive society. Additionally, some people to whom I’ve recommended this book faulted the prose as stilted. They may have a point, but I’d also note that all of them liked the content enough to finish the book anyway. It’s not written to be a best-seller, but for the right audience, it’s a true gem. (This audience isn’t necessarily exactly the same as the traditional science fiction audience, so Third Factor readers who aren’t usually into SF might still love this one.)
Don’t be fooled by the fact that this book is independently published: Ms. Engdahl is re-releasing her own works in new editions, but they were originally released by traditional publishers, and the books earned acclaim. The School Library Journal in 1972 described This Star Shall Abide as “Superior future fiction concerning the fate of an idealistic misfit, Noren, who rebels against his highly repressive society…. Although there is little overt action, the attention of mature sci-fi readers will be held by the skillful writing and excellent plot and character development.” In 1973 it won the Christopher Award, given for “affirmation of the highest values of the human spirit.”
So if you liked any of the articles in this issue and are looking for something further on this theme, pick up a copy of this novel. If you’re a parent raising kids (age 12 and up) who constantly ask piercing questions about why the world is the way it is, whether scientifically or in terms of social justice, it will be a good read for them, too. I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did!
This Star Shall Abide is available as a stand-alone volume or bundled with the next two books in the Children of the Star trilogy (both of which were also enjoyable and thought-provoking), in paperback or in various e-reader formats:
Your local library might have a paper copy of This Star Shall Abide or the Children of the Star omnibus edition.
Better World Books has used copies of the whole trilogy, under Engdahl’s earlier Ad Stellae imprint, for under $4.
Amazon has paper and digital versions of the single book and the trilogy. If you use this link, a portion of the money you spend will go to support Third Factor.
Ms. Engdahl also has collected all sorts of other ways to get her book at her website.
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The Depths of Dabrowski’s Levels October 30, 2020
The Mind Palace October 30, 2020
The Heroes of Our Own Political Stories October 30, 2020
Transcending Tribalism October 30, 2020
Between Scylla and Charybdis: A Radical Centrism October 30, 2020
A Place for Orchids October 30, 2020
Previous Issues Select Category Columns Issue 1: A Theory for Our Time Issue 10: In Search of Connection Issue 11: A Look in the Mirror Issue 12: Upward Issue 13: When the World Seems to Disintegrate Issue 14: A Hodgepodge of Color Issue 2: Harnessing Overexcitability Issue 3: Overexcitability & Maladjustment Issue 4: Non/Conformity Issue 5: Connecting to Dabrowski’s Theory Issue 6: Ways Forward Issue 7: Creating the Self Issue 8: Growth Through Self-Understanding Issue 9: The Intense Mind Magazine News
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Left-back search links Liverpool with Gael Clichy, but deal not happening
Liverpool were reported to be interested in Man City left-back Gael Clichy, but it’s a claim that’s already been rubbished.
While it’s no secret that the Reds are looking to add to their squad in the left-back area, there has been a theme running throughout the reported list of targets: Andrew Robertson, Ryan Sessegnon, Benjamin Mendy.
They’re all young, dynamic and technically impressive; Robertson, the eldest of the trio is just 23, while Mendy is 22 and Sessegnon just turned 17.
With news of the chase for the Fulham man turning south on Tuesday it was perhaps inevitable that new rumours and targets would emerge in the coming days—but a move for 31-year-old Gael Clichy remains a surprise.
The Mail reports the Reds switching their attentions to the French full-back and offering a two-year deal.
Having left the Etihad at the end of this season, Clichy is available on a free transfer—an obviously appealing point.
But considering City finished just one place and two points above the Reds, and Clichy played around 2,100 minutes for them (comparable with the oft-injured Jordan Henderson), is he really the step-up Jurgen Klopp is searching for?
Experience is a requirement in areas of the squad, and Clichy is a title-winner, but left-back happens to be the position where the Reds already have their joint-oldest player in place, with 31-year-old James Milner.
With Alberto Moreno seemingly not trusted, and Milner an able body and willing worker but lacking in the finer points of offensive full-back play at times, it remains clear the Reds will look to add another new face.
But Clichy seems way off track, a complete departure to the approach Klopp has generally taken, and it would be extremely surprising if the reported interest went any further.
* Update: The Echo have also rubbished interest in Clichy, which makes sense.
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This Is Anfield • Liverpool FC News •
Liverpool are lucky to have “unbelievable” Naby Keita
Ahead of Naby Keita‘s hotly anticipated £55 million move to Liverpool next summer, Sadio Mane is looking forward to linking up with his “brother.”
Keita joined Red Bull Salzburg in the final months of Mane’s time with the Austrian Bundesliga side, before the winger’s switch to Southampton in 2014.
They only played four times together, with Mane eventually forcing through his exit in controversial circumstances, but they quickly bonded off the field.
Now they will be reunited on Merseyside, with Keita leaving RB Leipzig at the end of the season to join Jurgen Klopp‘s squad as the club’s record signing.
And speaking as part of Liverpool’s ‘At Home With…’ series, Mane explained his relationship with the midfielder, his role in convincing him to join and what Liverpool fans can expect.
“It just came normally, because we speak the same language and were close neighbours, Guinea and Senegal,” he said.
“When he came we lived [in the] same area in Salzburg, so we were always together: sometimes he came to my house, I’d go to his house.
“We didn’t even speak German, but we had someone who took care of us. But I was better than him!
“We were so close. He’s not even a friend for me, he’s like a brother. We keep in touch all the time, talking.
“He asked me ‘how is the club?’, I said ‘unbelievable’. I don’t think it was me who convinced him, but the team, the club.
“I’m excited. I have to wait until next season! We are lucky to have him because he’s an unbelievable player—you will see.”
Keita endured a slow start to the season, but is regaining his form as Leipzig battle with Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund and Schalke for second, behind league leaders Bayern Munich.
The 22-year-old has scored five goals and assisted another in 20 appearances so far in 2017/18, but as Mane attests, it is his all-round play that is invaluable.
The prospect of Keita joining the Reds to operate behind the front three of Mane, Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino, and potentially alongside Philippe Coutinho, is mouthwatering.
And his friendship with Mane should assure that he settles in quickly at Anfield, with his qualities on the pitch suggesting he will adjust smoothly in the Premier League.
While Klopp has ruled out an earlier move for the Guinean, after reports of a possible January deal, Liverpool have secured a top signing in Keita.
Alex Ferguson clears up story of turning Jordan Henderson down due to his “gait”
Liverpool given significant boost with Joel Matip return to training
Tags Naby Keita, Sadio Mane
Klopp hails Thiago as “like a new signing” ahead of Anfield debut for Liverpool
Premier League do not expect fans back in stadiums this season
Militao added to linked list & Klopp teases Matip return – Liverpool FC Roundup
Klopp details plan to “put on the brakes” and get Naby Keita “100 percent fit”
“He’s dug us out of holes and become a go-to man” – Inside Harvey Elliott’s loan at Blackburn
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Titania – the Open Source Ethical Society
Truth Awareness Love Personal Creativity
About Bob Podolsky
Physicist-Psychotherapist-Ethicist, Bob Podolsky
9/11 Free Fall 5/22/14: Robert Podolsky– Ethics and the 9/11 Crime
Bob Podolsky on Declare your Independence
Anarchast Ep.239 Bob Podolsky: Ethics and the Titania Project!
Anarchast 324 Getting Rid of Hierarchy
Peace and Prosperity Through Truth and Creativity
About John David Garcia
About Edwards Deming
Big Problem
A Proposed Solution to the BIG Problem
Ethics, Law & Government
How did government develop into Power Brokerage Cartels?
Government: The BORG Robot
The BORG Matrix: Comforting Lies
Life is a zero sum game
Ethical Ends by Unethical Means
Robin Hood was a Hero
Majority rule makes the best group decisions
Government is here to help you
Hierarchies are ethically acceptable
The Law is the Highest Standard
The Golden Rule Fallacy
Faith is Better than Truth
The FED is Good
Why Taxation Is Slavery
THE CHALLENGE OF “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE”
Is There A God?
Ethics: Titanian
The Bill of Ethics
Guns For Goodness Sake
Holotropic Matrix & The Octologue
Constitution of TITANIA
Titanian Organization
Titanian Academic Education Project
The Titanian Law Project
Meetup Events
BitCoins: Free Market
The Truth About Cartels
BitCoins: Gateway to Doom and Freedom
Bitcoins greatest Strength
Im 5 Wats Bitcoin Daddy
Moses and the 10 Suggestions
Mulder and Scully Meet the B.O.R.G.
Today’s Bandits
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Thomas Jefferson was a remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped.
At 5, began studying under his cousin’s tutor.
At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.
At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.
At 16, entered the College of William and Mary.
At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.
At 23, started his own law practice.
At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
At 31, wrote the widely circulated “Summary View of the Rights of British America and retired from his law practice.
At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence.
At 33, took three years to revise Virginia’s legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.
At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.
At 40, served in Congress for two years.
At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.
At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.
At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society.
At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party.
At 57, was elected the third president of the United States.
At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation’s size.
At 61, was elected to a second term as President.
At 65, retired to Monticello.
At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.
At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.
At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams.
Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand today. Jefferson really knew his stuff. A voice from the past to lead us in the future:
John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: “This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property – until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. (Quoting Cesare Beccaria)
The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
The god who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
And the day will come, when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva, in the brain of Jupiter.
In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.
When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty…. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the…liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
Most bad government has grown out of too much government.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
It is better to tolerate that rare instance of a parent’s refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings by a forcible transportation and education of the infant against the will of his father.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
The man who reads nothing at all is better than educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Posted by Morpheus Titania at 1:52 am Tagged with: 2nd Amendment, constitution, Government, guns, inte, maximizing creativity, Thomas Jefferson, truth
quotes Frederic Bastiat
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Who was Fredrick Bastiat
Frederic Bastiat was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly. He was notable for developing the important economic concept of opportunity cost, and for penning the influential Parable of the Broken Window.
Bastiat asserted that the sole purpose of government is to protect the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property, and why it is dangerous and morally wrong for government to interfere with an individual’s other personal matters. From this, Bastiat concluded that the law cannot defend life, liberty, and property if it promotes “legal [or legalized] plunder,” which he defined as using government force and laws to take something from one individual and give it to others (as opposed to a transfer of property via mutually-agreed contracts, without using fraud nor violent threats against the other party, which Bastiat considered a legitimate transfer of property
Frederic Bastiat Quotes
“It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.”
“Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned. For how can it be mentioned without damaging the respect which it inspires? Still further, morality and political economy must be taught from the point of view of this law; from the supposition that it must be a just law merely because it is a law. Another effect of this tragic perversion of the law is that it gives an exaggerated importance to political passions and conflicts, and to politics in general.”
“Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism.”
“Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can err; since he can err, he can suffer. I go further: He must err and he must suffer; for his starting point is ignorance, and in his ignorance he sees before him an infinite number of unknown roads, all of which save one lead to error.”
“They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.”
“All you have to do, is to see whether the law takes from some what belongs to them in order to give it to others to whom it does not belong. We must see whether the law performs, for the profit of one citizen and to the detriment of others, an act which that citizen could not perform himself without being guilty of a crime. Repeal such a law without delay. … [I]f you don’t take care, what begins by being an exception tends to become general, to multiply itself, and to develop into a veritable system.”
