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Guyanese join in NY celebrations for 70th anniversary of Indian independence. | Guyana Community Discussion Forums
Guyanese join in NY celebrations for 70th anniversary of Indian independence.
Thousands of Guyanese were among tens of thousands of revellers celebrating the 70th Anniversary of India’s Indepen-dence at the 37th annual India Day parade on Madison Avenue in Manhattan last Sunday. Some Guyanese were also among the performers on floats (from 40th Street) and at the cultural programme on 27th Street where the parade culminated.
Guyanese, like most other spectators, came out to catch a glimpse of popular Bollywood actors who graced the parade. Some Guyanese were also present at the post parade banquet and awards ceremony. Guyana’s former President Bharrat Jagdeo was a Chief Guest and Grand Marshall at the parade in 2011. Several Guyanese attended the post parade banquet with the Bollywood stars to celebrate India’s 70th independence anniversary.
India’s independence, August 15, 1947, has historical significance for people of Indian origin as well as others in Guyana and in the Caribbean. The desire for India to become a free nation propelled Caribbean based Indians to identify with the ‘Quit India’ movement and the struggle to free India of British rule since the early part of 20th century. India’s freedom would pave the way for the independence of Caribbean colonies where some 500K Indians were bonded in contracted servitude from 1838 to 1917. The Caribbean colonies began obtaining their independence in 1962 (Trinidad and Jamaica and later Guyana and Barbados in 1966).
Indo-Caribbeans have been fervently participating in the annual India Day parade on Madison Avenue since it was launched in 1981. The India Day parade was organized by the Federation of Indian Associations (FIA). Ramesh Kalicharran, formerly of Bush Lot Essequibo, has been serving as Indo-Caribbean liaison to the Asian Indian nationals in assisting the annual parade. Kali also assists with publicity for Guyanese participation. The parade serves as a platform to celebrate one’s heritage comparable to other ethnic groups (like Afro-Caribbeans) celebrating their heritage in the US.
It was an impressively organized parade which has become a major attraction in the City of New York drawing tens of thousands of spectators and is among the major cultural events in the city’s calendar of events. Bollywood actors from Baahubali fame Rana Daggubati and Tamannaah Bhatia were the star attractions. Previous parades attracted mega stars including Amithab Bachchan, Jeetendra, Shah Rukh Khan, Hema Malini, Rani Mukherjee, Preity Zinta, Abhishek Bachchan, etc. Politicians also graced the parades – including senators, mayors, and presidential candidates. This year, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, seeking re-election next month, was the chief guest. Waving the Indian tricolour flag, the Mayor said the Independence Day parade celebrates the “extraordinary contributions” of the Indian-American community to the city.
“This is a day we appreciate what people do for the city regardless of what they look like, regardless of what language they speak, regardless of where they were born. Everyone here contributes to making New York City better and making America stronger. That is what we are celebrating today”.
Kalicharran showered accolades on the organizers describing it as another magnificent event and expressing pride in Guyanese and Caribbean participation. He also praised India on the attainment of her 70th anniversary of gaining independence.
Vishnu Bisram
Bollywood actors from Baahubali fame Rana Daggubati and Tamannaah Bhatia were the star attractions
WHO????
Bhai, Baahubali 1 and 2 were the biggest Blockbusters in Bollywood overthe last 2 years. They were Bollywood versions of Ben Hur.
...Ova. XXX
Last edited by cain 8/30/1711:27 AM
Nehru posted:
yuh know...I did see the movie advertised on Netflix...did not peak my interest
In 1947, as Pandit Nehru was making his famous Independence Speech at the Red Fort, some thousands of miles away in British Guiana, it was noon time the following day. Gathered were Hindu Indians (probably born in India) on the Albion Bridge. They celebrated with the regular Indian sweets, flags and clip-on buttons of the Indian Tri-color flag. Bicycles wheels decorated with multi-color crepe paper, box carts drawn by people and bicycles, multi-color spinning wheels in a cluster-a scene typical of a 1947 Hindi movie.
Every one dressed in the typical Indian white attire, trousers, kurta and Nehru Style topi. Women in long skirts, sleeved jackets, urniee, and as usual, jewelled.
I remembered the sun being hot that day. Peering through my Patti's and Tatta's Wallaba Picket Fench to see all the people on the bridge, drumming and singing.
I caught the glimpse of a young girl in her celebrations, she raced accross the rickety bridge over the trench to the wooden garrison style house in the fenched yard. The span of the plank created a harmonic response as she quickly strode on it.
She threw open the gate bearing gifts. As with all children, I hasten to her with outstretched hands. In April, I had turned 2 years old.
Landoo, gulabjamoo, jilabee, bandamlach, satwah, ball of parched rice, gulgulah, manborg, barra, poulowrie and much more. Too much for me to hold on to, my Patti came to the rescue.
Smiling, the young girl patiently pinned the button of the Tri-Color Indian Flag on my shirt.
And in parting, she gave me a Spinning Wheel.
Fascinated with the colors of the flag, I kept it for years, well into teen age years.
The Spinning Wheel was more of the excitment, I ran with it and realized it spun faster. Perhaps, my first inclination of an Engineering pre-occupation.
I watched the procession from the landing as they faded from view heading to the logies of Plantation Albion, in celebartions.
Perhaps, some wealthy Indian in Albion had a radio set, and they may have heard the voice of Prime Minister Pandit Nehru and his famous words.
Why Indo-Guyanese participated in India's Independence, but the majority refused to participate in their own country's independence? Is it because Indians welcome them with open arms while the PNC/AFC neglected them or made them feel like Mexican aliens in Guyana?
You doan wanna wreck a nice thread banna. That question could start a war.
seignet posted:
This is lovely, Siggy. When I had the chance, I never thought of asking my elders how they marked India's independence in Guyana. Your firsthand account is my first peek into that occasion. Thanks aplenty, bhai.
Prince posted:
Indo Guyanese are Guyanese and should celebrate Guyana regardless as to whether their party is in power or not.
Apparently Indians can only become "Guyanese" when it is accompanied with "abie pan tap, black man time done?"
Carib with his racist Shyte once again about Indos this and Indos that.
MitwahSenior Member
Very nice. Brings back lots of memories. I remember the Spinning Wheel and the flying of kites at #63 beach.
Btw, the sweet is not "landoo" it's laddoo..
The peeps from Albion/Port Mourant would say "Patti" and " Taataa"; in Canje, the say "Aajee" and "Aaja" for paternal grand mother and grand father respectively.
In my village, I remember the exchange of sweets by various homes. There was also "Mitai".
Last edited by Mitwah 8/31/178:56 AM
There is nothing to celebrate. As I said before I prefer those Pakistani girls that keep to their traditional South Asian culture and marry their Pakistani men folk rather than the Bollywood Hindu girls that will chase after the first white or Western man that she sees.
Prash Bhai, what is wrong with them having a WhiteIndo baby ?
After all, you already embraced our Dougla Brothers and Sisters.
Last edited by Former Member 8/31/1710:03 AM
So how come you did not chase after your own kind but chose to dilute your genes?
My wife mother is Guyanese. My mother is Guyanese. That is the difference.
So in other words Prashad you are Guyanese of Indian ancestry, correct.
Cain in the Guyana context yes but according to family tree dna company Prashad has African, Chinese and East Indian ancestry.
Last edited by Prashad 8/31/1712:39 PM
yuji22 posted:
Yuji why don't you look at all of the threads that you start which are usually some version of "blackman a kill ahbe coolie".
Its interesting that you accuse me of talking race when this is your daily scream. Not all who work in sugar are Indians and yet you scream Indians.
Maybe if the PPP were brighter they would be highlighting the numbers of non Indians who also work in the sugar industry. But they don't as "blackman a kill ahbe coolie" is the new anthem now that "ahbe pan tap, blackman time done" seems rather quaint now.
Given that those Indians from India who you worship don't like either Chinese nor blacks I think that your quest for "pure Indianhood" seems rather silly. To them you are a black man with straight hair.
Well according to you black people are whites with an inferior pirate culture so I see that you aren't any better than these Bollywood Hindu girls given that both sides of your wife's family consist of white people.
Admin should delete all those postings erroneous to India's independence.
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Miss ion Statement
Improve student achievement by supporting teaching and learning in the classroom and community through teamwork and collaboration.
Name of Council
The name of the governance shall be the Willard B. Hage School Site Council. The term, council, shall be associated with School Site Council or SSC.
Role of the Council
The Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) including a budget, shall be developed, monitored and recommended by the School Site council. The School Site Council, following approval of the Single Plan for Student Achievement by the school district's governing board, shall have ongoing responsibility to review with the principal, teachers, other personnel and community members the implementation of the SPSA and to assess annually the effectiveness of the plan. Modifications or any improvement of the plan or budget shall be developed, recommended, and approved or disapproved in the same manner. The council shall carry out all other duties and responsibilities assigned to it in the Education Code of the State of California - Section 52853.
The primary purpose of the Willard B. Hage School Site Council is to provide all stakeholders involvement in a governance system and ensure student learning and achievement through quality teaching and learning.
Section 1 - Size and Composition
The School Site Council shall be composed of (10) members. Representation on the council shall be: the principal (1), representatives of teachers selected by teachers at the school (3), parents of students attending the school selected by such parents, and community members selected by parents of students attending the school (5), representative of the classified employees (1). The council shall be constituted to ensure parity between (a) the principal, classroom teachers, classified representative; and (b) equal numbers of parents and community members. Classroom teachers shall constitute the majority of those persons representing school staff. Council members representing parents and/or community members may be employees of the school district, but may not serve as a parent representative at the site of employment.
Section 2- Election Procedures
Selection Process-General Election
Parent Constituent Groups
Parents may nominate or self-nominate
In the general election of the parents at large, ballots will be sent home with the children; ballots will be returned within 7 calendar days to the child's classroom teacher or to the office. Ballots will be counted by 3 current members; the candidates will be notified by telephone; a notice of the newly elected member will be published.
Elections will be held in September/October for parent/community and teacher representatives.
The chair and recorder will be elected by the members at the first meeting of their term of office. Principal will serve as co-chair.
Section 3 - Term of Office
It shall be the duty of all council members to attend all regular and special School Site Council meetings. Members have the responsibility to meet with their respective groups to ensure that various interests are represented.
A two year term with the option of being re-elected
Terms will go from October to September.
Staggered terms of election shall be maintained.
Section 4 - Voting Rights
Each member shall be entitled to one vote. Only School site Council members shall vote on SSC issues.
Section 5 - Termination of Membership
A member shall no longer hold membership should s/he cease to be a resident of the area or no longer meets the membership requirements under which s/he was selected; e.g., a parent becomes employed by the site. Membership can be terminated for any member who is absent from all regular meetings for a period of two consecutive meetings.
Section 6 - Resignation
Any member may resign by filing a written resignation to the School Site council co-chairpersons.
Section 7 - Vacancy
Any vacancy on the council shall be filled for the remainder of the school year with an appointment by the respective chairperson with input from the constituent group. If the unexpired term is for another full year thereafter, the term for that year shall be filled by the regular selection process.
Section 8 - Member Responsibilities
Ensure the representation of all constituents (parents, students, classified and certificated staff) in making policies which affect the educational success of Hage students.
Attend all meetings on time and stay for the duration of the meeting
Report and communicate with all constituencies through the minutes and/or verbal communication
Share duties/responsibilities
Respect others; opinions
Notify the chairperson prior to any absence
Come to each meeting prepared to discuss and/or vote on issues published in the agenda prior to the meeting date.
Section 1 - Officers
A chair and recorder will be elected by the School Site Council annually during the first meeting. The election may be held by secret ballot or open court.
The chair, co-chair and recorder will plan the agenda, facilitate meetings, ensure minutes are taken and write a synopsis for the principal to include in the next parent newsletter following the meeting.
The chair will determine if there is a quorum (a minimum of 1 representative from each constituency and at least 8 members present) and if not, cancel the meeting.
The chair will be responsible to work with the council to develop resolution procedures when there is a dispute.
Section 2 - Election and Term of Office
The officers shall be elected annually and shall serve for two years or until each successor has been elected.
A vacancy in any office because of death, resignation, removal, disqualification, or otherwise shall, by special election, be filled by the council for the unexpired portion of the term.
Communication Process
The recorder will record and dist4rigute the draft minutes of each meeting within ten working days.
The minutes will be posted on the community bulletin board.
Members will actively solicit information from and report back to their constituency. Each member will represent their constituency. Members will report and communicate with all constituencies through the minutes and/or verbal communication.
Representatives will communicate monthly with their constituents before and after each meeting.
Written minutes will be kept of each meeting and posted for staff and parents at a specific location at the site accessible to all constituencies. Highlights of the minutes will be written by the chairperson to be included in the principal's bulletins to all parents.
Once a year the Willard B. Hage School Site Council will write an evaluation of its accomplishments. This evaluation will be communicated to all the constituents.
After the yearly evaluation or at nay time appropriate during the year, changes to the By-Laws may be proposed by any council member. Changes will be considered only if they increase the effectiveness of the council or are necessary to meet the requirements of state law. Any By-laws changes must be presented annually to the constituencies and can only be considered accepted when voted on and passed by a majority of those constituents who choose to vote. The council may choose to operate on By-Law changes that they have accepted by a majority vote until a vote of the constituencies can occur.
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English spelling doesn’t always make sense, so this tech breaks it down
Students learning to read can click for help pronouncing unfamiliar words
by Tara García Mathewson August 15, 2018 March 30, 2020
Magic Ladder gives readers an extra set of clues about how to pronounce words because written English so often just doesn’t make sense. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today!
The problem really started with the creation of written English. The language has 44 sounds but only 26 letters. That means some letters have to pull double duty, representing multiple sounds. Then there are groups of letters that together make sounds completely unlike the individual letters. To confuse matters further, a single sound can be represented by multiple different combinations of letters – like the common sound in “laughter,” “phone,” and “father,” for example.
Learning to read and write in English is much harder than it is in a language like Haitian Creole, for example, which has just one sound per letter. But David Boulton, who spent part of his career in Silicon Valley, thinks technology can solve that problem. Boulton runs Learning Stewards, a nonprofit that features a free reading-support program called Magic Ladder.
When students read something on a computer and come across an unfamiliar word, they can click on it. Through Magic Ladder, one click opens a pop-up with the word broken up into its syllables. Another click helps readers sound out the word. A user can also click for a definition of the word, its synonyms, its linguistic roots and a translation. (If you are reading this on a laptop or desktop, click any word on this page to see how it works. If you are reading on a phone or tablet, click here to test the functionality.)
The technology has been a game-changer for students at the Second Street School in Frankfort, Kentucky, according to Dewey Hensley, the principal. Some teachers started using it last year, and he wants to make sure it’s embedded in classrooms schoolwide this coming year.
“It empowers differentiation and personalization,” Hensley said, acknowledging that those are big words getting thrown around a lot in education circles these days. “Often personalization or differentiation lowers the bar, or kids get access to a lower-level text or not the same text as everybody else.” But Magic Ladder, he said, lets teachers give students of very different reading abilities the same texts, knowing they’ll get the supports they need to understand the content.
Magic Ladder offers a new kind of code for reading English words – a toolset in addition to traditional phonics. Silent letters are gray instead of black, for example, and letters that make sounds as a group are underlined.
The first version of Magic Ladder did this on paper, offering visual cues about pronunciation for an entire text. A literacy researcher from Bellarmine University, David Paige, did a randomized controlled trial of this version in 2015, finding that students in the Jefferson County Public Schools had much greater improvement in their reading ability if teachers taught them with Magic Ladder rather than traditional instruction. No similar studies have been done since the Magic Ladder method went high-tech.
“For those kids who don’t have the print-rich environment and aren’t able to run across those words until they naturally pick them up and naturally figure out the sounds, it’s very explicit and helps them to catch up.”
To some extent, Magic Ladder creates an extra set of rules to memorize. But teachers say it has the power to take the stress out of reading for kids who struggle.
“Think about a kid who can’t read,” said Cindy Bramble, a second-grade teacher at the Second Street School. “He’s ashamed. What’s he going to do? He’s going to shut down. He’s a behavior problem.”
There are examples of these students in virtually every classroom. But Bramble said Magic Ladder offers help – discreetly – so students don’t have to be ashamed about their gaps in reading ability. They no longer have to act out to get out of reading.
And Second Street School teachers are finding Magic Ladder is useful beyond English classes. Students can read texts in math or social studies using the Magic Ladder tools and get the same supports. This can be a big help for kids struggling to understand grade-level content.
Hannah Bennett, a fifth-grade teacher at Second Street School, said she used to have students come into her classroom at a kindergarten or first grade reading level. She said she had two options – she could pull these students aside for additional instruction with kindergarten or first-grade texts, helping them fill in the gaps and get closer to grade-level reading, or (and she said teachers don’t like to admit doing this) she could keep assigning grade-level texts and simply hope the students would catch up.
“Magic ladder will fill in those gaps for you,” Bennett said. “They can have access to grade-level texts, so they can develop the skills that they need, so they can master the standards in their grade level – while having a safety net.”
Students who grow up reading books at home often develop instincts for English grammar and spelling. They see so many examples of the irregular elements of English that the rules become second-nature. Not all children grow up this way.
“For those kids who don’t have the print-rich environment and aren’t able to run across those words until they naturally pick them up and naturally figure out the sounds,” Hensley said, “it’s very explicit and helps them to catch up.”
This story about Magic Ladder was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.
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PRESERVING THE LANDSCAPES OF THE AZZADENE VALLEY
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In recent years in Morocco, the succession of droughts, floods, unusual temperatures, negative changes of ecosystems and productive sectors, and fragile economic conditions are unlike previous decades. This necessitates redoubling development efforts involving economic, political, and civil society actors to counter these adverse effects of climate.
This is why the Moroccan government has launched projects aimed at respecting human and natural resources and taking preventive green measures to combat the effects of climate change, including renewable energy, sustainable recycling of solid and liquid waste, and the National Initiative for Human Development.
Civil society contributes significantly to overcoming environmental obstacles to achieve sustainable development especially for villagers because they are in constant contact with the natural environment and are aware of their own needs. The High Atlas Foundation builds proactive initiatives to serve the inhabitants of remote areas.
Since July 2017, the village of Tassa Ouirgane in the Marrakech region’s Azzadene Valley is taking action against flooding and soil erosion through restoring agricultural terraces and fruit tree orchards. This project is funded by the United Nations Development Program.
The Tassa Ouirgane community experiences a serious short fall of water during the summer. Heavy rain in the winter in the High Atlas’ Azzadene Valley causes severe flooding, destroying many productive terraces and threatening livelihoods, and has even led to the tragic loss of human life. The impact is destabilizing for the local families, and this HAF-UNDP project includes several activities for village men, women, and youth.
The olive, almond, and walnut nursery of 24,100 trees comprises a 107.5m2 green house, the necessary equipment, and high-quality seeds adapted to the region. The project also includes conceptual and practical training for farmers on how to grow the trees and seed selection.
A basin is 3 x 5 meters with a capacity to carry 38 tons of water has been constructed, a water well 35 meters deep was built, and a solar-power pump was installed – for the benefit of the farmers of Tassa Ouirgane. Further, 960 meters of gabions have also been built to protect agricultural lands against floods caused by the river.
Ninety famers from as many households (including 600 people – 380 women and 220 men) in the region are now benefiting from the project, including capacity-building workshops about irrigation methods and how to improve the productivity of the nursery.
On October 9th and 10th, Amina Hajami, HAF’s director of projects, visited Tassa Ouirgane to assess the development of the project.
Most of the members of the Tassa Ouirgane cooperative are very ambitious 15 girls between the ages of 14 and 20 years. The women of the village have received a series of seven capacity-building workshops. The first was Imagine empowerment activities that constituted 32 hours over four days to channel creative energies towards achieving specific goals and establish better familial and community relationships.
Malika is a divorced woman who has little daughter. She is now working at the cooperative and faces the people’s traditional perspectives of divorced women. She totally changed her thinking with new income and confidence. Before, she was not comfortable leaving her parents’ house to avoid the hurtful words of people, but now she goes out everyday for work and self-growth.
Zahra is able to manage the cooperative by delivering the tasks to members and monitoring their work hours by using a daily attendance list. She described her earlier desire to start a new cooperative that benefit community and women, based on cultivating and marketing medicinal and aromatic herbs and working on apple cider vinegar. The region is very rich in these kinds of plants. The spirit of cooperation and achievement did not leave them despite study and work in the cooperative on Saturdays and Sundays and often during leisure time.
I affirm that the village of Tassa Ouirgane is a typical model of a village in Morocco that has benefited from a comprehensive project by the civic organization, the High Atlas Foundation, which contributes to providing better living conditions for our communities.
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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CHILDHOOD
By Anna Ugolini HAF Volunteer On November 20th the International Day of Childhood and Adolescence Rights is celebrated throughout the world. The date reminds us of the day…
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SCOTT STAPP to Release Empowering New Anthem “Survivor”; Announces “The Survivor Tour”
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Debuts “Wake Up Call” PSA Video with ChildFund International;
The Non-Profit Will Join Stapp on Tour
WATCH - PSA video w ChildFund International
(Nashville, TN – March 9, 2020) – Just seven months since The Space Between The Shadows debuted atop the charts, SCOTT STAPP announces his next single, “Survivor,” and the first dates on The Survivor Tour, which kicks off June 5 in Pacific Junction, IA. Presale tickets for Live Nation venues begins Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 10am local. General ticket onsale begins March 13 at 10:00am local time on ScottStapp.com.
Last July, Scott’s first album in six years, The Space Between The Shadows, introduced “Purpose For Pain,” Scott’s highest-charting single since 2005. His North and South American tour dates came with all the power, pyro, and anthems expected of one of the biggest voices in recent rock music and he recently discussed his five-year journey of overcoming and rebuilding during a candid Q&A at the Pollstar Live! conference. Having fought for his return, “Survivor,” is a powerful anthem to strengthen the resolve of anyone wrestling with adversity as Scott roars at the demons of the past, “how ya like me now?!”
Today, Scott also debuted an inspiring PSA video from his trip to Ecuador with ChildFund International, one of his philanthropic partners since 2015. Set to his song “Wake Up Call,” the video illustrates every individual’s potential and the joy of giving, for both the giver and the recipients. As he did last summer, Stapp will host ChildFund reps at each venue so that fans who are able can sponsor a child for $36 a month. To sponsor a child or learn more about ChildFund, please visit www.childfund.org/scott-stapp.
Watch the PSA video HERE
“ChildFund has created a network to give these kids a fighting chance of overcoming the reality they were born into. Children in need don’t have to become victims of neglect,” said Scott.
Stapp has come full circle with The Space Between The Shadows. Themes of facing the past, overcoming, and powering through adversity dominate – “Purpose For Pain,” finds meaning in life’s struggles; “Name,” promises to end destructive cycles; “Gone Too Soon,” honors musical peers and victims of unexpected tragedy; and “Survivor” promises above all, to never stop fighting.
The Survivor Tour – First Leg (more dates to be announced)
April 4 – Apopka, FL @ Apopka Amphitheatre
June 5 – Pacific Junction, IA @ Rally In The Hills
June 6 – St. Charles, IL @ Arcada Theatre
June 7 – Detroit, MI @ St Andrews
June 9 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
June 10 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Roxian Theatre
June 12 – State College, PA @ Stage West
June 13 – Montclair, NJ @ Wellmont Theatre
June 14 – Boston, MA @ Big Night Live
June 17 – Huntington, NY @ Paramount Theatre
June 18 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts
June 20 – Atlanta, GA @ The Loft at Center Stage
June 23 – New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues
June 25 – Sherman, TX @ Hot Summer Nights
June 27 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues
June 28 – San Antonio, TX @ Aztec Theater
SCOTT STAPP is a Grammy winning songwriter, solo artist, and the voice of Creed (over 50 million albums sold). In July 2019, his 1st album in six years, The Space Between The Shadows, celebrated five years of sobriety, re-introduced an evolved artist at his best, and debuted in the Top 5 and Top 10 across Rock and Album charts in the US and UK for his anthems of gratitude, optimism, and unflinching self-examination. Beyond music, Scott is an inspiration to others struggling with the over-lapping illnesses of addiction and depression. He “pays it forward” through his With Arms Wide Open Foundation, which helps military vets and their families with drug addiction, PTSD-triggered mental health issues and suicide prevention. In 2017, the Florida Association of Broadcasters awarded Scott with the Florida Service Award. In 2018, he was inducted into the Florida Music Hall of Fame. The rocker lives in Nashville, TN with his wife of fourteen years, Jaclyn, and their three young children.
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Henry Scott Tukes French brigantine Julie of Nantes at the Mill Dam, Falmouth, Cornwall
High Street, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
The French three-masted barque Magatlan, Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall. May 1905
The ship, Bay of Panama, Falmouth, Cornwall. March 1891
The French three-masted barque La Fontaine off Falmouth, Cornwall. July 1909
Seamens Bethel & Institute, Quay Hill, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Municipal Buildings, The Moor, Falmouth, Cornwall. Around 1910
Market Strand and Market Street, Falmouth, Cornwall. Around 1894
The three-masted French ship Socoa in Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall. 1906
Quay Hill, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
New Street, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Market Street, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
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Henry Scott Tukes French brigantine Julie of Nantes at the Mill Dam, Falmouth, Cornwall. Around 1886
The artist, Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929), purchased Julie of Nantes in 1886 for use as a floating studio. It is thought that he can be seen standing at the bow of the ship. Henry Scott Tuke was born into a Quaker family in Lawrence Street, York. In 1859 the family moved to Falmouth, where his father Daniel Tuke, a physician, established a practice. Tuke was encouraged to draw and paint from an early age and some of his earliest drawings, aged four or five years old, were published in 1895. In 1875, he enrolled in the Slade School of Art. Initially his father paid for his tuition but in 1877 Tuke won a scholarship, which allowed him to continue his training at the Slade and in Italy in 1880. From 1881 to 1883 he was in Paris where he met the artist Jules Bastien-Lepage, who encouraged him to paint en plein air (in the open air) a method of working that came to dominate his practice. While studying in France, Tuke decided to move to Newlyn Cornwall where many of his Slade and Parisian friends had already formed the Newlyn School of painters. He received several lucrative commissions there, after exhibiting his work at the Royal Academy of Art in London. In 1885, he returned to Falmouth where many of his major works were produced. He became an established artist and was elected to full membership of the Royal Academy in 1914. Tuke suffered a heart attack in 1928 and died in March 1929. In his will he left generous amounts of money to some of the men who, as boys, had been his models. Today he is remembered mainly for his oil paintings of young men, but in addition to his achievements as a figurative painter, he was an established maritime artist and produced as many portraits of sailing ships as he did human figures. He was a prolific artist, over 1,300 works are listed and more are still being discovered. Photographer: Unknown
Arwenack House in Falmouth, Cornwall. Around 1925
The French three-masted barque La Rochefoucauld off Falmouth, Cornwall. 1910
Wreck of the Loustic, Gyllyngvase Beach, Falmouth, Cornwall. January 1936
Greenbank Lane, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Church Street, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Bar Terrace, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
The Moor, Falmouth, Cornwall. Possibly 5th May 1905
Gyllyngvase Beach, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Falmouth waterfront from the harbour, Cornwall. Around 1925
Killigrew Road, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Performing bear, Market Street, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Gyllyngvase Beach and Pennance Point, Falmouth, Cornwall. 1900
Home of the Killigrew family for four centuries. Glass lantern slide from a lecture, entitled Some Historic Cornish Beauty Spots, given by Cornishman and amateur photographer, Major Arthur William Gill, in around 1925. He was well known in Cornwall and elsewhere during the 1920s and 1930s for his presentations of stills and cine film to many groups including The Royal Institution of Cornwall, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society and the London Cornish Society. The quarter plate slides which he took prolifically with his ordinary camera are, in many cases, colour. These were painted by his own hand to great effect
Chard Terrace, Falmouth, Cornwall. 1910
Cambridge Place, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Cornish wrestling match, Gyllyngdune Gardens, Falmouth, Cornwall. Around 1930s
New Street, Falmouth, Cornwall. Around 1910
Clarke & Co, Market Street, Falmouth, Cornwall. Around 1920
Market Strand, Falmouth, Cornwall. 1910-1920
Market Strand, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Killigrew Street, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Kimberley Park, Falmouth, Cornwall. 1910-1920
The New Gyllyngdune Road, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Cliff Road, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Castle Drive, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
A crowd watching a Cornish wrestling match in front of the Princess Pavilion. The two older men in the ring with the wrestlers are sticklers (referees). Gyllyngdune Gardens opened in 1907 with the Princess Pavilion added in 1910. From the R.A. Curtis collection. Photographer: Unknown
Cloche, Cornish, Entertainment, Hats, Parasol, Stick, Sticks, Traditional Sport, Wrasslin, Wrestle, Wrestler
Bulls Avenue, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Falmouth and station, Cornwall. Early 1900s
The Prince of Wales Pier, Falmouth, Cornwall. 5th May 1905
The Moor, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
New Road, Falmouth, Cornwall. Possibly 1911
Packet Memorial on The Moor, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Passmore Edwards Free Library, The Moor, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Castle Beach, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Invalids Walk, above Gyllyngvase Beach, Falmouth. Early 1900s
Invalids Walk, overlooking Castle Beach, Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Falmouth, Cornwall. Early 1900s
Entrance gatehouse, Pendennis Castle, Falmouth, Cornwall. Around 1925
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In the word of Sir Edmund Hillary: “I have been fortunate enough to be involved in many exciting adventures. But when I look back over my life, I have little doubt that the most worthwhile things I have done have not been standing on the summit of mountains or at the South and North Poles, great experiences though they were. My most important projects are building and maintaining schools, medical clinics for my good friends in the Himalaya and helping with their beautiful monasteries, too. These are the things I always remember”
The dream projects of Sir Edmund Hillary in the field of education and health are still ongoing with the support of Himalayan Trust New Zealand, MFAT New Zealand, The American Himalayan Foundation, Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation Canada, Hillary Foundation USA, Sir Edmund Hillary Stiftung Germany and Himalayan Trust UK.
The Himalayan Trust greatly acknowledges the support of the Himalayan Trust New Zealand, the New Zealand Foreign Aid Division, The American Himalayan Foundation, The Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation Canada, Hillary Foundation Arizona USA, the Himalayan Trust (UK), Sir Edmund Hillary –Stiftung Germany and the Grand Circle Foundation and many individual supporters. In other words they are the backbones of the Himalayan Trust to carry on the legacy of Sir Edmund Hilary’s work in Solukhumbu region of Nepal.
The Himalayan Trust Nepal spent a busiest year in 2011 with its daily activities from the very beginning of the year. Management of stationery for the schools, coordinating English Language training program of Khumjung and its feeders schools in December-January at Rato Bangla School, a reputed New Zealand Model English School in Kathmandu were accomplished as per time schedule during the winter holiday of schools.
Khumjung School Golden Jubilee
Khumjung School was established by Sir Edmund Hillary 50 years ago in 1961. To mark the year 2011 as the year of golden jubilee of Khumjung School, all the teachers, staff, ex-students, social workers and the golden jubilee celebration committees got underway for preparation of grand celebration of this historic event in Khumjung Schools from the beginning of year. For Trust it was the moment of pride to have got the opportunity to rejoice the works of 50 years of the Himalayan Trust with all the stakeholders, friends and overseas donors in Kathmandu and Khumbu.
Khumjung School and the Himalayan Trust had the privilege to invite all the well wishers, donors, volunteer doctors, teachers, government officials and foreign dignitaries in Kathmandu and in Khumjung School. A grand reception was hosted at Hotel Hyatt Regency in the evening of 23rd May 2011. Half an hour documentary film on the work of the Himalayan Trust in Solukhumbu was screened to the distinguished guests of honor followed by dinner.
HE Jan Henderson & Lady June Hillary
W. Zeke O’ Connor & Karen O’ Connor
George Band with HT Nepal Committee
Lee & Penny Stevens with HT Committee
Larry Witherbee with Thukten Sherpa
Celebration Committee with HT Guests
The guest of honor comprised of Lady June Hillary as Chairperson of Himalayan Trust New Zealand, W. Zeke O’ Connor and Karen O’ Connor the president of Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation Canada, George Band, Susan and Mary Lowe Chairman and Secretary from the Himalayan Trust UK, Larry Witherbee from the Hillary Foundation USA, Manfred Haupl Vice- Chairman from the Sir Edmund Hillary Stitftung and Lee and Penny Stevens from R. & C Steven Charitable Trust NZ.
