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Facebook Group Spotlight – Medieval Romance Novels. The Rython Kingdom…
Facebook Group – Medieval Romance Novels. https://www.facebook.com/groups/MedievalRomanceNovels/
On today’s post I am reflecting the post I put onto the above group with the added bonus of an excerpt. The novella is actually two stories in one, the story of Guillem’s adventure and the tale he relays to the King’s court.
Bio: Mandy Eve-Barnett resides in Alberta, Canada but is originally from England. She is a multi-genre author and freelance writer and lives and breathes the written word and creativity in all its forms. She is the Secretary of her local writing group, the Writers Foundation of Strathcona County, and President of the Arts and Culture Council of Strathcona County.
Mandy publishes regularly on her blog – http://www.mandyevebarnett.com – where she has built a thriving writing community – sharing tips, news, interviews, and excerpts. She has published three children’s books and her adult novella, set in medieval England, The Rython Kingdom. She has also co-written a guide to memoir writing. Currently working on four manuscripts Mandy is never happier than writing and creating imaginary worlds.
Blog: http://www.mandyevebarnett.com
Twitter https://twitter.com/mandyevebarnett
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Mandyevebarnettcom/
Link to excerpt of The Rython Kingdom https://mandyevebarnett.com/my-adult-books/
The Rython Kingdom – Chapter One
“He’s coming! He’s coming! Guillem Ruet is here!”
Guillem smiled at the group of children running beside his horse as he rode toward the castle’s drawbridge. Dirty and barefooted, these youngsters would not be lucky enough to hear his newest tale, first hand. That pleasure would be for the inner court alone. It was a strange and most complex tale and all the more mysterious for being made of a dream.
Shouts of his approach preceded him, thrown from one person to the next across the dirt track and woven among the shacks lining it. The summer heat had denuded the earth of moisture; dust swirled around his mount’s hooves, creating a cloak of fine grains behind them, shrouding rider and horse. Ahead, the King’s standards lay limp against their poles high above on the castle turrets; thin strips of coloured cloth obscuring the lion head emblem of the king. More children, and some adults, ran beside him, eager to witness this famed troubadour first hand. The talk among the courtiers and peasants alike had been of his arrival and little else for many weeks.
As Guillem entered under the portcullis, it brought back memories of returning from battle years previously. Conquering heroes were showered with flowers and rewarded with grand feasts and warmed by many a maid. Serving as a knight in his younger days, Guillem had been admired for his prowess in battle, but now he was even more revered as a troubadour. His tales of battles and faraway lands held audiences spell bound as he punctuated them with displays of swordsmanship and the exhibiting of combat scars. So popular was Guillem that a feast or festival without his presence was considered incomplete. Fierce competition between lords kept Guillem’s purse and belly full as he traveled from one borough to the next, shamelessly attending whomever paid the highest fee. His new life fulfilled his wander-lust. Being confined to one place filled him with dread as did faithfulness to just one maid. Why restrict yourself to one when there were so many to pick from – all willing to bed the famous knight and troubadour?
Word had reached him a month prior notifying him the king himself requested Guillem’s presence at court. It was an honor to be bestowed with such a command and Guillem did not hesitate to comply. Not dallying at Lord Suffolk’s seat; as was his usual habit. Normally, he would take advantage of the many benefits afforded him but, this time, he packed his saddlebags the very same night and set off toward the king’s domain at daybreak. Several requests for his presence had made it to his ears as he traveled but each was declined in favor of an audience at the king’s court. Once it was common knowledge the king had requested Guillem to speak, Guillem knew he would be able to use it to increase his fee.
Ahead of him now was the sovereign’s castle keep with sentries standing at both sides of a stairway leading up to massive oak doors. The excited crowd jostled for position to get closer to Guillem and perchance to touch him or his fine mount. A herald sounded his trumpet as Guillem dismounted. The shouts died away as all eyes centered on the keep’s massive doors. They slowly opened. All knees bent and heads bowed as the regal figure of King Henry was revealed, resplendent in deep purple robe and golden crown. With measured steps, King Henry descended the stone stairs.
“Welcome, Guillem Ruet, your reputation precedes you. My courtiers and subjects have talked of little else but your arrival for these many weeks. Come and drink ale with me. You must be weary from your journey.”
Guillem bowed deeply again then handed his horse’s reins to a saddle hand, who was fidgeting beside him. As the boy led his mount away, Guillem could hear the lad’s excited whisper to the surrounding crowd.
“Look, look, I have his horse to care for.”
Careful to remain a step behind, Guillem followed his King into the castle’s dark interior. The huge stone blocks prevented the heat of the outside world from entering. Guillem shivered involuntarily. I should have taken my cloak out of the saddlebag before releasing my horse into the care of the boy. Then another thought struck him and he turned to see his horse being led away on the far side of the courtyard – he had not secured the small box. He had promised a mysterious old man he would not let it leave his possession and now it was in the hands of a young stable lad.
“The fire will warm your bones, Guillem. Is something amiss? You seem anxious?”
“Thank you, Sire. I relinquished my cloak without thinking but I also forgot to retrieve a certain object.”
“Do not worry, Guillem. I will have your saddlebags brought to your room presently. If there is anything missing I shall deal with the culprit myself. But for now….” The King raised a hand to summon a serf, “Stephen, a robe for our guest.”
A young man appeared from the shadow of a stone column and presented Guillem with a thick woolen robe. Its heavy warmth felt pleasing. Serfs opened an inner door as the King approached and allowed the two men to enter the great hall. Long oak tables flanked the centre aisle below a raised platform where the King’s ornately carved table and throne stood. Following his sovereign’s lead, Guillem walked toward the roaring fire at the far side of the huge room. Its radiant heat was welcome in the cool interior of the castle.
“Sit with me, Guillem, you will soon warm. Bring ale, Stephen.”
“As you command, your majesty.”
The serf had moved so silently that Guillem jumped when he responded to his master’s command.
“Guillem, why do you start so?”
“Sorry, Sire – I was unaware of your serf’s presence; gave me a bit of a shock when he spoke.”
“Not so surprising, Guillem, we call him Silent Stephen. He seems to glide instead of walk, although to watch him you cannot see any difference from any other man’s stride.”
“Strange indeed, my Lord, is he born of a witch?”
“Actually no, Guillem, his mother was a maid to my mother. He has grown up within these walls and knows no other life than to live and serve here.”
The Rython Kingdom is available as a print book at http://www.dreamwritepublishing.ca/retail/books/rython-kingdom
Also available as an ebook from all Amazon, Smashwords and Barnes and Noble.
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Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at http://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/8624, first published Aug 02, 2017.
Web-Based Interventions Supporting Adolescents and Young People With Depressive Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Maritta Välimäki1,2,3, RN, PhD ;
Katriina Anttila2,4, RN, MNSc ;
Minna Anttila2,3, PhD ;
Mari Lahti2,5, PhD
1Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
2Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
3Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
4Division of Child Psychiatry, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
5Turku University of Applied Science, Turku, Finland
Maritta Välimäki, RN, PhD
China (SAR)
Email: mava@utu.fi
Background: Although previous studies on information and communication technology (ICT)–based intervention on mental health among adolescents with depressive symptoms have already been combined in a number of systematic reviews, coherent information is still missing about interventions used, participants’ engagement of these interventions, and how these interventions work.
Objective: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of trials to describe the effectiveness of Web-based interventions to support adolescents with depression or depressive symptoms, anxiety, and stress. We also explored the content of the interventions, as there has previously been a lack of coherent understanding of the detailed content of the Web-based interventions for these purposes.
Methods: We included parallel randomized controlled trials targeted at adolescents, or young people in the age range of 10 and 24 years, with symptoms or diagnoses of depression and anxiety. The interventions were from original studies aimed to support mental health among adolescents, and they were delivered via Web-based information and communication technology.
Results: Out of 2087 records identified, 27 papers (22 studies) met the inclusion criteria. On the basis of a narrative analysis of 22 studies, a variety of Web-based interventions were found; the most commonly used intervention was based on cognitive behavioral therapy. Meta-analysis was further conducted with 15 studies (4979 participants). At the end of the intervention, a statistically significant improvement was found in the intervention group (10 studies) regarding depressive symptoms (P=.02, median 1.68, 95% CI 3.11-0.25) and after 6 months (3 studies; P=.01, median 1.78, 95% CI 3.20-0.37). Anxiety symptoms (8 studies; P<.001, median 1.47, 95% CI 2.36-0.59) and moods and feelings (2 studies; P=.04, median 5.55, 95% CI 10.88-0.22) improved as well in the Web-based intervention group, but there was no difference in stress scores. However, adolescents in the intervention group left the study early more often, both in short-term studies (11 studies; P=.007, median 1.31, 95% CI 1.08-1.58) and mid-term studies (3 studies; P=.02, median 1.65, 95% CI 1.09-2.49). We did not find any studies that had assessed the costs of the Web-based interventions.
Conclusions: Despite widely reported promises that information technology use is beneficial to adolescents with depression, the results of our review show only short-term effects on adolescents’ mental well-being, whereas long-term effects remain questionable because of the limited number of studies reviewed. Information about the economic benefits of Web-based interventions is still lacking. The quality of the studies, especially biases related to attrition rates and selective reporting, still needs serious attention.
JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2017;5(12):e180
Internet;
adolescent;
depression;
meta-analysis;
information and communication technology;
intervention;
systematic review;
treatment as usual
Currently, about half of adolescents showing signs of depression get treatment [1]. Identification of potentially effective interventions for adolescents with depression and anxiety is therefore a vital step toward supporting societies in general [2]. Information and communication technology (ICT)–based interventions have the potential to address treatment gaps concerning a variety of mental disorders [3,4]. Over 90% of adolescents use the Internet daily and 56% several times a day [5]. The Internet allows anonymous participation [4], without the fear of stigmatization [6]. Other benefits may include cost-effectiveness [7,8] and high accessibility [3].
Although a wide range of ICT-based interventions has been developed and tested, the impact of these interventions is still controversial in the field of mental health. On the basis of previous reviews, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)–based Web-based interventions have been found to impact the appearance of depressive and anxiety symptoms among young people [9-11], whereas online and mobile psychosocial suicide prevention intervention has reduced suicidal ideation, depression, and hopelessness [12]. A relevant study by Reyes-Portillo et al [13] reviews the effectiveness of Web-based treatment and prevention interventions developed for anxiety, depression, and suicide prevention. They found that 10 out of the 25 studies they reviewed reported significant postintervention reductions in symptoms, or improvements in diagnostic ratings. However, the evidence supporting the effectiveness of Internet-based interventions for youth depression and anxiety is still limited. Ye et al [14] performed a meta-analysis on 7 studies related to these types of interventions for young people. They observed a decrease in the severity of anxiety symptoms, but not a statistically significant decrease in depressive symptoms, when the results were compared with a wait list group. Nor were statistical differences found in depressive symptoms when Internet-based treatment was compared with face-to-face treatment in 2 studies. Furthermore, Kauer et al [15] did not find any improvement in the behavior among young people when it came to seeking help from Web-based services (18 studies), and a narrative review by Best et al [16] on the effects of social media technology on adolescent well-being found mixed effects or no effects at all.
Concerns regarding these Web-based intervention studies include methodological flaws such as heterogeneity in the interventions in terms of content, settings, dose, or quality [9,17]. A review by Arnberg et al [18] showed that the quality of evidence was graded as low or very low, and therefore, no conclusions were able to be drawn. Concerns also include insufficient search processes of the literature [10], small sample sizes [13,15], and differences in baseline in study samples [14]. A publication bias toward positive results has also been expressed [10,11,13,18].
Despite promising results of ICT-based interventions for adolescents and young people with depression, the overall picture of the effectiveness of these interventions is still inconclusive. To understand how the intervention works [9], we need to consider in more detail the content and structure of the interventions [19]. Therefore, in this systematic review, we describe the Web-based interventions and explore the impact of these interventions on the reduction of depressive symptoms among adolescents and young people with symptoms or a diagnosis of depression.
The methods of this systematic review have been based on the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis (PRISMA) [20]. PRISMA-P for meta-analysis protocols [21] and Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions [22] were also used in the preparation of our meta-analysis. Where possible, the data extraction was based on the CONSORT-EHEALTH checklist version 1.6.1 [23]. Web-based interventions were described using the template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide [24].
The review was limited to assessing the effectiveness of the interventions using a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design to gather only high-quality studies about health care interventions [25]. We included studies targeted at adolescents or young people in the age range of 10 and 24 years [26] who had been diagnosed with depression or had experienced symptoms of depression or anxiety [27]. We focused on interventions that aimed to support mental health among adolescents by preventing, identifying, or decreasing the symptoms of depression or anxiety, or through counseling. The interventions were delivered via ICT, including Web-based technology [28], which could be accessed by computers, tablets, or mobile phones. The review focused on published (or in-press) articles written in peer reviewed journals and published in English. The primary outcome used was depression, and the secondary outcomes used were anxiety, stress, moods and feelings, leaving the study early (attrition rate), and costs.
We excluded dissertations, letters, editorials, literature reviews, book reviews, and book chapters, in addition to studies with designs other than RCT. Study protocols of specific studies were searched for manually and used to verify possible risk of biases. Studies were excluded if the intervention was targeted at adults or persons under 10 or over 25 years old, parents, teachers, or health care staff. If the primary focus of the intervention was something other than depression, such as brain injury, eating disorder, or epilepsy, or if the intervention only included texting, the study was excluded.
Literature Search Strategy
We conducted a comprehensive literature search on September 1, 2015, and an updated search was done on February 10, 2017. Four electronic databases covering published research from the health and social field were investigated: MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, and Cochrane. A combination of medical subject headings and text-based search terms [29] for the databases was used. The search was conducted with the help of an information specialist. Due to changes in user interface in databases between the original and updated search, a search for MEDLINE, PsycInfo, and Cochrane was combined via Ovid (in 2017). Electronic databases used, search terms, and number of hits are documented in Multimedia Appendix 1. For additional references, we consulted the references in the included studies. Relevant systematic reviews were identified through electronic searches to avoid overlap between previous studies.
Study Selection
When choosing the selection of studies [22], first, two authors (KA, MA) independently screened all titles of abstracts that were relevant to this systematic review. Second, the abstracts were screened for eligibility. Third, the full papers of the included abstracts were screened for inclusion and exclusion criteria. In cases of discrepancy, the papers were discussed with MV until a consensus was reached. On the basis of the assessment process, the abstracts were included first in the narrative synthesis and later in the meta-analysis (see Figure 1) based on specific criteria, which are recorded in Table 1.
We created the data extraction table matrix to collect and describe information, focusing our aims in the synthesis. Data extraction involved describing the included studies and interventions, as well as the excluded studies. For the descriptions of the included studies, the information was collated by authors, year of publication, country of origin, purpose of the study, setting, target group, age, total number of participants randomized, and the number allocated in each study group. Information was combined if the publication (a hit) was based on original data published in more than one paper and the identification was based on the study protocol number. These studies were described in the data extraction tables (matrixes) as one study. The data from 22 included studies (27 hits) for narrative analysis were entered into the specific data extraction grid, where each study was treated as a separate case, and descriptive characteristics of the studies were categorized manually (see Multimedia Appendix 2).
The interventions were extracted to a matrix table based on the TIDieR checklist and guide [24] (see Multimedia Appendix 3). The categorization was done under the following themes based on the thematic analysis of Braun and Clarke [41]: (1) materials and procedures; (2) provider and modes of delivery; (3) location, dose, and length of the program; and (4) tailoring of the intervention, modifications, and fidelity.
For the meta-analysis, a summary of outcome measures used in 15 studies is described in Table 2. The meta-analysis was undertaken using Review Manager RevMan version 5.3 (Nordic Cochrane Centre, Cochrane Collaboration, 2014) for preparing and maintaining Cochrane reviews [42]. For continuous outcomes, mean differences were compared between groups. When similar scales were used, presuming that there would be only small differences in measurement tools, measurements were combined. This decision was made to answer the overall question of whether there is evidence that Web-based interventions can be an effective intervention among young people with depression or depressive symptoms [22]. Standard deviations were used with the sample sizes to compute the weight given to each study. A random-effects analysis was used instead of a fixed-effect method, as the former allows the outcomes of studies to vary more than the latter does; a random-effects analysis can be seen as a more natural way of explaining outcomes [43].
In cases of missing or incomplete data, there was an attempt to contact the authors of the study in question. However, as no replies were received from these attempts, available data was used. Heterogeneity was assessed by calculating the I2 index. If the estimated I2 was greater than or equal to 50%, it was interpreted as indicating the presence of high levels of heterogeneity [22].
Assessment of the Studies Included in Meta-Analysis
The quality of the 15 studies included in the meta-analysis was appraised by using a tool measuring risk of bias from Review Manager (RevMan) version 5.3 [60] with the following criteria [22]: random sequence generation, allocation concealment, blinding of participants and personnel, blinding of outcome assessment, incomplete outcome data, selective reporting, and other bias (Figure 2). For each study, KA and MV classified the domain as having a low, high, or unclear risk of bias. To minimize the risk of publication bias, bibliographic databases and trial registries were consulted to compare original review plans and outcomes reported. Any discrepancy between the two review authors was resolved through discussion (KA, MV, ML).
A sensitivity analysis was conducted by excluding studies (1) with a sample size that vastly differed from other studies or (2) if one or more of the studies had low-quality issues affecting the study results.
Figure 1. Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis (PRISMA) flow diagram.
Burckhardt et al 2015 [30] A Web-based adolescent positive psychology program in schools: a randomized controlled triala
Geisner et al 2015 [31] Brief Web-based intervention for college students with comorbid risky alcohol use and depressed mood: Does it work and for whom?b
Hoek et al 2011 [32] Randomized controlled trial of primary care physician motivational interviewing versus brief advice to engage adolescents with an Internet-based depression prevention intervention: 6-month outcomes and predictors of improvementa
Manicavasagar et al 2014 [33] Feasibility and effectiveness of a Web-based positive psychology program for youth mental health: randomized controlled triala
Saulsberry et al 2012 [34] Randomized clinical trial of a primary care Internet-based intervention to prevent adolescent depression: 1 year outcomesa
Stasiak et al 2014 [35] A pilot double blind randomized placebo controlled trial of a prototype computer-based cognitive behavioral therapy program for adolescents with symptoms of depressiona
Van Voorhees et al 2008 [36] Integrative Internet-based depression prevention for adolescents: A randomized clinical trial in primary care for vulnerability and protective factorsa
Van Voorhees et al 2009a [37] Adolescents dose and rating of an Internet-based depression prevention program: a randomized trial of primary care physician brief advice versus a motivational interviewa
Van Voorhees et al 2009b [38] Randomized clinical trial of an Internet-based depression prevention program for adolescents (Project CATCH-IT) in primary care: 12-week outcomesa
Whittaker et al 2012 [39] MEMO—A mobile phone depression prevention intervention for adolescents: development process and postprogram findings on acceptability from a randomized controlled triala
Wright et al 2017 [40] Computerized cognitive behavioral therapy for depression in adolescents: feasibility results and 4-month outcomes of a UK randomized controlled trial
aIntervention: comparison by ICT versus ICT.
bTarget population: risky alcohol use.
Table 1. Excluded studies from the meta-analysis and reason for being excluded.
Author (year),
protocol number Depression Anxiety Stress Life satisfaction
or quality of life Moods and
thoughts Leaving the
study early Costs
Calear et al 2009 [44] 2013 [45], ISRCTN67189839
Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)
The Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale
Not applicable (N/A)a N/Aa N/Aa
Data available N/Aa
Calear et al 2016 [46],
Published study protocol not available CES-Db N/Aa N/Aa N/Aa N/Aa
Costin et al 2009 [47],
ISRCTN98406912
Symptoms of depression (CES-D) N/Aa N/Aa N/Aa N/Aa
Hoek et al 2012 [48],
NTR1322
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
N/Aa
Client Satisfaction Questionnaire N/Aa
Ip et al 2016 [49], Published study protocol not available Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale-Revised (CESD-R)
Depression scale (DASSc)
Anxiety scale (DASS)
Stress Scale (DASS) N/Aa N/Aa
Kramer et al 2014 [50],
Levin et al 2014 [51],
Published study protocol not available
Depression scale (DASS)
Lillevoll et al 2014 [52],
Published study protocol not available N/Aa N/Aa N/Aa N/Aa N/Aa
Merry et al 2012 [53],
ACTRN12609000249257
Children’s Depression Rating Scale-Revised
Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale-2nd edition (RADS-2)
Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale N/Aa
Pediatrics Quality of Life and Satisfaction Questionnaire
Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ)
Hopelessness Scale
Poppelaars et al 2016 [54],
RADS-2 N/Aa N/Aa N/Aa N/Aa
Reid et al 2011 [55],
Rickhi et al 2015 [56],
CDRS-Rb
Hamilton Depression Rating Scaleb N/Aa N/Aa N/Aa N/Aa
Sethi et al 2010 [57],
Depression scale (DASS-21)
Kessler Psychological Distress Scale
Anxiety scale (DASS-21)
Stress Scale (DASS-21) N/Aa
Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire
Smith et al 2015 [58], Published study protocol not available
Children’s Response Styles Questionnaireb
Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders N/Aa N/Aa
MFQ
Stallard et al 2011 [59], Published study protocol not available
The Adolescent Well-being Scaleb
The Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale child versionb N/Aa N/Aa
The Schema Questionnaire for Children
aN/A signifies missing outcome.
bUsable data not available.
cDASS: Depression Anxiety Stress Scales.
Table 2. Authors, outcomes, and outcome measures included in the meta-analysis.
Figure 2. Risk of bias of studies included in the meta-analysis.
Results of the Search
We screened 2087 hits of abstracts, which were identified through electronic databases. On the basis of the screening, we removed 1458 duplicates. After assessing their eligibility, 1398 abstracts were excluded, which left us with 60 abstracts. Sixty full papers were then retrieved for potential inclusion in the study, and their eligibility was assessed based on our inclusion and exclusion criteria. We excluded 33 abstracts, which left us with 27 paper hits (22 studies) included in the narrative synthesis. Overall, 16 paper hits (15 studies) were included in the meta-analysis (see Figure 1).
Characteristics of the Studies
Narrative Analysis
The studies included in the narrative analysis (22 studies, 27 papers) were published from 2008 to 2017. They were conducted in school environments, health care settings, or in community settings in Australia, Canada, China, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom, or the United States. The number of participants in each study ranged between 20 and 1767. Their ages varied in the age range of 11 and 24 years. The attrition rate of the studies was between 0%(0/38) and 67.3% (385/572) (see Multimedia Appendix 2).
Fifteen studies (16 hits) included in the meta-analysis were published from 2009 to 2016. The total number of participants was 4979. The attrition rate of the included studies ranged from 0% (0/38) to 61.12% (1080/1767). (see Multimedia Appendix 2).
Description of the Interventions
In 22 eligible studies (27 articles), a variety of Web-based interventions were used (see Multimedia Appendix 3). The most common background approach used was CBT. Related to materials and procedures, the interventions were composed of modules, sessions, or lessons, with a variety of themes of background theories. ICT-based interventions used interactive games, online chats, mobile phone apps, and emails. The participants were offered activities to support their progress, such as homework assignments or exercises, skill training, workbooks or guided work, quizzes, and questionnaires. Interventions were provided by various professionals such as teachers, school counselors, research team members, project coordinators, or health care personnel. The programs were delivered on websites through computer software via compact disc read-only memory, mobile phone apps, or emails. They were offered at schools, in health care services, or in community settings. The interventions could include up to 14 modules that lasted from 3 to 10 weeks, typically done once per week. The time spent on the programs ranged from 20 min to 3 hours per week. Regarding the fidelity of the intervention, the participants’ completion of the intervention varied between 10% and 94%.
Risk of Bias in the Meta-Analysis
Most studies (12/15) included in the meta-analysis had a low risk of selection bias in random sequence generation. Half of the studies (7/15) had a low risk in allocation concealment, whereas in 4 studies (4/15), the risk was high. The risk involved with blinding participants and personnel (13/15) and outcome assessment (11/15) was low in most studies. More concern was raised regarding attrition bias (6/15 had a high risk) and especially, selective reporting (8/15 had a high risk). Out of 15 included studies, a published trial registration or a protocol was not found for 3 studies (Figure 2).
Effectiveness of the Interventions on Depressive Symptoms
For the primary outcome, a meta-analysis was performed involving 10 studies [44,47-51,53-55,57]. We compared Web-based interventions with the control groups of the studies by investigating the short-term effects of the interventions on depressive symptoms. This analysis (postintervention measurement) showed statistically significant improvements in the Web-based intervention groups (P=.02, median 1.68, 95% CI 3.11-0.25). However, only 4 of the studies [36,38,40,54] compared the effects on depressive symptoms regarding mid-term effects (follow-up measurements after 3-5 months). No statistically significant improvements in the Web-based intervention group were found in these comparisons (P=.08, median 2.91, 95% CI 6.19-0.36).
We further assessed the long-term effects of the Web-based interventions. Out of 10 studies, we found 3 studies [44,49,54] that assessed the long-term effects (6 months or longer). As for short-term effects after intervention, statistically significant improvements were found in adolescents’ depression scores in the Web-based intervention group (P=.01, median 1.78, 95% CI 3.20-0.37).
Substantial heterogeneity was found in the short-term and mid-term effects, but regarding the long-term effects, heterogeneity was only at a moderate level (see Figure 3).
Web-Based Intervention Group Versus Control Regarding Anxiety Symptoms
Anxiety symptoms were assessed in 8 studies comparing short-term effects of Web-based interventions to control groups [44,48,49,51,53,55,57,58]. Statistically, significant improvements were found in the Web-based intervention group in the short term (P=.001, median 1.47, 95% CI 2.36-0.59). However, for the mid-term assessment (follow-up measurements after 3-5 months), only 2 studies evaluated the effectiveness of a Web-based intervention for anxiety symptoms [48,53], and no statistically significant improvements in the symptoms were found (P=.36, median 1.42, 95% CI 4.45-1.62; see Figure 4). None of the studies measured the effectiveness at the 6-month mark.
Tests evaluating heterogeneity showed that for short-term and mid-term effects, heterogeneity was on a moderate level (see Figure 4).
Figure 3. Short-, mid-, and long-term effectiveness of Web-based interventions on depressive symptoms compared with that of a control group.
Figure 4. Short-term and mid-term effectiveness of Web-based interventions on anxiety symptoms compared with that of a control group.
Figure 5. Short-term effectiveness of Web-based interventions on stress symptoms compared with that of a control group.
Web-Based Intervention Group Versus Control Regarding Stress Symptoms
An analysis of stress outcomes was performed (3 studies) [49,51,55] to compare the effectiveness of a Web-based intervention on stress symptoms with that of a control group. The postintervention comparison showed no statistically significant short-term improvements in the intervention group (P=.14, median 1.06, 95% CI 2.44-0.33; see Figure 5).
Heterogeneity tests showed that heterogeneity was on a moderate level in short-term effects (see Figure 5).
Web-Based Intervention Group Versus Control Regarding Moods and Feelings
A meta-analysis was performed on 2 studies [53,58] to compare Web-based interventions with control groups with regard to short-term effects on moods and feelings. These comparisons (postintervention measurement) showed some statistically significant improvements in the Web-based intervention groups (2 studies; P=.04, median 5.55, 95% CI 10.88-0.22). Heterogeneity tests showed that heterogeneity was at a considerable level in the short-term effects (see Figure 6).
Web-Based Intervention Group Versus Control in Leaving the Study Early (Attrition)
Regarding the secondary outcome, leaving the study early, a meta-analysis was performed on 11 studies [44,47-50,52-55,58,59]. Postintervention measurement comparisons of short-term effects on leaving the study early regarding showed statistically significant results favoring the control group (P=.007, median 1.31, 95% CI 1.08-1.58). In an assessment of the mid-term effects (follow-up measurements after 3-5 months), 3 studies were compared [48,50,53]. Again, a statistically significant result favored the control group, showing that young people left the study earlier in the intervention group (P=.02, median 1.65, 95% CI 1.09-2.49). Heterogeneity tests showed substantial heterogeneity both in short and mid-term effects (Figure 7). An analysis of long-term effects was not possible because of missing data.
Figure 6. Short-term effectiveness of Web-based interventions on moods and feelings compared with that of a control group.
Figure 7. Short- and mid-term effectiveness of Web-based interventions on leaving the study early compared with that of a control group.
Our review showed fluctuations in the results of the effectiveness of the Web-based interventions; there was statistically significant improvement in the short-term and long-term (over 6 months with 2 studies) effects regarding adolescent depression but not in mid-term effects. Furthermore, in scores regarding anxiety and moods and feelings, a statistically significant improvement was found after the intervention but not in follow-up measurements. The fluctuation in the depression scores and a lack of significant findings may be a result of the small number of studies that included follow-up measurements. More studies with longer follow-up periods should therefore be conducted to produce clinically significant evidence on the long-term effectiveness of Web-based interventions.
Comparison With Prior Work
This review is pertinent because the effective interventions for supporting adolescent health are an investment in public health and the future (63). As 92% of adolescents use the Internet daily (5), Web-based interventions could offer solutions to problems in seeking help with depression (1). In line with previous studies related to psychological therapies [61], we assumed that Web-based interventions might have positive effects on stress levels among young people. However, we were unable to fully confirm our hypothesis. Previous studies have found relief in adolescents’ stress, if the intervention included psychological therapies with face-to-face contact [62]. Contrary to personal contact, Web-based interventions are often self-directed [9,44,52] or self-guided [33]. We can, therefore, ask whether the lack of regular human contact produced less-effective results. Indeed, interventions in our study that favored the intervention group included face-to-face guidance, monitoring of engagement, or follow-up telephone calls by teachers and health professionals (eg, [44,46,49]). We also found that participants in the intervention groups left the study early more often, indicating that they may not have been fully engaged in these Web-based interventions [9].
A comparison of costs of stand-alone online interventions and that of personal communication has not been analyzed thoroughly enough. In general, the use of effective interventions for supporting adolescent health has been seen as an investment in the future of public health [63]. The promises of cost savings with the use of information technology could rely on the fact that most adolescents are already frequent Internet users [5], which could save high investment costs. Its features could be translated into health services and offer easy access [1,3], safeguarded anonymity [4], and opportunities to receive help without the fear of stigmatization [6]. However, the Web-based interventions found in our narrative analysis varied greatly, with diverse background approaches, materials and procedures, providers, delivery types, dosages, and lengths of the intervention. Descriptions of interventions have been of poor quality, which has limited the possibility of comparisons, intervention replication, and the usability of study results in practice [24].
Many studies rely on the opportunities of health technologies for better health outcomes and decreased health costs [7,8]. Our review, however, did not reveal any studies assessing the costs of Web-based interventions. This result is noteworthy because huge investments are currently being made in the development of technological solutions for health services. The World Bank [64] has already screened more than 500 mobile health studies and concluded that evidence regarding the best strategies for effectiveness of the interventions and engaging the users in these interventions is still missing. After our review, the knowledge about the impact of the Web-based interventions remains controversial. Therefore, there is a need for a comprehensive impact evaluation that would show the costs and benefits of Web-based technology in the health sector.
In addition to follow-up periods, larger sample sizes and more rigorous study designs could increase the quality of the research. Specific Web-based interventions instead of packages of intervention could also provide a more feasible and accurate conception of the factors impacting the outcomes. Furthermore, more studies are needed in the future to gain a deeper understanding of why adolescents are eager to leave the study and why their engagement in information technology interventions is low.
The results of this study should be considered in the light of its limitations. We only included papers from scientific journals that had been written in English, which may have caused relevant studies written in other languages or existing in gray literature to have been left out [65]. Our review is, therefore, biased toward positive results and western countries. Publication bias may have also affected our results. This review may potentially favor results that have been deemed statistically significant. In addition, a number of studies included in the meta-analysis focused on specific outcomes, which may affect the reliability of some results. Moreover, the heterogeneity of our meta-analysis was high (I2 ranged between 0% and 89%). Although I2 is not a measure for absolute heterogeneity, it may refer to the high variation in some outcomes between studies [66]. Another point to consider is that the interventions used were more like “packages of interventions,” which included many different elements. As an outcome, it may be difficult to identify which specific elements influenced the effectiveness of the interventions. Furthermore, based on the sensitivity analysis, problems pertaining to the heterogeneity of interventions were identified. We must consider that participants or severity of depressive symptoms could have varied greatly among the studies included in the meta-analysis, which jeopardizes the results of the review [67]. All these issues should be taken into consideration when interpreting the results.
In conclusion, the principal finding of this review supports the evidence that Web-based interventions are effective in the short term in decreasing depressive and anxiety symptoms and improving moods and feelings among adolescents and young people. The review also indicates that adolescents are not fully engaged in using Web-based interventions. Instead of simply stating that “more studies should be done in this area,” we assert that more critical thinking is needed to understand to whom information technology might be useful, which components or characteristics of interventions make it more effective, and what role human contact in conjunction with information technology may play in engaging and supporting young people with mental health concerns.
Electronic databases, search terms, and number of hits found.
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Characteristics of the studies included in the review.
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Descriptions of interventions in included studies.
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CBT: cognitive behavioral therapy
DASS: Depression Anxiety Stress Scales
ICT: information and communication technology
PRISMA: preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis
RCT: randomized controlled trial
TIDieR: template for intervention description and replication
Edited by J Torous; submitted 02.08.17; peer-reviewed by A Lundervold, D Nault; comments to author 01.10.17; revised version received 13.10.17; accepted 19.10.17; published 08.12.17
©Maritta Välimäki, Katriina Anttila, Minna Anttila, Mari Lahti. Originally published in JMIR Mhealth and Uhealth (http://mhealth.jmir.org), 08.12.2017.
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Meet the Newbies! 5 Tony-Nominated Fresh Faces You Need to Know
May 30th, 2014 | By Lindsay Champion
For a Broadway newcomer, just getting the chance to perform on the Great White Way is a huge thrill—but these five new stars not only nabbed the role of a lifetime this season, they also received Tony nominations for their stellar breakout performances. Broadway.com photo editor Caitlin McNaney hit the town with Bullets Over Broadway star Nick Cordero, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder’s Lauren Worsham, The Cripple of Inishmaan standout Sarah Greene, Twelfth Night player Paul Chahidi and A Night with Janis Joplin headliner Mary Bridget Davies. Check out our cheat sheet on these fabulous first-time nominees!
Mary Bridget Davies, A Night with Janis Joplin
Davies has been wailing Janis Joplin tunes since appearing in a touring production of Love Janis in 2005, and her soulful take on the music legend’s hits finally paved the way to Broadway in 2014. Before hitting it big on Broadway, she loaded trucks for UPS and studied improv at Second City. When she’s not singing the blues in her living room with her two dogs, Davies loves spending quality time with her “boyfriend, Netflix and popcorn.”
Nick Cordero, Bullets Over Broadway
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Sarah Greene, The Cripple of Inishmaan
Direct from the West End by way of Cork, Ireland, Inishmaan’s Sarah Greene gets to taunt, tease and (spoiler alert!) eventually fall for co-star Daniel Radcliffe in the dark comedy by Martin McDonagh. Although she’s sworn off eggs after hurling so many onstage, Greene has officially been bitten by the Broadway bug—she’s hoping for an extended stay in New York City. Bonus secret talent: She can light cigarettes with her toes!
Paul Chahidi, Twelfth Night
The 44-year-old Twelfth Night standout is getting lots of attention for his gender-bending turn as witty maid Maria, but he first performed in drag at the age of 13. “I never played a woman again until Maria,” he told Broadway.com. “I don’t want people to think that’s all I do!” The Oxford native is having a blast in New York with his wife Kate and son George (no, not the royal ones), and they love hanging out in the Central Park Zoo and at the Bronx Botanical Garden.
Lauren Worsham, A Gentleman’s Guide
She plays a classy (and OK, a little weird) ingenue in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, but in real life, Worsham isn’t quite so dignified—she can stick her tongue in her nose and she has a tattoo of the Lone Star State on her rear end! Plus, this renaissance woman has a “backup” degree in Spanish literature and a rock band with her husband, composer Kyle Jarrow, called Sky-Pony.
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Stuart David - In The All-Night Café
Posted in Reading on Sunday 19th April 2015 at 7:04am
Books about music are always a little troublesome to me. I love books and I love music, but somehow attempts to mix the two are fraught with disappointment. As I've discovered and developed what I think is fairly respectable and eclectic musical taste over the years, I've often dabbled with the surrounding biographies and histories, but they've never quite filled the mysterious gaps for me. To be entirely fair, the reverse is often true too - music written around literature can feel awfully forced at times. I've often wondered though, why I'd develop such an aversion to the typical musical biography - and I think I can finally isolate my distaste: there are only two modes available to the musical biographer - building the mystery or knocking it down. Either drawing ethereal shrouds around a personality or a band, or promising to peel away the layers and leaving them - sometimes unfairly - exposed. Neither seems particularly satisfying to me, and neither produces much in the way of great writing.
However, Stuart David's account of the first year of Belle and Sebastian's stuttering, uncertain existence does neither of these things, and as such, it's an unusually charming and readable account of a band's formative steps. That said, the band doesn't really exist for a good part of the story, at least not outside of the unusually specific vision of David's former bandmate Stuart Murdoch, who is presented as a quietly eccentric but determined bandleader, bringing together a disparate and unlikely bunch of musicians around him to realise his plans. In any other setting, this would sound uncomfortably like the planned assembly of a manufactured band, but set against the backdrop of early 1990s Glasgow with its damp, foggy streets and crumbling bedsits it becomes a much more inspiring tale. Not least because it all seems so incredibly unlikely. As Murdoch's vision solidifies and the strength of his songwriting is slowly recognised, the rest of the band circle in the ever-complicated Glasgow music scene. David himself spends much of the book hedging his bets on a couple of other bands he's playing in finally 'making it' before finding to his surprise that Belle and Sebastian have attracted the attention of the outside world. Indeed almost accidentally the band have achieved what he's been struggling to pull off for years - which isn't always an entirely comfortable feeling for him it seems. As the band's seminal "Tigermilk" is released, the book ends with David wondering how he can have succeeded but failed all at the same time? This sense of quiet bemusement and surprise pervades his writing about the period, with the supporting characters from the government sponsored Beatbox scheme - along with a couple of veteran Glasgow musical luminaries - drawn as itinerant but amusing judges of the band's earliest missteps.
In The All-Night Café - Stuart David
My own entrance to this odd world came a while after the book ends, but the descriptions of Glasgow in the fading years of the last century accord with my own happy, slightly awestruck memories of early visits to the city. Indeed, In The All-Night Café stirred recollections which I didn't realise had become memories just yet: picking up the album in a Birmingham record shop in 1997, buying it on a whim after a good few years of being utterly disillusioned with music, and stepping off the train at Glasgow Central a little later that summer feeling a little nervous and excited to be in the city. David's book is a celebration of these tiny memories - the small, at the time insignificant events which rarely enter musical folklore but seem awfully important to how Belle and Sebastian began. Key to this story is the tension between the two Stuarts - David clearly hugely impressed by Murdoch's innate grasp of melody and songcraft, but equally aware he is compromising his own creative endeavours to be part of the band. The clarity of Murdoch's vision and his urge to be heard by the right people in the right places occasionally jars with David's more traditional time-serving approach to finding recognition. Murdoch is presented as knowing his audience from the outset - understanding the bowlies and their tastes and expectations, and persistently seeking their ears. This utterly does away with the claims of 'wilful obscurity' or 'tweeness' which were sometimes levelled in the press of the day. Murdoch - and ultimately the band which coalesced around him - wanted to be heard and understood despite the prevailing view of how bands ought to form, slog tirelessly away and gradually earn their slice of success in 'rock music'.
Stopping as it does on the very brink of the band's early successes, just before the national recognition which would propel them towards creating two of the finest records of the late 90s, this book feels tantalisingly incomplete. Ultimately, Stuart David's road would soon diverge from the band and his own creative urges would see fruition in his novel 'Nalda Said' and in Looper. So, it's very likely that the next chapter won't be written - or if it is, will be written by a different voice, from a very different viewpoint. So this sits, rather like David's contemporary 'ink polaroids' - tiny chapbooks filled with snippets of descriptive prose - as a charmingly downbeat but amusingly drawn permanent record of fast-moving times, prone to shifting and reshaping to fit history. As he states at the end of the book, the inscription on the reverse of "Tigermilk" stating that the band formed over the course of three days in an all-night café had already begun to collapse into the myth of "one night". It will always be tempting to mythologise a band which, for a brief period during those late years of the last century seemed almost perfect.
But then weren't the Glasgow summers always sunnier back then too?
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Still in business: Judge rules Owosso barbershop can stay open
OWOSSO (WJRT) (05/11/2020) – A Shiawassee County Circuit Court judge has ruled in favor of Owosso barber Karl Manke, allowing him to stay open despite the executive orders barring shops like his from taking customers.
Owosso barber Karl Manke discusses a court ruling in his favor that allows him to remain open.
The judge denied a temporary restraining order on Monday that Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel sought to close the barbershop, which is violating an order from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Barbershops, hairstyling salons and spas all are deemed non-essential, so they aren’t allowed to operate during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Show the proof. Show that people are actually being harmed,” said attorney David Kallman, who is representing Manke.
The decision comes hours after Shiawassee County Sheriff Brian BeGole released a statement saying he would not enforce Whitmer’s executive orders.
Manke said the barbershop is his only source of income and he needed to reopen to survive. He has said three applications for unemployment benefits were not successful.
Manke, who has worked nearly 60 of his 77 years as a barber, said he hadn’t received a paycheck in six weeks before he decided to reopen last week.
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Watch the First Promo of Hairspray Live!
August 19th, 2016 | By Broadway.com Staff
The nicest kids in town! We have the first video promo of NBC's eagerly anticipated Hairspray Live!, below. The starry cast, who can be seen in costume for the first time, includes Harvey Fierstein as Edna Turnblad, Jennifer Hudson as Motormouth Maybelle, Ariana Grande as Penny Pingleton, Derek Hough as Corny Collins, Dove Cameron as Amber Von Tussle, Garrett Clayton as Link Larkin, Andrea Martin as Prudy Pingleton, Martin Short as Wilbur, Kristin Chenoweth as Velma Von Tussle, Rosie O’Donnell as the Gym Teacher, Sean Hayes as Mr. Pinky and newcomer Maddie Baillio as Tracy Turnblad. The live broadcast will air on December 7.
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MOCTEN
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Covid: Secondary school new term delayed by two weeks
Secondary schools across most of England are to remain closed for an extra two weeks for most pupils, to help regain control of coronavirus.
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the Commons that exam-year pupils would return a week earlier than their schoolmates in the week of 11 January.
In the meantime, schools will have more time to set up mass testing plans.
In a few areas with the highest infection rates, primaries would remain closed temporarily, he added.
The areas where primary schools would remain closed are: most of London, much of Essex and Kent, Hastings and Rother in East Sussex, Milton Keynes and parts of Hertfordshire.
Mr Williamson said the temporary school shutdowns would cut chains of transmission. Primary closures would be reviewed every two weeks.
But teaching unions said the move did not go far enough, and one labelled it another "last-minute mess". They have been calling for a working test-and-trace system since before schools returned from the lockdown in September.
The move comes after most of England was put into the toughest tier four restrictions, and follows warnings from medics about pressure on hospitals - and from government scientists about the increasing contagiousness of the new strain of coronavirus.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: "We must face the reality. The sheer pace of and spread of this new variant requires us to to take even tougher action in some areas."
He stressed that the children of key workers and vulnerable pupils would still be able to return to primaries or secondaries next week.
"At this critical moment, with the prospect of freedom within reach - we've got to redouble our efforts to contain the virus," he said.
Mr Williamson said the delay in reopening secondary schools would allow head teachers to develop and set up mass testing plans for their pupils.
"In the face of a rapidly changing situation, I am determined to act to preserve lives and the NHS, as we continue to protect education and put children first.
"We are making changes to the start of term to give more time for the rollout of our first of its kind rapid testing programme, to identify students who have the virus but don't display any symptoms."
He added that the government expects to deliver 50,000 devices to schools across the country on 4 January to support remote learning, with 100,000 devices to be delivered during the first week of term.
But Kate Green, Labour shadow education secretary, said: "Only days before many schools should have been opening again to all pupils, the secretary of state has announced that many will not be returning as planned.
"This delay and disruption to children's education is a direct result of the government's failure. They've lost control of the virus. Now they're losing control of children's education."
Her Labour colleague, Yvette Copper, said schools in her constituency had received no support or allocation of funding, and no contact from the military, which has been organising testing in some schools.
She added: "They all want to do this mass testing but the support they are getting is always too late, too chaotic."
High Covid rates
But Mr Williamson said the testing programme would help keep education settings as safe as possible for all students.
"Because Covid infection rate is particularly high among this age group," he said, "we are going to allow more time so that every school and college is able to fully roll out testing for their pupils and staff.
"This kind of mass testing will help protect not just children and young people, but benefit everyone in the community.
"It will break those chains of transmission that are making infection rates shoot up."
The primary schools affected would be reopened as soon as possible, Mr Williamson said, adding that testing for primary school staff would follow in January.
Full list of areas where primary schools will remain closed at the start of term
London: Barking and Dagenham; Barnet; Bexley; Brent; Bromley; Croydon; Ealing; Enfield; Hammersmith and Fulham; Havering; Hillingdon; Hounslow; Kensington and Chelsea; Merton; Newham; Redbridge; Richmond-Upon-Thames; Southwark; Sutton; Tower Hamlets; Waltham Forest; Wandsworth and Westminster.
Essex: Brentwood; Epping Forest; Castle Point; Basildon; Rochford; Harlow; Chelmsford; Braintree; Maldon; Southend on Sea and Thurrock.
Kent: Dartford; Gravesham; Sevenoaks; Medway; Ashford; Maidstone; Tonbridge and Malling; Tunbridge Wells and Swale.
East Sussex: Hastings and Rother.
Buckinghamshire: Milton Keynes.
Hertfordshire: Watford, Broxbourne, Hertsmere and Three Rivers.
'Last-minute mess'
It is a significant step, as ministers have repeatedly stated that schools would remain open - and even threatened council areas which wanted to close their schools early for Christmas with legal action.
The general secretary of the Nasuwt teachers' union, Patrick Roach, said the announcement offered belated clarity but did not go far enough.
"Stronger preventative action is needed to limit the further transmission of the coronavirus in schools and colleges, including enabling the greater use of remote and blended learning which would enable effective social distancing, which is vital to minimising virus transmission."
The leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, Paul Whiteman, said: "This is another last-minute mess which could so easily have been avoided if the government had listened to school leaders before the holidays.
"Instead, back then, schools which wanted to shift to remote learning were threatened with legal action. Now we have a situation where the government is instructing schools to reduce the amount of teaching time available.
"If we'd had the freedom to take action before the holidays, we might have been in a position to have more schools open for more pupils. School leaders will be baffled, frustrated and justifiably angry tonight."
Schools were struggling to remain Covid-safe during the autumn term, despite the intense efforts of teachers and staff, with huge numbers of pupils contracting the virus and then being sent home.
All primary schools had been due to fully reopen on 4 January, along with secondary schools opening for vulnerable children and those sitting exams this year (Years 11 and 13).
Remaining secondary school pupils were to start term working remotely from home.
Effectively, the whole process has been shunted back a week. This is two weeks after the usual start of term.
How are the other UK nations returning to school?
Scotland: Schools will start term on 11 January, with learning taking place online until at least 18 January.
Wales: Term will start with online learning, but the majority of pupils are expected to resume face-to-face lessons by 11 January. A full return to the classroom is expected to be completed by 18 January.
Northern Ireland: All schools will initially reopen for face-to-face teaching at the start of term, but years 8 to 10 will move to remote learning from 25 January for at least two weeks.
Schools in all the UK nations are remaining open for vulnerable children. England, Wales and Scotland have also committed to maintaining face-to-face teaching for children of key workers.
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KID WAVE AN INDIE ROCK FOURSOME, SENDING NEW WAVES THROUGH THE MUSIC SCENE!
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What is the band’s name?
Kid Wave
Whats the reason behind the band’s name?
It’s basically just a play on words. Me and my friend Josie were sitting in a café in Kentish Town an afternoon after getting kicked out from work when I came up with it.
What is your genre of music?
I normally say indie rock.
Give us a little Bio of the band and you guys individually-
I started it as a recording project after moving to England in 2011. I met Serra (drummer) at a local music college here and then later Harry (bass) via mutual friends. Mattias and I have known each other for a long time and hail from the same town in Sweden.
How long have you been doing music?
-Since my early teens.
What made you go in to music?
Sounds strange but I just woke up one day and knew that’s what I wanted to do. And it’s been a very consistent and strong feeling ever since, I’m interested in a lot of things but I never wanted to do anything else really.
Are you a signed?
Yeah, the band is signed to Heavenly Recordings in the UK.
I first saw your Music at ‘Stereophonics’, what is it like being on a tour like that?
It was amazing. We’ve never played massive venues like that or been part of a big production before; they were travelling with a crew of 60 people and catering. It’s in a way a lot easier because the venues are all purpose built. Normally you have to carry your gear up two flights of stairs and then you hang out in a scrub behind the stage drinking warm Carlsberg or something like that, which is also cool but not as luxurious. On this tour we had nice dressing rooms and our own showers and stuff because venues that size I have that I guess. We were so well looked after. The tour was like a fun holiday. I tend to say that a lot about doing music stuff ha, but really compared to my every day life doing what I love is like a holiday for me.
Who was the best night so far?
I loved all the shows. I think Brighton and Nottingham were the best performance wise, but Manchester was pretty special as it was the first time playing an arena and I had a bit of a real life moment on stage. The size of that place is impressive. I always get a bit of post tour anxiety before the tour actually finishes so the last show (and the biggest one) in London at the O2 was a bit of a blur although it was the coolest thing ever to get to play there.
You are headlining one of NME’s + Austins 2016, what was that like to get the call?
Really cool! It’ll be the last show for us in a while as we’re now working on album 2, so it’ll be a special one for sure.
What instruments do you play?
Guitar, piano and drums.
Who are your influences?
At the moment I’m really into songwriters like Ryan Adams and Jeff Buckley.
When will your new material be out?
There will be new stuff out later next year!
Will you be doing your own tour?
Yeah we will for sure do our own tour when the new album is out.
What Cities would you want to perform in?
All of them haha.
Where is the best place you’ve performed?
Scotland is always fun! And London is special because it’s home ground for us. I also enjoyed playing in Scandinavia and Paris a lot. The crowds there are really fun to play to.
And the best Venue?
I loved La Cigale in Paris. It’s a beautiful venue. Molotow in Hamburg was great as well, we played there twice at Reeperbahn Festival and it’s just a really cool place. The basement room is tiny, it was so crowded people who couldn’t get in were watching from outside and the vibe is just amazing.
How do you get inspiration to write songs?
Sounds like a cliché but I think life in general. I think the second album will be different to the first because you know, you evolve and things change all the time. But I think as a writer I tend to come back to the same things a lot.
Where do you see yourself in 2-5 Years?
Hopefully we have our second and maybe even third album out by then. I just wanna keep writing and releasing music. I love touring so I hope I’ll be on the road, but to be honest who knows. Looking back 5 years my life was very different to how it is now.
When you’re not doing music, what do you do?
I walk a lot. I love being outdoors. I like travelling and being on the move, I try to always have projects going. I think I’m one of those who always search for something to keep me going. When I come back from tour I have to have something else to look forward to or work on otherwise I’d go mad I think. Sometimes it’s music, sometimes I design clothes and jewellery that I never use and sometimes I just I write other things but music. Right now I’m focusing on the second album and going to LA to write and see my publisher.
If you could collaborate with one UK Artist who would it be?
There are many. I think Justin in The Vaccines is one of the most solid songwriters in the UK guitar music world right now. Their sound has evolved over the years but you always recognize his writing style. I think that’s what makes a great songwriter. When we were on tour with them they wrote like 50 songs on their day off and rehearsed new material at soundcheck. I’m quite slow when it comes to writing but it’s cool to get an insight in how other people write and work, it’s so individual. I’d like to do a collab just to see how one actually writes 10 songs in a day.
If you could collaborate with one USA Artist who would it be?
Ryan Adams, Josh Homme , Jeff Tweedy or Tom Petty. I really can’t decide, would be a dream come true either way. I’d love to write with them, for them to produce a song or even just observe them work (like a proper creep ha). I watch all these geeky videos and live performances on youtube, I think I’m just trying to learn. I’m not from a musical family or anything like that so I’ve had no guidance musically and although I’m pretty confident in what I want and what I like, I look to others for input and tips. Songwriting doesn’t come with a manual and most of the time I find that you’re pending between hating yourself and loving yourself. It’s pretty terrible when you think about it.
Where is your dream venue or festival to perform in UK?
Ever since I saw Wilco perform at Roundhouse in London I’ve wanted to play there, its really one of the best sounding venues and a beautiful room.
Where is your dream venue or festival to perform in USA?
We’d love to play Coachella, be amazing to experience a festival in good weather haha!
What was the song you listened to most that influenced you to go more in to the music scene?
-At the time I listened to a lot of Swedish music and bands like Laakso, Florence Valentin and Broder Daniel. Can’t pick one song though!
What was the first song you wrote?
I wrote a song about a donkey and all the animals I wanted to have when I was like 6 years old. I was obsessed (still am) with animals.
What’s the best advice you have ever been given?
To let things take time. I’m rubbish at it myself but when you look back you can always see that the way things happen make sense. Sometimes you gotta let it take time and not rush into anything – when you’re ready, you’ll know and things happen naturally.
What advice would you give to aspiring musicians?
Enjoy the ride. Be prepared for a lot of hard work, there’s very little money in it for young and upcoming bands so you probably have to juggle with part time jobs and stuff. But if you’re in it for the love of music, which most people are, it’s always worth it no matter the level you’re at. And don’t listen too much to what other people say! I mean its good to listen to people with more experience but you don’t have to buy everything they say. We all have to make up our own minds. I was probably the only one in my class in college who got told by the teachers to not pursue a career in music – “Keep it as a hobby, you’re not talented enough”, “the industry is tough” and all that. It’s hard enough having to fight your own insecurities about doing music, but having to face everybody else’s is even worse. Now I’m the only one with a record deal and a debut album out of the 30 students in my class so try not to listen too much to what everyone thinks and says. If you want something and believe you can do it – go get it yourself; no one else will do it for you.
What quote or saying do you always stick by?
That human connects with humans. Hiding one’s humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes life vague and lifeless. We’re drawn to shared interests, shared problems and life energy. It’s sometimes easy to forget in today’s society. I try to always be very open and honest about flaws, my problems and myself because I find that it helps other people open up about theirs too.
When you are at a gig, what are 5 things you cannot forget?
To bring? My guitar, extra guitar, my capo, my phone charger and plektrums.
Do you have social media accounts so your fans can follow you?
Yep – search for Kid Wave
www.facebook.com/kidwavemusic
Instagram: kidwavemusic
Twitter: kidwavemusic
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Tony Hawk Literally Just Skated Through the Badlands
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Tony Hawk, Twitter
It's not unusual for famous people to travel through our part of the west. It is a bit strange for someone famous to come through literally on a skateboard. That is true unless you're Tony Hawk.
Props to KOTA-TV for this find. They shared Tony Hawk's video from Twitter. The backstory is that Tony saw open highway and decided to make the best of it.
When I see Tony Hawk doing this, I have to wonder out loud what he's up to. Destructoid wondered the same thing late last year when there were rumors of a new Tony Hawk video game project. They shared a link to a Games Radar story which confirms there are 2 classic Tony Hawk games coming later this year.
The first 2 Tony Hawk games were original Playstation classics, so it's good news that the next generation will get to enjoy them.
Seeing Tony cruise through the Badlands makes me wonder if he's capturing video in our part of America for another upcoming game and/or show. Maybe we could convince him to make that Casper Mountain big wheel racing thing happen?
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Amethyst brilliant purple color is as magical as it is seductive. In fact, this gemstone of all gemstones is said to be one of the most powerful protector stones.
Amethyst is extravagance in purple crystal form. Royal, luscious, rich, seductive, vibrant, alluring, are just some of the words people use to describe amethyst. In fact, people across the world spend more on specacular amethyst specimens than any other type of mineral specimen.
According to Robert Simmons, Amethyst was used by the people in Neolithic Europe some 25,000 years ago. In ancient Egypt, it was used to makde beads and amulets for royalty and important members of their society. The early Greek and Roman socieities also placed a great value on Amethyst.
This is one stone that, much like clear Crystal Quartz, is most every lightworkers toolbox of crystals. Though powerful as single stones, these crystals are quite powerful in cluster form as well.
Introduction to Amethyst: The Crystal of Protection and Spiritual Transformation
Amethyst Throughout History
Amethyst has been a jewel coveted by spiritual leaders and royalty for thousands of years. This is why the color purple has been associated with royal society throughout the ages.
It has been said that Moses said that amethyst was a symbol of the Spirit of God and it was listed as one of the twelve gemstones in the High Priest’s breastplate where it representing one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Sumerians and Babylonians as well as the Egyptians were said to wear amethyst amulets for protection. Some are in museums today. Throughout many Christian sects, amethyst rings were traditionally worn as a sign of rank and many of the clergy believed that amethyst helped to bring the faithful to God. Many also thought that only the very highly spiritual and moral were worthy of wearing amethyst. The ancient Chinese often stored spices, balms and healing ointments in carved amethyst bottles.
The Russian Empress Catherine the Great sent thousands of miners into the Urals to look for it. Napoleon captured the Amethyst best of Roman Emperor Trajan in Berlin during his conquest.
So whether is was 3000 years ago or today, people around the world though Amethyst was a very special stone.
Amethyst has quite a long history with many religious practices. In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, there are instructions given for placing heart shaped Amethyst on the body of the deceased; the specific shape said to help transition with peace to the next realm. Within the Christian church, especially the Roman Catholic church, it was known as a gem of purity and associated with Bishops who traditionally wear them set in rings. It is also the stone of Buddha and is quite popular to use for Buddhist prayer beads, more prominently in Tibet.
The Chaldean Magi believed that Amethyst was a powerful stone that protected against evil sorcery as well as bringing success and good luck to the bearer. It has long been believed to grant a deeper understanding of the hidden knowledge of the universe.
At one time in China, pieces of Amethyst were often rented to those involved in legal lawsuits. The stone was said to attract a favorable outcome and a positive outlook. Amethyst became extremely popular in the mid fifteenth centuries as an amulet often worn by soldiers. It was thought to protect against not only injury or death, but also to repel or control evil spirits.
General & Scientific Amethyst Gemstone Properties
Amethyst: Stone of Spiritual Transformation
Mohs Hardness of 7 with a trigonal crystal structure.
Pronounced: ˈa-mə-thist
What is Amethyst?
Amethyst is a purple variety of quartz mined at many locations throughout the world. As Amethyst it ranges in color from pink lilac to deep purple. The deeper colors are generally more valuable, and at one time were more valuable than diamonds. The actual crystal hold the properties for Citrine well. When heated by nature the crystal that is a portion Citrine and a portion amethyst is known as Ametrine. This is a natural and authentic nature made stone found only a few locations. There have been gem dealers known to artificially heat the Amethyst causing it to turn yellow in full or in part then selling the altered stone as Ametrine or Citrine . It is also possible to heat the stone to a lovely shade of green, which is called “green amethyst”. This practice is frowned upon, yet happens still.
Amethyst is mined in Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia and Argentina, as well as in several African countries. Generally, larger sizes are to be found in South America although Africa is reputed to have the more sought after deeper color in smaller sizes. The darker Amethyst, more often in smaller sizes is also found in Australia.
The world’s largest amethyst deposits are usually found in the fractures and cavities of igneous rocks. In Brazil and Uruguay large amounts of amethyst are found in the cavities of basalt flows. Large cavities often contain hundreds of pounds to several tons of amethyst crystals.
Smaller cavities, known as geodes, are often opened in a way that displays the crystals inside and then fitted with a base that allows them to be used as home or office decor. They are collectors items from in homes, commercial spaces, and civic centers such as museums and events centers throughout the world.
Amethyst Color and Hues
Amethyst gets its color from iron and aluminum impurities inside the underlying quartz structure. The colors range from light purple to deep violet to pale red-violet (pink amethyst). The deep colors are the most valuable, particularly a rich purple with rose flashes. "Siberian" deep purple amethyst with red and blue flashes commands the highest prices. There is even a form of green amethyst that occurs in rare conditions unusally involving heat or vulcanism.
How to Clean and Care for Amethyst?
Amethyst is a durable gemstone, but some care is needed to maintain its polish and natural color. It has a Mohrs hardness of 7, so it can be scratched by common sharp objects. You should avoid the use of abrasives when cleaning Amethyst. Accidental scrapes on hard objects or abrasion with other gems of equal or greater hardness in a jewelry box can cause damage. It is best to keep out of long-term exposure to direct sunlight. The color of amethyst can fade by prolonged exposure to direct sunlight or bright display lights.
When storing Amethyst, wrap in a cotton or velvet cloth and store separately. This keeps it free from dust and from being scratched by other items.
Amethyst Metaphysical Gemstone Properties
This is one stone that, much like clear Crystal Quartz, was indispensable to healers. Amethyst is a spiritual stone, a stone of peace, with absolutely no known negative effects. Though powerful as single stones, they are quite beneficial in clusters. The larger cluster (especially unpolished) is powerful enough to cleanse other stones of their negative energies as well as recharging them. It is an especially excellent stone for absent healing.
If you are drawn to Amethyst it may indicate that you are feeling exhausted, stressed, or are experiencing recent difficulties and will need to use the stone to grant yourself gentle love until your energy flows free once more.
Placed under a pillow or worn during sleep it will help prevent nightmares and ward off insomnia. It will bring peaceful yet more psychically charged sleep. If placed on the temples or the point of pain from a headache or migraine, it will soothe, relax and reduce the pain. Regular headache sufferers are generally afflicted by anxiety or nerves; these will often subside if an Amethyst geode or slice/cross section is placed in the room that much time is spent. Amethyst is a natural soother of the mind and emotions, it helps to relieve the “scattered” feeling, helping to focus and keep control of the faculties. It is also used to help improve concentration by assisting to develop the creative/right side of the brain. Known to calm emotional disorders.
Amethyst was thought to tune the endocrine system by helping to boost the production of hormones and balancing the body’s metabolism. Told to strengthen the entire immune system by cleansing the blood which in turn helps to strengthen the cleansing of the organs of the body. This cleansing in turn assists with cellular disorders as well as disease of the digestive tract; including regulating the flora of the intestines and encouraging the reabsorption of water. With the purification of the blood comes reduced bruising, injuries and swelling.
Additionally, the ancient stories say those who wear an Amethyst necklace are told to fascinate others with their pleasing personality and wonderful charisma. Heart shaped Amethysts are sometimes exchanged between couples to enhance the depth and longevity of their love and happiness; strengthening their connection.
Amethyst Magical Gemstone Properties
Energy: Receptive
Planet: Jupiter/Neptune
Deities: Bacchus, Dionysus, Diana
Powers: Dreams, Psychism, Peace,Love, Courage, Happiness
Candle Color: Purple/Dark Blue
Amethyst is said to attract justice and protect against burglars and thieves. It also wards off danger and violent death. It is told that by transmuting evil energy into love, it guards against psychic attack. It is one of the few stones used specifically for males to assist in attracting females.
Amethyst increases the activity in the right brain, cuts through illusion, and helps to develop the psychic abilities. It strengthens and develops intuition, inspiration, healing, and channeling as well as raising thoughts and aspirations to a higher spiritual level. With meditation is strengthens/develops intuition, inspiration, spiritual healing and channeling as well as raising thoughts to a higher spiritual level developing a deeper connection for clairvoyance and clairaudience. If used on the center of the brow during meditation if will bring you to a higher spiritual level to bring forth memories of past lives and world connections. Wearing Amethyst on the left wrist will heighten spiritual levels and assist in enabling one to foresee.