“The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its purpose is to protect persons and property…. If you exceed this proper limit — if you attempt to make the law religious, fraternal, equalizing, philanthropic, industrial, or artistic — you will then be lost in uncharted territory, in vagueness and uncertainty, in a forced utopia or, even worse, in a multitude of utopias, each striving to seize the law and impose it on you.”
“As long as the law may be diverted from its true purpose — that it may violate property instead of protecting it — then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder. Political questions will always be prejudicial, dominant, and all-absorbing. There will be fighting to gain access to the legislature as well as fighting within it.”
“Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal.”
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.”
“The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.”
“Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would otherwise involve… But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to the other persons to whom it doesn’t belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish that law without delay … No legal plunder; this is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony and logic.”
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
“The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.”
“Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter — by peaceful or revolutionary means — into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.”
“The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else.”
“When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.”
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
“No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).”
“By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.”
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Mark Twain Quotes
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Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman knows. Illustration from AMERICAN EXAMINER, 1910 from the Dave Thomson collection
– What Is Man?
…the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.
– Letter fragment, 1891
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
– Mark Twain, a Biography
Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.
– Notebook #14, Nov. 1877 – July 1878
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
– Mark Twain’s Autobiography; also in Mark Twain in Eruption
The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn’t leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether–Well, you’d think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.
– Mark Twain’s Speeches, “The Weather”
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
– Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar
It is the foreign element that commits our crimes. There is no native criminal class except Congress.
– More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927
Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.
– Notebook, 1868
…I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.
– “Foster’s Case,” New York Tribune, 10 March 1873
A man with a new idea is a crank — until the idea succeeds.
Posted by Morpheus Titania at 2:59 am Tagged with: Government, Mark Twain
Quotes from Albert Einstein
Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein
“The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.”
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
“I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details.”
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
“I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.”
“God is subtle but he is not malicious.”
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
“The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
“Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.”
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
“Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.”
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.”
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.”
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
“Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.”
“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
“In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.”
“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.”
“Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.”
“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!”
“No, this trick won’t work…How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
“Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.”
“The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking…the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”
“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.”
“Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”
“One had to cram all this stuff into one’s mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.”
“…one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”
“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
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Offseason activities are voluntary until the team’s mandatory June 13 minicamp.His team hasn’t had the success he had hoped for, but Barkley has put together another very good season.Behind the arc they shoot 32% which is good for 30th in the league.�?In 2016, Byard saw action in all 16 games with seven starts and compiled 63 tackles, a sack, five tackles for loss, three quarterback pressures, four passes defensed and 10 special teams tackles.Hill also led the league in games played, minutes played, shots faced, and saves, suggesting that he could be a future high-volume starting goaltender in the NHL.
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Radmanovic has no problem with rough play, but he believes that dirty play should not be tolerated by the officials.Durant would never have joined this team and wandered into Steph’s playground if he was worried about being the king of the world.Forget his ironman streak for a second.He ended the game with an average of 7 yards per rush.Dubois, the No.He’s struck out 52 times and has walked on 40 occasions.
Next, we see the dagger play, a concept that worked extremely well for the Eagles in the first two seasons under Doug Pederson.They allow 31 shots to their opposition per contest and have a team save percentage of 90%.Lower-tier teams with hot coaches, meanwhile, are faced with the reality that they too could be on the verge of a coaching change they wish they didn’t have to make.The Eagles allow 76 points per game to their opponents which ranks them 271st in the nation.
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They allow 32 shots to their opposition per contest and have a team save percentage of 91%.He has 175 strikeouts over the 163 innings he’s pitched.Then, he finished the tackle on Darren McFadden with his right shoulder with power.Acura offers front- and all-wheel-drive versions of the RDX; we drove the AWD version.But what does it all mean?
It’s huge for us to have him on the bench.Cook is coming off back-to-back 100-yard receiving games, and he has a career-high in receiving yards , and receiving touchdowns .We really fed off him tonight.” Malcolm Brogdon added 21 points for the Bucks, who were coming off a 123 loss to Toronto on Saturday night.
That’s the business.However, with no MacDonald and shaky goaltending, I don’t see how New York can outscore Pittsburgh like it did in Games 2 and 4.The task force recommendations didn’t result in any legislation, although Hickenlooper in 2013 did sign a separate bill that addressed insurance issues such as replacement coverage in a bid to help disaster survivors.I think it’s kind of what we just talked about.
Payton on the Steelers offensive line, in particular the interior line: It’s a strong group.The defense allowed one long touchdown drive in the second half, but the unit otherwise kept Oakland from scoring.The Flyers’ last two games of the season were a home-and-home against the Rangers.Kevin Pillar is hitting .279 this year and he has an on-base percentage of .322.In 2016, played alongside fans to benefit children in the second annual Redskins Charity Golf Classic, brought joy to 31 area women battling breast cancer at the team’s annual All-Star Survivors Celebration, and welcomed 200 elementary school kids into the Redskins locker room at FedExField to meet Santa and take home toys for Christmas at Skins Santa Shoppe…
But even those who do remember and talk about it have different opinions of how it should be viewed.Fast Sign up with Instant Access Click Here One E-mail A Week Is All You Need!That really hasn’t been the case for a long time, certainly for not the last 20 or 30 years, said Griffin, who also wrote the preeminent book on the NBA betting scandal involving former referee Tim Donaghy, Gaming the Game: The Story Behind the NBA Betting Scandal and the Gambler Who Made It Happen.Bradley Cooper’s father has a bookie in Silver Linings Playbook.But Frazier has neither Byrd’s speed or return ability �?two reasons why the Panthers should be able to find a way to make the numbers work.
He has permitted two or fewer goals in 11 of his 20 postseason starts this spring.The opening line for this game has Detroit as 4 point favorites.That is 16th in the league.Made mistakes, but I guess that’s just part of the game.Iowa Hawkeyes Betting Trends Iowa Hawkeyes are Against the Spread Iowa Hawkeyes are against the Over Under Minnesota Golden Gophers Betting Trends Minnesota Golden Gophers are Against the Spread Minnesota Golden Gophers are against the Over Under Injuries to Watch Iowa Hawkeyes No injuries to report at this time Minnesota Golden Gophers 12 14 F Josh Martin Personal expected to transfer 11 14 G Daquein McNeil Legal problems out indefinitely Guy’s Pick: Take Iowa Get $60 worth of FREE premium member picks.Here’s a look at the three games and what they have to offer us: Read More >> I’m sure by now we’ve all heard the news about how Bell didn’t report to the Steelers and will now sit out the entire 2018 season and forfeit upwards of $14 million in game salary.
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Meet the Members!
8/8/19 - Lara and Gary Blumberg
7/11/19 - Natanielle and Avi Cooper
8/23/19 - Lisa and David Eckmann
Michelle and steve lessnick
Interviewed by Rebecca Mayerhoff
Torat Emet: Tell us about yourself- your job, where you’re from and your child(ren) (and pets!)
The Lessnicks: We moved here from Salt Lake 4 1/2 years ago. We moved here for Steve to take a position at Nationwide Children's Hospital, where he is currently the Director of the Center for Childhood Cancers and Blood Disorders. His own lab focuses on Ewing's Sarcoma, which he has studied for almost 30 years.
We have three kids: Jaden (21) who is studying Political Science at Emory, Micah (19) who is studying Computer Science and Marine Biology at Eckerd College, and Kira (14) who is a freshman in high school.
TE: What attracted you to the Main Street synagogue? What do you love about this community?
The Lessnicks: Honestly, what attracted us to Main Street was that it was the closest Orthodox shul to our new house. Once we spent a few Saturday mornings in service, we knew we had found our "religious home," a place that was warm, welcoming, and most importantly, a great place to learn and grow in our observance.
TE: What are your interests and hobbies? You can also tell us your favorite books, movies or music.
The Lessnicks: Our family learned to ski while in Utah (it's a way of life there) and although, the kids are the best in ability, we all love to do it at our own pace. Steve, Micah, and Jaden enjoy mountain biking, while Kira and Michelle prefer to explore the mountains only on foot (or skiis). Steve likes to brew beer, a hobby that got started when Steve came home with too many cuts and bruises from the mountain biking! Michelle loves to run (and run and run). Jaden loves his sports, especially if it is the Patriots playing. Micah would prefer to be underwater scuba diving. His school runs a "Scubi Jew Program," run by Hillel. They try to repair the reefs in the area. Kira spends a lot of time with friends, painting, baking, and theater. She also discovered a passion for softball during middle school.
TE: Tell us something about yourself that most people don’t know
The Lessnicks:
Steve had long hair and was in a rock band in college.
Michelle spent many summers travelling around the country competing in hula hoop contests, and even made it to the national competition one year (although came in last place).
Jaden can speak faster than most people (maybe not David Schottenstein) from his years of debate.
Micah still appreciates a good lego set.
Kira's artwork got approved to be sold in a store in Atlanta.
TE: Your favorite Graeter's ice cream flavor :)
The Lessnicks' Favorite flavors:
Steve butter pecan
Michelle anything with toffee pieces or peanut butter
Jaden vanilla
Micah vanilla or cookie dough
Kira Black cherry
Lisa and David Eckmann
The Eckmanns: We just moved here after living in Wynnewood, PA, a Philadelphia suburb for the last 23 years. We’re both originally from Riverside, CA. We lived in Chicago, where our 3 sons were born, before moving to Wynnewood. The boys are all married. Josh and his family live in Brooklyn. Uri and his family live in Bergenfield, NJ. Many people here know our middle son Yoni and his wife Michal. Yoni is rather tall and enjoys basketball, even coaching the CTA boy’s team. As empty nesters we look forward to having our 4 grandchildren visit us from the East Coast. Our 20 year old cat and our Great Dane keep the household active. We’re both engineers by training, but Lisa left engineering long ago to run a charity in Philadelphia. David was recruited to OSU to be the director of its new Center for Medical and Engineering Innovation. He’s an anesthesiologist and a biomedical engineer.
The Eckmanns: We had been here before for Shabbos and Rosh Hashanah. We found the community to be warm and engaging. The Synagogue is a beautiful place for davening and we felt like we were at home right away.
The Eckmanns: Lisa enjoys reading, learning Chumash with her Philly chevrusas of 20 years, cooking, and Zumba. David is a vocalist and cellist who enjoys almost all types of music, especially nusach and chazzanus. He also is an amateur photographer, an aging softball enthusiast and a single malt Scotch aficionado. We both like doing jigsaw puzzles, travel, grandkids and a good wine.
The Eckmanns: Lisa is an expert organizer. David is an Eagle Scout (so are all three of our sons).
The Eckmanns: Lisa loves the Raspberry Chocolate Chip. David is secretly planning to get locked in Graeter’s overnight to figure it out.
TE: If you have a favorite quote you would like to express or thoughts to share with the community, please include that here.
The Eckmanns: David: "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."--Mark Twain.
Lara and gary blumberg
The Blumbergs: I am a family practice physician and my husband is a qualified Sports Attorney, business advisor and consultant. Our kids are Saul (age 15), Ruthie (age 14) and Noah (age 10). We also have Zeke a sweet high energy black lab. Gary and I are originally from Johannesburg, South Africa. Our kids were all born in Ohio.
The Blumbergs: For us Main Street shul is most similar to what we grew up with in the Jewish community in South Africa. We were attracted to that familiarity when joining. We especially like the warm welcoming community, the Midwest values, the love of Israel and how our shul continues to grow.
The Blumbergs: As a family we are sporty and so our hobbies are mainly sports related. We each have our special sport including golf, tennis, soccer, softball, baseball, volleyball. We have a couple of avid readers among us, some favorite books are “the long Walk to Freedom” by Nelson Mandela. As for family friendly movies we enjoy the silly humor of Adam Sandler and Jim Carey movies. 2 of us play piano and have played together in recitals.