Richard C. Blum the Chairman of the American Himalayan Foundation, President Erica Stone and Vice President Norbu Tenjing were pre-occupied. Therefore they sent a letter of congratulation to the Himalayan Trust and the Golden Jubilee Celebration Committee.
New Zealand Ambassador to India, Nepal and Bangladesh Ms. Jan Henderson, the Ambassador of United States H DeLisi, British Ambassador John Tucknott and Ms. Wen Powles Head of South Asia Division MFAT Wellington and Ms. Amanda Vercoe Second Secretary NZHC Delhi, New Zealand Honorary Consul to Nepal Lisa Choegyal and director of education, president and member secretary of the Social Welfare Council were some of the guests of honor.
Letter of Appreciations were awarded to the Chairman of the Himalayan Trust Lady June Hillary, the President of Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation of Canada Karen O’ Connor, Chairman of the Himalayan Trust UK George Band, Larry Witherbee of Hillary Foundation USA, Manfred Haupl Vice President of Sir Edmund Hillary Stiftung Germany. The Award to the American Himalayan Foundation was handed over to Ang Rita, the Chairman of the Himalayan Trust Nepal by Mr. Mahashram Sharma, the Director of Education from the government of Nepal.
Lady June Hillary being awarded
Mary Lowe, HT UK
Karen O’ Connor, SEHF Canada
Larry Witherbee, Hillary Foundation USA
Manfred Haupl SEHF Germany
Similarly the contribution in the past by Ex-Chairman of the schools, Headmasters, Social workers, Celebration Committee, Ex-students, Teachers and overseas international personalities from New Zealand and Japan were well remembered and awarded letter of appreciation to all of them on this great occasion.
Diane McKinnon
Dr. Lindsay Strang
Glen Sylvester
Jim Strang, teacher training coordinator
Dr. John McKinnon and Diane McKinnon were the first couple to work at Kunde hospital in 1966 to 1968. While Doctor John McKinnon volunteered at Kunde hospital, Diane McKinnon offered her services for children to teach English at Khumjung School. Dr. Lindsay Strang and his wife Genevieve Strang worked as volunteer doctor at Kunde hospital and as volunteer teacher at Khumjung School were also thanked with appreciation letter from the school.
Jim Strang, a coordinator for teacher training program in Solukhumbu from 1998 to 2004 was also recognized for his work for upgrading the quality of teaching in the Himalayan Trust supported school.
George Band initially had not planned to attend the celebration but surprised everyone being present himself accompanied with his wife Susan and daughter at the event of Khumjung School Golden Jubilee Celebration on 29th May in spite of his deteriorating health. He was a man of determination. This turned out to be his last visit to Khumjung School. Dr. Kami Temba and the staff had the privilege to welcome Zeke O’ Connor, Karen O’ Connor, Peter Hillary, Dr. Mike Gill, and Lindsay Strang at the hospital on the occasion of Golden Jubilee. After golden jubilee celebration unfortunately Dr. Lindsay Strang had a fall nearby Kunde and Khumjung and injured his neck. He was evacuated to Kathmandu and immediate surgery for his fractured cervical vertebra was done successfully. Good news is that he is healing well.
Coordination and support for Khumjung School to celebrate its Golden Jubilee program was one of the important tasks for Himalayan Trust. Mr. Manfred Haupl, the Vice-President of Sir Edmund Hillary Stiftung provided two laptop computers for two teacher trainers of Himalayan Trust to be used in the field visit.
The program manager of the American Himalayan Foundation, Mrs. Eileen Moncoeur, visited the Trust in February 2011 and discussed about the Himalayan Trust ongoing projects
Eileen Moncoeur from AHF at Trust Office
Ang Rita Sherpa has been re-elected as Chairman of the Himalayan Trust Nepal from May 2011 to May 2014. As per 10 years plan of Ang Rita, he retired from the administrative role of the Himalayan Trust from July 2011. Pasang Sherpa Lama will look after the projects and administration of the Himalayan Trust in Nepal.
After the celebration of 50 years work of the Himalayan Trust Senior Founding Members of the Himalayan Trust New Zealand, Lady June Hillary, Jim Wilson, Murray Jones, Douglas Page, David Hayman and Rebecca Hayman resigned and the responsibilities passed on to the Chairman Dr. John Heydon, Diane McKinnon, Secretary Dr Kobi Keralus, treasurer Sarah Hillary and Dr. Mike Gill and the new members of New Zealand Himalayan Trust Council is expected to increase in near future with amendment of Himalayan Trust New Zealand Constitution.
The General Agreement between the Himalayan Trust and Social Welfare Council reached on 10th July 2011 for a period 5 years followed by Project Agreement on 10 August effective from 2011 to 2016.
The Himalayan Trust Nepal Committee meeting held on 4th September 2011 and various decisions were passed in the meeting including entrustment of some of the major responsibilities to the members.
On 2nd October, the Central Project Advisory Committee meeting was held comprising the government Officials from Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare, National Planning Commission and the Social Welfare Council. Presentation on the year round activities of the Himalayan Trust in Solukhumbu was made through Power Point by Pasang Sherpa Lama, the administrative officer of the Himalayan Trust Nepal. The meeting was chaired by the Member Secretary of the Social Welfare Council, Dr. Chewang Namgyal Lama.
Dr. Kami Temba Sherpa and his wife Da Doma Sherpa were invited for the book launch program of Dr. Mike Gill In Nelson. They had a reunion with the volunteer doctors of New Zealand and are back to Kunde after their two week’s program.
In November 2011, Richard C. Blum, Erica Stone and Norbu Tenzing and Jon Krauker from the American Himalayan Foundation visited Nepal. The Himalayan Trust Nepal Committee had a good opportunity for a get together in Kathmandu as usual years in connection for the discussion of educational activity supported by them in Solukhumbu
On 25th November the Himalayan Trust Nepal Committee had an informal meeting with the ex- Prime Minister of New Zealand, Ms. Helen Clark at Dwarika Hotel in Kathmandu. As the present Head of UNDP Helen Clark was on a four days visit to Nepal in connection with the deveopmental work of Nepal and south east Asia. The visiting UNDP chief highly appreciated the role of the Himalayan Trust Nepal Committee and expressed her continueous support. Ang Rita, the Chairman of the Himalayan Trust Nepal Committee expressed thanks for the supportive role for enhancing the financial support to the Sir Edmund Hillary’s dream projects in Nepal during her premiership in New Zelannd.
The informal meeting at Dwarika hotel was organized by the New Zealand Honorary Consul, Lisa Choegyal for Himalayan Trust Nepal committee and wider New Zealand educated Nepali communities in Nepal.
Mr. Tony Banks from MFAT who is a Development Manager in Agriculture sector was recently in Nepal on holiday. He had a fantastic Everest trek with great weather, good company and good health passing through some of the Himalayan Trust supported projects. We had an opportunity to see him in Kathmandu at Himalayan Trust office on 1st December. The Nepal Committee also enjoyed briefly meeting Dr. John McKinnon at Trust Office on 4th December. He was in India and was travelling back to New Zealand.
Tony Banks & Pasang Sherpa
Pasang Dawa Sherpa with Ambassador of
Mr. Pasang Dawa Sherpa, the Executive Member of the Himalayan Trust Nepal is appointed as the honorary consul of Republic of Slovakia on 4th December 2011. The Ambassador of Republic of Slovakia hosted a reception to honor the newly appointed honorary consul at Shangrila Hotel. The Himalayan Trust Nepal wishes him a very successful term of office.
Like last year, Khumjung School and its feeder school teachers will have English language training in Kathmandu at Rato Bangla during winter holiday. This year’s training will be focused on subject wise teaching. Almost over 26 teachers are expected to attend the training.
The year 2011 also happened to be a sad year for the Himalayan Trust with the passing away of the Chairman of Himalayan Trust UK, George Band, a long time friend of Nepali people. Rebecca Stephens has assumed the post of Chairmanship and Graham Wrigley is nominated as Deputy Chairman and Mary Lowe has agreed to continue as Member Secretary of the Himalayan Trust UK. The Himalayan Trust Nepal would wish a successful year all throughout their term.
The Himalayan Trust Nepal would like to wish Merry Christmas and many warm greetings to all its supporters and well wishers on the occasion of happy New Year of 2012.
Quotes from Sir Ed
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”
SIR EDMUND HILLARY
“I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.”
“I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.”
“When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.”
“Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.”
“On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.”
“I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.”
“If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.”
“Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.”
“While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.”
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SHOOTING AT NEILSLAND HOUSE.
GIRL’S REVENGE, SHOOTS AT A FELLOW-SERVANT. WHO COMPLAINED OF HER SLOVENLINESS. **
On Wednesday the 3rd of September 1902 The Hamilton shooting case, which caused quite a sensation at the time of its occurrence, came up for disposal before Lord McLaren, in the Glasgow High Court. Justiciary Buildings, Jail Square. This Shooting had taken place on the Third of July 1902 at the Old Neilsland House.
The accused was a pleasant looking servant girl called Janet Laird, who was 20 years old and was smartly attired in a blue costume, and had felt her position keenly, and wept bitterly while she sat in the dock. She was charged with having, on the 3rd July in that year at Neilsland House, Hamilton, occupied by Colonel Rutherford, discharged a breech loading gun, (A Shot Gun) charged with cartridges containing powder and pellets at Alfred Annette, who was an officer’s servant, with intent to murder him.
Mr Morton, who appeared for accused, tendered on her behalf a plea of guilty assault with intent to do serious bodily harm. This plea was accepted by Mr Dove Wilson who prosecuted. The Accused, he said, was about 20 years age, and went into domestic service with Colonel Rutherford, commanding the 71st Regimental District, 28th May that year, bearing good recommendations from her previous mistress.
The only other servant in the house was Alfred Annett and after Janet entered Colonel Rutherford’s service her habits became somewhat idle and dirty, and this led to friction between her and the other servant, who had occasionally to some of her work. Eventually Annett complained to Colonel Rutherford and the complaint was made about June 27, however, Colonel Rutherford seemed to have postponed his decision to dismiss Janet until the 3rd of July where Colonel Rutherford sent for the young woman and dismissed her from his service, giving her a month’s wages in lieu of notice.
AT SHORT RANGE
The Colonel left that evening do some regimental duties, and shortly after his departure Annette, who from the evidence did not appear to have been on good terms with the Janet Laird, went into a small room to write some letters. He sat down with his back to the door, which shortly afterwards was opened by Janet, who said: “You have done me harm; I will now do you harm.” At this time, Janet Laird had in her hand a double-barrelled Shotgun which she had taken from the wall Colonel Rutherford’s bedroom.
The gun was not loaded it the time, but three cartridges happened to be on the table, and Janet had evidently taken them. As soon as she had spoken she discharged the gun, and from the position of the chair in which Annette sat, it was little short of marvellous that he was not killed on the spot with the pellets from the cartridge just missing him. His face, however, was marked with powder.
Mr Morton said that the case was in some respects as sad a one as had ever engaged the Court. Although he could not set up plea of Insanity there was doubt that Janet was distinctly weak-minded from the time she entered Colonel Rutherford’s service until she left.
It would have come out in evidence that Colonel Rutherford himself came to the conclusion that Janet was not right in her mind, not that was insane, but that she was weak. He then gave instances of some extraordinary things that Janet had done while at Hamilton and argued that they seemed to point to the fact that Janet was somewhat erratic in her behaviour.
On the morning of the affray, she gave one of the silly little laughs which were characteristic her. She was not in a temper and did not appear like one to commit a crime. It was quite clear that she was not at all a person of ordinary mental capacity, and the Colonel although he did not say as much to her, had evidently formed that conclusion also.
The gun had two cartridges, but after firing the first cartridge she threw down the gun and ran off. Janet had never been in trouble before and the Judge thought that the ends of justice would be met with a short sentence.
Lord McLaren in sentencing the accused said that he was sorry to see a respectable girl like Janet to be in court. He was willing to give all the weight he could to what had been said in her favour. If the case had gone to trial, and she had been found guilty of assault with intent to murder, he would have dealt seriously with Janet. But as it was, it was a case for substantial punishment. Lord McLaren could not take it that the gun went off by accident, but it had been discharged with intent to do mischief. In these circumstances, he sentenced her to Six Months Imprisonment. Janet was carried off to Jail in a sorry state.
It was also noted that some of Janet’s friends were prepared to take care of her when she got out of prison. She had already spent the past two months in jail.
How things have changed since 1902! Today if you tried to kill some with a double-barrelled shotgun, you would most certainly get life in prison and not just six months. I wanted to know what became of Janet Laird and Alfred Annett so I decided to go and see what I could find.
Alfred was born around 1876 at Banbury, London. He was the son of James & Charlotte Annett; his father was a butcher in London. He came from a large family and in 1881 he was living at Islington, London. He joined the Army in 1894 and this is possibly where he met Colonel Rutherford. At some point between 1895 & 1902, he left the Army and gained employment at Neilsland House working as Colonel Rutherford’s servant.
After the shooting incident, a year later in 1903, Alfred married Janet McGregor in Hamilton. In 1905, he later moved to 27 Kirk Road in Cambusnethan where he is now working as a Postman. In this marriage, he had 5 children.
Between 1906 & 1907 Alfred moved back down to England he settled at Sunbury in Middlesex. He died on the 17th of January 1952 at Sanbury.
Unfortunately, after the court case, the trail go’s cold and I can’t find any further info on Janet Laird.
** The word Slovenly is what your great aunt Mabel might call you if you came to high tea without a necktie. It means “messy or unkempt,” but is a word you probably won’t hear messy or unkempt people using. This is not a word often used in modern day.
Posted on April 13, 2017 April 13, 2020 Categories Garry L McCallum, Hamilton, Historic Hamilton, Uncategorized, www.historic-Hamilton.co.ukTags 71st Regimental District, Alfred Annett, Colonel Rutherford, GarryLee, House Servant, Janet Laird, Neilsland, Neilsland House, Old Neilsland House, ShotgunLeave a comment on SHOOTING AT NEILSLAND HOUSE.
FIVE HAMILTON MINERS ENTOMBED, ONE BODY RECOVERED.
On Wednesday the 26th of April 1916, a tragic incident occurred at Neilsland Colliery, owned by John Watson and sadly five men were killed. The coal miners went to work not knowing what tragic events were about to happen that day. A party of men were selected to work in one of the old shafts, when one of the worst pit accidents that had occurred in the district for many years took place about midday, when an old shaft at Eddlewood collapsed and entombed the workmen.
The shaft was formerly Eddlewood No. 3, but some five or six years previous, it was filled up, and the coal to which it gave entrance, was worked from Neilsland. On Wednesday five men were employed in driving roads into the Eddlewood ell coal, take out the pillars which still remained in the workings around the old shaft. Their names were:
Hugh Scott, in charge of the party, married, 30 Low-waters;
Robert Robertson, married, 229 Low-waters;
John Shaw, single, 136 Eddlewood Rowe;
Robert Leadbetter, married, 103 Beckford Street;
George Stewart, married, 187 Low-waters.
Robert Brownlie, a shaftsman, who was giving Hugh Scott a hand, had finished his shift and was leaving for the surface. When he got some distance off, he heard a loud rumbling noise, and fearing an accident he sent word to the officials. Mr James Cook, the resident manager, and Mr James Houston, under-manager, who were in another portion of the pit, immediately proceeded to the scene, but found their course barred by an irresistible river of soft glutty debris flowing like a stream of lava through the workings and filling up every available space.
Acting with commendable promptitude Mr Cook and Mr Houston got the men in the other sections warned, to make their escape and they all succeeded in doing so. The five men employed in the old Eddlewood Ell coal were cut off, and from the first, no hope was entertained of finding them alive.
When the flow of material had subsided, every possible effort to reach the missing men was made by the management and many willing hands. About ten o’clock the body of Robert Robertson was recovered. He had apparently been swept forward by the rush of the incoming debris and was well within reach. The body, embedded in mud, bore no injuries death having resulted from suffocation.
When the serious nature of the accident was revealed, Mr Robert McLaren, H.M. Inspection of Mines, and Mr J. B. Thomson, the manager for Messrs John Watson (Ltd.) were communicated with, and were quickly at the scene of the calamity, bringing their experience and knowledge to bear on the work of rescue.
A rescue brigade from Coatbridge was summoned, but owing to the hopelessness of the situation, their services were not used. Mr John Robertson, miners’ agent also visited the scene.
The next day on The Thursday, the huge cavity caused on the surface by the falling in, of the loose filling-up material was several fathoms deep, (12.8 Meters) and the management had it fenced round. Vigorous efforts were maintained both on the Thursday and Friday to discover a trace of the other four men, but without success.
On Wednesday, the 7th June 1916 a public enquiry was held and it was stated that the body of Robert Robertson was recovered late on the same day, but the others have not yet been found, though the efforts of the management have been unsparing, and are still being prosecuted vigorously to reach the place where the four workers were caught in the irresistible inflow of washer sludge.
Mr Robert McLaren and Mr McElhanney represented His Majesty’s Inspectorate; Mr Craig, writer, Glasgow, appeared for the coal masters; and Mr Robert Smillie represented the interests of the miners. Duplicate plans of the workings and of the section where the accident occurred were shown during the evidence, followed by all the parties, including his Lordship and the jury.
The first witness was Robert Brownlie, shaftsman, Eddlewood, the last of those who escaped to see the deceased alive.
He had been commissioned to assist the five men now deceased who were employed driving mine through the Ell coal in the vicinity of the old shaft. The men were working in accordance with the regulations that is believing that they were nearing the old shank they were boring the strata to a depth fifteen feet straight ahead and on both flanks, in order locate the shaft and keep clear of it.
Nothing in these bores, as Robert Brownlie said, indicated conditions beyond the normal, the little water issuing from the holes being, in their opinion, but the expected accumulation in the rock. Besides assisting in the bores, witness putting up brattice cloth deflect the air current. His shift being finished about midday, he left the party to proceed to the pithead, the others coming out of their working place to take their “piece.”
He had gone some distance on his way when heard a terrific noise accompanied by the crashing of wood and the overturning of hutches. He realised what had happened, and fled, pushing forward a workman (Penman), whom he met, but to whom he had no time to make an explanation, and shouting on others. Mr Robert McLaren. H.M. Inspector, said it was to Robert Brownie’s coolness that Penman’s life was saved.
In reply to the Inspector, the witness said that he was satisfied there was at least 15 feet of coal between the workmen and the old shaft, but as the roof was soft thought the bursting in may have come from that quarter.
A few other witnesses were examined, including representatives of the management, Mr Robert Smillie said the jury could see their way to add to their verdict that considered it very dangerous practice to fill disused shafts with liquid sludge from the washers, and that the matter should be further looked into, he believed they would doing a service to the mining community by at least making the Government give this matter their attention.
When Mr Craig had set out address the Jury, his Lordship made a suggestion for a rider which met the views of all parties. The, jury thereafter unanimously found that the men had met their death by the sludge from the disused shaft bursting into the workings and overwhelming them, but there was not Sufficient evidence to enable them make a finding the precise cause of the accident.
In accordance with Lordship’s suggestion, added a rider to the effect that there was sufficient evidence to warrant them calling attention the danger which might arise when disused shafts were filled with liquid sludge and the approach thereto of mineral workings.
Posted on March 18, 2017 March 18, 2017 Categories Hamilton, Historic Hamilton, History, UncategorizedTags Coal Matser, Eddlewood, Eddlewood Colliery, Garry Lee, George Stewart, Hamilton CoalMiners, John Shaw, John Watson, Mine Shaft, Neilsland, Neilsland Colliery, Robert Leadbetter, Robert Robertson1 Comment on FIVE HAMILTON MINERS ENTOMBED, ONE BODY RECOVERED.
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Sabine’s court hearing leaves more questions than answers
Sabine McNeill appeared at Southwark Crown Court yesterday morning to face a further charge of violation of her restraining order.
Sabine was charged with another violation—of which she has currently accrued 19—of the lifetime restraining order imposed following the collapse of her 2016 trial, along with Neelu Berry, for conspiracy to commit witness intimidation. This most recent violation was related to Sabine and Jake’s attendance at the Church of England General Synod on 10 February, where she was accused of handing out leaflets containing details of the Hampstead Satanic ritual abuse hoax.
Sabine initially pleaded not guilty to this charge, claiming that she had been “set up” by someone to attend the event.
However, in the face of video evidence of her presence with Jake at the event, the judge asked Sabine’s barrister whether her presence at Church House constituted a restraining order violation. The barrister conceded that it did, and after consultation, Sabine changed her plea to guilty, albeit with some reluctance.
The public gallery was cleared shortly after this, and the afternoon proceedings were conducted in camera.
While it is normal for pre-trial hearings to be conducted in public, we understand that since witnesses will need to be heard in order for the court to make a decision regarding Sabine’s bail conditions, at least one more in camera hearing will be required.
We’re left with more questions than answers about yesterday’s proceedings, which we hope will be clarified following Sabine’s next court appearance, scheduled for 19 March.
Sabine was cheered on at yesterday’s session by Jake Clarke and five of his friends (including Swampy the Sandwich Stealer, last seen making off with a canteen sandwich at Blackfriars Court during Sabine and Neelu’s 2016 trial).
Jake distinguished himself first by calling out to the judge from the public gallery during the proceedings, and then stumbling over the straps of his rucksack and falling down a set of stairs. Unimpressed with his Norman Wisdom imitation, the judge ordered him to leave the courtroom.
Belinda McKenzie was notable by her absence at yesterday’s hearing; doubtless she had other business to attend to.
However, late last night Angela Power-Disney posted the following message, which sounds as though it could have come from Belinda:
…unfortunately, Angela clipped off the bottom of the screen shot before posting. Honestly, you can’t get good help these days.
As far as we’re aware, Sabine’s next court date will not be a “trial”, but as we say, given the way things went in court yesterday it’s difficult to say for certain.
Interesting news about the “house arrest”—we wonder what that means, precisely? Does Sabine now have a tag? Is she under curfew? Again, difficult to say.
All we can do is stay tuned, and hope that these and other issues will be clarified at Sabine’s next court date.
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…And trust Tim Veater to miss the point in the most pedantic and verbose way imaginable:
Lady Beatrice Counterblast says:
He’s totally right. Elderly people should be able to break the law as often as they like and get away with it. He won’t mind then, if next time I see him, I kick him up the arse.* My age lets me off doesn’t it?
The establishment clearly ISN’T terrified of an elderly woman. That’s why she’s in court. And the only things found severely wanting in all their manifestations are the gullible human beings who can’t see why this is justified.
*That was a joke, just in case he gets confused.
Thanks for this, EC. I think Sabine’s House Arrest will be very restrictive for her.
It’ll be up to the Judge, the level of restrictions put on her but I’m sure she won’t like them one bit.
She’s only got herself to blame though as I don’t believe for one minute that she was “set up” to attend the Church.
I’ve never heard of “house arrest” in the UK?.
Belinda McKenzie skates on thin ice if she is urging people abroad to agitate the Hampstead case seeing she is under the same Injunction.
This pair clearly do not respect the courts. While people can disagree with a court decision and feel the outcome should have been different it’s another matter to agitate and urge others to act as agents to breach a court decision.
These fanatics are a strange bunch. They endorse legal outcomes when it suits them ( APD’s endless posting of news items about convictions) but a decision they don’t like is claimed to be a powerful network purposely working just to cause them grief.
It would be better for everyone if Jake kept away. He’s an idiot.
Yes, I was unclear what “house arrest” means, too. I’m sure Sabine’s friends will squawk and moan over the next couple of weeks and in doing so, drop enough clues for us to piece it together.
Possible it’s a curfew of some kind – that’s the only kind of house arrest I know of.
Yes, I find it hard to fathom how she’d come to the conclusion she was “set up”. However, I’m sure she’ll enlighten us eventually. 🙂
They have to add their extra dramatic embellishments, hoping to create new mantras for their followers to repeat, as if fact.
Spinning new yarns for their web spiders, prowling cats, squawkers and droners.
To be part of the myths and legends they peddle, along with their scams, cures, illusions for donors.
This is a repeat of what Belinda & co pushed with the HollieHoax….she defined that and so did others, as THE case that would pave the way for others, when the opposite is true……….. The actions of she and all involved now in these hoax schemes have slowed down and stigmatised the voices of real victims, in ways that we do not deserve.
I was listening to the Seminar yesterday about the narrative surrounding CSA. It’ll be published in a few days and it’s really worth listening to. Throughout, I found myself realising the impact of the hoaxers, to the detriment of a more effective and holistic narrative, that could have led to changes much sooner, imho… Had we not previously and currently found the media aiding the wrong narratives to be prominent because they are more solacious or create more of an interest, but mislead too.
If Belinda & co had sat down and figured out how to undermine the justified cause for CSA Survivors to be heard, believed and helped, they couldn’t have done a better/worse job……… I have concluded that I have justified suspicions that indeed some involved have conspired and been determined to do just that, some for a very long time and with strong historic links.
Wait – Angie still has friends?
“Mr Rowley said the ability of extremists and terrorists of all kinds to ‘ply their trade’ through the internet was of great concern.
He urged social media companies to do more to combat extremism.
‘Many of them tried to argue for some that they simply provide pipes, they have no editorial responsibilities,’ he said.
‘That argument was always in my view nonsense. They’ve stopped using that argument. They’ve started to try and take some responsibility.
‘I think to be fair to them, they can’t exert editorial control over everything that is published on their sites.
‘But they can exert a massive amount of control both on the day-to-day management of it, and I think more in the future about how they design their platforms and their operating systems and their products.
‘Their products shouldn’t simply be designed for maximising profit, they should be designed with a parallel objective around public safety.’”
Crikey there was another case in the same court? How on earth could it happen? (irony alert)
I see the ghastly Fiona Barnett as promoted by APD etc is now claiming the late respected heart surgeon Victor Chang was one of her abusers.
The Victor Chang institute was launched in his honour by the late Princess Diana in Sydney as her last public appearance shortly before she died.
Chang was a world renowned heart surgeon and regarded as a pioneer before he was murdered in a senseless attempt at kidnap and extortion. His loss was felt by the world’s medical fraternity and 100s of his patients.
Barnett is beyond despicable.
They’ve both been going after Billy Graham too. Angie had a sense of urgency, I think. She knew that if she didn’t get a move on, his body would be cold before she’d finished publicly badmouthing him. So naturally she started within hours of his death being announced:
Oh FFS was this Fiona Barnett character never bloody well abused by an ordinary Tom, Dick or Harry?. I can’t say I ever thought Billy Graham was a true Christian as I see them, seeing he advocated for just about every war the USA started including the Vietnam disaster.
Oddly my mother took me to one of his rallies when I was quite young and I recall being quite moved by the “show”. But as she was never religious before or after I’ve often wondered why she took me there. Maybe it was to put me off organised religion?.
I’m surprised that none of the families (or in some cases the actual people she claimed abused her) have taken her to court.
I know she really doesnt get that much attention, but she has tried often enough to get involved with the Royal Commission, and she has accused some fairly well known (and well liked) people here of some quite despicable acts
Eye spy says:
How on earth was she set up?
Probably an ankle tag. It is done to people her age.
Fiona Barnett isn’t fit to shine the boots of Dr Chang’s statue. I have some problems with Billy Graham, but he was still a superior being to FB.
Keekee says:
And she is the source of the oft repeated allegations made by senator bill heffernan three prime ministers abused her. That these scurrilous allegations are repeated enough on the say so of that fame mongering woman is shameful
Oz ABC TV “Media Watch” show rips into ’60 Minutes’ UK VIP Pedo ring & Operation Midland claims.
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s4808918.htm
Thank you. Putting that in my archives.
Billy Graham was a secret satanist? Har-dee-har-har!
Their fantasies just get stupider & stupider.
This is an interesting idea. Reminds me of….
I think you’re right, Sheva. One reason for the longevity of this hoax is that those who believe in it seem to think that it will be the case which would somehow convince the rest of the world that they were right all along, that the world really is ruled by people who rape, murder, and eat babies and children. They push this with all the fervour of religious zealots, because that is exactly what they are: evangelists for this strange cult they’ve cobbled together through a mixture of paranoia, delusion, gullibility, and greed.
Yes, her friends seem to agree, FS. Ankle tag it is, then.
Typical Jake: “They’re disgusting subhuman cretinous diseased pieces of shit. Love healing, everyone! 💕 💕💕💕”
Nice hair, though.
Excellent, thanks GOS!
Funny you say that. Cat Dot-Joiner’s just posted this:
Terry Fuckwit says:
Esther Rantzen’s dead and running an international crime ring out of Belfast?
Amazing homework, Cat.
@coyote – I don’t see any point to carrying through with my rebuttal of Salter’s “Organized Abuse in the Media” article, now. The course of events has debunked it for me.
I like the ‘Keep Left’ signs. If the country had remembered to ‘Keep Left’ we wouldn’t be in the mess we are today!
She didn’t organise it. I don’t think we should discuss the ins and outs though ’till she’s been in court and had it dealt with.
The sick ill dis-eased shits can stand up straight and don’t fall over their school bags.
tdf says:
A little off-topic, but I thought this report demonstrates the real dangers when people go into conspiraloon territory (in this case, anti-vaxxers):
http://www.politics.ie/forum/health-social-affairs/262338-90-limerick-measles-cases-12-unvaccinated-children-hospitalised-thanks-antivaxxers.html
Interesting, I will watch that later.
There are real actual child abusers in that diagram…along with others who are/were not…in the middle there are a few who were told about child abuse in their constituencies but failed to do anything about it…a lot of conflation going on.
A lot of innocent people are in there too, as well as a number of roundly debunked conspiracy theories (Elm Guest House, for instance).
…or interrupt judges and get turfed out of the court room.
Thanks for that link GofS. Great video!
Wait – there’s a pill for activating super-soldiers now? Who knew?
Just as long as they don’t start using them to activate pasties or we’re all in trouble.
We don’t have house arrest in the sense of having detention officers in people’s homes. What we do have is long curfews and that is what it will be here, I think, she will be bailed on condition (inter alia) that she stays in her home most of the day and night, with a small gap during which she can leave the house to shop for essentials (which is simpler in a large city where there are plenty of all-night food shops). I can well imagine that the court would be unhappy about remanding a 74 year old woman in custody but concerned at how to ensure she doesn’t offend on bail or abscond.
BTW “curfew” is a bit of misnomer as it just means to remain indoors (usually at a specified place) between specified hours, it doesn’t have to be at night. For offences naturally committed in the day (paedophiles lurking around schools, for example), a daytime curfew would be imposed.
Thanks, that’s a useful clarification.
Yup. Anti-vaxxers are a threat to everyone’s health IMO.
Astral Plane says:
If that was written by Belinda it would seem she has broken her gagging order…it would not be too hard to prove? Egg stuck on teflon after all?
Yes, but since we don’t have evidence that she actually wrote it (aside from the fact that it sounds like her) it could be difficult to prove.
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Thanks so much GOS! ox
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Days Of Our Lives Spoilers: Arianne Zucker Has Two Faces On DOOL – This Is Nicole She’s Always Wanted To Play!
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By Chrissie Marie Last updated Jun 25, 2019
Days of Our Lives (DOOL) spoilers tease that Arianne Zucker was sure that NBC couldn’t throw her a curveball where Nicole Walker was concerned after portraying the character for two decades. But she was dead wrong on that one.
She was blown away that Nicole was really Kristen DiMera (Stacy Haiduk). At first, she wasn’t sure how to pull it off, but she quickly decided to let Haiduk do crazy Kristen and then she will put her own spin on it. She hoped it would mesh well together and so far, it seems to be working for the storyline.
Zucker left DOOL in 2017 to pursue other projects. She had played Nicole, at the point, most of her life. She wanted to see what else was out there for her. While away, she spent time with her daughter, Izzy, who is 9. She noted that her daughter loved the fact that during that time she could drop her off at school and be there when she came home. But she kept hearing what was going on in Salem and she admitted that she wanted to get back to work.
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Arianne felt that there was more to be told between Nicole and Eric Brady (Greg Vaughan), especially since she had read that her true love had fallen for Dr. Sarah Horton (Linsey Godfrey).