Store a small piece of amethyst with your divination tools (tarot cards, runes, etc.) to keep the power of the divination tools high as well as strengthening your intuitive powers while using your tools. Using an Amethyst pendulum will aid in personal decision making when using a yes/no table or response method.
Recharge Amethyst under the light of the moon rather than sunlight, as sunlight may fade the color of your stone. A large unpolished piece of Amethyst (or geode, or a grouping of smaller pieces) will cleanse and restore energies to any other crystal you have used for healing, divination or protection.
Amethyst Astrological- Zodiac Gemstone Properties
Zodiac Stone of: Pisces, Scorpio and Sagittarius
Associations: Jupiter & Neptune/Water
Birthstone: Traditional Birthstone for the Month of February.
Amethyst is ruled by Jupiter; in ancient writings on astrology Jupiter is associated with Amethyst and connected with the ninth house, or Sagittarius. But often in more current writings it is associated with Neptune which is also associated Pisces. The American National Association of Jewelers adopted Amethyst as the modern birthstone for February in 1912. It is also a Talismanic stone for the sign of Scorpio
Amethyst Chakra Healing Properties
Placed on the 7th, or Crown Chakra during meditation, amethyst increases concentration and confidence in life.
Amethyst is considered the 7th, or Crown Chakra healing stone, as it cleanses the aura it also balances the subtle physical, mental and emotional bodies by linking them to the spiritual body.
Amethyst is a good touchstone, a stone to keep in your pocket and rub several times a day for it’s uplifting energy, or you can wear it on a chain around your neck, against your skin to stimulate the throat chakra as well.
Properties of Amethyst Clusters
Clusters are crystals grouped on a common matrix. Where there is no matrix the crystals bridge together. Crystal Clusters encourage a sense of community, creating harmony and removing negativity from its environment, whether that is on a body or in a room.
The intrinsic group energy of clusters easily removes blockages and strengthens the all the chakras. The same properties make them the first choice for cleansing and activating other healing stones. Clusters sometimes contain many metaphysical formations, their properties all working together harmoniously.
Clusters can be used in your home or office to keep the metaphysical energy moving. If you do regular space clearings, place them in corners, where energy easily becomes trapped, while you work.
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Parents warned of alleged fight club involving students in Grande Prairie, Alta.
Const. Hrdlicka says investigator believe that the fights, which have been happening after school, are organized by adults between the ages of 18 and 24
Feb 10, 2020 • Last Updated February 10, 2020 • 1 minute read
An RCMP members badge (number obscured at officer request) hangs from his neck while he waits for an escort to arrive in a northeast Calgary, Alta hotel on Thursday October 13, 2016. Photo by Jim Wells/Postmedia
GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. — RCMP in northwestern Alberta say recent fights between high school students that have sent some to hospital appear to be organized by adults.
Corp. Candace Hrdlicka says high school students in Grande Prairie between 16 and 18 years old have been involved in the organized fights.
She says some of the students have been seriously injured, but she could not say how many.
Hrdlicka says investigator believe that the fights, which have been happening after school, are organized by adults between the ages of 18 and 24.
Hrdlicka says a letter has been sent to parents warning them about the alleged fight club.
So far no arrests have been made.
“We were trying to make sure parents knew that this was happening and asking them to have those conversations with their kids, so we could put a stop to it and make sure nobody else gets injured,” Hrdlicka said Monday about the letter, which was written by police for high schools to distribute.
“We always wanted to educate the youth on what some of the potential consequences could be.”
She said police could potentially lay criminal charges.
The local school superintendent referred all inquiries to the RCMP.
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The ebullient comedy films of the 1930s brought escape and laughter to millions of British cinemagoers, enabling veteran stars of the music-hall and theatre to reach out to a wider audience – making household names of performers like Leslie Fuller, Hal Gordon, Bobby Howes, Ernest Lotinga and Gene Gerrard.
Although comedy would prove to be the decade's most successful film genre, many of these classic early talkies have remained unseen since their original release. This ongoing collection showcases a wealth of rare features, each presented uncut, in a brand-new transfer from the best available elements in their as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
LET ME EXPLAIN, DEAR (1932)
A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his pocket!
Black and White / 73 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English
THE OUTCAST (1934)
A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.
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Home / News / Hospitality and leisure / CityBusiness 2009 Rewind: Gaming
CityBusiness 2009 Rewind: Gaming
By: Christian Moises, News Editor December 17, 2009 0
(Editor’s note: The following is part of CityBusiness’ 2009 Year In Review coverage. Check back with our Web site and the Dec. 28 issue of CityBusiness for more YIR coverage.)
While the recession took a toll on New Orleans’ two riverboat casinos and Harrah’s take in 2009, the Fair Grounds slots facility enjoyed a 60.9 percent increase in winnings during the first year at its permanent facility.
But state officials didn’t panic despite a 2.5 percent drop in tax collections for Louisiana’s gaming industry in fiscal 2009, which ended June 30.
“These aren’t huge numbers. It’s $10 million, nothing to sneeze at,” Greg Albrecht, chief economist for the Legislative Fiscal Office, said in July. “In the grand scheme of things, you can get a pretty big swing there and it won’t break or make your forecast. That contributes to a negative in the fiscal year we just ended and suggests it’s a negative for the coming year.”
Gaming revenue contributes less than 10 percent of the state’s tax revenue, Albrecht said. About two-thirds of tax collections from gaming outlets go to the general fund.
The state’s 13 riverboat casinos, four racetrack casinos and Harrah’s combined posted a 2.5 percent drop in winnings from $2.6 billion to $2.5 billion, according to Louisiana State Police, which audits the state’s casinos.
The state’s tax share was $523.4 million in fiscal 2009 compared with $536.4 million a year ago.
Attendance was also down in 2009, from 36.8 million visitors to 35.2 million.
That is just another sign of the recession, Albrecht said.
“Particularly, when so much of our riverboat (traffic) is coming from two big Texas metro areas, there’s a lack of travel,” he said. “That, and people budget gambling as entertainment, so eventually you cut back on entertainment.”•
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Frenchman who sexually abused pet chicken won’t be going to jail
By Peter Allen, The Sun
March 30, 2017 | 12:35pm | Updated March 30, 2017 | 1:21pm
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A Frenchman has been given a three-month suspended prison sentence for sexually abusing his pet chicken.
The 59-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was seen performing the sickening act in the family garage by his daughter, who told her mom.
The horrified mom kept tabs on her partner and one day followed him on a trip to the garage and caught him in the act, a court in Rouen heard.
He had his trousers around his ankles and was at a “stage of extreme excitement” in the Normandy town of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, a suburb of Rouen.
On Wednesday, the court found the man guilty of “sexually abusing a domesticated animal” three months ago, saying there was evidence he had regularly abused the bird.
The court heard that his wife vomited “when she saw what her husband was doing.”
The man’s lawyer added: “My client is clearly very ashamed about this. He and his wife have now separated.”
The chicken has now been given to a new owner, and the man has been banned from keeping pets for life.
Neither the man or any of his family were in court when the sentence was handed down. He also had to pay a fine of around $940.
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Filibustering Unemployment Benefits
--by Sebastian
The filibuster has become such a routinely used tool, that reporters now speak of 60 votes required to pass nearly anything through the US Senate. I'm temperamentally conservative, so I'm loathe to get rid of procedures. But I'm temperamentally conservative, so I don't like seeing the social conventions against using emergency measures only during emergencies ignored such that emergency measures become routine.
But before we decide to get rid of the filibuster entirely, we need to look at why it has become so ugly. The reason is simple. It is an emergency measure, with a theoretically legitimate use to keep an under-debated topic under consideration for debate. In theory, it is a strong statement by a Senator that this particular topic is so important that he is willing to devote all of his time to keeping the debate open. If 60 Senators disagree, they can shut him up, and bring the matter to vote.
That is the filibuster in theory. In recent practice, no one really debates in a filibuster. They just threaten to debate, and the majority gives up until they can get 60 votes. The reason it has become so common, is that if the minority party is never called on it, it is essentially costless. They can threaten to debate, and instead of needing a 51% majority, they just need a 41% minority to defeat bills.
An excellent explanation of this is found at The Monkey Cage:
Just as there is more than one way to filibuster, there is more than one way to defeat a filibuster. I classify them as “closure” (a classic term meaning any rule for bringing about a decisive vote), “reform” (changing the rules, or making an unorthodox use of existing rules), and “attrition.” Attrition means that the coalition seeking to pass a bill remains in the chamber, dragging out the debate until the obstructionists are tired, have run out of opportunities to speak (there’s a limit of two speeches per topic), or leave an opening to start a vote—once a vote starts, it cannot be stopped. Attrition was the typical response to a filibuster before the Senate had a cloture rule and, as Gregory Wawro and Eric Schickler demonstrate, majorities did not NEED a closure process to win before 1917 (although Wawro and Schickler emphasize the role of informal norms as a restraint on pre-1917 obstruction).
The 1939 movie “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” concludes with a very realistic depiction of 1930s style attrition. Smith gains the recognition of the chair and begins speaking from his desk.
And Smith speaks through the night. His speech doesn’t have to be about the appropriations bill on the floor, so he can read from books, talk about the Constitution, etc. And, periodically, he can note the absence of a quorum and compel the other senators to show up in the Senate and prove there are enough senators around to conduct business.
But after a few hours, Smith is exhausted. And public opinion (“astroturfed” in the movie) has arrived in the form of telegrams, telling Smith to quit.
Note, though, that the senators do NOT file a cloture petition, wait two days, and then vote. That would take too long, and would force them to vote to stop a filibuster. Attrition, even if it means lost sleep or a nap on an army cot, is preferable. Second, a filibuster is a public event: the media perks up at the outbreak of a filibuster (as they had when Huey Long was entertaining them from 1933 to 1935), and the filibuster is Smith’s means of “expanding the game” to allow the public to weigh in on the Senate’s proceedings with editorials and telegrams.
So why did the Senate change? The stock answer is that the chamber’s responsibilities grew with the size and scope of the federal government, so it became more costly to sit around watching obstructionists kill time. There is some truth in that explanation. Also, however, senators’ work habits changed. The introduction of railroads, cars, and (especially) air travel made sitting around in the Senate chamber so…boring. Tedious. Totally lame. During the mid-20th century, the Senate increasingly became a Tuesday-Thursday club, and individual senators began insisting that major legislation be kept from the floor to accomodate their travel schedules. A serious attrition effort would mean cancelled speeches in Manhattan and Chicago, no trips to the Delaware coast, and waiting longer to return to the ranch back in Texas.
Several stock explanations do NOT have a significant effect in my analysis: Senate turnover, partisanship, and the threat of reform are not strongly correlated with Senate filibustering (1901-2004). Most cloture rule changes (1917, 1949, 1959) have no clear effect, while the 1975 change is correlated with an INCREASE in filibustering. One reform that did matter was the 20th amendment, which cut down on filibustering during the final months of each Congress by changing the Congressional schedule.
The perceived relationship may also stem from the adoption of cloture as the dominant response to a filibuster. The necessary condition for an old-school attrition filibuster was a team of intense warriors ready to defy the rest of the chamber—“a little group of willful men” as Woodrow Wilson put it. These groups were typically identified in press reports by ideology (liberals, conservatives, progressives), region (Southerners, Westerners, etc.), or policy preference (isolationists). Even filibusters conducted on behalf of a party (say, to forestall an investigation into a questionable election) were carried out by a few senators identified by name.
Once cloture became the test of a filibuster, however, the necessary condition for a successful floor filibuster was a coalition big enough to prevent cloture. In the context of a Senate that is polarizing for other reasons (hint: not because of redistricting), this increasingly means uniting one party or the other behind a filibuster.
Essentially, Senators filibuster so often now because it is so easy to do. If you don't want filibusters to be routine, you have to make them cost more than just a simple vote. At some point you have to test the threat of a filibuster with attrition. But to do so requires that the majority break the filibuster on something they are willing to take a stand on, and that they are willing to put in the few days of constant work required to break the back of a stupid filibuster.
I believe that Democrats have been unwilling to do so because either they are lazy, or because they are scared. If it turns out that it is because they are merely lazy, there isn't much we can do about it. So I will operate under the assumption that they are scared. The fact is that the trend of elections during a recession is worse for incumbents than just about any other scenario. See for example this by Kevin Drum.
Fair or not, people tend to blame incumbents for the current state of the economy. So Democrats ought to be very scared for their seats. But this brings us to the recent votes on unemployment benefits. Republicans have offered a perfect opportunity for Democrats to portray Republicans as heartless SOBs who would rather let people suffer in misery that they themselves can't fix, during the middle of the deepest recession since World War II. Until Byrd died, there were 60 votes for the unemployment extension. But when he died, Republicans threatened a filibuster.
Democrats should have taken them up on it. They need a key issue to remind voters of how Republicans helped get us here, and how their responses aren't making things better. Making individual Republicans stand and debate about how the unemployed don't need benefits couldn't possibly lose net centrist voters. Get a few good video editors. Plaster the worst offenders all over youtube. Break the back of the routine filibuster without killing it for real emergencies. Win more votes.
Or just continue whining.
UPDATE: I understand that WV is rushing a Senator in for the Unemployment extension vote. That's great, but if you don't get 60 votes, make the Republicans talk. Hell don't even ask for cloture. Propose a vote and make them talk until attrition wins it for you.
Posted by Sebastian at 07:48 PM | Permalink
"I'm not sure why so many people believe that the Democratic Senate refuse to deal with the filibuster in a way that is likely to win votes are going to deal with the filibuster in a way that isn't likely to win votes."
Breaking a filibuster once on a big issue will win a news cycle or two. It won't help reelection prospects much, depending on the underlying legislation that passes. Totally eliminating the filibuster would allow the which ever party wins to actually implement the policies that they run on.
Is there any good reason to keep the filibuster around? I don't believe it helps promote debate. Certainly it doesn't promote useful, insightful debate. As near as I can tell Reid's memo at the top of the threads is correct, in that infinite procedural calls can be used to gum up the works instead of actual filibusters.
Posted by: malraux | July 19, 2010 at 04:07 PM
"Totally eliminating the filibuster would allow the which ever party wins to actually implement the policies that they run on."
It also requires 67 votes, which I'm pretty sure the Democrats don't have.
Posted by: Sebastian | July 20, 2010 at 04:07 AM
It requires 51 votes at the start of the new session of congress. Voting on the rules at the start is not filibuster-able.
Posted by: malraux | July 20, 2010 at 10:49 AM
According to current Democratic chit chat, maybe. That isn't what Byrd, now dead I know, thought. And he was both thought to be one of the most knowledgeable parliamentarians and was rather in-the-know on the topic of filibusters.
Link for that? That sounds more like what he thought about the nuclear option.
But the senate rules cannot bind future senates. If the next senate votes 51-50 (using the VP) to eliminate the filibuster at the start of the senate, how can that possibly violate senate rules? It would break with tradition, in which the senate considers itself a continuos body, but certainly not with any actual law. Given that the senate has locked itself into a locked up state, a reboot of this nature isn't a horrible idea.
It would be nice to see an actual defense of the filibuster if you are opposed to eliminating it.
edit: Looking around, I can see Byrd calling the elimination of the filibuster a bad idea, but certainly not him calling it impossible. But even if he did, he's clearly wrong.
Allegedly, according to Senate Rule XXII, rules changes can be filibustered.
See Senate report here.
You are probably referring to "Since resolutions to change the rules are subject to filibusters and cloture requirements, reform
efforts often involved attempts to establish precedents via rulings from the chair that would enable a
simple majority to invoke cloture on proposed rules changes at the beginning of a congress. The only
time that such a precedent was established was during the reform attempt of 1975, but the precedent
was later reversed by a vote of the Senate as part of a compromise."
You can read about the genesis of the theory that a majority could end the filibuster at the link I provided. Frankly I would think that hyper-parliamentary games are going to look worse than just making the filibuster happen. If Democrats are so freaking afraid to stop the filibuster through the normal means--and clearly they are--I don't see why you believe that they will play games with the rulings from the chair.
Now maybe they think that American public will be more impressed by such things than with the direct approach?
Posted by: Sebastian | July 20, 2010 at 06:35 PM
I don't think that games matter. The public doesn't care about the games.
Quoting the rules about how the rules can change doesn't affect anything. Every new session, the senate has to vote on the rules that will bind it. Traditionally, they agree to just keep going, yes. But there is no constitutional reason they can't change that. It's only a matter of decorum.
The only people who would care would be republicans. But big deal, the republicans would be obstructionist. It's not like right now the republicans aren't deliberately slowing the passage of unemployment insurance extensions, for example. Would the public be more upset at republicans for endless quorum calls than they would at denying universal consent to just end the cloture ripening? Both strike me as pointless political tactics that the public doesn't care about.
Here's how I see it. Any of these political games are basically pointless in affecting public perception. What drives public perception is primarily how their own personal position is going. If wages are up, they'll vote the incumbent. If they can't find work, they'll vote for the challenger. There's a huge amount of evidence that this is basically correct, as well.
Political rules that interfere with the majority's to implement their will are bad because then the minority has a huge incentive to block the majority. If they block the majority from doing things, especially things like unemployment insurance, then its more likely they'll be elected. Thus, things like the filibuster or holds on nominations are bad for the system as a whole because it incentivizes bad behavior.
Will the democrats actually do any of this? Probably not. They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. That doesn't change the underlying point, that legislative veto points like the filibuster are really bad for governmental accountability.
I don't see how your solution works better. Breaking through a filibuster once won't change the underlying dynamic. Republicans will still have every incentive to slow down all legislation. They might lose a new cycle, but news cycles don't drive public opinion.
"I don't see how your solution works better. Breaking through a filibuster once won't change the underlying dynamic. Republicans will still have every incentive to slow down all legislation. They might lose a new cycle, but news cycles don't drive public opinion."
Your explanation doesn't explain how under the current rules (which you don't like) but under which filibusters actually occurred and were sometimes brought down by attrition, there were fewer filibusters, while also under the very same rules (which you don't like) but under the modern majority response of never actually forcing a filibuster, filibusters are much more common.
Look at it from the other side.
What if we said there was this technique to slow down legislation that doesn't have a super-majority. Let's call it Phone-Book. Under the rules of Phone-Book, the minority can use Phone-Book any time it wants to, but the majority can threaten to force the minority party to do so very publicly and in a very time consuming way that will dramatically illustrate the fact that they are merely obstructing. If the majority party carries out its threat wisely and judiciously, the minority party can't over-use Phone-Book because it will appear to swing-voters that the minority party has no useful ideas and is merely being obstructionist.
But if the majority party never ever ever ever ever ever ever carries out this threat, it becomes increasingly easy to use Phone-Book on more trivial matters until it becomes routine. The minority party *no longer has to choose its battles*. Instead of using Phone-Book on narrow issues where it believes it can gain swing voters based on a true division in the country that the majority party isn't paying sufficient attention to, it can now use Phone-Book for everything.
Breaking through the filibuster once changes that dynamic. Right now Republicans think they can filibuster *anything whatsoever* because they will never be called on it. You aren't making them choose to use the filibuster only on issues where the swing voter might agree with them--i.e. cases where the majority really should pay more attention to the country as a whole.
"Your explanation doesn't explain how under the current rules (which you don't like) but under which filibusters actually occurred and were sometimes brought down by attrition, there were fewer filibusters, while also under the very same rules (which you don't like) but under the modern majority response of never actually forcing a filibuster, filibusters are much more common."
There are two sets of rules that you are combining into one. When filibusters occurred occasionally, but actually involved a filibuster the senate was working under a different set of rules.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/11/how_robert_byrd_jr_created_the.html
And again, now, a filibuster would involve endless quorum calls combined with lots of other procedural motions (to generate new business to again allow for new quorum calls). Quorum calls don't count against your two times to speak, motions to adjourn are always in order, etc. It would not involve the endless speaking that you seem to believe it would.
Moreover, swing voters don't respond to procedural gimmicks. Assuming swing voters actually exist, the best evidence is that they respond to pocketbook issues. They respond to how their wages changed, or how the price of food and gas changed much more than arcane senate procedures.
Put another way, right now, the republicans are denying universal consent to allow cloture to ripen prematurely on the very bill you think they wouldn't be willing to block. Are they paying a price for this obstruction? Do you have any idea which senator denied universal consent? Any evidence that swing voters are being affected by this obstruction to vote against democrats? If not, why would a different parliamentary tactic be different?
Is there any evidence that actual filibusters affected voters when those occurred? Did Strom Thurmon pay a price for his obstructionism?
"Are they paying a price for this obstruction? Do you have any idea which senator denied universal consent? Any evidence that swing voters are being affected by this obstruction to vote against democrats? "
I don't, and because they can do it in a simple vote instead of hours and hours of speaking publicly most voters don't either.
"If not, why would a different parliamentary tactic be different?"
Because real filibusters require hours and hours and hours of talking publicly about it in a way that is highly amenable to youtube/television mocking.
Why do you think they are the same?
Because I don't think anyone would care about a youtube video. Certainly not one more than 30 seconds long. So you have a video of huey p long reading Shakespeare on the floor of the senate. It gets a bunch of views. Heck, maybe the democrats win a few media cycles. But come election day, what matters is if the jobs bill passed or not and if it actually improved jobs, not the fact that you have a mocking video.
I mean, the daily show has been around for a long while, mocking all along. Did those clips drive election results?
At best, you are hoping for a macaca incident. But the best cover for that is to not actually debate, but to do something pointless like read the phonebook. But if the incentive is to not debate at all, and even when the filibuster was used, it wasn't used to extend debate, then what's the point of keeping it around?
And again, you won't have senators reading the phonebook, you'll have endless quorum calls, motions to adjourn, etc. The stuff that will not be of interest to even those who care about politics.
But that kind of stuff is easily mockable because it has to be public. "We wanted to pass unemployment and they wanted 5000 roll calls."
But that's the current situation. It isn't hurting the republicans.
No it isn't, because they aren't actually being forced to do anything that is easily mockable. All they have to do is not vote for cloture.
Because real filibusters require hours and hours and hours of talking publicly
i thought it was pretty much settled that hours of talking isn't necessary. you just need one Republican to sit there and note the absence of a quorum. no ?
Right now, Tom Coburn is speaking about how horrible it is to steal money from kids to pay for the UI. The very thing you think republicans won't do is happening right now. He's not voting against cloture, he's speaking to delay cloture ripening, ie he's speaking to keep UI from passing for 30 hours. Where are the YouTube clips or the outraged swing voters?
And yes cleek, I'm pretty sure that's correct.
"i thought it was pretty much settled that hours of talking isn't necessary. you just need one Republican to sit there and note the absence of a quorum. no ?"
No. That hasn't been established and is in fact wrong when you are forcing a filibuster.
The steps again would be:
1) Get 51-59 Democratic Senators in the Senate
2) Call a vote for unemployment benefits
3) Republican obstructer wants to continue debate
4) Check to see if he has spoken twice already, if not immediately give him the floor
5) When he is done go to step 2.
Quorum call are appropriate when new business is available or when a new person speaks. If they want to just roll quorum calls, they lose their chances to speak, which ends the filibuster even more quickly. The quorum call could be part 4a if Republicans wanted to, but they have to have someone available to speak. No speaking means you just move back to the underlying vote. You don't get to just ask for a quorum call every 2 minutes or something.
"Right now, Tom Coburn is speaking about how horrible it is to steal money from kids to pay for the UI."
Making a short speech and filibustering for days are completely different. You're the one who is insisting that they are identical in political terms. I don't see why we should think so. Republicans certainly don't think so. They don't actually filibuster.
you just need one Republican to sit there and note the absence of a quorum
I'd like to get some verification of this, as referenced to the rules. If this were true, all you'd ever have to do to obstruct is note absence of quorum. All day, all night.
I realize that someone who should be in the know about these things has claimed this, but it seems a little too trivial to be true. If it is true, it's horrible, rules-wise. I mean, if you just did a headcount, and no one had left, you still have a quorum, no?
You could always C-SPAN the incessant quorum calls, too. You don't think that would be embarrassing, having a nearly full chamber and having people incessantly noting absence of quorum?
Maybe not embarrassing enough. Certainly that's a possibility.
quorum calls don't count against your two times to speak.
Rule on quorum calls says:
1. A quorum shall consist of a majority of the Senators duly chosen and sworn. 2. No Senator shall absent himself from the service of the Senate without leave. 3. If, at any time during the daily sessions of the Senate, a question shall be raised by any Senator as to the presence of a quorum, the Presiding Officer shall forthwith direct the Secretary to call the roll and shall announce the result, and these proceedings shall be without debate. 4. Whenever upon such roll call it shall be ascertained that a quorum is not present, a majority of the Senators present may direct the Sergeant at Arms to request, and, when necessary, to compel the attendance of the absent Senators, which order shall be determined without debate; and pending its execution, and until a quorum shall be present, no debate nor motion, except to adjourn, or to recess pursuant to a previous order entered by unanimous consent, shall be in order.
Looks like open season on quorum calls, there.
Slartibartfast, the senate is really designed to run on everyone getting along, universal consent being a good example. If you don't have UC, everything takes forever. Every bill, amendment, etc, must be read in full. If everyone agrees that its a waste of time, things can go faster, but right now, the republicans are interested in burning time.
"In recent practice, the Senate considers that being recognized and engaging in
debate constitutes a speech. The Senate, however, does not consider “that
recognition for any purpose [constitutes] a speech.” Currently effective precedents
have held that “certain procedural motions and requests were examples of actions
that did not constitute speeches for purposes of the two speech rule.” These matters
include such things as making a parliamentary inquiry and suggesting the absence of
a quorum.3 Nevertheless, if a Senator is recognized for a substantive comment,
however brief, on the pending question, that remark may count as a speech. "
http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/RL30360.pdf
I'd suspect motions to table, motions to adjourn, etc are all along those lines of not counting as speech.
Its also worth pointing out again the Reid memo in the first reply to this thread. I think Reid is about as inept as they come, but surely he wouldn't flub basic rules issues. Also, the huffingtonpost article quotes a previous senate parliamentarian, who should be considered an expert, agreeing with Reid's conclusions. That's a pretty high burden of proof to counter will just internet lawyering.
"Making a short speech and filibustering for days are completely different. You're the one who is insisting that they are identical in political terms. I don't see why we should think so. Republicans certainly don't think so. They don't actually filibuster."
No, but all the possible bad consequences of filibustering already befall them. Youtube clips can be made. Their actual votes on the bill gets recorded, etc. What extra sort of public action happens when you filibuster that isn't already happening? Why would the length of the speech matter?
"Why would the length of the speech matter?"
Because it is obstructing in a *visceral* way that is immediately understandable by normal people.
"He failed to vote for cloture so we couldn't do anything useful" and "He wasted everybody's time for 12 hours reading from the phone book like an ass so we couldn't do anything useful" are completely different things to anyone who isn't a political junkie.
Yes, we political junkies understand that the general effect is the same.
But in the first case your average voter hears "blah blah, procedural stuff that I can't understand" while in the second he *sees* "wow, those guys are actually going out of their way to waste time".
Your insistence that both of those modes are exactly interchangeable strikes me as shocking.
One is of interest only to political insiders. The other is immediately obvious to anyone you show.
Why would you repeatedly choose the one that only insiders understand?
You are making a strawman of my arguments. Today, the republicans went out of their way to speak to waste time specifically to delay UI. Not made a procedural motion, failed to vote for cloture, or anything else. They specifically wasted time today by speaking to delay passing the bill. Why does this not count under your standard? Its exactly the same. Please address the republicans actually speaking to delay a vote (what actually happened and no one noticed) and not the case of voting against cloture.
I've seen a fair number of calls for Democrats to force Republicans to mount a real filibuster, and one thing none of them mention is that Republicans did this to Democrats back in November 2003, when the Republicans had a majority. That's understandable, because the Republican attempt to call attention to Democratic intransigence was such a flop that most people didn't know about it at the time. The only thing that made in memorable at all is that it gave Democrats an opportunity to make fun of Republicans. From the New York Times coverage:
"The Republican cots, which were wheeled into the room on Wednesday morning before a summoned throng of photographers and reporters, were quietly wheeled out, having never been used by anyone.
Only Dr. Frist appeared to have briefly napped in a cot, one that was ostentatiously placed not in his inner office, which has abundant comfortable sofas and where one might choose to sleep privately, but near the door to a public hallway where it could be seen and photographed."
Pretty weak stuff, I admit. So I don't expect people to know off the top of their heads how forcing a real filibuster has worked out in the past. But I do think, if you are proposing a political strategy, it makes sense to ask, "How have similar approaches worked in the past?" And if you don't know the answer to that question, look it up.
Posted by: Kenneth Almquist | August 02, 2010 at 09:57 PM
Sebastian: "Once you have confirmed a quorum, you can't request it again unless there has been intervening business."
Senate rule 6 states in part, "If, at any time during the daily sessions of the Senate, a question is raised by any Senator as to the presence of a quorum, the Presiding Officer shall forthwith direct the Secretary of the Senate to call the roll..."
I'm not an expert on Senate procedure, but I don't see any way to square your claim with the text of rule 6. The phrase "at any time" doesn't leave much room for interpretation.
A question is not properly 'raised' just because a Senator wants it to be.
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The killing of the last Javan rhinoceros means the population is gone forever from Vietnam, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
Last rare rhinoceros in Vietnam killed by poacher, group says
Vietnam's rare Javan rhinoceros was declared extinct in that area after poachers killed the last remaining animal in the country for its horns, the World Wildlife Fund said.
“Vietnam must see this loss as another warning sign of its looming wave of species extinctions,” Dr. Barney Long, WWF’s Asian species expert, said in a statement. “The single most important action that is needed to save remaining threatened species like tigers and elephants is protection.”
The country had been struggling to keep the population alive amid widespread poaching that the WWF said was the cause of many Asian rhino species being brought to the "brink of extinction."
The WWF said people in certain parts of Asia believe the horns, when ground down and dissolved in boiling water, help treat typhoid fever or even cancer, the WWF said, noting that there has been no scientific proof of that.
The group said trying to bring the species back into the area won't work.
“Reintroduction of the rhinoceros to Vietnam is not economically or practically feasible," WWF’s Asian Elephant and Rhino Program Coordinator Dr. Christy Williams said. "It is gone from Vietnam forever."
So now, the Javan rhino only exists in one area in the world, according to the WWF.
The Javan rhinoceros is in danger of becoming extinct.
The group reported that there is one population of less than 50 animals in the Ujung Kulon National Park in Java, Indonesia. Now, workers will turn their attention there, working with anti-poaching patrols to hopefully keep the species from going extinct.
“For the Javan rhino, we now have to focus entirely on one site in Indonesia where strengthened protection is needed along with fast-tracking the proposed translocation and habitat management,” Long said.
Filed under: Rhinos • Vietnam
I have a great idea...why don't we start by learning that if you see a two year old girl on the side of the street bleeding to death, drop everything and help. You learn that, no animal would go extinct.
October 25, 2011 at 11:28 am | Report abuse |
Carmellia
Outside the humor of the redneck comments from Bubb (and I'm a hillbillie myself), this story brings big tears to my eyes.
school boy
RRWExpat
IDIOT!!!
zombie kid
I like turtles.
Exposo
Thank heavens for poachers. Now the Vietnamese can forget about silly Rhinos and make better use of their resources to develop their country
I'm wondering, do 50 individuals contain enough genetic diversity to ensure long term survival of the species?
TheBossSaid
I personally think that propaganda should be spread saying that cooked poacher genitals cures impotency.
this is sooooo sad
WE ARE KILLING OUR OWN PLANET...!!!
Anakaraya23
and the worst part is that nobody cares
No we're not. We're killing ourselves. The planet will be here LONG, LONG after we're gone.
Mike in Pekin
How is this a "We" issue? I looked at everything I buy, everything I do, and nothing I have done can even be remotely linked to the death of this Rhino. The cause of this type of poaching comes largely from China. Here in the U.S> we have environmental regulations and, I believe, a populations that largely cares about what happens. China, however, resists implementing any environmental regulations, because it would cost them business, and they do not seem to want to do anything about the illicit trade in poached animal parts that is driven by traditional chinese medicine. I am not saying we are perfect, but we are certainly making, and continue to make, strides forward.
To Mike in Pekin....... China kills their own kids, what makes you think they care about anything??????
October 25, 2011 at 12:00 pm | Report abuse |
And this was done for some vain, idiotic old Chinese men who are too stupid to use Viagra. Thanks jerks.
brace yourselves, this is only the beginning. it will take as much human commitment as it did to put a man on the moon to right the wrongs that humankind have unleashed upon our mother earth. where is our "spaceship program" for the real spaceship=our lonely planet?
Thank GOD, they did not taste good
Hecubus42
Thank God, I'm an atheist. : )
Blame "God" for their taste.
a little hot sauce and they're not so bad.
Moogle Stiltzkin
Panda's already have captive breeding programs. They ought to do the same here.
50 roughly left in the world .... that is just simply mind boogling o.O;
Life on earth is already considered a miracle, and yet people are taking life for granted each and everyday. Most people don't take a moment to stop and appreciate what they have.
People need to learn to appreciate these animals, because once their all dead, thats it. They are gone forever.
Fiddledee
I noticed that some Asian cultures particularly have reverence for just pandas and no other species. They continue to eat the penis of the tiger to combat erectile disfunction, and continue to hunt animals like the Amur Leopard for their coats, when there are only 30 left in the wild ANYWHERE. Why such dedication to pandas, a species that doesn't really have a vital niche and doesn't even want to mate with its own species? There are thousands of them in the world. I really don't get the biasness.
nepetacataria
The local rhinoceros poachers have poached themselves out of a job
JoeBelow
After reading the comments here, the majority of them make it very clear why this magnificent animal has been wiped from the face of the earth. Too many people are mere parasites!
...or maybe from the face of Vietnam...
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Trains to run on electricity up to Jalpaiguri, good start to be with Brahmaputra Mail
Trains are set to run from Delhi to Jalpaiguri by electric locomotives. It is to be started with Brahmaputra Mail. This will save Rs 20.4 crore annually.
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Home » IANS » Apple store in US robbed twice in less than 12 hours
Apple store in US robbed twice in less than 12 hours
Published on : Thu 27th September 2018, 04:50 PM
San Francisco, Sep 27 (IANS) Electronics worth tens of thousands of dollars were stolen from the Palo Alto Apple store in California in almost 12 hours during the iPhone XS launch weekend, the media reported.
“According to Palo Alto police, the city’s Apple store was first hit at 7PM on Saturday. In this round, the eight suspects got off with $57,000 worth of demo iPhone models — including the new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max — and various other products. Immediately after the robbery, they fled in multiple vehicles,” 9to5Mac reported late on Wednesday.
In two days, the Palo Alto store was robbed of $107,000 worth of iPhones, computers and electronics.
Notably, burglaries at Apple stores have become common over the past few years, with suspects taking incredibly quick approaches to swiping expensive products.
The two robberies at the Palo Alto Apple store comes after last week’s launch of the iPhone XS and super premium iPhone XS Max which attracted higher than average enthusiasts to Apple stores through the weekend.
Between late August and September, six Apple Stores in the region were reportedly robbed at least nine times.
On Sunday, an Apple Store in Santa Rosa area was also robbed for the second time in less than a month, according to Fox News.
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Home » IANS » Maj Bisht’s marriage preparations turn into cremation
Maj Bisht’s marriage preparations turn into cremation
Published on : Sun 17th February 2019, 08:02 PM
Feb 17 (IANS) The family of Major Chitresh Singh Bisht were preparing for his marriage on March 7. But in a cruel twist of fate, they on Sunday were readying for his cremation.
A day after Major Bisht, 31, lost his life while defusing an improvised explosive device (IED) along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, a pal of gloom descended on the Nehru Colony residence of the slain Major.
Major Bisht was expected to return home on February 28 for wedding. The body arrived at the Military Hospital here on Sunday. It will be taken to his home on Monday morning for cremation.
Joyous hullabaloo has been replaced by the cries of the grief-stricken family members.
“What an irony!. He was supposed to come home for marriage. Now we are waiting for his body,” said his father S.S. Bist, a retired police inspector.
The senior Bisht had already distributed most invitation cards for his son’s marriage and also visited Pipali, his village, in the Kumaon region earlier this month to invite villagers and relatives for the marriage.
Major Bisht was spear-heading a bomb disposal unit when the IED exploded at the Naushera sector.
Family members and neighbours called Major Bisht a brave and sincere officer from the Corps of Engineers.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said, “I salute the supreme sacrifice made by Major Bisht in the service of the nation and send my heartfelt condolences to the martyr’s family. The entire country stands with them in this hour of grief.”
Governor Baby Rani Maurya and former Chief Minister Harish Rawat also condoled Major Bisht’s death.
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Home » IANS » MCA panel moots CSR expenditure as tax-deductible
MCA panel moots CSR expenditure as tax-deductible
Published on : Tue 13th August 2019, 10:12 PM
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) In a sweeping recommendation, a high-level committee led by Corporate Affairs Secretary Injeti Srinivas has proposed to make corporate social responsibility (CSR) expenditure tax-deductible and allow companies to carry forward the unspent balance for a period of 3-5 years.
This if accepted may come as a major relief to companies who are hassled about meeting stringent CSR norms or facing penalties announced recently by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. But the penalty issue has been resolved recently.
The committee recommendations aim to adopt sustainable development goals which would additionally include sports promotion, senior citizens’ welfare, welfare of differently-abled persons, disaster management and heritage protection, said a statement by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
The other key points of the suggestions were balancing the local area preferences with national priorities, introducing impact assessment studies for CSR obligation of Rs five crore or more, and registration of implementation agencies on MCA portal.
Further, there were several other recommendations such as developing a CSR exchange portal to connect contributors, beneficiaries and agencies, promoting social impact companies, and third-party assessment of major CSR projects.
The committee has strongly opposed treating CSR as a means of resource gap funding for government schemes. Also, the committee discouraged passive contribution of CSR into different funds.
On Tuesday, Srinivas presented the report to Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
The government-constituted panel has also suggested making CSR non-compliance a civil offence.
The panel highlighted that CSR expenditure should not be treated as a means of resource gap funding for government schemes.
Under the Companies Act, 2013, certain classes of profitable entities are required to spend at least two per cent of their three-year annual average net profit towards Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in a particular financial year.
Earlier there was a fear among corporates after the government brought in a provision of jail up to three years for not complying with the revised CSR norms. However, a few days later Sitharaman said that there will be no penalty for failing to meet the revised CSR norms.
This was after the government met representatives from different sectors of the economy in the last few days who convinced the government that amid a slowdown in demand and production, such a step would have been regressive.
The committee has underlined that the CSR spending should be a board-driven process to provide innovative technology-based solutions for social problems.
It has also recommended that companies having CSR prescribed amount below Rs 50 lakh may be exempted from constituting a CSR committee. The recommendations also state that the violation of CSR compliance may be made a civil offence and shifted to the penalty regime.
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Home » IANS » ‘Pareeksha’ child actor Shubham Jha relates to his on-screen avatar
‘Pareeksha’ child actor Shubham Jha relates to his on-screen avatar
Published on : Thu 06th August 2020, 11:06 AM
Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) Child actor Shubham Jha, who plays the protagonist Bulbul in the Prakash Jha-directed upcoming film, Pareeksha, says that just like his on-screen character, his father, too, works hard to pay for his education.
“I hope people understand the message we want to put across, and relate to the story of Bulbul and Buchi (Bulbul’s father). My real life is somewhat synonymous to my character in the film. It is surreal to act like someone else, especially when we share the same story. My father works as hard as Buchi to pay for my education and there is not even a day he does not come home without a smile on his face. My biggest ‘pareeksha’ in life is to make my parents proud. I hope all the Bulbuls in the world get a piece of hope as a takeaway from this film,” said Shubham.
The story of the film revolves around a rickshaw puller, Buchi (played by Adil Hussain), who is trying hard to give the best education to his son Bulbul despite all financial and social obstacles in their life. The film also features Priyanka Bose and Sanjay Suri.
Sharing how he finalised young Shubham for the central role in the film, director Prakash Jha said: “Shubham came to us through our casting director Shruti Mahajan. I instantly saw Bulbul in him. His sense of aspiration is just like that of Bulbul. Hence, he was a perfect fit for the character. Initially, we had no idea his story was this similar to that of Bulbul in ‘Pareeksha’. I am extremely proud that he passed another ‘pareeksha’ in his life and that too with a great result.”
“He is the right example of hope for all young kids who have dreams and who aspire for good education” added the director.
“Pareeksha” releases on Zee5 on August 6.
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Novaporte (The Port of Sydney) will be the last major new port to be developed on the Eastern seaboard of North America in our lifetime.
Work to Begin on Mi’kmaq Section of Novazone
Logistics park planning with private sector partners and municipality
Sept. 13, 2017 – SYDNEY, NS – Design and site work for civic infrastructure is commencing for the first portion of the Novazone logistics park.
Members of the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs, government and private sector partners gathered at the 250-acre site to turn the sod at the project location.
The Mi’kmaq-controlled portion of Novazone will be one of the most prominent and significant sections of the 1,250-acre logistics park to be developed.
The Cape Breton Regional Municipality, in partnership with Canadian development company, Canderel, has begun infrastructure planning for this parcel of land, including water and wastewater, power, road and rail access.
Chief Terry Paul of Membertou says an important part of the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is to ensure that Aboriginal communities gain long-term sustainable benefits from economic development projects.
“We strongly support the development of a container terminal at the Port of Sydney,” said Chief Paul. “The construction of the Novaporte and Novazone projects will ensure long-term benefits of employment and investment in our communities.”
Chief Leroy Denny of Eskasoni, Nova Scotia’s largest and fastest growing Mi’kmaq community, also expressed his support for the project and the jobs it will create. Eskasoni has rapidly rising graduation rates and trades training among younger residents.
“With the Mi’kmaq as development partners in this important infrastructure project, it will prove to be a valuable opportunity for careers at home, here in Cape Breton, for our youth,” said Chief Denny.
Albert Barbusci of Sydney Harbour Investment Partners (SHIP) is pleased to be working with Mi’kmaq leadership in the larger Novaporte and Novazone project. “We have strong, visionary Mi’kmaq partners in this effort to create jobs and grow the economy,” said Barbusci.
Jonathan Wener, CEO of the Canderel Group of Companies, stated that he is enthusiastic that his company’s extensive experience in large scale development across Canada will be able to ensure the execution of this strategic business park.
“We believe Novazone will be the premier logistics hub on the Eastern Seaboard and we are pleased to work with all our partners in bringing this project to the marketplace,” said Wener.
Mayor Cecil Clarke of Cape Breton Regional Municipality noted the municipality’s ongoing commitment to bringing together government, Mi’kmaq and private sector partners to realize this economically transformative opportunity for Cape Breton Regional Municipality and Nova Scotia.
Novaporte will be the first deep-water port on the east coast of North America to be designed specifically to accommodate the largest container ships in the world, (18,000 plus TEUs). The 2,000-acre project is shovel-ready, with all permits in place. Novaporte and Novazone will be directly linked to major North American markets via rail and highway and will operate within an officially designated Canadian Foreign Trade Zone.
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SAIL receives Golden Peacock Environment Management Award 2020
New Delhi: Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has been awarded with the prestigious Golden Peacock Environment Management Award for the year 2020 in the Steel Sector by the Institute of Directors.
Lauding the efforts of SAIL collective,Shri Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Chairman, SAIL said, “SAIL has been the winner of this award for successive two years and this bears testimony to the efforts made by the Company for sustainable and environmentally responsible steel making. This award is one of the most coveted awards in the category. Considering various environmental issues leading to global warming and climate change, the award encourages corporates to enhance their environmental performance and to compete with peers to set benchmarks”.
SAIL, as its Corporate Responsibility for Environment Protection continuously focuses on adopting various environmental measures including, upgrading of pollution control facilities, treatment & recirculation of wastewater from individual units & outfalls, enhancement in the green cover in & around Plants & Units, efficient handling of different solid wastes (viz. process waste, hazardous waste, canteen/township waste), carbon sequestration through afforestation, eco-restoration of mined out area, among others. Also, the impact of SAIL’s initiatives and best practices on improving cleaner environment, reducing emissions & discharges, mitigating impacts of climate change and helping the Company to conduct its operations in environmentally benign manner has been recognized.
The award was conferred on SAIL in a virtual award presentation ceremony held yesterday.
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IAS 33 Earnings per Share
IAS 33 Earnings per Share deals with the calculation and presentation of Earnings Per Share (EPS). It applies to entities whose ordinary shares or potential ordinary shares (for example, convertibles, options and warrants) are publicly traded. Non-public entities electing to present EPS must also follow the Standard.
An entity must present basic EPS and diluted EPS with equal prominence in the statement of comprehensive income. In consolidated financial statements, EPS measures are based on the consolidated profit or loss attributable to ordinary equity holders of the parent.
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Postictal mania following primary generalized seizures
S. Chakrabarti, V. M. Aga, R. Singh
A 29 year old male with primary generalized seizures for 13 years stopped his anticonvulsants leading to an increase in seizure frequency. Five months later he developed a severe manic episode postictally which responded well to a combination of neuroleptics and anticonvulsants. Postictal psychoses usually follow complex partial seizures. Manic episodes are uncommon. This case had some similarities with other cases of postictal psychoses reported previously. It underlines the need for further investigation of several facets of this complex relationship between mood disorders and epilepsy.
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Chakrabarti, S., Aga, V. M., & Singh, R. (1999). Postictal mania following primary generalized seizures. Neurology India, 47(4), 332-333.
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Less Than Zero: Bursting the New Disarmament Bubble
Josef Joffe & James Davis. Foreign Affairs. Volume 90, Issue 1. January/February 2011.
Once again, a global movement is afoot to free the world of nuclear weapons. Unlike the Easter marches of the 1950s and 1960s or the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s, however, this time around, the policy elites themselves are leading the charge. The list of supporters of Global Zero, the new campaign’s flagship organization, reads like a Who’s Who of international strategy: from Zbigniew Brzezinski and Lawrence Eagleburger to Strobe Talbott and Philip Zelikow, from Carl Bildt and Hans-Dietrich Genscher to Igor Ivanov and David Owen.
In April 2009, moreover, U.S. President Barack Obama aligned himself with the cause, declaring global disarmament a top priority. Two months later, Vice President Joe Biden stymied a Pentagon plan for a new generation of warheads as a threat to the administration’s credibility. And the consensus runs from the White House to City Hall: last June, cheering “U.S. participation in [the] global elimination of nuclear weapons,” the U.S. Conference of Mayors called on Congress to “terminate funding for modernization of the nuclear weapons complex.”
Global Zero calls for “the phased, verified elimination of all nuclear weapons worldwide” on the grounds that this is “the only way to eliminate the nuclear threat- including proliferation and nuclear terrorism.” All previous such attempts at nuclear disarmament have failed, grabbing headlines for a while but then waning as strategic logic and state interest prevail. And a similar fate is almost certain for Global Zero, for similar reasons. So why not just sit back and let the pantomime play out once more, as the nobly expressed intentions of the good and the great founder on the hard realities of world politics? Because words have consequences. The calls for disarmament have started to spread from op-ed pages to cabinet rooms and are being invoked to legitimate shortsighted and ultimately dangerous positions on nuclear policy and strategy on both sides of the Atlantic. The intellectual coalition behind Global Zero is unprecedented and needs to be engaged head-on, even if the movement’s practical prospects are dim.
The proponents of Global Zero are rightly worried by the renewed spread of nuclear weapons, which had appeared to be halted for a quarter century after India’s nuclear test in 1974. Proliferation was even reversed during these years, as Sweden, Brazil, and Argentina shelved their ambitions and South Africa gave up its small cache of primitive bombs. But just because Global Zero emerged as a response to a real problem does not mean its own program is unproblematic. The world has changed radically since the Cold War, when the combined arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union peaked at an estimated 75,000 warheads, but strategic logic has not. This means that the Global Zero program rests on three fallacies-those of premise, process, and purpose.
It’s Not Us, It’s Them
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1970 enshrined a deal in which the five original nuclear powers promised to reduce their nuclear arsenals in exchange for a pledge by the nonnuclear states to refrain from acquiring them. But the premise that the have-nots will arm because the haves have not disarmed does not hold. It reflects neither history nor present-day realities. The truth is that the decision-making of aspiring nuclear powers is only remotely related, if it is related at all, to the strategic choices of the existing nuclear powers and that the two top nuclear powers have indeed cut back, with little effect on proliferation.
Competitive proliferation does explain the choices of the original five proliferators. The United States went nuclear because it thought Nazi Germany was working on the bomb, and the Soviet Union went nuclear because the United States had done so. France and the United Kingdom wanted their own deterrents against the Soviet Union, as well as the shiny badge of great-power status that nuclear weapons were thought to confer. China then explicitly invoked the superpowers’ monopoly on nuclear weapons to justify its own decision to go nuclear.
After China’s decision, however, the “bad example” theory of proliferation explains only part of the story at best. India, the next official nuclear power, was surely eyeing Beijing. But the Indian nuclear effort was not mere competitive emulation of China’s nuclear status; it was also designed to offset China’s conventional military superiority. Second, it was driven by concerns over India’s rivalry with Pakistan, with which India had fought three wars since 1947. A similar regional military calculus lay behind Pakistan’s decision to go nuclear in 1998. Israel may have been practicing “proportional deterrence” against the Soviet Union during the Yom Kippur War-hence then Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan’s purported quip that “it is just as far from Tel Aviv to Moscow as from Moscow to Tel Aviv”-but the principal purpose of Israel’s bomb was to neutralize the Arabs’ superior strength on the conventional battlefield.
Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was staring firmly at Iran when it embarked on its nuclear weapons program. The shah laid the groundwork for an Iranian program by ordering four German nuclear power reactors in 1975-with an eye on his neighbors, especially Iraq. Nuclear weapons offered Iran a nice shortcut to regional primacy, which is the most important reason the shah’s successors in the Islamic Republic have continued his efforts-to dominate the Arab states, deter (or destroy) Israel, and devalue the conventional superiority of the United States.
Did Pyongyang reach for the bomb because Moscow and Washington had thousands of them? More likely, dreams of intimidating local rivals such as South Korea and Japan came first and foremost. Then, North Korea learned an interesting lesson: the mere process of proliferation was laden with wondrous profits. A reactor here and a fizzled nuclear explosion there paid huge dividends, and North Korea, as a nuclear “rogue state,” garnered the solicitous attention of many other powers. Washington’s bribes of oil and food deliveries were flanked by its offers of civilian nuclear assistance; never has nuisance value been parlayed so profitably into political and economic gain.
The main focus of all proliferators since China, in short, has been regional. As the Duelfer report, based on the debriefing of captured Iraqi officials following the Iraq war by the Iraq Survey Group, revealed, Saddam had not armed against Israel, let alone against any of the official nuclear powers: “Saddam’s rationale for the possession of [weapons of mass destruction] derived from a need for survival and domination … particularly regarding Iran.”
The idea that nonnuclear powers arm because the existing nuclear powers do not disarm is contradicted by the actual history of the superpower arms competition. If there is any correlation between the behavior of the haves and that of the have-nots, it is in the reverse direction. By a rough count, including both deployed and undeployed warheads, the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal has dropped from a peak of well over 30,000 warheads in the mid-1960s to about 10,000 today. Russia’s arsenal has climbed down even faster, from about 45,000 in 1990 to about 14,000 today.
If the “good example” theory were correct, such massive cuts-about 70 percent of the total number of warheads- should have started turning Iran and North Korea into nuclear pacifists, which they have not. Libya did have a change of heart at the end of 2003. It was not because of great-power disarmament but rather the reverse: fear of a United States emboldened by easy victory against Saddam. The same apprehension led Iran to suspend weaponization in 2003, according to the United States’ fabled 2007 National Intelligence Estimate. Iran’s nuclear weapons program then appears to have resumed as the Bush administration began to slide the military option off the table, while also constraining Israel’s options by denying it the United States’ biggest bunker busters, and then accelerated as the Obama administration practically cleared the table while failing to corral Russia and China into serious sanctions.
The lesson is a familiar one: hard power-or, more accurately, hard power combined with a reputation for the will to use it-is a more efficient deproliferator than disarmament. Great-power virtue makes for good words, but truly effective proselytizing, as missionaries know, requires the fear of God.
Because nuclear weapons serve many purposes, they are often simply too useful to forego. They are good for blackmail (North Korea), they intimidate the enemy next door (India and Pakistan), they deliver the ultimate life insurance (Israel), they devalue conventional superiority (every case), and they support hegemonic ambitions, whether regional or global. Regardless of whether the haves disarm, therefore, such weapons will still be in demand. Unless the United States manages to extend deterrence as credibly to Egypt and Saudi Arabia as it did to Japan and West Germany, those countries may well counter an Iranian bomb with ones of their own. And why not? After all, which nuclear power was ever invaded by a mighty outsider?
Given nuclear logic and history, it is hard to be sanguine about a plan to convert the wayward by way of example. But what about a regime with teeth, such as that proposed by Global Zero- with obligatory monitoring, including unannounced on-site inspections? Let us assume an agency that could identify nuclear facilities, although neither India nor Pakistan had problems concealing theirs. Who would enforce the regime, and how, once the great powers had let go of their mightiest weapons?
Getting There Is Half the Horror
Proponents of Global Zero believe that peril comes from numbers. Cut stockpiles, they reason, and make the world a safer place. Alas, sheer numbers are not the most critical item in the nuclear age. Stability now plays the starring role- and stability is a function of incentives, not simply numbers. As Bernard Brodie, Thomas Schelling, Kenneth Waltz, Henry Kissinger, and other theorists of nuclear strategy have noted, stability is produced by the knowledge that no nuclear power can use its weapons against another without provoking its own demise. The key to this situation is secure second-strike capabilities. Nothing instills caution more reliably than the certainty of devastation on the rebound; fear of a disarming first strike by one’s enemy, in contrast, fuels the temptation to preempt in a crisis. This is why classical arms control was designed to reduce not the size of arsenals but the risks of crisis instability.
Stability did not require the obsessive accumulation of nuclear weapons to the insane levels of the height of the Cold War. But neither does it allow for zero. So what is enough? Global Zero proposes a phased approach. In the first stage (2010-13), the United States and Russia are to come down to 1,000 warheads each. In the second phase (2014-18), they are to cut that number in half, provided lesser players freeze their stockpiles. In the third phase (2019-23), all nuclear weapons will be negotiated down to zero. And in the final stage (2024-30), nuclear warheads will be phased out completely.
These calculations include Israel, which would be left contending with several hundred million Arabs and Iranians absent a nuclear shield. A denuclearized Pakistan would confront more than a billion Indians. Japan and Taiwan-if it still exists as a separate polity-would face China without the nuclear umbrella the United States once extended. In other words, what started out as an almost scholastic question of nuclear numbers would quickly turn into a very practical question of geopolitics. Within a couple of decades, the power map of the world would be completely redrawn, as oldfashioned metrics such as population size, territorial extent, and conventional military strength once again dominated strategic calculations, with dire consequences for the United States and the West as a whole.
Of course, such factors would not matter if nuclear disarmament ushered in perpetual peace. But such a heaven did not exist before nuclear weapons were deployed, so why should it exist once they are removed? The peace that disarmament advocates take for granted has been the product of the very arsenals they want to eliminate. The correlation between nuclear weapons and great-power peace is perfect- 65 years, the longest such period in world history. Conversely, with the nuclear threat lifted, conventional war among the great powers might no longer look so terrifying. If the last rung on the escalation ladder is gone, stepping onto the first one might not lead straight to Armageddon.
But surely, it must be possible to safely bring down the number of weapons, given how even today’s arsenals still constitute massive global overkill? At first glance, gradualism does seem sensible. But behind the process of disarmament lurks the ugly face of dread. As a state’s stocks of nuclear weapons dwindle, its vulnerability to an enemy’s disabling first strike rises- along with its fear that such a strike might actually occur. It is easier to destroy ten missiles than one thousand. Small arsenals, in Schelling’s words, put a “premium on haste,” which undermines crisis stability. The structural incentive to go first, he notes, “is undoubtedly the greatest piece of mischief that can be introduced into military forces, and the greatest source of danger that peace will explode into all out war.” By contrast, large and diverse forces reduce the rewards of haste. Hence, there is safety-mutual safety-in numbers.
What about incremental disarmament- a variant of gradualism that the Global Zero co-coordinator Bruce Blair and his colleagues recently described in these pages (“Smaller and Safer,” September/October 2010)-which includes confidence-building measures such as lowering the alert status of nuclear forces, removing target coordinates from guidance systems, and separating warheads from launchers? Inserting such circuit breakers, the argument runs, would introduce a salutary delay between crisis and launch, giving negotiations a chance to resolve the crisis short of war.
Making military mobilizations cumbersome, however, is hardly a guarantee of crisis stability. The intersection of great power rivalries with complex and staged mobilization schedules helped trigger World War I rather than prevent it. Highreadiness forces would have kept the “guns of August” from going off. And Israel’s lack of military readiness prior to the Yom Kippur War created an opening for an Egyptian attack rather than incentives for a mutual stand-down.
Measures that buy time for a crisis to play out slowly can sharpen the dilemma between lashing out and hanging back. Nervousness can blanket calm; when tensions are high, states will be tempted to raise the alert status of their nuclear forces by reassembling launchers and warheads and retargeting their missiles. Such moves by country A might sober up country B, signaling how high the stakes are for A. But these moves might also increase B’s sense of vulnerability, prompting an even higher level of readiness on its end. If the upward spiral continues, either state or both of them might conclude that war has already begun, leaving no choice but preemption or humiliating concession.
Blair and his colleagues argue that such a vicious cycle need not arise. “A lower level of launch readiness” flanked by “much deeper cuts,” they write, would make for “uncertainty and incomplete knowledge” and so render policymakers risk averse in a crisis. Uncertainty might well instill caution. But it could just as well breed the opposite. Which nation has ever started a war on the basis of certainty about its own and its enemy’s capabilities, actual and potential? Would Germany and Japan have taken on the Soviet Union and the United States if they had known in 1941 what these unready giants would throw back at them from 1942 to 1945? What stops the would-be aggressor is the certainty of unacceptable damage, even if it follows a sudden first strike.
Preemption, the worst enemy of stability, might actually be easier in a world filled with confidence-building measures, as Schelling has pointed out. Today’s retaliatory forces are hardened or hidden under the sea. Now think of a world replete with circuit breakers-with missiles in one place, warheads in another. Instead of having to take out hardened silos or elusive submarines, a state could resort to simpler means of preemption, attacking or sabotaging the logistical chain between its enemy’s launchers and its warheads or the storage sites where its weapons are kept.
One of the oldest paradoxes of the nuclear age is that loaded and ready weapons induce caution while also carrying risks. Forty years of arms control have managed to preserve the caution while reducing the risks through innumerable fail-safe devices. Trading the residual risks for a return to vicious cycles of suspicion, fear, and possible preemption does not seem like a good bargain.
Genie Out Of a Bottle
But assume, for the sake of argument, that all the practical obstacles to the implementation of Global Zero were whisked away-that one could bring all the relevant states on board, construct a disarmament regime with teeth, identify all nuclear facilities, monitor them carefully, and police all violations effectively. Would Global Zero serve its intended purpose? Would a world free of nuclear weapons actually be happier and safer?
No-for a reason so simple that one hesitates to belabor it. Even if states were willing to destroy their nuclear weapons, they could not destroy the knowledge, technology, and materials that lie behind them. It was in a global-zero world, after all, that nuclear weapons were invented by the United States, starting in 1939, when it was still a nonbelligerent. The implications are not heartening. Were Global Zero to achieve its goals, former nuclear powers would inevitably keep mobilization bases at a high state of readiness to guard against a nuclear breakout by others, since the acquisition of only a few bombs would offer a deadly advantage to whichever state rearmed first. The result would be a world, as Schelling has observed,
in which the United States, Russia, Israel, China and half a dozen or a dozen other countries would have hair-trigger mobilization plans to rebuild nuclear weapons and mobilize or commandeer delivery systems, and would have prepared targets to preempt other nations’ nuclear facilities. … Every crisis would be a nuclear crisis, any war could become a nuclear war. The urge to preempt would dominate; whoever gets the first few weapons will coerce or preempt. It would be a nervous world.
Make that a dangerous world, if one thinks in terms of stability rather than numbers.
So is there nothing that can be done to improve the current situation, no way for the size of existing arsenals to be reduced? Of course there is. The key, however, is to focus not on the weapons themselves but on crisis stability. Traditional arms control-not at all the same thing as disarmament of the Global Zero variety- has emphasized just such concerns, and helped usher in a world where the nuclear weapons of the great powers, once a terrifying presence at center stage of international politics, have safely receded into the wings.
Such advances are real and valuable in and of themselves. Unfortunately, they have not and will not resolve all problems of the nuclear age. The proliferation of nuclear weapons to states such as North Korea and Iran or to nonstate actors such as al Qaeda follow a logic that has little to do with great-power arms control. If such states cannot be disarmed, they must be deterred. But how can nuclear weapons be deterred unless with nuclear weapons? Here is where the idealism of Global Zero becomes not merely irrelevant but possibly tragic, obstructing the sensible policies required to maintain a credible modern deterrent.
Despite his occasional flights of rhetoric, Obama appears to have accepted the strategic logic of maintaining a credible deterrent. In May 2010, his administration outlined plans to spend $80 billion over ten years to modernize the U.S. deterrent and to sustain appropriate research and production facilities. Whether a bow to nuclear realism or a bone thrown to hawkish senators skeptical of ratifying the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New start, this was a sensible step. It should be complemented by other measures designed to address real threats such as al Qaeda, which cannot be countered by nuclear deterrence because it offers neither counterforce nor countervalue targets for retaliation.
So the goal should be to craft a different global zero: a regime that would allow zero fissionable material and weapons technology to pass into the wrong hands, especially into those of Terror International. This is the most pressing threat in a world where the risk of great-power violence has faded. It also comes with the promise of real achievement, as Global Zero does not.
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Ut vos es Bellator Victus Mortuus Tempus Fugit
May 7, 2009 Richard Brown 22 Comments
Yes, indeed, time does flee when you are fighting the living dead!
It has been a year since the original zombies wars broke out around here, which led to all of the zoombie and shombie action. I was recently looking over some of these old posts and the debate between Richard Chappell and myself as I get ready to do the re-write for the Journal of Consciousness Studies (where this paper and others from Consciousness Online are slated to appear).
The basic claim that Chappell makes is that the zoombie argument is not really a parody of the zombie argument. The basic reason for this is his claim that there is an important dis-analogy between the zombie argument and the zoombie argument. This dis-analogy arises because the completed micro-physical description of the world contains qualitative facts, if it does at all, only implicitly. This opens up the conceptual gap between the physical and the qualitative in a way that leaves the physicalist susceptible to the conceivability argument.
The dualist on the other had think that the qualitative facts are primitive and must be added to a completed micro-physics explicitly. Since the qualitative is not reducible to any base facts that are not themselves qualitative the dualist is not susceptible to conceivability arguments in the same way that the physicalist is. Another way to make the point, and a way that I think Richard prefers to make the point, is in terms of asking what follows from a completed micro-physics. The original zombie argument tries to show that the qualitative facts do not follow from the complete physical facts. The zoombie argument doesn’t work this way. We do no build up the non-physical facts and then ask whether or not the qualitative facts follow from them. This is because the dualist claims that the qualitative facts have to added explicitly. There is no issue of whether the follow from any other kind of fact since they are taken to be primitive.
Now, clearly, there is this dis-analogy between the two arguments. But does it follow, as Chappell alleged, that this dis-analogy makes it “daft” to mount a conceivability argument against the dualist? Or, another charge from Chappell, does this dis-analogy make the zoombie argument a bad parody of the original zombie argument (actually he said that it was irrational to think so, but let’s not dredge that stuff up) or show that I have misunderstood the original zombie argument (yet a further gem from Chappell)?