The Blumbergs: What you may not know is that Gary has lived in 4 countries, I in 3. We've known each other since childhood. We have lived in 3 cities in Ohio. Of the 5 of us, three of us wear contact lenses. Saul works at the JCC, Ruthie has a talent for accents, and the 2 are close enough in age to have shared a B’nai mitzvah. Noah has a double crown and is an all-rounder.
The Blumbergs: favorite Graeter’s flavors:
Gary - is there such a thing as bad ice cream?
Lara- sorbet
Saul- chocolate
Ruthie- cookie dough
Noah- maple cinnamon crunch.
natanielle and avi cooper
Torat Emet: Tell us about yourself- your job, where you’re from and your child(ren), and pets!
The Coopers: Natanielle was born in London, England but grew up here in Columbus. She graduated from CTA, studied violin performance at OSU, and then got her masters in social work at Simmons College in Boston. She works as a women's and couple's therapist on the east side of Columbus. Avi was born in Atlanta. He went to college at Yeshiva University and studied English literature and biology. He went to Harvard University for medical school and residency, came to OSU for fellowship in pulmonary and critical care, and recently started on faculty there. "We married in 2011 and lived in Cambridge until 2016 when we moved to Columbus. We have a son, Graeme, who will be 3 years old in August. We also have a cat named Archie."
The Coopers: Natanielle and her family have been members of Main Street since high school. And we got married there! But most of all we love the down-to-earth and inclusive atmosphere of the synagogue.
The Coopers: Natanielle enjoys reading fiction, cooking, baking, and gardening. Avi likes to play piano, run, and read about history. We like to watch Netflix shows together and go to local concerts. Graeme likes to explore the various museum around Columbus, especially the Ohio History Connection. He is a fan of Mr. Rogers, anything involving construction or lawn work, and granola bars.
Favorite books -
Natanielle: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Avi: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Graeme: Mighty Mighty Construction Site
Favorite movies -
Natanielle: The Goonies
Avi: The Shawshank Redemption
Graeme: The Wizard of Oz
Favorite musicians -
Natanielle: Gregory Alan Isakov
Avi: Simon and Garfunkel
Graeme: Bob Dylan
The Coopers: Natanielle used to sell custom suits before going into social work school. Avi had a radio show in college, which very few people listened to. Graeme calls his stuffed animals "my guys".
The Coopers: Natanielle's is mint chocolate chip. Avi's is Buckeye blitz. Graeme's is vanilla.
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Republicans vs. their own values
So in case you haven't heard, Republicans are trying to toss a pebble off our mountain of debt by stripping funding from Planned Parenthood. It's no secret conservatives dislike Planned Parenthood because... wait for it... they do abortions. And as we all know, a fertilized mass of human cells is the exact same thing as a living, breathing human.
Republicans claim that they're doing this do reduce our national debt. According to Wikipedia, Planned Parenthood receives a shade under $400 million of its national funding from government grants and contracts. Per Republican legislation, the organization cannot use this federal funding to pay for abortions. But of course, conservatives aren't content yet. They want Planned Parenthood gone for good.
But Planned Parenthood, as the name suggests, not only provides a number of vital heath care services for women (breast and cervical cancer screenings, for example), but it offers services that help prevent unwanted pregnancy – including comprehensive sex ed and the distribution of contraceptives. You'd think that if Republicans were really serious about reducing the number of abortions in this country, they'd be rallying for increased federal funding for Planned Parenthood. You know why people get abortions? It's because of unwanted pregnancies. You know what sex education and contraception do? They reduce unwanted pregnancies.
This is quite similar to the way conservatives have approached sex ed (in a nutshell: "NO"). Conservative bedbuddy "abstinence-only" sex ed is demonstrably less effective than comprehensive sex ed. Ignorance is never bliss. But since conservatives apparently dream of a Leave It To Beaver style utopia filled with chaste young men and women and Stepford wives, they are immune to these facts.
It's frustrating. I can fully accept that abortion is a hot-button issue, and that there are a broad range of views on them – some more rational than others. But while I'm very much pro-choice, I don't think abortion is anything anyone wants to see more of. To that end, I can fully side with my Republican friends in wanting to reduce the number of abortions. So why are conservatives so hellbent on gutting organizations and programs that reduce unwanted pregnancies in the first place?
And puh-lease, let's not hide under this facade that it has anything to do with the national debt. Just for comparison: Planned Parenthood took in just under $400 million in federal funding in 2008. If we raised the marginal tax rate of the top 2% of earners back to the rates during Clinton's term – what they were during the biggest economic boom in history and a paltry 3% higher than they are now – we'd save $40 billion. Republicans don't give a crap about reducing the debt; they're the ones who grew it in the first place for crying out loud. Before the Iraq War and the Bush tax cuts, we were running a record surplus. This is just politics as usual.
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Five Photos From Star Trek Beyond
By welshslider December 20, 2015
The trailer is out for Star Trek Beyond and Trek fans have been less than impressed saying it doesn't feel like Star Trek. Simon Pegg has even spoken out and told us fans to be patient as there's more to come and has assured us that it will be more like Trek. In the mean time here's five stills from the movie which hits cinemas next year. I hope Pegg is right and the next Trek film starts to look like...well Star Trek. No Beastie Boys music please.
The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and John Williams
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Natasha Beckman with Rosanna Raymond (Artist) and Matthew Gifford (Maori Engagement Advisor, British High Commission) at Mark Adams exhibition at Two Rooms, Hinemihi – Te Hokinga – The Return.
Photo: Laura Vincent.
No one will leave 2020 the same as they entered it. We speak to some leading figures and contributors to The Big Idea this year about what's been learned.
In a world full of spoilers and predictions, no one saw 2020 coming.
Anyone who proclaims “yep, called it” about the last 12 months we’ve experienced at this time last year is lying through their teeth. Sure, things like the election, rising house prices or a major Kiwi Oscar win could have been crystal ball gazed but not that great big global pandemic that brought virtually an entire planet to a standstill and made lockdown an everyday term.
As we get closer to consigning this unforgettable year to the history books, The Big Idea is again turning to our creative community to get a gauge on what matters.
Arts Voices is a series where we canvas creatives of Aotearoa to get their thoughts on the issues that the sector faces.
We posed the following question - What have we learned in 2020 about the creative community?
Here are some of their responses.
Tim Walker - Arts strategist/consultant, The Big Idea Chairman
2020 has been all kinds of challenging. Surprising and enlightening by turns.
The impact on and response from the creative sector has been kaleidoscopic. COVID-19 has closed off sources of light for many. And yet, there are plenty of signs that the response to the very immediate and very human impacts of the virus have cast new light on how the sector can be sustained and what it might become.
I don’t think there are any clear patterns yet; underlying slow seismic changes will take time. The gravity-like instinct of larger organisations to ‘hunker down’ and ‘get back to normal’ will be different from the smaller companies’ and individual practitioners’ need to think on their feet and survive.
We may see the latter morph more and grow in relative importance, as the former gradually regroup.
The hope is that we collectively find (and take) some time to step back and think, so that we might generate powerful new ways of connecting (across sectors, locally, nationally, globally) and working together. The very immediate and very human challenges COVID and the climate emergency have dealt us need equally urgent and deeply connected responses.
Anne Rodda - Voyager Advisory Director
Anne Rodda and family tackling the Getty challenge during lockdown #1.
New Zealand is an oasis. Kiwis have trusted our leadership and by and large behaved ourselves. We’ve earned our freedoms and treasure our good fortune being a remote island nation. So many colleagues and loved ones are doing it rough elsewhere in the world.
As arts consumers, we’ve learned not to take live shows for granted. Buy the ticket and attend – we never know when this privilege will be taken from us again. It’s the golden age of the NZ artist, so let’s get to know ourselves more fully and ripen our cultural DNA.
As arts presenters, we must hope for the best and plan for the best (not the worst). Compromising our artistic output isn’t the way forward - being more imaginative is. We’ve already learned how to stop in our tracks and pivot (let’s ban this word for 2021!) so trust in our ability to make lemonade.
COVID has accelerated trends. What we felt niggling in our guts but didn’t have any hard data is now showing itself, front and centre, on our P&Ls and our forecasts. We’re going to lose long-standing partners but this clears the way for new ones. 2021 will be the year for the Great Reset. Embrace the opportunity.
Kirsten Matthew - writer, Mabel Maguire director, The Big Idea Trustee
2020 has taught us:
- That people need people
- That people need art, especially in an end-of-days pandemic
- That no profession is pandemic-proof but that artists - more than any others know how to work alone, in isolation, and how to be productive in adversity
- That art needs to be experienced virtually as well as physically and emotionally
- That art can be found anywhere: on streaming platforms, Tik Tok, protest placards… and in a loaf of sourdough bread
- That when we slow down, we are forced to listen
- That we all have to do better at supporting each other
- That we all have to work harder to represent the diversity of voices in our creative community
- That nothing is ever guaranteed in life
- That every artist needs at least a couple of pairs of stay-at-home trackies
Natasha Beckman - British Council Director for Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific
Natasha Beckman (right) with Rosanna Raymond (Artist) and Matthew Gifford (Maori Engagement Advisor, British High Commission) at Mark Adams exhibition at Two Rooms, Hinemihi – Te Hokinga – The Return.
I’ve found we need to work really innovatively to continue to foster international cultural relations in this challenging new environment and explore different ways of presenting. One result is Artspace Aotearoa currently hosting an exhibition of moving image from the British Council collection and LUX, WE ARE HERE, (on until 5 Feb 2021) curated by John Tendai Mutumbu, a NZ curator now based in the UK.
We also need to maintain connections with our creative whānau overseas, reach out to them using the virtual tools that we are so fortunate to have, and empathise with what they are going through. Many of the artists I have worked with over the past decade in the U.K. have had COVID and are still suffering from its physical effects, let alone the devastation to their artistic practices and communities.
I was talking to one recently. I began talking about relative minutiae when he stopped me in my tracks and said, “No, I meant HOW ARE YOU, have you had COVID, are your family OK?”. He himself has had COVID, which for many I know is having a long tail, with ongoing symptoms, such as exhaustion, weeks or even months later. It really puts into perspective how blessed we are in here Aotearoa.
Kate Powell - Creative, The Big Idea writer
It has taken a pandemic for us to pause and really look at what is broken or no longer beneficial within the arts with a critical eye.
2020 has taught the sector that simply wanting and discussing change is not enough. Even the biggest boost to the budget in a generation is not enough.
2020 has taught the sector that to make real change takes more than the occasional uncomfortable conversation. It takes the sustained discomfort that only comes with making regular, incremental but meaningful action.
True change within the arts sector requires a coherent vision that sees a considerable investment in all levels and facets of our artistic ecology to create a sector that reflects us and our diversity. Within this considered restructure, the changes made must be sustainable rather than come and go with the changing whims of governments or funding bodies.
Because anything else is lip service.
2020 has reiterated a lot of long-held truths -good and bad- for the sector. It has highlighted our individual and collective resilience while also making it abundantly clear that to go back to the status quo or ‘normalcy’ would be the waste of a remarkable opportunity borne from remarkable difficulty.
Simon Adlam - international museum executive
Our creative sector really stepped up in 2020. They pushed inclusion to the front of the conversation and that should be celebrated.