Even though Kristen had a hand in Holly’s kidnapping, she doesn’t feel guilty about it. In her mind, since she didn’t actually do any of it except plot her hands are completely clean.
Many DOOL fans are shocked by Kristen’s actions, given that she’s always wanted to be a mother. But the reason she can do this to Holly’s family is she really believes that her actions will give her this huge payoff and it will all work out in the end. She knows eventually everyone will find out that Holly isn’t dead after all.
.@marybeth_evans1 shares her thoughts on #Days tribute to the life of #CarolineBrady following her on-screen death. #PeggyMcCay #DOOLapp special #Interview #Kaylahttps://t.co/F3lTTMcxC9
— Days of our Lives (@daysofourlives) June 20, 2019
It sounds like Nicole or is that Kristen will be sticking around for quite a while as the storyline is just getting started. Arianne promised the DOOL fans an exciting summer that you won’t want to miss an episode of Days Of Our Lives because things will get pretty intense before long!
Stay tuned to DOOL and don’t forget to check Soap Opera Spy often for the latest “Days of Our Lives” spoilers, rumors, updates and news.
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Events Announcements Fired Up Fridays Pres. Shogun, Supported By FONO At Zouk Club KL
Fired Up Fridays Pres. Shogun, Supported By FONO At Zouk Club KL
Taiwanese American DJ/producer Shogun (real name Andrew Chen) is no stranger to the dance music scene in Malaysia, having made his mark several times at Zouk Club Kuala Lumpur previously. The last time we saw him, we rode through an “UFO”-ric high as he took us on a journey with his blooming mesh of splashy synths and pulsating buildups.
And now, fresh out of the studio, having finally pushed out his debut album, this globetrotting DJ’s next gig on our homeground could turn out to be quite interesting!
Source: djshogunmusic
It was in 2002 that Andrew Chen remembers going to a friend’s house and listening to Armin van Buuren’s album “Communication”. The sound lent itself to his natural affinity for Nine Inch Nails and Filter, bands who incorporate electronic elements into their music. Chen began to discover more trance music and eventually started playing local clubs before catching his break at the Ministry of Sound in Taiwan, where he spent 2 years as the resident DJ.
After his stint in Taipei, he returned to the States to study audio engineering in Hollywood. Hiding in the studio to hone his craft, Chen made about 200 tracks over the course of 3 years, with his first single signed by Armin van Buuren’s S107/Armada record label.
Source: www.thetopsound.com
Garnering attention from Armin van Buuren’s international radio show, “A State of Trance”, as well Ferry Corsten, Markus Schulz, and Above & Beyond, before he knew it, tracks such as “Imprisoned” became his ticket to world travel on the dance-club circuit.
Today, Shogun is the first Asian American on the internationally known S107/Armada Record Label and performs at the biggest festivals and clubs around the world. There hasn’t been a track of his in the past year that’s not landed in the Beatport Trance Top 10 – originals “UFO”, “Amplify”, “Lotus”, and his remix of BT, Arty & Nadia Ali’s “Must Be The Love” have all smashed the charts and sets of the world’s top trance DJs.
And as mentioned, more recently, he released his debut album, “Dragon”, something that has been 4 years in the making and it comes packed with 10 impressive tracks.
Among his most notable gigs in 2012 was a trip to ASOT550 at Beyond Wonderland in Los Angeles, where he learned that EDM and wet weather doesn’t always spell disaster. Playing a set onstage in the pouring rain, then getting sick for a month afterward would’ve bummed a lot of DJs out. But for an EDM warrior playing in front of a massive crowd, taking a risk in the face of glory is always worth it.
Deets are as follows:
Date: 20th March (Friday)
Time: 10pm onwards
Venue: Zouk Club Kuala Lumpur
Ticket Entry: RM45 before 11pm (Men/Ladies) (inc 1 drink) / RM60 after 11pm (Men/Ladies) (inc 1 drink)
Bottle Entry: RM460 / 4 pax (All Night)
For reservations, please call 03-2171 1997 (12pm – 6pm) or 0163323191 (after 6pm) or email [email protected]
*Applicable to 21 years old and above only
For more information, visit Zouk Club Kuala Lumpur’s Facebook page.
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For Immediate Release – New York, NY – FEVERSEED is a New York rock quartet founded by singer/lyricist George Panagakos and bass player Chris Crosby. With their new LET YOURSELF DOWN EP, the band delivers a powerful and soulful debut that is sure to please fans of guitar-driven rock the world over. LET YOURSELF DOWN features three remarkable songs, each with its own personality. The title track is an anthem of loss and redemption, “Beat Me” is a fast and sexy powerhouse and “Imprint” is an intimate epic of love and longing. LET YOURSELF DOWN releases worldwide on February 1st, 2021 through Hice Records.
Chris and George, both multi-instrumentalists, have been writing and recording together for years. They’ve explored many musical genres, but the common threads of their memorable and melodic compositions and George’s versatile, unique and powerful voice are always present. In 2019 they decided to quench their thirst for rock and FEVERSEED was born.
The two best friends worked on the material for their new band from November 2019 through August 2020, and by September 2020 they had chosen the three songs that best represented the scope of Feverseed’s sound. With George producing, singing and playing rhythm guitar & piano and Chris playing bass & guitar, they were ready to hit the studio and record their debut. To complete the band’s lineup, they were joined by lead guitarist Wibbus and drummer Drew Bertrand shortly before recording commenced.
LET YOURSELF DOWN was recorded in October 2020 at Suffolk Recording Studios, mixed by Chris Laybourne at Coop Studios and mastered by Roger Lian. The recording and mixing process was very much a group effort. As George puts it, “While I did serve as producer of this EP and had a clear idea of what I wanted these songs to sound like, it was a very collaborative experience. I’m just a piano player who decided to pick up a guitar and rock. Chris and Wibbus are very much responsible for the guitar sound we achieved on the EP. Same goes for the drums. I told Drew what I was looking for, and he chose the right drum kit and set up the microphones perfectly to get me just what I needed. As far as the mix, Chris Laybourne was invaluable at taking my rough mixes and bringing them to life so beautifully, achieving the sound for these songs that I had envisioned from the very beginning.”
The new FEVERSEED debut LET YOURSELF DOWN EP releases worldwide on February 1st, 2021 through Hice Records. The band is currently preparing a North American tour in support of their debut release when live performance restrictions are lifted.
To purchase or stream the new FEVERSEED debut LET YOURSELF DOWN EP:
www.feverseed.com/lyd
For more information including tour dates or booking inquiries:
www.feverseed.com
For Press and Interview inquiries please contact Billy James of Glass Onyon PR:
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Click here to watch!
The Walkabout are proud to present a video presentation of a recent concert they performed! It is free to view but if you can afford to support the continuing efforts of the band please see the band donation link at Walkaboutband.com
Thank you for being you, best wishes,
-The Walk-A-Bout
Aussie-American alternative rock quintet THE WALK-A-BOUT hail from the artistic East End of Long Island, New York. On June 5, 2020, THE WALK-A-BOUT released their first full-length LP 20/20 worldwide in stores and online. The reviews are in and it’s clear that 20/20 is one of the best albums of the year, with the release climbing to #8 on the ROOTS MUSIC RADIO ALTERNATIVE ROCK CHART with an unprecedented SEVEN SINGLES SIMULTANEOUSLY IN THE TOP 50!
Produced by Andrew Michael Bertrand and mastered by Roger Lian, 20/20 is an incredibly diverse record that explores many genres, expanding the scope of band’s classic sound. There is something on the album for everyone. Whether it’s alternative rock, world music, funk, or the influence of prog rock, THE WALK-A-BOUT’s music is visceral, emotional, fun and socially conscious. Oasis Entertainment Blog calls the album “a multi-genre romp through musical styles such as funk, rock, world, Latin, and much more,” while Exclusive Magazine raves that the album is “Destined to be a classic,” and Keys and Chords in Belgium recognizes that 20/20 is “A beautiful album to discover and cherish.”
To watch the official video premiere for “TALE OF THE VIBE RIDER” please visit:
https://www.antimusic.com/news/20/August/28Video_Premiere-_The_Walk-A-Bouts_Tale_Of_The_Vibe_Rider.shtml
For more information including tour dates or booking inquiries please visit:
www.walkaboutband.com
To purchase or stream the new full-length album 20/20 on digital services please visit:
https://smarturl.it/WalkABout2020
January 14, 2021 January 14, 2021 idcdistro20/20, 525 Media, Alternative Rock, Australia, Folk Rock, IDC, IDC Artists, New Music, new release, new releases, New York, Quarantunes, RMR Alternative Rock, RMR Charts, Rock, Shred the Evidence Records, The Walk-A-Bout, Things Are Looking Up, Victory Parade, walkaboutband, World MusicLeave a comment
TODAY! – December 31, 2020 @ 5pm PST – THE WALK-A-BOUT NEW YEAR’S LIVE STREAM CONCERT
Showtime 5PM PST / 8PM EST
December 31, 2020 idcdistro20/20, 525 Media, Alternative Rock, Australia, Folk Rock, IDC, IDC Artists, New Music, new release, new releases, New York, Quarantunes, RMR Alternative Rock, RMR Charts, Rock, Shred the Evidence Records, The Walk-A-Bout, Things Are Looking Up, Victory Parade, walkaboutband, World MusicLeave a comment
Belgium Review: THE WALK-A-BOUT “20/20”
Click here to read more at MusicInBelgium.net!
Translated from French: “I must admit that it was a pleasure to discover this very coherent album from the point of view of sound and instrumental mastery, seduced by its variety of styles, the warmth of the voice and the expertise of the arrangements. The boys of The Walk-A-Bout display here a great musical experience that puts them at ease in all genres, whether it is Americana (ʺVictory Parade,” ʺTale of the Vibe Riderʺ), blues (ʺDate Nut Porridgeʺ), funk (ʺTimelessʺ), ballad (ʺI Amʺ), Santana-esque afro-rock (ʺGet Me to the Stationʺ), power folk (ʺHeroʺ) or progressive rock (ʺDark Roadsʺ), and even a little heavier (ʺTrash Talkin’ʺ).
Offering an anthology of classic songs in classic genres (between Steely Dan and the Dave Matthews Band, let’s say), The Walk-A-Bout nevertheless manages to assert its own personality thanks to the technical touch and the feeling of its members. This is undoubtedly what is called talent.”
-MusicInBelgium.net
𝐔𝐍𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄!
With an unprecedented SEVEN SINGLES on the ROOTS MUSIC REPORT radio charts at once, the album made it up to #3 on the RMR Alt-Rock chart and #16 on the Rock chart!
Congratulations to Independent Distribution Collective band The Walk-A-Bout for charting #3 on the RMR Alternative Rock charts and #13 on the RMR Rock charts! Nice to see their album still getting great exposure and attention for one of the best albums of 2020 with an unprecedented seven singles on the Roots Music Report radio charts at once.
Aussie-American alternative rock quintet THE WALK-A-BOUT hail from the artistic East End of Long Island, New York. On June 5th, 2020 THE WALK-A-BOUT released their full-length LP 20/20 worldwide in stores and online. Produced by Andrew Michael Bertrand and mastered by Roger Lian, 20/20 is an incredibly diverse record that explores many genres, expanding the scope of band’s classic sound. There is something on the album for everyone. Whether it’s alternative rock, world music, funk, or the influence of prog rock, THE WALK-A-BOUT’s music is visceral, emotional, fun and socially conscious.
THE WALK-A-BOUT began writing the material for 20/20 in March of 2019, right at the time when the band began to achieve massive radio success with their album THINGS ARE LOOKING UP, which consistently landed in Top 20 charts alongside such artists as Paul McCartney, Jeff Tweedy, Mumford & Sons and Death Cab for Cutie. The album reached #4 on Roots Music Radio Report, while the singles “Consequences,” “By My Side,” and “That’s Just The Way It Goes” ranked simultaneously in the Top 5 of the alternative rock singles chart. The album was also ranked #24 on Roots Music Radio Report’s “Best of 2019” chart. The video for “That’s Just The Way It Goes” had an online premiere hosted by Skope Entertainment and continuous play on over 75 broadcast outlets throughout the summer and early fall of 2018. THE WALK-A-BOUT also released a limited edition 180-Gram Red Splatter Vinyl of THINGS ARE LOOKING UP available exclusively through their website.
Band members Darren “Sully” Sullivan, Kevin Anderson, Drew Bertrand, and Dave Christian were joined by bass player Keenan Zach for the writing and recording of 20/20, and their collective vision has allowed THE WALK-A-BOUT to explore the outer reaches of music, soul and spirit. This dynamic new collection maintains the band’s depth and introspection, delivering a deep and entertaining album with pop appeal. 20/20 was recorded on 14 reels of two inch tape, a recording method that is reflected in the dynamic sound of this extraordinary release, which is destined to be a classic.
After years of composing beautiful compositions, fate brought acoustic guitar virtuoso Kevin Anderson together with Australian singer/songwriter, blues harpist and didgeridoo player Darren “Sully” Sullivan. Sully was the perfect songwriting partner to marry Kevin’s music with lyrical landscapes, and they began working together in the fall of 2015. The lineup moved closer to completion with a chance introduction to drummer and producer Drew Bertrand in December 2015. Drew quickly acknowledged the unique nature of Kevin and Sully’s writing and began sculpting arrangements for every song, carefully crafting the distinct identity of each piece. From there the band has since gathered Dave Christian on guitar and Keenan Zach on bass. The material for 20/20 was written between March and September of 2019. With a master’s degree in music theory, Keenan Zach was an invaluable resource in the studio while crafting the songs, bringing a new layer of thoughtfulness and quality control to the already exceptional songwriting.
Other musicians on the record include Michael Amendola on tenor sax, Mark Rechler on Hammond organ, and special guest vocalist Victoria Faiella. Roger Lian and Drew Bertrand worked closely on the final mixes and masters, the two having an integral and long-term working relationship that spans twenty-one years. The stunning album art and design for 20/20 was done by Drew’s good friend George Panagakos of 525 Media, and it makes the vinyl worth buying for just the artwork alone.
THE WALK-A-BOUT has toured along the East and West Coasts throughout 2018 and 2019. They are currently preparing a world tour in support of their new album release 20/20, and you can check out the lyric video for the first new single “Victory Parade” on their recently re-designed website!
December 15, 2020 December 15, 2020 idcdistro20/20, 525 Media, Alternative Rock, Australia, Folk Rock, IDC, IDC Artists, New Music, new release, new releases, New York, Quarantunes, RMR Alternative Rock, RMR Charts, Rock, Shred the Evidence Records, The Walk-A-Bout, Things Are Looking Up, Victory Parade, walkaboutband, World MusicLeave a comment
THE WALK-A-BOUT Reaches #3 on the Roots Music Radio Charts!
20/20 made it up to #3 On the Roots Music Report Alt-Rock chart
and #16 on the Rock chart!
Congratulations to Independent Distribution Collective band The Walk-A-Bout for charting #3 on the RMR Alternative Rock charts and #13 on the RMR Rock charts! Nice to see their album still getting great exposure and attention for one of the best albums of 2020.
December 8, 2020 December 8, 2020 idcdistro20/20, 525 Media, Alternative Rock, Australia, Folk Rock, IDC, IDC Artists, New Music, new release, new releases, New York, Quarantunes, RMR Alternative Rock, RMR Charts, Rock, Shred the Evidence Records, The Walk-A-Bout, Things Are Looking Up, Victory Parade, walkaboutband, World MusicLeave a comment
ICYMI – Now streaming online – IDC and DLP Present THE MID-SUMMER FOG VIRTUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
We had a blast producing The Mid-Summer Fog: A Virtual Music Festival with our friends over at Digital Lamb Productions. Thanks to Gabriel Lamb for making this awesome recap video!:
A huge thank you goes out to all the bands that played, the fans that tuned it, and everybody who helped turn this virtual festival a reality!
If you missed the festival live, or want to relive the show again, you can tune in anytime at https://bit.ly/31Ub0Xn
Poster designed by George Panagakos @525media
THE MID-SUMMER FOG VIRTUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL streamed live from around the world at 5 PM PST/8 PM EST SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2020.
Watch the festival LIVE at: https://bit.ly/31Ub0Xn
View the official Facebook Event Page at: www.facebook.com
Listen to a playlist of the performing artists on Spotify at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3rEkrEVahIr1eokH8Asfr0
As we all continue to adjust to life with the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, IDC and DLP are excited to showcase the amazing independent talent on the IDC roster of artists with their first ever streaming music festival! Featuring performances by ROCKER T, INDUBIOUS, HAJI MIKE, THE WALK-A-BOUT, CORNELL “CC” CARTER, ANNA KARNEY, MARK DUDA, CHRIS PECK, AMANDA ABIZAID, and BEN LANG, together with some very special guests, THE MID-SUMMER FOG VIRTUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL will stream live from around the world at 5 PM PST/8 PM EST SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2020. Tune in LIVE at https://bit.ly/31Ub0Xn
THE MID-SUMMER FOG VIRTUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL is a free online streaming event. Viewers will be able to contribute directly to the performing artists throughout the festival, many of whom will be present and interacting with fans online before and after their performances. IDC works with a deep pool of groundbreaking artists, and THE MID-SUMMER FOG VIRTUAL FESTIVAL will be the first of many planned performances in the future.
In business for over 15 years, INDEPENDENT DISTRIBUTION COLLECTIVE (IDC) is a marketing and distribution company based in San Francisco. IDC offers customized marketing campaigns together with wide-reaching digital and physical distribution channels. By assembling and managing a Team of industry professionals who work together to promote a project to every possible outlet simultaneously, together with their robust distribution network that provides CDs, Vinyl, DVDs, and other products to thousands of retailers worldwide and hundreds of digital streaming platforms, IDC helps clients establish and grow their careers in the modern era.
IDC is excited to announce the launch of their recently redesigned official website! For more information and additional details about IDC’s services and releases, please visit them at http://www.independentdistro.com.
DIGITAL LAMB PRODUCTIONS (DLP) is a video production company that prides in delivering premium video production & marketing, LIVE streams & event coverage, as well as training & consultation. DLP helps companies and brands define their image, discover their message, and reach their community. Having worked as a video producer for over a decade, Detroit native Gabriel Lamb created DLP and opened its doors for business in San Francisco, CA.
Past DIGITAL LAMB PRODUCTIONS clients include Live Fit Gym; Gap Inc.; David Rio SF; Oakland Museum of California; SLINK Jeans; Real Money; Opie and Dixie; AccountingSuite; In Presence; Hot Mountain Dips; Dusty Green Bones Band; Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence; Academy of Art University; YMCA; Independent Distribution Collective; Oliso Inc.; Tomorrow Partners; Visualize This; Miller’s East Coast Deli; Victor Little Music; 13th Generation; and Super Sweet Records. For more information, please visit http://www.digitallambproductions.com.
Video by Gabriel Lamb at Digital Lamb Productions
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November 3, 2020 November 3, 2020 idcdistro20/20, 525 Media, Alternative Rock, Australia, Folk Rock, IDC, IDC Artists, New Music, new release, new releases, New York, Quarantunes, RMR Alternative Rock, RMR Charts, Rock, Shred the Evidence Records, The Walk-A-Bout, Things Are Looking Up, Victory Parade, walkaboutband, World MusicLeave a comment
20/20 is up to #3 On the Roots Music Report Alt-Rock chart
October 27, 2020 idcdistro20/20, 525 Media, Alternative Rock, Australia, Folk Rock, IDC, IDC Artists, New Music, new release, new releases, New York, Quarantunes, RMR Alternative Rock, RMR Charts, Rock, Shred the Evidence Records, The Walk-A-Bout, Things Are Looking Up, Victory Parade, walkaboutband, World MusicLeave a comment
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Newman Government kills Queensland's corruption watchdog
By Steve Bishop | 13 May 2014, 5:30pm | comments |
(Image via @Can_do_Campbell)
The Newman Government has ignored Fitzgerald, other senior legal figures and nearly 10,000 petitioners by scrapping Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission. Steve Bishop reports.
The Newman Government has killed the independent Crime and Misconduct Commission with legislation passed by Parliament at 11.17pm on May 7.
In its place will be a Crime and Corruption Commission, with much reduced powers and Government-appointed commissioners.
The Government ignored the warnings of senior corruption fighters and lawyers that its legislation would kill the public’s independent watchdog and create a political lapdog, which would bury government corruption while snarling loudly at opponents.
Former corruption prosecutor and Federal judge Doug Drummond QC had told a parliamentary committee the changes
“... appear designed to ensure that the restructured commission will not investigate corruption by Queensland politicians and public officials if that might embarrass the government."
Mr Drummond further commented:
"It is an extraordinary exercise for the Newman Government to engage in at the very time ICAC in Sydney is exposing how corrupt politicians of both major parties will work hand in hand with opportunistic businessmen to plunder public assets.”
The new body will be in place when, if the Government has its way, multi-million dollar contracts are being handed to companies buying or leasing public assets.
According to what it has called 'Strong Choices', the Queensland Government wants to dispose of assets worth $25 to $30 billion.
Mr Drummond, along with former corruption inquiry commissioner Tony Fitzgerald, former Crime and Misconduct Commissioners, lawyers’ associations and legal experts were united in their opposition to the legislation.
A Government-dominated parliamentary committee unanimously opposed a plan to limit corruption complaints to those people willing to make statutory declarations. Nevertheless, the Government has focussed on preventing anonymous complaints by forcing most complaints to be backed by statutory declarations.
Critics of the proposal point out that if this became a requirement of Crime Stoppers, useful information would immediately dry up.
An “independent” review of the commission decided:
'The CMC truly needs a research function.'
But the Government is restricting the new commission’s ability to decide on what issues it should research. The Minister has already made it plain that he is not likely to approve research into political donations.
The legislation removes the Commission's responsibilities for preventing corruption in the public service.
Mr Drummond was scathing of the proposals:
“The chairman alone will have control over the key anti-corruption activities of the commission. His power will be absolute. All the critical powers for dealing with corruption will be delegated to him .... He can determine for himself whether a particular complaint of corruption is investigated and whether and ongoing investigation should be terminated and the complaint dismissed.”
Tony Fitzgerald QC told a parliamentary committee:
"The Bill...takes the final step needed to remove the Commission's independence entirely and bring it completely under Government control."
The legislation has its roots in an Inquiry into the CMC by Professor Nicholas Aroney and former judge Ian Callinan QC.
The Inquiry recommended many changes and advocated the creation of an implementation panel consisting of the Public Service Commissioner, the chairperson of the CMC and two others − including a senior lawyer − to formulate their recommendations into a Bill.
They specifically stipulated that the fourth member of the panel should not be a current or former public servant.
Not only did the government ignore this latter recommendation, but it put the public servant it chose, John Sosso − the Director-General of the Department of Justice − in charge of the process.
Who is Mr Sosso?
Tony Fitzgerald said in his submission to the parliamentary committee:
"When the [corruption] inquiry was established in 1987 the National Party Attorney-General was advised and influenced by a small ambitious group of Justice Department bureaucrats. The Attorney-General appointed one, John Sosso, as secretary to the inquiry. Sosso didn't last long in that role but returned to the Justice Department which, as the inquiry's report notes, did little willingly to assist the inquiry."
What was it the Fitzgerald Report noted in 1989?
Fitzgerald said that when his corruption inquiry started:
"The Justice Department and the Police Department did not intend to lose control .... Reasons were advanced for restricting the Commission's access to material."
The Fitzgerald Report also commented:
'In the aftermath of this report's release, present and former Justice Department personnel, who are steeped in attitudes which have contributed to the current problems, may well try to reassert their influence and regain control of the agenda for reform.'
Mr Fitzgerald went on to tell the parliamentary committee:
“Sooner or later the Premier will have to bring the Justice Department under control or risk public humiliation."
ALP MP Bill Byrne told Parliament:
“I must say that the performance of Mr Sosso before the parliamentary committee was unimpressive. My impression was of a man who could barely tolerate or be bothered with attending. I have to say that I found his evidence underwhelming and unconvincing.”
For more than 20 years, the major parties had agreed that a proposed commissioner of the watchdog had to receive bipartisan support from a parliamentary committee. The Government has scrapped this practice and will appoint someone to its new commission who it alone finds acceptable.
The proposal to scrap the need for bipartisan approval came solely from the implementation panel.
Independent MP Peter Wellington asked Mr Sosso at a committee hearing:
"What evidence are you aware of that the current bipartisan requirement is not working?"
Mr Sosso refused to say if his department had any evidence.
The legislation was rushed through after being unveiled in Parliament on March 19.
It had to be referred to a Legal Affairs and Public Safety Committee* for submissions from the public.
The committee, which had been sacked by the Government only months before and reformed with only two non-Government members, has spent up to four months examining other Bills, but in this case submissions had to be made in only three weeks.
One day was given for a public hearing.
The committee delivered its recommendations to the Government on April 30 and on May 7 Parliament passed the Bill.
The widespread criticism of the legislation suggest it is highly unlikely that anyone with the qualifications, experience and integrity necessary for the position of Commissioner will trash his or her reputation by applying for such a position.
Anyone accepting such a position is likely to be viewed by the legal profession and by public servants as a puppet of the Newman Government — just like the current acting chair.
* In an earlier version of this article we said the PCMC has been receiving submissions from the public about the legislation. This was an error in the editing process and not by the author.
You can read more by Steve Bishop at stevebishop.net.
The @theqldpremier 'sees no reason' why Ken Levy should have to step down from CMC. Here's a clue: he's being investigated by the Qld police
— Duchess Mel Thomas (@photogramel) May 12, 2014
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The Ritvik House of Cards
Published on October 26th, 2014 | by Harmonist staff
Q & A with Swami B. V. Tripurari
“This ritvik notion blinds its adherents from recognizing the qualified gurus among us, which if acknowledged, would bring the whole idea down like a house of cards.”
Q. There is a lot of discussion about “ritviks,” but so far I haven’t really gotten a grasp on the issue. What is a ritvik, and what is the controversy all about?
A. The word ritvik refers to a delegated representative of the guru, in this case one who performs initiations on the guru’s behalf. The current phenomenon of ritvik initiation in the Gaudiya community is a twist on the perennial notion of guru- parampara, or ongoing succession of gurus, whereby spiritual knowledge/bhakti is imparted from guru to disciple.
Scripture teaches that when the current initiating guru passes away his or her qualified disciple becomes the guru of the next generation of students. However, the ritvik notion in question contends that after the physical departure of the guru if there is no qualified disciple to continue the chain of spiritual command then a system of ritvik is to be substituted. In this system adherents designate a devotee to initiate students on behalf of the previous guru in succession with the initiates becoming disciples of the departed guru (in this case Srila Prabhupada).
The problem with this novel idea is that it lacks scriptural and historical precedent. Furthermore, it effectively does away with the perennial and scripturally based system of parampara (one guru after another), which in effect freezes time, rendering the dissemination of the teachings out of touch with new times and circumstances. By definition, the ritvik notion can only flourish, if at all, to the extent that a qualified living guru is not present to initiate disciples. Born from sentiment and/or religious fanaticism and fueled by examples of unfit persons posing as gurus, this notion blinds its adherents from recognizing the qualified gurus among us, which if acknowledged, would bring the whole ritvik idea down like a house of cards.
Q. What is the qualification of a disciple who is fit to serve in the capacity of a guru?
A. To serve as guru, one must be well versed in the scriptural canon and capable of citing it in a manner that removes the doubts of one’s disciples, thus freeing them to move forward on the path of bhakti. Such theoretical knowledge must be backed by realization as one can only give to others what one possesses. Ours is a school of suddha-bhakti, which must be taught and represented by one who is suddha, or pure. In the fourth stanza of his eight-fold teaching, Siksastakam, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu describes such purity as the absence of material desire combined with spiritual attachment to bhakti itself.
na dhanam na janam na sundarim kavitam va jagad-isha kamaye mama
janmani janmanishvare bhavatad bhaktir ahaituki tvayi
“O Lord of the universe, I don’t want wealth, followers, beautiful women, or verse. I only ask for unalloyed bhakti unto you, O Pranesvara, birth after birth.” Siksastakam 4
In the words of Pujyapada B. R. Sridhara Deva Goswami, one who has attained the devotional stage of ruci (taste), as epitomized in this verse, is safe and therefore qualified to help others. In his Bhakti-tattva-viveka, Bhaktivinoda Thakura describes those who have attained ruci as suddha bhaktas, or pure devotees. Ruci bhaktas as well as those who have entered the following devotional stage known as asakti (attachment) are considered mahabhagavatas, of which there are three varieties: murcchita kasaya, nidhuta kasaya, and bhagavata parsada deha prapta. The most elevated of the three is
bhagavat-parsada-deha-prapta. Second is the nirdhuta-kasaya, and third is the murchitta-kasaya.
An example of murcchita kasaya is Narada as a sadhaka after leaving home and experiencing a provisional darsana of Sri Krsna. The example of the nirduddha kasaya is Sukadeva Goswami as a jivan mukta devotee. The example of the bhagavata parsada deha prapta is Narada at the time he was awarded his svarupa. Another way of categorizing the murcchita and nirdhutta kasaya mahabhagvatas is to refer to them as neophyte superlative devotees (kanistha uttama) or intermediate superlative (madhyama uttama) devotees respectively. Following this description, the bhagavata parsada deha prapta devotee would be categorized as a superlative superlative devotee (uttama uttama). Any of these mahabhagavatas serving in the capacity of intermediate devotees in the sense of exercising discrimination required for the dissemination of the teachings is very capable of guiding others.
Indeed, as exhaustively explained by Sri Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura in his Madhurya Kadambani, even advanced intermediate devotees are qualified to initiate others. It is through intermediate devotees that Bhakti-devi typically distributes herself. Anyone fortunate enough to recognize such advanced devotees, either superlative intermediate devotees or any of the three mahabhagavatas described above, is fortunate. And such persons will easily understand the folly of the current ritvik notions.
Advocates of the ritvik system limit the scope of their conception to the International Society For Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), an organization that has had problems maintaining credible spiritual representation in the parampara since the departure of its founder Srila Prabhupada. In addition, Srila Prabhupada has written some things that are somewhat ambiguous with regard to his succession. Together these factors fueled speculations that led to the implementation of the ritvik system of initiation in a number of Iskcon-related groups and temples. Although the official Iskcon governing board has declared the ritvik idea heretical, advocates have a foothold in the institution to the extent that some of its present gurus openly promote a covert or quasi-ritvik initiation idea in the name of humility. Furthermore, recent ecclesiastical policies concerned with keeping Iskcon’s Founder Acarya “in the center” of Iskcon have arguably moved the sect in the direction of what many other Gaudiya missions consider a formal covert ritvik system.
Fortunately, the teachings and practice of Gaudiya Vaisnavism are beyond the limitations of any particular society or organization. As B.R. Sridhara Maharaja so eloquently put it, “Krishna is independent; he cannot be confined to one side of the Ganges and not the other, nor can he be imprisoned within the walls of any particular religious institution.” Thus the relevance of the ritvik notion peculiar to Iskcon dissolves once one understands that the actual parampara is well represented elsewhere. Institutions come and go, but guru-parampara continues; this is Sri Krishna’s promise in the Bhagavad-gita: evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduh.
So within Iskcon or elsewhere, my recommendation is for students to find a vital living connection to the guru-parampara and accept siksa and mantra diksa from him or her. Without this foundational connection, one’s bhakti will surely collapse—like the proverbial house of cards.
See also Sanga: The Ritvik Conception of Guru Parampara
Should I Stay or Should I Go? →
Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati and Raganuga-Bhakti →
From Selfishness to Selfless Love of God in Bhagavad-gītā’s First Verse →
An Invitation to All, Heard Only by a Few →
One Response to The Ritvik House of Cards
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Why would anybody want to be initiated into a tradition in which fewer than 1 in 10,000 aspirants is seen as qualified to pass the tradition to the next generation — indeed, in which no aspirants from the previous generation are yet seen as qualified?
Besides, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur is documented as having given Bhakti Saranga Goswami permission to give initiation — not just ritvik — to individuals he met outside of India. Yet, upon the disappearance of Srila Bhakisiddhanta, there was no universal acclamation of Goswami Maharaja as the one true successor. Others were seen as more qualified than this man whom Gurudeva had recognized as qualified to initiate.
