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==== History ====
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==== Parish History ====
Norwich St George Tombland is one of two mediæval churches dedicated to St George in Norwich, which may indicate a late foundation date. The ‘surname’ Tombland is from Old English words meaning ‘empty land or space’, referring to the site of the late Saxon market.
Norwich, parl. and mun. bor., city, co. town of Norfolk, and co. in itself, on river Wensum, 20 miles W. of Yarmouth and 114 NE. of London by rail, 7472 ac., pop. 87,842; 4 Banks, 9 newspapers. Market-days, Wednesday and Saturday.<ref>Bartholomew, John. [http://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21 ''John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles''], 1887. Date accessed: 27 September 2013.</ref>
==== Church Records ====
Images of the parish register for this parish are available on Family Search Historical Records (formerly Record Search)
==== Census Records<br> ====
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Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.
The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search. [http://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/census/1911/person?ukwid=394505&sourceid=1&utm_source=Google+FMP+Main_CPC&utm_medium=Key+Keywords&utm_campaign=1911+census+ Find my Past 1911 census search]<br>
==== Poor Law Unions ====
http://www.georgeplunkett.co.uk for historic photographs of the church<br>
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Norwich, parl. and mun. bor., city, co. town of Norfolk, and co. in itself, on river Wensum, 20 miles W. of Yarmouth and 114 NE. of London by rail, 7472 ac., pop. 87,842; 4 Banks, 9 newspapers. Market-days, Wednesday and Saturday.[1]
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The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search. Find my Past 1911 census search
Norwich Poor Law Union, Norfolk Genealogy
See also England, Norfolk Poor Law Union Records - FamilySearch Historical Records
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There is a comprehensive web site for the church giving more information: http://www.stgeorgetombland.churchnorfolk.com
Norwich Historic Churches Trust http://www.norwich-churches.org/index.asp
http://www.georgeplunkett.co.uk for historic photographs of the church
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The warped reality therapy of Jeffrey Goldberg
Posted on 25 December 2013 by scottlong1980
Boots, and sandals, on the ground: Clay relief by Egyptian artist Adam Dott, representing the current political situation in Egypt
Jeffrey Goldberg is one of those Beltway experts whose main area of expertise is his audience. For a while he was actually The Atlantic’s advice columnist. However brusque his manner (“What’s your problem?”, his column was called) he grasped the essence of Dear Abbyism: people want to be told to do what they already want to do. On the geopolitical scale, his famously arcane influence with high reaches of the American and Israeli governments (New York magazine described him as the “official therapist” of that fraught relationship, half Oedipal, half Albee) stems, similarly, from a talent for feeding each exactly what it longs to hear. He’s also an expert on the greater Middle East, meaning on what other people think about it. When so ostentatious a quest for insight comes back only with the carcass of a cliché or two, it feels a bit as though the Royal Hunt set off to shoot down chickens in a barnyard. But who wouldn’t prefer a safe Kentucky-fried dinner to a confrontation in a mapless thicket with the uncategorized, the indeterminate, the unknown?
This week, Goldberg is teaching us about Egypt. His column for Bloomberg analyses an interview on Egyptian TV:
And the winner of the annual “Most Convoluted Conspiracy Theory to Emerge from the Egyptian Fever Swamp” prize is the writer Amr Ammar, who alleged earlier this month on Tahrir TV that talk-show host Jon Stewart, working in tandem with former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, is asserting dominion over Egypt on behalf of the Jews. …
The gist is that, earlier this year, Stewart appeared as a gesture of support on the TV show of now-censored satirist Bassem Youssef, and made a joke about being a homeless Jew wandering the sands. Goldberg goes on:
Look in my eyes. I am now controlling your mind with my secret Jewish powers: Brzezinski
Ammar … in the course of arguing that Youssef is undermining Egypt (a common charge among revanchists), alleged that Youssef has learned theories of mass social control from Brzezinski, who is the source of Jon Stewart’s “ideology.”
Never much on the rails to begin with, Ammar then goes decisively off: “If you recall, when Jon Stewart visited here in Egypt, he was a guest on Bassem Youssef’s show. Note what Jon Stewart said as a joke. He said: ‘I am sorry I am late. I wandered in the desert, but now I’ve found my homeland.’ That’s what he said word for word — a Jew who wandered in the desert, but, thank God, found his homeland. This man says, in the heart of Egypt and on an Egyptian media outlet, that Egypt belongs to them, that it is his homeland.”
It requires no surplus of reason to agree that this is disgustingly looney. But Goldberg has an Important Point to make, not about a particular exemplar of lunacy but about the whole land of Egypt:
The proclivity of so many Egyptians to embrace conspiracy theories — anti-Semitic or otherwise — suggests an inability to grapple with the world as it actually is. An inability to grapple with the world as it actually is an obvious impediment to economic growth and political development.
So now we know why Egypt is poor and miserable: they’re uniquely out of touch with reality. Let’s unpack this.
We open our arms to welcome the conquering Israeli army to Cairo: Bassem Youssef (L) and Jon Stewart on the former’s show
1) You might think from Goldberg’s piece that Amr Ammar is some kind of important writer, and that like the greats – Dickens, Mahfouz, Dan Brown – he gives voice to dreams that well upward from the collective imagination. The truth is, no. No one I know had ever heard of him. It turns out he’s a retired army colonel, whose just-published book (Civilian Occupation: Secrets of January 25 and the American Marines) is a whole compendium of craziness, arguing that the 2011 revolution was a “complex international conspiracy against our country” by the Zionists and the CIA and everybody else. A review in the state newspaper al-Ahram lists some of the “thousands of agents and spies who tried to rape the honor of our country”:
We have been through that story with the names of its stars and its proceedings: Freedom House and Otpor [the Serbian resistance movement] and CANVAS [the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies] and the National Association for Change [a liberal group headed by Mohamed El Baradei] and April 6 [one of the main youth revolutionary groups] and Bernard Levy and Jared Cohen, and Wael Ghoneim and Ahmed Salah [prominent revolutionary spokespeople] and Mohamed El Baradei, Hamas and Pepsi and Esraa Abdel Fattah [an April 6 co-founder] and Huma Abedin [Hillary Clinton’s aide, accused by Michele Bachmann of being a Muslim Brotherhood operative, and through her marriage to Anthony Wiener obviously serving as the main link between Zionists and radical Islam] and Brzezinski and George Soros and Amr Khaled [influential television preacher] and Hisham Kassem [newspaper publisher] …
Don’t fuck with me, farbrekhers: In secret footage taken at a Pepsi board meeting, Joan Crawford addresses the Elders of Zion.
And so on. Pepsi is the crowning touch. Goldberg barely scratched the surface of the madness. In fact (and typically) Goldberg’s whole column lazily relies on a “transcript” of Amr Ammar’s interview by the US-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which always translates the worst stuff coming out of the region for Western consumption. But it’s not actually a transcript. As you can see by clicking the link, MEMRI offers up only five short passages from Ammar’s interview — basically, five Arabic sentences, about thirty seconds’ worth. The whole program, available on YouTube in two parcels, took an hour. I’d hate to inflict more of this stuff on anyone; but a real reporter, unlike Goldberg, might have wanted to go to the source and hear what else Ammar raved about, before devoting a whole column to it.
Amr Ammar interview, al-Tahrir TV, December 10, 2013, part 1
2) However little Goldberg listened to the interview, he’s right: it’s anti-Semitic and loathsome. But Goldberg has repeatedly reiterated his own theory of Egyptian anti-Semitism: that it’s a popular phenomenon deep-rooted in the country’s life and “deeply damaged culture.” “Egypt has never been notably philo-Semitic (just ask Moses),” he wrote in 2012. In the past, at least, he was intent on distinguishing this from Iran, where “the Iranian leadership is wildly anti-Semitic, but … I’ve never personally felt the hatred of Jews on the popular level.” In Egypt, though, “the virus has spread widely.”
Today it’s entirely acceptable among the educated and creative classes there to demonize Jews and voice the most despicable anti- Semitic conspiracy theories. Careerists know that even fleeting associations with Jews and Israelis could spell professional trouble.
(Note the elision of any difference between Jews and Israeli citizens.) Goldberg has always been reluctant to saddle the Egyptian state, as opposed to Egyptian “culture,” with responsibility for anti-Semitism. It’s because he generally likes the Egyptian state, at least in its military-run incarnations. Even under the Muslim Brotherhood, in fact, the state was pliable from his perspective — keeping its cold peace with Israel, and cooperating to police the fractious Sinai. As far back as 2001, he preferred blaming Egypt’s “press and the imams” for prejudice, to blaming friends.
Gleefully citing Amr Ammar, however, doesn’t actually back this up. An ex-officer, the guy comes out of the military establishment. His book’s been praised in al-Ahram, the state’s flagship paper and now a forum for junta propaganda. His interview was on Tahrir TV, founded in 2011 as a voice for revolutionaries but now, after several changes of ownership, “a mouthpiece for the intelligence and police” (in Ursula Lindsey’s words). The el-Sisi regime has been busily spinning horrifically inventive conspiracy theories almost from the moment it seized power, stories in which Zionists, Americans, Islamists, and Masons link up with human rights organizations and long-haired demonstrators to bring the state down. It might seem far-fetched to posit that Netanyahu and Hamas, Brzezinski and the Muslim Brotherhood, would join hands to demolish Egypt; but you’d be surprised. In fact, Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner married specifically in order to conquer Cairo for Mossad and al-Qaeda after the honeymoon. And vilifying Bassem Youssef as a tool of national enemies is not a hobby for “revanchists,” as Goldberg suggests. It’s Egyptian state policy.
Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner with terrifying Saracen-Jewish Satanic superchild, Ramadan’s Bubeleh, destined to take over the world
Versions of this stuff have been going on for a long time. State-promoted anti-Semitism became a loud note of the Mubarak era’s waning years. I sat speechless in an Egyptian friend’s living room in November 2002 watching Horseman Without a Horse, a lavishly produced Ramadan soap opera that dramatized the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. A few months before that, the state-owned al-Akhbar, in an editorial, called the Holocaust a fraud; al-Ahram, which despite its propaganda uses still retained a claim to respectability, had repeated the blood libel (Christian children as ingredients in the matzah) two years earlier. These are only a few examples. Of course, Goldberg’s imams often spoke the language of anti-Semitism as well. But an individual preacher might reach only a few thousand souls; whereas a state production like Horseman infused tens of millions’ dreams.
Egypt is fertile ground for lots of conspiracy theories, not just anti-Semitic ones. Last night 15 died in a bombing of the Security Directorate — secret police headquarters — in the Delta city of Mansoura; and plenty of my friends believe the state itself did it. The thing is, they might be right. Official paranoia breeds ersatz versions; and who’s to say that a secret state might not sacrifice its own secret-keepers to keep the panic brewing? These are feelings familiar to anyone who’s lived under authoritarianism; survivors of Communist Eastern Europe or apartheid South Africa will recognize them. There really is a “deep state” in Egypt, a military-security establishment with vast economic and political power. The ostensible public sphere stands severed from the occult locations where decisions are made. The more constraints encircle knowledge of what’s going on, the fewer limits there are to speculation.
Where the more hateful and virulent versions of conspiracy theory, like anti-Semitism, are concerned, one standard diagnosis finds them nebulously linked to “social change”; economic or cultural transition, if too accelerated, feeds irrational explanations. A more complex account might be: conspiracy theories breed amid uneven social change, where some structures freeze in rigidity while others shift and bend. In Imperial Germany the economy was swiftly transformed, but the political system remained fixed, dominated by an ossified and indifferent landed class. Turkey’s entrepreneurial makeover in the last three decades was slow to shake the authority of the old secular and military elites. Western investment, Western aid, satellite dishes and the Internet have rendered Egypt unrecognizable since Sadat; but the same ruling powers that were, still are. New classes — whether salaried clerks in Cologne or Islamist small businessmen in Cairo — look for reasons why their influence is less than their numbers or resources demand. If power and its persistence are neither accountable nor explicable, it’s tempting to seek not just causes, but cabalistic agents: scapegoats.
Raise your hand if you’ve tortured anyone lately: Omar Suleiman
Egypt’s political immobility under Mubarak, then, helped make a conspiratorial mindset attractive. The Parkinsonian rigidity of the regime despite three years of revolution can only deepen its heuristic appeal. But the monumental resilience of the military-security complex doesn’t just draw on its own inner resources. It’s due to forty years of unstinting support from the US; and that support has been a payback for the regime’s détente with Israel. Even Egyptians who never switched on Horseman Without a Horse know that. Egypt’s politics have gone through plenty of vicissitudes, but the treaty with Israel has stayed intensely unpopular throughout. It’s hated not because of anti-Semitism, and not just for itself, but because it’s both symbol and (financial and military) enabler of a government that can ram through pretty much any policy without even a curtsey to democratic consent. (That the semi-peace coincided with Sadat’s equally despised, equally authoritarian pursuit of poverty-producing neoliberal economic policies only confirmed its unpopularity.) Some of the most important moments in democratic dissent in Egypt have focused on opposition to Israel, and to the government’s ties to it. Many activists who led the 2011 revolution got their start a decade earlier protesting Mubarak’s acquiescence in Operation Defensive Shield and his failure to support the Palestinians, as well as his tacit endorsement of the US invasion of Iraq. Even more infuriating to the dissidents, WikiLeaks revealed that Omar Suleiman, Mubarak’s sinister security consigliere and chief torturer, was also his liaison to Tel Aviv. The old monster consulted on a hotline with the Israelis daily. Contemplating “Egyptian succession scenarios,” an Israeli diplomat said, “there is no question that Israel is most comfortable with the prospect of Omar Soliman.”
Intelligent Egyptians were eminently capable of concluding that Israel’s vested interest in Cairo’s “stability” meant complicity in repression. There was a conspiratorial element to this belief, but it wasn’t fantasy; it wasn’t Holocaust denial or the blood libel. It was perfectly consistent with the facts. The Egyptian regime’s ignition of anti-Semitism (which hit full throttle around the time Sharon took office) must be comprehended in this light. It was fantasy, but it distracted attention from the raw truth that the regime’s strength depended on its Israeli ties. It was a way of screaming, “Don’t look here: look over there!” The state knew how to cultivate conspiratorial thinking, and divert it to its own ends. The elaborate paranoias the generals promote today — the Jew-led US in league with the Masons and Qatar — serve the same purpose. The US isn’t about to give up on the Egyptian military; John Kerry has made it clear that he approves the coup, just not the methods. But a dash of rabid anti-Americanism spicing up the anti-Semitism keeps the Obamans on their toes. And it makes el-Sisi seem independent to his citizenry when, like his predecessors, he’s not.
I talk to chairs too, when I’m lonely: General el-Sisi (played by Bob Hoskins) talks to Clint Eastwood (played by John Kerry) in Cairo
Goldberg points anxiously to the “culture” of Egyptian anti-Semitism. He doesn’t want to talk about the politics of it. Talking politics would mean admitting that the regime spreads anti-Semitism, not just the “culture,” and it does so because it’s embarrassed by its own dependencies. Full democracy — including state transparency, accountability for past crimes, and smashing the military apparatus’ power — would be the remedy for Egypt’s inculcated political paranoias. A fully democratic state would almost certainly push for a different regional power structure. For that reason alone, Goldberg and the other “therapists” are unenthusiastic.
3) Goldberg is a reality therapist, all about pragmatism and responsibility and paying your doctor bills on time. His diagnosis of the Egyptian disease is “an inability to grapple with the world as it actually is,” this being “an obvious impediment to economic growth and political development.” He elaborated in 2012:
The revolution that overthrew the country’s dictator, Hosni Mubarak, held great promise, but it also exposed the enormous challenges facing Egyptian politics and culture. … As Walter Russell Mead [a Bard College professor] has written on his blog, countries “where vicious anti-Semitism is rife are almost always backward and poor.” They aren’t backward and poor because the Elders of Zion conspire against them. They’re backward and poor because, Mead argues, they lack the ability to “see the world clearly and discern cause and effect relations in complex social settings.”
That anti-Semitism was the property of poor and backward countries would have surprised Jews in rich France during the Dreyfus affair, or in technologically advanced Germany in the 1930s; or even in thriving, skinhead-infested Russia today. Certainly anti-Semitism — conspiracy addiction in general — is a cognitive failure. But is the inability to “see the world clearly and discern cause and effect” distinctive to fetid Egypt and its “damaged culture”?
Goldberg lives in the US now, and as a commentator with political pretensions, maybe he should check the polls. It isn’t just that surveys repeatedly show nearly 80% of Americans believe in angels. It isn’t even that 4% of citizens affirm that “shape-shifting reptilian people control our world by taking on human form and gaining political power to manipulate our societies,” with another 7% “not sure.” Absent a militant movement to throw the reptiles out, those credos won’t do much. Probably.
Some people say I look like Zbigniew Brzezinski: Obama lookalike plays Satan on History Channel miniseries “The Bible,” 2012
But what can you say when 20% of Republicans say Obama is the Antichrist? (18% of Americans overall, of course, think he’s a Muslim.) What about the 34% of Republicans and 35% of independents who believe in a global conspiracy to install a totalitarian superstate called the New World Order? These aren’t innocent illusions; they’re predicates for how folks vote and agitate. And what intervening angel will prevent the 37% of Americans who think global warming is a hoax from incinerating the rest of us with their delusions?
Plenty of analysts have held paranoia to be a deep-rooted characteristic of America’s political “culture”: see Richard Hofstadter. Rich and forward the US may be, but that doesn’t keep it from being fearful. More cogently, from the anti-immigrant frenzies of the 1920s through McCarthyism to the anti-Obamism of the present, conspiracy theories seem connected to uneven social change, to classes and identities terrified of being left out by economic or political transformation. But like anti-Semitism in Egypt, they’re easily manipulated and bought up by entrenched, existing power. The Koch Brothers, after all, paid for the Tea Party: the former’s method used the latter’s madness. And there’s plenty of media to promote these stories. Pat Robertson has a whole TV network to spread his ideas about how Satan, the Illuminati, the Freemasons, and the Council on Foreign Relations plot a one-world government through central banks. Broadcaster Glenn Beck, the Kanye of paranoia, beloved of the Tea Party, maps all kinds of conspiracies on his trademark chalkboard: University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein is planning genocide; Obama is an ally of Egypt’s blind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman. Egypt, in fact, is something of a Glenn Beck fetish. One of his more intricate narratives had Obama, George Soros, and international Communism working together to launch the Egyptian revolution, in order to build a “Muslim caliphate” that for some reason would make them all happy.
Egypt, your caliphate is coming: Glenn Beck connects the dots, which look suspiciously like small brain lesions.
It comes full circle. Egypt’s popular, insane TV presenter Tawfik Okasha plagiarizes the Tea Party, raging about how Obama brought the Muslim Brotherhood to power, helped by Zionists and Masons. Not for nothing is he known as the Egyptian Glenn Beck. (If you don’t know Okasha, this brilliant parody Twitter account in English gives something of his mad flavor.)
In fact, there’s one key point Goldberg left out in his account of Amr Ammar, so hampered was he by MEMRI’s selective editing, so fixed on Egypt’s “damaged culture.” Many of Ammar’s conspiratorial fantasies didn’t spring from the “Egyptian fever swamp.” They come from the US.
Look in my eyes and, trust me, you will never get out alive: Michele Bachmann editorializes in Daily News Egypt, December 2013
The “fever swamp” is in DC, as much as the Nile Delta. It’s doubtful Ammar or anyone else in Sisi’s circles would even have heard of Huma Abedin if Michele Bachmann hadn’t been smearing her for years as a Muslim Brotherhood mole in the US government. The Islam-loathing Bachmann has become a serious and baleful influence on Egyptian politics, visiting the country twice since the coup to share her “witless ramblings” with the junta leaders; in Cairo, she even accused the Muslim Brotherhood of involvement in the September 11 attacks. George Soros as bête noire and fulcrum of the global conspiracy is an idea borrowed, of course, from plenty of Tea Party polemicists, Glenn Beck high among them. Ammar would hardly have thought to mention Zbigniew Brzezinski’s name — as hard to pronounce in Arabic as in English — but for the work of right-wing US paranoiacs, who have long fingered the dour Pole as an Illuminatus and inventor of the New World Order.
Sign in Mansoura after the December 24 bombing reads, “Extermination of the Muslim Brotherhood, sons of Zionists and Egypt’s Jews, is an obligation”: via @ablasalma
Indeed, much as right-wing evangelicals arguably exported their homophobia to Uganda, conspiratorial neocons and other conmen are shipping their Islamophobia to Egypt. What’s arising in Cairo is a peculiar blend of Islam(ist)-hatred and anti-Semitism, a weird worldview in which the Elders of Zion breach protocol to lend a hand to the Ikhwan. The key ideas come from outside. And the melding seems liberating for many Tea Party types like Bachmann. Egypt is a place where the latent anti-Semitism bred by Becks and Robertsons, by Christmas warriors and Confederate nostalgists — a sentiment confined to coded dog-whistles in the corseted US — can emerge and stretch its limbs and find its voice.
Goldberg is spot on that some people can’t “see the world clearly and discern cause and effect relations in complex social settings.” But they’re not all Egyptians. Some of them live right in his own town, and promote their paranoias in his neighborhood. One person, in fact, who has some trouble with cause and effect relations seems to be Goldberg. Therapy begins at home.
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Cultural Cold Wars: Where “traditional values” came from
Posted on 4 October 2013 by scottlong1980
“Communism destroys the family”: Spanish fascist poster, 1936. With one women screaming as the Red abducts another, the possibility that this is a lesbian family is not to be discounted.
There’s thunder out there, and not just on the Right, telling us the Cold War is back. Tensions between the US and Russia have ascended, over Edward Snowden and Syria. A new poll shows that a bare majority of Americans thinks of Russia as “non-friendly/enemy,” the first time it’s fallen so low in this century. And of course there are the gays. Will “divisions over sexual orientation” be “the new Berlin Wall”? Indeed, by sponsoring a resolution on “traditional values” at the UN Human Rights Council, Putin seems to be bidding for leadership of an unwieldy coalition of conservative countries — the Islamic bloc, sub-Saharan African states, right-wing Catholic regimes in Latin America – that has opposed women’s rights and sexual rights for more than fifteen years, usually without great-power support.
A lot of people, particularly pundits, need a Cold War. It lends focus to their energies and cohesion to their loathings, without calling on their minuscule reserves of courage like a hot one would. The years since 1989 have been a nostalgic and leaderless lurch from enemy to enemy, searching for one with size and staying power enough to infuse meaning into the vacant days: first, Saddam Hussein, then radical Islam, then Saddam Hussein again briefly, then back to radical Islam, with occasional forays into demonizing Serbia (too small to be powerful and frightening) and China (too non-white for same). Only in the last few years has Russia re-emerged as Old Reliable, perhaps dating from John McCain’s history-making 2008 cry: “Today we are all Georgians.” True, nobody remembers the Georgians now, but the principle’s the same. Today we are all Russian gays. Crowded, this back room.
I don’t think there will be a new Cold War – Russia is big, but it’s not what it used to be – and I don’t think homosexuality will be a Checkpoint Charlie, though the analogies are tempting. (Will the gays organize a Berlin airlift to ferry sex to their starved brethren under repressive rule? What about the Bay of Bears invasion?) But with Moscow emerging as a patron, the side that’s been fighting a culture war against women and against sexuality has a bit more weight in international arenas than before; maybe that will translate into more boldness at home as well. (Russia, however, is not prone to backing up its verbal support for homophobic governments by ladling on bilaterial aid. China, which is comparatively indifferent to sex, is the big funder.) Similarly, there’s no question that the Obama administration’s loud support of LGBT rights abroad – with an eye to domestic voters — has given a don’t-tread-on-me, militaristic tone to the way US gays approach international issues. The big dog is barking for progressivism and freedom, and we can puff our chests out and piss on lampposts to assert our pride. So as one blogger puts it,
25 years ago a lot of countries got away with a lot of antigay crap because we weren’t powerful enough to stop the bigotry and the hatred that led so many of us to attempt suicide. That doesn’t give Russia the right to keep abusing us today – as if they somehow missed out their chance to dehumanize us somehow, and now want a shot at it. We finally have the power to stand up to bullies and we will.
Barry Goldwater couldn’t have said it better.
All the same, if this Cold War is being waged over cultural values, we need to remember that the old Cold War was too. It was, in fact, the first real culture war, not just between two countries but between two ideologies – capitalism and Communism – each measuring success not merely in military terms but in changing lifeways and attracting populations by their blandishments. (Fascism employed propaganda to cement loyalty in peoples under its direct rule, but it was never a universalist ideology, too absorbed in national and racial myths to refashion itself for transnational audiences.)
What’s interesting is that the cultural alignments in the 40-year US vs. Russia showdown were very different from those today: in fact, about 180 degrees so.
“This Godless Communism”: Treasure Chest comics series, starting in 1961
These days, Russia claims to speak for countries that see themselves on the cultural defensive, fighting a rear-guard effort to preserve “traditional values” like family, religion, and cohesive community. Back then, it was the capitalist countries, and the US in its capacity as Head Capitalist, who sold themselves that way. The values rhetoric, the defense of patriarchy, the invocations of moral absolutes that are used against so many human rights movements today – all these are pretty much what the US was saying at home and abroad half a century ago.
When I was a small-town boy at the height of the old Cold War, every pulpit, politician, and TV screen seemed to warn that Communism was after us, the way we lived here and now. It would dissolve the family, destroy religion, crush morality, and abolish traditional community: all the things that small-town boys in Gambia or Belarus nowadays hear are the goals of homosexuality and feminism and Hillary Clinton. The visions were terrifying; the thought that some commissar out there had Radford, Virginia (pop. 10,000, an All-American City) in his sights was extraordinarily vivid. Moreover, even comic books spread the dire message – and for a six-year-old in 1968, comic books were way more reliable than members of Congress. The iconic images of threats to a way of life say more than all the speeches I could quote.
Treasure Chest, a Catholic-oriented comic, was widely distributed for years in secular schools as well. It featured a running series series on the Red threat, “This Godless Communism.” (Catholic leaders were heirs to a long history of anti-Communist agitation in the name of social values – and they were also, most likely, familiar with Fascist propaganda, like the poster up at top.) This one, from 1961, featured an introduction and cameo by J. Edgar Hoover. After the Communists take over the US, the first thing we learn is that they’re feminists.
Getting Mommy in the workforce isn’t the half of it, though. Next come state-run nurseries, and “So ends the story of the American family.”
We need “to be on our guard, to re-affirm the truths we once learned and now teach, to keep our children free from Communism.” But Communism targets the transmission of tradition. Even in places without tradition, like Canada.
Canadair advertisement, 1955
The result of this treason, of course, is a school like this (the pedagogue looked, even if she didn’t exactly sound, like my first-grade teacher):
Here, in a 1948 comic about Soviet America, a son tells the secret police about Mom’s hidden “religious junk.” When they raid the home in consequence, disappointed Dad is alarmingly happy to hand Biff over to them as well: “You’ve got his soul — now take his body too.” I could see my father saying the same thing.
And, of course, all this flows from a cosmopolitan conspiracy against American morals and values. Even in 1948, the Catholic comics were decrying a “culture of death” — in this one, Communists boasted about their success in spreading it:
It’s easy, maybe cheap, to laugh. I always find that, to us in the US, our Cold War propaganda is funny in a way that other endeavors in the field (even the trumped-up, hysterical atrocity stories of the First World War) aren’t. Mainly the reason is that it’s less about them than about us. Precisely because it’s a culture war, and because we believed we were losing, the focus is incessantly on the “way of life” we’re supposed to be defending. More than almost any other propaganda, it serves up images of our imagined everyday happiness as the object of the enemy’s resentful demolition urges. But that way of life, airbrushed to absurdity then, seems utterly unreal now. It isn’t even menacing in its repressive gender roles, its airtight whiteness. You can’t take it seriously – it’s all camp, and you can recuperate it for a nostalgic chuckle as easily as Leave it to Beaver.
This distance we feel is partly due to what happened, throughout the capitalist West, since 1960. The vast economic growth of the postwar years, the Trentes Glorieuses, created fullblown consumer societies in western Europe and in parts of the US that had never seen them before. People could spend their way into niches where they could express dissident identities publicly and safely. Affluence relaxed social norms and helped women push for liberation from traditional roles. Economic power brought burgeoning demands for political rights. Leave it to Beaver was left behind, a relic. It grew harder and harder for the West to represent itself to itself as securely on the side of conservative social practices.
Not so simple these days: From 1971 cartoon by US evangelical megapublisher Jack T. Chick
But the Cold War’s cultural as well as political battlefield shifted in the 60s and 70s, away from the capitalist heartland to the Third World. Increasingly, the conflict fought itself out in counterinsurgency campaigns and ideological struggles in all corners of Africa, Latin America, and Asia. “Traditional values” became an export commodity, essential to Western propaganda and Western politics there.
US government experts explained the temptations of Communism in the developing world by “the personal uncertainty generated by the jarring social transitions from tradition to modernity.” The best way to ensure satisfactory citizens, and stable and dependable governments, was to entrust development to a trustworthy force – preferably, the military would preside over modernization in countries prepping for “take-off.” A stern dictatorship of generals would also make sure that free trade, marketization, and a capitalist economy left as much as possible of patriarchal, hierarchical morals and social relations intact. US propaganda tools and talents would be ready to assist. The US treated family and religion as universal values of conservatism, regardless of what particular God you worshipped or within what family form you beat your wife. The more they eroded in the homeland, the more vital they appeared in foreign policy. As President Eisenhower famously said, free government “has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply-felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.”
Poster for António Salazar’s dictatorship in Portugal: “Salazar’s Lesson: God, Fatherland, Family: The Trilogy of National Education”
The US’s pet dictatorships, from Lisbon to Saigon, all fostered bifurcated visions of the world: a rosy and pious traditional family at the center, requiring the exertion of appalling violence to protect it from corrosive horrors beyond. Jordán Bruno Genta, chief ideologue of military fascism in Argentina, urged the country to
Create a military state and a war policy to combat internal subversion; indoctrinate the military with a clear idea of its mission and with enthusiasm for this mission; mobilize the entire population for the counterrevolutionary war; free the nation from the power of international money; base everything in Christ, which means restore the natural hierarchies.
After the generals took power in Buenos Aires, school textbooks told kids that
for psychological and physical reasons, the male should be acknowledged as the authority … By her nature the woman represents kindness and love. Unless things are so, anarchy and dissatisfaction become a fact … To deny the father’s authority is to tear the family to pieces. The woman’s obedience to authority has a great educational influence on the family.
Abortion, free love, pornography, and divorce all exempified “the most recent Marxist strategy to conquer the West.” Propaganda, of course, had the police behind it; everything from feminism to Freudianism took on the look of leftist subversion. The regime murdered thousands who denied “the father’s authority,” or its own.
Similar propaganda sustained the Pinochet dictatorship in neighboring Chile.
This is a 1984 booklet on Marxism emitted by the junta. “Communism believes that the family has no reason to exist, so must be weakened to extinction.” The sad female on the right, dreaming of distraught infants, dreams in vain: “Woman is separated from family life, into work shifts in factories and militant political activity. It denies her duty as a mother and wife, and puts her children under the tutelage of the state.”
“Chile: Yesterday” –street violence — “Today” — family; 1975 propaganda
This was crude compared to other Pinochet productions. The Chilean dictatorship hewed to a comprehensive “cultural policy,” to promote “the defense, development and growth of the tradition and culture which is our own.” It also had excellent PR. It drew on the services not only of the CIA but of numerous American intellectuals and corporations who had the tyrant’s back. Its marketing emphasized continuity, stability, and belonging, with simple text and visuals and attractive typography. This 1979 promo is as warm and reassuring as an American ad for oatmeal.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/riveranotario
“Chile’s glorious past is reborn with vigor in September” — the month of both Independence Day and the so-called Second Independence, when the thugs overthrew Allende. Family and continuity unite as cultural values, in a history represented by a list of safely right-wing national heroes. Then: “Chile Forever. All One.”
Those faux-kindly notes were struck in many places, even if fear was never far from the margins. Consider this collection of election posters for Italy’s Christian Democratic Party, which dominated the country for 50 years, and was a well-funded favorite of the CIA.
Top L: “Mother! Save your children from Bolshevism!” Top R: “Vote Christian” — while snakes labelled “Divorce” and “Free Love” hiss at the family. Bottom L: A 20th-anniversary poster for Christian Democracy features a white-clad virgin. Bottom R: “Mamma and Papa — Vote for me.”
More overt are the oppositions in these posters from Thailand, which contrast misery and alienation in Communist China to traditional culture and the family.
“The Communist Party forcibly tears apart family members among the common people. The Kingdom of Thailand’s people live and work in peace and happiness.”
“The Communist Party fattens the public and deprives the private, not allowing the Chinese people enough property. The people of the Kingdom of Thailand live comfortably in abundance.” It’s like Norman Rockwell.
CIA propaganda invoked family and religion in counterinsurgency campaigns. A two-sided CIA leaflet from the Dominican Republic, invaded by the US in 1965, puts it succinctly:
http://www.psywarrior.com
The exact identity of the round object raining golden showers on the Virgin’s head remains, however, uncertain.
The CIA also drew heavily on imagery and rhetoric of family in South Vietnam. One of its key propaganda contributions to the war was the Chieu Hoi or “Open Arms” program, a multimillion-dollar fiasco designed to persuade Viet Cong guerrillas to surrender in exchange for amnesty. Nostalgia for the families they’d left behind was the main selling point, but it played into larger themes of traditionalism and security.
http://www.psywarrior.com/
We cry for the dead
We are bitter because the Communists
Have destroyed our families.
When will mothers and children be reunited?
The leaflet’s obverse is less sentimental, though, promising deserters
200 (piasters) per month for errands. 15 piasters for each member of the family who stays at the government center. …
Two pairs of shirts and pants or 1000 piasters.
During the Chimurenga against white rule in Rhodesia, the racist government predictably allocated gender roles in the most traditional ways when appealing to the white community:
Top, recruiting ad for Rhodesian army, 1970s; bottom, warning against loose talk
Its attempts to propagandize among blacks, however, showed “native” families the way whites wanted to see them, as unappealingly impotent. Men were absent, women defenseless, a vision perhaps unlikely to entrance the intended audience. Meanwhile, Communist bearers of deviant sex ravaged traditional ways of life, as not only rapists but carriers of venereal disease:
Leaflets distributed in government-controlled villages by white Rhodesian forces, 1970s
You have to wonder if this talk of infectious “mad dogs” had any influence on the later language of Robert Mugabe.
Perhaps the oddest artifact is this comic book, Grenada: Rescued from Rape and Slavery. A CIA front (“Victims of International Communist Emissaries,” or VOICE) distributed it on the island after the US invaded in 1983. In true Treasure Chest style, it shows Bill and Anna, a nuclear couple with the requisite two kids, who fear what the Communists will do to the Grenadan family: “Oh, Bill, I’m so afraid — afraid for ourselves and for our children. With more Cubans coming in more of our children will be forced into brainwashing!” The problem is, unlike the Treasure Chest clan, they’re black. Black families in the US had been suffering “benign neglect” for generations, so why do these guys expect you to drop everything? Bill and Anna seem virtuous, monogamous, and not part of the drug trade, though, so the helicopters come: “Yes, Anna, thank God! And thank God for President Reagan and our freedom-loving neighbors!”
What we see now is a remarkable reversal of all this old-time religion. It’s now consumerism that plays the role once taken by godless Communism, threatening all traditional ways of life. America is the great Satan; Obama stands in for Khrushchev in the imaginary comic book of our time; and the effectively neutered and de-radicalized Third World (now along with Russia) stands up for the good old values. In fact Putin sounds like, and with his taste for boorish nationalism and unapologetic intervention often acts like, Eisenhower or Reagan. How the whirligig of time brings round his revenges!
There was always a contradiction in the ideologies of capitalism, though, between the social values it dresses itself in — so often traditional, meant to hold society in place and ready for productive labor during rapid change — and the social processes it furthers, so often transformative. Everything solid melts into air; but we’re not supposed to notice, are meant to carry on with our assigned roles as always, the work, the weddings, the funerals. Marx knew how this happens, but most of the moderns don’t.
America and Europe in the last few decades have thrown away the sheep’s clothing. They’re not interested in tradition anymore, because it isn’t useful to them. They’re on the side of social transformation, as long as it’s in their favor: as long as it’s compatible with economic advantage, with keeping capital mobile and the workforce in the rest of the world low-wage. Meanwhile, the previously pliable regimes it helped establish around the planet, from Ben Bella’s jailers to Yeltsin’s heirs, are seizing the banner of tradition, as a symbolic way of defending themselves against — among other things — capital flows and forces that see their borders as irrelevant and their economies as fields for exploitation.
What hasn’t changed in sixty years (though the players’ slogans and some of their identities have) is that it’s about power. Caught in the middle, much as before, are ragtag, straggling bands of communities and social movements who reject the fake ideologies of tradition and belonging. They want more freedom; but they don’t want to buy another prefab ideology of being “freed,” or fight on somebody else’s side to get it — whether the somebody is Brezhnev or Obama. Third World feminists in the ’70s and Third World LGBT folk today are in approximately the same place, ground between visions of liberation or salvation that are unreal and oversimplified and exclude them. It’s not a comic book world, and the answers will not come easy.
Last page of Two Faces of Communism, comic produced in 1961 by the evangelical Christian Anti-Communism Crusade
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On choice
Posted on 29 January 2012 by scottlong1980
Cynthia did not put adequate thought into the ramifications of her words
The Cynthia Nixon scandal roils on. I’ve stopped keeping count of who’s blaming her for what these days; the last I heard, she was responsible for kids being electroshocked in Tennessee. Loose lips sink ships; but it seems that Cynthia’s, like a Helen of Troy in reverse, have torpedoed a thousand of them. It all reminds me a bit of G.W. Bush’s press secretary, in the chilly first days of our War of Terror, warning critics that “people have to watch what they say and watch what they do.” I am not sure that Guantanamo has a cage or two for loquacious actors, but I gather some folks wish it did.
In discussing the affair, Andrew Sullivan graciously linked to my own post, and the question of what would happen if we treated sexual orientation like religion, “a decision so profoundly a part of one’s elected and constructed selfhood that one should never be forced to change it.” He added:
Of course, I don’t actually experience my faith as a choice, in the usual sense of the word. It feels as deep a part of me as my orientation.
Those two sentences rang true, and they pointed me to a basic question. What do we mean by “choice,” anyway? There are certain cultural horizons that define people as much as any biological ones do. And thinking about these things can make the concept of “choice” seem inadequate as a way of grasping how human beings act, decide, and are.
It’s inadequate, at least, if taken in the way we moderns tend to treat it, as a pure act of untrammeled freedom, occurring on an abstract plane vacated of constraints or pasts. Andrew has stuck with being a Catholic despite the Church’s best efforts to make people like him pariahs. Is that courage, or acceptance? I would bet at some point he has expressed this as “I choose to be a Catholic because” … But I would also bet he has expressed it as “I can’t imagine not being a Catholic because…” Both seem to me equally valid ways of saying much the same thing – equally true pictures of the same situation, only seen from different aspects, like the blind men groping the elephant. We don’t always choose by making pure, existential leaps in the dark, like Kierkegaard or Lord Jim. Sometimes our freedom consists in staying rather than in going, though to stay means embracing the conditions that formed us and limit us. Sometimes we choose by being, not deciding.
For myself, though I am certainly not a practicing Christian, though I was not raised in an especially devout family, and though I believe virtually nothing of Christian dogma, when I’m asked about my religion I almost always describe myself as Christian – because certain aspects of a religion that in other ways I loathe form my horizon still. The myths of resurrection and redemption are deeply if inarticulately ingrained in me, frames of hope and mercy through which I understand the world. (I have tried telling people I’m an “agnostic Christian,” but it nearly always makes everybody terribly mad.) I confess to a mild, instinctive mistrust of people who convert from one whole religious tradition to another: Muslims who become Christian, or Christians who become Hindus, switches like that. (I make something of an exception for Buddhism, since it is less a religion than a philosophical stance.) At some gut level I feel you can lose your religion and become an atheist, but you can’t just take on a completely different tradition, with all its weight and taboos and cultural baggage. Such converts appear to me at times like followers of Gilbert Osmond, the cold-blooded collector of culture in James’ Portrait of a Lady, who said that if you happen to find yourself one day without a tradition, it’s incumbent on you to purchase a new one as rapidly as possible. But that won’t work! I feel like shouting. You can scrap your original one, but that doesn’t mean the new one you try to own will own you.
Objectively, I realize this is completely silly. To change your beliefs in one compartment of your life doesn’t make you a luftmensch (a person of the air, as the Nazis called the supposedly rootless Jews). Anyway, there’s nothing wrong with being a luftmensch. Air is healthy. My point is that I feel a weight, a drag, of resistance to the idea that choice is unconditioned, and I feel it in areas completely apart from the putatively destined, determined realms of sexuality or desire. There’s not some simple antinomy where genes decide a part of who we are, and all the rest is up for grabs. Everybody has their arenas where they feel freer, and others where they feel fixed. Our histories decide them, not just some biological allotment.
Another instance: I know I am and will always remain a middle-class American. Being rich or being poor, moving to another country, even changing my passport wouldn’t alter that. Wherever I’ve lived outside the US borders, I’ve always eschewed the American expatriate scene. You don’t go abroad in order to make new American friends. But from time to time, every couple of months or so, I found I needed to talk to my fellow countrypeople. Not to share political chat, or explore our economic interests, or voice some gross contempt for the locals: But because there was a subtler if more trivial common horizon of pop culture, of gestures comprehended and jokes understood, of TV commercials we watched when we were kids. I needed that to remind me of who I was. Living in Romania, I might have a lover who was Romanian, and we might understand each other better than anybody else in the world did. But he still didn’t know why the silly rabbit could never eat Trix. Sometimes I needed to talk to people who knew that Trix was for kids.
It’s strange I should feel this about religion or nationality, by objective standards fairly contingent things, when I firmly believe we can change our genders. But gender, when it’s assigned to us at birth, isn’t given us with a history. As we grow up, it takes on all kind of symbolic meanings, but doesn’t necessarily acquire a past. Being a “man” doesn’t require associating yourself with the whole history of manhood (some model figures, yes, but manhood itself doesn’t have a story). It’s forward-looking. You will become a man, fathers tell their sons, you will grow into manhood. Gender is a project, a perpetual becoming. It’s easier to abandon a future than a past. By contrast, faith and class are part not just of our personal histories, but of the immensely longer history behind us. Some people can liberate themselves from that history to greater or less degrees; some don’t want to. But whether any one area of your life has been thus liberated as against another is, perhaps, a morally neutral question. What Kant called the project of autonomy, the task of ridding yourself of the vast weight of the given, is necessarily partial. No one can ever denude herself altogether. Recognizing that you can never place all your life under the dominion of choice, you must choose where you will strive to exercise your choices.
Our language around “choice,” and “freedom,” is terribly impoverished. By “ours” I mean “us Americans”: but also parts of the LGBT movement in many places around the world, which have got their vocabulary and a fragment of their worldview from an American definition. This is one consequence of being from a place where choice is so valorized, so elevated as the sole intent of life, that no one bothers to define or interrogate what it means. We either imagine that choice is completely free, untrammeled, taking place in a vacuum –or that we’re completely constrained, controlled, defined, overdetermined creatures of an implacable destiny. It’s obvious, and yet hard to articulate, that neither is true. It’s telling that one side in the most extended U.S. political battle of the last forty years couches its advocacy in terms of the “right to choose.” It’s never the right to choose something – to have an abortion or not, to carry a child to term or not. All that’s elided, as though “choice” summed up that and everything else that could be said. Certainly, this rhetoric was field-tested for palatability and persuasiveness, and I cringe to cavil at it. Equally certainly, controlling reproduction opens up for women a whole repertory of other choices that would otherwise be closed. But insistently reiterating a right to unlimited choice must turn many a listener’s mind to all the things she never had a choice over: the hand-me-down clothes in childhood, the crappy carpet that came with the house, the job, the husband. And with that comes resentment, a feeling such choice is less a right than an invidious privilege. Has this whole strategy worked out the way we planned?
The truth is that we choose; and we choose from a repertory that our pasts have given us; and we choose as beings who are already endowed with histories behind us, not sprung fresh and new from Jupiter’s head or the half-shell. We bring our lives to our choices. What would they be worth otherwise?
Being in love is a bit like what I’m talking about. There has to be an element of free will in it, otherwise nobody would want your love. To be sure, nobody in love feels entirely free. Nobody deludes themselves they’re in full command of their feelings. Yet who would wish to be presented with an attachment that’s just a bundle of involuntary drives? Who would like to be told, “Honey, my hormones selected you,” even if they get a bouquet of roses into the bargain? From one side it’s an unstoppable passion, but that’s not the only aspect. The side from which we can say we chose the loved one represents our respect, not just for them as deserving objects of desire, but for ourselves as reasonable beings who deserve to be desired back. And yet, of course, it’s a determined choice. And of course, love opens up a Pandora’s jewelry box of further choices everyday: To stay or to go, to accommodate or argue, to speak or be silent, to share or not to share. In our intimacies where we struggle most to be ourselves, choice and compulsion are inextricably intertwined.
Nixon in "Wit": The bald truth
Maybe we in the United States need a bit more Edmund Burke, to ground our sense of freedom in a context. Burke understood that when we vote our ancestors vote with us: that we are inheritors of history, not just its inhabitants and masters. But that knowledge is not just a property of the Right. Marx too grasped that our consciousness is conditioned, that history makes us before we can make it.
Nor do philosophers map the only road to realizing this. A poet or two has been there first. These days Cynthia Nixon is reading John Donne on Broadway (the New York Times, which exposed her heresy on “choice,” gave her a glorious review to make up for it). Perhaps, in her private moments when the audience is gone, she also whispers to herself some lines from Auden:
Wandering lost upon the mountains of our choice
Again and again we sigh for an ancient South,
For the warm nude ages of instinctive poise,
For the taste of joy in the innocent mouth. …
We envy streams and houses that are sure:
But we are articled to error; we
Were never nude and calm like a great door,
And never will be perfect like the fountains;
We live in freedom by necessity,
A mountain people dwelling among mountains.
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Victoire du kahanisme en Israël →
De Reagan à Sanders
Posted on 24 septembre 2017 by Le Gentil
Il peut paraître inutile de se pencher sur l’évolution de la politique états-unienne depuis l’ère reaganienne, pourtant c’est ce qui permet de comprendre le mieux le phénomène Trump. L’ère reaganienne a non seulement inauguré l’alliance du capitalisme sauvage, du fondamentalisme chrétien et du faux populisme réactionnaire dans le camp républicain, elle a également inauguré le démantèlement complet des idées socialistes (New Deal) dans le camp démocrate.
Le journaliste Thomas Frank, ancien reaganien devenu grand fan du mouvement lié à Bernie Sanders, a l’intelligence de discerner entre le populisme authentique – de nature économique – et le faux populisme créé par les républicains (Fox, Tea Party, birthers, trumpisme, etc.). Obama, grand orateur animé d’un idéal libéral quasi révolutionnaire, aurait dû engendrer un tel mouvement populiste économique, s’il avait été conséquent avec ses nombreux discours contre les banques; c’est pourquoi les républicains ont pris les devants et lui ont littéralement coupé l’herbe sous le pied en créant le mouvement de contestation Tea Party. Astucieux, les républicains ont littéralement volé sa cause à Obama. Trump est en quelque sorte l’ombre d’Obama et de son esprit contestataire, presque révolutionnaire. La contestation des traités de libre-échange aurait dû être le travail d’Obama, mais c’est Trump qui l’a fait. Obama a été trop influencé par le courant anti-socialiste des Clinton, pour des questions bassement électoralistes. (N’oublions pas que ce fut Bill Clinton, allié à Al Gore, qui mena les Chicago Boys à imposer le capitalisme sauvage en Europe de l’Est dans les États de l’ex-URSS.) L’ère Obama s’est avérée décevante à maints égards, Trump a pu ainsi voler lui la vedette en incarnant le « vrai populiste » à sa place. Or le trumpisme s’avère être un faux populisme créé expressément par les républicains afin de récupérer les forces vives de contestation du peuple américain après la crise financière de 2008 et de les orienter dans le sens de leurs lubies anti-socialistes (ex: Trump poursuit dans la même voie avec ses menaces contre le Vénézuela, l’accusant d’être dans une situation trouble en raison précisément de son socialisme, ce qui lève le voile en fait sur sa propre pensée ultra-libéraliste, capitaliste sauvage).
Il n’y a plus guère que Bernie Sanders pour représenter un authentique populisme, le populisme économique (contre le pouvoir des banques, pour des soins de santé universels, l’université gratuite, etc.), et même, depuis peu, un authentique populisme non-interventionniste en matière de politique étrangère. À ce sujet, voir le précédent article de ce blog.
Le grand bluff de Ronald Reagan
Corporate Democrats Have a Vested Interest in Not Listening to Workers – RAI with Thomas Frank (1/6)
Clinton Attacks Sanders in New Book – RAI With Thomas Frank (2/6)
Liberal Elite Doesn’t Care Much About Inequality – RAI with Thomas Frank (3/6)
Clinton Democrats Hate the Left – RAI with Thomas Frank (4/6)
From Ronald Reagan to Bernie Sanders – RAI with Thomas Frank (5/6)
Prisoners of Hope – RAI with Thomas Frank (6/6)
The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics w/ Jefferson Cowie – MR Live – 11/20/17 – YouTube
How The New Deal Created A Cohesion Of Political Ideas
What Killed The New Deal?
Was The New Deal Racist?
Undoing the New Deal: Truman’s Cold War Buries Wallace and the Left
Undoing the New Deal: The 1944 Coup Against VP Henry Wallace
The Untold Story of the United States, by Peter Kuznick
Meet the little-known Jewish man behind Britain’s Thatcherist revolution
https://www.timesofisrael.com/meet-the-little-known-jewish-man-behind-britains-thatcherist-revolution/
Born 100 years ago, upper-class Sir Keith Joseph made for a strange political bedfellow with Methodist, underprivileged Thatcher — but together the two changed UK politics forever
By Robert Philpot 17 January 2018, 4:09 pm
The Conservative government front bench sit in the House of Commons in London, April 11, 1981. Left to right are then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe, Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph, Defense Secretary John Nott, and Employment Secretary Norman Tebbit. (AP Photo/BIPHA/Central Press Photos)
LONDON — For Margaret Thatcher, he was quite simply “England’s greatest man.” And while the late prime minister’s propensity for hyperbole may have gotten the better of her on occasion, Sir Keith Joseph was nonetheless one of the most significant figures in modern British political history.
Born 100 years ago this week, Joseph was Thatcher’s mentor, ideological guru and political soulmate. Without him, the “Thatcher revolution” of the 1980s — which sought to slash taxes, crack down on the over-mighty trade unions and privatize unprofitable state industries — may never have happened.
And, of course, this experiment in free-market economics launched by the Thatcher government when she entered office in May 1979 reverberated far beyond Britain’s shores. Imitated by its admirers and reviled by its detractors throughout the world, “Thatcherism” was the work of many hands, but none more than Joseph’s.
It was a debt Thatcher freely acknowledged. In the first volume of her memoirs — which she dedicated to his memory — the former prime minister wrote simply: “I could not have become leader of the opposition, or achieved what I did as prime minister, without Keith [Joseph].”
From a woman who was not inclined to share the credit for her achievements in office, such accolades were rare.
Joseph was, though, the most improbable of revolutionaries and his alliance with Thatcher an unlikely one.
The child of a wealthy and well-established Anglo-Jewish family, Joseph’s father was not simply a successful businessman, but also rose through the arcane world of London politics to become lord mayor of London (not to be confused with the office of mayor) in 1942.
Nor did the family confine itself to municipal politics: close relatives — Isidore Salmon and Louis Gluckstein — both served as members of parliament in the 1930s and 1940s.
If Joseph was not a revolutionary by background, neither was he one by temperament. Sir Alfred Sherman, a fellow Jew who would play a critical role in both Joseph’s political journey and Thatcher’s rise to power, later wrote of his ally’s “tendency to wilt under pressure.” He also lacked another crucial element of the revolutionary’s makeup — absolute confidence in his cause.
An official photo of the Cabinet in the Pillard Room at 10 Downing Street, London, issued by the Central Office of Information, Feb. 11, 1985. Then Prime-Minister Margaret Thatcher is seated front row, center. Keith Joseph is seated three seats to her right. (AP photo)
For the journalist David Lipsey, Joseph displayed “a very Jewish sense of personal guilt which [made] him absurdly hard on himself.”
These traits were not commonly associated with the Iron Lady. Whether battling the Argentinians in the South Atlantic, the miners in the coalfields of northern England or civil servants in Whitehall, Thatcher relished conflict. Joseph went out of his way to avoid it.
But this was not the only respect in which the two differed. Thatcher was the daughter of a grocer and came from a lower middle class, Methodist and provincial home. Joseph’s background was upper middle class, Jewish and metropolitan.
The future prime minister displayed a precocious interest in politics, rushing to join the Oxford University Conservative Association, reveling in her first visit to the Conservative party conference, and fighting her first parliamentary seat at the age of just 24.
By contrast, Joseph spent his university years playing cricket — he was “interested in wide issues but not identifiably political,” suggested one observer who met him shortly after the war — and did not seek to enter the House of Commons until he was 37.
Despite their multitude of differences, however, Joseph and Thatcher shared a common attribute: both had a sense of themselves as outsiders. Indeed, as I argue in my recently published book, “Margaret Thatcher: Honorary Jew” this perception of herself would form an important element in the prime minister’s bond with the wider UK Jewish community.
At Oxford, she experienced snobbery from the public school-educated grandees who dominated the Conservative Association, while liberal intellectuals on the academic body showed her similar disdain.
“We used to entertain a good deal at the weekends,” the principal of her college later remembered, “but she didn’t get invited. She had nothing to contribute, you see.”
When she sought a safe parliamentary seat, Thatcher, by then a young mother, faced repeated rejections.
Even once she entered parliament, Thatcher wrote in her memoirs, in the eyes of the upper-class establishment which dominated the Conservative party, she “offended on many counts” — because of her class, gender and her respect for the “values and virtues of middle England.”
Joseph’s rapid rise through the Tory party’s ranks — six years after being elected an MP in early 1956 he was a member of Harold MacMillan’s cabinet – suggested that no such barriers stood in his way. The dashing young minister was even spoken of as “the Tory Jack Kennedy.”
However, Joseph was acutely conscious that, as he later put it, to be successful a Jew had to “spark on all four cylinders.” His upbringing may have been immensely privileged but it was not without its challenges.
At prep school, Joseph had suffered anti-Semitic verbal bullying. As a teenager, he saw his father subjected to a vicious, if unsuccessful, Jew-baiting election campaign by a political opponent. And although the Josephs may not have encountered the most violent manifestations of anti-Semitism sometimes experienced by working-class Jews in the East End of London during the 1930s, the family was highly conscious of the gathering European storm.
A number of its members, for instance, chose to Anglicize their names (Joseph’s father, Samuel, changed his middle name from Gluckstein to George).
The Conservative party at the time also had a long — and deserved — reputation for being unwelcoming to Jews, stretching back to its attempt to slam the door on large-scale Jewish immigration to Britain in the early 20th century. If not universal, examples of Tory anti-Semitism, often expressed in a barely coded form of snobbery, were not hard to come by.
Thus, despite socioeconomic changes that would later shift Jewish political allegiances to the right — anti-Semitism in the party lingered on. This was evident in the response of one of those who interviewed Joseph for inclusion on the party’s candidates list.
“As a Jew,” he commented, “I suppose he is not every constituency’s man and, therefore, his placing would need care.”
Joseph was not oblivious to local mutterings against picking a Jew to represent the party when he successfully sought selection in Leeds North East, a constituency in the north of England which itself had a sizeable Jewish population.
Nor can Joseph have been unconscious of the fact that, for his first 14 years in parliament, he was one of only two Jews to sit on the Tory benches in the House of Commons (in 1966, there were 38 Jewish Labour MPs) and that, when he was promoted to Minister of Housing and Local Government in 1962, he became the first Jewish member of a Conservative cabinet in over two decades.
Within the parliamentary party Joseph was popular, but regarded, wrote one observer, as “something of an outsider.” His intellectual brilliance, wealth and Jewishness combined to make him seem “lamentably exotic.”
But Thatcher too was “something of an outsider” and the pair soon struck up a rapport.
They met for the first time shortly before she entered parliament in 1959 when Joseph came and spoke on her behalf in Finchley.
The visit was well-timed: an appalled Thatcher had discovered after her selection that leading local Tories had become entangled in a scandal involving allegations of anti-Semitism at the Finchley golf club. Once she arrived in parliament, Joseph helped her shepherd her first private member’s bill through the Commons.
Five years later, with the Conservatives out of power, Thatcher found herself working for Joseph on the Tory frontbench. She considered him “a friend, not just a senior colleague, whom I liked,” but also “very much… the senior partner.”
This was not always how the relationship always appeared to others.
“Most of his colleagues would have bridled at being corrected by a bossy younger woman who had only been in parliament for five years. He reveled in it,” remembered one Tory party researcher who worked closely with them.
With the defeat of the Labour government in the 1970 general election, the new prime minister, Ted Heath, appointed both Joseph and Thatcher to his cabinet. The Tories had been elected on a promise to break with the consensus politics practiced by British governments of left and right during the postwar years and had pledged to cut spending and taxes and clip the wings of the unions.
Two years later, however, with unemployment rising and the powerful miners’ union threatening a strike which could bring down the government, Heath executed a dramatic u-turn. He rowed back on some of the restrictions introduced on the unions, abandoned free-market policies and began to pump money into the economy to boost growth.
The gamble failed: the following year, with inflation soaring, the miners went on strike again demanding higher pay. Heath decided to stand his ground and called an election designed to enhance his authority. An unimpressed electorate ejected the Tories from office.
While they had remained publicly loyal to him, both Thatcher and Joseph were privately dismayed by Heath’s u-turn and the political and economic disaster which had ensued. Freed from the burdens of government and collective Cabinet responsibility, they now had the opportunity to say so.
But, in what was to become an increasingly turbulent battle for the Tory party’s soul — and, ultimately, its leadership — it would be Joseph, not the naturally more combative Thatcher, who would initially take up the cudgels.
In this, he would be steeled by Sir Alfred Sherman. “Both you and Keith are Jews,” Thatcher once remarked to Sherman, “but your Jewishness is very different.”
In fact, the two men were different in just about every way possible, although as Thatcher’s biographer, Charles Moore, has suggested, her comment was a reflection of the fact that “she linked [Sherman’s] Jewishness with that of Joseph as part of their combined virtue.”
The product of a working-class East End home, by the age of 17 Sherman had become a communist and joined the fight against fascism in Spain. After World War II, he soured on communism and was expelled from the party. He soon discovered a new faith of which he would become an equally passionate advocate.
In the unpromising terrain of 1950s socialist Israel, where he had gone to work as an economic adviser, Sherman became a fervent supporter of free-market economics.
On his return to Britain, Sherman took up a post at the house journal of the Conservative party, the Daily Telegraph, and met Joseph. The two men kept in touch and Sherman, a skilled wordsmith, occasionally helped the rising Tory star with his speeches.
But Joseph paid a price for Sherman’s assistance. “Brilliant, funny and terribly rude,” in the words of one who worked closely with him in the 1970s, Sherman relentlessly harangued Joseph for the failures of the Heath government of which he had been a member.
“Keith, the trouble is you agree with me but you haven’t got the backbone to say so,” said Sherman, commanding him: “You have to do something about the state of the country.”
Goaded into action, and with Sherman penning headline-grabbing words, Joseph now delivered a series of speeches which shredded not just the party’s most recent spell in office, but the whole direction of postwar Conservatism.
For one journalist, Joseph resembled nothing less than “a prophet come down from the mountain … There was an Old Testament ring to his cries of woe … [as he] beat his breast in immolation for his own part on the betrayal of the ark of the Conservative covenant.”
“Since the end of the Second World War,” Joseph declared in his opening salvo in June 1974, “we have had altogether too much Socialism.” The Tories, who had been in government for half of that period, had tried, and failed, to “make semi-socialism work,” he said. Now was the time for a radical break with the past.
Joseph spelled out in a speech two months later what that might mean. The timing was hardly propitious. To Heath’s fury, his former cabinet colleague had refused to soften his words despite the fact that the country was about to return to the polls in a general election triggered by a Labour government confident that it could strengthen its tenuous position in parliament.
Once again, Joseph pulled no punches. He assailed Heath’s economic record, suggesting that its abandonment of “sound money policies,” triggered by an unwarranted fear of unemployment, had led to the rocketing inflation from which the country was still suffering.
His prescription — cutting spending and accepting that the jobless queues might temporarily rise as a result — marked a watershed in modern British politics.
This was thus the moment at which the postwar consensus — the belief, shared by both Labour and the Conservatives, that the overriding priority of government should be to secure full unemployment — began to unravel.
The speech, Thatcher later wrote, was one of the “very few… [that] fundamentally affected a political generation’s way of thinking.” It would also provide the founding principle of her premiership, and one from which, she was determined, there would be no Heath-like u-turn.
Where Joseph led, Thatcher “almost invisibly” followed, as one journalist described it. Her public statements may have been more guarded than his, but she had staked her political future on Joseph’s cause, agreeing to become the vice-chair of the new think tank he had decided to launch.
The Tories’ defeat in the October 1974 election placed Heath’s position in jeopardy. Thatcher had no intentions of trying to unseat him herself, instead believing that “Keith must be our candidate.”
Margaret Thatcher with Ronald Reagan at the Ottawa Summit, July 21, 1981. (AP photo/file)
However, a disastrous speech by Joseph on poverty in which, referring to supposedly high birth rates among poor mothers, he suggested “our human stock is threatened,” scuppered his potential candidacy.
Amid a media uproar, Thatcher threw her hat into the ring and announced she would challenge Heath. It was undoubtedly a brave move.
“I was really rather shocked,” she recalled towards the end of her life, because Joseph “really was the leader.”
Heath’s poor performance at the polls and unpopularity among Tory MPs ensured Thatcher’s victory over him in January 1975. As Sherman rightly argued, however, Joseph’s role had been critical.
“If it hadn’t been for Keith, Heath’s position would not have been shaken, and Margaret would not have become leader,” Sherman said.
Albeit delivered in her own, rather more populist, style, Thatcher’s campaign against Heath had echoed her mentor’s indictment: that voters wanted to see more clear blue water between the two main parties, many having becoming convinced that, rather than attempting to roll back socialism, the Conservatives were simply offering a watered-down imitation of Labour.
Now leader of the opposition, Thatcher, with Joseph’s unfailing support, attempted to turn the Conservative party in a new direction. She charged him with winning a “battle of ideas” — one that would be waged against both Labour and their still-powerful opponents within the Tory party. Joseph later described the task he and Sherman undertook as turning Thatcher’s “beliefs, feelings, instincts and intuitions into ideas, strategies and policies.”
Joseph was both prolific and prophetic. Aided and abetted by Sherman, he churned out private memos, speeches, articles, pamphlets and books.
A Shadow Cabinet paper in April 1975, for instance, urged a future Tory government to depart from the “path of consensus” and align itself with “suburban middle-class values” by cutting taxes and spending, curbing immigration and the unions, and bolstering defense spending and measures to protect the family.
Thatcher was delighted; many of her more liberally minded colleagues were appalled.
“This startling paper,” believed Moore, “furnished the main elements of what came to be called Thatcherism, both in specific policy and in general psychological terms.”
Joseph’s speeches in the four years preceding Thatcher’s victory in 1979 were similarly predictive, containing, noted one writer, “everything that was distinctive about the economic and political philosophy of Thatcherism.”
Joseph was, though, much more than Thatcher’s “intellectual gadfly… free of painful necessities like decision-taking” as some contemporary critics charged. He was a target for much criticism that might otherwise have been aimed at the Tory leader herself. Despite his aversion to conflict, it was a role he never shied from.
“I am always ready to pick up any attack that is made upon you and to speak in your defense,” he wrote her on one occasion.
Moreover, like a modern-day Daniel he took the free-market case into the lion’s cave of Britain’s universities. Unperturbed by heckling and frequent attempts by far-left students to prevent him speaking, Joseph delivered over 150 speeches on campuses extolling what he called “the moral case for capitalism.”
“All that work with the intellectuals,” as Thatcher later put it, was crucial to her later successes and restored the right’s “intellectual self-confidence.”
For this, and Joseph’s “unswerving loyalty” as a member of her cabinet in the 1980s, Thatcher would be forever grateful.
He was a “darling man,” she told one civil servant (not a term she’s ever likely to have used about any other member of her government), while she ordered another minister to “look after Keith… he needs someone to protect him.” Joseph, in turn, happily confessed: “I beam at the very sight of her.”
After he left the cabinet, there were no tell-all memoirs and never a word of public, or most probably private, criticism of the prime minister. He was angered and shattered by the manner in which the cabinet effectively ousted her in 1990, and defended her record until his death four years later.
Their relationship, which changed the course of British history, was one of equals. Each complemented, respected and trusted implicitly the other. As Joseph rightly later reflected, Thatcher had a political “instinct and flair” that he lacked.
He was the outrider — “the licensed thinker scouting ahead in Indian country,” as one of Thatcher’s cabinet members later termed it — but she always determined the pace, deploying political antennae that saw her through three general election victories and only faltered towards the end of her 11 years in Downing Street.
Writer Robert Philpot is the author of “The Honorary Jew: How Britain’s Jews Helped Shape Margaret Thatcher and Her Beliefs.” He is the former editor of an independent centrist Labour magazine, Progress, and is now a contributing editor to it. His articles have appeared in The Jewish Chronicle, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Commentary and History Today. He previously served as a special adviser in the Northern Ireland Office and Cabinet Office.
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• Terry Brennan and Ian Hale in front of Vincent Fantauzzo’s portrait of Heath Ledger.
GOOMALLING farmer Terry Brennan had only seen three and a half movies in his life until this week, when he drove two hours to see The Irishman at The Backlot cinema in West Perth.
“In 1972 I took my wife to see The French Connection … that was the first date I took her on,” the 68-year-old told the Voice.
“I only got halfway through The French Connection, as she continuously reminds me, and I fell asleep.
“We’re still married – I don’t know how,” he chuckles.
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The next year he saw The Poseidon Adventure, and continued with a nautical disaster after a hiatus of 24-odd years when Titanic was released.
Mr Brennan thought Titanic’s lead “Decappio, or whatever his name is” did a fair job.
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That led to his fourth visit, and his first Martin Scorsese film.
He farms sheep half the year and was trying to relax ahead of the busy season. He’s not much interested in tv, only watching a bit of sport and news, but he heard a radio reviewer give The Irishman 4.5 stars.
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The lunar calendar of the gardener and gardener for March 2020. Tables of crops and planting. Moon phases. Photos - Botanichka.ru
Winter this year was surprisingly warm. The gradual increase in daylight in the absence of prolonged frost and snow did their job - spring persistently reminded of itself throughout February. But do not forget that March is the most unpredictable spring month ... The lunar calendar of the gardener and gardener for March 2020 will tell you the best days for sowing seeds for seedlings, sanitary scraps in the garden and preventive treatments against pests and diseases.
The first seedlings for seedlings were carried out by experienced gardeners in February and even in January, but because of this, in March there was no less work. Indeed, in addition to caring for seedlings of some flowers and vegetables that are already quite grown, you need to have time to sow other plants for seedlings. And it is better, of course, to choose favorable days according to the lunar calendar for March 2020.
See also our material Sowing calendar of vegetables for seedlings 2020.
In winter, without frost and snow, some gardeners (and not only in the south) began sanitary pruning in the garden in February. If you are still planning on pruning, pay attention to March 3–6, 12–18, 19, and 24. These days, according to the lunar calendar, pruning will bring trees and shrubs maximum benefit.
But for spraying the garden from pests and diseases in March there are even more suitable days (see the table “Sowing / planting plants and agricultural work for March 2020”). But do not forget that a favorable day on the lunar calendar for garden treatments is good, and optimal weather conditions are even better. All spraying is carried out only in dry weather and at a temperature of at least +4 ° C.
Spring has come - the garden season can be considered officially open! But at the same time, March is the best month for transplanting houseplants. In the sowing "fever" do not forget to give them enough attention. Most of the houseplants begin the active growing season, and you can’t do without your help. Please note that the unfavorable days according to the lunar calendar for March 2020 for transplanting any plants, including indoor ones, are on March 9, 19-21, 23 and 24.