COVID-19 forced us into survival mode and at a molecular level, our Darwinian instincts presented us with an ultimatum, adapt or die! We, the creative community, chose adaptation and helped forged a new path forward.
We listened to new voices, asked the right questions hoping for right answers. We saw isolation as a barrier to cooperation. We made new connections and suddenly strangers became friends and allies.
The challenges from this past year provide us with new opportunities in 2021. The pandemic urged us to stop coasting along and to strive for something new, something better for ourselves and future generations.
We’ve made good progress but there’s still much to do.
The creative sector must be vigilant in combating systemic racism in our educational and cultural worlds as this problem will continue to stall progress more than any virus can. Kia kaha.
Dina Jezdic - creative, The Big Idea writer
2020 is the year where we learned that ‘showing up’ is really hard, and that operating from the basis of hope is a really useful tool to envision our collective future.
The world is pivoting hard right now and so is the creative community. Much of what was planned was deferred due to the global pandemic, so many things didn’t happen, but a great many things did change and shift.
We have witnessed and experienced what it’s like to be so happy and exhausted, so hopeful and so unsure, so brave and so afraid, visionary and withdrawn, so present and so distant all at the same time.
This year was all about testing unique creative artistic practices and using our storytelling to generate conversations between perspectives and concepts by explaining to each other who we are and where we’d like to go.
Annette Morehu - playwright, The Big Idea writer
Annette Morehu (left) and Dr. Karlo Mila at The Goddess Muscle launch in October. Photo: Colleen Maria Lenihan.
What 2020 showed me is that when the creatives of New Zealand have our artforms, our livelihoods, and for a lot of us our only reason for getting out of bed in the morning taken away overnight… We form groups.
I have never in my life been invited (and to my surprise accepted the invitation) to be a part of so many groups as I have in the past nine months; all of them created to connect and unite different factions of local, national, and international creative communities in the midst of a global pandemic; each with a fancy acronym for a name.
One of the reasons I decided to become a writer was because I felt compelled to write stories featuring heroic brown gals to insert into the global narrative; and another reason is that it suits me because (as an undiagnosed hermit) I can work mostly from home and avoid having to interact with other actual humans. But this year through enforced separation, I’ve been confronted by the realisation that connection amongst like-minded creative communities is vital for all of our survival.
Also, the rise of the Zui in 2020 has definitely had its pros and cons...
Paula Browning - Copyright Licensing NZ Chief Executive
One thing the Team of Five Million learned more than ever during 2020 is just how much we need creativity for our wellbeing. Creativity is comforting and uplifting, especially when things are tough.
Another issue that we saw reinforced in 2020 was the problem of having an economy that’s too reliant on just a handful of sectors. I hope we’ll take a realisation into 2021 that we need to diversify how we earn and that the creative sector, with its digital products and services and international reputation for incredible work, can be an even bigger contributor with the right sort of government acknowledgement and support.
Dominic Hoey - Poet, The Big Idea writer
what has 2020 taught us as a creative community?
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Annabel Hawkins - creative, writer, poet, strategist
If not now, then when?
Life is fragile. Power can't be trusted.
We are only as strong as our collectives. And that's where the best source of energy and creative validation can come from if we both seek it and let it.
The best advice I've been given, and something I think of often is - Keep making things, keep finishing things.
Graham Reid - Elsewhere editor, The Big Idea Writer
After what was a serious year, let’s get light-hearted and say maybe what we learned was, to quote that incredibly annoying song, “it’s a small world after all”.
Technology allowed creative people to continue working through Zoom, image and file sharing, and all that connective tissue which binds us together.
For some of the time many must have felt alone, yet creative people learned the value of staying in touch with their communities, and the value of sharing ideas, fears, opportunities and assistance.
And suddenly that most precious of commodities, time, became available. The distractions of life outside the creative process fell away. There was more space to focus on the work, whatever that might be.
We also knew everyone was doing it tough, some tougher than others when deprived of their livelihood, in unfortunate circumstances, lost how they were used to defining themselves and felt in failing spirits.
Maybe we learned empathy more than anything?
If that happened, along with reconsidering our priorities, then perhaps that was what individuals within the creative whole learned from 2020?
After all, it’s a small world, we share it . . . and these days can share more easily within it.
And if you’re reading this, then you survived.
That alone is a reason to be cheerful.
The Big Idea Editor
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Ukrainian Catholic Bishop Paul P. Chomnycky of Stamford, Conn., distributes Communion during the Divine Liturgy June 3, 2019, at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia. CNS photo/Bob Roller
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What does it mean to be in communion with each other, in faith, as Christians, at least in sufficient communion to receive the Eucharist from each other's tables? What constitutes genuine intimacy in faith?
Father Ron
Rolheiser
The question of intercommunion within our churches today is a big one, an important one, and a painful one. I'm old enough to remember another time, actually to remember two other times.
First, as a young boy growing up in the pre-Vatican II Church, intercommunion with other Christians, Non-Romans, was a taboo. It just didn't happen. An individual maverick may have ventured it, but he or she would have been called out for doing it, were it known. Then things changed. In the early years of my ministry, I worked in dioceses where intercommunion, at least for special occasions such as weddings, funerals, and inter-church gatherings, was common, even encouraged. As a priest presiding at a Eucharist at these gatherings, I was allowed to positively invite non Roman Catholics to receive the Eucharist, as their own faith and sensitivities allowed.
Those times came to an end. Within the space of ten years, by the mid-1990s, those of us who presided at a Roman Catholic Eucharist were asked to positively disinvite non-Roman Catholics from receiving the Eucharist, irrespective of occasion. The rational given was that the Eucharist is the most intimate act that we, as Christians, can share with each other and that intimate sharing, analogous to the intimacy within a marriage, to be honest and meaningful, demands that we be in communion with each other and given our differences in doctrine, ecclesiology, and some issues of morality, we simply are not in sufficient communion. Further still, this argument suggests that accepting the pain of not being able to receive communion in each other's churches should be the kick in the pants we need to stir us to make greater efforts to come together around dogma, church, and morality.
What's to be said for this? First, it's' true and has its merits, save for the one, salient, idea that needs to be lifted out from this apologia and scrutinized more closely, namely, the notion that we are not in sufficient communion with each other to share the Eucharist because of our differences in dogma, ecclesiology, and some moral issues.
Theologically, it's clear; baptism puts us into the family of faith. All Christians hold this and so too do the Gospels. St. Paul, admittedly, adds a qualification regarding receiving communion. However, beyond the theological issue involved there's also an ecclesial one, namely, while we all share one Christian community through baptism, we do however belong to different faith families and families tend to eat in their own houses. True again. But then this question arises: When does eating in another family's house make sense and when does it not?
The deeper question which needs to be asked regarding what constitutes intimacy inside the faith and what constitutes the kind of intimacy that justifies receiving the Eucharist together is not, first of all, one of doctrine or church affiliation but of oneness inside the Holy Spirit. What makes for oneness among us as Christians? When are we one family in faith?
Perhaps no text is clearer than St. Paul in the 5th Chapter of his Letter to the Galatians. He begins by telling us what does not constitute oneness inside the Holy Spirit. We're not living inside the Holy Spirit or in communion with each other, he submits, if we're living in strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factionalism, envy, idolatry, sorcery, or adultery. These are infallible signs that we're not in communion with each other. We are however in genuine communion, in intimacy in faith, in one family, when we're living in charity, joy, peace, patience, goodness, long-suffering, fidelity, mildness, and chastity. Living inside of these is what makes for Christian communion, oneness, for intimacy with each other. Differences on select issues of dogma, church, and morals are, in fact, secondary. More important is whether our heart is full of charity or anger, goodness or factionalism, peace or strife, impatience or chastity. We are more in communion, in a communion of faith, with someone of another ecclesial denomination whose heart is fueled by charity, patience, and goodness than with someone of our own church whose heart is angry, envious, and judgmental. Ecclesial difference isn't the real criterion.
What constitutes the kind of intimacy that justifies intercommunion? I'm not a bishop and so the pastoral decision on that question is not mine to make. As a loyal son of the church, I need to trust that the Holy Spirit will work through the persons and offices entrusted to make that decision. As a theologian, however, I've also a task. My job is to look at issues like this and bring various theological and biblical perspectives to bear on them, accepting that the pastoral decision won't be mine.
So I offer this perspective to those entrusted with making the pastoral decisions about what justifies and what does not justify intercommunion.
- Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and award-winning author, is President of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, TX. He can be contacted through his website www.ronrolheiser.com.
Now on Facebook www.facebook.com/ronrolheiser
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Jenner Jokes About Golfing With Breasts
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Bruce Jenner meant it when he told Diane Sawyer: “We have to keep our sense of humor about this.” TMZ reports Jenner’s documentary series about his transition to become a woman will be full of serious moments but also some jokes, like him explaining how difficult it is to learn to golf with breasts. “There will be a happy medium,” a production source said. “Bruce has a great sense of humor and it will be showcased. But the show will deal with the very serious issues Bruce is committed to showing.” The cosmetic aspect of Jenner’s transformation reportedly will also be shown.
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Watch Future’s “Never Stop” music video
The Wizrd intro track.
By Wandera Hussein
Future has released another visual off of his new album The Wizrd, this time sharing the music video to the album's fiery intro "Never Stop." Watch it up above.
"Never Stop" is the latest song off of the new project to be given the visual treatment. In January, Future shared videos for the album's lead singles "Jumpin On a Jet" and "Crushed Up." Later in the month, the Atlanta rap titan shared the video to "Rocket Ship."
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The Wizrd is available to stream now. The full-length runs 20 songs — and features Gunna, Travis Scott, and Young Thug.
Watch "Never Stop" above.
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Piltdown Man
I am not Tom Bishop but I can't prove it
Do you like my new alias? ;)
If you want proof of how much science is flawed, look no further than the Piltdown Man. Scientists were so eager to confirm Darwin's theory, that when someone "found" bone fragments of the kind everyone was looking for (i.e. fit Darwin's theory), they all went hoorah and said this was clear proof that Darwin's ideas were correct. Yeah, a HARD FACT DISCOVERY. Then when it was discovered to be a conspiracy, they changed their theory and said, "Actually, what we are looking for is something that looks like this."
Scientists keep changing their theories over and over again. And each time they say this is an incontrovertible fact. Until something else comes up to show the fallacies of their theories, after which they make up a new one and say this was the truth all along.
What do these government sponsored scientists take us for? Fools? You think you can just change things in front of our eyes and we aren't going to notice? You think you can make us believe the horizon has curvature when it obviously doesn't?
Well, let me tell you "scientists" something.... You won't fool this man any longer. His eyes are now opened and there is NOTHING you can say to make believe that up is down and down is up. Your dirty tricks won't work anymore, so please save your breath.
It's only a matter of time when the truth will come out and mankind will be liberated from the lies and oppression of the government.
The cat in the Matrix
Re: Piltdown Man
Maybe their theories change when new evidence is presented. Wouldn't you be more doubtful of their integrity if they didn't change their theory when contradicting evidence came out?
Quote from: Space Cowgirl on February 09, 2010, 01:52:38 PM
We're all jealous of Raist.
Quote from: TruthSeeker on April 24, 2007, 07:10:31 PM
If you want proof of how much science is flawed, look no further than the Piltdown Man. Scientists were so eager to confirm Darwin's theory, that when someone "found" bone fragments of the kind everyone was looking for (i.e. fit Darwin's theory), they all went hoorah and said this was clear proof that Darwin's ideas were correct.