So, by the words and actions of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta, we can see that there were multiple qualified gurus coming after him. There was dispute over organizational/institutional leadership, but not over the spiritual advancement of more than one disciple.
If Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada left no qualified successor, then either we can look to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta’s successors for continuation of the lineage, or we have to conclude that the whole process is pretty much useless, if — in addition to Prabhupada’s failure — the seva and sadhana of hundreds upon hundreds of lifetime celibate vegetarian worshippers of Radha-Krishna and Gaura-Nityananda, who took initiation from Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, did not produce even one qualified successor.
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How to Get FREE Product from China
Every day for the last week I have gotten at least one email from a foreign company that paid money to a company in China and got literally nothing in return. The term for this is theft.
This sort of thing is a given by Chinese companies and for why this is so prevalent lately and what you can do to protect against this, check out China Manufacturing Risks are Sky-High Right Now. Act Accordingly. We write about these risks often here, but that is not the topic of today’s post.
Today’s post is about the flip side. Today’s post is about foreign companies that get product from China and do not pay for it. How do these companies accomplish this and how common is this?
My law firm’s manufacturing and litigation lawyers actually see the flip side of this quite often as well, but more like once or twice a month, though these numbers seem to be rapidly increasing as well. And virtually all of what we see has not been planned. It is something that happens when the foreign company encounters financial difficulties that make paying its Chinese counter-party difficult or impossible or when there is a dispute regarding the quality of what the Chinese counter-party was to have provided — usually a manufactured product. What happens in these situations?
Not paying Chinese companies and getting away with it is actually quite easy. And when I say easy, I mean that of the 25+ times the international litigators at my law firm have represented foreign companies on such matters against Chinese manufacturers or against Sinosure (China’s government-owned export insurance company), not one single time has the Chinese company or Sinosure ever actually sued our client. Not once.
Why are Chinese companies so reluctant to sue foreign companies that do not pay for product? There are a ton of reasons, including the following:
1. Chinese companies tend not to like or trust foreign countries.
2. Chinese companies tend to be fearful of foreign courts. Who isn’t?
3. Chinese companies and the Chinese government often have a lot to hide. They understand that lawsuits in most Western countries (this is doubly true for the United States) will require they reveal information they do not want to reveal.
4. Foreign courts conduct their business in a foreign language. This makes things difficult on Chinese companies.
5. Foreign courts typically require companies use locally licensed lawyers. Chinese companies tend not to know or trust lawyers outside China.
6. Locally licensed lawyers in countries like the United States or Spain are not cheap and litigation is also not cheap and Chinese companies tend to be reluctant to spend money on services. Chinese companies tend not to be willing to pay — not hourly, not flat fee, not mixed fee, and not even on a contingency fee basis — what it takes to hire competent counsel to pursue international debt collection matters.
7. Lawsuits in most countries are public affairs. Chinese companies tend to prefer operating in secret.
8. It is the rare Chinese company that uses high end international lawyers for their contracts. This means their contracts tend to be very weak outside China and this can turn what should have been a fast and easy and cheap case into a time-consuming and difficult and expensive case.
9. Chinese companies tend to view not getting paid as embarrassing. This is particularly true if the reason the Chinese company did not get paid might involve claims against the Chinese company for acting dishonestly or incompetently.
10. Because it is difficult to collect on debts in China, Chinese companies tend to assume the same is true elsewhere as well.
11. Bankruptcy in China virtually always means creditors get nothing. Chinese companies tend to assume the same is true elsewhere.
12. Companies in China that are going out of business will often take payments from foreign buyers and then provide nothing in return (see above and see China Business Scam Week, Part 2: Bricks for Products). Chinese companies tend to assume the same is true elsewhere. Why pursue a company overseas that no longer exists?
My law firm has many times represented both Chinese companies on litigation matters outside China and companies sued by Chinese companies outside China. Our conclusion from these cases is that Chinese companies generally do not understand international litigation, do not understand the costs of litigation, do not understand what it takes to prevail in litigation, and — most importantly — do not have the “staying power” or financial commitment to pursue litigation or arbitration for the length of time it takes to prevail. We are not the only foreign lawyers who believe these things and I say this because many lawyers sued by Chinese companies know to basically just stall them until they give up.
Then there is the whole State Owned Entity (SOE) “thing.” When a Chinese state-owned company has turnover in its senior management (which is common for SOEs doing badly due to not getting paid), the successor management often does not want to bother going after unpaid debts for fear they themselves will be tarnished with that debt. I can tell you story after story about Chinese company’s falling asleep on their debt collection, but here are just a few:
1. Many years ago, a large China SOE reached out to my law firm about collecting on a $15 million unpaid debt owed them by a U.S. buyer. The Chinese company told us it had a written contract and the American company admitted it owed the debt. Our international litigators were salivating about taking on the case and asked the Chinese company for all relevant documents. Turned out to be a terrible case because the debt had been owed for eleven years (yes, 11 years) and this was the first time the Chinese company had made any effort to collect on it. The statutes of limitations had all run and the Chinese company had no case.
2. Many years ago a large Chinese SOE reached out to my law firm regarding a large debt owed it by an American company. To make a long story short, it eventually came out that the American company had sent an executive of the Chinese company about 10% of the total owed and the executive had in return signed an agreement on behalf of the Chinese company absolving the American company of the debt. When we told the Chinese company of how these complications would increase its attorneys fees and make collection less likely, it walked away from the case.
3. Many years ago, our law firm represented an American company threatened with a lawsuit by a large PRC company. We told the opposing lawyer our client had never contracted with the large PRC company and all the money our client had paid relating to the widgets at issue had gone to a Hong Kong company. We argued that because our client had never contracted with or paid the PRC company anything, the PRC company had no standing to sue for breach of contract. We also pointed out that if the Hong Kong company were to sue our client, there would be very public records of how the PRC company had been illegally funneling money to Hong Kong for years so as to avoid PRC taxes. The PRC company walked away and we have used this defense with nothing but success ever since.
During the 2008 recession, in Ranking Creditors: China is Dead Last, I wrote how our when our clients prioritize their creditors for payment they put the Chinese ones last in line:
I asked the client why 90% of his payables were Asian and Russian when I had always thought only about half its business was with Asia/Russia, with the other half being with North America. He responded by saying I was right about his business, but the Asian/Russian companies just “didn’t bug us as much to get paid.” We then started examining the payables and ranking them in terms of contract quality. In other words, of these approximately 40 creditors, how did they rank in terms of the strength of their contracts?
By this ranking, all of the bottom seven were Chinese companies.
We then talked about how many of these companies had made any real effort to collect. A bunch of the Korean and Russian companies had retained lawyers who had written demand letters. The letters for the Korean companies (all in English) came from Korean lawyers in Korea and Korean lawyers in Los Angeles, none of which we believed would be able to sue my client quickly. The letters for the Russian companies (all in English) came from lawyers in Moscow. We decided our lawyers would contact the Korean and Russian lawyers to work out payment deals, which we subsequently did. The few Japanese companies to which our client owed money were deemed by the client too important not to pay and so we agreed our client would contact them himself, explain the situation, and start paying.
Not a single Chinese company had yet retained a lawyer and we explained to our client my firm’s history in trying to represent Chinese companies owed money in the United States. We told him of how Chinese companies expected our firm to take on these sorts of cases on a 5% contingency fee basis, with our firm paying all costs, and, believe it or not, sometimes even requesting we guarantee full payment. We told of how we had successfully handled a number of business collection cases for Korean, Russian, and Japanese clients, but had not once even taken one on for a Chinese company.
Way back in 2008, I got the following email from a savvy Chinese national who was attending a U.S. law school. This law student had written this email to a Chinese lawyer in China who had contacted him regarding their working together to collect debts on behalf of Chinese companies and he wanted me to see what he had sent, the translation of which is the below:
What does the contingency fee option look like? The biggest issue is of course the percentage the attorney can deduct (both attorneys fees and costs, i.e. court costs, travel, etc.). The typical arrangement is 30–35% of any recovery after deducting fees and costs for the attorneys, and the rest for the plaintiff(s) if there is no appeal. In appeal situations, the attorney gets 40%, in addition to costs. These figures might sound alarmingly high, but they are the norm in the United States, and frankly, lawyers just put these figures in a contract as a matter of course, and there is hardly any bargaining.
With the above said, Chinese companies must adapt to the rules of the game in the U.S. in order to get competent counsel to collect their debt. My understanding is that most Chinese companies don’t want to advance court costs, and they want attorneys to retain 5%-10% of any recovery. Based on my knowledge and experience, U.S. lawyers/firms will not take on very risky representations with such a low percentage. 5% -10%. These sorts of cases are just not worthy of their time and efforts, and they might end up losing money after paying their overhead.
I am sending you this note not to educate or offend you — not at all. Rather, I think that in order for the vast number of Chinese companies to have a chance of getting their money back and to fight back when wronged, they must know the rules of the game and play by them over here. And they must not insist that the rules here be the same as in China; otherwise, they lose money rightfully belonging to them, and a chance to get it back through competent representation in the courts. Since you are, apparently, leading the efforts in debt collection, I think it is important that you start informing Chinese companies what is reasonably expected over here by U.S. attorneys in terms of percentages, so that they don’t overlook collection of their money entirely simply because U.S. lawyers demand more in their contingent fee agreements.
The lawyer in China walked away.
Since we wrote the above, my law firm has received a number of inquiries from Chinese companies and Chinese lawyers seeking to retain us to oversee their U.S. debt collection efforts or to file a creditor’s claim in a pending bankruptcy or receivership action. Yet, because the Chinese companies are so out of line in their expectation of American or EU attorneys’ fees, we rarely end up with these cases.
Chinese factories are hurting right now and they are desperate and desperate companies do desperate things like agree to ship product without getting any or only very minimal payments upfront. Chinese companies are notoriously bad at paying attention to their buyer’s credit records and I’ve been shocked lately by the incredibly favorable payment terms we are seeing even start-up companies get from some Chinese suppliers. My sense (and I say “sense” because I lack sufficient evidence to back it up) is that for all the complaining by Western companies of getting “ripped off” in China, the dollar value of the rip-offs is actually higher going the other way.
What are you seeing out there?
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MARCH 16/ A TYPICAL FRIDAY GOLD/SILVER RAID BY OUR BANKERS: GOLD DOWN $5.65 TO $1312.35 AND SILVER DOWN ANOTHER 15 CENTS TO $16.28/ SILVER RECORDS A HUGE INCREASE IN COMEX OPEN INTEREST TO READ OVER 208,500 CONTRACTS/ GOLD ALSO RESPONDS TO A HIGHER OI OF 542000 CONTRACTS GAINING OVER 4000 CONTRACTS DESPITE A LOWER PRICE YESTERDAY/ HUGE EFP ISSUANCE FOR BOTH GOLD AND SILVER TODAY/GOOD SWAMP STORIES FOR YOU TODAY/
March 16, 2018 · by harveyorgan · in Uncategorized · 2 Comments
GOLD: $1312.35 DOWN $5.65
Silver: $16.28 DOWN 15 CENTS
Closing access prices:
Gold $1314.00
silver: $16.33
SHANGHAI GOLD FIX: FIRST FIX 10 15 PM EST (2:15 SHANGHAI LOCAL TIME)
SECOND FIX: 2:15 AM EST (6:15 SHANGHAI LOCAL TIME)
SHANGHAI FIRST GOLD FIX: $1324.46 DOLLARS PER OZ
NY PRICE OF GOLD AT EXACT SAME TIME: $1316.00
PREMIUM FIRST FIX: $8.46
SECOND SHANGHAI GOLD FIX: $1326.93
NY GOLD PRICE AT THE EXACT SAME TIME: $1318.10
PREMIUM SECOND FIX /NY:$8.83
SHANGHAI REJECTS NY PRICING OF GOLD.
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ON APRIL 1 2018 I WILL NO LONGER PROVIDE THE LONDON FIXES AS THEY ARE MANIPULATED AND THEY WILL BE PROVIDED 36 HRS AFTER THE FACT AND THUS TOTALLY USELESS TO US!!
LONDON FIRST GOLD FIX: 5:30 am est $1320.05
NY PRICING AT THE EXACT SAME TIME: $1319.95
LONDON SECOND GOLD FIX 10 AM: $1310.10
NY PRICING AT THE EXACT SAME TIME. $1313.15 ????
For comex gold:
MARCH/
NUMBER OF NOTICES FILED TODAY FOR MARCH CONTRACT: 0 NOTICE(S) FOR nil OZ.
TOTAL NOTICES SO FAR:17 FOR 1300 OZ
For silver:
48 NOTICE(S) FILED TODAY FOR
240,000 OZ/
Total number of notices filed so far this month: 5131 for 25,655,000 oz
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Bitcoin: BID $8226/OFFER $8,296: UP $9(morning)
Bitcoin: BID/ $8509/offer $8579: UP $291 (CLOSING/5 PM)
Let us have a look at the data for today
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In silver, the total open interest ROSE BY A HUMONGOUS SIZED 5343 contracts from 203,158 RISING TO 208,501 DESPITE YESTERDAY’S 11 CENT FALL IN SILVER PRICING. WE OBVIOUSLY HAD ZERO COMEX LIQUIDATION. HOWEVER, WE WERE AGAIN NOTIFIED THAT WE HAD ANOTHER HUGE SIZED NUMBER OF COMEX LONGS TRANSFERRING THEIR CONTRACTS TO LONDON THROUGH THE EFP : 2266 EFP’S FOR MAY AND ZERO FOR ALL OTHER MONTHS AND THUS TOTAL ISSUANCE OF 2266 CONTRACTS. WITH THE TRANSFER OF 2266 CONTRACTS, WHAT THE CME IS STATING IS THAT THERE IS NO SILVER (OR GOLD) TO BE DELIVERED UPON AT THE COMEX AS THEY MUST EXPORT THEIR OBLIGATION TO LONDON. ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT THERE CAN BE A DELAY OF 24-48 HRS IN THE ISSUING OF EFP’S. THE 2266 CONTRACTS TRANSLATES INTO 11.330 MILLION OZ WITH THE RISE IN OPEN INTEREST IN SILVER AT THE COMEX.
ACCUMULATION FOR EFP’S/SILVER/J.P.MORGAN’S HOUSE OF BRIBES, / STARTING FROM FIRST DAY NOTICE/FOR MONTH OF MARCH:
25,449 CONTRACTS (FOR 12 TRADING DAYS TOTAL 25,449 CONTRACTS OR 127.245 MILLION OZ: AVERAGE PER DAY: 2120 CONTRACTS OR 10.603 MILLION OZ/DAY
TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA AS TO THE HUGE SUPPLY THIS MONTH IN SILVER: SO FAR THIS MONTH: 127.245 MILLION PAPER OZ HAVE MORPHED OVER TO LONDON. THIS REPRESENTS AROUND 18.14% OF ANNUAL GLOBAL PRODUCTION
ACCUMULATION IN YEAR 2018 TO DATE SILVER EFP’S: 614.69 MILLION OZ.
ACCUMULATION FOR JAN 2018: 236.879 MILLION OZ
ACCUMULATION FOR MONTH OF FEBRUARY: 244.945 MILLION OZ
RESULT: WE HAD A HUMONGOUS SIZED GAIN IN COMEX OI SILVER COMEX OF 5343 DESPITE THE 11 CENT FALL IN SILVER PRICE. WE ALSO HAD A HUGE SIZED EFP ISSUANCE OF 2266 CONTRACTS WHICH EXITED OUT OF THE SILVER COMEX AND TRANSFERRED THEIR OI TO LONDON AS FORWARDS. SPECULATORS CONTINUED THEIR INTEREST IN ATTACKING THE SILVER COMEX FOR PHYSICAL SILVER . FROM THE CME DATA 2266 EFP’S FOR THE MONTH OF MAY WERE ISSUED FOR A DELIVERABLE FORWARD CONTRACT OVER IN LONDON WITH A FIAT BONUS. WE GAINED 7609 OI CONTRACTS i.e. 2266 open interest contracts headed for London (EFP’s) TOGETHER WITH A INCREASE OF 5343 OI COMEX CONTRACTS. AND ALL OF THIS HAPPENED WITH THE FALL IN PRICE OF SILVER OF 11 CENTS AND A CLOSING PRICE OF $16.53 WITH RESPECT TO YESTERDAY’S TRADING. YET WE STILL HAVE A GOOD AMOUNT OF SILVER STANDING AT THE COMEX.
In ounces AT THE COMEX, the OI is still represented by just OVER 1 BILLION oz i.e. 1.043 BILLION TO BE EXACT or 149% of annual global silver production (ex Russia & ex China).
FOR THE NEW FRONT MARCH MONTH/ THEY FILED: 48 NOTICE(S) FOR 240,000 OZ OF SILVER
In gold, the open interest ROSE BY AN STRONG SIZED 4879 CONTRACTS UP TO 542,647 DESPITE THE GOOD SIZED FALL IN PRICE YESTERDAY ( LOSS OF $7.85) HOWEVER FOR TODAY, THE CME RELEASED THE DATA FOR EFP ISSUANCE AND IT TOTALED AN HUMONGOUS SIZED 15,685 CONTRACTS : APRIL SAW THE ISSUANCE OF 14,237 CONTRACTS, JUNE SAW TWO ISSUANCES OF 52 CONTRACTS AND 1400 AND THEN ALL OTHER MONTHS ZERO. The new OI for the gold complex rests at 542,647. ALSO REMEMBER THAT THERE WILL BE A DELAY IN THE ISSUANCE OF EFP’S. THE BANKERS REMOVE LONG POSITIONS OF COMEX GOLD IMMEDIATELY. THEN THEY ORCHESTRATE THEIR PRIVATE EFP DEAL WITH THE LONGS AND THAT COULD TAKE AN ADDITIONAL 48 HRS SO WE GENERALLY DO NOT GET A MATCH WITH RESPECT TO DEPARTING COMEX LONGS AND NEW EFP LONG TRANSFERS. DEMAND FOR GOLD INTENSIFIES GREATLY AS WE CONTINUE TO WITNESS A HUGE NUMBER OF EFP TRANSFERS TOGETHER WITH THE MASSIVE INCREASE IN GOLD COMEX OI TOGETHER WITH THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF GOLD OUNCES STANDING FOR FEBRUARY COMEX. EVEN THOUGH THE BANKERS ISSUED THESE MONSTROUS EFPS, THE OBLIGATION STILL RESTS WITH THE BANKERS TO SUPPLY METAL BUT IT TRANSFERS THE RISK TO A LONDON BANKER OBLIGATION AND NOT A NEW YORK COMEX OBLIGATION. LONGS RECEIVE A FIAT BONUS TOGETHER WITH A LONG LONDON FORWARD. THUS, BY THESE ACTIONS, THE BANKERS AT THE COMEX HAVE JUST STATED THAT THEY HAVE NO APPRECIABLE METAL!! THIS IS A MASSIVE FRAUD: THEY CANNOT SUPPLY ANY METAL TO OUR COMEX LONGS BUT THEY ARE QUITE WILLING TO SUPPLY MASSIVE NON BACKED GOLD (AND SILVER) PAPER KNOWING THAT THEY HAVE NO METAL TO SATISFY OUR LONGS. LONDON IS NOW SEVERELY BACKWARD IN BOTH GOLD AND SILVER AND WE ARE WITNESSING DELAYS IN ACTUAL DELIVERIES. IN ESSENCE WE HAVE A HUMONGOUS OI GAIN IN CONTRACTS: 4879 OI CONTRACTS INCREASED AT THE COMEX AND A HUMONGOUS SIZED 15,689 OI CONTRACTS WHICH NAVIGATED OVER TO LONDON.THUS TOTAL OI GAIN: 20,568 CONTRACTS OR 2,056,800 OZ =63.98 TONNES
YESTERDAY, WE HAD 4699 EFP’S ISSUED.
ACCUMULATION OF EFP’S GOLD AT J.P. MORGAN’S HOUSE OF BRIBES: (EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL) FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH : 106,976 CONTRACTS OR 10,697,600 OZ OR 332.72 TONNES (12 TRADING DAYS AND THUS AVERAGING: 8914 EFP CONTRACTS PER TRADING DAY OR 891,400 OZ/ TRADING DAY)
TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA AS TO THE HUGE SIZE OF THESE EFP TRANSFERS : SO FAR THIS MONTH IN 10 TRADING DAYS IN TONNES: 332.72 TONNES
TOTAL ANNUAL GOLD PRODUCTION, 2017, THROUGHOUT THE WORLD EX CHINA EX RUSSIA: 2555 TONNES
THUS EFP TRANSFERS REPRESENTS 332.72/2550 x 100% TONNES = 13.04% OF GLOBAL ANNUAL PRODUCTION SO FAR IN MARCH ALONE.
ACCUMULATION OF GOLD EFP’S YEAR 2018 TO DATE: 1583.10 TONNES
ACCUMULATION OF GOLD EFP’S FOR JANUARY 2018: 653.22 TONNES
ACCUMULATION OF GOLD EFP’S FOR FEBRUARY: 649.45 TONNES
Result: AN STRONG SIZED INCREASE IN OI AT THE COMEX DESPITE THE FALL IN PRICE IN GOLD TRADING YESTERDAY ($7.85 LOSS). HOWEVER, WE HAD ANOTHER FAIR SIZED NUMBER OF COMEX LONG TRANSFERRING TO LONDON THROUGH THE EFP ROUTE: 15,689 CONTRACTS AS THESE HAVE ALREADY BEEN NEGOTIATED AND CONFIRMED. THERE OBVIOUSLY DOES NOT SEEM TO BE MUCH PHYSICAL GOLD AT THE COMEX AND YET WE ALSO OBSERVED A HUGE DELIVERY MONTH FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER. I GUESS IT EXPLAINS THE HUGE ISSUANCE OF EFP’S…THERE IS HARDLY ANY GOLD PRESENT AT THE GOLD COMEX FOR DELIVERY PURPOSES. IF YOU TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE 15,689 EFP CONTRACTS ISSUED, WE HAD A NET GAIN IN OPEN INTEREST OF 20,568 contracts ON THE TWO EXCHANGES:
15,689 CONTRACTS MOVE TO LONDON AND 5343 CONTRACTS INCREASED AT THE COMEX. (in tonnes, the GAIN in total oi equates to 63.98 TONNES).
we had: 0 notice(s) filed upon for NIL oz of gold.
With respect to our two criminal funds, the GLD and the SLV:
WITH GOLD DOWN ANOTHER $5.65 : A HUGE CHANGE IN GOLD INVENTORY AT THE GLD / A DEPOSIT OF 4.42 TONNES OF GOLD
Inventory rests tonight: 838.15 tonnes.
SLV/
WITH SILVER DOWN 15 CENTS TODAY:
NO CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV/
/INVENTORY RESTS AT 319.012 MILLION OZ/
First, here is an outline of what will be discussed tonight:
1. Today, we had the open interest in silver ROSE BY A STRONG 5343 contracts from 203,593 UP TO 208,501 (AND now A LITTLE CLOSER TO THE NEW COMEX RECORD SET ON FRIDAY/APRIL 21/2017 AT 234,787) DESPITE THE FALL IN PRICE OF SILVER (11 CENT FALL WITH RESPECT TO YESTERDAY’S TRADING). OUR BANKERS USED THEIR EMERGENCY PROCEDURE TO ISSUE ANOTHER 2266 EFP CONTRACTS FOR MAY (WE DO NOT GET A LOOK AT THESE CONTRACTS AS IT IS PRIVATE BUT THE CFTC DOES AUDIT THEM) AND 0 EFP’S FOR ALL OTHER MONTHS. EFP’S GIVE OUR COMEX LONGS A FIAT BONUS PLUS A DELIVERABLE PRODUCT OVER IN LONDON. WE HAD SOME COMEX SILVER COMEX LIQUIDATION. IF WE TAKE THE OI GAIN AT THE COMEX OF 5343 CONTRACTS TO THE 2266 OI TRANSFERRED TO LONDON THROUGH EFP’S, WE OBTAIN A GAIN OF 7609 OPEN INTEREST CONTRACTS WE STILL HAVE A STRONG AMOUNT OF SILVER OUNCES THAT ARE STANDING FOR METAL IN MARCH (SEE BELOW). THE NET GAIN TODAY IN OZ ON THE TWO EXCHANGES: 38.045 MILLION OZ!!!
RESULT: A STRONG SIZED INCREASE IN SILVER OI AT THE COMEX DESPITE THE FALL IN SILVER PRICING YESTERDAY (11 CENTS FALL IN PRICE) . BUT WE ALSO HAD ANOTHER FAIR SIZED 2266 EFP’S ISSUED TRANSFERRING COMEX LONGS OVER TO LONDON. TOGETHER WITH THE STRONG SIZED AMOUNT OF SILVER OUNCES STANDING FOR MARCH, DEMAND FOR PHYSICAL SILVER INTENSIFIES AS WE WITNESS SEVERE BACKWARDATION IN SILVER IN LONDON.
(report Harvey)
2.a) The Shanghai and London gold fix report
(Harvey)
2 b) Gold/silver trading overnight Europe, Goldcore
(Mark O’Byrne/zerohedge
and in NY: Bloomberg
3. ASIAN AFFAIRS
i)FRIDAY MORNING/THURSDAY NIGHT: Shanghai closed DOWN 21.23 POINTS OR 0.65% /Hang Sang CLOSED DOWN 39.13 POINTS OR 0.12% / The Nikkei closed DOWN 127.44 POINTS OR 0.58%/Australia’s all ordinaires CLOSED UP 0.65%/Chinese yuan (ONSHORE) closed DOWN at 6.3259/Oil UP to 61.43 dollars per barrel for WTI and 65.15 for Brent. Stocks in Europe OPENED GREEN . ONSHORE YUAN CLOSED DOWN AT 6.3259 AGAINST THE DOLLAR. OFFSHORE YUAN CLOSED DOWN ON THE DOLLAR AT 6.3259 /ONSHORE YUAN TRADING WEAKER AGAINST OFFSHORE YUAN/ONSHORE YUAN TRADING WEAKER AGAINST USA DOLLAR/OFFSHORE YUAN TRADING WEAKER AGAINST THE DOLLAR . CHINA IS NOT VERY HAPPY TODAY (WEAKER CURRENCY & MARKETS/AND TRUMP TARIFFS INITIATED/ )
3a)THAILAND/SOUTH KOREA/NORTH KOREA
i)North Korea
b) REPORT ON JAPAN
THE SCANDAL AND COVERUP OF THE KINDERGARTEN LAND CAPER WIDENS IN JAPAN AND MAY IMPLICATE ABE
( zerohedge)
3 c CHINA
China gets tough: they send a message to the corporate sector with a huge 900 million market manipulation fine
(courtesy zerohedge)
4. EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
i)Please pay attention to Tom Luongo. I certainly had my doubts on the Russian spy poisoning. Now Tom Luongo gives his thoughts to this false flag event and why the west is entertaining this: to stop Russian from having any business in the west.
( Tom Luongo)
ii)Germany
Merkel’s new interior minister, Seehofer, states that Islam does not belong in Germany as they will now set new hardline immigration policies. That will go against the mantra of the entire EU body:
5. RUSSIAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS
i)Now the west is blaming Russia for continued attacks on USA power grid which started in 2016
ii)Russia/UK/USA
The rhetoric between Russia and Great Britain is getting pretty awful as Russia is set to expel UK diplomats in a tit or tat operation. Also Russia is to expand it’s USA blacklist…the crisis deepens
(courtesy zerohedge
iii)More troubles for Russian banks as the Central Bank of Russia is already mulling providing an additional 1 trillion rouble bailout for two banks: Otkritie Bank and B and N Bank.Oddly enough, the predecessor name to Otkritie Bank was called: Shchit-bank. They probably changed the name of the bank after Canada released the televison series Schitt’s Creek starring Eugene Levy.
6 .GLOBAL ISSUES
7. OIL ISSUES
Suddenly crude spikes above 62 dollars for no apparent reason
8. EMERGING MARKET
Generally they do not go after the head of a government. However today Zuma has been hit with huge corruption charges
9. PHYSICAL MARKETS
i)Mike Kosares talks about gold’s relationship to interest rates
( Mike Kosares/GATA)
ii)The City of Plattsburgh New York is the first city to ban bitcoin mining for 18 minutes as I guess energy costs are humongous and are weighing on the city
10. USA stories which will influence the price of gold/silver
i)USA economic data for today:
Housing starts and permits plunge in February. Also rental units crashed.
and this is a good time to raise rates 4 or 5 x???
ii)Moody’s warn of a deluge of retail bankruptcies are coming…the Amazon effect. Bricks and mortar operations are faltering badly.
iii)Hard data USA Industrial production growth surges 1.1% month/month in February surprising everyone
The report was a 4 standard deviation surge@!!
iv)Soft data, U. of Michigan sentiment, provides another dubious report. One of the highlights: the poorest Americans are overjoyed!!
v)The flattening yield curve is signalling trouble ahead..( John Rubino)
vi)Now the Dept of Justice is now investigating possible abuses in Well Fargo in their Wealth Management unit
vii)SWAMP STORIES
a) which story is correct? Bloomberg states that Trump has not decided on McMaster’s removal but the Washington post states that Trump has decided to fire McMaster.
the media is just unbelievable!!
b) Kelly is in as Trump and Kelly reach a true
(zerohedge)
c) Stormy Daniels now states that she has been physically threatened
d)Now we know why the FISC (FISA COURT) judge Contreas recused himself from the Flynn case on Dec 7.2017. The reason: he is a personal friend of Peter Strzok and there are emails between Page and Strzok as to how they could use the judge to destroy Flynn and other Republicans.
quite a story..
e)An ex FBI assistant director says that the upcoming Inspector General report will be as doozy
Let us head over to the comex:
The total gold comex open interest ROSE BY AN STRONG SIZED 4879 CONTRACTS UP to an OI level 542,647 DESPITE THE FALL IN THE PRICE OF GOLD ($7.85 LOSS/ YESTERDAY’S TRADING). WE, OBVIOUSLY HAD NO COMEX GOLD LIQUIDATION. HOWEVER THE CME REPORTS THAT THE BANKERS ISSUED AN FAIR SIZED COMEX TRANSFER THROUGH THE EFP ROUTE AS THESE LONGS RECEIVED A DELIVERABLE LONDON FORWARD TOGETHER WITH A FIAT BONUS. WE HAD A 14,237 EFP’S ISSUED FOR APRIL , AND TWO LOTS FOR JUNE: 52 FOR 1400 AND ZERO FOR ALL OTHER MONTHS: TOTAL 15,689 CONTRACTS. THE OBLIGATION STILL RESTS WITH THE BANKERS ON THESE TRANSFERS. ALSO REMEMBER THAT THERE IS NO DOUBT A HUGE DELAY IN THE ISSUANCE OF EFP’S AND IT PROBABLY TAKES AT LEAST 48 HRS AFTER LONGS GIVE UP THEIR COMEX CONTRACTS FOR THEM TO RECEIVE THEIR EFP’S AS THEY ARE NEGOTIATING THIS CONTRACT WITH THE BANKS FOR A FIAT BONUS PLUS THEIR TRANSFER TO A LONDON FORWARD… THE COMEX IS NOW AN ABSOLUTE FRAUD!!
ON A NET BASIS IN OPEN INTEREST WE GAINED TODAY: 20,568 OI CONTRACTS IN THAT 15,689 LONGS WERE TRANSFERRED AS FORWARDS TO LONDON AND WE GAINED 4879 COMEX CONTRACTS.
NET GAIN ON THE TWO EXCHANGES: 20,689 contracts OR 2,068,900 OZ OR 63.98 TONNES.
Result: AN STRONG SIZED INCREASE IN COMEX OPEN INTEREST DESPITE THE FALL IN PRICE YESTERDAY (ENDING UP WITH A LOSS OF $7.85.) TOTAL OPEN INTEREST GAIN ON THE TWO EXCHANGES: 20,568 OI CONTRACTS..
We have now entered the non active contract month of MARCH where we LOST 7 contracts LOWERING TO 528 contracts. We had 7 notices served upon yesterday, so in essence we GAINED 0 contacts or ZERO additional oz will stand for delivery at the comex
April saw a LOSS of 86 contracts DOWN to 255,216. May saw A GAIN of 30 contracts to stand at 502. The really big June contract month saw a GAIN of 4152 contracts UP to 186,811 contracts.