Crops and planting and agricultural work for March 2020
Favorable days for sowing / planting plants 1, 4-6, 10-14, 17, 18, 22, 27-28
Potato, sweet potato, Jerusalem artichoke 11-18
Carrot, Parsnip 11-14, 16-18
Beet 11-14, 16-18
Radish, radish, turnip 11-18
Celery, Parsley 4-6, 11-14, 16-18
Bulb onions 4-6, 12-18
Green onions, chives 1-6, 27-31
Garlic 4-6, 12-18
Leek 4-6, 8, 25, 26, 31
Vegetables to the table and storage
Tomatoes, physalis 1-6, 25-31
Sweet, hot and decorative pepper 1, 4-6, 26-28
Eggplant 1, 4-6, 26-28
Cucumbers 2-6, 25, 26, 29-31
White cabbage, red cabbage, Savoy, Brussels, kohlrabi 1, 4-6, 27, 28, 31
Broccoli, Cauliflower 1, 4-6, 12-18, 22, 25-28, 31
Early, Beijing, Kale, Kale 1, 4-6, 25-28, 31
Zucchini, squash, pumpkin 1-6, 26-31
Gourds 1-6, 26-31
Leguminous 1-6, 25-31
Corn 1, 4-6, 26-28, 31
Sunflower 6-8
Mycelium 1, 4-6, 8, 26-28, 31
Greens and herbs
Leaf and head salads 1, 4-6, 22, 25-28, 31
Arugula, cress and other spicy salads 22-26
Mustard leaf 22
Spinach, sorrel 2-6, 22, 25, 26, 29-31
Chard 22, 24
Parsley, coriander and dill 1-6, 22, 27-31
Spicy herbs (basil, marjoram, rosemary, thyme, etc.) 2, 10, 12-14, 17, 18, 25-28
Medicinal herbs 2, 10, 12-14, 17, 18, 28
Berry orchard
Strawberries and strawberries 2-6, 11-14, 29-31
Apple tree 14-16
Apricot, cherry, plum, peach, pear, quince 1, 11, 12, 14-18, 26-28
Sweet cherry 1, 6, 7, 26-28
Hazel and other hazels 1-3, 11, 12, 26-31
Raspberries, Currants, Gooseberries 1-7, 12-14, 24-31
Guelder-rose, wild rose, hawthorn, sea-buckthorn 4-8, 12-16
Grape 2-6, 12-14, 29-31
Decorative plants
Lawn and groundcover 6, 7
Siderata 12-18, 22
Annuals 2-6, 8, 29-31
Bulbous and tuberous 4-6, 8, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18
Herbaceous perennials 2, 10, 12-14, 17, 18, 28
Conifers 25-28
Hedges 4, 7, 28
Shrubs and trees 4, 7, 8, 25-28
Creepers 2, 3, 29-31
Unfavorable days for sowing, planting and replanting any plants 9, 19-21, 23, 24
Other garden work
Weeding, weed control 9, 24
Tillage 9, 15, 25-28, 31
Seed germination 4-6, 11-14, 22, 23, 27, 28
Dive seedlings 11,2, 17, 18
Watering 1, 4-6, 9-14, 17-18, 22, 27-28
Top dressing 1, 4-6, 13, 14, 17, 18, 22, 23, 27, 28
Cropping and shaping 3, 6-8, 12-18, 19, 24
Pest and Disease Control 1, 4-6, 8, 10, 19-21, 24, 26-28, 31
Cuttings, vaccination and budding, other methods of reproduction 1, 4-6, 10-14, 17-18, 22, 27-28
Construction and repair 1, 18, 26, 31
Greenhouse and greenhouse preparation 1, 4-6, 25-28, 31
Land cleaning 1, 3, 4, 20, 27, 31
Rooting out, clearing neglected territories 1, 19, 24, 25
Snow retention, trampling and distribution of snow 1, 4
Rodent control 1
Bad Harvest Days 4-6, 9, 13, 14, 22, 23
See also our detailed Lunar calendar for garden works for 2020.
Moon phases, march 2020
Day of the month Moon phase (lunar day) Zodiac sign
Sunday, March 1st growing (7, 8 day) calf
March 2, Monday first quarter (8, 9 day) Twins
March 3, Tuesday growing (9, 10 day) Twins
March 4, Wednesday growing (10, 11 day) Cancer
Thursday March 5th growing (11, 12 day) Cancer
Friday March 6th growing (12, 13 day) Cancer
Saturday March 7th growing (13, 14 day) a lion
Sunday March 8th growing (14, 15 day) a lion
Monday 9 march full moon (15, 16 day) Virgo
March 10, Tuesday waning (16, 17 day) Virgo
March 11, Wednesday waning (17, 18 day) Libra
Thursday, March 12th waning (18, 19 day) Libra
Friday the 13th of March waning (19, 20 day) Scorpio
Saturday March 14th waning (20 day) Scorpio
Sunday March 15th waning (20, 21 day) Sagittarius
March 16, Monday third quarter (21, 22 day) Sagittarius
March 17, Tuesday waning (22, 23 day) Capricorn
March 18, Wednesday waning (23, 24 day) Capricorn
Thursday march 19 waning (24, 25 day) Aquarius
March 20, Friday waning (25, 26 day) Aquarius
Saturday, March 21 waning (26, 27 day) Aquarius
Sunday, March 22 waning (27, 28 day) Fish
March 23, Monday waning (28, 29 day) Fish
March 24, Tuesday new moon (29, 30, 1 day) Aries
March 25, Wednesday growing (1, 2 day) Aries
Thursday March 26 growing (2, 3 day) Aries
Friday March 27 growing (3, 4 day) calf
Saturday March 28 growing (4, 5 day) calf
Sunday March 29th growing (5, 6 day) Twins
March 30, Monday growing (6, 7 day) Twins
March 31, Tuesday growing (7, 8 day) Twins
March fruitful to you in garden affairs!
Watch the video: Planting By The Moon. (January 2021).
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IKZF1
IKZF1 any mutation
IKZF1(Ikaros) is a transcriptional regulator of B cell development and is believed to have tumor suppressor-like properties. Deletions (whole gene and/or partial gene deletions) of IKZF1 have been reported in approximately 15-28% of BCR-ABL1-Negative_B-cell ALL, 70-90% of BCR-ABL1-Positive B-cell ALL. IKZF1 mutations are also found in approximately 40% of "Ph-like" ALL. Loss of functions mutations (missense, nonsense, frameshift mutations) have also been reported in IKZF1 in ALL and appear to be much less common (less than 5% of cases) than deletions. Deletions and mutations in IKZF1 have been associated with adverse prognosis and greater risk of relapse.
Mullighan CG, et al. Deletion of IKZF1 and prognosis in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. N Engl J Med 2009;360(5):470-80
van der Veer A, et al. IKZF1 status as a prognostic feature in BCR-ABL1-positive childhood ALL. Blood 2014;123(11):1691-8
Gorniak P, et al. Polymorphism in IKZF1 gene affects age at onset of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Leuk Lymphoma 2014;55(9):2174-8
Burmeister T, et al. Germline variants in IKZF1, ARID5B, and CEBPE as risk factors for adult-onset acute lymphoblastic leukemia: an analysis from the GMALL study group. Haematologica 2014;99(2):e23-5
Qazi S, et al. Incidence and biological significance of IKZF1/Ikaros gene deletions in pediatric Philadelphia chromosome negative and Philadelphia chromosome positive B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Haematologica 2013;98(12):e151-2
Palmi C, et al. Impact of IKZF1 deletions on IKZF1 expression and outcome in Philadelphia chromosome negative childhood BCP-ALL. Reply to "incidence and biological significance of IKZF1/Ikaros gene deletions in pediatric Philadelphia chromosome negative and Philadelphia chromosome positive B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia". Haematologica 2013;98(12):e164-5
National Comprehensive Cancer Network. Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (Version 1.2018).
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If they look ninjas, and they’re dressed like ninjas, and they fight like ninjas…they’re ninjas: An Interview with Doug Taylor by Kent Hill
June 8, 2017 Kent Hill Leave a comment
Doug Taylor began wanting to be and architect and dreamed of being like the dad in The Brady Bunch, ’cause he worked from home. But he soon became disillusioned with this notion and eventually found his way into film.
Like most of us, after learning the fundamentals, it then becomes a question of what next? Fortunately for Doug, a friend and fellow film student had made contact with a couple of producers who were in Canada making low-budget horror films. Thus the screenwriting career of Doug Taylor began.
What would begin with a small horror film would spawn a career that would see the talented Mr. Taylor rub shoulders with both the famous and the infamous of the industry. He worked with visionaries like Vincenzo Natali and the so-labeled Ed Wood of the age Uwe Boll. He has written for both film and television and those early seeds in the horror genre have seen him work on modern classics within it such as Natali’s brilliant and terrifying depiction of the dysfunctional family in Splice.
So sue me. I am a fan of the films of Uwe Boll; thus I was most eager to hear Doug’s account of the making of In the Name of the King, and I was not disappointed. Like the storyteller he is, Doug gave me all the behind the scenes goodies that a film nerd craves. So much so I now re-watch the film with new eyes.
Anyhow. You’re just going to have to kick back and have a listen. Doug Taylor is great screenwriter who has lived a rich and varied life and enjoyed all success one can at the Hollywood heights. Yet he still lives in the city he grew up in and ultimately he accomplished his dream of being just like Mr. Brady, and working from home.
I really great gentleman, full of fascinating tales both on screen and off. Ladies and Gentlemen I give you . . . Doug Taylor.
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Blake Shelton Named People's Sexiest Man Alive 2017
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People has named Blake Shelton 2017's Sexiest Man Alive!
What's more exciting for the country superstar than receiving this honor? Well, he now has something in common with his fellow judge on The Voice (and 2013's Sexiest Man Alive), Adam Levine.
The 41-year-old tells the magazine that he credits his girlfriend Gwen Stefani for allowing him to "live in the moment" and accept this honor. According to People, Shelton revealed that he most certainly does exercise on the treadmill and eats as healthy as possible to stay in his sexy shape. However, when the "I'll Name The Dogs" singer is home in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, "all bets are off."
Congratulations, Blake!
------ @BlakeShelton is this year's #SexiestManAlive! And most importantly, he 'can't wait' to stick it to his fellow #TheVoice judge (and former SMA) @AdamLevine. -- https://t.co/LtQ2q8QSkU pic.twitter.com/g7IilIXzxA
— People (@people) November 15, 2017
Blake Shelton released his eleventh studio album, Texoma Shore, on November 3. He will hit the road in 2018 to headline his Country Music Freaks Tour with special guests Trace Adkins, Brett Eldredge, and Carly Pearce.
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WATCH: Justin Timberlake Previews His Super Bowl Haltime Performance
By: Hayden Wright
Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl Halftime Show is one of 2018’s most anticipated musical events, and February 4 is approaching fast.
In collaboration with show sponsor Pepsi, Timberlake has made a video teaser that provides a taste of what his set will include. The clip opens with career footage of Justin performing hits like “Sexyback” and “Cry Me A River.”
Then we see Timberlake exiting a black SUV at a performance or rehearsal venue. He describes how high the stakes are when millions of people are watching.
“I am getting an opportunity to have the stage to myself. I believe it’s also the place where there’s nothing wrong with giving people what they want,” he says.
During the preview, Justin is seen circling up with his backup dancers, surveying the stage and carrying a guitar. “For 12 or 13 minutes, we’ll have a really good time,” he says.
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House to vote on $25B infusion for Postal Service amid Trump attacks
17th August 2020 Off By adpublisher
Pelosi said the bill, which will be released by the House Oversight Committee in the coming days, paints a “clear choice” for Republicans, many of whom have remained silent during Trump’s continued broadsides against the Postal Service and mail-in ballots.
“We want them to vote for this, that’s why I held back on some suggestions people want,” Pelosi told Democrats on a caucus call Monday morning, according to three sources on the call.
But it’s unclear if any Republicans will support the bill — House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) called Pelosi’s plan a “money grab” in a Fox Business interview Monday. And Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell expressed little urgency to address the issue at an event in Kentucky on Monday, saying the “Postal Service is going to be just fine.”
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows also dismissed Democrats’ efforts as “partisan.”
“It’s not only unrealistic, it’s unnecessary,” Meadows told reporters aboard Air Force One Monday.
The House will return for just one day on Saturday — in a rare interruption of the chamber’s August recess and after this week’s Democratic National Convention — to vote on the bill, which was still being drafted Monday afternoon. Pelosi said members would see the final text within 24 hours.
Trump launched another attack on the Postal Service on Monday afternoon, declaring that the agency “has been failing for many decades” and asserting that Democrats “don’t have a clue,” but failing to offer a plan to fix its current crisis.
Post offices nationwide have reported mail delays in recent weeks, with Democrats pointing fingers at Trump’s handpicked postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, a major GOP donor who took the helm of the agency in May.
Democrats plan to grill DeJoy about his operational changes — which include a reduction in overtime hours, a hiring freeze at senior levels and efforts to remove mail-sort machines — at an emergency hearing on Monday, Aug. 24. DeJoy, who has agreed to testify before the committee, has denied any “slowing down” of mail.
The Democrats’ bill would be modeled after legislation released by Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) last week, with additional language to address mail-sorting machines — some of which have been removed from processing centers under recent orders from the Trump administration.
Initially, Democrats were planning to pass the Maloney bill to address organizational changes but not provide additional funding. But Pelosi announced the change to include billions in funding during the private caucus call Monday.
The Postal Service Board of Governors requested $25 billion earlier this year to head off expected funding shortfalls due to the coronavirus pandemic. Democrats agreed, including the $25 billion in a coronavirus relief bill the House approved in May.
But Senate Republicans refused to consider the legislation, dismissing the broader bill as a Democratic wish list. Congressional negotiators and the White House instead agreed to $10 billion in emergency funding for the Postal Service during coronavirus negotiations earlier this month.
Those talks fell apart and it’s unclear when — or if — congressional leaders and the White House will resume negotiations on a broader relief package. Meadows said Monday he hasn’t spoken to Pelosi or Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in over a week.
“We’re not expecting a follow up call from Speaker Pelosi unless her members encourage her to actually come back to the negotiating table,” Meadows said.
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) introduced a bill in July that would provide the Postal Service with up to $25 billion in emergency funding. Among the bill’s GOP supporters are Sens. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) who faces a competitive Senate race in November and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.).
“All Missourians, especially seniors, veterans, and people in rural communities, depend on timely, reliable mail delivery,” Blunt said in a statement Monday. “I fully support including additional funding for the USPS in the next COVID-19 relief package.”
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Winners of European Innovation Academy 2018 surprise with social impact ideas
Valentina Cullmann
Platforms connecting homeless people with support, disabled job-seekers to the market or a community on mental illness: The winners of this year’s European Innovation Academy (EIA) in Cascais are not only passionate about tech but also about social impact.
“We don’t want coins. We want change.” With this slogan, social platform WeLive aiming to connect homeless people with nearby shelters, charities and businesses convinced this year’s jury of the 2018 EIA.
Competing with 500 participants from 75 nationalities, the ten winning teams of the EIA Portugal edition were announced last week after 15 intensive days of acceleration.
Eight of the ten winning teams had students from Portugal as members, connecting them with their peers from renowned universities such as University of California Berkeley.
This year’s edition had a focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robots, such as winning team Paralegal Bot, an AI-powered “legal consultant a message away”.
Read more: European Innovation Academy returns to Portugal with AI, robotics focus
The winners are receiving prices that range from expedited interviews with accelerators over trademark protection to business and marketing coaching from HAG Consulting, EIA, Hunter & Bard, Nixon Peabody, otherDOTs or Dybaw Venture Capital.
The European Innovation Academy (EIA) claims to be the ‘world’s largest extreme accelerator’ that turns an idea into a startup in only 15 days. “In EIA the students are doing the same that accelerators are trying in 3-6 months (…) Impressive!”, is Google representative Martin Omander quoted.
Since its 2017 inroads into Portugal, EIA joined forces with Beta-i, the Santander bank, the Cascais City Hall and the New University of Lisbon. According to Portuguese media, EIA is expected to stay in the country at least until 2022.
EIA has so far been held in the Estoril Congress Center in Cascais. However, in the coming years, the event might move to the new facilities of the Faculty of Economics and Management of Universidade Nova, according to the report.
The city of Cascais is no stranger to entrepreneurship, and in recent years it has positioned itself as a center of innovation on the world stage.
Earlier this year, the city of Cascais has hosted over 600 world leaders including politicians, academics, and chief executives at the Horasis Global Meeting.
Read More: Horasis Global Meeting heads to Cascais with over 600 world leaders attending
These are the 10 winning team of the 2018 edition of EIA in Portugal:
Navismart
NaviSmart is an information exchange platform to optimize sea traffic and port operations. It will help boaters to access real-time information for berth booking and arrival schedule. In addition, it will help ports and marinas, to workload organization.
Marketplace that connect women that need good, trustworthy and available beauty professionals, being able to look for a professional, see her portfolio, evaluations, calendar, book and pay through the page.’
Paralegal Bot
Your AI legal Consultant a message away.
PLUM connects expatriates in search of fresh and healthy homemade authentic meals to those who love to provide these through a mobile application platform. If you’ve ever missed mom’s cooking – we’ve got your covered!
We are creating a community that encourages and destigmatized conversation about mental wellness.
Baby Sisters
Baby Sisters is a high-quality platform offers professional babysitters on-demand. In the future, we seek to expand in Europe and become the number one babysitting provider. Baby Sisters, a babysitter you can trust.
Disposable cups cause a lot of waste and people do not use the current reusable cups provided on their daily life. Our reusable cup motivates the consumers to reuse it, through an interactive app.
Welive
A platform that connects homeless people to nearby volunteers, shelters, charities and businesses to provide them with free resources and help build lasting relationships.
Gitsmart
Understanding the struggles that IT recruiters face to pick the best, we realized that a simple yet effective solution needed to be made. We strive to aid recruiters in finding future employees by weeding out unfit candidates with the click of a button.
Impower
Connecting the disabled community with the employers while giving them information about the market benefits.
Tired of useless in class university projects, which do not add any value to your future career? PROCO offers a multi-sided platform that brings students, universities, and companies together by focusing on co-creation projects and recruitment.
Incput (Incprint)
Growth & navigational platform for a step-by-step help to build a startup.
Buggybug
Our idea is to create a security device for baby strollers. We are trying to address the fact that there is no solution when you have to leave the baby stroller alone, carrying it everywhere and always stay focused on the stroller is no option.
A program that allows people without consistent access to internet to connect and communicate with their local community offline.
Smartcap
At SmartCap, we allow people to perform at their best by easing their hydration level.
Kode 4 all
Kode is designed to help younger kids to learn programming without having to write any code themselves. Every beginner goes through mini games where they are challenged with logical problems and they solve through programming concepts.
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Let’s expand what it means to be “a Pittsburgher”
By Michael Madison
What if the future of Pittsburgh did not ritually invoke the historical sweat equity of steelworkers and their wives and children?
What if the future of Pittsburgh did not hinge on the assumption that Downtown Pittsburgh is destined always to center and anchor the region, economically or culturally?
What if the future of Pittsburgh had an honest reckoning with histories of racial exclusion and oppression and environmental degradation that are still keenly experienced in many neighborhoods and communities in the Pittsburgh region today?
What if the future of Pittsburgh considered the region’s colleges and universities as hothouses for talent acceleration (come to Pittsburgh and get educated in the expertise that the world needs) rather than as talent sinks (come to Pittsburgh for your education and we’ll complain endlessly if you leave)?
What if the future of Pittsburgh worried less about whether outsiders think that we’re as big as we want to be, or as big as Pittsburgh once was, and wondered more about what network science has to teach urban planning?
What if the symbol of Pittsburgh wasn’t a parking chair, or the Terrible Towel, or a Primanti’s sandwich, or Mister Rogers’ trolley?
That’s a lot of “what ifs” to lay on one table. The point is that the future of postindustrial Pittsburgh depends on invoking imaginations bigger than the ones that the region has been relying on.
To repurpose a classic line from the movie “Jaws”: We’re gonna need a bigger boat. That means expanding what it means to lead, and where, and how. It means expanding what it means to be a Pittsburgher.
My last column took up the fragility of postindustrial Pittsburgh, politically, economically, and culturally. I urged anchoring forward-looking strategies for improvement in an embrace of what I called imaginary Pittsburghs, the cities and regions that exist in our minds as well as in our lives. I emphasized the plural.
Pittsburgh’s public sphere usually features just the one imaginary Pittsburgh that includes the region’s steel history, its celebrated public/private leadership and its philanthropy, and that tells the rest of Pittsburgh how to feel proud of itself and its past.
Think for the moment of the number of economic development initiatives around the region that borrow metaphorically from Pittsburgh’s steel heritage. Pittsburgh may have as many “furnaces” and may do as much “forging” today as we did in 1920, but without the actual heat.
Pittsburgh’s future depends on expanding the pool of imaginary Pittsburghs that matter.
Pittsburgh’s imaginary invention and resilience have long been repurposed as a brand by Downtown interests and even Pittsburgh’s emerging tech sector.
Pittsburgh’s contribution to Amazon’s 2017 HQ2 shopping expedition (led by traditional Downtown and Oakland interests) epitomized how this imaginary Pittsburgh has captured much of the region’s economic development strategy. Pittsburgh proposed to capture a regional headquarters of a global business behemoth with a proposal titled “Future. Forged. For All.”
And the rest of Pittsburgh is supposed to buy that message and live it, literally, with Terrible Towels in hand.
Once upon a time, everyone in Pittsburgh was a steelworker, literally or metaphorically, and through the magic of social psychology, that shared identity put Pittsburgh and Pittsburghers at the peak of a national economy that valued factory production above all.
Today, the same Downtown interests that pushed that story are now pushing its 21st-century global equivalent: Everyone in Pittsburgh is an inventor or creator, putting the region on track for success in a global economy that values the imagination over the hands.
Both that older imaginary Pittsburgh (industry) and its present version (invention) are empowering to a point. I don’t want to knock them for what they are.
But that imaginary Pittsburgh excludes, and it has always excluded. Even the Downtown elites are starting to get a clue. Their most recent Pittsburgh brand offerings repurpose Pittsburgh’s steel history into a story of a “community of innovators, builders and makers” (that’s the Allegheny Conference’s new “Next is Now” campaign) and a path to a right-sized collaborative tech economy (that’s the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s new “Get Pittsburgh” promotion).
I do want to knock that imaginary Pittsburgh, and its contemporary brand versions, for its lack of ambition and imagination. Today, a potentially thriving Pittsburgh needs to include many additional imaginary Pittsburghs, people and places with needs, opportunities, and goals that aren’t captured by talk of robot cars and hip tech collaboration.
There is impoverished Pittsburgh — not imaginary at all — as much the legacy of steel as are communities down the Ohio River and up the Mon. There are 90 Pittsburgh neighborhoods, many of which are outsiders to Downtown Pittsburgh’s “we’re inventive” take on the region.
There is urban Pittsburgh and suburban Pittsburgh; immigrant Pittsburgh today and older, earlier immigrant Pittsburgh; moving-ahead Pittsburgh and being-left-behind Pittsburgh. White Pittsburgh often imagines and experiences a different Pittsburgh than Black Pittsburgh does.
What’s left of industrial Pittsburgh imagines and experiences a different Pittsburgh than tech Pittsburgh does. The Cultural District arts community imagines and experiences a different Pittsburgh than the funky and independent arts community does.
“Black and yellow” and “black and gold” in sports sometimes knit these Pittsburghs together in part and sometimes just paint over their differences.
They matter not only in individual minds and collective narratives but also in the translation of those imaginary Pittsburghs into political and economic power and policy.
Michael Madison is a professor of law and John E. Murray Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and a senior scholar with the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security. He writes about institutions and governance and is a co-founder of the emerging research discipline known as “knowledge commons.” Before becoming a law professor, he practiced law in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Madison received his J.D. from Stanford University and his bachelor’s degree from Yale University.
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NEWTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tremont Mortgage Trust (Nasdaq: TRMT) today announced the results of its 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders which was held today.
Joseph L. Morea was re-elected as an Independent Trustee. The final tabulation of the percentage of shareholders’ votes cast for this Trustee is as follows:
Percentage of Shares Voted For
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Shareholders ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as TRMT’s independent registered public accounting firm. The final tabulation of the percentage of shareholders’ votes cast for this proposal is as follows:
Ratification of Independent Auditors
In addition, Jeffrey P. Somers resigned from his position as an Independent Trustee, effective immediately. Mr. Somers advised the Board that the reasons for his resignation were not the result of any disagreement with TRMT. The Board of Trustees, based on the recommendation of TRMT’s Nominating and Governance Committee, elected William A. Lamkin as Independent Trustee, effective immediately.
Mr. Lamkin was a partner in Ackrell Capital LLC, a San Francisco based investment bank, from 2003 to 2019. Prior to being a partner in Ackrell Capital LLC, he was employed as a financial consultant and as an investment banker, including as a senior vice president in the investment banking division of ABN AMRO. Prior to working as a financial consultant and as an investment banker, Mr. Lamkin was a practicing attorney.
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The Hanging Heaton Vicar Scandal – How Newspaper Reports Can Supplement Family and Local History
Passions were running high in Hanging Heaton in the summer of 1851. The vicar, Stephen Mathews, was attacked by a number of parishioners. Amongst the mob were Jane Halliwell who struck him several times with a coal basket, and James Scargill who hurled stones at him. As he beat a retreat the mob cried “Stone him! Stone him!”
The case came before Dewsbury Magistrates at the end of July resulting in fines for Jane Halliwell, James Scargill, George and David Walker. This was the first of three connected cases to come before Dewsbury judiciary in less than two months. Events escalated further, culminating in the Bishop of Ripon ordering an official church inquiry in front of commissioners appointed by him under an Act for Better Enforcing Church Discipline. This was held over between 18 – 24 October 1851 at the Royal Hotel, Dewsbury.
The catalyst for these events was the birth of a boy on 27 May 1851, to unmarried 16-year-old Mary Halliwell of Soothill. Baptised on 29 July 1851 at Holy and Undivided Trinity church, Ossett cum Gawthorpe, he was named Stephen Mathews Halliwell…with the girl identifying the vicar as the child’s father. Jane Halliwell (née Scargill) was the girl’s mother, James Scargill her cousin.
Stephen Britannicus Mathews, the son of surgeon Stephen Mathews and his wife Anne, was born on 8 December 1790 in Calcutta. He was admitted to Cambridge University in 1807 and, after achieving his BA in 1812, he was ordained as a Deacon in Norwich in June 1812 and a priest in December that year. On 14 October 1813 he married Marian Ingle at St James Westminster. The marriage was by licence, Marian being a minor, with consent given by her widowed mother, Susanna.
The couple had one daughter, Helen, in around 1826. Between 1832 to 1837 Rev. Mathews was vicar at Knockholt in Kent. He arrived as incumbent at Hanging Heaton in 1840. The 1841 census saw him living along with Marian, Helen and two servants Amy Collins (35 in this age rounded down census) and local girl Achsah Day (15). By 1851 it was only him and Amy Collins, his wife and daughter having left him around a year ago.
The rebuilt St Paul’s Church, Hanging Heaton. Photo by Jane Roberts
In contrast to the vicar’s travels, Mary Halliwell’s life had been confined to Yorkshire. Her parents, Thomas Halliwell and Soothill-born Jane Scargill, married on 19 July 1834 at St Mary’s church in Prestwich, Lancashire. Mary’s baptism is recorded on 24 November 1834 at St Mary’s, Woodkirk. The family lived on Soothill Lane, with Thomas working as a shopkeeper.
By 1841 their circumstances had changed. Jane and Mary are recorded living at Soothill along with stone masons William (50), Thomas (30) and George (25) Scargill and seven-year-old James Scargill. Woodkirk baptism registers point to William being Jane’s father. The 1851 census shows 41-year-old stone mason Thomas now as head, with widow Jane (39) confirmed as his sister. She is officially listed as a housekeeper. But other sources show she also taught and undertook needlework, including sewing for the wife of the vicar of Woodkirk. Mary, age 16, is recorded as a scholar. Other household members included Thomas’ nephew James (17) and niece Harriet (1). The 1851 census, taken a just under two months away from the birth of Mary’s baby, hides the turmoil.
Mary was ailing, her body swelling. Later it was revealed she knew “she was in the family way” but the vicar had ordered her not to say anything. Her mother, despite the heavy hints and promptings of Batley Carr Surgeon William Rhodes, believed her daughter was suffering from dropsy – an illness already experienced in the family, and which had proved fatal. Dr Rhodes called in a favour and arranged for Mary to see a Leeds-based colleague, Dr Teale, in April. He confirmed Rhodes’ opinion: Mary was pregnant.
It was this pregnancy which led to the stoning of the vicar in late July. The newspapers indicated as much, with The Leeds Intelligencer report of the 2 August stating:
It appears some charge has been made or is about to be made against the rev. gentleman affecting the paternity of an illegitimate child.
The affiliation case came before Dewsbury Magistrates (J.B. Greenwood, J Hague, B. Wheatley and F. Wormald) on the 25 August. The densely crowded court listened to the evidence presented for the complainant. At 9pm Mr. William Watts, acting on behalf of the Rev. Mathews, announced he would not be calling any witnesses at this late hour. He felt assured the magistrates would not see anything in the prosecution evidence which would cause them to find his client guilty. He was correct. Mr Greenwood dismissed the case on the basis of insufficient evidence. At this point press coverage only merited a few paragraphs.
However the verdict created an outcry, with a feeling that justice had not been served. So much so that a rehearing was called for in mid-September. It took place in a court house “crowded to suffocation“, and lasted from 12 noon until 10pm. The magistrates included Hague and Wormald from the previous hearing, but also Rev. Allbut (vicar of Dewsbury), Rev. Milner [Miller] of Woodkirk, Rev. Collins of Ossett and Rev. Payne of Dewsbury Moor.
Mary was described in The Huddersfield Chronicle as:
…small of stature and possesses interesting features, though her general appearance is that of premature womanhood; and the suffererings which she must have undergone have left behind an apparent exhaustion and weakness.
It is clear from this newspaper’s report where their sympathies lie, describing her demeanour as quiet and unassuming, and giving evidence with great propriety.
The packed court heard how Mary, a scholar for nine years and latterly a paid teacher at Rev. Matthews’ school, had been subject to the vicar’s advances since September 1848 when she was just 14, although ‘connexion‘ did not take place until 25 August 1849. Assignations mainly took place in the schoolroom. She received a catalogue of presents, including trinkets, clothes and a portrait of the vicar as a young man. All these were listed in the various accounts of the hearing. Child welfare: Ragged School, Whitechapel, 19thC. (part of). Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY
A note was also produced, written by the vicar on 3 September 1849 when he was ill with cholera. It read:
MY POOR LITTLE MARY. If anything should happen to me remember there is a cheque in my desk, made payable to you only, and is duly signed, to authorise you to draw on the West Riding Bank for a sum of money which I have placed there for you, and it is yours alone. Remember this as the gift from your faithful and unchanging friend.
There were claims that in January 1850 Mary told the vicar she was pregnant (enciente was the delicate French term used by The Huddersfield Chronicle of 20 September 1851, mindful of Victorian sensibilities around such matters). As a result he procured three bottles of medicine for her which resulted in a miscarriage. Once she recovered, their relationship resumed. Her solicitor, Mr Scholes, even claimed that the vicar’s wife and daughter had left him as a result of the attention he paid to Mary.
Witnesses gave evidence as to him often being seen in the girl’s company. Her school monitor pay of 3s 6d a week continued even whilst her duties were reduced in order to hide her pregnancy. They heard how, when her pregnancy was confirmed, Rev. Mathews confessed to Mary’s mother he was the father.
Arrangements were hastily made to remove her to relatives, Mary and Rachel Spence, at Denshaw Beck in Woodkirk parish, in order to conceal the pregnancy. The Rev. Mathews involved himself in the finer details, including arrangements for transport and provision of a Morley doctor to attend her during her labour (apparently William Rhodes refused). He even gave Mary a purse containing 4s 6d when she departed for her safe-house. However, Mary stayed only five days before returning home. In a later hearing her mother said this was because both she and her brother thought it:
…wicked of us both to send her there to conceal the birth of a child when she was only a child herself. I did not know that she would ever come back alive, and I never could sleep until she came back again.
Mr Watts once more acted for Rev. Mathews. In cross-examining witnesses he suggested Mary had been involved with a 60-year-old shopkeeper, Benny Scargill, and a youth named William Wainwright. He also called into question the family sleeping arrangements, all sharing the same bedroom – with her uncle and nephew sleeping in one bed and Mary and her mother in another. It was in fact later revealed that this was the room in which Mary gave birth to her child, by which stage a modesty screen had been placed down the middle.
Describing Mary as a “wretched, depraved, lying girl” he claimed she, her mother and uncle had concocted the story to extort money from the vicar. He said there was no other evidence against his client, other than that presented by them. This was uncorroborated evidence, he asserted, which did not satisfy the requirement of the Act of Parliament dealing with these cases.
This Act, as explained in The Huddersfield Chronicle of 27 September 1851, stated that:
If the evidence of the mother [in an affiliation case] be corroborated in some material particular by other testimony, to the satisfaction of the said justices, they may adjudge the man to be the putative father of any such bastard child.
Once again Mr Watts declined to call any witnesses, although the justices insisted he call the Rev. Thomas Allbut, vicar of Dewsbury. His evidence included the fact that on 23 April 1851 Thomas Scargill, Mary’s uncle, had informed him that Mary was pregnant and Mr. Mathews was the father. As a result he interviewed Mary, and she too confirmed the vicar was father of her unborn child. Rev. Allbut admitted he thought the 3 September 1849 letter was a suspicious document, but when he interviewed the girl she said Mr Mathews was ill and she was a poor girl who had lost her character. Rev. Allbut informed them that the case had been referred to the Bishop of Ripon to consider.
Yet again Rev. Mathews gave no statement.
After 30 minutes deliberation the magistrates once more declined to make a maintenance order against the Rev. Matthews. The crowd showed their dissatisfaction with loud hisses which then gave way to:
a general utterance of merciless epithets upon Mr Mathews, the parsons, the church and state.
The case was now making national news. The Huddersfield Chronicle of 27 September entitled ‘Justices’ Justice‘ quoting from the London Examiner. The piece said the Rev. Mathews:
…is described as popular with the magistrates and gentry of the neighbourhood; and two clergymen, whose names occur in evidence, sat on the bench during the hearing of the case…..
It concluded:
As we are writing this article, we see that the case thus dismissed at the first hearing has again during the past week been brought on before the same bench of magistrates, with additional corroborative testimony. The magistrates again declined to make an order upon Mr. Matthews, [sic] stating that “the new evidence adduced had not materially strengthened the case.” We do not wonder at that. Short of evidence which should be of the most direct kind and not simply corroborative, we do not see how it would easily be possible to add strength to a case established so completely by so many witnesses, who stood up to swear one after another, and stood down again, in almost every instance unquestioned.
It was announced after the hearing that the case would probably be carried before another and more competent tribunal. Certainly it cannot rest as it stands. The interests of the church and society are not distinct; and it cannot be supposed that the exposure and punishment of clerical offenders brings a scandal which might be avoided by the church continuing to hold the worst kind of cruelty, vice, and hypocrisy, protected in her bosom.
Mary’s solicitor, describing her as the daughter of a poor widow woman, now publicly appealed for voluntary contributions to enable the bringing of a case of seduction against the Rev. Mathews at the next assizes.
It appeared the growing scandal now forced the Bishop of Ripon into action, leading to the final official inquiry lasting from 18 – 24 October in front of church-appointed commissioners. Mary attended dressed in mourning clothes. Within days of the end of the second hearing, her infant son died. His 19 September 1851 burial is recorded in the parish register of Ossett cum Gawthorpe.
The evidence in the church case was more lurid. The commissioners even proceeded to the home of Batley Carr surgeon William Rhodes who gave evidence from his sickbed. His testimony included further information about about Mary’s earlier miscarriage. It also included the declaration by her solicitor, Mr Scholes, that he could prove the vicar:
…had two bastard children by a girl called Mary Whitehead when he was a minister at Knock Holt, near Seven Oaks, in Kent, and that the girl was a Sunday scholar.
Prior to this hearing, anonymous letters had been sent to several local residents. These praised the virtues of Rev. Mathews, called Mary a common prostitute, claimed her mother Jane was never married (she produced her wedding certificate at this hearing), asserted all Jane’s sisters had lost their character and labelled the entire family as notorious. Witnesses testified the handwriting belonged to none other than the Rev. Matthews.
We have a further physical description of Mary given by Richard Green, superintendent of the Dewsbury district police. He said she was slight, at 5′ 1″ to 5′ 2″, and less than average strength. The vicar stood at 6′ 1″ or above.
Evidence on behalf of the vicar included children claiming he often gave them gifts by way of prizes at school. Some said this included the portrait of him as a young man…which Mary had chosen from a selection.
The proceedings closed on 24 October with the Commissioners declaring that sufficient prima facie grounds existed for further proceedings.
Yet again there had been one notable absentee from proceedings. Throughout the full hearing the Rev. Mathews, suspended from his duties at Hanging Heaton, failed to make any personal appearance to give his side of the story. His defence was subsequently given in the form of an open letter, published in The Leeds Intelligencer on 1 November 1851.
He said he had been compelled to keep back his evidence due to the further threats of action by Mary’s solicitor: basically he was wary of laying all his cards on the table. He denied all the charges, his natural kindness had been deliberately twisted by malign people. Throughout, his sole intention had been to protect Mary from inappropriate relationships and help her escape a life of sin and guilt, only to find himself duped. Mary was a friendless outcast in the parish, but he was determined to help her. He was never alone with her. He said he provided gifts, including clothing, not just to Mary, but to all the poorest children in school. She was not signalled out for special treatment. He also claimed the medicine he gave her was not to procure a miscarriage, but to treat her for scarlet fever which had also affected 30 other children in the parish. And some of these he visited more frequently than he did Mary. When, in September 1849, he was seized with the cholera outbreak prevalent in his parish, he gave her the note authorising the payment of £3 in the event of his death so that her mother could afford to place her in service, or some other suitable occupation. Similarly, the 4s 6d he gave her when she left for Denshaw Beck was because she professed to be penniless. He only reduced her lessons because he believed her to be ill with dropsy and wished to spare her any unnecessary exertion. And he continued to pay her because, as long as he could afford it, he never stopped paying salaries to those he employed, even when they were ill.
However, it failed to sway the church authorities. In March 1852 the Bishop of Ripon deprived the Rev. Stephen Mathews of the incumbency of Hanging Heaton for the “foul crime” of adultery with one of his parishioners, Mary Halliwell.
In June 1860, a couple of weeks after the death of Mary’s mother, the Bishop of Salisbury appointed the Rev. Mathews to the curacy of Zeals in Wiltshire. He died on 3 November 1868 at Saffron Walden.
Mary’s marriage to Emmanuel Halstead was registered in Dewsbury in the first quarter of 1866. The couple settled in Keighley. Their children included Jane, Alice Mary, Lillia, Samuel, Herbert Scargill and Sarah. Mary died on 13 January 1905. She is buried in Utley Cemetery, Keighley.
The case is not one I expected to discover locally, and in this period. The scandal and fall-out this shocking case must have caused in this small, close-knit community is unimaginable. The judicial advantage social standing or religious positions gives is nothing new. But looking at it from a purely factual standpoint, the thing that struck me above all else was the depth of social, historical and local information provided in the extensive reporting of this case – evidence not necessarily picked up elsewhere; information valuable even if your family is not among those named.
The parade of witnesses provide an insight into community relationships, occupations and employers. This includes details of women’s work such as washing and needlework, not necessarily shown in official records. It even includes the number of looms operated by individual families. There is information about when individual children began and ended their education. Physical descriptions are given too. We have corroborating evidence for Jane Scargill’s pre-civil registration marriage in another county. There are local features described such as the quarry, the tenter fields and the position of buildings in relation to others in the village. Disease outbreaks are identified. There is even reference to sleeping arrangements. Yes, the defendant’s solicitor may have used it to try to make some negative comment about Mary’s family – but was this representative of the realities of life for the poorest? And actually it resonates with the tale in my last blog post about my great grandma a century later – and she at one point lived in Hanging Heaton.
Yorkshire 232 Six Inch OS Map Extract, Surveyed 1847-1851, Published 1851. Adapted
The press reporting was eye-opening too, particularly the critical pieces such as appeared in The Huddersfield Chronicle. The reports point to Victorian sensibilities and long since gone language, with use of phrases such as ‘in the family way‘ or ‘enciente‘ and the distinctions made between ‘taking liberties‘ and ‘connexion‘. Yet, despite the tiptoeing around the sexual aspects, the condemnation of the verdicts, although couched, was unequivocal.
There are mentions of chip shops – but not our modern day understanding. This in the context of wood chips to light fires. There’s reference to a Mary visiting a planet reader in Leeds: a quaint term for a fortune teller.
And the contemporary descriptions of the day-to-day facilities and operation of this mid-19th century school are priceless. This includes information about the weekly attendance payment of 2d fixed due to the poverty of his parishioners, with this being insufficient to pay the salary of a master leading to the vicar personally training two female teachers. The monitorial system is described, with pupils being appointed as paid monitors with salaries dependent on age and experience. Their duties are described right down to cleaning and dusting the school and church after school and on Saturdays. There are even details about the school buildings (the quarry school was the one heavily featured in this tale), their fabric and furnishings.
In short it is a wonderful peak into the community.
For those with mid-nineteenth century Hanging Heaton ancestry I’ve included a list of those residents who gave evidence in the various cases and inquiries.
Thomas Albutt – Vicar, Dewsbury and rural dean of the district;
George Brearey – Clothier, Hanging Heaton, worked with Joseph Stansfield and occasionally Eliza Stansfield;
George Bromley – Clothier, Hanging Heaton;
Alfred Day – Hanging Heaton, 11;
Abraham Day – owned tenter field with two tenters. A tenter was a wooden frame on which cloth is stretched during the manufacturing process to retain its shape whilst drying;
Emma Day – Hanging Heaton;
Hephzibah Day – Former Sunday School Scholar and sister-in-law to Sarah. Age 22. Also the sister of Achsah, servant to the Mathews family in 1841;
Sarah Day – Wife of Henry Day, Manufacturer. Four children at Rev Mathews’ School
Sarah Jane Day – Hanging Heaton, 13;
George Gamble – Clothier, Hanging Heaton (some reports say Weaver, Batley). Employed by Abraham Day to tenter and teem;
Joseph Oldroyd Gill – confirmed school plan;
Richard Green – Superintendent of Police Dewsbury district;
Jane Halliwell – Widow, Soothill. Mother of Mary. Married Thomas in Prestwich. Did needlework for wife of George Dempster Miller;
Theophilius Hastings Ingham – Collector of Rates, Hanging Heaton. Brother-in-law of William Wainwright;
George Dempster Miller – Incumbent of Woodkirk;
Mary Mitchell – Chidswell, 11;
Charles Oldroyd – Weaver, Hanging Heaton;
Hannah Oldroyd – Hanging Heaton, sister of Charles;
Rachel Oldroyd – Earlsheaton, 14;
John Redfearn – Weaver, Hanging Heaton. Employed by Abraham Day to tenter and teem;
William Rhodes – Surgeon, Batley Carr;
Jane Richardson – Common Side, Hanging Heaton.15 last August. Went to Jane Halliwell for sewing instruction;
Hannah Rylah – Chidswell, 14 next New Year’s Day;
Benjamin Scargill – Shopkeeper, Chidswell, age about 60;
James Scargill – amongst those who attacked the Vicar, fined and bound over to keep the peace towards him. A James Scargill was nephew of Thomas;
Thomas Scargill – Stone Mason, Soothill. Uncle of Mary Halliwell;
Benjamin Shaw – Clothier, Shaw Cross;
Peter Senior – Clothier, Hanging Heaton. Employed by Abraham Day to tenter and teem;
Mary Spence – Husband of Joseph Spence, farmer. Daughter [in-law] of Rachel and living with her at Denshaw Beck. Washed for Rev Dempster Miller;
Rachel Spence – Widow, Denshaw Beck. Related to Jane and Mary Halliwell;
Eliza Stansfield – Hanging Heaton, wife of Joseph and occasionally worked with him and George Brearey;
Joseph Stansfield – Clothier, Hanging Heaton, works with George Brearey;
Mark Terry – Clothier, Chidswell;
Sarah Terry (Née Marshall) – Chidswell, former teacher, wife of Mark;
Esther Tolson – Teacher, Soothill, 24;
William Wainwright – organist, Sunday School teacher, carpenter who worked in uncle Charles Wainwright’s chip shop;
David Walker – son of sexton, John. Refused to attend Church Commissioners investigation unless expenses paid. Clothier, Shaw Cross. 26. A David Walker was among those who attacked the Vicar, fined and bound over to keep the peace towards him;
George Walker – among those who attacked the Vicar, fined and bound over to keep the peace towards him;
John Walker – Sexton, father of David. Refused to attend Commission unless transport provided to Dewsbury;
Thomas Ward – Rag Dealer, Hanging Heaton; and
Benjamin Wilson – no details.
1841-1901 censuses, accessed via Ancestry.co.uk and Findmypast;
Burial Registers: Holy and Undivided Trinity, Ossett cum Gawthorpe; Batley All Saints. Both accessed via Ancestry.co.uk;
Death Date and Burial of Mary Halstead (née Halliwell), via Find A Grave Ancestry.com. UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
Baptism Registers: Ossett cum Gawthorpe; Woodkirk St Mary’s; Both accessed via Ancestry.co.uk;
British India Office Ecclesiastical Returns – Parish Register Transcripts from the Presidency of Bengal, accessed via Findmypast;
Marriage Registers: St James, Picaddilly, Westminster; Prestwich St. Mary’s. Both accessed via Ancestry.co.uk;
GRO indexes for marriage of Mary Halliwell, accessed via Findmypast;
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995, entry for Stephen Britannicus Mathews, accessed via Ancestry.co.uk
Alumni Cantabrigienses, accessed via GoogleBooks;
OS Map Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland https://maps.nls.uk/index.html under a Creative Commons licence.
Newspapers including: Carlisle Journal – 5 September 1851; The Huddersfield Chronicle – 20 September 1851, 27 September 1851; The Leeds Intelligencer – 2 August 1851, 30 August 1851, 18 October 1851, 25 October 1851, 1 November 1851; The Leeds Mercury – 6 March 1852; The Leeds Times – 30 August 1851, 20 September 1851, 25 October 1851; Liverpool Mercury – 2 September 1851. All accessed via Findmypast
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We Will Remember Them: Contemporary Parish War Register Books
War Memorials can be found in churches, towns and villages the length and breadth of the country, inscribed with the names of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice. Years later researching those named can prove problematical, as all that exists on the Memorial is a name. I know this only too well from my Batley St Mary’s research!
However some Parishes and Districts went a step further and, in addition to these Memorials, they produced registers and books containing more details about their war dead.
This Christmas my parents bought me a limited edition reproduction of one such book, the Upper District of Soothill War Register and Records of War Service 1914 to 1920.
The original was compiled by the Rev W.E. Cleworth, Vicar of St Paul’s, Hanging Heaton. Printed by E.F. Roberts in Batley, it was based on a War Service Register kept by the Vicar from the start of the war. The Soothill Upper War Memorial Committee subsequently assisted. When the war ended 1,000 Record Forms were printed, information inserted from the Manuscript Register and then these were distributed to households in the area for correction and additions. Over 900 were returned and these were used in the production of the book, which was truly a parish effort. Copies of the original book are held at St Paul’s Hanging Heaton and Batley library.
It is particularly noteworthy that this book contains the names of not only those who gave their lives in the course of the conflict; it includes information about all those from the District who served. So a wonderful record of those who came home and are all too often overlooked.
It contains addresses, Units, age when war service commenced, places served, promotions, distinctions and other points of interest about the service careers of those featured.
Details of the limited edition reproduction organised by Margaret Watson, including more about the original, can be found in October 2014 editions Batley & Birstall News. However I understand the reprint has now sold out. The book includes a number of men linked to my family tree, including Jesse Hill, so I am so pleased to now own a copy. And I am indebted to Margaret and all those who worked on putting the reprint together.
On a recent visit to Lavenham, Suffolk I popped into the local Parish Church of St Peter and Paul to look at their War Memorial. To my surprise and joy beneath their Memorial they too had a book.
Lavenham Parish Church – Jane Roberts
This one commemorated those who died in both World Wars. A handwritten Book of Remembrance dating from 1922, it was compiled with the specific intention that those who died would have more than their names remembered.
Lavenham War Memorial – Jane Roberts
There appeared to be a page devoted to each man, giving name, age and address alongside service details and even extracts from letters informing families of their loss. A wonderful lasting legacy for generations to come.
These books are particularly poignant because of their “of the time” nature. I wonder how many more are out there? And how many are being reprinted to ensure these men’s memories are perpetuated?
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With The Broken Heavens (paperback, Kindle), writer Kameron Hurley is concluding The Worldbreaker Saga trilogy she began in 2014 with The Mirror Empire and continued a year later with Empire Ascendant. In the following email interview, she not only talks about why writing this novel took longer than usual, and whether this is indeed the end of the story, but also about her two other new books: the sci-fi novel The Light Brigade and the short story collection Meet Me In The Future.
Let’s start with The Worldbreaker Saga. What is that trilogy about, and in what kind of world is it set?
The Worldbreaker Saga is a fantasy epic about the coming together of multiple parallel worlds during a celestial conjunction. They have to battle it out to determine which will survive before the heavens re-align.
And then what is The Broken Heavens about and, aside from being the third and final book of the trilogy, how does it connect, both narratively and chronologically, to the second book, Empire Ascendant?
It’s difficult to talk about that without spoiling the other books. Suffice to say it brings the whole thing to an epic, bloody, and thrilling conclusion.
When in relation to writing Empire Ascendant and the first book of this sequence, The Mirror Empire, did you come up with the idea for The Broken Heavens and how did that idea change as you wrote this third novel?
I knew how I wanted to end the series as I was writing the first book, but the real world changed around me as I wrote. After a lot of introspection, I realized the ending I was gunning for was dark and lazy, and that there was a better ending out there — I just had to reconceptualize the entire work. That…took some time, and many drafts that got burned down and started over from scratch. Hence the five-year break between the publication of the second and third books. I probably wrote this book two and a half times during that period, as well as an entirely other book, The Light Brigade, and two short story collections.
As you said, The Broken Heavens, like The Mirror Empire and Empire Ascendant, is a fantasy tale, but that seems like it might be an oversimplification. Or am I wrong about that?
It’s an epic fantasy tale. Frankly, the simpler the better! I found that making up my own genre classifications made my books harder to sell. It’s far easier to find the closest bucket it fits into and talk about it that way. It’s epic fantasy with polyamorous matriarchies and sentient plants where parallel worlds battle it out for supremacy.
So was The Broken Heavens influenced by any movies, TV shows, or video games?
It wasn’t until I’d finished the novel that I realized I had been writing The Dark Crystal. And certainly I was influenced by a whole host of media about parallel worlds. From Star Trek to Buffy, we seem to love creating and reading about “what might have been” in our own lives.
Moving on, you also recently released a sci-fi novel called The Light Brigade. What is that book about?
It’s a futuristic thriller about the nature of war, and follows a fresh recruit named Dietz who gets broken down into light and transported from battlefront to battlefront — then stars experiencing the war out of order.
You mentioned earlier that you wrote The Light Brigade and The Broken Heavens at the same time. How did writing The Light Brigade impact The Broken Heavens and vice versa?
There were a few reasons why The Light Brigade was finished before The Broken Heavens. My publisher for the series was in the middle of being sold, and could not buy a third book in The Worldbreaker Saga until all of that was sorted out. Because we weren’t sure when that would be, my agent recommended that I start working on The Stars Are Legion instead, as we already had a contract for that one and The Light Brigade, and I was just getting nowhere with The Broken Heavens. By the time The Stars Are Legion was done, we had sorted out the issue with The Broken Heavens, and had a contract for it, but I’d lost momentum. I tried to get back into it, but was distracted by the overall political climate, ups and downs and the publisher, and my work schedule (I’ve been working a full-time day job up until only very recently, when I was laid off. Few people realize I’m writing all of this work and holding down a day job). I wrote 90,000 words that weren’t very good, so my agent recommended I go ahead and dive into The Light Brigade, and we took The Broken Heavens out of the schedule.
I don’t know that the books influenced each other much textually, but I certainly felt a lot better about myself after finishing The Light Brigade. Not only was it one of my best novels to date, but it proved to me that I could finish a book again.
The Broken Heavens didn’t come much easier after that, but I had the confidence to keep pushing and rewriting and rewriting until it was done.
Along with The Broken Heavens and The Light Brigade, you also recently published a short story collection called Meet Me In The Future. Is there a theme or some kind of connecting device to this collection?
Nope! It’s a greatest hits of all of my stories from the last decade or so. I worked with my editor Jacob at Tachyon books, and he suggested which stories to keep in and in what order.
Going back to the Worldbreaker Saga, The Broken Heavens is the third book book of that trilogy. But is it the last book? I ask because you previously expanded your Bel Dame Apocrypha trilogy [God’s War, Infidel, and Rapture] with some novellas you collected as Apocalypse Nyx.
I see The Worldbreaker Saga as complete with the three books finished. With the primary conflict resolved, I don’t have any real interest in exploring more in this particular world.
There are some people who are going to consider reading all three books of the Worldbreaker Saga back-to-back. Do you think this is a good idea?
Readers can enjoy them in any way they like.
I assume, since we haven’t heard any rumors about it, that there aren’t plans in place to adapt The Worldbreaker Saga into a movie or anything. But if that did happen, what would be your preference in terms of format?
It would be an amazing Game Of Thrones-type serial show. The great thing about a show adapted from the series is also that most of the actors would get to play several versions of their characters as the parallel worlds collide.
Finally, if someone really likes The Broken Heavens and the Worldbreaker Saga, which of your other novels would you suggest they read next and why that?
Fantasy fans will love Meet Me In The Future, which has a whole glut of gooey fantastic tales like this.
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Proton X50 – ASEAN NCAP tests resulted in key safety changes for RHD conversion, led by Malaysian R&D
In Cars, Local News, Proton, Safety / By Anthony Lim / 24 December 2020 12:46 pm / 16 comments
Adapting a car from a left-hand drive layout to a right-hand drive configuration may sound like a straightforward affair, with a simple flip of the dashboard orientation being all that’s needed. However, this is far from the case, and crucial elements often emerge to redefine the manner in how conversions are made, resulting in a number of – often hidden – design changes coming about in the switch.
Take safety, for example. Compliance to regulations as defined by a testing protocol can sometimes show up flaws that may have otherwise not been noticed without the facilitated change, and the parameters for a particular automobile safety programme may reveal something another didn’t.
Case in point, the Proton X50 and its five-star ASEAN NCAP rating. Redeveloped from the Geely Binyue, the desire to meet the highest standard defined in the programme saw the national automaker making crucial, yet subtle changes involving material replacement and the repositioning of parts.
These changes were highlighted in an article interviewing Zanita Zainuddin, Proton’s head of Safety and Intelligent Drive. It was her team at the automaker that was tasked with redeveloping the Binyue into the X50 from a safety-related perspective.
One of the most crucial changes involved reworking an aspect of the body of the X50. In initial crash testing during development, the front floorboard often experienced tearing during a frontal collision, which is unacceptable by ASEAN NCAP standards, as the certification is extremely strict on tears affecting the area around the feet.
To overcome this, engineers had to reinforce these areas with ultra-high-strength steel, effectively shifting the force of impact to other areas that do not present any threat to occupant safety. Overall, 40% of the body, including the front, side and back, was made using a combination of high-strength steel variants.
Another technical revision was with the driver’s footrest, which is located next to the brake pedal. With the engine always oriented under the hood towards the right side of the vehicle, regardless of the driving side, the automaker said that in the event of a collision, the driver of a right-hand-drive X50 would be more vulnerable to foot injury as compared to the driver of a left-hand drive Binyue.
The company said that in order to safeguard the driver’s resting foot from such harm, the footrest for the X50 was modified to ensure that the foot remains on the footrest, with limited slippage.
The national carmaker also pointed out that while different programmes all follow a general guideline in terms of parameters, some have a slightly different criteria in rating a certain aspect within the assessment. For Geely, its cars were mostly made to comply with the criteria set forth by the C-NCAP programme for the domestic market, which in some areas greatly varies from those set by the ASEAN NCAP.
An example is with the curtain airbags. The ASEAN NCAP protocol emphasises that the static deployment of curtain airbags covers a range of body types for the different people that may be driving, something that isn’t present in the C-NCAP protocol.
As such, the curtain airbags for the X50 had to be adjusted to provide additional cushioning to the head area during impact, primarily in side collisions. Since this greatly improves occupants’ safety, the design change was out forward by Proton to the Geely design team for consideration as a staple feature in future models.
Another learning curve for Geely is in the area of Child Occupant Protection (COP) safety. Interestingly, C-NCAP does not currently assess the safety of baby seats for child occupants but will likely introduce this assessment in 2021. This presented Geely with an opportunity to work together with Proton.
One of the changes made in this area included lengthening the hook on the Isofix interface, making it easier to fit a child safety seat. Also, the anchor’s angle was readjusted to offer a more secure placement of the seat.
Aside from the safety-related revisions, the automaker also pointed out that the driving assistance features from the Binyue were carried over except for the Speed Limit Information Function (SLIF), a feature that recognises Chinese road signs and informs the driver of the current road’s speed limit.
It was explained that if left on, the system could potentially provide incorrect information to the X50’s control unit due to language, character and signage differences, and so it was decided that the function be put aside until it can be adapted for use in future models.
Zanita said Geely and Proton have both benefited from each brand being subjected to different safety approval and market standards, with best practices gathered and shared across the board, nowhere more than in the field of safety.
“Proton has always emphasised safety as one of its unique selling points unbiased to any country or platform. It is not surprising then that we continue to challenge ourselves, so that this DNA is inherent throughout our range of models, be it our locally-produced car or the current joint development with our partner Geely,” she said.
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Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.
azrai on Dec 24, 2020 at 1:44 pm
So actually it is our team Protonised the Geely instead of vice versa.
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Safety First on Dec 24, 2020 at 3:11 pm
Kudos to Zanita & team, X50 or nothing. Weldann
Alan on Dec 24, 2020 at 5:27 pm
Likely China NCAP didn’t consider these issues as something serious but it wasn’t acceptable to ASEAN NCAP so kudos to Proton team for going the extra mile to reengineer Binyue to truly our local flavour. This is another arrow shooting down haters claim that X50 is just a mere rebadge.
Ool Mas (Iro) on Dec 24, 2020 at 2:46 pm
the article shows Geely is not a superior car maker. it just lucky it has a very large single market which is doible the size of Asean countries.
Geely benefited from this factor making millions of money while Proton didnt succeed neither in its home country nor other countries.
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pasumno on Dec 24, 2020 at 4:26 pm
Spot on bruh.. unlike japs and koreans, geely and volvo dint even make it to European Car of the Year candidates. Proton pulak kucing kata jangan.
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Hafriz Shah (Member) on Dec 24, 2020 at 4:41 pm
What are you on about? Geely isn’t sold in Europe, so of course it wasn’t nominated. As for Volvo, Polestar 2 was nominated.
Haters gonna hate lah.
Jeremy on Dec 24, 2020 at 7:42 pm
Betui , must see to believe it. Polestar 2 now in Malaysia …. 408 hp and 660 Nm all-electric fastback at Vision Motorsports..memang superb
Engineer on Dec 24, 2020 at 10:26 pm
This article showed to haters and detractors that converting LHD to RHD properly isn’t just as simple as shifting the steering wheel. Another sad fact that a lot of what Proton did is under the skin and not seen by people with no knowledge. Let this be an eye-opener for them.
Dong gor on Dec 24, 2020 at 3:41 pm
Converting the car from left to right hand drive of course require work to be done. That is why the ppl there are still employed and paid salary. Imagine a casher writing about her effort to collect cash from customers… Well, It’s work done but no need to claim credit.
David on Dec 24, 2020 at 6:35 pm
From this article clearly shown as they even struggled to convert to RHD. No wonder this car can’t even enter European and US market
jusknitting on Dec 25, 2020 at 12:04 pm
Why though? They have well-known brands to penetrate the other market; like Volvo. This is just specific for asian market.
Semi-Value (Member) on Dec 24, 2020 at 8:22 pm
test euro ncap
wtf on Dec 25, 2020 at 1:31 am
why there are so many posts about this x50?
preview then review not enough? or there are no other news worth mentioning lately
If you’ve been long enough on PT, you’ll realize that its not the case of X50 have so many post. In fact, this is still natural for PT team to do. The last post about X50 before it was launched was like a couple of years ago. During that time, X70, new myvi, bezza, aruz, new saga, new rocky etc. also have almost similar amount of posts when they were launched. Furthermore, x50 is the hottest compact SUV of the century, period.
Choong Khim Fen on Dec 28, 2020 at 7:58 am
Hmm so they did test the right mirror of Proton X50, how come so many report that the right mirror is left hand bias? Or the test is not adequately done for all sitting position?
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Mikkel Metal
Experimental Electronic, House, Techno
Experimental Dub, Experimental Techno, Microhouse
Ambient, Dub Techno, Electronic, Kompakt, Minimal, Minimal Techno
Mikkel Metal aka Mikkel Meldgaard, born 1973, lives and works in Copenhagen. Completing a degree in Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen 2001, he now works with web programming, besides making music. His musical career started 12 years ago as a guitarist. Equally interested in the introspective sound of the British shoe gazer-scene and the looser low-fi aesthetic of American slacker bands, he played in various bands and developed as a guitarist.
His musical career started 12 years ago as a guitarist. Equally interested in the introspective sound of the British shoe gazer-scene and the looser low-fi aesthetic of American slacker bands, he played in various bands and developed as a guitarist.
By the mid-nineties he had grown an interest in electronic music, and bought a sampler. At first the focus laid on break beat music and melodic stuff. Later the direction changed towards a sound inspired by dub, techno, and click sensibilities. While the indierock is still apparent, this is the sound that characterised Mikkel's music today.
Things kicked off in 2000, with the release a 7-inch on the label Hal9000, that topped the magazine de:bug's monthly chart (no. 42). Afterwards came an appearance on the net label datamusik, and a series of 12' inches on the Danish label Echocord.
Mikkel developed and refined his sound, and also started issuing work to German label Kompakt. So far this has thrown off three 12' inches. These works still continuing click-aesthetic and dub-influence, but take a slightly different path, and go from shuffle techno to slow melodic 4/4-based tracks.
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A Rocket In Dub 1
Anders Ilar 34
Bill Van Loo 2
Quantec 1
Thomas Fehlmann 3
Vladislav Delay 11
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Improving the Delphi process: lessons from social psychological research
F Bolger, George Wright
The Delphi technique was largely developed to avoid the problems of freely interacting groups such as dominant individuals and pressure to conform to the majority view. Our review of the social psychological literature reveals some obstacles to Delphi achieving its full potential relative to other cheaper and easier methods of aggregating judgment. We identify residual normative and informational pressures towards consensus that potentially reduce process gain that might otherwise be achieved. For instance, panelist confidence may act as a signal of status rather than be a valid cue to expertise, whereas consensus appears to have a strong influence on the final outcome that can reduce its accuracy when there are valid minority opinions. We argue that process gain in Delphi must occur through those further from the "truth" changing their opinion more than those closer to the truth, with the general direction of opinion change being towards the truth. For such virtuous opinion change to occur we suggest the need to both facilitate opinion change and provide good cues as to where the truth lies. Research on Judge Advisor Systems shows that people usually do not change their opinion as much as they should, giving too much weight to their own opinion and too little to the views of others—this bias can be reduced by increasing involvement and motivation. In addition, we propose that the best way to provide good cues as to the direction of the truth is to elicit rich reasoning from panelists about the judgment or choice in question, then use this as feedback. We suggest practical ways of focusing and deepening panelists’ consideration and evaluation of such reasoning—such that all proffered opinions are well-evaluated. Additionally, we propose a model of opinion change in Delphi for use as a paradigm for future process-orientated research.
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The feature most likely to catch people’s attention? The car’s 640 hp, which come courtesy of its 3.8-liter twin-turbocharged flat-six engine. Based on the 911 Carrera’s engine, it has bigger variable turbine geometry turbochargers and a reworked air intake system, which allow it to produce all those horses plus an equally impressive 590 lb-ft of torque. Just as a comparison, that’s an increase of 60 horses and 37 lb-ft of torque over the output of the outgoing Turbo S.
But the Turbo S isn’t just powerful; it’s also really fast. Thanks to an all-wheel-drive system, Porsche promises that the coupé will be able to go from 0-to-60 mph in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it 2.6 seconds, while the cabriolet version completes the task in just a tenth of a second longer. It can cover a quarter mile in just 10.5 seconds and hit a top speed of 205 mph. So yeah, fast.
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While the 2021 model doesn’t look remarkably different from the car it’s replacing, Porsche has given the exterior a little more real estate to work with. This edition has slightly wider body (1.8-inches in the front, 0.78 in the back), large intakes on the body panels to better channel air and a larger rear wing that will help produce 15-percent more downforce. A lower Active Suspension Management sport suspension and louder sport exhaust are also available as options.
Of course, this kind of speed and power come at a cost. When the new Turbo S arrives on these shores later this year, the coupé version will sport a starting price of $204,850, while the cabriolet version will go for $217,650.
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Teacher Orders Extra for GrabFood Rider, Single Dad Shares Photos with Kids as Thanks
A teacher buys extra food for the GrabFood rider who would take her order plus the frontliners at their building. After delivering the food, the Grab rider goes home to bring the chicken to his family, sharing photos of him eating with his children and admitting that he’s a single dad.
Right Order at the Right Time?
She does not usually order food delivery because she feels bad about having to get food delivered when all these many frontliners are risking their lives to do it. But when Cha Calubaquib ordered food delivery for the second time since the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), the sweet gesture would be a timely treat for a Grab rider who’s a single dad with two kids!
Photo credit: Cha Calubaquib / Facebook
On Monday, April 13, a month into the ECQ, she decided to buy Baliwag lechon manok. Since she really feels guilty about ordering food during the ECQ, she bought one whole lechon manok for the rider who would pick up her booking, plus two more for the frontliners in her building.
She nearly gave up because no one picked up her booking on the first try. But before she could change her mind, a rider got the booking. Andrew Cucal accepted the GrabFood booking and was so happy to receive his share of her order, saying that he would have surely driven straight back home but he still had one more order to deliver.
Minutes later, Calubaquib received a message on Facebook from Cucal, with the GrabFood rider thanking her for the food she gave his family. He admitted that he is a single parent and the food she gave them was a huge help for him and the kids.
Many netizens were touched by the story, commenting that it was really great that of all the riders who would accept the booking and receive the free food, it would be a single dad who really need it for his kids…
Food Delivery in the Time of ECQ
During the ECQ, most businesses are ordered temporary closed. However, some businesses are allowed to operate, such as restaurants and various food outlets. ‘Dine in’ is not allowed but restaurants can still operate if they offer delivery service, either through their own or via third party services such as GrabFood and FoodPanda.
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It is a common joke that parents often ‘keep’ their children’s monetary gifts, but actually spend it for food or something else! But a nearly 3-year-old kid wows with savings of Php77k because his parents claimed that they don’t spend his gifts at all. Wow.
Kid Saves Php77k from Gifts
A lot of ninongs, ninangs, and even family members prefer to give monetary gifts instead of buying something because they have a hard time picking the right gift that the receiver might like. After all, kids (and even adults!) can be so picky when it comes to things they want.
But it is also a common joke (and reality) that parents tell the kids they will ‘keep’ the money but actually spend it for the household needs, such as food or paying for bills.
While that’s a worthwhile way of spending the money, there are also parents who disagree with this arrangement. After all, the giver had given the money for the child/receiver to buy something that he/she wanted.
Photo credit: Jarlo Manalad / Facebook
Jarlo Manalad recently shared how their nearly 3-year-old son has Php77k in savings because they don’t spend any of the monetary gifts that he received. The money came from so many people who love the kid – ninongs, ninangs, relatives, and family friends.
Even if someone gave them something for the child’s birthday or special event, the couple decided to keep the money as the child’s savings. Manalad promised that any money given by anyone in the future will also go to this savings fund.
Aside from this money, the couple also saves Php200 per pay day for the child’s future educational funds. They hope that they could fund the child’s college education with their salaries but might use the money they saved for it.
The post has gone viral, with many people expressing admiration to these parents for the kind of attitude they have for their son’s money.
Building an Educational Fund
It is a big reality that college education can be so expensive. That’s why it is best to start saving for it when your kids are still small.
First, set your tuition fund goals. Create a savings strategy such as setting aside the money for savings before budgeting the rest of your salary. Some would suggest investing the money to grow it but others believe it is best to put it in the bank. Make sure to track your progress to inspire you to continue saving.
We all know that most teachers are dedicated to their jobs and are often spending a lot of overtime work to finish lessons, grades, and various reports. But one teacher recently went viral after replying to a student before going to her wedding! Now, that’s truly dedication…
Teacher Replies to Student Before Her Wedding
It is said that teaching is a noble job because their work does not stop when they go out of the classroom.
More often than not, they still spend lots of hours after school is done because there are still a lot of lessons to prepares, papers and projects to check, assignments and seatworks to be corrected, grades to be made, reports to be submitted, and so much more. Even during weekends, teachers still have a lot of things to do.
Photo credit: Irish Jeanne Bautista / Facebook
Recently, a teacher showed that their work really isn’t done even outside their duties inside the school. Irish Jeanne Bautista wowed netizens after she replied to a student’s message even if she was busy preparing for her wedding.
The student was asking about something related to a submission of a paper; though it was not indicated whether the paper was an assignment, test paper, or project. Apparently, the teacher was able to check this student’s paper but the others were reportedly not there. However, the student was puzzled because the paper was submitted along with the others.
Though she was already busy at the time with wedding preparations, the teacher took time to reply to the student. She was not able to resolve the girl’s query, but the teacher made sure that the student did not feel that she was being ignored.
“Wait lang, Larah… Ikakasal lang si Ma’am. Replyan kita later,” the teacher replied, with matching emojis.
What are Emojis?
Emojis are digital icons or images that convey an emotion, idea, profession, logo, animals, expressions, buildings and places, etc.
A vendor recently went viral for bringing his beloved pet dog on a bike while he is selling peanuts.
The dog might be having a difficult time in that makeshift basket and the man is also having a hard time pushing the broken bike, yet they seem to enjoy their life together – and the vendor wants to continue bringing his dog along while roams around the city to sell his peanuts.
Peanut Vendor Brings Pet Dog on Bike
A lot of animal lovers treat their pets as part of the family, not just as dogs or cats in the house. That’s why an elderly vendor in Cebu City brings his pet dog along, even if that meant that the animal is tied on a leash and goes with him on a makeshift basket he placed on his bike.
Photo credit: Franklin Ramos Mariscal / Facebook
Netizen Franklin Ramos Mariscal shared photos of the peanut vendor and his dog, narrating how he met them by chance while he was walking along the South Bus Terminal on his way home. At first, Franklin thought that the man was strolling along with his dog, but he would later meet them again after he crossed the street.
According to the peanut vendor, his pet is a puppy Golden Retriever. He brings the dog along because he enjoys the dog’s company and is clearly an animal lover, Franklin observed. However, pushing that broken bike with the heavy dog made his back ache, the old man added.