It had nothing to do with verifying evolution. It had everything to do with supporting British ethnocentrism.
the cake is a lie
Roundy the Truthinessist
Flat Earth TheFLAMETHROWER!
I'm the boss.
Thanks for the insight, Tom.
Quote from: wise on August 21, 2018, 11:47:45 PM
Where did you educate the biology, in toulet?
Vauxhall the Vampire
A theory is a theory. Look up the definition.
Quote from: Round Earth Conspiracist on April 24, 2007, 10:17:06 PM
A Sceptic
You see, the thing about us RE'ers is that we change our theories when new evidence comes along. Oh noes, we have been proven wrong! Ok then, lets rethink our theories. How can we explain this? How can we explain this as well as explaining other facts? Through this process, we further our understanding and draw closer and closer to the truth.
Here is a FE'er. Oh noes, we have been proven wrong! Lets come up with a new force/illusion/conspiracy and then abandon the thread before we can be refuted!
Quote from: Steve Jones
An energetic, all-inclusive and amusing account of man's impressive capacity for self-delusion. Every creationist should read it.
Quote for truth.
Leader of the Anti-Loli coalition
Maybe Darwin was a drunk. Ever think of that? Huh? HUH?
Mrs. Peach
Quote from: dysfunction on April 24, 2007, 08:26:44 PM
Back to Piltdown, yes, the hoax got its legs in British reaction to Java Man. It took forty or fifty years to expose the hoax because of down right embarrassment and reticence to damage prominent careers.
Mr. Ireland
That hard fact discovery idea just kicked me in the ass.
Quote from: GeneralGayer on December 01, 2007, 07:10:43 AM
Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time
Quote from: Tom Bishop on February 26, 2008, 01:10:34 PM
Flat Earth Believer
If you are so open to experimental evidence demonstrating opposing theories then why haven't you rejected your RE beliefs after reading Earth Not a Globe?
There is no experimental evidence demonstrating the earth as a globe, after all. Just a lose number of observations which are perfectly explained by FE.
Because there is plenty of evidence for a round earth, and the flawed experiments of a single man as evidence for a flat earth.
Also, the weak explanations provided for certain events/observations in FE don't convince me for a second. A ship being obstructed by waves? Been refuted by Gin countless times, and yet you still use it as an argument. There are so many holes in the FE argument, and I can see none in the RE argument. Perhaps there are some - point them out to me and give me suffiecient evidence that they exist, then show me how a flat earth can explain them. That is, explain them in a way that does not rely on quotes from Earth: Not a globe. I don't believe that Rowbotham has ANY scientific credibility - stop using his flawed experiments as evidence and start using real evidence. And stop abandoning threads when you lose an argument - that is very frustrating.
Incorrect. There is zero experimental evidence for a Round Earth. That picture you have as your avatar image? Nothing more than a mosaic. It comes directly from NASA's Blue Marble project: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2429
This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet.
Also, the weak explanations provided for certain events/observations in FE don't convince me for a second. A ship being obstructed by waves? Been refuted by Gin countless times, and yet you still use it as an argument.
Gin has not debunked anything at all . All arguments are only imagined. Gin presents side view illustrations which do not take perspective into account.
There are so many holes in the FE argument, and I can see none in the RE argument.
Here's a RE hole: There is zero experimental evidence which suggests a Round Earth.
Perhaps there are some - point them out to me and give me suffiecient evidence that they exist, then show me how a flat earth can explain them. That is, explain them in a way that does not rely on quotes from Earth: Not a globe. I don't believe that Rowbotham has ANY scientific credibility - stop using his flawed experiments as evidence and start using real evidence.
Dr. Rowbotham has plenty of credibility. In his day Rowbotham toured Europe giving lectures at many prominent universities. At the conclusion of every lecture he would debate with the brightest minds of the day over the shape of the earth. In each and every instance Dr. Rowbotham was successful in swaying many members of the audience over to his position. A widespread Zetetic movement began, demanding that the government look into the sphere issue.
The following are a few quotes of the press after Rowbotham's lectures. I believe these reviews speak for themselves:
"ZETETIC ASTRONOMY.--No doubt many of our readers have been mystified and surprised within the last week by the announcement that, in three lectures, at the Northampton Mechanics' Institute, a gentleman who calls himself 'Parallax,' would undertake to prove the earth not a globe, &c., &c. . . . We were highly gratified by the manner in which this important subject was handled by 'Parallax'--a pseudonym which the lecturer informed his audience he had adopted in order to avert the effect of an insinuation that his startling announcement is but the morbid desire of an individual to be known as the propounder of a philosophy boldly at variance with that of the great astronomers of the past and present. His subject was handled in a plain and easy manner, his language and allusions proving him a man of education and thought, and certainly not a pedant. The experiments mentioned, divested of technicality in their recital, and understandable by all, were of such a nature as to cause a start of surprise at their simplicity and truthfulness. . . . It is not for us to pronounce a verdict upon so important an issue; 'Parallax' may be in error, but as far as his reasonings from fact and experiment go, there is much to set scientific men thinking. His arguments consist of facts, and such as are patent to all degrees of mental capacity. . . . In the discussions which followed, 'Parallax' certainly lost no ground, either in answer to questions or to some broad assertions quoted from learned authorities."--South Mid-land Free Press, August 14th, 1858.
"'PARALLAX' AT THE LECTURE HALL.--This talented lecturer is again in Greenwich, rivetting the attention of his audiences, and compelling them to submit to the facts which he brings before them--we say submit, for this they do; it seems impossible for any one to battle with him, so powerful are the weapons he uses. Mathematicians argue with him at the conclusion of his lectures, but it would seem as though they held their weapons by the blade and fought with the handle, for sure enough they put the handle straight into the lecturer's hand, to their own utter discomfiture and chagrin. It remains yet to be seen whether any of our Royal Astronomers will have courage enough to meet him in discussion, or whether they will quietly allow him to give the death-blow to the Newtonian theory, and make converts of our townspeople to his own Zetetic philosophy. If 'Parallax' be wrong, for Heaven's sake let some of our Greenwich stars twinkle at the Hall, and dazzle, confound, or eclipse altogether this wandering one, who is turning men, all over England, out of the Newtonian path. 'Parallax' is making his hearers disgusted with the Newtonian and every other theory, and turning them to a consideration of facts and first principles, from which they know not how to escape. Again we beg and trust that some of our Royal Observatory gentlemen will try to save us, and prevent anything like a Zetetic epidemic prevailing amongst us."--Greenwich Free Press, May 19th, 1862.
"EARTH NOT A GLOBE.--On Monday last a gentleman adopting the nom de plume of 'Parallax'--a very appropriate name, seeing that the basis of his arguments is the relation to each other of parallel lines--commenced a series of lectures at the Public Hall on 'Zetetic Astronomy,' a system directly opposed to the great Newtonian theory. That he is a clever man, and has studied the matter deeply, and that he is master of his subject, and thoroughly convinced of its truth, is apparent; and his arguments are certainly very plausible. The lecture drew large audiences, and among those present we noticed (here a list is given of many of the leading men and families of the district). 'Parallax' commenced by explaining the word 'Zetetic,' which had been adopted, because they did not sit in their closets and endeavour to frame a theory to explain certain phenomena, but went abroad into the world, and thoroughly investigated the subject. Lengthy and animated discussions ensued; votes of thanks were passed to the lecturer and the chairman-- Nixon Porter, who declared that he was much struck with the simplicity and candour with which the lecturer had stated his views; and, after a promise by 'Parallax' that he would pay another visit to Warrington, the audience dispersed."--Warrington Advertiser, March 24th, 1866.
You may find additional reviews here.
« Last Edit: May 21, 2007, 09:34:31 AM by Tom Bishop »
Multiple eye witness accounts from perfectly sane and well educated people are proof enough for me of a RE.
sokarul
Discount Chemist
Quote from: Tom Bishop on May 21, 2007, 09:10:09 AM
blah blah blah I talk out my ass
There is plenty of evidence for a round earth but you guys change your theory to cover them. The well experiment does prove a round earth. But then you guys created a magical force to move the sun. Also the sinking ship. You created some idea how waves can block a boat.
What about the fact that the southern hemisphere would be much larger then the northern. Wounder why no one has ever noticed. Also don't forget gravitation by mass.
blah blah blah more earth not a globe shit
Call me when Earth:Not a globe 2007 edition comes out.
ANNIHILATOR OF SHIFTER
Quote from: Shifter on July 05, 2020, 09:53:30 AM
It's no slur if it's fact.
What about the fact that the southern hemisphere would be much larger then the northern. Wounder why no one has ever noticed.
Did you forget how polar explorer James Clark Ross reported a circumference of over 60,000 miles after sailing around Antarctica?
Perfectly sane?
Film maker and Moon Hoax whistle blower Bart Sibre invited Buzz Aldrin, the second man who allegedly walked on the moon, to a Beverly Hills hotel under the pretext of an interview on space for a Japanese children's television show. When Aldrin arrived, Sibrel was there demanding that Aldrin swear on a Bible that he had walked on the moon.
When Aldrin refused, Sibrel called him a coward, a liar, and a thief. A fustrated Aldrin punched Sibrel in the jaw, which was recorded and broadcast in Sibre's documentary Astronauts Gone Wild.
Film maker and Moon Hoax whistle blower Bart Sibre invited Buzz Aldrin, the second man who allegedly walked on the moon, to a Beverly Hills hotel under the pretext of an interview on space for a Japanese children's television show. When Aldrin arrived, Sibrel was there demanding that he swear on a Bible that he had walked on the moon.
People will do anything for money. This includes making stupid hoaxes ups so stupid people will buy them.
Did you forget how he didnt? I searched and couldnt find that. Not to mention 60,000 miles at 10 miles per hour is 250 days. He wasnt gone that long.
« Last Edit: May 21, 2007, 11:08:21 AM by sokarul »
James Clark Ross and his expeditionary crew were gone for five years.
Oh and you forgot to reference some experimental evidence suggesting a Round Earth, Sokarul.
Until you can do that, go piss up a rope.
Colonel Gaydafi
Spam Moderator
Queen of the gays!
Hahha nominating that for QOTW!!!
Quote from: WardoggKC130FE
If Gayer doesn't remember you, you might as well do yourself a favor and become an hero.
Quote from: Raa
there is a difference between touching a muff and putting your hand into it isn't there?
I guess you cant read the well experiment part. But either wya its kind of hard to dispove magic.
Now back to James Clark Ross. Show me where he went 60,000 miles. He was using steam powered ships after all.
So there is no evidence for a round earth because you reject it?
Chris Spaghetti
Flat Earth Editor
Alright, i can get my head 'round the sinking ships, but what about buildings? or mountains, there aint no waves blocking them, yet the same effects occur
Quote from: WardoggKC130FE on January 20, 2012, 04:47:27 AM
Also, Chris is hot.
RE/FE Apathetic.
Quote from: I am not Tom Bishop but I can't prove it on April 24, 2007, 07:10:31 PM
Tom...tsktsktsk...You used to be funny.
Quote from: Raist on September 06, 2010, 07:48:56 PM
My problem with his ideas is that it is a ridiculous thing.
Genius. PURE, undiluted genius.
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Guardian Sport NetworkSerie A
Why did Serie A clubs outperform their richer English rivals this season? Superior tactics
Juventus, Fiorentina and Napoli achieved more success in Europe this season than any of the Premier League clubs thanks to their tactical flexibility
By Blair Newman for Tactical Calcio, part of the Guardian Sport Network
Juventus players celebrate during their defeat of Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-finals. Photograph: Luca Bruno/AP
Blair Newman
Mon 22 Jun 2015 10.16 EDT
Last modified on Wed 21 Feb 2018 08.23 EST
There was a curious romanticism surrounding Juventus’ progression through the Champions League as the 2014-15 season developed. Having thrashed Borussia Dortmund in the second round and held out against Monaco in the quarter-finals, the Bianconeri overcame Real Madrid in the last four, essentially becoming victorious underdogs.