To start with the first question, the answer is obviously ‘no’. A conceivability argument just starts from the claim that something is conceivable and reasons to that thing’s being possible. If something follows from that possibility then fine.If not fine. In this case it is conceivable that NP, being the complete set of non-physical facts about the actual world, obtain without any qualitative properties included in NP. If this is conceivable then it is possible and if it is possible dualism is false. Is this a bad parody of the zombie argument? Only if you think a parody must be identical in every respect to the original. The point is that zoombie argument is like the zombie argument in the right respects; in particular in asserting the conceivability of p and reasoning from there. The fact that what is at issue in the zoombie argument is not “what follows from what” but is rather “what must be included in the complete non-physical description of a world that is non-physically identical to the actual world?” is irrelevant. All that maters is that the possibility of zoombies shows that qualitative properties are not non-physical properties. Finally, does this show that the proponent of the zoombie argument misunderstands the zombie argument? I don’t think so. The zombie proponent holds that zombies are conceivable because there is a gap between our physical/functional concepts and our qualitative concepts; or in other words that there is no reason as of now to think that qualitative properties are physical properties. The physicalist like me will claim that this gap will be abolished as we reach the ideal limit and so zombies are prima facie conceivable but not ideally conceivable. The zoombie proponent holds that zoombies are conceivable because there is no reason to think that qualitative properties are non-physical and so no reason to think that they must be included in a complete description of a non-physical duplicate of our world. Clearly both of these (zombies and zoombies) can’t be ideally conceivable so a priori arguments won’t help us decide between theories of consciousness.
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Richard C says:
An important clarification. You write: “Is this a bad parody of the zombie argument? Only if you think a parody must be identical in every respect to the original. The point is that zoombie argument is like the zombie argument in the right respects; in particular in asserting the conceivability of p and reasoning from there.”
Careful now, my objection was never that your parody fails to be “identical in every respect” to the original argument. (That would indeed be silly!) Rather, I was precisely disputing that it’s alike “in the right respects”. (This comes out very clearly in our discussion here.) So this is the real point of contention: how best to understand the original zombie argument, and whether your analogy is alike in the respects that ground the cogency of the original.
In particular, I claim that we must take care not to be overly hasty in “asserting the conceivability of p and reasoning from there”. I think it would be sloppy reasoning for the dualist to simply assert “it’s conceivable that there could be a world physically like ours but absent all qualia”, and reason from there. Conceivability arguments require greater care to ensure the transparency of what is being conceived. In particular, the careful dualist will need to replace the opaque phrase ‘physically like ours’ with an explicit specification P of the distribution of properties they are talking about. This was the point of my post ‘How To Imagine Zombies‘. (No such careful instructions would be necessary if I thought it was okay to “conceive of p” any old way!)
So, I absolutely agree with you that sloppy conceivability arguments (as exemplified by your parody) are no good. Anyone who thinks the zombie argument cogent merely because it has the general form of “asserting the conceivability of p and reasoning from there” is indeed in error. But it doesn’t follow that the zombie argument is bad, for it may have other features (or exemplify another – more specific – form) in virtue of which it is cogent. And this is precisely my claim: that the zombie argument works because it is a specific kind of conceivability argument — roughly, one that ‘builds up’ or explicitly specifies the claim to be conceived (without using any opaque terms like ‘physical’ or ‘non-physical’) and uses this to establish a non-identity claim, e.g. that the property Q is not reducible (identical) to any of the properties specified in P.
Your parody does not have this feature, or share this form, since you cannot replace the opaque ‘non-physical properties’ with an explicit specification NP the way the dualist can with P. (Or if you do, the cogently obtainable conclusion — that Q is not reducible to any of the properties neutrally specified in NP — is no threat to dualism. For remember that ‘NP’ here is just a placeholder for a list of non-physical properties; when you fill it out there is nothing that guarantees that there aren’t other non-physical properties in addition!)
That is to say: your attempted parody lacks the feature which dualists take to ground the cogency of their argument. So we can agree that the parody is a bad argument without this reflecting on the quality of the original argument.
GNZ says:
Putting my devils advocate hat on – two points as I remember it
1) There is a certain intuition being triggered by the zombie argument and the argument reminds us that we have that intuition (even if the argument itself is circular) and the zoombie argument lacks this.
This could rest on the fact that it isn’t ‘clear’ what “all the non physical facts” means. And thus it doesn’t drive intuitions very well.
2) RC’s favourite form of the zombie argument is about reductionism. In fact, RC is ‘OK’ with the idea that Qualia might be ‘physical’ but non reducable and therefore your zoombie argument doesn’t directly address one of the possible positions – potentially the most difficult to defeat one, and thus the biggest prize.
Looks like I cross posted with RC,
anyway as to the latest comment – The zombie reduction argument seems to run into similar issues.
In this model it is somthing like
“Q is not reducible to P”
But surely here P is not “the physical world”, that only aplies in the normal zombie argument – here we are building up from a base – so it is “the base P fact”.
Now noone knows that fact. No matter how I specify a ‘base fact’ there can always be a lower level that might make up Q and if that was true Q would be part of P.*
That being said – I note Richards version stated
“1. (P & ~Q) is ideally conceivable [can’t be ruled out a priori]”
the braketed section seems to imply RC actually set the lowest possible standard for the equivilent scenario to (NP ~ Q)
*I also note Q gets rather hard to concieve of when you start thinking in terms of anything close to base fact candidates.
Richard Brown says:
Hi Richard, thanks for the follow up.
the careful dualist will need to replace the opaque phrase ‘physically like ours’ with an explicit specification P of the distribution of properties they are talking about.
I take it that P must be a complete specification of the structural/functional properties of the world in question; since we don’t know what that specification is at most we can infer that the zombie world is negatively conceivable not positively conceivable (I think you grant this…is that right?)…If so, then one way of putting my complaint is as follows: The fact that we cannot seem to find a contradiction in the imagined scenario is not evidence that this scenario is ideally conceivable. We do not have all of the structural/functional facts yet and so for all we know now it may turn out that the world we are conceiving is not really a complete structural/functional duplicate of the actual world. If so then the zombie world is only prima facie negatively conceivable not ideally negatively conceivable. I grant for the sake of argument that at the ideal limit we will be able to tell a priori whether or not physicalism is false since then we will be in a position to know which a priori conditional holds (that is either (P–>Q), or ~(P–>Q) is necessarily false at the ideal limit) but the point is that, given our current lack of a completed micro-physics, we can’t yet tell which is which…
Your parody does not have this feature, or share this form, since you cannot replace the opaque ‘non-physical properties’ with an explicit specification NP the way the dualist can with P.
But I can do this. NP is an explicit specification of all of the non-structural/non-functional properties (and their distribution) of the actual world plus a “that’s all” clause just like your P. Again, just like your way of doing it, we give a complete non-microphysical description of the world and specify “that’s all”.
(Or if you do, the cogently obtainable conclusion — that Q is not reducible to any of the properties neutrally specified in NP — is no threat to dualism.
A quick point about this, and maybe this is one place where we have been talking past one another…you seem to take the conclusion of the zoombie argument to be that qualitative properties are not reducible to some other set of properties and object to that but that is not supposed to be the conclusion. The conclusion is supposed to be that dualism is false, or that qualitative properties are not non-structural/non-functional properties and thus are not irreducible non-physical features of our world. That’s why I said the following in my post:
The fact that what is at issue in the zoombie argument is not “what follows from what” but is rather “what must be included in the complete non-physical description of a world that is non-physically identical to the actual world?” is irrelevant. All that maters is that the possibility of zoombies shows that qualitative properties are not non-physical properties.
For remember that ‘NP’ here is just a placeholder for a list of non-physical properties; when you fill it out there is nothing that guarantees that there aren’t other non-physical properties in addition!)
But there is! The zoombie world is a COMPLETE non-structural/non-functional duplicate of our world. NP is not just some random list of non-physical properties! It is a complete list of the actual non-physical properties. So, if there are no non-physical qualitative properties in NP then the actual qualitative properties that you and I enjoy are not non-physical properties (there may be other non-physical properties that are possible but theses properties don’t figure in a complete description of our world and so don’t matter for the argument at hand.)
Now granted that this complete specification of the non-functional/non-structural properties of the actual world will not be uncontroversial to the dualist. They will complain that such a description must include qualitative properties. But there is no a priori contradiction in conceiving zoombies so they must be wrong. This is where the similarity to the original zombie argument comes in. I question whether you are really succeeding in conceiving a world that is microphysically identical to the actual world, you question whether I am actually succeeding in conceiving of a world that is non-microphysically identical to the actual world. So, the ‘non-controversial’ specification of P that you need is in fact controversial. Sure, I grant that there are structural/functional facts in your conception and that a complete description of the world in such terms will include just ‘more of the same’ but that is not enough to get you your conclusion since I insist that there is no contradiction in the idea that adding more of the same will allow us to make the required deductions…just as in the zoombie case you grant that there are non-functional/non-structural facts in NP and that a complete description of our world in such terms will include just ‘more of the same’ but you claim that that doesn’t get me my claim that such a completed NP will lack qualitative properties. So the two arguments are alike in just the right respects.
Hi GNZ,
RE 1: I agree that a certain intuition being triggered is the point of the zombie argument but deny that the same isn’t happening in the zoombie argument. My intuition that qualitative properties are not non-physical properties is triggered very strongly by the zoombie argument…I suspect it is that way with others sympathetic to physicalism as well…
RE 2: I grant that the original zombie argument should be taken as about reduction in RC’s terms, but the zoombie argument is about irreduction and so is precisely supposed to show that qualitative properties are NOT non reducible…that’s why I think it does get the biggest prize!
“you seem to take the conclusion of the zoombie argument to be that qualitative properties are not reducible to some other set of properties and object to that but that is not supposed to be the conclusion.”
No, I understand that your zoombie argument has a different form. My claim was instead that this is the only cogently obtainable conclusion — that is, the only conclusion that can be reached using the specific kind of conceivability reasoning that I consider cogent. (Your zoombie argument relies on much looser reasoning, which is why I think it’s no good.)
What specific kind of conceivability reasoning do I allow? To repeat:
roughly, one that ‘builds up’ or explicitly specifies the claim to be conceived (without using any opaque terms like ‘physical’ or ‘non-physical’) and uses this to establish a non-identity claim, e.g. that the property Q is not reducible (identical) to any of the properties specified in P.
Here’s another way to highlight the disanalogy. The zombie argument begins by noting that the physicalist believes that there is some P (making no explicit reference to qualia) that metaphysically suffices for Q. The zombie argument begins by taking that very ‘P’, chosen by their opponent, and running a specific kind of conceivability argument to show that Q is not identical to any property in P. (The type-A materialist might not be convinced, since they think that P conceptually implies Q, but this at least isn’t a narrowly logical deduction, so there’s plenty of room for the argument to at least “get off the ground” in this minimal sense.)
Now, your reverse-zombie argument does not share this form. You cannot take an ‘NP’ chosen by a dualist, because the dualist will want to give you a list of properties that explicitly includes Q, and hence the given NP & ~Q will be straightforwardly inconsistent as a purely logical matter, no complicated conceptual analysis required.
Alternatively, you might ask the dualist to give you a list of non-physical properties that doesn’t explicitly mention Q, but then they aren’t committed to thinking that this NP exhausts the non-physical properties. You might try to insist that it does, but you’re then making a very different kind of dialectical move from what’s made in the original zombie argument (which at no point disputes the physicalist’s proposed specification P, or adds extra stipulations about whether there could be other physical properties in addition, or any of that.). So then your parody argument might be a bad argument due to this feature — a feature which does not carry over to the original zombie argument.
I hold that eligible (legitimate, cogent) conceivability arguments must start from a precise, uncontested specification of what is to be conceived. The reverse-zombie argument clearly fails to meet this condition. You want to claim that the original argument shares this failing, but this I dispute. It is easy to see that there is a possible zombie argument which meets this condition. This is the possible zombie argument which replaces ‘P’ with whatever physical specification the physicalist wants to provide. Since the physicalist can provide whatever specification P they like, it is not going to be contested by the dualist, and hence is “uncontested”.
[P.S. Perhaps it’s worth noting that there’s an important sense in which we do not yet have the concrete zombie argument, since no physicalist has yet provided any such P. But I do not think this is an insuperable problem. We must simply extrapolate (or make an educated guess) as to how the argument might work given any P the physicalist might try to provide. It seems prima facie plausible that the zombie argument could get off the ground whatever P the physicalist might try to provide (given what we know about the sorts of properties they are likely to want to include in P). This is what sets it apart from your parody, which never had the faintest hope of “getting off the ground” in this way.]
Richard, you can’t be serious that this is the only kind of conceivabily argument that you allow! I certainly agree that the kind you talk about is appropriate fir trying to show that some property is not reducible to some other property but that is not what I am trying to show. I am trying to show that a certain property is in fact reducible (or at least is concievably so) to some other property or that there is no such nonpbysical property as you suggest. The zoombie argument has a form that is appropriate for that task. In that sense it hasmore in common with the argument that it is conceivBle that there is no god. To show that we conceive if a world that is nonphysically identical to ours but which doesn’t have a certain nonpbysical entity in it. This is used to show that something is epistemically possible but may not be metaphysically possible. Even so there is a relevant similarity to the zombie argumeent in that the thing actually claimed to be conceivable is controverial (as you in effect admit in the post script.). In the original arg it is whether the Q facts follow from the P facts in my arg it is whether you can have all
NP facts without the Q facts
Sorry about the last comment…I wrote it on my iphone in the theatre waiting for the new Star Trek to begin…let me try and restate thge point really quick,
I hold that eligible (legitimate, cogent) conceivability arguments must start from a precise, uncontested specification of what is to be conceived. The reverse-zombie argument clearly fails to meet this condition. You want to claim that the original argument shares this failing, but this I dispute.
No, this is not what I want to say. I do NOT say that the original zombie argument starts from a contested physical description! What is contested is whether or not the world you are imagining lacks qualitative properties or not. If it really is a microphysical duplicate then it will have qualitative properties. Furthermore since we do not have a completed microphysics we cannot be sure that the world that does lack qualitative consciousness is a microphysical duplicate of ours or not. I grant that we can conceive of a world that lacks qualitative consciousness and which looks like the actual world. I dispute whether this world is the zombie world or not. Just like you grant that we can conceive of a world that lacks non-physical qualitative properties but deny that it is non-physically identical to our world. So what I contest is wether it is actually consistent to say “yeah, I can imagine having the P that you specify but no qualitative properties” since if physicalism is true you can’t be imagining that.
Speculating about what the argument would look like when we do have a completed microphysics doesn’t do you any good sonce it DOESN’T seem prima facie plausible to me to think that whatever P I specify the argument goes through. In fact, what seems prima facie plausible to me is that I can specify a complete list of the non-physical properties of our world and there will not be any qualitative properties on that list. The fact that this list is controversial to the dualist is irrelevant for the reasons I have mentioned already. The fact is that I can conceive of the zoombie world and that is enough to show that dualism is false. End of story.
“No, this is not what I want to say.”
Wonderful! Then you agree with me that your parody differs in form from the original argument in precisely the respect which the dualist takes to ground its cogency (i.e. the “right respect”). Which is to say, it is a bad analogy.
P.S. I’ve written up a new post elucidating my objection: Understanding (Zombie) Conceivability Arguments: Part II
Not so fast! There are two things to say.
First, I agree that my argument differs from the original in the respect that would make it a good argument against a reductive theory but since the zoombie argument is not intended to show that some property is not reducible/identical to another that doesn’t matter. My argument IS alike in the respect that matters for exposing the futility of the original zombie argument. The fallacy lies in asserting, without argument, that some highly controvesial thing is conceivable and then using that to establish the falsity of physicalism. Again, the controversial thing is whether or not you can really imagine a complete P without it implicitly containing qualitative properties. There may not be an obvious contradiction in such an imagined scenerio but if physicalism is true then there is. The reverse argument exactly parrallels this feature of the original argument. I assert that I can conceive of a complete NP that lacks qualitative properties and use that to show that dualism is false. You then respond that I cannot really be conceiving that since if dualism is right there is a contradiction. So the two arguments are alike in just the right respects. That they are not alike in the respect that makes one a good argument against physicalism is just not to the point, which shows why all of your jumping up and down about this is misguided…
Second, I do claim that you do not succeed in conceiving of what you thinkl you are conceiving. You think that you are conceiving of a microphysical duplicate of our world that lacks consciousness. I claim that you are really (or probably) conceiving of a world that looks like ours, lacks consciousness but is NOt microphysically identical to ours. That is probably why you thought that I was contesting the specification of P but really I offer this as an explanation for why it is that zombies are prima facie conceivable. I then further claim that you need to be able to rule out my alternative suggestion in order to establish that you really do succeed in conceiving of zombies.
What RC has there is less a dis-analogy and more of a rediscovery that the whole argument is circular (begs the question).
Seems to me that for a reductionist physicalist Q IS explicitly mentioned in the micro facts of P (because it is mentioned in P), and Q and the facts that define Q have an identity relationship just like 1+1=2.
BTW – I’m wondering… if we discovered that there were multiple base non reducible facts – eg “1 exists” and “the manifold exists” and for arguments say “black things weigh more than white things”. and that explained everything including qualia would the dualist still argue that he was proven correct because 3 doesnt reduce to 1 and 2, and without 3 because 2 doesn’t reduce to 1? is it a matter of how ‘wacky’ the principle must be? or is RC making a stronger claim that it can be distinguished by the fact that it is epiphenominal?
“The fallacy lies in asserting, without argument, that some highly controve[r]sial thing is conceivable and then using that to establish the falsity of physicalism.”
But you can’t establish that this is a general fallacy just by showing that one example of a “controversial” conceivability claim is fallacious. There are different kinds of “controversy”, after all, and some might be legitimate when others are not. In particular, I have highlighted the need to distinguish:
(i) Contested initial specifications of what is to be conceived (e.g. what is to replace the placeholder ‘NP’)
(ii) An uncontested specification (e.g. ‘P and ~Q’) for which it’s contested whether it is ideally conceivable.
I agree that type-(i) contestations immediately render a conceivability argument illegitimate, as seen in the zoombie case. But that doesn’t show that there’s anything wrong with conceivability arguments that are controversial in the second sense. The latter condition merely implies that not everyone will be convinced by the argument, but we already knew that 🙂
Ah, but the specification in type-(ii) is contested! As I have tried to make clear in my comment over at your latest entry, what is uncontested is P NOT (P & ~Q) so in THAT sense the zombie argument is an instance of type-(i) illegitamcy. If that is what you meant by letting the physicalist build up a non-controversial specification then I misunderstood!
GNZ, the point is that P does not mention any qualitative facts as such; i.e. no where in a completed microphysics will it say ‘Richard is now seeing red’ or ‘…feels pain’. Yet I hold that these facts are identical to certain physical facts and so will be a priori entailed by a completed P…that is what RC means when he says that Q is not mentioned explicitly in P…
“…then I misunderstood”
Yep, though you still are misunderstanding a bit. Let me say more. I meant to define “type-(i)” contestation as a purely semantic contestation, i.e. contesting what has been said. When you write ‘NP’, we contest what you are even referring to. (The physicalist thinks ‘NP’ stands for nothing, I think it stands for the qualia facts.) Clearly productive discussion is impossible when the two sides are so blatantly talking past each other. A legitimate argument must at least start from a common vocabulary!
A type-(ii) contestation, by contrast, is a substantive philosophical dispute about whether some claim (e.g. P & ~Q) is ideally conceivable, or whatever.
Now, the specification “P & ~Q” is not contested in the type-(i) sense. You can provide whatever semantics / specification for P you like, and I will go along with it. So we will be starting from a shared (uncontested) understanding of what the argument says. This is all I demand. We then dispute whether the argument succeeds or not, which is a substantive question.
But that is just the opposite complaint that I have! When you say ‘Q’ you think it refers to some non-physical property, where as I think it refers to some physical property since ‘being in pain’ refers to whatever is picked out by that phrase in the actual world and that is a physical property. So you cannot let me have whatever semantic theory I want with respect to Q and so the zombie argument is type-(i) contested.
You cannot invoke your response to the Kripkean line. You argue that ‘the watery stuff is not H20’ is a metaphysical posibility, and I agree, and the analog ‘the painful stuff is not c-fiber firing’ is also a metaphysical possibility but that is no threat to physicalism, since as I have shown the world where that is true is not a physical duplicate of this world. It is a world where some other property is picked out by the the contingent way we identify c-fiber firing here.
It’s true that we contest the deep nature of Q: whether or not it is ultimately constituted by properties in P. So in that sense you could translate the substantive dispute into a dispute about semantics, just like I could translate a substantive dispute about whether Bob is bald into the semantic question whether {Bob} is in the extension of ‘bald’. But if you want to understand the distinction I am trying to draw, you are going to have to be a bit more co-operative than that.
P.S. Who ever thought the possibility of ‘the painful stuff is not c-fiber firing’ was a threat to physicalism? That’s to appeal to ghosts, not zombies. The relevant possibility to consider here is the converse: ‘c-fiber firing without painful stuff’.
RB,
It seems erronious, or a misleading aspect of language, to say the complete description of X doesn’t explicitly contain Y if X contains a set of facts that a priori entail Y.
So should I then be thinking of P as the description of the universe in only quantitative terms minus obviously anything that doesn’t describe (as opposed to any of the other ways it could be described)?
Actually I’m not sure that distinction will make sense at the base fact level where Quantitative and qualitative are jointly described… That is usually how these things work UNLESS the argument is that qualitative facts are entirely illusionary.
It also seems a bit odd that RC seems to say the zoombie argument falls flat (etc) – but even if the only thing it does is force zombie philosophers to use Richard’s reductionist version surely it hasn’t fallen flat by his standards of an argument being worthwhile if it advances the dialect.
Richard C: right, just like you could translate a substantive dispute about whether there are non-physical properties into a semantic question whether NP refers. Of course, if you want to understand the complaint that I am making you will have to be a bit more cooperative than that…The question, I thought, was whether the description (P & ~Q) is contested or not; I claim that it is. Not because of P but because of Q…the semantics I will give to terms in Q will have them referring to (not just being contituted by) physical properties, the semantics you give to them has them referring to non-physical properties. The sense in which we can agree (c-fiber firing=the painful stuff) doesn’t help you since being the painful stuff is a contingent property of c-fiber firing (though being a pain isn’t)…
The relevant possibility to consider here is the converse: ‘c-fiber firing without painful stuff’
That possibility, as it turns out, is actual as shown by pain asymbolia and unconscious pains but, again as I have argued, that doesn’t threaten physicalism. There are possible worlds where c-fiber firing and the painful stuff come apart but those worlds are not obviously physical duplicates of our world so had those worlds been actual it would be true that c-fiber firing was not the painful stuff but that is no threat to physicalism.
as to why NP must include Q.
I was under hte impression origionally that it had been redefiend as exactly “those things not reducible to the same thing matter is reducible to” and thus if Q is not reducible (which is what we are arguing over) it must be in NP. And that RC would settle for that definition even if you found a quantitative explination for any or all qualitative things (he just doesn’t expect this to be possible). But maybe I was mistaken.
Otherwise maybe it rests directly on the intuition that qualitative facts can’t be reduced to quantitative. Which RC has argued for before.
Anyway thats one of the things I was trying to get elaborated.
Maybe you are making the same kind of point as I was over at RC’s post? If so, I think you’re right…
Yes – I note you keep saying points that I am saying except (not surprisingly) much more precise/philosophical language.
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World Rubgy Club Kids' Handbook from Carlton Kids
Perfect to generate excitement in younger rugby fans, this is the only official children's companion to Rugby World Cup 2019 which kicks off on 20 September, 2019. This colourful and comprehensive book provides the perfect tournament companion for younger rugby fans, with clear layout, excellent photos and a plethora of fascinating facts. Learn about about the host country, Japan, plus the stadiums, top teams, superstar players, Rugby World Cup facts and stats, as well as loads of games, quizzes and puzzles. I like the way the fill-in aspect of the book encourages children to complete the records for themselves. This enhances their interest and also encourages accuracy when entering facts and makes them easier to remember. A really good round-uo.
Morgan (Ultimate Football Heroes) by Charlotte Browne
Alex Morgan is co-captain of Team USA and known around the world. Find out how she developed her love for sport from childhood in this inspiring biography. She is now the star who leads the American attacking line, her height, speed and skill make her impossible to defend, and have helped drive USA to World Cup and Olympic glory. This is one in an excellent series which promotes women's football and provides children with inspirational reading as they find out how players have overcome challenges to achieve success in their chosen game. The writing is good, with a clear fast-paced narrative style that crosses the boundary between fact and story for an engrossing read, whilst remaining completely factual and accurate. It's an excellent series to collect. Also available by the same author - Marta (Ultimate Football Heroes) , the story of the highly skilled Brazilian, held to be the best footballer in the history of the women's game, and Kirby (Ultimate Football Heroes)
, the dynamic English striker hailing from Reading.
ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 Kids' Handbook by Carlton Kids
The ICC Cricket World Cup England & Wales 2019 and the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 Kids' Handbook are the official companions to the most important cricket tournament, the World Cup. The tournament runs from 30th May – 14th July 2019. It's brilliant to see this handbook about the World Cup is specifically written for children, to generate an interest in cricket and to develop their interest in what is a somewhat complex game. This book is ideal to build up their excitement in the run-up period, as well as during play. The book is full of information about the hosts, England and Wales. It features the players and teams, the grounds, Cricket World Cup facts, statistics and record breakers, as well as games, quizzes and puzzles. There are also charts to keep track of all the matches. It's a great way to fill children with enthusiasm with lots of activities for them to enjoy.
ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 England by Carlton Books Ltd
Older children and adults will revel in the vast amount of information included in this official guide. The World Cup is the most important 50-over cricket tournament. Eight teams will be joining hosts England and Wales. This comprehensive guide includes player profiles, team analysis, venue maps, history of the Cricket World Cup and key statistics. There are full guides to the 10 teams and their star players. Keep track of the whole competition with the fill-in guide. The Cricket World Cup's glorious history and tournament records are also fully covered. It's lavishly illustrated throughout and there's a wealth of information packed into the pages. It's unmissable reading for all cricket fans and the perfect companion.
Football School Season 3: Where Football Explains the World by Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton
This is a fascinating insight into the world of football which will appeal to all young football fans and provide a great reading incentive even for reluctant readers. This non-fiction book is full of true stories, real science and fascinating facts, all presented with touches of humour and lively illustrations on every page by Spike Gerrell. The illustrations are a key part of the fun of the book with lots of cartoons to enjoy. The book is amazingly informative, with lots to learn beyond the world of football - it's a great way to enhance children's general knowledge as well as football knowledge - and to get them thinking. Children can astound their friends with their inside knowledge! A super book for all football fans, full of fascinating facts and figures and world-wide information.
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Kelly Smith was determined to prove she was just as good as the boys - and this inspiring book shows just how hard she had to work to achieve that aim, giving a very real encouragement to girls to emulate her determination and ultimate success. By the time she was nine, she was a better player than most of the boys at her local club - and angry parents complained she was making their sons look silly. Once she moved to a girls' team, Kelly knew she had to be twice as skilful and brave as any boy to succeed in the game she loved. Find out how she became an Arsenal superstar and the England women's national team's top scorer. 'Ultimate Football Heroes is a series of biographies telling the life-stories of the biggest and best footballers in the world and their incredible journeys from childhood fan to super-star professional player.' The pacy, action-packed style makes the books an excellent read for girls and boys, and the sporting link is a good way to encourage reluctant readers.
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What Artists Should Know About Last.fm
Brian Hazard
On the surface, Last.fm and Pandora seem redundant. Both recommend new music based on your current favorites, and allow you to influence their suggestions by approving or disapproving of each song as it plays. But while Pandora suggests songs based on their underlying musical characteristics, Last.fm relies on guilt by association. The formula is right out of the Amazon playbook: “Fans of band x also listen to band y. You like band x, so you will probably like band y.” To illustrate the difference between the two approaches, Ben Gibbard is the lead singer for both the indie rock Death Cab for Cutie and the electronic The Postal Service. While Pandora would likely never recommend one to fans of the other, Last.fm deems them the closest match.
Last.fm has over 21 million active users in more than 200 countries, which makes their recommendation engine quite powerful. Download the software to connect your media player to their database (i.e. enable “scrobbling”). Most desktop media players are supported, along with the iPhone and Google’s Android OS. Obviously, your plays on the site are also tracked.
So how can Last.fm listeners discover your music?
Recommendations. Color Theory’s top 5 similar artists are Cosmicity, Anything Box, Martin L. Gore, Red Flag, and Depeche Mode. Does that mean that my music will automatically be recommended to Depeche Mode fans? Sadly, no. Color Theory is 186th on DM’s list of similar artists, whose fans are more likely to listen to Duran Duran or the B-52s.
Tags. Last.fm doesn’t place tracks, albums, or artists into strict genres. Listeners create their own tags, which can be anything they want (some aren’t pretty). Color Theory has been tagged with obvious ones like synthpop and electronic, along with more oblique ones like loss for words, tracks to find, and infinite.
Charts. These are pretty much what you’d expect, but they also highlight hyped tracks and artists – those experiencing a spike in plays (at first I assumed it referred to paid placements).
Friends. What web 2.0 site would be complete without a social networking component? From my user page, I can click on “neighbors” and instantly find dozens of other users with similar taste in music. Most of my “neighbors” are 14-18 year old girls. Does that say something about Last.fm or about me?
Groups. You can discuss your favorites in a group, or comment on any track, video, or artist directly on the content’s associated page. Someone was nice enough to create a “Color Theory Fans” group back in ’06, which now boasts 8 members including myself.
Events. Anyone can add an event, which shows up on the artist’s page. Last.fm automatically recommends the event to fans in the area. Afterwards, users can submit reviews and photos.
Widgets. Show off your impeccable taste to the world with a custom widget. In the sidebar to your right is one of the many different types you can create. As of this writing, there’s no way to create a widget dedicated to a single artist or label.
While Last.fm is a great example of passive promotion, there are plenty of things you can do to increase your visibility as an artist. Here are some suggestions from the Last.fm team. Besides the obvious stuff like uploading your music and completing your profile, they offer paid promotions. I signed up for two Powerplay campaigns, which target a set amount of radio plays to a specific group of users. I’ll share the results in a future post. In the meantime, I created an iTunes playlist containing my new album along with tracks from other artists whose fans I’d love to reach. I’ll let the computer play it overnight while Last.fm scrobbles.
If you make music, you must be on Last.fm. You probably already are. Start by claiming your page. Assuming a Last.fm user has listened to your music, it’s already up and running. If another artist or band uses the same name, you’ll have to share the page with them. Just one more reason to name your next project Dogcatcher 319.
I should warn you that from an artist’s perspective, the site is complicated and occasionally buggy. You’re actually creating three accounts in one: a user account, an artist account, and a label account. If you run into trouble, start by searching here. If you can’t find the answer, check the label forums.
I considered writing a step-by-step guide, but the site is constantly in flux. It’s worth the headache to get everything set up just the way you want it, because Last.fm will keep working for you long after you’re done.
Catch more of my promotional escapades in my How I’m Promoting My Music This Month email newsletter.
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Todd Durrant says:
OK, I just have to share my thoughts on LastFM. I was told several times that I just HAD to get an account, so I did. I found out that most of the label bands already had music uploaded from fans (apparently there is little or no control on the upload side of the spectrum). Once I claimed a label account as A Different Drum, I was told that my account would be on hold for a few days until they could verify if I was really the label, then the bands would be switched automatically to my label.
OK, so I noticed that one of the “label bands” according to their automatically generated list was not a label band, so I sent a message notifying them of that fact. A couple days later, my account was approved, including the non-label band, which I guess I adopted. I think the “approval” process was nothing more than a 3-day hold on the account with no real review taking place.
Whew. Now, I thought I’d update my label roster and releases, beyond what was already there from the fans. After about three hours and little accomplished, I decided it was a futile effort. I’d just let the fans and bands continue what they were doing. Everything seemed very messy.
One of the reasons I’d been told to sign up was so that the label could receive “royalties” for the tracks that were being played by label bands. I don’t know how that works, because I haven’t received a cent, ever.
As an additional note, the REAL label for that band-in-question eventually emailed me to ask if I’d kindly release the band from my label roster on LastFM so they could be listed under their proper label home (for the “royalties” of course). I told them it was fine with me if they claimed the band somehow, but I had already told LastFM that the band was not on my label.
Come to think of it, I should check back and see if I’ve since adopted any more bands and how much more music has popped up.
My ultimate conclusion– LastFM may be popular, but it’s about as uncontrolled and a total free-for-all as Myspace. Anybody can claim to be anybody, upload whatever they want, and we all just cross our fingers that it will eventually be figured out. But as far as promotion goes, you might as well make your music available to them, because somebody may just hear it. Most likely, that won’t be a “somebody” that is interested in buying any music, but you never know!
As for Pandora, I really like their setup as a listener. I found that my “station” eventually became tiresome because their selection seemed quite limited in the style that I enjoy, but I was actually quite impressed with their music recommendations. I decided that maybe their selection would get better if I shipped them an entire box of CD’s. That was a few months ago, and my station still plays the same songs. They still play the one Neuropa song (for example) that they always did, and not any from the 3 additional Neuropa CD’s I sent them. Oh well.
Mike Madrid says:
Dude, holy smokes, that was my group on last.fm, back when I used it! Started not liking it for some reason, and it’s been about two years since I’ve returned to that site. Just thought it was funny that group endured this long, and that I went by rubikcubeboy…
Brian Hazard says:
Ha! Small world, Mike. If you’re still able to log in, feel free to delete the group, as it’s inactive and a wee bit embarrassing ;). I appreciate the motivation behind it, of course!
Sure thing, once I crack my own password, haha.
After you closed the group, someone complained to me that they were dropped, but it’s all good. It looks like it will auto-delete after a period of inactivity.
I’m sure this article drew some attention to it, but it’s impossible to join, so after a month or two it should vanish.
Christopher Lee says:
Whoa… the thing you said about “claiming your page”, I was just curious so did a search. Apparently I have 1 track, 1 play on there haha. Not much at all but still comes as a surprise.
Wait.. I guess it just displays that, but can’t actually listen to anything on that page.
If a user played an mp3 with your artist name and track title encoded in the file’s ID3 tags, it’ll show up, regardless of whether or not the tags are accurate or the song exists anywhere else. If you don’t have an aggregator that feeds into Last.fm, and haven’t uploaded the track yourself, there’s no way they can stream it.
Jef Kearns; Soul Flute says:
One major difference between LastFM and Pandora is that Pandora is not available to Canadian listeners. I’m not sure if it’s available outside the US at all.
I read your comment in the CD Baby forums regarding last.fm payments to CD Baby DD artists. I have a couple of questions, if you don’t mind. Are you being paid through your CD Baby account for last.fm plays? If so, does it appear as a “last.fm” payment or another name? The reason I ask is that I have four albums placed on the site through CD Baby’s DD, three of which allow full, unlimited track plays to anyone who looks for them. I’ve never been paid for any of the listens I’ve gotten. You mention “claiming” your music through the last.fm site. Is it possible to do that by creating a new account in my name? I didn’t put the music there; CD Baby did. Thanks for your time and your help.
-Ed
Daemon says:
wow, this was a really helpful post for me. i haven’t delved into Last.fm and didn’t even realize it could be used as a promotional tool. thanks, Brian.
I’ve never received any payments through CD Baby for Last.fm streams, though I have for streams through other services, like Rhapsody and Lala.
You can indeed claim your albums by creating a new account. They make you prove you’re the artist, which takes a day or two (I don’t recall the particulars), at which point you can elect to receive royalty payments directly. More importantly IMHO, you can select 30 second clips, full streams, or free downloads on an individual track basis. I highly recommend making at least a couple of tracks available for free download, so they will show up on the home page of users with similar tastes.
Royalty reporting occurs once per quarter, so I don’t have any reportable figures yet. Whether I eventually get paid or not, we’re not talking about a lot of money. Streaming royalties are typically a fraction of a cent per song, and you need to reach the minimum payout of $10 before requesting a payment.
Thanks, Brian. Maybe I’ll try that. My tracks were sent here well over a year ago, so that’s a lot of quarters without a report. Conversely, I get sales reports from Rhapsody and Napster every month without fail. There is no explanation of last.fm’s sales procedures that I could find on the CD Baby DD list. Smells a bit fishy to me.
I created an account and took ownership of my material. Disturbingly, there was no proving who I was. I gained access to the uploaded material instantly. Anyone could have done it by pretending to be me. In my view this is a serious security breach. Moreover, per the royalty terms, I was required to allow free, full-length, on-demand and unlimited streaming to users in the U.S., U.K. & Germany. In other words, my largest markets. This was unacceptable to me, so I deleted all the uploaded albums. Again, anyone pretending to be me could have done this. I would suggest to anyone with music on last.fm that they take ownership of their property, read the agreement VERY CAREFULLY, and act accordingly.
Thanks again for your tips, Brian. Too bad CD Baby isn’t nearly as helpful.
Wow Ed! That’s scary. I hope you use your real name as your artist name. That would be a little less disturbing.
I’m not sure what royalty terms you’re referring to. I selected, “I want to collect Radio and On-Demand royalties for all my songs” (the top one). I have the freedom to change all my songs to 30-second clips if I want, but I’m happy to let them stream full-length worldwide. I personally think letting people hear my music is always a good idea, but if you don’t want to provide that option, you’ll also need to remove your albums from Lala.com through CD Baby. It seems like new sites are cropping up weekly that stream my songs in full, which I welcome with open arms.
I chose that royalty option as well. It was my understanding as I proceeded through the process that individual tracks were not subject to the preview-only option, as CD Baby uploaded them as part of the DD agreement. I saw no such preview-only option on the album/track edit page.
Regarding actual royalties paid, the fine print states:
“If your track is played on our personalised premium radio service, you will accrue the greater of either 10% of the Share of Last.fm’s Net Revenue from the personalised radio service, or US $0.0005 for each complete transmission on the personalised radio service.
– If your track is played on our free on-demand service, you will accrue 30% of the Share of Last.fm’s Net Revenue from the on-demand radio service. [How much in actual money? It doesn’t say.]
– If your track is played on our premium on-demand service, you will accrue the greater of either 30% of the Share of Last.fm’s Net Revenue from the premium on-demand service, or US $0.005 for each complete transmission on the prepaid or subscription on-demand service. ”
In other words, you’ll need to accrue 20,000 plays on the “personalized radio service” before you make the $10 payment threshold, but “only” 2,000 plays on the “prepaid or subscription on-demand service”. That hardly seems like an equitable tradeoff, considering you’ve allowed unlimited plays of the very music you’re trying to sell. There’s a reason why most sites allow only 30-second previews. Why pay when you can listen for free?
Once you claim the album from the “manage your catalogue” option in the Music Manager, you can do what you want with it. CD Baby is out of the picture. I can click on any of my albums that CD Baby provided and deselect “full-length preview.”
Oh, I see what you’re saying. Unless we opt out of royalties altogether, all our music can be streamed on-demand in those countries. I suppose it’s no different than Rhapsody or another streaming service, other than perhaps the royalty rate. At this point, I’m delighted with anything that pays, even fractions of a cent.
Thanks for clearing that up Ed! I received 300-400 radio plays the past couple of weeks, so maybe I’ll see that $10 check someday. I’m not holding my breath though.
Yeah, maybe. Are those plays from the “personalised premium radio service”? You only need 19,600 more!
I think so! “Total number of plays for your Color Theory releases on Last.fm radio.” If it’s starting from when I claimed the albums from CD Baby, then I guess you’re right about the numbers. At this rate, it’ll take about a year to nab the $10.
David Harrell says:
CD Baby delivered two of my albums to Last.fm. No payments for radio and on demand plays ever showed up in my CD Baby account, even though I did receive reports (and royalties) for the 3rd and 4th quarters of 2008 from Last.fm for two releases that CD Baby didn’t deliver. I didn’t realize I could “claim” the tracks delivered by CD Baby before today, so I just did so.
If anyone’s interested, I posted the details of my Last.fm royalties here:
https://digitalaudioinsider.blogspot.com/2009/02/lastfm-royalties-for-q4-2008.html
CD Baby just sent me this explanation of their Last.fm sales arrangement:
Your album has been sent to Last.FM to be included in their new
royalty program, which includes on-demand streaming. Users of Last.FM
can stream (not download!) tracks up to 3 times for free. Once this
user has listened to a track 3 times, it will become a 30-second sound
clip and the user must pay a subscription fee to listen to the track
in its entirety (and you will receive a little under a penny for each
time a subscriber listens to a track, similar to other subscription
services, such as Rhapsody or Napster). Hope this clears things up!
I don’t know if “user” means an account-holder on Last.fm or any random passerby, but before I created an account and claimed my tracks, I was able to listen to every track without limitations. Good luck, all.
Thanks for the info David! $17 ain’t bad. And thanks for the clarification Ed! Maybe “user” means anybody, if they track IP addresses and/or use cookies. Of course for most people, IP addresses change all the time, and cookies are easy to clear.
I think “user” does indeed mean anybody, Brian. And as you mentioned somewhere else, Last.fm seems to be a real free-for-all. It seems anyone can edit an artist’s bio and upload unauthorized photos. Anyway, I did delete all the CD Baby uploads, taking them out of the picture entirely and regaining control of my released albums. I just uploaded my latest collection of unreleased songs into a new album, managed by me only, but I’m not sure how to direct those miniscule micropayments as they accrue. I’m guessing it has to be through PayPal, but I didn’t see that sign-up window anywhere. Any suggestions?
Anyway, here’s my latest album, as Indie as it gets. Free listens to the world! Heh.
https://www.last.fm/music/Only+Ed+and+The+Almost/Strawberry+Phobia
The fact that anyone can edit the pages as a Wiki is a nice feature IMHO. Fans are pretty good at policing themselves, and I’m sure most bands don’t bother maintaining the pages.
If I remember correctly, you do need to have a PayPal account to receive deposits. I’m not sure where to provide the account information, though I must have given it to them at some point in order to launch my Powerplay campaigns.
You’ve got some short songs on that album. I want more for my money! Oh yeah, it’s free. 😉
fuck lastfm says:
lastfm is such a useless piece of shit fraud. overrun by trolls. i cannot wait to receive our settlement for use of media without permission and defamation
SeanG says:
The trouble I have with lastfm is the total inability to control tags. Lastfm is awful about lumping bands with similar or same names on the same page. The most popular tags greatly influence search results and “similar artist” suggestions. There is a band using a name very similar to my own band and their tags have overrun my band’s page to the point where I have to put a big disclaimer at the top of our page.
Lastfm staff has basically said I’m SOL. I don’t quite thing misleading tags are libel, but it sure feels like it.
I know what you’re talking about Sean. It gets confusing fast when a bio says, “this name refers to one of three bands.” You might check out the discussions on the Last.fm forums, because I know it’s a heated topic with no easy solution.
As for tags, I suppose it’s the same way on Amazon. Someone can tag your music “pirate rape songs” and there’s nothing you can do about it, except to stop writing about pirate rape so much.
CD Baby is finally showing my Last.fm royalties… (drum roll, please)
It appears to be calculated over many years, since my 1999 album took in the most, and my new album isn’t even listed. For comparison’s sake, I’ve earned $1.18 from Lala. Bottom line, royalties are negligible.
E M says:
I find lastfm amusing. I had to claim both my current artist, as well as the band I was in years ago. The process was silly and time consuming. I’ve spent countless hours trying to make the pages look better and be informative- but like all these sites they are duplicates of each other in many senses. They should just have an rss feed that connects them all so the label or artist doesn’t have to quality-control sites like this. Lastfm was the first site I ever saw that could index an artist’s music without the label or artist being involved on any level. In my view it’s just shady…I am not sure if it’s a copyrigjt violation per say- but it is shady.
I agree most fans police themselves fine- it’s the site itself (the dual profiles, incorrect video posts) and possibly some bands acting as users that mess it up.
What I do like it is gives a fairly accurate picture of how many fans are listening comparitively at least to other labels and artists, with less influence from the label or artist. It’s not like myspace in that sense where you might get many friend requests from bands per day, and totally artificial statistics compared to how known a band is outside that platform (ie: myspace).
Like myspace, I don’t like these sorts of platforms because they don’t pay fairly for streaming imo, if they pay at all as I can see from this thread.
That’s a great idea EM! It seems like sites are struggling to develop new features to let us post once, publish anywhere (iLike, ArtistData, ReverbNation, Ping.fm). What we really need is a site that does the same thing with profiles! Maybe BandID.com or something…
I deleted all my albums from Last.fm because anarchy is incompatible with property rights. I’ve kept my account active, however, so I may monitor any unauthorized uploads/activity and deal with it. In my view, an artist should never put himself in a position of losing control of his own property. It’s antithetical to everything “indie” means.
I have, however, uploaded my music to a great place called bandcamp. I highly recommend that you check it out. After years of dealing with garbage sites like MySpace and all the other clones, it’s a breath of fresh air, because there is nothing competing with your music: no silly commenting, voting, spamming…no creepy Match.com webcam-porn ads (no ads, period!) The only thing on your page is your music, the album/track art, a very good playback protocol that allows listeners to stream a whole album from beginning to end without interruption. Plus easy purchase links via PayPal. The site doesn’t take a cut of your sales profit either. And it has a very good stats section. Check it out!
Ed, you’ve obviously had a different experience, but I feel that I have complete control over my property at Last.fm. Nobody can upload Color Theory songs but me, and if someone uploads a photo I don’t like, I can delete it. If a song is misnamed, I can suggest a correction and eventually it’ll take. More than anything, Last.fm monitors what people are listening to, regardless of whether they host any content.
I agree with you on Bandcamp. It’s a breath of fresh air. Assuming they stay in business, they’ll eventually need to monetize. SoundCloud is another option for streaming your whole album. They even give you code so anyone can post it. For example, I’ve posted the new Imogen Heap album on colortheory.com: https://colortheory.com/imogenheap
Nice writeup! However, I read the help file at Last.fm’s website, yet I still don’t understand why I would need to create 3 accounts (artist, label, user). Could you please explain? I’d be grateful to know.
It’s been so long since I set that stuff up, and it might have changed in the meantime, but as I recall they aren’t three separate logins. One login serves all three purposes. Your user account has a “Music Manager” option which handles your artist and label details.
Tommy Wimbley says:
Great article… fans isf you like Usher, Trey Songz, Miguel, or Lloyd- check out Shun Ward… this dude is nice. His EP is free at http://www.shunward.com. Yes he is on Last.FM!
You'll have to let me know which gets better results: promoting on Last.fm, or promoting on articles about Last.fm. 😉
Daniel J Johnson Jr. says:
Davaughn White says:
Great Article but, I know a better website! It's RappingLive and they promote music from all artists all over the world. Check it out: http://www.rappinglive.webs.com it's an upcoming website.
Hi Brian thank you for the article.
13 Gorillas says:
Nice post – linked to in this article:
https://www.13gorillas.co.za/blog/2012/11/04/Market_yourself_with_id3_tags.
AndyTithesis says:
Don’t mind me I’m just out hear to bury this dead body I found on the side of the road. Seemed like the right thing to do anyways. He was naked when I found him except for the ball gag and blindfold. Twine too. Parking cone half asserted… all of it there when I found him. Just doing the Lord’s work friend. Say you got a phone I could maybe use by chance…? ☻
LIGHTS OUT!!!
Well… well… nice of you to rejoin the living again friend. Thought I was going to have to make you a place a in the ground so the lord may receive you as well. Just like old LFM out there. Yeah that’s right. I lied. I knew the bastard. May have accidentally killed him but he was killing himself anyways with the choices he made in life. Just more slowly and painful to watch really. In his youthful days he was a beacon and good good god fearing man but the greedy devil got to him and he rotted from the inside out. so basically he did it all to himself friend. except the parking cone that was just boredom on my part. anyways tell me something… is you ticklish? hmmmmm? let’s see then you* ███ █ ████ █ ██ █ ███ ███ ██ ███ ██ █ ████ ████ ████ ██ ███ ████ █ █ █ ███ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███ ███ ███ █ ██ ████ ████ ███ ███ ████ ███ ██ ████ ███ █████ █ ████ █ █ █ ████ █ ██ ███████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ███ ███ ████ ██here is hell █ ████ ████ █not the same█ ██████ ███ ███ ███ ███ █ ███ ██ █ █ █ ████ █ ██ ████ ████ █ ████ ███ ████ ████ ███ █ ███ ██ ██ ███squeal piggy, squeal… ██ █ ███ ████ ██ ███ ██ ██ ██you hearing me right█ ███ █████ █ ██ ███ ███ █ ███ █████ ██ ████ ██ ███ ███ ████ ██ ██ ██ ███ ██ ████ ███ ██ █ ████ ██ ██ ██ █pray for salvation sinner███ ██ ███ ███ ██ ██ █ha ha ha ███!
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President Ford on the campaign trail. Playing catch-up.
September 5, 1976 – Ford And Carter On The Campaign Trail – The Situation In Soweto
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September 5, 1976 – President Ford and Governor Jimmy Carter hot on the campaign trail, while back in Washington, plans were being finalized over the Debates; three between Presidential candidates and one between vice-Presidential candidates. Jimmy Carter’s campaign was slated to officially open on Labor Day, but his un-official campaign led him to Washington and to what observers thought was another misstep along the trail as some thought he called attention to his problems with the Abortion issue when he addressed a Catholic Bishops conference to speak of his personal opposition to Abortion. Needless to say, Carter got a chilly reception. According to the Bishops, Carter’s personal opposition to Abortion wasn’t enough, it needed to extend to the law itself. More successful was an appearance before Labor leaders to ask their support and to attack the Administration’s labor policies.
For their part, the Ford Campaign launched with the point that “you should keep the President you have”, coming on the same day the unemployment figures were released and were found to have risen in August. This, hot on the heels of Ford promising to keep “unemployment down to 7% by the end of the year” didn’t exactly inspire confidence, as even economists feared the 7% figure wasn’t achievable by the end of 1976. Ford present a proposal for doubling National Park land, a move which some though was purely political and that Ford was coming late to the idea and trying to make hay with the late bid to Congress.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world: with his tenure at the State Department possibly coming to close, Secretary Henry Kissinger launched a monumental exercise in personal diplomacy to avert a racial catastrophe in South Africa. Black-White confrontations in southern Africa were increasing and spiraling out of control in Soweto as well as Namibia and White-ruled Rhodesia, over which South Africa wields great influence. Kissing began a three day conference with Premier John Vorster in Zurich, Switzerland, while Black leaders were preparing a summit session of their own in Tanzania. Days before the Zurich meeting, almost symbolically, racial trouble exploded in the streets of Capetown. The general fear among the White Minority was that Jimmy Carter would win in November and it would signal an end to White rule and bring in Majority (Black) rule and that this conference with Kissinger was a last-ditch effort to avert that.
All that, and so much more for this broadcast of The Washington Week and World This Week from CBS Radio on September 5, 1976.
The view from Soweto – teargas, attack dogs and bullets.
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Countdown to Spring Training: 10 Days – Norichika Aoki
Only 10 days (technically 9, but that’s coming later tonight) until live game action…
30: Desmond Jennings
29: Carlos Santana
28: Hanley Ramirez
27: Yonder Alonso
26: Pablo Sandoval
25: Kyle Seager
24: Jose Bautista
23: Todd Frazier
22: Adrian Beltre
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20: Anthony Rizzo
19: Adam Jones
18: Allen Craig
17: Alex Gordon
16: Mike Napoli
15: Ryan Doumit
14: Jeff Keppinger
13: Victor Martinez
12: Chris Carter
11: Denard Span
I have to go with a new format for the rest of the countdown.
I know we are almost done, but unfortunately I don’t have enough time for the full essays right now. The reason is a very good one for me, though: work! I’ve been getting freelance work assignments that have combined with the SP Guide to take up my Countdown time and then some. Since I am trying to make writing a full-time thing, this is very much good news, but the Countdown is a bit of a casualty. Originally the Countdown was set up to keep the daily content flowing and also gave me a chance to hit on some hitters since most of my focus in on pitching.
I’ll finish out the Countdown, but the format will be a little different. I’m not necessarily going to follow my offensive players list for the final eight days (starting tomorrow). Some days I will. But my post of the day, whatever it is, will serve at the Countdown entry. When it does happen to be a Countdown player, it will be some stats about the guy and occasionally a GIF or video to go with them. Essentially the posts will be closer to 400-500 words instead of 1500-2000. Just some nuggets on info on a player, strategy, or general baseball topic.
NORICHIKA AOKI
-Did you know that Aoki led baseball with 34 infield hits? His 34 were the third-most over the last three years. Top two? Ichiro, of course, with 36 in 2011 and 53 (!) in 2010.
-He hit just .653 on line drives. And yes, it’s only because the league hit .718 on them. If he had matched league average he’d have gained 10 points pushing his average up to .298 last year.
-Though his final year before coming to MLB saw him hit just four home runs, he hit 14 in 2010, 16 in 2009, 14 again in 2008, and 20 in 2007. He is a heavy groundball hitter (55 percent) and his 17 percent line drive rate is modest, but there may be some home run growth from his 10 in 2012. We are talking 2-3 more here, but every bit helps, especially when it’s add-on value. You’re drafting Aoki for speed, batting average, and runs scored so even a repeat of his 10 home runs works.
-Imagine if the Brewers had used their sneaky star all year long. In fairness to them, their Ryan Braun–Carlos Gomez–Corey Hart setup was pretty formidable which made it difficult to find space for Aoki. Mat Gamel tore his ACL on May 4th shifting Hart to first and Aoki into a permanent role. From that point on he went: .289/.354/.433 with 9 HR, 48 RBI, 77 R, 30 SB in 557 PA.
-And finally, Aoki is going 140th overall in the NFBC drafts that have been conducted thus far. That’s just into the 10th round for those leagues. Not bad value for someone who put up that across-the-board effort. The 31-year old import is still a bit underrated.
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Saturday: 02.16.2013 at 7:06 pm
I actually drafted him last year in about the 38th round…dropped him when he wasn’t playing or hitting with the few chances he got. But luckily I was able to get him back off the waiver wire once he got a starting job. Hopefully he stays underrated this year.
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Home Money, Politics and Power Ringside Seat: Jindal's Tarnished Brand
Ringside Seat: Jindal's Tarnished Brand
He's still got presidential ambitions, but little to back them up.
If presidential politics is a game of luck as well as skill, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is doing it wrong. Very, very wrong. Four years ago, at the beginning of President Obama's term, he was touted as a new hope for the Republican Party. A skilled, competent, conservative analogue to Obama-or even Bill Clinton. But that was before he gave the Republican response to Obama's first State of the Union. The problem wasn't content-though there's something off about mocking government investment in the face of a terrible recession-as much as it was style. Jindal came across like an overgrown Kenneth the Page from the show 30 Rock.
The fiasco dimmed his political star considerably. Wisely, it seemed, Jindal responded by removing himself from the national limelight and focusing on his job as governor of Louisiana. The thinking was straightforward: If he can improve his state and build a strong political platform, then he can make a credible bid for the White House.
Now, four years later, Jindal still has his presidential ambitions, but he's lost his platform for launching them. Since he announced a new tax plan several months ago that would replace corporate and income taxes with a new sales tax, his approval rating among Louisianans has plummeted to an all-time low of 38 percent-lower than even President Obama's rating in the arch-conservative state. Today, Jindal shelved his proposal after sustained opposition from the public and state lawmakers. So much for converting Louisiana's bold new tax-cutting agenda into fuel for a Republican primary bid.
None of this is to say, however, that Jindal can't run for president and win. But between his failed national debut, his low approval ratings, and his scuttled initiative, his brand is not looking strong.
So They Say
"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman."
-Margaret Thatcher, in 1982
Daily Meme: The Internet Bids Adieu
Margaret Thatcher, the only female prime minister to ever serve in the United Kingdom, died today. As is required by Internet common law, reminisces and remembrances quickly poured in.
The New York Times collected most of the statements from prominent leaders and people. President Obama said," "She stands as an example to our daughters that there is no glass ceiling that can't be shattered."
But, as is de rigueur on the web, there were some odd tributes-and less than enthused ones-as well.
George Galloway, a left-wing member of Parliament, tweeted, "Tramp the dirt down."
Cher fans went ballistic today-showing great emotional range and limited reading comprehension skills-over the terrifying hashtag #nowthatchersdead
She had already been thoroughly drudged by pop culture over the course of her career, from an SNL skit, to a James Bond cameo, and the musical Billy Elliot-which, by the way, still intends to sing the lyric "We'll all celebrate/'Cause it's one day closer to your death" in the song "Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher" in tonight's performance.
Meryl Streep, who played Thatcher in The Iron Lady, said: "To have withstood the special hatred and ridicule, unprecedented in my opinion, leveled in our time at a public figure who was not a mass murderer; and to have managed to keep her convictions attached to fervent ideals and ideas-wrongheaded or misguided as we might see them now-without corruption-I see that as evidence of some kind of greatness, worthy for the argument of history to settle. To have given women and girls around the world reason to supplant fantasies of being princesses with a different dream: the real-life option of leading their nation; this was groundbreaking and admirable."
Dan Amira collected many of the sexist remarks directed at Thatcher through the years. One example: "Do you dress as a leader, as a woman, for yourself or for your husband?"
Megan Garber chose to highlight Thatcher's non-political contributions to society-including soft-serve ice cream.
Irish-Americans in New York City are holding a party. "You could best describe it asa traditional Irish wake, and people can interpret that however they want."
What We're Writing
Young women will finally have access to Plan B over the counter. Scott Lemieux explores how the Obama Administration took that right away and the reasoning of why a District Court gave it back.
Jamelle Bouie knocks down a meme: No, he says, Maggie Thatcher wouldn't be considered a liberal in 2013.
This might be the Senate's week to finally push through gun control and immigration bills. The Gang of Eight says it's ready to go, and Sandy Hook advocates are headed to the capital this week.
USA Today reports on the stodgy capitalists getting excited about the legalizing-marijuana market.
Nicholas Lehmann asks what happened to the environmental movement that made Earth Day the cultural institution it is?
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee starts a new Tumblr, "Where Will Scott Brown Run Next?"
Wonkblog asks why we hate budget deficits, concludes that it's because we don't understand them, and then explains ... very ... slowly why we really need to stop worrying about the federal debt.
The White House is planning to abduct a medium-sized asteroid on a budget (in its budget).
Andy Kroll documents how Exxon, Wal-Mart, and all the gang are setting their dark-money sights on the Hispanic caucus.
Salon writes about the hunger strikers in Guantánamo and why, after ten years of uncharged incarceration, even our most reviled prisoners might make a sympathetic group.
When we want to understand why conservatives tend to value the achievement of ends over the maintenance of just means, we have to look to first principles.
Americans hate Congress, and Gallup finds that they'd like to cut members' pay. Seventy-eight percent of us favor Congress returning five percent of its pay, while 79 percent prefer a full one-fourth. Republicans and Democrats support the 25-percent cut by exactly the same margin, showing that if there's anything we can come together on, it's hating Congress.
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24hour viewing + one special screening
Thursday, 17 April 7 and 9 pm
Film Festival @ PS²
Nicole Hewitt; Kalle Hamm; Aisling O'Beirn; Susan Kelly
Ends 18 April 2008
1. Nicole Hewitt IN BETWEEN, 20 min BETA, produced by Zagreb Film 2002 Every summer the City of Zagreb organises the collection of large household refuse starting in the periphery of Zagreb and moving towards the city centre. The collection points change every two or three days so that at various points around the city the streets become overrun with piles of rubbish. These discarded objects are objects in transition. They are in between - they have not yet acquired the condition of 'rubbish' where all traces of their previous identities are extinguished, but they are recognisably out of place, a threat to good order as unwanted bits of whatever they came from. The film focuses on these objects in transition and the reactions and interactions with the citizens of Zagreb. The film is a combination of live action and stop frame animation and is neither documentary, animated nor experimental.
2. Kalle Hamm RE-NAMED HELSINKI, 2007, DVD 11 minutes, This video is a result of Hamm’s long-term research work in the deep, stratified structures of culture and history in Helsinki, and as in many of his works, adopts a strategy of remembering, of recalling things to mind. In Renamed Helsinki Hamm employs visual means to highlight the city's officially erased, yet still present multiculturalism, which appears to live on in ever new and surprising forms. The piece responds to a time when localism and nationalism are seeking to close their eyes to a multi-toned reality. Nicole Hewitt: 'In Time-Episodes'.
Nicole Hewitt: ‘IN TIME – EPISODES', film still
3. Aisling O’Beirn AND OTHER STORIES, 2006, animation, 12 minutes ..and other stories is part of is a body of work derived from an ongoing collection of urban anecdotes and place nicknames collected from a variety of cities over a number of years.
The animation refers to various landmarks whose stories talk about the politics of place. The work is concerned with how people describe their locality and use local knowledge to navigate the urban environment.
4. Susan Kelly SEVERAL SILENCES, 2007, DVD, 12 minutes Recorded in various public sites in Helsinki, 08.09 – 10.09.2007. People were invited to sit and have a conversation with me, without saying anything for three minutes. These three minutes were recorded, including the sound of the silence. The piece refers to Bertolt Brecht’s Conversations in Exile, written in Helsinki in 1940 and is concerned with the cultural specificity of modes of communication, and a sense of the bankruptcy of words and language. What does silence mean in a time when ‘communication’ is called an industry, and when many art projects cite their ‘raw materials’ as communication, co-operation, exchange and dialogue? Is it possible to be silent in more than one language?
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Nicole Hewitt ‘IN TIME – EPISODES’, (approx. 60 minutes) , 16 mm film, High 8, mini DV transferred to BETA Produced by HFS and Pangolin, 2006. ‘In Time – Episodes‘ is a series of cinematic episodes based around the Latin American dancing schools and clubs of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Slovenia. For two years, a small crew and I have been attending dancing lessons and competing at international competitions while proposing to make a film where we are all actors and producers. We archive everything on video, to use our own memories and the video archive as an aide memoire to chose moments that occurred in reality to transform them into cinematic events. This offer is open to everyone in and around the clubs. Each of the episodes focuses on an event and a retelling of this event, in the process experience is turned into narrative. The project sets up a negotiating field between the choreography of grammar, its expression in discourse and history and its performance in the narrativisation of experience or story telling.
Also see Centrifugal- Sequence IV and VI
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Home >> Positively Contributors >> Lyme is Spreading in America
Lyme is Spreading in America
By: Steve Dale
Lyme disease is spreading in America. In fact, veterinary parasitologists refer to Lyme and other tick diseases as an epidemic.
FACT: In most places where Lyme has been, it’s more abundant.
FACT: In geographic regions with minimal Lyme; they are now seeing the illness far more often as it continues to spread. And it gets worse with each passing year.
We know the above facts greatly because the Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC) tracks dogs with Lyme. What happens in dogs matters as dogs are a sentinel for Lyme (and many other tick-borne illnesses) in people.
Oddly, there’s controversy regarding tick disease in people. And it seems clear tick disease is under diagnosed and misdiagnosed in people – so some wonder if the Centers for Disease Control data isn’t as precise as CAPC.
Still, there plenty of experts paying attention as Dr. Richard Ostfield, disease ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley, said in the March issue of New Scientist that he expects an “unprecedented outbreak of Lyme disease this year.”
A few years back the CDC essentially said “oops, we had it wrong.” And overnight upped their figures from 30,000 to 300,000 people infected with Lyme
As far back 2013, the publication Entomology Today warned, “We know that routine surveillance only gives us part of the picture, and that the true number of illnesses is much greater,” said Paul Mead, M.D., M.P.H, chief of epidemiology and surveillance for CDC’s Lyme disease program.