Taking pity on the old man, Franklin decided to share his story so that netizens could also help him by buying from him when they happen to see him.
But the story would soon go viral, with netizens from faraway places also offering help. So, Franklin decided to accept donations for the old man so they can send him some groceries. Some netizens also suggested getting the old man a bike with sidecar so the dog will be more comfortable while the old man will be safer riding the bike.
Sidecar for Bikes and Motorcycles
Most bicycles and motorcycles are sold as they are, with just two wheels, but people in places like the Philippines have made modifications to add a sidecar and a third wheel to make these vehicles more serviceable. The sidecar allows the user to bring more goods on the vehicle or even have more passengers.
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ATLANTA – Coming off a strong fall debut in which is finished one-shot out of the lead and had the individual medalist, Georgia Tech’s golf team prepares for its second outing at the inaugural Brickyard Collegiate beginning Sunday in Macon, Ga.
The first Brickyard event attracted the Yellow Jackets as well as top-20 teams Clemson, Georgia and South Carolina to join host Mercer, 2007 NCAA regional participants Eastern Michigan and Hartford, as well as Akron, Furman, Gonzaga, Kennesaw State, Middle Tennessee State and Troy.
It will be the largest event of its kind held at The Brickyard at Riverside, which re-opened on June 27, 2005. Mark McCumber re-designed the course, which now features a par-72, 7,128-yard layout. In 2007, Golf Digest ranked the course No. 12 in the state of Georgia.
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The tournament opens Saturday with a practice round, and the 54-hole competition will begin Sunday morning and conclude Tuesday afternoon. The tournament is open to the public. Admission is free.
“The guys went down and played the course a couple of weeks ago,” said head coach Bruce Heppler. “It’s really challenging and in really good condition. The former coach at Mercer (now at UGA) had watched our tournament and tried to create the same thing in Macon to help their program. When the Preview went to two days, we called and asked if we could get in.
“It’s during fall break, and we don’t miss any class, and close enough for people top come and watch. Everybody on our team is going to play, either for our team or as individuals, and everyone can get a tournament under their belts.”
Heppler watched his team, currently ranked No. 3 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Index, come up one stroke short after a furious rally on the final day at the Carpet Capital Collegiate in mid-September. Sophomore All-American Chesson Hadley (Raleigh, N.C.), ranked No. 1 in the Sagarin ratings, captured the individual title by three shots for his first collegiate victory after posting scores of 65-69-74.
All five spots for Tech’s travel squad were up for grabs in team qualifying that began last weekend, but the same five players who finished third at the Carpet Capital Collegiate will count for Tech this week – Hadley, juniors David Dragoo, Cameron Tringale and Taylor Hall and red-shirt freshman Paul Haley. Junior Adam Cohan, sophomore Daniel Bowden and red-shirt freshman John Tyler Griffin will play as individuals. Freshman William Miller, who is recovering from mononucleosis, will not play. Heppler is hopeful he will be able to qualify for Tech’s next event at Isleworth in two weeks.
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Red envelopes are an important and much-loved Chinese tradition, used to send money as well as blessings and good wishes to family, friends and colleagues.
But it’s not just what’s inside that counts — it’s the envelope itself and in particular, its colour. To Chinese people, red represents energy, happiness and good luck.
Money inside in a red envelope is considered lucky for the receiver. At Chinese New Year, the gift of a red envelope signifies a happy, prosperous and peaceful year ahead.
But remember — if you’re lucky enough to receive an envelope to celebrate and welcome the 2018 Year of the Dog, it’s not polite to open the envelope in front of the person who gives it to you.
Sending a virtual red envelope is a popular feature of China’s biggest social media platform, WeChat — a marketing tool becoming increasingly popular among real estate agents in Australia.
Zomart He, of Ray White Commercial Oakleigh, posts all his listings on WeChat, as well as publishing informative articles about the Australian commercial property market for his clients and contacts.
Mr He updates frequently on WeChat and also shares performance results and seasonal greetings.
“It’s important to build trust,” he says. “Sophisticated Asian investors love to read good articles with good research and sound analytical arguments.”
He also sends small red virtual envelopes to WeChat groups as a way to bring more attention to his listings. These envelopes contain “cash” with real value and are intended to be a fun WeChat social interaction.
“It doesn’t need to be a big amount,” Mr He says. “People often send ￥2 (40 Australian cents) and divide into 10-20 parts.
“People can click on the red envelope and immediately enter a draw where a lucky few win five cents. It’s not about money, it’s fun.
“The money received is stored in users’ WeChat Wallet which can be used in China to pay for almost anything.
“People in China no longer carry cards or cash. They just carry their phone to shop. For example, they could buy fruits and vegetables in the equivalent of Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market with their WeChat wallet.”
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[Re:]Entanglements
Nigeria | Sierra Leone | Re-engaging with Colonial Archives in Postcolonial Times
N. W. Thomas
Sierra Leone masquerades
Paul Basu Masquerade, Sierra Leone December 20, 2020 December 20, 2020 a-Ròng-a-Thoma, Anthropological Report on Sierra Leone, Ayuke, Bondo, Kabembe, Magbeli, Mamaka, mask, masquerade, Matotaka, Namangkèra, Ndoli jowei, Pa Kasi, Poro, Ragbenle, Samawa, Sande, Sankoh, Sierra Leone, spirits, T. J. Alldridge, Tasso 1 Comment
‘Bundu devils’ or Ndoli jowei masquerades of the women’s society, photographed in February 1915 by Northcote Thomas in Tormah (Tormabum), present-day Bonthe District, Sierra Leone. (NWT 6183-4; RAI 400.38125.)
Masquerade traditions are widespread across West Africa. Masked performers are earthly manifestations of spirits – whether of ancestors or forces of nature. They mediate between the visible world of humans and the invisible world of the spirits. They often play important roles in ceremonies marking key rites of passage, such as initiation into adulthood or passing to ancestorhood, and in ritual cycles, for instance those associated with farming, fertility and renewal.
Such spirits may be benevolent tutelary figures; some are fierce and forbidding; others may be clown-like and entertaining. Much has been written about their function in society, their iconography and symbolism, and the dramaturgy of their performances. Earlier European commentators often characterised these figures as ‘festishes’ or ‘juju’. Thomas was among the first to recognize their importance in the wider ‘magico-religious sphere’, and that this was not merely about ‘belief and worship’, but ‘inextricably mixed up with law, social organisation and other elements of human life’. He also acknowledged, however, that not enough was known about them to offer an adequate analysis, not least since this knowledge was largely restricted to initiates.
During his anthropological tours in Southern Nigeria and Sierra Leone between 1909 and 1915, Northcote Thomas photographed and documented many different masquerades, from the Eliminia performed by senior age-grade members in Otuo or those associated with annual Ovia festivals around Benin City during his Edo tour, to the graceful maiden spirit (Agbogho mmuo) or aggressive Mgbedike of the Nri-Awka Igbo. Here we focus on Thomas’s photographic documentation of Sierra Leonean masquerades.
Ndoli jowei
‘Indigenous’ Sierra Leonean masquerade traditions are quite distinct from those found in Southern Nigeria and from the Igbo- and Yoruba-derived traditions introduced into Sierra Leone (especially Freetown) by the so-called ‘Liberated Africans’ in the 19th century. Of the indigenous types, only the Ndoli jowei (the ‘dancing sowei’) of the Mende female Sande society is well known. Its distinctive black helmet mask has become a national symbol of Sierra Leone, and examples are to be found in many museums.
As well as photographing Ndoli jowei masquerade figures in Tormah, Northcote Thomas also made sound recordings of women’s society songs. This phonograph recording was made on February 24, 1915. (NWT 720; BL C51/3154.)
Ndoli jowei is just one of a family of Mende spirit manifestations, although it is especially notable since it is one of the few female masquerades actually danced by women (in contrast to the Igbo Agbogho mmuo, for instance, which is a representation of a female spirit, but danced by men). Thomas photographed examples of the Ndoli jowei in Tormah (now known as Tormabum) in present-day Bonthe District, Southern Sierra Leone in 1915. He identified them in his photo register as ‘Bundu devils’, using the name given to them by Christian missionaries, who demonized such spirit manifestations.
A video installation that featured in the ‘Sowei: Spirit of Sierra Leone‘ exhibition at the British Museum in 2013, filmed by curator Paul Basu and The Light Surgeons. The film was shown as a continuous loop in the exhibition, which featured a sowei mask collected in Sierra Leone in 1886. The exhibition explored the sowei mask from different perspectives – anthropological, art historical, symbolically as a national symbol. The exhibition also considered the colonial entanglements of the mask displayed.
‘Bundu’ – or, more correctly, ‘Bondo’ – is the Temne name for the women’s society known as Sande in Mende-speaking areas of Sierra Leone. Although associated with the Mende, the society and its masquerade is in fact more widespread in Sierra Leone, and can be found in many Temne-speaking areas where the Ndoli jowei is known as Nöwo.
‘The Sowei Mask: Curator’s Notes with Bill Hart’. Bill Hart, a specialist on Sierra Leonean material culture, discusses the mask of the Ndoli jowei masquerade, using examples from the British Library collections. This short video was made as part of the AHRC-funded ‘Reanimating Cultural Heritage’ project (www.sierraleoneheritage.org).
Samawa
Another photograph relating to the women’s society masquerades was published in Thomas’s Anthropological Report on Sierra Leone, and is also captioned ‘Bundu “Devil”’. This is an altogether more intriguing figure insofar as the costume does not include the familiar black helmet mask. The photograph was taken in the Temne-speaking town of Magbeli (today spelled Magbile or Magbele) on the banks of the Rokel River. In his photographic register, Thomas also provides the name ‘Pa Fore Salia’, and indicates that the photograph is of a woman. It is interesting to note that the woman carries a man’s name and title.
The Samawa-like figure, photographed by Northcote Thomas in December 1914 in Magbile, present-day Bombali District, Sierra Leone. In his photo register book, Thomas provides the caption, ‘Bundu “devil”, Pa Fore Salia, woman’. Note the two large sacks on the front of the figure’s costume, probably representing elephantiasis of the scrotum – an affliction said to befall men who pry into the secrets of the women’s society. (NWT 5924 & 5925-6; MAA P.33579 & 33580.)
In contrast to the finely carved helmet mask and dyed raffia costume of the Nöwo or Ndoli jowei, this masquerade costume might be best described as an accretion of beads, coiled basket roundels, bones, bells, shells and animal hair attached to sack cloth. The face of the dancer – presumably Pa Fore – is only partially obscured by the headpiece. This corresponds most closely to the Samawa masquerade described by Ruth Phillips in her book Representing Woman: Sande Masquerades of the Mende of Sierra Leone. (If you know the equivalent Temne name for this figure, we would welcome your advice.)
Samawa is a satirist, and her use of humour can be light and playful, but can also border on the menacing and frightening. Phillips’ description of a Samawa she witnessed during her research in Southern Sierra Leone in the 1970s, shares many features of the character photographed by Thomas in Magbile:
The costume and performance of samawa change depending on the specific object of her satire. She wears no headpiece, but rather face paint, exaggerated clothing, and the appropriate appended objects. In one performance of samawa that I saw, the impersonator’s face was painted with black and white spots to represent leprosy, a strip of fur was tied around her chin as a beard, and she was dressed in dirty rags. A big bulge under the front of her costume represented a swelling of the scrotum, and she hobbled about leaning on a stick like a cripple. All these deformities, she sang, would afflict any man who disobeys Sande rules, and she interrupted her song with bursts of loud, raucous laughter. (Phillips 1995: 90)
Sure enough, on the front of the costume of the ‘Bundu devil’ photographed by Thomas in Magbile, one can see two bulging sacks, probably representing elephantiasis of the scrotum, which is indeed a condition that men who dare to intrude on the secret practices of the women’s society are said to contract.
It is perhaps no coincidence that this is one of the few facts about the Bondo society that Thomas records in his Anthropological Report. The threat of scrotal elephantiasis was perhaps sufficient to deter him from pursuing his inquiries further!
Pa Kasi
In contrast to his limited investigations of women’s initiation societies, Thomas conducted extensive research into men’s societies such as Poro and Ragbenle. Thomas attempted to be initiated into Poro at Yonibana, but was prevented as a result of the intervention of a junior colonial administrator by the name of W. Y. Lyons. When Thomas complained about this interference, it was claimed that Lyons acted in the interests of the local population. It is more likely, however, that the idea of a European acting on behalf of the colonial government being initiated into a West African ‘secret society’ was seen as a transgression of a racialised boundary, which could not be tolerated by the colonial authorities.
When Thomas submitted the initial draft of his Report to the Colonial Office at the conclusion of his Sierra Leonean tour, he requested that many details of the Poro society and its connection with chieftaincy be withheld from publication because they would cause embarrassment to his informants. Due to these ethical concerns, the section on Poro in the published report is quite cursory.
There are many masquerades associated with Poro in the south of Sierra Leone, some of which had been previously photographed and published by the colonial administrator T. J. Alldridge. Thomas’s anthropological survey was focused in the north and central Sierra Leone, and he took relatively few photographs during his travels in the south, none of which include male masquerades. (The relative sparsity of photographs from the latter period of Thomas’s Sierra Leone tour was probably due to difficulties obtaining new glass plate negatives as the First World War intensified and affected shipping to West Africa.)
‘Pa Kasi’ photographed by Northcote Thomas in 1914 in Mabonto in present-day Tonkolili District, Central Sierra Leone. (NWT 5843-4; MAA P.33510.)
One Poro figure that Thomas did photograph, however, was ‘Pa Kasi’. Pa Kasi is not, strictly-speaking, a masquerade. He is, rather, a senior official of the men’s Poro society. Due to the remarkable nature of his costume, however, we include him here. The photograph was taken in Mabonto in present-day Tonkolili District, Central Sierra Leone. Pa Kasi plays important roles in the initiation of new members into Poro and also the crowning of paramount chiefs. The same figures is known as ‘Tasso’ in Mende-speaking areas. Thomas describes him as a ‘doctor’, adept at controlling the powers of magico-herbal ‘medicines’ which have the ability to both cure and kill.
Representations of Pa Kasi or Tasso over 200 years. Clockwise from top left: (1) ‘Gregree of Ma Yerma and Gregree of Ba Simera’, published in 1825 in Alexander Gordon Laing’s Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko and Soolima Countries in Western Africa. (2) ‘The Poro Secret Society – Group of Tasso Man, Imperri Country’, photographed in 1895 and published in 1901 in T. J. Alldridge’s The Sherbro and Its Hinterland. (3) Tasso photographed by Gary Schulze at the Durbar for Paramount Chiefs held in Bo, 2011, during Sierra Leone’s 50th anniversary of independence celebrations (reproduced with permission).
The most remarkable aspect of Pa Kasi’s costume is his headdress of ambong. This takes the form of an inverted cone with, according to Thomas, the ‘feathers of the greater plantain-eater in it’. Around its rim are arranged skulls and thigh bones. In Thomas’s account, ‘the skulls are said to be those of people who have infringed Poro law’. This accords with the account of the American anthropologist Vernon Dorjahn who conducted research on the Temne Ragbenle and Poro societies in the 1950s and who states that the ‘skeletal material’ on Pa Kasi’s crown was ‘obtained from those executed for breaches of Poro discipline’ (Dorjahn 1961). In his description of the Tassos in Southern Sierra Leone, Alldridge (1901: 131), however, notes that the bones are those of ‘defunct Tassos’, whom the wearer has succeeded in office.
a-Ròng-a-Thoma and Namangkèra
Whereas the Pa Kasi/Tasso figure has been documented by European travellers in Sierra Leone since the 1750s, Thomas was the first outsider to record the a-Ròng-a-Thoma and Namangkèra masquerades of the Temne Ragbènle society. It has been suggested that these spirits – krifi, or kärfi, in Temne – are found exclusively in Yele in Gbonkolenken chiefdom, in Tonkolili District, Central Sierra Leone, and that they travel to other chiefdoms in the region to perform at the crowning of chiefs. Thomas makes no reference to a-Ròng-a-Thoma and Namangkèrabeing exclusive to Yele, however, and, indeed, he photographed examples in Matotaka and Mamaka, in present-day Tane and Yoni cheifdoms respectively, which neighbour Gbonkolenken in Tonkolili District. Our own research also suggests that they continue to exist outside of Yele in other chiefdoms where the Ragbènle society is found.
‘Aron-athoma’ and ‘Namankara’ masks photographed by Northcote Thomas in 1914 in Mamaka, present-day Tonkolili District, Central Sierra Leone. (NWT 5847-8; RAI 400.37943.)
Thomas’s Anthropological Report on Sierra Leone contains just a few notes on a-Ròng-a-Thoma and Namangkèra. Thomas documented, for example, the Ragbènle society’s role at the death of a chief and the initiation of a new chief. At each of these occasions, and also on the death of a member of the society, the a-Ròng-a-Thoma comes out to perform. a-Ròng may be glossed as meaning ‘mask’, and, according to Thomas, Thoma or Toma means ‘forbidden’, but is also the name of a particular tree. The wood of this tree, he notes, cannot be placed on a fire by a member of Ragbènle or he will burn himself. a-Ròng-a-Thoma generally dance in pairs and are accompanied by Namangkèra, who is a messenger figure.
Left: ‘Arronna Toma’ mask photographed by Northcote Thomas in Matotaka, 1914. (NWT 5493-4; MAA P.33202.) Right: Sequence of photographs by Northcote Thomas of a-Ròng-a-Thoma and Namangkèra dancing in Mamaka, 1914. (NWT 5847-8, 5849-50, 5851-2, 5853-4; MAA P.33512, P.33513, P.33514, P.33515.)
Although there are a number of a-Ròng-a-Thoma headdresses in museum collections, until recently Thomas’s photographs were until recently the only documentation of the spirits in their complete costumes. The art historian, Fred Lamp, made a study of the figures during his fieldwork in Yele in 1979-80, during which he interviewed the paramount chief, officials of Ragbènle and former dancers of a-Ròng-a-Thoma. Lamp records that è-Ròng-è-Thoma are said to be the ‘chiefs’ of all the Ragbènle spirits, while Namangkèra is their brother. Both are regarded as water spirits. The wooden a-Ròng-a-Thoma mask is zoomorphic in form, with wide, flaring nostrils, a grid of teeth, and a pair of horns that curve around the crown of the head. It is worn with a costume of dyed raffia. According to Lamp, they are considered responsible for the general welfare and safety of the community and the growth of crops. Namangkèra’s mask has a conical, funnel-like opening, which Thomas describes as a ‘long wooden beard’ (the example photographed by Thomas has more anthromorphic facial features). Lamp notes that unlike a-Ròng-a-Thoma, ‘Namangkèra makes sounds and is very talkative, argumentative to the point that people describe him as a “lawyer”’.
‘Arong Athoma: Curator’s Notes with Bill Hart’. Bill Hart, a specialist on Sierra Leonean material culture, discusses a-Ròng-a-Thoma and Namangkèra, including footage of the masquerades filmed at the installation of Bai Sunthuba Osara at Matamp in Gbonkolenken chiefdom in 2010 by Nuala McAllister Hart. This short video was made as part of the AHRC-funded ‘Reanimating Cultural Heritage’ project (www.sierraleoneheritage.org).
Sankoh
A particularly unusual type of masquerade figure that Thomas photographed, and which is unique in Sierra Leone in having a brass face, is the a-Ròng-a-Rabai – the ‘mask of chieftaincy’ – or what Thomas refers to as the ‘cheifship krifi’. These are found exclusively in Temne areas of Sierra Leone, and have very rarely been documented. In an article on such masks, Bill Hart states that these are usually bear the name of the chiefly clan, often in archaic form. In his Anthropological Report, Thomas provides a more detailed account of the ‘cheifship krifi’ that he encountered at Mamaka. He writes,
At Mamaka he is called Sanko; Sanko and the chief, Satimaka, must be in separate houses; like the chief, he may not go where bundu [i.e. the women’s society] implements are kept, nor where there is a new-born child. It is significant that at the chief’s death his Sanko retires and is replaced by another man after offering a sacrifice.
Sanko wears a helmet of leather surmounted by a tuft; the face is of brass and there is a brass plate behind; strips of leopard skin are attached to the base, and over the skin is fibre that reaches to the waist. He has fibre ruffles round his wrists and net anklets with fibre tops. Four sticks tied together (bonkoloma) are in his hand; they are the chief’s staff; in point of fact the staff actually used by the chief is quite different, long and forked at the top.
The chiefship mask of Magbile is known as aron arabai; like Sanko the wearer cannot come out when the chief is dead; the mask is kept in the chief’s house. The dress is formed of skins, and he has palm-fibre trousers.
When he goes for a walk through the land he carries a broom and whips to flog people who do not come out when he dances. He can judge cases and pay the money received to the chief.
Front and rear view of Pa Sanko, the ‘mask of chieftaincy’, photographed by Northcote Thomas in 1914 in Mamaka in present-day Yoni chiefdom, Tonkolili District, Central Sierra Leone. (NWT 5856, 5855; MAA P.33518, P.33517.)
When we did fieldwork in Mamaka as part of the [Re:]Entanglements project, we were careful to discuss with the senior men the fact that we had photographs of things that perhaps not everyone was permitted to see. Among the elders we met was Pa Amadu Kamara, the grandson of Chief Satimaka, whom Thomas photographed. We learned Pa Amadu’s grandfather’s full name was Satimaka Memneh Sankoh, and that Sankoh is the name of the ‘devil’ (i.e. spirit) that dwells in the hill above the town. The devil of the hill, we were told, has someone in the town who is called Pa Sankoh. Pa Amadu expressed surprise that Thomas was able to photograph Sankoh; neither did he know whether the spirit still dwelled in the hill. There seemed to be a distinction made between the spirit or krifi, Sankoh, after whom the hill was named, and Pa Sankoh, who alone could communicate between krifi and the people of the town.
Left: Chief Satimaka of Mamaka, photographed by Northcote Thomas in 1914 (detail of NWT 5854; RAI 400.38198). Right: Pa Amadu Kamara holding Northcote Thomas’s photograph of his grandfather, Chief Satimaka, photographed by Paul Basu, 2019. There was a striking family resemblance between grandfather and grandson.
Ayuke or Kabemba
Boys and young men must be circumcised before they can be initiated into the Poro or Ragbènle societies. At the time of the circumcision ceremonies, the initiands withdraw into a circumcision bush, which is forbidden to women and where various prohibitions pertain. According to Thomas’s account of the process, while undergoing the ordeal, those being circumcised are under the guardianship of an old man, and also an old widow who is known as Yabemba. Yabemba must be past child-bearing age, and is the only woman permitted to enter the circumcision bush.
‘Kabamba’ circumcision mask photographed by Northcote Thomas in 1914 in Mamaka, present-day Yoni chiefdom, Tonkolili District, Central Sierra Leone (NWT 5895, 5896; RAI 400.38234, MAA P.33552.)
Left: Circumcision mask photographed by Northcote Thomas in 1914 in Matotaka, present-day Tane chiefdom, Tonkolili District (NWT 5495; RAI 400.37821). Right ‘Kabamba’ circumcision mask photographed by Northcote Thomas in 1914 in Robinkie, Mayoso, present-day Kholifa Rowala chiefdom, Tonkolili District (NWT 5514; MAA P.33234).
Once the initiands’ wounds have healed, they follow a masked figure – known as Bemba, Kabemba or Ayuke – back into the town, where they dance all night wearing long gowns (runku). Thomas records that in some towns the mask is worn by the man who conducts the circumcision operation (ayunkoli).
Following the ceremonies, Thomas states that the circumcision mask and its raffia costume are generally kept; although he notes that in some places they are thrown into the bush, presumably to decay. Thomas photographed examples of the Kabemba mask in Mamaka, Matotaka and Mayoso, and he also collected one in Mapori (Mafori?), with its fibre and palm-leaf dress, which he notes in his Report is ‘now in the Cambridge Museum of Ethnology’. We were able to identify and photograph this mask during our research with the Thomas collections at the museum, now called the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.
‘Yuke’or Kabimba circumcision mask, worn at dance in town’, collected by Northcote Thomas in Mapori near Kamalo in present-day Sanda Loko chiefdom, Bombali District, Northern Sierra Leone. (NWT 49; MAA Z 14480.1.)
‘The Kabemba Mask: Curator’s Notes with Bill Hart’. Bill Hart, a specialist on Sierra Leonean material culture, discusses the mask of the Kabemba masquerade, using examples from the British Library collections. This short video was made as part of the AHRC-funded ‘Reanimating Cultural Heritage’ project (www.sierraleoneheritage.org).
Alldridge, T. J. (1901) The Sherbro and Its Hinterland. London: Macmillan.
Dorjahn, V. R. (1961) ‘The Initiation of Temne Poro Officials’, Man 61: 36-40.
Hart, W. A. (1986) ‘Aron Aarabai: The Temne Mask of Chieftaincy’, African Arts 19(2): 41-45+91.
Lamp, F. J. (2005) ‘The Royal Horned Hippopotamus of the Keita of Temne: “A-Rong-a-Thoma”‘, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: 36-53.
Phillips, R. B. (1995) Representing Woman: Sande Masquerades of the Mende of Sierra Leone. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.
Thomas, N. W. (1916) Anthropological Report on Sierra Leone, Part 1: Law and Custom. London: Harrison & Sons.
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Rewrite the Bribery Act and allow “facilitation payments”, says MP
Adam Afriyie MP -
July 3, 2013 September 12, 2016
Last March, the Financial Times suggested that the Government was set to review the UK’s anti-bribery legislation, specifically the part covering “facilitation payments”.
This, the paper suggests, is because of concerns about the amount of red tape involved and the cost of compliance for British SMEs. I hope the FT is right and we can review an Act that, as it stands, puts significant barriers in the way of British business and our ability to compete abroad.
The Bribery Act 2010 is considered one of the most uncompromising pieces of anti-bribery legislation in the world. This is good, of course. It makes sure that hard-working businesses, however small, can compete on a level playing field. It makes sure that innovation and perseverance wins out over the old boys’ network.
But carrying out business abroad is not the same as conducting business at home – when the Act’s ban on facilitation payments is applied to overseas operations, rather than making sure that all companies have the same opportunity, it tips the competition in favour of foreign SMEs.
Facilitation payments are part of doing business overseas
Facilitation payments are small, unofficial financial gestures made to foreign officials to speed up government procedures, like the registration of a company or assets or a property. They don’t change the overall government decision, they are usually initiated by the government officials themselves and they are part-and-parcel of doing successful, efficient business in many countries in the developing world.
Whether we like it or not, facilitation payments exist and they make sure official paperwork is stamped quickly and administered efficiently.
The current prohibition on facilitation payments puts British SMEs at a serious economic disadvantage. British companies are forced to suffer excessive waiting times – there are extreme instances of businesses waiting years to register their companies – because they haven’t “paid” the right person.
If we are not careful, by the time our innovative companies are ready to make money, their international competitors will have pulled far ahead.
That’s why some countries and international organisations offer an exception for facilitating payments in their bribery codes. The US rightly argues that low-level government officials in many countries actively expect facilitation payments of one kind or another – they will not undertake simple, routine actions unless these payments have been made.
The US recognises that criminalising facilitation payments would trap American companies in a restrictive and sluggish bureaucracy. Even the OECD “Anti-Bribery Convention” makes an explicit exception for facilitation payments – although they do note that they should be discouraged where possible.
British business is suffering right now
Unfortunately, UK companies are suffering from these issues right now.
The CBI’s head of public services, Jim Bligh, writes: “If you’re a small company doing business for the first time in a new market, [the illegality of facilitating payments] is a significant block on your ability to land a contract.”
Imposing these restrictions on British businesses is especially backwards since the Government is encouraging our SMEs to cement new, profitable trading relationships with the tiger economies in Asia, South America and Africa.
The Government has done laudable work on this count, but while increased funding for outward-looking SMEs via UKTI, British legislation is pulling in the other direction.
If we are going to cement longer, profitable trading relationships with these countries, we will need to build up a sense of shared goodwill and camaraderie.
Unfortunately, current legislation puts this under pressure. Jim Bligh gives a particularly bad example: “Under [current] law, if you were a chief executive of a British retailer whose Hong Kong distributor paid the port official two packets of fags and a bottle of whisky, you could be found guilty […] That’s a law that isn’t quite going to work.”
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Essex support for ‘Don’t Stream and Drive’
Essex Police and SERP are supporting an annual event which aims to discourage people from recording or streaming videos while driving.
Don’t Stream and Drive Day is an online campaign, founded in 2016 by Sgt Neil Dewson-Smyth to highlight the dangers of all mobile phone use at the wheel, and in particular recording and sharing video footage while driving.
Running with the strapline ‘distracted driving kills’, the campaign was conceived to consolidate the year-round efforts of police forces and road safety stakeholders to deal with issues relating to mobile phone use by drivers.
The 2018 day takes place on 3 April and will be underpinned by a Thunderclap campaign – a crowdspeaking platform that broadcasts a specific message onto social media.
The Thunderclap message reads: “I’m supporting #DontStreamAndDrive Day and helping to make our roads safer for everyone.”
To date, the 2018 Thunderclap has 266 supporters (exceeding its 250 target) – including the Essex Police and Safer Essex Roads Partnership Twitter feeds – equating to a social reach of 3,681,738 users.
With more than a month still to go, the 2018 reach is closing in on last year’s total – when 3,817,916 social media users received the message.
Other 2018 supporters include Road Safety GB, Brake, GEM Motoring Assist and the DVSA.
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Posted on December 1, 2017 by Sandra Hults
Current listening: Via Purifico – Final Fantasy Piano Collection
Current Reading: In between.
I come to you with a dilemma. Two prompts, two amazing ideas this week for Ink and Quill. I am giving you one tonight but you will definitely have to wait until the weekend for the other. (Who would have thought a guided prompt could produce so many possibilities?) So this week, our vague prompt is itching to have me introduce a new face to anyone involved in the Maes universe. To long time readers, tell me if you can figure out who and what she ties into. Ladies and gents, meet Brona Rae and check out our vague prompt for Ink and Quill.
The starlight cold of the capital made Brona Rae shiver. She watched the city below with calm, careful green eyes. Her target just left the cathedral. The girl understood that a mission was a mission but she could not bring herself to remove her target. The woman brought so much good to a world that was once starved of such warmth. Just watching the woman as she had these last few days had given her cause to doubt the merits of her assignment.
She would never be as calm, cold and collected as the fabled Shadow, or even Lily. Brona understood that the act went against her nature. If needed, she could do what must be done but she questioned her superiors in an effort to understand her purpose and the reason behind that assignment. This was no different. Her blond to brown hair was tied up in a loose knot to prevent an attacker from using the mass against her in a figh
Unlike many within the Guild, she favored her daggers and the crossbow. Distance weapons, close combat was more difficult for her. Killing from a distance, thievery, spying these things she could do with ease and often requested those assignments. How she was put on assignment assassinate a royal, she would never know. At last word, none of the assassins had succeeded. Every single target failed and, at this juncture, they each had a death warrant over their heads. Rumor had it the guild had tried to eliminate Lily.
Brona paid a great deal of attention to the inner workings of the Guild. She knew their younger members were disappearing and, in a way, she was glad for that. No child should have to grow up as she did, as Lily did. She followed the city rooftops well above her charge. In truth, she had spent months watching the woman. She tried to understand why someone would want her dead. Tessa Starson, the people whispered, was a blessing to the realm and the people. She healed them, she prayed for them. The cleric brought them peace. No one within the guild knew Brona’s true last name. Given the history of the realm, Fate knew she was reluctant to reveal such information.
Late at night, long after the cleric retired from the cathedral, she would wind her way into the building and sit in silence. This place called her and she could not understand why. Her father was dumped in an orphanage when he was seven. Until he died, they lived in the squalor of the capital. He died just before her eighth birthday. Before he died he made her promise to seek out the guild. The man understood what life he was sending her to but he wanted to see his daughter protected. “Never tell them your full name. They will use you.” He made her promise on his deathbed.
Brona knew that. She had power, she knew she did. The power was a steady slow beat in her soul. If she focused hard enough, rain would tumble from the heavens. The slumbering giant had gotten stronger the longer the royals remained in power. She heard voices and, at a young age, forced herself to lock that part of her mind away for the sake of her sanity. Her father heard voices too and she suspected that drove him mad in the end.
So lost in thought, she almost lost her target. Brona followed the woman as far as the castle gates. Another pulse of the familiar lingered within those walls and Brona found herself reluctant to pursue that. The Guild sent her all over the realm on recon missions before this one. Lochton and the North called to her like a siren’s song yet, there was that itch of the world she knew here in the capital. Her charge was in the palace for the evening and that was as far as she wished to pursue the woman. She wound away through the shadows en route to the cathedral. Perhaps it was time to think and gain herself some peace.
The prayer book was old, many of the words faded from multiple readings. Brona thumbed through the pages. Fate bless this place. She thought as she lowered herself into a pew at the back of the cathedral. In truth, she could not fulfill a contract against one who brought so much Light to the world. Darkness was all she knew. The city streets sometimes wept of her loneliness. Her green eyes shadowed a moment as she read the old prayers. The book, her father told her, was her grandmother’s.
Fond fingertips turned the pages as she murmured those prayers beneath her breath. She knew from experience if she pushed power into the words, her hands would glow. Brona tried this once before in a dark alley away from what her life called her to be. At last her fingers found the back cover of the book. She traced those letters since childhood. After her name, they were the first two letters she learned to write. R.D. The second set of initials occupied the bottom corner of the cover, N.T., she had no idea whose they were or what they meant. That, she suspected, would be the mystery of not just her lifetime but her father’s as well.
In many respects , the cathedral was the only peace she knew. The rest of her life, she felt was running the rooftops and following the woman her employer asked her to remove. Her conscience stayed her hand. Those that came before her, their hands would not be stayed. A mission was a mission. Still, Brona could not bring herself to eliminate her target so, she watched. She prayed for Fate to intercede. Fate take this duty from me, please.
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Satan Ninja 198X
A webcomic about a dweeb in the '80s who accidentally becomes a satanic ninja. New page posted weekly. Usually.
Radicast 198X - #12 - Halloween Special 1
November 1, 2017 - 2:29pm by Adam Dravian
All right! Our first Radicast Halloween Special--and we totally released it in time for Halloween! Right?! I’ve barely slept these past couple days in order to get this recorded and edited on time, so I can only assume that I totally succeeded. Fuck yeah! So, happy Halloween!
We cover five (FIVE!) ‘80s horror films in this episode, from classics to delightfully terrible trash you’ve probably never heard of. We discuss and review Lifeforce (1985), Dolls (1987), Prince of Darkness (1987), The Lamp (1987), and Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988).
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Happy Halloween! (2016 Edition)
October 31, 2016 - 8:26pm by Adam Dravian
Every month, Jessica and I make a black and white SN8X bonus strip for Jessica's Patreon (which, by the way, is over half-way toward reaching the first goal!). You could sort of think of these bonus comics as deleted scenes. They tend to show some amusing aside that adds some extra flavor to the SN8X-verse, but isn't essential to the story (like the two peeping ninjas arguing about whether or not Alex's bedroom belongs to a boy or a girl, or Patrick Hyser's battle with the sensei of the Snake Shi).
This month is our 8th such bonus comic, and it's a flashback to a Halloween when Eddie, at the age of 14, first got up the courage to ask Veronica on a date. Showing you the whole comic wouldn't be fair to Jessica's awesome Patrons, since its a reward for their support, but we hope you enjoy this sneak peak of Eddie and Joe in their Halloween costumes.
In other news, we've recently received an award! As part of our effort to get as many people as possible aware of our comic, we upload it to several webcomic hosting sites. One of those is The Duck (previously known as Drunk Duck), and they hand out annual awards that are determined by the votes of the readers. Someone nominated us for the category of Best Superhero comic, and we ended up winning. Here's the announcement, which was done in comic form.
It's interesting, because as I said in the past, I don't really think of SN8X as a superhero comic, but I can understand how it qualifies as one.
Anyway, hope all you dudes have a mega-radical Halloween!
This was supposed to be more of a quick sketch, but Jessica got a little carried away and made it awesome. Hope you enjoy it.
Click the above image to see it in all its Halloween glory.
You can also check it out at Jessica's DeviantArt page, here.
This is also the first time we’ve seen a character lineup showing the relative sizes of the characters. Eventually we’ll have a lineup of the entire main cast.
There won’t be a comic page posted this weekend, but the comic will continue as usual next weekend.
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Energy efficiency has always been the norm in the mountains or people couldn’t stay warm and businesses efficient. Infact studies have shown mountain buildings typically use much less energy than buildings using air conditioning in warm climates. But standards continue to improve dramatically and here’s a list of properties that go the extra mile in the fight against climate change in ski resorts.
Bad Kleinkirchheim, Explorer Hotel
Explorer Hotels are the first ‘passive hotels’ utilising zero-emission buildings certified as 100% carbon neutral. Purpose-built with an innovative construction including its own photovoltaic system and good insulation combined with a stringent energy strategy meaning it uses 70% less energy than hotels of the same size. The hotels save 85% thermal energy compared to a similar regular hotel and 60% electricity by using photovoltaic systems. The BKK hotel opened in 2019.
Bad Kleinkirchheim, Hotel Trattlerhof
A hotel that has been dedicated to fighting climate change and being sustainable in every way for many years. Already a green power user it created its own hydro-electric station in order to become 100% self-sufficient in green electricity and in May 2014 switched the whole of the business to a bio-heat system. It has many other initiatives including the option for guests to carbon-offset all the CO2 generated by their holiday and borrow e-bikes and an electric car available for their use. The hotel has both the Austrian and European Eco labels.
Hochfügen-Hochzillertal, Explorer Hotel
Explorer Hotels are the first ‘passive hotels’ utilising zero-emission buildings certified as 100% carbon neutral. Purpose-built with an innovative construction including its own photovoltaic system and good insulation combined with a stringent energy strategy meaning it uses 70% less energy than hotels of the same size. The hotels save 85% thermal energy compared to a similar regular hotel and 60% electricity by using photovoltaic systems. The Zillertal hotel opened in 2017.
Hinterstoder, Explorer Hotel
Located at the valley station of the ski lifts, the new Explorer Hotel in the World Cup town of Hinterstoder is a ‘passive hotel’ utilising zero-emission buildings certified as 100% carbon neutral. Purpose-built with an innovative construction including its own photovoltaic system and good insulation combined with a stringent energy strategy meaning it uses 70% less energy than hotels of the same size. The hotels save 85% thermal energy compared to a similar regular hotel and 60% electricity by using photovoltaic systems.
Kals am Großglockner , MoaAlm Mountain Retreat
Situated high in the Austrian Alps on the edge of the Hohe Tauren National Park and the Gross Glockner ski resort the owners of the MoaAlm Mountain Retreat entirely stripped the chalet back and insulated it when they bought it, adding a wood chip boiler, solar panels for hot water and installing a wood fired hot tub. Typical of the new breed of small independent operators who are passionate about sustainability, they try to do everything in a climate friendly way from encouraging guests to travel to them with the lowest CO2 emissions possible, to providing an organic, locally sourced breakfast through to the entirely plant-based three course dinner. They’re also active in the local community encouraging discussion about more sustainability actions as well as vegan options in local restaurants too.
Leogang, Holzhotel Forsthofalm
Holder of The European Eco-label and the Austrian Eco-label as well as being a Green Lifestyle Hotel Austria, the Forsthofalm was built entirely of wood with no metal using ‘passive construction’ techniques which save up to 75% of the energy used in conventional building. Wood pellets are solely used for heating, a CO² neutral fuel supported by solar power. There are numerous other environment friendly initiatives in action here too.
Matrei am Großglockner, Outside Hotel
Multi green-award winning hotel and holder of Austrian and EU eco label certification. The hotel says it acts sustainably and responsibly towards future generations, by using energy-efficient materials and technologies, saving electricity and water. There are electric bikes and Tesla cars to hire plus electric car charging points. It’s a former winner of the ‘Luxury Eco-Hotel of the Year’ award and a member of Austria’s Climate Alliance.
Mayrhofen, Tipotsch Guest House
The Tipotsch guest house, in the Zillertal Valley, has been completely renovated with extra floors, 16 new rooms and suites, plus the building is heated entirely by geothermal energy. The owners, Heinz Tipotsch and Margot Stöckl have worked with local carpenters to source regional wood and the mature wood from the original building is still in place. Inside, guests will find brightly-coloured fabrics contrasting with the usual Alpine style.
Montafon, Explorer Hotel
Explorer Hotels are the first ‘passive hotels’ utilising zero-emission buildings certified as 100% carbon neutral. Purpose-built with an innovative construction including its own photovoltaic system and good insulation combined with a stringent energy strategy meaning it uses 70% less energy than hotels of the same size. The hotels save 85% thermal energy compared to a similar regular hotel and 60% electricity by using photovoltaic systems.
Obergurgl, The Crystal
Since 2009 the first hotel in Austria, and the first in Europe above 2000 metres altitude, to be heated by 100% renewable energy generated on site, thanks to 300m² of solar panels and four geothermal heat pumps supplied via 8,000 metres of bore holes. Energy is stored in gigantic buffer containers and heating is then provided via floor and wall panels.
St Johann in Tyrol, Explorer Hotel
Explorer Hotels are the first ‘passive hotels’ officially climate-neutral in zero-emission buildings certified as 100% carbon neutral. Purpose built with an innovative construction including its own photovoltaic system and good insulation combined with a stringent energy strategy meaning it uses 70% less energy than hotels of the same size. The hotels save 85% thermal energy compared to a similar regular hotel and 60% electricity by using photovoltaic systems.
Sölden, Explorer Hotel
Explorer Hotels are the first ‘passive hotels’ officially climate-neutral in zero-emission buildings certified as 100% carbon neutral. Purpose built with an innovative construction including its own photovoltaic system and good insulation combined with a stringent energy strategy meaning it uses 70% less energy than hotels of the same size. The hotels save 85% thermal energy compared to a similar regular hotel and 60% electricity by using photovoltaic systems. Their Otztal hotel opened in November 2018.
Big White, BC, Best Western Plus Kelowna Hotel & Suites
Multi-environment-award winning hotel with numerous initiatives. In 2002 they started their first project to install an extensive and advanced solar hybrid water-heating system, one of the largest in Canada, thus preventing 90 tonnes per year of greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere. This solar system with 102 solar panels feed a 6000 litre solar storage tank, and was designed to heat up to 90% of the water for the hotel’s 90,000 litre indoor swimming pool, 2 hot tubs and 154 guest rooms during the summer months, while in the winter the solar heating system can cover nearly 60% of the hot water heating.
Kootenay National Park , Nipika Mountain Resort
Nipika Mountain Resort operates in harmony with nature and is completely off the grid, sourcing power from the sun, wind, water and surrounding forest. It offers cross country ski trails and back country skiing, and there are conventional alpine ski areas in the region. Not only does it generate all its electricity via solar, micro-hydro and wind power, but dead wood, salvaged from the forest, is placed in a central boiler to provide heat and hot water to each of its log cabins
Whistler, Nita Lake Lodge
Sustainability was a focus from the start at Nita Lake Lodge. When the hotel was being developed a choice was made to implement a geothermal heating and cooling system throughout the lodge. In addition to this system, they use a building automation system (DDC control system) to monitor and control their environmental impact. Since these major systems were put in place, they have continued to implement ways to make smart environmental decisions.
Pyhä, Ski-Inn Apartments
The Ski-Inn Apartments are an ecological choice for accommodation since the carbon footprint of their energy consumption is zero. The electricity is generated with hydropower and the heating with biomass.
Pyhä, Sunday Morning Resort
A carbon neutral complex, thanks to its eco-friendly heating systems (geothermal power being the main source, alongside a heat recovery system and air-source heat pumps), and the surrounding six-hectare forest acts as a carbon sink. The resort also provides sustainable excursion options. Activities on offer include exploring the wilderness by electric snowmobile which, as well as being environmentally friendly and completely silent, is the only type of snowmobile allowed in the national park.
Chamonix, Chalet Dalmore & Chalet Cragganmore
Chalet Dalmore and Chalet Cragganmore are both powered by turbines from the neighbouring river L’Arve making them totally self sufficient when it comes to electricity and energy supplies. Other features include geothermal underfloor heating and even the floor to ceiling glass is self-cleaning.
Chamonix, The Eco Lodge
Built to the ‘passiv haus’ standard with super-insulation, in most areas 60cm thick, the Eco-Lodge has geo-thermal heating, solar thermal heating and photovoltaic solar panels all providing warmth and electricity, collectively producing enough power to make the house net zero emissions. There are numerous other initiatives in the building’s design and operation to provide maximum efficiency too.
Chamonix, La Morgane
The 56 bedroom Le Morgane is one of Chamonix’s newer hotels. The owners believe that building a new hotel with the environment a priority is usually much better than trying to make an old building environmentally friendly. Le Morgane has installed heat pumps and solar panels for energy management and staff are also trained in working in an eco-friendly way with the aim of achieving zero CO2 energy emissions. It also used local materials: slate, granite and wood for the building and is ISO 14001 certified.
La Plagne, Chalet Pierra Menta
Ski Beat’s Chalet Pierra Menta in Plagne 1800 has a zero emission bio-mass heating system, uses melted snow for water supply where possible, the chalet hosts recycle waste and use eco-friendly products. The bathrooms also have 100% recycled, second-use plastic for L’Occitane shampoo, shower gel and body lotion.
Les Angles, Chalet Ana
Chalet Ana was the first recipient of the European Eco-label in the French Pyrenees, as it actively contributes to the use of renewable energy sources, water conservation, waste reduction and to the improvement of the local environment in Les Angles.
Méribel , Chalet L’Anteguylou
L’Anteguylou has been built to high specifications and ecological standards. It has an eco-friendly zero emission bio-mass heating system and the hot water is heated primarily by solar panel.
Morzine, Chalet Grand Hibou
Grand Hibou is fuelled by renewable energy from the hydroelectric power station at Beaucaire on the river Rhone. The chalet features a hot tub and sleeps 14. The chalet was designed as a catered chalet over 3 levels. The lower level has 5 ensuite bedrooms, heated storage for snowsports gear and a small games room. The second floor has 2 ensuite bedrooms an open plan lounge and kitchen.
Morzine, Chalet Harmonie
Run by holiday company AliKats Mountain Holidays and first opened for winter 19-20 Chalet Harmonie features 100% renewable energy thanks to air source pumps for heating and hot water and hydro-electric power from the electricity provider. Finished with grey stone and natural dark brown aged wood, materials typical of the local Savoyard area, the chalet features a large terrace with spectacular views and a hot tub outside.
Morzine, Chalet Lanterne
Like sister chalet Grand Hibou, Chalet Lanterne is 100% fuelled by renewable energy from the hydroelectric power station at Beaucaire on the river Rhone. Located 650 metres from the lift to Avoriaz 1800 it features a hot tub, log-burner and sleeps 10-12 in all en-suite rooms.
Morzine, Chalet Melodie
Run by holiday company AliKats Mountain Holidays and first opened for winter 19-20 Chalet Melodie features 100% renewable energy thanks to air source pumps for heating and hot water and hydro-electric power from the electricity provider. Finished with grey stone and natural dark brown aged wood, materials typical of the local Savoyard area, the chalet features a large terrace with spectacular views and a hot tub outside.
St Martin de Belleville, Chamois Lodge
Fitted with a geothermal heating system which uses a series of pipes in vertical bore holes containing a refrigerant which absorbs the heat from the ground. The system then connects to a heat pump, which extracts the heat and pumps it around the chalet providing underfloor heating and hot water.
Val d’Arly, Le Toî du Monde
Located on a 5-hectare site and dating back to 1886, this 600m² family farm in Flumet has undergone major refurbishment, completed in 2019, and is an innovative hospitality hub today: with guest rooms for 20 persons, restaurant, tapas bar and concert hall. With optimal energy-boosting and environmental performance this unique agri-tourism location is self-sufficient in energy and carbon neutral thanks to a heating system that combines thermal solar energy and biofuel with great natural wood-wool insulation.
Val Thorens, La Datcha
Val Thorens’ first ‘Eco-Friendly Luxury Guesthouse’ opened in 2017. The five storey chalet was the first at Europe’s highest resort to be built using innovative eco-friendly building techniques. The building employs energy consumption management, green insulation, and wastewater treatment. In fact the entire chalet has been built to minimise its environmental impact as much as possible.
Bechtesgaden, Explorer Hotel
The Berchtesgaden Explorer Hotel is located at the heart of a wintersports area that was a candidate to stage the 1992 Winter Olympics. Explorer are the first ‘passive hotels’ officially climate-neutral in zero-emission buildings certified as 100% carbon neutral. Purpose built with an innovative construction including its own photovoltaic system and good insulation combined with a stringent energy strategy meaning it uses 70% less energy than hotels of the same size. The hotels save 85% thermal energy compared to a similar regular hotel and 60% electricity by using photovoltaic systems.
Nesselwang, Explorer Hotel
Located at the base of the ski slopes at Nesselwang, Explorer Hotels are the first ‘passive hotels’ officially climate-neutral in zero-emission buildings certified as 100% carbon neutral. Purpose built with an innovative construction including its own photovoltaic system and good insulation combined with a stringent energy strategy meaning it uses 70% less energy than hotels of the same size. The hotels save 85% thermal energy compared to a similar regular hotel and 60% electricity by using photovoltaic systems.
Oberstdorf, Explorer Hotel
Alta Badia, Dolomit Homes & Hotel
A group of eco-friendly accommodations in La Villa, Alta Badia, including a traditional boutique hotel and the almost carbon-neutral “Klima-House A” which uses solar panels to power the home. Many other initiatives and features including charging stations for electric cars, and offering fair trade products from first to last, from beauty to cleaning detergents.
Cervinia, Hotel Lac Bleu
After a fact-finding trip to Sweden the hotel’s managers turned their property into a low-impact hotel, exploiting local resources (solar and biomass) and improving insulation. The hotel’s photovoltaic system has been integrated with a system of solar thermal collectors and a helium heat pump that optimizes production from renewable sources. The hotel is also managed and monitored by a control system that avoids energy waste and consumption and in 2011 it won a regional award for its green efforts.
Champoluc, Monterosa, Hotel Au Charmant Petit Lac
This luxury eco-hotel sits in the centre of Champoluc, 300m from the Crest gondola, meaning guests will be well placed for making the most of the Monterosa ski area. A sustainable hotel that respects nature and is committed to the environment, the Au Charmant Petit Lac operates solely on renewable energy and uses local materials throughout.
La Thuile, Boton d’Or
The highly regarded Hotel Boton d’Or is located close to lifts and ski school and has an eco friendly ethos, with thermal heating supplied from 30 underground water sources beneath the hotel.
Niseko, Ki Niseko
Ki Niseko utilizes the energy of the region’s natural onsen hot springs. Waters from the onsen are used to heat the hotel in winter and also recycled for hotel eco-friendly energy and snow maintenance. Energy-efficient bulbs and appliances are used throughout the hotel, and guests are encouraged to turn off their lights and air-conditioners when they are not using them.
Bohinj, ECO Hotel
Located next to several ski areas and the only Slovenian hotel top hold Green Glob certification, the Bohinj ECO Hotel has a long list of green credentials including a geothermal heat pump using a well drilled 430 metres down. Beside this energy well the hotel has its own green energy station with two engines producing electric energy and heat. These two cogeneration engines produce 240 kW of electricity and 400 kW of heat with the electricity then used to drive heat exchanger and pumps and provide electricity for the whole hotel and aquapark. Heat which comes from the running engines is a by-product when producing electricity, and is as such used for warming the pools. The hotel is heated with a of low-temperature regime – with floor heating and cooling-heating grids. Floor heating ensures a comfortable feeling, while special cool-heat grids with its inaudible and energy effective work, strongly exceed the normal air-conditioning system. Among many other initiatives the highly insulated hotel also uses low energy lighting so less power is needed to make more light and heat.
Rogla, Natura
The first ski resort hotel in Slovenia to be awarded the EU’s Eco-Label, back in 2017, the Natura Hotel uses green energy and has a host of environmental initiatives at work.
Arosa, Valsana Hotel & Apartments
A sustainable hotel that combines retro chic design with a fresh approach to luxury. Valsana runs on recycled energy, limiting its ecological footprint to just 4% with virtually zero emissions. Almost all the heat needed for the property is generated, stored and recirculated using waste heat and ground probes with the aid of the site’s own ice battery. The eco-philosophy runs throughout the hotel from the chunky wood furniture, floors and exterior, all made with trees from the surrounding area and the cladding of the previous property. Even the beds are eco-friendly – the mattresses are made from natural coconut fibres. Valsana Hotel can also proudly say they are single-use plastic free.
Crans Montana, Ecogite Esprit du Soleil
High-value, environmentally-friendly bed and breakfast accommodation in three pleasant modern buildings, two made using straw bale construction, which generate more power than they consume. The property, located in the pleasant village of Ayent, is British-owned and run and has free parking, free wifi and a friendly welcome. Anzere’s ski slopes are 5 minutes’ drive away, or Crans Montana only 20 minutes. Minergie A-P-eco rated.
Laax, Rocks Resort
Run by the White Arena Group which also manages all of the Laax ski area based on a philosophy called Greenstyle – with the ultimate aim of being fully carbon neutral and self-sustaining in green energy production, the flagship Rocks Resort has numerous green initiatives ranging from E-bikes run on ecologically produced electricity and Tesla charging stations to employee clothing is selected according to sustainable criteria. Like the resort the hotel runs on 100% local hydro-electric power.
Pontresina, Hotel Saratz
GEOHIL Engineering has carried out a project that was the first in Switzerland on such a scale, equipping the Hotel Saratz with a heat pump to extract heat from deep underground. The results are impressive: the Saratz now produces 800,000 kWh of heat a year “in-house”, reducing its CO2 emissions by two-thirds. With these measures, the Pontresina hotel is also helping to preserve the air quality – as well as the quality of life – in the Engadin for the future.
Saas Fee, Haus Alpenfirn
Back in 2006 these apartments were the first in Switzerland which are certified with the EU Eco-Label. This means the accommodation’s owners take many steps to be responsible in environmental management including a preference for using renewable energy sources.
Saas Fee, Chalet Butterfly
The chalet, located in a sunny position in car free Saas Fee, was fully renovated in 1999 to high environmental standards. These include in-house solar energy supply and a pellet heating system which together provide energy for hot water and heating giving the building a really low carbon footprint.
St Moritz, Hotel Europa
A solar power plant has been supplying energy for the Hotel Europa since 2008, recovering the energy used for their production in the first six months. The high altitude of the Engadin makes the facility particularly efficient: performance is superior to that which could be achieved in, say, Rome or Athens. The hotel has many other environmental initiatives.
Verbier, Chalet Rock
Chalet Rock boasts a state-of-the-art wood pellet and solar-powered heating and ventilation system as part of its environmentally-friendly policy.
Zermatt, Grand Hotel Zermatterhof
The Matterhorn Group which runs the Zermatterhof is certified under ISO 14001:2015 international standard of environmental management and among many initiatives the hotel’s old oil heating system has been replaced by modern pellet heating, which is operated exclusively using regionally produced pellets. Thanks to the local sourcing and the modernization of the system, it has been possible to reduce CO2 emissions by 0.835 metric tons.
Crystal Mountain,
Inn at the Mountain
Crystal Mountain has long been one of North America’s leading ski areas when it comes to the fight against climate change, with many different initiatives, and has been recognised by SKI magazine as a Golden Eagle Award winner – the highest possible environmental award. During upgrades to their main accommodation they installed a geo-thermal heating and cooling system which operates 48% more efficiently than a conventional system providing significant ecological savings over coming decades.
Jackson Hole, Hotel Terra
Everything about Hotel Terra has been designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions right from the use of recycled steel and recycled materials for roof tiles to ensure maximum energy efficiency in operations then offsets the energy it does use with the purchase of equivalent solar, hydro and wind energy.
Taos, The Blake at Taos Ski Valley
Opened in 2017, The Blake was built with a geothermal heating and cooling system and was awarded LEED Silver certification. The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), is a program for buildings that are designed, constructed, maintained and operated for improved environmental performance.
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SPFL concludes Ladbrokes Championship with COVID crisis plan
Tom Daniels April 16, 2020 Latest News, Sport, UK Comments Off on SPFL concludes Ladbrokes Championship with COVID crisis plan
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Scotland’s Ladbrokes Championship, Ladbrokes League 1 and Ladbrokes League 2 has reached a ‘written resolution’ effective immediately after the SPFL’s COVID-19 crisis plan was passed.
The plan, passed by 81 per cent of all SPFL clubs including the Ladbrokes Premiership, has resulted in Dundee United FC being crowned Championship champions. However, Scotland’s top decision has not been affected in the decision with the season expected to continue its campaign as of right now.
Dundee were the last Championship club to cast its vote, with the plan needing the side to agree on the proposal in order to reach the 75 per cent agreement threshold for each respective league. As a result of the campaign’s conclusion its second division rivals will be promoted to the Premiership next season.
SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster stated: “Prior to this positive result, we were unable to make the vital end-of-season payments, which will provide a lifeline to so many clubs in the lower divisions. From our detailed discussions with clubs, many were facing an enormous cash-flow crisis. We have moved as quickly as possible to try to resolve this unprecedented situation.
“We’ve achieved the 75 per cent agreement threshold in the Ladbrokes Premiership, Championship and Leagues 1 & 2 and will now be working as quickly as we can to get the end-of-season payments to members in the three lower divisions by the end of this week.”
Moreover, Raith Rovers FC has been declared champions of Ladbrokes League 1, and Cove Rangers FC are crowned the winner of Ladbrokes League 2, with both sides also gaining promotion.
The SFPL has also revealed plans to ‘consult on possible league restructuring in time for season 2020/21 around an expanded Premiership model’. This development could lead to either more possible promotions into Scotland’s top-division or secure Premiership sides who could be relegated this season.
Further details are yet to be announced however the organisation has appointed Hearts chair Ann Budge and Hamilton Academical chair Les Gray to lead its ‘reconstruction force’.
SPFL chairman Murdoch MacLennan added: “This was a highly unusual end to the season, to say the least, and not the one any of us would have preferred, but all three (clubs) deserve enormous credit for their performances over the course of the season.
“With the turmoil and uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 outbreak, there was always going to be a highly-charged and passionate debate about how we secure the future of Scottish football.
“It is no exaggeration to say that this was an existential matter for Scottish clubs, with many of them telling us they were at real risk of going under unless the situation was resolved very quickly, so I’m pleased that the game has moved decisively.
Relegation has also been decided as a result of the crisis plan with Partick Thistle relegated from the Championship and Stranraer demoted from League One.
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Starvation hormone markedly extends mouse life span, researchers report
Written by Ibrahim on October 20, 2012 . Posted in Latest News
Drs. David Mangelsdorf, Yuan Zhang, and Steven Kliewer (l-r) have demonstrated that a starvation hormone markedly extends life span in mice without the need for calorie restriction. (Credit: image courtesy of UT Southwestern Medical Center)
A study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers finds that a starvation hormone markedly extends life span in mice without the need for calorie restriction.
“Restricting food intake has been shown to extend lifespan in several different kinds of animals. In our study, we found transgenic mice that produced more of the hormone fibroblast growth factor-21 (FGF21) got the benefits of dieting without having to limit their food intake. Male mice that overproduced the hormone had about a 30 percent increase in average life span and female mice had about a 40 percent increase in average life span,” said senior author Dr. Steven Kliewer, professor of molecular biology and pharmacology.
The study published online in eLife – a new peer-reviewed, open access journal – defined average life span as the point at which half the members of a given test group remained alive. A study to determine differences in maximum life span is ongoing: While none of the untreated mice lived longer than about 3 years, some of the female mice that overproduced FGF21 were still alive at nearly 4 years, the researchers report.
FGF21 seems to provide its health benefits by increasing insulin sensitivity and blocking the growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor-1 signaling pathway. When too abundant, growth hormone can contribute to insulin resistance, cancer, and other diseases, the researchers said.
FGF21 is a hormone secreted by the liver during fasting that helps the body adapt to starvation. It is one of three growth factors that are considered atypical because they behave like hormones, which are substances created by one part of the body that have effects in other parts, the researchers said.
“Prolonged overproduction of the hormone FGF21 causes mice to live extraordinary long lives without requiring a decrease in food intake. It mimics the health benefits of dieting without having to diet,” said co-author Dr. David Mangelsdorf, chairman of pharmacology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at UT Southwestern.
“Aging and aging-related diseases represent an increasing burden on modern society. Drugs that slow the aging process would be very desirable. These findings raise the possibility of a hormone therapy to extend life span,” said Dr. Mangelsdorf, who runs a research laboratory with Dr. Kliewer. They first identified FGF21’s starvation-fighting effects in a 2007 study.
Lead author Dr. Yuan Zhang, an instructor of pharmacology, said the study was considered risky because all involved understood it would be at least two years – an average mouse life span – before there would be any evidence of whether elevated production of FGF21 would affect longevity.
Previous research has found that FGF21 can reduce weight in obese mice. The mice that overproduced FGF21 in this latest study were lean throughout their lives and remained lean even while eating slightly more than the wild-type mice, the researchers said.
The hormone does have some downsides: FGF21 overproducers tended to be smaller than wild-type mice and the female mice were infertile. While FGF21 overproducers had significantly lower bone density than wild-type mice, the FGF21-abundant mice exhibited no ill effects from the reduced bone density and remained active into old age without any broken bones, the researchers said.
“FGF21 is not affecting their mobility. These guys are spry. They live nice, long lives,” Dr. Kliewer said. “But the decreased bone density and female infertility will require additional research to determine if it is possible to separate out the hormone’s life span-extending effects from its effect on bone,” he added.
The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Robert A. Welch Foundation, the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, and the HHMI.
UT Southwestern co-authors are Dr. Yang Xie, assistant professor of clinical sciences; Dr. Eric Berglund, postdoctoral researcher in the Division of Hypothalamic Research; Dr. Katie Colbert Coate, postdoctoral researcher in pharmacology; Dr. Tian Teng He, senior research associate in the Advanced Imaging Research Center; Dr. Takeshi Katafuchi, instructor of pharmacology; Dr. Guanghua Xiao, assistant professor of clinical sciences; Drs. Matthew Potthoff and Wei Wei, both postdoctoral researchers in pharmacology; and Dr. Yihong Wan, assistant professor of pharmacology. Drs. Ruth Yu and Ronald Evans of the Salk Institute in San Diego also participated in the research.
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center
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Media Effects in Youth Exposed to Terrorist Incidents: a Historical Perspective View Full Text
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This paper reviews the evidence on the relationship between contact with media coverage of terrorist incidents and psychological outcomes in children and adolescents while tracing the evolution in research methodology. RECENT FINDINGS: Studies of recent events in the USA have moved from correlational cross-sectional studies examining primarily television coverage and posttraumatic stress reactions to longitudinal studies that address multiple media forms and a range of psychological outcomes including depression and anxiety. Studies of events in the USA-the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11 attacks, and the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing-and elsewhere have used increasingly sophisticated research methods to document a relationship between contact with various media forms and adverse psychological outcomes in children with different event exposures. Although adverse outcomes are associated with reports of greater contact with terrorism coverage in cross-sectional studies, there is insufficient evidence at this time to assume a causal relationship. Additional research is needed to investigate a host of issues such as newer media forms, high-risk populations, and contextual factors. More... »
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Thinking About Online Website? 10 Reasons Why It’s Time To Stop!
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Princess Cruise Ships cover one of the broadest ranges of ships on the seas. From large to small, Princess has it all. But with eighteen ships to choose from in the Princess line alone, deciding which ship suits you can be quite a job. familiefletninger
Princess has several very popular ships that are small—at least, as compared to some of their other ships. The Pacific Princess (670 passengers), Tahitian Princess (670 passengers) and Royal Princess (710 passengers) all offer the great service of Princess Lines, but with a more intimate feel. openminded
Princess calls these smaller ships “small ship feel, big ship experience”. The Tahitian Princess sails in the South Pacific, to Hawaii, French Polynesia, and yes, Tahiti. The Pacific Princess sails to a much broader range of destinations including Alaska, Asia, Australia and Europe. The final smaller ship, the Royal Princess, sails in southern Europe and South America.
One of the newest Princess cruise ships is also the largest. The Crown Princess, christened by Martha Stewart in June of 2006, is 951 feet long and can cruise with an amazing 3,080 passengers. She has 14 passenger decks and over 1500 rooms. Sailing primarily in the Caribbean and northern Europe, the Crown Princess lives up to her name with a putting course, an ice cream bar, and even an art auction.
Many of the larger ships offer unique activities. Princess is the only cruise line to offer three distinct age-appropriate activities for youngsters. Princess Pelicans is for the youngest set and offers t-shirt coloring and other arts and crafts, pajama parties and kids-only dinners.
Shockwaves is for the tween crowd. Scavenger hunts, movie and video games, and “Science on the Seas”, which was developed in conjunction with the California Science Center will keep this age group busy and entertained. Remix is the program developed for the teenagers on board. Remix teens get their own (alcohol-free) lounge area, evening dance parties, teen formals, and the only Teen Makeover program with skin and makeup tips.
On certain ships the offerings go even farther, with the Jr. CHEF Sea Program. Children get to go into one of the actual shipboard kitchens and prepare simple dishes. On Alaska cruises, the ships offer the Junior Ranger/Teen Explorer program which explores the delicate ecosystems of Glacier Bay and the Alaskan wilderness.
The range of activities for adults is even broader. Of course the choices vary by ship, but some possibilities include: swimming or sunning by one of the numerous pools; ScholarShip @ Sea, where you can take short classes; a well-stocked library for your reading pleasure; or the Sanctuary, an adults-only escape area with light meals and beverages, spa service, and attention to your every need.
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CGI-Created Virtual Influencers Are the New Trend in Social Media Marketing – CT Post
by News August 1, 2020, 1:30 pm 1.7k Views 0 Comments
Photo: Miquela | YouTube
With more than 1 billion people using social media all over the world, it’s more difficult than ever for brands to stand out from the crowd. Thus, the rise of the influencer, which has been one of the most significant changes in marketing in the last decade.
Some creative marketers have decided to to find an alternative to the typical approach to influencers and instead create their brand ambassadors themselves using artificial intelligence. These virtual influencers are computer-created fictional characters whose “personalities” are entirely fictional. They’re paired with animated images from digital artists to accurately re-create the subtle features of human faces. Some companies are building their own influencers from the ground up, creating their own character that they can control every aspect of.
Lil Miquela and friends
Instagram users have already seen creations like 19-year-old Lil Miquela release music while going through a carefully scripted drama that kept her 1.6 million followers riveted. Lil Miquela, created by the L.A.-based firm Brud, can be said to have started the CGI influencer phenomenon in 2016, when she blew up on Instagram. Now she’s a regular face in fashion magazines and fronts a wide range of luxury brands. More than 80,000 people stream Lil Miquela’s songs on Spotify every month. She has given interviews from Coachella and shown off a tattoo designed by an artist who inked Miley Cyrus. Until her creators revealed her true provenance, many of her fans were convinced she was a flesh-and-blood teenager.
Just like Lil Miquela, Blawko was created by Brud. Sporting streetwear style and tattoos, he describes himself as a “young robot sex symbol.” He’s perhaps the most mysterious of all the virtual influencer stars due to the mask that covers half of his face. He has become popular among users for his laid-back nature and on-off relationship with Bermuda, another CGI-created influencer.
The virtual Colonel and others
Intended to parody the lifestyle of Instagram influencers, KFC’s virtual Colonel shows the ridiculously good-looking Colonel Harland Sanders living his best influencer life. The uncannily human character posts from KFC’s official account, which has 1.3 million followers. It identifies him as a virtual influencer who is chasing the dream, selling chicken and based out of Louisville, the company’s headquarters. He sports the Colonel’s signature gray hair, black-rimmed glasses and white suit, but instead of a pudgy old man, this version is a modelesque hipster, complete with a torso tattoo that reads “Secret Recipe for Success.” He frequently collaborates with other brands, including Dr Pepper, Old Spice and TurboTax.
In fall 2018, French luxury fashion house Balmain launched a campaign starring three digital models. Two of the models are exclusive to the Balmain brand, while the third, Shudu Gram, is a free agent popularly known as the world’s first digital supermodel. British fashion photographer Cameron-James Wilson created Shudu, who has more than 200,000 followers on Instagram and blurs the line between digital and reality. She can’t talk, nor is she artificially intelligent, but with Wilson’s help, she shares her message of empowerment and diversity in the fashion industry.
Will it last?
“Only a few years ago, the idea of social media influencers was in its infancy, so their popularity is a sign of how quickly the trend took hold of the public’s imagination,” says photographer and online marketer Katerina Leroy. She says using virtual influencers benefits brands because it gives them full control, saves time searching for the right human influencers and reduces the risk od negative feedback. On the other hand, it could be another marketing experiment that fades away, “not one that will alter the course of influencer marketing,” she says.
Harry Hugo, co-founder of the Goat Agency, says virtual influencers will be unavoidable in the next 12 months. “They can be available 24/7 and have a personality molded to be exactly what you want. They can literally be whatever you want them to be. These things are massive plus points for brands because they make the perfect ambassador.”
According to HypeAuditor, “Virtual Influencers have almost three times more engagement than real influencers. That means that followers are more engaged with virtual influencers content.” The piece suggests that novelty is a key element in their current popularity, and as digital models become more commonplace, they’ll lose some of that interest. But will they? Will we even know who’s real and who’s not in future? The stats here would suggest that it’s likely to become a bigger point of discussion.
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First Independence Bank celebrates 50 years of service to community – WDIV ClickOnDetroit
by Alice August 14, 2020, 11:19 pm 1.8k Views 0 Comments
DETROIT – First Independence Bank, founded in May of 1970, is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
“We’re celebrating 50 years. We were one of the positive outcomes as a result of the 1967 riots. After the riots there was a desire to really try to create a financial institution that would be initially dedicated to serve the needs of the African American community. And a lot of community activists, business leaders, got together and went through the process of getting a bank charter and formed First Independence Bank,” said Dimitrius Hutcherson, Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Technology Officer at First Independence Bank.