It must have been a strange feeling for Italy’s most successful club. Historically, when Juventus lose major European games graffiti springs up around the peninsula to portray gratitude to their conquerors, such is the resentment regarding the club’s domestic dominance. That dominance has continued into the present day, going unquestioned for four consecutive years now, with the club winning its fourth successive league title this season. So why was their continental pursuit so unlikely?
One need only peruse recent Champions League trends to obtain a reasonable answer to that question. In the last decade, only four of the 40 semi-final slots available have been taken up by Italian teams; Milan in 2006 and 2007, Internazionale in 2010 and Juventus this year. On two occasions Italian clubs went on to win the competition (Milan in 2007 and Internazionale in 2010), but the general paucity of Serie A representatives in the latter stages of the competition is undeniable.
Statistically this has been the worst of the six decades for Italian clubs since the European Cup began in 1955. This decade’s four semi-final places is Italian football’s lowest ever; previous decades have wielded – in order from 1956-1965 to 1996-2005 – six, six, five, six and eight semi-final spots respectively.
The last decade has also shown a gap in Champions League performance between Serie A and its traditional rivals: the Premier League, La Liga and the Bundesliga. In this timeframe, La Liga has garnered 15 Champions League semi-final appearances, the Premier League 13 and the Bundesliga seven. The gap is rooted in financial disparity.
The most recent edition of the Deloitte Money League had just one Serie A club in its top 10 richest football clubs, with Juventus occupying 10th spot. Ahead of them were five Premier League clubs – Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United – as well as La Liga and Bundesliga behemoths, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
Taking into account the recent statistical trends and the relative financial disadvantage, it becomes easier to comprehend why Juventus’ deep Champions League run became a romantic affair. However, theirs was not the only significant European run to emanate from Serie A. Both Fiorentina and Napoli reached the semi-finals of the Europa League, a competition that had featured Italian semi-finalists just twice in the decade prior.
The positive performances of Italian clubs in European competition in the 2014-15 campaign hints at their adaptation to the prevailing circumstances. The financial advantages of others are being neutered and Italian teams are competing on the continent once again, powered by their most reliable currency: high-quality tacticians.
It is well-documented that Massimiliano Allegri was not the most popular of choices to succeed Antonio Conte at Juventus, though he turned opinion around with results, guiding the club to a rare domestic double as well as the Champions League final. The quest for a treble ultimately ended in disappointment with defeat to Barcelona, but Allegri’s car certainly isn’t spat at by Juventus fans any more, as it was upon his arrival late last summer.
Massimiliano Allegri is thrown in the air as Juventus players celebrate winning the Serie A title. Photograph: Matteo Bottanelli/NurPhoto/Corbis
Having joined in fairly chaotic circumstances, Allegri did not rock the boat but instead implemented his favoured 4-3-1-2 system gradually while occasionally reverting to the Conte hallmark 3-5-2 that Juventus had utilised throughout recent seasons. The back three was often brought out in games where Allegri was happy to cede possession and territory for extra defensive solidity, such as the trip to Roma in early March, the tricky Champions League quarter-final second leg in Monaco and the cup final against Lazio.
However, in matches against Real Madrid and Barcelona, when Juventus were expected to capitulate, Allegri showed bravery and savvy to field his 4-3-1-2, opting to compete for the ball in midfield rather than merely attempting to stifle the opposition’s world-class attacking threats. Juventus played on the front foot in the Santiago Bernabéu against all preconceived notions, while for a brief moment in Berlin, having equalised, they looked like overcoming Barcelona’s expensively assembled cast of stars.
Allegri’s diamond midfield has worked a treat. As with the 3-5-2, the full-backs still provide the only true source of width and the striking duet remains intact; the one real alteration came in removing a centre-back and adding a central midfielder. Allegri’s arrival and the subsequent tactical modification didn’t just coincide with improved performances in Europe; it was arguably the primary cause behind it. Allegri’s tactical modifications were a key factor in Juve’s treble bid.
Vincenzo Montella’s time with Fiorentina recently ended as acrimoniously as Allegri’s Juventus tenure began, with the coach known in his playing days as “Little Aeroplane” being unmercifully thrown from the Viola cockpit for the ambiguity of comments he made regarding his future with the club. Despite the bitter end, Montella packed a lot into his third and final year at the Stadio Artemio Franchi, leading Fiorentina to a third successive fourth-place league finish and the semi-finals of both the Coppa Italia and the Europa League, competitions they only exited at the hands of the eventual victors.
Montella achieved remarkable consistency while nurturing a cultured style of football in Florence. He maintained this playing style while employing a variety of formations, working wonders with a squad comprising Premier League flops (Stefan Savic, Borja Valero, Marcos Alonso) and ageing stars (David Pizarro, Joaquín, Alessandro Diamanti).
Fiorentina’s former coach Vincenzo Montella. Photograph: Maurizio Degl 'Innocenti/EPA
Every season Montella steered Fiorentina forward in spite of the loss of integral first-team players – Matija Nastasic and Riccardo Montolivo in 2012-13; Stevan Jovetic and Adem Ljajic in 2013-14; and Juan Cuadrado in 2014-15. The Cuadrado deal, struck in early February this year, perfectly showcased Montella’s ability to innovate within a thrifty environment. An orthodox winger with pace and flair, the Colombian was difficult to fit into the two-man forward line in Montella’s 3-4-1-2 system. With this in mind, losing Cuadrado was treated not as a problem, but as an opportunity.
Fiorentina successfully negotiated with Chelsea to secure their reserve Mohamed Salah on loan as part of a cash-plus-player swap deal. The Egyptian forward was an immediate tonic with his scything pace and dribbling ability. With his penetrating inward runs from the right-hand side on to his favoured left foot, he added greater scoring threat, while his versatility also came in handy as Montella rotated between 3-4-1-2 and 4-3-3 formations. In both he seemed a better fit than Cuadrado, who cost Chelsea £27m.
Fiorentina reached the Europa League semi-finals but, were it not for a combination of Montella’s tactical tinkering and new signing Salah’s speed, they may have sunk without trace in their second round first leg tie against Tottenham at White Hart Lane. Unable to cope with the home side’s fast tempo, Fiorentina were lucky to go in level at half-time. For the second half, Montella switched the system, going from the 3-4-1-2 to a 4-1-4-1 to plug defensive holes and maximise Salah’s counter-attacking thrust. Fiorentina held on to the draw before winning 2-0 at home to progress.
Even less expected than Fiorentina’s advancement to the last four of the Europa League was Torino’s appearance in the competition’s round of 16. Led by veteran coach Giampiero Ventura, the Granata qualified for European competition for the first time in over a decade thanks to a surprising seventh-place Serie A finish last season.
This season, Torino became the first Italian team to win in Bilbao, beating Athletic 3-2 in a thrilling Europa League second round match to reach the last-16 stage, where they lost to Zenit St Petersburg after putting up a valiant effort at home. While Torino’s European exploits were overshadowed by those of their city rivals, they forced themselves into the limelight with a victory in the Turin derby, their first win over Juventus in 20 years.
Ventura can be thanked for Torino’s resurgence, having overseen promotion from Serie B, before establishing them as a top-half team in the last two years. A consistent advocate of the 3-5-2 system, he has created a coherent, organised unit out of formerly unremarkable players such as Polish centre-back and captain Kamil Glik – who was brought in after impressing on loan at Bari while Ventura was the coach there – and wing-backs Matteo Darmian and Bruno Peres.
Peres and Darmian are vital to Ventura’s 3-5-2 and, just as with Glik, Torino will be desperate for both to stay. Darmian has developed into one of the finest wing-backs in the world today, he is a regular Italy international and a versatile footballer who can play on either side. Peres’ forward gambols and buccaneering spirit on the right have become an important aspect of Torino’s enthusiastic counter-attacking play and those very traits saw the Brazilian score one of the goals of the 2014-15 season, with a fast forward foray against Juventus that saw him leave several Juve players in his wake capped off by a powerful finish beyond Gianluigi Buffon.
Glik, Darmian and Peres were signed for a combined total of just under £5.5m and are a microcosm of the Torino squad as a whole in the sense that their potential has been realised through Ventura’s tactical preferences. Ventura has created the perfect synergy whereby his system functions properly thanks to the individual players, and the individual players improve thanks to his system.
Napoli, led by Rafa Benitez, had an underwhelming 2014-15 season. Knocked out of the Champions League at the qualification stage, they then bowed out to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the Europa League semi-finals and finished fifth in Serie A. It was disappointing for a club with one of the highest wage bills in Italy and a team packed with international talent. Napoli’s players did not live up to their potential but the way they were dismantled by Empoli in April was compelling, all the more so given tat Maurizio Sarri, Empoli’s coach at the time, was recently appointed as Benitez’s replacement at Napoli.
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Just as tacticians were behind the rise of Juventus, Fiorentina and Torino in European competition, they also underpin a flourishing domestic game. In terms of sheer goals, Serie A was the most entertaining of Europe’s top leagues in 2014-15 with a higher goals-per-game rate than La Liga, the Premier League and the Bundesliga. The goals are the finished article, a vivid portrait of a league tearing down old stereotypes of stout defensive negation and careful football. Beyond the goals, behind the portrait, are the painters with the brushes at hand: astute coaches brimming with innovation and ideas. Sarri is one of them.
Sarri is one of many astute tacticians in Serie A. Formerly a banker, he began coaching in his early 30s, working his way around the lower reaches of the Italian game. He found himself at Empoli in 2012 and guided them to promotion within two years, earning his first taste of Serie A football. Sarri’s well organised, energetic and youthful Empoli outfit were a pleasant surprise throughout 2014-15, surviving comfortably and finishing 15th in the league. They were at their best when employing a 4-3-1-2 system with a diamond midfield, a system that worked to perfection in their overwhelming 4-2 victory over Benitez’s Napoli.
Napoli went into that game chasing a Champions League spot and with three straight wins under their belts, but any confidence that form may have mustered was torn to shreds within the opening 10 minutes. Empoli began as a relentless whirling dervish, attacking Napoli in waves and exploiting weak, open defending. After having a penalty appeal turned down with their first attack, Empoli pressed on with immediacy and, six minutes later, they had a deserved opening goal. By half-time they had trebled their lead with some wonderful, fluent attacking movement leaving Benitez’s Napoli in a state of forlorn bewilderment.
The pulling wide of the two strikers, Massimo Maccarone and Manuel Pucciarelli; the galavanting Riccardo Saponara at the tip of the midfield diamond; the caresses of midfield string-puller Mirko Valdifiori at the diamond’s base; it was all too much for Napoli to handle. Arrigo Sacchi once named Sarri as one of Italy’s brightest coaching prospects. Watching this performance made such high praise all the more fathomable. Having comprehensively out-thought Napoli, Sarri now gets the chance to implement his tactics for them.
Other coaches – such as the cultish Gian Piero Gasperini and his vibrant 3-4-3 system fuelled by technicians; Stefano Pioli and his harmonious Lazio collective, a flexible unit capable of succeeding in a number of different shapes; Eusebio Di Francesco and his provocative small-town Sassuolo side with the three-man forward line – dovetail with the likes of Sarri, Allegri, Montella and Ventura to make present day calcio a festival of tactical thought.