And Lyme isn’t only a U.S. concern. In Europe, confirmed cases have been steadily rising for 30 years – today, the World Health Organization estimates that 65,000 people get Lyme disease each year in the region. In the UK, over 2,000 to 3,000 cases of Lyme are diagnosed now, up tenfold from 2001.
In the U.S. there’s are many presumed reasons for the continued rise of Lyme disease. At the end of the day, it’s a pretty simple formula – more ticks mean more tick disease.
Clearly, warmer winters and wet springs offer favorable conditions for ticks. But also the unsuspected real Lyme culprit is the white-footed mouse. According to one report, this seemingly cute and all too common rodent, infects about 95 percent of ticks with Lyme that feed on it.
In part due to favorable weather conditions, the population of white-footed mice is booming. Also, those same weather conditions provide more food, particularly the acorns these mice love to devour.
Not only are the mice more well fed than ever, they have fewer natural predators as the owl, fox and coyotes that eat them are declining in number.
Unlike raccoon or opossum that may deal with a few ticks—and will even eat some off — the mice joyfully live with up to 50 or 100 ticks on them.
And the tick species most commonly associated with Lyme, the deer tick often called the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) continue through their life cycles, they feed on larger animals, from dogs to people to wild turkey, to various other animals to most famously white-tailed deer. And there are more white-tailed deer in America today than ever before. Weather plays a role, and again fewer predators, including wolves, bobcat and coyote.
Fool around with Mother Nature – and she gives us more tick disease.
Also, it’s a mistake to believe that tick disease only occurs in the woods. Lyme has been identified with surprising frequency in places like New York and Chicago. For years, dogs have been transporting ticks from upstate or mid-state New York back to Central Park in Manhattan or from summer cottages in Wisconsin or Michigan into Lincoln Park in Chicago. In these parks, the ticks have no shortage of blood meals, making “withdrawals” from raccoons, squirrels, opossum, and even city rats – not to mention unprotected people and unprotected dogs.
In any case, for all these reasons – tick disease is booming, and depending on a variety of factors could even explode this summer.
Interestingly, the news is actually better for dogs than it is for people – starting with testing. Symptoms of tick disease in dogs include lameness (usually on alternating legs), swollen joints, lethargy, mild fever and appetite suppression. Sometimes these symptoms – which typically come and go – may be mistaken (even by veterinary professions) for other problems without appropriate testing. And without testing tick disease often goes undetected. For example, a dog that’s feeling “yucky” and running a mild fever may not be noticed by family members, as dogs have no way to tell us, and rarely call in sick to work.
So, testing is necessary. The SNAP 4Dx Plus Test identifies antibodies that are produced only as a result of a Borrelia burgdorferi infection (Lyme). The same test, also detects antibodies to Ehrlichia canis or Ehrlichia ewingii (both are tick diseases) and indicates exposure and the transmission of infectious agents. (Additional testing is recommended in these patients to determine if there is an active infection.) The very same SNAP test serves to identify exposure to another pair of nasty tick diseases: Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Anaplasma platys. And the very same test is actually most often known by pet owners as “the heartworm test” because this four-way plus test also detects this mosquito transmitted illness.
The SNAP 4DX Plus Test should be standard of care in most of parts of the country. If the test shows disease, now the veterinarian can respond. A veterinarian can’t respond to something that he or she doesn’t know about.
Great if there is no disease – the next step is continued protection. For starters checking the pets daily for ticks. However, with all that dog hair, this isn’t always an efficient means of protection.
There are many veterinary products which work very well, spot-on products and chewables. However, not all tick preventive products are the same. You do want veterinary input. Taking the chance on over-the-counter product with buzz words like “all natural” is ill-advised, and even more so are “homemade remedies.”
Where Lyme is endemic or a serious threat – there is a Lyme vaccine for dogs.
Sadly, this extent of protection is not available for people. Absolutely, when hiking in woods where ticks are known, long pants and even clothing laced with insecticide is suggested. And people should check themselves, and especially inspect children for ticks However, ticks can be tiny and difficult to spot. None of this is nearly as efficient as the protection we can provide for dogs, not to mention that the Lyme vaccine for people is several years down the road.
Be grateful that in veterinary medicine, there’s nothing controversial about tick disease or questioning its existence. And that precise testing is available. And prevention is possible.
Learn more at StopLyme.com.
Positively Expert: Steve Dale
Steve is a certified dog and cat behavior consultant, has written several books, hosts two nationally syndicated radio shows, and has appeared on numerous TV shows including "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "National Geographic Explorer," and "Pets Part of the Family." Steve’s blog is www.stevedale.tv
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post-title The postcard from 1966
The postcard from 1966
Home / 2013 / The postcard from 1966
The original postcard
For the most part, the emails we receive are from people wanting to find a venue for a party or inquiring about where to find cheap drinks, and not from retired military veterans from Minnesota with a factual correction on our ‘Dublin pubs of 1969’ map. It was an unusual email, but certainly a welcome one that has exposed us to one weave in the rich tapestry of Dublin pub history. When we think about history, especially in a pub context, we think of famous playwrights and revolutionaries who drank in them, instead of the regular folk who gave those pubs that richness of character and sense of timelessness.
William Finlayson wrote an email to Publin a few days ago with a correction for our placement of O’Mara’s pub on our ‘Dublin pubs of 1969’ map. He correctly points out that O’Mara’s was not located at 20 Aston quay, but rather on Bachelors Walk where the Bachelor Inn now stands today. To prove his point he sent us a postcard from 1966 where O’Mara’s is clearly visible. Well spotted Mr.Finlayson. But the story doesn’t stop there. William went on to tell us about the man that sent him the card and wrote ‘my headquarters’ above O’Mara’s pub. A man named Mick/Mike Kenney.
William was stationed in RAF Croughton near Oxford from 1965-1967 where he first met Mike, who worked as a civilian bartender in the NCO club for approximately 36 years. The two struck up a good friendship based, presumably, around the bar on the base . When I first asked William whether Mike Kenny was Irish he replied, “Mike Kenney was most definitely an Irishman and one great guy. I have many wonderful memories and stories I could tell about this great guy from Dublin”.
William went back to the base in 1985 for a reunion and, in his words “when I arrived at Croughton I went to the NCO Club and there was Mike behind the bar where I’d left him 18 years ago. He looked up, saw me and said ” Ahh jaysus Finny me boy.” What a guy. I would never forget him but I was honored he remembered me”.
Mike and William at the reunion in 1985.
Roddy Doyle wrote in 2011 “I want to put down as my belief: Dublin is not a place. Dublin is a sound. Dublin is the sound of people talking. “
Dublin is a sound because of the characters it creates. Characters like Mike Kenney, who had enough of a positive influence over William Finlayson that in 2013 he took the trouble to write to a Dublin based website about pubs because his friend Mike had sent him a postcard in 1966. At the heart of this story is the pub. It’s a short story and one that won’t be talked about in pubs or have any kind of commemoration hanging from the wall, but it’s one of many stories started in a Dublin pub that has lingered on for half a century and still makes a difference in some peoples lives.
The backside of the postcard.
If anyone has any information about Mike/Mick Kenny, a former regular in O’Mara’s pub in the 60s, please let us know. publinie@gmail.com
johnlepo 11th September 2013
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Substantial radiation exposure for patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. Mar-Apr 2011;20(2):131-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2009.11.011. Epub 2010 Jul 10.
Amy A Gelfand 1 , S Andrew Josephson
1 Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0114, USA.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2009.11.011
Increasing attention is being paid to the cancer risk conferred by imaging modalities such as computed tomography (CT). Patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) often are critically ill and require numerous imaging studies. A nonradiating diagnostic modality, transcranial Doppler (TCD), effectively screens for cerebral vasospasm. But when TCD is not available, CT angiography or conventional angiography may be ordered, increasing a patient's total radiation dose. This study investigated the total amount of radiation to which patients with SAH are exposed, and whether that amount was decreased by the availability of TCD. Patients with nontraumatic SAH who were admitted to an intensive care unit within 48 hours of symptom onset and who survived and remained hospitalized for at least 7 days were eligible. TCD was available for one group (TCD group) but not for the other group (no-TCD group). The total radiation dose for each patient was tallied. There were no differences in demographic variables or significant difference in radiation exposure between the 2 groups. Average total radiation exposure was 82.03 mSv in the TCD group and 89.79 mSv in the no-TCD group (P=.60). Head imaging accounted for 97.2% of the total radiation exposure in the TCD group and 90% of that in the no-TCD group. Patients with SAH are exposed to a substantial amount of radiation, almost all of which is centered on the head. Using Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation VII cancer risk estimates, the average lifetime attributable risk from SAH management was approximately 1 in 125. Methods for decreasing radiation exposure are needed.
Copyright © 2011 National Stroke Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Cerebral Angiography / adverse effects
Cerebral Angiography / methods*
Cranial Irradiation* / adverse effects
Intensive Care Units
Radiation Dosage*
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / diagnostic imaging*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed* / adverse effects
Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial
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Association of anthropometric obesity measures with chronic kidney disease risk in a non-diabetic patient population
Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2012 May;27(5):1860-6. doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfr574. Epub 2011 Sep 29.
James O Burton 1 , Laura J Gray, David R Webb, Melanie J Davies, Kamlesh Khunti, Winston Crasto, Sue J Carr, Nigel J Brunskill
1 Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. jb343@le.ac.uk
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr574
Background: Obesity is a risk factor for both chronic kidney disease (CKD) and cardiovascular disease. The association of simple indices of obesity with CKD remains poorly understood. Evidence suggests that measures of central obesity such as waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) are more accurate predictors of morbidity and cardiovascular risk than body mass index (BMI). This study aimed to investigate the association of BMI, WC and WHR with CKD risk in a population screened for type 2 diabetes.
Methods: Data were drawn from a population-based screening programme of 6475 volunteers without pre-existing diabetes. A number of investigations and cardiovascular health-related assessments were performed. Participants were categorized into two groups: those with an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) ≥60 and <60 mL/min/1.73m(2). Participants were also categorized as low, medium and high risk according to each anthropometric variable.
Results: CKD was independently associated with higher WC and BMI (P < 0.01) but not WHR (P = 0.47). Increasing obesity measured by BMI and WC was associated with a reduction in eGFR for both men and women (P < 0.001). Increasing risk categories for BMI and WC were also associated with lower eGFR in men and women (P < 0.001). Combining anthropometric measures provided no additional measure of risk for underlying CKD.
Conclusions: WC may be a simple and reliable clinical tool for the detection of underlying CKD within primary care. Given the complex interaction between adiposity and uraemia, a combined screening tool using BMI and WC or WHR is unlikely to provide any additional benefit to risk analysis.
Body Mass Index*
Glomerular Filtration Rate / physiology
Kidney Diseases / epidemiology*
Obesity / physiopathology*
Waist Circumference*
Waist-Hip Ratio*
11/0004235/DUK_/Diabetes UK/United Kingdom
G0500688/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom
RP-DG-1210-10183/DH_/Department of Health/United Kingdom
RP-PG-0606-1272/DH_/Department of Health/United Kingdom
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Early-life environmental variation affects intestinal microbiota and immune development in new-born piglets
D.J. Schokker, J. Zhang, L.L. Zhang, S.A. Vastenhouw, H.G.H.J. Heilig, H. Smidt, J.M.J. Rebel, M.A. Smits
Animal Breeding & Genomics
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Background - Early-life environmental variation affects gut microbial colonization and immune competence development; however, the timin Early-life environmental variation affects gut microbial colonization and immune competence development; however, the timing and additional specifics of these processes are unknown. The impact of early-life environmental variations, as experienced under real life circumstances, on gut microbial colonization and immune development has not been studied extensively so far. We designed a study to investigate environmental variation, experienced early after birth, to gut microbial colonization and intestinal immune development. Methodology/Principal Findings - To investigate effects of early-life environmental changes, the piglets of 16 piglet litters were divided into 3 groups per litter and experimentally treated on day 4 after birth. During the course of the experiment, the piglets were kept with their mother sow. Group 1 was not treated, group 2 was treated with an antibiotic, and group 3 was treated with an antibiotic and simultaneously exposed to several routine, but stressful management procedures, including docking, clipping and weighing. Thereafter, treatment effects were measured at day 8 after birth in 16 piglets per treatment group by community-scale analysis of gut microbiota and genome-wide intestinal transcriptome profiling. We observed that the applied antibiotic treatment affected the composition and diversity of gut microbiota and reduced the expression of a large number of immune-related processes. The effect of management procedures on top of the use of an antibiotic was limited. Conclusions/Significance - We provide direct evidence that different early-life conditions, specifically focusing on antibiotic treatment and exposure to stress, affect gut microbial colonization and intestinal immune development. This reinforces the notion that the early phase of life is critical for intestinal immune development, also under regular production circumstances. g and additional specifics of these processes are unknown. The impact of early-life environmental variations, as experienced under real life circumstances, on gut microbial colonization and immune development has not been studied extensively so far. We designed a study to investigate environmental variation, experienced early after birth, to gut microbial colonization and intestinal immune development. Methodology/Principal Findings To investigate effects of early-life environmental changes, the piglets of 16 piglet litters were divided into 3 groups per litter and experimentally treated on day 4 after birth. During the course of the experiment, the piglets were kept with their mother sow. Group 1 was not treated, group 2 was treated with an antibiotic, and group 3 was treated with an antibiotic and simultaneously exposed to several routine, but stressful management procedures, including docking, clipping and weighing. Thereafter, treatment effects were measured at day 8 after birth in 16 piglets per treatment group by community-scale analysis of gut microbiota and genome-wide intestinal transcriptome profiling. We observed that the applied antibiotic treatment affected the composition and diversity of gut microbiota and reduced the expression of a large number of immune-related processes. The effect of management procedures on top of the use of an antibiotic was limited. Conclusions/Significance We provide direct evidence that different early-life conditions, specifically focusing on antibiotic treatment and exposure to stress, affect gut microbial colonization and intestinal immune development. This reinforces the notion that the early phase of life is critical for intestinal immune development, also under regular production circumstances. Figures
phylogenetic microarray analysis
large gene lists
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staphylococcus-aureus
cytoscape
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transcriptomics Agriculture & Biology
Pig experiment Sterksel early antibiotics/stress
Schokker, D. (Creator), Vastenhouw, S. (Creator), Smits, M. A. (Creator) & Rebel, A. (Creator), Wageningen Livestock Research, 1 Sep 2014
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE53170
Models of dietary effects on immune responses in pigs (KB-17-003.02-022)
Smits, M.
INTERPLAY: Interplay of microbiota and gut function in the developing pig – Innovative avenues towards sustainable animal production
Project: EU research project
Schokker, D. J., Zhang, J., Zhang, L. L., Vastenhouw, S. A., Heilig, H. G. H. J., Smidt, H., Rebel, J. M. J., & Smits, M. A. (2014). Early-life environmental variation affects intestinal microbiota and immune development in new-born piglets. PLoS ONE, 9(6), [e100040]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0100040
Schokker, D.J. ; Zhang, J. ; Zhang, L.L. ; Vastenhouw, S.A. ; Heilig, H.G.H.J. ; Smidt, H. ; Rebel, J.M.J. ; Smits, M.A. / Early-life environmental variation affects intestinal microbiota and immune development in new-born piglets. In: PLoS ONE. 2014 ; Vol. 9, No. 6.
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In: PLoS ONE, Vol. 9, No. 6, e100040, 2014.
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AB - Background - Early-life environmental variation affects gut microbial colonization and immune competence development; however, the timin Early-life environmental variation affects gut microbial colonization and immune competence development; however, the timing and additional specifics of these processes are unknown. The impact of early-life environmental variations, as experienced under real life circumstances, on gut microbial colonization and immune development has not been studied extensively so far. We designed a study to investigate environmental variation, experienced early after birth, to gut microbial colonization and intestinal immune development. Methodology/Principal Findings - To investigate effects of early-life environmental changes, the piglets of 16 piglet litters were divided into 3 groups per litter and experimentally treated on day 4 after birth. During the course of the experiment, the piglets were kept with their mother sow. Group 1 was not treated, group 2 was treated with an antibiotic, and group 3 was treated with an antibiotic and simultaneously exposed to several routine, but stressful management procedures, including docking, clipping and weighing. Thereafter, treatment effects were measured at day 8 after birth in 16 piglets per treatment group by community-scale analysis of gut microbiota and genome-wide intestinal transcriptome profiling. We observed that the applied antibiotic treatment affected the composition and diversity of gut microbiota and reduced the expression of a large number of immune-related processes. The effect of management procedures on top of the use of an antibiotic was limited. Conclusions/Significance - We provide direct evidence that different early-life conditions, specifically focusing on antibiotic treatment and exposure to stress, affect gut microbial colonization and intestinal immune development. This reinforces the notion that the early phase of life is critical for intestinal immune development, also under regular production circumstances. g and additional specifics of these processes are unknown. The impact of early-life environmental variations, as experienced under real life circumstances, on gut microbial colonization and immune development has not been studied extensively so far. We designed a study to investigate environmental variation, experienced early after birth, to gut microbial colonization and intestinal immune development. Methodology/Principal Findings To investigate effects of early-life environmental changes, the piglets of 16 piglet litters were divided into 3 groups per litter and experimentally treated on day 4 after birth. During the course of the experiment, the piglets were kept with their mother sow. Group 1 was not treated, group 2 was treated with an antibiotic, and group 3 was treated with an antibiotic and simultaneously exposed to several routine, but stressful management procedures, including docking, clipping and weighing. Thereafter, treatment effects were measured at day 8 after birth in 16 piglets per treatment group by community-scale analysis of gut microbiota and genome-wide intestinal transcriptome profiling. We observed that the applied antibiotic treatment affected the composition and diversity of gut microbiota and reduced the expression of a large number of immune-related processes. The effect of management procedures on top of the use of an antibiotic was limited. Conclusions/Significance We provide direct evidence that different early-life conditions, specifically focusing on antibiotic treatment and exposure to stress, affect gut microbial colonization and intestinal immune development. This reinforces the notion that the early phase of life is critical for intestinal immune development, also under regular production circumstances. Figures
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Semi Truck Parking
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Truck Parking
Solving Truck Parking Availability: Florida Has An Answer
Ready Fleet January 22, 2017 Truck Parking
Trucks parked at Polk County Rest Area along Florida’s I-4. The state’s transport department is installing a Truck Parking Availability System along I-4, I-10, I-75 and I-95, consisting of at welcome centers, weigh stations, and rest areas to help truckers find available truck parking space for rent.
Truck Parking Availability System will be set up along I-4, I-10, I-75 and I-95, consisting of welcome centers, weigh stations, and rest areas.
Truck parking is a capability, geographical, and even political problem in Florida, according to Tisha Keller, vice president of Florida’s Trucking Association. And as a outcome, truck chauffeurs are having a tough time finding a safe, legal location to park.
Keller cited one particular problem spot along the I-4 passage, where many of the neighborhoods oppose truck parking. “Because the rest area on I-4 is the only rest stop in that location, all trucks park there,” she described, including that as the area starts to overflow, highway patrolmen press truckers out.
“The motorist says: ‘Where am I supposed to go? I’m out of hours; I’m expected to stop,'” Keller continued.
Truck Parking Space For Rent: Badly Needed
Since of these kinds of situations, several truck motorists turn to the hazardous and prohibited approaches of parking on the interstate mainline, ramp shoulders, or in vacant lots. Keller added that security has actually always been a issue in Florida as the state regularly ranks high for cargo theft.
After conducting a research study with Florida International University to assess parking lot utilization and technology usage, Florida Dept. of Transportation (FDOT) discovered the most significant issue statewide is an imbalance of truck parking capacity due to a absence of parking information management. FDOT discovered an overflow of parking at some places while others remain underutilized.
To assist resolve that problem, FDOT remains in the procedure of installing a Truck Parking Availability System (TPAS) along I-4, I-10, I-75 and I-95, including at welcome centers, weigh stations, and rest areas.
Jeff Frost of FDOT’s Commercial Vehicle Operations/Traffic Incident Management, Office of Traffic Engineering & Operations, informed Fleet Owner that the study included collecting parking information at all of the public rest areas along I-10, I-75 and I-95. Based upon the outcomes of the research study, FDOT submitted and was awarded an Accelerated Innovation Deployment grant to deploy a real-time information system about commercial vehicle parking schedule.
“TPAS will help truck drivers maximize their HOS requirements by lowering the quantity of time spent to find parking spaces, permitting them to focus on the movement of products,” Frost stated. “Initially TPAS will allow drivers to see the number of spaces are currently available at a common location. After we have gathered enough historic data, we intend to establish prediction designs to forecast future schedule estimates.”
Map of the Regional Traffic Management Centers (RTMC) that will receive the electronic data from the sensors, process and after that distribute the details to the roadside signs in addition to the FL 511 and 3rd celebration information feeds. (FDOT Map).
TPAS will use in-ground sensors in the truck areas at interstate rest areas/welcome centers, and entryway and exit counts at weigh stations to keep an eye on the number of readily available truck parking areas. Task specialist Craig Toth, West Florida’s operations supervisor for HNTB Corp., stated the information will then be shown on the state’s FL511 site and app for chauffeurs to access. FDOT said it will also make all the information readily available for 3rd-party applications.
“It’s in real time, so it will not do predictive analysis yet,” Toth explained. “But over time, as the system stabilizes, we’ll be able to do predictive-type analyses.”
The Ultimate Truck Parking Solution
“Overall, it ought to really assist from a safety and functional perspective,” Toth included. “It’s a national concern, and we’re seeking to get in front of it. It would be good to broaden along the whole I-75 and I-95 corridor systems.”
Keller said the system is the first action towards linking trucks with open and available spaces, but more has to be done to address the bigger issue.
“We are delighted by it, but in the end, we need the state to buy realty for truck parking,” she said. “From our point of view, DOT requires to really prioritize the needs of the industry as much as they do other markets. We move 75-80% of the freight in Florida, and I often think that truck parking and our needs aren’t prioritized.”
“We have a fantastic collaboration with DOT,” Keller added.
“This is simply among those issues that’s really politically delicate, and it’s getting even worse.”
The TPAS remains in its initial form and will be released as a series of design jobs led by each FDOT district. FDOT expects the job will be done in phases through 2017.
Inadequate truck parking constantly turns up as a leading issue among truck chauffeurs and carriers nationwide. In reality, it simply ranked number 4 on the annual leading 10 list of trucking market concerns compiled by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI)– that’s up a area from 2015, inning accordance with ATRI president and COO Rebecca Brewster.
“As the absence of available safe parking continues to challenge the market as a top concern, it’s clear that numerous services will be required,” Brewster said. “Providing real-time info to drivers about truck parking accessibility is a excellent start so that important drive time isn’t really squandered as motorists look for a safe place to stop.”
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Sandbox - 8nov19
[So what's Bloomberg's entry into the Dems' presidential race going to do to the Dropout Derby? Will there be a rush to the exits by those who can't get traction? How will the current 'Final Four' go after the new white billionaire vying for office? gjr]
,,,then why no spittle flecked rage from you progressive good government types about Newsome?
Oh that's right…..hypocrisy! Silly me!
Posted by: fish | 13 November 2019 at 11:41 AM
,,,grunion,,,I don't remember you being upset at anything Trumple, his crew of misfits, or his family has done to date
,,,so why the double standard???
Posted by: Carlos Castaneda | 13 November 2019 at 03:45 PM
Clinton was impeached for perjury in a civil action taken by a subordinate of his in Arkansas. The lie was to hide the fact that he had a subordinate polishing his pole in the Oval Orificei. Perjury is a real crime.
He also lost his ability to practice law in the aftermath, but the judge, a Clinton appointee, gave him a break by not disbarring him until after the Senate decided not to remove him from office.
Posted by: Gregory | 13 November 2019 at 03:51 PM
Sorry Emery, what you "feel" isn't evidence.
Still, your and yours have nothing on Trump.
But let the steaming pile of Schiff keep this game up. Every hearing will expose the LIBs for what they are.
Posted by: Walt | 13 November 2019 at 03:58 PM
Speaking of Clinton, Hey Emery? can you tell us what the definition of "is",is?
Exactly what was corrupt about the Bidens Gregory? Can you point to a specific crime?
Posted by: Paul Emery | 13 November 2019 at 04:03 PM
What's your connection to Russia Emery?
https://www.governing.com/news/headlines/What-Is-Sacramentos-Cannabis-Connection-with-Moscow.html
Big Dope bought off SAC polititions. ( with Russian connections no less)
How many times are you going to ask that same lame question Emery?
Biden, Joe, forced an illegal "quid pro quo" on the Ukraine Paul Emery. Where have you been? And it is illegal to use your public office to coerce a person or in this case, a country, to enrich yourself or a relative. Perhaps you need to review the California State laws in this regard.
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 13 November 2019 at 04:16 PM
Todd. Emery will just say it's perfectly fine on the FED level. As long as it's a Democrat.
In other news today the Public News Service today reported that California has record voter Registration with 20.3 million voters. The largest Block is Democrats followed by No Party Preference followed by the poor ol' Republicans. Sad Scenario in Cal if you are a Republican. My goodness-third place.
Right on time. Emery changes the subject when cornered.
Well no shit Sherlock. That's supposed to be a surprise Buzzard of Broad St.?
It's not Commiefornia for nothing.
Not cornered at all Walt. Things went very bad for the Pubbers today. they are going to have to regroup on this one. It will only get worse. Just wait till Giuliani flips and he will. Remember, Trump has no friends.
Posted by: Arlos Asstaneda | 13 November 2019 at 03:45 PM
Finally something we can agree on Arlos……that dugsKKKi is a hypocrite!
Posted by: fish | 13 November 2019 at 04:43 PM
Walt we know PE will change the subject when shown to be wrong a Democrat hack.
California is a democrat state no surprise there. All those millions of illegal aliens voting have made it that way.
From Americas Paper of Record……………….
Capitol Building To Be Decorated As Giant Circus Tent For Duration Of Impeachment Hearings
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In honor of the impeachment hearings beginning this week, the Capitol Building has been decorated to look like a giant circus tent.
As soon as congressional maintenance staff heard that the impeachment hearings were going to begin, they went into storage and got out "the Big Top," also used during the Kavanaugh hearings last year.
"We keep the Big Top on hand for certain situations," said one staff member. "Usually these big inquisition-style trials, that kind of thing. They're great entertainment. And the kids love the monkeys."
Congressional vendors will be selling peanuts, popcorn, programs, and those big foam fingers to enhance viewers' experience.
Rep. Adam Schiff was furious with the changes, saying they make a mockery out of a serious show trial.
"These are serious proceedings, and we will not have them mocked!" Schiff cried, wearing a clown nose, riding an elephant, and juggling fourteen flaming bowling pins. "The American public needs to know how super serious we are about this."
Thats a fact……kids do love monkeys……..!
Can you offer some proof about the "millions" of illegal immigrants voting Todd or did you make it up?
What the hell was Emery watching? Schiff wound up looking like an idiot.
Better get those meds checked Emery. Dementia is working overtime.
Well here’s a sorely needed hit for the House; today they held a hearing the outcome of which pleased literally everyone involved with the impeachment circus. It’s not often that such contentious affairs wind up making both sides smile and asking for more of the same.
Posted by: George Rebane | 13 November 2019 at 05:01 PM
This part Emery?
“So, in this impeachment hearing today where we impeach presidents for treason or bribery or other high crimes, where is the impeachable offense in that call?” asked Rep. Ratcliffe of Taylor and Kent.
“Are either of you here today to assert there was an impeachable offense in that call?” added Ratcliffe.
The representative spoke to Taylor and Kent during the House Intelligence Committee’s inaugural public hearing of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump on Wednesday.
Both bureaucrats responded by saying nothing, creating a moment of deafening silence in the room.
“Shout it out. Anyone?” probed Ratcliffe during the moment of silence. "
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/13/bureaucrats-fail-to-respond-to-ratcliffe-question-where-is-the-impeachable-offense/
But HEY,, You can always show the criminal activity Emery,,
Let's see the stone cold evidence of that impeachable crime.
Maybe you would like to talk about being able to smell Frisco from Vallejo when wind changes instead?
punchy...
http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/poll-13-of-illegal-aliens-admit-they-vote/
And as far as Biden's corrupt intent, the smoking gun, besides Hunter's $50k a month job in the corrupt Ukraine when Dad was running the US show is a good place to start... how about asking Ukraine to investigate the place Hunter B was "working"?
If the House can "investigate" the President for evidence of a crime they can't name... why not the son of a VP who was getting $600k a year for being... his father's son when his father was running the US sh*tshow in Ukraine?
Yes Emery,, "REAL BAD for Repubs"...
"The impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump backfired on congressional Democrats Wednesday, when a star witness inadvertently made the case that Hunter Biden’s wheeling and dealing in Ukraine should be investigated.
Testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on the opening day of the inquiry, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent admitted that U.S. officials had been urging the Ukrainian government for some time to explain why an investigation into Burisma Holdings, the eastern European oil and gas company that employed Hunter Biden on its board of directors, was shut down.
“We’ve continued to press Ukrainian officials to answer for why allege corrupt prosecutors had closed [the] case,” Kent said. “We have until now got an unsatisfactory answer.”
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/11/13/backfire-democrat-impeachment-hearing-accidentally-makes-case-for-hunter-biden-investigation/
I followed your link Gregory and the article was from 2015 and it bases it's conclusions on some unnamed poll. Do you find that to be an acceptable source and worth linking to? Do you consider this to be factual information?
Reads like this:
"June 3, 2015 By Stephen Frank
As we always knew, California and American elections are filled with fraud and corruption. Thanks to a new poll, we now know that approximately 13% of illegal aliens vote. Since they are already criminals, stealing ID’s or using phony ID’s. lie to get welfare, steal jobs—why not vote as they to lose. Since they can not be deported or jailed, they have nothing to lose. Obama is protecting these law breakers."
The semi load of playdough will arrive tomorrow.
Right after all the dog schiff has been scooped up.
Those POOR snowflake LIBS on Capitol hill. losing the fight against Trump.
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/470179-therapy-dogs-slated-to-visit-capitol-hill-today
Schiff for brains had a schiff storm land in his lap -
“It was a total disaster for us,” one senior House Democrat aide told Breitbart News.
“Too complicated,” another Democrat aide said.
“This won’t make sense to regular people,” a third Democrat aide told Breitbart News.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/13/democrat-dud-first-public-impeachment-hearing-falls-short-as-complicated-unclear-allegations-drive-inquiry-forward/
Posted by: Don Bessee | 13 November 2019 at 07:00 PM
Sabo strikes again? Wonder if he will make it up to Northern Cal again this year to leave his talent on a Nevada City stop sign. He must be stopped.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/11/13/street-artist-sabo-skewers-adam-schiff-impeachment-hearings-as-shameless/?
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 13 November 2019 at 07:03 PM
Emery sure lacks proof of "a bad day for Repubs".
Is it "Paul Schiff" of Nevada City now?
Even the LIBS are hoping Ginsburg will croke, just to take the heat of the clown show.
Speaking of the notorious RGB,, Hear she's ill again?
Now this will be fun! -
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/13/lindsey-graham-i-will-call-adam-schiff-to-testify-in-the-senate/
squirm squirm squirm
Posted by: Robert Cross | 13 November 2019 at 07:50 PM
Posted by: Roberta Cross | 13 November 2019 at 07:50 PM
squirm squirm squirm......
There are those “daddy issues” again Roberta.
New Zealand is nice this time of year, Ruthie. Lots of sheep. Even Jim Comey is thinking about moving there...probably nothing to with the fact that the IG report is getting ready to drop with criminal referrals. Boy, the Deep State is squirming like a ho in church. Kitchen is getting hot, hot, hot. Too hot.
Quick, impeach Trump. No time to waste. Hurry, hurry, hurry.
The Senate cross examination should be interesting. ACME Rents will be sending a fleet of delivery trucks.
Denver.... Frisco of the MidWest.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/13/denver-fines-local-business-owner-for-refusing-to-remove-homeless-peoples-feces/
"Jawaid Bazyar is fighting a decision by the City of Denver to fine his business for refusing to clean poop from an adjacent alley.
The local internet service provider CEO is taking the city to court after being fined for not cleaning up the leavings of the local homeless population from his property. “If the city’s not going to enforce laws against trespassing, or camping, or public defecation and just make me bear the cost of these problems, that’s just not right,” Bazyar told CBS Denver.
“There’s food, trash, drug deals,” Bazyar said. “In the alley, we get the defecation, drug needles.” Bazyar is concerned about the health and safety of both him and his employees. “It’s a bio-hazard. It could be infectious. I didn’t hire these people to clean poop off the ground. I can’t, as an employer, just say, ‘Go and clean up the feces,’” he explained."
“Your mutual misunderstandings make me squirm. It’s like watching a dragonlet flame his own tail.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson
" ACME Rents will be sending a fleet of delivery trucks."
From the "manufactured evidence div."?
The Democrats’ impeachment farce is intended to smear President Trump, in part because that party’s leaders know they don’t have a decent candidate to run against him next year. This is why Congressional Republicans prominently displayed a quote from Rep. Al Green at today’s sham hearing:
“I’m concerned if we don’t impeach this President, he will get re-elected.” Unimpeachable logic.
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2019/11/image001.png?zoom=1.7162011173184357&ssl=1
Read more if thou doth desire. Media Bias is not in your head.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/11/media-bias-its-not-in-your-head.php
Those mutha mullahs think we are stupid, gotcha! -
"The agency has detected natural uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at a location in Iran not declared to the agency," the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog, said in a confidential report published Monday, according to AFP.
The particles had been mined and had undergone initial processing, but not enriched, AFP reported.
The report did not name the facility that had been producing the particles, the BBC and AFP reported. However, anonymous diplomatic sources told AFP that the samples had been taken from a facility in Tehran's southwest Turquzabad district.
Iran has previously claimed that the Turquzabad site is a carpet cleaning factory that has no other purpose.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has repeatedly warned about Iran's undeclared nuclear archives, told the UN last year that the Turquzabad site contained "a secret atomic warehouse for storing massive amounts of equipment and material from Iran's secret nuclear weapons program."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/investigators-found-uranium-particles-secret-131658986.html
TRIGGER WARNING! -
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/13/donald-trump-jr-triggered-book-hits-number-one-on-new-york-times-bestseller-list/
Aha. Just as predicted. Schifflips publically changing his strategy....well, at least showing the next card which always been the strategy. Kavanaugh hearing, deja vu. If it bombs, move on to Plan B and then Plan C. Get that asterisk in the record books by Kavanaugh’s name....er.....by Trump’s name. Claim a moral victory for Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
“In making the case for alleged “bribery” by Trump, Schiff first argued for the Constitution’s “broader” definition of the term.
“Bribery, first of all, as the founders understood bribery, it was not as we understand it in law today. It was much broader,” he said, as reported by NPR. “It connoted the breach of the public trust in a way where you’re offering official acts for some personal or political reason, not in the nation’s interest.”
“All the Democrats need to do to make the case for bribery, Schiff claimed, is to show that Trump was “soliciting something of value,” a broad definition indeed. Multiple witnesses who have spoken with the committee behind closed doors, Schiff told NPR’s Steve Inskeep, have presented evidence that Trump was trying to “solicit something of value.”
That Trump failed to do so, Schiff maintained, is beside the point. Trump’s request for Ukraine to “look into” the corruption allegations agains the Bidens, the subsequent actions of officials working on Trump’s behalf to try to make sure the investigation was conducted, and the temporary withholding of $391 in U.S. military aide is enough to impeach the president, he suggested.“
That the military aide was given to Ukraine without the country ever conducting an investigation into the Bidens is neither here nor there, Schiff argued.
“I mean, when you consider the serious terms of whether the president has committed an impeachable offense, the fact that the scheme was discovered, the fact that the scheme was unsuccessful, doesn’t make it any less odious or any less impeachable,” said the Democratic congressman. “If the president solicited for help in the U.S. election, if the president conditioned official acts on the performance of these political favors, whether Ukraine ever had to go through with it really doesn’t matter. What matters is: Did the president attempt to commit acts that ought to result in his removal from office?”
While Schiff acknowledged that it was unlikely that the Senate would impeach Trump, as it requires a two-thirds majority vote, he defended the House Democrats’ resolve to see the process through. Impeachment, he argued, is “the most powerful sanction the House has,” and if it “deters further presidential misconduct, then it may provide some remedy even in the absence of a conviction in the Senate.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-shift-trump-impeachment-focus-to-new-potential-offenses?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand
Memo to Punchy. Try to keep up. It is soooo yesterday to even utter “quid pro quo.” Where have you been? Didn’t you get the memo? You must be too busy producing the matinee puppet show for the children.
Oh, I love cat fights and happy endings.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/female-mma-fighter-takes-down-anti-trump-professor-who-allegedly-started-fight-at-flag-wave-honoring-veterans-in-portland?
punchy 618pm
"I followed your link Gregory and the article was from 2015 and it bases it's conclusions on some unnamed poll."
Punch, it names the poll and links to it. You go back and read it again, with all your powers focused on what the words say. You can do it, Paolo.
"Do you find that to be an acceptable source and worth linking to? Do you consider this to be factual information"
I think it's attempting to be factual. Why do you not, besides your natural proclivity to not believe that illegal aliens *might* be voting, and would own up to it in a poll?
Schiff for brains even lost the Clinton news network today! -
Following the hearing, CNN Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin suggested that the vocal observation from Trump's defenders was "legitimate."
"The one criticism of these two witnesses, which I think is very much legitimate -- it's not really a criticism, it's a factual statement, is that neither of them had direct contact with the president," Toobin said.
"Ever," CNN anchor Jake Tapper stressed.
"Ever," Toobin responded. "And, that's a problem if you're going to impeach the president."
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-jeffrey-toobin-ambassador-bill-taylor-george-kent
Another cat fight! Boy, she really hit a nerve.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-stefanik-angers-schiff-when-she-presses-him-over-secrecy-prohibiting-questioning-of-witnesses?
To which the Enemy of the Truth replied
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2019/11/13/ugly-abcs-matthew-dowd-tweets-then-deletes-sexist-attack-gops-elise
Now, everybody in unison sing the praises
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2019/11/13/nets-hype-heaven-trumps-presidency-hanging-balance
How here’s a gushing gusher
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2019/11/13/stephanopoulos-williams-praise-taylors-television-voice-echoes
Oh, that last one sent a tingle up my leg!!
The poll you refer to is a vanity poll Gregory and has no credibility. People hire polling organizations to get the result they want. I'm amazed that you give them any credence since you disregard the results of the established polls used in the RCP consensus. You crack me up.
Heres a link to the "poll" you refer to:
http://www.mclaughlinonline.com/lib/sitefiles/National_Hispanic_Presentation_06-21-13_-_FOR_RELEASE.pdf
The pony tail of ignorance is whistling by the graveyard ignoring how badly it went for him and schiff for brains today!
Now Punch, either it named and linked the poll, or it didn't... are you now saying it did name the poll and disclosed the results... but you just don't like it?
Funny guy, just can't make up his mind.
So, you think the number of illegal aliens registered to vote, who broke the law to come here, is Zero?
More failed narratives -
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/14/ukraine-foreign-minister-aid-investigations-were-never-linked/
Posted by: Don Bessee | 14 November 2019 at 06:27 AM
If you would have read my post you would have learned that I did list the poll and that it was a vanity poll and has no credibility. Who knows what the number is Gregory but it is not the millions that Todd claims. There is no credible information that it had any effect in elections. If so, show me.
Posted by: Paul Emery | 14 November 2019 at 07:49 AM
There is no credible information that it had any effect in elections. If so, show me.
Yeah Gregory……show him……like he did with the Russian interference……that errr…..was never shown ….to have….caused…err…umm... anything….but that he caterwauled about for two years like a whiny teenaged girl.
,,,Trump's love interest in Turkey trots out propaganda video to show Trumple how bad the Kurds are,,,
https://www.yahoo.com/news/erdogan-showed-anti-kurd-propaganda-135304259.html
Posted by: Carlos Castaneda | 14 November 2019 at 08:23 AM
Gregory.. Your dealing with an idiot. Emery still thinks 1 Right leaning mass shooter outweighs 12 LIB mass shooters.
Posted by: Walt | 14 November 2019 at 08:33 AM
punchy 749am
"If you would have read my post you would have learned that I did list the poll and that it was a vanity poll and has no credibility."
Funny guy. Flailing. Sad.
Posted by: Gregory | 14 November 2019 at 08:42 AM
,,,Why all the hanky waving over Po Ol Polls??? What difference do polls make???
Here is a study that is sure to get the Roundtable to "rise'',,,
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/republican-states-best-at-managing-their-money-democratic-ones-the-worst-133111937.html
,,,Erdogan,,,an equal opportunity "ally''
https://i2.wp.com/www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/maks-2019-3.jpg?resize=789%2C460&ssl=1
,,,catchy name,,,Molar City, Mexico
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/welcome-to-molar-city-mexico-the-dental-mecca-built-by-americas-high-health-care-costs-104500222.html
RCP today
Warren20.8
Sanders17.8
Buttigieg8.0
Harris5.3
Yang2.8
Klobuchar2.3
Booker2.3
Castro1.3
Gabbard1.0
Steyer1.0
Bullock0.8
Delaney0.8
Williamson0.5
Bennet0.5
Messam0.5
Biden +5.2
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 14 November 2019 at 08:55 AM
What’s a vanity poll?
Posted by: George Rebane | 14 November 2019 at 08:57 AM
Posted by: Arlos Asstaneda | 14 November 2019 at 08:23 AM
,,,Trump's love interest in Turkey….or…..,,,Trump's love interest in Russia….or ,,,Trump's love interest in Ukraine……
So much interest in unrequited homosexual affection in your posts dugsKKKi…….something you trying to get off your chest….or "come out of the closet" if you prefer?
Are you planning on moving dugsKKKi…….? I think you'd like it there!
Kickstarter?
gr 857am
A vanity poll is apparently a privately commissioned poll that has a result Paul doesn't want to consider.
"Biden +5.2"
He's such an absurd man that I'm liking the idea.
This could be the official portrait. Biden and Taxpayer.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRt2SlmUIAAcuLl.jpg
Posted by: scenes | 14 November 2019 at 09:25 AM
The semocrats are pouring money into the Alabama Senate race. And now we see Jedd Sessions joining te fray. The dems have given 30 Million bucks to Jones to try and keep the seat he got when he defeated Roy Moore. It is the moxt raised nationwide for all Senate taces.
https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2020&id=ALS1
It's like a vanity press where you pay to get your book published. You can hire a vanity poll to get any results you want. They abide by the wishes of their purchaser.
What? The resident LIBs are trying to bring up anything other than then the dumpster fire full of LIB Depends from yesterday.
The Adam Schitt show should be even better tomorrow.
Like I said, it's a poll that isn't in the RCP osterizer that has a result that Paul doesn't like.
Punchy doesn't have any evidence that the pollster in this case has ever lied... it's just dismissable without thought... because it's a "vanity poll" and one number among many was 13 percent non-citizen voting.
IF there are 20 million illegals, that would be 2.6 million illegal voters as an estimate. If the polling org got it wrong and it was instead just one percent, it would be 200,000 illegal voters. My sense is it's probably somewhere inbetween.
Even in an innocent photo he's gafftacular! There are days I almost feel sorry for the guy!
PaulE, then who would ever believe the results of a vanity poll that is published for public consumption? It seems that the vanity pollsters real utility is for private clients who want the (confidential) truth for their own planning purposes.
And IPCC science is vanity science.
DAMN Emery,, your the Progressive news dud here,,, show us that
"Brick by brick pile of evidence" LIB news says was piling up.
That "Watergate 2.0" didn't work out as planned. Trump was never supposed to release the phone conversation. DAMN! Trump didn't erase that "tape".(just moved to a secure storage) Pajama Boy dickblower was supposed to be your anonymous "deepthroat" with all the dirt, and knows where the body is buried.
Nope Trump didn't play by the rules.
But some fun for LIBS from yesterday.
https://www.insider.com/drag-queen-attends-president-trump-impeachment-hearings-2019-11
Now you know why Adam Schiff's eyes were so BIG.
I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the New York Times
“By now, you've already heard about the maladroit attempt to suppress the fact that Senator Elizabeth Warren lies about her personal backstory.
These are some of the worst examples. But nearly every day, the steady paper subtly tries to save the Times from itself. For example, we nearly published a two-star review of Lin Manuel Miranda's rather mediocre Hamilton.
Don't get me wrong. There have been bright spots in the last few years. Ken Vogel's coverage of Hunter Biden's corruption has been top notch. But even these journalistic triumphs have come with a cost. Vogel was almost featured in a New York Times Magazine cover story on Journalists Enabling Trumpism.
We hope that the Times will rediscover its mission of performing excellent and fearless journalism after the Trump presidency ends in 2025. Until then, please know that there are still editors and reporters at the old gray lady who put paper first.”
https://freebeacon.com/issues/i-am-part-of-the-resistance-inside-the-new-york-times/
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 14 November 2019 at 11:02 AM
"Temperatures in several major cities fell this week to lows not seen since the Taft Administration, shattering dozens of records as a bone-chilling cold front swept through the eastern half of the United States. As a punishing wave of January-esque Arctic air brought dangerously cold conditions, some cities had low-temperature records that hadn't plunged that low in more than 100 years."
It really is just weather. Honest.
Bless her little heart.
“. . . We also need to move quite quickly because we’re talking about the potential compromise of the 2020 elections,” Ocasio-Cortez ended. “And so this is not just about something that has occurred; this is about preventing a potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year.”
The Washington Post reported Thursday that Senate Republicans are considering dragging out any impeachment trial to force senators running for the Democratic presidential nomination to be on Capitol Hill instead of on the campaign trail.
“Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden might like that,” Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas) said of the potential plan.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/aoc-says-impeachment-necessary-to-unite-dems-stop-potential-compromise-of-the-2020-election/
CONAN ON A JOKE ABOUT DAMNING EVIDENCE THAT COULD END TRUMP PRESIDENCY: WE’VE USED THIS CUE CARD 15 TIMES
‘Groundhog Day the cue card’
walt 833am
"Gregory.. Your (sic) dealing with an idiot."
Walt, while Punch does seem to be less than average in the IQ department at times, one must consider he's just punching up for dear life much of the time. Take the punch if you think a soft spot is undefended. Deal with the aftermath later... and another punch in an entirely different direction may derail the conversation enough to render it moot.
Yes Gregory
"Float like a butterfly sting like a bee."
You and the other Circle of Jerks are boring to spar with. Predictable and easy to anger which makes you and the others defenseless.
You and the other Circle of Jerks are boring to spar with.
……and yet here you are every day..…playing the rhetorical punching bag.
#delusional
,,,Erdogan throws Trumple's "don't be a tough guy" letter back in his face,,,
Trumple,,, International laughing stock!!! Lets real and wannabe autocrats piss on him,,,as long as he can build hotels in their countries...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/return-sender-turkish-president-erdogan-144314338.html
Posted by: Carlos Asstaneda AKA M for Meshugga | 14 November 2019 at 01:06 PM
Maybe you should floss more……..
Good song for our unhinged friends...and dangerous foes
https://www.facebook.com/Americanvoicesthedailycaller/videos/754836338352174/UzpfSTEwMDAwMTEwNzM4NDQ2OToyNjE2MzczNTI4NDA5NTM0/
Nevada City blues. Must be a cultural thing.
https://www.theunion.com/news/nevada-city-mayor-to-face-possible-sanction-removal/
Breaking the wrong ground. Turnabout is fair play, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Remember Harry Reid’s short sighted ‘Nuclear Option’?
On the use of impeachment as an election strategy
“Second, it further appears that a president cannot even confirm a cabinet unless he or she has a partisan majority in the Senate. Democrats established this precedent by voting in unison against President Trump’s cabinet nominees, with the exception of Secretary of Defense Mattis, who won a near-unanimous vote. Democrats in the Senate voted almost unanimously against Jeff Sessions (Attorney General), Mike Pompeo (Director of Central Intelligence), Rex Tillerson (Secretary of State), Betsy DeVos (Education), Steven Mnuchin (Treasury), Mike Mulvaney (Office of Management and Budget), and Scott Pruitt (Environmental Protection Agency). William Barr was subsequently confirmed as Attorney General in 2019 by a vote of 54 to 45, with but four Democrats voting in his favor. If Republicans did not have a majority, they would not have been able to confirm any of President Trump’s nominations (with the exception of Gen. Mattis).
What do Democrats think is going to happen when they elect a president, but fail to carry a majority in the Senate? Republicans will undoubtedly behave in that situation just as Democrats have acted in relation to President Trump: they will veto his cabinet nominations, or delay them indefinitely to keep the incumbent president from forming a working government. That, after all, is what Democrats hoped to do to President Trump—and they are still doing it. Turnabout is fair play, and in politics is often necessary to deter adversaries from “upping the ante” by adopting more extreme tactics of attack. Looking ahead, there is little chance, for example, that Republicans will vote in the future to confirm a Democratic nominee for Attorney General, just as Democrats tried to block Sessions and Barr (and John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales before them). By contrast, Eric Holder, President Obama’s nominee for Attorney General, and a highly partisan figure, was confirmed by a comfortable bi-partisan vote.
It is unlikely that Republicans will be quite so generous in regard to future nominations for Attorney General, in view of the manner in which Democrats treated Sessions and Barr. That will be the case also in regard to other sensitive policymaking positions—such as the head of the epa or director of the cia. In this way the United States is moving toward a bastardized form of parliamentary government, in that the President must have a majority in the Senate to conduct the business of government and the other party is no longer the opposition party (putting forth alternative policies) but is rather the “obstructionist” party.”..............................
“Fifth, and finally, Democrats have now turned impeachment into a partisan electoral strategy which, if successful, will establish a precedent for future investigations to come. This is the kind of stratagem that is bound to come back to haunt Democrats whenever they elect a president and do not have a majority in the House of Representatives. What is to stop Republicans from impeaching an incumbent Democrat on a partisan vote in the hope that it will strengthen the hand of the Republican candidate in a forthcoming election? This is, in effect, what Democrats are proposing to do today. Democrats assume Republicans would never do such a thing. They are wrong. Impeachment, far from being rare, is about to become a commonplace event as an instrument of campaign strategy and partisan warfare. Every president going forward, when facing a hostile Congress, will face the threat of impeachment, since Democrats are proving today that it is not difficult to concoct a case if there is a determination to find one. In that situation, Americans might as well forget about Washington as a place where important problems are addressed on behalf of the public.“
Money Quote:
“The U.S. political system is heading at breakneck speed toward some kind of crisis in which partisan warfare overwhelms the capacity of the president and congress to address national problems, as they once used to do in an era of greater national consensus. Judicial and cabinet appointments, the budget, international interests, and now impeachment have been turned into occasions for party warfare. It appears that today the two parties represent different countries, rather than different coalitions of Americans, and thus must negotiate with one another as heads of state negotiate with adversary nations.”
https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/breaking-the-wrong-ground
Joe Biden can’t get no respect.
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/702603?unlock=OTPZN0JH4NRUTHBE
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/11/14/what_the_entry_of_patrick_and_bloomberg_may_mean_for_biden_141738.html
,,,Poor Grunion,,,he would not vote for Trumple,,,but developed a strong man crush on the fat man anyway
now he sees the folly of his obsessive attraction with the Orange Man but cannot admit the error of his ways...
#Sad
Great read, IMHO. Turnabout is fair play....sadly.
,,,Poor Grunion,,,he would not vote for Trumple,,,but developed a strong man crush on the fat man Jeffried anyway
Posted by: J’s lavender Bunbun | 14 November 2019 at 02:50 PM
Poor Emery. Not much of a "sparring partner" when all you do is rabbit punch, then run to the corner and hide under the towel.
HELL.. You can't even land a sucker punch.
"Anger" us you say? Your the laughing stock of the blog!
So you think "highly" of yourself.(naa,, just high) That's OK... No one else does.
,,,Yes J's lavender Bunbun,,,it is interesting how grunion professes to loathe Jeffried yet clings to Orange fat Man like a ,,,well,,, a clinger
Posted by: Carlos Asstaneda | 14 November 2019 at 03:07 PM
Bitter no less…….
Student govt. at Harvard votes to condemn student newspaper for asking ICE for a comment
On Sunday, the Harvard student government voted to condemn the school's daily student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, after the newspaper asked the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for a comment about an anti-ICE protest in September on the school campus.
The story: Over 900 people and several student groups like the Harvard College Democrats have signed a petition calling for the newspaper to "apologize for the harm they inflicted on the undocumented community," "stop calling ICE," and "declare their commitment to protecting undocumented students on campus."
“In this political climate, a request for comment is virtually the same as tipping them off, regardless of how they are contacted,” the petition stated. On Sept. 12, students gathered for a protest organized by the student group Act on a Dream in Harvard Yard to call for the termination of ICE, according to Fox News.
After the event, the Harvard Crimson requested a comment from ICE about the protest for an upcoming story. The newspaper defended its decision to seek comment from ICE, saying in a note to readers that it follows “a commonly accepted set of journalistic standards.”
https://www.lacortenews.com/n/student-govt-at-harvard-votes-to-condemn-student-newspaper-for-asking-ice-for-a-comment?
Hmm. .....it follows “a commonly accepted set of journalistic standards.” Oh, that was then, this is now. Have you seen the journalistic standards lately?
When the narrative fails just flip the script! -
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/14/sad-democrats-scramble-switch-impeachment-narrative-attempted-crimes-after-lackluster-hearing/
Thanks for the Bright Brat slant on things...
I guess you missed George's admonition to you to try to find actual news sources...
Yet you have nothing El Gordo.
Now back to liar LIB news and produce some real evidence against Trump. Opinion is not evidence.
CarlosC 420pm - You’d get a lot more traction with such comments if you or yours would just document a couple of errors or ‘fake news’ items that outlets you don’t like put out.
Well that's not going the way they planned -
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/14/nolte-impeachment-backfire-trumps-numbers-rise-as-bidens-crater/
Gotta hand it to El Gordo.. Impersonating a dead guy. Joining him soon?
OK Emery!! Now your chance to run Nevada City!! You claim to know better than all of us,, PROVE IT!!
"Nevada City Mayor Reinette Senum will face possible sanction or removal during the next council meeting, Dec. 10, after council member Erin Minett brought the motion forward and the council approved discussion of possible censure.
Minett said she is concerned, and received similar complaints from constituents, about the mayor “not clarifying that the opinion she expressed regarding multiple city matters are her own and that she was not speaking on behalf of the city or the City Council.” "
Speak up Capt Crickets....
We don't need no stinkin' rules say the jihadi congressional delegation -
But Tlaib's campaign committee, Rashida Tlaib for Congress, allegedly "reported campaign disbursements that may not be legitimate and verifiable campaign expenditures attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes," according to a release from OCE that unanimously recommended the Ethics Committee investigate Tlaib.
If Tlaib "converted campaign funds from Rashida Tlaib for Congress to personal use, or if Tlaib’s campaign committee expended funds that were not attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes, then Tlaib may have violated House rules, standards of conduct, and federal law," the OCE continued.
"The Board recommends that the Committee further review the above allegation concerning Rep. Tlaib because there is substantial reason to believe that Rep. Tlaib converted campaign funds from Rashida Tlaib for Congress to personal use or Rep. Tlaib’s campaign committee expended funds that were not attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes," it said.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-ethics-committee-announces-probe-into-dem-reps-tlaib-hastings
WOW... "Glass jaw" Emery ran for the exit.
And Carlos the corps must be smelling up a room somewhere.
Nope, you clowns have nothing on Trump
Ouch even the washpo hates it -
"The author claimed to be part of a group fighting for America’s democratic while 'thwarting Mr. Trump's more misguided impulses,' but readers did not learn what sort of work the anonymous writer did or what, if anything, had been thwarted," Lozada wrote of the op-ed. "However accurate and sobering such characterizations may be, they all belong in a folder labeled Stuff We Already Know. Unfortunately, much of 'A Warning' reads like a longer version of the op-ed, purposely vague and avoiding big revelations in order to preserve the author’s anonymity."
Lozada said he would stop short of calling the author "cowardly" for holding onto anonymity despite the numerous civil servants set to testify as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry. Still, he labeled the anti-Trump White House official "self-defeating."
https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-anonymous-warning-anti-trump-book
The chi coms are feeling the heat! -
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/china-industrial-output-grows-slower-232400372.html
For every action there is an equal reaction.
“October Gun Sales Jump 10 Percent, Continuing Recent Rise”
Americans buying more guns as Democrats propose confiscation
https://freebeacon.com/issues/october-gun-sales-jump-10-percent-continuing-recent-rise/
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Rapid proliferation of civilian unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), also known as drones, expand the horizon for a variety of transportation planning, management, and operational activities. Many State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) have explored applications of UASs. The initial results indicate that UAS technology has the potential to improve cost-effectiveness and safety when integrated into conventional approaches for infrastructure inspections, asset management, construction monitoring, emergency response, traffic surveillance, crash investigation, and other transportation-related tasks. While there are many successful examples and use cases of UASs, relatively little research has been done to determine how to effectively integrate UAS-related technologies into State DOT operations. Considering the tremendous potential and rapidly evolving nature of UAS technology, Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) has launched a comprehensive research project aimed at evaluating current state-of-the-practice transportation applications of UASs at other State DOTs and developing a pilot program for applying UAS technology to address surface transportation needs in the Commonwealth. The project includes seven research tasks: (1) Development of a pilot program to integrate UASs into bridge and rail inspections; (2) Assessment of roadway pavement condition with UASs; (3) Evaluation of UAS highway speed sensing application; (4) Development of UAS emergency service drone network for use in surface transportation; (5) Assessment of UAS situational awareness technology to support applications in surface transportation; (6) Evaluation of UAS cybersecurity threats and countermeasures in surface transportation; and (7) Implementation, outreach, and technology transfer coordination and management.
https://www.mass.gov/lists/current-and-completed-research-projects
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‘Rogue One’ Writers Reveal Movie’s Alternate Titles and Characters
Rogue One famously underwent many changes through the course of production. We once did a whole lost of things that appeared in its trailer but didn’t show up in the finished film. There were shots, there were lines of dialogue, and even maybe an entire action sequence or two.
We’ve known learned some of the changes that the film went through before production, thanks to a recent live watch-along of the movie conducted by its writers, Gary Whitta and Chris Weitz. They revealed (via ComicBook.com) that before the movie was known as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, they considered many alternate titles. They included Dark Times, a reference to an Obi-Wan Kenobi line from the original Star Wars, and Shadow of the Death Star, which certainly applies to the story of the movie but would have given away a bit more of the plot than Lucasfilm typically prefers to do with its marketing.
Whitta also discussed the thinking that eventually led them to Rogue One:
At one point, John Swartz, who was one of the creative executives on the film had a list and we all kind of voted on the ones that we liked....One of the things that occurred to me, I went back and looked to all the previous films, and this continues to be true even with the sequel trilogy now being completed, the titles of Star Wars Saga films are always either three words or four words long. They just all are. So it occurred to me that one of the ways we could differentiate this movie from the rest is we had a title that was only one word or two words long. So like Star Wars: Rebellion, Star Wars: Rogue One, let's do a title that's shorter so that even from the title of the movie you know this is something that doesn't necessarily conform to the unwritten rules of the Saga films.
According to The Playlist, Whitta and Weitz also discussed the ways the characters evolved during the writing process. Felicity Jones’ Jyn Erso was originally conceived, according to Whitta, as “Rebel soldier” and at one point she was going to be “a deserter ... a Rey-like scavenger, but obviously you can’t do that once you learn what the other hand of the Star Wars universe is doing.” There was also a version where Jyn’s mother would have secretly been a Jedi in hiding.
Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor, meanwhile, was originally a spy in the Rebels working for the Empire. “He has a change of heart and flips to the Rebel side,” Whitta revealed “but that’s after he’s exposed as a spy. And at that point in the third act, he kind of has to win Jyn’s trust back.” The stuff about Cassian is particularly interesting since his character will return, as the lead in his own Disney+ series. Will the film reveal that Cassian once worked as an Imperial spy in the Rebels? Knowing what was originally developed for the character, that wouldn’t surprise me.
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I’ve never played at St Andrews. That’s a poor admission to make, for any keen golfer. Playing at the Home of Golf is a sporting ambition which I must one day address, since although I’ve played some of the best seaside courses in England, Wales, and the west of Scotland, so far only Stonehaven has witnessed my hacking on her eastern coast.
It’s always a marvellous battle with the elements on a links course. The wind, the dunes and the sea make such fine companions, that the experience can become almost sacred.
I’d certainly count my days at Royal Porthcawl as amongst the best of my entire life: for if ever there were a place to spend the rest of your days, then this is it. You can see the ocean from every single hole, and splash into it from several, too. Memories of Guy Wolstenholme beating a young Tiger Woods there on the rain-lashed last day of the 1995 Walker Cup only add to the legend of this South Wales links.
Last Monday saw my annual assault on the fearsome test of Royal St George’s at Sandwich. It’s always a privilege to play an Open Championship layout, and this one is sublimely difficult and marvellously scenic – or is that sublimely scenic and marvellously difficult ? A stiff northeaster was blowing in off the sea, which made the famous Maiden short hole especially challenging, played straight downwind. There’s only one way to do it – select pitching wedge, wrap your ball in velcro, hit it as hard and as high as you can, and pray that the ball stops somewhere on the green. It worked, this time.
The beauty of such fine courses is that for all the gradual changes that have been made over the years, and Sandwich has seen radical redesign since the Open was first held here, ultimately it is nature which always holds sway as the chief architect. Fine land and fine scenery make for great golf courses. St Andrews is a perfect example – and the reverence attached to the place means there have probably been fewer changes made here than at many championship venues. And although the course seems almost wildly eccentric to the modern eye, with its crossing fairways and double greens, the links has been supremely influential in the minds of golf architects everywhere.
I could talk about the 17th, the famous Road Hole, with its cavernous bunker. And indeed I would, if it didn’t bring on nightmares of many similarly deep and dreaded pits lurking at Sandwich. Trust me – you don’t really know what a bunker is, until you’ve experienced one with four steps leading down for the player to enter at the back, and a vertical, turf-riveted face eight feet high in front. These are infernal places where you can, and will, spend hours on end. It’s certainly no coincidence that the most dangerous trap on St Andrews’ 14th hole is simply called ‘Hell Bunker’.
And yet, the most imitated hole in golf is neither of these. It is the much more straightforward-looking 11th hole, which, consciously or not, has stirred the minds of golf course architects around the world. At 172 yards, it’s far from intimidatingly long by modern standards. And the defining feature of the hole, Strath Bunker, is actually quite a small hazard. But it’s the placement of Strath which is so acute. It was Nature, in her wisdom, that laid out a narrow plateau here behind the foreshore. Maybe the small sandy hollow set in the face of the ridge was once a place for sheep to shelter from the biting North Sea wind. But when golfers ventured onto the land in the middle ages, the plateau became a green, with that small sandy pit set deep into its front right face.
Such a simple configuration, but it’s a design classic. The green is set across the line of play, and is narrow from front to back, making it difficult to hit. The special challenge here for the majority of players, right handed, is the location of the bunker, which leaves only two routes to attack the green.
A fade shot, curving from left to right, seems perfect for the task in taking the bunker out of play. But fade shots so often come up short, especially into the wind. And any stroke on this path, less than perfectly hit or judged, will inevitably land short into the ridge at the front of the green, from where it will sink as perfectly into Strath Bunker as a single malt falls into glass on a soft Scottish evening.
So that leaves a draw, curving from right to left. Perhaps that seems safer, until you counter that this strategy exposes you to a route right over the pit of the bunker itself, and until you reason that the lower flight of a draw leaves you with almost no chance of stopping the ball on the green beyond. And with the green sloping sharply towards the front, there is simply no recovery option from the back.
So how about playing left ? No – a much bigger bunker awaits. Play short of Strath, and then pitch on ? That’s no good either, since there’s a veritable desert of sand awaiting there.