Hutcherson is proud to be part of a business with a rich history and strong ties connected to Detroit.
“We initially were targeting and wanted to be here to service, African American, African Americans and African American home business owners, but the bank grew and evolved. We are a full service bank with products to serve all of the Metro Detroit community,” he added.
Hutcherson knows what makes the bank unique and sets it apart.
“We are truly located in the respective communities that we serve…Our focus is to try and really be there to service, retail, as well as commercial customers,” he said.
Like so many others in the community, they’ve had to pivot in the age of coronavirus.
“When COVID-19 really started accelerating and the number of cases and when it became problematic in the US, a stay at home shelter was was put in place. We had to really be cautious and careful of making sure our staff was healthy, yet we still wanted to maintain and be open to service our customers, given that we are critical infrastructure we did. We had to modify our hours and rotate staff in and out for their safety purposes, yet we still remain open to service the needs of our customers,” said Hutcherson.
Now, Hutcherson is looking ahead to a brighter future with bigger goals.
“As a product of this city, as a kid that grew up on the lower east side of Detroit, we have to be here to meet the needs of our customers. They want to see our bank in the community, and they want to do business with us. We are experiencing phenomenal growth right now, and it validates the need for First Independence to be in the community and to be around,” said Hutcherson.
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Cult Fiction
Blitzcat
Author(s): Robert Westall
She made her way down the cliff, and on to the beach. At the edge of the waves, she stopped, shaking her wet paws. She knew that somewhere ahead was her person, but far, far away. She miaowed plaintively; stood staring at the moving blur of uncrossable sea. She led the way to safety, out of the blazing hell of blitzed Coventry. People touched her for luck; feared her as an omen of disaster. Wherever she went, she changed lives ...From her beginning to her end she never wavered. She was the Blitzcat. Blitzcat by Robert Westall is the Smarties Prize-winning book about one brave cat's experiences during World War Two. Now with a brilliant new cover look and including an extended author biography.
An extraordinary and heart-warming story about one brave cat's experiences during World War Two from prize-winning author Robert Westall.
More than a decade after his death, Robert Westall retains his reputation as one of the most powerful writers for children. He was awarded two Carnegie Medals (for The Machine Gunners and The Scarecrows) and used his own childhood experiences of the Second World War in his books.
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Imprint : Macmillan Children's Books
Author : Robert Westall
Edition : New edition
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Smith Barney Economist:
Fundamentals Indicate Growth for '03
by RON STARNER, Director of Publications, Site Selection and Conway Data, Inc.
ATLANTA – The current business fundamentals in the American economy "make a good argument" for solid economic growth in 2003, Smith Barney Managing Director John Manley told an audience of corporate real estate executives in Atlanta on Jan. 9.
Smith Barney Managing Director John Manley (pictured) is a seven-time member of the Institutional Investor's All-American Research Team.
"We don't see great growth for the next five years, but the fact is that current business trends in this country argue for a return to times of economic growth," Manley told a gathering of some 500 executives at the combined meeting of CoreNet Global and Commercial Real Estate Women of Atlanta. "As the economy begins to recover, the Federal Reserve Board will raise interest rates, but not right away."
Despite recent poor U.S. job reports, Manley said that the key statistic to consider is the percentage of upwardly revised corporate earnings reports. For December, the 24-year Wall Street veteran noted, upward revisions of company earnings were 8 percent above normal – and 60 percent above normal for technology firms – a harbinger of an economic recovery.
"One thing we must remember is that we just had a superficial recession," Manley said. "It was a capital goods recession. This one was not planned. But the Fed has been doing everything it can to avoid the destruction of American wealth. The consumer, as a result, has remained relatively healthy."
Tax-Cut Stimulus Will Aid Recovery
This paradox – lower capital spending by companies but continued robust spending by consumers – contributed to the recession of 2001 and 2002, but is likely to end once President Bush's economic stimulus package takes hold, Manley said.
"Personally, I support the President's tax-cut stimulus," the economist said. "For one thing, the U.S. should run more of a deficit until its economy becomes healthy again."
On specific economic issues, Manley offered the following advice and predictions:
• Yield will be a commodity in very scarce supply over the next five to 10 years because there will be a much greater demand for yield from investors – particularly from the Baby Boom generation that turned 57 years old in 2002.
• Business fundamentals are improving, and even mores as Wall Street begins to think that war with Iraq may not be inevitable.
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Imaging patterns of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in HIV-positive and renal transplant patients – a multicentre study
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2019.20130
Christe Andreasa, Walti Laurab, Charimo Jaleda, Rauch Andrib, Furrer Hansjakobb, Meyer Andreasc, Huynh-Do Uyenc, Heverhagen Johannes Ta, Mueller Nicolas J.d, Cavassini Matthiase, Mombelli Matteoe, van Delden Christianf, Frauenfelder Thomasg, Montet Xavierh, Beigelman-Aubry Catherinei, Arampatzis Spyridonc*, Ebner Lukasa*, Swiss Transplant Cohort Study1 and Swiss HIV Cohort Study2
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a Department of Diagnostic, Interventional and Paediatric Radiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland
b Department of Infectious Diseases, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland
c Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland
d Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
e Infectious Disease Service, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
f Department of Internal Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals and University of Geneva, Switzerland
g Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
h Division of Radiology, Geneva University Hospitals and University of Geneva, Switzerland
i Radiodiagnostic and Interventional Radiology, CHUV University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
1 Members of the Swiss Transplant Cohort Study: Patrizia Amico, John-David Aubert, Vanessa Banz, Guido Beldi, Christian Benden, Christoph Berger, Isabelle Binet, Pierre-Yves Bochud, Sanda Branca, Heiner Bucher, Thierry Carell, Emmanuelle Catana, Yves Chalandon, Sabina de Geest, Olivier de Rougemont, Michael Dickenmann, Michel Duchosal, Laure Elkrief, Thomas Fehr, Sylvie Ferrari-Lacraz, Christian Garzoni, Paola Gasche Soccal, Christophe Gaudet, Emiliano Giostra, Déla Golshayan, Karine Hadaya, Jörg Halter, Dimitri Hauri, Dominik Heim, Christoph Hess, Sven Hillinger, Hans H. Hirsch, Günther Hofbauer, Uyen Huynh-Do, Franz Immer, Richard Klaghofer, Michael Koller (Head of the data center), Bettina Laesser, Guido Laube, Roger Lehmann, Christian Lovis, Pietro Majno; Oriol Manuel, Hans-Peter Marti, Pierre Yves Martin, Michele Martinelli, Pascal Meylan, (Head, Biological samples management group), Nicolas J Mueller (Chairman Scientific Committee), Antonia Müller, Thomas Müller, Beat Müllhaupt, Mirjam Naegeli, Manuel Pascual (Executive office), Jakob Passweg, Klara Posfay-Barbe, Juliane Rick, Eddy Roosnek, Anne Rosselet, Silvia Rothlin, Frank Ruschitzka, Urs Schanz, Stefan Schaub, Aurelia Schnyder, Christian Seiler, Jan Sprachta; Susanne Stampf, Jürg Steiger (Head, Executive Office), Guido Stirnimann, Christian Toso, Christian Van Delden (Executive office), Jean-Pierre Venetz, Jean Villard, Madeleine Wick (STCS coordinator), Markus Wilhelm, Patrick Yerly.
2 Members of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study: Aebi-Popp K, Anagnostopoulos A, Battegay M, Bernasconi E, Böni J, Braun DL, Bucher HC, Calmy A, Cavassini M, Ciuffi A, Dollenmaier G, Egger M, Elzi L, Fehr J, Fellay J, Furrer H, Fux CA, Günthard HF (President of the SHCS), Haerry D (deputy of "Positive Council"), Hasse B, Hirsch HH, Hoffmann M, Hösli I, Huber M, Kahlert CR (Chairman of the Mother & Child Substudy), Kaiser L, Keiser O, Klimkait T, Kouyos RD, Kovari H, Ledergerber B, Martinetti G, Martinez de Tejada B, Marzolini C, Metzner KJ, Müller N, Nicca D, Paioni P, Pantaleo G, Perreau M, Rauch A (Chairman of the Scientific Board), Rudin C, Scherrer AU (Head of Data Centre), Schmid P, Speck R, Stöckle M (Chairman of the Clinical and Laboratory Committee), Tarr P, Trkola A, Vernazza P, Wandeler G, Weber R, Yerly S.
To investigate differences in chest computed tomography (CT) and chest radiographs (CXRs) of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) between renal transplant recipients (RTRs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients.
From 2005 to 2012, 84 patients with PJP (RTR n = 24; HIV n = 60) were included in this retrospective multicentre study. Written informed consent was obtained. CT scans and CXRs were recorded within 2 weeks after the onset of symptoms. PJP diagnosis was confirmed either by cytology/histology or successful empirical treatment. Two blinded radiologists analysed the conventional chest films and CT images, and recorded the radiological lung parenchyma patterns, lymph node enlargement and pleural pathologies (pneumothorax, effusion). The radiological features of the two subgroups were compared.
Consolidations and solid nodules prevailed on CT in RTRs (91.7 ± 5.6% vs 58.3 ± 6.4% with HIV, p = 0.019 and 91.7 ± 5.6% vs 51.6 ± 6.5% with HIV, p = 0.005). HIV-positive patients with PJP showed more atelectasis (41.7 ± 6.4% vs 4.2 ± 4.1% in RTRs, p = 0.017) and hilar lymph node enlargement (23.3 ± 5.5% vs 0.0 ± 0.0% in RTRs, p = 0.088). Ground glass opacification was found in all cases. Pneumothorax was a rare complication, occurring in 3% of the HIV-positive patients; no pneumothorax was found in the RTRs. On CXR, the basal lungs were more affected in HIV-positive patients as compared with RTRs (p = 0.024).
PJP on CT differs substantially between RTRs and HIV-positive patients. Physicians should be aware of such differences in order not to delay treatment, particularly in renal transplant recipients.
Keywords: : lung, pneumocystis pneumonia, kidney transplantation, HIV, multislice computed tomography
CT: computed tomography
HIV: human immunodeficiency virus
PJP: Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia
RTR: renal transplant recipient
Based on recent studies, diseases of the respiratory tract still represent a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised individuals. In particular, pneumonia is a feared complication in solid organ recipients and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients. These groups of immunocompromised patients are particularly afflicted by atypical pneumonias due to viral and fungal pathogens, including Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) [1, 2].
PJP may present with a very variable pattern of clinical and radiological manifestations, depending on the immunological status of the patient. Whereas in HIV-positive individuals the clinical manifestations of PJP are rather subacute with slow progression, transplanted patients under continued immunosuppression experience a more aggressive disease with poor survival rates [3, 4]. Similar to the varying clinical manifestations, the radiological imaging features of PJP may exhibit a very broad spectrum of patterns with predominantly ground glass opacities, septal thickening, subpleural sparing and cysts [5–7]. A recently published study showed that the current clinical course of PJP in immunocompromised patients is rather subtle and rarely life threatening. In addition, these results suggested that, compared with renal transplant recipients (RTRs), enlarged hilar lymph nodes, areas of diffuse infection and ground glass nodules were a specific radiological imaging feature of PJP in HIV-positive patients.
The primary aim of the current multicentre, multi-cohort study was to further explore the computed tomography (CT) and chest X-ray imaging features of PJP in a sufficient number of immunocompromised patients from two well-defined cohorts, the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS) [8] and RTRs included in the Swiss Transplant Cohort Study (STCS) [9]. We hypothesised that the imaging patterns on CT differ substantially between HIV patients and RTRSs.
This multicentre, multi-cohort study was conducted as a retrospective cross-sectional registry analysis of confirmed PJP cases retrieved from the SHCS and the STCS. Written informed consent was obtained according to both cohorts’ registry regulations. Ethical approval from the SHCS and written informed consent from all participants was obtained. For the RTRs ethical approval from the cantonal ethic committee of Bern was granted for the retrospective analysis. From 2005 to 2012, databases of the two national cohorts were screened for PJP cases. Our cohort includes data from four university hospitals. The diagnosis of PJP was established by cytology and/or histology, as well as clinical responsiveness and radiological resolution under PJP treatment (trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole). Concomitant cytomegalovirus infection was excluded by polymerase chain reaction analysis in all patients. According to the national study registries for HIV patients and solid organ transplant recipients, a definitive diagnosis was established by cytology/microscopy or histology. However, a presumptive diagnosis of PJP is possible under the following conditions:
If on PJP prophylaxis: history of dyspnoea on exertion, or non-productive cough (within 3 months); typical appearance of diffuse bilateral pulmonary infiltrate, and no bronchoscopy done or negative bronchoscopy after having received at least 1 week of PJP treatment; no evidence of bacterial pneumonia, and response to PJP treatment.
If not on PJP prophylaxis for at least 2 weeks and CD4 count less than 200: history of dyspnoea on exertion, or non-productive cough (within 3 months); chest radiograph normal, atypical or typical for PJP, and no bronchoscopy done or negative bronchoscopy after having received at least 1 week of PJP treatment; no evidence of bacterial pneumonia, and response to PJP treatment.
Additionally, we collected all conventional chest radiographs available within a 2-week period after the onset of symptoms. After the identification of suitable patients, the clinical and imaging data at the tertiary care centre were anonymised and transferred to our institution for further analysis.
The CT scans were made on different generations of scanner from various vendors. The scanners comprised 4-, 16-, 64- and 128-row scanners (Siemens, Germany; Philips, Netherlands, General Electric, USA) applying a slice thickness of 1 to 2 mm. The scan range was constant, starting at the thoracic inlet and caudally including the whole lung and adrenal glands. Automated tube current modulation using reference milliampere seconds (mAs) was implemented on the scanners whenever applicable. Additionally, care kilo voltage (kV) was used whenever available. Chest radiographs were acquired in a prone position and in two planes (posterior-anterior view and lateral view).
Image interpretation
The read out and pattern annotation was performed by two subspecialised radiologists in consensus with 6 and 15 years, respectively, of expertise in the field. The radiologists were informed that the study population consisted of patients with confirmed pneumocystis pneumonia; however, the readers were unaware of the underlying condition (HIV versus renal transplantation).
Prior to the read out, the cases were randomised. The reading was carried out on a standard picture achieving and communication system (PACS Sectra, Linköping, Sweden). All CT scans were reviewed in a standardised lung stetting with a window level of −600 Hounsfield units (HU) and a window width of 1600 HU, reconstructed with a dedicated lung kernel (B/I 70f). For the evaluation of the soft tissues (the mediastinum), we used a soft tissue kernel reconstruction (B/I 30) in combination with a window level of 50 HU and a window width of 450 HU. In a separate reading session, the chest radiographs were analysed. The readers were unaware of the patients’ underlying disease as well as the chest CT findings, and the images were randomised prior to the read out. The patterns were classified according to the Fleischner Society glossary of terms [10]. The following patterns were evaluated by the readers: consolidation (defined as increased lung density without contrast enhancement representing infiltration), reticulation, ground glass (diffuse, patchy, mosaic pattern), nodules (solid, subsolid), cysts, signs of fibrosis (honeycombing), airways (cuffing, mucus plugging, bronchiectasis), and pleural alterations (thickening, effusion). Furthermore, the readers evaluated the lymph nodes in the mediastinum and in the hilar regions. The mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes were assessed in a soft tissue window; lymph node enlargement was defined as a short axis diameter ≥1cm. In total, both radiologists recorded 43 radiographic findings. The distribution of parenchymal changes within the lung was recorded according to the segmental anatomy of the lungs (10 segments on the left and 10 segments on the right). Additionally, we further assessed the disease location within the right and left lung: central-perihilar changes versus peripheral-subpleural changes as well as diffuse affection of the lungs. Parenchymal changes showing a subpleural sparing were recorded separately.
The classification of imaging patterns is described in more detail in appendix 1.
Continuous data were compared using Student’s t test if normally distributed; otherwise, the Mann-Whitney test was applied. Statistical analyses of non-continuous dichotomous data were compared using the chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test. The absolute frequency of each lung pattern was recorded and compared between groups. The standard error of frequency was assessed. All p-values were two-sided, and the level of significance was set to 0.05. A post hoc Bonferroni test was applied to evaluate significant differences between each assessed value. The five most frequent groups of patterns were corrected by a factor of five; all other pattern and location variables were corrected according to the number of variables. Additionally, a multiple logistic regression model was applied. The statistical analysis was performed with MedCalc Version 7.6.0.0 statistical software (MedCalc Software, Ostend, Belgium).
After applying the inclusion criteria, a total of 84 patients with confirmed PJP were included in this study population. We identified 24 renal transplant recipients (30%) and 60 HIV patients (70%) with PJP (demographic data are summarised in table 1).
Demographic information.
RTR group
HIV group
Total N 24 60
Gender (M:F) 15:9 42:18
Median age (years, range) 64 39–70 43 25–76
Median time from transplantation / HIV diagnosis to PJP (days, years, range) 2y (0–11y) 45d (0d–27y)
CD4 count (cl/ml), median (IQR) n/a 79 (3–436)
Underlying disease in RTRs ADPKD 7 29.2% –
IgA-nephropathy 5 20.8% –
Diabetic nephropathy 6 25.0% –
Chronic tubular interstitial nephropathy 3 12.5% –
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis 2 8.3% –
Mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis 1 4.2% –
HIV risk group Injection drug user – 7 11.7%
Men who have sex with men – 21 35.0%
High risk heterosexuals – 28 46.7%
Unknown – 4 6.7%
HIV diagnosis made following PJP – 13 21.7%
ADPKD = autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease; HIV = human immunodeficiency virus; n/a = not applicable; PJP = Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia; RTR = renal transplant recipient
Computed tomography findings
A total of 47 different chest patterns were recorded in the reading sessions, including pleural alterations and lymph node enlargement. As compared with HIV, consolidations and solid nodules (fig. 1) were more frequent in RTRs (91.7 ± 5.6% vs 58.3 ± 6.4% with HIV, p = 0.019 and 91.7 ± 5.6% vs 51.6 ± 6.5% with HIV, p = 0.005, respectively; table 2). All RTRs had ground glass opacifications, whereas none had enlarged hilar lymph nodes.
Axial computed tomography (CT) image from a renal transplant recipient. Typical CT image findings of a renal transplant recipient: patchy consolidations are found in the right upper lobe as well as in the apical segment of the left lower lobe (asterisk). There is also diffuse ground glass opacification present (blue arrow); of note, slight subpleural sparing can be seen in the anterior upper lobes. Solid nodules (red arrows) are also present in the periphery of the right upper and lower lobe.
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia lung patterns and locations on computed tomography.
RTR (% ± SD)
HIV+ (% ± SD)
p-value*
Consolidation 91.7 ± 5.6 58.3 ± 6.4 0.018 0.002
Atelectasis 4.2 ± 4.1 41.7 ± 6.4 0.017 0.016
Reticulations 83.3 ± 7.6 66.7 ± 6.1 0.91 0.383
Ground glass Diffuse 66.7 ± 9.6 58.3 ± 6.4 1.00 0.604
Patchy 87.5 ± 6.8 66.7 ± 6.1 0.68 0.062
Mosaic 37.5 ± 9.9 28.3 ± 5.8 1.00 0.413
Ground glass nodules Any 100 ± 0.0 96.7 ± 2.3 1.00 0.432
GGN 75.0 ± 8.8 68.3 ± 6.0 1.00 0.799
Solid 91.6 ± 5.6 51.6 ± 6.5 0.005 0.004
Mixed 12.5 ± 6.8 23.3 ± 5.5 1.00 0.068
Nodules Any 95.8 ± 4.1 76.7 ± 5.5 0.009 0.040
Cysts 4.2 ± 4.1 15.0 ± 4.6 1.00 0.038
Hilar lymph nodes 0.0 ± 0.0 23.3 ± 5.5 0.088 0.984
Mediastinal lymph nodes 33.3 ± 9.6 43.3 ± 6.4 0.466 0.238
Location Central 75 ± 8.8 55 ± 6.4 0.42 0.113
Peripheral 91.7 ± 5.6 75 ± 5.6 0.4 0.689
Multifocal 79.2 ± 8.3 50 ± 6.4 0.047 0.249
Diffuse 66.7 ± 9.6 70 ± 5.9 1.00 0.581
Subpleural sparing 16.7 ± 7.6 51.7 ± 6.5 0.01 0.020
GGN = ground glass nodules; SD = standard deviation
Significant results are displayed in bold font
* p-values from logistic regression
In comparison, the HIV-positive patients with PJP showed significantly more areas of atelectasis (41.7 ± 6.4%, vs 4.2 ± 4.1% in RTRs, p = 0.017; table 2). Furthermore, HIV patients tended to present with a more “classic” pattern of PJP, exhibiting subpleural sparing (fig. 2) and additional hilar lymph node enlargement (23.3 ± 5.5%; fig. 3). Pneumothorax formation was restricted to 3.3% of the HIV-positive patients. When the results from the conservative Bonferroni method were compared with the results from a multi-variable analysis, significantly more cysts could be found in HIV than in RTR cases (15.0 ± 4.6% vs 4.2 ± 4.1%, p = 0.038; table 2). An analysis of the disease distribution within each lung segment between the two cohorts did not yield any statistically significant results (table 2).
Computed tomography (CT) findings in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive patient suffering from Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) (axial CT section at the level of the lung bases): diffuse ground glass opacity (asterisk) and subpleural sparing (arrows) was found to represent a more or less classic CT-pattern for PJP.
Axial cross section image in soft tissue window at the level of the carina in a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patient with Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). There is mediastinal lymph node enlargement at the left and right lower paratracheal nodal stations (arrows). Although not specific for PJP in HIV-positive individuals, mediastinal lymph node enlargement was more frequent in this patient population. TR = trachea; SVC = superior vena cava; PA = pulmonary artery; AO = aorta
Chest radiograph findings
The patterns for each chest radiograph were recorded (table 3). Overall, there were no differences in patterns between the two cohorts according to the Bonferroni corrected results. However, the results from the logistic regression model showed that there was a significantly higher prevalence of reticulation in RTRs as compared with HIV patients (95.7 ± 4.2% vs 86.0 ± 4.5%; table 3). Consolidations and solid nodules were found in 47.8 ± 10.2% and 4.3 ± 4.2% of RTRs, respectively. Consolidation and multiple nodules were more prevalent in the HIV-positive patient cohort (fig. 4). For the pattern distribution within the lung lobes, we found that the basal lungs, namely, middle lobe, lingula and lower lobes, were significantly more affected in HIV-positive patients (75.0 ± 5.6% vs 58.7 ± 10.1% in RTRs p = 0.021; fig. 5). In particular, the middle lobe was mainly involved in the HIV-positive cohort (64.0 ± 6.2% vs 17.4 ± 7.7% in RTRs, p = 0.006; table 3).
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia patterns on chest radiographs.
p-value†
Opacity Acinar 47.8 ± 10.2 54.0 ± 6.4 1 0.587
Reticulation 95.7 ± 4.2 86.0 ± 4.5 1 0.034
Nodules Solitary 4.3 ± 4.2 2.0 ± 1.8 1 0.820
Multiple 4.3 ± 4.2 12.0 ± 4.2 1 0.247
PJP-specific Cysts 0.0 ± 0.0 8.0 ± 3.5 1 0.983
Subpleural sparing 0.0 ± 0.0 2.0 ± 1.8 1 0.992
Pneumothorax 0.0 ± 0.0 4.0 ± 2.5 1 0.988
Distribution Right upper lobe 56.5 ± 10.1 72.0 ± 5.8 1 0.335
Middle lobe 17.4 ± 7.7 64.0 ± 6.2 1 0.006
Right lower lobe 91.3 ± 5.8 86.0 ± 4.5 1 0.113
Left upper lobe 69.6 ± 9.4 72.0 ± 5.8 1 0.560
Lingula 34.8 ± 9.7 62.0 ± 6.3 1 0.735
Left lower lobe 91.3 ± 5.8 88.0 ± 4.2 1 0.629
Lower lung‡ 58.7 ± 10.1 75.0 ± 5.6 0.021 n/a
Symmetry 69.8 ± 19.0 74.9 ± 26.0 0.86 n/a
HIV = human immunodeficiency virus; PJP = Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia; RTR = renal transplant recipient; SD = standard deviation
* Bonferroni corrected p-values (factor 15)
† p-values from logistic regression
‡ lower lobe + middle lobe / lingula
Bilateral nodular consolidation in a human immunodeficiency virus -positive patient.
Faint homogeneous central ground glass opacity with sparing of the caudal lungs/sinus phrenicocostalis (arrows) in a renal transplant patient.
The aim of the present study was to investigate the PJP-related imaging patterns on CT and chest radiography in HIV-positive and renal transplant patients. Our results indicate that there are distinct radiological patterns on CT scans, but not on radiographs, within both groups.
The PJP radiological CT findings in renal transplant patients were dominated by multifocal consolidation and solid nodularities, whereas in the HIV population more classic subpleural sparing was present. A common feature in both groups was ground glass opacification, a finding also previously reported by Tasaka et al. [11] when comparing PJP features in oncological patients and HIV patients. Hardak et al. [5] also reported extensive ground glass densities in a mixed patient population with PJP. Ground glass opacification therefore has a high sensitivity for PJP and a lack of this feature seems to rule out PJP with a high level of certainty, irrespective of aetiology of underlying immunosuppression. The finding of atelectasis is reported to be infrequent in patients with PJP. However, in the data presented here, atelectasis was a significant finding in patients with HIV. It has been reported previously that patients with HIV and PJP have a larger pneumocystis burden and reduced neutrophil count when compared with PJP patients without HIV. Although not evaluated in this study, this might be a factor in the development of atelectasis in these patients. Another contributing factor might be the presence of excessive foam-like exudate in the alveoli, which is a considered a typical finding in microscopy. The foamy exudate in combination with hyaline membrane formation and granulomatous inflammation, also microscopic findings in PJP, might explain the higher prevalence of atelectasis in the HIV cohort.
Prevalence of subpleural sparing has frequently been reported in HIV-related PJP cases [12, 13]. This finding was also evident in the presented data; however, it mainly applied to HIV patients. In RTRs, subpleural sparing was found in only a minority of patients. Furthermore, micronodules showed a high prevalence in the transplant population, whereas they were exceedingly rare in the HIV group. Another important finding in this study population was that hilar lymph node enlargement was exclusively found in HIV-positive individuals. Previous studies, however, showed that PJP is rarely associated with lymphadenopathy on imaging studies [14]. These diverging imaging manifestations may reflect the effect of the different aetiology of immunosuppression on the radiological appearance of PJP [15].
Of note, pulmonary cysts, previously described as a hallmark feature in PJP, were present in only 4% of the HIV-positive patients and in none of the RTRs. With the advance of prophylaxis in high-risk groups, this classic complication is now an infrequent finding.
Besides the previously described diffuse lung effects in HIV patients [10], this multicentre cohort demonstrated also patterns that were multifocally distributed. Additionally, the predominance of ground glass nodules in the RTR patients could not be confirmed; instead, we found more solid nodules. Whereas in a previous study, HIV patients and transplant recipients exhibited subpleural sparing, the recent analysis revealed that this feature was foremost in HIV-associated cases of PJP [7]. In contrast, both studies found no enlarged lymph nodes in renal transplant patients.
Differences in the presentation of PJP between HIV and RTR cases could reflect immunological differences between HIV- and transplant-associated immunodeficiencies. For example, the immune system is ceasing in HIV-positive patients, but is suddenly and continuously suppressed by therapy in RTR. However, this remains speculative and we will explore this finding in further studies primarily focusing on the manifestation pathway.
The most common clinical signs were subtle in both groups and the duration from illness onset to hospital presentation was longer in the HIV patients, implying a less fulminant clinical course. The higher prevalence of atelectasis in HIV patients might reflect the more chronic nature of PJP in this population. On the other hand, most RTR PJP cases occurred several months (>12 months) after successful transplantation, with no prophylactic treatment at PCP diagnosis and with a suspected viral upper respiratory tract infection. Thus, the significant presence of consolidation in RTRs might reflect a concurrent infection with other pathogens. In addition, the higher prevalence of small nodules in RTRs, in combination with ground glass opacifications, most likely represent ongoing or chronic alveolitis.
We found that cystic lung changes were significantly more frequent in HIV patients. This phenomenon has been encountered previously. In fact, the prevalence of cysts in PJP has declined, presumably owing to prophylactic therapy in high-risk populations. However, there is still a discrepancy between RTR and HIV patients, with the latter showing more cystic changes. One explanation could be that a considerable number of these patients show less compliance with treatment or slower disease progression than the transplant patients. Another reason might be the clinical presentation.
Finally, when we look at the time of symptom onset, we struggle to provide specific data. This is also a clinical problem, since the symptom onset in RTRs is acute, whereas in HIV patients we observed a more indolent course of symptoms. Based on the different clinical presentation, it is possible that some of the imaging differences may reflect different time points of investigation. Presumably, RTRs show the acute manifestation of PJP and imaging features of PJP in HIV patients represent a subacute to chronic spectrum of the disease. In this study, several significant differences in CT findings between HIV-associated PJP and renal transplant-associated PJP were found; however, only a few differences could be defined on chest radiographs. This reflects the limited capabilities of chest radiography for the disease characterisation, in particular in cases of atypical pneumonia.
Analysing the demographic data of both cohorts, we found a substantial difference in the median time from renal transplantation and HIV diagnosis to PJP. In the RTR group, the disease occurred several years after transplantation, when patients were without any chemoprophylaxis for PJP; in the HIV group, this was only 45 days. However, both groups showed a substantial time range (0–11 years in RTRs vs 0–27 years in HIV patients). This might explain the differences in imaging features. In addition, the possibility of PJP breakthrough in the RTR cohort may have played a role in the similar clinical and radiological manifestation of the disease.
Our study has some limitations. The sample size is relatively small, especially for a multicentre study design. Statistically, this issue has been addressed by using a conservative Bonferroni correction to balance the different cohort sizes. Furthermore, both cohorts use different definitions of PJP infection, which could have affected the interpretation. Also, the study population also contained subjects with non-contrast CT scans, mainly because of limited renal function especially in RTRs. The detection of hilar lymph nodes on non-contrast CT scans can be challenging and particular focus should centre on the lymph node assessment in those cases. Finally, the period between imaging and disease onset of 2 weeks is relatively long and might have impaired the study results.
In summary, the extension of our study to the national level based on confirmed PJP cases coming from four tertiary hospitals revealed a rather variable but disease-specific manifestation pattern of PJP, most likely attributable to the underlying aetiology of immunosuppression. Indeed, whereas CD4 cell counts below 200 cell/ml are a clearly identified risk factor for PJP in the HIV-positive population, such an association has not been established in the transplant population so far, supporting the hypothesis that the distinct underlying conditions led to different types of immunosuppression. Based on the differing imaging manifestations of PJP in transplant recipients and HIV-positive patients, it is of utmost importance for radiologists to be aware of the spectrum of patterns in the context of different underlying diseases and to show high awareness in high-risk groups.
This study was conducted in the framework of the Swiss Transplant Cohort Study and the Swiss HIV Cohort Study supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss University Hospitals (G15) and transplant centres. Requests for data access must be submitted to the STCS and/or SHCS and are subject to review by the Scientific Committees (http://www.stcs.ch/about/study-description; http://www.shcs.ch/).
Guarantors of integrity of entire study: LE, SA, AC. Study concepts/study design or data acquisition or data analysis/interpretation: all authors. Manuscript drafting or manuscript revision for important intellectual content: all authors. Approval of final version of submitted manuscript: all authors. Literature research: LE, SA, AC. Statistical analysis: AC. Manuscript editing: all authors
This study was financed within the framework of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant no. 177499), by Swiss HIV Cohort Study SHCS project no. 756, by Swiss Transplant Cohort Study STCS, project no. 055, and by the SHCS research foundation.
Potential competing interests
Prof. Lukas Ebner, MD, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Freiburgstreet 10, CH-3010 Bern, lukas.ebner[at]insel.ch
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Classification of imaging patterns
Summary of recorded imaging patterns: 1 – ground glass opacity (GGO) (increase in lung attenuation without obscuring pulmonary vessels), 2 – mosaic ground glass opacity (alternating GGO adjacent to hypoattenuating lung with sharp demarcation), 3 – ground glass nodule (GGN, nodule with ground-glass density), 4 – mixed nodule (mixN, nodule with a solid center and peripheral halo of GGO with a minimal width of 1 mm), 5 – smooth, solid nodule (N, well-demarcated dense nodule), 6 – lobulated, solid nodule (IN, convex outpouchings), 7 – spiculated, solid nodule (sN, linear radiations extending from the nodule), 8 – cavitary nodule (cN, presence of gas in the nodule), 9 – oval nodule (oN), 10 – calcified nodule (Ca++N, nodule with a density greater than 200 HU), 11 – tree-in-bud (well-defined pulmonary nodules with centrilobular branching opacities), and 12 – centrilobular nodules (cluster of small, peribronchovascular nodules). Furthermore, interstitial lung densities were classified as follows: 13 – reticulation (fine reticular grid and thickened interlobular septa), 14 – linear opacities (linear densities of > 1 mm thickness), 15 – coarse reticulation (thick reticular grid), 16 – beaded septum sign (nodular thickening of interlobular septa), 17 – honeycombing (peripheral cysts within a coarse reticulation), 18 – bulla (round hypoattenuation >1 cm with no or thin wall), 18.1 – centrilobular emphysema (centrilobular areas of decreased attenuation, generally without visible walls), 18.2 – panacinar emphysema (decrease in lung parenchyma, several adjacent bullae, and no normal lung in between); 18.3 – paraseptal emphysema (subpleural string of bullae), and 19 – cyst (round hypoattenuation with a thin wall < 2 mm).
Air-space disease was classified as follows: 20 – air-space disease (AS, dense acinar consolidation) and 20.1 – air-space disease with positive bronchogram (consolidation with branching hyperlucencies). Pleural disease was divided into the following patterns: 21 – pleural thickening (pleura > 1 mm thick), 21.1 – pleural thickening with adjacent reticulation, 22 – nodular pleural thickening (< 10 mm), 22.1 – nodular pleural thickening (> 10 mm), 23 – pleural plaque (rectangular pleural thickening), 24 – pleural scar (pleural thickening > 10 mm), 25 – pleural effusion, and 25.1 – loculated effusion.
Finally, airway diseases were classified with the following patterns: 26 - bronchial cuffing (diffuse thickening of the bronchial wall), 27 – focal bronchial thickening (segmental thickening of the bronchial wall), 28 - bronchial secretion (hypoattenuating bronchial fluid), 29 – mucus plugging (dense content in segmental dilated bronchus), 30 – bronchiectasis (bronchus with a larger diameter than the accompanying artery), 31 – (sub-)segmental volume loss (small lung segments with a concentration of vessels), and 32 – segmental air trapping (hypoattenuating lobule with separated vessels). In addition, the radiologists recorded the presence of pleural effusions and hilar and mediastinal lymphadenopathies (node > 1 cm). Furthermore, the distribution of the parenchymal changes within the lung (segmental and central versus subpleural distribution) was noted [7].
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Admissions officers disagree on this, says Whitman insider
Why admissions officers are biased. Why “need aware” isn’t as scary as it sounds. What happens when admissions officers disagree. Why this campus prioritizes mental health over cutthroat academic rigor. How exactly applications are evaluated in each round. Whitman College admissions officer Henry Whipple gives SocratesPost the exclusive insider scoop on everything you wanted to know but never figured out.
Exclusive Insider Interview: Admissions Officer, Whitman College
SocratesPost: Hey Henry, tell us about yourself and your experience working in admissions.
Henry at Whitman: Yeah, so this is actually my first full time job after undergraduate. I went to a college in upstate New York for my undergraduate and I worked in admissions in some smaller roles whether it was tour-guiding or roles similar to that for three years, and then I worked as a senior intern for the admissions office. So, a lot of interviewing was scheduled at college fairs and different counselor-related activities. It definitely exposed me to what it was like not only interacting with the families but also how the admissions job was structured and the critical nature of it. It wasn’t necessarily my first job opportunity that I looked for but the more I thought about it as a possibility and the fact that I wanted to work in education for minority groups on some level, the more I realized I could advocate for it at Whitman.
So, when I applied to the job at Whitman, I knew that if I were to work here, I’d really want to focus on working with low-income groups, minority groups, and thankfully we had a position they were looking to fill for a Texas recruiter where all of that work happens. And so it was a really good fit, because I looked at Whitman — what the school was, how the students were — and I realized that had I known about it at the undergraduate position, I probably would have ended up trying to go there, as well. So this was a great fit on many levels.
SocratesPost: What do you think it’s like to be a student at Whitman?
Henry at Whitman: It’s actually been very refreshing, especially coming from a pretty prestigious East Coast school and one of the many “Ivies”, as people call them.
It’s been really refreshing because Whitman has a pretty high level of academic rigor and most people in the Northwest would consider it one of the stronger schools out there. It has the rigor without compromising students’ mental health. There’s a real expectation that the students are going to be there not only to take on the pretty challenging academics but they’re expected to be pretty heavily involved in community and build the togetherness aspect of it and find ways to destress. It’s not such a pressure cooker environment to one-up each other all the time.
SocratesPost: That’s refreshing.
Henry at Whitman: At the liberal arts colleges, students are taught to think critically and challenge each other through dialogue but Whitman students seem happy and proud and not stressed, which is the most refreshing part about Whitman.
SocratesPost: I think high schoolers go to college thinking, ‘I’m just going to be stressed for the next four years’, but the fact that there’s a place where people don’t feel that is new.
Henry at Whitman: Yes, part of it I’m sure is related to what I notice to be an overall lower stress level on the West Coast compared to the East Coast.
SocratesPost: Oh yeah, for sure.
Henry at Whitman: I mean it’s really its own community. It’s a pretty big town of 30,000 but there’s no city within a couple of hours so you’re really on your own and you have the community there for 100% of your support, and you really have no other option but to embrace the Whitman family that’s there. It’s a pretty supportive environment which I think really should help to lower stress.
SocratesPost: What’s the thing that most people don’t know about the admissions process at Whitman?
Henry at Whitman: Hmm, that’s a good question. One thing that’s definitely true is that parents and families and even other people in admissions sometimes put too much weight or don’t quite understand the language of the need-blind or need-aware admissions. I think when a lot of people hear ‘need-aware’, they assume that someone’s financial standing and ability to pay is one of the primary factors that gets looked at, because need-blind on the surface sounds you know, ten-times more progressive, where you don’t look at any financial status whatsoever.
But in reality, it’s really a matter of reading students and their applications, primarily, just for their academic standing, their extracurricular standing, and everything else pretty much except for the finances. Only towards the end, maybe for borderline cases, or to fill a couple of institutional priorities, will financial standing come into play.
SocratesPost: How does a student’s financial need really affect their chances of getting in?
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SocratesPost: So, when it does come down to the last few applications and you are starting to look at the financial needs, what does that process look like? What are you looking for and how does that influence your decision?
SocratesPost: Can you walk me through what it looks like step by step from reading an application to making a decision. Are there different committees? Are you making one decision? How many decisions do you make per day?
SocratesPost: What are some reasons why the second reader would disagree with the first read?
SocratesPost: That’s a really good insight. Was there ever a fight that broke out in the admissions office because someone really wanted someone and someone else who disagreed said, ‘you know what, let’s fight over this!’?
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Devin Patrick Kelley was a devout atheist that “hated Christians”, and that may help to explain why he specifically chose a church as his target.
According to Gateway Pundit, Kelley’s Facebook page (which has now been deleted) showed that he had liked pages such as “Atheist Republic” and “Friendly Atheist”.
Authorities tell us that the primary reason he attacked the First Baptist Church of Suthlerland Springs was because his mother-in-law was a member of that congregation, but if he had any respect for human life at all he wouldn’t have tried to kill everyone there – including all of the small children.
You can be an atheist without hating Christians, but Kelley was apparently quite militant about his atheism. In fact, it is being reported that Kelley regularly talked on Facebook about how people that believe in God are “stupid”…
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Nina Rose Nava, who went to school with the gunman, wrote on Facebook: ‘In (sic) in complete shock! I legit just deleted him off my fb cause I couldn’t stand his post.
‘He was always talking about how people who believe in God we’re stupid and trying to preach his atheism’
Christopher Leo Longoria replied: ‘I removed him off FB for those same reasons! He was being super nagtive (sic) all the timd (sic).’
After spending so much time debating the existence of God online, Kelley has now had that questioned answered once and for all.
Sadly, Kelley was someone that had a history of treating animals and the people around him very badly. The following comes from the Daily Mail…
Public records detail his history of physical abuse – including arrests for animal cruelty and domestic violence.
The domestic violence arrest stems from his first marriage to Tessa K. Kelley, who he married in Texas in April 2011.
The two were living in New Mexico the following year when Kelley was court-martialed for abusing both his wife and his infant stepson.
‘He assaulted his stepson severely enough that he fractured his skull, and he also assaulted his wife,’ Don Christensen, a retired colonel who was the chief prosecutor for the Air Force, told the New York Times. ‘He pled to intentionally doing it.’
On Sunday, Kelley “wore a mask with a skull on it” while he went up and down the church shooting people.
He would have killed a lot more people if it wasn’t for a “concerned neighbor” that grabbed his rifle and quickly intervened…
A concerned neighbor who heard the Texas church massacre unfolding on Sunday went and grabbed his rifle and tried to stop it — opening fire on the shooter and chasing him down in a stranger’s truck, a report says.
The man, who has not been publicly named, is being hailed online as a “hero” after state officials described his actions during a press conference.
A resident told the local ABC affiliate KSAT that he teamed up with her boyfriend and the two gave chase for several minutes inside his truck before the alleged gunman, Devin Kelley, eventually crashed the car he was in.
This is why we need armed security in all of our churches. If someone with a gun would not have been nearby, every single person in that church could have ended up dead.
As it was, it ultimately turned out to be the worst mass church shooting in modern American history.
So let us always stand up for our 2nd Amendment rights, because without them we would be sitting ducks for predators such as Devin Patrick Kelley.
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Lang Lang displays power and sensitivity at Kravis Center
Lang Lang performed Monday night at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. Photo: Olaf Heine/DG
The Kravis Center’s Regional Arts concert series presented Lang Lang in recital Monday night and the Chinese piano superstar drew a large and enthusiastic audience. While he has exhibited considerable musical maturity since his early performances which were often loud and unsubtle, he can still be a frustrating artist. The West Palm Beach performance demonstrated Lang Lang’s strengths as well as some tendencies toward harshness and exaggeration.
The opening Bach Italian Concerto got off to a shaky start with a wrong note in the very first bars and a generally metronomic approach to the opening movement, histouch hard and dynamics tending toward extremes of soft and loud. A lovely, almost vocal cantabile line infused the Andante, the melody in the right hand over repeated chords in the left beautifully conveyed. The inner voicings in the fleet and dance like Presto emerged with strength and clarity.
While individual pieces are often played as encores, the twelve vignettes of Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons are rarely played in concert as a cycle. These short pieces find Tchaikovsky at his most melodically inspired, the moods ranging from wistful to festive. There were a few digital slips in “By the Hearth” and the deliberate tempo was too slow and the melodic shape and dynamics overly exaggerated. Taken at a rapid fire pace, “Carnival” was percussive. Likewise “The Harvest” was merely loud.
The softer pieces fared best. A cell phone ringing incessantly marred the opening of the famous “Barcarolle” but the familiar theme was exquisitely phrased and the melancholy of “Autumn Song” was assayed at measured pace, the variants of soft playing finely colored. Quirky syncopations of “In the Troika” radiated charm and there was delicacy in the final swirling waltz (“Christmas”). The torrents of notes and swift rhythmic shifts of “The Hunt” were an exciting display of sheer pianistic technique.
Lang Lang can be an impressive Chopin player and much of his affinity for the Polish master’s music was on display in his traversal of the Four Scherzos, which formed the program’s second half. He tore into the first B minor work with frenzied passion and terrific fingerwork; yet the middle section was so light as if his hands were merely gliding over the keys. The pauses after the opening phrase of the B-flat minor scherzo were perfectly judged and the bravura octaves up and down the keyboard were spot on.
A fine sensibility for the pulse and flow of Chopin’s shifting moods was strongly projected. There was an almost Lisztian macabre atmosphere to Lang Lang’s reading of the third scherzo (in C-sharp minor), the sheer pianistic power exciting.
After so much high voltage pianism, the final E Major piece was curiously matter of fact and cool, wanting greater dynamic variety and rhythmic flexibility and the hard-edged conclusion verged on sounding ugly. An inevitable ovation brought an encore of the Rondo “Alla Turca” from Mozart’s Sonata No. 11 in A Major that was too fast but filled with character and lively syncopations.
The Regional Arts Concert Series continues with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Michael Sanderling 8 p.m. Monday and 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. Cellist Johannes Moser is soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme and John Williams’ Suite from Memories of a Geisha at the Monday concert. kravis.org; 561-832-7469.
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Herbert Carnegie was the complete hockey package in the 1940s and 1950s. Though his contributions to society both in sport and education have been referenced and profiled in books, documentaries, and thousands of articles, this is Carnegie’s own account of striving to break the glass ceiling, starting with his career as a professional hockey player on all-white teams. In 1978, noted hockey journalist Stan Fischler wrote a powerful headline about Carnegie: “Born Too Soon.” A Fly in a Pail of Milk reveals the feelings of a trailblazer — a man who proved to be unstoppable on the ice and in his resolve to make our world a better place.
In this new edition, Herb’s daughter Bernice Carnegie shares stories about what it was like to work closely with Herb on youth and educational projects for more than 30 years. She also reflects on parts of her father’s writings, sharing personal thoughts, family stories, and conversations about how his journey profoundly influenced her life.
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2017 – 2018 has been a busy season for Ann Sterzinger. In just a few short months, the prolific writer/critic has released a fitness guide, the first novel of a dystopian sci-fi trilogy and a series of well-received articles lampooning everything from Roseanne-haters to Millennial-centric culture to ammosexuals. She also traveled to Europe twice this year to give talks on her French translation work and be harassed in cafes by Albanians. On April 18th she is set to continue this whirlwind of activity with release of The Seine Vendetta, the first in her series of Lisa LaRoche military-espionage thrillers from Storm Rhino Press. Even a week before publication, The Seine Vendetta is already receiving critical acclaim. Storm Rhino Embedded catches up with Sterzinger in the basement of a bombed-out school in Algeria, where she is playing poker with a misfit crew of mercs and military contractors in-country to battle the local ISIS loons. Our interview, conducted between the comings and goings of a sultry Algerian waitress and punctuated by howls of mortar fire, is as wide-ranging as it is revealing. Sterzinger isn’t afraid to speak her mind – or drop a hand to the butt of the Sig-Sauer P226 on her hip when she senses a shady deal. It is no surprise that the biggest pile of chips is hers. In a winner-take-all world, the lady likes to win.
Who or what inspired you to write?
I barely recall. I taught myself to read before kindergarten by reading the comics in the local newspaper, and I didn’t know at that age where books or comics came from. I vaguely figured it was the gods, I suppose. The moment I found out that people made them, I wanted to be those people.
You’ve written mystery, sci-fi, gallows humor, social commentary – lots of stuff – but action fiction is new for Ann Sterzinger. How did you feel making the jump into a new genre? How was the experience of writing a revenge thriller?
After giving it a shot, I can’t believe I haven’t tried this genre before. It’s tailor made for me. After finishing it, I realized my science fiction series (Elektras Revenge; the first book, Lyfe, is already out) was also kind of a revenge thriller. You want an angry bitch who’s out for blood, you want one of my characters.
Given your intelligence and education, why have you opted for a life of working-class misery and unremitting artistic toil? What keeps you from selling out like everyone else?
Everyone has sold out? Tell that to the thousands of novelists that nobody reads because no one reads novels. Well, that and because most of them suck. Particularly the ones who write “novels” (or so they call them) but don’t read. (They’re ruining the market with noise and should be killed, by the way.) I don’t suck, but I have made the incredibly stupid mistake of being born at the wrong time and choosing the wrong parents, silly me.
In all seriousness, my mistakes are even stupider than that. I’m not a social creature, I don’t toe the hard-left political line that is mandatory for all “arteests” these days, and I prefer to spend my precious time learning to write fiction than learning to write blog posts for SEO. I would certainly do both if I had the time, but as I have had to work a day job my entire life I had to pick one, and quality it is.
You would think that the Internet would let the cream rise to the top, but in the immortal words of Jarvis Cocker, shit floats. The old system of gatekeeping was deeply flawed, but at least publishers gave a boost to writers whose work they believed in and let them write, and their support gave those authors credence and prestige. (Credence and prestige are important because most people are too stupid and lazy to try new things without being told that everyone else is doing it.) Now literary prestige comes in the form of Twitter followers and social networks. Which is funny, because the best writers of fiction are solitary, and have better things to do than to spend all day harassing celebrities and bullshitting about their political obsessions on Twitter in hopes of getting a jump in followers.
The writers who are getting ahead now are deeply mediocre: good enough to not completely suck, but too busy preening for their social media audience and “crafting” clickbait blog posts and other disposable “content” (god, do I hate that word) to concentrate on writing a meaningful, timeless, or even well-thought-out narrative arc. You can only do so much in a day, and the shallowest shit is what gets you attention. The market is fucked.
It’s even more fucked by the fact that ideologues clog the few literary institutions that still have any power. If you don’t have a huge Twitter account and you want to try to get a review to help you out instead, God help you if you aren’t a hard leftist. They systematically exclude everyone who doesn’t think exactly like them, and then they wonder why the general public doesn’t read their awful, preachy books. The only alternative is a small camp of equally ideologically sclerotic right-wing counter-counter-culturalists. Never mind the fact that any art that’s ideological isn’t art, it’s propaganda. Anyone who wants art to be a morality play is terrible and should be shot in the face along with the novelists who don’t read. You’re only making life worse for everyone else with your garbage.
Wait, wait, no… the real reason I’m living a life of toil is because I truly believe in the words of the prophet Karl Marx (“Your money or your life!”, I believe it was) and I wish to exist in sinless poverty so that I might become the true savior of the big rock candy guillotine mountain. Aren’t you envious?
Okay, quick! Star Trek or Star Wars?
In a movie of your life, who would you pick to play you? What would you choose to be the theme song?
I would pick Reese Witherspoon to play me, as punishment for what she did to Becky Sharpe’s character in Vanity Fair. Read it; Becky Sharp was a wonderful piece of satire, a thoroughly unlikeable character that you somehow loved nonetheless, and old Reese’s Piece tried to turn Becky into the same sappy, cheesecake version of herself that she always plays. So I would force her to play me to atone for her sins, and I would force her to play me right. No simpering, you puke. She doesn’t look anything like me, but we would do what we could.
The theme song? Hmm … probably “Common People” by Pulp. Or Mozart’s Requiem. Maybe both. But definitely Dead Kennedys. “Holiday in Cambodia.”
We couldn’t agree more …
[death-chopper graphic by Kody Boye]
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NEW TITLE: The Seine Vendetta
Coming April 18th, 2018 from Storm Rhino: The Seine Vendetta by Ann Sterzinger.
“Romance is for the living. And this is the city of the dead …”
Lisa LaRoche is haunted by her ghosts. After a tour of Iraq and dishonorable discharge from the Marines she crawled into the bottle, supporting herself as a stripper and dominatrix. Kristophe saved her, cleaned her up and brought her to Paris where they lived happily until a street-gang of Alegrian youth beats Kris to death one night. Two years later, Lisa kills two of them in a drunken rage and attracts the notice of British intelligence. A mysterious envoy makes an offer too good to refuse: amnesty for murder if Lisa finishes off the rest.
April on the Seine is lovely. But revenge is a dish best served cold. And the forecast for Paris is a deep freeze.
A Press is Born
Posted on March 26, 2017 April 10, 2018 by stormrhino
On March 25th, 2017 Storm Rhino Press officially launched with publication of its first title, Certain Fury. The story behind the novella’s creation is covered elsewhere. But for the purposes of this blog, the date is significant as it marks the debut of our enterprise.
Put another way, where publication of most books is often viewed as an ending, publication of Certain Fury marks a beginning.
Storm Rhino is an independent micro-press dedicated to publishing quality military adventure fiction in the vein of Don Pendleton, Lee Parker and Gerard de Villers, the men who brought us such series as The Executioner, Donovan’s Devils and Malko. An alternate moniker for this type of fiction might be “men’s adventure fiction,” for so it was styled back in the 1970s. Our use of the term implies nothing more than truth in advertising for, put simply, we produce fiction about guys shooting and blowing stuff up. Of course, we’ve come a long way since the 1970s. All readers who enjoy such fare are invited to tuck in.
Storm Rhino’s beat is the darkened backstreets and alleyways of towns like Belfast and Beirut. Our stories play out in smoke-filled casinos, during arms deals between quiet men on deserted roadways, in the clamor and heat and agony of battle. If there is music, then it comes from the whir of a helicopter, the chatter of small-arms fire. At Storm Rhino, we do not celebrate war, but do recognize it as a constant in the affairs of men, and a milieu wherein human stories – stories of fighters, shooters and survivors – wait to be told. Our titles are not meant to beat a call to arms or glorify the madness of warfare. But we will always honor the service and sacrifice of our veterans. And we will work hard to earn your patronage and confidence by delivering action-packed, immersive and entertaining fiction every time. Our mission is clear. Excellence is our goal.
The Storm Rhino Team is:
Jamie Mason: Team Leader
Ann Sterzinger: Operations & Strategic Planning Lead
Felicia Sullivan: Senior Editor
Kody Boye: IT/Design Director
Christian Bentulan: Art Director, Eastern Region
A storm is coming.
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'It Smells Like Despair.' A Diary of Life Inside Beirut After a Deadly Explosion
Francesca Trianni
After a powerful blast on Aug. 4 killed more than 200 people in Beirut and left 300,000 homeless, Gaëlle Moutran did what many young people in Beirut felt compelled to do in the ensuing days: film what was happening around her. With her iPhone, Moutran, a scenographer working in film and art, documents a city suffering from a pandemic, an economic crisis and a government in upheaval.
“It smells like dust, it smells like despair,” the 30-year-old tells TIME, showing where her apartment’s windows had been shattered by the explosion. The devastation was caused when 2750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate stored unsafely in a port warehouse detonated.
Armed with a helmet, a tear gas mask around her neck, and phone in hand, Moutran films an evening of violent demonstrations as protesters filled Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square, denouncing the corruption and chronic mismanagement of the political elite. Protests began in October 2019 and the political crisis has deepened since the explosion. “From the first second we got there, the energy was rage,” she says.
Read More: Explosion in Beirut: Photos From a City Still Reeling From the Blast
In response to that outrage, Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab—who only assumed office in December—announced his cabinet’s resignation Monday. That didn’t eased protests, with protesters continuing to clash with police in central Beirut for a third consecutive night.
Moutran walks the streets of Beirut to help out with recovery and clean up efforts, joining NGOs and volunteers working tirelessly to rebuild the city. She stops at times to see what is left of her city, including her therapist’s office and some of her favorite streets. When she drives around the city at night, she notices an unusual sound for a city known for its lively nightlife: silence. “Beirut is always busy, but that night you could feel the emptiness. It was like someone had turned off the flame of a candle.”
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Kusal Mendis, Aponso will be great assets for the Sri lanka says Skipper Mathews
November 4, 2020 August 25, 2016 by Kartik Shah
Skipper of Srilanka Angelo Mathews are praise to Young batsman Kusal Mendis as he helped the srilanka to win the second ODI and levelling the series to win over Australia with their sensational batting performance. Kusal Mendis played a brilliant half century plus inning on that second ODI against Australia on 24th August.
So far Mendis hits five Half Century in their 9 ODI Matches in Carrer so this 21 Year old Mendis surely been a huge assets for the national side.
kusal mendis are the key factor for the sri lanka
In the Second ODI, Host Sri lanka lost their openers in cheaply but Mendis stepp up the inning and made a partnership for the third wickets of 125 with dinesh chandimal to resurrect the srilankan inning.
“He’s just very positive,” Mathews said. “Especially after losing a couple of wickets in quick succession, the way he went out there and the way he batted was brilliant. Not too many people do that – you take a bit of time and settle in and take a look at the wicket. But he’s just going out there and playing with a lot of freedom. He’s just a different kind of player.
“He’s going to be a big player for us. He’s going to be the future of our batting. If he keeps going like this he will do wonders for the Sri Lankan team and I wish him all the very best. It was a fantastic knock today.”
Apart of Mendis, Captain also impress with the left arm spinner Amila Aponso as he tooks 4 wickets in second ODI. In this series they taken five wickets by giving just 45 run in two odi so far.
“Not all the spinners bowled very well out there, apart from Amila Aponso – in the first game as well as this game,” he noted. “He’s bowled in these two matches like he’s played internationals for a long time. He’s just landing it on the spot and keeping it pretty simple – just bowling it there and letting the ball do the rest. He’s been turning a few and sliding a few. It’s been extremely difficult for the batters.” as per cricbuzz sources.
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Week 7 NFL Power Rankings
Posted on October 19, 2011 by kramerj7 | 3 comments
Photo courtesy of fantasyfootballhelp.com. Not too many people are talking about the lone undefeated team in the NFL after six weeks. Green Bay has been simply outstanding riding guys such as Jordy Nelson (pictured above) to easy victories.
By Wesley Kaminsky
Week six is in the books, and it consisted of drama–and lots of it. Some of it wasn’t even on the field itself. Following the 49ers comeback victory in Detroit, Jim Harbaugh was excited, and fiery. Apparently Lions coach Jim Schwartz didn’t like how Harbaugh shook his hand, as he continued to yell at the Niners coach all the way down the field. The two had to be broken up as they were heading into the tunnel.
Now, that’s drama.
If you don’t know anything about Jim Harbaugh, that’s just his personality. He does things his way and doesn’t care what people say about him. Remember while at Stanford when Pete Carroll famously asked Harbaugh, “what’s your deal?” Do you think Harbaugh looks like the kind of guy who cares how he is perceived?
No coach has done a better job this season than him either. After inheriting a 6-10 49er’s team, and having a limited off-season due to the lockout, Harbaugh has brought football back in San Francisco. He has done with Alex Smith what neither Mike Nolan, or Mike Singletary was able to do; make him a quarterback.
There’s just something about this Harbaugh guy. Continue reading →
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“NFL Week 17 Predictions”
Posted on December 31, 2010 by kramerj7 | Leave a comment
Aaron Rodgers (pictured on the right) looks to lead the Packers in a "must win" game against the rival Bears while Brett Favre (pictured on the left) appears to be entering his final Sunday as an NFL Quarterback.
We have reached the culmination of regular season play in the NFL. It is very hard to believe, but we have reached Week 17. Closing time baby. What a year it has been. Full of many highs and many lows. There have been plenty of disappointments. Just ask Dallas, Minnesota, and Cincinnati. There have been many surprises. See St. Louis, Kansas City, and Philadelphia. And there have been the usual suspects (Patriots).
Still many questions linger though. Will Tom Brady win the MVP? Who will represent the NFC West in the playoffs? We will find all of that out and more come Sunday.
Lets take a look at the Pick’em scoreboard.
TheSportsKraze: 136 CV3: 141
Can I catch CV3 during this final week? I will have to make up some serious ground come Sunday.
TheSportsKraze Picks:
Bengals at Ravens: A good old-fashioned AFC North tussle. Sadly this game has lost a lot of its luster due to the Bengals vastly underachieving this season and due to the lack of the TOcho-Show suiting up for this game. Though Cincinnati has looked very good these past two weeks, it will not be enough against a Raven’s team looking to win the AFC North outright. Baltimore’s balance on both sides of the ball will prove too much for the Bengals and send Cincinnati home with their 12th loss of the season. Ravens by 3 at home in a tight one.
Panthers at Falcons: This game is an interesting matchup. It pits the NFL’s worst team versus perhaps the best team in all of football. Not to mention the Falcons are an outstanding when in their friendly confines of the Georgia Dome. You better believe that the Falcons would love to clinch that number 1 seed in the NFC. No resting the big guns on this day. Atlanta, led by their offensive stars Matty “Ice” Ryan, Roddy “talk too much” White, and Michael Turner will provide loss number 14 for a horrible Carolina team. Falcons by 9 at home.
Steelers at Browns: One of the NFL’s best rivalries adds another chapter come Sunday. Though Cleveland has shown some improvement this year and a very strong rushing attack, it will not be enough against a Steeler’s team that is superior in every facet of the game. Not to mention Pittsburgh knows how to win ball games. Look for Pittsburgh to win this game with ease behind their tenacious defense. Steelers by 9 on the road.
Vikings at Lions: So Brett finally received his big punishment. A whopping $50,000. This is equivalent to 4.5 minutes of game playing time for mighty #4. What a joke. At least it appears his career will be over finally after Sunday. It has been a horrible year in Minnesota and they have really underachieved, but at least they can begin looking towards next season after a game with their long time foe, Detroit. The Lions on the other hand have been a pleasant surprise, and have won 3 consecutive games. Well expect that number to move to 4 on Sunday. Detroit will win a close one by 3 due to their outstanding passing attack featuring the one and only Calvin Johnson.
Raiders at Chiefs: Kansas City has already clinched the AFC West. A shocker for sure. But definitely a very strong team that can run the ball as well as anybody. I fully expect KC to come ready to play, but I also expect the Raiders to be on their “A” game. Oakland is looking to end the year on a high note and end up 500 for the season. This will be a game won on the ground. The Chiefs have already won the division and are not really playing for much. Oakland is looking to end on a high note. Raiders by 1 on the road in a great game.
Dolphins at Patriots: It is Miami’s lucky day. New England has clinched home field throughout and will most likely sit the majority of their starters. Miami on the other hand is looking to bounce back from embarrassing losses to the Bills and the Lions. Sadly for Miami, the Patriots are just too good. Even their 2nd and 3rd stringers. There is a winning mentality in Foxborough. Do not expect the Pats to drop a game at home any time soon. Patriots by 7 at home.
Buccaneers at Saints: This is one of those games that has a whole lot of meaning. Tampa is fighting for their playoff lives while the Saints are riding high after knocking off the dirty birds in ATL. Now the defending champs could gain home field throughout the playoffs. You better believe that Brees and company will be ready to roll. It will be a season sweep over the Buccaneers, who earlier this season proclaimed themselves as the “NFC’s Best Team.” Too bad they will not even make the playoffs. Saints by 7 at home.
Jets at Bills: The Jets have already clinched a Wild Card and probably will rest a good deal of starters, but that will not stop them from taking care of business in Buffalo. The Bills are one of the worst teams in the NFL, and showed that last week in getting absolutely pounded by NE. Buffalo is the worst in the League at stopping the run and the Jets are one of the League’s best rushing squads. Jets by 6 on the road.
Chargers at Broncos: Two teams that have been eliminated from playoff contention. I will admit that I was highly disappointed in San Diego. They are a team that I, along with many expected to win the AFC West for a 5th straight year. It didn’t happen. Now they are looking to end the year above 500. I guess good stats do not always correlate to a successful season. San Diego all year has been in the top 2 in the League in both overall offense and defense. It didn’t matter. In this game though, stats won’t matter yet again. But San Diego will win this one just based on their raw talent. Chargers by 9 on the road.
Bears at Packers: This may be the matchup of the Week. Green Bay is holding on for their playoff lives, while Chicago is looking to gain home field in the playoffs. These are two very good teams that are still playing for something. The difference is Green Bay is playing for more. Expect the Cheeseheads to come out smoking like they did last game against New York and shred a very strong Bears defense. Rodgers and the Packers will avenge a tough Week 3 loss to their rivals by 3 in front of a raucous home crowd.
Titans at Colts: Indianapolis will most likely need to win this game to maintain their playoff hopes. Peyton doesn’t know how to miss out on the playoffs. Not to mention they are playing in front of a home crowd. Chris Johnson and the Titans have looked tough at times this season, but their inconsistency has been far too much to overcome. Not to mention that Tennessee has sported one of the worst secondaries in the NFL all year. Indy by 10 at home.
Cowboys at Eagles: In the preseason, I picked the Cowboys to win the NFC East and the Eagles to finish in the cellar. I was wrong. Since the departure of Wade Phillips, Dallas has played inspired football. Philadelphia blew a major opportunity at home field advantage on Tuesday. This week it appears that Vick will not be playing. No Vick equals no victory. Plus the Eagles are not really playing for anything. Cowboys by 3 on the road.
Cardinals at 49ers: The NFC West has been absolutely horrible. Both of these teams have underachieved. Take your pick of the two bottom dwellers in the NFL’s worst division. I will take San Fran in the post Mike Singletary era by 6 at home.
Giants at Redskins: A good old-fashioned NFC East battle. Washington’s season may be over, but you better believe that they would love nothing more than to spoil any hope that their rival has at making the playoffs. Sadly for Washington though, they have struggled defensively all year. Not to mention they never developed an effective rushing attack. Expect New York to come to play. Giants by 10 on the road.
Jaguars at Texans: Many thought that the AFC South would be a 2 team race between the Colts and the Texans. Many were wrong. Jacksonville is the team battling Peyton and Co. Jacksonville has a very strong rushing attack and has had a solid year where they have vastly exceeded expectations. But I will state that Houston, despite its less than flattering record is still a very dangerous team. Sorry Jacksonville, the pressure got to you. The Jaguars will lose this one, ending any playoff hopes that they were clinging to. Houston by 7 at home.
Rams at Seahawks: This is the NFC West Championship game. Talk about some excitement in Seattle. Who will get to represent the NFL’s worst division in this year’s playoffs? It has been an uphill battle all year for this abysmal division. The battle for the divisional crown will come to an end on this day though. I am taking the rookie Sam Bradford to lead his Rams to the playoffs. Who picked STL preseason? Rams by 3 on the road.
CV3 Picks:
Bengals over Ravens by 3
Falcons over Panther by 10
Steelers over Browns by 6
Vikings over Lions by 6
Chiefs over Raiders by 1 (Stay undefeated at home)
Patriots over Dolphins by 21
Saints over Buccaneers by 10
Jets over Bills by 8
Broncos over Chargers by 5
Packers over Bears by 3
Colts over Titans by 17
Eagles over Cowboys by 3
49ers over Cardinals by 10
Giants over Redskins by 7
Jaguars over Texans by 6
Rams over Seahawks by 10
So there you have it. It has been a wild year in the NFL as we head into the final Sunday. You better believe that a crazy playoffs is forthcoming. Lets hope that the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) gets settled in time so that we get to enjoy all of this yet again next year.
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LucasArts changed into the pinnacle of early ’90s laptop games, fight me on it
by Brad Snyder
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When waxing nostalgic about retro gaming, I generally tend to think about one precise sort of revel in. I neglected out at the Atari age, and even though I did have an original Nintendo Entertainment System, I become fairly hopeless with nearly every identifies it had to provide. The heyday of retro gaming, for me at the least, came via computer. I do not believe myself mashing buttons when I think of the beyond and gaze at clouds — I’m much more likely to fondly keep in mind pointing and clicking.
The early a part of the Nineteen Nineties changed into an especially grand length inside the age of “factor and click” journey games for the laptop, with the moves of a mouse commonly overtaking a text-based interface. Sierra On-Line was massive at some point of this time, and it changed into well-known for such collection as King’s Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry. The earlier games in all of that collection had you typing instructions at the lowest of the display, and those commands were nearly usually misconstrued. Typing curses failed to get you everywhere — trust me, I attempted.
Sierra finally transitioned to a smoother point and click gadget, taking a cue from the other giant of the time: LucasArts, as soon as branded as Lucasfilm Games.
The organization itself turned into founded nicely earlier than the ’90s, and the person in the back of it, you could have guessed via the call of the business enterprise, become Star Wars creator George Lucas. Looking to enlarge into feasible worldwide domination in 1979, Lucas created the Lucasfilm Computer Division. It blanketed one department for developing pc video games and some other branch for growing snap shots. The portraits division, it needs to be stated, spun off in 1982 and sooner or later have become a touch enterprise that you may have heard of called Pixar.
The gaming branch reorganized into the Lucasfilm Games Group, and oddly enough it didn’t have the rights to make Star Wars video games in the beginning. Those rights had been owned via Atari, and that is why the group had to cross about growing its own titles, which had nothing to do with the Star Wars story.
After a few video games have been advanced in tandem with different groups, the group’s first huge second got here with Maniac Mansion in 1987.
The recreation had an original (and as a substitute nutty) tale, and it went together with the institution’s constitution, which became to “make experimental, revolutionary, and technologically advanced video games,” consistent with Rob Smith’s 2008 ebook, Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts. What made it so superior become the engine that drove the sport, which became known as SCUMM. The name stood for “Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion.”
For all intents and purposes, SCUMM is what made fetch take place. Players could use the mouse to move their individual across the display and engage with the surroundings with the aid of clicking on a sequence of verbs listed underneath. For instance, an item in a room, when mixed with a verb, might permit the individual to “read the ebook,” and so on. It may also sound dumb, however, it turned into, and nonetheless is, AWESOME. This engine, evolved by using Ron Gilbert, drove the enterprise that would ultimately rebrand itself into Lucasfilm Games before arriving at its final generation, LucasArts.
LucasArts might not have had the rights to Star Wars, however, Indiana Jones turned into any other rely. In 1989, it found big fulfillment with a SCUMM-driven recreation variation of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Incidentally, this became the primary factor and click on adventure sport I ever performed, and it simplest fueled my love of the 0.33 Indy film… A love that handiest grows stronger every yr.
Players were given an “IQ” rating, which stood for “Indy Quotient.” Doing such things as Indy could do them either raised or diminished the score. The game also got here with a hard replica of a fully written “grail diary,” which proved vital to solving a number of the sport’s puzzles. I still have mine — even without the sport itself, it is a laugh read.
After Indy whipped his way to glory, the enterprise got here in conjunction with the surreal fable Loom in 1990, however, the real crown prince of Lucasfilm Games came after that.
The Secret of Monkey Island (and the series that it spawned) may be its maximum famous and mawkish romp. It’s a spin on the pirate genre, and also you play as Guybrush Threepwood, a younger man who yearns to be a pirate. The sport turned into (and nonetheless is) liked for its humor, breaking the fourth wall each other 2d and often acknowledging that it turned into a game. Previous LFG titles had done this to a volume, however, Monkey Island truely went all of the ways.