We had 0 notice(s) filed upon today for NIL oz
Trading Volumes on the COMEX
PRELIMINARY COMEX VOLUME FOR TODAY:288,030 contracts
CONFIRMED COMEX VOL. FOR YESTERDAY: 379,390 CONTRACTS
comex gold volumes are RISING AGAIN
Here is a summary of the latest gold trading volumes at the Comex per year
certainly the introduction of EFP’s has certainly had an effect:
Meanwhile, gold-trading volumes on the COMEX have never been higher:
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And now for the wild silver comex results.
Total silver OI ROSE BY A STRONG SIZED 5343 CONTRACTS FROM 203,158 UP TO 208,501 DESPITE OUR 11 CENT LOSS IN YESTERDAY’S TRADING). HOWEVER,WE WERE ALSO INFORMED THAT WE HAD 2266 EMERGENCY EFP’S FOR MAY ISSUED BY OUR BANKERS AND ZERO FOR ALL OTHER MONTHS TO COMEX LONGS WHO RECEIVED A FIAT BONUS PLUS A DELIVERABLE PRODUCT OVER IN LONDON: THE TOTAL EFP’S ISSUED: 2266. THE SILVER BOYS HAVE STARTED TO MIGRATE TO LONDON FROM THE START OF DELIVERY MONTH AND CONTINUING RIGHT THROUGH UNTIL FIRST DAY NOTICE JUST LIKE WE ARE WITNESSING TODAY. USUALLY WE NOTED THAT CONTRACTION IN OI OCCURRED ONLY DURING THE LAST WEEK OF AN UPCOMING ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH AS WE HAVE JUST SEEN IN GOLD TODAY. THIS PROCESS HAS JUST BEGUN IN EARNEST IN SILVER STARTING IN SEPTEMBER 2017. HOWEVER, IN GOLD, WE HAVE BEEN WITNESSING THIS FOR THE PAST 2 YEARS. NICK LAIRD WAS KIND ENOUGH TO SUPPLY US THE TOTAL FOR 2017 GOLD EFP’S AND IT WAS 6600 TONNES FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR. WE OBVIOUSLY HAD ZERO LONG COMEX SILVER LIQUIDATION BUT WE ALSO HAD A HUGE SIZED GAIN IN TOTAL SILVER OI FROM OUR TWO EXCHANGES. WE ARE ALSO WITNESSING A STRONG AMOUNT OF SILVER OUNCES STANDING FOR COMEX METAL IN THIS NON ACTIVE JANUARY AS WELL AS THAT CONTINUAL MIGRATION OF EFPS OVER TO LONDON. ON A PERCENTAGE BASIS THERE ARE MORE EFP’S ISSUED FOR GOLD THAN SILVER. ON A NET BASIS WE GAINED 7609 SILVER OPEN INTEREST CONTRACTS AS WE OBTAINED A 5343 CONTRACT GAIN AT THE COMEX COMBINING WITH THE ADDITION OF 2266 OI CONTRACTS NAVIGATING OVER TO LONDON.
NET GAIN ON THE TWO EXCHANGES: 7609 CONTRACTS
AMOUNT STANDING FOR SILVER AT THE COMEX
We are now in the active delivery month of MARCH and here the front month GAINED 9 contracts RISING TO 166 contracts. We had 1 contract filed upon yesterday, so we GAINED 10 contracts or an additional 50,000 OZ will stand in this active delivery month of March.(AS SOMEBODY IS IN URGENT NEED OF CONSIDERABLE PHYSICAL SILVER)
April GAINED 1 contracts RISING TO 421 .
The next big active delivery month for silver will be May and here the OI GAINED 3181 contracts UP to 148,408
We had 48 notice(s) filed for 240,000 OZ for the MARCH 2018 contract for silver
INITIAL standings for MARCH/GOLD
MARCH 16/2018.
Gold Ounces
Withdrawals from Dealers Inventory in oz nil oz
Withdrawals from Customer Inventory in oz
nil oz
Deposits to the Dealer Inventory in oz NIL oz
Deposits to the Customer Inventory, in oz nil OZ
No of oz served (contracts) today
No of oz to be served (notices)
528 contracts
(52800 oz)
Total monthly oz gold served (contracts) so far this month
Total accumulative withdrawals of gold from the Dealers inventory this month NIL oz
Total accumulative withdrawal of gold from the Customer inventory this month xxx oz
we had 0 kilobar transaction/
We had 0 inventory movement at the dealer accounts
total inventory deposit into the dealer accounts: NIL oz
total inventory withdrawals out of dealer accounts; nil oz
we had 0 withdrawals out of the customer account:
total withdrawal: nil oz
we had 0 customer deposit
total customer deposits: nil oz
we had 0 adjustment(s)
total registered or dealer gold: 339,378.269 oz or 10.556 tonnes
total registered and eligible (customer) gold; 9,075,254.780 oz 282.27 tones
THE COMEX IS AGAIN IN STRESS AS ONLY 10.556 TONNES OF GOLD ARE LEFT TO SERVICE DELIVERIES
For MARCH:
Today, 0 notice(s) were issued from JPMorgan dealer account and 0 notices were issued from their client or customer account. The total of all issuance by all participants equates to 0 contract(s) of which 0 notices were stopped (received) by j.P. Morgan dealer and 2 notice(s) was (were) stopped/ Received) by j.P.Morgan customer account.
To calculate the INITIAL total number of gold ounces standing for the MARCH. contract month, we take the total number of notices filed so far for the month (13) x 100 oz or 0 oz, to which we add the difference between the open interest for the front month of FEB. (528 contracts) minus the number of notices served upon today (0 x 100 oz per contract) equals 54100 oz, the number of ounces standing in this nonactive month of MARCH (1.6821 tonnes)
Thus the INITIAL standings for gold for the MARCH contract month:
No of notices served (13 x 100 oz or ounces + {(528)OI for the front month minus the number of notices served upon today (0 x 100 oz )which equals 54100 oz standing in this nonactive delivery month of March . THERE IS 10.556 TONNES OF REGISTERED GOLD AVAILABLE FOR DELIVERY SO FAR.
WE LOST 0 CONTRACTS OR AN ADDITIONAL NIL OZ WILL STAND FOR DELIVERY IN THIS NON ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH OF MARCH.
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IN THE LAST 18 MONTHS 72 NET TONNES HAS LEFT THE COMEX.
And now for silver
AND NOW THE DECEMBER DELIVERY MONTH
MARCH INITIAL standings/SILVER
Silver Ounces
Withdrawals from Dealers Inventory nil oz
Withdrawals from Customer Inventory
30,017.860 oz
Deposits to the Dealer Inventory
421,328.240
Deposits to the Customer Inventory
600,958.860 oz
No of oz served today (contracts)
CONTRACT(S
(240,000 OZ)
Total monthly oz silver served (contracts) 5131 contracts
(25,655,000 oz)
Total accumulative withdrawal of silver from the Dealers inventory this month NIL oz
Total accumulative withdrawal of silver from the Customer inventory this month
we had 1 inventory movement at the dealer side of things
i) Into dealer Brinks: 421,328.240 oz
total dealer deposits: 421,328.240 oz
we had 1 deposits into the customer account
i) CNT: 600,958.860 oz
ii) Into JPMorgan: nil oz
*** JPMorgan for most of 2017 and in 2018 has adding to its inventory almost every single day.
JPMorgan now has 137 million oz of total silver inventory or 53.6% of all official comex silver.
JPMorgan deposited zero into its warehouses (official) today.
total deposits today: 600,958.860 oz
we had 1 withdrawals from the customer account;
i) Out of CNT: 39,017,860
total withdrawals; 30,017.860 oz
we had 1 adjustments
out of CNT: 4989.000 oz was adjusted out of the dealer account and into the customer account of CNT
total dealer silver: 59.419 million
total dealer + customer silver: 256.917 million oz
The total number of notices filed today for the March. contract month is represented by 48 contract(s) FOR 240,000 oz. To calculate the number of silver ounces that will stand for delivery in March., we take the total number of notices filed for the month so far at 5131 x 5,000 oz = 25,655,000 oz to which we add the difference between the open interest for the front month of Mar. (166) and the number of notices served upon today (48 x 5000 oz) equals the number of ounces standing.
Thus the INITIAL standings for silver for the March contract month: 5131(notices served so far)x 5000 oz + OI for front month of March(166) -number of notices served upon today (48)x 5000 oz equals 26,245,000 oz of silver standing for the March contract month.
We GAINED an additional 10 contracts or 50,000 additional silver oz will stand for delivery at the comex as somebody was in urgent need of physical silver.
ESTIMATED VOLUME FOR TODAY: 63.812 CONTRACTS
CONFIRMED VOLUME FOR YESTERDAY: 74,280 CONTRACTS
YESTERDAY’S CONFIRMED VOLUME OF 74,280 CONTRACTS EQUATES TO 374 MILLION OZ OR 53.4% OF ANNUAL GLOBAL PRODUCTION OF SILVER
COMMODITY LAW SUGGESTS THAT OPEN INTEREST SHOULD NOT BE MORE THAN 3% OF ANNUAL GLOBAL PRODUCTION. THE CROOKS ARE SUPPLYING MASSIVE PAPER TRYING TO KEEP SILVER IN CHECK.
The record level of silver open interest is 234,787 contracts set on April 21./2017 with the price at that day at $18.42
The previous record was 224,540 contracts with the price at that time of $20.44
NPV for Sprott
1. Sprott silver fund (PSLV): NAV FALLS TO -2.61% (MARCH 16/2018)
2. Sprott gold fund (PHYS): premium to NAV RISES TO -0.63% to NAV (March 16/2018 )
Note: Sprott silver trust back into NEGATIVE territory at -2.61%-/Sprott physical gold trust is back into NEGATIVE/ territory at -0.63%/Central fund of Canada’s is still in jail but being rescued by Sprott.
Sprott WINS hostile 3.1 billion bid to take over Central Fund of Canada
(courtesy Sprott/GATA)
3.SPROTT CEF.A FUND (FORMERLY CENTRAL FUND OF CANADA): NAV RISES TO -2.96%: NAV 13.59/TRADING 13.20//DISCOUNT 2.96.
And now the Gold inventory at the GLD/
MARCH 16/WITH GOLD DOWN $5.65/OUR CROOKS DEPOSITED ANOTHER 4.42 TONNES INTO GLD INVENTORY/INVENTORY RESTS AT 838.15 TONNES
FOR THE WEEK: GOLD LOST $11.80, BUT GOLD INVENTORY ADVANCED:4.42 TONNES
MARCH 15/WITH GOLD DOWN $7.85, NO CHANGES IN GOLD INVENTORY AT THE GLD/INVENTORY RESTS AT 833.73 TONNES
MARCH 14/WITH GOLD DOWN $1.55/NO CHANGES IN GOLD INVENTORY AT THE GLD/INVENTORY RESTS AT 833.73 TONNES
MARCH 13/WITH GOLD UP $6.25/NO CHANGES IN GOLD INVENTORY AT THE GLD/INVENTORY RESTS AT 833.73 TONNES
MARCH 9/WITH GOLD UP $2.25/NO CHANGES IN GOLD INVENTORY AT THE GLD/INVENTORY RESTS AT 833.73 TONNES
March 8/NO CHANGES IN GOLD INVENTORY AT THE GLD/INVENTORY RESTS AT 833.73 TONNES
MARCH 7/WITH GOLD DOWN 8.00/A SLIGHT CHANGE IN GOLD INVENTORY AT THE GLD/A WITHDRAWAL OF .25 TONNES TO PAY FOR FEES//INVENTORY RESTS AT 833.73 TONNES
MARCH 6/WITH GOLD UP $15.60/NO CHANGE IN GOLD INVENTORY AT THE GLD/INVENTORY RESTS AT 833.98 TONNES
March 5/WITH GOLD DOWN $4.10/NO CHANGE IN GOLD INVENTORY AT THE GLD/INVENTORY RESTS AT 833.98 TONNES
March 1/WITH GOLD DOWN ANOTHER $12.30/A HUGE CHANGE IN GOLD INVENTORY/ A DEPOSIT OF 2.96 TONNES/INVENTORY RESTS AT 833.98 TONNES
FEB 28/WITH GOLD DOWN ANOTHER 70 CENTS/NO CHANGE IN GOLD INVENTORY/INVENTORY RESTS AT 831.03 TONNES/.
feb 27/WITH GOLD DOWN $13.80 WE HAD NO CHANGES IN GOLD INVENTORY AT THE GLD/INVENTORY RESTS AT 831.03 TONNES
FEB 26/WITH GOLD UP $2.40/WE HAD ANOTHER INVENTORY GAIN/THIS TIME 1.77 TONNE ADDITION TO THE GLD INVENTORY/INVENTORY RESTS AT 831.03 TONNES/WE HAVE HAD 5 INCREASES IN THE PAST 6 TRADING GOLD SESSIONS/
FEB 23/WITH GOLD DOWN $1.15, WE HAD A GOOD INVENTORY GAIN OF 1.47 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD/INVENTORY RESTS AT 829.26 TONNES
FEB 22/WITH GOLD UP 90 CENTS AGAIN TODAY, WE HAD NO CHANGE IN GOLD INVENTORY AT THE GLD/INVENTORY RESTS AT 827.79 TONNES
FEB 21/ WITH THE 90 CENT GAIN WE HAD ANOTHER DEPOSIT OF 3.15 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD INVENTORY/INVENTORY RESTS TONIGHT AT 827.79 TONNES
Feb 20/WITH GOLD DOWN BY $24.25, THE CROOKS DECIDED THAT THEY HAD BETTER RETURN (DEPOSIT) 3.34 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD/INVENTORY RESTS TONIGHT AT 824,64 TONNES
Feb 16/WITH GOLD UP BY 25 CENTS, THE CROOKS DECIDED AGAIN TO RAID THE COOKIE JAR BY WITHDRAWING 2.36 TONNES OF GOLD FROM THE GLD/INVENTORY RESTS AT 821.30 TONNES
Feb 15/NO CHANGE IN GOLD INVENTORY AT THE GLD/INVENTORY RESTS AT 823.66 TONNES
Feb 14/AN ADDITIONAL OF 2.95 TONNES OF GOLD INTO GLD WITH THE HUGE GAIN OF 27.40 IN PRICE/INVENTORY RESTS AT 823.66 TONNES
Feb 13/WITH GOLD UP $3.40 WE HAD NO CHANGE IN GOLD INVENTORY AT THE GLD/INVENTORY REMAINS AT 820.71 TONNES
Feb 12/STRANGE!!WITH GOLD RISING BY 12.00 DOLLARS, THE CROOKS DECIDED AGAIN TO WITHDRAW 5.6 TONNES OF GOLD FOR EMERGENCY USE ELSEWHERE/INVENTORY RESTS AT 820.71 TONNES
Feb 9/AGAIN WITH HUGE TURMOIL ON THE MARKETS, THE CROOKS WITHDREW 2 TONNES OF GOLD FROM THE GLD INVENTORY/INVENTORY RESTS AT 826.31 TONNES
Feb 8/DESPITE THE GOOD GAIN IN PRICE FOR GOLD TODAY/THE CROOKS REMOVED .96 TONNES FROM THE GLD INVENTORY/INVENTORY RESTS AT 828.31 TONNES
MARCH 16/2018/ Inventory rests tonight at 838.15 tonnes
*IN LAST 343 TRADING DAYS: 102.99 NET TONNES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE GLD
*LAST 273 TRADING DAYS: A NET 53.31 TONNES HAVE NOW BEEN ADDED INTO GLD INVENTORY.
Now the SLV Inventory
MARCH 16/WITH SILVER DOWN 15 CENTS/NO CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV/INVENTORY RESTS AT 319.012 MILLION OZ.
FOR THE WEEK; SILVER IS DOWN 42 CENTS YET ADDS 943,000 OZ OF SILVER INTO THE SLV/
MARCH 15/WITH SILVER DOWN 11 CENTS/NO CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV/INVENTORY RESTS AT 319.012 MILLION OZ/
MARCH 14/WITH SILVER DOWN 8 CENTS/NO CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV/INVENTORY RESTS AT 319.012 MILLION OZ/
MARCH 13/WITH SILVER UP 10 CENTS/NO CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV/INVENTORY RESTS AT 319.012 MILLION OZ/
MARCH 12/WITH SILVER DOWN 8 CENTS/A BIG CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV/ A DEPOSIT OF 943,000 OZ/INVENTORY RESTS AT 319.012 MILLION OZ/
MARCH 9/WITH SILVER UP 21 CENTS, NO CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV/INVENTORY RESTS AT 318.069 MILLION OZ/
March 8/WITH SILVER DOWN 1 CENT TODAY: NO CHANGE IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV/INVENTORY RESTS AT 318.069 MILLION OZ/
MARCH 7/WITH SILVER DOWN 27 CENTS/NO CHANGE IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV/INVENTORY RESTS AT 318.069 MILLION OZ/
MARCH 6/WITH SILVER UP 38 CENTS/NO CHANGE IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV/INVENTORY RESTS AT 318.069 MILLION OZ/
MARCH 2/WITH SILVER UP 23 CENTS: A HUGE 1.479 MILLION OZ WAS ADDED TO SILVER’S INVENTORY/INVENTORY RESTS AT 318.069 MILLION OZ/
March 1/WITH SILVER DOWN 11 CENTS TODAY/NO CHANGE IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV/INVENTORY RESTS AT 316.590 MILLION OZ./
FEB 28/WITH SILVER DOWN 5 CENTS TODAY/NO CHANGE IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV/INVENTORY RESTS AT 316.590 MILLION OZ/
feb 27/WITH SILVER DOWN 17 CENTS/NO CHANGE IN SILVER INVENTORY/INVENTORY RESTS AT 316.590 MILLION OZ
FEB 26/NO CHANGE IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV/INVENTORY RESTS AT 316.590 MILLION OZ/
FEB 23/WITH SILVER DOWN 10 CENTS TODAY, WE HAD ANOTHER HUGE ADDITION OF 1.315 MILLION OZ/INVENTORY RESTS AT 316.590 MILLION OZ/
fEB 22.2018/WITH SILVER DOWN 1 CENT TODAY, WE HAD NO CHANGE IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV/INVENTORY RESTS AT 315.271 MILLION OZ/
FEB 21/WITH SILVER UP 15 CENTS TODAY, WE HAD A GOOD SIZED INVENTORY ADDITION OF 1.226 MILLION OZ/INVENTORY RESTS AT 315.271 MILLION OZ/
Feb 20/NO CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV/INVENTORY RESTS AT 314.045 MILLION OZ
Feb 14./NO CHANGE IN SILVER INVENTORY DESPITE THE HUGE RISE IN PRICE/INVENTORY RESTS AT 314.045 MILLION OZ
Feb 13./NO CHANGE IN SILVER INVENTORY TODAY/INVENTORY RESTS AT 314.045 MILLION OZ/
Feb 12/AGAIN, WITH TODAY’S HUGE RISE IN SILVER PRICE, IN TOTAL CONTRAST TO GOLD: NO CHANGE IN SILVER INVENTORY/INVENTORY RESTS AT 314.045 MILLION OZ/
Feb 9/AGAIN WITH TURMOIL ON THE MARKETS, STRANGELY IN TOTAL CONTRAST TO GOLD: NO CHANGE IN SILVER INVENTORY/INVENTORY RESTS AT 314.045 MILLION OZ/
Feb 8/DESPITE THE TURMOIL TODAY AND A PRICE RISE: NO CHANGE IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV/INVENTORY RESTS AT 314.045 MILLION OZ/
MARCH 16/2018: NO CHANGES TO SILVER INVENTORY/
Inventory 319.012 million oz
6 Month MM GOFO 2.00/ and libor 6 month duration 2.34
Indicative gold forward offer rate for a 6 month duration/calculation:
G0FO+ 2.00%
libor 2.34 FOR 6 MONTHS/
GOLD LENDING RATE: .34%
12 Month MM GOFO
+ 2.40%
LIBOR FOR 12 MONTH DURATION: 2.60
GOFO = LIBOR – GOLD LENDING RATE
GOLD LENDING RATE = +.20
And now for the COT report which gives position levels of our major players at the COMEX. However due to the huge amount of EFP contracts issued, this report has no value whatsoever.
But for completeness sake, I am providing it for you:
First gold COT
Gold COT Report – Futures
Large Speculators Commercial Total
Long Short Spreading Long Short Long Short
234,431 66,483 82,713 161,604 350,414 478,748 499,610
Change from Prior Reporting Period
-11,156 4,719 19,902 8,183 -7,910 16,929 16,711
178 74 88 49 57 262 192
Small Speculators
Long Short Open Interest
48,014 27,152 526,762
1,733 1,951 18,662
non reportable positions Change from the previous reporting period
COT Gold Report – Positions as of Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Our large speculators
those large speculators that have been long in gold pitched (transferred through EFP) a net 11,156 contracts.
those large speculators that have been short in gold added a net 4719 contracts to their short side
those commercials that have been long in gold added a large 8183 contracts to their long side
those commercials that have been short in gold covered (transferred through EFP) 7910 contracts from their short side
Our small speculators
those small speculators that have been long in gold added a net 1733 contracts to their long side
those small speculators that have been short in gold added another 1951 contracts to their short side.
Conclusions: fraud
and now our silver COT
Silver COT Report: Futures
Large Speculators Commercial
Long Short Spreading Long Short
-1,979 1,260 4,692 602 -1,935
Small Speculators Open Interest Total
Long Short 200,094 Long Short
29,550 13,224 170,544 186,870
189 -513 3,504 3,315 4,017
non reportable positions Positions as of: 159 121
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 © SilverSeek.c
those large specs that have been long in silver pitched (transferred) 1979 contracts from their long side.
those large specs that have been short in silver added a net 1260 contracts to their short side
those commercials that have been long in silver added another 602 contracts to their long side.
those commercials that have been short in silver covered (transferred) 1935 contracts from their short side
those small specs that have been long in silver added 189 contracts to their long side
those small specs that have been short in silver covered (transferred) a net 513 contracts from their short side.
conclusions: same as gold.
Major gold/silver trading /commentaries for FRIDAY
GOLDCORE/BLOG/MARK O’BYRNE.
Buy Silver And Sell Gold Now
16, March
– Buy silver and sell gold now – Frisby
– Gold should cost 15 times as much as silver
– Silver might have disappointed in short term – But it’s time to buy
– Editor’s note: Silver has outperformed stocks, bonds and gold over long term (see table)
by Dominic Frisby via Money Week
For those of you with busy schedules who like to see arguments made in 280 characters or less, let me come straight to the point: the time has come to sell your gold and buy silver.
Right. Now, those of you who are interested to know why I would make such an assertion, read on.
In an ideal world, gold would cost 15 times as much as silver.
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The gold-silver ratio measures how many ounces of silver it takes to buy an ounce of gold. If the ratio is at, say, 75, then gold is 75 times the price of silver and it would take 75 ounces of silver to buy an ounce of gold.
Geologists seem to agree that there is somewhere around 15 times more silver in the Earth’s crust than gold. Gold is therefore 15 times rarer.
In theory, therefore, the gold-silver ratio should stand at 15 – gold should be 15 times the price of silver. And until the 20th century, that was mostly the case. Indeed, there are many examples of nations which operated under a bi-metallic standard – the USA until 1875 being perhaps the most famous – where the exchange rate between the two metals was 15, more or less.
However, in the 20th century, as money and metal went their separate ways, that ratio of 15 has become an ever-more distant memory. One day it will get there again, the most ardent of silver bugs will tell you.
And on one day in 1980, it did – on 18 January 1980, silver went to $50 as the infamous Hunt Brothers attempted to corner the market.
But since then the closest it has been was 30, in April 2011, when silver touched $50.
Here, courtesy of our man in Australia, gold and silver data hound Nick Laird of goldchartsrus.com, is the gold-silver ratio since 1720.
Gold-silver ratio since 1720
You can see how the ratio was constant around 15 until the late 1800s, after which it became a volatile beast, climbing as high as 100 (in World War II) before coming back down to earth at 15, then repeating.
Even today, with gold at $1,320, at a ratio of 15, silver should be $88. It isn’t. It is $16.
Given silver’s historical relationship with money and the flaws in the fiat money system, many – including your author at one stage, until he grew cynical – thought that silver would “do a bitcoin”. But it didn’t.
Then there are all the industrial uses, particularly in electrics. Many thought silver would “do a lithium”, or a cobalt, or a uranium.
It didn’t. It flirted with such notions in 2011, but $50 proved the cap.
Silver is like a friend’s errant younger sibling – oodles of potential, but never quite delivering on its promise, beyond the occasional glimpse of greatness.
The bottom line is this: for all the beauty of silver, and for all its potential as an investment, an industrial metal and a precious metal, the reality is that since it lost its monetary role, it has never delivered on its potential for more than a few days in market extremis. When it was official money, that backing meant its value held; without it, the value does not seem to sustain.
Silver might be a constant disappointment – but it’s time to buy
But now, having properly put the boot in, I am going to tell you to buy silver. Not only that, I am going to suggest that you should even sell gold – which has been a much more reliable store of wealth – to buy it. My reasoning is simple: the gold-silver ratio has gone above 80.
This chart shows the gold-silver ratio since 1980. You can see that, on every occasion since around 1994 that the ratio has gone to 80, or just above (where I have drawn the dotted red line), the ratio has soon fallen.
It happened in 2016, in 2009, in 2003, in 1997 and in 1995.
The risk is that it carries on going up to the 100 area, just as it did in 1991. Given that the ratio has only done this twice in all recorded history – once in 1991 and once in 1941, during a world war – I suggest that the probability of this happening is low. And, if it does go that high, it will come back again within a year or three.
The likelihood is that the ratio will come towards the lower end of the “normal range” in the high 40s or lows 50s, at which point you switch out of silver and back into gold. But then the gold you sold for 80 ounces of silver, you are now buying back for around 50 ounces, so you’re ending up with a lot more of it.
The blue sky – or BS – argument is that silver goes back to 30, or even its historically and geologically-normal ratio of 15. One day it will. But don’t hold your breath.
More reasons to be bullish on silver
In the meantime, there is another development that adds some fuel to the bullish silver fire. That is the latest positions of the traders on the Chicago futures exchanges.
These traders are bracketed into three groups – the large speculators, the small speculators and the commercials. The commercials and, to a lesser extent the small speculators, are considered the smart money, while the large specs are considered the least wise of the three.
Nothing is so simple, of course. Nevertheless, the large specs (the uninformed money) are now net short for the first time since 2003. Back then silver was $5.
What’s more, every time since then that the large speculators’ net position has moved close to the zero line, that has proved to be a buying point for silver. All in all this is a very bullish development, given that the silver price is largely set in the futures markets.
It’s worth noting that the equivalent position for gold is not nearly so bullish. To be uber excited, you would want to see them both in alignment. Shucks. You can’t have everything.
There are all sorts of ways to buy silver. You can buy bullion from a dealer such as Sharps Pixley (although this can be VAT-able); you can buy an ETF from your broker; you can go to one of the online dealers who store it for you (Goldcore, Goldmoney, BullionVault); you can use a leveraged product; or you can buy one the silver mining companies.
I’ll re-visit this ratio in six months or so to see how it’s panning out.
Article from Money Week’s excellent free daily investment email Money Morning
Editors Note: While silver has disappointed in the short term it has performed very strongly over the long term and in the last 15 to 20 years. Over a 16 year period, silver has risen 265%.
Since 2003, silver has outperformed stocks, bonds, property and even gold with gains of 12% per annum in dollars and gains of 12.8% in pounds, 11.1% in euros and similar gains in other fiat currencies.
Stocks and bonds have seen gains of roughly 5.5% per annum and gold in the same period has gained roughly 8% as was shown in PwC’s recent research piece on gold.
We would not advocate selling gold bullion in order to buy silver bullion. By all means reduce allocations to gold and add to silver but we believe both merit a place in a diversified portfolio as a store of value and both will likely again outperform stocks, bonds and property in the coming years.
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Mike Kosares talks about gold’s relationship to interest rates
(courtesy Mike Kosares/GATA)
Mike Kosares: Gold’s relationship to interest rates isn’t so simple
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2018-03-15 15:35. Section: Daily Dispatches
10:35a CT Thursday, March 15, 2018
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Gold’s relationship to interest rates, USAGold’s Mike Kosares writes today, is a little more complicated than what is described by some pundits and the mainstream financial news media. Gold’s relationship, Kosares writes, is closer to real interest rates — the differential between rates and inflation — and to the commodity complex generally. Kosares’ analysis is headlined “Keep Your Eyes on the Prize” and it’s posted at USAGold here:
http://www.usagold.com/cpmforum/2018/03/15/keepyoureyeontheprize-2/
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
CPowell@GATA.org
The City of Plattsburgh New York is the first city to ban bitcoin mining for 18 minutes as I guess energy costs are humongous and are weighing on the city
“We’ve Been Hearing A Lot Of Complaints” – City Passes First US Bitcoin Mining Ban
In sleepy upstate New York, one small post-industrial city has adopted what’s widely believed to be the first bitcoin mining ban in the US. On Thursday evening, the city council in Plattsburgh New York voted unanimously to impose an 18-month moratorium on bitcoin mining, per Motherboard.
As we pointed out earlier this month, two large-scale bitcoin mining operations in the town had become a tremendous drain on the local utilities. This is a problem because,according to the Municipal Electric Utility Association, since the 1950s, the city is allotted a certain amount of inexpensive hydropower generated on the St. Lawrence River. Bitcoin miners are often drawn to areas with inexpensive hydro-power, like the Columbia River basin in the Pacific Northwest.
Mining is the extremely energy-intensive computational process that secures the Bitcoin blockchain and rewards miners with bitcoins, and increasingly, environmentalists are worried that the tremendous amount of energy required to power the bitcoin network could adversely impact the environment. Already, the bitcoin network uses more energy on a daily basis than many countries, including the Republic of Ireland…
The Bitcoin moratorium was proposed by Plattsburgh’s Mayor Colin Read earlier this month after local residents began reporting wildly inflated electricity bills. But unfortunately for residents, the moratorium affects only new commercial Bitcoin operations and will not affect companies that are already mining in the city.
“I’ve been hearing a lot of complaints that electric bills have gone up by $100 or $200,” Read said. “You can understand why people are upset.”
Thanks to a hydroelectric dam on the St. Lawrence River, Plattsburgh has some of the cheapest energy in the US – its mayor claims it’s among the cheapest electricity in the world.
To wit, residents pay only 4.5 cents per kilowatt-hour (the US average is a little over 10 cents). Industrial enterprises, including Bitcoin mines, pay even less, often just 2 cents per kilowatt-hour.
But there’s a catch: The problem is that Plattsburgh only has an allotment of 104 megawatt-hours of electricity per month. The biggest Bitcoin mining operation in Plattsburgh, operated by a Puerto Rican company called Coinmint, uses roughly 10% of the city’s total power budget.
The heavy power use forced city employees to purchase electricity on the open market in January at far higher prices. Those prices could be as high as 37 cents per kwh. That cost was distributed among city residents, with some paying between $100 and $200 more for their electricity that month. While this does occasionally happen during the frigid winter months, this year’s winter has been relatively mild.
“We could use 100 megawatts in two months’ time if we opened up the floodgates,”Read told Motherboard. “And then there would be no cheap power left for our residents. Some of the proposals we’ve been seeing, they want to take 20 or 30 megawatt bites of power, and we don’t have that.”
In the next 18 months, city officials promised to work with locals and newcomer miners to develop a solution. Read suggested a number of possible solutions, such as making miners pay for any overages, or increasing the rate for miners.
According to one miner, either of these arrangements would be welcomed by the mining community, which includes a few locals.
“It would never cost the Plattsburgh citizens any more money to let more miners come in here because the miners are willing to pay for those overages when it’s super cold,” Tom Pillsworth, a Plattsburgh local and partner at the second largest Bitcoin mine in the city, told Motherboard. “The miners are more than willing to pay.”
Now that China’s crackdown on miners has created an exodus to other parts of the world, clashes between locals and miners in areas where hydro-electricity makes power cheap are bound to become even more common. Case in point: Miners in one Washington State town near the Columbia River are waging a kind of guerilla war against locals over their power usage.
But perhaps the Plattsburgh solution will become a template to help the two sides equitably distributed electricity resources before miners are banned from the US, too.