It’s such a sweet and subtle design, and so widely copied, on holes far more famous than this one. Just take a look at the famous 12th at Augusta, one of the most photographed holes anywhere in the world. In reality, now we can see it as nothing more than a daughter of our good friend Strath, transported 4 000 miles from the Kingdom of Fife to Georgia. All of the elements are there. A fiendishly narrow, sloping green, with a bunker set right into the front right face. Trouble left and short (Rae’s Creek). And a tricky wind, swirling in the pines, rather than across the beach.
Augusta’s 12th is not a long hole. ‘All’ it demands is perfect judgement of distance, and for Sunday’s pin placement, the courage to commit to a shot across the bunker. That’s easy enough, until you’ve got The Masters almost in your grasp. Just ask Greg Norman and Sandy Lyle how easy they think the hole can play. Both came to grief here, and whilst Sandy’s Scottish blood saw him home, somehow, in 1988, Greg’s 1996 challenge faded like a poorly-struck eight-iron on the breeze. And only a few blades of grass saved a shaken Fred Couples from a watery fate en route to his green jacket in 1992.
There are many short holes designed on a similar theme around the world. No two pieces of land are the same, so they’re often subtly different, whilst still paying homage to Strath. Just amongst the courses I’ve played, there’s the fourth at Sunningdale, with heather in front of the tee. The seventh at Stoke Poges, where the green is angled more left to right. The second at Blumisberg in Switzerland, where the Strath-Kind is monstrous and twelve feet deep. So many examples, more famous than these, and much too numerous to list them all.
Another round on Friday. It was parkland golf, in deepest mid-Kent this time, far from the sea. Certainly, on a course called Hemsted Forest I should have expected trees. And more trees. The company was grand, but I played like a dog.
But something happened as the early autumn sunshine drifted towards a showery afternoon. Soft rain started falling as I hacked my way out of the woods on number ten, but it was only a few drops, and my pitching wedge into the green flew against a perfectly illuminated backdrop of darkened grey sky. It was only whilst the ball was in the air that I noticed the rainbow behind the green, and then a double rainbow. Maybe that will bring us the pot of gold, I opined, cornily, to my companions.
We walked on towards the eleventh tee, in brighter mood. And there she was. A pretty par three, not long, but played over a ravine. A wicked slope to the left, falling down towards a pair of sandtraps. A narrow, strongly elevated putting surface, sloping sharply from back to front. One small bunker set into the front right face of the green. An almost perfect Kentish Strath.
I look at the card. Just 129 yards – a thrashed and rash pitching wedge in my student days, but a stiffer, less certain and wiser nine-iron in my rusty middle age. With distance in hand, it’s a simpler shot, with less reason to fear the bunker. The shot flies well, not special perhaps, but solid, and straight. The usual up-down-up-down darted glances which follow any well-struck shot from ball to flag. The ball lands softly, eight feet short. Rolls up, just right of the pin.
And then it disappears.
There’s complete silence on the tee. My partners aren’t quite sure, although I think I know. There are no hollers, or high fives, but it feels like time to break the moment, so I give a big smile and offer my hand to each in turn. There’s no putter needed on this hole today.
Next up is my old friend Alan. ‘I’ll never follow that,’ he moans. ‘But it’s been done before’, I say. ‘Two aces in the same group’. He’s not so sure, but hits it well, and the ball lands inches from my pitch-mark. A lower flight from his seven-iron, and the ball lands harder, before hitting the flagstick a foot from its base and bouncing away to two feet for a certain birdie. Three strokes under par, with two guys still to play.
It’s a memorable round. I put the ball away, to save the moment. And just as well, since although my next drive flies true and straight, smoking 280 yards with pure adrenaline, my concentration and game just aren’t quite there now. Two balls disappear into the woods on the way home, but it’s the 19th we want to reach.
The Steward looks concerned as I order for champagne for us, and drinks all round in the Clubhouse. There are two societies playing here, and it’ll cost me 150 quid and a hundred handshakes before I fall into my friend’s car for the journey home. But it’s worth every penny. Thirty-two years I’ve waited for this moment. Maybe twenty holed second shots on par fours – even the odd eight-iron third, sunk on par fives. But never a hole-in-one, until today. And tradition must be served, so served she is.
Just one shot, one day, one moment in a lifetime’s golf. But it means so much more than that.
It’s one over Strath.
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Open Letter: Stop Modern Slavery!
Posted by Rod D. Martin | Apr 6, 2016
Open Letter From Conservative Leaders
Congress Must Demand that Laws to Halt Modern Slavery Be Enforced and Uphold the Principle That Government Action Should Protect Life
All people of good will believe that sex trafficking, forced labor, and other modern forms of slavery are an affront to basic human dignity. Around the world churches, ministries, nonprofit organizations, and governments are working against the multi-billion-dollar human trafficking industry, to prevent victims from being enslaved, to punish those who commit these atrocities, and to liberate and assist victims so they can recover and rebuild their lives.
Many people and organizations are also attempting to establish or strengthen the rule of law and to eliminate the government corruption that aids and abets trafficking. These efforts are critical to ending modern slavery.
Enslaving a human being denies that person’s dignity and moral worth. The moral principles in which this truth is rooted also compel us to recognize the dignity of each and every human being. This ethic of life necessitates providing compassionate care and assistance to pregnant victims of trafficking and protecting the unborn children who are additional victims of this modern form of slavery. U.S. leadership in fighting human trafficking domestically and around the world should be consistent with the principle that every human life has value and deserves protection. Despite their numbers, the victims of modern slavery are not statistics: They are individuals. They have names, like Qamar, Najwa, and Raqiyah; and some of them may have names even if they haven’t been born yet.
The United States should take two particular steps to combat modern slavery. First, the U.S. should ensure that no US taxpayer funds are paid to those who may be complicit in perpetuating trafficking. The U.S. Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report evaluates country efforts to comply with minimum standards for combating trafficking in persons. There are four categories. From best to worst, they are: Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 2 Watch List, and Tier 3. Countries on Tier 2 Watch List and Tier 3 include totalitarian and notoriously corrupt regimes, e.g., inter alia, Burundi, Central African Republic, and South Sudan. The U.S. should support the efforts of nongovernmental organizations in Tier 2 Watch List and Tier 3 countries that rescue and rehabilitate victims of trafficking and that address challenges to the rule of law. However, aid is fungible and if it ends up in the wrong hands, it can perpetuate precisely the evil that it is provided to stop. The U.S. has a responsibility to ensure that funding for anti-trafficking efforts has appropriate safeguards and reliable oversight so that it does not bolster corrupt governments or governmental entities that are complicit in human trafficking.
Second, the U.S. should ensure that the taxpayers’ money is used in ways that respect the inherent dignity and right to life of every human being. The U.S. should ensure, therefore, that no funds from any U.S. government program established to combat human trafficking are used to perform an abortion, or to assist in or facilitate an abortion, or to coerce any person into performing, assisting, or facilitating an abortion.
Senator Corker (R-TN), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has introduced S. 553, the End Modern Slavery Initiative (EMSI) Act. The bill would create a congressionally charted 501(c)(3) foundation that could receive funding from the United States government, and from foreign governments and private donors, which it could distribute to NGOs that work to eliminate trafficking. While the portion of the funding from the U.S. government would be covered by existing statutory prohibitions on U.S. Government monies’ being used to fund abortions, the funding from other governments and from private individuals would not be subject to the prohibition. Therefore, in order to be truly effective in the fight against human trafficking and its related evils, the language in the legislation should be strengthened by including a provision to protect human life.
Many Americans rightly feel a strong moral obligation to combat human trafficking around the world. They believe the U.S. should continue to support the most effective programs that reduce trafficking, and those that assist victims and prevent further enslavement, while at the same time upholding the worth of all human beings — whatever their names are, and whether they have been born or not.
Legislative efforts to fight trafficking, including the End Modern Slavery Initiative Act (S. 553), must advance these goals if they are to be regarded as serious, and potentially effective, efforts to combat human trafficking.
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How to Rescue a Rake by Jayne Fresina – Spotlight, Excerpt, and Giveaway
Title: How to Rescue a Rake
Series: The Book Club Belles Society, #3
Pubdate: January 5th, 2016
Nathaniel Sherringham has returned to Hawcombe Prior a changed man. Gone is the reckless rake who went out on a limb to propose to Diana Makepiece three years ago. Now Nate’s mysterious new wealth has the town’s rumor mill spinning. To stir things up (and get Diana’s attention), Nate boldly announces his plans to marry “any suitable girl” under the age of 25.
Diana, now 27 and still single, is acutely aware of Nate’s return. When her mother suggests a trip to visit a cousin in Bath, Diana leaps at the chance to escape the heartbreak and regret she can’t help but feel in Nate’s presence…and avoid his irritating charade to find a bride.
But for Nate, Diana has always been the one. He might just have to follow her to Bath and once again lay his heart on the line to win her attention—and her heart.
Jayne Fresina sprouted up in England. Entertained by her father’s colorful tales of growing up in the countryside, and surrounded by opinionated sisters, she’s always had inspiration for her beleaguered heroes and unstoppable heroines. She lives in upstate New York. Learn more about the author at www.jaynefresinaromanceauthor.blogspot.com.
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How to Rescue a Rake, the third in Jayne Fresina’s Austen-inspired Book Club Belles series, comes out this January! For all of you Jane Austen fans, this fun new release is based on Persuasion and it’s a book you don’t want to miss. To celebrate this latest release, the heroine is here to give our readers a tip on how to rescue their own rake and to share an excerpt with us.
Tips for Capturing a Rake’s Attention: By Diana Makepiece (Or How to Stay Calm and Capture a Rake)
A tongue-in-cheek guide by one old maid, who has lost her bloom, has let her last chance for happiness pass her by and is now, at twenty-seven, half way to death (according to the parson’s wife)… and not at all bitter about it, thank you very much.
Never laugh at his jokes. Instead, save your chuckles for the inevitable moments when he stumbles over his big feet/ bangs his empty head/ pokes himself in the eye, etcetera. It will help deflate his vanity and you may as well start as you mean to go on.
“I sent you a message the morning I left, Diana,” he said. “I fired it myself through your bedchamber window with a sling.”
“You did what?”
He ran a hand over his face, flattening rain-drenched spears of hair to his brow. “I climbed that damnable oak behind your mother’s cottage. I didn’t want to leave without giving us another chance.”
She tried to think, but her mind wouldn’t cooperate. Don’t believe him, Diana. This is another of his practical jokes, no doubt. Any moment now he will burst his seams with laughter.
Diana sniffed. “What did this supposed note say?”
He frowned.
“And don’t bother making something up, Captain, for I will know you’re fibbing. It comes naturally to you and always did. But I never fell for it, did I?”
The frown broke with exasperation and then reformed with scorn. “Oh, you know me. It was childish nonsense. Just what you would expect. Good thing you never read it.”
“Don’t tell me then,” she grumbled into her handkerchief. “It hardly matters now anyway. The years have passed, and we are both too old for climbing trees.”
“Quite,” he snapped. “Three years is an eternity.”
For me it has been, she longed to say.
Suddenly Nathaniel seized her hand. “We should start again, Miss Diana Makepiece, and put the past behind us.”
“And why, pray, would we do that?”
He lifted her gloved fingers and pressed his lips against her knuckles.
“Captain?” she demanded.
He met her frown with a narrow-eyed, somewhat menacing appraisal. “Your opinion of me might improve.”
“Well, it could hardly get any worse.”
Nathaniel’s hand tightened around hers and tugged her closer. “I am not all bad. We may become friends.”
Skeptical, Diana tried to retrieve her hand, but his grip was too strong. “I wouldn’t hope too hard, Captain.” She admired his spirit; she envied his lively manners and his fearlessness. But to feel more for such a capricious man would be a mistake. “I think you should—” A dark, devious twinkle sizzled in his blue eyes and made her draw an anxious breath. “Do not think of it!”
He blinked, but the wicked sparkle remained. “Do not think of what?”
“That. It is not proper!”
“I’m afraid not. It is, however, necessary.”
“Captain Sherringham, if you dare—”
The words were stolen away as his mouth lowered to hers, claimed her lips. She’d said the wrong thing, of course. In his case, saying “if you dare” was like waving a red rag at a bull.
Diana was almost lifted off her feet, left to hover on her toes as he took his kiss. His tongue touched hers and stroked it gently. A raindrop that fell from his eyelashes to her cheek was warm and soft, tickling her skin as it trickled down the curve like a tear and finally gathered on the ridge of her jaw. Until the tip of his tongue followed it and then licked it away.
She was stunned speechless.
“If you don’t believe me about the note,” he whispered, his lips warm against her ear, “ask Jamie Bridges. It was his sling I used.”
Every inch of his hard body was pressed against her, and in her wet clothes she had little defense. He must feel her heartbeat. She might as well be naked. The wicked thought flashed through her mind as if he had put it there with his kiss.
“Ask him,” he repeated. “Unless you’re afraid.” A flare of white teeth showed as he smiled. Oh, that lethal charm. He would never lose it. “The world might tip upside down if I was proven honest for once.”
Nathaniel’s eyes shone down at her and she was caught up in their brilliance, like a fly trapped in a spider’s web.
“I once fell out of a tree for you,” he whispered, sounding bewildered.
“That would explain these bouts of madness,” she reasoned.
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Solomon Islands national to lead Fulton College
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Dr Glynn Galo has extensive tertiary education experience in the South Pacific region.
A new principal has been appointed to Fulton College, Fiji’s Seventh-day Adventist tertiary institution.
Dr Glynn Galo has been the vice-chancellor of Solomon Islands National University for nearly four years and previously held senior positions at Pacific Adventist University and the University of the South Pacific (USP).
“People who have worked with Glynn comment on his dedication to God and His mission,” said Pastor Maveni Kaufononga, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Trans Pacific Union Mission, which oversees Fulton. “His vast experience in tertiary institutions will be a great asset for us.”
"Fulton College must consolidate, grow and explore other academic areas that it can offer to meet the challenge of preparing graduates for the present and future . . ."
Dr Galo is a Fulton alumnus himself. A Solomon Islands national, he has lived in Papua New Guinea, Fiji and the UK, where he completed his doctorate in education. He also holds a science degree (USP) and a Master of Business Administration (University of Queensland), an eclectic mix of qualifications that will no doubt help him relate to students of various disciplines as well as leading the faculty and staff at Fulton.
“I am very humbled indeed to accept the appointment as Principal of Fulton College,” said Dr Galo. “I have so much confidence in the senior officers and support staff of the College. Together as a team we will continue the services of the College and complete the good work left behind under the leadership of the former principal, Dr Steve Currow. As an academic institution, Fulton College must consolidate, grow and explore other academic areas that it can offer to meet the challenge of preparing graduates for the present and future needs of the Church and the community it serves. This to me is the continuous challenge yet a rewarding aspect of the job. With the Lord’s support and guidance, the College will achieve this.”
Dr Galo takes up the principal’s role following the departure of Dr Steve Currow, who is now communication director at the Adventist Church’s South Pacific Division office in Wahroonga, NSW.
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By Betty Yu December 23, 2020 at 12:48 am
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PLEASANTON (KPIX) — Many last minute Christmas shoppers said they headed to Bay Area malls to find gifts Tuesday evening, because at this point, it’s too late to order them online.
Shoppers said they didn’t expect to see so many people out two days three days before Christmas.
At Stoneridge Shopping Center in Pleasanton, shoppers waited in socially-distanced lines outside popular stores like Sephora and Foot Locker.
Under the stay-at-home order, retail stores in Alameda County are allowed to operate at 20% capacity.
“There have been outbreaks associated with grocery stores and even big box outlets, but it was usually in the context of crowding areas,” said UCSF Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Peter Chin-Hong.
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Dr. Chin-Hong says if shoppers keep their masks on, stay out of crowds, and stores follow guidelines, they should be mostly safe.
Shopping is also generally safer than dining, he added. Still, people at malls do often take off their masks to eat or drink.
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This past weekend, it was a similar scene at Broadway Plaza in Walnut Creek.
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There were plenty of people out and about.
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Dr. Chin-Hong says to reduce the risk of transmission, people should spend as little time as necessary inside stores.
And the least risky activity — online shopping.
“I’m surprised by the number of people that are out, I mean I probably wouldn’t be out, other than my wife is returning a gift,” said Daniel Frankel of Walnut Creek.
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The world today is scary, with a side order of grim, so it is understandable that one can be so cynical of the times we live in, particularly when it comes to the government or law enforcement.
Michael Schur, one of the pioneering names in today’s era of American network television comedy, crafted, alongside Greg Daniels, Parks and Recreation, a comedy series that addressed the problems with modern government, while giving us characters within that world that we wished existed simply because they tried to do the right thing within it, even when the rest of the world, or in the show’s case the town of Pawnee, Indiana, tried to bring them down a notch.
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Not for nothing does Brooklyn Nine-Nine make us laugh hysterically with its plethora of brilliant story telling, one liners and ongoing jokes, but can also throw in important plot lines and themes, such as “Moo-Moo” in which the character of Terry (a frequently scene stealing Terry Crews) becomes the victim of police racism. The episode is still deeply funny, but the dialogue, not to mention a key conversation between Terry and Captain Holt (Andre Braugher, who I will praise to the heavens shortly) cuts very deep and for a series that can brilliantly revel in increasingly silly humour, it cannot help but leave a massive lump in the throat.
That such an important and real conversation can come from a series in which the lead character constantly references Die Hard, not to mention brilliantly withering put downs delivered by Chelsea Peretti, is testament as to why the series is one of the absolute best comedies currently on the air. It can make you laugh out loud, or chuckle along throughout its twenty two minute run time, but every once in a while it can make you stop and truly appreciate its handling of some potent and powerful themes.
Like all brilliant sitcoms, or single-camera comedy series, the show is made up of such a wonderful ensemble cast that to pick a favourite is would almost be too difficult, if not for the fact that there is one clear stand out and that is Captain Raymond Holt, but thankfully the series never lets him dominate too much and one finds themselves loving equally Jake, Amy, Charles (whose family gets increasingly weird it seems with each passing episode), Gina, Rosa, Terry, Hitchcock and Scully. The entire cast is superb, with no weak member to bring it down, but in the middle of it all is Braugher’s superb dead-pan performance as Holt.
An openly gay character, but his sexuality is never once played for laughs or used as a way to ridicule him. In fact, his marriage to Kevin (an equally dead pan Marc Evan Jackson, another Schur-regular) is shown to be loving and wonderful, even if they are the most deadpan couple in history, while the butt of the jokes featuring Holt is down to his dry nature and those moments when he sometimes lets loose a little, such as when he declares his chopper call sign as Velvet Thunder, or his “vindication” when Rosa exclaims how much she loves the wedding arch he’s built using balloons.
It’s portrayals like this, warm-hearted, natural, and funny, with a side order of wonderful silliness, that make the series an undisputed highlight of television right now. It adheres somewhat to the Parks and Rec/Office formula, but does so in a way that it feels completely its own.
Yes, some of the characters and their personalities feel like those from Parks (Amy has a thing for making binders which is very Leslie Knope, while Gina recalls the comedic intensity of April Ludgate), while it has a lovely habit of making its central romantic relationships work instead of mining them for obvious drama; Jake and Amy have a will they/won’t they thing going on for the first two seasons, and once they get together they stay together and navigate their romance with maturity and humour, while Raymond and Kevin are shown to have their squabbles, but they always make it work and never love each other any less even if they have a disagreement.
While Jake and Amy don’t quite reach the heights of Leslie and Ben (understandable as the Parks and Rec couple are one of television’s all time great romances), Samberg and Fumero are so damn adorable you can’t help but cheer them on.
Like all things brilliant about the series, it subverts character expectations at every turn; Peralta looks as if he’s going to be an atypical immature leading male character, and yet for all his predilection for being something of a class clown, he is shown to be a pretty good cop who legitimately cares for his friends, with real respect for Holt, whole Amy’s uptight nature belies someone who is sweet and brilliant at what she does, while her desire for Holt’s respect is played beautifully instead of as a comedic flaw.
Then there is Rosa. This upcoming season will see the intensely dedicated and sometimes hilariously tough character be given what looks to be one of the series’ best storylines, not to mention, like with the portrayal of racism last season, it being dealt with beautifully, honestly, and realistically. Like everyone else on the show, Stephanie Beatriz’s performance is simply wonderful.
The most despairing thing about the series is that it is currently in danger of being cancelled. Five seasons is a good run for any television show, but the series is one that is a light in very dark times. We live in an era when trust of the police is an at all time low, and with governments in the western world seemingly wanting to point towards prejudices that border on the extreme, there is something incredibly comforting about Brooklyn Nine-Nine. It never shies away from some darker truths, but it wraps it up in a bow that can make one laugh and one just a touch more hopeful.
Jake, Amy, Holt, Terry, Charles, Rosa, Gina, Hitchcock and Scully may not be real, but the series has a feel good factor that makes one wish they were. Sure, it’s not a realistic depiction of police work, but that the series throws in reminders of real world concerns, such as racism, homophobia and sexism, and deals with them head on in a way that is brilliantly real, while making us laugh, is a toxic for the days when we have to deal with racism, homophobia and sexism from those in power and really ought to know better.
It truly a bright light to emanate from our television, and hopefully it may continue for a while yet.
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The Bouncing Souls "Hopeless Romantic" CD
The Bouncing Souls play old-school punk rock in the tradition of The Ramones and Social Distortion. It sounds anachronistic in an age when rap-metal hybrids litter the hardcore landscape, but the Souls turn up the heat with hooks a-plenty and above average lyricism. Music fans will get a big kick out of humorous cuts like "It's Not the Heat, It's the Humanity" and "Bullying the Jukebox,"--an anthem about taking over a tavern's tune selection ("I walked into the bar / And put in twenty bucks / I know other people's taste in music sucks"). With whiplash guitars courtesy of guitarist "The Pete,"Hopeless Romantic yields a bumper crop of classic Epitaph loudness
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Government Entities – Case Law Update
Margheim v. Buljko
This case arose from Margheim’s involvement in three state criminal matters – two domestic violence cases and a later drug case. His malicious prosecution claim was based on his prosecution in the drug case, but the three cases were tied together. When deputy district attorney Emela Buljko raised the qualified immunity defense in district court, Margheim had the burden to show a violation of clearly established federal law. Margheim failed to show dismissal of the criminal charges indicated his innocence, which was an essential element of his malicious prosecution claim against Buljko to establish a constitutional violation. It explained, “Dismissal based on the suppression of evidence on technical’ grounds having no or little relation to the evidence’s trustworthiness is not “favorable under our case law to support a malicious prosecution claim. Mr. Margheim won his suppression motion because the arrest warrant that led to the search was invalid.” (Pg. 21, internal quotation marks and citation omitted.) Therefore, the Tenth Circuit reversed and remanded with instructions to grant qualified immunity to Buljko.
Miller v. West Valley City
Miller was injured in a West Valley City swimming pool when some teenage girls came into her lane and she ran into one of them. She asserted premises liability and negligence claims asserting the lifeguard did not take adequate action to remove the girls from the pool. The district court dismissed the case for failure to state a claim. The Utah Court of Appeals affirmed that ruling.
First, it ruled Miller did not plead facts sufficient to establish liability against the City because there were no allegations that the City made a voluntary undertaking to protect her, that the voluntary undertaking was done without reasonable care, and that Miller reasonably relied on this undertaking. Second, it ruled that the “dangerous condition” alleged by Miller – a teenager obstructing a swim lane – is not a property defect and is not connected to a dangerous condition of the building. Therefore, there was no waiver of immunity under the Governmental Immunity Act of Utah.
Third, and most notably, it concluded that the public duty doctrine barred Miller from bringing a claim against WVC. In doing so, it reiterated the long-standing rule that the public duty doctrine applies only to omissions of a government actor, not to its affirmative acts: “Where the harm is directly caused by a third party . . . the government is not liable for its failure to rescue the plaintiff from the external harm.” It found the public duty doctrine barred Miller’s claims because her complaint repeatedly characterized the City’ actions as a failing to exercise reasonable care and failing to keep the swimming lanes clear of hazards. This, coupled with the fact that the harm was caused by a third party, not by the affirmative acts of the lifeguard, and thus was caused by an omission. It further concluded that Miller failed to establish a special relationship with the City, that exception to the public duty doctrine did not apply. It explained, “[T]he lifeguard did not owe Miller a duty specific to her. Rather, WVC’s lifeguards were employed to ensure the safety of the general public. The lifeguard monitoring the pool in which Miller was swimming was there to survey the conditions of the entire pool and ensure the safety of all its patrons.”
These summaries are for informational purposes only. Neither Snow Christensen & Martineau, nor Heather White, represented any of the parties involved.
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How Much Did Meilleure Health International Industry Group's (HKG:2327) CEO Pocket Last Year?
Wen Chuan Zhou became the CEO of Meilleure Health International Industry Group Limited (HKG:2327) in 2013, and we think it's a good time to look at the executive's compensation against the backdrop of overall company performance. This analysis will also evaluate the appropriateness of CEO compensation when taking into account the earnings and shareholder returns of the company.
See our latest analysis for Meilleure Health International Industry Group
How Does Total Compensation For Wen Chuan Zhou Compare With Other Companies In The Industry?
According to our data, Meilleure Health International Industry Group Limited has a market capitalization of HK$1.4b, and paid its CEO total annual compensation worth HK$800k over the year to December 2019. Notably, that's an increase of 48% over the year before. It is worth noting that the CEO compensation consists entirely of the salary, worth HK$800k.
In comparison with other companies in the industry with market capitalizations ranging from HK$775m to HK$3.1b, the reported median CEO total compensation was HK$2.4m. That is to say, Wen Chuan Zhou is paid under the industry median. Furthermore, Wen Chuan Zhou directly owns HK$11m worth of shares in the company, implying that they are deeply invested in the company's success.
Component 2019 2018 Proportion (2019)
Salary HK$800k HK$540k 100%
Other - - -
Total Compensation HK$800k HK$540k 100%
On an industry level, roughly 92% of total compensation represents salary and 8.1% is other remuneration. Speaking on a company level, Meilleure Health International Industry Group prefers to tread along a traditional path, disbursing all compensation through a salary. If salary dominates total compensation, it suggests that CEO compensation is leaning less towards the variable component, which is usually linked with performance.
SEHK:2327 CEO Compensation August 24th 2020
A Look at Meilleure Health International Industry Group Limited's Growth Numbers
Over the last three years, Meilleure Health International Industry Group Limited has shrunk its earnings per share by 53% per year. Its revenue is up 25% over the last year.
The decrease in EPS could be a concern for some investors. But in contrast the revenue growth is strong, suggesting future potential for EPS growth. It's hard to reach a conclusion about business performance right now. This may be one to watch. While we don't have analyst forecasts for the company, shareholders might want to examine this detailed historical graph of earnings, revenue and cash flow.
Has Meilleure Health International Industry Group Limited Been A Good Investment?
Meilleure Health International Industry Group Limited has generated a total shareholder return of 6.5% over three years, so most shareholders wouldn't be too disappointed. But they would probably prefer not to see CEO compensation far in excess of the median.
To Conclude...
Meilleure Health International Industry Group pays CEO compensation exclusively through a salary, with non-salary compensation completely ignored. As we noted earlier, Meilleure Health International Industry Group pays its CEO lower than the norm for similar-sized companies belonging to the same industry. And revenue growth for the company is showing some positive trends.And revenues are growing at a healthy clip.And revenues are increasing at a good pace over the past year. But we were hoping for higher shareholder returns and positive EPS growth during this stretch, which, unfortunately, did not materialize. We won't say CEO compensation is inappropriate, but shareholders will likely want to see healthier returns before they agree the company deserves a raise.
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England v West Indies: Ben Stokes says Stuart Broad is ‘nowhere near done’
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Stuart Broad is “nowhere near done” as an England player despite being left out of the first-Test defeat by West Indies, says stand-in captain Ben Stokes.
West Indies won a thrilling Test by four wickets on the final evening at Southampton to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
Broad, 34, said he was “angry, frustrated and gutted” to be dropped.
“Stuart’s interview was absolutely brilliant,” Stokes told BBC Sport.
“For a guy who has played over 100 Tests and taken the amount of wickets he has to have that emotion and desire still burning inside is amazing.”
Blackwood’s 95 sets up West Indies win over England
Broad has taken 485 Test wickets in 138 Tests since making his debut in 2007, and had the second-highest tally in the world in the 12 months before this game.
However, England omitted him in favour of the returning Anderson, their all-time leading wicket-taker, and the extra pace of Jofra Archer and Mark Wood.
Without Broad, they opted to bat first in grey, damp conditions that are likely to have suited his bowling, instead bowling last on a pitch they hoped would wear enough to suit Archer and Wood.
Archer took 3-45 in the fourth innings, but West Indies overhauled a target of 200 thanks largely to Jermaine Blackwood’s fine 95.
“In terms of the selection, if I was to regret that it doesn’t send a very good message to the guys who played,” said Stokes, captaining England for the first time in place of Joe Root, who was on paternity leave.
“We went with the decision that pace would do better for us in the long run on this game.
“You make decisions and you’ve got to stand by them. I’m not the type of person to look back and regret them.”
England were bowled out for 204 in the first innings, then wasted a strong position in the second as they lost 5-30 late on the fourth day.
“We all know where we made the errors,” said Stokes.
“You have to be good enough to put first-innings runs on the board, no matter what the conditions.
“We put another 60, 70 or 80 runs on what they had to chase and it’s a completely different game.”
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Champ Bailey
• Denver Broncos
No matter LeBron James' decision, Miami fans should be thankful
By Mark Whicker July 11, 2014 8:55 am
(Robert Mayer, USA TODAY)
Update: James announced he is going to return to Cleveland.
LeBron James has made his decision. He’s just waiting for Sonia Sotomayor to finish writing the minority opinion.
LeBron James has made his decision. He’s just waiting for Microsoft XP support.
Actually LeBron James did make a decision Friday. He left Las Vegas, site of the world record for number of bad decisions, broken every weekend.
There are some who are hoping for “The Revision,” for James to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers, whom he left four years ago.
FTW: Do these Twitter clues point to where LeBron is headed? (No.)
This is the 50th anniversary of Cleveland’s NFL championship victory over Baltimore. No Cleveland team in an existing major league has won a championship since. That covers Earnest Byner’s fumble, John Elway’s drive, Tony Fernandez’s error and Michael Jordan’s buzzer-beater over Craig Ehlo.
Losing big games is one thing. Cleveland lost its NFL franchise and watched it win two Super Bowls in Baltimore. Then it lost James. You might recall that Cleveland didn’t take it well.
If James leaves Miami, don’t expect Heat fans to inflame LeBron’s jersey or even boo him very loudly when he returns during the season. At least they shouldn’t.
James gave Miami four fabulous seasons, including two championships and two other Eastern Conference titles. That’s 87 playoff games, made possible by James’ desire for a championship and the willingness of Dwyane Wade and especially Chris Bosh to adjust their games.
So much is said about the awkward way James left Cleveland, the needlessly flamboyant entrance the Big 3 made in Miami, the cramps in Game 1 of this year’s finals in San Antonio, and James’ culpability every time the Heat dropped a close one.
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What would the critics have said if James had plotted to get Erik Spoelstra fired, instead of listening to the previously unknown coach? Or if James had stumbled in an early playoff round instead of leading Miami to 14 series wins out of 16?
Today, James’ dithering is causing massive eyerolling, and maybe it’s justified, because he’s become the puppetmaster for other players, their families and their franchises.
But fans in south Florida should be ready to hum a few bars of “For The Good times” and move on. The King doesn’t owe them a thing.
Jun 26, 2014; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Aaron Gordon (Arizona) shakes hands with NBA commissioner Adam Silver after being selected as the number four overall pick to the Orlando Magic in the 2014 NBA Draft at the Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports ORG XMIT: USATSI-182922 ORIG FILE ID: 20140626_jla_ae5_068.jpg
Jun 26, 2014; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Marcus Smart (Oklahoma State) shakes hands with NBA commissioner Adam Silver after being selected as the number six overall pick to the Boston Celtics in the 2014 NBA Draft at the Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports ORG XMIT: USATSI-182922 ORIG FILE ID: 20140626_jla_ae5_075.jpg
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Jun 26, 2014; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Aaron Gordon (Arizona) gets a hug after being selected as the number four overall pick to the Orlando Magic in the 2014 NBA Draft at the Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports ORG
Jun 26, 2014; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Dante Exum (Australia) shakes hands with NBA commissioner Adam Silver after being selected as the number five overall pick to the Utah Jazz in the 2014 NBA Draft at the Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
Jun 26, 2014; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Julius Randle (Kentucky) walks off the stage after being selected as the number seven overall pick to the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2014 NBA Draft at the Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
Jun 26, 2014; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Dario Saric (Croatia) shakes hands with NBA commissioner Adam Silver after being selected as the number twelve overall pick to the Orlando Magic in the 2014 NBA Draft at the Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
Jun 26, 2014; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Adreian Payne (Michigan State) shows off the inside of his coat before the 2014 NBA Draft at the Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Jerry Lai-USA TODAY Sports
Jun 26, 2014; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Isaiah Austin (Baylor) wipes a tear from his eye after being selected as an honorary draft pick by the NBA during the 2014 NBA Draft at the Barclays Center. Austin was diagnosed with Marfan Syndrome ending his career. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
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Document Destruction Procedures
By David Weedmark
Is the Electronic Signature a Good Idea or a Bad Idea?
What Is a Petty Cash Receipt and Who Should Sign It?
The Best Way to Save Release Forms
Can You Throw a Copier in the Dumpster?
Policies on Personnel Files
With the threat of identity theft and the fines that can be imposed for improperly discarding documents, the proper destruction of your business documents should never be taken lightly. State laws and industry regulations can vary on how long documents should be retained and how they should be disposed of, so it's important to keep abreast of which policies affect your particular business before developing procedures for yourself and your employees.
Compliance and Policies
Regardless of where you are located or what business you are in, you should have an understanding of what documents need to be permanently destroyed and which should never be destroyed. State and industry-related fines can be severe for improperly disposing of documents, especially when it comes to client financial information and employee health records. Business tax documents, and statements for bank accounts and business credit cards should be kept for at least seven years before being destroyed. Once you determine which documents should be destroyed before being discarded, you can do it yourself or hire an outsourcing company that specializes in paper shredding and electronic data destruction.
Authorization and Responsibility
As a business owner, if you are not personally overseeing the destruction of documents, ensure that someone responsible is, such as your office manager, network administrator or accountant. This person should be versed in your policies and the laws and regulations governing those policies. He should also verify that the documents being destroyed are only those that should be destroyed. For example, paper that is to be shredded can be put in a designated area of one room in sealed bags initialed by the person in authority.
Paper Records
A paper shredder is the preferred method of disposal for most business documents. You can purchase paper shredders for different volumes at most office supply stores. Burning or pulverizing may be preferred, depending on the sensitivity of the information. Pulverizing grinds or re-shreds shredded paper to make it virtually impossible to put back together again. If you are shredding paper yourself, consider doing it in large batches so the documents are mixed and unlikely to be easily reassembled. Put the shredded paper out immediately before the recycling truck arrives.
When deleting electronic documents on a computer, always remember to empty the trash. Files aren't actually deleted when they are still in the computer's trash folder. As long as hard drives are still in your possession, this should be sufficient for destroying electronic documents. Before giving up a hard drive, the drive must be wiped using special software or physically destroyed before you can assume that the documents are unrecoverable. This includes hard drives inside photocopiers, which can store electronic copies of every photocopy taken.
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A published author and professional speaker, David Weedmark has advised businesses and governments on technology, media and marketing for more than 20 years. He has taught computer science at Algonquin College, has started three successful businesses, and has written hundreds of articles for newspapers and magazines throughout Canada and the United States.
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Standard Operating Procedures for a Business
By Morgan Rush
Why Personnel Policies Are Important
Internal Control Procedures of Human Resources
How to Update a Policy Manual
How do I Write a Business Plan for Safety?
Standard operating procedures document routine procedures for a business. The EPA recommends that standard operating procedures be written in a simple, step-by-step manner, with flowcharts to demonstrate relationships between activities and departments or inter-departmental relationships. Review policies every one to two years so that they remain current and relevant.
Accounting Practices
Include standard operating procedures for your accounting department, even if the department consists of one or two employees. Standard operating procedures or SOP for accounting may include directives for managing accounting documents, property tax assessments, legal expenses and confidentiality agreements. The handling and documentation of expenses for travel and entertainment may also be included, as well as bank account reconciliations and policies on credit cards and wire transfers.
Financial Procedures
Financial directives, including information about financial reporting, constitute another component of SOP. Directives for annual stockholder meetings, board of director meetings and the release of financial documents related to forecasting, reporting and analysis may be included. If the business raises capital through asset acquisition, bank loans, leasing or stock options, the procedures for these activities need to be delineated.
Computer and IT Procedures
Include information about computer and information technology processes, such as company policy about Internet use, email, software and hardware evaluation, training plans and troubleshooting. SOP may also reflect standards for assessing the risk of technology security breach and a recommendation to conduct technology security audits.
Human Resources Procedures
Incorporate human resources procedures into SOP, including guidelines for candidate interviews and background checks, as well as job descriptions and policies for application processes. Compensation and benefits may be described, with directives for employee health insurance, retirement security benefits and payroll policies. Additional guidelines may discuss complying with federal requirements, such as the American Disabilities Act.
SOP experts Biz Manualz recommends that businesses incorporate sales and marketing guidelines into SOP, including guidelines for market research and procedures for actions such as direct-mail marketing, advertising, Internet marketing and public relations.
Measures for maintaining safety and security may be a component of SOP, as well as statements about ethics, guidelines for the employee conduct code and steps to take during emergencies, such as a fire or natural disaster.
EPA: Guidance for Standard Operating Procedures
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New Mexico Department of Homeland Security: Writing Guide for Standard Operating Procedures
Morgan Rush is a California journalist specializing in news, business writing, fitness and travel. He's written for numerous publications at the national, state and local level, including newspapers, magazines and websites. Rush holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, San Diego.
HR Policies for Small Businesses
Fixed-Asset Capitalization Policy
Human Resource Audit Checklist
Telecommuting & HR Issues
Effective HR Policy
Differences Between Administrative & Accounting
How to Write Performance-Based Evaluations
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2 HR Policies for Small Businesses
3 Fixed-Asset Capitalization Policy
4 Human Resource Audit Checklist
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Michael Che
[Starts with Colin Jost in his news set. There’s a picture of Australian map and a pregnant lady]
Colin Jost: A woman in Australia gave birth to a 13 pound baby, completely ruining her down under. It’s gonna get worse. Doctors say it has left her with what you might call a blooming onion. Sorry. I’m so sorry.
[Cut to Michael Che. There’s a picture of Austrian flag and bees at right top corner.]
Michael Che: Police in Austria report that more than 1 million bees have been stolen from a local park. Or, and hear me out, they just flew away. They’re bees.
[Picture changes to dogs]
An ice cream parlor has begun serving ice creams specially made for dogs to eat. So, take that, Africa! Ha-ha. It even comes in dogs’ two favorite flavors. Bacon and butt.
[Cut to Colin Jost. There’s a picture of a baby at left top corner.]
Colin Jost: A new study finds that infants start to show racist tendencies between 6 and 9 months of age. And by the time they’re two, they’re already yelling at Dora [picture changes to Dora the explorer] to speak English.
Author: Don Roy King
Don Roy King is directing his fourteenth season of Saturday Night Live. That work has earned him nine Emmys and thirteen nominations. Additionally, he has been nominated for thirteen DGA Awards and won in 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Mr. King is also the creative director of Broadway Worldwide which brings theatrical events to theaters. The company has produced Smokey Joe’s Café; Putting It Together with Carol Burnett; Jekyll & Hyde; and Memphis, all directed by Mr. King. He completed the screen capture of Broadway's Romeo & Juliet in 2013. - LinkedIn View all posts by Don Roy King
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Socialist Action Constitution
Scribes, Profs Fear Government Control Of Auto
[by Bill Onasch]
David E Sanger, one time Tokyo bureau chief before becoming the current White House correspondent for the New York Times, is well educated and well traveled. A graduate of Harvard, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group and has a reputation as an expert on globalization. The very concept of the auto bailout makes him nervous and he tells us why in a December 8 article, Washington Takes Risks With Its Auto Bailout Plans.
Sanger begins by quoting remarks by President-designate Obama on Meet the Press,
“We don’t want government to run companies. Generally, government historically hasn’t done that very well.”
Obama is also a Harvard grad so maybe this is what is taught by the history and economics departments at that great Ivy League institution–whose endowment has lost eight billion dollars in investments over the past few months.
But the one experience of government controlling the auto industry–from 1942-46–was not so bad at all. It was, in fact, the greatest industrial mobilization the world has yet seen. Without its success there’s a good chance our first language today would not be English.
Of course, government control of that period was not limited to auto–who stopped producing cars to make planes, tanks, and jeeps. Virtually every sector of the economy was subject to government direction, supplemented by wage and price controls and rationing.
This omnipotent government intervention not only was indispensable for the U.S. military victory in World War II. It was also what finally put an end to the Great Depression that plagued the USA for more than a decade–including all through the mythical New Deal.
The next President, along with a top writer for America’s “paper of record,” do us a disservice by suppressing a significant part of our history clearly relevant to today’s economic crisis.
Of course, the productive success of the war time mobilization carried its own drawbacks–demand was created by the killing of seventy million persons and the destruction of most of the world’s industry outside North America. Taxpayers rewarded the owners of American industry with obscene profits while worker wages remained essentially frozen throughout the war. In those respects, not an experience we want to repeat. We’ll come back to that.
Despite Obama’s bad mouthing government control, Sanger still worries about bipartisan demands for “oversight” of the Big Three automakers,
“It all sounds perilously close to a word that no one in Mr. Obama’s camp wants to be caught uttering: nationalization. “
To Sanger this is like sounding the alarm about termites found on the front porch.
“The fact that there is so little protest in the air now … reflects the desperation of the moment. But it is a strategy fraught with risks.”
The first is a reiteration of Obama’s quoted message,
“Government’ s record as a corporate manager is miserable, which is why the world has been on a three-decade- long privatization kick, turning national railroads, national airlines and national defense industries into private companies.”
These examples are curious choices for advertising the superiority of private capital. Britain’s denationalized railroads stagger from one scandal to another concerning both safety and performance. And you would think the well traveled Sanger would have noticed by now that the world’s deregulated airlines have become dysfunctional.
“The second risk,” he continues, ” is that if the effort fails, and the American car companies collapse or are auctioned off in pieces to foreign competitors, taxpayers may lose the billions about to be spent.”
Sanger joins those in congress who swallowed an eight trillion dollar camel to salvage finance capital but now strain on a 15 billion dollar gnat for a loan to the Big Three.
Now he could raise some serious arguments against the Detroit bailout. For example, he could point out that General Motors has more operations abroad than in the USA and that they are making hefty profits in these other markets. They could easily save themselves from collapse at “home” with some of their earnings from other lands. But such an argument would cut across the grain of globalization that Sanger champions.
There’s more,
“And the third risk — one barely discussed so far — is that in trying to save the nation’s carmakers, the United States is violating at least the spirit of what it has preached around the world for two decades. The United States has demanded that nations treat American companies on their soil the same way they treat their home-grown industries, a concept called `national treatment.'”
He quotes Jeffrey Garten, a professor at the Yale School of Management, who as under secretary of commerce under Clinton was one of many government officials who “tried in vain to get Detroit prepared for a world of international competition, “
“If Japan was doing this, we’d be threatening billions of dollars in retaliation. In fact, when they did something a lot more subtle, we threatened exactly that.”
The fact that Sanger and Garten find this hypocritical double standard as shocking as discovering gambling at Rick’s, and express surprise at muted condemnation of it, demonstrates their understanding of globalization is ideological, not analytical.
Globalization, if it means anything, is a description of the way the leading powers–the old G-7–have screwed the workers of the whole world. It means breaking down social safety nets; abrogating labor, antitrust, and environmental laws; and privatizing every public treasure that might become a profit center; in order for capital to move freely across borders and exploit with few restrictions. It has profoundly, often disastrously, changed the industrial, financial, mercantile, and agricultural economies of the so called “developing countries” while at the same time putting workers in the imperial countries in what another NYT writer, Steven Greenhouse, so accurately described as a Big Squeeze.
But globalization has not eliminated national ruling classes, or the state power they control. Nor has it ended competitive tensions. In the nuclear age it is not practical to resolve disputes in the time honored way of war between major powers. Through passive consensus, all the major players defer to the super-power–the USA–as the ultimate arbiter. That’s why few will complain out loud if Washington decides to protect the Big Three. Welcome to the NFL.
Turning once more to his roots for another nervous Nellie, Sanger quotes Malcolm S. Salter, a professor emeritus at Harvard Business School who has studied the auto industry for two decades and, until a few years ago, was an adviser to General Motors and Ford,
“…we’re in uncharted water. Think about this: Who in the federal government would have the tremendous insight needed to fix this industry?”
When the Feds took control of industry in World War II they turned to some bright young lads barely out of college to plan the economy. They were initially resented at the time by many corporate managers and some professors as snotty nosed kids. But some of them later became prominent, such as Tex Thornton, who founded Litton Industries, and Robert McNamara, who went on to become president of Ford and, of course, Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson. And all in all they did a pretty good job of “fixing” industry.
Sanger returns to Professor Garten for his grand finale,
“We’re at this moment in history, in which the Chinese are touting that their system is better than ours with their mix of capitalism and state control. And our response, it looks like, is to begin replicating what they’ve been doing.”
Now I would agree with the learned professor that the Chinese mix is not what we should seek. The workers and peasants of China still live under an oppressive one party regime but have lost the old guarantees of even a basic diet, much less the free healthcare and education, and full employment that once brought a measure of security. The rapid growth of Chinese manufacturing– much of it offshored for the U.S. market–has created a new layer of rich but even bigger layers of poor. And, of course, it has been accompanied by a deplorable workplace fatality rate, not to mention enormous environmental destruction. But the downside for Chinese workers–and our biosphere–can be primarily attributed to the global capital component of the “mixed” economy–precisely what Sanger and his academic buddies promote in opposition to government control.
The greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression has not shaken the faith of Sanger & Co. that only the unfettered capitalist market will ultimately resolve all problems. The sole alternative they see is a slippery slope to the world of the Chinese Communists.
Let’s return, as promised, to the historical example they try to ignore–the World War II experience. In my opinion, the war time economic mobilization was a great success for primarily two reasons:
-The inherent superiority of intelligent planning over the irrational chaos of the markets.
-The overwhelming majority of society supported the objectives of the government effort and pitched in enthusiastically to make it work.
Today, in addition to our economic challenges, we face a crisis even more serious than the threat of being conquered by other countries–global warming. It surely rates the same kind of emergency response as this country saw after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Building more cars would not help this crisis–the proliferation of cars is in fact a major part of the problem. But the industrial capacity and productive workforce of the auto industry can play an essential role in converting our economy to things we really urgently need: new energy sources, new transportation alternatives, reclaiming forests and wetlands, retrofitting buildings to green standards, etc. There’s plenty of work to save the planet, to keep us all busy.
Like in WWII, workers should be retained, and if necessary retrained, in this conversion without loss of pay or benefits. Union contracts should be maintained– and even extended to those not presently covered.
Unlike the Second World War, we should not reward the corporate polluters with cost-plus contracts but instead embrace the long verboten “N” word and launch a bold new public sector, beginning with the finance, energy, and transportation sectors–including auto.
With the question of job security resolved rebuilding a green economy could quickly win the same level of popular support as the earlier war effort.
Who could the government possibly turn to to fix these industries? How about scientists, environmentalists, elected worker representatives, working with the Tex Thorntons and Robert McNamaras of today’s young generation?
Such ideas will send cold shivers to Sanger and the Establishment he seeks to serve.
Me? I’m in a sweat about what our kid’s world will look like if we can find a way to move in this direction–and soon.
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Mark Stewart and The Maffia - Learning To Cope With Cowardice - Albums - Reviews - Soundblab
Mark Stewart and The Maffia - Learning To Cope With Cowardice
by Kevin Orton Rating:10 Release Date:2019-01-25 Label: Mute
I can’t think of a more relevant album title than, Learning To Cope With Cowardice. That said, it was released in 1983 shortly after Mark Stewart split with the seminal band, The Pop Group. Without a doubt, Y is the Pop Group’s definitive statement. However, Stewart took what The Pop Group started with their Punk/Jazz/Funk hybrid and took it further, expanding the repertoire to include Dub and cutting edge stuff we now call Hip Hop. What resulted was the aural equivalent of William S. Burroughs’ cut-up technique. Or to put it another way in the immortal words of Arthur Rimbaud, "A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless and systemized disorganization of the senses." While it may sound like the ravings of a madman, its message is an urgent cry for sanity shouted out from the depths of Thatcher's England. Despite how anyone chooses to label or classify it, in the end, this Frankenstein collage of styles is all just Folk Music. Not only that, its Folk with a message. This is protest music. Like Woody Guthrie scrawled on his guitar, “This Machine Kills Fascists.” Released on the dub label, On-U Sound Records, with founder Adrian Sherwood producing along with Stewart.
The title track is Stewart’s opening salvo, an eclectic array of musical and lyrical artillery aimed at the jugular of what ails humanity. Musically, it’s a montage of synth pulses, tribal drums, and Funk basslines. Stewart’s eerie, disembodied voice floats and yelps about deliberately too high or low or high in the mix. The best description of it all is, Stewart bouncing around, doomsaying at some underground DJ dance party in the Bronx.
‘Liberty City’ with its Ethiopian sounding horn effects turns reggae rhythms on edge with horrific flair. A ghostly backing choir zombie around as Stewart invites us to, “Take a walk into the conquered city.” Like much of this album it’s a staggering, dizzying stroll. At times drunken and hazy, at other times, paranoid and on edge. “One night in desperation, a young man takes a gun,” Stewart cries at one point, giving a nod and wink to ‘In The Ghetto’ (a Mack Davis tune immortalized by Elvis Presley).
‘Blessed Are Those Who Struggle’ sounds like someone trying to drive an auto wreck through a combat zone. Percussion, like gunfire. Synth blasts pushing the VU dial into the red. Stewart’s distorted vocals flaring up, shooting flames or speaking in tongues. Next in line is, ‘None Dare Call It Conspiracy’. Acerbic dance music with a finger pointed at crime and criminal alike. Stewart’s robotically treated vocals verging on the demonic. If there’s little cohesion here, that’s the point. To knock you off your game and disorient you. Years later David Bowie would cut a tune called, ‘Sex And The Church’ on the Buddha of Suburbia soundtrack. And I can’t help but wonder if Bowie lent an ear to the racket Stewart was laying down here. Despite throwing the listener on stormy seas of dub-inspired racket, Stewart’s message couldn’t be any clearer. In a world controlled by, “Corporate nations”, profit takes precedence over justice and equality.
‘Don’t You Ever Lay Down Your Arms’ begins with a tuneful herald of horns as Dub beats back Stewart’s strangled vocals, “Searching, searching for treasure”. Then out of nowhere, you’re hit in the face with drum strikes that seem to come from nowhere, put way forward in the mix. It's enough to make you jump out of your seat. Then the horns begin to blare like distant sirens. It’s a positively delirious track, coming at you in all directions. ‘Paranoia Of Power’ is more of a direct march and call to arms, with Stewart shrieking, “Let’s storm the citadels!” A ghostly choir later chanting with him, “Beneath the city streets.” Saxophones wail in and out, anchored in a persistent reggae beat.
‘To Have The Vision’ follows like a Beat fever dream cut up by an intoxicated William S. Burroughs. Stewart’s bellicose rantings trotting in and out, calling out such sins as apathy and complacency. Two things this subversive album seems hell bent at kicking sand in the face of.
Without a doubt, the album’s definitive moment is a dramatic recitation of William Blake’s poem, ‘Jerusalem’. Here all of Learning To Cope’s mania comes to a head. Dub bass, sharp snares, looped clips of nationalistic orchestration. Stewart shouting at you from a distance, armed with a dented, rusty megaphone. Bringing the album’s thesis to its conclusion. Namely, the political is personal. There is no separation.
At times grating and trance-like, this is a hallucinatory listen. Meant to knock the listener off their toes and keep them queasy. At first, it may sound like a wash of disorganized noise but with repeated listens, its clear there’s nothing accidental going on here. It's all deliberate. As the title says, this is an album about coping with the cowardice of our leaders and the way to cope is to knock them off their pedestals. This is the sound of setting propaganda’s leaflets on fire and taking over the streets after the rioting’s done its damage. The sound of screaming for revolution in a pair of concrete shoes. A tribal ghost dance signaling either the end or a new beginning.
In short, it's beautiful, organized chaos that is way ahead of its time. File this one under Uneasy Listening along with Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica.
A lost classic. This reissue is long overdue.
Great review! Sounds really interesting, love 'Y' and 'For how much longer do we tolerate mass murder? ' but never heard his solo stuff. Will have to investigate!
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Home Earth Changes Geology Carbon Causes Continents to Crack Up, and Accelerates Rift Formation
Carbon Causes Continents to Crack Up, and Accelerates Rift Formation
New research indicates carbon dioxide can cause continents to break apart…
In fact, it appears to be facilitating Africa’s slow tectonic divorce right now.
The East African rift valley also has volcanism and seismic activity. In the Rift Valley, Tanzania, Lengai is the only active natriumcarbonatite volcano in the world. Its lava is liquid like water. Martin Rietze/Barcroft Media via Getty Images
Volcanoes can release large amounts of carbon dioxide along with all the other material they spit out. And the volcanoes of the African Rift Valley are particularly carbon intensive.
Rifts involve the splitting of a craton, the oldest and most stable part of a continental plate.
Professor Tobias Fischer of the University of New Mexico proposed the carbon dioxide released in the process comes from the craton’s base, where it has been accumulating for billions of years.
“The model suggests that this accumulated carbon originates from subducting oceanic plates and deep mantle plumes,” explains Fischer.
However, when Fischer published this idea he was still unable to explain how gasses buried beneath so much rock could make its way to the surface.
Fischer now thinks he has answered this question with a new scientific paper, and his solution could explain continental rift formation.
East African rift produces huge amounts of CO2
The East African rift is gradually pushing a coastal strip away from the rest of Africa. It is thought to release about as much CO2 as a small country.
Fischer’s co-authors sampled gasses from rift valley hot springs and found they divide into two very distinct groups:
Some release very little carbon dioxide, instead being mostly nitrogen and helium from the crust.
Others contain carbon dioxide laced with helium whose isotopic signature identifies it as coming from Earth’s mantle.
The key to understanding the difference is Tanzania’s volcano Oldoinyo Lengai, famous for its cool lava.
This volcano erupts lavas that are so liquid they move like motor oil. The reason for this is that they are devoid of the silica that makes up most igneous rocks but contain about 30 percent carbon.
The rocks formed from these lavas are even known as carbonatite. Widespread carbonatite through northern Tanzania indicates many such volcanoes exist but Oldoinyo Lengai is the only one active in recent times.
Carbon causes continents to crack up, especially along the East African Rift. Picture: Muirhead et al/Nature
The paper concludes the underside of cratons includes steep slopes that focus carbon into pockets.
Just as carbon-rich lava flows more easily at the surface, the presence of carbon beneath a craton slopes reduces friction, pushing melted material sideways until it reaches thinner parts of the craton.
There the carbon-rich magma rises, producing a volcanic province and breaking the craton apart, eventually leading to the division of the continental plate and a new seaway.
The East African rift is cracking apart, as shown in these articles featuring terrifying fissures and craters in the ground of Kenya and Uganda:
Another 2-kilometer crack opens up in Kenya swallowing up crops and farms
After Kenya, now Uganda: Giant cracks destroy over 300 houses and prompt evacuation of dozens of residents in Uganda in the East African Rift (videos and pictures)
Ticking time bomb in Kenya: Panic as another ten-kilometer crack fissures the slopes of Elgeyo escarpment, home to 10,000 households
‘Mountain of God’ volcano eruption is imminent and could wipe out key sites of human history in Tanzania
Africa will split in two… As well as the United States when the overdue Cascadia Really Big One will hit the western coast of the USA. Be ready and get prepared! And to start doing so I recommend this great documentary (click on the image below).
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You might want to read the White Papers concerning Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics. For the past 30 years there has been much ocean core drilling going on to prove the theory. There are plates. The Plates do move back and forth. But surprisingly they have found no evidence of continental drift or major active subduction zones. I lived within site of Mt. Saint Helens. I explored and climbed many of the Northwest Volcanoes. Need to worry about Mud Flows from Mt. Rainier. They can happen without a eruption or earthquake.
I currently live only 7 miles from a volcano. My house sits on 3 feet of ash from the last eruption. Will all those volcanoes erupt at the same time and split the continent? No. Sure a big earth quake will some day hit Washington/Oregon. There will be much damage. Will the ground crack? Yes.
Did you know that near Seattle in the Green River Valley that if you drill down to 140 feet you will hit large cedar trees that had been buried, but are not fossilized? Old time well drillers told me about it years ago. They even brought up cones that looked as fresh as the ones growing on live trees. What’s amazing is that they drilled down 140 feet in an area that is only 40 feet above sea level! Something really big happen there once. One Driller told me he would take the physical evidence to the University of Washington. He said they just ignored it.
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09 Mar Comedy: 10 Reasons Your Show Sucks
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Putting on a great live comedy show requires very little to do right and yet I’m stunned at how often people completely fuck it up. They somehow manage to get a nice crowd out and then they serve up a piece of shit, poorly organized, 3 hour show that starts off fun and exciting then quickly plummets into a grueling test of endurance.
Why does this happen so often? I’m sure it’s not intentional, but rather that some newer comedians, producers, and venues just don’t know better. I’m here to help. If you can avoid these 10 comedy disasters then you can avoid putting on a shitty show that people will only come to once before they swear off live comedy for life.
Here are 10 common things that are making your show a piece of shit (and how to fix them):
1. Shitty lighting.
The comics are just shadowy figures standing in a corner with nothing to draw attention to them. Sometimes you’ll get one poorly placed light that will create a shadow on the performers face and is actually worse than doing nothing at all.
Although they can sometimes be challenging to place, these inexpensive clamp lights can give you an evenly and well lit stage.
How to Fix It:
Your stage area needs to be well lit and should brightly contrast the rest of the room. When possible, you should dim the house lights as low as you can while still allowing enough light for the audience to see drinks and food. Oh, and for fucks sake don’t use a colored light. For some reason, people think it “looks cool” to light up the stage blue, or red, or yellow, but it just washes out facial expressions and makes everything look like shit. All you need is a bright white, well-lit stage. You don’t necessarily need a professional, high end, $500 spotlight to achieve this either. You can get excellent stage lighting for under $17 using one of these clamp lights from your local hardware store.
2. Your microphone is a piece of shit.
The mic cord pulls off the bottom of the mic every single time it’s removed from the mic stand. The comics spend more time plugging the mic back in than telling jokes. Your wireless mic randomly crackles and cuts out leaving gaps in sentences, missed set ups, and ruined punchlines. The comics tag everything with “Is it working? Can you hear me?” while someone’s dad tries to figure out what’s wrong.
You need a quality sound system with a reliable microphone. I’d always recommend a corded mic, but make sure the god damn thing stays together. The mic cord should securely clip into the bottom of the microphone. If your corded mic is crackling, popping, and cutting out the problem usually is with the cord and not the microphone, so explore that first. If you choose to use a wireless mic just be aware they are prone to numerous problems compared to a wired set up. They can pick up interference, crackle, cut out, and run out of batteries. They’re also more difficult to troubleshoot and correct when issues do arise. You should always have a backup plan in case your microphone shits the bed during a show. You won’t have to halt the entire production if you are immediately ready to change out the batteries, or plug in a back up mic. It’s better to hit a speed bump than a brick wall.
3. Your mic stand is a piece of shit.
For the love of Christ please don’t have this fucking contraption of a mic stand at your comedy show! This mic stand is for guitar players and musicians, not comedians.
It’s like two rickety 9 irons duct taped together. It’s squeaky, rattling, and falling apart. You just think about setting the mic in it and it loudly collapses dropping the mic away from your mouth. Or you’ve got that big guitar mic stand with the elbow in it and three baby calf tripod legs that collapse in on you when you pick it up to move it so that you can’t set it back down so you end up fumbling with it until you eventually just give up and lay it on it’s side. Fuck that mic stand.
You need a straight mic stand that easily adjusts and stays put. You know, the kind you’ve seen in every comedy club and on every comedy stage on TV your entire life? There is absolutely no reason why you shouldn’t have one of these. A perfectly good, brand new mic stand is $22 on Amazon.com. There is one reason you might not have one of these, actually, and that would be that your comedians continuously break them. I can’t emphasize this enough because it’s a major pet peeve for any comedy producer…please, we implore you, stop nervously fucking with the mic stand throughout your entire set. It’s a pretty simple piece of equipment: It loosens in the middle to raise and lower it and once at the desired height it lightly tightens in the middle to lock it in place. I once watched a comic tighten,adjust, then tighten, then adjust the mic stand for the duration of his 20 minute set; just tightening it and pumping it up and down like he was churning comedy butter. He inevitably stripped the tightening mechanism and broke the stand which would then no longer stay up, at which time he berated the “piece of shit mic stand”. It’s designed to hold the weight of a microphone, not your 260 lbs. hulking tub of shit torso.
4. Your sound system is a piece of shit.
Your speakers are crackling. The sound is tinny and distorted. It sounds like the comics are on the other end of the drive thru speaker at McDonald’s. Nobody can hear the comics because the volume is too low, or people are wincing because it’s way too fucking loud.
You need to do a sound check before your audience arrives. Talk as loud as you will during the show and as low as you will. Make sure everything sounds good and is ready to go well before showtime. The sound system is the single most important piece of equipment to a live comedy show and it’s the one area that you should not be skimping. There are numerous options out there ranging from a couple hundred dollars up to a thousand. Choose something built for public speaking and powerful enough for the venue sizes you’ll be performing at. I prefer the Fender Passport series. They offer great sound quality and all the pieces are self contained in the size of a suitcase making them easily portable.
The Fender Passport makes a perfect comedy sound system. Lightweight, portable, and excellent sound quality.
5. Your show is way too fucking long.
There are 7 comics on the line up and they’re each doing 20 minutes and the host is doing 5-10 minutes in between each comic. Then halfway you take a 20 minute intermission. You punish your paying customers with a brutally long 3 hour show. At the 2 hour mark you can see the life leaving their eyes as they’re completely laughed out and over the show. People begin to leave before the show is over and your last couple comics end up performing to a half full, half paying attention, murmuring and exhausted crowd.
A show should be scheduled for approximately 90 minutes and should never run over 2 hours. You should never do an intermission. If an intermission is required for some reason just be fully aware that you’re starting from scratch when the show is resumed. The audience needs to get settled, focused, and warmed up again. You’re essentially putting on two shows at that point. The most important thing I can tell you about scheduling live comedy is this: 1. LEAVE THEM LAUGHING and 2. LEAVE THEM WANTING MORE. This means end your shows with the best talent you have available and always err on the side of ending short before running long. I once read a comment card that said “I wish the show was longer. I didn’t want it to end.” Can you think of a better complaint than that? If you run too long and bore your audience it will be the only thing they remember about your show.
6. Your comedians suck.
Being friendly, humble, and self-aware will go a long way when starting out in comedy. If it’s at all possible, and for some people it is not, you should avoid being the delusional open mic’er.
The new guy who is three months in is doing 20 minutes. He’s blatantly reading from a notebook and he’s lashing out at the audience when his material doesn’t get big audible laughs. “Man,fuck y’all I know that shit is funny!” He then cracks at the 12 minute mark and rather than end his set talks about how he has 8 minutes left and usually does better than this…for 8 minutes.