The sequel, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge accompanied very soon after in 1991, and then Indy crashed the celebration once more in 1992 with Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Indy wasn’t more or less sure by way of the tale of a movie anymore — Fate of Atlantis informed a very authentic Indy story, featured a brand new artifact (pretty an awful lot Atlantis itself, obviously), and introduced a few new characters and villains to Indy’s lore. The player becomes also given the option of taking unique paths thru the story relying on their playing fashion. My fashion changed into dropping, so I lost pretty frequently. Indy died plenty after I performed these games. No time for romance!
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Hey People, This is Snyder who is gaming hunger boy and loves to play games all time online.If you have found any interesting game then let me give a chance to review it by my mail [email protected] .
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Weekly Wrap: Big Brothering Freelancers, the Terrors of Testosterone, Torching an Employer
By John Hollon September 17, 2010 July 23, 2015
Photo illustration by Dreamstime.
Have you noticed a big change this week? Now that summer and Labor Day is behind us, people seem really serious about getting back to serious work.
That’s why TLNT’s Weekly Wrap is important. Every Friday, I highlight and summarize a number of interesting workplace news items you may have missed while you were getting serious about your job. It’s just one way that TLNT can help keep you updated and informed.
Do you find this wrap-up useful and interesting? I’d like to know, so please leave a comment here, or send it directly to me via e-mail (john@tlnt.com). Tell me what you like, don’t like, and whether you’d like a little more, or maybe even a little less (or something different altogether).
Yes, this is a weekly round-up of news, trends, and all sorts of information from the world of HR and talent management. I do it so you don’t have to:
Big Brother enters the freelance worker world. With more and more of the workforce turning into contingent or freelance employees, more and more systems are popping up that help to manage those kinds of work relationships. USA Today recently highlighted one of these called oDesk, and although managers will probably love it, freelance workers will surely be bothered by this: “ODesk’s most distinctive, and controversial, feature takes frequent snapshots of workers’ computer screens and records their keystrokes and mouse clicks so employers know when they’re working and what they’re doing.” One critic calls the oDesk monitoring system “heavy-handed and intrusive.”
So what else is new? Testosterone makes young male managers and deal-makers “combative.” Women have surely known this for a long time, but a study by the University of British Columbia has found that testosterone – a hormone associated with male dominance-seeking in competitive situations – can be a negative factor in high-stakes decision-making. “Young male CEOs appear to be combative;” They are more likely to attempt business takeovers, resist others’ offers to buy them out, and especially to withdraw an offer, acting “against their (own and shareholders’) interest” to preserve their perceived “dominance” over rival male bosses, according to the report by three University of British Columbia scholars, after studying 350 M&A offers in 1997-2007. The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Philly Deals blog got some comments from local deal makers about this survey and while they were generally amused, not all are buying it.
Should you fire a recent hire who is performing well if you find someone better? This question popped up this week in The New York Times’ “You’re the Boss” blog, and the back-and-forth discussion fostered an interesting debate on what is appropriate in a manager’s treatment of employees and the increasing disposability of the workforce. Even the small business owner who writes the blog found his feelings going back and forth as readers weighed in, and he ultimately said this: “Twenty-two years of scrambling to make payroll must have warped me, as my plan to put profits before kindness has received a thorough bashing.”
Another disgruntled employee torches his former employer. Maybe it’s the ongoing economic morass we’re all experiencing, but doesn’t it seem like there are a lot more unhappy and disgruntled former employees taking things into their own hands these days? Here’s the latest: a former Domino’s employee who was training to be an assistant manager who decided to torch two locations after he was fired. His family claims he was let go “after hoodlums attacked him outside the store,” his family told the New York Daily News. “He was fired for leaving the store unlocked during the fight as co-workers counted money inside.”
How to do 15 hours of work in just 59 minutes. Never underestimate the resourcefulness of the American worker, because in Minnesota, some insurance agents “were able to get credit for 15 hours of (classroom) work in just 59 minutes,” according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. It was part of a scam that ended in 40 insurance agents agreeing to pay $3,000 fines “and go back to school after admitting they attended bogus classes to satisfy state licensing requirements.”
BMW shows how to get more out of older workers. With so much of our workforce opting to stay on the job longer than ever before, the productivity of these older workers is becoming an issue. But, “an innovative experiment” by the automaker “has been hailed as a prototype for how to keep an aging work force both happy and productive,” according to the Detroit Free-Press. “The result: Productively rose 7% in one year, equaling that of younger workers. Absenteeism on the pilot line dropped to 2%, below the plant average, and the line achieved zero defects. BMW was so happy with the results that it has designed follow-up projects in its other factories, including its sole U.S. assembly plant, in Spartanburg, S.C.”
John Hollon
John Hollon is Editor-at-Large at ERE Media and was the founding Editor of TLNT.com. A longtime newspaper, magazine, and business journal editor, John has deep roots in the talent management space. He's the former Editor of Workforce Management magazine and workforce.com, served as Editor of RecruitingDaily, and was Vice President for Content at HR technology firm Checkster. An award-winning journalist, John has written extensively about HR, talent management, leadership, and smart business practices, including for the popular Fistful of Talent blog. Contact him at johnhollon@ere.net, connect with him on LinkedIn, or follow him on Twitter @johnhollon.
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Superior Realities
The World Spectrum
The Mustering of Azeroth: From Darkness, Comes Light
Posted on September 9, 2017 by Tyler F.M. Edwards
Seven down, five to go.
The latest class story under my belt in World of Warcraft is priest, meaning I have now finished the campaigns for all three cloth classes, as well as all four of my Blood Elf characters (I think we should all be impressed that only 1/3 of my characters are Blood Elves).
As I suspected, the priest story and the paladin story are pretty much the same thing, with exactly the same ending. There’s even a few cases where NPCs called my priest “highlord,” which is the paladin title.
I think this was a disservice to both classes. The paladins got robbed of a proper ending to their own story, and the priests miss out on some important aspects of the plot, like where Lothraxion comes from and how Delas became a paladin.
And if you play both, it’s just repetitive.
As with the paladin story, there’s also some things that are glossed over that really shouldn’t be. Oh, hey, here’s zombie Alonsus Faol and Arthas Menethil’s sister the rightful queen of Lordaeron, but let’s not for a moment acknowledge what a massive deal that is or explain in any way where they’ve been all this time.
The one thing I really did like about the story was the bit about Natalie Seline, as it is (I think) the first actual canonical lore we’ve gotten around the Cult of the Forgotten Shadow and shadow priests in general. It was all too brief, though.
My main motivation for playing a priest, beyond my general desire to finish as many class stories as possible, was because shadow has access to one of the most exciting artifact weapons: Xal’atath, Blade of the Black Empire.
Xal’atath is somewhat unique in that it is arguably the only artifact that is both a completely new addition in Legion, and a big deal in the greater lore: an ancient sacrificial dagger dating back to the Black Empire itself, the nightmarish civilization of the Old Gods that dominated Azeroth before the coming of the Titans.
Beyond that, Xal’atath is not simply a weapon. She is a sentient being with a malevolent will all her own. She will even whisper to you as you play, providing tantalizing insights to all that is happening… if you’re willing to take her at her word.
This, however, did prove something of a disappointment simply because Xal’atath’s dialogue is far less frequent than I had expected. It reminds me waiting on party banter in Dragon Age: Inquisition. It’s almost always interesting when it comes up, but each bit of dialogue can be few and far between.
I do love her voice acting, though. The actress did a great job. Far from the gravel-voiced snarls of most Warcraft villains, Xal’atath’s voice is calm, soothing, even seemingly reasonable.
It’s so easy to forget just what she is and what she represents. It’s easy to understand how so many people have fallen under sway down through the countless millennia.
It does make me a bit sad for the limitations of an MMO. I’d love to see Xal’atath’s story continue. I’d love to see her ultimately betray the player, and perhaps become a dungeon or raid boss. It would be interesting to see just what her true form really is.
But all of that is extremely unlikely to ever happen, because she’s an item that the player controls and relies on. Even when artifacts are no longer relevant (still a terrible idea, by the way), lots of people will still be transmoging their weapons into her, I’m sure, and people who don’t play priests likely won’t know who she is. So in likelihood her story ends here.
Playing a priest was also somewhat interesting from a gameplay perspective. If you’ve read Superior Realities for a long time, you may remember priest was the very first class I ever played in World of Warcraft, though I quickly lost interest in it. I always found it tedious at low levels, but the concept of a class blending the powers of Light and Shadow has continued to appeal strongly in theory, and I often thought I might like it better at high levels.
Now, I had the opportunity to put the theory to the test, having skipped straight to level 100 with my free boost from Legion. I’m not sure if it’s because of being high level or the class changes that came with Legion, but I did definitely enjoy being a priest much more than I ever have before, though it’s still not going to go down as my favourite class.
At least in the current version of things, priest is a rather strange class. Holy is the vanilla healer spec of all vanilla healer specs, but discipline and shadow both feel rather unusual.
I still feel that WoW’s UI isn’t a good fit for the kind of damage-healer hybrid discipline is, but despite that, I found it growing on me. It’s certainly a refreshing change of pace, and closer to the kind of balanced support playstyle I feel MMO healers should be.
Shadow I maintain mixed feelings on. I like the general idea of building to voidform and then trying to maintain it as long as possible, but it’s tuned in such a hectic and unforgiving way that the playstyle feels very rushed. It’s exhausting after a while. I would like to see insanity built and spent at about half its current rate, making voidform a rarer but more satisfying experience.
Finally, this was a very visually appealing class. The big caster animation update happened about halfway through my playthrough of the class campaign, and I’ve been loving the new effects and animations for everything.
Beyond that, priests have always been one of the luckiest classes when it comes to things like tier sets, so I’ve been having a grand time coming up with all sorts of pretty outfits for her, as you can see from the screenshots (click them to view full size).
My backstory for the character is that she made a secret and desperate pact with the Void when the Light abandoned her people, a pact she now deeply regrets, so I’m trying to make all of her outfits hide her face in some way. She must always conceal the shame in her expression, and the madness in her eyes.
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Upgrade to Windows 10: FAQ
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An upgrade moves your PC from a previous version of Windows—such as Windows 7 or Windows 8.1—to Windows 10. An upgrade can take place on your existing device, though Microsoft recommends using Windows 10 on a new PC to take advantage of the latest features and security improvements. This FAQ is intended to answer questions about upgrading to Windows 10.
An update ensures you have the most recent features and security improvements for your current version of Windows. If you want to update your device and need more info, see Windows Update: FAQ.
If you’re looking for info on a specific error code or having problems with product keys, see Get help with Windows activation errors. There, you can press CTRL+F and type or paste the error code or "product key" into the search box to find specific information about your code and how to resolve it.
If you need info on installation errors, see Get help with Windows 10 upgrade and installation errors.
For some answers to questions you might have about the upgrade to Windows 10, select any heading below. It'll open to show more info.
How do I get Windows 10?
You can purchase a full version of Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro for your Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 PC. However, the best way to experience Windows 10 is on a new PC. Today's computers are faster and more powerful and come with Windows 10 already installed. To learn more, view new Windows 10 PCs.
Guide to Windows 10 app
Now that support for Windows 7 has ended, Microsoft recommends you move to Windows 10 to continue receiving security updates. Download the Guide to Windows 10 app to compare your options for making the move and get personalized recommendations for your PC.
*This app is for Windows 7 only
Is the Windows 10 free upgrade offer still available?
The Windows 10 free upgrade through the Get Windows 10 (GWX) app ended on July 29, 2016.
Do I still qualify for the free upgrade offer if I've already downloaded Windows 10 to a USB drive, but haven't yet upgraded my device?
All upgrades must have completed and reached the "Welcome" screen by 11:59 PM UTC-10 (Hawaii) on July 29, 2016; this is one worldwide point in time.
Will the media creation tool still be available for customers to download Windows 10 installation media?
Yes, the media creation tool and Windows 10 installation media (ISO files) are available for customers to install Windows 10. If you’re installing Windows 10 for the first time, you’ll need to enter a valid Windows 10 product key or buy a full version of Windows 10 during setup for this tool to work. If you’ve previously installed Windows 10 on your device, you should have a digital license and Windows 10 will automatically activate without entering a product key.
How do I reinstall Windows 10 on my PC?
After you upgrade to Windows 10, you can reinstall or do a clean installation on the same device. You won't need a product key to reactivate Windows 10 on the same hardware. For more info on how to create your own Windows 10 installation media, see the Microsoft software download website.
Will Windows 10 work with the assistive technologies on my device?
We're committed to making sure customers using assistive technologies can upgrade to Windows 10.
What do I need to know about buying a new Windows 10 PC?
For more help on choosing a Windows 10 PC that's right for you, see Get Windows 10 or choose a new Windows 10 PC.
If you're still in the process of upgrading to Windows 10, select any heading below. It'll open to show more details.
How long will it take to upgrade my device?
The time that is required to upgrade to Windows 10 depends on factors such as the age of your device and how it’s configured. Most devices will take about an hour to upgrade as soon as the download is completed. Although older devices could take longer, some newer, high-performance devices might upgrade faster.
How do I free up space for the upgrade?
Devices with a 32 GB hard drive or older devices with full hard drives might need additional storage space to complete the upgrade. If you don’t have sufficient space, try removing files or apps you no longer need or use Disk Cleanup to free up space. Learn more at Tips to free up drive space on your PC.
During the upgrade, you might be asked to free up space on your device or attach an external drive with sufficient space to continue with the upgrade. If you attach an external drive, make sure to keep it in a safe place after the upgrade in case you need it for recovery options.
Why do I need to uninstall some of my apps during the upgrade?
Some apps have to be uninstalled because they could cause problems with the upgrade process. You'll be able to reinstall these apps after the upgrade to Windows 10 is done.
Other apps have to be uninstalled because they won't work correctly or might not work at all with Windows 10.
You won't be able to reinstall or use these apps after the upgrade is completed.
Will my Windows 7 apps work on Windows 10?
For the best possible experience, we recommend doing a fresh installation of your applications on your new Windows 10 PC. The Microsoft Store has a variety of 3rd party applications that can be easily downloaded and installed.
Open Microsoft Store
For any software not currently available in the Microsoft Store, we recommend going to that company’s official website and downloading the Windows 10 version from there. In limited circumstances, some older software may not have an updated version that is compatible with Windows 10.
Can I change my language when I upgrade?
The easiest way to change your language is to upgrade using the same language you currently have on your PC and then add a new language later.
To add new languages in Windows 10, select Start > Settings > Time & Language > Language and then choose the language you want.
Is Windows Media Center available in Windows 10?
No, Windows Media Center isn’t available as part of Windows 10 and will be removed during the upgrade. After the upgrade is completed you won't be able to install Windows Media Center.
Can I go back to my old operating system?
There are several ways for you to go back from Windows 10 to a previous version of Windows:
You'll be able to go back to an earlier version by selecting Start > Settings > Update & Security > Recovery . Then select Get started under Go back to the previous version of Windows 10.
Go back to the previous version of Windows 10
This will keep your personal files, but it’ll remove apps and drivers installed after the upgrade as well as any changes you made to settings. The option to go back to your previous version of Windows 10 is only available for a limited time following the upgrade.
If your PC manufacturer provided the option, you might be able to restore your device to factory settings.
If options to go back and restore factory settings aren’t available, you can use installation media and a product key to install an earlier version of Windows.
For more info and requirements, see the Go back to your previous version of Windows section of Recovery options in Windows 10.
Note: If the manufacturer set up your PC to run from a compressed Windows image file (also known as Windows image file boot or WIMBoot) and included the option to restore factory settings, that option will no longer be available after you upgrade to Windows 10.
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Rockets’ Harden lashes out after 117-100 loss to Lakers
AFP, LOS ANGELES
Houston Rockets star James Harden’s frustration with his team boiled over on Tuesday after the team’s second blowout loss to NBA champions the Los Angeles Lakers in three days.
Harden, the NBA’s top scorer the past three seasons, finished with 16 points on five-of-16 shooting in the 117-100 home loss, in which the Lakers never trailed and led by as many as 30 points.
“I love this city,” Harden said. “I literally have done everything that I can. I mean, this situation is crazy. It’s something that I don’t think can be fixed.”
Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James, top, goes to the basket against Houston Rockets guard James Harden during their NBA game at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday.
Photo: Troy Taormina-USA Today
The season opened last month with Harden the center of trade-demand reports.
The Rockets have reportedly discussed possible trades with various teams, but they expect a big return for their star, and no deal is yet in the offing.
Guard John Wall, who arrived in Houston this season in the trade that sent Russell Westbrook to the Washington Wizards, said that team chemistry was lacking.
“When you have certain guys that don’t want to buy in, it’s hard,” said Wall, who scored 10 points and handed out five assists on Tuesday.
Specifically, Wall said that forging a relationship with Harden had been difficult.
“It’s been a little rocky, not going to lie about that,” Wall said. “I don’t think it’s been the best it could be. That’s all I can say.”
At 3-6, the Rockets are second from bottom in the Western Conference.
Meanwhile, Kevin Durant poured in 34 points and handed out 13 assists as the Brooklyn Nets rallied from an 18-point deficit to beat the Denver Nuggets 122-116.
Durant added nine rebounds and Bruce Brown chipped in 16 points in a clutch performance in place of absent Nets star Kyrie Irving.
Brown’s jump shot, off a feed from Durant, knotted the score at 113-113 with 2 minutes, 16 seconds left to play. He followed with a floater that put the Nets ahead for good.
Durant scored the Nets’ next six points as Brooklyn put it away, denying the Nuggets a sweep on their three-game road trip.
Nikola Jokic had 23 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds for Denver, but they were outscored by the Nets 68-46 in the second half.
It was a satisfying end to the day for Brooklyn, who were without Irving for a fourth straight game for what the team has said are personal reasons.
His return date remains unknown, with the team and NBA reviewing video that surfaced on social media that appeared to show the star playmaker at a family gathering without a mask — in contravention of league protocols aimed at containing COVID-19.
With a welter of players sidelined either by positive or inconclusive COVID-19 tests, or because of risk of exposure, the NBA and players’ union on Tuesday agreed to stricter measures on masks, team meetings and even non-basketball activities.
Meanwhile, the Miami Heat fielded the minimum eight players — with eight absent due to health and safety protocols — in a 137-134 overtime loss to the Philadelphia 76ers.
Sixers center Joel Embiid scored 45 points with 16 rebounds and five steals.
Embiid’s jump shot with 4.3 seconds remaining in regulation tied it up at 120-120 and he scored the 76ers first nine points in overtime.
Danny Green drained a career-high nine three-pointers on the way to 29 points for the 76ers, bouncing back from a none-for-nine shooting performance in a loss to Atlanta on Monday.
Philadelphia coach Doc Rivers said he hoped the new guidelines would keep the number of COVID-19 cases in the NBA at a minimum and the season on track.
“All I can do is hope,” Rivers said. “Listen, we are not in a bubble ... we are in cities. So we just have to do our best, everyone.”
In other games on Tuesday, it was:
‧ Jazz 117, Cavaliers 87
‧ Spurs 112, Thunder 102
‧ Pacers 104, Warriors 95
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by Brianna Goebel
Brianna is StyleBlueprint’s Editorial Assistant. She is an avid fan of iced coffee and spends her free time reading all things true crime.
11 Fascinating Livestreams to Bookmark
August 25, 2020 by Brianna Goebel
Travel to space, catch glimpses of humpback whales or watch puppies play and take naps. As many of us continue to spend more time at home, we search for new ways to keep boredom at bay, and many websites offer free livestreams to help us out. Whether you’re looking for a mental break or just want something to play in the background during your workday, here are 11 livestreams to bookmark that will provide you with a virtual escape.
11 Livestreams to Bookmark
The Beatles’ album Abbey Road has one of the most well-known covers of all-time, and tourists often visit West London where the famous photograph was taken to recreate it themselves. While we may not be traveling to Europe right now, this livestream offers real-time views of the legendary crosswalk and is available 24 hours a day. And who knows? You may see someone stop and pose for a photo along the way. Click HERE and scroll down to see the livestream feed.
Bubble Cam
This livestream was created by a South Florida couple after purchasing a high-volume bubble machine. After fiddling with technology, they created a way that lets individuals from around the world enjoy the bubbles, too. The livestream features views of the couple’s backyard and allows viewers to blast bubbles of their own with just the click of a button. Try it for yourself HERE.
RELATED: 5 Good Distractions & the Science Behind Them
The Cat Cafe
Animals are always a good option for distracting yourself and relieving stress. The Cat Cafe in San Diego livestreams its playroom of adorable cats and kittens. Viewers can watch the animals as they take naps, climb up and down towers or chase one another around the room. To view the livestream, click HERE.
Coral Reef Cam
Dive into the ocean with this beautiful and relaxing coral reef livestream. The camera looks into California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium and its ¡Viva Baja! Life on the Edge exhibit. Watch as different species of tropical fish, including Cortez wrasse, scrawled filefish and Cortez angelfish, swim about. Click HERE to dive in.
RELATED: 12 Instagram Accounts to Follow for a Positivity Fix
Dollywood Bald Eagle Nests
Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, TN, is home to the Eagle Mountain Sanctuary, one of the largest exhibits of non-releasable Bald Eagles in the United States. The sanctuary offers views into its exhibits with two live camera options. One offers views into the sanctuary’s Pick-a-Mate area, which houses 10 adult eagles that are eligible for mating. The other camera streams Grant and Glenda, two Bald Eagles that moved to their own sanctuary in 2017 after finding one another in the Pick-a-Mate area. To view the livestreams, click HERE.
Humpback Whale Sanctuary
Escape to the beach with this relaxing livestream of the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. The sanctuary, located in Maui, serves as birthing and mating grounds for North Pacific Humpback Whales. The camera is located on the lanai of a condo at Maui Sands and offers viewers the chance to spot an occasional whale as well as dolphins and seals. Not to mention there are incredible views of Hawaiian sunsets and rainbows. See if you can spot a whale HERE.
San Diego Zoo Live Cams
Hippos and baboons and penguins, oh my! The San Diego Zoo livestreams 13 different animal habitats throughout its zoo, including everything from platypuses and giraffes to apes and koala bears. The cameras typically run from 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., but when it’s dark, the zoo reruns footage from the morning. To watch the livestreams, click HERE.
Soggy Dollar Webcam
Soggy Dollar Bar in the British Virgin Islands has the perfect livestream to play in the background as you work from home. With views of a beach in Jost Van Dyke, you’ll feel like your working from this sunny, tropical destination. And there is no need to find accompanying music, as the site automatically plays songs from Soggy Dollar Radio. Click HERE to tune into the livestream.
Views from the International Space Station
In addition to beaches and zoos, you can also travel to space with this livestream from the International Space Station. The stream features live video of the spacecraft hovering above Earth, offering breathtaking and one-of-a-kind views. The feed also features conversations between the space station’s crew and NASA’s mission control team. Click HERE to step aboard the International Space Station. (SB TIP: While this is an ongoing livestream, video may not always be available due to a lack of connection. However, you can always view previously recorded footage HERE.)
Warrior Canine Connection’s Puppy Cam
What better way to de-stress than with a 24/7 livestream of puppies? Warrior Canine Connection in Montgomery County, MD, has four different live cams for you to choose from so you can get your daily dose of dogs. Viewers can pick to watch cameras in the puppy playroom, outdoor playpen, nursery or whelping room. To see the cuteness for yourself, click HERE. (SB TIP: Explore.org has a handful of livestreams for you to view, including ones that show views of brown bears and Channel Islands National Park, so be sure to check out the other streams they offer.)
Yellowstone Park’s Old Faithful
Yellowstone Park’s famous geyser, Old Faithful, erupts nearly 20 times every day, and now you can watch the magic happen from your home. The National Parks Service has a 24/7 livestream of the geyser, along with predictions of when it is set to erupt next. Sit back, relax and watch nature do its thing. Click HERE to watch Old Faithful erupt.
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15+ Games Compatible With GPU Turbo 3.0 For Huawei Smartphones
Tushar Subhra Dutta
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e all know very well that with the introduction of the new Huawei P30 and P30 Pro, the well-known Chinese smartphone manufacturer, of course, Huawei also announced the third generation of GPU Turbo, of course, the performance and graphics optimizer for games, which is present in Huawei and Honor smartphones only. Although for the moment it is only available for Huawei and Honor smartphones only, we have known the update that will reach other devices, adding support for games like Fortnite, Minecraft and other 17 titles.
With the introduction of the new Huawei P30 and P30 Pro, the well-known Chinese smartphone manufacturer, of course, Huawei also announced the third generation of GPU Turbo, of course, the performance and graphics optimizer for games, which is present in Huawei and Honor smartphones only.
Although for the moment it is only available for Huawei and Honor smartphones only, we have known the update that will reach other devices, adding support for games like Fortnite, Minecraft and other 17 titles.
Also Read: 10 Best Android Games Under 25 MB With High-End Graphics
Huawei’s Turbo GPU feature is software-based and optimizes gaming performance without the need to increase energy consumption and therefore consume more battery power. Games that are supported by GPU Turbo provide a more fluid gaming experience. Since its launch in June last year, GPU Turbo has been updated twice, until reaching the current version 3.0, which expands the compatibility with other 19 games present in Android.
This feature is not exclusive to Huawei’s flagships as the company has made it reach to some more modest devices like the Honor 7x and Honor 9 Lite. Now it will be extended to other Huawei and Honor devices with the update to EMUI 9.1.
One of the main advantages announced by the well-known Chinese smartphone manufacturer, of course, Huawei with GPU Turbo 3.0, is its ability to reduce the energy consumption of the processor by 10%, with the consequent battery savings that involve.
The list of games compatible with GPU Turbo 3.0 increases, it means that the user who has installed them on their respective devices, they can simply see them now in AppAssistant and the application will start working to optimize its performance.
So, now without wasting much time let’s get started and simply explore the whole list of compatible games that we have mentioned below and here they are:-
Into the Dead 2
Dragon Nest M
Plants vs. Zombie Heroes
Speed Drifters
This new update is added by the well-known Chinese smartphone manufacturer, of course, Huawei to simply improve the performance of their smartphones with the most popular games. While the new Honor View20 was presented with a deployment of media in which the well-known battle royale game, of course, Fornite had a great role, as this smartphone includes an exclusive skin, as the other brands like Samsung have with its new flagship smartphone Galaxy S10.
Beyond a software function, other well-known smartphone companies such as Xiaomi, Nubia, Razer, choose to launch smartphones which were specifically designed to play, in short, gaming smartphone.
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Sources: Norm Maciver leaving Blackhawks front office for Seattle Kraken
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It wasn’t long ago that Norm Maciver’s name was bandied about every time an NHL general manager job was open, and for good reason.
After all, Kevin Cheveldayoff had spun an assistant GM gig with the Blackhawks into the top job in Winnipeg. Marc Bergevin took Cheveldayoff’s job in Chicago and a year later was the GM in Montreal. So when Maciver stepped into Bergevin’s old gig and the Blackhawks went on to win two Stanley Cups over the next three seasons, Maciver seemed sure to be next.
But Maciver never got his shot. And over the past couple of years, it became clear that he had fallen out of Stan Bowman’s inner circle. Over the summer, he was demoted from assistant GM to vice president of player personnel as part of Bowman’s and CEO Danny Wirtz’s front-office overhaul. Now, according to multiple sources, he’s headed to Seattle to be the director of player personnel for the expansion Kraken, a lateral move but a...
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Just add leaves...
(Dedicated to Takashi Amano (July 8, 1954 – August 4, 2015)
When you consider the types of aquariums that we work with, I would imagine that it is probably funny to outsiders, or those new to our obsession, to hear us going on and on about utilizing dried leaves, twigs, and seed pods in our aquariums with words such as "methodology" and "technique" and the like.
I can't help but think that the great Takashi Amano, who spent years studying many aspects of Nature and her influence on the aquatic environments, would really love this stuff. I think that he'd love the unique aesthetics, sure- but I think he'd especially love how these ephemeral materials we play with can influence the way our aquariums function. It's the essence of his embrace of the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi. I think he'd gently scold the hobby and perhaps lament how it has embraced mostly the more superficial aspects of Nature, beautiful as they are- as opposed to "the whole picture."
I suppose that there are occasional smirks and giggles from some corners of the hobby when they initially see our tanks, with some thinking, "Really? They toss in a few leaves and they think that the resulting sloppiness is "natural", or some evolved aquascaping technique or something?"
Funny thing is that, in reality, it IS a sort of evolution, isn't it?
I mean, sure, on the surface, this doesn't seem like much: "Toss botanical materials in aquariums. See what happens." It's not like no one ever did this before. And to make it seem more complicated than it is- to develop or quantify "technique" for it (a true act of human nature, I suppose) is probably a bit humorous.
On the other hand, it's not just to create a cool-looking tank. We don't embrace the aesthetic of dark water, a bottom covered in decomposing leaves, and the appearance of biofilms and algae on driftwood because it allows us to be more "relaxed" in the care of our tanks, or because we think we're so much smarter than the underwater-diorama-loving, hype-mongering competition aquascaping crowd.
Well, maybe we are? 😆
I mean, we are doing this for a reason: To create more authentic-looking, natural-functioning aquatic displays for our fishes. To understand and acknowledge that our fishes and their very existence is influenced by the habitats in which they have evolved.
Wild tropical aquatic habitats are influenced greatly by the surrounding geography and flora of their region, which in turn, have considerable influence upon the population of fishes which inhabit them, and their life cycle. The simple fact of the matter is, when we add botanical materials to an aquarium and accept what occurs as a result-regardless of wether our intent is just to create a different aesthetic, or perhaps something more- we are to a very real extent replicating the processes and influences that occur in wild aquatic habitats in nature.
The presence of botanical materials such as leaves in these aquatic habitats is fundamental.
In the tropical species of trees, the leaf drop is important to the surrounding environment. The nutrients are typically bound up in the leaves, so a regular release of leaves by the trees helps replenish the minerals and nutrients which are typically depleted from eons of leaching into the surrounding forests.
And the rapid nutrient depletion, by the way, is why it's not healthy to burn tropical forests- the release of nutrients as a result of fire is so rapid, that the habitat cannot process it, and in essence, the nutrients are lost forever.
Now, interestingly enough, most tropical forest trees are classified as "evergreens", and don't have a specific seasonal leaf drop like the "deciduous" trees than many of us are more familiar with do...Rather, they replace their leaves gradually throughout the year as the leaves age and subsequently fall off the trees.
The implication here?
There is a more-or-less continuous "supply" of leaves falling off into the jungles and waterways in these habitats, which is why you'll see leaves at varying stages of decomposition in tropical streams. It's also why leaf litter banks may be almost "permanent" structures within some of these bodies of water!
And, for the fishes and other organisms which live in, around, and above the litter beds, there is a lot of potential food, which does vary somewhat between the "wet" and "dry" seasons and their accompanying water levels. The fishes tend to utilize the abundant mud, detritus, and epiphytic materials which accumulate in the leaf litter as food. During the dry seasons, when water levels are lower, this organic layer compensates for the shortage in other food resources.
During the higher water periods, there is a much greater amount of allochthonous input (remember that?) from the surrounding terrestrial environment in the form of insects, fruits, and other plant material. I suppose that, in our aquariums, it's pretty much always the "wet season", right? We tend to top off and replace decomposing leaves and botanical more-or-less continuously.
Now, of course, where is where I get into what I will call "speculative environmental biology!"
What if we stopped replacing leaves and even lowered water levels or decreased water exchanges in our tanks to correspond to, for example, the Amazonian "dry season" (June to December)...And if you consider that many fishes tend to spawn in the "dry" season, concentrating in the shallow waters, could this have implications for breeding?
Could this be a re-thinking or re-imagining of how we spawn and rear our fishes?
I further proffer that we need to look a lot deeper into the idea of environmental manipulation for the purpose of getting our fishes to be healthier, more colorful, and especially, to spawn. Now I know, the idea is nothing new on a "macro" level- we've been increasing and lowering water temps in our aquariums, adjusting lighting levels, and tweaking environmental parameters to get fishes to spawn for a long time.
(Awesome pic by Mike PA Calnun)
Killie keepers have played with this concept in the drying and incubation periods in annual killifish eggs. That's some serious "next-level stuff" that's been done for a long time! Specific environmental manipulations for definitive results (ie; controlled egg hatching, etc.)
However, I don't think we've been doing a lot of real specific environmental manipulations...like adjusting water levels, increasing nutrient loads (ie; "pulsing" adding leaves and other botanicals), fostering biofilm growth, manipulating current, dissolved oxygen, food types, etc. for the expressed purpose of general husbandry and yeah- the spawning many other types of fishes.
I think that there are so many different things that we can play with- and so many nuances that we can investigate and manipulate in our aquariums to influence fish health and spawning behavior. I think that this could even add a new nuance to a typical biotope aquarium, such as creating an aquarium which simulates the "Preto da Eva River in Brazil in October", or whatever...with appropriate environmental conditions, such as water level, amounts of allochthonous material, etc.
Not just an aesthetic representation designed to mimic the look of the habitat- but a "functionally aesthetic" representation of a natural habitat, intended to operate like one..Full time.
Nuances. Micro-influences. Subtle steps.
The possibilities are endless here! How do we start?
Well, we make those "mental shifts" and accept the dark water, the accumulation of leaves and botanicals, the apparent "randomness" of their presence. We study the natural habitats from which they come, not just for the way they look- but for WHY they look that way, and for how the impacts of the surrounding environments influence them in multiple ways.
There is a tremendous amount of academic material out there for those willing to "deep dive" into this. And a tremendous amount to unravel and apply to our aquarium practices! We're literally just scratching the surface. We're making the shifts to accept the true randomness of Nature as it is. We are establishing and nurturing the art of "functional aesthetics."
My real hope for the future?
That one day, when some kid somewhere adds some Latifolia pods, Selatan Catappa bark, or Banana stem pieces to her wild Betta tank, for example, and someone asks why, they'll respond with something like, "Because these materials mimic the allochthonous inputs which occur in their wild habitats, and provide foraging and humic substances which will manipulate the aquarium environment and encourage the development of biofilms and other microorganisms for their long-term health"
That's a mouthful.
Okay, I doubt some 11-year-old will respond exactly in those words- but I think that she'd suggest that the idea of using botanicals to do more than just create a pretty look in the aquarium is important. My hope is that this mindset will percolate into the consciousness of the general hobby, for the good of all who play with tropical fishes. Not just for us obsessed weirdos!
Perhaps one day, among the things we indoctrinate neophyte aquarists to play with as fundamental skills, besides water exchanges, quarantine, and careful stocking, will be things like "adding appropriate botanical materials to the aquarium to facilitate more natural conditions for the aquatic organisms we keep."
This is, indeed what we mean when we talk about how we operate at "The delta at the intersection of science and art."
You're there- because you're HERE.
This is the mission of Tannin Aquatics.
Study the natural. Embrace the ephemeral. Think of the possibilities. It starts with observing and studying nature. And your aquarium.
Then, just add leaves...And open your mind...
Amano himself, I think, would appreciate this.
Stay studious. Stay curious. Stay creative. Stay diligent. Stay consistent...
Thanks for the kind words. Here’s a link to a couple of relevant pieces on leaves and their addition to the aquarium:
https://bit.ly/3aySg1X
https://bit.ly/2YcvXKC
Hope these help!
Allan Miller Petersen
Thanks for sine great articals, i Found this, because Ive searched for fore what to know when adding leaves to an already established tank, U have commented it sevarel times, that I should be careful b4 just adding leaves, i know u have already made at artical that explains how, i just can’t find it. So if u world please link it fore me, it world be amazing.
Im a fairly new aqua neerd. Have a 6 month Old South American tank with red nose, sterbais and a few keyhole chiclids, ive used a couple of catapa leaves from the Beginning, Adding new every month, but now a Want to ad some leave litter, And i need to know how much i can ADD , and so one.. thanks a lot,
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Meet Vascular Surgeon Dr. Elrasheed Osman
by Communications & Engagement January 11, 2021
Vascular Surgeon Dr. Elrasheed Osman is one of three vascular surgeons providing access to patients from across Northwestern Ontario. “It’s really about improving and saving peoples’ lives,” he said.
Dr. Osman first fell in love with vascular surgery during his post-graduate surgical training in Ireland. As he said, “With vascular surgery we can help a wide variety of people and the effects of surgery can be immediate and life-saving or life-changing.”
He didn’t always know he wanted to become a vascular surgeon. After graduating from the University of Khartoum in Sudan, he moved to Dublin in Ireland where he trained as a general surgeon. “Initially I thought I might go into paediatric surgery,” he said, “but when I was introduced to vascular surgery, I knew that was where my future would be.”
After his time in Ireland, Dr. Osman came to Canada; specifically as part of a vascular surgery fellowship at Toronto General Hospital. “Toronto is a big city,” he laughed. “Downtown Toronto, where I lived, was very busy, with lots of traffic and people. When the opportunity to move to Thunder Bay came along, I was immediately intrigued. The green spaces reminded me very much of Ireland, and, once I got landed here, I felt the peace that comes with being away from a major city centre.”
Dr. Osman was recruited to work at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre by Dr. Yaasin Abdulrehman, a vascular surgeon who was instrumental in developing the vascular program in Northwestern Ontario. The surgeons worked together when Dr. Abdulrehman was doing two months vascular lab rotation at Toronto General Hospital in early 2014, as part of his vascular fellowship training. They also met again late 2014 after Dr. Abdulrehman’s appointment at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, when Dr Abdulrehman used to travel to Toronto from Thunder Bay to perform endovascular procedures on patients from Thunder Bay. “We became friends and I looked forward to joining him in Thunder Bay,” commented Dr. Osman.
It was January 2018 when Dr. Osman officially began his practice in Thunder Bay, at which point Dr. Abdulrehman had moved to Edmonton. “I was sad he wasn’t here, but was excited to work with Dr. Mary Macdonald to further expand the vascular surgery program that was underway,” said Dr. Osman.
Fast forward another six months and Dr. Matthew Ingves joined the team to round out the full complement of vascular surgeons needed to provide 24/7 access to vascular surgery.
“The vascular surgery program has certainly matured over the past several years and is becoming better known among physicians and other care practitioners in Northwestern Ontario,” said Dr. Osman. “This is really important because we are seeing more patients being referred earlier for care, and we are able to help save limbs, or provide fistulas for dialysis access. It’s really about improving peoples’ lives.”
Currently the surgeons are able to complete approximately 80% of the vascular surgery cases that present to them. “For the other 20% we require cardiac surgery backup,” said Dr. Osman, “and we’re very excited for that part of the program to be developed soon so that we can provide care for approximately 95% of the patients we see.”
“We are lucky to have a partnership with the University Health Network (UHN), as it has solidified our program” added Dr. Osman. “Thanks to the one-program, two sites model, we have access almost immediately to experts in Toronto and they are only a phone call away. Additionally we meet every Wednesday with our colleagues in Toronto to review our cases and determine the best course of action.”
As the vascular surgery program has grown over the past several years, Dr. Osman reflected on one of the biggest successes so far. “The RAVE (Rapid Access Vascular Evaluation) program has been very important and impactful,” he said. “We are working closely with primary care providers throughout Northwestern Ontario including physicians, nurse practitioners, and nurses to ensure we’re providing earlier access to care for patients so we can provide the best outcomes.”
In the future, Dr. Osman wants to focus on expanding health education to significantly reduce the number of amputations, which are, in our region, three times higher than the rest of Ontario. “I want to travel to remote communities to provide education about diabetes, smoking and screening for aneurysms,” he said. “It’s vital that we improve access to vascular care and provide education so that we don’t continue to see some of the health issues that are prominent in our region.”
Looking back on the path that brought him to this point in time, Dr. Osman can recall two experiences that deeply shaped his life.
“When my son, Ahmed was born, the joy of welcoming our first child into our little home is an incomparable moment to anything that happened to me to this day,” he said. “Many years later, Ahmed has now completed his undergraduate studies in Physiology, Immunology and Global Health from the University of Toronto and is currently doing a Master’s in Public Health. My daughter Amal will earn her medical degree in two years, and my son Omer just finished his third semester at Ryerson Business. Finally, Mujtaba is looking forward to graduating from high school.”
As well, in his youth, Dr. Osman had the chance to travel to Germany for an elective in medical school, after learning German Language at Goethe Institute. “When I went there, it made me look at the world in a different way. Traditionally the path for me and my colleagues was to do our education in Sudan, train in Ireland or the United Kingdom and then come back to practice in Sudan. When I was in Germany, I met people from all over the world including the United States, Finland and areas of Africa. That experience helped me realize that there were no limits to what I could do, while not forgetting my hometown.”
“When I came home from Germany, I did a lot of charity work because I very much wanted to give back to my community. As well, when I was in Ireland I would go to Sudan for two or three weeks every year and contribute to promoting the healthcare system in any way I could. Eventually, I managed to help establish the vascular program at the Khartoum Teaching Hospital,” he said. “It was really my experience in Germany that gave me the confidence and knowledge that I could venture further afield while maintaining my connection to home. That has stayed with me to this day.”
Currently Dr. Osman continues to care for patients from across Northwestern Ontario. He concluded, “There are so many people who need our help, from trauma situations, to life-threatening aneurysms to amputation avoidance. It’s a privilege to care for my patients and I am thankful to do so in a beautiful setting like we have here.”
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Jazwares is making waves with its new UFC Ultimate Series, a line of action figures and role-play collectibles showcasing some of the sport’s most popular fighters.
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BREXIT: why a split EU makes a British Grand Coalition the best outcome of the next General Election
For over three years now, the arguments have been batted back and forth about Brexit. It has become a subject so emotionally divisive and complex that, over time – just as with other contemporary issues like Grenfell Tower, global climate change and market futures – two armed camps have developed, the ideologues have closed ranks, but the vast majority of real people go through their daily lives thinking, ‘Will you please just for f**k’s sake get on with whatever you think is best, and then we’ll review any new evidence that comes along later’.
Division is caused by ideological propaganda, spin, hidden agendas, plain stubbornness, and what my dad used to call “comparing apples with pears”. This is especially true of the Brexit debate. For myself, I see three fundamental considerations to be weighed carefully in that debate:
1. Do I want to be ruled by government even more distantly bubble-sealed than the one we have now – to which the answer is “No”.
2. Do I want to be in bed with a democratically inverted superstructure of persistent law-breakers, bullies and embezzlers – across the piece from eurogroupe to the ECB – whose sole drive is hubristic power – to which the answer is “No”.
3. Do I want to commit heart and soul to a trading bloc where, in the 46 years since we signed up, the relationhip has produced a increase in our indebtedness during every year but one (2000) when we made a net “profit” on fees and trade of….just £7.8 billion – to which the answer is no.
Now obviously, as a trained market researcher I know full well that the above is not exactly an unbiased way of putting the question. However, I have consistently made clear over time a view that the main concern here should be a moral and ethical one.
I am not scoring points when I write how it truly baffles me that the Left cannot see how criminally nasty, disingenuous and thoroughly unjust the EC in general (and the ugly Schäuble/Dijesslebleom twins in particular) have been to ClubMed countries; how Draghi at the ECB and his creature Stournaras conspired to screw a democratically elected Greek government; and how insanely antediluvian the whole austerity strategy in the southern eurozone is. The same Left that excoriates the Tories for their idiotic attachment to Friedmanite accounting suffers from lah-lah-lah syndrome when it comes to EU policies that make the Cameron/May years look positively beneficent.
But to tackle the thrust of Libleft anti-Brexitism head on – viz, that it panders to racist groups and will leave Britain out in the economic cold – first of all, I find it hard to see why the EU’s doomed suspension of dysfunctional currency, poor investment, unreformed banking practices, neoliberal wage destruction and snail-like growth is deemed so superior to what exists beyond its borders as an export market for the UK. And equally, I do not see why staying in the EU is going to make racists disappear.
Today I read a piece in the Independent that says racial hate crimes – totally undefined – are at “an historic high” in the UK. Have the soi-disant ‘journalists’ employed by the Indie these days ever been to a football game in Italy and experienced the racist chants against a black player every time he touches the ball? Do they have experience of the casually racist comments about Jews throughout the Southern EU? What does the Indie mean by “high”, given the extraordinary levels of racial tolerance in Britain compared to most other EU member States?
Forget the economic present for a second and stay abreast of the future in the EU. Why do you think the EC on the one hand grumbles so much about how long the Brexit process is taking, and on the other lays every kind of minefield in the way of progress? The answer is simple: half the negotiators are terrified of eurozone weakness becoming unmanageable before any Brexit deal is done; and the other half are fanatics who remain convinced that a weak May government will be under pressure to come to heel in the end.
This is the big unreported element of MSM Brexit coverage: as with most things involving the 27, there is much talk in public of solidarity, but the private reality is that – like the British government itself – the EU States are hopelessly split.
This is no idle assertion: we are looking at a number of divided groups here. The Poles and Hungarians plus the ClubMed Opposition Parties versus Macron, Verhofstadt, Draghi and Schäuble versus Merkel under pressure from German carmakers.
My point is this: the best way out of this pandemonium is to have a British Government in power that is far less divided – and has far more courage when it comes to looking objectively at the genuinely weak negotiating position of the EU, and the better opportunities available elsewhere.
This will seem to many an eccentric conclusion, but in reality Britain would be better off with a ‘National’ coalition Government….a government composed of all those elements keen to defeat supranational globalism and turn Britain into a more democratically ‘cantonised’ Switzerland further West.
Vince Cable might be able to get behind that. If Corbyn really is the man he claims to be, so too could he. More Conservatives than many realise have similar ideas. The Kate Hoey tendency in Labour remains an important minority. And of course, next time UKIP absolutely must not sit on the sidelines.
1940 produced just such a government. 2018 (or whenever) at present looks unlikely to be a year of equal desperation. World economic, stock market and fiscal crises might, however, render it so.
It sounds unlikely. But events often lead to unlikely outcomes.
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Ian Roberts on July 27, 2017 at 1:27 am
Looking on from Australia, it does appear pointless, considering that your polls already embraced self interest by deciding that the next general election won’t be until 2022. That is a world away
bill40 on July 26, 2017 at 3:51 pm
I am not sure which surprises me more Roger Lewis coming out as a Rees Mogg fan or John for thinking the UK will ever embrace Swiss style democracy. The choices on offer are an unreformed EU or the UK run as a city state with rUK nothing but a nuisence.
The Hayek dystpopia was laid out by Andrew Neil, outside the EU, low tax, low regulation haven to cater for corrupt elites. There are no good choices on offer and no unity government coming to look after our interests.
https://bill40.wordpress.com/2017/07/26/the-london-vampire-afterthoughts
Bill, sometimes blind faith is the only thing left….JW
desmond on July 26, 2017 at 1:51 pm
its been said that we get the politicians and govt. that we deserve.. also (by Camus) that you can judge a nation by its prisons.. it remains to be seen if we can turn this around .
we did in 1940 when Chamberlain resigned after winning a confidence vote with a majority of 80. Not after paying the equivalent of £100 million to each of ten MPs to buy their votes.. maybe things have to get worse before they can get better..
rtj1211 on July 26, 2017 at 1:26 pm
Well, I do tend to think that for this to occur, you need a Macron-style outsider, not with his policies, but someone free of the hidebound conformity of party whips/MI5/FSB/CIA/Mossad etc threatening to expose this, that or the other to the papers if you do not pawn your bollocks posthaste and take £10k/whatever the current price of a whore is to STFU, keep schtumm and keep your safe seat for 20 years.
Someone who will require the BBC to focus on policies, not virtue signalling. Someone who will deal with climate change propaganda like an evidence-based skeptic free of ties to vested interests. Someone who will not be a poodle to Washington and garner great support electorally by not being so. Someone who will call Chinese racists racists (they certainly exist). Someone who will confront Eurasian money laundering in London and prioritise housing for those who work inside the M25.
Someone who will reform the Construction industry, starting by making Board members of Big Housing live in the properties they profiteer from and forcing them to pay rapidly rising ground rents to pauperise them. Someone who will require all teachers and university staff to declare any political party membership, to show the general public how unrepresentative those professions are of UK political opinion. Someone who will impose a requirement on all London-based remainers to house, at their expense, one family of immigrants for five years (the minimum likely time for such a family to pay their way in terms of taxes paid vs benefits received).
Someone who will only go to war to defend this nation but will be extremely robust in telling Muslims with finality that the UK is not ever going to become a Muslim nation with Sharia law ( those wanting that can emigrate to many lovely places already providing such a nirvana).
Someone who will address the endemic insular superiority complex of Londoners, any one of whom caught spying on the inferior oiks from the Regions will lose all rights to live, work, invest or travel and will live out their days in one of the shitholes they have contempt for (Stoke, Hull, Bradford, Burnley, Swansea, Sunderland, Great Yarmouth etc etc).
It will of course be advantageous to engage with the EU speaking German (just to piss off Macron, Verhofstadt et al) and speak to the ECB in English or French (to piss off the Frankfurt gnomes). Their first invitation of a foreign dignitary after entering Number 10 should be to Viktor Orban, the second a joint invitation to the President of Eire and a Loyalist from the North. The third to be a full and frank exchange of views with Vladimir Putin, the fourth a joint invite to the leaders of Canada and New Zealand. Fifth will be to African members of the Commonwealth, notably Tanzania, Kenya and Nigeria. Sixth to leaders from Singapore, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka.
Whilst this might be regarded as ‘off the Richter scale’ in diplomatic terminology, it would set a course of the UK trading peacefully with small to medium sized nations and opposing self-serving bureaucratic gravy trains everywhere.
It would of course be risky and MI6 might want them bumped off.
Reform of MI6 needs to be on the agenda in year 2……
chrisb on July 26, 2017 at 9:27 am
‘ … it truly baffles me that the Left cannot see how criminally nasty, disingenuous and thoroughly unjust the EC (is) …’
For some on the Left, particularly the younger ones, the explanation is the superficiality of their political knowledge. For others, particularly the older ones, it is the belief that the political structure of the EU offers the chance to take over an entire continent. To them criminality, nastiness, disingenuousness and injustice are just fine if it puts them in power.
rogerglewis on July 26, 2017 at 9:16 am
Heres the interview mentioned in my longer comment, with Caroline Flynn and Jacob Rees Mogg. I am a Huge Rees Mogg Admirer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2EfpsZJlmA
at around 7mins .30 secs, but whole thing I think worth the time.
Spot on John, I saw an interview on one of the BEEBs politics shows in which the idea of a coalition was floated, I forget which One, I will have a look and post it later if I find it. Anyway, the polarisation in Debate as you say based upon Ideological and not empirical reasons it was concluded meant it too risky politically for anyone to publicly sign up to the idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bagot_Glubb
“XXI Civil dissensions
Another remarkable and unexpected
symptom of national decline is the intensi-
fication of internal political hatreds. One
would have expected that, when the survival
of the nation became precarious, political
factions would drop their rivalry and stand
shoulder-to-shoulder to save their country.
In the fourteenth century, the weakening
empire of Byzantium was threatened, and
indeed dominated, by the Ottoman Turks.
The situation was so serious that one would
have expected every subject of Byzantium to
abandon his personal interests and to stand
with his compatriots in a last desperate
attempt to save the country. The reverse
occurred. The Byzantines spent the last fifty
years of their history in fighting one another
in repeated civil wars, until the Ottomans
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moved in and administered the coup de
Britain has been governed by an elected
parliament for many centuries. In former
years, however, the rival parties observed
many unwritten laws. Neither party wished
to eliminate the other. All the members
referred to one another as honourable
gentlemen. But such courtesies have now
lapsed. Booing, shouting and loud noises
have undermined the dignity of the House,
and angry exchanges are more frequent. We
are fortunate if these rivalries are fought out
in Parliament, but sometimes such hatreds
are carried into the streets, or into industry
in the form of strikes, demonstrations,
boycotts and similar activities. True to the
normal course followed by nations in
decline, internal differences are not
reconciled in an attempt to save the nation.
On the contrary, internal rivalries become
more acute, as the nation becomes weaker. ”
Click to access glubb.pdf
Contrast With.,
http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ik/klf.htm#Intro
In the 14th century, a Muslim historian named Ibn Khaldun wrote about the pattern of history. Farmers would build irrigation systems supporting villages and towns. Later some warrior would bring these towns under his rule and form a united political entity, like a kingdom or an empire. Then a tribe of nomads would come along and conquer the kingdom, seize all the holdings and settle in their place and further expand the new empire. As time went by the nomads would assimilate and become soft city dwellers. Exactly the kind of people they had conquered and at this point, another tribe of nomads would come along and conquer them and take their empire. Conquest, consolidation, expansion, degeneration and conquest, this was the pattern of history.
And Also Quiggley has a similar analysis, in Tragedy and Hope of Stages of Empire.
The Big Question is how do we steer the current crop of self-interested and sub standard professional Politicians towards the interests of The Polity rather than narrow factional interests?
Glub is good on these questions. Social conservatism is not I think a Left Right thing, Political Correctness is a thing of the American Left, although the notions of Left and Right in the USA are quite alien to how we see them here in Europe.
A good read of Edmund Burkes Present discontents speech to parliament also addresses the point that without a rudder the quality of Captain is irrelevant.I suspect that the ECB, the Euro and Pecking orders beneath Petro Dollar Hegemony are key aspects of the factionalism between the politicians across all divides in the House of Commons, these are not Party Political but Ideological and around certain Friedmanite economic shibboleths.
Keep calling em as you see em, I for one think a Grand Coalition is a splendid idea. ( Would the grownups in Westminster please assert some authority! ( are there any?)
Sorry for the long Comment but I think Glubb is worth paying some attention to although I suspect he and I would disagree on the more abstract notions of human nature his notions of Public Service are I think sorely missed these days.
A really informative thread, thanks so much Roger.
steptoes bones on July 26, 2017 at 1:40 am
Spot on as usual. Coalition is a word the public wants to hear. The trouble is that politics is based on trust and understanding. …we don’t trust them and they don’t understand us.
Caratacus on July 25, 2017 at 9:49 pm
When we were first (unbelievably) informed that we were to be allowed to have a say about Yurp, my initial reaction was one of huge relief. Surely now the great British public would rally to the call and tell the assembled worthies in HMG and the EU precisely where to poke their ideas of a federalised super-state with its over-weening fancies regarding EU forrin policies, an EU army, the euro and various other matters. Of late however, now that we have duly delivered said eight lace-holes, I have been a bit pensive with ref. to the alternatives as presented by the representatives of HMG and the EU.
We’ve been banging on so long about wresting the right to make our own laws from our overlords in Brussels I rather fear we forgot to have a bit of a squint at the fellows in Westminster to whom this responsibility will now be referred. In short, they are appalling. I don’t know about anyone else but I wouldn’t trust 90% of them to tie their own shoelaces unaided. They are, for the most part, stupid, self-serving, totally untrustworthy, utterly dishonest and short-sighted plonkers and I wouldn’t trust them to organise an orgy in a brothel with their private parts wrapped in new £20 notes. And yet these are the folk upon whom we will rely to write our Laws once we have left the EU.
Would anyone mind if I sort of gave up at this point and planned accordingly?
Great thread, very funny and spot-on. But my view has always been “one set of plonkers at a time”….get rid of Brussels, then Westminster. Now I too am beginning to wonder why we should vote for anarchy here, and then make ourselves so unattractive to the Sprouts, they lose interest. JW
Peter C on July 25, 2017 at 9:38 pm
Not a hope John. This is not 1940 and the brink of invasion and defeat to concentrate minds and look for survival, nor is there a Churchill waiting in the wings ready to take charge and accept responsibility. May? Dithering and flathering about just as she has throughout her time in office. Corbyn? Couldn’t care less about ‘the country’, all he wants his chance to begin the creation of his socialist nirvana and follow the Erdogan formula, democracy was fine while it was useful, now it’s a hindrance and needs pruning. I think he actually believes he would be able to get away with it as well. Cable? the eponymous political chancer desperate to prove his LibDemness is more Labour than Labour just to show how wrong they were when they kept out of the shortlists for a Labour seat before he threw in with the LDs.
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TRUMP IS A RACIST: WHO’S HE KIDDING
OK. “I don’t have a Racist bone in my body!” Trump exclaimed on Twitter.
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A TURD doesn’t have bones!
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But everyone KNOWS that all this Trump-The-Turd-Shit is just diversion to focus people’s minds away from what the Dump is doing to OUR country.
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Posted: April 30, 2017 in Afghanistan, America Asleep, Assad, boots on the ground, Bull Shit, CIA TERRORISTS, Donald Trump, Drones, FBI TERRORISTS, George Bush, IRAQ, ISIS, ISRAEL, Obama, President Tweet, Psychology, psychomania, Russia, SYRIA, TERRORISTS CREATED BY U.S., Vladimir Putin, War Criminals, Zionism
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Well it is crystal clear that Orange Tweet has sold out to the neocon war machine. And because of that we sure can’t work with the Russians!
Nope! It’s the old fucking Clinton-Bush-Obomber-Zionist-Wahhabi Conspiracy all over again.
This could all be settled if we BOMB ISRAEL FIRST and then SAUDI ARABIA! But can’t do that because that would clear things up and where would we sell our fucking bombs?
No, business is just too good.
Oh, by the way Mr. and Mrs. Merica, send your children to their death to protect OUR NATIONAL INTEREST. Fucking morons ……. drape it in red white and blue!
GAGA AND BEYOND!
Posted: February 22, 2015 in Afghanistan, America Asleep, American Dream, American Exceptionalism, Bull Shit, Chemical Warfare, China, CIA Drugs, CIA TERRORISTS, Diane Feinstein, Dick Cheney, Don Rumfeld, Drones, economics, FBI TERRORISTS, Flight MH17, George Bush, Guantanamo, GUATEMALA, Iran, IRAQ, ISIS, ISRAEL, Joe Biden, John Kerry, John McCain, Michael Hastings, NATO, Neo-Nazi, Obama, Oil, PALESTINIANS, Ron Reagan, Russia, SYRIA, Terrorism, TERRORISTS CREATED BY U.S., The Matrix, torture, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Yemen, Zionism
Tags: al Qaeda, barack obama, Benghazi, Big Oil, Bradley Manning, CIA, Diane Feinstein, Dick Cheney, drones, global arms trade, Human Rights American Failure, John McCain, middle-east, Obama foreign policy, Syria, terrorism, Ukraine, war
Tubularsock has found that most everything has a basic simple explanation. And then layers are placed upon the simple to attempt either to confuse one from understanding what is going on or to attempt to explain the simple in a complex way so as to create the illusion that those who are attempting to carry out the simple idea look like they know what they are doing.
Either way Tubularsock calls it BULLSHIT STACKING. And it is a major policy practice of the American political establishment.
Don’t think so ……. then you are just stupid! Now how simple is that?
Well if you have been following the Regimented-Free-Press (RFP) you’ll know that Lady Gaga just got engaged on Valentines Day. And yes she got a custom designed heart shaped diamond engagement ring. Is there any other kind? How simple.
AND to top that off YOU TOO can dress like Lady Gaga as shown by this ad following the article about her engagement.
How simple.
Tubularsock believes that there is a difference between general WHITE garments for less and Lady Gaga’s custom made gown. What do think? Tubularsock is not going to rush out and buy one. How simple.
The RFP also made room for a little coverage of the old boring news as well. Not as exciting as heart shaped diamonds and endearing love but just some other stuff the RFP feels they can fill their new cycles with because after all one thing they constantly do well is report without questioning.
Well this in one of those news reports.
If you compared the pressing questions directed to Lady Gaga from the press to the half asleep nodding heads of the Washington Press Corp when Step’n-fetch-it Obomber’s lackey’s and running dogs announced :
you would have seen their lack of concern and knowledge that the RFP regularly displays.
Well there is a story here and Tubularsock is going to point out ONLY one simple fact for you to consider. But Tubularsock does have to remind you on how the game works.
Now you may remember when the United States under the Carter and Reagan Administrations decided to arm the mujahideen so they could fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. And of course we sent in American “trainers” to assist in teaching the mujahideen. But that was not all. The U.S. in addition to overt and covert funding operations by various U.S. governmental agencies there were a large variety of private “aid” agencies and think tanks that formed policies and not only profited from those policies but were also up to their chinny-chin-chins in the drugs-for-guns Iran-Contra networks of that then Vice President George-the-prick-Bush and his loyal sidekick Oliver-dumb-fuck-North had undertaken.
This falls under what is known as PROXY WARS. A war where a country has “others” stand in and fight an enemy rather than doing the fighting directly. Like in this case where the U.S. and the Soviet Union can’t fight a war directly because it could escalate into World War III.
So both powers create and fund “others” to alter the area where each wish to control and exploit.
Now the United States is by far the greatest Proxy War creator than any other nation in the world. We have more military bases in the world, we sell more war equipment than any other nation in the world and we overthrow more established governments than any other country in the world.
AND WE ACT LIKE WE WANT PEACE?
That’s what we do. And we do this to control natural resources such as oil but there is far more at stake than just oil. Natural gas, Tungsten, and the list continues. WE WANT them for us so to keep the Chinese from sucking them up before we do.
The Chinese are active in Africa so the United States destabilizes the area so as to make it unstable for nations to control the extraction of these resources. THAT is what Boko Haram in Nigeria is all about and the CIA helped to create this situation to divide and conquer Africa.
That is what al Qaeda is all about. The CIA under Carter and Reagan created al Qaeda and supported Osama bin Laden.
The U.S. also funded and supported Saddam Hussein. We provided him with the WMD’s that we later used as the excuse to overthrow him.
When it comes to RIGHT WING brutal dictators in Latin America the U.S. helped to create, fund and trained ALL OF THEM!
The amount of MASS MURDER that the U.S. has created in the world and supported through these “PROXIES” is overwhelming.
And we have continued this type of Foreign Policy to the point that today the BLOW-BACK is hitting the fan.
Now, explain to Tubularsock why Obomer believes that “our” allies today are going to be our allies tomorrow or for that matter next week!
“U.S. officials suggested the drone sales could become a new tool for expanding American influence overseas.” (LA Times)
So now rather than just killing people by drone-murder we are going to sell drones to who? It is the same pattern again?
Oh yeah, “strong and capable international partners”! Oh, Right.
So we just have to sell them to Jordan. We just have to do it. They NEED THEM to “defeat” ISIS! Sure they do. The U.S. has been droning ISIS for almost two years now …… are they defeated? Will Jordan be better at it?
And what happen if ISIS captures the drones? Then what?
And where did ISIS come from ………..? Who helped to train many of them? Arm them?
We are going to now help Jordan drone them? We must, we must!
Even Congress sees the need, “Given our mutual interests, and our strong relationship, it’s absolutely critical that we provide Jordan the support needed to defeat the Islamic State,” Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., wrote to President Obama in a Feb. 5 letter.
Did Tubularsock mention that much of drone manufacturing is centered in Southern California.
So Northrop Grumman Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp., and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. just happen to build drones which when Rep. Duncan Hunter, says “Given our mutual interests . . .” we at least know who he’s talking about!
Israel, Russia and China, manufacture military drones and have fewer compunctions about selling them. But by the U.S, getting into the market we can have more influence over how countries actually use their drones. Like murdering people from the sky is any different with an Israeli drone or an American one.
Now don’t be scared, U.S. made drone technology will ONLY be sold to “allies” that agree to “end-use monitoring and potential additional security conditions.” Feel better?
The restrictions would limit potential misuse of drones, such as attacks against a country’s own civilian population.
Hey, remember how well that worked with Saddam Hussein when Reagan sold him the gas that was used on the Kurds? Sure, “limit potential misuse”!
AND THIS IS THE POINT!
We have created these enemies over the years to promote “American Interests” meaning “PROFITS FOR THE FEW” and now we will provide military ready drones to “allies” (like Saddam Hussein) and then wonder WHAT WENT WRONG?
Now for years Tubularsock has watched this happen and couldn’t figure out why our questionable leaders continued to race down the same path and get the same result. And they appeared not to notice.
THEN CAME ENLIGHTENMENT!
Tubularsock was coming from thinking “WE” wanted world peace and democracy and dignity of man/woman.
Yeah, Tubularsock knows ……… how foolish.
NO, THE PLAN is exactly what they are doing. The proof’s in the pudding!
Continued war IS the goal. Create an enemy, train them, support them, and turn them onto those we want to control. And then destroy our creations when they become no longer useful.
That’s the game.
And the beautiful thing about it is that all those mothers and fathers out there that don’t have their sons and daughters because they died in the game, hold onto the fantasy that their dead offspring gave their lives to protect America. They are just poor DUMB FUCKS! Their don’t get the game.
And then they give them a folded American flag and some metal trinkets and tell them what heroes their dead children were and they FUCKING BUY IT out of grief! Shame on them and their poor sad souls. You have been had.
It’s a game …….. wake up!
And for you military brain-died who march off thinking you are going to do something noble, you too have been had.
And that is why you fucks are killing yourselves like flies on your return because you finally figured it out. The U.S. doesn’t give a fuck about you.
And how does Tubularsock know? Fucking take a look. THEY ALWAYS can make a profit on military equipment and Congress dumps money into military procurement.
But wake up dumb fucks ……. Congress just can’t seem to find the money to cover you veterans.
WHY? You are not profitable. You are spent. You are used equipment. You have been spent and had. You would have been left like old military equipment on the battlefield if the American government could figure out how to get away with it.
You now are a cost ……… fuck you!
So the bottom line is that the United States creates its enemies and then spends trillions of dollars to destroy the enemy that has been created thereby creating more enemies and the cycle continues.
The U.S. doesn’t want it to stop! THERE IS NO PROFIT IN PEACE.
PLOTTING THE PLOT
Posted: January 22, 2015 in anti-Semitism, Assad, boots on the ground, Charlie Hebdo, China, CIA TERRORISTS, Crimea, CYBER-ATTACKS, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, Diplomacy, Drones, economics, Flight MH17, FRANCE, FREEDOM, freedom of the press, HEZBOLLAH, Iran, IRAQ, ISIS, ISRAEL, MILITARY JUSTICE, NATO, NAZISM, Neo-Nazi, NSA, Obama, Oil, Race, RACISM, Russia, SYRIA, TERRORISTS CREATED BY U.S., The Matrix, torture, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, War Criminals, Zionism
Tags: al Qaeda, Amedy Coulibaly, Anwar al-Awlaki, barack obama, Benghazi, Big Oil, Chérif Kouachi, CIA, drones, global arms trade, Hayat Boumeddiene, Human Rights American Failure, libya, middle-east, Putin, Rule of Law, Russia, Said Kouachi, Syria, terrorism, Ukraine
A long time ago on a dark, cold, windy night someone told Tubularsock that there were only seven basic plots in literature. Now Tubularsock has never cared to find out if that is true or not but Tubularsock does know one thing. When it comes to the CIA, Mossad, M15, and DCRI there is only ONE PLOT and it is the one they are cooking up!
Which leads us to the current plot. The one that has caused the world to focus. But hey, it’s a secret plot so like any basic magic trick …… the hand is quicker than the eye.
And the “ayes” have it but they are wrong! Always watch the hands.
So what is this Charlie Hebdo shoot out at the “OK” corral REALLY all about.
Ok. Lets start with an odd (or not) happening. On Thursday, January 8th The second-largest French public TV channel reported that:
The police commissioner, Helric Fredou , 45, who had been investigating the January 7th Charlie Hebdo attack was found DEAD in his office at about 1 a.m.
Oh well, you know …… standard operating procedure for the French police.
He reportedly met earlier with the family of a victim of the Charlie Hebdo attack and died before completing a report that he had been compiling.
Well you know the press ……. blood and guts sell, right!
Now remember this was reported by the SECOND-LARGEST French public TV channel on the 8th.
But it wasn’t until January 12 that the British press picked up the story. But that’s understandable because they are across the Channel.
And coming last place ………. January 13 ……….. the U.S. press. Well, the Atlantic!
Now that is just part of FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. They can report breaking stories whenever the fuck they please. And just maybe the six corporations that own the free press may not be interested in any details of the Charlie Hebdo attack.
You know, the parade’s over …….. let’s move on to college football. That’s what the public really is interested in, right?
Now Commissioner Fredou, it was reported, had been suffering from depression and experienced burn-out. He used his own gun and committed suicide. And that all may be true, Tubularsock sure doesn’t know Commissioner Fredou personal problems. But Tubularsock does know the ambulance chasing press and when they do something out of character ….. Even the Tabloids, well THAT’S news.
Why no coverage?
Oh sure Tubularsock has a theory ……… removing the focus on this entire event is where it’s at now because if one starts to pay real attention to it, well there are some holes in the story. In fact, the more you look the more like French-Swiss cheese it appears. Now that’s a delicacy!
You know, one could ask …….. who really did this Charlie Hebdo event which is being compared to 9/11. And that is a great comparison because who did 9/11 still hasn’t been determined. In fact, slowly much truth that the government’s narrative of that tragic event is just wrong continues to flow into public view. Yet the game continues.
Oh ……… don’t look, nothing to see here. Keep moving…..
So let Tubularsock define the players for you because it appears, right on schedule, they are attempting to move the goal post.
“IN THE BEGINNING ………..” there were terrorists 2 by 2 or was it 1 by 3. No, 1 by 1. Oh fuck it …….. forget in the beginning!
“IN THE SECOND COMING …….” there was Anwar al-Awlaki and he was droned to death by the Obomber Team in 2011. In September of all months of 2000 … 11. You have got to thank the Washington, D.C. PR firm for being symbolically creative for that kill date.
But how time changes. Back in 2001 Awlaki was the imam (worship leader) of the mosque in Falls Church, Virginia. And at that time he was considered a “moderate-Moslem” you know the kind. The ones in todays world Congress votes to fund with arms to fight in Syria as Western mercenaries and attempt to other-throw the Assad government.
Now Anwar al-Awlaki was an American citizen born in New Mexico and had all what American citizens have …….. a RIGHT to a fair trial for crimes and misdemeanors.