The State of New York is already fighting back. Case in point: the New York Public Service Commission on Thursday took action to stop miners from taking advantage of the cheap hydroelectric power found in several places upstate, according to Bloomberg.
“If we hadn’t acted, existing residential and commercial customers in upstate communities served by a municipal power authority would see sharp increases in their utility bills,” Commission Chair John Rhodes said in a statement.
The agency is made up of 36 municipal power authorities in the state. In some cases, the miners, which require huge amounts of electricity for data processing, accounted for a third of a municipal utility’s demand, the commission said.
Your early FRIDAY morning currency, Asian stock market results, important USA/Asian currency crosses, gold/silver pricing overnight along with the price of oil Major stories overnight/9 AM EST
i) Chinese yuan vs USA dollar/CLOSED DOWN 6.3259 /shanghai bourse CLOSED DOWN 21.23 POINTS OR 0.65% / HANG SANG CLOSED DOWN 39.13 POINTS OR 0.12%
2. Nikkei closed DOWN 127.44 POINTS OR 0.58% /USA: YEN FALLS TO 105.65/
3. Europe stocks OPENED IN THE GREEN /USA dollar index FALL TO 89.96/Euro RISES TO 1.2359
3b Japan 10 year bond yield: FALLS TO . +.038/ !!!!(Japan buying 100% of bond issuance)/Japanese yen vs usa cross now at 105.94/ THIS IS TROUBLESOME AS BANK OF JAPAN IS RUNNING OUT OF BONDS TO BUY./JAPAN 10 YR YIELD FINALLY IN THE POSITIVE/BANK OF JAPAN LOSING CONTROL OF THEIR YIELD CURVE AS THEY PURCHASE ALL BONDS TO GET TO ZERO RATE!!
3c Nikkei now JUST BELOW 17,000
3d USA/Yen rate now well below the important 120 barrier this morning
3e WTI:: 61.39 and Brent: 65.15
3f Gold UP/Yen UP
3g Japan is to buy the equivalent of 108 billion uSA dollars worth of bond per month or $1.3 trillion. Japan’s GDP equals 5 trillion usa./“HELICOPTER MONEY” OFF THE TABLE FOR NOW /REVERSE OPERATION TWIST ON THE BONDS: PURCHASE OF LONG BONDS AND SELLING THE SHORT END
Japan to buy 100% of all new Japanese debt and by 2018 they will have 25% of all Japanese debt. Fifty percent of Japanese budget financed with debt.
3h Oil DOWN for WTI and DOWN FOR Brent this morning
3i European bond buying continues to push yields lower on all fronts in the EMU. German 10yr bund FALLS TO +.570%/Italian 10 yr bond yield DOWN to 1.953% /SPAIN 10 YR BOND YIELD DOWN TO 1.359%
3j Greek 10 year bond yield FALLS TO : 4.180?????????????????
3k Gold at $1320.45 silver at:16.49 7 am est) SILVER NEXT RESISTANCE LEVEL AT $18.50
3l USA vs Russian rouble; (Russian rouble DOWN 14/100 in roubles/dollar) 57.57
3m oil into the 61 dollar handle for WTI and 65 handle for Brent/
3n Higher foreign deposits out of China sees huge risk of outflows and a currency depreciation. This can spell financial disaster for the rest of the world/
JAPAN ON JAN 29.2016 INITIATES NIRP. THIS MORNING THEY SIGNAL THEY MAY END NIRP. TODAY THE USA/YEN TRADES TO 105.65 DESTROYING JAPANESE CITIZENS WITH HIGHER FOOD INFLATION
30 SNB (Swiss National Bank) still intervening again in the markets driving down the SF. It is not working: USA/SF this morning 0.9498 as the Swiss Franc is still rising against most currencies. Euro vs SF is 1.1705 well above the floor set by the Swiss Finance Minister. Thomas Jordan, chief of the Swiss National Bank continues to purchase euros trying to lower value of the Swiss Franc.
3p BRITAIN VOTES AFFIRMATIVE BREXIT/LOWER PARLIAMENT APPROVES BREXIT COMMENCEMENT/ARTICLE 50 COMMENCES MARCH 29/2017
3r the 10 Year German bund now POSITIVE territory with the 10 year FALLING to +0.570%
The bank withdrawals were causing massive hardship to the Greek bank. the Greek referendum voted overwhelming “NO”. Next step for Greece will be the recapitalization of the banks and that will be difficult.
4. USA 10 year treasury bond at 2.817% early this morning (THIS IS DEADLY TO ALL MARKETS). Thirty year rate at 3.047% /
5. Details Ransquawk, Bloomberg, Deutsche bank/Jim Reid.
(courtesy Jim Reid/Bloomberg/Deutsche bank/zero hedge)
“We Have Moved To Sell The Rebounds”: Dollar Slides, Futures Fade Amid Political Turmoil
After four consecutive days of failed upside breakouts in the S&P, some have noticed a change in sentiment, and as Georg Schuh, CIO of Deutsche Asset Mgmt told Bloomberg, “we have moved our view on stocks from ‘buy the dips’ to ‘sell the rebounds’.” adding that “I’m not ruling out one final peak in stocks, but we’re getting late in the cycle and we’re starting to see anecdotal evidence that points toward the end of the rally.”
The mood appears to be spreading and world stocks wavered, and the dollar eased on Friday as turmoil in the U.S. administration kept markets watchful at the end of a week scarred by concerns that U.S. tariffs could provoke a trade war. The MSCI All-Country World index was flat after three straight sessions of losses and was set for a weekly fall of around 0.6%, while US futures and global stocks were mixed.
Mood on the last day of the week is so subdued, Cramer’s “pajama traders” have not even attempted their traditional overnight spike in the ES.
European stocks drifted following a mixed session in Asia, while the dollar weakened largely as a result of a jump in Japan’s yen which helped drive down Bloomberg’s dollar index. Japan’s currency rose against all its Group-of-10 peers as the Washington Post reported there was a plan to replace H.R. McMaster and it may be part of a broader shake-up including other senior officials. However, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said there were no plans for any change at the National Security Council.
“A firing would just increase the market’s nervousness about the turnover in the White House administration,” said Mansoor Mohi-uddin, head of currency strategy at NatWest Markets in Singapore. “It would also make investors more concerned about whether officials in the White House who are more in favor of free trade are now leaving the Trump administration.”
Investors continue to weigh the prospects for heightened U.S. trade protectionism after new White House appointee Larry Kudlow said he’d sell gold and buy the greenback, which gained on Thursday. Also on Thursday, the New York Times reported that U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller had issued a subpoena for documents, including some concerning Russia, related to President Donald Trump’s businesses.
“Trump isn’t giving markets much respite,” said Rabobank analyst Bas van Geffen in a note. “While still vague at best, the subpoena does bring the investigation yet another step closer to the president. Markets certainly didn’t like the added uncertainty.
Overnight technical problems at German exchanges lead to delayed open for various products and muted trading session. The USD/JPY edged through overnight low despite denials from White House that McMaster is getting fired. Emerging market FX underperformed again led by TRY. European equity markets hold small gains, with the mining sector outperforms after metals partially retrace yesterdays sell-off; U.S. equity futures remain in a tight range. Bunds edge higher with most noting the large dropoff in supply next week; USTs back toward yesterday’s high, curve flattens further with focus likely to be on today’s Libor fix.
Asian stocks traded mixed following an indecisive lead from the US and as overnight trade lacked any tangible catalysts to dictate price action. Australia’s ASX 200 (+0.5%) and Nikkei 225 (-0.6%) were mixed with Australia led by Consumer Staples as Wesfarmers shares surged on plans to spin off its Coles supermarket chain, while Nikkei 225 was kept subdued by a firmer JPY and as cover up allegations were fuelled by reports PM Abe knew of the document alterations days before the public admission. Elsewhere, Hang Seng and Shanghai Comp. were choppy after the PBoC skipped open market operations and instead announced to lend CNY 327bln via its MLF.
Following Asia’s subdued close to the week, European shares found some support in dealmaking activity although the STOXX 600 was on track for a 0.2 percent weekly loss. The final European session of the week saw bourses trading in mixed fashion following from the indecisive lead from Asian and US counterparts. On a sector basis, energy names were outperforming this morning amid the slight push higher in oil prices. UK homebuilders are lagging in the FTSE 100, after Berkeley Group warned over challengers in increasing housing supply further. Elsewhere, NEX Group (+35%) shares surge the most in history after they confirmed that CME Group have approached them.
The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index gave up its weekly gains on concerns of more White House changes following reports Trump was ready to remove his national security adviser, adding to concern about more political turmoil in Washington. The gauge of dollar strength retreated on Friday as investors with long-dollar positions found themselves under pressure due to the continuing uncertainties surrounding Trump administration. The yen rose against all its Group-of-10 peers as the Washington Post reported there was a plan to replace H.R. McMaster and it may be part of a broader shake-up including other senior officials. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said there were no plans for any change at the National Security Council.
Still, in light of the ongoing funding shortage which yesterday sent the Libor-OIS and FRA-OIS soaring to fresh 6 year highs, it is possible that the USD sees a sharp squeeze higher in the coming days.
Here are the other notable overnight FX moves, from Bloomberg:
Haven currencies led by the yen advanced against the dollar and U.S. Treasuries rose after U.S. President Donald Trump was reported to be ready to remove his national security adviser H.R. McMaster, fueling concerns of more turmoil inside the administration, even as it was denied by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
The euro edges up on the day, trading near the middle of its range since mid-January amid a trend of falling realized volatility seen over the past six weeks, causing Bollinger bands to narrow
The pound advanced amid optimism that the U.K. will be able to hash out a deal on the Brexit transition phase with the EU by next week’s summit; still, the U.K. has significant ground to cover on the Irish question if it wants to get a deal on the transition phase next week, according to three European diplomats
Slowing factory growth helped prompt the New Zealand dollar to weaken against the Aussie, which itself was under fire from macros and option accounts
Southern European government bonds outperformed their higher-rated peers as another ECB policymaker warned that inflation in the euro zone is still proving elusive, a potential hurdle to the withdrawal of monetary stimulus. Other euro zone bond yields also dipped. Germany’s 10-year bond touched a fresh five-week low of 0.57%.
U.S. Treasuries yields dipped to 2.815 percent US10YT=RR after having hit a near two-week low of 2.797 percent on Thursday. The two-year yield US2YT=RR steadied after hitting a 9 1/2-year high of 2.295 percent as investors prepared for a widely expected interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve next week.
Weakness in the dollar helped copper prices recover from early falls. Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange was up 0.52 percent at $6,956 a ton. Oil prices edged up but were set to fall this week on concerns among investors about rising supply from the United States and elsewhere threatening to undermine efforts by OPEC and other producers to tighten the market.
S&P 500 futures up 0.1% to 2,757
STOXX Europe 600 unchanged at 376.88
MSCI Asia Pacific down 0.1% to 178.50
MSCI Asia Pacific ex Japan down 0.1% to 587.64
Nikkei down 0.6% to 21,676.51
Topix down 0.4% to 1,736.63
Hang Seng Index down 0.1% to 31,501.97
Shanghai Composite down 0.7% to 3,269.88
Sensex down 1.1% to 33,316.33
Australia S&P/ASX 200 up 0.5% to 5,949.42
Kospi up 0.06% to 2,493.97
German 10Y yield fell 1.0 bps to 0.566%
Euro up 0.1% to $1.2320
Brent Futures up 0.02% to $65.13/bbl
Italian 10Y yield fell 2.7 bps to 1.73%
Spanish 10Y yield fell 2.7 bps to 1.355%
Brent Futures unchanged at $65.12/bbl
Gold spot up 0.2% to $1,318.85
U.S. Dollar Index down 0.2% to 90.00
Top overnight News:
President Donald Trump is not about to oust his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, according to White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, even as speculation intensified that McMaster’s departure had already been decided. Washington Post earlier reported that President Trump has decided to remove H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser
Special Counsel Robert Mueller may have crossed a line President Donald Trump set out early in the investigation into possible Russian meddling with his latest move: a reported subpoena of the Trump Organization.
The U.K. has significant ground to make up on the Irish border issue before next week’s summit where it aims to clinch a deal on a Brexit transition period, European diplomats said.
Parliament’s upper and lower house quickly confirmed BOJ Governor Kuroda’s appointment, and that of his new deputies Masayoshi Amamiya and Masazumi Wakatabe, as lawmakers continued their focus on the controversial land deal linked to Abe and the finance ministry’s tampering with associated documents.
The support rate for Japan Prime Minister Abe’s cabinet fell to 39.3% — down 9.4 percentage points from a similar poll last month — according to a survey by Jiji Press. Disapproval exceeded approval for the first time in five months in a sign that new revelations in a long-simmering land-sale scandal could threaten his government
The U.S. sanctioned a St. Petersburg-based “troll farm,” a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, two Russian intelligence services and other Russian citizens and businesses indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on charges of meddling with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Reserve Bank of Australia Deputy Governor Guy Debelle said global investors are underpricing the uncertainty over the future path of interest rates, warning markets are likely to see higher volatility
Trump’s decision to fire Tillerson has put the Iran nuclear agreement at risk and cast new uncertainty on a meeting of the accord’s signatories on Friday
ECB policy maker Peter Praet opposed shifting the institution’s language on its stimulus plans any time soon, saying rising labor supply suggests the euro-area’s economic slack may be greater than previously thought
Japan’s labor unions won pay raises for workers, although they’re still too small to generate the big increase in consumption that the Bank of Japan needs for inflation. BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda secured parliamentary backing for a fresh five-year term
Euro-area inflation slowed more than initially estimated last month, highlighting the challenge facing the European Central Bank as it tries to stoke prices
Swimming in it. the prospect of more Bank of England interest- rate increases this year threatens to add pressure on more than 3 million Britons already in severe debt
Investors poured $43.3b into equity funds, the most on record, analysts at BofAML say in research note citing EPFR Global data for week ending March 14
Asian stocks traded mixed following an indecisive lead from the US and as overnight trade lacked any tangible catalysts to dictate price action. ASX 200 (+0.5%) and Nikkei 225 (-0.6%) were mixed with Australia led by Consumer Staples as Wesfarmers shares surged on plans to spin off its Coles supermarket chain, while Nikkei 225 was kept subdued by a firmer JPY and as cover up allegations were fuelled by reports PM Abe knew of the document alterations days before the public admission. Elsewhere, Hang Seng (Unch.) and Shanghai Comp. (Unch.) were choppy after the PBoC skipped open market operations and instead announced to lend CNY 327bln via its MLF, while US equity futures were briefly pressured on administration instability concerns after initial reports that National Security Adviser McMaster was said to be removed from position, although this was later denied by the White House. Finally, 10yr JGBs were marginally higher with support seen amid losses in Japanese stocks and with the BoJ also present in the market with its Rinban amounts left unchanged, while Aussie yields declined across the curve following a 10yr auction in which the average yield was down nearly 20bps from prior.
Top Asian News
China’s Holdings of U.S. Treasuries Drop to Six-Month Low
China Stocks Slide in Late Afternoon Trade as End of NPC Nears
Japan’s Labor Unions Squeeze Small Pay Rise From Top Companies
Samsung Elec. Stock Trading to Be Halted April 30-May 3 on Split
European markets picked up on the subdued Asian sentiment in the final session of the week mixed fashion following from the indecisive lead from its Asian and US counterparts. On a sector basis, energy names are outperforming this morning amid the slight push higher in oil prices. UK homebuilders are lagging in the FTSE 100, after Berkeley Group warned over challengers in increasing housing supply further. Elsewhere, NEX Group (+35%) shares surge the most in history after they confirmed that CME Group have approached them.
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In FX, the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index gives up weekly gain after U.S. President Donald Trump was reported to be ready to remove his national security adviser, adding to concern about more political turmoil in Washington. The gauge has retreated on Friday as investors with long-dollar positions find themselves under pressure due to the continuing uncertainties surrounding Trump administration. The yen rose against all its Group-of-10 peers as the Washington Post reported there was a plan to replace H.R. McMaster and it may be part of a broader shake-up including other senior officials. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said there were no plans for any change at the National Security Council. USD/JPY dropped 0.7% to 105.65; part of the yen gains could be down to funds’ repatriation and not just on a risk-off basis. The EUR/USD 0.2% to 1.2333; flows have remained muted throughout the week, traders in Europe say; pair shrugs off miss in euro-area final CPI reading for February. Technically, the euro faces a symmetrical triangle test that could signal its medium-term direction. Sterling found good support after London open, hitting its strongest level this month versus the euro at 0.8816. GBP/USD gains as much as 0.3% to 1.3980, on track for a second weekly advance; all eyes on Brexit talks before BOE meeting on March 22. Kiwi led losses in G-10; New Zealand’s currency weakened due to sales against the Aussie, which itself was under fire from macros and option accounts, according to another Asia-based FX trader. NZD/USD slipped 0.3% to 0.7256, having earlier touched 0.7241 low.
Commodities markets have seen a slight reprieve this morning with oil prices making marginal gains, however WTI fell short by around USD 0.10 off yesterday’s high of USD 61.55/bbl. In the metals complex, gold has pushed up by USD 4/oz, having found support at the earlier weeks low of USD 1313.70/oz
Looking at the day ahead, February housing starts and building permits, February industrial production, January JOLTS and March University of Michigan consumer sentiment data cap off the week.
US Event Calendar
8:30am: Housing Starts, est. 1.29m, prior 1.33m; MoM, est. -2.71%, prior 9.7%
Building Permits, est. 1.32m, prior 1.4m; MoM, est. -4.14%, prior 7.4%
9:15am: Industrial Production est. 0.4%, prior -0.1%; Manufacturing (SIC) Production, est. 0.5%, prior 0.0%
Capacity Utilization, est. 77.7%, prior 77.5%
10am: JOLTS Job Openings, est. 5,917, prior 5,811
10am: U. of Mich. Sentiment, est. 99.3, prior 99.7; 1 Yr Inflation, prior 2.7%; 5-10 Yr Inflation, prior 2.5%
DB’s Craig Nicol concludes the overnight wrap
While markets have spent much of the last 24 hours struggling for direction there is still an underlying feeling of caution in the air. The unpredictable headlines which seem to be coming out of Washington on an almost daily basis now is certainly keeping markets on edge and its perhaps little surprise that the S&P 500 has now fallen every day this week and has notched up its first four-day losing streak of the year. By the way today actually marks 10 years to the day that JP Morgan originally agreed to buy Bear Stearns for $2 a share. As a bit of fun, we looked at the EMR from that day and we were reminded that that week also included the Eliot Spitzer scandal, the Fed announcing the introduction of the TSLF and a market priced roughly 50/50 for a 100bp Fed rate cut the next day! That’s one way of making current markets look dull.
So as we said above, markets ended up a bit mixed yesterday but actually kicked off on the front foot before the Mueller news (more on that below) put the brakes on. Indeed the S&P 500 closed -0.08% and is now down -1.41% this week. The Nasdaq also fell -0.20% while the Dow (+0.47%) actually held its head above water. In Europe the DAX and Stoxx 600 closed +0.88% and +0.52% respectively.
Bond markets were a bit more subdued with yields largely 1-2bps lower in Europe and 10y Treasuries +1.1bps up. The Treasury curve didn’t stop flattening however with 2s10s 1.6bps flatter yesterday which puts the weekly move at over 9bps, while 5s30s were -1.4bps flatter yesterday and therefore over 7bps flatter this week. Meanwhile the VIX closed down less than a point and appears to have settled into this 15-20 range ever since the big vol spike last month. Elsewhere the USD index (+0.48%) nudged a little higher while Gold (-0.66%) fell by the most since in nearly weeks.
The most significant news yesterday came quite late in the US session as the NY Times broke with a story saying that special counsel Robert Mueller had subpoenaed Trump and his organization to turn over documents. That includes those related to Russia. The article noted the breadth of the subpoena was not clear but this is the first known instance of Mueller demanding records directly related to President Trump’s businesses. The White House press secretary Ms Sanders noted the President was cooperating with the inquiry and referred question to the Trump Organization.
Staying with politics, yesterday we also got the news that US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is to present his recommendations to President Trump in the coming weeks regarding the China intellectual property investigation. White House trade adviser Peter Navarro told CNBC that “this will be one of the many steps the president is courageously going to take to address unfair trading practices”. So this is certainly one to watch.
The other main headline grabber yesterday concerned some of the rhetoric around the Russia/UK diplomatic tensions. The leaders from US, Germany, France and UK have formally signed a joint statement that accused Russia of the “first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since World War II”. At the same time the US announced new sanctions to be placed on Russia on five groups and 19 individuals. Russia’s administration did respond yesterday with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying that he will “certainly” expel British diplomats.
In terms of the main overnight news and in case you hadn’t had enough of the White House merry go round, the Washington Post released a story early this morning suggesting that President Trump has decided to replace his national security adviser H.R McMaster. The White House were quick to push back on the story however it remains to be seen with the WSJ subsequently releasing a story also suggesting that McMaster could be on his way out. Sentiment in Asia is softer overnight with the Nikkei (-0.47%), Kospi (-0.10%) and Hang Seng (-0.02%) all down.
Moving on. With regards to the latest Brexit developments, yesterday the EU published their latest version of the draft legal wording around the Brexit withdrawal agreement. The main note to make is that it included a new good faith clause which PM May had asked for. With regards to the contentious Northern Ireland issue, there was no change in text with the EU maintaining the message that it needs to remain part of the Single Market and customs union. Away from that, a Bloomberg story yesterday suggested that Brexit Secretary David Davis was predicting a transition deal period as soon as next week. This comes ahead of his meeting with the EU’s Michel Barnier next week.
On the same topic, yesterday the third largest company in the FTSE 100, Unilever, announced that it was moving its headquarters from the UK to Netherlands. As the FT highlighted, it’s likely to come as something of a blow to PM May as it will likely be seen as waning confidence in the UK as a result of Brexit.
In other news, yesterday’s economic data in the US was largely a mixed bag. The March Empire manufacturing index was above market at 22.5 (vs. 15.0 expected). The March Philly Fed business outlook index (22.3 vs. 23.0 expected) and the NAHB Housing market index (70 vs. 72 expected) were both slightly below expectations, although the former continued to point to upward pressure on prices paid. Elsewhere, the February import price index was above expectations (+0.4% mom vs. +0.2%) and outpaced the export price index of +0.2% mom. Finally, the weekly initial jobless claims (226k vs. 228k expected) and continuing claims (1,879k vs. 1,903k expected) prints were both more or less in line.
In Europe, the final reading of France’s February CPI was confirmed at +1.3% yoy. The Swiss National Bank has left its deposit rate unchanged at -0.75% as widely expected. The SNB noted “the situation in the FX market is still fragile and monetary conditions may change rapidly”, making negative rates and SNB’s willingness to intervene in FX market essential. The bank now forecasts CPI of +0.9% in 2019 and +1.9% in 2020.
Looking at the day ahead, the most notable release in Europe will be the final February CPI report for the Euro area. In the US, February housing starts and building permits, February industrial production, January JOLTS and March University of Michigan consumer sentiment data cap off the week.
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3 b JAPAN AFFAIRS
Abe Political Scandal Widens Amid Cover Up Attempt, Suicide
The Moritomo scandal that has plagued Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his finance minister Taro Aso for the past year, took another twist when the Nikkei reported on Friday that Abe was made aware of alterations made to documents linked to the controversial land sale at the heart of the scandal six days before his government admitted as much to the public – and potentially much longer assuming he ordered said alterations – sparking fresh claims from the opposition he was trying to cover up the biggest political scandal of his (second) career as PM.
On Thursday, Abe’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said that Abe was told as early as March 6 that Finance Ministry documents related to the sale of steeply discounted public land may have been altered; it was not only Monday March 12 that the ministry made the unaltered documents available to lawmakers and the public. As a reminder, the scandal in question involves the sale of land to Moritomo Gakuen, a nationalist private school operator with ties to Abe and his wife; media reports first emerged the previous week that the documents were altered to erase evidence of the school’s political connections to the prime minister.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and Finance Minister Taro Aso at an upper house Budget Committee meeting March 14.
According to the Nikkei’s newly disclosed timeline, Japan’s land ministry informed Suga’s deputy, Kazuhiro Sugita, of discrepancies between documents held there and those the Finance Ministry had submitted to Diet lawmakers on March 5. Sugita then ordered the Finance Ministry to work with the land ministry to investigate, and the deputy notified the prime minister the following day.
This means the government waited six days after Abe was informed to admit the rewriting. The discovery of this time lag prompted the opposition to accuse Abe of a systemic cover-up, which it clearly is.
To be sure, the administration has defended itself, saying that notifying the Diet on March 5 would have been “irresponsible,” as “we did not have the originals at that time” senior government official retorted.
“We obtained the [unaltered] documents on March 10 through cooperation with prosecutors,” Suga said. “The Finance Ministry has explained that it could not fully authenticate the documents until that time.”
Then the Finance Ministry told Abe and his inner circle Sunday that it had altered 14 documents, and the ministry made the unaltered versions available to lawmakers Monday. These showed that key details had been removed, including all references to the premier’s wife, Akie Abe. and specifics regarding price negotiation between the ministry and Moritomo Gakuen.
The incident did not end there as even when caught, the government tried to cover up… again: when the ministry sent fresh copies of the documents to the Diet’s upper house budget committee March 8, these turned out to be the same altered versions submitted previously, drawing outrage from the opposition according to the Nikkei.
“The prime minister’s office was engaged in a cover-up,” Yuichiro Tamaki, head of the center-right Kibo no To, or Party of Hope, has alleged. “They kept this from the people for days,” Kazuo Shii, who leads the Japanese Communist Party, told reporters Thursday, claiming “they were hiding it.”
In retrospect, if that’s the best Japan’s communists and opposition politicians can do, Abe has nothing to fear: to become effective they would need to take long lessons of outrage from US Twitter to be able to enact any change.
But wait there’s more.
It turns out that in addition to cronyism and a coverup, Abe’s actions may have resulted in a suicide: on Thursday Japanese media reported that a worker at the Finance Ministry’s Kinki bureau found dead last week wrote in a suicide note that he was “forced to rewrite” the documents by superiors.
The man had been ill since last fall and repeatedly missed work, according the reports. The Kinki bureau handled the sale to Moritomo Gakuen, and the ministry has blamed the alterations on employees there.
Meanwhile, fireworks await: Nobuhisa Sagawa, who resigned as Japan’s tax chief March 9, just days before the scandal became public, will be called to testify before lawmakers. He led the ministry’s Financial Bureau at the time the alterations were made. The key question is whether ministry bureaucrats made the changes on their own, or whether Abe’s office was involved as well. Of course, there is no reason on earth why anyone in the finance ministry would seek to protect Abe or his wife without some ulterior motive, although that’s precisely the angle that Abe will pursue.
Until then, calls for resignations continue to rise, if remain largely unheeded: “Even what we know now is ample reason for Finance Minister Taro Aso to resign,” Kohei Otsuka, leader of the opposition Democratic Party, told reporters Thursday. “At the latest, he should step down after the fiscal 2018 budget is approved.”
Aso has repeatedly rejected calls for his resignation.
So finding themselves at an impasse, where a career-ending scandal that would have cost the job of any of Abe’s drama-allergic predecessors has so far failed to lead to even one resignation (but at least on suicide), some lawmakers want testimony from the prime minister’s wife as well.
“I would like to propose Akie [Abe] be called to give testimony after Sagawa,” said Kiyomi Tsujimoto, Diet affairs chief for the center-left Constitutional Democratic Party.
But wait, this cartoon continues (for those who claim that only Donald Trump can provide hours of entertainment): Mrs Abe has also drawn criticism for liking a Facebook post critical of the opposition. “It was inappropriate,” said Toshio Ogawa, the Democratic Party’s chief in the upper house, adding that she should be called in to explain herself.
Meanwhile, sensing that the public mood can sour quickly, and with no North Korean ICBMs to use as a convenient distraction, even the prime minister’s own Liberal Democratic Party demands an investigation of the document scandal.
“It is our responsibility to answer the questions that people have: Why was it done, and was it of the perpetrator’s own volition?” said Shigeru Ishiba, a veteran lawmaker often at odds with Abe.
“The people are taking a hard look at the Diet and the Finance Ministry,” Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the LDP’s junior coalition partner Komeito, said Thursday.
“The public views this less as a case of rewrites than as a case of document tampering,” said Ichiro Aisawa, the LDP’s former Diet affairs chief. “Politicians will eventually have to take political responsibility.”
Maybe, but not just yet, and certainly not the man at the center of the scandal, Finance Minister Taro Aso, who on Friday said that the abovementioned Nobuhisa Sagawa – the man at the heart of the Moritomo Gakuen scandal – was not trying to act on any unspoken wishes of his superiors in his previous testimony about the scandal in parliament. In other words, Japan’s former tax chief inexplicable decided to to Abe and wife this huge favor in vacuum.
Of course, if the Japanese populace is dumb enough to accept this “explanation”, it deserves the civilization-crushing economic and market collapse that will follow once Abe and Kuroda’s grand experiment in central planning finally ends.
c) REPORT ON CHINA
“They’ll Only Get Bigger” – China Sends A Message With Record $900M Market-Manipulation Fine
China’s sweeping overhaul aimed at closing regulatory loopholes and cracking down on manipulation (manipulation that isn’t directed by some central authority, that is) continued apace on Thursday when the country’s securities regulator unveiled fines against a Chinese logistics company, charging it 5.5 billion yuan ($870 million) for manipulating the local stock market. The fine is the largest-ever handed out for market manipulation, and is nearly six times the sum the regulator alleges was earned by the illicit behavior.
The decision isn’t altogether unexpected: Liu Shiyu, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, warned investors back in February 2017 that Chinese securities regulators would be cracking down on fraud and manipulation…
Here’s Bloomberg:
Xiamen Beibadao Group was charged with manipulating the share prices of three Shenzhen-listed companies, Jiangsu Zhangjiagang Rural Commercial Bank Co., Jiangsu Jiangyin Rural Commercial Bank Co. and Guangdong Hoshion Aluminium Co.,China’s securities regulator said in a briefing in Beijing on Wednesday. It later clarified that the unit’s parent, Shanghai-based Beibadao Group, was the manipulator.
The penalty is almost six times what Beibadao earned by its actions, the watchdog said. Chinese authorities have been mounting a campaign to stamp out illicit behavior in the world’s second-biggest equity market, which is dominated by individual, often first-time investors. Liu Shiyu, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said in February 2017 that he would pursue market malpractice and wrongdoing no matter whether it’s “historical or current.”
The crackdown comes at a crucial time for Chinese markets. President Xi Jinping cemented his grip on powerthis week after China’s National People’s Congress overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment to eliminate term limits. This established Xi as the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. Maintaining financial stability is paramount to Xi, and to help him maintain his iron grip on domestic markets, rumor has it that Xi intends to dramatically expand the role of Liu He, a Politburo member and leader of the Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs. It’s been reported that He, one of the country’s top securities regulators, will soon add Chairman of the People’s Bank of China to his long list of responsibilities.
And with the US threatening to pull the rug out from under the global free-trade order (a paradigm that has greatly benefited the Chinese economy) safeguarding the country’s massive debt pile is of paramount importance to the regime.
And bank strategists who spoke with Bloomberg appear to be toeing the party line.
Bank strategists who spoke with Bloomberg parroted the party’s line: The crackdown, which comes as CSRC’s boss, Liu He, prepares to expand his regulatory role purportedly to include running the People’s Bank of China. Combating manipulation and corruption
“The fines will only get bigger and bigger as regulators step up the crackdown on market irregularities, and it’s likely we’ll begin to see similar cases being exposed more frequently in the future,” said Yin Ming, vice president of Shanghai-based Baptized Capital. “It’s a signal to market participants that violent share moves and speculative trades are prohibited, and it’s always the authorities’ priority to maintain a stable market.”
In the past, when there was illegal activity in the capital market, the fine was just hundreds of thousands. The cost to violate the rules was so low,” said Hong Hao, Hong Kong-based strategist at Bocom International Holdings Co. “Going forward, as long as there is a similar case, I think the regulators will continue to charge huge fines.”
Readers may remember late last year when a bout of unprecedentedly low volatility (which just happened to coincide with the Communist Party’s National Congress) did more to ward off small-time investors than any individual trader or (or corporate trading desk) ever could, as we pointed out late last year.