I know that every comic has to start somewhere, but there is a right way to work amateurs. Give the new guys a reasonable amount of time they can do. This is generally 5-10 minutes. Don’t book comics who will treat your show like an open mic. If you yourself are the new guy putting the show on for stage time and experience (and good for you if you are!) then at least avoid the other pitfalls on this list and deliver the best possible show with the talent and experience you have. You should also be charging a fair price based on the quality of the show. I’d suggest $5-7 for a well-produced amateur showcase.
Whether you’re new to comedy, working, or professional, hosting your own trivia night is an excellent way to get stage time while earning additional income and promoting your shows. You’ll get in front of your own audience for nearly 2 hours each night. Subscribe to Stage Time Trivia and bring it to your local venue to establish your own weekly platform to build and grow your personal brand.
7. The venue is a piece of shit.
You’re up behind a pool table in the corner of a bar. The audience is scattered throughout the bar, half paying attention, half talking over you and the other half oblivious. TV’s are on all over the place and people are playing darts directly across from you. If anyone wanted to watch and enjoy the show they simply couldn’t because there’s too much shit happening and they can’t hear you over the talking and bar noise. This is what happens when a venue says, “Sure, you can put on a show” and forces you to jam it into whatever else would normally be happening that night.
Do not produce shows at venues that do this. I repeat, do not put on shows at venues that do this shit. Selecting the right venue is critical to a good show. The venue owner and management need to have a basic understanding of what you’re doing and accommodate the show to the best of their ability. They need to understand that developing a quality comedy night is in their best interest and will generate more and more revenue as it grows.
Venues come in all shapes and sizes and while some are perfectly set up for comedy, others require a little creativity. Once you have a space that is on board with a comedy night, here are five tips to help your show run smoothly:
People need to be there for comedy; make sure your audience is ready and aware that a comedy show is happening.
Seat your audience grouped together from close to the stage to farther away. The general public has a natural inclination to sit in the back of the room and watch the show from afar, so you will need to actively combat this. The easiest way to do this is to take away the option to sit wherever they want. Set up reserved seats, or have someone seating people as they come in.
The room should be set up with every seat facing the stage.
The room should be dimly lit and with as few distractions as possible. This means close up the pool table, dart boards, jukebox, and shut off TVs.
A simple friendly announcement before the show can set the expectation to turn off cell phones and that talking is not allowed, but laughter and applause are encouraged.
8. The show doesn’t start on time.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves. Your poster says the show is at 8, but 8 o’clock rolls around and you’re nowhere near ready. You’re either still carrying in equipment, or, more commonly, you’re ready to go but there are only 8 people here and you were expecting a lot more…so you wait. You wait for more people to show up. Now it’s 8:40 and there’s still only 8 people here. So you wait until 9. You’re an asshole if you do this.
Never do this. I despise when shows do this for so many reasons:
You’re punishing the paying customers who showed up on time by making them sit around long past the scheduled start time.
You’re rewarding anyone who happens to show up late by waiting for them.
You’re telling your audience they can stroll in whenever the fuck they want because you’re going to wait for them.
People will stop showing up to your shows early or on time.
It’s disrespectful to anyone, including the comics scheduled to perform, who may have to drive a distance, work early, have kids, or other plans and are expecting the show to be over at a scheduled time.
Here’s my rule: You can hold a show 15 minutes past the scheduled start time, that’s it. That’s about how long the previews run when you go to the movies and that’s about as much of a delay as people will accept before getting antsy and impatient. 15 minutes is plenty of time for anyone running a little behind to arrive and get settled. After 15 minutes whoever is there is your audience, bottom line, whether it’s the 250 you’d hoped for, or the abysmal two tables with 13 people. There is no magical flash mob waiting to show up for your comedy show 45 minutes late. If you follow the rest of the suggestions in this blog you can put on a really great show for those 13 people who came out to laugh, and that should be your only goal come show time.
9. People are seated all over the fucking place.
You’ve got 40 people here, but you’d never know it. Nobody is sitting near the stage and there are splashes of people scattered throughout the room in such a way that you can hear no distinctive laughter. The comics can make out one group of 6 people so they address them the entire night. It’s actually a pretty good turnout, but it feels empty.
This is what happens when you let people sit wherever they want. You’ll get 6 different parties sitting in random back sections. The front of the room will be empty and the comics will feel like they’re playing to nobody. You need to seat people from front to back of the room and as tightly grouped together as is comfortable. This is done by either assigning reserved seats, or having someone actively seating people as they arrive. If I’m seating strangers together at the same table I’ll always ask their names and introduce them to each other. The foundation for a great show is built well before the show starts, so when possible help break the ice among your patrons. Seating is especially critical in the case of smaller shows. When you’ve only got 10 or 15 in the audience it’s critical that you make them feel like they’re all there together. Laughter is contagious and encouraged when an audience sits together.
10. The comics blame the crowd.
Your show sucks, you fucked up the last 9 things on this list, and yet 12 people still came out to see it. Now they’re getting badgered by the comedians for the poor turnout. “Did you all drive in one car?!” “I just did a sold out show last week and now I’m HERE all night!”
This is another pet peeve of mine. You don’t attack your supporters. Stop giving the people who did show up a bunch of shit about the small turnout. It’s not their fault. They should be praised for coming out and given the best damn show they possibly can. It’s important to realize that small shows are how you grow large shows. You need to give those 12 people a really outstanding night of comedy so they’ll come back to more shows and bring friends. Think of every small show as an opportunity. This same sentiment can be applied to the venue as well, in that you shouldn’t be shitting on the venue that hosts your show.
In the name of the Farda, the Son, and the Holy Spirit…
Phil Farda is the comedian behind Stage Time Trivia. He lives in Utica, NY, a small city nestled in Upstate New York near the Adirondacks and Canada. He lives with his fiancé Laura and while they have no plans for children, they are both huge dog lovers and have every intention of adopting a rescue. Phil is 36 years old and spent the majority of his life working in customer service and retail sales for wireless communications before taking the leap as a comedian and entrepreneur. The nearest comedy club is located over 50 miles away and Phil has made a name for himself by independently producing professional caliber comedy locally. His company, Comedy CNY (Central New York), has been producing stand-up comedy for over 4 years. He is passionate and dedicated to the craft of stand-up comedy. He makes a living with comedy and trivia and his goal with Stage Time Trivia is to help other comedians reach the goal of doing comedy full time.
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The Battle Begins - Pea Ridge National Battlefield, AR - Arkansas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com
The Battle Begins - Pea Ridge National Battlefield, AR
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Quick Description: A short distance from here is the spring, the soldiers weary and angry came here to fill their canteens.
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 2/6/2015 2:27:33 AM
Waymark Code: WMNBCZ
Published By: Where's George
County of site: Benton County
Location of marker: Military Rd., stop 1, Pea Ridge National Battlefield
Marker erected by: National Park Service
Marker text: The Battle Begins
March 7, 1862 During the night 16,500 Confederates under Van Dorn had circled behind the 10,500 Union Soldiers entrenched along Little Sugar Creek
Union General Curtis, discovering the move, hurried one column north through Leetown and another to Elkhorn Tavern.
"Keeping Missouri in the Union was one of the prime objectives of the Federal government during the first year of the Civil War. It was the reason for the Battle of Wilson's Creek near Springfield, Missouri in August of 1861, and it was one of the reasons for the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas in March, 1862.
"The Pea Ridge Campaign began Christmas Day 1861, when General Samuel R. Curtis was appointed to command the Federal Southwestern District of Missouri. His main objective was to drive out the Confederates, and by mid February, 1862 his troops had chased Major General Sterling Price and the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard into Arkansas.
"In the Boston Mountains south of Fayetteville, Price joined forces with Brigadier General Ben McCulloch, and on March 4th, this combined 16,000 man army marched north under the command of Major General Earl Van Dorn.
"Their mission was to force their way back into Missouri and capture St. Louis, but Curtis' 10,500 Federals were waiting on the bluffs above Little Sugar Creek, part of the larger Pea Ridge plateau.
"Van Dorn knew that a frontal assault would be disastrous, so he swung north to come in from behind. Planning to strike at dawn on March 7th, his troops were hungry, cold and weary from a difficult three day march, and arrived hours behind schedule. McCulloch's Confederates fell so far behind that Van Dorn decided to divide his army temporarily, ordering McCulloch around the west end of Elkhorn Mountain, then east along Ford Road to rejoin Price's troops near Elkhorn Tavern. This gave Curtis time to turn his line around and prepare for the attack from behind.
"As McCulloch's troops, including two regiments of Cherokee Indians, were engaged in this maneuver, they ran into intensive fire near Leetown, which led to the killing of McCulloch and Brigadier General James McIntosh, and the capture of the ranking colonel. With the lack of command structure, McCulloch's men scattered from the field.
"Attacking east of Elkhorn Mountain, Van Dorn and Price fared better. Price's troops slowly and steadily pushed the Federals back until, at nightfall, they held Elkhorn Tavern and the crucial Telegraph and Huntsville Roads. During the night, survivors of McCulloch's Leetown fight joined them.
"On the morning of March 8th, General Curtis led his men in a counter attack of the tavern area. A two hour artillery barrage crippled the Confederate line, and a Union infantry attack broke their defenses. Realizing his ammunition was running low, Van Dorn ordered his troops to withdraw and The Battle of Pea Ridge was over. Afterwards, most of the Union and Confederate troops moved east of the Mississippi to fight in other campaigns. Missouri remained in the Union and politically neutral throughout the war, although it provided men and supplies to both sides." ~ Legends of America
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Max Stöckl rockets to world record for fastest MTB downhill speed at 167.6 kph (104.1 mph)
Austrian Markus “Max” Stöckl likes nothing better than to go down a slope as fast as possible and has been setting speed downhill mountain-bike records for over 20 years.
MTB DOWNHILL SPEED RECORD
Last year, at 42 years of age, Stöckl took aim at his own speed world record for cycling down a gravel-based mountain on a production mountain bike.
A photo posted by Red Bull (@redbull) on Feb 8, 2017 at 2:49pm PST
Stöckl and his six-man support team identified the barren terrain of Chile’s Atacama Desert on the country’s Pacific coast for his attempt. Other than the colorfully attired daredevil and his small team, all that could be seen was boulders and stones for miles and miles.
The setup proved ideal, as Stöckl hit a world-record speed of 167.6 kph (104.1 mph) with his bone-rattling rumble down the mountain.
CERRO NEGRO, NICARAGUA
Stöckl’s previous record was set in 2011, when he bombed down the steeply-pitched volcanic cone of Cerro Negro in Nicaragua at 164.95 kph.
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Home » Music » Michael Jackson Estate Wins Appeal in 'Leaving Neverland' Lawsuit Against HBO
12/15/2020 Music
The estate of Michael Jackson emerged victorious in HBO‘s appeal over its controversial 2019 documentary, Leaving Neverland.
According to reports, the three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal upheld the 2019 ruling of a lower court which “granted the estate’s motion to take the dispute to arbitration, as provided by the contract.” The panel acknowledged HBO’s claims that the lawsuit could be “frivolous,” but have decided to leave that judgement to an arbitrator.
“The contract contained a broad arbitration clause that covers claims that HBO disparaged Jackson in violation of ongoing confidentiality obligations,” the three judges said. “We may only identify whether the parties agreed to arbitrate such claims; it is for the arbitrator to decide whether those claims are meritorious.”
The original suit, which dates back to February 2019, saw Jackson’s estate sue HBO for $100 million USD, claiming that it breached a 1992 contract that stated “HBO shall not make any disparaging remarks concerning Performer or any of his representatives, agents, or business practices or do any act that may harm or disparage or cause to lower in esteem the reputation or public image of Performer.” The network giant asserted that this non-disparagement clause is “irrelevant” to the Leaving Neverland suit and that the estate is “seeking to silence victims of sexual abuse.”
HBO’s attorney Theodore Boutrous contended that the 1992 agreement, which referred to the airing of the Michael Jackson in Concert in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour special, should have expired after both the network and Jackson’s team successfully carried out their responsibilities. HBO argued that it “never intended to grant Jackson and his heirs a veto over anything the network might ever want to say about him,” and was also seeking to avoid arbitration. However, the panel rejected the argument and ruled that “[a]n arbitration clause can still bind the parties, even if the parties fully performed the contract years ago.”
In other music news, Blue Ivy Carter just officially earned her first Grammy nomination.
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Ram Boon, the man behind RAM & Grotesque
Written by Georgina Zinno on August 7, 2016
Grotesque stage at Electronic Family
On 23rd July took place one of the major trance events in Amsterdam, Electronic Family. I arrived late to EF, my main stage was Grotesque, so I was right on time for RAM’s set and stayed later for Pure NRG (G. Ottaviani + Solarstone) and the closing with Neelix, was really expecting some nice psytrance to end the day.
I was supposed to interview Dutch DJ RAM, but destiny wanted that my mobile phone stayed in London, where I was the week before visiting my sister. All my contacts and important stuff which I use daily to communicate with the world were only possible with my mobile phone. The interview was temporarily out of question.
It was nice to catch up with the trance family and the weather was good, even some sunny rays pouring down on us. It was really warm. RAM was cheerful and playful, although he looked a bit tired. He took a water-gun and splashed some water on the crowd. His set was great, with some beautiful tracks like ‘Anahera’ from Gouryella and lots of uplifting and dancing ones.
Pure NRG was indeed pure energy, I danced like crazy and then this moment came they dropped ‘Otherside’ by Red Hot Chili Peppers, I was amazingly surprised. The whole set was really good. I was happy I arrived still on time to meet my friends, dance my heart out and enjoy that precise moment in that precise place. Destiny can be perfect in such creative ways!
I really enjoyed the closing with Neelix, even when it was time for him to stop the crowd went a bit crazy, asking for more! One more track, people amazed. I must say I was expecting more psytrance, but he showed skills in taking the crowd with him, something rare for being someone so young, I was quite impressed. Time was up, it was time to go back home. Then it was time to walk, while meeting my friends back, seeing the happy faces of the people, together in the middle of the forest. Love was taking some serious uplifting in my heart.
After Lumi, the month before EF, I was really looking forward to be here and enjoy to the max. With the loss of my phone and after a whole day feeling really sick, it was obvious for me that all I needed was quality music and the warmth of my friends. For this reason I sort of missed the half of the day and didn’t meet many other trance lovers, because I’ve stayed always in the same place. But oh, well, I guess I was at the right place because I had a great time.
Raam Boon
Meeting the man behind RAM & Grotesque
After EF and later on that week I recovered my phone and was able to communicate with the world again. We arranged an interview in Amsterdam. It was a grey, rainy day and we were supposed to meet at Vondelpark, emblematic from the 60’s love and flower power generation, a piece of green paradise within the Dutch capital city. The weather was not really suitable for a walk in the park or even to walk down the streets. The sky was getting darker and we finally arranged to meet at his home.
I was somehow nervous about meeting him personally in his own territorium. After EF and researching about the man behind RAM and Grotesque, I was quite impressed about who Ram Boon really was. I’ve read some really interesting interviews online about him and also checked out his FB page (for the links check at the bottom of this article).
And there I was, sitting next to him on the couch at his apartment. He appeared to me as a down-to-earth guy, typical Dutch non-nonsense style, open-hearted and calm. He poured some tea for me in his little kitchen, and I couldn’t help thinking how unique this moment was; in the intimate atmosphere sitting next to this amazing and professional DJ and producer; so kind, humble and easy-going. There was no star-allure or fake pose in him. I felt welcomed and comfortable. His house decorated with simplicity and minimalism, with a huge Buddha statue in the middle of the living-room as a main object. From a wall across my eyes, hanged a big photo of his beloved wife Amelia, which I couldn’t stop staring at. I felt this sudden feeling of emptiness within the walls; sensing the spores of the life of a widower living with his son.
We had a long talk, about different topics, not all related to trance music. I was so caught up in the conversation that didn’t record it. He was really kind to give me a listening preview of a future track and I even had a first glimpse of something psytrance-ish brewing up!
He has also been featured in the book Dutch DJ’s by Anthony Donner.
RAM, owning his unique sound
Ram Boon is a Dutch Trance DJ, better known as RAM; with an extended career in the music business, first major hit, ‘RAMsterdam’, which brought him huge success. After five other successful ‘Ram-tracks’, ‘RAMelia’ (tribute to his beloved wife, who passed away in October 2013) brought him to Trance heaven, with major support of fellow DJ’s. It reached the #1 of top 100 ASOT; the timing was perfect.
Ram Boon & Bas Abels – Bas & Ram
He started back in 1995, as one of main trance pioneers, mostly known from playing at Amsterdam’s legendary club Trance Buddha. Together with his friend Bas Abels they formed the DJ’s duo Bas & Ram, playing in huge festivals such as Defqon, Dance Valley, Mysteryland, Trance Energy, Sensation, Qlimax, etc.
In 2009 he took the challenge of going solo, after 14 years of successful career. He created his brand ‘Grotesque’, together with Patrick Pijnenburg (PT Events) spreading some necessary winds of change to the established trance industry at that moment. The whole idea behind it was to become a focus for quality trance music, young talent and innovation.
Grotesque became a trade mark for big parties and festivals, hosting its own events and participating with its own stage and resident DJ’s in all major electronic music festivals in the Netherlands. PT events is the organisation behind Grotesque, which twice a year organises a major indoors festival, next one will be at glorious Maassilo in Rotterdam on 10th December 2016. For further information and tickets, check out here.
Artwork Grotesque Indoor Festival – Rotterdam
His sound is unique; With RAMelia he showed the world how music can relate to the most pure feelings within one person’s sadness and pain. With heart-breaking, ‘goose bumps’ voice from Dutch vocalist Susana, he did what he felt closer to his heart and soul. It was time for uplifting, baby! RAMelia will always be a unique jewel in trance uplifting world.
While the trance music industry was plagued by the commercial virus of EDM, people were already saying that trance was dead, especially uplifting was ranking in unpopularity. RAM, loyal to his feelings and emotions, with the knowledge of a strong background and experience, was absolutely convinced this was temporarily. He continued doing what it was closed to his heart; he remained loyal to his sound. His fans were grateful. Trance was more than alive.
2015 was a big year, his first solo album ‘Forever Love’ came out and it was released by Black Hole Recordings. A whole year touring and with many parallel projects, such as his radio show ‘Grotesque’, broadcasted in different online stations, also here by TER (Friday evening, 9 pm); remixes, new releases but most of all the whole concept of building up a platform for DJ’s with his Grotesque brand.
At the moment he is quite busy with new gigs, next stop it will be Quest4Trance – the Beach Edition on 13th August, then later Connect Ibiza with an Open-To-Close-Set and Summerlake in September, In Trance WeTrust (during ADE) in October and many others to come, and of course amazing Dreamstate in California in November, something really to look forward to!
With more participation in big festivals with his Grotesque stage, such as the 100% Trance Classics Weekender Trance Nation Festival on 23th and 24th September, with his old successful duo with Bas Abels, Bas & Ram. It’s clear that DJ RAM is ready to take over the summer as first. Quite busy with his label, Grotesque Music, we have already been tempted with some new releases such as the remix of his Forever Love track ‘Elijah’ by Sean Tyas and also a remix of Human Resource’s ‘Dominator’. He also recently released a summer compilation of breezing hits, ‘Grotesque Essentials – Summer 2016 Edition’, mixed by RAM and James Dymond.
Grotesque Music as label is a prolific base for talented DJ’s, with just appeared new track ‘Eadaoin (U Know)’ by Ciaran McAuley, all releases and the compilation are available at Beatport.
Trance Beatsch, a perfect formula
Last weekend, Saturday 30th July, Beach Fuel was again the main dancefloor to hit on a dry sunny afternoon. With Grotesque Events, Trance Beatsch, a trance on the beach concept which has already left its mark some months ago, back in May. With this new edition, in a summer sphere, in always cosy and familiar Beach Fuel, I was invited to assist and, oh yeah, I did have a blast.
We previously arranged with my lovely trance family friends, most of them coming all the way from Germany to be here. Was amazing to meet some people I haven’t seen for a while, especially after my short stay at EF the week before.
A great trance party, in my opinion, relies on different pillars, starting from a good vibe sphere, great quality music played with passion and emotion – especially those DJ’s who know how to feel the crowd – and of course, a good organisation behind, always ready to make people feel safe and in an intimate environment. The family feeling, let’s say.
All these ingredients were present this day. I didn’t make it to the B2B between Dutch DJ’s Rhun and Marc den Heijer but I was on time to support DJ Allen Watts. He lifted up the vibe with a perfectly good combined warming-up set, which brought us massive to the dancefloor. With the members of Trance Family Germany, party was full mode on.
Scott from Allen & Envy (UK) was on his own this time; he showed us great talent while putting all his heart in his great set. I think at this point of the afternoon/night, the high vibes were so intense that we all knew this was going to be an amazing party.
The main dish was Dutch DJ Sied van Riel, a really warm guy with great sense of humour, whom served us an awesome set full with beautiful tracks. For me cherry of the pie was ‘Born Slippy’ from mythical Underworld, which reminded me long times gone of my youth, the so called Generation X times.
After Sied, the power tandem composed by DJ’s Ruben Verhagen and Carolin, with a successful teamwork, gave an amazing and powerful set. With highlights such as The Tribe by Vini Vici (one of my favourites), jumping back and forward until the end. Together they are dynamite.
Exhausted, happy and most of all, with this huge feeling of togetherness we left the venue. I left with the pure sensation of knowing that the power within Trance lies in hand of initiatives like this one, in which you experience a happy trance family feeling from start to end.
After all, that’s what it’s all about, sharing precious moments with the people you care and love.
Trance, the universal language of feelings translated into music, beating faster than the rhythm of your heart.
Links for interviews with RAM:
http://www.partyscene.nl/interviews/159619/trance-verlies-en-weer-doorgaan-gesprek-met-dj-ram (in Dutch)
https://tranceunitedblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/ram-opens-up-about-ramelia-and-the-impact-it-still-has-on-him/ (In English)
http://www.fashion-concert.org/sobytiya/intervyu/dj-ram-ram-boon-music-and-my-son-take-all-my-time.html (In English)
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Episode 1 Holding Back the Years
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-Everything has an impact on your life.
-Whatever your age.
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From the type of house we live in...
Oh, this looks nice.
Yes, it's been completely renovated throughout.
..To how much money we have to spend.
Your wage ends up being like a normal working wage, which is good.
What we put in our bodies...
I don't think I've ever been fat, but I have put weight on.
..To the secrets of our genetic make-up.
You're going to live to be 140.
That'll do, I'll take everything I can get.
So finding out about all those things and more could help you mature brilliantly.
Or slow down the ageing process just a little.
We've tracked down the very best tips and advice
for holding back the years.
And now, with the help of our team,
we're going to pass them on to you.
To show you how to have the time of your life.
Whenever that may be.
Hello and welcome to the show that really wants to put time on your side.
Whatever age you are. Here's what's on today's show.
More of us are choosing equity release as a way of injecting cash
into our retirement than ever before, but is it right for you?
Bill is on the case.
When it comes to equity release not all experiences are the same
or even equal.
Our resident GP Dr Rangan Chatterjee reveals how you can save a friend's life,
wherever you may be.
You get to go home at the end of this.
Your actions may well result in the person lying on the ground also
getting to go home.
Do you find it harder to keep the weight off as you get older?
Well, it might not totally be your fault.
I went to Birmingham to find out the latest research on middle-age spread.
And you start putting it on and you think, "Where is this tyre coming from?"
And the tyre gets bigger and bigger.
And we go behind the scenes of the country's first intergenerational care home
to see how the old and the young are looking after each other.
They brighten up the whole room.
Just to watch their characters, the way they change,
the way they are comfortable with you.
It's like being in childhood.
Last year more people signed up to an equity release scheme than ever
before. It's a trend that's only set to increase in 2018.
And the reason is that it's seen by more and more people as a way of
injecting money into their own retirement while freeing up cash
for, say, children or grandchildren.
But is it right for you?
Well, Bill has been meeting two women whose experience is far from equal.
Being able to afford a comfortable retirement is usually pretty high up
on the list of priorities, no matter what age we are.
Unfortunately, according to official statistics,
Britain's workers can look forward to the worst pension of any major
developed country. However, there is one thing in our favour.
Around 65% of us own a property.
Which is why equity release has become the latest trend for those
who want to inject some cash into their lives.
But how does it work?
If you've paid off your mortgage, or nearly paid it off,
you can borrow money based on the equity in your home.
In other words, the amount of money that your house is worth.
You get a lump sum in the here and now,
and the money you've borrowed is paid back on the sale of the property,
which will only happen if you go into full-time care or you're not around any more.
The thing you need to remember though is that the company
lending you the money will charge interest on what you've borrowed,
all of which is repaid on the sale of your home.
Your family gets what is left.
Well, that's the theory.
But how does it play out in real life?
We've met up with two people, Helen and Barbara,
for whom the experience of equity release was very different.
So let's start with a positive experience, shall we?
I moved down from London 31 years ago and 12 years ago my husband
and I got divorced and we couldn't sell the property,
so we decided to have it made into two maisonettes, which we have,
and he lives upstairs and I live downstairs, so very happy with it.
It's worked out very well.
And it was about to work out even better because with her newly found
independence and an asset that was all her own,
Helen felt that her flat wasn't a golden egg which should be sat on
indefinitely. Rather,
she viewed it as an asset
which could be used to help the younger generation.
Well, my son
got married and they are renting and I think it's wasted money,
so I got in touch with a company to come and talk to us both of the
benefits of equity release.
The idea was to release equity from the flat in order to for her son
to get on the property ladder.
The criteria for Helen to qualify for what is known as a lifetime mortgage
included her age, her health, and the value of her house.
But this is no ordinary mortgage, as Helen explains.
You don't pay anything at all.
It just rolls over.
You get a yearly account of how much it is.
They tell you the final amount,
which, when you look at it, can be quite worrying,
but you have to realise you are not paying this -
this is all dealt with at the end.
Helen released 39% of the value of her home,
giving her son £60,000 to get on the property ladder,
and £20,000 for herself.
I'm so glad I could help my son. Peace of mind for me, too.
I love my holidays, so I know that I can carry on having holidays.
I haven't had a mortgage for a long time.
I'm not paying anything now that I wasn't before.
I just, everything is the same except that I've got a bit of money and I've helped my son.
So it's all good news, right? Well, hold on,
because when it comes to equity release, not all experiences are the same or even equal.
Barbara Gale from Sherston in Wiltshire has worried since signing
her contract that she might have made the wrong decision.
It's important to say I did go into it with my eyes wide open.
At the time it seemed like easy money.
But now I'm six years down the road I realise that easy money it may be,
but you pay quite a price.
When she was 62,
Barbara released £32,000 for home improvements and to help her son,
and today, with compound interest, that loan is worth £49,000.
How much I'll actually end up owing on my equity release depends on how
old I am when I die,
but if I were to live until my 90s I would owe all of the house.
It would all be gone.
In fact it would be about half a million pounds,
which is far more than the house is actually worth.
Like many in her situation,
Barbara spent the greater part of her working life paying the mortgage
in order to own her home outright.
Now she's faced with the prospect of leaving a large debt behind her.
I just can't get my head around that I fought for many,
many years to pay a mortgage on this little property of mine,
and it does seem to me that all that effort into finding a job,
keeping the house, paying the mortgage,
has all kind of gone south, because I took out the equity release on
my home and I could end up paying all that money back
to the equity release company and leaving nothing for my family.
For Barbara, short of winning the lottery
to pay off this lifetime mortgage,
there is very little she can do to change her current situation,
which leads to very, very dark thoughts.
I do feel pretty awful.
It makes me actually feel, well, I hope I die sooner rather than later,
which is a bit of a sad way to be going along,
but if I die when in my mid-80s at least there will be
probably about half the house left that I can pass on,
which is the only thing I have to pass on.
So two stories of equity release and two very different outcomes.
Which do you take notice of?
I'm going to need a referee.
Financial expert Jasmine Birtles, founder of the Money Magpie website,
has spent a long time looking at the pros and cons of equity release.
Jasmine, what are the pitfalls of equity release?
You think you're taking out a certain amount of money and then,
because of the compounding interest,
over the years it mushrooms into a huge amount.
And since you're not paying anything back,
that debt is getting bigger all the time.
Yes, exactly. Although over just a few years you might not notice very
much of a difference. Once you get to at least five, ten years,
then you really do see a difference, year on year.
It's growing very fast.
And that can be made worse by the fact that interest rates
in equity release can be higher than with normal loans or mortgages,
which means that if you take out equity release too early
you could end up with a massive debt on your hands,
with no means of paying it off
except any savings you might have tucked away.
So who would equity release work for then, do you think?
People who are probably older, and when I say older, I would say 70 plus.
Ideally they don't have children,
so their children are not expecting some sort of an inheritance.
If they don't have extra money then equity release is a really good way
of using the money from your home but still living in it.
And what sort of people need to be wary of getting equity release?
Younger people, and when I say younger, 55, to 60, for example,
because you could be lasting for 20, 30, 40 years at least there.
So it's really not a helpful thing to take money out of your home
and have it increasing.
And there is one other downside to equity release that Jasmine wants to
highlight. Once you take it out,
it could stop you from moving house ever again,
or indeed prohibit others from living in the house once you've gone.
One of the problems I think of equity release is that certain people have
found that they are basically trapped in their own home and later on,
if they thought of actually moving to a smaller, easier, cheaper place,
they can't, because the amount that their equity release debt has grown
by has meant that they have very little money left, if any at all.
So what's your advice then to anybody thinking of taking on equity release?
Go to somebody who's independent,
who will look at your whole life,
at your family and all of the things that are affecting your life,
and then tell you whether it is a good idea or not,
and, if so, what sort of plan you should take out.
So I guess the main bit of advice we can offer is get advice,
because once you take out equity release there's no turning back.
For information and a list of companies and prices,
you can go to the Equity Release Council.
They provide quality and standards guidelines for product providers to
protect the consumer.
Also it's important to discuss this with your nearest and dearest,
because ultimately it does affect them as well.
But we'll leave the last word to those who have been there.
If you really need some money or feel like you need to release some money,
or you need to help children out, it's well worth looking into.
If you're going to do it, leave it until you're a bit older.
I did it aged 62.
I wish I could have left it maybe until I was 72.
We've asked GP Rangan Chatterjee to be our doctor on your doorstep.
His job throughout the series is to inform and inspire us to better health and longer life.
So today, he's looking at how to restart a broken heart.
Today, I'm in Cheltenham to meet Chris Hickey and his wife, Sue.
Like more than 30,000 Brits,
Chris suffered what's called an out of hospital cardiac arrest last year,
but what makes his story truly extraordinary is for just how long his heart had stopped.
So how long did your heart stop beating for?
68 minutes in the end.
-Over an hour.
-That's a long time.
It's a long time. It's really hard to understand how I can be here.
I still can't believe that, actually -
68 minutes is such an incredibly long period of time.
And yet it was what Sue did in the initial five minutes that ultimately
saved Chris's life.
Sue, what's your recollection of that day?
I was downstairs,
it was our last day of work before we were due to go on holiday and I'd
got up early. It was a lovely summer's day and I just heard this kind of coughing sound.
I suddenly realised it was Chris,
so I charged up the stairs into our bedroom.
It wasn't a regular coughing sound?
No. I knew he was dying, and I witnessed my father's death
and he was making that kind of death-rattly sound.
I literally stood there and had a moment of real sheer panic.
"I can't do this, I'm not expert."
"I'm not trained."
"I don't know what to do."
Incredibly, earlier that morning Sue had read a medical article that
advised people not to panic or seek help outside the house,
but instead to call 999 immediately,
and when she called she got clear,
precise and ultimately life-saving instructions.
Opened the front door, so first responders could get in,
get Chris onto the floor, a hard surface basically, and start CPR.
I said, "I don't know, I don't know how to do it,
"I've never been on a course."
"I'll tell you, I'll tell you what to do."
But she was about to go on a very fast learning curve.
CPR stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation,
and here's how it works.
Basically the heart is a pump,
but if the pump is not working on its own then CPR means you work it
manually using your hands on the chest.
This keeps the blood circulating through the heart and around the body,
ensuring that oxygen continues to feed the brain and vital organs,
and crucially it's the first five minutes that count most
when it comes to getting that blood flowing
until the professionals can turn up to take over.
The fireman had come in.
-The fireman came.
-Then the paramedics.
-Then an air ambulance arrived.
-Yes.
-And a doctor came.
A doctor and a nurse came with them.
And then did you feel that they were there, they are going to take over?
-Yeah.
-Paramedics will sort this out now.
-Yeah, yeah.
The doctor attempted to start Chris's heart
by sending electric shocks to it via a defibrillator,
but Chris wasn't responding and he doctor told Sue it was time to take
that terrible decision we all dread.
I had a picture on the fridge which I showed him and I just said,
just keep going a bit longer, this is, you know,
a much-loved man.
SHE SOBS
They went back upstairs and tried for another ten or 12 minutes,
and it's in that time Chris came back.
What a blessing.
And it's wonderful, wonderful.
Surviving 68 minutes without a well- functioning heart is pretty much
unheard of, yet Chris managed it, and there's two main reasons for that.
Firstly, Sue called 999, but secondly, Chris got CPR.
Now CPR was given for five minutes by Sue and then followed up by the
paramedics, and what it does is, it keeps the oxygen and the blood
pumping around your body to your vital organs
and in particular your brain, and there's absolutely no reason
that you can't learn to do the same as well.
A recent poll showed that two-thirds of us would not know what to do
if faced with a cardiac arrest.
But that could be about to change -
certainly if training programmes like this
have anything to do with it.
This is the Eurospa in Maghaberry, Northern Ireland,
where they are pumping their staff full of life-saving CPR lessons.
Today, Alana is being shown how easy it is
by trainer and paramedic Mark Bailey,
and he's brought a little friend.
So we're looking for the V coming up the ribcage,
coming up to that point.
We'll put two fingers above that.
That then is where the heel of our first hand is going to go and then
the second hand will go on top of the first hand.
Our elbows are locked and our shoulders will be directly above our hands.
So we need to compress 120 times a minute, that's twice every second.
So it's...
Any situation at all where the patient has actually had a cardiac arrest,
CPR will be vital.
For people who have choked and have not been able to get the foreign body dislodged,
anaphylaxis,
where somebody has effectively suffocated or choked because the airways are blocked,
that patient will also go into cardiac arrest,
so any of those kind of situations basically where the patient has
stopped breathing for themselves, CPR is going to be indicated.
So successful has the course been that the company's managers have
even installed their own network of on-site defibrillators,
which makes survival rates rise from less than 10% up to 70%,
if a defibrillator is used
within the first three to five minutes of collapse.
And now it's time for Alana to get a crash course in how to use that.
Apply pads to bare skin exactly as shown in the pictures.
Quite often people will be scared and at the end of the course everybody is a lot happier.
We find that the underpinning knowledge about why you're doing
what you're doing definitely produces better results.
Everyone clear. Press flashing button.
Shock delivered.
ALANA: You know, people in the community should all learn how to take part in this
as it was a lot easier than what I had expected and it will also help to save a life.
And Mark has first-hand knowledge.
Lives have been saved.
A lady had collapsed in a pharmacy in east Belfast and the staff knew
that the Henderson store just down the road had a defib.
They sent somebody off to get it while compressions were being done
and we got the report the next day that she was sitting up,
slightly sore chest, but well, in her hospital bed.
There's no point in running about like a headless chicken.
It's easier said than done, of course, for people who aren't used to this.
But really, taking two or three seconds
just to focus your mind on what it is you are doing,
Your actions may well result in the person lying on the ground
also getting to go home.
And CPR doesn't just ensure that heart attack victims get to go home.
It also helps them make a full recovery.
When Chris Hickey's heart stopped beating for 68 minutes,
doctors were certain the lack of oxygen would leave him with brain damage.
But the efforts of his wife Sue and the paramedics ensured that even that did not happen.
And it has given him a second chance to make sure that it never happens again.
Do you come here quite a bit? Are you in good physical shape?
Yeah, I am now.
When I came out of hospital,
the day after I came out was the first day we came up here.
You came up here the day after?
-Wow!
-The day after, because the doctor said, "Look,
"you've really got to take exercise, you've got to get out,
-"you've got to..."
-Start your life again.
Start your life again.
Do you take physical activity quite seriously now?
-Each day we try and go a bit further.
You see, I had a sense that you are getting back to who you were.
Chris owes a huge debt to the professionals
who worked to save his life, but none of it would have been possible
without the role his wonderful wife Sue played
in those first five key minutes, when she called 999,
delivered CPR and didn't panic.
That first critical few minutes was what it took, right?
Someone to have the courage to not be put off and not think,
"I've not been trained." You've got to do it. Give it a go.
-That's the key word, isn't it?
-Courage.
-Courage. Yeah,
because in that moment that was just really stepping up to do it.
In those first couple of minutes you just want the blood moving,
just something.
And so that gave us great hope when Chris was admitted that it was...
Something was done.
That maybe we've done enough, you know?
You did do enough, didn't you?
Look at him now! Loving life, you know. Yeah.
There's no doubt that Chris is one lucky man.
But the simple fact remains that if more of us knew CPR,
and if defibrillators were more easily available,
then luck would play a smaller role in the future.
Studies regularly show that exercising your mind with puzzles and games
every day can help keep your brain healthy,
and even up to ten years younger.
Yes. Which is why, just for fun, we've come up with our very own.
All you have to do is watch the following clips
and work when it all happened.
The question is simple. What was the year that was?
So here's how the game works.
We are going to give you a few key events that will happened in the space of a year. But which year?
And here's why you should play along, by the way.
Psychologists have said that nostalgia can promote a sense of wellbeing and vitality in us all.
So this really could help you hold back the years.
# I can feel it coming in the air tonight... #
Just get on your bike and go, go on.
You'll be all right, just stay nice and cool.
# Oh, Lord
# And I can feel it coming in the air tonight... #
# Bending the rules of the game will let you find
# The one you're looking for
# And then you can show that you think you know
# You're making your mind up. #
# Well, the hurt doesn't show, but the pain still grows
# It's no stranger to you and me
# I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh, Lord... #
What do you think you'll remember most of all about today?
The pushing and shoving!
And we'll give you until the end of the show to work on the answer.
Moving on to a subject I'm sure we can all empathise with -
most of us, anyway. Why, as we get older,
does it become more difficult to keep weight off?
And what can we do about it?
I went to Birmingham to meet the middle-aged spreaders.
-Look at your long legs.
-I know, look at the shoes!
I was normally a very good dancer.
Any nightclub there was dancing, I was always there.
Yes, I can't believe it when I look at it!
That was me when I was 20.
Your legs go on forever.
I've come to Birmingham to meet a slimming group currently engaged
in the battle of the bulge.
I don't think I've ever been FAT fat, but I have put weight on.
You start putting it on and you think,
where is this tyre coming from?
The tyre gets bigger and bigger.
I didn't know what to do to stop it.
In the UK, 66% of men and 57% of women are overweight or obese.
As we get older, the pounds just seem to pile on,
which is exactly the experience of middle-aged spreaders in Solihull,
although they all have various theories
as to why this might be the case.
Do you reckon your eating habits have changed as you've got older?
Yes, You don't do as much and you eat more.
The odd biscuit, the odd slice of cake.
The weight is building up without you realising it.
And yes, obviously when I am stressed out,
you do like to turn to the odd chocolate bar.
Stewart, what about you?
When I was at work, a lot of the times it was,
I used to call it lunch on the run, because I was always at work.
But now I'm retired, I'm at home and I've got more time to eat food,
so I have a tendency to eat more food.
But you're supposed to eat healthily, aren't you?
That's what it's about.
Well, it's interesting to hear that most of the group seem to blame
themselves for their spare tyre.
But it might not be the case.
Researchers have found that the average man and woman
add 1-2 lbs around their middle every year
from the ages of 35 to 55, despite eating less.
I've come to Aston University to meet Dr James Brown,
one of the country's top experts in the effects of ageing on our weight.
Middle-aged spread. When does it actually start?
It really starts around the age of 30, believe it or not.
At that age, we start to see the metabolic rate slowing slightly,
so our metabolism's just starting to slow down,
hormone levels are starting to drop,
and for those of us that aren't physically active,
we start to see a loss of muscle mass and an increase in fat mass.
And recently, scientists have got closer to understanding what might be the cause.
They've discovered that ageing increases levels of an enzyme
called DNA PK.
This enzyme repairs our bodies but it also slows down the metabolism,
making it more difficult to burn fat.
And it's also a different type of fat
than what we see in younger people,
a deeper, less superficial kind.
It's called visceral fat.
This is the fat that wraps itself around your organs,
around your heart, your kidneys and intestines,
and this visceral fat is more closely associated with disease,
so if you've got lots of visceral fat,
you're at a higher risk of diseases like type two diabetes,
cancer and Alzheimer's.
So, how do you check just how much of your weight is visceral fat?
Well, there's a test you can do at home, and for our purposes,
we've enlisted the help of Stuart.
If you measure your waist circumference
and then also measure yourself around the hips,
of their widest part, and around the buttocks,
and if you divide your waist measurement by your hip measurement
you get a number and we can tell from that number
whether you're storing too much fat around the middle
or just the right amount.
-And what should that number be...?
-For women, it's 0.8.
For men, it's 0.9.
-OK.
-OK, so shall we have a go at doing it?
-Brilliant.
And we have a measurement of 44 inches.
And then we'll come down...
..to the widest part...
..of your hips and buttocks, which is actually 45 inches.
So, you divide your waist size by your hip measurement and the result
you're looking for is 0.8 or lower for a woman
and 0.9 or lower for a man.
So what's Stuart's result?
You would be just over the 0.9 cut-off for men,
which means you're at a slightly increased risk
of things like type two diabetes,
because you tend to store your fat around your middle.
Now, we know that bad fat is visceral fat,
but what does it do to us that other fats don't?
If you think about what fat does,
so it doesn't just store energy and it doesn't just keep us warm,
it's actually a secretory gland,
so your fat cells right now are releasing as many as 600 different
hormones and other molecules.
But interestingly, visceral fat tends to secrete
very damaging hormones and molecules
and they can damage tissue such as the brain,
such as the pancreas, such as your blood vessels,
and that's why visceral fat increases the risk
of these nasty diseases associated with older age.
And what's also clear is that getting rid of visceral fat takes
a lot more effort than youthful chubbiness.
But it doesn't mean it's out of our control.
Is it true to say that middle-aged spread really is beyond our control?
Not true. We have a lot of control over it, actually.
There are biological things that happen in the body, your genetics,
within cells, your metabolism,
which will influence your risk of middle-aged spread,
but if you control your diet, eat the right foods in the right amount,
if you control your physical activity,
get lots of regular exercise,
you are going to reduce your risk of middle-aged spread.
It is not inevitable.
Well, that's me told.
So, lots of exercise and eat well.
And for some advice about a healthy diet,
I'm talking to physical education teacher Mark Holborn,
-who's been shopping.
-As you can see in front of us,
we've got a big variety of foods that are readily available to us in
supermarkets. We've got the oat breakfast.
Can't go wrong with oats for breakfast.
-I love a bit of porridge.
-Brown pasta.
Now, this is great to provide us with the energy that we need throughout the day.
We also have nuts, lots of oils
and there's healthy fats in there.
-And protein.
-Lots of protein.
Protein is the key here, because we lose muscle mass after the age of 40,
so ideally around 25% of our calorie intake should be in the form of
-protein.
-Chicken, turkey, really healthy, low in fat, lovely taste.
-You can cook them with anything.
You can even throw them in the omelette with your eggs, you know?
Protein overload.
Next, I'm bringing our middle-aged spreaders to a gym
where Dr Brown and Mark have a few tips for them.
So, there are three pieces of advice we want you to focus on
and the first piece of advice is about nutrition,
so that means try to avoid processed foods that have too much energy in
them and to focus on eating more natural foods,
the right amount of calories, so you're getting a healthy nutrition.
The second thing we've got to talk about is the value of exercise.
We know that exercise is really important for a number of reasons.
If we resistance-train, it means that we can build our muscles up.
That can raise our metabolism.
At the same time, because as you get older, the muscles degrade,
we want to keep the muscles still working and keep them functioning.
But most importantly, exercise is proven to reduce your stress levels.
And that's our final piece of advice, actually, is to
make sure you're getting enough rest and a good night's sleep.
We know that increased stress will lead to the increased levels of
stress hormones and they can contribute to middle-aged spread,
so make sure you are getting periods of rest during the day,
a good night's sleep and recovery from any exercise that you do.
Which rather neatly leads us to our final task
with the middle-aged spreaders -
a quick workout in the gym.
Four, three, two, one.
Go. I love that.
Remember, you can do this at home with a broomstick
and just on a chair at home.
Go, Jackie.
Up into the air, into your chest.
This is going to work the backs of your arms
as well as the tops of your shoulders.
As long as they keep it up, then could this go some way to
getting rid of that visceral fat that some of them might have?
It can. We've given them all the tools they need to make
the right lifestyle decisions
so that they can limit their amount of visceral fat.
Good work. Well done, folks.
The thought of exercise and diet doesn't appeal to anyone, really,
but they really do work and that,
combined with sleep and a little less stress in their lives,
really could help them banish the fat wherever it is in their bodies.
That was hard work!
Finally today, a truly lovely story about a unique place that could help
revolutionise how we look after
the oldest and the youngest in our society.
It's Britain's first intergenerational care home,
where caring means sharing.
It's 8'o'clock on a Tuesday morning in south London.
Over there is Nightingale House,
home to 200 residents with an average age of about 90.
And 100 yards in that direction is
the Apples and Honey Nightingale Nursery,
with 30 - on any given day - two to five-year-olds.
Normally, the twain would never meet,
but both have come up with an ingenious way of working
that benefits everyone.
I've come to visit the first place in the UK to offer full-time care
for preschool children within a residential home for older people.
Now, millions of us enjoy spending time with grandchildren,
but for the residents here,
it's a much bigger commitment with much greater benefits.
It's known as intergenerational care
and something we might see a lot more of in the future.
At 9am, the nursery staff bring the two groups together.
And from the off, it's playtime.
So, how did this project come about?
Away from all the hubbub, I spoke to Ali Summers,
co-founder of the nursery.
So, Ali, how did all this come about here, then,
with the nursery and the care home?
We had a nursery in Wimbledon and we brought the children here several
times a term and we thought how wonderful it would be
if we didn't have to leave, if we could just stay here on site,
and here we are.
What are the benefits for the residents?
They are remarkable.
The joy that comes out of them.
Last night, I sat on one of their floors
with a lovely resident named John and I asked him how his week went,
how his day went, what he enjoyed most,
and he said it's visiting the children.
And he said, it's not just me.
And he pointed to another resident.
He said, he doesn't talk to anybody,
and yet when he comes down and he is with the children, he talks,
he interacts, and there was a woman who lives locally with dementia
whose partner and carer bring her to our baby and toddler group
because she just comes alive in the sessions.
And has there been a lot of interest from other people in what you're doing here?
There has been tremendous interest.
We've been contacted by about 20 different groups locally,
around the country, around the world,
asking how we got started, can we help them?
We've had volunteer offers of help
from so many walks of life. It's been truly inspirational.
Time, I think, to meet some of the residents.
Fay Garcia, who's 90,
and Margie Bloom, 91,
are getting ready for the mid-morning snack.
They've found themselves thriving since the programme started.
Hello. Well, this is fun, isn't it?
-It's great fun, yes.
-Great fun.
I should think things change quite a lot when
the children come into the home?
Oh, absolutely. They brighten up our room.
the way they come towards you.
It's like being a child again.
So do you think this is a good idea for other care homes to take on?
Yes, I think it's better than all the medicine, all the pills,
and certainly better than putting on the TV and reading the paper
with all the miserable news.
This is wonderful.
And Fay, you didn't have children of your own.
-I never had children.
-So this is a whole new experience?
Absolutely. It's like being reborn.
And Marjorie, do you have grandchildren?
Oh, yes, I have four.
So how do this lot compare with them?
This lot are very good!
But it's not all one-way traffic.
Research also shows that the contact with older people also has
a positive impact on the learning and development of children.
Stirring, stirring, stirring, stirring.
OK, time to test the catering?
Oh, that is good.
-Do you like being at nursery, Nariah?
-Yes!
What do you think is the best thing?
Singing.
-Balloon.
-Oh, you've got balloons.
What do you think of your friends? Do you like your friends here?
Your older friends.
They are nice, aren't they?
-Yum yum.
-Well done.
Well, this is a lot of fun but here in the UK,
we lag well behind many countries where, for some time,
the very young and the very old have been getting together
and both getting a lot out of it.
Intergenerational care first began in Japan in the 1970s.
It's now found in countries all over the world.
One of the pioneering centres is in Seattle,
where it's been established for nearly 30 years.
Here in the UK, we are just starting to get the idea,
but it could be about to take off in a big way.
Steven Burke from United For All Ages is one of the people trying
to take intergenerational care into the mainstream.
Why do we lag so far behind other countries when it comes to doing this sort of thing?
The UK is one of the most age- segregated countries in the world.
Most of our activities only cater for one age group.
Like a care home or a nursery. And very rarely do they mix.
And there are all sorts of impacts as a result of that.
Loneliness and isolation for older people,
but also children don't benefit from the learning and experience that
older people can provide.
So, how do you plan to change this?
We're hoping that within the next five years,
there will be some 500 care home-nurseries on the same sites.
500? That sounds quite ambitious.
We have a lot of interest already from several hundred care schemes and housing schemes
where they have the space.
The question is, is the space suitable for a nursery?
Does it have the right access for nursery?
Is it in the right location for a nursery
where families are living close by?
And do you think projects like this one here could make people
feel differently about going into care homes?
Care homes can quite often be isolated institutions
and by opening them up
to not just children but also the families of the children,
relatives of the older people, the staff,
it can really help bring care homes alive.
The key thing here is that this is an everyday activity.
It's happening every day of the week
and older people are getting involved
in helping those children learn and develop and grow
and experience the joys of life.
Food all eaten, it's time for the afternoon story, and today, well,
they have a guest reader - me!
Hello, my name's Bill and I'm a bad beekeeper - a really bad beekeeper.
I've done bad things with bees, terrible things,
things you wouldn't understand
unless you were a beekeeper yourself.
I still shudder at the thought of one or two of them.
And with that, it's nap time.
Blimey, I didn't think I was that boring!
Why, I hear you ask?
It's the end of a long but very fulfilling day and soon,
it'll begin all over again.
Who knows? In years to come,
this might be a much more everyday occurrence.
For the moment, it's a chance for me to find out what mum and dad think.
It's good for them to actually understand all different types
of people out there and spend time and be gentle with older people
as well as being around their friends.
So, what does your daughter say about coming here
-and being with the residents?
-Absolutely loves it.
So, we drive in together and every time,
she'll be telling me stories about what she's planning to do and when
we're driving back home, she's telling me, oh,
I was with residents and this is what we were doing.
What do you think they get out of it, the children?
Patrick, he loves the residents.
He comes home and tells me about his grannies,
so he's extended his family by 20 plus.
Back inside, it's time for me to say my goodbyes to Margie and Fay,
but first, why not get some top tips
on how to overcome an age gap of more than 80 years?
So, ladies, we've seen you having a lovely time
with the children earlier.
What's your advice? What's the best way to get on with little children,
-do you think?
-Personally,
I think it's like treating them like you would any human being,
whatever age.
It's amazing how much and what they do pick out.
Don't talk down to them.
Exactly, yes.
If there's one single thing that you both take away from this experience
that you've had, what would you say it was?
I think it's the warmth and the acceptance of the children
of us oldies.
-Does it make you feel younger?
-In a way, yes.
I want to sing with them.
-Which we do, don't we?
-Which we do.
Have you got a favourite song?
-I'm not going to sing it now.
-Oh, why not?
The Wheels On The Bus?
Could be, yes.
THEY SING: # The bell on the bus
# Goes dinga-linga-ling all day long. #
This could all be seen as a bit of a game changer for care homes,
which, up to now, are all too often seen as the last stop
on the journey of life.
What's happening here is giving the children a valuable experience
and giving the older people a whole new purpose.
Time now to give you the answer to our What Was The Year That Was archive quiz.
Fiona, the year was...
The year was, oh, 1981,
the year that Bucks Fizz won the Eurovision Song contest.
Good. Let's hope you can make your mind up to join us again tomorrow.
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Night in the Tentsile Tree Camp at Vallisaari, Finland
Does it sound good to stay a night in a tree camp at the old military island which has been closed for the public until the year 2016? At Vallisaari in Finland, this is possible. Read on if this sounds intriguing enough.
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Published on 10/27/2019. Updated on 8/17/2020. Text and photos by Tero Auralinna.
In summer 2018 we had a very unique experience at Vallisaari island near Helsinki. We visited this old military island and stayed a night there in a tree tent camp. This was a surreal experience because once the last boat is gone, you're almost alone on the island, with badgers and bats.
Sunset at Torpedo Bay, Vallisaari, Finland
About Vallisaari
Vallisaari is an island about 20 minutes by a water bus from the Market Square (Kauppatori) of Helsinki. Its location is next to Suomenlinna sea fortress (UNESCO) which is a more well-known attraction in Finland.
Experience almost unreal. This Island has been closed for public between 1918-2016 and has amazing combination of military history and nature’s treasures. www.tentsilecamps.com
There have been fortifications since the 17th century. The construction has been most active during the Russian regime. The Finnish Defence Forces have been used the island after Finland's independence. In the year 2008, the Finnish Defence Forces announced that they will give away the island. After that started the work to open up the island for visitors. Since 2016 it's been possible to visit this unique island. More historical info about Vallisaari can be found from the Nationalparks.fi website.
Isosaari is another military island which has been opened to the public recently.
Next to Vallisaari is another island called Kuninkaansaari. Islands are connected so you can walk from Vallisaari to Kuninkaansaari.
What is Tentsile and Tentsile EcoCamp?
Tentsile is a tree tent that will be installed between the three trees. It’s kinda like a large hammock with a shelter. It’s also possible to stack these tents to build a whole tent village.
Vallisaari Tentsile EcoCamp is an area where visitors can stay a night in Tentsile. In addition to Vallisaari, Tentsile Camps are offering Tentsile camping possibilities on other locations as well.
Tentsile experience at Vallisaari
At the camping site, there were two pre-installed Tentsiles and one Trillium hammock for hanging out. Also under the Tentsiles, there are Trillium hammocks that can be used to extend the space for your gear or just for laying around.
When we were there, the second Tentsile was empty, so we had total privacy. Tentsile type (Stingray) used in Vallisaari can accommodate three people conveniently.
Visitors will get instructions from the Torpedo Bay cafe. The visitor will also get a first aid kit and blankets which can be used under a sleeping bag.
Tentsile experience also includes a small breakfast at the same place. Visitors should bring typical camping gear with them. Things like a sleeping bag, water, snacks, personal belongings, electric torch, and enough clothes for changing weather conditions.
The best part of the experience was that once the last ferry from the island was gone, we were almost alone. All visitors and workers will leave at least with the last boat. There were a couple of boats in the marina, but that's it. No other visitors. It was a unique experience to be alone in so tranquil place but at the same time so close to Helsinki. The location of the tree camp is perfect for sunset watching. There is a good cliff for sceneries near the camping area.
Relaxing in the hammock.
Marina is another place besides Tentsile, where you can stay a night if you come by own boat.
Also during the day, the Tentsile area is peaceful because it’s located apart from the main routes. The location is in Kuninkaansaari, and you need to walk a small trail for a while to access the tent area. So most likely, nobody will get there by accident.
The only thing we were a little bit worried during the night was a weather forecast which provided a possibility of a thunderstorm. A tree tent probably is not the best place to be in a thunderstorm. But luckily that storm never reached us. Tentsile has a mesh net cover by default but there is a rain cover which you can put on in case of rain.
Tentsile EcoCamp might feel a little bit pricey for camping night. But the price of 180 € for two people is the average hotel night in Helsinki. This definitely is a more unique experience. And everything for the camping is already setup for you. Just bring yourself and maybe some sparkling wine to enjoy sea views and last sun rays at the waterfront.
Vallisaari attractions and facilities
There are several restaurants and cafes on the island so you will find something to eat even if you don't bring your own snacks. There are also water points, picnic tables, and dry toilets. Though if you're coming for a night then you should bring some snacks and water with you. Services will be closed in the evening and water points are quite far away from the tent area. Also, note that you are not allowed to make a fire on the island.
The main pathways are wide and in good shape. There is also historic information about the attractions available.
There are two designated routes, visitors must use to go around the islands. Alexander's trail is about 3 kilometers of length, and the Kuninkaansaari tour is around 2.5 kilometers.
You'll also find a small beach from Kuninkaansaari. Swimming is not allowed anywhere else due to hazardous conditions.
There are old, interesting military structures and fortifications still left on the island.
Most noticeable ones are:
Alexander's battery (Aleksanterinpatteri)
Fortress of Kuninkaansaari
Strait of Kustaanmiekka
Ferries to the Stockholm will leave Helsinki around 17:00. They are passing this very narrow strait between Vallisaari and Suomenlinna. Viking Line (red ferries) and Tallink Silja (white ferries) will use this route when they are leaving. Also, they come back via the same route from Stockholm in the morning. At Vallisaari you can admire ships when they are passing through this only 80 meters wide, S-shaped strait. You can check out arrivals and departures from the Port of Helsinki website. See the departure or destination harbour column, which should be Mariehamn / Stockholm.
Viking Line Stockholm Ferry passing the Strait of Kustaanmiekka.
Viewing platform at Alexander's battery
The highest point of the island has a viewing platform that provides views over the island to the sea, Suomenlinna sea fortress, and city of Helsinki. You’ll also see the protected part of the island nicely from the platform.
Nature is rich at Vallisaari. Vallisaari is the most diverse nature destination in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. Parts of the island are protected and visitors can’t enter those areas. Also, you must respect the built paths to protect the unique flora and fauna of the island.
The grass snake gave us warm welcoming right away at the boat dock. Check out the video on YouTube.
In addition to versatile plant species, Vallisaari is a home for numerous birds, bats, and badgers. Also, 1000 butterfly and moth species are living in the islands and some of them are threatened or very rare.
How to get to the Vallisaari?
Two water bus companies have constant connections in the summertime to the island. You can enter the boat from Hakaniemi or Kauppatori.
JT-Line
Suomen Saaristokuljetus
JT-Line has a ticket option called "Island hopping" which combines three islands: Vallisaari, Suomenlinna, and Lonna. Visiting these three islands is also a perfect full-day trip from Helsinki. Lonna is a small island and there is not so much to see but in Suomenlinna and Vallisaari there is more.
I would definitely recommend Vallisaari Tentsile camp night if you would like to experience something different in a peaceful, historic location within the untamed, rich nature.
Sunset view from Tentsile
We visited Vallisaari in summer 2018 so part of the information might be outdated. If you’re planning a visit, check out the official websites for up-to-date information. If you have questions or comments, feel free to comment on this post and I’ll try to answer.
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Europe-Illegal to criticize Islam
Germany is silencing “hate speech”, but cannot define it
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“I am still of the view that declaring statistical facts or even sharing an opinion is not a crime if someone doesn’t like it.” – Finns Party politician, Terhi Kiemunki, fined 450 euros for writing of a “culture and law based on a violent, intolerant and oppressive religion.”
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Raylin Marks presents Book 3 in the Immortal Devotion series. Contains mature themes.
The sensual appetite for the four vampires and Elle increases after an ancient curse falls on her.
Their lust and love was strong enough to seal their bond, until dark magic worked its way into their lives. Elle will do anything for her four hot vampires, but now the game changes, and they're sacrificing to keep her lustful cravings under control.
Once the Banners realize it is going to take more than a witch to reverse the dark magic looming over all of them, they're forced to go under cover to a vampire academy for answers from the one person who may have them.
The Banners may be the strongest immortals alive, but one human is proving to be their greatest weakness and they'll do anything to free her from a life of sex, blood, and cravings for more than any of the vampires could have imagined.
But do all of them really want this curse reversed? Love, sex, cravings, and not enough men at once will have Elle climbing the walls of the academy needing her vampires to curb her growing appetite for them.
Contains mature themes.
Book 3 in the Immortal Devotion series
Author Raylin Marks
Narrated by Sarah Puckett
Running time 7 hrs
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The Competition Movie
Here’s a first official look at The Competition, the upcoming romantic comedy movie directed by Harvey Lowry and starring Thora Birch, Chris Klein, and Claire Coffee:
(Click on a picture to enlarge.)
“Lauren Mauldin (Thora Birch) is a strong-willed but misguided young woman who encourages her millions of blog followers to apply her scientific formula to all relationships in order to prevent heartache. If you follow her six-month ‘PIG Theory’, you will always have the upper hand and you will NEVER be cheated on! Her plan works smoothly until her sister Gena introduces her to the charming and undefeated women’s advocate attorney, Calvin Chesney (Chris Klein). Calvin refuses to believe human connections can be so easily categorized. He challenges Lauren to a competition to prove her theory wrong. He’ll pick five of his closest friends to be tempted by Lauren’s beautiful bait. If three out of five cheat, Calvin must admit defeat and never speak to Lauren again. But if three out of five resist temptation, Lauren must shut down her blog and date Calvin like a normal person, with no expiration date. With twists and turns and unexpected challengers along the way, no one can predict how this will all turn out. And when two feisty people used to getting their own way go head to head, their ultimate choices to get across that finish line may surprise you.”
There’s also a teaser poster, take a look below:
Play or be played.
Well, the only winner will be syrupy love, lol!
The film has yet to get an official release date.
Stay tuned with us for more details about the movie.
14 August 2017 tags: The Competition
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League Constitution
The Four Horsemen Standings
Manager of the Year Awards
League Owners
Spreadsheet & League Links
League Discussions
Time Away Notifications
Accepted Trades
Approved Trades
Vetoed Trades
Promotions/Demotions
Demotions
IR/DL
Re-signs/Releases
Completed Bids
Illegal/Invalid Bids
League Constitution Mar 26, 2020 20:25:56 GMT
Post by Atlanta on Mar 26, 2020 20:25:56 GMT
Welcome to The Four Horsemen!
The Four Horsemen is a 4 sport dynasty salary cap league played on Fantraz.
1. Structure
A. 12 teams divided into 3 divisions (East, Central, and West)
B. Rosters unique to each sport
C. H2H points will be the scoring for every league
D. The league will be formed of a commissioner committee. Spots are still open for each of the sports. Please let Atlanta know if you are interested. The positions are as follows.
General Commissioner: Atlanta
Football Commissioner:
Basketball Commissioner:
Baseball Commissioner:
E. If extra help is needed out side of these commissioners then co-commissioners will be assigned.
A. Participation and activity are key to the life of the league. Owners must be committed to remaining active through the whole year. All that is asked of owners is to set your lineups every day in every sport, respond to trade offers, make your draft picks in the allotted time slot (24 hours), and check the Proboards page once a day.
3. Rule Changes
A. All rule changes must be made in the off season or their respective sport
B. Any league owner may propose a new rule
C. For a rule to become final, a vote on the rule must be result in a majority of votes. In the event of a tied vote then the proposal will be vetoed.
D. In rare circumstances, the commissioner committee is allowed to veto a rule change as long as the can prove that the rule will alter the integrity of the league.
4. Contracts
A. This is a dynasty league, meaning each owner will be able to retain the majority of their players from year to year
B. A contract is the value that it takes to own a player for that year
C. A contract's minimum value possible is 0, and there is no maximum. Values must be whole numbers, no fractions. (1, 2, 3, etc.)
D. Each sport will have their own Salary Cap/Contract Cap. For example, baseball will be 68 for the Inaugural season. Meaning, you have 68 contract points to award to each season to players on your active roster. It is a hard cap that will be slightly raised each year. View each sports specific rules for more details.
E. All player contracts will increase by 1 each year regardless of the player, unless the player has not surpassed their rookie limits. For example, if Mike Trout has a contract worth 5 in 2020, it will be 6 in 2021 and 7 in 2022, unless the player is released and awarded a new contract in Free Agency.