The extended European exertions of Italian clubs in the 2014-15 season could be viewed as an anomaly, a fault in the machine. More realistically though, they should be seen as something far more promising: a sign of better things to come, a demonstration of progress.
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Within the beautiful game there is undoubtedly a cold correlation between revenue and performance, but it isn’t entirely symmetrical; sometimes systems and styles have a lot to do with. Tactics have a way of subverting the banality of modern day football, allowing the financial underdog to prosper occasionally. In this sense Italian football is in a relatively strong position, benefiting from the realisation that in these times ideas cost a lot less than new players.
On the contrary, in spite of its vast riches, the Premier League is in danger of becoming a vacuum for innovation, where the most obvious solution to an issue on the field is to spend money off it. Personality cults and a focus on the individual will not allow for legacy-building teams, while the chairman’s chequebook has become a lazy preference for squad development, even overshadowing the training ground. This is a luxury Serie A simply cannot afford, though perhaps, at least on the evidence of the last year, that is not to its detriment.
Italian football may no longer be the first, second or even third choice destination for the world’s elite players, but it continues to remain a home for tactical inspiration. While wage bills decrease annually, Italian clubs with solid tactical foundations seem to be in their strongest position for many years in comparison to their continental rivals. Calcio’s revival is further clarification that, while money is spent, ideas retain their value.
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Samsung Galaxy M30s to launch in India soon, colour variants leaked
By: Meenu Rana, The Mobile Indian, New Delhi Last updated : June 24, 2019 5:04 pm
Samsung will also be launching the Prism White variant of the Galaxy S10+ smartphone in the Indian market.
We already know that Samsung is working on a new variant of the Galaxy M30 smartphone. Recently, the SM-M307F smartphone was spotted online on GeekBench. The phone will be an upgrade to Galaxy M30 and will be launched as Galaxy M30s. Now if a new report is to be believed, Galaxy M30s will be launched in the Indian market soon.
MySmartPrice reports that the Samsung Galaxy M30s will be launching in India and a few other markets soon. It says that the phone will be available in Black, Blue, and White colour options. It is to be noted that the existing Galaxy M30 comes in Black and Blue colours.
Furthermore, the report has also claimed that Samsung will also be launching the Prism White variant of the Galaxy S10+ smartphone in the Indian market.
As per the earlier GeekBench listing, the Galaxy M30s (SM-M307F) will be powered by 1.74GHz octa-core Exynos 9610 processor coupled with 4GB of RAM. The smartphone will run on Android 9 Pie operating system which is likely to be skinned with the company’s OneUI. The smartphone scored 1,680 points in Geekbench single-core CPU test and 5,211 points in the multi-core CPU test.
An earlier report revealed that the new Samsung Galaxy M30s will be placed just below recently launched Galaxy M40 smartphone and will get some camera improvements as well. Further, the smartphone is expected to come in two storage variants- 64GB and 128GB storage. It will reportedly be backed up by a 5,000mAh battery with fast charging support.
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March 14, 2018 | Politics
Okowa, Nwoaboshi’s Re-election Bid Receive Boost
The National President, Ofu-Obi Anioma Social Political Group, Delta North and Chairman Oshimili North local government area Hon. Louis Ndukwe, Tuesday, charged Ukwuani people to reciprocate the giant stride of both the state governor, Ifeanyi Okowa and the Senator representing the District at the hallowed chamber of the National Assembly (NASS), Senator Peter Nwaoboshi to massively support them as they seek reelection ahead of 2019 general elections.
Speaking during the inauguration of the Ofu-Obi Anioma group in Amai, Ukwuani local government area, Ndukwe, noted that the Ofu-Obi Anioma group is a social political pressure group in Delta North that has its core mandate of drumming support for the Governor and Senator Nwaoboshi.
He stated that the decision of the group to work for the reelection bid of both Governor Okowa and Senator Nwaoboshi, was borne out of their developmental strides and commitment towards ensuring the betterment and all round development of the Anioma Nation.
Hon. Ndukwe while imploring the Executives of the group at both the LGA and ward levels to propagate the gospel of Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa and Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, hinted that the excellent performance of both the Governor and Senator Nwaoboshi, has so much endeared them to the hearts of majority of Anioma Electorate.
According to Hon Ndukwe, the many road projects and infrastructural development attracted to Anioma Nation by Senator Nwaoboshi in recent times is evidence and testimony of his capacity and laudable representation of the interest of the Anioma people in the National Assembly.
He further asserted that the pair of Sen. Okowa and Nwaoboshi is no doubt one, as the both have proven to themselves to be worthy ambassadors of the Anioma people. speaking shortly after the inauguration, the coordinator of the group in Ukwuani Hon Abraham Dike on behalf of the Executives expressed appreciation to Hon Ndukwe for finding them worthy of the task.
He assured him that the group in Ukwuani will work in tandem with the core objectivities of the group which is to ensure the reelection of Governor Okowa and Nwaoboshi, with an assurance to the National Chairman that the Executives in Ukwuani would never betray the confidence reposed on them by the national leadership of the group.
High point of the ceremony was the official inauguration of both the LGA and ward Executives of the group in Ukwuani as presided by the national President of the Ofu-Obi Anioma group Hon.Louis Ndukwe amidst fun fare and excitement.
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#endsars: Nba Asks Lagos Ag To Free Detainees If...
By Emeka Nwadioke
Lawyers under the aegis of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Lagos Branch have waded into the crisis rocking the justice sector over the #ENDSARS protests, calling on the Lagos State Attorney-General & Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo SAN to release innocent detainees.
In a letter dated October 30, 2020 and signed by its Chairman, Mr. Yemi Akangbe and Branch Vice Chairman/Chairman, Human Rights Committee, Mr. Okey Ilofulunwa, the lawyers noted that “over 500 citizens were arrested and remanded by some Magistrates Court of Lagos State on sundry allegations relating to the #EndSARS protest in Lagos State.”
Saying the remand orders are to await the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution on the fate of the detainees, the lawyers observed that the Nigeria Correctional Service “has failed or refused to take in the affected people pursuant to which they have been taken to several police stations around Lagos where they are currently remanded under degrading and inhuman conditions.”
Titled “DPP’S LEGAL ADVICE ON #ENDSARS DETAINEES,” the letter reads: “We are concerned that given the number of defendants, their right to dignity of human persons as secured under the 1999 Constitution may be imperiled.” They stated that there are reports of human rights abuses leading up to the detention and arraignment of the citizens.
Noting that the high number of defendants has a potential to clog the justice system, the branch leadership urged Onigbanjo to ensure that “Legal Advice be issued within the next 3 (three) working days, consistent with your pledge to fast-track the issuance of the Legal Advice.”
The lawyers also urged Onigbanjo to “use your good offices to ensure that those that are innocent are released immediately,” while asking to “be availed with copies of the Legal Advice when available.”
The branch has a network of lawyers under its Police Duty Solicitor Scheme (PDSS) and Court Duty Solicitor Scheme who offer free legal assistance to indigent citizens and #ENDSARS detainees.
It is recalled that NBA President, Mr. Olumide Akpata recently criticized the clampdown on #ENDSARS protesters, saying the NBA will not only monitor the proceedings of the several judicial panels of inquiry, but would also provide volunteer-lawyers to offer free legal services to citizens who wish to pursue their cases at the panels.
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February 21, 2019 | Sports News
Guardiola: City 'not ready' to win Champions League despite Schalke comeback
Manchester City were the favourites to win Europe’s top prize ahead of the round of 16, but in the eyes of their manager they are still someway off
Pep Guardiola warned Manchester City cannot expect to win the Champions League if they gift their opponents goals as they did in their dramatic 3-2 win over Schalke .
City claimed a first-leg advantage in their round-of-16 tie in Germany , though only after substitute Leroy Sane’s 85th-minute equaliser was followed by Raheem Sterling’s 90th-minute winner.
Schalke had fallen behind to Sergio Aguero’s opener, yet entered the interval 2-1 ahead thanks to a pair of Nabil Bentaleb penalties, awarded for a handball against Nicolas Otamendi and a foul by Fernandinho .
Otamendi then picked up a second caution after the break for an ill-timed trip of Guido Burgstaller, and Guardiola admitted City could consider themselves fortunate to emerge with a first-leg lead.
“The result is incredibly good, three goals away is good,” he told a post-match news conference.
“We gave [Schalke] the first goal, we gave the second goal and we gave the red card. In that level, still we are not ready to fight for the Champions League, but the result is good.
“I know how difficult it is to play in Germany. They didn’t shoot one shot on target [apart from the penalties] but they scored two goals.
“[After] the red card, the last 15, 20 minutes, maybe they push more and score the third and the fourth and you are out.
“The result is good, [the tie] is not over. Hopefully our fans can help us in the second leg and hopefully we can improve for the future.”
Guardiola insisted the final result, and City’s response to their difficult spells in the match, pleased him.
Yet he reiterated their lapses of concentration could prove their downfall in the latter stages of the competition.
Guardiola added: “The way we played, the way we started, the way we finished, the way we reacted 10 against 11, the way we reacted at half-time, 2-1 [down], in the second half we played incredibly good.
“I’m more than delighted, but it’s not enough in this competition.
“When it happens in other stages, it’s over.” Goal.com
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Friday | December 23rd, 2016
Touchdown Launches Red Kettle Revenue Scramble
Ezekiel Elliot has been carrying the Dallas Cowboys all seasons long to the best record in the National Football League (NFL). This week, the NFL’s leading rusher put The Salvation Army on his back, sparking the highest spike in “online conversation volume” that the charity has ever seen, to say nothing of the $1.6 million in online donations through Wednesday.
Hoping Elliott can spark a comeback in the metaphorical fourth quarter of this year’s lagging Red Kettle campaign, The Salvation Army launched the #ZekeKettleLeap social media campaign, explaining that a $21 donation can feed a family for three days.
HUGE thank you to those who donated in honor of #ZekeKettleLeap! $21 feeds a family for 3 days. https://t.co/zwJrWxPYLj #RedKettleReason pic.twitter.com/Vz0yeHzwKu
— Salvation Army USA (@SalvationArmyUS) December 20, 2016
In-person Red Kettle donations are still being counted but in some metropolitan areas this year’s campaign is down by as much as one-third, according to Lt. Col. Ron Busroe, national secretary for community relations and development for The Salvation Army.
After scoring a touchdown in Sunday Night Football’s national broadcast, Elliott leaped into The Salvation Army’s giant red kettle set up behind the end zone, with cameras following him, sparking a social media frenzy. Online donations to The Salvation Army spiked 61 percent into Monday morning, up more than $182,000 compared to the previous week.
The organization’s iconic Red Kettle campaign has been down about 16 percent overall, according to Busroe, likely the result of bad weather across parts of the country. Online donations, however, have been up 11 percent compared to last year.
Elliott, who wears No. 21, ultimately made a $21,000 donation to The Salvation Army. The NFL’s top rookie had expected to be fined by the league since he drew a penalty on the play; the giant red kettle was considered a prop in his touchdown celebration. He vowed to match any fine with a donation but the league relented and did not fine him.
Busroe encouraged people to continue to give to traditional red kettles and online at redkettlereason.org during the last couple of days of the campaign, which runs through Christmas Eve on Saturday.
Last year’s Red Kettle campaign was up 3.4 percent, raising almost $150 million. Online donations, which made up about a fifth of contributions, were up 7.5 percent.