No more. The President can kill anyone he wants. And yes he has the power to do so and there are “legal reasons” he has that power BUT YOU CAN”T SEE THEM because they are secret. And for you to see the rationale for those powers would risk national security. The Supreme Court says so!
Back in 2001 Awlaki was the go-to guy in Washington, D.C. as a media source to answer questions about Islam and the 9/11 attacks. The New York Times and National Geographic both interviewed him.
He even was invited into the Pentagon to a luncheon in the Secretary’s Office of General Counsel because the Secretary of the Army asked for a presentation from a moderate Muslim as part of an “outreach effort” to ease tensions with Muslim-Americans.
Now this may seem odd but remember white people are not really in tune with those brown Middle Eastern types so we want to “outreach”. It falls into that same shit about “what do black people want” syndrome. So, of course ……. we out-reach!
Hey, it’s the best the main stream whites can do. Because they don’t want to live next door to them!
But one could ask what has Awlaki got to do with the Charlie Hebdo business? Awlaki is DEAD.
Well come to find out back in 2010, Anwar al-Awlaki issued death threats to cartoonists, journalists, and writers from Britain, Sweden, Denmark and the United States for slandering the Prophet Mohammed by drawing cartoons of him and “who are going out of their way to offend Muslims worldwide” as he expressed in Inspire an al-Qaeda magazine.
You see Awlaki “turned radical” around 2006. You know those fucking moderates. You just can’t depend on them. And he went into hiding.
While he was imam at the masque in Falls Church he preached to 3000 members and three of them were 911 hijackers who were al-Qaeda members. “He even spoke with them!” (OMG) Hmmm, 2,997 …… 3.(Do you think a Catholic priest could have criminals attending his mass occasionally?) The FBI even met with him to discuss his relationship with them.
And if that isn’t enough Awlaki in 2001, presided at the funeral of the mother of Nidal Malik Hasan the Army psychiatrist who later e-mailed him extensively in 2008–09 before the Fort Hood shootings. (must be a link …. he presided at Hasan’s mother’s funeral)!
Hey, Awlaki even associated with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Come on you remember. The Nigerian Christmas Day bomber, the underwear bomber! In fact, Awlaki was ALLEGEDLY involved in planning the attack.
You remember. Abdulmutallab was escorted onto the plane in Amsterdam by a man “of authority” without a passport, visa, or luggage. Gosh no red flag there. And he attempted to detonated his ass-bomb near landing time on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253, en route to Detroit, Michigan. This occurred when Israeli intelligence was in charge of the Amsterdam airport security.
And gosh, you do remember Abdulmutallab’s father even informed the U.S. embassy that his son had “been radicalized” before the event.
Funny thing, Awlaki wasn’t in control of the Amsterdam airport or the American Embassy. And Awlaki is conveniently DEAD but still lives as you will see!
But finally the tie in ………… Said Kouachi, one of the brothers responsible for the Charlie Hedbo attack, according to The Associated Press, had lived with Abdulmutallab, the underwear bomber.
And Abdulmutallab had been, in fact working under cover for Saudi intelligence and the CIA when he was given a new nonmetallic type bomb aimed at getting past airport security. That was according to what US and Yemeni officials had told The Associated Press in May 2012.
Now we have Chérif Kouachi and Said Kouachi as the weapons of choice to attack Charlie Hebdo. And we have Amedy Coulibaly the terrorist who was involved in killing an unarmed woman police officer and he was the hostage-taker and gunman in the kosher market where four of the hostages were killed.
But during the market crisis the hostages said that Coulibaly yelled out:
“We are just telling you we are the defenders of the prophet and that I Chérif Kouachi have been sent by Al Qaida of Yemen and that I went over there and that Anwar Al- Awaki financed me.”
The three men were all members of the same Paris jihadist cell.
Now is that a bit odd to you? Notice the quote doesn’t say “I” (Coulibaly) but “I” (Chérif Kouachi) and proceeds to tie in Al Qaida and Anwar Al-Awaki.
And then think about the Kouachi brothers conveniently leaving their ID in the getaway car.
Well Dr. Watson it appears someone is trying to tell us something. And rather emphatically.
But it is useful to know that Chérif Kouachi, Said Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly had been tracked and monitored because they were involved is terrorist activities. They were arrested many times, yet were allowed to continue training and plotting with fellow Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Yemen, and Syria groups.
Then about 6 months ago, French intelligence decided the suspects’ serial offenses along with their direct contact with Al Qaeda – including the receiving of terrorist training and battlefield experience fighting along side them in Syria – were “low risk” cases and therefore not worthy of their attention.
And if you are interested, six months, coincidentally, is about the typical length of time that security and intelligence “sting operations” take to set up and target terrorists operations. This time frame provides an appropriate time within which an event like these attacks could have been planned, funded, and eventually carried out.
It does follow a trusted pattern. A blatantly obvious terror cell, known to authorities, “drops out of sight”, and then set loose at an appropriate moment. And then executed making sure that the “terrorists” are executed as well. Mission accomplished.
This pretty much has all the telltale signs of a guided military-intelligence operation.
And the “hit-date” was pre-planned because Coulbaly drove his wife, Hayat Boumeddiene, to Madrid, Spain and stayed with her until January 2nd when he returned to France and she flew on to Istanbul, Turkey stayed for four days then moved to Akçakale,Turkey and then crossed into Syria on January 8th the day of the attack. Her movements were watched by MIT (Turkey’s intelligence agency) using cellphone tracking.
Well what does all this mean? Why was this attack carried out? Who wins?
Tubularsock figures first, who needs to be scared into line? AND WHY?
The short list for the possible rationale for this attack is as follows:
1. The U.S. government executed the attack to punish France for its independent foreign policy, citing its vote at the United Nations to recognize Palestine as a state.
2.Both France and Germany are baulking over the economic hit they are taking over the Russian sanctions. And talking about ending them. This attack could have been done to refocus their commitment to the American cause.
3.NATO needs public support of its ISIS war and it’s Syrian destruction. The attack could help to enrage the publics of Europe into a stronger fear based hatred of Moslems.
4.France is being targeted by Israel since its lower house last month voted to recognize Palestine, which allowed the occupied state to become part of the International Criminal Court, with the power to hold the Zionist state responsible for genocide. An enraged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that it would be a “grave mistake” if the French parliament recognized Palestinian statehood.
5.The President of Turkey has suggested French security forces are to blame for the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris, since the culprits had recently served prison sentences.
Doesn’t their intelligence organization track those who leave prison?
“French citizens carry out such a massacre, and Muslims pay the price,” President Erdogan said.
In any chess match you may have to sacrifice a few pawns in order to check-mate the King. Pawns are expendable to a point.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, in his 1998 book The Grand Chessboard states that, “Without sustained and directed American involvement, before long the forces of global disorder could come to dominate the world scene. And the possibility of such a fragmentation is inherent in the geopolitical tensions not only of today’s Eurasia but of the world more generally . . . that puts a premium on maneuver and manipulation in order to prevent the emergence of a hostile coalition that could eventually seek to challenge America’s primacy.”
Whatever the case whenever these types of terrorist activities take place it is safe to say that somewhere in the line of command you’ll find the CIA and Mossad …… hey, that’s what they do.
Remember, it was the CIA that assisted in creating al-Qaeda.
TUBULARSOCK SAYS: LEAD FROM BEHIND
Posted: September 13, 2014 in Afghanistan, American Exceptionalism, Assad, Bagdad, Bandar bin Sultan, CHEMICAL WEAPONS, CIA TERRORISTS, Crimea, Cuba, Diane Feinstein, Dick Cheney, Don Rumfeld, Drones, FBI TERRORISTS, Flight MH17, Guantanamo, HEZBOLLAH, Iran, IRAQ, ISIS, ISRAEL, James Clapper, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Kim Kardashian, Michael Hastings, Michelle Obama, Neo-Nazi, NSA, Obama, Obama win?, Oil, PALESTINIANS, Rose Garden, Russia, Russia-Syria Chemicals, SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, SYRIA, TERRORISTS CREATED BY U.S., The Matrix, torture, Ukraine, Zionism
Tags: al Qaeda, barack obama, Benghazi, Big Oil, CIA, Diane Feinstein, Dick Cheney, global arms trade, Human Rights American Failure, middle-east, North Africa, NSA, Obama foreign policy, Rule of Law, Syria, terrorism
BUT IS IS GOOD FOR THE JEWS?
Posted: September 5, 2014 in anti-Semitism, Henry Siegman, ISRAEL, Zeev Sternhell, Zionism
Tags: anti-Semitism, Henry Siegman, Israel, Judaism, Zeev Sternhell, Zionism
Now Tubularsock ran across this article by Lawrence Davidson who is a retired professor of history from West Chester University in West Chester PA. His academic research focused on the history of American foreign relations with the Middle East. He taught courses in Middle East history, the history of science and modern European intellectual history.
Now this is a view about the Israel-Palestinian Conflict that Tubularsock happens to agree with and the insights here are well documented.
Tubularsock, as always, encourages comments. Feel free to say what you mean!
“But Is It Good for the Jews?”
If you are over fifty and were raised in a Jewish household, you either heard this question, “but is it good for the Jews?” explicitly asked numerous times or were subtly encouraged to think the question to yourself. It reflects a group-centered concern born of the memory of anti-Semitic hostility and a seemingly unending vulnerability, and it can apply to almost any public action: federal or local legislation, cultural trends, foreign policy decisions, etc.
I do not know how many of the younger generation of American Jews, known to be very secular and prone to religious intermarriage, still ask this question, but there can be no doubt that it is still there on the tips of almost every Jewish tongue of that generation for whom World War II is still well remembered.
After World War II most Jews assumed that the Zionist movement and the Israeli state were good for the Jews. Indeed, they assumed that they were necessary goods – necessary for the very survival of the Jewish people. To that end, it was alleged, Israel would provide a haven from the anti-Semitism that so devastated the Jews of Europe.
There were those who took issue with this perspective, but they were few in number and without influence. Zionism triumphed and in 1948 the State of Israel was proclaimed. Today we have 66 years of history to judge Zionism and Israeli nationalism. So, after these six and a half decades, it is time we ask the question once more. Can we still assume that Zionism and Israel are good for the Jews?
Part II – Looking for the Answer
Here are some observations, given by thoughtful and knowledgable people, both Jews and non-Jews, and some facts easily accessed, that help us answer the question:
— Israeli behavior toward the Palestinians has involved tactics of ethnic cleansing and mass murder, often justified as “self-defense.” In terms of the latest violence in Gaza, the United Nations estimates that at least 73% of the fatalities inflicted by Israel were civilians. There is good evidence that Israel has been purposely targeting Gaza economic assets so as to impoverish its people. To this end Israel’s Deputy Interior Minister Eli Yishai proclaimed that the “goal of the operation [code-named Protective Edge by the Israeli military] is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages.”
— How do Israeli Jews feel about this situation? Or perhaps a better way of putting this would be: how have Israeli Jews been culturally programmed to judge such behavior on the part of their government? According to the latest polls up to 97% of them support the current operation in Gaza. Do outside opinions matter to them? Not to most. 63% assume that “the whole world is against us.”
These numbers suggest that only a very few Israeli Jews understand what is happening to them as they live their lives in a state dedicated to the displacement of another people and the absorption of their land.
— One of those who sees the damage to the Jews is Zeev Sternhell, a well-known scholar and “Israel prize laureate.” He equates present-day Israel to Vichy France – a country “falling into the hands of the right-wing with the support of a vast majority of the population.” This includes the intellectuals, whom he defines as the “professors and the journalists.” Thus, the attack on Gaza has led to “absolute conformism on the part of Israel’s intellectuals” and the “intellectual bankruptcy of the mass media.” According to Sternhell “democracy crumbles when the intellectuals, the educated classes, toe the line of the thugs or look at them with a smile.”
— There is also a sense of alarm among some Jews outside of Israel. Henry Siegman is president of the U.S./Middle East Project and former national director of the American Jewish Congress. Referring to the latest Israeli attack on Gaza, Siegman observes that “the slaughter of Palestinian civilians and the Dresden-like reduction to rubble of large parts of Gaza by Israel’s military forces in the name of its own citizens’ security has exposed the hypocrisy that lies at the heart of Israel’s dealings with the Palestinians. Israel’s claim to the right of self-defense in order to prevent its victims’ emergence from under its occupation is the ultimate expression of chutzpa.”
In addition he notes that “Too many Israelis seem to believe – indeed, to take absolutely for granted – that they have the God-given right to occupy, suppress, disenfranchise and displace non-Jews … in Israel.”
Siegman is not alone in his condemnation. Recently a number of Holocaust survivors and children of survivors placed a notice in the New York Times. In part it stated: “We are alarmed by the extreme, racist dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli society. … In Israel, politicians and pundits in The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post have called openly for genocide of Palestinians and right-wing Israelis are adopting Neo-Nazi insignia.”
— Scott McConnell, the founding editor of the American Conservative is not Jewish, but he too has been observing Israeli behavior and its evolution. Here is how he describes the country’s present state: “This now is Israel, a country … where imposing collective punishment of innocents is the main point, whose elected officials pine openly for concentration camps and genocide. … Hyper-nationalistic, loaded with nuclear weapons, deeply racist, persuaded that opposition to it is derived from anti-Semitism, feeling that the Holocaust gives it license to do whatever it wants and that the normal rules of international conduct will never apply to it.”
So, we must ask, just how good is all this for the Jews?
Part III – Rising Anti-Semitism
Let’s recall that Israel’s reason for being was to give Jews shelter from the ravages of anti-Semitism. That was certainly Theodor Herzl’s motivation. By any rational standard, Zionist Israel has failed in this regard. Indeed, with but very few exceptions, it is hard to imagine anywhere less safe for Jews than present-day Israel. And, there is growing evidence that Israeli behavior is a major source of today’s increasing anti-Semitism.
M. J. Rosenberg, a well-known Jewish American commentator, has analyzed this latter issue and noted the difference in levels of publicly expressed anti-Semitic feelings during the leadership of Yitzhak Rabin and Benjamin Netanyahu. His suggestion is that when it appeared, during Rabin’s prime ministership, that Israel wanted a just peace with the Palestinians (whether this appearance was accurate or not), public expressions of anti-Semitism went down.
However, when Israel behaves with wanton aggression against Palestinians, as it has in Gaza, instances of anti-Semitism go up. Since wanton aggression has certainly characterized most of the history of Israeli behavior toward Palestinians, it is fair to say that such actions constitute an important source of growing anti-Semitism.
Part IV – Finding the Answer
Most Zionists and Israeli Jews are ideologues. That is, they see the world through the ideology of Zionism and Israeli nationalism, and this narrows their ability to see things, especially their own behavior, in an objective way. For instance, they insist that their economic impoverishment, ethnic cleansing and periodic slaughter of the Palestinians are carried out in “self-defense.”
However, they absolutely refuse to consider that Palestinian violence against Israel is a reaction to Israeli policies and practices, particularly those of occupation, land confiscation and police state rule. In other words, Zionism and Israeli nationalism have blinded Israeli policy makers and their supporters to the consequences of their actions. That state of mind is not good for anyone, be they individuals or groups.
So we are brought back to our original question – can we assume that Zionism and Israel are good for the Jews? The answer is no, we cannot. Zionism failed the Jews by insisting on an Israel for one group alone. That insistence has inevitably led to racism, discrimination and ethnic cleansing.
These are not practices that have characterized modern Jewry and so it is simply wrong to equate Zionism with Judaism and insist that Israel stands in for the world’s Jews – errors now made by both Zionists and real anti-Semites. The more Jews who understand this, and begin to publicly distance themselves from both Zionism and Israel, the better, for they can safely assume both are bad for the Jews.
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The Brexit vote wasn’t democracy in action. It was populist manipulation on a grand scale.
Posted by Tom Pride in vindictiveness
elections, EU, Europe, immigration, international
No-one else seems to be saying this, so I will.
Way back in 1988 – when the Thatcher government passed the infamous anti-homosexual law known as Section 28 – a majority of the UK population supported it.
I’m proud to say I was one of the minority who was against it.
Even as late as 2000, polls showed around 52% of the UK population were against the Blair government repealing the law.
And again, despite being in the minority – I was personally never in any doubt that the majority were wrong.
These days, of course, everyone claims they know Section 28 was wrong. David Cameron – a strong supporter of Section 28 at the time it was introduced – has even apologised for it.
So we – the minority who were always against Section 28 – were in the end proven to be right.
That’s why Remain supporters need to get their balls back. Because being in a minority didn’t mean we were wrong. And now, we are once again the majority opinion in the UK.
Politicians are too afraid to speak out against the EU referendum result because they’re scared they’ll be accused of undermining democracy. And sensible journalists are also mostly too afraid to speak out, lest they’re accused of being in a middle-class, out-of-touch establishment bubble – which of course most of them are.
But I’m not a politician or a journalist. So here’s the truth.
The Brexit campaign was riddled with lies. The so-called ‘facts’ used by the Leave campaign were laughably ridiculous fabrications. Leading Leave campaigners handed out false and undeliverable promises like Bullingdon Club bullies dishing out banknotes at a high-class restaurant they’ve just trashed. And the whole Brexit argument itself was based on gross deceptions, sentimental nonsense and misrepresentations.
Their so-called victory – stolen only with lies and illegalities – wasn’t even overwhelming. And it’s just patently revisionist nonsense to say the vote for Brexit was some kind of ‘working class’ rebellion. The most working class parts of the UK – Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Peckham – all voted Remain. And the majority of young people voted Remain too.
Democracy doesn’t mean accepting bad decisions made by a bare majority of uninformed, ignorant voters, lied to and manipulated by a corrupt media. Democracy means fighting for what’s right and to reverse corrupt decisions which will be damaging to the future of our country and our children’s future.
And yes – I know we’re not supposed to call the people who voted Brexit ignorant. I personally know some very genuine, intelligent people who voted Brexit for the best of reasons. But the fact is, they are a tiny minority.
The Brexit vote was mostly the result of an unholy alliance between a dumbed-down, middle-class, aging English electorate fed on a diet of Daily Mail and Express propaganda and lies, Thatcherites, Little Englanders and openly racist arseholes.
All of this backed up by a two-decade long campaign of lies about the EU by supposedly professional mainstream media journalists:
See 20 years of FAKE NEWS about EU by UK press
So it doesn’t bother me in the least that I’m (currently) in the minority when it comes to Brexit. In fact, I’m proud of it.
Just as I’m proud of that fact that – until just last year – I’d spent all of my life being one of the minority in the UK who were against the death penalty.
And I’m definitely proud to be one of the minority of Brits who doesn’t think Mount Everest is in England.
And I’m proud that I’m not one of the majority of Brits who can’t pinpoint Loch Ness or the Yorkshire Dales on a map.
And I’m proud to be one of the minority of Brits who can at least find their last holiday destination on a map.
Because being in the majority doesn’t automatically make you right.
Especially when the majority were lied to and manipulated.
200 thoughts on “The Brexit vote wasn’t democracy in action. It was populist manipulation on a grand scale.”
agogo22 said:
Reblogged this on msamba.
Mike Paterson said:
The Remain campaign was riddled with lies. The so-called ‘facts’ used by the Remain campaign were laughably ridiculous fabrications. Leading Remain campaigners dished out false prophecies of doom like Bullingdon Club bullies dishing out banknotes at a high-class restaurant they’ve just trashed. And the whole Remain argument itself was based on gross deceptions, sentimental nonsense and misrepresentations.
mili68 said:
Reblogged this on disabledsingleparent.
Ann Hawksley said:
“The Brexit vote was mostly the result of an unholy alliance between a dumbed-down, middle-class, aging English electorate fed on a diet of Daily Mail and Express propaganda, Thatcherite Little Englanders and openly racist arseholes.”
And now the racists have taken this vote as tacit encouragement to spread their vile propaganda and step up the campaign against immigrants. Hate crime reporting has gone through the roof and people are genuinely afraid. We need to be confronting this head on, because unless you are part of the solution you are encouraging the problem. So let me be clear- YOU DO NOT SPEAK IN MY NAME.
Tweeted @melissacade68
Jennifer Lindley said:
This piece is utterly arrogant, ignorant and and insulting nonsense. If I take my own case, and that of my family, friends and the overall majority of members of my work and social circle; before we voted to leave the EU, we carried out a considerable amount of research on the EU and the unelected EC. We were absolutely horrified by what we found. Far worse than we were aware of and indeed anticipated.
Clearly, there were lies and propaganda on both sides but the Remain “camp’s” threat’s and lies far outweighed those of the “Leave” campaign. Let me give you some examples of what a proportion of young people, known to me, believed about the EU. “Our university tutors have explained to us that higher education funding will be drastically cut if we leave the EU, so we need to make sure we register and vote to remain in the EU”. Explanation: actually, the EU doesn’t have any money, so how is that going to work? Or, “We know that before the UK joined the EU, British people weren’t allowed to work, travel or trade with ‘Europe'” … need I go on? Does this compare with your alleged findings that a minority of people in the UK believe that Mount Everest is in England whatever that has to do with anything at all?
Your point about the majority of young people voting to remain in the EU appears to be correct but I would suggest that a) the lies they were told may well have something to do with that decision and b) my understanding is that only approximately 54% actually voted in the referendum anyway. I have seen figures as low as 34%. Your points about what you viciously refer to as the “dumbed down, middle class, aging English electorate fed on a diet of Daily Mail and Express propaganda…” are clearly grossly insulting. However, of far more interest to me, is that you cannot see the ‘writing on the wall’ due to your personal prejudices and self inflicted blindfold. The EU is crumbling before our eyes and will, I am utterly convinced, implode within the next decade. That is why the majority of us who voted to leave did so. We care so much about our children and young people’s future that we want to begin the journey to a wider national outlook in every way, a global trading nation, without all of the federalism and gross corruption of the grossly failing experiment that was the EU.
Incidentally, I also have fervently believed, and campaigned in the past, not to restore the death penalty in the UK but quite what that has to do with anything I know not.
Chris Lovett said:
Perhaps, Mike Paterson, you’d care to tell us which “prophecies of doom” are not turning out to be the truth? From where I sit the vote has been a massive cock up. An unnecessary one, too.
philthyanimal said:
I still scratch my head and ask why the Govt thought the Referendum vote should have been decided by who scores a result better than 50%. For such a fundamental change to the country, it’s neighbours and allies, I would have thought the bar would be set a little higher – say, Leave to win a minimum of 65% of the votes, conditional on (for example) 80% voter turnout. Instead, less than 25% of the population have determined our future, which has been propagated based on lies.
The right to vote may have been “democratic”, but the outcome is not IMHO.
The vote to join the EEC was done on the same basis. The vote to Leave was at a huge disadvantage financially and politically. To have won the vote against the masses of lies and deceit by the EU, the Government and the various figureheads and groups brought in to scare us (Think Obama, Goldman Sachs, IMF) makes me wonder how a big a majority there would have been without that nonsense. I know that several people voted Remain simply because their has not been a war in Western Europe for a while.
Chris Lovett, World War 3, Emergency Budget, decimation of the economy, Back of the queue to negotiate trade deal with the U.S. etc. etc. Perhaps you could highlight any of the prophecies that have come true.
Scottish EAU said:
Reblogged this on Scottish Economic Analysis Unit.
artmanjosephgrech said:
That is what a referendum involves David Cameron’s biggest failure and which is also inherent in the once every five year vote for the House of Commons membership and incidentally is the kind of politics Jeremy Corbyn wants to change. Whatever next general and emotional intelligence tests for MPs and voters. Or perhaps just abolish voting choice as per Stalin Hitler Chairman Mao North Korea and support the efforts of the Turkish leader to do likewise etc”
Stuart Buckingham said:
Unfortunately the only requirements to be able to vote are being a UK citizen, being over 18 and being registered. Having a modicum of common sense and just a scintilla of intelligence is not necessary. Since 28% of voters abstained it was only 37% who voted Brexit – a “clear mandate” according to a Government which dismissed 39% of junior doctors who voted to reject the new contract as “barely a third” and therefore could be ignored. Don’t even get me started on the 0% who voted for Theresa May to be PM!
http://europe.newsweek.com/uk-support-death-penalty-falls-below-50-first-time-316869?rm=eu
UKIP HAS A HIGH PROPORTION OF DEATH PENALTY PROPONENTS
I WONDER IF PAEDOPHILES WILL CHANGE THAT IN MORE PEOPLE?
Stuart, we have never ever been able to vote for any Prime Minister.
Reblogged this on Mark Catlin's Blog.
ebolainfo said:
Why have David Cameron and Theresa May not fully investigated allegations of Child abuse? Why are these always botched?
Why was Theresa May so incompetent in controlling migrtion as Home secretary? Why have Cameron, May, Osbourne not ditched the austerity fraud that is private central banking?
Why don’t we have the Bradbury pound?
Why do LabLibCon all keep mum about the legal deceit and fraud that is the TTIP agreement?
Why does the EU consent to this fraud of an agreement that wishes to make nation states subsefrvient to corporate interests?
Why did Ted Heath (child abuser) lie about the goal of the EU? He deceived parliament and successive PMs have consildated orhidden the trajectory of the corrupt superstate that is the EU.
Rejecting the deceits and lies of the EU and hence wanting out of that cesspool in no way means we do not have statist lackeys in the UK to eject.
xraypat said:
Excellent Tom…we must keep bashing on and maybe get a second referendum….or at least persuade MPs & Lords to kick it out.
Thanks for you terrific posts….hope you and yours are well.
Pat 😨
xraypat, do you really want to try to mess with a democratic vote. That would be a ridiculous thing to do and would create massive civil unrest.
The debate about “undemocratic, unelected EU” in a country ruled by the House of Lords is quite ironic.
John harper said:
“Democracy doesn’t mean accepting bad decisions made by a bare majority of uninformed, ignorant, small-minded voters. Democracy means fighting for what’s right and to reverse decisions which will be damaging to the future of our country and our children’s future.”
This little paragraph was pure gold, I’m sorry, but I think first you need to know what democracy actually means before you start changing its definition, here is the definition for you since you probably couldn’t be bothered to look:
“A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.”
I’m sorry mate I don’t see your part of the definition there or am I ignorant and small minded, so therefore I can’t see it? Please tell me, because it’s dam right insulting.
I’ve seen Many articles, journalists and even political figures do this, change the world meaning of a word to suit their arguments. So I’m very surprised that you have also done the same for your ignorant readers and do that they can blissfully evade all the rubbish you are “trying ” to support.
Do us all a favour and just accept the result, so instead of moaning we can work to a workable solution.
philippajanebrown777 said:
Ignorance and bloody APATHY
GringoPeruano said:
“The British people have suffered tremendously since the financial crisis … and it has made people very angry with the establishment – and rightly so.”
“Most of the British press has been unrelentingly Eurosceptic and anti-immigrant for decades.”
“The aftermath of the Brexit vote – the verdict from a derided expert”
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-aftermath-of-the-brexit-vote-a-verdict-from-those-of-those-experts-were-not-supposed-to-listen-to/
John Harper, who are you arguing with?
GringoPeruano it is of course utter nonsense. Nothing has changed and we haven’t suffered at all, let alone tremendously…..
tyelko said:
@Jennifer Lindley
“we carried out a considerable amount of research on the EU and the unelected EC.”
That very comment proves you a liar. You did no research, you uncritically parroted nonsense spoon-fed to you by demagogues, feeling vindicated in utter political illiteracy.
Heck, you are galllingly ignorant about the British political system, please don’t tell me you did your homework on the EU. Under the current system, the President of the EU commission has ten times the democratic mandate than the Prime Minister of the UK.
tyelko Jennifer Lindley’s comment does not in anyway prove she is a liar. As you have no way of knowing what she did or did not do (unless you know her), your statements about what she did and did not do simply prove that you are a liar. In addition you have no way of knowing what she thinks of the British political system, so again you are just making it up as you go along.
Quite the contrary, Mike, I can see from her statement that she considers a)the EC unelected and b)that fact remarkable, ignoring the fact that not a single member of the UK government is elected into their specific office and that in fact there is probably no government in Europe which is directly elected into office (not even the Swiss do that). Unlike the UK government, however, the EC requires the explicit confidence of parliament to assume their offices.
The UK prime minister is appointed by the Queen, he/she then picks and chooses whoever she wants – per custom a member of parliament, but it can equally well be an unelected peer, being a member of the House of Lords and thus of parliament. And even members of the Commons were elected into the office of MP and by a tiny constituency, not the electorate at large.
If she had done her homework, she would not have found the notion of an executive not being directly elected by the people in any way remarkable, since it is absolutely standard. The fact that she pointed that fact out demonstrates that she did NOT put in the work but rather parroted tropes.
alice moore said:
“The only two differences between 2012 and 2015 are that: (A) In 2015/6 the Greek economy is ever more frail than it was in 2012, its people closer to the edge of desperation. And (2) In 2012 the troika’s toxic, illogical ‘program’ was being implemented by a government representing the corrupt, oligarchic ancien regime responsible for the crisis. In 2015/6 the troika’s ‘new’ toxic, illogical ‘program’ is being implemented by a government of the Left, thus denying the Greeks the hope that elections could stop the unnecessary pain.”
“That is a recipe for disaster for Greece, Italy, and Spain (collectively, 100 million citizens) and for the EU. It is financial madness – and that ignores the political instability it will cause to force an EU member nation to twist slowly in the wind for 50 years.”
https://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2016/07/31/imf-confessing-to-the-sin-in-order-to-repeat-it/
If you understand what happened to Greece, you`ll understand why a majority voted to LEAVE the EU. Ignorance is not anything to be proud of…
If you understand what happened to Greece, you would not even dream of citing it in relation to the UK. The ignorance is entirely on your part.
Eve Learmont said:
Can I please have your permission to post this on fb……. I agree with everything you say but doubt I could have put it quite so eloquently,
Evie poohs
tyelko you are being disingenious. Surely you see that there is a difference between the people electing officials who make laws (e.g. MPs in the House of Commons) and the people electing officials who cannot make laws (e.g. MEPs in the EU parliament) You also have not replied to the main issue which is that you called her a liar whilst lying yourself.
Eve, there is a facebook share button below the article.
David Alcock said:
Yes, I agree with all that Tom says. In fact, I am at a loss really to understand why there is so much antipathy to the EU. It’s kept the peace amongst member states, and we face our own immediate problems with Ireland and Gibraltar, as well as – by withdrawing – possibly encouraging Putin. Spain, Portugal, Greece and Ireland didn’t have to sign up to the Euro, and it was their own fault that they were fiscally irresponsible – by intriducing that discipline, the Irish have retrieved the situation. We will need to take on board EU legislation, but we will no longer be able to influence it – how crazy is that? – look at the environment the chemical and pharmaceutical industries work in for starters. British higher education and research does very well out of EU students and EU grants – where will the shortfall be made up? Many Brits enjoy the right to live in other EU countries – for work or retirement – it’s tragic that these opportunities may be reduced, especially in a global and interconnected world. And so on and so on.
Davis Alcock, you talk about the EU keeping the peace between member states, yet there is no way whatsoever that you could prove that to be the case, indeed it is more likely that globalisation and NATO are far more responsible. I am able to see some merits in membership of the EU, so I am amazed that you cannot see any downsides as there are a lot of them. Why do you say we will need to take on board EU legislation? Surely all we will need to do is comply with their trade requirements just as we have to do currently with every part of the World including the EU. Why on earth do you not think EU students will not come to our Universities in the future? They did before we joined the EEC and they will do after we leave the EU. Many more British expats live in regions of the world other than the EU than live in the EU so I am not sure why you think this will not happen.
Re-establishing our historical trade links with most of the World’s major economies is an outward-looking and positive way to trade in the global inter-connected World. Indeed it is the anachronistic EU trade bloc method that is isolationist and inward-looking.
bjsalba said:
I have to say that I agree with you 100%. The electorate is appallingly ignorant. I have asked a number of Leave voters for the rationale behind their decision. The result has made me weep. The level of ignorance is mind-blowing.
The first person I asked insisted that by leaving the EU we would be able to deport folks like Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza immediately, and Jamie Bolger’s murderers would never have been let out of prison. When I pointed out that these were Justice issues and therefore not EU but ECtHR which was not what he had voted on, he had a hard time understanding the difference. In fact, I’m not sure if he did ever actually grasp it.
Neither he nor any of the others I asked had the faintest clue how the EU works, how what it decides translates into UK law or anything else. When they gave their reasons the descriptions they used were lifted straight from the Leave Campaign and the tabloid press. They talked about “taking our country back” but could not explain what that meant. They spoke of “unelected officials making EU” law but they didn’t know who they were, how many there were of them or how many actually voted on EU law. One said he didn’t like “Paris and Berlin telling us (UK) what to do” but couldn’t explain how they did so.
None could tell me how many MEPs there were or how many UK MEPs there were. I live in Scotland and two, only two, could tell me how many Scottish MEPs there were, and even neither could not tell me which parties were represented. When I said we had a UKIP MEP, one flat out called me a liar.
Some talked about immigrants and the problems associated with it not being controlled, but when questioned further, their understanding of the difference between EU immigrants and refugees from the Mid-East and economic migrants from other parts of the world was sketchy to say the least.
So yes, I agree with you 100%, the Brexit vote wasn’t democracy in action. It was populist ignorance on a grand scale.
bjsalba, there was immense ignorance on both sides, but also very knowledgeable people as well. Many Remain voters I spoke to had zero understanding of how the EU works, how and by whom the rules are made, who their MEPs are etc. This highlights not a lack of democracy but a lack of knowledge about the EU. This is not surprising as the EU is fairly secretive in much of what it does.
Whatever way you look at it, we (collectively) democratically voted in a Conservative government who had made a promise of a simple IN/OUT referendum. The referendum that we collectively voted to hold, was held and everybody had the chance to vote. There was a very large turnout and Leave won with nearly 10% more votes than Remain despite the efforts of project fear and the use of tax-payers money to peddle misinformation about the EU.
If there was anything undemocratic, it was the way in which one side had access to public funds whilst the other had to rely solely on donations.
Lee Firth said:
For the first time in my life my vote has actually counted and all I get from Mr. Pride is to be insulted for not agreeing with his political opinions and voting the ‘wrong’ way. Well, my vote counts just the same as everyone else’s…that’s how a referendum works; maybe should have more of them.
Frances Calder said:
Re Jennifer Lindley – a couple of points. Firstly, the EU does indeed support university studies in the UK through Erasmus, but also through massive funding of research depts and teams, creating international centres of excellence for UK students to access along the way. The effects of Brexit on universities, both in terms of the loss of EU grants, and the mass withdrawal of candidatures for teaching and research posts and undergraduate places from the EU have been fully documented recently – google King’s College, Wales, etc. Secondly, yes, no free movement will not prevent a UK citizen from ever being able to work in the EU, but it will certainly make it as difficult, uncertain, and bureaucratic as it was 40 years ago, subject to the whole old panoply of certificates of good conduct, proof of income, proof of job offer, proof of employability, residence permits, work permits, visits from local police, health checks, proof of vaccination, etc, etc, etc. And proof of language capability. Basically, what you heard from the students was true. They have lost access and choices.
I was and am a Remainer who believes that the EU has to reform. I also believe it will. While Juncker, who doesn’t matter, was still being defiant the night before the ref, there was almost no coverage of Tusk, who, representing the Eur Council, does matter, saying that the rise of the far-right and left had demonstrated across the EU that it had failed to carry citizens with it in its headlong rush to union. And that for the foreseeable future, the whole idea of union had to be regarded as just Utopian. These views were echoed by several other govts. Sarkozy, who may be the next French President, has revived his two-tier EU plan to allow greater autonomy to member states. The UK will not be any part of reform, and should have led it. Instead, the sight of what is happening in the UK, and the absolute and ill-understood chaos of the consequences of Brexit as they begin, has led to soaring support for staying in the EU in countries such as Denmark, traditionally very Eurosceptic, up from 50% to 70%.They want to stay and reform.
I respect the votes of Leavers who understood what they were voting about, and I respect, in a way, the votes of those who knew nothing but what The Sun et al told them. But I have no respect for what seemed to me in parts of the UK I know well, the Midlands and the SE, a near-universal Leave vote amongst educated, literate, Internet-savvy middle-class people who told me they believed we’d left the Court of Human Rights, that Cameron’s concessions would still apply, that EU funding would continue-???-, that trade deals could be struck with individual member states, that China and Co would line up to trade with us ( and the Chinese govt has just said it would take 12 years to negotiate, and they’re pulling out on investing in the meantime),that the City, generating 15% of UK tax revenue will stay (without the banking passport, not a hope), etc,etc,etc. And that now we could sell home-made jam at fetes – we always could.Nor had they considered the NI border, the reaction of Scotland, and the increase in illegal migrants from across the Channel, because there is no reason at all for the French to hold the line for us forever at Calais, and when negotiations get tough, they won’t. So start on a Jungle in Kent.
Finally, on getting to choose the migrants we want – over 90% of fruit and veg in the UK are picked by migrants. There has been a collapse in applications to come. ZDF ran a programme about young doctors and nurses – they no longer want to come and work for the NHS, despite its offering the highest salaries in the EU. The UK is seen as unstable and anti-foreigner, thanks to the xenophobes and racists in the Leave campaign. Leave voters who are horrified at the increased wave of racist harassment since Brexit, have work to do to counter the dreadful image of the UK that has emerged. The people we want no longer want to come. It might be useful to follow EU media before getting too keen on the idea that they need us more than we need them. And be just a little bit humble about what this vote is inflicting on us for at least 20 years.
Being in the majority means in your in the majority. Pull your neck in and get on with it
Democracy as I understand it is not the dictatorship of the majority, it is protecting the rights of minorities. Well, part of what democracy is. Other parts are separate lawmaking, judicial and executive authorities, elective representatives and so on. For me, the main thing is that it is not dictatorship of the majority. Rather the opposite. But I can totally understand why some people struggle with the concept of democracy, what it is and what it is not.
RobertShepherd said:
The phrase sanctimonious ponce comes to mind.
layanglicana said:
I am a Remainer (old enough to have campaigned for this first time round in 1975). Like a dutiful democrat, I spent the run-up to the referendum persuading everyone I met to vote. The great majority of the young whom I spoke to had not planned to vote until I turned my persuasive charm on them. I was unnerved to find how many of these were going to vote to leave. Gradually, the awful truth dawned on me. I would have done better to discourage everyone, and yet I do feel that previous generations beginning with Magna Carta fought to have a say in the government of our nation, and the least we can do is to exercise that right I think Democracy literally means ‘rule by the people for the people’. A bit late, but the best way of avoiding situations like this in future is the (re?)introduction of civics lessons in school. I think that, although legally Parliament is not obliged to follow the referendum results, parliamentary democracy itself would be threatened were we not to do so.
mr b richards said:
Idiot majority rules.
laurenejsmith said:
Agree with you except for one point……the majority of the electorate did not vote leave. The Leavers are a minority – 37%. Those who wanted change voted, so Leave represents the ceiling on the number backing Leave. Britain as a whole does not back Brexit.
MPs set the referendum as non binding so some voted Leave as a protest against Cameron and some did not vote as it was meant to go Remain and was not binding.
MPs are meant to use the referendum to inform them not to mandate their action.
What is wrong with the politicians!
Mike Paterson
The EU isn’t secretive. It just isn’t in the interests of the Mainstream Media or the Government to inform the populace of how it works or what it does.
Once I started looking, the information was not all that difficult to find.
The majority of the electorate, no, but I wonder when the last time was that an election was won by the majority of the electorate – the majority of those who actually voted is all that is required to form a government. The problem is that no one mentioned before the referendum that it was not binding on parliament. And the great majority of the Brexiters believe that they have been promised that Britain will now leave.
Separately, it is worth pointing out that the result was only as close as it was because of the votes in Scotland and Northern Ireland – just in England the Brexiters had a very comfortable majority.
Strider48 said:
Thank you for labelling me and another 17 million voters as “uninformed, ignorant, small-minded”. Why is it that anyone who disagrees with your opinion is to be denigrated? Just for your information I worked for and with the European Commission for a number of years – so I’m not uninformed, I’m a graduate of Oxford University – so I’m not ignorant, I refuse to denigrate Remain voters – so I’m not small-minded either.
Christopher Blackmore said:
My word, that attracted some knuckle draggers!
Posted it to Google+, because you are right, same as me.
You’re a graduate of Oxford University, but you seem to utterly revile anything you experienced there, since you actively pursue the undermining of its academic standing, the funding of its research and the credibility of its staff.
And you say you’re not small-minded?
tyelko: What happened to Greence? Why and how was it trashed? Why did the IMF apologise? Who wants austerity across Europe? Who makes the decisions in Europe? Why does the ex Finance Minister of Greece call the EU undemocratic.? Explain why I am ignorant. Don`t just say it. Back it up.
Colum McCaffery said:
There are two components to democracy: numbers and deliberation. The latter is often ignored. There are two basic types of citizen: passive and participative. The latter want to be informed and to deliberate; the former want to be led and are not too concerned with the quality of the debate. Those who complain about lies during the Brexit debate miss the point; the lies weren’t addressed to them. This may explain a little better: https://colummccaffery.wordpress.com/2016/07/02/worried-about-simplistic-lies-in-public-debate-consider-the-audience-for-them/
Laurenjsmith and less than a third wanted to stay in. Please do not try to spin things with comments such as a protest vote. We all know it is utter nonsense.
BJSalba, you are having a laugh. If you believe that it is all candid and above board then you are sadly mistaken.
“What happened to Greence? Why and how was it trashed? ”
It was trashed because the Greek governments first forged their financial data to get into the Euro, then abused the leniency of the other Eurozone governments to indulge in debts, keeping sundry people occupied and employed by a bloated public sector and allowing tax dodging to become a public sport. When that construct collapsed during the financial crisis, they could not meet their obligations anymore.
“Why did the IMF apologise?”
Because the savings mandated were too much, too quickly and did not allow for investment into ensuring Greece could maintain a competitive economy. That doesn’t mean the massive reforms especially in the public sector weren’t necessary.
“Who wants austerity across Europe?”
Sundry people. Both affluent AND poor. What you miss is there’s plenty of countries which already underwent harsh reforms, and they, from top to bottom, don’t take kindly someone else wanting to have their cake and eat it, too. And the taxpayer in donor countries want their own governments to be conservative with guarantees and loans, too. It isn’t as easy as “That’s the bogeyman”, I’m afraid.
Not to mention that “austerity across Europe” is a strawman, since austerity in the UK has nothing to do with austerity elsewhere in Europe. It’s a Tory idea unconnected to the EU in any fashion.
“Who makes the decisions in Europe?”
The member nation governments, jointly.
“Why does the ex Finance Minister of Greece call the EU undemocratic.?”
For the same reason as everyone bitches and moans about the EU – it’s much easier than to admit having screwed up oneself. He promised things he could not achieve, that’s of course frustrating, and it’s much more convenient to blame it on someone else than, for example, on his own negotiation style.
Richard said:
Just simply Brilliant well said !
Inbxl said:
Mike Paterson, for anyone who wants to know how the EU works, how and by whom the rules are made, who their MEPs are etc. all they have to do is look at the Europa website, where it is all there, in some detail. Not exactly secretive… The fact is that the level of ignorance of the British public about the EU and how it works is appalling – but not because the information isn’t there, if they could just be bothered to go and educate themselves. Then they might understand that the people actually voting in the laws are their own politicians (via the EU council) and the ELECTED MEPs… The so-called ‘unelected’ EC that everyone keeps banging on about, has no power to do anything except propose and draft legislation, usually at the request of the Member States. This is neither undemocratic nor secretive. The idea of having a referendum and asking the public to decide on something as complicated and multifaceted and also as important (to the whole world, not just to the UK) as EU membership was insane. The fact that people did it in such a state of ignorance is criminal.
John Platt said:
I think you are part of the minority that think they are never wrong. I think that you are arrogant enough to believe that your opinions were correct at the time these designs were made. You need to understand that you have to change things with the will and backing of the people you can’t just decide your right so f**k the rest of the population because they are idiots.
If you think that the EU was perfect then you are the idiot and I an wasting my time explaining to you who the world works.
If you believe the EU was not perfect and you believe that staying in and trying to change it was a good idea them you are not and idiot but deluded enough to think that after we had vote to stay we would have more leverage an when Cameron tried and failed to get the concessions Great Britain had asked for.
I am proud of the fact that I am not a “Thatcherite Little Englander” or a “Racist Arshole” .
I am proud that I vote leave the EU.
I am proud that I still live in a democratic ” Great Britain” where decision are made on the here and now, not 30 years later when society has changed and the majority are in agreement.
I am proud not to be ignorant enough to believe that anyone who does not agree with me is an idiot.
Times change, when the time is right the people will decide. Force decisions on the majority and you have chaos.
You should now just get behind this great county and shout from the roof tops how much we are going to achieve in the global market instead of try to speared doom and gloom hope to prove yourself right.
Be careful you might get what you wish for!!!!!!
Colin Baldy said:
Mike Paterson, there was NO vote to join the EEC. We were taken in by our government in 1973 because they, rightly, saw that we were being left behind by the members of the EEC. Wilson decided to call a referendum for pretty much the same reason as Cameron; to quell rebellious back benchers
Somewhat to his surprise, the result in 1975 was to remain.
We should never forget that we elect our MPs to decide on complicated issues on lights behalf. The public can never be expected to make informed decisions on such complicated issues. If you ran a referendum on hanging, it would be won by the hangers. If you ran a referendum on abolishing income tax, that too would be won by the abolishionists. Neither outcome would be in the best interests of the country and they would illustrate perfectly why referenda, in general, are bad idea. The one on 23rd June was a very bad idea indeed.
I agree if the intention was to remain we should never had a referendum.
To vote to remain would only weaken any chance of changing all of the thing that were wrong with the away.
The only option was to vote leave and hopefully it will initiate the changes needed for the counties that remain.
Perhaps then they will thank Britain for saving the EU and grant us favourable leaving terms…. But I doubt it.
graphicconception said:
It would be interesting to know whether the people who are confused about the locations of Ayres Rock and Mount Everest were the older residents who have lived here all their lives or the younger ones who mainly voted to remain and know where you can buy the best iced skinny flavoured latte.
Without that vital link the article may well just be shooting itself in the foot.
Conservative policy is the same as the global elite`s policy in Europe. Now we can get rid of the Tories, in theory anyway. But locked into Europe it is impossible to get rid of the European elite and their economic policies.
Also please note, we`re still in Europe. There are good reasons to think that Brexit is not going to be allowed to happen. However, Europe is disintegrating.
This is a really good interview between Yanis Faroufakis and Noam Chomsky discussing Greece and the European Union. It does reveal the lack of democracy in Europe and who pulls the economic strings. I`ll leave it here for anybody who wants to broaden their understanding..
I guess you are also the kind of person who tells their doctor to shut the f*ck up and lecture you on what’s wrong with you. Because, after all, whether someone is ignorant or not is not defined by their education and knowledge on an issue, but whether or not they agree with you.
No one said the EU was perfect – that’s just the usual dishonesty we’ve come to be used from from Bexiteers, “proud” to engage in demagogy. But those “faults” cited by you and yours exist primarily in your imagination. And the fact that you fundamentally reject the concept of free speech and want to dictate what opinion people should voice speaks volumes. Your ancestors died to prevent people like you from running the UK, you are proud to spit on those who defended the freedom of your country, inasmuch as they are still alive, and pee on the graves of those who have died.
sackersonwp said:
Lots of ignorance on both sides. But the emoji-style “arguments” (esp. the unwarranted slurs) on Facebook from Remainers were really frighteningly unreasoning. There was so much massive, dumb-brain, home-grown propaganda and deaf-blind aggressive assertion that I began to doubt the desirability of democracy.altogether.
However, if you want very well-informed fact and reason from someone who was recently asked to give evidence to a Select Committee, add this site to your reading list:
http://www.eureferendum.com/default.aspx
sidthemanager said:
I thought someone would have responded to this thread by now 😉 Great work as ever Tom. Re posting on FB
Colin Baldy, you are correct, I meant that the previous generations voted to Remain shortly after we had been taken in to the EEC.
che said:
The remain vote was riddled with lies.
Camoron said brexit would start world war 3 and Osberk said we would all be £3000 worse off !!
Both sides were full of shit, not just the brexit side.
x777 said:
https://theredphoenixapl.org/2010/05/04/on-petty-bourgeois-ideology-social-democracy-to-fascism/
Chris said:
It was such an ill-informed decision. I know in theory a referendum is a very democratic way to make a decision for a country, but when 52% of 70% of the electorate voted to screw things up so badly for the country, based on a campaign of fear-mongering, lies and misinformation, the 48% have every right to be pissed off about this, although if the latest polling research is to be believed, we are now the 55%, since so many people have since indicated they regret their vote.
I assume John Platts is one of those Thatcherite Little Englanders and definitely deluded if he thinks this country is ‘Great’, although it’s about to get a whole lot less great as the economic consequences of Brexit start to hit.
I get really wound up when I read idiots like John Platts write that we should now all get behind Brexit, as if he and the Brexit campaign would have gone away had they lost by a narrow margin. Sorry John Platts, but you laid a huge turd in the bed, don’t expect me to help you clean it up. Have you not been watching the news? It’s no longer predicting what would happen, it’s reporting what is happening, i.e., pound tumbles, volatile stock market, economy shrinking, job losses announced, brain drain already starting, France overtook UK to become 5th largest economy in the world within hours of the vote. You might not like is, but us true patriots are not going to go away and do everything in our power to make sure Brexit doesn’t go through, no matter how much Union Jack flag waving morons such as yourself protest.
Chris, the fear mongering, lies and misinformation came much more from the Remain campaign. You say that I voted to screw things up for you, this is of course utter nonsense. I voted to leave because I believe (after years of thought and diligence on the matter) that we will be better off out of the anachronistic backward-thinking EU. I have seen no such polling, indeed the polling I have seen shows that there would be little or no difference if we were to vote again. As time moves on, more and more Remain lies are being shown for what they were.
Chris, I also am a true patriot and like most other Leave voters, will do everything in my power to make sure hat UKExit does happen. You seem to try to denigrate those of us who disagree with you with foul language and spin. Get over yourself.
judithhaire said:
Reblogged this on Far be it from me –.
Mike, you may well think you are a true patriot, but you are deluded, especially if you are saying the lies came from the Remain campaign, yes the Remain campaign correctly predicted it would shrink our economy and crash the pound, cause market uncertainties, job losses and a brain drain … that is exactly what is happening, to have said otherwise would have been lying … compare this with the £350 million extra a week that the Leave camp said we would have for the NHS, which has since turned out to be complete bullshit, along with hundreds of other lies and misinformation from Brexit.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-referendum-nigel-farage-nhs-350-million-pounds-live-health-service-u-turn-a7102831.html
You are a moron who voted for Brexit, so obviously facts are something you will be big on, however, the fact you have not seen such polling evidence does not mean it does not exist. If another referendum were to be held it looks like Remain would win, because the lies of the Leave camp have been called out. Of course Leave do not want this, because they are chicken and know they wouldn’t win. It’s not often I agree with that ignoramus, Farage, but I’m with him with this when he said shortly before the referendum if the result was 52:48 in remain’s favour, his fight would go on and he would push for a second referendum. I agree with Nigel, it’s too much of an important decision, let’s have a second referendum to be absolutely sure this is what we want as a nation. I don’t want it and I personally know several people who voted to leave or didn’t bother to vote who now wish they voted to stay in the EU having seen the negative fallout from the Leave vote.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-news-second-eu-referendum-leave-voters-regret-bregret-choice-in-millions-a7113336.html
If you sprinkle glitter on a turd, it is still a turd with glitter on it. Brexit will be a disaster for the British economy, even if Thatcherite Little Englanders and openly racist arseholes continue to wrap a Union Jack around the turd and pretend the catastrophic economic consequences of Brexit are not happening.
Facts do not cease to be facts because they are ignored by idiots.
@ Mike Paterson
“You seem to try to denigrate those of us who disagree with you with foul language and spin. ”
Where did I use foul language? Although I agree, when talking about the stupid twats who voted for Brexit it is fucking difficult to refrain from colourful language, however, having reread my previous comments, I couldn’t find any foul language you dopey cunt. .
josie91195 said:
Reblogged this on Look There's a Bear and commented:
I know I haven’t posted in a while, but I read this today and found it to be an eloquent, well-sourced and convincing account of the shambles that was the EU Referendum.
xxx said:
What a sad loser.
It’s called democracy, get over it, you little self exalted Castro wanna be.
You make every effort to prove his point. It’s hilarious when an enemy of free speech compares critics with dictators. If anyone is a Castro wannabe, it’s you Brexiteers who declare that your opinion must not be questioned or criticised. Combined with your hounding foreigners through the streets, you’re about as much about democracy as Comrade Stalin.
Alex McCabe said:
Tom Pride really is a special kind of stupid and seems to confuse his opinion with fact. It was more a case of the working classes of the nation sticking-it to the arrogant, elitist, middle-class snobs of London & the home counties. Democracy is democracy and you can’t sulk when it doesn’t go your way nor can you call for additional referendums until you get the desired result. If you want to lose what shreds of pride & dignity you have left by complaining then by all means carry on but fact of the matter is the people have spoken. The Government/Remain campaign failed to bullshit the nation using our tax money and now we can look towards a more prosperous future with a more globalcentric economy. Most of those who voted to leave did so for very good reasons.
Chris, you need to take a good hard look at yourself in the mirror, Your obnoxious and odious comments reveal your level of intelligence. You are one of those rather stupid people that cannot believe that somebody has a different viewpoint and that they therefore must be a moron. I am glad that I do not know you in the real world.
More people voted to LEAVE than have ever voted for anything, in the entire history of the UK!
Lucy Carmichael said:
You are so full of shit as to be unbelievable. Oh, and “And it definitely doesn’t mean you’re not stupid either” – double-negative. In this case you’re right. You definitely are stupid.
I know. It’s a disgrace. Ignorant people voting. Whatever next? Poor people? The unemployed? Women?
Ken said:
You have to love the whining of the Federasts, you really do. Every day brings in another pathetic screed from yet another loser who really cannot come to terms with the totality of the defeat that we handed out on the 23 June 2016.
Here’s the thing: if you wanna make a socialist omelette then you crack a few capitalist eggs. The biggest egg of them all is the EU and by God we cracked that one good and proper.
Chris – you have used the words deluded moron, racist arsehole. that you then say you have looked through your posts and cannot see any foul language and proceed to spout yet more. I guess you are rather poorly educated for which I can only pity you.
Mike, deluded moron is not a swear word, in your case it is a fact if you think Brexit will make Britain great. Racist arsehole was quoting the author of the article and posted after you wrongly complained I used foul language.
Ken, as if the Brexit crowd would have gone away if they had lost by the smallest of margins. The 48% are not going away, as we care about our country too much, especially now the Brexit campaign has been exposed of one of lies, misinformation and racism wrapped around a Union Jack flag masquerading as patriotism.
We don’t want to lose our European Citizenship and the many benefits that come with it, we don’t want to live in a country governed by bigots, we don’t want the economy of the UK dow be downsized and shrink, we don’t want job losses, we don’t want to leave the EU and it is becoming apparent that many people who did vote to leave the EU regret their vote and now do not want to leave either.
Bwahahaha.
“Make a socialist omelette”. And I have a plot on the moon you might be interested in.
As for “totality of defeat” thanks, Comrade Stalin, the fact that you want to abolish any and all elections from now on is duly noted.
The only one you defeated was yourself, as no one will be punished more by this than those who dupe yourself into being “winners”. There will be howling and gnashing of teeth. Do you seriously believe that MORE money will flow to disenfranchised regions? The EU was the only entity keeping those regions alive.
terry f said:
As a fervent remainer allow me to say this offensive bile makes me ashamed to be in the same camp as you
Mike, I take having my intelligence questioned by a flag waving deluded moron who voted Brexit who still thinks it was a good idea after the disastrous consequences have been widely reported in the news, as a badge of honour.
I have kids and you have voted to screw up their future. I have nothing but contempt for the xenophobic Little Englanders who voted for this idiocy. I’m proud European. I’m proud to be part of the 48% who are going to fight Brexit, which was a campaign of lies promoted by Rupert Murdoch, the Tory Right, and odd balls such as UKIP, the EDL, the BNP and conspiracy theorists like David Icke who claims the world is run by shape shifting lizards.
Andrew Cochrane said:
Like to add some reputable facts and figures and research to your self serving argument, no!, didn’t think so 💩💩💩
Chris, You are an ignorant buffoon. I refuse to attempt to converse with you any more.
Cute, a Brexiteer calling others ignorant buffoons. Project much?
Mike, I wear that as a badge of honour to be called an ignorant buffoon by a flag waving Little Englander moron that thinks Brexit will make Britain great.
Of course, you do not wish to converse with me, as you know you cannot win the argument. The disastrous effects of Brexit are already being felt, even though I cannot see how it can be implemented, as the new Chancellor said he wants to maintain access to the European Single Market and implement Brexit, negotiations of which back into the Single Market cannot be started until two years and one day after Article 50 is implemented, and if anybody seriously believes the three clowns, Bo Jo, Fox and Dumbass Davies will be able to negotiate more favourable access to the Single Market than we already have then they are living in cloud cuckoo land.
Yes of course you don’t want to debate, as once you pull the away the Union Jack that you hide under, there is is no intellectual validity to your argument, or in layman’s terms, you are an arsehole.
telescoper said:
Reblogged this on In the Dark and commented:
I agree 100% with this, and will also continue to campaign for the United Kingdom to remain a full member if the European Union. As the grim economic reality starts to bite, I think many will wake up and stop the madness before it’s too late.
Moonin said:
This whole sordid Brexit mess can easily be fixed. We just need to repeal the original parliamentary Act that gave the vote to the working classes. Then we can do the same with women’s votes and those aged 65 plus. Problem solved! Only hummus eating, elitist, condescending, anti democratic home owners aged between 18-59 should ever be allowed to partake in democratic processes. Quick-someone start a petition!
It’s cute when antidemocratic rabble who can suffer no opinion but their own accuse others of being antidemocratic.
Hint: Just because you are a lazy, irresponsible bum who knows only rights and no obligations doesn’t mean that others take their civic duty of casting their vote responsibly and inform themselves properly as negligently as you.
Having read a large number of these post from both sides of the argument I feel as if I just want to leave Britain altogether. Is it really impossible to discuss something without resorting to abuse?
http://order-order.com/2016/08/04/bank-england-rubbish-osbornes-brexit-fibs/
Er you were saying.
Ken Boon said:
YOU ARE A CUNT!
R6789 said:
‘in the history of voting for anything’ well actually XXX 18million people voted on the xfactor final 2010. The winner was Matt cardle if you’re interested…did he ever release more than 1 song?
Nice try R6789 but 33.6 million voted in the referendum. And yes Matt Cardle released more than 1 song.
Andy Yule said:
You are absolutely correct and many people have said what you say but maybe not loud enough and not in the best places. Looking at some of the replies you have it is quite amazing how these so called Brexiteers firmly state untruths with no fear of correction. I believe that the BBC was particularly guilty during the campaign of not querying errors and untruths from the leave campaign. Of course the Leavers now compound their lying by accusing the BBC of being biased against them. My MP was a strong Remainer but has now been knighted and made leader of the Conservative party: he is now firmly in favour of “making a success of Brexit “. How can we force these politicians to see sense and do what is best for the country (after all they mostly believe remaining is better)? That is the big question .
There is a shameful level of debate here with the issues. No wonder the Labour party is in such disarray. The grass roots does not know a peanut from an acorn.
Greg said:
What a load of tosh!
Chris, there are some remain voters on here that believe in democracy and then there are people like you, who believe if you shout loud enough you will get your own way. Grow up!!!
You claim in your colourful language, that you are not willing to help clean up the mess the leave voters made.
Then you proclaim that you are fearful for your children’s future but you are going to do anything you can to lengthen the economic downturn because you didn’t get your own way. You seem to have forgotten your children’s future very quickly.
You also see the leave/remain argument in a very narrow minded way. You only see the economic argument but not the social argument and I am afraid it was the social argument that your children would need to be procected from.
I voted leave not beleiving the lies that both sides put out to try and frighten us into voting one way or the other and knowing that there would been an economic downturn, which even the most hardened remain voters know will pass as all downturns do.
I voted leave because I did not want my family and your children to see the country rip its self apart because some people believe that we were being asked to integrate to many immigrants to quickly. Yes, some of these people are racists and always have been and to them one immigrant is to many. To others, living in streets were they don’t hear English spoken, were their children are the minority in the classrooms is pushing them to become racist. No everyone is ready to be that multicultural and until they are forcing the issue will only lead to a country filled with race hatred and that will spill over into the streets with part of the population attacking the other part for no reason that the colour of their skin or the language that they speak. It would have got worse and worse until your children would not be safe out on their own and you would find it very frightening walking in some areas of the cities and town. It will not be the fault of one side or the other it will be your fault because you want to force multiculturalism on people who are not ready for it. You have to allow change to happen at a speed the people can cope with.
So I am happy that I voted to allow your children to grow up in a safer more peaceful society . It may not be as wealth for the next few years, but if it’s the money that’s more important to you you are teaching your children the wrong moral values.
Jim c said:
You can use words in many ways to arrive at an answer that suits you. You are obviously a bad loser.
LOL, coz nobody who ever wanted to leave Europe ever shouted much in the last decade or so. The truth is I’ve hardly ever shouted about Brexit, because I didn’t think the country would be so fucking idiotic to vote to leave the EU. I wish I had shouted from every rooftop in the UK at the top of my prior to the referendum “Do not vote to leave the EU, it will destroy the economy of the UK, loose all your privileges of EU Citizenship, the pound will plummet, unemployment will rise and Britain will be international laughing stock and once more the sick man of Europe.”
I am doing something for my children’s future, I’m relocating part of my business to Spain (an EU member) as a direct result of the Brexit vote – http://www.totnes-today.co.uk/article.cfm?id=101722&headline=Jobs%20hope%20dashed%20by%20EU%3FBrexit%20vote§ionIs=news&searchyear=2016
Well done Brexit, forcing me to create jobs for Spanish people instead of in my own country.
This is democracy, where people have differing views and given the outcome of the referendum was so close can you honestly expect those who deeply and profoundly do not want us to leave the European Union to go away and shut up? Therefore we will fight to persuade those who now they realise they were lied to by the Leave camp and have also seen the disastrous economic consequences of Brexit to join us in our crusade to reverse this utterly stupid and ridiculous Brexit vote.
Just had Remain narrowly won, we would still have to put up with the with the likes of Farage continuing the battle and demanding another referendum, so you will have to put up with some of the 48% of the 70% of voted and the million plus who have changed their mind whinging about this stupid Brexit vote and doing everything in our power to stop it going through.
Not once does the author of this article say why, in his opinion, we should stay in the EU. Weird or what.None of the remainer snowflakes seem to have any idea how or what the aims of the EU were or are.
pauline siddons said:
“Democracy doesn’t mean accepting bad decisions made by a bare majority of uninformed, ignorant, small-minded voters”
Sorry, but that’s exactly what it means!
Just in case you did not read my last post, I have directed straight to you. I cannot Beleive if you have read it that you have not given your reasoned answers as to why you prepare your children to face unrest in the streets rather than a few years of economic struggle.
“I voted leave because I did not want my family and your children to see the country rip its self apart because some people believe that we were being asked to integrate to many immigrants to quickly. ”
you’d rather see the country rip itself apart because some people aren’t as blinkered as you are. It’s hilarious when Brexiteers declare Scotland not a part of “this country”.
“To others, living in streets were they don’t hear English spoken, were their children are the minority in the classrooms is pushing them to become racist. No everyone is ready to be that multicultural and until they are forcing the issue will only lead to a country filled with race hatred and that will spill over into the streets with part of the population attacking the other part for no reason that the colour of their skin or the language that they speak. It would have got worse and worse until your children would not be safe out on their own and you would find it very frightening walking in some areas of the cities and town. It will not be the fault of one side or the other it will be your fault because you want to force multiculturalism on people who are not ready for it. You have to allow change to happen at a speed the people can cope with.”
Thanks for confirming Chris’s points. And thanks for confirming you are not just a racist but utterly ignorant about the EU.
But hey, those German scientists working at the Medical Research Council really were criminal scum, right, playing the cancer-curing heros at day while preying on innocent British children at night? And those Swedish engineers at the local car manufacturer, woaah… don’t want to meet them late at night in a pub.
That Romanian nurse is probably experimenting on the children she treats at the local NHS hospital, right? They are all so dangerous for children. After all, they got that educashun thing, and nothing is more dangerous than that…
But teaching them racism and wilful ignorance is of course a valuable moral value?
Jennifer Lindley, just to correct one quite important point – actually around 68% of young people voted in the referendum, not 34% (http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/09/young-people-referendum-turnout-brexit-twice-as-high), so we’re doing them a disservice if we repeat the fake stats that were circulating on social media, and try to use it to prove that they didn’t care.
There are clear correlations between age and how people voted, as well as between level of education and voting results. And John Platt, you might be interested to see that the areas with the highest level of immigrants actually also voted to remain, so I’m not sure that your argument really stacks up either: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/eu-referendum-how-the-results-compare-to-the-uks-educated-old-an/ – might be worth re-examining your own perceptions versus the reality of living in a multi-cultural area.
William beer said:
You are such an egotistical self inflated prick. You don’t like it why don’t you crawl up your own arse and fuck off!!! because without the likes of you maybe the rest of the country can get on with rebuilding something worthwhile for people who believe in British values. And before you bang on about intelligence and negatives and how stupid everyone but you are, it’s your narrow minded bullshit that will suppress the advancement of everyone and not just the pocket lining of the rich. You arsehole.
What “British values” would that be? Sloth and wilfull ignorance? No, it’s not his “narrow minded bullshit” that suppressesd the advancement of everyone, it’s your being a lazy bum who is so narcisstic that you’re not only too lazy to educate yourself, you’re dismissing anyone not as lazy and actually doing their homework.
But yeah, it’s disgusting that putting in the time to learn something pays off, right? Better people like you would get anything you want shoved up your arse without doing anything for it. After all, the concept of responsibilities, obligations and duties is utterly alien to you. All you know is that it’s perfectly natural that you have your cake and eat it, too.
It’s hilarious when the “arsehole” who would even lecture their doctor how to conduct an appendectomy gets all worked up about people declaring him stupid for believing he can lecture people with greater expertise.
I now see why Chris has such bizarre views and immediately jumps to foul and abusive language. Have you been partaking in the raw product of your produce Chris? What a storyline, fervent Remain camapigner says he will take jobs that he hasnt yet created to Europe’
Hi tyelko,
Yes, anyone who is against forcing people to except ideals that they are not ready for is heading for social unrest but I, unlike you, can see the need to move to multiculturalism at a natural rate not one force upon by the EU.
As to me being racist, which is the battle cry of all remain voters if the word immigration is mentioned, nothing could be further from the truth.
My wife is from a mixed cultural marriage, part Irish part Bangladesh, my wife and daughter are of the Muslim faith. My farther in law once told me that he had been in total agreement with Enoch Powell in as much as you cannot rush integration, it has to happen slowly.
So yes I voted leave for the safety of my family and the safety of your family. It does not take much for minor skirmishes to escalate to major conflict and once the touch paper has been lit it is very hard to turn back. It seem Germany hasn’t learnt the lessons from its past, give the people some to blame and they will hate them with a passion that leads to violence.
So you carry on complaining about how the economy downturn is going to hurt your children but if all the hateful, crude and disgusting remarks written on this topic do not show you that your family and this country will be hurt far more by continuing your campaign you are burying you head in the sand.
I am a true multiculturalist, not a racist, and firmly believe in total integration. I don’t believe in towns within towns and cities within cities and this take time to achieve. The EU has its own economic agenda which, like you, it puts above all else.
That’s why we needed to come out of the EU.
Michael Malone said:
We’re never going to leave the EU in reality are we. There’ll never be a government elected in the UK who will throw the country under the bus on the racist whim of a few million uneducated and angry middle-aged failures looking for somebody to blame.
Michael, It is nit throwing the country under the bus. The leave vote is not in any way racist, (although of course racists will use any tactic to further their evil agenda) indeed I suggest that reducing the automatic access of domicile to the mainly caucasian Europeans in favour of greater access to the rest of the world is anti-racist and that to want to remain in a trade bloc that ensures discrimination is the racist thing to do. I would also suggest that there seem to be many millions of undeucated and angry middle-aged failures looking for someone to blame and that you are one of them.
Dids (@Didsthewinegeek) said:
Whilst voting Remain myself your basic arguement is flawed. One cannot make a comparision between Section 28 and the vote on Europe. Section 28 is a moral arguement, Europe a political one. It is tenuous to say that the majority of the electorate were against Section 28 as there was no vote. Majority of Parliament and a majority of society are 2 different things. Therefore your basic arguement is naive to say the least.
Join the long list of remain voters, who are in a minority and argue black is white. You do are chances of remaining in Europe very little good. Infact you damage it.
I don’t think you’ve been paying attention. The commenterati have been churning out nasty, snobbish opinion pieces of exactly this nature ever since the electorate delivered their verdict.
Needless to say, it says more about the writers’ superciliousness than it does about the Leave voting masses.
John Platt I want my children to be in a Britain that is part of Europe. You contradict yourself by saying you want out of Europe because it will be better for the UK then write some tosh that I put the economic agenda first. Well if that means not wanting to see the economy of this country destroyed then yes economic agenda is important, but I also like my right to freedom of movement and travel, free health care, environmental laws on a European level, since pollution doesn’t respect national boundaries. Since I’m not a racist the immigration issue simply doesn’t bother me like it does you and I really not believe immigration is the fault of all our countries woes. In fact, immigrants contribute positively to the economy. You do realise that we take away freedom of movement after Brexit
1) you are screwing things up for your fellow compatriots who might be a little adventurous and want to get off this island from time to time and enjoy living and /or working in another European Country
2) if we want to retain access to the Single Market, we have to accept the freedom of movement. I take it you want to retain access to the European Single Market, the new Chancellor does, please tell me how we can keep access to the Single Market, without losing our right of freedom of work and travel in EU member states, while at the same time not accepting freedom of movement for people to live and work in the UK
Brexiters often talk about the Norway option (EEA), but in Norway they have freedom of movement and a higher proportion of immigrants than UK. Most UK immigrants come from India, which is not in Europe anyway. Some academics have argued that Norway has less sovereignty then other EU member states, since they are subject to EU laws, but have no say in shaping them. Norway also pays more into the EU than it gets back.