F. If a player is traded, his contract is traded with him.
G. You may trade contracts between teams from year to year. For example, Team A trades Team B 2 contracts for one year in exchange for Eric Hosmer
H. Rookies contain a contract of 0 and remain at 0 every year until they exceed the defined rookie limits for each sport, or have been promoted from your Minor League roster. If a rookie is promoted to your active roster, he stays at 0 contracts for that season but would cost 1 contract to re-sign the next season, whether rookie limits have been surpassed or not. For their rookie year, they will hold a value of 0 contracts, whether they are promoted or not. If you want to re-sign the player the next year, they will cost 1 contract, unless they have not reached rookie limits. In that case, they would still be 0 contracts and eligible for your Minor League roster. Example of a rookie tat would be 0 contract eligible in back to back years would be Ben Simmons, if he was never promoted. He never played in a game in 2016 so he would still hold rookie status for 2017
I. Contracts may not be transferred between sports
J. There will be a 1 week period at the beginning of each sport's season to determine which of your players will be re-signed for an increase of 1 contract, or they can be released to Free Agency for no charge to the next year's salary cap
K. A transaction (contract offered, trade, etc.) that would put a team over the cap or over maximum roster size for either the major or minor league roster will be allowed as long as a corresponding move to return the roster to validity is executed within 8 hours of the completion of the move that made the roster invalid. Exception- Off season meetings before resign/release is due, over rostering and over cap transactions are allowed
L. If a corresponding move is not made within the acceptable window:
(i) The free agent will return to free agency one the he commissioner notices it, fixes it, and notifies the league. The previous highest bidder has the opportunity to keep their old bid if they want, but the 24 hour clock restarts on commissioner's discovery.
(ii) The trade will still remain valid, however, the team over rostering or over the cap will not be able to use any player received in the trade in a fantasy matchup until the roster returns to validity.
M. Using 6L to manipulate the system to intentionally over roster or over spend to gain a competitive advantage in a fantasy matchup is not allowed. This, as well as repeat offenders of 6L, will receive contract penalties from the disciplinary committee.
5. Waivers
A. To release a player from any sport you must place him on waivers. Once on waivers, the player will be removed from your active roster and no longer your property. Waivers will last 5 days.
B. When a player is released, the team that releases him will immediately retain half of that player's contract back.
C. You would get nothing back for releasing a 1 contract player. If a team claims that player, they claim him for 1 and the team that releases him gets 1 contract back.
D. All held contracts will be rounded up to the nearest whole contract. Example: a player that costs 3 contracts is released and goes unclaimed. The team that waived him owes 50% of his contract, which is 1 and a half. We will round the half contract up to the nearest whole number, in this case being 2. So releasing the player gained you 1 contract back and you still owe the player 2 contracts for the rest of that season.
E. Any player that is released for 4 contracts or more can be claimed for 2 less contracts than what they were released for. any player released for 3 contract or 2 contracts can be claimed for 1 less contract than what they were released for. The team that waived the player pays the difference.
F. If a player was waived via a Free Release, the person that waived him would owe nothing on a claimed player and would get all the contracts back
Example 1 (Even numbered 4+ contract release)
Philly release Severino at 8 contracts. Boston wins a claim on Severino for 6 contracts. Philly already gets 4 contracts back upon release. After the waiver claim process ( days) Severino then gets put on Boston's roster for 6 contracts. Philly then receives an additional 2 contracts, and still owes Severino 2 contracts for the rest of that season.
Example 2 (Odd numbered 4+ contract release)
Philly releases ARcher at 5 contracts. Boston wins claim for 3 contracts. Philly already gets 2 contracts back upon release. After the waiver claim process (5 days) Archer gets put on Boston's roster for 3 contracts. Philly then receives an additional contract, and still owes Archer 2 contracts for the rest of that season.
Example 3 (3 contract release)
Philly release Iglesias at 3 contracts. Boston wins claim for 2 contracts. Philly already gets 1 contract back upon release. After the waiver claim process (5 days) Iglesias then gets put on Boston's roster for 2 contracts. Philly then receives an additional contracts and still owes Isglesias 1 contract for the rest of that season.
Philly release Gausman at 2 contracts. Boston wins a claim on Gausman for 1 contract. Philly already gets 1 contract back upon release. After the waiver claim process (5 days) Gausman gets put on Boston's roster for 1 contract. Philly does not retain any other contracts besides the 1 contract he got back upon release of Gausman.
G. If the player goes unclaimed after the 5 days, then the player becomes a free agent and the the team that released him will still owe the player 50% of his contract for that year only. If the released player only cost 1 contract and goes unclaimed, the player will be owed 1 contract still by the team that waived him. The player can now be signed by anyone and at any price
H. The waiver claim order will start out as being inverse order of the previous year's final standings. You will move to last after making a claim.
I. The team that waives a player cannot claim that player on waivers. They must wait for the player to clear waivers, and make a new bid on him.
J. Each waiver post must include the name of the player and their respective contract amount before the transaction can be processed
6. Free Releases
A. For each sport, each season, every team is allowed 2 release of players for no charge to their salary cap. They are called Free Releases.The entire contract will be removed from your salary cap and you will owe them nothing whether they are claimed or not. You must indicate you are using a Free Release on your waiver post for it to be a Free Release.
B. Releasing a rookie with a contract value of 0 in season costs your Major League club 1 contract against your salary cap. Releasing a rookie during the off season (at Re-Signs/Releases) costs nothing.
C. For NFL, NHL, and NBA each season, you are allowed 1 Free Release of a Minor League player. Every other Minor League player that is released during the season will cost 1 contract against your salary cap for that season, unless you accumulate another one via trade.
D. For MLB each season, you are allowed 2 Free Releases of a Minor League player since the number of minors is much greater in baseball. Every other Minor League player that is released during the season will cost you 1 contract against your salary cap for that season, unless you accumulate another one via trade.
7. Free Agency
A. Every year, there will be a date that off season free agency begins
B. Players eligible for free agency are any player in the professional or minor leagues of that sport that are not on a roster in the Four Horsemen.
C. The player pool for free agency will also include all the players that teams never extend contracts to from the previous year
D. To bid on a Free Agent, make a post of the player's name, position, and team with a minimum bid of 1 in the Free Agency thread. If they are a rookie, they would be eligible for a 0 contract bid (rookie contract). Once 24 hours passes with no more bids, the highest bidder receives the player.
E. Teams may nominate a maximum of 2 players to free agency per calendar day for each sport.
F. Teams may offer rookie contracts to current Minor Leaguers that aren't on a roster in this league. A rookie contract is worth 0 and stays at 0 until the player surpasses his rookie eligibility or is promoted. If promoted, the player's contract stays at 0 for the rest of that season and that player will cost 1 the next year but will be ineligible for Minor League rosters the following season whether rookie limits are passed or not.
G. After the Championship is complete, Free Agency freezes until the next season.
H. Teams may add Free Agents after the freeze, provided the bid was posted before the freeze
I. Teams may also bid on Free Agents after the freeze, provided original bid was posted before the freeze and provided it is still a live bid
8. Signing Bonuses
A. The moment any amateur draft is completed in The Four Horsemen, all undrafted players (and International players in MLB) go back into the Free Agency pool. When the season starts for that sport, (our MLB draft takes place in season) rookies that were not drafted by any team in our league may be offered a contract (Minor League or Major League). If a team offers a rookie contract (0), this offer can be beaten by offering the players signing bonuses with his rookie contract. So if someone nominates the next Cuban star baseball player that was not drafted in our Rookie Draft a Minor League contract, that can be beaten by a Minor League contract +1 signing bonus. The signing bonus value will be a one year salary cap hit to the team. Then the player remains on his rookie contract. Any Major League contract will beat a Minor League contract, regardless of the signing bonus. Rookies are the only players eligible for a signing bonus. There is no limit to the size of a signing bonus as long as it does not exceed the salary cap.
B. Any player considered a rookie will immediately lose rookie eligibility in our league if given an actual contract amount instead of a signing bonus amount
9. Re-Signs/Releases
A. The Friday before Free Agency opens back up in each sport, Re-Signs/Releases will be due
B. Re-Signs/Releases is a post that you will make under the Free Agency thread of that sport stating who you will be re-signing and who you will be releasing
C. For every player re-signed, their salary goes up by 1 each season. Any player can be released with you receiving 100% of their salary back.
D. Releasing a rookie costs you 1 contract in season, unless you use a Rookie Release. On your Re-Signs/Releases post, rookies can be released for free
E. A Re-Sign/Release post may be altered due to trades up until the deadline. The post must be finalized by 11:59 PM EST.
F. You will have until 11:59 PM Eastern Time to post your Re-Signs/Releases on the date it is due
G. Saturday and Sunday will be for updating the spreadsheet and preparing for Free Agency. Then on Monday at 12:00 AM Free Agency will officially begin
H. If the post is submitted after 11:59 PM Eastern Time then a 3 contract penalty will be applied to the corresponding sport.
10. Minor Leagues
A. Rookie Limits: MLB - 130 At Bats or 50 Innings Pitched at Major League level, NFL - 8 games played in actual regular season or playoff games, NHL - 30 games played in actual regular season or playoff games, NBA - 30 games played in actual regular season or playoff games
B. Only players that haven't exceeded rookie limits are eligible for the Four Horsemen Minor Leagues
C. Players still considered Rookies may be promoted and demoted freely to and from your Minor League rosters but veterans may not be demoted
D. A player demoted must stay in the Minor Leagues for at least 10 calendar days
E. There is no certain amount of time a player must stay on your active roster if they are promoted
F. A rookie (contract value 0) that is promoted to the active roster continues to have the contract value of 0 until the season is over. To re-sign the player the next season he must receive a contract of 1. Once you promoted the player, whether rookie limits have been reached or not, they are no longer a rookie and cannot ever receive the rookie contract value of 0 again after that current season. Players that have not been promoted from Minor League rosters, and have not surpassed their rookie limits, are eligible for a 0 contract the following season and can stay on your Minor League roster until rookie limits are surpassed
G. All draft orders will be determined by final league standings from the previous season
H. One rookie from each sport that has surpassed the rookie limits is allowed to be tagged for the following year. This allows the rookie to remain on the minor league roster for an extra year and will still not cost the team any contracts. A team may not trade for Rookie Tags and must be posted in the Re-signs/Releases. A player that was tagged may be traded like normal.
11. Drafted Players List
A. Starting with the 2020 MLB season, we will be adding 5 spots to the Minor League roster for MLB ONLY. They will only be for drafted players of the most recent year. You are allowed to trade these players but they must go onto another team's Drafted Players List. These players can be brought up to your Minor League roster. You would just make a post in the Promotions thread. They will still be 0 contracts. They would only cost 1 the following season if they were promoted to your Major League roster or if they surpassed rookie limits. If they are brought up to the Minor League roster at any time they can never be put back onto anyone's Drafted Players List. So if one of these players is traded to a team with no room on the Drafted Players List they can be brought up to the team's Minor League roster. From the time any of these players are drafted up to the next July 1st, they can be released for free at any time
B. Within 1 week of the completion of the MLB Amateur Draft each owner must contact a commissioner to declare which drafted players are going where. If you drafted 5 or less players then there is no issue. If you have more than 5, you have to decide where to assign each. Drafted players can be put on Drafted Players List, promoted to Minor League roster and still hold rookie eligibility, promoted to MLB roster and lose rookie eligibility the following season, traded, or released back to Free Agency for free.
C. After the 2020 MLB Amateur Draft, every July 1st we will have to a make a decision whether or not we are bringing up the players we have on our Drafted Players List up to our Minor League roster, or are releasing for free. A decision, one way or another, must be made by the next July 1st. The purpose of this rule is to make our MLB draft picks more valuable and try to limit the need to pass on a draft pick due to no Minor League room
12. Amateur Drafts
A. Each sport will have an amateur draft each year
B. The amateur drafts will always take place two weeks following the actual draft of their respective sports. Expect for baseball, which will take place roughly 1 week after the draft pick signing deadline
C. Players eligible to be drafted in The Four Horsemen will be any player that has been drafted in their sport's actual draft in that year. There are 2 exceptions to this rule: 1) You may draft real life Undrafted Free Agents in our NBA Draft provided they did in fact make their self draft eligible in the current draft and just were not selected. 2) In MLB, International players signed on or after July 2nd of that year up to the beginning of our draft are also eligible to be drafted in Rookie Drafts
D. Draft picks may be traded
E. All draft orders will be determined by final league standings from the previous season.
F. The 2020 MLB draft will take place at the end of the 2020 season in order to have a final standings. This will take place one week after the championship.
G. Inaugural Amateur Free Agencies:
i. To ensure rookies/prospects are divide up evenly, there will be an inaugural free agency for prospects in all. This free agency will begin at the same time as the Major League free agency.
ii. MLB will have a rookie cap of 75, NFL will be 15, NHL will be 30, and NBA will be 15. These caps do not affect the Major League cap and will not be used after the 2020 seasons.
iii. Same general rules apply to rookie free agency from Rule 7.
iiii. For basketball and hockey: a player's eligibility is based off the beginning of the NBA and NHL seasons due to the league starting for a short season. For example, Ja Morant would not be eligible at the start of the league's free agency if it used his current stats. Instead his stats would look to the beginning of the year so he would have 0 games in the NBA making him eligible for rookie bidding.
v. A team is not required to use all of their rookie cap or to fill their entire Minor League roster through this rookie free agency.
vi. During these free agencies, no prospect is allowed to be posted in the normal free agency until there have been no rookie posts in 48 hours. Once ths time has passed then the remaining designated cap for rookies will be disregarded and the remaining rookies will be thrown into the overall free agency. At this time they can be assigned rookie contracts and signing bonuses that hurt the overall sport cap.
13. Trades
A. To post a trade, find the thread marked Accepted Trades. Create a new thread with the title being the name of the teams involved. Then make a post of what is being traded and to who. All owners involved in the trade must post that they accept the trade
B. Any Major League player, Minor League player, Amateur Draft Pick, Free Release, or contract is eligible to be traded
C. Trades between sports in any way is prohibited
D. Trade review period is 24 hours. Every owner may and should vote on every accepted trade
E. A trade is officially processed when all owners involved in the trade post on the thread that the terms of the trade have been accepted. It takes 6 owners voting approve to approve the trade. It takes 5 owners voting decline to decline the trade. If 24 hours pass where the approve/veto requirements are not met then the trade will be processed
F. There will be a Trade Deadline in each sport. From that deadline until through the completion of the Championship, trading is not allowed. After the Championship, trading immediately opens back up.
G. You may go over the salary cap in the offseason after a trade but you must be under it at the deadline for the Re-Signs/Releases to be posted
H. You may go over the roster limit in the offseason, you just cannot be over after Re-Signs/Releases. You may go over the roster limit allowed in a trade during the season as long as it is posted that you will immediately make a corresponding roster move to correct the issue upon approval
14. DL/IR
A. The Disabled List and Injured Reserve will be used for all sports
B. To be eligible for the DL, a player must 1) be an MLB player who was put on the DL, 2) be an NFL player who is listed as Out and is IR eligible on Fantrax, 3) be an NBA player who is listed as Out and is IR eligible on Fantrax or 4) be an NHL player who is listed as Out and is IR eligible on Fantrax
C. To be eligible for the IR in the Four Horsemen, a player must be out for the season. An official announcement needs to be made by the team he plays for.
D. The minimum time a player must spend on the DL, if moved to the DL, is 10 days in the Four Horsemen, regardless of their health status in real life. Even if the payer is only out for 1 game in NFL, 5 days in NBA, or 7 days in MLB. If the player is dropped and then picked up or traded during his DL stint the mandatory 10 days still applies to whoever adds him. It starts from the original day they were placed on the DL
E. If the player remains on the DL or Out in real life then you may continue to keep the player on the DL past the minimum 10 days
F. Once the player is taken off the DL by their actual teams or no longer Out according to ESPN your next move must be activating that player, dropping that player, or trading them. You can keep the player there until your next trade, add, drop, promotion, demotion, etc. However, if the player is no longer on the DL or Out according to Fantrax but has been moved to the DL in the Four Horsemen you cannot make any roster moved until that player's 10 day minimum has passed
G. If a player is ruled out for the season and is moved to IR in the Four Horsemen then the team who owns that player will receive half of the player's contract back unless the player holds a 1 contract value, in which case the player will still be owed the 1 contract. If the player moved to IR makes more than 1 contract, their remaining contract will be rounded up if it results in a half contract.
H. If a player is confirmed to be out for a period longer than our league year then the player is considered out for the season
I. You must indicate your intention of moving a player to the IR by creating a thread in IR/DL and posting that the player has been ruled out for the year
J. You may add a player on DL or IR to your roster even if you don't have the roster space as long as it is in the post that you will immediately move the plate to the DL or IR upon winning a bid on the player. Same thing goes for a trade.
K. From the time Free Agency starts to the 1st game of the season, you may place a player on the DL only if they have some kind of updated documentation from the team the player plays for that the player will be Out or placed on the DL once the actual season begins. In this instance, the roster move would need to be cleared with the commissioners
L. For MLB and NHL you are allowed 1 DL slot for you Minor League roster. The same principles of the rule 14 A-K apply to this rule as well
M. No player is allowed to come off the season long IR once they have been declared as out for the season, regardless of real life circumstances.
15. Playoffs
A. Winner of each division and 3 Wild Card teams from any division advance to the playoffs (6 team playoffs)
B. Teams will then be seeded by best record.
C. Fantrax playoff rules apply.
16. Death of a Player
A. In the unfortunate case of the death of a player currently owned by any team. The player can be waived from their roster without penalty.
17. Retirement of a Player
A. If player retires before week 1 of the regular season, the player can be waived at no penalty.
B. If player retires after week 1 of the regular season, the player can
be waived per rule 8 of the constitution.
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We are the Voice of Lakewood.
The Chol Hamoed Trip Guide
Just six interminable months ago, the Voice of Lakewood was forced to scrap its biannual trip guide a week before Pesach. As the then-popular joke went, for Chol Hamoed every family was going on a super-exciting trip—to the back porch. With the entire world shuttered, packed amusement parks with lines as long as Route Nine, soft-play areas where you meet everyone in your age group who lives in Lakewood, and concerts where the animated audience stands shoulder to shoulder as they sway in song were all things of the past. Under these surreal circumstances, no one had any need for a trip guide.
B’chasdei Hashem, the shadow of fear that colored the world last Pesach has since faded—but it’s still there. Things are not quite back to normal yet, and you’ll see the strange new world we’ve grown accustomed to reflected in these pages. The trip guide this season is a lot slimmer than it’s been in years past, and you won’t find any concerts here since as super-spreader events, they’re still not allowed. Many of your favorite attractions may still be closed or only operating at a very limited capacity. Masks are required at most indoor venues, and many places will ask you to sign a liability waiver for COVD-19 before entering their premises.
Despite all of this, Chol Hamoed Sukkos 2020 will look a lot different from Chol Hamoed Pesach of last year, and that alone is reason to be grateful.
Please note: We’ve added new COVID-19 regulations to most attractions listed here to help you avoid unpleasant surprises. However, the situation is still fluid and things can change up until the day of your trip. As always, it’s best to call ahead to confirm details before setting out on your trip.
Wishing the entire Lakewood community and all of Klal Yisrael a happy and healthy Yom Tov.
For Chol Hamoed Sukkos 2020 Only
Dr. Roberts Chol Hamoed Drive-Thru Giveaway
Details: Dr. Roberts will be sponsoring a drive-thru prize/nosh giveaway for the entire community. No one will be allowed to leave their vehicle.
Hours: Wednesday, October 7, beginning at 11:30 a.m.
Address: Blue Claws Stadium, corner of New Hampshire Avenue and Cedar Bridge Avenue
Sukkos at Diggerland USA
Details: America’s only construction-themed attraction where children can drive, ride, and operate real heavy machinery, now with a new water park addition. All Diggerland attractions require a minimum height of 36 inches to ride, some with the assistance of a parent, and several attractions require a 42-inch height. Children under 36 inches may enjoy the KidZone or the Excavation Center Arcade, or view one of the daily machine stunt shows around the park. Free parking.
Hours: Special Chol Hamoed hours: Monday, October 5 and Tuesday, October 6, 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: Special price for Chol Hamoed Sukkos $32.95 per ticket. Use promo code VOICE20. Guests under 36 inches are free.
Address: 100 Pinedge Drive, West Berlin, NJ 08091
Website: www.diggerlandusa.com/Succos
COVID-19 update: Reservations and face coverings required
The Funplex Celebrates Sukkos
Details: An action-packed family-fun center with go-karts, bowling, outdoor rides, and an arcade room. Sukkah on premises.
Hours: Monday, October 5–Wednesday, October 7, 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.; Thursday, October 8, 10:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: $35/Platinum Band, includes indoor rides, bowling, arcades, and select rides in Mt. Laurel location only
Address: Two locations: 182 NJ-10, East Hanover, NJ 07936; 3320-24 NJ-38, Mt. Laurel Township, NJ 08054
Phone: East Hanover 973-428-1166; Mount Laurel 856-273-9666
Website: Funplex.com
COVID-19 update: Reservations required
Bikur Cholim’s Exclusive DreamWorks Water Park Event
Details: An exclusive men’s night out in the largest indoor water park in North America! Come check out DreamWorks, a brand-new water park located in the American Dream Mall. Full fleishig menu by Chickies available for purchase. Spacious sukkah on premises. Tickets must be purchased in advance.
Hours: Monday, October 5 and Wednesday, October 7, 7:00 p.m.–10:30p.m.
Admission/prices: $99/ticket
Address: 1 American Dream Way, East Rutherford, NJ, 07073
Website: adreamteamevent.com; for larger groups, email dreamworksch@gmail.com
COVID-19 update: The6,000-person-capacity park will be limited to just 750 guests each night. Lakewood Bikur Cholim will be overseeing all aspects of the event to ensure the safety of all participants.
Chol Hamoed at Cherry Crest Farms
Details: Spend a day enjoying more than 60 family farm activities and rides, explore the barn and petting zoo, and challenge yourself with one of the best corn mazes in America!
Hours: Special Chol Hamoed hours: Wednesday, October 7, 11:00a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: Varies by attraction
Address: 150 Cherry Hill Road, Ronks, PA, 17572
Website: Cherrycrestfarm.com
Sukkos at Fun Station USA
Details: Thrilling indoor amusement with more than 100 arcade games, exciting rides, laser tag, a three-story maze, and much more! Large sukkah on premises and weekly specials all through Chol Hamoed.
Hours: Special Chol Hamoed hours: Motza’ei Shabbos open until 2:00 a.m.; October 5–October 9, 10:00 a.m.–11:00 p.m. Rides close at 10:15 p.m.
Admission/prices: Special Chol Hamoed pricing: $15.95/one-hour pass, includes unlimited rides; $21.95/two-hour pass, includes unlimited rides and mazes plus 10 game tokens; $29.99/all-day pass, includes unlimited rides, laser tag, mazes, and 10 game tokens. Super special: buy one full-day pass, get one for half price. Free admission plus 10 free game tokens for children age 2 and under.
Address: 3555 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, NY, 10314
Website: Funstationsi.com
Chol Hamoed at Old Windmill Farm
Details: An authentic Amish farm in beautiful Lancaster County opening exclusively for Chol Hamoed!Enjoy a one-hour tour of the farm, visit the petting zoo, milk a cow, bottle-feed a calf, and so much more!
Hours: Special Chol Hamoed hours: October 5–8, 10:00 a.m.–5:00p.m. (Closed daily from 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. for lunch.)
Admission/prices: Special pricing for Chol Hamoed: $5/person for the hay ride; $13/person for the farm tour; $8/person for the garden tour. All three tours just $20/person. Age 5 and under are free.
Address: 262 Paradise Lane, Ronks, PA
Website: OldWindmillFarm.com
Blackbeard’s Cave
Details: Family entertainment center, includes batting cages, golf range, rides, and more
Hours: 2:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: Pay per attraction; $23 wristband special Monday–Friday 5:00 p.m.–8 p.m. and Sunday 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Address: 136 Route Nine, Bayville, NJ
Website: www.blackbeardscave.com
COVID-19 update: Masks required indoors, recommended outdoors. Limited number of wristbands will be sold each day.
Giamarese Farms and Orchards
Details: Enjoy a day out on the farm! Pick your own fruits and vegetables in the orchards and fields, visit the greenhouse, hop on a hay ride, and challenge yourself in the corn maze.
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: Admission to the farm is free. Some pick-your-own varieties require a minimum fee. Pay for apples by the bag.
Address: 155 Fresh Pond Road, East Brunswick, NJ
Website: giamaresefarm.com
Battleview Orchards
Details: Choose from a wide variety of apple trees and spend a day selecting your prize fruits.
Hours: Pick-your-own hours change frequently; it’s best to call or check online for each day’s hours.
Admission/prices: Admission to the farm is free. Pay per pound for apples. Cash only.
Address: 91 Wemrock Road, Freehold, NJ 07728
Website: battlevieworchards.com
COVID-19 update: Visitors are advised to check website frequently for COVID-19 updates.
Details: Choose from some of your favorite apple varieties including Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Empire, Granny Smith, and so much more.
Hours: 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: No admission fee for pick-your-own; pay for fruit only. $8 admission fee for visitors age 3 and up for farm. Admission includes corn maze, hay bale maze, wagon ride, pedal tractor, barnyard animal viewings, and more.
Address: 13 Van Kirk Road, Princeton, NJ 08540
Website: terhuneorchards.com/pick-your-own-3
COVID-19 update: It’s best to call ahead to determine availability and picking schedule.
Eastmont Orchards
Details: Delicious, fresh apples in beautiful orchards
Hours: Weekdays 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., weekends 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Must arrive at least 30 minutes before closing.
Admission/prices: No admission fee. Pay for apples by the pound. Cash only.
Address: 181 County Road 537 East, Colts Neck, NJ 07722
Website: eastmontorchards.com
COVID-19 update: Mask wearing and social distancing enforced. No picnics allowed at this time.
Aquariums/Zoos
Jenkinson’s Boardwalk and Aquariums
Details: Jenkinson’s Boardwalk in beautiful Point Pleasant Beach, NJ, features white sandy beaches, two separate arcade rooms, rides, and even an aquarium teeming with sharks, penguins, seals, monkeys, and many more interesting creatures.
Admission/prices: Free/pay by activity. Aquarium: adult $15, child (3–12) $9, senior (65 plus) $10.
Hours: Open every day. Aquarium: 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.; arcade rooms: Monday–Friday 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m., Sunday 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.
Address: 300 Ocean Avenue., Pt. Pleasant Beach, NJ
Website: www.jenkinsons.com
Popcorn Park Zoo
Details: A family-oriented zoo that was established to provide a refuge for wildlife that were sick, elderly, abandoned, abused, or injured and could no longer survive in their natural habitats, the zoo now also includes exotic and domestic animals. Feeding of animals in the zoo is not allowed due to the animals’ specialized diets; however, air-popped popcorn may be purchased to feed free-roaming birds and some of the farm animals.
Hours: 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.; ticket purchases stop at 4:15 p.m.
Admission/prices: Adults $7; seniors and children under 11, $4; children under 3 are free
Address: 1 Humane Way (off Lacey Road), Forked River, NJ 08731
COVID-19 update: Masks required inside ticket booth, recommended inside zoo
Arcades/Indoor Entertainment
American Dream Mall
Details: The sprawling indoor entertainment center and shopping mall spread over a massive three million-square-foot-complex is scheduled to reopen in October. Attractions include ice-skating rink, indoor skiing, blacklight mini golf, amusement park, and so much more!
Hours: Weekdays 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m., weekends 11:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: Varies by attraction. Admission to the mall is free. Parking is $3 for up to four hours and $8 for five hours.
Address: 1 American Dream Way, East Rutherford, NJ 07073
Website: americandream.com
COVID-19 update: Masks required at all times. Gloves required for Big Snow (indoor skiing). Attractions operating at a limited capacity. Advance reservations recommended.
iPlay America
Details: New Jersey’s largest indoor amusement park, including go-karts, laser tag, thrilling rides, indoor boardwalk, and more than 250 arcade games. Two kosher sukkahs on site; bring your own food.
Hours: Hours vary; call for details.
Admission/prices: Prices and packages vary based on attractions. Group rates available for groups of 25 plus.
Address: 110 Schank Road, Freehold, NJ 07728
Website: www.iplayamerica.com
Tip: Group rates available for parties of 25 or more. Must book in advance to receive discount.
COVID-19 update: All game tickets are now virtual; no more paper tickets are being distributed. Masks must be worn at all times.
Ctrl V
Details: An incredible virtual reality entertainment center both kids and adults will love, including a job simulator, plank experience, and more!
Hours: Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday 10:45 a.m.–7:00 p.m., Motza’ei Shabbos open until 8:30 a.m.
Admission/prices: Weekdays $24.99 per station; weekends $25.99 per station
Address: 4012 Route Nine South, unit #2B, Howell, NJ, 07731
Website: www.ctrlvarcade.com
Tip: Thursday is family day at Ctrl V: buy one admission, get one free.
COVID-19 update: No walk-ins; online reservations required. Face coverings required at all times. No food or drink allowed.
Swingtime
Details: A family-fun center with two outdoor 18-hole mini-golf courses with waterfalls and a river, indoor arcades, and two batting cages with five different speeds.
Hours: Sunday 10:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m., weekdays 1:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: Adults $8.50, children and seniors $7.50/18-hole mini golf game
Address: 2390 US Nine South, Howell, NJ
Website: swingtimefamilyfun.com
Knockerball & More
Details: Incredible 18,000-square-foot entertainment center like you’ve never seen, offering hilarious games like knockerball/bubble soccer, human foosball, a giant interactive floor tablet, Hungry Hungry Humans, and so much more!
Hours: Sunday 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m., Monday–Friday 3:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m. Earlier sessions can be scheduled with groups of eight or more.
Admission/prices: Knockerball $8 plus tax/10 minutes; Game Pit $12 plus tax/30 minutes. Prices vary with packages.
Address: 180 Highway 35, Eatontown, NJ 07724. Located inside the Monmouth Mall, on the lower level across from the food court.
Website: www.knockerballnj.com
COVID-19 update: Only offering preset packages with lowest-contact activities. Only accepting advance reservations of 10 people or more. No walk-ins will be accommodated. Reserve at KnockerballNJ@gmail.com.
Fireball Mountain
Details: Love laser tag? This is the place for you! Fireball Mountain features 15 acres of pure laser tag fun.
Hours: Sunday 9:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m., weekdays by appointment only.
Admission/prices: $300 for 10 players.
Address: 295 Meany Road, Wrightstown, NJ 08562
Website: www.fireballmountain.com
COVID-19 update: Face masks required in all indoor and common areas. Waivers must be signed before playing.
Top Gun Paintball
Details: A paintball experience for age 8 and up
Hours: Wednesday–Friday 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., Sunday 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Weekday play requires reservations.
Address: 567 Monmouth Road, Cream Ridge, NJ
COVID-19 update: Face masks required in all indoor areas
Art/Crafts
Make It Glass
Details: A hands-on glass studio specializing in glass fusion right here in Lakewood. Open to the public to design your own creations, or join a class or club. Various designs are geared for ages 5–120.
Hours: Special Chol Hamoed hours: Monday, October 5–Thursday, October 8, 11:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: No sitting fee or entrance fee; prices vary per item. Starting price is $10.50.
Address: 40 Chestnut Street, Lakewood, NJ
Website: www.makeitglassbyus.com
COVID-19 update: Call before coming.
The Paintbrush
Details: A ceramics and art studio offering ceramic, plaster, and canvas painting right here in Lakewood. Items available for kids, tweens, teens, adults, and families.
Hours: Special Chol Hamoed hours: Monday, October 5–Thursday, October 8, 11:00 a.m.–10:0 p.m.; Friday, October 9 (Hoshana Rabbah) 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.; Monday, October 12 (Isru Chag) 12:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: Pay per project; prices starting at $10
Address: 1700 Madison Avenue (Gourmet Glatt Plaza)
Email: thepaintbrushnj@gmail.com
COVID-19 update: If any family member is displaying signs of COVID-19 or has been in contact with anyone who has a positive diagnosis, we ask that you not enter the studio and instead place an order online.
Details: Your budding artist can choose a ceramic item and paint it; the studio fires it. Pickup is at a later date. Color Me Mine is certified nontoxic and all glazes are lead-free. Paint washes off with water.
Hours: Sunday 12:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m., Tuesday 11:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m., Wednesday 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., Thursday 11:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. (from 6:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. only adults 17 and up are welcome), Friday 11:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. Open Motza’ei Shabbos until 9:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: Children under 12, $8; adults $9 plus the cost of ceramic piece. Every Tuesday is half price on project fee.
Address: 1877 Hooper Avenue, Toms River, NJ 08753
Additional location: Freehold Raceway Mall, 3710 Route Nine, Freehold, NJ 07728. Open Monday–Friday 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. and Sunday 12:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.; 732-780-7811
Website: www.freehold.colormemine.com
COVID-19 update: Masks and social distancing strictly enforced. Limited occupancy; reservations recommended.
Paint a Tee
Details: Design your own T-shirt (long-sleeve available), apron, mouse pad, notebook, onesie, pillowcase, puzzle, sweatshirt (hooded and crew), tote bag, and more—and take it home that same day!
Admission/prices: Pay per item.
Address: 18 Monmouth Street, Red Bank, NJ 07701
Website: paintatee.com
COVID-19 update: No in-studio appointments available. Order a project to do at home.
Details: Walk-in glassblowing activities for the whole family. Glassblowing (9 plus years), SunTile (4 plus years), QuickCast (any age). No appointments or reservations necessary; just show up during glassblowing hours.
Hours: Glassblowing: Friday and Sunday 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.;gallery hours: Tuesday–Thursday 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m., weekends 10:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: Pay per object/dish.
Address: 550 Cookman Avenue #103, Asbury Park, NJ 07712
Website: www.HotSandAP.com
COVID-19 update: Limited occupancy. Masks required. Temperature checks for all guests participating in glassblowing activities and Design Your Own experiences.
Howell Lanes
Details: Now offering cosmic bowling and billiards, the perfect location for corporate events, birthday parties, and just an excuse for fun.
Hours: Sunday–Thursday9:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m., Friday 9:00 a.m.–1:00 a.m., Motza’ei Shabbos open until 2:00 a.m.
Admission/prices: Monday–Friday 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. $3.75 per person per game, 6:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m. $5.75 per person per game; Motza’ei Shabbos $5.95 per person per game; Sunday $5.75 per person per game. Shoe rental $4.50
Address: 1002 Route Nine, Howell, NJ
Website: www.howelllanes.com/
COVID-19 update: Face coverings required for all guests at all times. Adherence to social distancing is strictly enforced, and lanes are available on a first-come-first-served basis.
Finnigan’s Lanes
Details: Great bowling fun for the entire family!
Hours: Sunday 1:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m., Monday–Wednesday 4:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m., Thursday 5:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m., Friday 4:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Motza’ei Shabbos 8:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m.
Admission/prices: Pay per hour. Price varies by group size; includes shoe rental. $70/6 players, $80/7 players, $90/8 players.
Address: 101 Locust Street, Lakewood, NJ
Website: www.finnigansfun.com
COVID-19 update: Face coverings required by all guests. Limited occupancy.
Ocean Lanes
Details: Bowling fun for the entire family!
Hours: Open daily 8:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m., weekends 8:00 a.m.–1:00 a.m. Call for open lanes availability.
Admission/prices: $3.75 per game on weekdays and before 5:00 p.m. $4.75 per game on weekends and after 5:00 p.m. Shoes are $3 a pair.
Address: 2085 Lanes Mill Road, Lakewood, NJ
Website: www.oceanlanes.com
Soft Play/Climbing/Trampoline Parks
Iscream Kids
Details: Indoor fun center with imagination village, toddler area, large jungle gym, riding toy and roller-skate room, and arcades.
Hours: Special Chol Hamoed hours: 10:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: Ages 1–2, $8.99; ages 3–12, $15.99. Under age 1 and age 13 and over are free.
Address: 1328 River Avenue #19A, Lakewood, NJ (Seagull Square)
COVID-19 update: Occupancy limited to 75 guests
Climbzone
Details: If your kids are climbing the walls, bring them to Climbzone! This nationally acclaimed climbing arena, with a branch right here in Howell, has something fun for kids of all ages. Attractions include 68 different climbing walls, a two-level ropes course, a zip line, soft play, and more.
Hours: Special Chol Hamoed hours: Monday, October 5–Thursday, October 8, 11:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.; Friday, October 9, 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: $23.99/90 minutes for access to all 68 climbing walls; $31.99/90 minutes climbing and ropes course combo with access to all 68 climbing walls and the new Skytrail attraction.
Address: 5369 US Nine North, Howell, NJ 07731
Website: www.climbzonehowell.com
COVID-19 update: Occupancy limited to 25 percent capacity; online reservations recommended. Soft play area is currently closed. Masks required by all guests at all times. Three-hour package is currently not available.
Details: Sky Zone is the world’s first indoor trampoline park with a branch located right here in Lakewood. They pride themselves on being the inventors of “fun fitness” and the makers of trampolines as far as the eye can see.
Hours: General hours:Sunday 12:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m., Monday–Friday 3:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. Special Chol Hamoed hours for Monday, October 5: 12:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: 60 minutes $25, 90 minutes $28, 120 minutes $29
Promos: $10 Tuesday! Come jump for 60 minutes for only $10. Wow Wednesday: $15/90 minutes! First responder discount: 10 percent off for all first responders.
Address: 1001 New Hampshire Avenue, Lakewood, NJ
Phone: 609-398-4SKY
Website: www.skyzone.com/lakewood
COVID-19 update: Face coverings required by all guests at all times. $5 capacity fee for all non-jumpers. Occupancy limited to 65 jumpers and 35 non-jumpers. Online reservations recommended.
Details: Fantastic indoor trampoline park with a foam pit, basketball play, and more!
Hours: 10:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Call first for availability.
Admission/prices: $16/hour, $30/two hours; under 46 inches $10/hour, $18/two hours, plus $3 jump socks for all jumpers.
Address: 200 Daniels Way, Suite 120, Freehold, NJ, 07728
Website: getairfreehold.com
COVID-19 update: Capacity is limited; reservations recommended
Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park
Details: An action-packed trampoline and adventure park with an indoor playground, climbing walls, spin zone, virtual reality, battle beam, and more!
Hours: Special Chol Hamoed hours: Monday, October 5–Thursday, October 8, 10:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: Packages start at $34.99 for all attractions or just $19.99 for trampoline use only. Age 5 and under pay $13.99. Virtual reality is only $5.99. Socks must be purchased at location for $3 a pair.
Address: 1256 Indian Head Road, Toms River, NJ
Website: urbanairtomsriver.com
COVID-19 update: Reservations recommended
Rockin’ Jump Trampoline Park
Details: An awesome trampoline park with a foam pit, a rock-climbing wall, and huge open jump arenas.
Hours: Monday–Friday 11:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m., Sunday 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: Weekdays 60 minutes/$17.99 for age 7 and up, $13.49 age 6 and under; 90 minutes/$24.99 for age 7 and up, $18.99 age 6 and under; 120 minutes/$29.99 for age 7 and up, $22.49 for age 6 and under. Weekends 60 minutes/$17.99 for age 7 and up, $13.49 age 6 and under; 90 minutes/$25.99 for age 7 and up, $19.99 age 6 and under; 120 minutes/$33.99 for age 7 and up, $25.49 for age 6 and under.
Address: 77 Willowbrook Boulevard, Wayne, NJ 07470
Website: www.rockinjump.com
The Gravity Vault
Details: This attraction is perfect for active kids who love a challenge. The Gravity Vault features 25,000 square feet of climbing over two levels, including a 10-meter Speed Wall, three Dedicated Boulders, and 40 inches plus of Top Rope and Lead Walls.
Hours: 9:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m. Reservations required.
Admission/prices: Two climbs for $20. Day passes available.
Address: 1423 Clinton Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030
Website: gravityvault.com
COVID-19 update: Masks required at all times. Only two-hour reservation slots available at this time.
Escape the Puzzle Room
Details: Six exciting escape rooms to choose from. 60 minutes to solve the puzzle, clues, and locks. Can accommodate two to 40 players.
Admission/prices: Pricing varies with number of players. 10 percent off full-room bookings with mention of Voice ad.
Address: 473 Broadway, Long Branch, NJ
Website: Escapethepuzzle.com
Amazing Escape Room
Details: One room. One mission. One hour. Can you escape?
Admission/prices: Pricing varies with number of players.
Address: 2 Monmouth Avenue, Freehold, NJ
Website: Amazingescaperoom.com
COVID-19 update: Reservations required. Temperature will be checked upon arrival. Masks required in lobby.
Ice-Skating/Roller-Skating
Jackson Skating Center Roller Magic
Details: Skate and rollerblade rentals and arcades.
Hours: Sunday: Afternoon Skate 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.; Wednesday: Family Skate 6:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m. Additional hours available for private rentals and advanced skating. Call for details.
Admissions/prices: $4/Family Skate, $8/Afternoon Skate. Additional $4 per skates/rollerblade rental.
Address: 2270 West County Line Road, Jackson, NJ
Website: sk8rollermagic.com
COVID-19 update: Limited occupancy, face masks required, and temperature check upon arrival. Anyone entering the building must sign a waiver.
Ocean Ice Palace Skating Rink
Hours: Sunday 2:20 p.m.–3:50 p.m.
Admission/prices: $7 per person plus $3 skate rental
Address: 197 Chambers Bridge Road, Brick, NJ 08723
Website: www.oceanhockey.com
COVID-19 update: Reservations required. Guests who have visited a hot spot state in the last 14 days will not be permitted to enter the building. Face coverings required in building but not required on the ice. Only 35 skaters will be permitted onto the ice at a time.
Jersey Shore Arena
Details: Three ice-skating arenas plus laser tag and arcades.
Hours: Public skating scheduled to reopen in October. Call or visit website for latest updates.
Admission/prices: $9 general admission, $5 children age 5 and under, $4 skate rental
Address: 1215 Wyckoff Road, Wall Township, NJ 07727
Website: jerseyshorearena.com
COVID-19 update: Liability waiver must be signed by all guests.
InfoAge Science Center
Details: This history/tech museum is located at a 100-year-old national historic landmark. Exhibits on radio, computers, electronics, and warfare technology housed at a former military base.
Hours: Sunday and Wednesday 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: $10 age 13 and up, $5 age 12 and younger
Address: 2201 Marconi Road, Wall Township, NJ 07719
Website: infoage.org
Details: Ripley’s unique odditorium, full of rare artifacts from around the world. Also featuring The Vault, a challenging laser maze. Special Chol Hamoed opening with no human remains.
Hours: Sunday–Tuesday11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m., Wednesday 12:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m., Thursday–Friday 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: $12.99/ages 5–12, $18.99/age 12 plus. Children age 4 and under are free.
Address: 1441 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ
Website: Ripleys.com/atlanticcity
COVID-19 update: Operating at reduced capacity. Masks required at all times.
Parks/Outdoor Recreation
Manasquan Reservoir
Details: Enjoy 1,204 acres of the serene and beautiful land and water of the Manasquan Reservoir. Boat rentals available.
Address: 311 Windeler Road, Howell, NJ 07731
Phone: 732-919-0996 for boat rentals
Treck Mountain Bike
Details: Guided bike rides and tours for every level; must have own bike. Suitable for all ages.
Hours: By appointment only. Groups limited to six people.
Admission/prices: Prices start at $60 per hour per group.
Address: Local trails, all within 15 minutes of Lakewood
Route 37 Watersports
Details: Spend a thrilling day riding the waves on a rented pontoon or wave-runner.
Hours: Daily 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Admission/prices: Prices start at $75 for a 30-minute wave-runner rental.
Address: 3430 NJ-37, Toms River, NJ 08753
Website: rt37watersports.com
Lake Shenandoah
Details: A beautiful park featuring bike trails, boat rental, a conservation area, fishing, handicap accessibility, a picnic area, restrooms, a small boat launch (electric motors only), basketball, soccer, and softball
Hours: Daily7:00 a.m.–dusk
Address: Route 88, Lakewood, NJ
Turkey Swamp Park
Details: A large park with boat rentals and plenty of walking trails
Hours: Weekends 9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Admission/prices: Free admission. Boat rentals begin at $14.49 per hour per boat.
Address: 200 Georgia Road, Freehold, NJ 07728
COVID-19 update: Limited boat rentals available; it’s best to reserve in advance.
Holmdel Park
Details: Holmdel Park is a fun day trip for the entire family.
Hours: Sunday–Friday 7:00 a.m.–8:30 p.m.
Admission/prices: Admission to the park, playground, and hiking trails is free.
Address: 44 Longstreet Road, Holmdel, NJ 07733
Website: monmouthcountyparks.com
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DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 2 “Invasion!” Recap
Posted on December 1, 2016 by Vanessa Ho in DC's Legends of Tomorrow, TV Recaps // 0 Comments
DC's Legends of Tomorrow --"Invasion!"-- Image LGN207c_0418.jpg -- Pictured (L-R): Nick Zano as Nate Heywood/Steel, Maisie Richardson- Sellers as Amaya Jiwe/Vixen, Melissa Benoist as Kara/Supergirl, Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen, Dominic Purcell as Mick Rory/Heat Wave, Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak, Brandon Routh as Ray Palmer/Atom, David Ramsey as John Diggle and Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon -- Photo: Diyah Pera/The CW -- é 2016 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
It is the final night of the epic DC cross-over with the Legends finishing off the Dominators with a little help from Team Flash, Team Arrow and Supergirl. And can we see Felicity and Cisco on board the Waverider more often. Those two were so funny as the two were positively giddy at the prospect of increasing their geek cred by time traveling.
In order to defeat the Dominators, the team splits up. Nate, Amaya and Rory go back to 1951 Redmond, Oregon. 1951 is the first time the Dominators made their appearance. Their mission is to kidnap one of the Dominators to determine what is their end game. As mentioned, Felicity and Cisco tag along so they can time travel.
When the Waverider, piloted by Mick, arrives in 1951, Felicity experiences the side effects of time travel and it is hilarious. Nate, Amaya, and Mick bench Cisco and Felicity while they go and get a Dominator. Nate is wearing his new Citizen Steel costume and Mick has some hilarious quips about celebrating the Fourth of July. When Mick, Amaya and Nate knock out one of the Dominators, they in turn get kidnapped by the younger version of Agent Smith, the agent that appeared with the president and butted heads with Lyla on The Flash.
In captivity, Nate uses it as an opportunity to question the Dominator. We learn that the Dominator has arrived on Earth because of the presence of meta-humans. The Dominators wanted to see how much of a threat meta-humans pose to them. Amaya realizes the JSA is the reason why the Dominators have come to Earth.
Back on the Waverider, Felicity is trying to get Cisco to forgive Barry. Cisco cannot forgive someone for changing the timeline that effectively killed his family. The two find out that Amaya, Mick and Nate have been kidnapped and Cisco decides it is up to them to rescue the three. And it is tech support to rescue! As the group is about to leave, they hear the Dominator being tortured. Cisco decides they should rescue him and let him go back to his people via the ship on the Waverider. When the Dominator flies away, we see that Cisco has taken a Dominator communicator that allows them to talk to their new friend.
When the team returns to Central CIty 2016, the communicator goes on and we see the Dominator. He tells the group that they are about to release a weapon to kill all meta-humans but he will spare Cisco, Felicity, Nate, Amaya and Mick for saving him.
Meanwhile, Martin is off at STAR Labs working on a weapon to take down the Dominators. Caitlin calls in reinforcements in the form of Martin’s daughter, Lily, a brilliant scientist like her father. Caitlin notes Martin is being distant to Lily. Martin explains that he created a time aberration by telling his younger self to cherish Clarissa, which resulted in Lily. Martin tells Caitlin that when the Dominators are defeated, he will fix his mistake. Caitlin realizes that Martin wants to erase his daughter from existence. Lily has noticed her father’s distance and in a moment of frustration in her work takes a break. Martin goes to talk to Lily and apologizes for his distance. During their conversation, Lily has a breakthrough and realizes what must be done to get the weapon to work. Martin looks on with pride at his daughter.
Elsewhere, Oliver, Ray, Diggle, Sara and Barry are to meet the new president; Kara is benched from meeting her. The reason why Oliver has benched Kara is that she is his breaking point in his sense of normalcy. Kara is hurt at being excluded.
Team Arrow Legends Flash note that the president is late but when a whole bunch of black SUVs arrive, Agent Smith arrives to say they aren’t going to be meeting her. Smith knows all about the Dominators and how he broker a truce with them in 1951 but when Barry created Flashpoint, it broke the truce. Yes, Smith knows Barry’s identity. Smith says that the Dominators will go away if Barry turn himself in to them.
Meanwhile, Cisco vibes with Nate to the Dominator ship where they meet their old Dominator friend who tells of their plan to release a weapon that will kill all meta humans. Cisco realizes by saving the Dominator back in 1951, he screwed up the timeline.
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Barry agrees to turn himself in and is about to do so when Oliver tells he won’t let him do it. Barry says that he can’t stop him but the rest of Team Arrow Legends Flash and Supergirl says they will. When Cisco tells him not to turn himself in because he is a friend, this convinces Barry to fight.
Diggle and Jax alert the team that a Dominator ship has arrived in Central City. Felicity also sees that Dominator ships are popping all over the world. Martin arrives with the weapon and says that it needs to be planted on every Dominator at the same time or else they will realize what is happening.
Soon the Dominators are descending Central City. Team Arrow Legends and Supergirl go and hold off the Dominators while the Flash uses his speed to plant the weapon on each of the Dominators they are facing. When one of the Dominators throw the Green Arrow off a roof, Supergirl flies in to save him. The Flash manages to get the weapon on all of the Dominators in Central City but the aliens have descended across the United States. The Flash and Supergirl uses their super speed to get the weapons on all of the Dominators. Felicity turns on the weapons and the Dominators flee back home and the rest of the Dominators around the world follow suit.
Meanwhile, the Dominators have decided to drop their meta human bomb on Central City. Sara and Cisco are in the Waverider and catch it with a tractor beam but can’t hold it up. Firestorm arrives to transmute it into nothing. At first Jax cannot but Martin tells him he has to for his daughter. Jax is successful and water cascades down.
When all is over, the president is giving a speech about the events and calling. Team Arrow Legends Flash and Supergirl heroes.
When alone, Jax questions Martin about his daughter. Martin explains what happened when he talked to his younger self. Jax realizes he created a time aberration but Martin doesn’t want him to tell the rest of the team as he doesn’t want to lose his daughter.
Celebratory champagne is popped and toasts made. Felicity notes how Kara resembles her when she is in her secret identity while Ray notes how Kara looks like her cousin. This is an obvious nod to Brandon Routh’s past as Superman.
Oliver owes Kara an apology and says his Earth could use a Supergirl while she says her Earth could use an Oliver Queen.
Before she goes back to Earth-38, Cisco gives Kara a gift of a mini portal creator/communicator. This will allow Kara to come and go from her Earth to theirs and also allow her to call Earth-1 should the need arrive. Hence we know how the musical cross-over will work. Mick asks Kara, or Skirt as he likes to call her, to give him a call.
When Agent Smith tries and threaten the team, Kara swoops in and says the president liked her idea of having a DEO and how he has been re-assigned to Antarctica.
Everyone bids Kara adieu as she goes back to her Earth. Sara then goes back to the Waverider to continue on her time traveling adventures.
The episode ends with Barry and Oliver at a bar having drinks but realizing that they saw a life where they were happy and normal but their lives weren’t full.
As for as all of the cross-overs the Arrowverse has done, this was probably the best because it truly spanned the three shows. I felt that Supergirl was better used here than on The Flash but she was better used there versus Arrow.
It is commendable that Grant Gustin, Stephen Amell and Melissa Benoist are all leads in their own show yet had the time to be active participants in these cross-over.
Can’t wait to see how Greg Berlanti tops this next year (that is if all shows come back).
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Glenn Fleishman 7 November 2005
Sprint Nextel Data Service Could Help Traveling Mac Users
Sprint Nextel announced its third-generation (3G) cellular data network last week, with dozens of cities already live and more coverage planned by the end of the year. Verizon Wireless has offered a similar network for more than a year with no official Mac support; Sprint Nextel appears likely to take a different path. This is good news for Mac users who need wireless Internet access, but who don’t want to hunt for a Wi-Fi hotspot such as a coffeeshop or hotel lobby.
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The Sprint and Verizon networks use EVDO (Evolution Data Only), a standard developed by Qualcomm that offers real-world speeds of several hundred kilobits per second throughout a coverage area, which can span entire metropolitan regions. The two companies have also installed service in most major airports and along certain commuter routes.
Both companies offer a stand-alone subscription to the service that tops out with an $80 per month rate for unlimited use via a PC Card. This drops to $60 per month if you’re a voice customer and agree to a two-year commitment (with early cancellation penalties if you decide to drop the data service).
Verizon’s PC Card options don’t include official Mac OS X support. Good news, though: a site called EVDOinfo provides details on its own workarounds and on Apple’s somewhat hidden support. Sprint Nextel has chosen a Novatel card that lacks Mac drivers, but, again, EVDOinfo says they have the scoop. (They also sell the cards and service plans.)
<http://www.evdoinfo.com/>
Here’s the better news, however – the PC Card isn’t necessary. Verizon and Sprint both offer phones that handle EVDO and more widely available slower networks for voice and data. These phones typically support both USB and Bluetooth for connecting to a computer and synchronizing data.
Verizon doesn’t offer a tethered subscription for EVDO where you use the phone as your EVDO modem. This would seem an obvious way to bypass the PC Card limitation. Sprint, however, will add unlimited data for $25 per month on top of even the most limited voice subscription with an EVDO phone. That’s the cheapest and most natural way for a Mac user to go.
It also means you could use the service with any Mac that supports Bluetooth, not just PowerBooks with a PC Card. And you can use the phone with a variety of computers more easily than a PC Card that requires drivers or special configuration.
Cingular is also entering the fray with its own high-speed service running a flavor of W-CDMA known as HSDPA (High-Speed Download Packet Access) that will meet or exceed EVDO speeds. Pricing and platform support isn’t yet clear; the service will roll out this month nationally in about 15 to 20 cities.
A 3G cellular data connection isn’t necessarily a substitute for Wi-Fi service, by the way, but it’s increasingly available and a good option because you can roam nationally – including airport access – with a single fixed plan from one carrier.
Wi-Fi’s advantage is little or no configuration for hotspot usage, built-in hardware on most computers, pay-as-you-go options that are quite reasonable, and potential higher bandwidth across a local network and to the Internet. (Some hotspots might have just a 512 Kbps DSL line, but most for-fee hotspots have 1.5 Mbps downstream; large locations offer multiples of that.)
For business travelers, Wi-Fi’s natural advantages are outweighed by the array of fees and many operators involved in North American airport Wi-Fi. No one company aggregates all of the major airports with Wi-Fi, and not all big airports in the United States have Wi-Fi – but they all have EVDO. Travelers might trade a few hundred Kbps in bandwidth for Sprint Nextel’s broad coverage and only slightly higher monthly cost.
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The Big Sticks: Hawks’ favourite son Jarryd Roughead becomes a Saint
Sport Motorsport The Big Sticks: Hawks’ favourite son Jarryd Roughead becomes a Saint
10:10pm, Sep 1, 2019 Updated: 7:34pm, Sep 1
Jarryd Roughead marks in the VFL match against Footscray a game where he tutored his younger opponent. Photo: Getty
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The images of Jarryd Roughead mentoring his Bulldogs opponent when playing in a VFL match earlier this season clearly did not go unnoticed at St Kilda, with the club moving quickly to sign the retired Hawk to a full-time development role.
The Saints said in a statement on Saturday that the four-time flag winner would work on list management, leadership and mentoring programs and have a match-day role assisting the club’s emerging key-position players.
Football general manager Simon Lethlean said Roughead’s character and experience would help boost the Saints as the club transitioned to a new leadership team, after the recent departure of Alan Richardson.
“His football resume speaks for itself and it will be incredibly valuable to tap into his knowledge and experience as we continue to strengthen our football program,” Lethlean said.
Given the demand for his services, we are obviously thrilled that Roughy has chosen the Saints as the club where he wants to take the first step in the next phase of his football career.”
Roughead was also happy to snare his first life after playing job.
“I’m looking forward to working across the football program and with a really talented young group of players, and contributing where I can to their development,” Roughead said.
“St Kilda presented an appealing role and have a very clear direction in where they want to take the club over the next few years.”
On the road again: Tigers’ first non-MCG game in seven matches
Richmond has not played at the Gabba since early in the 2017 season, but Tigers defender Nick Vlastuin says the club are up for the fight against the Brisbane Lions this week.
Richmond has had seven consecutive games at the MCG and if it can win away on Saturday it will be back to home base for the rest of the finals series.
“It’s probably good to just get out of Melbourne and it’s always fun travelling with the boys,” Vlastuin said.
“You’re forced to spend more time together, which is always fun.
On the road again: Nick Vlastuin at Richmond training this week. Photo: Getty
“So yeah, we’re really looking forward to it.”
Before their Round 23 clash, which Richmond won by 27 points, the Tigers hadn’t faced Brisbane since Round 4, 2018.
“We both got our first look at each other first hand to see how it stacks up against our system,” Vlastuin said.
“So we looked at some of the things they did really well and we’ll try and combat that. And they’ll look at what we did really well and they’ll try and combat that.”
Vlastuin said Richmond would be focusing heavily on their contested ball after being “touched up” in that area in Round 23, with Brisbane winning contested possessions 145-131, clearances 48-32 and tackles 72-47.
“We’re never going to know until we run out, but they kind of touched us up in contested possessions,” he said.
“That goes a long way to winning most games, so we’re going to have a big focus on that over the next week or two at training.”
Big finals series for smallest Giant
The AFLs second-smallest player is hoping for a big debut finals performance for Greater Western Sydney against the Western Bulldogs on Saturday.
Brent Daniels, at 170cm, capped off a breakthrough year with a Rising Star nomination in Round 23.
“I’ve been told I’m too small,” Daniels said this week.
“But it hasn’t really fazed me too much because I know (my footy’s) good enough and that height shouldn’t matter.”
In and under: Brent Daniels has helped the Giants around goal. Photo: Getty
“The ball is on the ground a lot more than in the air, so I find it an advantage.”
Daniels, who played his junior football at Nyah Nyah West United near Swan Hill before boarding at Geelong Grammar, made his AFL debut in Round 16 last season.
He managed seven games but fell out of the senior side for last year’s finals run before bouncing back to be one of only four Giants to play every match this season.
“It’s pretty special. A lot of guys have to wait a long time to play finals,” Daniels said. “I’m pinching myself a little bit.”
What Daniels lacks in height, he makes up for with speed and pressure acts. He only booted nine majors this season but amassed 22 goal assists, the equal-third most in the competition.
“The mix of the smalls and talls, I think we work together pretty well together.”
Bright spot for the Suns
Gold Coast co-captain Jarrod Witts has been named the Suns’ club champion for 2019 – a wooden spoon year for the struggling club.
Witts dominated the votes, polling 553 to finish well ahead of fellow captain David Swallow (417) and Darcy Macpherson (368).
It’s the 26-year-old’s first Suns’ club champion win, having come equal eighth in last year’s poll after three seasons with the cub.
-with AAP
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An Analysis of an Article by Michael Dobbs in the New York Times Essay
September 16, 2019 April 26, 2020 adminEvents
“This essay was written by Michael Dobbs, the author of a cold war trilogy that includes “One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War” and “Six Months in 1945: F.
D. R. , Stalin, Khrushchev, and Truman — From World War to Cold War. ” President John F. Kennedy was informed about the deployment of Soviet medium- range missiles on Cuba shortly after 8 a. m. on the morning of Tuesday, Oct.
16, 1962.His first reaction on hearing the news from National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy was to accuse the Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev of a double-cross. He can’t do this to me,” he sputtered. Thus began the celebrated “13 days” that brought the world closer than ever before — or since — to a nuclear war, a period now remembered in the West as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The crisis peaked on Oct. 27, “Black Saturday,” when a series of star- tling events, including the shooting down of an American U-2 spy plane over Cuba, suggested that neither Khrushchev nor Kennedy fully controlled their own military machines.
The presidential aide and historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. described the October 1962 confrontation as the “most dangerous moment in human history. Khrushchev’s motivations in sending nuclear-tipped missiles to Cuba in the summer of 1962 have been the subject of great debate.
Kennedy administration officials ar- gued afterward that the Soviet leader acted for global strategic reasons. Prior to the missile crisis, the United States had around 3,500 nuclear warheads capable of reach- ing the Soviet Union, a 10-1 advantage over the Soviet Union. By building missile bases in Cuba capable of lobbing 60 nuclear warheads into the United States, ?http://topics. nytimes. com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/cuban_missile_crisis/index. tml Page 1 of 2 Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) – The New York Times 17/3/13 1:11 PM Khrushchev would be able to redress this military imbalance somewhat, although it would have left him far short of achieving first strike capability. In memoirs written after his ouster as Soviet leader in 1964, Khrushchev claimed that he was primarily motivated by the desire to defend the Cuban revolution, and his ally Fidel Castro, from aggression by the United States.
The Kennedy administration had supported an abortive invasion of Cuba by right-wing exiles at the Bay of Pigs in April
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Julia Child’s Coq au Vin: 1961
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I’ve been meaning to do a recipe by Julia Child – an absolute stalwart of 20th century American cooking – for a while, but other things kept cropping up. Truthfully, I also felt a little daunted by her recipes, which seemed to go on for pages.
Child co-authored Mastering the Art of French Cooking with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, but it was initially rejected because, at over 720 pages long, the publisher thought it read too much like an encyclopaedia than a recipe book. This was especially problematic given its target audience: inexperienced household cooks trying French cooking for the first time.
French cooks Beck and Betholle had collaborated with Le Cordon Blue trained Child because they wanted to create a French recipe book that would appeal to American audiences. It was hoped that Child would be able to offer appropriate translations and alternatives to ingredients that were hard to come by in America. To ensure the recipes could be replicated by anyone, no matter how inexperienced, the three authors placed a great deal of emphasis on precise measurements and detailed instructions. This approach helped make the book a success in the end (that’s putting it mildly: it sold over 100,000 copies within 5 years and spawned multiple editions), but at the cost of brevity and ‘lightness of touch’, which are now highly valued by lazy busy cooks like me. Hence my apprehension.
The Julia Child approach
In the end I shouldn’t have worried. The recipes may be long but, like the woman herself, they are also straightforward. In preparation for cooking Child’s Coq au Vin, I did a little bit of research and watched a clip of her making crepes to get over my irrational fear that everything she made was fiddly. She moved fast, but her approach to cooking was essentially the same as I’d grown up with: bung stuff in a pot in the right order, whisk it up a bit, and cook simply. There were no fancy gadgets used, no careful dressing of the plate with alarming smears of sauce or foam, no discussion of “dressing the plate” at all, actually. As the woman herself said about nouvelle cuisine: “It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate – you know someone’s fingers have been all over it.”
In interviews she came across as friendly and warm, and when I read she had coined the phrase “a party without a cake is just a meeting” and advised those who were wary of using lots of butter in cooking to “just use cream” instead, I knew I could follow her recipes with wholehearted confidence.
Julia Child’s kitchen on display at the National Museum of American History. One day they’ll make my kitchen a museum feature too, I’m sure. Credit here.
…Is a dish that was made for autumn. It’s rich, it’s comforting, it’s hearty. It’s something my dad tries to make every year once the weather turns, but he calls it chicken stew and his usually includes half a tin of beans, or an opened jar of olives in an effort to “use them up”. Though dad’s chicken stew is delicious (see, I can be nice about my family!) it’s not always 100% authentic, and I’m fairly sure it’s a recipe he follows from his own instinct rather than Julia Child’s version.