For the past 20 years, The Salvation Army has kicked off its annual Red Kettle campaign during halftime of the annual Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game.
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by Ryan Johnson
30 May 2019, at 9:00am
After taking over her parents' poultry farm at the age of 26, Wendy Lantz has taken a leading role in her business and in her local farming community.
Wendy Lantz grew up on her parents’ poultry farm in southern Ontario, Canada, and, at the age of 26, decided to take over the family farm with her husband, Bruce. While she works off-farm as a social worker, she is heavily involved in the back end of the farm’s poultry business.
In 2018, Wendy was elected as a district committee representative (DCRs) for the Chicken Farmers of Ontario (CFO), one of only three female DCRs out of approximately 50 province-wide. DCRs are farmer-elected and their primary function is to act in a consultative capacity with the board of directors and with other farmer-members in their districts.
Wendy Lantz at her farm in Ontario
Please briefly describe your career in poultry.
I grew up on the poultry farm we currently own. When I was 26, my husband, Bruce, and I bought the farm from my parents and have been farming ever since.
Having grown up in the country and having always lived on a poultry farm, I knew I wanted to continue on that path. I had always been hopeful to be able to raise my family either in the country or, more so, on a farm. When the option of purchasing my parents’ farm became available, it felt like the right decision and the right time.
What are the main challenges that you face on the farm?
Dealing with the prevalence of avian influenza has been a challenge. The potential of diseases as well as changes in how chickens are raised, which influence the daily operations of the farm, are ongoing challenges. We also face continual political uncertainty with supply management and the challenge of ensuring that both the farmer has a fair return on their investment and the consumer has affordable meat protein in the grocery store.
Describe a typical day in your current role.
I work off the farm as a social worker in the community, however, I am very involved behind the scenes. I have regular conversations about how the birds are doing, what is happening in the barns and how things are going in general on the farm. My role includes the business side of things – paying the bills, ensuring the accounting is up to date and correct, dealing with suppliers and keeping a general handle on the business.
I am also a district committee representative for Chicken Farmers of Ontario. In that role, I represent the chicken farmers in my district. As a DCR, I interact with the board members and other DCRs on a regular basis.
One of my goals as a DCR is to have more women become active within the farming community. As such, I am planning to have a number of the women from my district attend an event where we have the opportunity to learn, interact and build relationships with one another.
One of my goals as a DCR is to have more women become active within the farming community
What’s the most unusual experience you’ve had in poultry?
The fact that I, as a woman, chose to take the risk and purchase my parents’ farm with my husband was an unusual experience. I was only 26 when we purchased the farm, so the risk, along with ensuring that the rest of the family was in agreement and that family relationships stayed intact, was definitely unique. People still look at me with surprise when I tell them that it was my parents we purchased the farm from as many people assume it was Bruce’s parents.
How would you reorganise the legislative minefield, if you could?
Supply management in Canada is not a legislative minefield; it is a system that has worked for over 50 years and continues to work very well. It enables responsible, sustainable production practices to be put in place for all chicken farmers. It ensures we create a high-quality product. Food safety and animal welfare are of paramount importance, and our On-Farm Food Safety Program and Animal Care Program ensures these high standards are met. Without the stability supply management provides, there can be no investment in innovation and productivity.
Have you encountered any challenges as a woman in poultry farming?
I am definitely a minority, especially in my role as a DCR. I have to say, though, the men I work with and with whom I sit around the table at CFO have been very welcoming.
What advice would you give to women looking to start a career in poultry?
I would say, “Go for it!” Poultry is a great career – there are so many opportunities, whether it is directly on the farm as a front-line farmer, in sales and interactions with the farmer themselves, or at the board level.
Wendy wants to encourage more women to make poultry their career
What would be your dream role in poultry?
I would love to be able to intertwine my profession as a social worker with my life as a poultry farmer. To work with farmers in a social-work role and meet with families as they manage intergenerational transfers is a dream of mine.
What outstanding challenge facing the poultry industry would you most like to solve?
I would like society educated on how chickens are raised. The media and other groups often misrepresent how chickens are raised. Chickens are raised with great care, they are treated appropriately; farmers love their animals and want the best for them.
I would also like people to see the Canadian supply-management system in a very positive light. Supply management is beneficial to everyone, and to have it looked at as a negative or that farmers are wealthy because of it, is not true. It ensures that there is supply for the market, and provides a balance between what the farmer gets paid and the costs to the consumer.
How has your relationship with the poultry sector evolved?
My relationship with the poultry industry has changed significantly throughout my lifetime. As a young girl, I was out there at the end of every crop helping to clean out and set up the barns, bring in the chicks – whatever needed to be done, I was part of that role. That has evolved into becoming the owner of the farm and learning not just about the daily operations of a business and how to run and manage a business, but also understanding the broader scope and political side of the sector.
How do you incorporate sustainable (ethical, environmental, economic) best practice into your day-to-day routine?
As poultry farmers, we truly care about the welfare of the birds. We ensure that the barns are well managed, the birds are grown under optimum conditions and they are treated in a very humane way. We keep an optimum square footage for the birds in order to ensure that they have enough space to be able to move around freely and stay healthy.
We are also growing our birds without the use of antibiotics in order to benefit everyone – the birds, the consumers and society as a whole.
The manure from our birds is spread back onto our fields in order to reduce the environmental footprint and the fertilisers that are required to grow our crops.
From an economic standpoint, we try and support local businesses as much as we are able. My friends laugh at me when I tell them that I picked up eggs from the neighbour, or I went to the cheese factory for my cheese, or to the honey farm for my honey. I love it in the spring and summer months when I have the option to purchase fresh produce from someone just a few kilometres from my home!
We also try to use local businesses when doing renovations to the barns. Just last year when we built a new barn, using local businesses was one of our priorities. This is just one of the benefits of supply management – it meets the demands of the consumer while also providing sustainable practices to ensure that everyone benefits.
Wendy's relationship with the poultry sector has changed over the years
How do you feel about on-farm technology, either current or yet to be developed?
I completely believe in on-farm technology and its contribution to better business and improved animal welfare. Technology doesn’t replace being in the barn and feeling the atmosphere in person, but it does enhance farming practices and improves the bird welfare.
What are the most memorable experiences you’ve had during your career in poultry?
My most memorable experience would have to be the intergenerational farm transfer that took place. It was a significant challenge, not only for my parents who wanted to have one of their four children purchase the farm, but also for my siblings, my husband and for me. Each of us (my parents, Bruce and I) wanted the family to stay intact and not have arguments or have the family no longer speak to one another because we now owned the farm. There had to be concessions made in order for us to be able to purchase it. I can happily say that we were able to achieve the intergenerational farm transfer successfully and that my relationship with my siblings is as strong, or stronger, than it has ever been!
Are there any individuals or organisations in the industry who you’ve found particularly inspirational?
The CFO recently began a programme called Women in Leadership. This programme has certainly inspired me to take on the role as a DCR and to step outside of my comfort zone to do something different. I had considered becoming a DCR before the programme began. However, the implementation of the programme and the encouragement from the staff has been inspiring.
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Ryan worked in conservation from 2008 to 2017, during which time he operated a rainbow trout hatchery and helped to maintain public and protected green spaces in Canada for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. As editor of The Poultry Site, he now writes about challenges and opportunities in agriculture across the globe.
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Reem Abaza – Team Leader & Spokesperson
Reem Abaza is the Spokesperson of the President of the 74th session of the General Assembly and the Communications Team Leader.
Before joining the office, she was the Chief of the Arabic Unit of UN News/News and Media Division/Department of Global Communications.
Prior to joining the UN in 2007, Reem worked as an editor and international broadcaster with the Voice of America in Washington D.C. before moving to the Pan Arab Radio Sawa based in Virginia, USA. Reem also worked as a new reporter with Abu Dhabi TV in Washington D.C.
She started her career as an on-air and news broadcaster in the Middle East Network, one of the most popular radio stations In Egypt.
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Trade Technologies Completes 40,000th Original Online Letter of Credit Presentation
Global Leader’s Patented Solution Breaks New Volume Threshold
Austin, TX (August 23, 2011) – Trade Technologies, the global leader for international document solutions, announced today the successful completion of its 40,000th fully electronic presentation of original letter of credit documents to major trade banks. Each of these 40,000 presentations contained originals and copies of all required documents, including all types of original third-party “e-transport documents,” such as carrier bills of lading, house bills of lading, forwarder cargo receipts and air waybills. Trade Technologies’ presentations are fully compliant with the established rules of the UCP 600 and have been honored for payment by hundreds of issuing banks around the world. In total, Trade Technologies has successfully completed over 115,000 international trade transactions with a total value of over $30 billion since 2003.
Over the last 9 years, Trade Technologies’ patented technology and process has dramatically changed the letter of credit world by automating the creation of all required documents directly from SWIFT advised letters of credit and enabling secure electronic presentations of original UCP 600 documents to major trade banks for payment. This far more efficient process allows exporters to streamline their operations, eliminate discrepancies, save money and accelerate payments. Trade Technologies’ flexible architecture and service offerings allow it to complete transactions under the established UCP 600 requirements and also the less proven e-UCP.
“Since our founding, Trade Technologies has been the leader in applying automation to letter of credit and other complex international trade transactions globally. We are singularly focused on helping our exporter customers grow their international business by reducing payment time and risk,” said Kirk Lundburg, CEO of Trade Technologies. “In 2010 alone, our software and services have helped over 1000 exporters receive payments 15 to 30 days faster on over $9 billion of exports."
Earlier this year, Trade Technologies was awarded the Presidential "E" Award for Exports by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The "E" Awards are the highest recognition any U.S. entity may receive for making a significant contribution to the expansion of U.S. exports.
“Bank of America Merrill Lynch has worked with Trade Technologies since 2003 to receive online presentations of original letter of credit documents in our examination offices around the world,” said Paul Johnson, Director, Global Trade and Supply Chain Product Management, for Bank of America Merrill Lynch. ”Trade Technologies services and technology automate and accelerate payment on billions of dollars of export transactions to our clients each year.”
Trade Technologies has offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, Houston, Istanbul, London,
Los Angeles, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco and Singapore.
About Trade Technologies
Founded in 1999, Trade Technologies is the largest global provider of outsourced trade document services and software. From its offices in Asia, Europe and North America, Trade Technologies provides leading exporters, freight forwarders and international trade banks with trade document solutions, training and consulting.
The Company’s web-based TradeSharp platform and outsourced services enable customers to streamline their operations, save money, accelerate payments, and eliminate discrepancies traditionally involved in international letter of credit, documentary collections and open account transactions. More than 1,500 exporters, global trade banks and freight forwarders depend on Trade Technologies’ services to process almost $10 billion in international trade transactions each year. Globally, Trade Technologies is presenting original letter of credit and other trade documents online to 71 examination offices of 24 banks in 13 countries.
Trade Technologies was named by Silicon Review as one of the “50 Smartest Companies of the Year 2016.” In 2015, Trade Technologies was awarded the Presidential “E” Star Award for Export Services by the U.S. Department of Commerce and was selected by CIO Review Magazine for its annual list of the 20 Most Promising Banking Technology Solution Providers. Trade Technologies was voted the “Best Trade Tech Solutions Company” in 2012 by readers of Trade Finance Magazine. In 2011, Trade Technologies won the Presidential “E” Award for Exports through the U.S. Department of Commerce, the highest recognition any U.S. entity may receive for supporting export growth. In 2010, the Company was awarded a patent on the Trade Technologies software platform and process.
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