I thought Mike Patterson stated he was never going to engage with me again, but as a fervent leave voter, we should not expect him to keep a promise. As a matter of fact, my investors did tell me to move our new company out of the UK as a result of Brexit and I have spent the last few weeks in Spain where we are in the process of creating jobs that would have gone to Britain. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36835566
“Have you been partaking in the raw product of your produce Chris?” – sorry I do not understand your question. We’re producing cosmetics, what has that got to do with anything? Yes I’ve used our soaps, shampoos and creams. Typical Brexit voter, don’t answer the issues at hand and make a stupid comment that is completely irrelevant. I have presented logical and consistent arguments as to why Brexit will be a fucking disaster and all you come back with is pious comments about my occasional usage of swear words (it is 2016) and claim I have bizarre views and swear because of my choice of hand creams, soaps, shampoos and conditioners. Very strange man.
before we voted to leave the EU, we carried out a considerable amount of research on the EU and the unelected EC. We were absolutely horrified by what we found. Far worse than we were aware of and indeed anticipated.
So you were horrified to find out that the 28 heads of the EU Civil Service were not elected? Why? The Commission is actually the Civil Service for the EU. They draft legislation, they can propose legislation but they do not vote on it. That is no different from the British Government system.
What is so horrific about that?
DR CHRIS HENTSCHEL said:
It’s obvious from just a cursory read that the pro-Brexit voters are truly victims of their own propaganda narrative. There are so many examples here, but one typical one is the easily rebutted fib that the Remain campaign claimed the WW3 could follow Brexit. Rather, it was their own propaganda outlets that invented this idea to ridicule the Remain campaign when Cameron mentioned the positive role the EU had made to keeping peace in Europe. He was quite measured in what he said, as is easily verifiable, but reporting this accurately would not have served the propaganda ‘project fear’ narrative. The fact that the EU was awarded the Nobel peace prize with a detailed citation explaining its role in keeping the peace was of course ignored by the Sun, Mail etc. Even the ‘neutral’ BBC never mentioned this rather salient fact.
We don’t make decisions about lesser matters, like where a new runway should be built in London, by allowing a deliberately misinformed public to take a blinkered punt.
Britain and particularly the younger generation deserve better than this.
Bryan Southon said:
I support continued membership of the EU. The issue is how those of us 48% who voted to remain can prevent the process of leaving being initiated. I propose the formation of a pressure group acting alone or in alliance with others to persuade MP’s to exercise their judgement and not be dictated to by the referendum result They should reject any attempt to leave the EU. At the very least there should be a second referendum on the outcome of any negotiations if the leaving process is activated. My reasons for this are given in various posts above; such as It is not in the broad national interest to leave, 28% of voters may have abstained but silence does not mean consenting with the [slim] majority. If you want to stay let your MP know!
xenasrealm said:
Reblogged this on Musings of a passion junkie and commented:
The minority are right far more often than people care to admit – whether that measure is on the scale of a referendum, or an individual. Populism is never a reliable benchmark.
When did Scotland become a working class area…And Manchester and Liverpool have a distorted class perception due to having massive unis full of rich kids.
Ruth, not sure how you can backup your statement that the areas of highest immigration voted remain.
The three towns and cities with the largest percentage of immigrants, Slough, Luton, and of course Birmingham, all voted leave.
Then consider the northern towns such as Bradford, Barnsley, etc all voting leave.
It might be worth while re-examining your statistics and your geography. Or perhaps you should join us thick leave voters who think Everest is in England
John, you might want to reexamine your own statistics and geography. The area with the highest percentage of foreigners by far is still in and around London. Areas such as Ealing with over 40% of foreign-born population voted Remain. Harrow, likewise with almost half the population foreign-born voted Remain – and with an over 9% lead.
Compared to that, Birmingham was basically a tie, the Leave lead was well below 1%.
It might also be worthwhile to consider what kind of immigration we’re talking about. I know people like you blame the Fall of Man on the EU, because Britain, categorically, cannot be responsible for anything and an Englishman is genetically prevented from being at fault, but having your ancestors loot the planet off riches and then blaming it on the EU when the former subjects of the Crown follow the money deserves a special kind of contempt.
The EU has nothing, nothing at all, to do with immigration from Pakistan, and the fact that the Rotherham incident was repeatedly instrumentalised in discussions with Brexiteers underscores just how rampant ignorance on immigration issues is. It’s all an issue of “If it’s bad, it’s the EU’s fault”.
Tyelko, you seem to be tagging me as a racist.
I’m not sure of your credentials to be classed as a multiculturalist but I can assure you I am.
Religion, originally Protestant then Catholic married a Muslim. My wife is Bangladesh/ Irish.
Many British citizens that have been in this country for many years are worried about over immigration. I believe in intergration not suffocation. Countries should not being forced to take immigration that it cannot cope with.
Your true colours seem to be on show in as far as you are picking out people from Pakistan as a problem that is not of the EU making. So who is the racist. Immigration without integration is the problem not what nationality.
The traditional long estabished immigrant areas voted leave. They see the signs of future unrest stating because of over immigration.
John, I said nothing to suggest you were a racist. It seems to me you want to divert attention from the fact that your claims about votes from areas with a lot of immigrants were off.
That is further reinforced by your dishonest suggestion that _I_ suggested that people from Pakistan were a problem when I said nothing of that sort. I pointed out that I’ve seen the Rotherham scandal being brought up time and again when portraying the problems immigration supposedly brings, ignoring that it had nothing to do with the EU.
As such, your comment about “signs of future unrest” is merely the usual trope. You fail to present any justification for such supposed signs being reasons to vote “leave”.
It speaks volumes that you react this vociferously and with a smear campaign to being called out on making wrong statements.
Firstly the 2011 census has Birmingham at 47% of it population “not white British” an increase of 8% in ten years. So I think it depends on where you get your statistics from. So I am certainly not diverting attention away from my claims.
As to you not calling me a racist. The remark “people like you” and then go on about these people not wanting to welcome people from commonwealth, does describe me as a racist.
Your mention of Pakistan and Rotherham and the fact that you are trying to distance the EU from it, says that you believe there is good and bad immigration. That is racist. Where as I believe you can just have to much of a good thing.
As to the unrest, you can aready see it starting throughout Europe. How long do you think these attacks will be allowed to go on before there is retaliation.
Once the retailistuon starts there are “racists” that will not care where you are from you will not be a native of the country that you reside in and therefore be s target.
So I say again I voted leave to protect all immigrants that are now living in this country and may they enjoy it peacefully but if we are force to inigrate to many to quickly you will get a reaction. The EU should have just allowed Britain to restrict immigration and we would have had a remain majority. So if you want to blame anyone for us leaving the Eu blame the EU.
“Firstly the 2011 census has Birmingham at 47% of it population “not white British” an increase of 8% in ten years. ”
That’s something entirely distinct from “immigrants”, John.
No, it doesn’t. Your declaring anyone non-white an immigrant, however, certainly suggests so.
“Your mention of Pakistan and Rotherham and the fact that you are trying to distance the EU from it, says that you believe there is good and bad immigration. That is racist. ”
That’s cute, projecting Brexiteer racism on me. I mentioned Pakistan and Rotherham as an argument against immigration brought up by Brexiteers.
Further demonstration of the ignorance mentioned in the article. The situation in France, much like the one in Britain, has far more to do with the colonial past than recent immigration.
“The EU should have just allowed Britain to restrict immigration and we would have had a remain majority. So if you want to blame anyone for us leaving the Eu blame the EU.”
Yes, as we already established, everything is the EU’s fault. Even the fact that you want to have your cake and eat it, too, enjoying all amenities without any of the responsibilities.
Britain can restrict non-EU immigration as much as it wants, and EU immigration has nothing to do with the “recent unrest”.
You continue to demonstrate that the case for Brexit fundamentally relies on dishonesty.
Hilary Burrage said:
I’m sure some readers have seen this already, but it does tell us more about the general wider opinions of those who wanted to Remain or Leave: https://flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/looking-behind-the-brexit-anger/ . Of course there are some with a liberal world view who wanted Brexit (and vice versa) but despite the protests from Leavers the trends really are there…
Paolo Porsia said:
Reblogged this on Commentaria.
Simon Briggs said:
What has the Brexit vote accomplished?
Enormous and, for the moment irreparable social schism. Oh, and civil war on social media, as displayed by this somewhat pathetic aggressive – defensive interchange
JonP said:
True that being in a majority does not automatically make you right but it makes your views those of the majority. Also right and wrong suggests a black and white answer which is narrow minded. This is typical self righteous thinking that presumes to know why others think the way they do.
Tyelko,
If you accept that all the counties of Europe have a far right racist element, which you do, can you also not see that the logic of your argument is lost on them. They do not care if you are a first generation immigrant or a fourth generation immigrate ….you are an immigrant. When there is a huge influx of immigration it allows these people to generate hate and when some of the immigrates are violent they use this to incite violence. They do not care if you are from the EU or from India or Syria to a racist you are an immigrant.
That is why people who have been settled here for generations have voted to leave the EU. That is why I claim that the areas with the greatest populations of ” non white British” ( immigrants over many generations) voted to leave the EU.
The EU has a great economic plan, whether it is good or bad, is irrelevant if it is put before the safety and stability of the member nations.
Britain is not the only country worried about the social fabric of Europe. Talk is about how Britain should have remained to help change things.
That means that the EU is to blame because if they were ever going to alter their thinking it would have been when Cameron asked for their help before the election.
So as more and more attacks happen throughout Europe, for whatever reason, (the racists won’t care) the tit for tat retaliations will escalate.
I personally do not wont to by attacked because I am white and I do not wont may family attacked because they have an immigrant background.
I as much as I cannot definitely say that the economical downturn will be short lived, you cannot definitely say that our countries will not enter a period of major social unrest.
I personally prefare my family to be poorer and safe, than not poorer and unsafe.
Let’s face it you wouldn’t be any better off if we remained you just maybe wouldn’t be any worse off.
Having said all of this, I am sure that you will go back to blaming it on imperialism, but that won’t change a thing it is the here and now that matters not the past.
Graham Saunders said:
You jumped up sanctimonious little prick. How dare you call the majority of the Brexit voters dumb and ignorant and small minded. You are laying bare your own prejudices by saying that the majority of Brexit voters read the DM or Ecpress. Grow up for gods sake you little child.
Except there’s plenty of evidence for his points.
Ian Mc said:
“In fact, the most working class parts of the UK – Scotland, Liverpool, Manchester – all voted Remain. And the majority of young people voted Remain too.”
Notwithstanding:
Bassetlaw
Sandwell
I’m bored typing them now, but I wager some of those are part of the ‘most working class areas’ (like whatever that means anyway – the whole of Scotland ‘most working class’)
A Dissident said:
Yes, all the Leave voters were totally ignorant of the Stalinist group think. Book them in to the nearest gulag for some ”re-education.”
It would be entirely sufficient for you to get a normal education instead of engaging in tinfoil hattery and declaring the entirety of UK academia a bunch of corrupt clueless idiots.
“If you accept that all the counties of Europe have a far right racist element, which you do, can you also not see that the logic of your argument is lost on them. ”
And that is an argument why?
So you say because there are antivaxxers, we should stop vaccinating people and let liars like Wakeland run the show? Because there are creationists, we should stop teaching science? After all, you already declared the entirety of UK academia a bunch of idiot morons who got their Nobel prizes through corruption and graft by your vote.
“They do not care if you are a first generation immigrant or a fourth generation immigrate ….you are an immigrant. When there is a huge influx of immigration it allows these people to generate hate and when some of the immigrates are violent they use this to incite violence. They do not care if you are from the EU or from India or Syria to a racist you are an immigrant.”
And of course that’s a valid argument?
Which is irrelevant to the point you wanted to counter, namely the fact that the areas with the highest immigration, i.e. foreign-born inhabitants, those people who actually do know immigrants, voted Remain.
So you failed to counter that point, instead constructing a dishonest strawman, as with pretty much all pro-Brexit arguments.
You demonstrate just how correct the initial point of the blog post is – complete and utter, abject ignorance about how the EU works.
No, the EU has no “great economic plan”. The EU is not a singular planning entity. It is composed of its member nations and it is the member nations which call the shots. That this is done by votes and agreements and not by simply agreeing to whatever your nation wants is not a bug, it’s a feature.
No, it means no such, thing, but thanks for confirming that your main beef with the EU is that it doesn’t jump to the British fiddle 100% of the time and people on the continent simply sign over their sovereignty to little Englanders.
Right, of course, facts are irrelevant, propaganda is the new truth, and attacks supposedly in “retaliation” are immediately justified through libel and propaganda.
You don’t want your family attacked because they have an immigrant background? Like hell you do. You are promoting attacks on them by justifying racist attacks and lending credence to racist propaganda. I’d suggest you think long and hard why xenophobic attacks in the UK increased massively after the Brexit vote. Maybe read your paragraph above and think about what you are saying there.
I can certainly say that the social unrest in the UK has increased, not decreased, after the Brexit vote, and is much more likely to further increase than decrease.
Let’s face it you wouldn’t be any better off if we remained you just maybe wouldn’t be any worse off.2
Let’s just face it, you did jack sh*t to make your family safer, quite the contrary, you made it so that the probability of them being attack is massively higher than before and now are frantically trying to justify that for you, unwittingly even going further down that road by continuing to spread racist propaganda uncritically.
Right, and of course, reasonable analysis is useless waste of time, whereas uncritically parroting the Daily Mail and the Express will contribute to improving the situation.
Just like your Doctor is a useless hack who wasted his time in medical school and all those other academic idiots should never have thought that studying an issue would lead to any superior knowledge. Boris, Gove and Farage all know so much more than the likes of Paul Nurse, Peter Higgs, Stephen Hawking, George Akerlof or Angus Deaton.
Have fun in your dream of Britain in the stone age.
mrmmarsh said:
Great piece, but to be clear the links you’re citing at the end aren’t evidence that most people are ignorant, they’re made up PR ‘studies’ designed to serve as an advert. Most British people don’t actually think Everest is in England, that’s an advert by a dodgy PR company, and ironically just the kind of falsified loss and propaganda you’re criticising in the rest of the piece. I’d suggest you delete those lines, or replace them with ones that are derived from credible sources. But the rest is all good!
(Disclaimer: I lecture about those kind of PR studies for journalism students at a couple of universities)
Wendy Bradley said:
I voted out because I studied the EU, neoliberalism, global economics and politics.
I know Brexit is the best way forward and the attitude of remainers to Brexiteers is akin to the snobbish and arrogant attitude the KKK has to blacks in America – you can’t see the good in anyone who has a differing idea to your own. Poor judgement is a sign of ignorance.
Nice one 🖒
Yes, poor judment is a sign of ignorance. Such as comparing criticism of your opinion with the KKK, when it’s your fellow Brexiteers who are hunting people in the streets of England.
It speaks volumes that you believe the KKK is merely “snobbish and arrogant”. But it’s to be expected from someone actively fostering hate crime.
You claim you have “studied the EU, neoliberalism, global economics and politics” – you are a liar. You don’t even remotely know what studying something looks like and the only snobbish and arrogant attitude here is that of lazy Wendy Bradley who believes to know more about the EU, global economics and politics than all the Nobel laureates of Britain who dedicated their life to having a bleeping idea what they are talking about. You are lazy and arrogant because you believe you can get all the authority with none of the work.
Rudolph Tomossi said:
“It’s not Democracy when I don’t like the result!” Check.
“Everyone who doesn’t agree with me is an ignorant stupid racist, but I’ll concede that 4 or 5 Leavers in the entire nation (I happen to personally know) aren’t so therefore you can’t accuse me of arrogance!” Check.
“I can’t answer difficult challenges to my perception of the EUtopia so they’re all lies!” Check.
This whole article is saturated with sophistry, superiority complex and staggering arrogance. The comment about the vast majority of English people believing Everest is in England only goes to show the level of contempt and dare I say it – racism – the author has for the British.
The expression Fractural Wrongness springs to mind.
I was surprised that you didn’t reply to my last post. Now I no why. You actually agree with me. There is already unrest in the streets.
You can claim it is for this reason or that reason but that doesn’t matter, the fact is because of forced immigration we have attacks undertaken by misguided people name of religion. We have misguided people, who though mistrust and fear, are racist “hunting people in the streets”
You do not have to be an expert to realise that these two facts do not generate peace and integration.
So again I am going to state that the remain voters either do not understand the dangerous path they want to take us down or they just have not even considered the social unrest forced immigration can cause.
If it is neither of these two options then it is quite simply they are putting wealth over social stability.
The EU should hold back on it immigration program until it has educated people on how to live together and that can only happen when you start to except other people’s piont of view.
I do agree that economic problems are going to be caused by leaving the EU and they probable effect me far more than you. On the other hand you seem to be in denial as to the fact that social unrest should be taken into the equation.
That’s why the EU need to educate people with unbiased facts not just the facts that favour their own objectives.
The EU have done a study on the effects of immigration, which was back in 2006. It claimed that there were many gap in the information it had on the effects on the native population. I guess the gaps are now being filled in, a bit to late.
Northern Sentinel (@NSentinel1) said:
Arrogant Elitist pouting that the people do not see his brilliance.
Go suck your thumb, snowflake.
Aww, cute, another Brexiteer with nothing better to do than to demonstrate that the hallmarks of their ilk are being lazy and merely capable of parroting tropes.
It’s hilarious when dropouts like you who consider themselves more knowledgable than Nobel laureates call others “arrogant”.
Coming from someone who considers himself more knowledgable than the entirety of British academia, that’s rich, Project much? Staggering arrogance and superiority complex is rather on the side of hacks like you who believe studying is for sissies and Nobel laureates pure hacks compared to your own glory.
“You can claim it is for this reason or that reason but that doesn’t matter,”
Yes, it very much does matter what triggers it.
“the fact is because of forced immigration we have attacks undertaken by misguided people name of religion.”
False. The fact is that the majority of these attacks had nothing, nothing at all, to do with recent immigration, and the only “force” behind them was the collapse of the French colonial Empire.
” We have misguided people, who though mistrust and fear, are racist “hunting people in the streets” ”
And you have nothing better to do than to justify their actions by supporting their rhetorics and confirming their prejudice.
Or they actually got their facts straight rather than running after cheap tropes.
Right. Let’s accept antivaxxers, creationists, and any other frauds and quacks as just another point of view. Let’s support Neo-Nazis in spreading their propaganda, it’s just another point of view after all. Holocaust denial and all the other good things should be actively promoted.
There is no “immigration program” by the EU. And you are complicit in any attack out there by promoting such disinformation.
“Unbiased facts”? You are hilarious. You have no interest in “unbiased facts”. You have repeatedly spread patently false information.
I guess you are filling them with Neonazi propaganda and feeling all proud about aiding and abetting them in the name of the “safety” of your family.
You still haven’t grasped that it was the Brexit vote, and not “immigration” which triggered the peak in attacks. But hey, all is good as long as you can lie to your wife that you are doing everything to keep her safe while promoting the propaganda of people who would beat her to pulp without blinking.
What on Earth are you talking about, Tyelko? You don’t know me. I don’t consider myself more knowledgeable then the entirety of British academia. I certainly don’t think studying is for sissies and I don’t have grandiose perceptions of my own “Glory”. There is literally nothing in my original post that would give anyone reasonable grounds to reach those conclusions. You’ve drawn those conclusions from your own prejudice. You’ve just pulled those conclusions out of your arse. But then, I guess I must be a “Hack” because I had the audacity to disagree.
But please, tell me more about how I’m projecting – but who am I kidding – I’m guessing I’m just in for insults and name calling now, huh?
“There is literally nothing in my original post that would give anyone reasonable grounds to reach those conclusions. You’ve drawn those conclusions from your own prejudice. You’ve just pulled those conclusions out of your arse. But then, I guess I must be a “Hack” because I had the audacity to disagree.”
No, you’re a hack because you deny even the obvious and believe the world to be flat courtesy of your sheer say-so. Pretty much the entirety of British academy strongly counseled against Brexit as bad for Britain and the British based on economic and public health reasons and bad for British science to boot. And in the latter field, the impact is already manifesting as British researchers are asked by their continental colleagues to recuse themselves from grant applications for EU funds in order to not jeopardize the grants by questions of eligibility. They are also already manifesting by a lower attractivity of British universities and research institutions for foreign talent – and foreign talent is critical for science to function in the modern world.
You’re hack because you believe you know better than the likes of Paul Nurse, Peter Higgs, Stephen Hawking, George Akerlof or Angus Deaton and can dismiss their positions outright.
But yeah, “there is literally nothing in your original post that would give anyone reasonable grounds to reach those conclusions”, aka. “The world is flat, the world is flat, the world is flat!”
One thing is sure Tyeko- you make things up and portray them as fact. This is what hacks do isn’t it?
One thing is sure, Mike – you project a lot from your own conduct onto others.
But at least you’re consistent in that. Just like you are projecting your own ignorance of basic political theory and western democratic practice into alleged shortcomings of the EU and your sloth and ignorance about its workings into an alleged lack of transparency (when all the treaties are freely available online for everyone to see).
But yeah, I am the one who makes things up and portrays them as fact. Thanks for proving my point of the post before. If what you say is true, then indeed you and your ilk consider academia a bunch of raving idiots – because they quite “coincidentally” happen to agree with me.
But yeah, “fact” is what you declare it to be, research is for people with too much time on their hands and too much fantasy.
Sigh. I always love to meet a stranger who knows me better then I know myself.
Tyelko, you’re talking as if the expert advice against Brexit was unanimous or near enough so. It wasn’t.
http://www.economistsforbrexit.co.uk/
Yes, I can find you more expert opinion in favour of Brexit if you would like.
You’re also taking the short term effects of the uncertainty this has caused as irrefutable evidence that we are heading for the economic End Times. The long term prospects may be considerably better – it really is too soon to tell. A political shift this large, no-one really knows with absolute certainty how this will work out long term – no, not even the Leave camp does…
And on the topic of the wonderful EUtopia, I’m going to leave this here…
http://www.statista.com/statistics/266228/youth-unemployment-rate-in-eu-countries/
Perhaps it’s my turn to presume what you’re thinking. “But the EUtopia is perfect! Big Brother loves us! The EUtopia is an economic paradise! We don’t need to worry about things such as rampant youth unemployment on the continent because um…science grants! The world is flat, the world is flat, the world is flat!”
Diana said:
As far as I am aware, MPs have to develop and vote on a bill to leave the EU, just as they had to do when we joined. This may take place before the end of the year. MPs have to vote based on what they believe is best for Britain, and we know that most MPs are in favour of remaining in the EU. The referendum result was advisory, not binding.
In addition, assuming they vote to start the process, the European Union Act 2011 requires another referendum, as the result of any negotiations would be a treaty change. It is possible that the negotiations would achieve a result that would be acceptable to people who originally voted to leave. It would be interesting to see if we could then stay in the EU on that basis, as nobody has ever triggered Article 50 before, and in theory there is no provision for changing our minds once that has been done.
Either way, the slim majority Brexit vote of those who voted in the 23 June referendum does not mean Brexit. What it does mean is uncertainty about the future, many problems now and in the near future, and often abusive debate as illustrated in the exchanges above. I am dismayed that it seems impossible for people to discuss these issues properly and/or do even a modicum of independent un-biased research instead of parroting propaganda.
Even if we do eventually leave, the outcome in the future would not be all bad. The much-maligned “experts” would find a way to make things work, even if it takes a few years to do so and we put back our economic progress by a decade or so. I know of many people who have already lost their jobs or their funding, so let’s hope that whatever happens they will not have to suffer for too long.
Modjadji said:
The most hilarious thing of all is those who claim that not implementing Brexit as a result of the vote would somehow be undemocratic, when in actual fact the complete reverse is true!
Democracy only exists where there is accountability – which is, strangely enough, why we elect politicians to make these massively important decisions.
If it turns out that the shock of the vote leads to a significant downturn in the economy, and, quite likely a recession, then if Parliament votes for it, at least any mp who does so can be booted out of office.
In what way could the people who voted for it be held to account, if we left solely based on the referendum? And that’s before you even get into all the legal issues, such as the impossibility of taking Scotland out of the EU against it’s will whilst it remains part of the UK, due to their devolved government.
It is the job of Parliament (you know, the same parliament that the Brexiters kept telling us should be sovereign!) to decide what is in the best interest of the country.
As has been said, if what the majority of the people wanted had to be brought in regardless of the consequences, up until very recently we would have had the death penalty.
When it becomes clear how dire the state of the economy is at the start of 2017, at the same time that the negotiations are starting, I’d bet a large sum of money that there would be a majority against leaving (and that’s even supposing there is still a majority in favour today, which is far from certain)
For a multitude of reasons, I’m convinced that Brexit will never happen, thank goodness.
Andy said:
I can’t wait for the day when the first fringe politician stands up and says stuff like this (i.e: It was advisory; Parliament has responsibility for all Britons; 37.44% the adult electorate voted leave and most of that was based on nonsense, so are we hell going to leave the EU). That will indicate progress towards the day when there is at-the-very-least a second referendum with an option to remain in the EU, which will obviously lead to healthy Remain vote. Then British History can resume instead of pretty-much ending.
In the mean time, the majority of the population will have to put up with this limbo. A limbo in which there are a vocal number of bitter and angry people (i.e. a minority of Leave voters) who refuse to either see or accept that they’ve cocked-up massively and shout their bitterness and anger on social media. Meanwhile the rest of the Leave voters will be quietly realising just what the facts are and gently merging with Remainers to form a popular group known as “decent people”.
P.S. You can tell who the bitter and angry people are because they will feel the need to respond to articles and posts like this with bitterness and anger, ironically openly identifying themselves as part of the bitter and angry minority by being bitter and angry about the fact that they are bitter and angry. Anyway, the football season’s starting soon so maybe they’ll go back to being bitter and angry about that.
Why did all the remain voters on here bother to vote at all. If you are now so convinced the the vote was worthless you would have been better off abstaining, then you could claim that anyone that didn’t vote leave was in favour of remaining so in effect you actually won the referendum.
As to the legality of the vote, the fact that the Tory government won the election because of the promise of a referendum, which was probably voted for by many in the remain camp gives it that legality.
Anyone on here who did not vote labour in the last election should remember they legalised the referendum . Just because you now don’t like the result you want it to go away.
This was what you voted for!!!!
Peter Clive said:
It all started a long time ago …
http://moflomojo.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-natives.html
Peter Clive, well done mixing fact with some nice Ndebele to try to make it he whole piece appear to be the truth. Please try harder as to will not fool many people like that.
Andy, it seems that Th vast majority of bitterness posted in this thread is from he Remain voters. Quite why in an article on demicracy, so many are agreeing with the article yet proposing overturning a democratic process is beyond me. The twisting of numbers does not fool anybody, even us racist, bigoted, stupid, uneducated majority who voted leave.
Diana, take a few minutes to think what would happen if the MPs chose not to follow the will of the people. I imagine civil unrest.”, and the resurgence of UKIP and far right parties. Do you think that is a good idea?
Tyke,
Again you are lying. You continue to make things up and suggest that you know things that you cannot possibly know. You are so full of t that the smell it that I can smell you from here.
You are hilarious!
FibbingIsARationalResponse said:
And the prize for proving both sides of the campaign were as bad as each other goes to Tyelko, as well as the original. Do quiet down. Read back the amount of hate and vitriol in your comments and ask yourself how yours is better than the brexit voters. You are giving a remainers a bad name.
I did vote remain but would like to dissociate myself from all this. I accept the EU wasn’t perfect and I don’t like the prospect of ever-rising population levels as a result of unchecked immigration either. There is a dark side to immigration and the half of the British population abandoned without investment or education by our politicians in favour of courting the already-educated rich middle classes of other countries have every right to point that out. As do women everywhere following the Cologne attacks and others throughout Germany at the New Year, which have been largely ignored and dismissed as women’s issues so commonly are. Economically it may even be the better path long term. It is difficult to say as the whole world is discovering what environmentalist have always said, that rampant unchecked capitalism is unsustainable.
The whole referendum has been a disaster in terms of demonstrating the weaknesses of our entirely morally bankrupt London-centred political structure, and dividing the country. It is a disgrace that leading politicians were conducting an exit campaign they had no plans for following through, and a disgrace that a referendum took place with no clear guidelines on how or when to action it. We all know it was offered just as a part of empty political games by an inept leader with nothing else of substance to offer. Given the problems of our crappy political system it was the pnly chance many people will ever be given to express their disenchantment, so no surprises when that happened (incidentally, I don’t know about the others but Manchester city is not now a working class area. Middle class as they come and as a residential area inaccessible to most locals).
We now need to reject the ‘divide and conquer’ techniques that he and his ilk fostered, unite and move forward together. Face the reality of a world with dwindling resources and halting economy and try to find the best solutions for all of our people and negotiate fairly with the rest of the world. No more sniping at each other or we are all doomed. I’ll make an exception for the politicians who’ve got us into this mess: our first task collectively is to address our political weaknesses.
“As do women everywhere following the Cologne attacks and others throughout Germany at the New Year, which have been largely ignored and dismissed as women’s issues so commonly are.”
This is a)bullshit and b)has nothing to do with the EU
Not only have the Cologne attacks not been ignored, in fact, a number of people have been arrested, nor have other “attacks”. That does not mean they are what they are represented as. What YOU ignore, because it is inconvenient for you, is that a massive amount of those other attacks you talk about have been on closer inspection been either blown way out of proportion or made-up entirely to begin with. Even with the Cologne attacks, the only reported case of actual rape involving intercourse turned up to be fabrication. But hey, when a woman reports having become pregnant after a rape in Cologne on New Year’s and later is found to have not even been there and having serially reported rapes in the past that did not hold up to scrutiny, it’s “ignoring and dismissing women’s issues”, not the sad case of a psychologically imbalanced woman.
And it’s an exercise in dishonesty to bemoan supposed ignoring and dismissing of “women’s issues” when the only “women’s issues” one is interested in is those involving foreigners and pickpockets using sexual assault as a diversion tactic become more relevant than a German couple systematically torturing several women to death.
Anyone claiming to be advocating women’s rights in this discussion is a bald-faced liar promoting nothing but women’s rights to be lying, libeling bigots.
It’s hilarious that you accuse others of vitriol and speak of “dark sides” while supporting criminal conduct and literally whitewashing crime.
You continue to project your own dishonesty and fabrication onto others. It’s hilarious that you continue to insist I am lying yet never had anything more than your say-so to establish that, whereas I pointed out false claims of you repeatedly.
You’re a rather pitiful, little Rumpelstiltskin stomping your foot screaming “But I AM right!” without ever being able to produce the slightest bit of evidence to support your bullshit. You rave about legislative initiative, in abject ignorance of the fact that the executive is the chief initiatior of legislation in the UK, in Germany, and in most other countries. And your only reply on being called out on that is “You lie”. You declare that your assessments are right, thereby declaring the assessment of all the experts out there wrong, but your only reaction to being called out on your arrogance is calling other people arrogant and dishonest.
Sorry, but not everyone shares your opinion that wilful ignorance and sloth can be compensated by being that much more insistent on the dishonesty of everyone actually doing their homework.
The only one full of shit here is you, you live off the work of your betters but demand to be more respected than those putting in hard work you refuse to do.
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caz1971 said:
What an odious little man you are. Or woman. I am guessing a man. Ever been diagnosed with narcissism at all? Just curious.
Glenn said:
People in working class areas voted for Brexit because of the flood of foreign nationals taking their jobs. I live in Wales and the working classes have had enough of seeing foreign nationals taking their jobs.
That comment is one of ignorance as you forget most brexiteers were working class and Wales had a bigger vote for Brexit than England..
I am afraid I consider this post of yours to be one of an arsehole to be honest.
Skylar said:
Here is an interesting opinion. https://questionguidance.wordpress.com/2016/08/14/brexit-what-they-voted-for/
Yeah, because there’s so many foreigners living in Wales.
Here’s news to you: If someone who doesn’t speak the language and has no contacts and no resources can take your job, then you probably suck. This has nothing to do with “the working classes” and “foreign nationals taking their jobs”, it has something to do with being duped hook, rope and sinker in having any prospect for jobs taken away from you.
The ignorance is entirely on your part. Areas such as Cardiff voted Remain, as did several on the West Coast. It’s those areas with no jobs to be taken away which voted Leave, thereby ensuring that they chop themselves off any assistance the EU provides for such regions. The claim that Wales had a bigger vote for Brexit than England is ignorance at its best.
I am afraid you’re projecting from yourself to the author of the post.
You’re precisely the kind of ignorant twat the author meant, waffling about immigrants taking away jobs because you are too lazy to verify stuff before parroting the propaganda you have been fed. The percentage of foreign-born in Wales is minuscule, and those areas where it is higher, lo and behold, voted “Remain”.
You are the typical xenophobic dunce who blames everyone but himself for his misery. It’s a pity people like you will run out of scapegoats just as the going gets REALLY tough. You think you have seen joblessness in Wales? You have seen nothing yet. When the EU structural funds dry up. you will sell your children to get some breadcrumbs from Westminster and they will laugh in your face as they line their pockets, happy to have duped you into shooting into your own foot.
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I live in Wales and see youngsters not having jobs because of firms usng agencies and carting in Eastern Europeans to fill vacancies rather than train local youth. Those youngster ALREADY have lost those jobs. So I guess for them Brexit means more chance of getting emplyment.
I am not miserable thank you. I am very optimisitc about Brexit. I am sure that money that is used to fund the corrupt edifice know as the EU will be reallocated to regions around the UK. You just whine because the people of this country voted for Brexit. As for “seling Children” – is that some thing that happens in your area…..or are you just one of the buyers?
Well if I am the kind of twat who makes a prick like you stand to attention then c’est la vie. I live in Wales and I can SEE my Town not changing for the better due to the EU free movement. “Miniscule” is not the way I would describe the number that have arrived in South Wales.
If you are so pro EU move to Europe. This country voted Brexit so deal with it and quit whining about the choice of the electorate.
Right, so according to you, the Torygraph of all papers sweeps immigrants in Wales under the carpet and lies about the true numbers.
“I am sure that money that is used to fund the corrupt edifice know as the EU will be reallocated to regions around the UK. ”
Thanks for confirming my point. You were the dumpster hole of the UK before the UK joined the EU, to believe that the Etonians give you more breadcrumbs than you got in the past demonstrates just how delusional you are. The EU was actually the only one who made sure that money was spent on regions such as Wales. And thanks for demonstrating that your “knowledge” of the EU is limited to parroting the usual ignorant tropes of the “corrupt” EU.
Right, we already established that you know better than anyone else and the Torygraph is talking down the numbers.
a)You have no idea where I live, dunce
b)The choice of the electorate was not to abolish freedom of speech, as much as fascist scum like you would love nothing more than to abolish any elections not giving outcomes you like.
I would wager the “official figures” on immigration and foreign nationals are innaccurate.
Well for a dumpster hole it is very beautiful. Historically we were given the dirty end of the stick but the Welsh Assembly will be vocal about funding, and money that no longer goes to the EU will be used for regional schemes.
I can see the difference in the workplaces of my town and communities. I can see young people struggling to get jobs as employers use foreign workers rather than train local youth. I never read the Torygraph you nincompoop. I just take note of the world in my vicinity unlike limp and liberal Guardian readers like you who live in LaLa land.
a).. I have no idea where you reside – nor do I care. I just hope the underside of that rock you cling to is comfortable.
b) Fascist Scum. Laughable. I do not belong to (nor ever have or ever will) to any political party. As much as you would like to persuade people I march in a black shirt, burning foreign flags and shouting “Zieg Heil” that is not my cup of tea. I just engaged in a government run referendum and voted Brexit and sadly for those who voted Remain a narrow majority voted out. Democracy in action – and it would appear you are the one not liking the electoral outcome.
When you were jettisoned from your mother’s vagina into the world you must have stumbled into the “Forest of Stupidity” and head butted every tree. You have all the personality of Chlamydia.
Try rinsing the bitter taste of an election result you do not like out. Works wonders.
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Or perhaps it was a vote against globalisation. Just a rejection of what the authorities were telling us about how good Europe was when most EU countries have had slow economic growth for years.
“Just a rejection of what the authorities were telling us about how good Europe was when most EU countries have had slow economic growth for years.”
You mean like pretty much the entire industrialized world? In fact, several EU nations had some of the best growth out there for first world nations, but hey, let’s not let that prevent us from blaming the EU for Global Warming, the eradication of the Dodo and while we’re at it, the Fall of Man.
Dave said:
Your opposition to the death penalty appears to be inconsistent with your support of the remain campaign. The standard argument against the death penalty uses the golden rule of ethics. The remain campaign was based on a utilitarian greater good argument. I did not see anyone campaign on the basis of ethics.
The standard economics argument for the greater good is based on utility maximisation without regard for distribution. Without regard for distribution means without caring who is harmed or by how much. This argument does not meet the ethical standards taken for granted in legal rulings.
Remain didn’t make an ethical case. You haven’t made an ethical case in this blog. Remain failed and it’s their fault. You also failed when you wrote this blog and it’s your fault. Insulting half the UK population is not the answer. You should recognise your failure and do something about it. Think about economic distribution and the golden rule of ethics and come up with something better. Create an ethical argument. Your arguments for Europe are like opposing the death penalty because of the economic cost. I don’t see being right for the wrong reason as anything to be proud of.
Given the choice between two unethical campaigns people chose what they thought was the lesser evil. People should have had a better option. If you want to start arguing from the perspective of ethics then the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights would be a good place to start.
” The remain campaign was based on a utilitarian greater good argument. I did not see anyone campaign on the basis of ethics.”
And of course, your personal impression is the unerring ledger of truth.
“Remain didn’t make an ethical case. You haven’t made an ethical case in this blog. Remain failed and it’s their fault. You also failed when you wrote this blog and it’s your fault. ”
Your fault is that you declare the truth unethical and dishonesty ethical.
“Think about economic distribution and the golden rule of ethics and come up with something better. Create an ethical argument. Your arguments for Europe are like opposing the death penalty because of the economic cost. I don’t see being right for the wrong reason as anything to be proud of.”
And pretending to care for ethics and distribution while merely pretending to do so is nothing to be proud of, either. You’re the equivalent of the 350 million pound bus which claimed fake desire to support the NHS with a fake sum of money.
Who was it who invested in structurally poor regions in the UK? Certainly not Westminster. They neglected those regions for half a century and more. It was the EU which ensured that people in those areas had decent roads. It was the EU which funded libraries, community centers and supported expanding broadband connections. Now the people from those regions come crawling to London to beg for replacement of those funds.
That’s cute, given that the Leave campaign is fundamentally opposed to any and all external arbitration of human rights.
If you want to start arguing on ethics, first shove your dishonesty.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/27/merkels–underestimated-migrant-integration-challenge/
If merkels agrees with me perhaps I’m wrong….
But I don’t think so….. See previous!!!!
Here is an ethical standpoint for you: In Democracy the majority voice carries the day.
Deal with it instead of whining like a baby deprived of it’s bottle.
There is nothing ethical about the standpoint that a majority decision abolishes freedom of speech. You are a wee bit like Erdogan for whom democracy is a train from which to hop off as soon as you have reached your destination. Your belief that people should hand in their convictions and not speak their opinion anymore once you got what you wanted is the antithesis of democracy, and you merely underscore that the manhunts triggered by the Brexit votes, the murder of Jo Cox preceding it and the propagandistic lies of the Leave campaign are, contrary to all denials, born of the same spirit. You take your cues straight from the playbook your fathers and grandfathers defended the country against. But then, you already declared them senile, demented idiots already with your vote, given that Britain’s finest were solidly on the side of “Remain”. But people like you take everything for granted, you know no respect, no duty, no obligation, All you know is narcisstic entitlement.
Caroline Anne Lawes said:
Funny you say that, it’s a bit strange to have that viewpoint considering a majority of the Brexit vote was the elderly. I think you might have it around the wrong way. I think the elderly, who had waaaay more to do with our finest back in the day, know how the EU is bad for the UK 🙂
Thanks for demonstrating both my point and the point of the Blog Post – sloth and wilful ignorance are the hallmark of Brexiteers.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/15/dont-abandon-the-europe-that-i-fought-for-and-my-comrades-died-for
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/16/franklin-medhurst-96-war-veteran-pro-eu-letter
But yeah, _I_ have it around the wrong way. Suuuure.
Thanks for making the point better than anyone of the Leave side could have made it: You live in a fantasy land of your own making which has zero to do with the real world but is rather a cartoonistic theme park that is completely and utterly ludicrous to anyone with the diligence or the knowledge to get their facts straight.
“There is nothing ethical about the standpoint that a majority decision abolishes freedom of speech.”
Freedom of speech is one thing but whining like a child is another.
“the murder of Jo Cox preceding it and the propagandistic lies of the Leave campaign ”
The murder of Jo Cox had nothing to do with Brexit. Nutters do what nutters do – bit like your whining in this thread.
As for lies of the leave campaign : All that scaremongering about economic implosion, World War III, and general scaremongering coming out of the remain camp was pervcieved by the public for what it was – sheer bull manure.
You really have the far sightedness of an ostrich with its head rammed up it’s own anus.
Ya know what? I couldn’t give a monkeys what your opinion is of Brexit voters. We got used to the vitriol months ago. It’s why you were so shocked at the result. Leave voters stopped saying they were voting that way because it wasn’t worth the backlash. Wakey wakey people, 52% voted leave. It happened.
And the whole Jo Cox thing, wow. Well, here’s one for you. Did you know a 79 yr old woman was raped by a refugee whilst she was visiting her sisters grave, the day Fireman sam stepped on the Koran?
No I didn’t either. That’s because we & the media were all too busy worrying about a cartoon. And you wonder why people want us to get back some control?
I can post some links too, have a watch of this video http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/08/02/islamic-victims-rights-campaigner-banned-from-facebook-for-islamophobia-urges-people-to-make-a-video-saying-they-cant-arrest-us-all/
Just to settle it once and for all. If you voted remain, you knew the rules, the majority would win. You voted so you agreed to abide by the outcome, otherwise what was the point of you voting at all. Your only problem is you did not win.
If you did not vote at all then you cannot complain now, you had your chance.
If you voted leave then congratulations for have the sense not to be taken in by the doom and gloom spread by the Highly paid experts that where close the the leave campaign
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They’ll just sit around and expect Farage to ride in on his white horse in his Union Jack waistcoat and expect him to sort it all out for them… same as always.
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Paul O'Brien said:
As an Irish person I’m afraid that Brexit will undermine the fragile peace in Ireland. No-one wants a hard border in Ireland but it’s difficult to see how it could be avoided. It will stir up resentment and perhaps a revival of the violence we thought was behind us. However I can understand English concerns about immigration. England is over-populated and Ireland is not. Anyway “the tabloids have spoken.”
Shelagh Corker said:
Comments I previously read on FB suggested that 52% of the turnout were stupid, small-minded, bigoted, dozy, nostalgic foreigner-fearing fuckwits.
Being abusive against those of us that voted to leave is not the answer. We must all roll our sleeves up and get on with it.
It was a 72% turnout – higher than for all general elections this century – and around 8 percentage points more than in the 1975 referendum. Britain was Great then, it will still be Great after we have left.
Those that felt strongly about it turned out to vote, and most of them were Brexiteers. Instead of hurling abuse at those that voted to leave, shouldn’t the disgruntled minority be criticising those Remainers that couldn’t be bothered to vote?
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Friday, February 6, 2015 | Last updated about 13 hours ago
Bird in Eye Hill land in developers’ view
Update: It was agreed that the boundaries of the Uckfield Neighbourhood Plan area should remain as for the town boundary.
Planners representing two housebuilders are seeking to get the boundaries of the Uckfield Neighbourhood Plan area extended.
Land east of Uckfield and south of the railway line and River Uck should be included, according to a representative for Martin Grant Homes and Taylor Wimpey UK.
Although not stated in the letter from planning company, Turley, the land in question is on part of Bird in Eye Hill, which is in the parish of Framfield.
This area had previously been identified as a possible housing site but was ruled out, particularly because of the access into Uckfield along Framfield Road.
Rachel Lamb, of Turley, wrote to Wealden District Council on behalf of the two developers objecting to the suggested boundaries.
She understood the Wealden Core Strategy would be reviewed from 2015.
She wrote: “This process will include a review of housing numbers for the plan period which will in-turn establish whether additional site are required for housing purposes.
“Given this imminent review and the potential for a variety of outcomes in terms of housing needs for the District, it would be advisable for the Neighbourhood Plan boundary to cover a wider area to ensure that it can effectively respond to any changes within the core policy documents for the district.
“Incorporating flexibility within the Neighbourhood Plan at this early stage will ensure that the settlement can respond to any future changes in need.”
Uckfield Neighbourhood Plan is in its early stages.See story here.
One part of the process is to define the boundaries.
A proposal that the plan cover just the town itself was put out for consultation by Wealden District Council. It received just one reply – the one on behalf of the housebuilders.
Land at Bird in Eye Hill has been in the eyes of developers for some years.
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Glee – Season Three
by Allison VolpeApril 23, 2012, 3:21 pmApril 23, 2012, 3:21 pmApril 23, 2012, 3:21 pmTV >
After Quinn’s texting and driving-caused car-crash at the end of the first half of this season, fans were devastated. They wondered, “Would Quinn die? Would Ryan Murphy have the balls to do that, after everything was finally going well for her?” Well, no, he didn’t. And in true Glee fashion, the emotional aftermath of a serious situation is entirely rushed through. Quinn is now in a wheelchair, but is expected to make a full recovery and is treating the whole affair with a sunny, lighthearted disposition, as if she merely scraped her knee. Glee thoroughly enjoys putting it’s fans into cardiac arrest, then glossing over the situation as if it barely holds any meaning.
Apparently it was time to move onto more important things, like Blaine’s very attractive brother Cooper Anderson (played by Matt Bomer) coming to visit and stealing a little bit of his spotlight. Cooper is the star of freecreditreporttoday.com commercials, and Sue, Kurt, and the entire New Directions are practically dropping their collective panties for him. Here in the real world, the freecreditreport.com guys are closer to a nuisance than celebrities, but all right. Blaine holds a ton of anger and resentment towards his brother throughout the episode, because it can easily be seen that Cooper is a highly self-involved character, barely showing any kind of caring towards his little brother. But it’s still perplexing how sibling rivalry issues can be treated as more serious than a life-threatening car crash? Anyone?
The other inhabitants of Lima still have their own issues to contribute. Sue is still pregnant, which is still a mind-boggling issue. Rachel and Finn did in fact not get married, because of Quinn’s accident. Puck is trying to get Finn to move to LA with him, to create a highly lucrative pool cleaning business, but we know very well that any plan proposed by Puck usually turns out far from successful. Finn is easily manipulated, because he still doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing with his future, besides riding on Rachel’s coattails.
Senior cut day arrives, and Quinn and Artie go to a handicapped skate park, while the rest of the gang goes to an amusement park. For the entire episode, Quinn and Artie have been flirty, bonding over the fact that they are now both on two wheels. These moments have been adorable, but also slightly irritating, considering Artie and Quinn have barely communicated to each other in two and a half seasons prior to this accident.
The best songs of the episode were all sung by Blaine (swoon). He and his big brother do a Duran Duran mash up of “Hungry like a Wolf” and “Rio.” Their voices together are brilliant and captivating, as can be seen by Santana’s jaw being on the floor. Ours were too. Blaine also sings “Fighter” by Christina Aguilera, as a display of all of his angst towards Cooper. This is a very rough song to tackle for a voice like his, but he carries it well with his smooth vocals and aggressive boxing choreography. To cap it off, Blaine and Cooper sing an emotional and phenomenal rendition of Gotye’s current hit “Somebody That I Used to Know.” This is why Glee is allowed to do whatever the hell they want with their bizarre and preposterous plotlines. Because they will consistently leave you in a haze of happiness after yet another one of their innovative and irresistible covers.
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‘A United Kingdom’: LFF Exclusive Review
London Film Festival 2016: A United Kingdom | Review – The Upcoming - theupcoming.co.uk
The 60th London Film Festival has begun. The opening headline movie is United Kingdom: have a look at my review.
by Francesco Bacci (article) and Parasshuram Shalgar (video)
6 October 2016 at 10:19 6 October 2016 at 10:19
The 60th BFI London Film Festival will take place 5-16 October 2016, and I will watchsome of the most interesting movies of the upcoming Fall season. Let's start with my point of view on "A United Kingdom".
A United Kingdom: the story behind this historical union
Do you know that feeling, when everything seems to be kind of perfect, but it is, actually not? This fake resemblance of perfection is one of the main issues of this adaptation of the inspiring Susan William's story Colour Bar. A United Kingdom is a movie directed by Amma Asante and starring Selma's David Oyelowo and Gone Girl's Rosamund Pike as the king and queen of the nowadays Botswana.
The cast includes Harry Potter's Tom Felton, Jessica Oyelowo and Jack Davenport. It tells this difficult and inspiring love story between a black African royal heir and a common British woman. This tender couple will have to face so many obstacles caused by racism, colonialism and ignorance. The British governement and Seretse's uncle don't approve this "odd" marriage and they will try, unsuccessfully, to tear them apart.
Can love conquer them all?
The ideology and the message of the movie are really touching and emotional. We don't have to live in the '40s or in Africa in order to understand what racism and fear of the different look like. Homophobia,xenophobia and discriminationsare more relevant than even in the social networks era, which is increasing awareness on these terrible and eternal social plagues.
So, we may definitely relate to these characters, but once again A United Kingdom was too didactic.
A United Kingdom is not a trainwreck, but it still lacks of genuine emotions
Two years ago Ava DuVernay's Selma touchedmy heart so deeply, that I missed the same feeling in the Assante's depiction of this true story. She decided to shoot the movie in the actual locations and as a consequence, the photography of these scenarios is incredible, but Assante's Film still lacks of that spark which makes you thrill to, such stuff as dreams are ofas Shakespeare wrote.
"A United Kingdom" is not a trainwreck: it is rather entertaining and heartwarming. The cast delivers great performances, but if you look for an emotional thought-provoking ride, you are going to end up being disappointed. Sometimes less is better.
Don't miss my follow-up article with the exclusive review of Barry Jenkins' Moonlight and many more to come.
Have a look at the "A United Kingdom" trailer:
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Is your CV riddled with buzzwords like “hard-working”, “team-player” and ‘self-motivated’? Well, there’s actually some new skills that employers are favouring.
A survey of UK employers by job site CV-Library has revealed what traits they think are most important in a potential hire right now.
Adaptability is the most desirable trait in an worker, the survey found, with 72% of employers saying its one of the things they look for when hiring. However, two thirds (58%) said resilience is also key, and two fifths said willingness to upskill is just as important.
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Ability to change (31%), being able to balance work with their personal life (29%) and being a good networker (16%) were also desired qualities.
Lee Biggins, CEO of CV-Library said: “The world of work is constantly changing, influenced by a range of factors – from technological advances and rapidly evolving jobs, to a change in employee expectation and a rise in remote working.
“When applying for jobs or attending interviews, be sure to understand what the company is looking for in their next hire. Then demonstrate that you have those skills by using practical examples to highlight your experience.”
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According to the study, 89.3% of employers take a proactive approach to helping their employees up-skill. Over four in five employers (83%) said improving in these desirable areas is necessary for professionals to progress in their career.
What’s more, half said these skills set employees apart from other professionals, with 35% saying it can even provide added job security, and a third saying these employees are likely to secure a bigger pay packet.
Two in five (44%) believe candidates should consider working on these areas to “add variety” to their job.
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Scientific studies have shown that being in love causes body to release feel-good hormones and neuro-chemicals that trigger specific, positive reactions. Levels of dopamine, adrenaline and nor epinephrine increase when people are in love. But for many, knowing what real love feels like is a complete mystery. People spend a good portion of their lives searching for love, and wondering whether they are in love when they are in a relationship. Sometimes they think we’re in love…and once the relationship ends they doubt whether it was ever even love in the first place. It can be hard to see the difference between infatuation, or lust, and love. Though so ingrained in everyone’s lives, love is one of the least understood feelings for sure.
Here is a look at some of the popular Kollywood celebs who found true love after rocky relationships.
Recently, actress and Bigg Boss runner-up Sana Khan turned a new leaf in her life by quitting the glamorous world of acting and embracing a spiritual path. The Silambattam actress, who was in a relationship with choreographer Melvin Louis, later ended her relationship with him alleging that he cheated on her. She recently got married to Mufti Anas Sayed in Surat and has been posting happy notes on her marriage. She wrote, “I Never thought halal love could be so beautiful until I married you♥️.”
The Lady Superstar was in the news not only for her acting prowess but for her relationships, too. After falling in love with Silambarasan after she worked with him in Vallavan, she moved on after a few years. Later she fell in love with Prabhu Deva while working in Villu and they decided to get married though Prabhu Deva’s wife filed for a petition at the family court and threatened to go on a hunger strike. In 2012, Nayanthara confirmed that she ended her relationship with the choregrapher-turned-actor and director. It was on the set ofNaanum Rowdy Dhaan that the actress found her love in Vignesh Shivan, its director. Ever since they have been together and fans are eagerly waiting for their wedding announcement.
Vishnu Vishal
The Ratsasan actor had married his long-time girlfriend Rajini Natraj in 2011. They have a son Aryan but the couple got legally separated in 2018. It was said that his alleged interactions with some of his co-stars had cost him his marriage. Later, in June 2019, he shared photos with badminton ace Jwala Gutta on his social media and on her birthday on September 7, 2020, he proposed her with a ring. We hear that the couple will tie the knot soon. Jwala said that they were both serious about each other though she didn’t expect Vishnu to pop the question on her birthday. She said she was truly a special surprise.
Prakash Raj
Actor, director and producer Prakash Raj married Tamil film actress Lalitha Kumari in 1994. The much-in-love couple had three children-two daughters and a son. But when their son met with a fall and succumbed to injuries after battling for life, strains started appearing in the marital life. Prakash Raj could not take in the passing away of his son and he was never the same person. The marital discord eventually led to the divorce between Prakash Raj and Lalitha, though she never wanted a separation. Though Prakash Raj’s family is still close to Lalitha, a year later, he married choreographer Pony Verma. Pony is 12 years younger to him and Prakash Raj said that she brought romance and music in his life. They have a son, Vedanth.
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Director Vijay married actress Amala Paul with much fanfare in 2014. They fell in love while Vijay was directing Amala in Deivathirumagal. However, the couple filed for divorce in 2016, which came as a shock to their fans. While many said that Vijay’s parents were against Amala’s wishes to continue acting, Vijay’s father alleged that it was Dhanush who offered Amala a role in Amma Kanakku and brought her back to acting, thus creating trouble in the family. However, Vijay said that he was never against her wish for an acting career but thebase for any marital relationship is honesty and trust when that is breached the existence of committed relationship becomes pointless. Vijay later married Dr R Aishwarya in 2019 and they have a son, Dhruvaa, now.
Actor-dancer and director Prabhu Deva married Ramalatha in 1995, but the two separated in July 7, 2011. It is said that it was the death of their son that caused a strain in their relationship. But many considered his relationship with actress Nayanthara as one of the reasons behind his divorce. Ramalatha accused Nayanthara of "stealing" her husband and she levied several allegations on Nayanthara and Prabhu Deva. Later, Nayanthara decided not to tie the knot with Prabhu Deva and moved on in life. Recently, during the lockdown in September 2020, Prabhu Devagot married to his physiotherapist Himani, who is based out of Mumbai. The couple first met when Prabhu Deva was undergoing physiotherapy treatment for his back and legs. They lived together for two months before tying the knot.
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The Dodge Brothers | Middle of Nowhere: Exclusive Video Premiere
The U.K. Americana vets hit the road with a surprise in the boot in their latest clip.
Americana rebels The Dodge Brothers are on a mysterious mission to the Middle of Nowhere in their new video — premiering exclusively on Tinnitist.
Filmed in glorious black-and-white Dodge Vision, the road-trip clip for their latest slice of old-school roots-rock finds members of the long-running U.K. quartet cruising the backroads — in a vintage Dodge, of course — with a surprise package in the boot.
Middle of Nowhere — an ode to “wild, wild wanderers out in the wilderness looking for fame, fortune and forgiveness” — comes from their 2018 full-length Drive Train, the combo’s fourth exuberant platter of country blues, rockabilly, jugband and skiffle.
Firmly rooted in these traditions, The Dodge Brothers bring to them a freshness that has feet stomping and hands clapping from California to Cropredy, from the Mississippi to the New Forest. Their songs feature vocal virtuosity and heartfelt harmonies underpinned by joyous guitars, thumping double bass and rattlin’ snare and washboard.
The band features Mike Hammond (lead guitar, lead vocals, banjo), Mark Kermode (bass, harmonica, vocals), Aly Hirji (rhythm guitar, mandolin, vocals) and Alex Hammond (washboard, snare drum, percussion). Their music has an authentically American tang – frontman Mike Hammond was raised in Alabama and his youthful musical travels took him all over the southern and western U.S. – but with a strong British perspective from Culture Show presenter and film critic Mark Kermode.
These guys play with dust in their Levis and the road in their hearts. Check out Middle of Nowhere above, and keep up with The Dodge Brothers via their website, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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Home Read News Next Week in Music | May 27-June 2, 2019 • New Books
Next Week in Music | May 27-June 2, 2019 • New Books
It wouldn't hurt you to turn off that screen and read a book now and then.
When I’m not listening to music — and sometimes when I am — there’s a good chance I’m reading about music. You too? You’ve come to the right place. Here are the biographies, memoirs, coffeetable tomes and other music-related books due this week:
Keep Music Evil: The Brian Jonestown Massacre Story
By Jesse Valencia
THE PRESS RELEASE: “The Brian Jonestown Massacre are probably best known for their leader Anton Newcombe’s incendiary persona, as captured in the controversial 2004 rockumentary Dig! – which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance – but what isn’t known is the truth behind the making of the film, or the true story of the band since their formation in early 1990s San Francisco. Until now. Writer, actor, and musician Jesse Valencia spent ten years uncovering the mysteries of the band and the film, during which time he has traveled from San Francisco to Denver, Portland to Tucson, and beyond, gathering pieces of the band’s history and putting them together, clue by clue, until he found it. Presented as a personal narrative and compiled from hundreds of sources and interviews with key members of The Brian Jonestown Massacre – including Joel Gion, Rick Maymi, Frankie Emerson, Jeff Davies, Dean Taylor, Miranda Lee Richards, and Peter Hayes – as well as members of The Dandy Warhols, Dig! director Ondi Timoner, and countless other figures from both the film and from the band’s greater history, Keep Music Evil is the definitive work on the band and their enigmatic leader.”
The Philosopher King: T Bone Burnett and the Ethic of a Southern Cultural Renaissance
By Heath Carpenter
THE PRESS RELEASE: “Texas-born T Bone Burnett is an award-winning musician, songwriter, and producer with over forty years of experience in the entertainment industry. In The Philosopher King, Heath Carpenter evaluates and positions Burnett as a major cultural catalyst by grounding his work, and that of others abiding by a similar roots ethic, in the American South. Carpenter examines select artistic productions created by Burnett to understand what they communicate about the South and southern identity. He also extends his analysis to artists, producers, and cultural tastemakers who operate by an ethic and aesthetic similar to Burnett’s, examining the interests behind the preservationist/heritage movement in contemporary roots music and how this community contributes to ongoing conversations regarding modern southern identity. The Philosopher King explores these artistic connections, the culture in which they reside, and most specifically the role T Bone Burnett plays in a contemporary cultural movement that seeks to represent a traditional American music ethos in distinctly Southern terms. Carpenter looks at films, songs, soundtracks, studio albums, fashion, and performances, each loaded with symbols, archetypes, and themes that illuminate the intersection between past and present issues of identity. By weaving together ethnographic interviews with cultural analysis, Carpenter investigates how relevant social issues are being negotiated, how complicated discussions of history, tradition, and heritage feed the ethic, and how the American South as a perceived distinct region factors into the equation.”
Woodstock: A Photographic Look at the Movie that Shook Up the World and Defined a Generation
By Dale Bell
THE PRESS RELEASE: “Where were you in the summer of ’69? During these tumultuous times, the war was raging; Ali had been stripped of his crown; and in an obscure patch of earth in upstate New York, an event called Woodstock would change the world. This unique book is a collection of remembrances and perceptions from the filmmakers who created, and for performers and festival producers who appeared in, the Academy Award winning film, Woodstock. Featuring Janis Joplin, David Crosby, The Who, Joan Baez, Merv Griffin, and many, many, more.”
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Since 2015, the #30days30waysUK campaign aims to inspire and empower people to be ready and better prepared for a wide range of risks and their consequences such as flooding, fire, power cuts etc.
Throughout September, a daily preparedness theme is shared on social media through the hashtag #30days30waysUK linking to information and trusted resources by Local Resilience Forums and partners such as the emergency services, local authorities, health, utilities, the voluntary sector and others. To follow along, people simply search for the hashtag.
Alternatively, the campaign is available via email containing the main resources. The campaign takes a positive psychology approach using memes and light-hearted content in addition to a BINGO style game for people to download and cross off.
#30days30waysUK encourages residents across the UK to think about easy steps to “be prepared not scared” first by being informed through community risk registers and signing up for warnings. Second, by connecting to national and local resources and third, by inspiring personal and collective action to build capacities from the ground up for better individual and community preparedness and resilience.
Joanne Maddams and Monika Al-Mufti, co-founders of the campaign, said:
“These are unprecedented times that highlight the importance of personal and community preparedness and resilience. As we collectively continue to control the spread of COVID-19 and deal with its wide-ranging impacts other risks remain. There is a lot of excellent information and resources nationwide to help people to be better informed and prepared for all kinds of emergencies. Resilience is a culture of preparedness and there are small and easy steps everyone can take for their health and safety and that of their family, friends and neighbours.
We are excited to once again share many inspiring preparedness messages and stories in addition to brilliant resources along with colleagues from across the UK every day during “September is Preparedness Month.
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V1 Sports Launches Updated V1 Pro App to Enhance Online Lesson Platform
V1 SPORTS - April 1, 2020
Novi , MI – V1 Sports (V1), producers of the industry-leading golf swing analysis software for teaching pros and golfers, has released an updated version of the popular V1 Pro App used by a legion of teaching professionals to provide detailed and engaging online lessons for golfers eager to improve their games.
Packed with technical improvements and an upgrade to the user interface, including enhanced dynamic integration of data produced by the V1 Pressure Mat which the V1 Pro App now supports on devices iOS 13 and older. Portable and versatile, the V1 Pressure Mat can be used from any lie on the range, putting green, sand trap or on the golf course. The pressure-point data shows a students’ weight transfer at any point in the swing to a V1 Pro instructor using the V1 Pro app. In the improved V1 Pro App, lessons taught using the V1 Pressure Mat come alive with powerful second-by-second data points that give teachers deeper detail on how a students’ body motions correlate with their swing issues.
Key to this update is also an increase in the total length/run time of the video lessons created by pros using the app to 10 minutes, previously capped at a five? minute lesson length. Longer lesson duration means more time for instructor voice-over instruction, explanation of drills and specific points of improvement, and incorporation of side-by-side model swings to demonstrate ideal swing techniques.
“These days, golf instructors need to communicate with students across multiple platforms and types of media at any given hour, so the V1 Pro App has to function easily and seamlessly to connect pros and golfers so they stay productive,” says V1 Sports CEO Bryan Finnerty. “This update of the V1 Pro App is the most powerful and easiest-to-use version yet. In a time when remote lessons are more vital than ever, V1 is committed to putting the best tools in the hands of the game’s teaching professionals.
A refined user interface makes the V1 Pro App easier, cleaner and more pleasant to use in both portrait and landscape orientations. All video players have been upgraded and sharing lessons and videos is now easier and more intuitive whether it’s shared via e-mail or a preferred social media platform.
The process of creating app-generated emails has been updated and an option to review lessons before sending them has also been added to the app’s interface. Sign up for a free 30-day of the V1 Pro app by going to https://v1sports.com/coaches/v1-pro/.
About V1 Sports
Founded in 1995, V1 Sports (V1) is the leader in golf swing analysis software. The V1 golf teaching software and golf training apps deliver top instruction by connecting golf professionals and golfers to improve performance. V1 is recognized as the pioneer in delivering seamless video lessons with integrated telestration and voiceover. V1 products capture, review and analyze swing video for the creation and sharing of golf lessons and instruction content. To date, V1 has delivered over 4 million internet video lessons by its more than 10,000 PGA golf professionals, including many Top 100 instructors. V1 Pro software is used by the most respected coaches, instructors, athletes and training facilities around the world. The V1 Golf App also enjoys worldwide leadership among consumers as evidenced by millions of downloads. Visit https://v1sports.com. Follow V1 on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @v1sports.
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Advocacy groups push Senate to include election security money in funding bill
By Maggie Miller - 11/12/19 08:00 AM EST
A group of advocacy organizations including the Sierra Club and Indivisible are pushing the Senate to include election security funds in the upcoming continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government.
The groups are pressing for $600 million in spending, and argue that the nation will run out of time to protect its elections if the funding isn't won.
The groups, led by Stand Up America, sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi mum on when House will send impeachment article to Senate Democratic senator: COVID-19 relief is priority over impeachment trial The Hill's Morning Report - Biden asks Congress to expand largest relief response in U.S. history MORE (R-Ky.) and Minority Leader Charles Schumer Chuck SchumerBiden and the new Congress must protect Americans from utility shutoffs 'Almost Heaven, West Virginia' — Joe Manchin and a 50-50 Senate Democrats looking to speed through Senate impeachment trial MORE (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday arguing for the money. They say it should be given to states to shore up election security ahead of next year.
“Time has almost run out to provide states with the resources they need to protect the 2020 election,” the groups wrote. “The best opportunity for lawmakers to effectively secure our elections before 2020 is by including $600 million in directed appropriations for election security in the continuing resolution that will extend government funding past November 21, 2019—when current government funding runs out.”
Lawmakers are working on a stopgap measure that could last just into the first weeks of December. They would then have to pass a larger appropriations measure, or another stopgap or CR to prevent a shutdown.
Other groups who signed the letter included Greenpeace USA, Democracy 21, Franciscan Action Network, New American Leaders Action Fund, Secure Elections Network, CREDO, Clean Elections Texas, Business for America, and NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice.
The House included $600 million for election security purposes in its 2020 financial services and general government bill, while the Senate included $250 million for election security in its version of the bill, which the Senate has not yet voted on.
The organizations argued that while they were “encouraged” by the Senate bill, “the amount falls woefully short of what is needed by the states.”
The groups cited testimony given on Capitol Hill by former special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerWhy a special counsel is guaranteed if Biden chooses Yates, Cuomo or Jones as AG Barr taps attorney investigating Russia probe origins as special counsel CNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump MORE in July that the Russians are attempting to interfere in U.S. elections “as we sit here” in criticizing the Senate.
“More than four months after Mueller’s declaration, the Senate has not passed a single piece of legislation that would secure our elections,” the groups wrote. “That is an abject failure.”
The Senate did pass two measures prior to Mueller’s testimony that would make tampering with voting systems a federal crime, and ban foreign individuals that attempt to interfere with U.S. elections from entering the country.
Congress also previously appropriated $380 million for the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to give to states in 2018 to increase election security. The EAC expects around 85 percent of these funds to have been spent by states prior to the 2020 elections.
The letter on Tuesday was sent two weeks after almost 100 former members of Congress, ambassadors and top officials sent a separate letter to the Senate urging leaders to take action and pass various long-stalled election security bills and give states more funding for election security.
The former officials described foreign interference in American elections as “a national security emergency.”
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Nathaniel Weixel
IC Kicks Back offers alternative to Prospect Day
By Nathaniel Weixel | May 3, 2007
Tomorrow, Ithaca College will host the third annual IC Kicks Back, an alcohol-free event to celebrate the last day of classes. From 2 to 6 p.m. on the Campus Center Quad, the event will feature a barbecue, inflatable games and a performance by Motion City Soundtrack, sponsored by the Bureau of Concerts. Zack Ford, president…
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When sophomore Mike Tannenbaum sat down last Thursday night in Muller Chapel, he did not intend to speak in front of the more than 100 students there to honor victims of the shootings at Virginia Tech. But Tannenbaum, a northern Virginia native whose friend was shot and injured as she ran away from the gunman,…
Media critic examines debt
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Prospect Day luncheon canceled
The Prospect Day Luncheon scheduled for today was canceled because of a lack of interest, said Brian McAree, vice president of Student Affairs and Campus Life. Zack Ford, president of the Student Government Association, said the original purpose of the luncheon was to create a “comfortable dialogue” between students and town residents. “We’re hoping ……
Safety investigates illegal prescription drugs
In February, the Office of Public Safety made five arrests for criminal possession of prescription drugs, more than the cases from 2005 and 2006 combined, according to the office’s records. Three of the five cases resulted in arrests, said Laura Durling, assistant director of patrol and security services. In 2005, there were two reported cases…
Circle break-ins reported
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Students reported their property being removed from Circle Apartments in three separate incidents this weekend, according to the Office of Public Safety. Two of the incidents involved unlawful entry, said Laura Durling, assistant director of patrol and security services. The residents of an apartment in Circle Building 6 reported hearing noises of someone in the…
Professor studies effects of water submersion in Australia
For the next two weeks, Nancy Rader, professor of psychology, will monitor the psychological stability of Australian native Lloyd Godson while he is isolated in an 8-by-10-foot tank under 15 feet of water in Albury-Wodonga, Australia. Staff Writer Nathaniel Weixel spoke with Rader via e-mail about the BioSUB project and the psychological and environmental impacts…
Housing system reopens after repair
Students regained access to HomerConnect’s housing system last Friday after the Office of Residential Life shut it down March 6 to correct technical problems. Jen Richardson, assistant director of housing services and communication, said the biggest issue was the system allowing multiple groups of students to view the same apartment as available, causing students who…
Nonstudent arrested in Towers
Three nonstudents were issued appearance tickets for Ithaca Town Court and restricted from campus following a noise complaint on the seventh floor of West Tower early Monday morning, according to the Office of Public Safety. Investigator Tom Dunn said two people were cited for underage possession of alcohol. A third person, Aliya Feuer-Whittlesly, was arrested…
Faculty Council approves evaluations policy
By Nathaniel Weixel | Mar 8, 2007
The Faculty Council passed a series of guidelines Tuesday that, if enacted, would require students to sign their course evaluations and standardize administration procedures. The changes were based on discussions held throughout the year by an ad hoc council committee on student evaluations. The new guidelines suggest evaluations be completed within the final two weeks…
Student reports room intrusion
A West Tower resident reported an unknown man entered her seventh floor room around 3:30 a.m. Sunday while she was sleeping, according to the Office of Public Safety. According to a Public Safety alert issued Tuesday evening, the woman was awakened after she felt a movement on her mattress and observed the intruder standing over…
Council to open dialogue on diversity
The Student Government Association created Ithaca College’s first Unity Council last week, aiming to engage student organizations in discussions about student life. The Unity Council, according to a constitutional amendment passed by SGA, is the “primary venue for student organizations to coordinate their efforts, and for all students to discuss issues related to diversity, inclusivity,…
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Oftentimes, child custody matters and visitation schedules are the most stressful aspects of a divorce case. There are various elements that parents and the courts must evaluate. However, you do not have to feel alone as you try to determine (and fight for) what is most appropriate for you and your children. The seasoned family law attorneys at The McCormick Firm are available to offer help in all your child custody concerns.