I found Child’s instructions a little bit confusing initially as the ingredients were only listed as and when they were being used, rather than all at the start. This made shopping for them a bit frustrating; I had already been down the veg aisle to get garlic when I realised I’d need to return to it for onions, so I continued in the one way system until I could loop round to collect them. Aha, I thought, butter next. But then I read on and realised I’d need to go back again to collect herbs. Cue more shuffling down aisles I didn’t need to visit in the name of Being A Good Citizen. Okay, sure, a sensible and methodical cook would have prepared the recipe in advance so they could see what they needed from the shop before they arrived but we all know being sensible or methodical isn’t quite my style; I’ve clearly inherited my dad’s ‘see what’s in the house and stick it in a pan’ approach to cooking.
Julia Child’s version
To start with I sliced bacon into lardons and simmered it in water for 10 minutes. Child’s instructions were very exact – there wasn’t any of this vague ‘cook for approximately the time it takes to sing happy birthday twice, or until the bacon turns a dark shade of taupe and seems cooked-but-not-too-cooked’ malarky. It was the absolute opposite to some ancient and medieval recipes I’d done before, where no clear instructions were given at all, and I almost felt ungrateful for begrudging its rigidity.
Once simmered, the lardons were sautéed in butter and then removed from the pan. The chicken breast, cut into chunks, was browned in the fat of the lardons which were then re-added to the pan and cooked together for 10 minutes. I added 70ml of cognac to the pan and winced as I followed instructions to “avert your face [and] ignite the cognac with a lighted match.” I tried to set the dish on fire five times, but each time the match just fizzled out. Eventually I gave up and reconciled myself to the fact that I was just going to have to put up with the extra alcohol content. Shame.
After abandoning my attempts at flambéeing (which would have inevitably ended up with me losing my eyebrows anyway), I added wine, chicken stock, and other bits and bobs and left the lot to simmer for a while as I focused on the brown braised onions that Child recommended be served with the chicken. She recommended using pearl onions, which I couldn’t get hold of, so I used shallots instead. As well as onions and a sprig of parsley to garnish the plate, she also suggested serving the dish with sautéed mushrooms but I didn’t because, well, gross (and we also had some broad beans to use up instead.)
At this point I want to say that the house smelled like 1960’s France but I think, given the lack of cigarette smoke in the ingredient list, it probably didn’t. It still smelled bloody amazing, though.
When the chicken was done I took it out of the pan and placed it on a serving dish, covered with foil to keep it warm. I boiled the remaining liquid until it reduced to about a pint. I added some blended butter and flour – a beurre manié, apparently – to the liquid and whisked until it was thick enough to coat a spoon. The thickened sauce was poured onto the chicken, which was surrounded by onions, and served.
Such a restrained plate. I ate it out of the pan with a wooden spoon once I’d finished this.
In a conclusion that will surprise exactly no one, this was delicious. It was one of the best things I’ve ever eaten, probably because it felt like over 50% of it was just alcohol or butter. The chicken was tender and fell away in chunks and the bacon just melted into the background. The sauce was thick and rich – tomato-y and winey – which only highlighted how buttery and sweet the onions were as an accompaniment. The whole thing was divine. Seriously. I know I can be a bit OTT, but it was. The next day it was still just as good eaten as leftovers and I actually had a mini argument with my husband when I realised he’d eaten more than his half.
Would I make this again? Do you have to even ask? True, at times it felt a little like I was cooking with a benign drill sergeant, and I was definitely much more tired by the end of it from double checking and the exact timings. I also found it a bit odd that the ingredients popped up when they were used, rather than listed at the start, because it made me feel like I was playing a stressful round of at-home Ready Steady Cook – suddenly lurching to get the flour out the cupboard and weigh it out whilst peeling shallots or whisking sauces. Overall, though, it was worth it.
P.S. No, I haven’t seen the film…yet.
Julia Child’s Coq au Vin
For the Coq au Vin
85g bacon
1kg diced chicken
56g soft butter
70ml cognac
700ml red wine (Burgundy, Beaujolais, Chianti)
1 dessert spoon tomato paste
2 cloves mashed garlic
28g flour
For the braised onions
450g pearl onions or shallots
1.5 tablespoons butter
1.5 tablespoons olive oil
120ml of beef stock
Remove the rind from the bacon and cut into lardons.
Simmer in 900ml of water for 10 minutes. Remove and pat dry.
Fry the bacon in 28g of the butter until brown.
Remove the bacon and add the diced chicken to the bacon grease. Add a pinch of salt and pepper and fry until brown.
Return the bacon to the pan with the chicken, cover and cook for 10 minutes.
Add the cognac and, if you like, set it on fire. Good luck.
Add the wine, chicken stock, garlic, tomato paste, bay leaf and sprig of thyme and cover and cook for 30 minutes.
Begin on the braised onions. Heat the oil and butter in a pan.
Add the onions, whole, and cook for 10 minutes, coating them well.
Pour over the stock, add the herbs, and cook for 40 minutes until the onions are soft but still hold their shape and most of the liquid has evaporated.
Begin on the beurre manié. Mix the flour and remaining 28g of butter together to form a paste.
Remove the chicken from the liquid and place on a serving bowl. Continue cooking the liquid until it has reduced to about a pint’s worth of liquid.
Whisk the beurre manié into the liquid until it thickens enough to coat a spoon.
Pour the thickened liquid over the chicken and serve with the onions.
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5 thoughts on “Julia Child’s Coq au Vin: 1961”
Brenda Sinclair Sutton says:
And now make St. Julia’s Beouf Bourginon (French beef stew, but oh so amazing).
And now make St. Julia’s Bouef Bourginon (French beef stew, but oh so amazing.)
The Past is a Foreign Pantry says:
St. Julia! I love that. I was actually going to make Bouef Bourginon instead of this, but had a last minute change of heart, so after your recommendation I will definitely be trying it next.
Christopher Monk says:
Such a wonderful dish. It’s really the time to do it, as your dad knows.
It was brilliant, just gorgeous. I’m kicking myself for putting it off for so long!
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John Ward April 18, 2019 populism is pointless without seats in the Commons
Nigel Farage is the man of the hour. But is he a Man for all Seasons?
If the Labour-Tory talks collapse in disarray, then Theresa May is in deep doo-doo. If they succeed, then real Brexit (and Nigel Farage) are in deep doo-doo. The Slog analyses an uncertain immediate future ahead.
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I present this graph from my site stats not to boast, but to help set a context for what follows. The graph makes clear the massive uplift in hits at The Slog since the Brexit Betrayal Trilogy was published three days ago:
Other qualitative information is equally important. Retweets of the effect of MP interests tied to Brexit Betrayal have been 271, likes of same 189. So there is clearly a groundswell of disgust at the lobbied and otherwise bought nature of the House of Commons. It brought in 60 new followers on Twitter, and 35 first time followers at The Slog.
It’s also clear from the shoal of emails I’ve received that the idea of an Alliance of the Downtrodden in all future UK elections is extremely attractive….as is the concept of guided tactical voting to change the entire nature of our FPTP (First Past the Post) political culture. Such is (obviously) far less attractive to the Old Parties. Less obviously, it also seems to have little appeal for Nigel Farage and his Brexit Party.
Hold that thought.
Ripple dissolve now to the “talks” between the majority Remainer Conservative Party and the almost entirely Remainer Labour Party. Quietly last Monday, Queen Theresa issued an edict that all members of this “unity” concept must stay at their desks having fruitful discussions throughout the Easter break, the better to devise ways of stuffing We Who Are Not Worthy in the electorate.
It is a received truth on the Labour benches that they have the upper hand in these talks, because it is the Tories who will be hammered in the euroelections, not them. Indeed, the latest opinion polls tend to agree with that analysis. It is thus entirely in Corbyn’s interest to keep on carping about May’s inflexibility on both the customs union and employee rights, while wearing a feigned patriotism on his sleeve.
This is a counterfeit narrative, but one that will convince most Leftist Remainerds with ease. It is also a win-win for Labour, because if the talks fail then ‘they did their best in the face of Nasty Party truculence’; and if they succeed, then the Withdrawal Agreement will pass Parliament….to the eternal delight of Left and Right europhiles. That too would calm the Tories down, because they can evade a drubbing in the euros, and put off a General Election until 2022.
But Nigel Farage disagrees on this point (I mean, he would, wouldn’t he?) and said yesterday that “even if the euro elections are abandoned, the Brexit Party will stand in the General Election, and gain power”.
In truth, Nigel’s maths – and his grasp of the way FTPT works – are somewhat lacking. First up, he has pointedly formed a single-issue Party with no 5 year plan beyond reversing the Brino slide and achieving full sovereign Brexit. Second, he flatly refuses to cooperate with UKIP….or to form a People’s alliance against the metropolitan pc Establishment.
That invites two conclusions:
In reality, Farage is not a Man of the People
He may gain power, but not without a Coalition Partner. That partner is pretty obviously going to be the Conservative Party.
At a delayed General Election following some form of Brino settlement, the Brexit Party will be an easy target for those slagging it off as the croaking voice of needlessly last-redoubt divisiveness. And whatever happens, without tactical voting based on broader commitments made by that Party, Farage has no chance at all of power given the vote-wastage that lies at the heart of FPTP. Far more likely is a full-on tribal vote by Labour supporters to get the Tories out at all costs. That, once reflected in the polls, will encourage tribal habit and hatred among Conservative voters. The result is easy to predict: the Brexit Party will get a massive share of the popular vote, and few if any seats.
My sense is increasingly that Nigel is far from dumb. He must know that such an outcome is highly unlikely unless he forms what one might call an Alliance of the Cheated and Ignored.
I conclude that he has no real interest in smashing the Establishment and genuinely breaking the mould. His overriding hatreds are of the Brussels clique (which I share and embrace) and a desire to once and for all finish off Labour (which wouldn’t faze me…but the lack of real opposition to neocon and neoliberal ideas would).
If the Tory/Labour talks collapse, Farage deserves our support in the euros – on behalf of all Europeans – to join an Assembly that is 40% anti-federalist. If not, then the electorate is faced with far more difficult decisions – and not a lot of options.
There are, nevertheless, the UK Local elections to face. But those also have genuine radicals trussed up….a subject I shall post about in the immediate future.
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chrisbarclay6296 on April 19, 2019 at 10:04 am
There is good reason to doubt that Corbyn will agree to BRINO before the EU elections.
Corbyn has failed to understand that he can’t change the Withdrawal Agreement. The WA is what the EU want. The EU want to tie the UK down so that the UK cannot return to where it was in 2016: able to leave the EU. What the EU will offer Corbyn is outside the WA. They will probably give him a guarantee that, were the Labour Party to win the next general election, the new Labour Government would be able to move further on its renationalisation agenda than EU rules would normally allow.
The political Establishment and Corbyn think that politics will return to its pre-referendum ways, once BRINO has been agreed. I suspect that Diane Abbott understands that this may not be the case. However, she would be the only person at the top of Labour who does understand. Corbyn will look at the decimation of the Tories in the polls and he will be happy for the European elections to go ahead. He will assume that Labour voters rally to Labour at the next general election and that they will face an opposition divided between Tories and Brexit/UKIP.
I would still question however whether the European elections will go ahead. I would not be surprised if the Government argues that the country has not had enough time to prepare logistically. In public, Labour would complain about the Tories being a threat to democracy even if in private their feelings would be mixed. Labour would miss out on beating the Tories but the Brexit Party would also be denied overall victory.
rogerglewis on April 19, 2019 at 9:12 am
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Roger Lewis 19 Apr 2019 9:11AM
Tomorrow, MPs will try to use the Magnificent Seven as wriggle-room, and a way to disguise who did what to destroy Brexit. The obvious thing for Leave voters to do now is bombard their Remainer MPs with letters, phone calls and emails showing their intention of kicking them out come the next General Election unless they vote for the only two options capable of delivering Brexit.
Is any organisation in place ready to do that? Is the Brexit Party formed enough to do it? Will Farage call for it? No, no, and no again.
Thus far – with the possible exception of Brexit Direct Action – the Leave camp has been a shambles, and demonstrable public anger at the betrayal entirely absent. March 29th has become UnBrexit Day without so much as a whimper.
History, as Joe Stalin said, is made by those who turn up. Thus far, the 17.4 million have failed miserably to turn up.
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Salford Lad on April 18, 2019 at 11:05 pm
The Brexit debacle has exposed the ineptitude of both Tory and Labour.
Teresa May’s treachery and treason is clear to see for all. It has consigned the Tory Party to the dustbin of history at the next GE.
Local elections will give an indication of public feeling, and there is a simmering anger out there.
Neither does the Labour Party come out well from Brexit. Yvette Coopers treachery of adding a No Deal amendment has prevented any real leverage in negotiations with the EU.
Labours favoured Customs Union is Brexit in name only.(Brino) and also consigns them to the side-lines of British politics.
The EU elections will give an indication of public feeling, but as the EU Parliament is a fig leaf of democracy, without legislative or amending power, the result does not change the onward march of the unelected Overseers of Europe.
We await a GE, when I expect a great change in British politics from the traditional 2 legacy Parties.
I am dumbfounded at the disconnect of the Westminster rabble from the good citizens of this Sceptred Isle.
A ballot box revolution is coming, as the times they are a’changing.
When peaceful revolution is prevented , violent revolution is inevitable. (JFK)
RouterAl on April 18, 2019 at 8:19 pm
I don’t think the Tories care that much over the EU election results or having MEP’s there at the Tower of Babel. So if the results are bad well ,they can live with that they will say. Even if the rebel alliance wins all the MEP seats that will not get Brexit , it might piss off the unelected cabal in sprout land but that’s about it. I will vote this time as should everyone since if the Rebel Alliance can win the majority of the seats it will kill the talk of a second referendum. That’s a side effect of the elections we should not underestimate.
alisonfletch on April 18, 2019 at 7:57 pm
There are so many political balls in the air it is hard to see where they will fall, let alone where they’ll roll.
It’s too much for me anyway with my little brain and even smaller crystal ball (a marble).
All I know is Brexit Party does what it says on the tin. So an EU election + no Brexit = loadsa votes for them. Simple, that one.
In a GE…..goodness knows, as depends what else has gone on.
I do know that the SDP are not standing in the EU elections but will field candidates in the GE. They do have a pro Brexit, ALL ROUND agenda.
They don’t have a Nigel Farage type leader though so maybe need to get some media traction to break through. Wouldn’t take long to grow quickly I suspect, given the current interest in politics and the growth of the internet.
Other factors are a new Tory leader re-negotiating a bad WA? Even the threat of that may persuade our European friends to cut us adrift and let us sail The channel in to the sunset. Or maybe that is just a dream.
The fact that people like yourself John are watching what is going on, and commenting so brilliantly is in itself probably enough to keep them EUlites on their toes. “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time”.
Ross Hendry on April 18, 2019 at 6:52 pm
Nobody is saying that Nigel is the Redeemer but a lot of people like his plain speaking. Hardly surprising, given the unbelievable garbage that has been emanating from our ugly, mealy-mouthed “representatives” in parliament for close on 3 years. These arrogant, hubristic spivs have been given time over the Easter break to take stock and begin to suspect (chance would be a fine thing) that a reality check is coming – even if at this stage it’s only semi-conscious via their nightly tossing and turning, dreams and nightmares.
We can only hope that their nightly mental anguish becomes more conscious and unbearable. How else will they learn?
rogerglewis on April 18, 2019 at 6:07 pm
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Derek Reynolds on April 18, 2019 at 5:26 pm
He talks well, but anyone who wears an Arthur Daley overcoat is not to be trusted.
Did you watch this:
Interesting, and for my money, shows how much of a protection racket the EU has become.
Peter Charles on April 18, 2019 at 5:19 pm
Can’t argue with any of that John. It is very, very difficult to get rid of an established political party, or more correctly, replace them. It has really only happened to the Liberals, just about a 100 years ago at that, but that was really self-immolation.
Farage is in an invidious position, his Brexit Party is a perfect weapon in the European elections but pretty useless in a national election for many, many reasons, not just a lack of policies. I rather suspect that without an intense media campaign in favour of it tactical voting will not get very far, the majority of the disaffected will simply not vote at all. Of course, media approval for such is non-existent. As you say, that will let Corbyn in which will be a disaster for Corbyn and Labour. If it were before Brexit he would have no chance of negotiating to stay in the CU and leave everything else which seems to be their policy at the moment, if it is after he will either have to renege on his policies, which I suspect he would anyway, or watch the economy burn around him. Of course, if we are still in the EU he wouldn’t be allowed to implement those policies anyway. That disaster will likely send the sheep running back to the Tories as you say.
That said, if there were a viable established party in the wings once the Labour disaster had run its course then we could see an electoral upheaval with both Labour and Tory trashed, but there isn’t one and probably won’t be one at the time. If UKIP had not crashed and burned and instead had remained stable and in the public eye they might well have been that party, but they didn’t and so they aren’t, sad really but that’s politics for you.
Ah well, interesting times. If we are lucky maybe some ‘event’ will solve the issue.
Ron on April 18, 2019 at 3:30 pm
Farage IS NOT a man of the people
He will succeed in dividing the brexit vote
He will resign, again, to go on a wine tasting holiday up the Douro ………
jdseanjd on April 18, 2019 at 3:21 pm
Via email my MP, Michael Fallon, tells me he intended to vote for TheArse May’s Withdrawal Agreement. Read Surrender/Enslavement Agreement.
On Assange he tried the Pontius Pilate line:
“Nothing to do with me: all down to the legal system.”
As a representative of his Conservative Party, of the majority of referendum voters, of this country & of truth, free speech & honest journalism, I’m forced to the conclusion he’s about as useful as tits on a bull.
The blowback:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8xkJHT6t_s
The Duran analysis of falling Labour & Conservative support is sharp.
Keep up the good work, JW.
John Doran.
Steve Hayes on April 18, 2019 at 2:39 pm
Splitting the Leave vote in the European parliamentary election is at best a mistake. But it is such an obviously bad tactic that it casts doubt on why Farage would create a Brexit Party. The treatment he and his newly launched party is receiving from the corporate media is equally suspect.
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3 Reasons Why Saint Joseph is the Best Role Model for Men
July 13, 2020 January 16, 2021 / chicoinematt
On March 19 the Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of Saint Joseph—foster father of Jesus. According to Richard E. Vatz, professor at Towson University in a Washington Times article titled, The social costs of fatherlessness, “there is no root cause more consequential in producing permanent violence, poverty and related life dissatisfaction issues than fatherlessness.”
Saint Joseph provides the ideal for what it means to be a kind and loving father and man. More than ever this world needs strong men to be role models for their families and communities.
The foster father of Jesus’s example of silence, humility, and patience will equip men with the tools necessary to foster meaningful and lasting relationships.
Silence leads to sanctity
Guess how many words of St. Joseph did the Evangelists record in the Gospels? If you guessed a whopping ZERO than you are correct my friend! Though included in the key infancy and adolescent scenes of Jesus’ life the foster father of our Lord said nothing!
The old adage “actions speaks louder than words” applies more directly to St. Joseph than arguably any other person in history– as we can only analyze his actions. Cardinal Robert Sarah in The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise plainly stated, “Man must make a choice: God or nothing, silence or noise.” Using Sarah’s logic Joseph not only clearly, but overwhelmingly choose God!
Joseph’s ability to heed the Angel’s message to flee the wrath of King Herod demonstrates a complete trust and dependence on God. The noise of life yanks me in different directions– all away from God. Looking to the silent saint as a role model helps to remind me of the importance of asking the Lord for help.
Humility overcomes Hubris
Hearing that you must play “second fiddle” naturally causes humans to react in various manners. Being the “B team” certainly just not connote a positive image in sports, politics, and work. Some people downplay the role of a foster, or step-parent. “I am not the real, or official dad” is a mantra that may go through a stepdad’s head—especially on hearing the news that children are a package deal with his so-to-be spouse.
The movie Stepdads comically portrays the real life challenges men have to face in modern mixed family units. Both my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed that movie, but not merely because of the comedy. Rather, its message rang true that mere biology does not suffice for parenthood, let alone fatherhood. Love is the hallmark of fatherhood.
True love involves the virtue of humility. According to Peter Kreeft, “Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.” St. Joseph accepted the responsibility of raising Jesus Christ as his own even though he and Mary never had sexual relations.
As a just man, Joseph obeyed God’s will and married Mary. St. Pope Paul VI in his homily for the Feast of St. Joseph in 1969 used the word humble six times in referring to the foster father of Jesus. More specifically, the recent canonized pontiff wrote, “Saint Joseph is the model of those humble ones that Christianity raises to great destinies, and he is the proof that in order to be good and genuine followers of Christ there is no need of ‘great things’; it is enough to have the common, simple, human virtues, but they need to be true and authentic (Emphasis added mine).” St. Joseph’s simple, humble, and hidden life act as a good model for fathers, and men in general, that avoiding the drama of sin is possible and worthwhile!
Model for Workers
Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy remarked, “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” Although St. Joseph’s lifespan may be up for debate, his levels of patience certainly could not be argued. Being a carpenter by trade, I am most confident that Joseph was quite patient. I can barely do a house project without cursing let alone craft with wood.
Men typically associate themselves with the work that they do. “Where do you work?” is almost always the first question I am asked (and that one that I ask) when meeting a new guy either at the parish, neighborhood, or at work outings. St. Pope John Paul II articulates the value of work best in his Apostolic Exhortation Redemptoris Custos,
If the Family of Nazareth is an example and model for human families, in the order of salvation and holiness, so too, by analogy, is Jesus’ work at the side of Joseph the carpenter. In our own day, the Church has emphasized this by instituting the liturgical memorial of St. Joseph the Worker on May 1. Human work, and especially manual labor, receive special prominence in the Gospel. Along with the humanity of the Son of God, work too has been taken up in the mystery of the Incarnation, and has also been redeemed in a special way. At the workbench where he plied his trade together with Jesus, Joseph brought human work closer to the mystery of the Redemption (no 22, Emphasis added mine).
Due to Original Sin, humanity suffered (still suffers) a fractured relationship with God. The Mystery of the Incarnation involved God becoming man in the Person of Jesus Christ. Divine Love selected Joseph of Nazareth to be the legal and foster father of Jesus Christ and protector of Mary. St. Paul VI declared in his Homily on Saint Joseph, “Because of that function which he [Joseph] performed in regard to Christ during his childhood and youth, he has been declared Patron or Protector of the Church, which continues Christ’s image and mission in time and reflects them in history”.
May all men reflect upon the silent, humble, and diligent example of St. Joseph the Worker, and Foster-father of Jesus and ask the Holy Spirit to be graced with opportunities to be holier versions of ourselves!
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Prepare For the Gilmore Girls Revival With This Themed Eyeshadow
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By Tamim Alnuweiri / InStyle
November 4, 2016 9:35 AM EDT
There is nothing happening in the remainder of 2016 that are we are more excited over than the Gilmore Girls revival. OK, the holidays rank up there, but the point is we’re pretty damn psyched to return to Stars Hollow with Lorelai and Rory.
And now that we’re officially in November, the countdown is short and way less depressing. In the event that coffee and junk food isn’t cutting it and you’re still itching for ways to prepare for the ultimate Netflix experience, we have an idea for you courtesy of the Internet. Yes, friends, Gilmore Girls-inspired eyeshadow is a real thing, and we are hardcore fan-girling over here.
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Brija Cosmetics, a beauty brand hero at this point, has come up with the literal best way to celebrate the return of the show with Gilmore Girls-themed eyeshadow.
Brija has created 17 different shades to celebrate 17 beloved characters. Think “First Kiss,” a deep red named after Rory’s first love Dean, “Live for a Minute,” a matte grey named after Logan, and even “Vicious Trollop,” a mauve named after Emily Gilmore.
When bought in a set, the eyeshadows will be decorated with themed art work, which hopefully means an original sketch from Kirk.
It’s a little pricey, though. The 17-piece set retails for a little over $46, while each individual eyeshadow costs between $1.45 and $5.50 depending on size.
Considering that we’ve bought products for their packaging alone, this one seems like a no brainer.
But this isn’t nearly the first Gilmore Girls-inspired beauty product that’s popped up. Just yesterday we heard wind of Gilmore Girls lip balm, and we’re not sure anything has ever made us happier.
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Critics cry foul over govt’s sweeping rules to control social media
The federal government’s new “Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Online Content (Procedure, Oversight, and Safeguards) Rules, 2020” under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 (PECA) have invited strong criticism from internet service providers, digital rights activities, and tech giants alike.
Originally named the “Citizens’ Protection (Against Online Harm) Rules, 2020”, the rules were devised following a September 2019 Islamabad High Court verdict berating the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) for failing to frame relevant laws under Section 37 of the PECA law.
Owing to criticism from digital and human rights activists, civil society, journalists, and strong opposition from the Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), the federal government had initially formed a consultative committee to take all stakeholders on board.
On November 2, the IHC had ordered PTA to issue the new rules within 90 days. The government notified the rules on November 18, with stakeholders saying they were completely bypassed as they were being finalised by the authorities.
Defining a social media company as “any person that owns or manages online systems for the provision of social media”, the rules create legal liability on individuals associated with the tech company rather than holding the company responsible. They also place internet service providers (ISP) on a par with tech companies in terms of liability.
Section 4 states that any content against (i) the glory of Islam, (ii) integrity, security, and defence of Pakistan, (iii) public order, and (iv) decency and morality can be removed/ blocked. Clause 2 says the rules will prevail and take precedence over “any contrary Community Guidelines” issued by a service provider.
Section 5 states that a complaint can be filed by any person/ their guardian, ministry, division, attached department, subordinate office, provincial or local department or office, law enforcement agency or intelligence agency, or a company owned by the government.
Under Clause 5, the identity of the complainant and the reported content shall remain “confidential”.
Section 6 clause 6 makes it mandatory for social media companies and ISPs to retain information line traffic data linked to the blocked content if asked by the PTA. Section 7 gives them between six to 24 hours to abide by the authority’s bidding.
Section 8 gives PTA the power to block “entire online systems or any services provided by such service providers”.
Under Section 9 (1) the social media companies and ISPs have been directed to issue community guidelines. Adding on to it, clause 2 states that these guidelines “shall inform the user of the online system not to host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit update or share any online content that belongs to another person and to which the user does not have any right.”
“This is [content that is] blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, invasive of another’s privacy, violates or affects religious, cultural, ethnical sensitive of Pakistani or harms minor in any way, impersonates another person or threatens the integrity, security, or defence of Pakistan or public order or causes incitement to any offence under PECA.”
Clause 3 asks them to deploy appropriate mechanisms to identify online content that needs to be blocked/ removed under the rules. Under clause 4, the social media companies “shall not knowingly host, display, upload, publish, transmit, update or share any online content barred under the rules”.
Under clause 5(a), social media companies with over 500,000 users have to register with the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority within nine months while (b) and (c) directs them to establish a registered office and appoint a focal person based in Pakistan.
The rules also ask social media companies and ISPs to establish one or more database servers in the country under clause 5(d) while clause 7 requires them to provide “decrypted readable and comprehensible information” to the Federal Investigation Agency.
Under Section 9 clause 10, the PTA is empowered to impose a penalty of up to Rs500 million on service providers and social media companies.
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The numerous adventures of a friendly staff at a country veterinarian practice in 1930s to 1940s Yorkshire. A remake of the 1978-1990 series. Taken from the autobiographical books by James Herriot. It's 1937 and Glasgow is in the grip of depression. James Herriot, fresh out of veterinary college, moves to the magnificent Yorkshire Dales for work, and soon discovers that treating the animals is as much about treating their owners.
James Herriot’s adventures as a veterinarian in 1930s Yorkshire get a glorious new adaptation in All Creatures Great and Small, a seven-part series based on his beloved books. See the highly-anticipated premiere Sundays, January 10 – February 21, 2021 on MASTERPIECE on PBS. Also, All Creatures Great and Small has been renewed for a second season!
Exciting newcomer Nicholas Ralph will make his television debut as the iconic vet who became renowned for his inspiring humor, compassion and love of life. Samuel West (Mr. Selfridge, On Chesil Beach) plays Siegfried Farnon, the wonderfully eccentric veterinary surgeon and proprietor of Skeldale House, who reluctantly hires the recently qualified Herriot into his rural practice.
Mrs. Hall, the resident housekeeper and matriarch of Skeldale House, is played by Anna Madeley (The Child in Time, Patrick Melrose). Siegfried’s errant and charismatic younger brother, Tristan, is played by Callum Woodhouse (The Durrells in Corfu). Rachel Shenton (Switched at Birth, White Gold) takes the role of Helen Alderson, an independent local farmer’s daughter who helps her father manage the family farm and care for her younger sister. Diana Rigg (Victoria, Game of Thrones) plays Mrs. Pumphrey, the delightfully eccentric owner of the overly indulged Pekingese Tricki Woo, while Matthew Lewis (Harry Potter, Ripper Street) plays Hugh Hulton, a wealthy landowner and rival to James for Helen’s affections.
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The Reel Walk Downs
September 2016 Allen Barra
The walk down to the lot behind the O.K. Corral has become a ritual in Tombstone productions—re-created, imitated and parodied in perhaps two dozen movies and TV shows, the first step of which, like the crossing of the Rubicon, changes history and becomes mythology. Here are eight of our favorites.
Tombstone (1993)
For historical accuracy in positioning (Doc Holliday on the right flank, with Wyatt Earp on the left) and authenticity in clothes, this shot from Tombstone is spot-on. The building on fire behind them makes the boys look like they just walked out of hell—and hell’s comin’ with them. Kurt Russell has a long-barreled Colt in his right pocket. Curiously, he’s the only Wyatt Earp in movies ever to have carried one to the gunfight, even though testimony at the coroner’s inquest indicated that Wyatt did indeed carry a 10 inch gun.
– Courtesy Buena Vista Pictures –
The Wild Bunch (1969)
They aren’t headed toward the O.K. Corral; they’re headed for a shoot-out a lot bigger and uglier, but Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, William Holden and Ernest Borgnine were clearly set up in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch to look like the Earp brothers and John Henry “Doc” Holliday on their walk down.
– Courtesy Warner Bros. –
Gunfight at the
O.K. Corral (1957)
Burt Lancaster’s Wyatt and John Hudson’s Deputy Virgil—Wyatt was the marshal in this telling of the tale—carry two shotguns, but then, they’re headed for a bunch of Cochise County Cowboys (including John Ireland’s Johnny Ringo) that is practically platoon strength. The lot in which they clash is the same one at Old Tucson where John Wayne, Ricky Nelson, Dean Martin and Walter Brennan rout the bad guys in 1959’s Rio Bravo.
– Courtesy Paramount Pictures –
Wyatt Earp (1994)
For sheer grimness, this walk to the O.K. Corral in Wyatt Earp is unsurpassed. To look at those faces, you’d think these guys were climbing Mount Everest instead of walking a block-and-a-half to that open lot next to C.S. Fly’s photography studio.
“Doc” (1971)
Harris Yulin as Wyatt (far left) and Stacy Keach (left) as Doc carry double-barreled shotguns in preparation for mowing down the Clantons and McLaurys in this Vietnam-era parable of the Earps-Cowboy war. (Screenwriter Pete Hamill suggested an unsubstantiated homosexual relationship between Wyatt and Doc, the only writer to do so until Andrew C. Isenberg in his 2013 book, Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life.)
– Courtesy United Artists –
Hour of the Gun (1967)
John Sturges directed this darker, more accurate version than his previous Earp film, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Jason Robards is old enough to be Doc’s father, but he wields a mean shotgun as the deadly dentist. James Garner, this film’s Wyatt, also played an older and considerably lighter Wyatt in 1988’s Sunset.
Anchorman:
The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Paul Rudd, Will Ferrell, David Koechner and Steve Carell head for the lot to face foes more ruthless than any ever encountered by Wyatt and Doc: reporters from competing networks, including public television and Spanish-language news.
In the most urban setting of all O.K. Corral walk downs, Mark Wahlberg and his brothers—that’s right, brothers—head to a confrontation Earp-style to avenge the death of their mother. They tuck their guns in their back waistbands.
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Chapter 1253: Cheng Shan has Disappeared!
“Brother, should we chase him?” Zong Hu asked Lin Feng. His eyes were filled with murder. He hated himself for not being strong enough. Otherwise, old Song and his three brothers wouldn’t have died!
“No need. We can’t,” Lin Feng sighed. Even though he wasn’t happy, what could he do? His enemy had some major trump cards. That cultivator might be as strong as the Ice Spirit, and he was stronger than the Ancestor of the Five Cardinal Points!
“We can’t give up! I won’t let him off!” shouted the old king, but he looked downhearted. He was old, and his time was past. Young people were now ruling. Old people had to give them space. Younger people could even kill him so easily!
Lin Feng glanced at the old man, but remained silent. He didn’t know how to tell the old man the truth. It was a sad story; Lin Feng’s old enemy had destroyed the Hei Yi Clan merely so that people would hate Lin Feng! In the end, that meant it was all Lin Feng’s fault!
Of course, Lin Feng couldn’t tell him that, so he remained silent. Cheng Shan had been shaken, and would be even more cautious in the future. Lin Feng wouldn’t be able to find him easily. He would deal with that issue once they were outside of the Bright and Colorful Mountain and Lakes world.
“Master, you and King Hei Yi can go back. I need to go to the highest point of the Bright and Colorful Mountain and Lakes world and find my friends,” Lin Feng sighed as he turned around.
The two people nodded. They naturally weren’t going to contradict Lin Feng, who had saved them. They admired him and were grateful.
No matter what the other sub clans of the Yi Clan thought or did, at least, the Hei Yi Clan acknowledged Lin Feng! Well, Asura!
“If you need anything, contact us. We’re not very strong, but it’s better than nothing,” said the old man. He turned around and led his people into the depths of the forest. They quickly disappeared from Lin Feng’s sight.
He turned around silently and glanced at Qing Huang Tian and Zong Hu. They all flashed away silently. The Ancestor of the Five Cardinal Points and Leader Jing Rui were waiting for them at the top of the highest mountain of the Bright and Colorful Mountain and Lakes world.
Half an hour later, Lin Feng and the others landed at the top of the top of the mountain. Leader Jing Rui had been waiting for him for a long time. Lin Feng smiled thinly, thinking Leader Jing Rui probably knew he was Lin Feng now.
Leader Jing Rui didn’t spare a glance for Qing Huang Tian and Zong Hu, looking straight at Lin Feng and smiling mischievously, “Haha, young man, you’re good at acting.”
“Master, you know the reason, so I can’t tell you more about it,” Lin Feng replied, smiling apologetically.
Leader Jing Rui nodded and added, “Lin Feng, tell me the truth; did you kill Godly Ancestor Zhan Ling and Godly Ancestor Jie Long in Jing City?”
“I did. One a night. Your servants nearly caught me,” Lin Feng replied sincerely. He couldn’t hide the truth anymore.
Leader Jing Rui suddenly stuck up his thumb and sighed in approval. “You’re extremely strong, young man. I’ve never acknowledged anyone, you’re the first person.”
“You’re flattering me, Master,” Lin Feng answered, shaking his head. He didn’t take it to heart.
“Anyway, let’s stop talking nonsense. Let’s wait for the Ancestor of the Five Cardinal Points,” the Leader of Jing City said when he saw Lin Feng didn’t like jokes.
Lin Feng didn’t ask about the Ancestor of the Five Cardinal Points. He just waited patiently.
An hour later, the Ancestor of the Five Cardinal Points landed between Lin Feng and Leader Jing Rui at the top of the mountain. At the same time, he threw a picture scroll at Lin Feng and said, “This is the Bright and Colorful Mountain and Lakes painting. From now on, it’s yours.”
“As expected! Hahahahaha! Congratulations, little brother!” shouted Leader Jing Rui. Even though he was prepared, he still went wild with excitement and jumped for joy. At the same time, he also had a faint bitter feeling inside. The Bright and Colorful Mountain and Lakes painting had been extremely important for his father, after all.
But now it was Lin Feng’s, so he couldn’t say anything. Lin Feng had been acknowledged by the Hei Yi Clan, the Zu Yi Clan, and the Long Yi Clan. In the end, Miss Eight and the leader of the Long Yi Clan had helped him, and the Bai Yi and Hu Yi Clans had agreed to acknowledge Asura’s position.
At that moment, Lin Feng became the first person who had ever possessed the Bright and Colorful Mountain and Lakes by himself. In the past, groups of people had possessed it, but never one person.
Now, it was Lin Feng’s treasure, so Lin Feng now had all three precious items from Jing City’s auction: the Three Heavy Waves Godly Tao Skill, the Dazzling Flower, and the Bright and Colorful Mountain and Lakes picture scroll.
Lin Feng was the biggest winner in the story, and he deserved it. He had been through so many fierce fights!
Lin Feng clutched the Bright and Colorful Mountain and Lakes picture scroll, privately amazed at his luck. He had already studied the first two phases of the Three Heavy Waves attack, Qing Huang Tian had the Dazzling Flower, and now he had the Bright and Colorful Mountain and Lakes picture scroll!
Lin Feng felt so happy and rich. His work had been fruitful. He had worked hard and it had paid off. Even Cheng Shan’s plot had failed!
“Asura, I’d like to ask you a question,” the Ancestor of the Five Cardinal Points said solemnly, looking wary.
When Lin Feng saw that, he looked back gravely and nodded quickly. “Go ahead.”
“What do you think about those who’ve died?” asked the Ancestor of the Five Cardinal Points, staring at Lin Feng.
Lin Feng was startled, but reacted quickly. He said calmly, “If possible, I’d love it if they were all brought back to life. That’d be the best.”
“Are you sure?” asked the Ancestor of the Five Cardinal Points. His expression changed slightly, but he still asked once again. Lin Feng still nodded. He said resolutely, “Yes, if possible. I don’t want people to think I’m the one who did that. I want to have the opportunity to justify and defend myself.”
“Alright, since you made up your mind, no problem. I admire you for your decision. Since it’s that way, you bring them back to life,” said the Ancestor of the Five Cardinal Points, waiting for Lin Feng’s final answer.
But Lin Feng was silent, and stared at the Ancestor of the Five Cardinal Points for a very long time. He didn’t know how to do that!
“Master, you, what do you mean…? Me? Bring them back to life?” asked Lin Feng, pointing to himself.
The Ancestor of the Five Cardinal Points nodded gravely, “Of course, who else?”
“Are you sure you’re not joking?” asked Lin Feng wryly. How could he bring people who were stronger than him back to life? He didn’t even know how to bring a cultivator of the top of the Great Supreme God layer back to life!
“Nonsense. You think I’m joking? Young man, you are the owner of the Bright and Colorful Mountain and Lakes picture scroll, bringing them back to life is extremely easy for you. Do I still need to continue and explain everything to you?” the Ancestor of the Five Cardinal Points huffed.
The atmosphere didn’t feel as awkward anymore. Lin Feng suddenly understood how to bring those people back to life. He could also bring Xue Can Yun, Gan Wu Dao, and Li Chen back to life.
What a powerful item! The Bright and Colorful Mountain and Lakes world was truly mysterious. With it, Lin Feng would be able to bring anyone back to life extremely easily. He would even be able to travel through time thanks to it!
Since that was the case, could Lin Feng find Cheng Shan? Thinking about that, Lin Feng couldn’t help but try. If he found Cheng Shan’s location, he’d make him pay. He would kill him bloodily, and he wouldn’t regret it!
He held the Bright and Colorful Mountain and Lakes picture scroll even tighter and inspected every inch of its world. His godly awareness could travel across the Bright and Colorful Mountain and Lakes world in the blink of an eye. Nothing could stop it.
But after inspecting the whole world, Lin Feng only looked worried. He didn’t see Cheng Shan at all. He was the master of the Bright and Colorful Mountain and Lakes picture scroll now, and he could see everything in this world without exception. Even if he didn’t want to see, he was forced to!
But Cheng Shan had completely vanished, and Lin Feng hadn’t found him. He was perplexed. He closed his eyes again and inspected the whole world two more times. In the end, he realized Cheng Shan had really disappeared.
Lin Feng knew that he couldn’t have really disappeared, he was definitely hiding somewhere. Not finding him was due to Cheng Shan’s trump card.
That cultivator was stronger than the Ancestor of the Five Cardinal Points, after all. Lin Feng had no choice but to put Cheng Shan aside for the time being. He had to bring all the people Cheng Shan had killed back to life first.
That would ruin Cheng Shan’s plot, and it wouldn’t have any impact on Lin Feng’s life anymore.
“Anything is possible, nothing is impossible. Think of something and it’ll come true. Of course, only in the Bright and Colorful Mountain and Lakes world,” a voice spoke in his mind. It was the Ancestor of the Five Cardinal Points. Lin Feng nodded gravely.
“Jing Rui, have all the remaining disciples and representatives of the Region of the Eight Corners gather at the foot of the mountain. The passage of the Bright and Colorful Mountain and Lakes world is going to open soon, so they’ll all be able to get out,” said the Ancestor of the Five Cardinal Points to Leader Jing Rui.
The Leader didn’t say anything, and left the top of the mountain.
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Falkirk tours
Callendar House , Falkirk gets five star rating
Callendar House in Falkirk has received a five-star rating from VisitScotland. The 14th century building, set within Callendar Park and opened to the public in 1996 after centuries as a family home with links to Mary Queen of Scots, has achieved the national tourism organisation’s top-quality award. The House dates back to the 14th century.
For categories including core experience, catering, hospitality, friendliness, staff efficiency and cleanliness it reached “exceptional” standard following a Quality Assurance visit.
Maureen Campbell, Chief Executive of Falkirk Community Trust, said: “The house is a credit to the local area and is a fantastic free day out. “We have art, history, interactive fun and a warm welcome from our team, all set within beautiful parklands. Also, in our opinion, the best cakes in Falkirk in our tearoom.” The House, which sits along a stretch of the Antonine Wall, is also a member of VisitScotland’s Taste Our Best and VIP schemes. It boasts a working 19th century kitchen where costumed staff create an interactive experience for visitors and offer samples of early 1800s food as well as a museum which details the story of the house and area covering the 11th to 19th centuries. Lord Thurso, VisitScotland Chairman, said: “I am delighted that Callendar House has achieved a five-star Quality Assurance rating. This is a clear sign of Falkirk’s tourism offering going from strength to strength as it becomes the third five-star attraction in the area. “Callendar House is a key attraction to the town and this award is a testament to all of the hard work and dedication of the staff. “We need to create world class experiences, events and attractions to keep up with ever-changing visitor demands. Tourism is more than a holiday experience – it is the heartbeat of the Scottish economy and touches every community, generating income, jobs and social change.”
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LEAD NEWS, NATIONAL
Saturday, December 19, 2020 / 16 Time View
Dhaka: Bangladesh recorded 25 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths and 1,267 fresh cases overnight.
The recovery count rose to 4,35,601 after another 1,987 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the period, a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today.
“Twenty-five more COVID-19 patients died in the last 24 hours, increasing the death toll from the pandemic to 7,242,” the release said.
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A total of 12,300 samples were tested at 160 authorized laboratories across the country during the time.
Of the total sample tests in the past 24 hours, 10.30 percent tested positive, while 16.31 percent cases were detected from the total tests conducted so far, the release added.
Among the total infections, 87.20 percent patients have recovered, while 1.45 percent died so far since the first COVID-19 positive cases were reported in the country on March 8. Bss.
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ICM and Panelbase Scottish polls
This Sunday’s polling is mostly dominated by Scotland – even the YouGov/Sunday Times national poll mostly had questions about Britain’s attitudes to the Scottish referendum.
Let start with the Scottish polls though. Last weekend we had a Survation poll in the Mail on Sunday which was widely reported in the media as showing that George Osborne’s intervention in the referendum debate had actually boosted YES. This was mostly rubbish – the change appeared to be largely, but not wholly, the result of Survation changing their weightings. I concluded we should probably wait for more evidence before deciding what the impact from the currency row was.
Today we have a new ICM poll for Scotland on Sunday. Their topline figures with changes from a month ago are YES 37%(nc), NO 49%(+4). At first glance this poll would indicate the currency row had led to a significant boost to the NO campaign, but once again I’d urge some caution. Regular readers will remember that the previous ICM poll showed a big swing towards YES, far bigger than any other poll, so this one may very well just be a reversion to the mean rather than any meaningful change (in particular ICM’s last poll had an unusually pro-independence sample of young people, which I suspect may have vanished. On that subject this month ICM have apparently changed their method very slightly, changing the age bands they use to weight young people.)
In the rest of the poll ICM found that 63% of people in Scotland think it is in Scotland’s best interests to keep the pound, 12% think she would be better off with a separate currency. 47% think that an independent Scotland would be able to use the pound, that the main British parties are bluffing. On the issue of Scotland’s EU membership, 54% would like to see an independent Scotland be an EU member, 29% would not; 57% think Scotland would be able to join, 24% think membership would be blocked.
The SNP have also commissioned a new Panelbase poll. Now, the last time we saw an Panelbase/SNP poll they played silly buggers with the question ordering, but I’ve double checked with Panelbase and nothing like this happened in this one (though the wording is very slightly different to that used by the Panelbase/Sunday Times poll). The topline figures are YES 37%, NO 47%. The no vote is two points lower than the last Panelbase/Sunday Times poll, but Panelbase’s previous poll was a bit higher than usual – for most of the past year Panelbase’s polls have consistently shown a NO lead of between 8 and 10 points, this is wholly in line with that.
In short, looking at the post-currency row questions we’ve got some polls showing YES up, some showing NO up, some showing little change, all of them obscured to some extent by reversion to the mean after unusual results or methodology/wording changes. It’s a pretty confused picture, but I’m struggling to see any clear movement to YES or NO.
Meanwhile the weekly YouGov/Sunday Times poll is here and has topline figures of CON 32%, LAB 39%, LDEM 8%, UKIP 12%. In England and Wales 21% support Scottish independence, 61% are opposed and English & Welsh respondents are now slightly more likely to think E&W would be worse off (27%) than better off (23%) if Scotland left.
Also worth noting there is an interesting non-Scotland related question – YouGov repeated a question from last April about the government’s welfare reform package as a whole, freezes, caps, bedroom tax, etc. Back in April 2013 56% of people said they supported them, 31% were opposed. Now 49% support them, 38% are opposed – so still more in support than against, but a significant movement over the last year.
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397 Responses to “ICM and Panelbase Scottish polls”
Alex F
One comparison between the DM attack on Harman and their attack on Ralph Miliband is the way the accusations are being reflected back on themselves. I didn’t know the DM supported Fascism in the 30s before they went after Miliband Sr’s views from the same time period, and equally, while I knew their website is all about celebrities, and paparazzi shots of celebs in bikinis gaining or losing weight, I had no idea until today that this lewd coverage extended to underage girls. Multiple examples of this now trending on twitter. Laura Kuenssberg was scathing about Harman suggesting that in her interview, so I wonder what her thoughts are now. This could prove to be a spectacular own goal by Dacre, as this time it’s about what his paper is doing now, under his watch, not 80 years ago. So question is, will they see sense and drop it, or keep going as they did with Miliband and risk putting themselves further into the firing line?
To bring this back to VI, I can’t see this having an impact unless the public believes Harman and her husband actively supported Paedophilia in the past, and there’s some kind of a coverup in which the Labour party knew this and were still happy for her to have a senior position in it. Is that even a remote possibility?
I am not one of those who have lost faith with the BBC – count me with Welsh Borderer.
I have just heard the treatment of the Harman non-story on (I think) the World at One, which was as bad as Newsnight (though I think they said ‘retweeted’ from ITN).
I am genuinely shocked that the BBC has stooped so far and they’ve lost one staunch supporter.
That post is probably illegal – apologies to AW
Just listened to the BBC News and i have to say that although not a great fan of the BBC I thought the report was very balanced.
statty @ alec
“Thank you for my morning laugh!”
I hate those condescending replies.
I have no idea quite what Harrriet Harman is being accused of by the DM – do the editors?
To be fair I didn’t hear the whole report because somebody called, but taken with Newsnight, the first piece sufficed for me to form a conclusion.
You and I are unlikely to agree ToH :p
“That’s your opinion – not mine”
Though bleedin’ obvious when addressing another person who is disagreeing with you, this is a stunningly brilliant riposte.
Just wish I’d thought of it.
couper2802
I complained to the BBC about their coverage – I don’t usually but just feel this is so unfair on HH. I have a comment in mod but wanted to point out that she issued a statement which addressed every one of the DM non-issues
statgeek
@Alex F
The nationality of the cabinet members is fairly immaterial. They are thinking about getting re-elected, and investing in the safe seats in Glasgow (Labour will get elected anyway almost all the time) is wasted spending to get votes.
Far better to secure some marginal votes in the Midlands or Y&H. That’s the reality of the Westminster system.
“Are you saying that Scotland is unable to compete with England now”
It never could and never will if an issue comes up, that the majority of English MPs will vote together on (e.g. if Scottish independence was to be settled in the HoC, the non-Scots MPs would probably vote ‘No’ en masse).
In that sense Scotland cannot compete without it being overtly favoured, which was the impression that Blair / Brown gave English voters, although I didn’t see much of it.
So cabinets have a choice. Spend on seats that can’t be won, or can’t be lost, or spend on seats that can be won over. If they spend in Scotland there will be a Southern backlash.
By the way, have a daily slice of Project Fear:
http://wingsoverscotland.com/vote-for-death/#comment-818786
Frightening pensioners into voting their way now.
rogerh
I remain a fan of the BBC in general but less so of some of their political reporting.
@R&D
It was a sincere reply. I did have a good laugh at the idea that folk are voting ‘Yes’ out of fear, when all the fear stories are from the ‘No’ camp.
Stattso
You must have a finely attuned sense of humour – I prefer Stewart Lee or the memory of Monty Python.
” I have a comment in mod but wanted to point out that she issued a statement which addressed every one of the DM non-issues”
I’m afraid facts are no defence against a media onslaught led by really nasty journalists.
I think an implied accusation of a link to paedophilia is as obnoxious as it gets.
statty
Why do you link a statement by the scots tories with a project – as though a. darling himself was masterminding it?
Its just a statement by the scots tories and that’s how it should be reported.
to be fair there would probably be some delay at the border checks and people would need to make sure that their ThraePoondies [did I mention devaluation???] had been exchanged for proper pounds.
So deaths probably would rise significantly.
Paul Croft/ PF.
ToH
“You are just restating your opinion of the D Mail. I was just pointing out that I do not share your view of the newspaper or its intention in this instance.”
No, Howard.
You were pointing out that my (extremely poor) opinion of the D.Mail was because they were criticising a senior figure in my party of preference.
I was pointing out that my very low and worsening opinion of this execrable propaganda sheet, is that they are immoral and sleazy, and purvey vicious and unfounded attacks on any democratically elected politician they wish to harm, through smear campaigns which are carefully crafted to reach a gullible readership, while continuing to evade what I hope will be their come-uppance at the court of public opinion, if not the Law.
I doubt you could have.
@Statgeek – “It was a sincere reply. I did have a good laugh at the idea that folk are voting ‘Yes’ out of fear, when all the fear stories are from the ‘No’ camp.”
That’s utter nonsense. Doorstep campaigners are stressing what a ‘disaster’ a No vote would be, as it would give the green light to withdraw Barnett etc. The term ‘austerity max’ has been coined solely by the Yes campaign, and it’s complete balderdash to assert that only BT are scaremongering, and you know it.
As the last thread was taken over by an obsessed minority gabbling on about things like child abuse and the Daily Mail, I’m going to start talking about Scotland………
Say what you like, I just want to hear replies to the actual questions asked by the Daily Mail.
Personally I find the D Mail an amusing read, not to be taken too seriously on occasions, but a real joy sometimes, especially when Littlejohn is on top form.
No idea wot yer on about but I definitely could have..
[Maybe rejected it as daft and not worth the bother but we shall never know or care.]
Roisieanddaisie
Indeed! LOL
Ah……. some irony.
This is brilliant: his CV from wiki
“Littlejohn passed the eleven-plus, obtaining the highest marks in his year”
Which reminds me – I got 100% which at the very least must have been equal top.
@Statgeek
So all cabinet ministers are self serving and only interested in themselves.
Presumably that applies to Salmond’s ministers as well?
“Littlejohn earned a place in the inaugural Press Gazette Newspaper Hall of Fame as one of the most influential journalists of the past 40 years.”
You missed the above out from your last post.
@Couper 2802
“I complained to the BBC about their coverage – I don’t usually but just feel this is so unfair on HH.”
So Littlejohn is like Hitler! Sorry but i think that is the silliest post I’ve ever seen.
Can I put in a request to stop the Daily Mail talk? It’s not to do with polling and it’s going nowhere useful.
Please try harder: I am simply pointing out “being influential” doesn’t mean much as it can be a negative influence.
On the other hand I AM surprised that more “influential” writers don’t include their 11-plus results in their CV.
How are you supposed to know if they are any good or not?
In future I shall add mine to my website plus – to show what a great musician I am – add my “Full marks at Grade V theory of music” certificate.
Because the Con/Lab/Lib are all in this together. :)
“and you know it”
Excuse me? What are you implying? I am not part of the Yes campaign, and so far the majority of the scare-mongering has been from the ‘No’ side. Every day there’s a drip, drip of “this won’t be possible” or “that will be more expensive”.
Nothing positive. Nothing. Cameron headed to Aberdeen to see the oil folk, and flew back. He didn’t bother to speak to the local voters. He didn’t stop to assure anyone of anything. Fear? Oil? He did speak to the media of course.
If I find that one side of a given debate is wanting and the other is making more sense, that doesn’t put me in any camp. It is me stating the situation as I see it. I don’t trust Salmond, but I trust the fear factory a lot less at present.
The only ‘scare-mongering’ I have heard from ‘Yes’ is the scare of the future based on the past. It may be valid or it may be just words. I haven’t had anyone on my doorstep.
I’ve heard the odd inconsistency, such as “The NHS in Scotland is protected as it’s run by a devolved etc, so vote ‘Yes’ to protect Scotland’s NHS.” Not so much scare-mongering as false logic. That would come under typical political spin in my book.
@Valeria
I didn’t say all ministers anything. I suggested a scenario where ‘a’ minister or ‘a’ cabinet can divert investment in the direction of a marginal constituency, and will not face a big backlash.
Yes it can apply to Holyrood (Salmond’s lot at present or any other Holyrood Government in the future), but there’s not the same detachment by distance or culture as there is with Westminster.
Bullies.
Probably bluff and bluster though.
@R&D – This story is lead on R4 and I think is part of the process that may well move esoteric currency matters into a much more relevant polling concern, if it starts to link cause and effect into an effect that voters are much more directly concerned about – the real economy.
For the Yes campaign, this mornings news is actually significantly worse that just the Standard Life story. Here – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/10663865/Andrew-Bailey-pours-doubt-on-Salmonds-plans-for-shared-financial-regulator.html
we’ve also got the BoE Deputy Governor being none too complimentary about SNP plans for financial regulation. However, the crunch comes later in the article, when it describes how the CEO of Glasgow based Aggreko feels about the currency issue.
In the case of losing the pound, he believes this would add 2-3% to their costs, and it unimpressed by the idea of a currency union on the terms proposed by the SNP.
I’m getting the feeling that the debate is shifting again on this issue, and despite what nationalists say, currency will turn out to be a crucial matter, once all the implications sink in.
Initially, the SNP approach was to merrily say they could do what they wanted with a currency union and UK would not be able to stop them. Then, when it became clear that UK would not enter a new currency union, the line seemed to be that they are just bluffing, with the fall back that this wouldn’t matter anyway because we’ll just use the pound anyway.
Now, I think the debate will start to move onto what will businesses do about the uncertainty. It’s inevitable that a number of them – possibly quite a large number – will seek to move operations south. I see very little incentive for moves in the reverse direction.
The effect of this, as companies advice shareholders as they are obliged to do, will be a steady raising of the risk factor, coming not from government or BT, but from independent, self interested businesses, many of which will be Scottish, as with Standard Life and Aggreko.
This is going to feed directly in the key voter concern of the economy, and will be very difficult for the SNP to counter.
As for the ‘we’ll leave Scotland’ scare stories or legitimate concerns – I think they are all already priced in.
Some folk are keen on self-determination and are confident we would manage – others more pessimistic and anxious it is ‘a choice between hope and fear’
A gamechanger in the Uncertainty Stakes ?
R Huckle
@ Couper2802
Don’t you have to be a member of the EU, to use the Euro as your currency ? If Scotland leaves the UK, it will no longer be part of the EU. Scotland will have to negotiate EEA status, similar to Norway and then start the process of applying to join the EU.
If Scotland does vote for independence, I suspect that the new Scottish government will say that they will continue to use pounds sterling, whether rUK like it or not. It would still be legal for Scottish banks to issue pounds sterling, but Scotland may pay a high price, as the markets will not like the situation.
There would be a crisis situation, with the Scottish and UK governments having a very difficult negotiation process. This may be more difficult because of Labour position in Scotland, where they stand to lose MP’s and where Labour is the second largest party. By the time of separation Labour could take over from SNP in Scotland and then what would they do ?. Would they ignore the referendum vote and use the election result to justify the continuation of the union ?
Comment in mod. Too much mention of Scotland ?
It depends on what motivates the Scottish voter. If it to rid themself of the yoke of supposed latter-day English imperialism then economic concerns will not be the defining factor.
@RosieandDaisie
It could be seen Instead as a negotiating tactic by SL
@ r huckle
The EU has never lost a chunk of territory and faced with the prospect of doing so, I suspect it will discover an ability to be flexible and accommodating. After all, if Croatia with all its historical baggage can be fast-tracked in, it really would be very odd if a country (or region, if that was its actual legal status for EU purposes) that had been in the EU for 40 years were to be excluded, even if only temporarily.
However, logic seems to me to suggest that regarding currency, Scotland would do best to follow the example of other newly independent countries like Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia, which successfully ran their own currencies before joining the EU (and then adopting the Euro). Scotland with its own currency could choose in due course to join the eurozone or not (by the simple expedient of failing to sign up for ERM).
One advantage of a stand-alone Scottish currency would be the ability to devalue against the pound to gain a competitive advantage versus rUK.
@Coupar2802 and @RAF – Polling evidence suggests that economic issues are not priced in. They are listed as the most important issues on which people will base their vote.
Reading Rob Peston’s item on Standard Life, I actually think it starts to look much more serious for Yes. I think we are going to see a series of stories like this, and in the absence of a clear currency arrangement that doesn’t frighten business (which I don’t think is going to come through pre Sept) my suspicion is that there will be a series of very difficult headlines for the SNP.
oldnat
The Standard Life Statement
http://www.standardlife.com/utility/customer_statement.html
Scottish referendum
On 18 September 2014 a referendum will be held to decide whether Scotland should become an independent country. In recent months some of our customers have been in touch with us to ask what impact this would have on their savings and investments with Standard Life.
Our key priority is to continue serving the needs of our 4 million UK customers, wherever they reside and regardless of any constitutional change. The same applies to our customers in other parts of the world.
As a business we have a long-standing policy of strict political neutrality and at no time will we advise people on how they should vote, but we have a duty and a responsibility to understand the implications of independence for our customers and other stakeholders and to take whatever action may be necessary to protect their interests.
In view of the uncertainty that is likely to remain around this issue, there are steps that we can and will take now based on our own analysis. For example, we have started work to establish additional registered companies to operate outside Scotland, into which we could transfer parts of our operations if it was necessary to do so. This is a purely precautionary measure, and customers do not need to take any action. We are simply putting in place a mechanism which, in the event of constitutional change, allows us to provide continuity to customers and to continue serving them, wherever they live in the UK. “
S&P seem to take a different view of an indy Scotland than ALEC does.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sp-independent-scotland-could-get-decent-credit-rating-1438195
“An independent Scotland could start off life with an investment-grade credit rating because it has a “wealthy and open” economy, according to the influential Standard & Poor’s ratings agency.
Though a sterling union with the UK or joining the eurozone would benefit Scotland’s credit rating, S&P added that there is no reason it could not successfully launch its own separate currency and “go it alone”.
“In brief, we would expect Scotland to benefit from all the attributes of an investment-grade sovereign credit characterised by its wealthy economy (roughly the size of New Zealand’s), high-quality human capital, flexible product and labour markets, and transparent institutions,” said S&P in a report.
“Nevertheless, the newly formed sovereign state would begin life with comparatively high levels of public debt, sensitivity to oil prices, and, depending on the nature of arrangements with the EU or UK, potentially limited monetary flexibility.
“At the same time, Scotland’s external position in terms of liquidity and investment could be subject to volatility should banks leave.
“On the other hand, if this were to happen, it could bring benefits in terms of reducing the size of the Scottish economy’s external balance sheet, normalizing the size of its financial sector, and reducing contingent liabilities for the state.
“In short, the challenge for Scotland to go it alone would be significant, but not unsurpassable.”
@Oldnat – “S&P seem to take a different view of an indy Scotland than ALEC does.”
That statement is complete nonsense, I’m afraid. It actually confirms what I said. My statements were limited to suggesting that there will be some movement south of businesses, which S&P also recognise, and the impact that this could have on polling, which S&P don’t comment on.
In turn, I didn’t comment on how viable the Scottish post independence economy would be – my comments were much more focused on the polling impacts of the Standard Life statement. It will be a major worry for the SNP. It doesn’t necessarily mean much for the Scottish economy overall, but that isn’t what concerns us here – it’s the impact on polls that we’re talking about.
S&P suggest that the movement of some of the financial sector to England would actually help Scotland’s credit rating.
Standard Life, of course, previously suggested that they would move out of Scotland, if devolution was introduced.
As to polling, whether continued stories of what firms might do, if certain circumstances resulted from particular results of constitutional change, alters the trend in the polls, we will have to wait and see,
@Oldnat – “S&P suggest that the movement of some of the financial sector to England would actually help Scotland’s credit rating.”
No they didn’t. They said it ‘could’ help. There is a very big difference between ‘could’ and ‘would’. They also said it ‘could’ create volatility to investment and liquidity if banks leave.
Indeed, the S&P statement isn’t really worthy of any comment, as it doesn’t say anything. S&P can’t make any kind of assessment as we don’t know yet what there is to assess. As I predicted way back when, currency will make a very big difference, both to the operation of the Scottish economy and to the behaviour of Scottish companies.
As I also predicted way back when, there is no prospect for a currency union of the type Salmond backs. We will therefore start to see adjustments being made by businesses to account for the likely outcome of a Yes vote.
You’ve focused on the banking sector, but in fact I also posted about two manufacturing companies also expressing concerns. All in all, we now have 4 of Scotland’s 6 FTSE 100 companies raising significant concerns about either moving south or losing profitability, and the fourth awaiting there own internal risk report. While Standard Life did raise similar threats with devolution, this time it is materially different. A financial border would be created, with 90% of their customers on the other side. It is natural to switch domiciles in such circumstances, whereas there was no need at all under devolution.
S&P will make a fuller assessment when the policy framework is clear, but in the meantime it looks likely that there will be some significant impacts on the Scottish economy.
This is entirely to be expected, as any structural uncertainty creates difficulties for industry. The S&P assessment confirms this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-26383990
That and the S&P article got token coverage, and not at all at the national BBC level, while the SL article was wall to wall yesterday, across the entire media.
Anyone getting the picture yet?
You would think that if this Indy thing is to be done properly, and that if the Indy side are bound to lose, that the media and the establishment which seems to be guiding the media would be happy to have level coverage of opposing ideas. Instead, we seem to have bad news nationally and goods news regionally.
The mistake is that the folk with the vote are at the regional level, and they notice these things.
New STV/Ipsos-MORI poll (changes from their Dec poll in brackets)
Certain to vote
Yes 32% (-2%) : No 57% (nc) : DK 11% (+1)
Don’t Knows leaning towards –
Yes 39% (+12%) : No 29% (-5%) : Nae idea 32% (-6%)
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