“I’m out of the game,” said Gu Yuan, 34, an information-technology worker in Shanghai who sold almost 70% of a portfolio worth 600,000 yuan ($87,336) after the 2015 market slump and pared down some more this year. “It is more difficult to identify strong tech companies or convincing investment themes since the crash.”
Hopefully, the target of these penalties can at least appreciate the irony: The CSRC late last year essentially declared that the local market had become more efficient as a result of regulators’ manipulation.
Which only reinforces the notion that market manipulation will no longer be tolerated…
…unless, of course, it’s perpetrated by China’s National Team…
Please pay attention to Tom Luongo. I certainly had my doubts on the Russian spy poisoning. Now Tom Luongo gives his thoughts to this false flag event and why the west is entertaining this: to stop Russian from having any business in the west.
(courtesy Tom Luongo)
The Neocon Full Court Press For War Is Here
Authored by Tom Luongo,
The events of the past two weeks have been stunning. Since Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled new ‘doomsday’ weapon systems at his State of the Union address, the West has gone completely bonkers.
In the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, “I simply don’t have any normal terms left to describe all this,”
With the U.K. expelling Russian diplomats over the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury last week, the push to isolate Russia and create conditions for a World War is here.
The questions are Who is behind this? And Why?
Theresa May’s response is a joke. This is a woman who can’t stand up to EU shakedown artists over the mildest of disagreements in Brexit talks but can grandstand to high heaven over an incident with no evidence of Russian action.
This situation is straight out of the neoconservative play book, creating a horrific incident and rushing a government into a confrontation and major policy decision.
And these are happening all over the world right now.
Covering Fire
If you look at the circumstances of Skripal’s associations in light of the collapsing Russia-Gate story in the U.S., the Who? becomes obvious. As Moon of Alabama first pointed out, Skripal was an associate of both Pablo Miller and Christopher Steele, both former MI-6 agents working for Orbis Business Intelligence.
What motive would the Russians have for taking out Skripal in such a sloppy manner on the eve of Presidential elections?
They wouldn’t. In the same way that the Assad government had everything to lose last April over the chemical weapons attack at Khan Sheikoun, Russia has nothing to gain by killing Skripal and his daughter today.
But, if Skripal was in the position to corroborate the worst fears about the Dossier, then it makes sense to ties up loose ends.
This is a false flag. It’s far more plausible than the drivel Theresa May peddled to Parliament.
Anyone with three brain cells to rub together knows this in their heart of hearts. So, why play coy?
Answer these questions. Where is Christopher Steele? Why hasn’t he testified? If he refuses, why isn’t he being hounded by the media to answer questions about his Trump Dossier?
Now ask the more salient question, who benefits from this? Not Russia. Not the U.K. people. Not Europe.
The Neocon Cornered Snake
Look. The neocons are cornered. All of their major pushes to destroy Russia and Iran and control central Asia are collapsing. The EU is fast approaching a political crisis. The U.K. is still a loyal subject but the White House has a cancer at its center, Donald Trump. The window has nearly closed on regime change in Russia. In effect, it’s now or never.
Review my recent articles on this subject. There is a throughline if you are willing to see it and it’s quite clear.
Point #1: Trump is winning. He won on taxes. He won on DACA. He won on Russia-Gate. He won on NAFTA and tariffs. He beat Gary Cohn and Goldman-Sachs. He fired Tillerson who looks more and more like a conventional neocon plant with every review of his record. He’s meeting with North Korea.
Point #2: Putin is winning. U.S.-backed opposition in Syria is collapsing. Nordstream 2 is going through.Ukraine will freeze to death. China buys their oil and gas, invests in their Uranium and oil industries. He’s winning the diplomatic war in Afghanistan. He’s put Netanyahu on a leash.
These two men are the vanguard standing against the American/European globalist empire. The Skripal poisoning was intended to be sloppy. It was a perfectly executed inept operation, intended to move the emotional needle and direct British frustration outward.
But, this response from the U.K. has been brewing for months. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been running his mouth about Russia’s actions in Syria and Ukraine. British Defense Secretary hyperventiliated recently that the Russians were plotting to kill thousands of Britons by selling them gas, apparently.
Now, let’s look at the rhetoric surrounding Eastern Ghouta, a replay of Aleppo. This time, however, instead of actually gassing people to make the Russians look bad, apparatchiks like Nikki Haley and French President Emmanual Macron wag their fingers threatening everyone not to do so.
Meanwhile, the SAA finds a chemical weapons factory in a village just liberated from ISIS/Al-Qaeda.
But, facts are fungible right, Mrs. Haley?
So, if in the next few days there’s a chemical weapons attack in Ghouta will you believe the Russians and Syrians did it because Nikki Haley told you they might? Will it make any sense to you for them to act like this if the world is watching and ready to pounce?
Or will you retain your sanity and realize any chemical attack was a staged provocation to achieve a cynical political goal?
But, Haley, the ultimate neocon mouthpiece has gone one step further.
“We also warn any nation that is determined to impose its will through chemical attacks and inhuman suffering, most especially the outlaw Syrian regime, the United States remains prepared to act if we must,” Haley said.
The US diplomat proposed a new UN ceasefire resolution that “will take effect immediately upon adoption by this Council. It contains no counterterrorism loopholes for Assad, Iran and the Russians to hide behind”.
Thankfully for the people of Syria, the resolution failed. Because, as always, the U.S. only proposes a ceasefire in places where it or its proxies, in this case Al-Qaeda-linked separatists, are losing badly. Then the downtime is used to re-equip, reset and reinforce.
Since the deployment of the SAA’s Tiger forces to eastern Ghouta the pocket of resistance has been drawn and quartered.
And, moreover, why is Haley introducing ceasefire resolutions to the U.N. outlawing ‘counterterrorism’ when it is the explicitly-stated goal of her boss, Donald Trump, to combat ISIS terrorists in Syria and nothing else?
No wonder Lavrov has no words.
The SAA and Russian Air Force have no need to use chemical weapons. In fact, it has been Haley and the U.S. that have blocked Russian attempts to create humanitarian corridors, similar to events in Aleppo, to allow civilians to get out of harm’s way.
Losing in North Korea, Syria, Afghanistan and Ukraine. Support in Europe for integration failing.
The most likely conclusion one can rationally draw from this is that the cornered neocon snake is lashing out in desperation hoping to take as many of us with them as possible.
The Full-Court Press
In the past two weeks we’ve seen a number of incidents meant to punish Russian oligarchs and harm Russian business interests in Europe in the run up to the Presidential election this weekend.
The first was the idiotic decision by the Stockholm Arbitration Court ordering Gazprom to pay $4.6 billion to Ukraine because Ukraine is in difficult economic circumstances. In other words a socialist arbitration court ordered money redistributed from those according to their means to those according to their needs.
Moreover, the IMF and the EU want some of the money back they pumped into the Ukrainian basket-case in order to prop up the Poroshenko government for another year.
The second was the planned implosion of ABLV Bank in Latvia. A bank that was one of the main links for Russian business in the European Union after the 2013 Cyprus bail-in of depositors.
That operation was also a targeted attack on Russian oligarchs to cleave their support from Putin. With the new sanctions list created by the Treasury Department per John McCain’s sanctions bill pushed through in August of last year, the U.S. labeled ABLV a target for money-laundering and unapproved business.
Within a few days of pressuring the bank depositors began removing funds and the ECB used its expanded powers, much like they did with Banko Popular last year, to take control of the bank.
Lastly, we have this move by the feckless Brits. The real target here is the ability of Russians to do business in the U.K., now that ABLV has been removed from the equation. This is a clear hybrid war attack on the ability of Russian businesses to operate anywhere east of the Dneiper River in Ukraine.
And this is yet another step on the path to bring us to war with Russia because its destruction is the animating purpose for neoconservatives. I continue to believe Trump is not on their side. The neocons want war for the cause. That’s why they undermine him at every turn and escalate whenever he wins the smallest victory.
Merkel’s New Interior Minister: “Islam Does Not Belong To Germany”
In a startling confirmation of the rising power of Germany’s populist movement, on Friday Germany’s new Interior Minister Horst Seehofer declared that “Islam does not belong to Germany” while setting out hardline immigration policies in an interview published on Friday, in an attempt to ward off rising anti-immigration challengers.
“Islam does not belong to Germany,” Seehofer said, contradicting former German president Christian Wulff who fueled a debate over immigration in 2010 by saying Islam was part of Germany. In 2015 Merkel echoed Wulff’s words at a time when anti-immigration campaign group PEGIDA – or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West – was holding marches.
Horst Seehofer
Closing the book on Merkel’s disastrous “open door” policies, Seehofer told Bild he would push through a “master plan for quicker deportations”, in his first major interview since he was sworn into office on Wednesday.
The minister – a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CSU Bavarian allies who are further to the right than her own Christian Democrats – said he would also classify more states as “safe” countries of origin, which would make it easier to deport failed asylum seekers. The statements – an obvious attempt to court populist voters – come after Merkel’s conservatives, and their coalition allies – the Social Democrats – lost ground to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in elections last year.
As Reuters notes, Seehofer is particularly keen to show his party is tackling immigration ahead of Bavaria’s October regional election, when the AfD is expected to enter that state assembly.
“Of course the Muslims living here do belong to Germany,” Seehofer said before going on to say Germany should not give up its own traditions or customs, which had Christianity at their heart.
“My message is: Muslims need to live with us, not next to us or against us,” he said.
According to the German government, between 4.4 and 4.7 million Muslims live in Germany today; most have a Turkish background and many of the more than a million migrants who have arrived in the country from the Middle East and elsewhere after Merkel adopted an open-door policy in mid-2015 are also Muslims.
In an amusing response from Andre Poggenburg, head of the AfD in the eastern state of Saxony, he said that Seehofer was copying his party with a view to Bavaria’s October regional election: “Horst Seehofer has taken this message from our manifesto word for word,” he said.
In other words the CDU is now the AfD. Who would have thunk it?
Meanwhile, the far-left Linke and Greens condemned Seehofer’s message, and the Social Democrats’ Natascha Kohnen told broadcaster n-tv: “Saying that incites people against each other at a time when we really don’t need that. What we really need is politicians who bring people together.”
In a coalition agreement, Merkel’s CDU/CSU conservative bloc and the Social Democrats agreed they would manage and limit migration to Germany and Europe to avoid a re-run of the 2015 refugee crisis. They also said they did not expect migration (excluding labor migration) to rise above the range of 180,000 to 220,000 per year.
Now the west is blaming Russia for continued attacks on USA power grid which started in 2016
Russia Blamed For Attacks On US Power Grid Starting In 2016
The Trump administration has blamed the Russian government for a series of cyber attacks targeting American and European nuclear power plants and other critical utilities dating back at least two years – raising fears that the Kremlin could disrupt the West’s critical infrastructure in the event of a conflict.
The hackers also targeted the overall energy sector, along with commercial facilities, aviation, manufacturing and the water supply, according to a U.S. security alert published Thursday.
The Department of Homeland Security and FBI said in the alert that a “multi-stage intrusion campaign by Russian government cyber actors” had targeted the networks of small commercial facilities “where they staged malware, conducted spear phishing, and gained remote access into energy sector networks.” The alert did not name facilities or companies targeted. –Reuters
The report says that Russians used various hacking techniques, including spear-phishing emails, watering-hole domains, credential gathering and open-source and network reconnaissance.
Russian hackers made their way to machines with access to critical control systems at power plants that were not identified. The hackers never went so far as to sabotage or shut down the computer systems that guide the operations of the plants.
Still, new computer screenshots released by the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday made clear that Russian state hackers had the foothold they would have needed to manipulate or shut down power plants. –NYT
“We now have evidence they’re sitting on the machines, connected to industrial control infrastructure, that allow them to effectively turn the power off or effect sabotage,” said Eric Chien, a security technology director at Symantec, who added “From what we can see, they were there. They have the ability to shut the power off. All that’s missing is some political motivation.”
The New York Times notes that “American officials and security firms, including Symantec and CrowdStrike, believe that Russian attacks on the Ukrainian power grid in 2015 and 2016 that left more than 200,000 citizens there in the dark are an ominous sign of what the Russian cyberstrikes may portend in the United States and Europe in the event of escalating hostilities.”
Meanwhile, Thursday’s announcement from DHS marks the first official claim that the Kremlin attacked the power grid.
It was the first time the administration officially named Russia as the perpetrator of the assaults. And it marked the third time in recent months that the White House, departing from its usual reluctance to publicly reveal intelligence, blamed foreign government forces for attacks on infrastructure in the United States. –NYT
Vikram Thakur of Symantec Security Response said that gaining access to networks tied to various segments of U.S. infrastructure is extremely difficult, adding that cyberattacks like the ones described in the DHS announcement have the potential to cause significant damage.
“The only thing that holds an attacker back is political motivation,” Thakur told CNN, adding “Usually the bar for flipping the switch is extremely high.”
The announcement coincided with the U.S. Treasury Department’s Thursday decision to slap sanctions on 19 Russians and five groups – including the Kremlin’s intelligence services for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, along with various other cyber crimes.
Russia has previously denied the charges.
In December, 2016 the Washington Post erroneously reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the electric grid in Vermont using malicious code associated with the hacking operation dubbed “Grizzly Steppe” by the Obama administration. WaPo corrected the story 48 hours later with the publication of a new article.
Last July, however, the Department of Homeland Security reported that the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating corp in Kansas had been targeted by hackers in one of several breaches of U.S. nuclear plants. Hackers were thought to be mapping out computer networks for future attacks, according to the Times.
That said, there has been a fair amount of pushback against the administration’s claims of Russian hacking by both the Wolf Creek plant and the Nuclear Energy Institute.
Spokeswoman Jenny Hageman declined to say at the time if the plant had been hacked but said that there had been no operational impact to the plant because operational computer systems were separate from the corporate network. Hageman on Thursday said the company does not comment on security matters.
John Keeley, a spokesman for the industry group the Nuclear Energy Institute, said: “There has been no successful cyber attack against any U.S. nuclear facility, including Wolf Creek.” –Reuters
Meanwhile, watch out – China is beefing up their cyberweapons…
Russia/UK/USA
“Shocking And Unforgivable”: Russia To Expel UK Diplomats, Expand US “Blacklist” As Crisis Deepens
As relations between Russia and the west crash to a new post-Cold War low in the aftermath of the nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent in the UK, Russia was set to expel British diplomats in retaliation for Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to kick out 23 Russians, while expanding its “blacklist” of US citizens in response to yesterday’s Treasury sanctions, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Sputnik.
After Theresa May cast blame on Moscow – and singled out Putin as the mastermind behind the attack – giving 23 Russians who she said were spies working under diplomatic cover at the London embassy a week to leave, Russia has denied any involvement, cast Britain as a post-colonial power unsettled by Brexit, and suggested London fabricated the attack in an attempt to whip up anti-Russian hysteria.
When asked by a Reuters reporter if Russia planned to expel British diplomats from Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov smiled and said: “We will, of course.”
Separately, discussing the response to Russian sactions, Ryabkov said that “For our part, we have ensured parity in the number of individuals included in the sanctions lists from the very beginning. So we will replenish our ‘blacklist’ with another group of US individuals,” Ryabkov said.
According to the deputy minister, Russia does not want to suspend dialogue with the United States, noting that the future retaliatory measures were not Moscow’s choice.
“We’re only doing this because of US political stubbornness and unwillingness to perceive reality. We may take additional steps, which we will calibrate in accordance with our own interests and, of course, the need to not suspend dialogue completely in order to at least begin stabilizing bilateral relations with Washington … We reaffirm that our resolve will not be weakened by any opponents’ intrigues, many of whom are beyond the Atlantic Ocean,” Ryabkov said.
On Thursday, the US Treasury Department announced sanctions against 19 Russian individuals and five entities, including Russia’s Federal Security Service and the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) for their alleged roles related to the interference in the 2016 presidential campaign in the United States.
Meanwhile, as Reuters notes, in a sign of just how tense the relationship has become, British and Russian ministers used openly insulting language while the Russian ambassador said London was trying to divert attention from the difficulties it was having managing Britain’s exit from the European Union.
Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson sparked particular outrage in Moscow with his blunt comment on Thursday that “Russia should go away, it should shut up.”
In response, Russia’s Defence Ministry said Williamson was an “intellectual impotent” and Lavrov said he probably lacked education. “Well he’s a nice man, I’m told, maybe he wants to claim a place in history by making some bold statements,” Lavrov said.
“Theresa May’s main argument about Russia’s guilt is ‘Highly probable’, while for him it’s ‘Russia should go and shut up’. Maybe he lacks education, I don’t know.”
The Kremlin also got involved, when Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that “It’s shocking and unforgivable for U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal.” Tass reported.
A formal announcement by Russia is expected to follow shortly.
More troubles for Russian banks as the Central Bank of Russia is already mulling providing an additional 1 trillion rouble bailout for two banks: Otkritie Bank and B and N Bank.
Oddly enough, the predecessor name to Otkritie Bank was called: Shchit-bank. They probably changed the name of the bank after Canada released the televison series Schitt’s Creek starring Eugene Levy.
Russia Mulls Additional Trillion Ruble Bailout For Failing Banks
In August 2017 we noted Russia’s largest private lender was in trouble and required a bailout. Then a month later, a second bank hit the wall and was bailed out. And now, five months later, Russia’s central bank is mulling a further capital injection of a trillion rubles to rescue Otkritie and B&N Banks.
In August, Otkritie Bank, which according to Interfax, “ranks 1st among privately-owned banks and 4th by assets among banking groups in Russia,” was rescued by the central bank because “the bank is a systemically important credit organization, it occupies the 8th place in terms of assets. The Bank’s infrastructure includes 22 branches and more than 400 internal structural subdivisions.”
Interestingly, as the FT wrote at the start of 2017, “the breakneck expansion at Otkritie is raising fears that it is creating risks the state will eventually have to deal with.
“It’s not a business, it’s all relations,” a senior Russian investor says. “They want to become too big to fail.” Adds a senior Russian banker: “They are not a bank, they are a very risky hedge fund. Why should this be done with regulators’ [the central bank’s] money?“
The market did not love it…
Ironically, Otkritie’s predecessor was the aptly named Shchit-bank:
And then, less than a month later, already nervous Russian depositors shifted their attention to another domestic lender, Russia’s B&N Bank, the country’s 12th biggest lender by assets, also sought a bailout from the central bank.
B&N Bank, which is controlled by Russian oligarch Mikhail Gutseriev and was not on the central bank’s list of systemically important lenders, said it had under-estimated the problems within the banks it had bought during an expansion drive. “Our objective is, with the support of the central bank … to conduct an effective financial rehabilitation of the bank,” said Mikail Shishkhanov, who was named as chairman of B&N Bank, whose assets account for 2 percent of the Russian banking system, according to ratings agency Fitch.
We noted at the time, that perhaps, if the Russian central bank has unlimited funds to keep bailing out the Russian oligarch’s pet banks which they used mostly to launder illicit funds, then sure. Then again, where there are two bank runs in under a month, more are guaranteed, and all that would take to cripple the Russian financial system is a panic at one of the larger domestic banks, rekindling memories of the near collapse Russia experienced in late 2014 when crashing oil prices and a plunging ruble, sent Russian rates as high as 20% and pushed the country to the verge of hyperinflation.
In other words, if the “deep state” really wants to hurt Russia, it knows what to do.
And so our eyebrows raised when, after a week or two of almost constant attacks on Russia (and Putin’s grandstanding address ahead of this weekend’s election), it appears the bank runs have continued and now both these apparently “systemically important” banks may need more, much more…
As Reuters reports, Russia’s central bank is considering pumping more than 1 trillion roubles ($17 billion) into two banks it first bailed out last year to shore up their balance sheets, three sources familiar with the discussion told Reuters.
The central bank bailed out private banks Otkritie, B&N Bank and Promsvyazbank in 2017 and shut dozens of smaller lenders as part of a broader clean-up of a sector weakened by mounting bad loans and deposit outflows.
By the end of 2017, the central bank had provided more than 1.5 trillion roubles to improve the liquidity and capital of the three banks. Some of that money has been reimbursed but Otkritie has already said it needs more.
The 1 trillion rouble capital injection now under discussion is for Otkritie’s Trust and B&N’s Rost subsidiaries and would come on top of the money already disbursed,a source close to one of the banks said.
Notably, the governor of Russia’s central bank, Elvira Nabiullina, is a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, who is on track to be re-elected in an election on Sunday… who presumably would like to avoid banking crisis headlines the day before the vote.
WTI Suddenly Spikes Above $62
WTI Crude futures just suddenly spiked above $62 (with no obvious news catalyst)…
Bloomberg points to today’s gains (pre-spike) as being driven by investors weighing surging U.S. crude production against a warning from the International Energy Agency of an impending shortfall in global supplies.
“The market is probably less concerned about the rise in U.S. oil production because the global economy is doing quite well, so there is demand for the additional oil,” said Jens Pedersen, senior analyst at Danske Bank A/S.
“It seems like oil has found its feet following a volatile start to the year.”
But this is not the first sudden spike to run stops above $62..
Perhaps of note is the 50-day moving average is at $62.61 (which would run the stops above this week’s highs).
In “Stunning Judicial Ruling”, South Africa’s Zuma Hit With Corruption Charges
Just weeks after his forced resignation as South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma was charged with corruption on Friday over a $2.5 billion state arms deal, an outcome which Reuters called “a stunning judicial ruling on a continent where political ‘Big Men’ rarely face their day in court.”
South Africa’s chief prosecutor, Shaun Abrahams, said that he would bring back a case against Mr Zuma relating to a 1990s arms deal to buy European military kit that had cast a shadow over politics in Africa’s most industrialized economy for decades. As a result, Zuma will face 16 charges relating to 783 counts of corruption over the 30 billion rand ($2.5 billion) deal.
Abrahamas told a media conference that Zuma’s attempts to head off the charges that have been hanging over him for more than a decade had failed.
“After consideration of the matter, I am of the view that there are reasonable prospects of successful prosecution of Mr Zuma on the charges listed in the indictment,” Abrahams said and added that “I am of the view that a trial court would be the most appropriate forum for these issues to be ventilated and to be decided upon.”
The charges were initially dropped by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) shortly before Zuma ran for president in 2009. Then deputy president, Zuma was linked to the arms deal through Schabir Shaikh, his former financial adviser who was jailed for corruption.
The 75-year-old Zuma disputed all the allegations against him, he added. Since his election, his opponents fought a lengthy legal battle to have the charges reinstated. Zuma countered with his own legal challenges.
As Reuters adds, Zuma has also been implicated by South Africa’s anti-corruption watchdog in a 2016 report that alleges the Gupta family, billionaire friends of Zuma, used links with him to win state contracts. The Guptas and Zuma have denied any wrongdoing.
According to commentators, the crackdown against Zuma is further proof that Ramaphosa is turning a new leaf in South Africa politics. However, while Although USDZAR edged initially lower on the headlines, it has been unable to rally significantly. And, as Citi adds, “after all, Zuma has been ousted and right now, South Africa assets are preoccupied with broader EM FX sentiment, and locally, the Moody’s rating review next week and the land expropriation bill.”
Your early morning currency/gold and silver pricing/Asian and European bourse movements/ and interest rate settings FRIDAY morning 7:00 am
Euro/USA 1.2325 UP .0019/ REACTING TO MERKEL’S FAILED COALITION/ SPAIN VS CATALONIA/REACTING TO +GERMAN ELECTION WHERE ALT RIGHT PARTY ENTERS THE BUNDESTAG/ huge Deutsche bank problems + USA election:/TRUMP HEALTH CARE DEFEAT//ITALIAN REFERENDUM DEFEAT/AND NOW ECB TAPERING BOND PURCHASES/JAPAN TAPERING BOND PURCHASES /USA FALLING INTEREST RATES AGAIN/HOUSTON FLOODING/EUROPE BOURSES ALL IN THE GREEN
USA/JAPAN YEN 105.65 DOWN 0.658 (Abe’s new negative interest rate (NIRP), a total DISASTER/SIGNALS U TURN WITH INCREASED NEGATIVITY IN NIRP/JAPAN OUT OF WEAPONS TO FIGHT ECONOMIC DISASTER/DEADLY UNWINDING OF YEN CARRY TRADE
GBP/USA 1.3959 UP .0023 (Brexit March 29/ 2017/ARTICLE 50 SIGNED
THERESA MAY FORMS A NEW GOVERNMENT/STARTS BREXIT TALKS/MAY IN TROUBLE WITH HER OWN PARTY/
USA/CAN 1.3080 UP .0027 (CANADA WORRIED ABOUT TRADE WITH THE USA WITH TRUMP ELECTION/ITALIAN EXIT AND GREXIT FROM EU/(TRUMP INITIATES LUMBER TARIFFS ON CANADA/CANADA HAS A HUGE HOUSEHOLD DEBT/GDP PROBLEM)
Early THIS FRIDAY morning in Europe, the Euro ROSE by 19 basis points, trading now ABOVE the important 1.08 level RISING to 1.2325; / Last night Shanghai composite CLOSED DOWN 21.23 OR 0.65% / Hang Sang CLOSED DOWN 39.13 POINTS OR 0.12% /AUSTRALIA CLOSED UP 0.45% / EUROPEAN BOURSES IN THE GREEN
The NIKKEI: this FRIDAY morning CLOSED DOWN 127.44 POINTS OR 0.58%
Trading from Europe and Asia:
1. Europe stocks OPENED ALL IN THE GREEN
2/ CHINESE BOURSES / : Hang Sang CLOSED DOWN 39.13 POINTS OR 0.12% / SHANGHAI CLOSED DOWN 21.23 OR 0.65% /
Australia BOURSE CLOSED UP 0.65% /
Nikkei (Japan)CLOSED DOWN 127.44 POINTS OR 0.58%
INDIA’S SENSEX IN THE RED
Gold very early morning trading: 1320.75
silver:$16.49
Early FRIDAY morning USA 10 year bond yield: 2.817% !!! DOWN 1 IN POINTS from THURSDAY night in basis points and it is trading WELL ABOVE resistance at 2.27-2.32%. (POLICY FED ERROR)/
The 30 yr bond yield 3.047 DOWN 1 IN BASIS POINTS from THURSDAY night. (POLICY FED ERROR)/
USA dollar index early FRIDAY morning: 89.96 DOWN 18 CENT(S) from THURSDAY’s close.
This ends early morning numbers FRIDAY MORNING
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And now your closing FRIDAY NUMBERS \1 PM
Portuguese 10 year bond yield: 1.754% DOWN 5 in basis point(s) yield from THURSDAY/
JAPANESE BOND YIELD: +.0.038% DOWN 8/10 in basis points yield from THURSDAY/JAPAN losing control of its yield curve/
SPANISH 10 YR BOND YIELD: 1.370% DOWN 1 IN basis point yield from THURSDAY/
ITALIAN 10 YR BOND YIELD: 1.977 DOWN 1 POINTS in basis point yield from THURSDAY/
the Italian 10 yr bond yield is trading 60 points HIGHER than Spain.
GERMAN 10 YR BOND YIELD: FALLS TO +.570% IN BASIS POINTS ON THE DAY
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IMPORTANT CURRENCY CLOSES FOR FRIDAY
Closing currency crosses for FRIDAY night/USA DOLLAR INDEX/USA 10 YR BOND YIELD/1:00 PM
Euro/USA 1.2287 DOWN .0019 (Euro DOWN 19 Basis points/ represents to DRAGHI A COMPLETE POLICY FAILURE/
USA/Japan: 106.09 down 0.206 Yen up 21 basis points/
Great Britain/USA 1.3923 DOWN .0013( POUND DOWN 13 BASIS POINTS)
USA/Canada 1.3094 UP .0041 Canadian dollar DOWN 41 Basis points AS OIL RISE TO $62.07
This afternoon, the Euro was DOWN 19 to trade at 1.2287
The Yen ROSE to 106.09 for a GAIN of 21 Basis points as NIRP is STILL a big failure for the Japanese central bank/HELICOPTER MONEY IS NOW DELAYED/BANK OF JAPAN NOW WORRIED AS AS THEY ARE RUNNING OUT OF BONDS TO BUY AS BOND YIELDS RISE
The POUND FELL BY 13 basis points, trading at 1.3923/
The Canadian dollar FELL by 41 basis points to 1.3094/ WITH WTI OIL RISING TO : $62.07
The USA/Yuan closed AT 6.3348
the 10 yr Japanese bond yield closed at +.038% DOWN 8/10 IN BASIS POINTS / yield/
Your closing 10 yr USA bond yield UP 2 IN basis points from THURSDAY at 2.8463% //trading well ABOVE the resistance level of 2.27-2.32%) very problematic USA 30 yr bond yield: 3.0729 UP 1/2 in basis points on the day /
THE RISE IN BOTH THE 10 YR AND THE 30 YR ARE VERY PROBLEMATIC FOR VALUATIONS
Your closing USA dollar index, 90.26 UP 12 CENT(S) ON THE DAY/1.00 PM/
Your closing bourses for Europe and the Dow along with the USA dollar index closing and interest rates for FRIDAY: 1:00 PM EST
London: CLOSED UP 30.77 POINTS OR 0.43%
German Dax :CLOSED UP 72.16 POINTS OR 0.58%
Paris Cac CLOSED UP 22.27 POINTS OR 0.42%
Spain IBEX CLOSED UP 91.80 POINTS OR 0.95%
Italian MIB: CLOSED UP 172.97 POINTS OR 0.76%
The Dow closed UP 72.85 POINTS OR 0.29%
NASDAQ WAS down 0.25 Points OR 0.00% 4.00 PM EST
WTI Oil price; 62.07 1:00 pm;
Brent Oil: 65.92 1:00 EST
USA /RUSSIAN ROUBLE CROSS: 57.46 DOWN 11/100 ROUBLES/DOLLAR (ROUBLE HIGHER BY 18 BASIS PTS)
TODAY THE GERMAN YIELD FALLS TO +.570% FOR THE 10 YR BOND 1.00 PM EST EST
This ends the stock indices, oil price, currency crosses and interest rate closes for today 4:30 PM
Closing Price for Oil, 4:30 pm/and 10 year USA interest rate:
WTI CRUDE OIL PRICE 4:30 PM:$62.20
BRENT: $66.05
USA 10 YR BOND YIELD: 2.843% THIS RAPID ASSENT IN YIELD IS VERY DANGEROUS/DERIVATIVES START TO BLOW UP/
USA 30 YR BOND YIELD: 3.076%/
EURO/USA DOLLAR CROSS: 1.2286 down .0020 (down 20 BASIS POINTS)
USA/JAPANESE YEN:106.02 down 0.287/ YEN up 29 BASIS POINTS/ very dangerous as yen carry traders are getting killed/yen continues to rise despite the NYSE rising. however gold is now breaking away from yen influence.
USA DOLLAR INDEX: 90.211 UP 7 cent(s)/dangerous as the lower the dollar the higher the inflation.
The British pound at 5 pm: Great Britain Pound/USA: 1.3941: up 0.0005 (FROM LAST NIGHT up 5 POINTS)
Canadian dollar: 1.3095 DOWN 42 BASIS pts
German 10 yr bond yield at 5 pm: +0.570%
VOLATILITY INDEX: 15.75 CLOSED down 0.84
LIBOR 3 MONTH DURATION: 2.18% ..DANGEROUS LIBOR RISING EVERY DAY
And now your more important USA stories which will influence the price of gold/silver
TRADING IN GRAPH FORM FOR THE DAY
Dow Dumps Into Red For March As Yield Curve Crashes To 11-Year Lows
Stocks went into reverse this week…
All major US equity indices were lower this week (despite a late-day, OPEX-week, panic bid ramp)…
Chinese stocks were also broadly lower on the week…
Most of European majors were higher on the week, except UK’s FTSE…
Nasdaq underperformed notably on the day…Futures show the overnight dip when McMaster headlines hit…
(NOTE – look at the idiotic panic bid, then puke into the close!!)