How are Child Custody Matters Decided in Hoover, AL?
Child custody agreements in the state of Alabama must be made to meet the child’s “best interests.” For instance, judges do not automatically give moms custody or take it away from a disloyal spouse, unless there is additional evidence presented to indicate that the custody agreement is most suitable for the child.
In Alabama, courts consider various factors in determining whether a custody agreement is in the child’s best interest. These factors include the following:
The sex and age of the children
The characteristics and needs of each child, including their emotional, social, moral, material, and educational needs
The home environments offered by each parent
The characteristics of those seeking custody, including age, character, stability, mental, and physical health
How effectively each parent has cared for the children
The relationship of the children with each parent and the family of the parent
Where they might reside and attend school
Which parent addresses things such as medical appointments and teacher conferences
Each parent’s willingness to cooperate with the other to do what is best for the kids
The preferences of the children, if they are old enough to convey their opinion
Child Custody Arrangements
There are various types of child custody arrangements. In Alabama, the law focuses on physical custody, temporary custody, and legal custody. The custody arrangement that is suitable to you at present may not be advantageous to you or your kids in the future. Fortunately, it is possible to change the custody arrangement of your child from any of these types to another.
Legal custody involves the right of a parent to make vital decisions for their offspring, including related to the child’s health care, education, and religion. In circumstances where one parent has sole legal custody, that parent is entitled to make all significant decisions for the child while the other parent is not.
Many unmarried or divorced parents share legal custody and decide on these major aspects together. You can also seek court intervention if you and your child’s other parent cannot agree on matters under a legal custody arrangement. In this regard, a child custody attorney can offer meaningful legal counsel and guidance.
Physical custody pertains to which parent has the legal right to have the child with them, at their residence, and manage the child’s day-to-day activities. Similar to legal custody, physical custody can also remain fully or predominantly with one parent, or both parents can share physical custody. In child custody, this is one of the most disputed issues. Therefore, it is ideal to engage a child custody attorney to determine a physical custody arrangement or seek a court order on the matter.
Joint Custody (Joint Legal Custody vs. Joint Physical Custody)
The court is always required to consider joint custody in Alabama. The state law encourages parents to share physical and legal custody of the child as it is usually in the child’s best interest to have access to both parents. But eventually, a judge will scrutinize what is in the child’s best interest, which may or may not include joint legal custody, joint physical custody, or either.
In cases where a couple has had a history of not being able to cooperate or communicate, one may be given sole physical or legal custody or both.
Sole custody can pertain to legal custody, physical custody, or both. If a parent has a child’s sole physical custody, the child resides with that parent full time. That parent may be known as the custodial parent. The other parent may be given visitation rights, during which the child spends short periods with them, and they may or may not spend nights at this home.
Stemming from this, a parent may have joint physical custody of a child but sole legal custody. The child may spend time with both parents, yet one parent remains responsible for decisions on major issues about the child.
Third-Party Custody
In certain cases, a third party or someone besides the child’s biological parents tries to obtain custody of a child. The third-party will have to prove that one or both parents are not fit to raise the child. Some examples of an unfit parent include alcohol or drug abuse, child abuse or neglect, or circumstances in which the child is put in hazardous situations.
If a third-party already has child custody, the natural parent must show that a modification in custody, especially custody being given to the parent, would be beneficial for the child’s emotional and physical welfare.
Courts in Alabama have the discretion to determine visitation between a child and parents. The courts can arrange visitation between one or more parents, even in cases where both parents consented to a no-visitation policy. In circumstances where a child does not wish to meet with one parent based on biases that are not factual and proven, the court can order custody irrespective of the child’s desires.
Parents who violate the court’s visitation orders may be required to sign a bond declaring that they will not interfere with court-ordered visitation in the future.
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At The McCormick Firm, we know that your kids are the most precious thing in your life, and this motivates us to fight hard for your custody rights. Our Hoover, AL., child custody attorneys will push forward with robust strategies to ensure your case remains on track, even in the most frustrating circumstances. Our objective is to keep you focused on the positive results that you desire for your case and your family.
If you are facing a complex child custody battle, contact us at (205) 968-1302 today to understand how our experienced and compassionate legal team will preserve your rights and those of your children.
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Kevin Durant leads the Warriors past Jazz to take 3-0 series lead
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Golden State Warriors pull away late to win and take complete control of series against the Utah Jazz.
May 7, 2017 at 12:05 AM May 7, 2017 at 12:05 AM
The Utah Jazz came back home to Salt Lake down 0-2 and were going to be without starting point guard George Hill for the second consecutive game. The Golden State Warriors, meanwhile, came into Saturday's bout not having trailed at all during the series. They had all the momentum and confidence, preparing to take a 3-0 series lead.
Warriors jump out early
As I mentioned in the preview for this game, the Warriors did indeed jump out to an early lead but were unable to completely put away the crowd. After leading by 10 at the end of the first, the Warriors lead evaporated in the second period. Led by Rudy Gobert, the Jazz took a one-point lead into halftime, as the crowd was fully engaged and roaring.
Jazz open up a lead, Warriors recover
The Jazz had plenty of momentum heading into the second half and took a nine-point lead midway through the third. However, the Warriors quickly recovered, erasing the deficit and even taking a two-point lead at the end of the third.
Fourth quarter dominance by Golden State
The first six minutes of the second quarter was evenly played until the Warriors put the clamps on defense and dominated the game late led by Kevin Durant. Stephen Curry, who was struggling for most of the game, also came alive in crunch time to help Durant pace the Warriors past the Jazz. Suddenly, the Warriors opened up a 13-point lead and won, 102-91.
Durant finished with a game-high 38 points, while adding 13 rebounds on 15-of-26 shooting from the field.
Despite his shooting woes during this game, Curry ended with 23 points, five rebounds, and four assists, shooting 6-of-20 from the floor.
Gordon Hayward led the Jazz with 29 points and six assists, going 13-of-14 from the free-throw line. Gobert notched a huge double-double with 21 points and 15 rebounds and shot 7-of-8 from the field. Starting in place of Hill, Shelvin Mack racked up 11 points, five assists, and four rebounds.
Key stats from tonight’s game
Utah’s bench was non-existent in this contest, accumulating 10 points. Quin Snyder basically used a seven-man rotation, hardly utilizing Derrick Favors and point guard Raul Neto and Dante Exum. Favors just played six minutes, while Exum and Neto played three and two minutes, respectively. The Warriors also held Utah to 39 percent shooting and out-rebounded them, 51-42.
With the Warriors taking a 3-0 series lead, they will look to close out the Jazz Monday evening in Salt Lake. Although the Jazz have been playing hard, they simply haven’t had an answer for Golden State’s staggering offense. The Warriors have too many weapons, and it’s overwhelmed Utah.
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Cleveland Cavaliers Rumors: Derrick Rose back in starting lineup
Derrick Rose debuts at point guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers. -- YouTube screen capture / NBA
Rose had been dealing with a sprained ankle, but he returns to a new-look starting rotation from Tyronn Lue.
by Ryan C. Devault (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video)
Cleveland Cavaliers rumors reveal that Derrick Rose is back in the starting lineup when the Cavs take on the New Orleans Pelicans on Saturday (Oct. 28). Cavs coach Tyronn Lue made the announcement, but it didn’t end there, as he will be working with another new iteration of the starting five. This will be the fourth lineup that the Cavs have already used in the first six games of the 2017-18 NBA season. It likely won’t be the last.
Joining Derrick Rose as the starting point guard will be J.R. Smith at shooting guard, LeBron James at small forward, Kevin Love at power forward, and Tristan Thompson at center.
This information was confirmed in a report by Cleveland.com and it should remind Cavs fans of the lineups that Lue used against the Golden State Warriors. The only change, in that regard, is that Rose has replaced Kyrie Irving.
A strong bench for the Cavs
With those five players now starting, it means Jae Crowder, Dwyane Wade, and Kyle Korver will be leading the second unit. Those are three strong players who could start on many NBA teams, allowing Lue to work with a number of combinations on the floor later in games. The team is still light in the category of point guards, but James and Wade can handle some of those chances when Rose is out of the game.
Lue spoke about how he deemed it necessary to move Kevin Love out of the center position, as he was taking a beating and hadn’t been able to use his three-point shot as a reliable weapon in most games.
“I think it's better, too, because having Kevin bang with those big guys, it's wearing him out for his shot and having to (guard) all the pick-and-rolls, it's a lot of energy to ask of Kevin, especially when he has to be one of our primary scorers.”
Cavs during 2017-18 NBA season
Through the first five games of the current season, the Cleveland Cavaliers are 3-2 and just behind the Orlando Magic (3-1) and Washington Wizards (3-1) for the best record in the Eastern Conference.
The Cavs have averaged 107.4 points per game on offense, while the defense is allowing 106.8 points a contest. That differential needs to get a bit better to find extended success and maybe the new lineup will afford them that opportunity.
With Kyrie Irving and the Boston Celtics getting back on track, it will be important for the Cavs to find stability and success in a lineup.
This might be the “one” for Cavs coach Tyronn Lue, with four of the five players very familiar with being on the court together. If Derrick Rose can find a nice niche with that starting five, maybe it will also quiet down some of the Eric Bledsoe trade rumors. Game time on Saturday against the New Orleans Pelicans is 7 PM ET for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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Insecure to End With Season 5 on HBO
Insecure‘s upcoming fifth season will be its last, HBO has confirmed. “Issa [Rae] has turned insecurity into an iconic form of comedy,” Amy Gravitt, Executive Vice President of HBO Programming, said in a statement on Wednesday. “The show is as incisive as it is heartfelt, and it has resonated strongly with its audience because of […]
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Doctors of Empire
Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan
By Hoi-eun Kim
The history of German medicine has undergone intense scrutiny because of its indelible connection to Nazi crimes. What is less well known is that Meiji Japan adopted German medicine as its official model in 1869. In Doctors of Empire, Hoi-eun Kim recounts the story of the almost 1,200 Japanese medical students who rushed to German universities to learn cutting-edge knowledge from the world leaders in medicine, and of the dozen German physicians who were invited to Japan to transform the country’s medical institutions and education.
Shifting fluently between German, English, and Japanese sources, Kim’s book uses the colourful lives of these men to examine the impact of German medicine in Japan from its arrival to the pinnacle of its influence and its abrupt but temporary collapse at the outbreak of the First World War.
Transnational history at its finest, Doctors of Empire not only illuminates the German origins of modern medical science in Japan but also reinterprets the nature of German imperialism in East Asia.
Series: German and European Studies
PUBLISHED JUN 2016
In Doctors of Empire, Hoi-eun Kim recounts the story of the almost 1,200 Japanese medical students who rushed to German universities to learn cutting-edge knowledge from the world leaders in medicine, and of the dozen German physicians who were invited to Japan to transform the country’s medical institutions and education.
‘Doctors of Empire is an illuminating work that shows how imperial relations of power shaped the medical profession in Germany, Japan, and East Asia.’
Susan L. Burns
Medical History vol 59:03:2015
‘Hoi-eun-Kim’s Doctors of Empire provides a new and welcome addition to the growing literature on Meiji Japan. Scholars have long acknowledged the Meiji fascination with German scientific models of practice; Kim is one of the first to investigate this relationship in detail.’
John DiMoia
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Cultural Review June 2015
‘An engaging account of intellectual exchange and occasional friction set in the universities, hospitals, boarding houses, and beer halls of two ambitious empires. This tightly structured book covers the origins, evolution, and implications of this intellectual exchange… Outstanding work.’
Adam T. Roesnbaum
German Studies Review vol 39:02:2016
‘This excellent book deserves careful attention from modern historians of both countries as well as scholars in the history of medicine.’
James R. Bartholomew
Journal of Japanese Studies vol 42:02:2016
"Moving gracefully between European and Japanese archives, Doctors of Empire focuses on the emergence, evolution, and demise of one of the most innovative cross-cultural rendezvous in the history of imperial medical regime making… Meticulously researched and elegantly written, Doctors of Empire significantly enriches the historiography of medicine and imperiality."
Howard Chiang
ISIS Vol 109:02:2018
“Doctors of Empire takes us to the cosmopolitan city of Berlin, showing it to us in the eyes of Japanese students, and shedding light on its universities, beer halls, rooming houses, and friendship circles. In doing this, Kim shows us an innovative way of looking at German-Japanese relationships outside the usual political and diplomatic discussions and reveals why transnational scientific exchanges are a vital part of larger stories.”
Deborah Neill, Associate Professor of History, York University
“Kim explores the networks and relationships that made and changed the study of medicine in both Japan and Germany from a superb base of Japanese and German archival sources. A richly detailed and compelling picture of the globalization of German medical education and the socialization of the young doctors that benefitted from this exchange, Doctors of Empire is a groundbreaking work of transnational history.”
Erik Grimmer-Solem, Department of History, Wesleyan University
Hoi-eun Kim is an associate professor in the Department of History at Texas A&M University.
A Note on Names
Introduction: Weaving Germany and Japan together with the Thread of Medical Science
1. Same Bed, Different Dreams
2. Borrowed Hands: German Physicians’ Medical Education in Meiji Japan
3. Socialized Intellect: Intellectual and Communal Journeys of Japanese Doctors in Germany
4. Bedazzled and Bewildered: Cultural Journeys of Japanese Students in Germany
5. Japan through Stethoscope: German Physicians as Anthropologists of Meiji Japan
6. Promises and Perils of Encounters: Influences of German Medicine in Japan
Epilogue: Fatal Affinities? The Long-term Legacies of German-Japanese Medical Relations
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ER Visits, Long Waits Climb for US Kids in Mental Health Crisis
When children and teens are overwhelmed with anxiety, depression or thoughts of self-harm, they often wait days in emergency rooms because there aren’t enough psychiatric beds in the U.S.The problem has only grown worse during the pandemic, reports from parents and professionals suggest.With schools closed, routines disrupted and parents anxious over lost income or uncertain futures, children are shouldering new burdens many are unequipped to bear.And with surging numbers of hospitalized COVID-19 patients, bed space is even scarcer.By early fall, many ERs in the northeastern state of Massachusetts were seeing about four times more children and teens in psychiatric crisis than usual, said Ralph Buonopane, a mental health program director at Franciscan Hospital for Children in Boston.”I’ve been director of this program for 21 years and worked in child psychiatric services since the 1980s, and it is very much unprecedented,” Buonopane said. His hospital receives ER transfers from around the state.While ER visits for many health reasons other than COVID-19 declined early in the pandemic as people avoided hospitals, the share that were for kids’ mental health-related visits climbed steadily from mid-April through October, according to a recent federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. Of the kids who showed up, more were for mental health than in the same period last year, although that might reflect that others stayed away, the authors cautioned.Claire Brennan Tillberg’s 11-year-old daughter was one of those kids who sought care. The Massachusetts girl has autism, depression and anxiety, and has been hospitalized twice in recent months after revealing that she’d had suicidal thoughts. The second time, in September, she waited a week in an ER before being transferred to a different hospital. The first time, in July, the wait was four days.She’d been hospitalized before, but Tillberg said things worsened when the pandemic hit and her new school and therapy sessions went online. Suddenly the structure and rituals that many children with autism thrive on were gone.“She’d never met the teacher, never met the kids,” said Tillberg, a psychotherapist. “She felt more isolated, more and more like things aren’t getting better. Without the distraction of getting up and going to school or to camp … sitting at home with her own thoughts all day with a computer has allowed that to worsen.’’’You can’t give up, because it’s your kid’Studies and surveys in Asia, Australia, the U.S., Canada, China and Europe have shown overall worsening mental health in children and teens since the pandemic began. In a World Health Organization survey of 130 countries published in October, more than 60% reported disruptions to mental health services for vulnerable people including children and teens.Emergency rooms are often the first place kids facing a mental health breakdown go for help. Some are stabilized there and sent home. Some need inpatient care, but many hospitals don’t offer psychiatric treatment for kids and transfer these children elsewhere.Some treatment centers won’t take kids without proof they don’t have COVID-19, “which is hard because you can’t always find a rapid test,” said Ellie Rounds Bloom. Her 12-year-old son has “significant mental health issues,” including trauma, and has experienced several crises since the pandemic began. The Boston-area boy has been hospitalized since October, after spending 17 days in ER.Many mental health advocates consider these waits unacceptable. For parents and their kids, they are that, and more.“There have been moments of frustration and moments of sheer pulling your hair out,” Rounds Bloom said.State health insurance covers her son’s treatment but not all providers accept it. Deficiencies in the U.S. health care system can leave families feeling helpless, she said.“You can’t give up, because it’s your kid,” Rounds Bloom said.There are no national studies on kids’ ER waits for mental health treatment, a practice called “boarding,” according to a recent review published in the journal Pediatrics. The review included small studies showing that between 23% and almost 60% of U.S. kids who need inpatient care have to wait in ERs to receive it. They are kept stable but often receive little or no mental health care during those waits.Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital in the northeastern state of Connecticut has started offering teletherapy to kids waiting in its emergency room for mental health care, said Dr. Marc Auerbach, a pediatric ER physician.One in 6 U.S. children have a diagnosed mental, behavioral or developmental disorder, according to the CDC. Data show problems like depression become more prevalent in teen years; 1 in 13 high school students have attempted suicide and at least half of kids with mental illness don’t get treatment.
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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Launch Delayed
By Michael Desmond
The expected March 22 release of the final versions of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 will be delayed "a few weeks," according to a blog post by S. "Soma" Somasegar, senior vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division.
Somasegar cited the volume of developer feedback to the beta tooling, specifically in the area of virtual memory usage and performance, for the delay. Microsoft will add an interim checkpoint release to the VS/.NET review cycle to ensure that improvements cast into the recent beta 2 drop are fully accounted for.
"With these improvements in the product, we do want to make sure that they truly address the performance issues while continuing to maintain a high quality bar. As a result, we are going to extend the beta period by adding another interim checkpoint release, a Release Candidate with a broad “go live” license, which will be publicly available in the February 2010 timeframe," Somasegar wrote.
The first beta version of Visual Studio 2010, released in May, produced performance concerns from testers. "It's sometimes more sluggish to use than Visual Studio 2008 on the same hardware, but I'm hoping that will be resolved by the time it's released," said Vaibhav Gadodia, a .NET architect at outsourcer Nagarro Inc. at the time.
While developers noted significant performance improvements between beta 1 and beta 2, Somasegar's blog post makes clear that issues remain.
"Based on what we’ve heard, we clearly needed to do more work. Over the last couple of months, our engineering team has been doing a push to improve performance. We have made significant progress in this space since Beta 2," Somasegar wrote, before continuing. "Since the goal of the Release Candidate is to get more feedback from you, the team will need some time to react to that feedback before creating the final release build. We are therefore moving the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 back a few weeks.
Michael Desmond is an editor and writer for 1105 Media's Enterprise Computing Group.
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Joe's Pub Music Posters
Rev. Billy and Stop Shopping Choir @Joe’s Pub
Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir
NEXT WEEK November 24, EARTH RIOT OPENS AT JOE’S PUB in NYC, this is a juicy, heart-pounding ride with Rev & The Choir!
Please send your friends, we really do rely on word of mouth. If you need help with tickets or have a group and want a discount just write to savitri@revbilly.com ASL performed the first three shows by amazing choir member Debbie Ciraolo, if you have friends in the Deaf Community please let them know.
Tags Joe's Pub, Politics, Reverend Billy, Satire, Stop Shopping, The Stop Shopping Choir
Book Shelf Writer
Vaudevisuals Bookshelf – “Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan
Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan
Acclaimed media critic J. Hoberman’s masterful and majestic exploration of the Reagan years as seen through the unforgettable movies of the era.
The third book in a brilliant and ambitious trilogy, celebrated cultural and film critic J. Hoberman’s Make My Day is a major new work of film and pop culture history. In it he chronicles the Reagan years, from the waning days of the Watergate scandal when disaster films like Earthquake ruled the box office to the nostalgia of feel-good movies like Rocky and Star Wars, and the delirium of the 1984 presidential campaign and beyond.
Bookended by the Bicentennial celebrations and the Iran-Contra affair, the period of Reagan’s ascendance brought such movie events as Jaws, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Ghostbusters, Blue Velvet, and Back to the Future, as well as the birth of MTV, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the Second Cold War.
An exploration of the synergy between American politics and popular culture, Make My Day is the concluding volume of Hoberman’s Found Illusions trilogy; the first volume, The Dream Life, was described by Slate’s David Edelstein as “one of the most vital cultural histories I’ve ever read”; Film Comment called the second, An Army of Phantoms, “utterly compulsive reading.” Reagan, a supporting player in Hoberman’s previous volumes, here takes center stage as the peer of Indiana Jones and John Rambo, the embodiment of a Hollywood that, even then, no longer existed.
“Singular, stylish and slightly intoxicating in its scope.”
—David Fear, Rolling Stone
“Rigorous, scholarly . . . for readers seeking an insightful, academic meditation on the relationship between media and sociopolitical issues.”
Tags An Army of Phantoms, Apocalypse Now, Back to the Future, Blade Runner, Blue Velvet, bookshelf, Cold War, Culture, Earthquake, Found Illusions, Ghostbusters, Hollywood, J. Hoberman, Jaws, Make My Day, Movies, MTV, New Book, New York Review of Books, Politics, Popular Culture, Reagan, Reviewer, Village Voice
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Vaudevisuals interview with Deb Margolin – “Critical Mass” at Dixon Place
A critic is seated smack in the middle of a series of events he is meant to review, and people mistake each other for things they are not. A wild, vaudevillian comedy that investigates the critical impulse, from its most elegant to its most petty.
“An artful and insightful work about our compulsion to inflict opinions on one another.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, AT 7:30 PM 2018
FEATURING: Jim Turner, Dale Goodson, Kevin Seal, Rae C. Wright, Catherine Nance, Salley May, Tom X. Chao and Deb Margolin.
DIRECTOR: Jamie Leo
For more information/tickets.
Tags Catherine Nance, Comedy, Critical Mass, Dale Goodson, Deb Margolin, Dixon Place, Fund Raiser, investigation, Jim Turner, Karen Jenson, Kevin Seal, Politics, Rae C Wright, Salley May, Tom X. Chao, Vaudeville, Vaudevisuals Interview
Vaudevisuals interview with Ralph Lewis – “Androboros”
PECULIAR WORKS PROJECT presents “Androboros“
Fraunces Tavern at 54 Pearl Street, NYC
For more information/tickets on Androboros click here!
Tags Adaptation, Amy Marin, Androboros, Barbara Yoshida, Ben Strate, Bianca Illich, Blog, Blue Bliss, Caiti Lattimer, Comedy, David Castaneda, Diana Byrne, Eccentric, Elizabethan comedy, Flag Gallery, Fraunces Tavern Museum, Hank Lin, Humor, Iftiaz Haroon, Illana Breitman, Italian Commedia dell' Arte, Kendra Augustin, King Man Ho, Lynn Neuman, Maria Dessenanon, Matt Roper, Music, Oliver Burns, Oscar Castillo, Peculiar Works Project, Peter Davis, Play, Politics, Ralph Lewis, Rob Mitzner, Robert Hunter, Roy Koshy, S.M. Dale, Scatological, Spencer Katzman, Trav S. D., Vaudevisuals Interview, Video, Villain of the State, Yasmin Schancer
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Vaudevisuals Bookshelf – “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People”
LENNY BRUCE – HOW TO TALK DIRTY AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE
During the course of a career that began in the late 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions; he widened the boundaries of free speech. Critic Ralph Gleason said, “So many taboos have been lifted and so many comics have rushed through the doors Lenny opened. He utterly changed the world of comedy.”
Although Bruce died when he was only forty, his influence on the worlds of comedy, jazz, and satire are incalculable. How to Talk Dirty and Influence People remains a brilliant existential account of his life and the forces that made him the most important and controversial entertainer in history.
“I read this book for the first time when I was twelve years old. It made me want to be in showbiz, have a lot of sex, and be Jewish. I’ve rethought that last one.”
—Penn Jillette, author of God No!
“If there was a God, then he sent down Lenny Bruce to create the art form of modern stand-up comedy. He sought the truth fearlessly and hilariously until his tragically muffled First Amendment rights surely enabled his dying for our sins.”
—Richard Lewis, author of The Other Great Depression
“Outside every American comedy club, there ought to be a statue of Lenny Bruce—the type of big bronze statue that commemorates and immortalizes heroes…Bringing Bruce’s ideas and stories to a new generation might just be the next best thing to erecting those bronze statues.”
Playboy Magazine – August 2016
Tags 1950's, Autobiographical, Cabaret, Comedian, Eccentric, Eric Bogosian, Jazz, Legendary, Lenny Bruce, Penn Jilette, Playboy Magazine, Politics, Ralph Gleason, Richard Lewis, Standup Comedy, Vaudevisuals
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Frank Maya – A Tribute – Video/Essay/Postcards/Interviews
FRANK MAYA
Frank Maya: Out There By Victoria Linchong
Frank Maya once said that he turned to comedy “as a way to make the world safe for me.” The first openly gay comedian to appear on MTV and all three major television networks, Maya’s candor and wit helped pave the way for greater acceptance of homosexuality in mainstream media. As ABC News noted in a 1993 introduction to Maya, “Until recently, comics who wanted to succeed in show business never ever admitted they were gay. And they certainly never used their homosexuality as a punchline.”
Maya was born in 1950 to a middle-class Catholic family in Long Island. His Irish and Colombian background later became fodder for much of his comic material. A gifted musician and vocalist, he found work playing in cabarets and folk clubs after graduating from Hofstra University. In the mid-1970s, he met director John Jesurun and began venturing into the alternative music scene, then dominated by the Talking Heads and post-punk New Wave.
Fronting a band called the Decals, Maya became known for satirical songs that combined Latin-infused pop with absurdist poetic patter. Several of his songs also used toy instruments, recorded sound, or found objects such as scissors or a jar full of pennies. In one song, the refrain consisted of Maya shouting, “Pancakes!” with a recorded voice responding, “They’re ready!” Impish and whimsical as his songs were, they also were biting commentaries on consumerism and the banality of everyday life. His lyrics also revealed a quirky way with rhymes, “When you’re home for the holidays do you realize your dog looks upset? Does he realize during dinner, he’s simply the household pet?” The New York Times praised him as “a wacky pop iconoclast with enough star quality to have earned comparisons to performers as dissimilar as Laurie Anderson, David Byrne and Peter Allen.”
Maya was part of Jesurun’s legendary serial theater piece, Chang in a Void Moon, when it premiered at the Pyramid Club in 1982. His music performances had always verged on theater with interludes of acerbic monologues he called rants. In the mid- 1980s, he began focusing more on his rants, joining a growing cadre of solo performers such as Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian, and Karen Finley, who were similarly examining American society through a personal lens.Pacing around the stage, he tackled pop culture, gender issues, and the mundanity of existence. Thirty years before the current outcry over the lack of minorities in mainstream media, Maya was commenting, “There’re a few movies like Cotton Club where they take all the black actors who’ve been out of work for ten years and put them in the same film… People say, ‘See we’re making progress.” His three-hour-long solo performances were performed at P.S. 122, La Mama, Dixon Place, the Kitchen, and Lincoln Center’s Serious Fun series. He also toured the mid-Atlantic states and performed in Germany.
During that time, Maya was known to paint his ears gold, perhaps to distinguish himself from other solo artists. He soon found a much more authentic way of differentiating himself. While Maya had made a few allusions to his sexual orientation in his music and his rants, he had never been completely overt about his homosexuality. His former partner Neil Greenberg believes that an anti-gay incident may have radicalized him. Whatever the cause, Maya began boldly declaring his homosexuality in 1989. At the same time, Maya was also realizing that he could achieve wider public attention by rebranding himself as a stand-up comic. “In New York they call me a performance artist…” he remarked in a 1989 Washington Post article, “But if you ask the Washington audience after my show, they’ll say, ‘He’s a stand-up comic.’ I always feel that my stuff is misinterpreted — it’s very funny, but it’s got serious points in it… But I’m not afraid of being considered a comedian as long as people like Lily Tomlin are considered comedians.”
Maya made his first openly gay appearance on HA! Comedy Network in 1990. His breakthrough to mainstream media happened at a pivotal time when the AIDS crisis was at its peak. Maya’s self-deprecating humor was a refreshing antidote to the widespread alarm in both the general population and the gay community. Here was a good-looking man without any effeminate traits, talking simply and naturally about being homosexual. “Comedy is about really being truthful,” he stated, “People are hoping the comic will tell them everything. So how can you hide your love life? It just seems impossible.” Though he joked about people in his audience who looked mortified, he said he rarely had hecklers and added, “”I guess people are still recovering from the fact that they can’t believe what I’m saying.”
Throughout the early 1990s, Maya appeared regularly at Caroline’s Comedy Club and MTV’s “Half-Hour Comedy Hour.” He also starred in his own half-hour special on Comedy Central. His last show Paying for the Pool ran at the Atlantic Theater for eight weeks. It was described as, “A one-man show in which Maya talks about his childhood and coming-out experiences.”
Maya was diagnosed with AIDs in 1995 but continued to perform. In The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater, Carmelita Tropicana remembers him at a conference for the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) four months before he died. Despite a high fever, he did his entire set and had to be persuaded to go home early. Although friends were tearful over his impending death, Tropicana recalls, “[Frank] hated the tender sweet image of white helium balloons flying up to the sky in memory of those who have died of AIDS. He was angry, he wanted something loud, an uzi, a bomb to explode.” An upfront iconoclast to the end, Frank Maya was 45 years old when he died.
1986 Postcard for Frank’s performance at CBGB
1986 Postcard for Franks Maya’s performance at LaMama Cabaret
1990 Postcard for Frank Maya’s performance at The Kitchen.
Frank Maya’s Music
FRANK MAYA ACCORDING TO HIS FRIENDS: Uncut, Unexpurgated, Unabridged
Postcard for Franks Maya’s performance at PS122 – 1989
Postcard for performance at Atlantic Theater – “Paying for the Pool” 1993
MORE ABOUT FRANK MAYA – Performance Videos
Frank Maya at Dixon Place (circa 12-31-91)
Brown, Joe. “A Little Tattle Tale” Washington Post; 17 March 1989.
Holden Stephen. “A Wacky Pop Iconoclast” New York Times; 15 July 1983.
Holden, Stephen. “Frank Maya, 45, Performance Artist and Solo Comic.” New York Times; 10 Aug 1995.
Holden, Stephen. “Music Noted in Brief: Frank Maya, Singer, Satirizes Consumerism.” New York Times; 30 March 1983.
Rizzo, Frank. “Maya’s Punch Line Reaches a Broader Audience.” Hartford Courant, 22 Sept 1993.
Solomon, Alisa, and Framji Minwalla. The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater. New York: New York UP, 2002.
Thanks to Neil Greenberg,(postcards, videos,interview) Ellie Covan,(interview, video) John Jesurun (interview) and Victoria Linchong (Writer/Profile) for their great contribution to this post!
Tags Alice Tully Hall, Atlantic Theater, Babylon, Carmelita Tropicana, Carolines Comedy Club, CBGB, Chang in a Void Moon, Comedy, Comedy Central, Dixon Place, Eric Bogosian, Frank Maya, Frank Maya Talks, Hofstra University, John Jesurun, Karen Finley, LaMamaETC, Lily Tomlin, MTV, Neil Greenberg, New Wave, Out Loud and Laughing, Performance Artist, Poet, Political comedy, Political Humor, Politics, PS122, Pyramid Club, Rants, Serious Fun, Singer, Songwriter, Spalding Gray, Talking Heads, The Bottom Line, The Kitchen, Victoria Linchong
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Martha Wilson – Avant-Garde-Arama – May 2nd, 2015
Martha Wilson (Representing Franklin Furnace) performs at the May 2015 Avant-Garde-Arama at Abrons Arts Center. Produced by PS122 and on loan to Abrons Arts Center for that weekend’s performances.
Tags Abrons Arts Center, Avant Garde Arama, Franklin Furnace, Martha Wilson, Politics, PS122, Satire, Tipper Gore
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Nancy Giles – “The Further Adventures of the Accidental Pundette” @ Dixon Place
Photograph © 2013 Jim R Moore
Nancy Giles is one intelligent, hysterically funny woman ‘pundette’. The show was a collection of monologs about her life in show business followed by her current life in Network News as a ‘pundette’ as she calls herself. Half satire, half personal observations. Not a moment too much for the audience.
Here are a few stills I took tonight at the show.
Reflecting on her time as a radio commentator.
Talking about life experience and the political scene.
For more information or to get tickets go here!
To see a video interview with Nancy Giles on Vaudevisuals go here.
Tags CBS Newscast, CBS Sunday Morning, Comedy, Dixon Place, Nancy Giles, Politics, Pundits, The Further Adventures of the Accidental Pundette
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Two New JCP Issues
April 23, 2017 by Steve Angle | 0 comments
The Journal of Chinese Philosophy fell behind a bit in its publication schedule, but is now working to catch up, and has recently published 42(1-2), March-June 2015; and 42(3-4), September-December 2015. Tables of Contents for both issues are below.
March-June 2015
Pages 1–262
AU – Cheng, Chung-Ying
TI – Preface: Interpreting Philosophical Classics—Chinese and Western
AU – Fuyarchuk, Andrew
TI – Introduction: Interpreting Philosophical Classics—Chinese and Western
TI – Receptivity and Creativity in Hermeneutics: From Gadamer to Onto-Hermeneutics (Part One)
AB – There are two aspects of the hermeneutic: the receptive and the creative. In this article, first of all, I shall identify the strengths of these two aspects of the hermeneutic in the main development of hermeneutics in Western world. Heidegger and Gadamer take ontological receptivity as the source of the meaning of existence as well as the meaningfulness of texts. In my view such a form of receptivity has shaped the predominant paradigm of hermeneutic thinking in contemporary Europe or West. Therefore, I move to the creative formation and positive projection of a transformative cosmological philosophy, namely the Yijing《易經》philosophy in Chinese tradition. In these two contrasts we shall not only notice the strong divergence between the two paradigms but come to see how receptivity and creativity of the hermeneutic could be divergently identified and located in concrete understanding of nature of reality and nature of the human being.
AU – Bontekoe, Ron
TI – On Gadamer’s Failure to Appreciate the Hermeneutical Dimensions of Science
AB – In Truth and Method, Gadamer largely agrees with Dilthey’s reasons for, and sharp distinction between, the Geisteswissenschaften and Naturwissenschaften. This, however, leads Gadamer to misrepresent the methodological practices of the natural sciences; to fail to appreciate that in the natural sciences personal judgment and tact—or a “feel” for the discipline—are indispensable to the discovery of “truths.” In this respect, however, he is not to be faulted too severely, for the role played by personal judgment in the natural sciences was only just beginning to be recognized by mainstream philosophers of science at about the time that Truth and Method was published.
AU – Risser, James
TI – A (New) Paradigm for Hermeneutics
AU – Watson, Stephen H.
TI – Montaigne’s of Cruelty and the Emergence of Hermeneutic and Intercultural Modernity: Three Rival Readings
AB – While classical interpretations of hermeneutics have often identified themselves with Montaigne, others have contested not only whether Montaigne is committed to an account of a hermeneutic self, but whether a hermeneutics of traditional or self-identity (or differentiation) is either possible or desirable. This article will investigate the continuing viability of hermeneutics through contested interpretations of Montaigne undertaken from the varying standpoints of phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty), psychoanalysis (Lacan), and critical theory (Horkheimer). These interpretations have shed significant light on Montaigne’s work and have in turn been further illuminated by it; they reveal not only something about the hermeneutics of Montaigne’s work, but about consciousness, and the timeliness of hermeneutics itself.
AU – Mattice, Sarah
TI – A Metaphorical Conversation: Gadamer and Zhuangzi on Textual Unity
AB – In Truth and Method, Gadamer asserts that prior to beginning the process of understanding a text, we make certain assumptions about the text being a unity modeled on a one-on-one conversation. How should we approach a text that was composed by so many authors over such a long span of time? Using resources from the Zhuangzi, I argue for expanding the metaphor across time, space, and identity in order to rethink Gadamer’s assumption and its operative metaphor.
AU – Simon, Jules
TI – The Art of Interpretation: Rosenweig’s Midrash and Heidegger’s Hermeneutics
AB – The shared trajectory and thought between the phenomenological hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and midrashic analysis of Franz Rosenzweig is established with respect to the task of taking up existing “classical” texts such as “The Song of Songs” and “The Ister” as well with respect to the embodied conditions of understanding through language with a view to delineating the motivating factors and the structural guidelines that determine our interpretive activities; specifically, intentional structures that distinguish communicative acts from one another that either brings them into conflict or into fruitful and harmonious communities.
AU – Joy, Morny
TI – Paul Ricoeur: From Hermeneutics to Ethics
AB – Paul Ricoeur’s early appreciation of hermeneutics introduced a dynamic interaction between a reader and a text. Employing both explanation and understanding, aided by the catalyst of Kantian creative imagination, Ricoeur revitalized hermeneutics from being simply a method of interpreting the literal meaning of a text. Such an openness to the text, as a form of otherness, initiated new insights into human ways of being and acting. In time, however, Ricoeur became disheartened by the unmerited suffering that he witnessed human beings were inflicting on other beings. He qualified his hermeneutic foundations so as to introduce compassion and justice as modes of action towards rejected and mistreated others.
AU – Palmquist, Stephen R.
TI – Twelve Basic Philosophical Concepts in Kant and the Compound Yijing
AB – This is the third in a series of articles that correlates Kant’s architectonic with the Yijing’s sixty-four hexagrams (gua 卦). Previous articles explained “architectonic” reasoning, introduced four levels of the “Compound Yijing,” consisting of 0 + 4 + 12 + (4 × 12 = 48) gua, and suggested correlating the fourth level’s four sets of twelve to the four “faculties” in Kant’s model of the university. This third paper examines the philosophy faculty, assessing whether the twelve proposed gua meaningfully correlate with twelve basic philosophical concepts that Kant introduces in his three Critiques. A key difference emerges: Kant’s architectonic method aims to produce synthetic a priori knowledge, while the Yijing’s architectonic method aims to produce analytic a posteriori belief.
AU – Ng, On-Cho
TI – The Yijing and Onto-Generative Hermeneutics: The Theory and Practice of Cheng Chung-Ying’s Philosophy
AB – Chung-ying Cheng has been systematically expounding, expanding, and extending the insights and parameters of Western hermeneutics, producing a new understanding of Chinese philosophy by way of an onto-generative hermeneutics that unravels not only the epistemological workings of the ineluctable human process of interpreting and understanding, but also encapsulates the ontological conditions of which the process is an integral expression. His work functions as the bedrock of a philosophy of culture; the practical expression of Cheng’s onto-generative hermeneutics, construed as a valid and consistent theory of culture, dismisses the ideality of meaning by subjecting all cultural realities to constant reinterpretation, based on a non-foundationalist conception of culture, while squarely rooted in the ontological source of creativity.
AU – Hassoun, Nicole J.
AU – Wong, David B.
TI – Conserving Nature; Preserving Identity
AB – There are two broad approaches to environmental ethics. The “conservationist” approach on which we should conserve the environment when it is in our interest to do so and the “preservationist” approach on which we should preserve the environment even when it is not in our interest to do so. We propose a new “relational” approach that tells us to preserve nature as part of what makes us who we are or could be. Drawing from Confucian and Daoist texts, we argue that human identities are, or should be, so intimately tied to nature that human interests evolve in relationship to nature.
AU – Neville, Robert Cummings
TI – Value and Selfhood: Pragmatism, Confucianism, and Phenomenology
AB – This article articulates a dialogue between Edward Casey, Cheng Chung-ying, and me that began at the Eastern Division annual meeting in Philadelphia of the American Philosophical Association, in a session sponsored by the International Society for Chinese Philosophy. There, we read brief versions of the papers presented in this issue and commented on one another. Casey represented Continental phenomenology, Cheng the Chinese tradition as he has developed it into onto-generative hermeneutics, and I the melding of American pragmatic and Confucian traditions that I have been developing.
AU – Casey, Edward S.
TI – Phenomenology at the Edge of its Orbit
AB – Although cultures far away and with other languages and customs are felt to be exotic by many in one s own culture, all cultures recognize the importance of a consistent bodily praxis as a basis for ethical behavior. I show that thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Dewey, James, Peirce, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty all acknowledge this habitual-bodily basis as well as its deeply social character. So does Confucius, even if he emphasizes ceremonial aspects more than Aristotle, the American pragmatists, and phenomenologists. Linking these thinkers is a common emphasis on the performative dimension of reliably repetitive bodily actions that engender effective social actions and interactions.
TI – Phenomenology and Onto-Generative Hermeneutics: Convergencies
AB – In examining phenomenology as a base onto-generative hermeneutics (onto-hermeneutics) I find the gradual movement from pure phenomenology in Husserl to an ontological phenomenology in Merleau-Ponty through Heidegger and Gadamer. I argue thus that there is an implicit connection between the phenomenological and the ontological. In order to bring out the desirable connection between the two we must have hermeneutic interpretation of one in terms of the other. This leads to the idea of onto-hermeneutic circle of phenomenology and ontology based on the integration of the four phenomenologies which represent a wider comprehension and deeper intuition. It is in terms of this wider comprehension and deeper intuition of reality I introduce the Chinese notion “ben-ti 本體” (root-body) as “onto-generative” as well as onto-phenomenological. I suggest five principles as constituting the basic formulation of such a hermeneutic system as both theory and methodology: (i) Principle of comprehensive observation (guan 观) (the Yijing); (ii) Principle of objective reference (wu 物)1 (the Yijing); (iii) Principle of perception, reflection, and memory (gan 感) (the Yijing and the Confucian); (iv) Principle of intersubjective understanding and interpretation based on (ren 仁) (the Confucian); and (v) Principle of practical end and action (xing 行) (the Confucian).
AU – Cook, Constance
TI – “Mother” (Mu 母) and the Embodiment of the Dao
AB – This article employs newly discovered Warring States texts to reexamine questions regarding the use of the word mother (mu母) in the Laozi—did it refer to the feminine role of providing and caring for the descendants of an inherently male cosmic and social order or was it simply a metaphor for an abstract philosophical concept? The author reinforces the latter interpretation suggesting that Mother referred to that existential moment of temporal transition between the cycle of life and death.
AU – Kun, Wang
TI – Contemporary Confucian Political Philosophy. By
AU – Stephen Angle. (Cambridge: PB – Polity Press, 2012. X, 204 Pp. ISBN-13:978-0-7456-6130-8.)
AU – Mih Tillman, Margaret
TI – Revolution as Restoration: Guocui Xuebao and China’s Path to Modernity, 1905–1911. By
AU – Tze-ki Hon. (Leiden: PB – Brill, 2013. 135 Pp. ISBN-10: 9004247807, ISBN-13: 978-9004247802.)
AU – Pang-White, Ann
TI – Yinyang: The Way of Heaven and Earth in Chinese Thought and Culture. By
AU – Robin R. Wang. (New York: PB – Cambridge University Press
, 2012. xii, 250 Pp. Hardback, ISBN 1107000157. Paperback, ISBN 978-0-521-16513-6.)
AU – Bao, Yongling
TI – Das Wichtigste im Leben: Wang Yangming (1472–1529) und seine Nachfolger über die “Verwirklichung des ursprünglichen Wissens” (Zhi Liangzhi《致良知》) (The Most Important Thing in Life: Wang Yangming [1472–1529] and His Successors on the “Realization of Original Knowledge”). By
AU – Iso Kern. (Basel: PB – Schwabe Verlag, 2010. xxxi, 824 Pp. Hardcover/Hardback, ISBN 978-3-7965-2514-8.)
September-December 2015
Pages 263–432
TI – Preface: Action Theory and Chinese Philosophy—Unity of Knowledge and Action
AU – Connolly, Timothy
TI – Introduction: Action in Chinese Philosophy
AU – Brindley, Erica
TI – Authoring Non-Action in Early China
AB – This essay explores a call for non-action in certain ancient Chinese texts that, contrary to expectation, implicitly upholds definitions of action that are comparable to Western understandings of the term. The call for non-action in ancient Chinese texts differs significantly, however, from what Western theorists usually define as legitimate, agent-led action through its negation of viewing means-end calculations as the basis of action. Closer analysis of such formulations on non-action reveal that that there is room for a broader definition in action theory of what constitutes a coherent, unified, creative agent.
AU – Blake, Susan
TI – Agency, Non-Action, and Desire in the Laozi
AB – I present a reading of non-action in the Laozi that describes the relation of desire to non-action, the highest form of ethical action. Rather than advocating elimination of desires, or even of “self-oriented” desires, the text recommends simply reducing desires if they impede the quietism that is of primary importance. To defend my interpretation, I demonstrate its agreement with early commentaries on the Laozi.
AU – Ramsey, John
TI – Wisdom, Agency, and the Role of Reasons in Mengzi
AB – I examine the role moral reasons play in the Mengzi and their relationship to Mengzi’s conception of wisdom. Some commentators have argued that agency in early Chinese thought is best characterized as performance based rather than deliberation based. I propose that Mengzi’s conception of agency is both performative and deliberative because he understands wisdom as a sort of expert decision making. Consequently, Mengzi relies on moral reasons of two sorts. First, duan-reasons are reasons to act so as to overcome internal obstacles to action and, second, renyi-reasons are reasons to act so as to achieve a goal that constitutes moral success.
AU – Kim, Youngmin
TI – Moral Action in Zhan Ruoshui’s 湛若水 (1466–1560) Philosophical Anthropology
AB – This article frames Zhan Ruoshui’s philosophical anthropology in a way as to compare it with two competing positions—those of Chen Xianzhang and Wang Yangming—and explores it as an answer to a set of questions many mid-Ming philosophers shared, rather than to perennial, ahistorical philosophical questions. As against Chen Xianzhang and Wang Yangming, Zhan proposes his characteristic motto, suichu tiren tianli, as a way to unite the self and the world. The implication is that moral knowledge must be pursued neither (merely) in the dimension of things and affairs, nor outside the dimension of things and affairs.
AU – Cocks, Samuel
TI – Wang Yangming on Spontaneous Action, Mind as Mirror, and Personal Depth
AB – The intention of this paper is to reveal how Wang Yangming’s account of spontaneous action includes the development of a sense of personhood and world that both involve historical depth. This will require me to demonstrate how Wang’s use of the mirror metaphor does not necessitate a strictly empty account of the human person and their experienced world. I will first elucidate how it is possible to interpret Wang as suggesting that the latter two are poor in depth and identity. Then I will go on to demonstrate that the latter reading does not do justice to Wang’s insistence on the rectification and hence stabilization of the person and things across time, past and future.
AU – Allen, Barry
TI – To Really See the Little Things: Sage Knowledge in Action
AB – Sage knowledge knows the evolution of circumstances from an early point, when tendencies may be inconspicuously, “effortlessly” diverted. This knowledge is expressed, not “represented,” being an intensive quality of action rather than of belief, proposition, or theory, and its effortlessness is not a matter of effort versus no effort, but of the intensity with which effort tends to vanish. The value of such knowledge and the explanation of its accomplishment in terms of perceiving incipience or “really seeing the little things” crisscross lines among Confucians, Neo-Confucians, Daoists, and Art of War thinkers. What distinguishes these currents arises not from different definitions or justifications of knowledge but instead different ideas about how to acquire such knowledge and especially how to train it for wisdom.
AU – Weber, Ralph
TI – On the Contemporary Study of “Chinese Philosophy” in Europe
AB – What is the state of affairs with regard to the academic study of “Chinese philosophy” in Europe? This is the rather straightforward question that I address in the present article. Focusing on developments since 2007, I depict the institutional landscape in terms of associations and journals, present an overview of translations, and offer a survey of research, mostly of works published in languages other than English. The aim is not in the first instance to offer an exhaustive bibliography, but to document the many research activities taking place in all parts of continental Europe. Personal comments about the prospects of “Chinese philosophy” in Europe conclude the article.
TI – A Bibliography on “Chinese Philosophy” in Europe, 2007–2013
AU – Møllgaard, Eske
TI – An Introduction to Daoist Philosophies. By
AU – Steve Coutinho. New York: PB – Columbia University Press, 2014. x, 231 pp. Paperback. 978-0-231-14339-4.
AU – Hatley, James
TI – Levinas and Asian Thought. Edited by Leah Kalmanson, Frank Garrett, and Sarah Mattice. Pittsburgh: PB – Duquesne University Press
AU – Fox, Alan D.
TI – Zhuangzi: Text and Context. By
AU – Livia Kohn. Honolulu: PB – Three Pines Press, 2014. 335 pp. ISBN-10: 1931483272; ISBN-13: 978-1931483278.
TI – The Challenge of Linear Time: Nationhood and the Politics of History in East Asia. Edited by Viren Murthy and Axel Schneider. Leiden: PB – Brill, 2014. ISBN13: 9789004260139; E-ISBN: 9789004260146. 301 pp.
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Report: Jurgen Klopp keen on signing 26-yr-old playmaker for Liverpool
Report: Mourinho keen on bringing 28-yr-old back to the Premier League this month
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CES 2021: The 4 Biggest TV and Tech Trends To Look Out For
January 8, 2021 WC News
Instead of manufacturers, exhibitors, attendees, celebrities and press schmoozing, rubbing shoulders and trying desperately to stay caffeinated, 2021 is set to be the first fully virtual CES—brought to you by COVID-19.
Before we head into this digital free-for-all, we wanted to give you a quick preview of what to expect. Here, then, are the biggest streaming and TV trends to look forward to at CES 2021. Because, with all the amazing TV shows and movies we’re getting this year, you’re going to want to know the best way to watch it all.
Being touted as the next generation of TV technology, set to take over from pricey, high-end OLED displays, MicroLED uses millions of teeny tiny LEDs to offer everything from better contrast, faster response and wider viewing angles, to richer, brighter colors and blacker blacks. The technology itself is not brand new, but producing huge screens with it is–making Samsung the first manufacturer to announce MicroLED TVs in 88-inch, 99-inch and a whopping 110-inch. LG will also be showing its version of the MicroLED TV and TCL will be showing its Mini-LED technologies as well.
As the name implies, 8K technology offers four times the number of pixels on the screen from 4K and a crazy 16 times higher resolution of traditional HD. That amounts to sharper, more lifelike images, as anyone watching the Seattle Seahawks play the Washington Football Team last Sunday can attest to—when Fox used a handheld 8K camera to catch some outrageously clear football footage.
So, what do you need to know before you invest in one? Yes, everything looks better on a higher resolution screen, but right now there are almost no movies or TV shows available in 8K to watch. The Tokyo Olympics should have been the jumping off point for 8K broadcasts, but, well, thanks again Covid.
So, even though there’s not much being streamed or broadcast at this level, CES will definitely see more 8K models announced at lower prices from folks like Samsung, LG, Sony and hopefully even TCL.
Gaming Friendly TVs
Cordcutters and streamers will have something to cheer about with this under-the-radar broadcast television technology—which will be getting a boost at CES 2021. NextGen TV is based on the ATSC 3.0 standard for over-the-air TV—currently capable of 4K Ultra HDTV video, Dolby audio and delivering Internet content, but only available in about 20 US markets.
These TVs from manufacturers like LG, Samsung and Sony already come standard with NextGen TV, but watch this space for an expanded line-up as well as set-top boxes like the upcoming Zapperbox which can be pre-ordered now, shipping sometime early 2021. NextGen TV is also expecting to almost double the cities which will broadcast the service by fall of 2021.
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Ria Sardana· 14/01/2021
Gendered imbalances in the burden of domestic labour are making life incredibly difficult for women during lockdown, says Ria Sardana.
Gender equality isn’t a new concept, but a centuries-old fight. Some battles have been won, others still seem out of reach.
There is a perverse irony that perhaps one of the greatest victories in that fight has now so unjustly burdened women. Women fought for so long for equal employment and the right to earn a living. And whilst great strides have been made here, now too often they find they have disproportionately hectic schedules, and extremely stressful lives.
The progress made in the economic sphere, has been stymied and twisted by the ongoing injustices in the domestic sphere.”
Women, whether working or not, are still expected to take on the full weight of domestic work and childcare. Even if in wealthier families this means organising a staff of domestic workers rather than filling these duties directly. This forces women to choose between a family or a job, or an attempt to juggle both at the risk of their mental health. A decision men do not have to make.
Shouldering the Burden of the Pandemic
This problem has been further magnified by the pandemic. For wealthier women, the lack of household help has meant that all kinds of domestic chores, like cooking, and cleaning, have been added on top of meetings and work deadlines. For those women usually working in domestic service positions their financial independence has been shattered.
The continuing traditional notion that women bare sole responsibility for the upbringing of children has further compounded the issue. With creches and schools shut women, whether housewives, employed or unemployed have had to deal with the extra workload of their whole family being at home all the time. These situations are just the tip of the iceberg. For other women, such as the pregnant, women with newborns and women with mental and physical disabilities, things are even more complicated.
It is in this context that domestic violence has seen a disturbing spike. Domestic violence has always been an unfortunately prevalent problem but according to recent data, reports of abuse to the NCW doubled from February to March 2020. The problem is not just in India, but around the world. And sadly these statistics only reflect the number of women who have been able to reach out. The true scale of the problem is often hidden from view by fear and stigma.
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The pandemic has left women more vulnerable than ever. I have been working with other young people to reach as many women as possible in the communities we are in touch with through digital mediums to ensure their safety but given the confined spaces they live in, there is only so much that we can do. As this pandemic drags on, and we spend more of our lives indoors, it is essential that we talk about and begin to address the inequalities and injustices of the domestic sphere, both in terms of labour and violence.
THIS BLOG IS A PART OF A SPECIAL SERIES CURATED FOR THE 16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER BASED VIOLENCE. YOU CAN TAKE ACTION TO END GENDER BASED VIOLENCE NOW.
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Ria Sardana has worked as a Youth Accountability Advocate with Restless Development India on the issue of Gender Based Violence. She is currently the founder of a social initiative The Millennial Men Co.
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Mom of dead two-year-old boy charged with sex crimes
Published January 17, 2019 | By Evan Jones
Kayla Thomas (WVRJ photo)
The mother of a two-year-old Christiansburg boy who recently died from unspecified injuries is now charged with sex crimes. 25-year-old Kayla Thomas faces charges that include production of child pornography. Police say the investigator into her son’s death shows a history of both physical and sexual abuse. The man who was watching the boy when he reported him injured faces a felony child abuse charge.
McKenzie Hellman (WVRJ photo)
PREVIOUS: A 25-year-old Christiansburg man is jailed after a two-year-old boy he was watching died over the weekend. Christiansburg Police say McKenzie Hellman reported Friday a child had fallen at a home on Zinc Lane, but according to police, the injuries are not consistent with a fall. Hellman currently faces a felony child abuse charge, but police say more counts are possible. He is currently jailed without bond.
From Christiansburg Police: – On Friday, Jan. 11, at about 9:15 p.m., Christiansburg Police and Christiansburg Rescue responded to call in reference to child who had fallen and was unresponsive at a residence in the 400 block of Zinc Lane. Upon arrival, officers found a 2-year-old boy lying unresponsive on the floor. Officers and Rescue members immediately began cardiopulmonary resuscitation. After several minutes, a heartbeat was detected and the child was transported via ambulance to LewisGale Hospital Montgomery and later airlifted to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. The child, whose name is not being released at this time, remained unresponsive throughout the weekend before succumbing to his injuries at 7:40 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 13.
The police investigation revealed the injuries were not consistent with a fall, as described in the initial report. McKenzie Kyle Hellman, 25, of Christiansburg, has been charged with one count of felony child abuse in violation of Virginia Code Section §18.2-371.1. Hellman, who is not related to the child, was watching the boy at the time.
Hellman is currently being held without bond at the Montgomery County Jail. Additional charges may be forthcoming as the investigation continues.
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Cover Three: Ravens Down Patriots At Home
Ravens’ #8, Lamar Jackson, runs in for a score against the New England Patriots in the first half at M&T Bank Stadium on November 3, 2019.
“Tom Brady and the Patriots sure must be thankful for the end zone cat” is certainly not a sentence that I predicted would go through my head going into this week. But it is one that is feasible after Monday Night Football featured a house cat making an attempt to run through the end zone at MetLife Stadium, drawing a small amount of attention away from the Patriots’ blowout loss in Baltimore. The Ravens’ win was one of many for home teams in Week 9. As we reach the midway point of the regular season, let’s look at some of Week 9’s big games and preview some of Week 10’s.
Chiefs 26, Vikings 23
Missing Mahomes, the Chiefs relied on offensive playmakers and steady defensive play to hand the Vikings their third loss of the year. Damien Williams put up 125 yards and a touchdown on the ground, while Tyreek Hill caught six passes from Matt Moore for 140 yards and a score. Sammy Watkins and Travis Kelce were also reliable targets for Moore, each hauling in seven catches. Meanwhile, the Vikings struggled to find a spark on offense. Dalvin Cook failed to put up a touchdown for only the second time all season, and while eight receivers caught passes from Kirk Cousins, not one could top 60 receiving yards. This game was a reality check for the Vikings and a confidence-booster for the Chiefs, who expect to see Mahomes back in action some time in the next few weeks.
Dolphins 26, Jets 18
There will be no 0-16 team this year, to some Dolphins fans’ delight and to others’ dismay. On Sunday, the Dolphins defeated the Jets to swap places with New York at the bottom of the AFC East. This game was special for two reasons. One, it was awfully late in the year to produce two one-win teams as a result. Even more unique, this game featured two scores by safeties, one for each team. This is only the 10th time in NFL history that feat has been accomplished (out of roughly 16,000 regular season games played). So, bravo to the Dolphins and Jets!
Ravens 37, Patriots 20
“MVP, bro.” That’s what Ravens safety Earl Thomas had to say about his quarterback, Lamar Jackson, after Jackson scored two touchdowns on the ground and added one through the air to beat the Patriots. The Ravens dominated this game from the beginning. Two un-Patriot-like turnovers in the second half allowed the Ravens to pull away, and Lamar and Co. weren’t looking back. The Patriots are still a formidable opponent and likely the favorites to win the AFC. However, the Ravens proved to everyone that they can play with, and even outplay, the big boys.
Week 10 Preview
Panthers at Packers, Sunday 4:25 p.m.
Christian McCaffrey has propelled the Panthers back into relevance in the NFC. As the Panthers place Cam Newton on IR, nobody could have predicted they would have a solid substitute in Kyle Allen to complement McCaffrey. Just how legitimate the team’s potential is tested at Lambeau Field on Sunday. Few are expecting the Panthers to win this one, but they simply can’t take another pounding like the 51-13 loss they suffered at the hands of the 49ers. To avoid that, Kyle Allen just has to manage the game and let McCaffrey and the defense do the dirty work. Aaron Rodgers had a below average game by his standards last week, but he’ll likely get back on track at home. This game could be a statement for either team as they fight to secure footing for the playoffs.
Vikings at Cowboys, Sunday 8:20 p.m.
The Vikings saw a four-game winning streak come to an end last week, but they’ll have no time to dwell on that as they have the opportunity to play another NFC playoff contender this week in the Cowboys. Ezekiel Elliot and Dak Prescott were both looking true to form on Monday night. The Vikings have only given up two 100-yard rushing games to running backs this year, and they’ll need to hold Zeke back if they expect to win in Dallas. Kirk Cousins played well in their loss to the Chiefs, but he may have to account for some more big plays to get past the Cowboys defense.
Seahawks at 49ers, Monday 8:15 p.m.
In what has become an even bigger NFC matchup than Vikings-Cowboys, the 7-2 Seahawks look to pull off the road upset at the undefeated (8-0) 49ers. The 49ers need to take their close away win at Arizona as a wake-up call if they hope to survive the surging Seahawks, winners of five of their last six games. The NFC West is still up for grabs even though the 49ers are undefeated, and this division will likely claim one of the NFC’s Wildcard spots. With a big game from Jimmy Garoppolo, the Niners could quiet a lot of noise and build themselves some wiggle room for the second half of the season. Don’t expect the moment to be too big for either QB in this one.
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Vincent Audio SV-237MK Hybrid Integrated Amplifier
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Vincent SV 237MK
The Potent Successor to Vincent's Most Successful Amp of All Time, Now with Optical and Coaxial Digital Inputs
The SV-236MK was Vincent Audio’s most successful amplifier of all time. The SV-237 integrated amp improves upon its predecessor. The circuit design was completely revised to provide better overall sound, including improved musicality and transient response. It will drive even ‘difficult’ loudspeakers effortlessly.
And for more versatility than ever with your other AV gear, the new MK version of the SV-237 includes an optical digital input and a coaxial digital input.
"It Can Be a Roaring Lion or a Purring Housecat"
"Hats off to the SV-237! It is the best amplifier in its price range and we are happy to honor it with our 'Reference Award' status," raves a review of the original-model SV-237 at Germany's i-fidelity.net. "Anyone who associates tube amplifiers with a cozy, warm, and cuddly sound will be surprised by the SV-237. It grasps the music with vigor, easily following every lightning-quick change in tempo. Depending on what you're listening to, it can be either a roaring lion or a purring housecat."
The Musicality Shines Through
The hybrid tube/transistor design brings you luxurious ‘golden age’ sound and solid state reliability. The second stage of the preamplifier section uses a pair of 6N1P-EV vacuum tubes. Their greater voltage level provides improved signal stability with higher spectral purity that brings out the fine details of a recording. The musicality of the tubes shines through! The sound is never cold or analytical.
The revised circuit design also delivers greatly improved signal-to-noise ratio. You’ll enjoy the explosive experience of a live performance thanks to the excellent dynamics. And enhancements to the volume control let you control the level via the included wireless remote.
The SV-237MK has six line level analog inputs, pre-out and record out, and four pairs of speaker outputs for bi-wiring. The front panel includes tone controls, which is a great feature when implemented correctly, as Vincent does, and it adds to the 'golden age' feel and performance of this component. A tone 'bypass' control switches the treble and bass controls out of the circuitry. Another great idea from the past is a 'Loudness' switch, which restores a lot of the dynamics when you're playing your SV-237 at low volume.
In addition to its analog connections, the SV-237MK has optical digital and coaxial digital inputs for your AV gear. Digital-to-analog conversion is provided by a TI PCM2705 DAC offering CD-quality sound.
Read on for a close-up look at the original-model SV-237 from Audio Advisor President Wayne Schuurman.
Have you ever tried to explain to a friend or acquaintance what high-end audio is about? The new Vincent SV-237 tube/hybrid stereo integrated amp is an ideal illustration. It's an update of the legendary SV-236MK that won reviewer praise and was a best seller in its price class all over the world. The SV-237 is three things high-end audio products are or at least want to be. It's big and powerful and rich.
It's Big…
In an age of gear getting smaller, thinner, and lighter, the Vincent SV-237 is the exact opposite. It's a big, full-sized component. The chassis is a full 18" deep, including the rugged, heavy-duty five-way binding posts. Now try to pick it up. You'll discover it weighs every ounce of the claimed 45 lbs.
It's Powerful…
Forget the wimpy, low-wattage amps produced by the competition! With its heavy-duty toroidial transformer, the SV-237 delivers a full 150WRMS into eight ohms and over 250WRMS into four ohms. Turn it on and you'll immediately detect something very different. It's called bass! And most amps just can't give you the full impact of the music. The SV-237's bass varies with the music from rock-sold to awesome. Your non-audiophile friends have most likely never heard bass like this before. Kudo's go to the excellent power supply designed by German engineer Frank Blohbaum.
It's Rich…
One more thing sets the SV-237 apart from ordinary audio gear. It's the rich, full sound of music amplified by tubes. The SV-237 is biased to deliver a full ten watts in pure 'Class A' mode. That's over 95% of your listening! The combination of vacuum tubes and 'Class A' biasing gives instruments and voices a warm liquid texture that only the most expensive solid state gear can approximate.
Frequency response: 20 Hz - 20 kHz ±0.5 dB; 20 Hz - 50 kHz ±2 dB
Maximum output power at 8 Ohm: 2 x 150 Watt (RMS)
Maximum output power Class A at 8 Ohm:2 x 10 Watt (RMS)
Total Harmonic Distortion: < 0.1% (1 kHz, 1 W)
Dimensions: 16.8" wide, 6" high, 17" deep
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By Matthew Griffin Earth and Energy 25th December 2017
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF
Processing Bitcoin is now consuming more energy than Denmark uses in a year, and as cryptocurrencies become increasingly popular their energy consumption is, literally, starting to affect the planet.
You’d have to be almost deaf and blind to not notice that at the moment everyone’s favourite emerging technology plaything, asides from Artificial Intelligence (AI), is Blockchain. Go to an event of conference anywhere in the world and there will be crowds of people talking about it in exuberant terms telling you how they’re using it to change the world, but with the very same breath they’re also hoping noone’s going to ask them about its environmental footprint, which, bearing in mind that processing Bitcoin alone, by some estimates, is now consuming over 32 Terrawatt Hours (TWh) of electricity, which puts it on a par with Denmark and Serbia is, frankly, a sore point. Sorry Bitcoin fans, you’re helping kill penguins. Sad face emoji.
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But it doesn’t just stop with Bitcoin, Ethereum snaffles electricity too like it’s going out of fashion, as do most other cryptocurrencies, except for the possible exception of the IOTA Foundation’s blockchain look-a-like “Tangle” that doesn’t use miners and is designed from the ground up to run lean on mobile devices. Boy, who knew penguins could look so sad…
Now though a solution might be at hand, but before I get to that let’s talk about miners. Blockchains get a lot of love, but they are only shared sets of data. What brings cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum to life is the way all the computers in their networks agree, over and over, that what a blockchain says is true, and to do this they use an algorithm called a consensus mechanism, and it’s this that many people call mining.
Cryptocurrency miners do much more than unlock new coins. In the process, they check the blockchain to make sure people aren’t spending coins fraudulently, and they add new lists of transactions, the blocks, to the blockchain. It’s the second step, meant to secure the blockchain from attacks, that guzzles electricity.
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Ultimately, the miners must transform each list of the most recent transactions into a digital signature that can serve as proof that the information is true. All miners can do this, using a cryptographic tool that takes any input and spits out a string of seemingly random characters, but Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, made this part particularly difficult.
Nakamoto set up a competition, the object of which is to be the first to determine a very specific signature based on three inputs, namely the signature of the preceding block, the list of new transactions, and a random third number. Since miners don’t know the third number, they must generate digital signatures repeatedly until one guesses correctly. This expends an immense amount of energy, signalling to the rest of the network that a miner’s accounting can be trusted. But while this particular method of reaching agreement, which is known as “Proof of Work” is the most established, it isn’t the only one. Now, a growing number of technologists are exploring different avenues, and some smaller cryptocurrencies, like IOTA’s Tangle, which is backed by none other than Microsoft and that uses something called a Directed Acyclic Graph, are already using different techniques.
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The technique that’s leading the pack at the moment though is one known as “Proof of Stake.” Whereas proof of work rewards participants for spending computational resources, blockchains that use proof of stake would select validators based in part on the size of their respective monetary deposits, in other words their stake. However, while this would be much more energy efficient it’s still unproven at a large scale and has a number of kinks that need working out.
Still, if all goes as planned, Ethereum will transition to proof of stake relatively soon, perhaps in the next couple of months which would be hugely impressive, given that its creator Vitalik Buterin has called devising an effective consensus algorithm “one of the hardest problems in cryptocurrency development.”
For now though the majority of us are still stuck with energy guzzling cryptocurrencies, and we can ease our conscience somewhat by only investing in cryptocurrencies that use renewable energy, but as Bitcoin and others get harder and more energy intensive to mine it’s inevitable that at some point the industry is going to have to look at, and more importantly, embrace, alternatives.
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Russia 2018: NIKE Says Order For Super Eagles Jersey Hits Three Million
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American sport wear giant, NIKE yesterday disclosed that it had received over three million orders for the new jerseys designed for the senior national team of Nigeria, Super Eagles, for the 21st FIFA World Cup finals opening in Russia in four weeks.
At a meeting with chieftains of the Nigeria Football Federation at its Europe headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the sportswear behemoth also used the opportunity to announce that the release of the jerseys into the global market would happen on Tuesday, 29th May at unit cost of $85.
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr. Amaju Pinnick attended the meeting in company with NFF second Vice President, Mallam Shehu Dikko. NIKE’s Vice President/General Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Matthus Visch was in company with Sales Director, Mr. Wouter van Olm.
Both organizations used the opportunity to appraise their running agreement signed in London three years ago and while both expressed satisfaction with the contract, the imperative of penning a new, improved contract was high on the agenda.
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