The Dow is back in the red for March…
The Dow managed to scramble back above its 50% retracement level today, but the jaws of the trendlines are closing in one way or the other…
Bank Stocks were all down on the week (led by a 3% drop in Citi) but of most note is the roundtrip from Friday’s payrolls spike…
VIX ended the week higher (but drifted lower the last couple of days into OPEX)…
Investors sold the short-end of the Treasury curve this week (2y Yield up 3bps) but the rest of the curve was bid (with some selling on Friday after IP beat)…
Breakevens fell notably on the week also…
While the yield curve steepened a little today, on the week it flattened dramatically to a fresh cycle (Oct 2007) low…the 12bps flattening in s2s30s is the 2nds biggest in 4 months…
The Dollar Index managed to scratch out its 4th weekly gain in a row (reversing as China’s new year holiday ended)…
The Russian Ruble fell notably – 2nd biggest weekly drop since July 2017…
The gains in the dollar weighed on gold, silver, and copper but crude snapped higher today (for no good reason), jumping into the green for the week…
Quite a stop-run in the energy complex…
Another ugly week for cryptos, though today saw brief buying-panic…
Finally, we note that Gold remains the only asset-class to have normalized post-Feb-Fiasco…
USA economic data for today:
Housing Starts, Permits Plunge In February As Rental Units Crash
Amid two months of dismal housing sales data, and after spiking in January, starts and permits just plunged in February, driven by a collapse in multi-family unit data.
The 7.0% plunge in housing starts (-2.7% exp) is tied with the biggest drop since March 2017 and the 5.7% tumble in permits (-4.1% exp) is the biggest since February 2017…
Year-over-year, the picture is just as bad…
The drop was led by a collapse in multifamily units – Multifamily Starts down 28% MoM on an annualized basis
And Multifamily Permits down 14.6% MoM on an annualized basis…
And this dismal data extends the drop in US housing data as the effects of the Hurricanes and Storms fades fast…
Probably a good time to hike rates 4 or 5 more times this year!
Moody’s warn of a deluge of retail bankruptcies are coming…the Amazon effect. Bricks and mortar operations are faltering badly.
It’s Just Starting: Moody’s Warns A Deluge Of Retail Bankruptcies Is Coming
2017 was a perfect storm for “brick and mortar” retailers who officially lost the war with Amazon, and no less than 30 retail chains filed for bankruptcy in a year in which the CEO of Urban Outfitters said the “retail bubble has now burst“…
Source: Reorg First Day
… bringing the total number of Chapter 11 cases since mid-2015 to 50, accounting for over $20 billion in liabilities.
So is the worst over for retail, or is the sector just now approaching the eye of the hurricane?
According to the latest Moody’s research report on the retail sector, the rating agency now forecasts at least six retail & apparel issuers defaulting over the next 12 months, with most of these occurring in the first half of the year.
While the good news is that the industry default rate is expected to peak at 12.43% this March, Moody’s cautions that the still-high default forecast for the remainder of 2018 points to more pain before this lower ratings rung in retail stabilizes. Recent defaulters include Tops Markets, which filed for Chapter 11 on February 21, which followed Bon-Ton’s filing on February 4. Charlotte Russe and Charming Charlie both defaulted in December, and Claire’s has hired restructuring advisors.
Meanwhile, the Toys “R” Us bankruptcy in September its overnight Chapter 7 liquidation has only added to pressures by accentuating potential pressures between vendors and the more stressed retailers, even as it left some 33,000 employees without a job.
The problem is that it only gets worse from there, and the rating agency expects upcoming maturities for distressed issuers will spike in 2019. Defaults are growing as many struggle with high leverage and challenged operating performance. These challenges are compounded by the biggest risk – mounting maturities – which spike in 2019. Overall, issuers in the Caa1 and lower group face $14.9 billion in public and private maturities due 2018 through 2020 as shown in Exhibit 1. The lion’s share of these maturities (Exhibit 2) is attributable to just five issuers:
Sears Holdings Corp. (Ca negative),
Neiman Marcus Group LTD LLC (Caa2 negative)
Claire’s Stores, Inc. (Ca negative),
BI-LO Holding Finance (Caa1)
Guitar Center Inc. (Caa1 negative).
Additionally, while the credit markets have remained open to refinancings, those with more challenged credit profiles and operating performance problems will face growing challenges in tapping the markets, especially in an environment where monetary policy is tightening.
Meanwhile, spooked by the Toys “R” Us fiasco, many others will face the risk of vendors pulling the supply plug in the wake of Toys “R” Us bankruptcy, which was triggered when certain vendors cut the company off. As companies move down the rating scale, the vendor portion of the liquidity profile can become strained as concerns over the strength of the company are magnified. Tighter repayment terms, including the dreaded “cash on delivery” (COD), can have an even more serious impact on liquidity than a looming debt maturity. Without vendors, companies don’t get merchandise, and without merchandise, there are no sales.
So in addition to the above 5, who else is on the list?
Many of the names on Moody’s distressed list, and those that have filed for bankruptcy in the past 12 months, are, or rather were, sponsor-owned. It will hardly surprise anyone that many distressed retailers are highly leveraged following sponsor-led LBOs. High leverage has proved problematic for the retail industry due to the industry’s inherent cyclicality and operating income challenges post-recession. Such pressures have been vastly aggravated the past 10 years with the rapid rise of online competition, which has severely squeezed profit margins across the board.
The debt loads assumed by many smaller retailers have created an untenable competitive reality: they are financially ill-equipped to deal with the changing retail landscape. They also lack sufficient resources to build out online capability, keep stores fresh, and fend off pricing threats from larger competitors. The successful retail LBO stories, such as Dollar General Corp. (Baa2 stable) and BJS Wholesale Club Inc. (B3 stable), have typically been those that haven’t needed to compete online.
The exhibit below lays out the quantitative characteristics of the 20 distressed issuers in Moody’s Caa/Ca universe. Putting these metrics into perspective the debt/EBITDA Caa ”range” is 6-8x, with the EBIT/interest “range” 0.5-1x. Debt/EBITDA above 8x results in a Ca score, as does EBIT/interest below 0.5x.
And before we present the full list of upcoming maturities over the next 3 years, virtually none of which will be made, here is Moody’s brief discussion on whether the retail situation is improving.
Buoyed by favorable macroeconomic conditions, as well as the potential favorable impact from the US Corporate Tax Law change implemented by Washington in late 2017, we believe retail is improving. However, we continue to believe that a “have/ have nots” phenomenon is accelerating, with the effect akin to a teeter-totter. As the larger, better capitalized retailers continue to grow and prosper, the smaller, highly-leveraged retailers are struggling harder to compete and survive.
There are four key pillars that retailers need to have in place to remain healthy, similar to the stability that the four legs provide for a chair: capital structure, liquidity, capital spending, and competitive position. As we progress down the ratings/credit quality scale, these four “legs” tend to get more distorted in relative “length” to each other. For example, a retailer with high leverage will potentially have problems in all four of these categories, which we explain as follows:
Capital structure: When leverage remains stubbornly high and operating performance fails to keep pace, the capital structure is significantly weakened over time. Ultimately, the burden of too much debt always wins. A leveraged capital structure has deleterious effects for liquidity, capital investment, and competitive positioning.
Liquidity: This is the oil that keeps the engine running. An unfriendly or onerous debt maturity schedule makes it difficult to keep the oil flowing, and as we saw with Toys “R” Us, can create enough vendor concern to cause a bankruptcy due to a trade squeeze.
Capital spending/investment: Without money to invest, stores get tired and therefore become unattractive to shoppers. Websites lose their ability to keep up with competitors and become unattractive to visitors. Supply chains slow down, negatively impacting inventory efficiency.
Competitive position: Competing with larger, better capitalized retailers is challenging in a static environment. Today’s retail is as volatile as ever driven by the secular shift to e-commerce, making competition the most acute it has ever been. And, in the midst of this, Walmart and Amazon are fighting the battle of the century over market share, using price as a key weapon. Virtually every other retailer runs the risk of being collateral damage in this battle, making flexibility critical, which is an asset most lower rated retailers do not own.
That was Moody’s being diplomatic. The real answer, as shown in the table below which lists the full schedule of upcoming debt maturities by retail issuer, is that unfortunately no, for most retailers except a handful of very prominent online names, the situation is not only not improving, but it’s never been worse.
Hard data USA Industrial production growth surges 1.1% month/month in February surprising everyone
US Industrial Production Growth Surges To 7 Year Highs
Following a disappointing tumble in January, US Industrial Production spiked 1.1% MoM in February (well above all analyst expectations). This is the 2nd biggest MoM spike in production in 8 years.
Despite declining global economic data and weakness across US-specific data, Industrial production jumped 1.1% in February – the second biggest monthly surge since May 2010…
For context, February’s print is just four standard deviations above expectations… probably nothing
The biggest drivers of the surge were oil and gas drilling which spiked 11.6% MoM and Mining which jumped 4.3%. Utilities fell 4.7% MoM.
Manufacturing production spiked 1.2% (+0.5% exp), also near its highest since May 2010)
February’s jump pushes the YoY rise to 4.4% – the most since March 2011…
Soft data, U. of Michigan sentiment, provides another dubious report. One of the highlights: the poorest Americans are overjoyed!!
UMich Sentiment Soars To Record High As Poorest Americans Rejoice
Americans’ sentiment in current conditions has never been higher, according to University of Michigan’s latest survey. On the heels of small business exuberance, the headline UMich print jumped to its highest since 2004.
While ‘hope’ faded modestly (from 90.0 to 88.6), current conditions exploded from 114.9 to a new record high at 122.8…
Quite stunningly, UMich notes that All of the gain in the Sentiment Index was among households with incomes in the bottom third (+15.7), while the economic assessments of those with incomes in the top third posted a significant monthly decline (-7.3). The decline among upper income consumers was focused on the outlook for the economy and their personal finances.
Short-term inflation expectations also jumped to 2.9% – the highest since March 2015…
Importantly, UMich notes that interest rates were expected to increase by the largest proportion since 2004. These trends have prompted consumers to more favorably cite buying as well as borrowing in advance of those expected increases.While this may be the first tentative step toward an inflation psychology, this transformation requires continuously increasing incomes to support rising spending. While income gains are anticipated by consumers, the March survey found that the size of the expected income increase returned to the lows recorded in the past year.
Finally, we note that expectations that stocks will rise over the next 12 months fell for the 2nd month in a row…
The flattening yield curve is signalling trouble ahead..
(courtesy John Rubino)
Yield Curve Turns Threatening… Again
Authored by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com,
For a while there it looked like the blow-off top of this expansion was somewhere in the future. Now it’s starting to look like 2017 was as good as it’s going to get – with serious implications for stocks, bonds and real estate.
At least that’s what interest rates now seem to imply. From today’s Wall Street Journal:
Yield Curve Once Again Sends Dour Signal on Economy
A bond market barometer that briefly suggested growth was perking up has reversed course.
The so-called yield curve, typically calculated by measuring the differential between short- and long-term Treasury yields, has been flattening in the last few weeks. Long-term yields have fallen in response to tempered expectations for growth and inflation, even as short-term rates extend their months-long rise.
The differential between the two-year yield and 10-year yield on Thursday shrank to 0.54 percentage point, the smallest since Jan. 26, coincidentally the day of the S&P 500′s last record high, Tradeweb data show. That was near its January low, which had been the lowest in a decade.
The yield curve flattened this week as long-term yields fell after a slew of lackluster economic data. Retail sales slipped 0.1% in February, their third straight monthly decline, data showed Wednesday. And data on consumer and business prices showed inflation pressures remain modest.
Investors watch the yield curve because it can signal that the economy is speeding up when it steepens. It can show the opposite when it flattens. And when short-term Treasurys yield more than their long-term counterparts, it signals that a recession is coming.
The yield curve also influences portions of the stock market — lifting banks and financial firms when it steepens and pushing up utilities when it flattens. On Wednesday as the curve flattened, the S&P 500 utilities sectors outperformed the benchmark, while the financial sector underperformed.
Rising yields this year had made the yield curve steeper throughout parts of the winter, but recent economic data has dampened those expectations. At the beginning of this month, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s real-time GDP tracker projected the U.S. growing at a 3.5% annual pace in the first three months of the year, but by Wednesday, it had fallen to 1.9%.
Though some have recently questioned the curve’s forecasting power, many say it still offers a reliable signal. “Periods with an inverted yield curve are reliably followed by economic slowdowns and almost always by a recession,” said Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco economists, in a research note earlier this month.
Definitively an ominous trend, this, and one that’s consistent with a long-in-the-tooth expansion like today’s. But nothing in this hyper-complicated world is ever simple, so before assuming that a recession is neigh, be sure to note that US home prices jumped 9% in February, import prices rose more than expected, and labor markets continue to tighten. And who knows what the nascent trade war will evolve into.
The take-away? There are even more than the usual number of moving parts to consider this time around. Which means the party can end suddenly via some kind of discreet inflation/geopolitics/stock crash event or very slowly via an accumulation of Fed rate hikes, moderating growth, and rising trade barriers. Either way, “messy” is likely to be 2018’s dominant theme.
Now the Dept of Justice is now investigating possible abuses in Well Fargo in their Wealth Management unit
DOJ Investigating Possible Abuses In Wells Fargo’s Wealth-Management Unit
Some weeks, it seems like barely a day goes by without learning about some new nefarious activity perpetrated by Wells Fargo, or their repercussions.
Case in point, yesterday, Reuters reported that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency was preparing to sanction the bank for charging customers for auto insurance they didn’t really need. The bank has blamed a third party for wrongly layering the insurance policies on its auto borrowers.
Wells Fargo’s auto insurance woes stem from a policy drivers must carry when they borrow money to buy a new car. It pays out to the bank when a car is stolen or destroyed.
Wells Fargo required drivers to carry their own policies, but had a right to “force-place” a policy on borrowers who let insurance lapse. Insurers working for Wells Fargo pushed policies onto 570,000 customers who already had coverage and then delivered profits for the bank.
Wells is investigating auto insurance abuses back to 2005 and estimates it will need to refund $145 million to borrowers, and adjust account balances by another $37 million, according to securities filings. That is up from its initial cost estimate of $80 million.
Then on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Department of Justice is investigating possible abuses in the bank’s wealth-management business. The abuses reportedly took place in the Phoenix area, which was also an epicenter of the bank’s cross-selling scandal. After whistleblowers reportedly informed the US government that there might be something amiss in Phoenix, regulators instructed Wells to launch an internal probe. As part of the probe, investigators are interviewing employees from the bank’s Phoenix Wealth Management office. However, the exact nature of the suspected wrongdoing is unclear.
The Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission are now probing the bank’s wealth-management business, these people said. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been interviewing some wealth- management employees in the Phoenix area as recently as this week, some of these people said.
Wells Fargo declined to comment. Officials at the Justice Department and SEC also declined to comment.
Several U.S. Attorney’s offices, as well as a bevy of federal and state regulators, have been investigating Wells Fargo since fall 2016 when the bank disclosed widespread sales-practices problems. Those included bank employees opening as many as 3.5 million accounts without customers’ knowledge or authorization. Wells Fargo has said it is cooperating with the investigations.
Arizona was one epicenter of Wells Fargo’s retail-banking sales practices problems. Some employees in that region created fake email addresses using customers’ phone numbers to open banking accounts or opened two accounts for each customer, a practice known as a “double pack.” Some top executives from that region have since been terminated by the bank.
At some point, the DOJ launched its own investigation, separate from the internal probe.
Despite firing executives, including former CEO John Stumpf, and offering to reimburse customers, lawmakers like Senator Elizabeth Warren have criticized the bank and demanded that more changes must be made.
During a recent hearing, Warren questioned the bank’s decision to send out “opt-in” letters to people affected by its abuses, and accused the bank of not doing enough to make sure customers are fairly compensated.
Even though Warren has labeled him “incompetent” and suggested that he should step aside as WFC’s CEO, the Wells Fargo’s board of directors awarded CEO Tim Sloan a 36% raise. Sloan’s total compensation climbed to $17.4 million, compared with almost $13 million in 2016, thanks to increased stock awards, per CNNMoney.
The board cited the bank’s “solid financial performance,” including low credit losses, strong capital and a slight increase in annual profits to $22.2 billion. The board also noted Sloan’s “continued leadership” on the “top priority of rebuilding trust and building a better bank.” The board believes that paying executives in stock is preferable to cash because it aligns the executive’s incentives with the long-term goals of the company.
Last month, the Federal Reserve announced what at first seemed like a shocking crackdown by imposing sanctions that would prevent the bank from growing its assets beyond their end-2017 levels. Though analysts were quick to point out that the sanctions lacked teeth.
For now the price is falling…
Of course, the big question is What Will Warren Buffett Do (WWWBD)?
SWAMP STORIES
which story is correct? Bloomberg states that Trump has not decided on McMaster’s removal but the Washington post states that Trump has decided to fire McMaster.
the media is just unbelievable
Trump Has Decided To Fire McMaster As National Security Adviser: WaPo
Update: Bloomberg reports that an official has said that Trump has not decided on McMaster’s removal.
Confirming the “purge rumblings” reported earlier, moments ago the Washington Post reported that President Trump has decided to fire H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser, delivering the latest jolt to the senior ranks of his administration.
This latest termination from Trump’s administration makes it 25 departures in Trump’s first 419 days, or on average one every 17 days.
As the WaPo adds, while “Trump is now comfortable with ousting McMaster, with whom he never personally gelled,” he is taking the time to execute the move because “he wants to ensure both that the three-star Army general is not humiliated and that there is a strong successor lined up, these people said.”
The decision is the latest sign that Trump is wresting back control of his personnel and policy decisions after a string of victories – on tax reform, banking regulations and tariffs – has left him feeling emboldened.
For all of the evident disorder, Trump feels emboldened, advisers said — buoyed by what he views as triumphant decisions last week to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum and to agree to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The president is enjoying the process of assessing his team and making changes, tightening his inner circle to those he considers survivors and who respect his unconventional style, one senior White House official said.
Just days ago, Trump used Twitter to fire Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state whom he disliked, and moved to install his close ally, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, in the job. On Wednesday, he named conservative TV analyst Larry Kudlow to replace his top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, who quit over trade disagreements.
McMaster has long been detested by Trump’s nationalist supporters (including, perhaps most notably, the editors of Breitbart.com). Most of this animosity is tied to McMaster’s refusal to adopt the president’s line regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Several candidates have emerged to become Trump’s third National Security Advisor since his inauguration. The group of candidates includes John Bolton, a former US ambassador to the United Nations, and Keith Kellogg, the chief of staff of the National Security Council.
As The Independent previously reported, John Bolton is the pro-war, former United Nations ambassador under George W Bush (and was on the shortlist to become Secretary of State).
The anti-Iran and anti-Russia hawk failed to secure a longer term as UN ambassador after Democrats banded together to prevent him.
He served less than two years, during which there was a rise in anti-US sentiment around the world.
In a recent blog, Mr Bolton named the five “gravest” threats to US security abroad: Isis, Iran, North Korea, Russia and China.
President Trump said in 2016 that Mr Bolton was one of his go-to experts on foreign security, and described him as a “tough cookie”.
But selecting Mr Bolton for the top job would break Mr Trump’s pledge to work peacefully with other countries, and would cast doubt over his hopes for a positive relationship with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Bolton told Fox News: “I think we’ve got to begin to treat Russia like the adversary that Putin is currently demonstrating it to be.”
This year, Mr Bolton vocally opposed any attempts to “legitimise” Russia’s efforts to defeat Isis in Syria, contrary to Mr Trump who proposed Russia and Syria should be left alone to “fight it out”.
Joseph “Keith” Kellogg, a former contracting executive, took over when Mike Flynn was fired/resigned…
Kellogg, 72, was born in Ohio and served 36 years in the military: in the army in Vietnam, as a special forces officer in Cambodia, and during the first Iraq war as chief of staff for the 82nd Airborne Division. Kellogg rose to command the airborne division from 1997 to 1998 and later came to national prominence when he served as chief operating officer for Baghdad’s provisional government through 2004 – a year of mistakes by the transitional administration that haunted Iraq through the next decade of war.
He played a critical role in the disastrous US occupation of Iraq as the director of operations of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), which ran the country after the 2003 invasion.
After his retirement, Kellogg joined a series of contracting firms including tech giant Oracle – the company gave him a leave of absence to help the Bush administration in Iraq. “I was given the opportunity to establish a homeland security business unit at Oracle,” he told the Washington Post in 2005, “based on the skills I developed in the military and on the value that information technology can bring to homeland security.”
Kellogg later joined another tech contractor, CACI, in 2005, and then left for a defense contractor, Cubic Defense, in 2009, where he was responsible for the firm’s “ground combat training business”.
Kellogg travels with Trump on many domestic trips, in part because the president “likes his company and thinks he’s fun.” Bolton has met with Trump several times and often agrees with the president’s instincts. Trump also thinks Bolton, who regularly praises the president on Fox News Channel, is good on television.
For now, the market is not taking the uncertainty well – Stocks and USDJPY are down, and gold is up on the headlines…
Kelly is in as Trump and Kelly reach a true
“I’m In”: Trump And Kelly Reach A Truce
When White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters on Thursday that Kelly “is not going anywhere,” it appears she meant it. Because less than a day after CBS speculated that Kelly could be the next senior White House staffer to be pushed out, the Wall Street Journal reported that President Donald Trump and Kelly have reached an (uneasy) truce.
While Kelly’s relationship with the president had deteriorated markedly by mid-week, the two men had a “productive” meeting on Thursday, and apparently ended it with an understanding that Kelly would remain on board – for now, at least.
Jarred by the treatment of former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, whom the president fired by tweet on Tuesday morning, Mr. Kelly suggested to colleagues that he may be the next to be pushed out of the White House. Mr. Kelly’s cryptic comments left several White House staffers with the impression that Mr. Kelly would force the issue with the president, and that they should start looking for new jobs, too.
The internal drama heightened when Mr. Kelly flew with the president to California on Tuesday, but returned alone and was working in his West Wing office on Wednesday morning. Mr. Kelly’s allies in the White House, however, said the chief of staff had always planned on flying the 4,500-mile round-trip between Washington and San Diego in less than a day.
This dance culminated on Thursday when “Trump and Kelly had a productive meeting that left both men reassured.” Trump told advisers afterward that Kelly was “100% safe.” Kelly, according to the WSJ, told his associates that, at least for the moment, he and the president had patched things up. “I’m in,” Mr. Kelly told staff.
But how long the peace lasts is anyone’s guess:
The back-and-forth between Mr. Trump and the chief of staff suggested that the easing of tensions may be more of a temporary detente than a ironclad peace agreement. The president and Mr. Kelly are well known around the White House for engaging in tense arguments, and Mr. Trump has made repeated public comments that manage to both underscore his satisfaction with Mr. Kelly, while also raising doubts about how long the two will continue to work together.
“He likes what you do better than what he does,” Mr. Trump told a group of Marines in San Diego about Mr. Kelly, a former four-star general in the Marines. “But he’s doing a great job. He misses you.”
The exchange between the retired four-star general and the prime-time TV star-turned president was just one storyline playing out in a particularly tumultuous week. The president has often said he encourages conflict among his staff, and has spoken favorably about the internal skirmishing. “They’re fighting over who loves me the most,” he said about his staff last summer.
WSJ also reaffirmed that Trump told his allies that he’s planning on firing McMaster despite vehement denial from the White House. The only question is timing: “one official saying it could happen “imminently” and another saying it could be weeks, even months.”
Gen. McMaster had told associates earlier in the week that he believed he was safe, and that the president urged him to remain in the job until after the midterm elections in November.
Gen. McMaster attended a White House event Thursday evening honoring the Irish prime minister and joked with reporters there, including responding to one question that appeared to touch on his future by asking: “Have you heard anything?”
All this happens as Trump warned a group of reporters that he’s preparing to clean house, and that there are more high-profile firings to come (in an administration that has lost one senior figure, on average, every 17 days).
Meanwhile, in what may be the day’s biggest news – if confirmed – Fox Business reporter Charlie Gasparino tweeted that the firings are mostly a smokescreen for Trump to safely get rid of his true target: Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Charles Gasparino
✔@CGasparino
word from people close to @POTUS — all these cabinet and staff changes is a prelude to the big change that is to come: firing @jeffsessions
firings of tillerson and then probably mcmaster and kelly may not disrupt the mkts but one firing has the potential and that’s sessions which people near @POTUS say is coming. the reason: its an indicator that trump is truly worried about the mueller probe in an existential way
Charles Gasparino✔@CGasparino
yes this is the speculation–its all a prelude to getting rid of sessions which opens up the flood gates: ouster of rosenstein and then mueller. ballsy stuff if thats where this is going and it will be a wild ride https://twitter.com/elsenj/status/974647381491888128 …
Stormy Daniels now states that she has been physically threatened
Stormy Daniels Was “Physically Threatened,” Lawyer Says
Stephanie Clifford, aka the adult film star known as Stormy Daniels, has been physically threatened, according to her lawyer, Michael Avenatti.
Though he wouldn’t elaborate on the circumstances surrounding the verbal attack, Avenatti said that they would press ahead with lawsuits against President Trump and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, in an attempt to invalidate an NDA she signed in the closing days of the November 2016 election. Avenatti also declined to reveal names.
At the time, she also accepted a $130,000 “hush money” payment from Cohen in exchange for agreeing to stay silent about her relationship with President Trump, according to CBS.
Daniels has offered to return the money, her lawyer said.
Daniels is due in court on July 12 for the next hearing in her suit against Trump. According to her lawyer, the NDA Daniels signed isn’t valid because Trump never signed it. Daniels has managed to raise tens of thousands of dollars on a crowdfunding platform by claiming that Trump and his legal team were “trying to silence me.”
Last month, Cohen succeeded in getting a judge to impose a restraining order on Daniels after she lost an arbitration hearing, preventing her from sharing her experiences with the media.
However, despite this prior restraint, she has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel live, taped a “60 Minutes” interview with Anderson Cooper and authorized the publication of an interview with In Touch magazine that was conducted in 2011, before she signed the agreement, where she shared intimate details about her time with Trump.
According to Daniels, her relationship with Trump began in 2006 at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe and lasted for 18 months, until she broke it off when Trump failed to secure a spot for her on his TV show, “the Apprentice.”
The scandal has drawn the scrutiny of a Washington Watchdog, which has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that the $130,000 payment to Daniels constituted a campaign expenditure that was not reported. Cohen has publicly testified that he made the payment out of his own funds.
The White House has denied the alleged 2006 affair.
Trump has been ramping up the legal battle, hiring a second lawyer to focus on Daniels’ lawsuit, and making sure she adheres to the NDA.
Daniels could face penalties up to $1 million if she’s found in violation of the contract.
Now we know why the FISC (FISA COURT) judge Contreas recused himself from the Flynn case on Dec 7.2017. The reason: he is a personal friend of Peter Strzok and there are emails between Page and Strzok as to how they could use the judge to destroy Flynn and other Republicans.
New Texts Reveal FBI’s Peter Strzok Had Relationship With Recused Judge In Flynn Case
Recently discovered text messages – that were deliberately hidden from Congress – reveal that disgraced FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page conspired to meet with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) judge, Rudolph Contreras, who as we reported last December, “mysteriously recused” himself from handling the case against Michael Flynn, reports The Federalist, which has seen the text messages.
At least the recusal is no longer a mystery.
The text messages about Contreras between controversial Department of Justice lawyer Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, the top Federal Bureau of Investigation counterintelligence official who was kicked off Robert Mueller’s special counsel team, were deliberately hidden from Congress, multiple congressional investigators told The Federalist. In the messages, Page and Strzok, who are rumored to have been engaged in an illicit romantic affair, discussed Strzok’s personal friendship with Contreras and how to leverage that relationship in ongoing counterintelligence matters. –The Federalist
“Rudy is on the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]!” Page excitedly texted Strzok on July 25, 2016. “Did you know that? Just appointed two months ago.”
“I did,” Strzok responded. “I need to get together with him.”
“[He] said he’d gotten on a month or two ago at a graduation party we were both at.”
Contreras, appointed by President Obama on May 19, 2016, notably sat on the FISA court while the Trump team was under surveillance by the Obama administration.
Meanwhile, Strzok was one of two FBI investigators who took part in a January 24 interview of Michael Flynn – Trump’s brand new National Security Director. Flynn later pleaded guilty to a charge of providing false information to the FBI – which was supposed to be heard by judge Contreras on December 1, 2017.
Strzok, who went to work for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, was subsequently removed from the probe by Mueller after the DOJ’s internal watchdog, Inspector General Michael Horowitz, discovered over 50,000 text messages between Strzok and Page which revealed anti-Trump / pro-Clinton bias, as well as an illicit affair the two were having. Of note, the pair worked at the highest levels on both the Clinton email investigation and the early Trump-Russia investigation until their removal from the Mueller probe.
On December 5, 2017, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wrote a letter to FBI director Christopher Wray demanding the delivery of text messages from Strzok, along with notes from the Flynn interview.
Two days later, Judge Contreras was recused from the Flynn case with no explanation – and it was reassigned to Judge Emmet G. Sullivan.
According to the newly seen text messages, Strzok and Page discussed setting up a cocktail or dinner party with Contreras so they could speak without arousing suspicion of collusion. “Strzok expressed concern that a one-on-one meeting between the two men might require Contreras’ recusal from matters in which Strzok was involved,” writes The Federalist.
“[REDACTED] suggested a social setting with others would probably be better than a one on one meeting,” Strzok told Page. “I’m sorry, I’m just going to have to invite you to that cocktail party.”
“Have to come up with some other work people cover for action,” Strzok added.
“Why more?” Page responded. “Six is a perfectly fine dinner party.”
It is unknown whether the get-together happened as planned.
A possibly related aspect of the Strzok – Flynn interview is a January report by Fox News guest and journalist Sara Carter, who said that outgoing FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe allegedly ordered FBI agents to change their “302” forms – the paperwork an agent files after interviewing someone.
“I have been told tonight by a number of sources, there’s indicators right now that McCabe may have asked FBI agents to actually change their 302’s – those are their interviews with witnesses. So basically every time an FBI agent interviews a witness, they have to go back and file a report,” Carter told Fox News host Sean Hannity.
While we don’t know exactly what went on behind the scenes between Sen. Grassley’s December 5th request for Strzok’s text messages and Contereras’s December 7th recusal, the pre-existing relationship between Strzok and Contreras alone is highly worrisome. Add attempted collusion and a possibly altered “302” form, and there’s more than enough evidence to raise serious questions over the integrity of the proceedings against Michael Flynn.
An ex FBI assistant director says that the upcoming Inspector General report will be as doozy
Ex-FBI Asst. Director Says Upcoming Inspector General Report Is “Pure TNT”
Former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker said today that a highly anticipated report from the DOJ’s Inspector General Michael Horowitz will contain “some pure TNT.” Horowitz has been investigating the conduct of the FBI’s top brass surrounding the 2016 election for over a year. He also uncovered over 50,000 text messagesbetween two anti-Trump / pro-Clinton FBI employees directly involved in the exoneration of Clinton and the counterintelligence operation launched against the Trump campaign.
Swecker: “The behavior if it’s manifested in the action with your thumb on the scale of a particular investigation, one way or the other, that’s borderline criminal behavior — manipulating an investigation. I think this IG report is going to be particularly impactful, more so than any of these useless congressional investigations. I think you’re going to see some pure TNT come out in this IG report.”
Josh Caplan@joshdcaplan
Ex-FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker puts Comey & McCabe on notice: ‘Some pure TNT’ will come out in the Inspector General report.
The Inspector General’s report is thought to include evidence of outgoing Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe ordering agents to alter “302” forms – the paperwork an agent files after interviewing someone.
Horowitz is also reportedly homing in on McCabe’s handling of the Anthony Weiner laptop after reports emerged that he wanted to avoid taking action on the FBI’s findings until after the 2016 election.
The inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, has been asking witnesses why FBI leadership seemed unwilling to move forward on the examination of emails found on the laptop of former congressman Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)until late October — about three weeks after first being alerted to the issue, according to these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter. A key question of the internal investigation is whether McCabe or anyone else at the FBI wanted to avoid taking action on the laptop findings until after the Nov. 8 election, these people said. It is unclear whether the inspector general has reached any conclusions on that point. –WaPo
In January, Fox’s Sean Hannity sat down with journalist Sara Carter – who shed light on the McCabe situation, saying that FBI Director Christopher Wray was “shocked to his core” after reading the GOP-authored “FISA” memo describing FBI malfeasance surrounding the 2016 U.S. election:
Carter: What we know tonight is that FBI Director Christopher Wray went Sunday and reviewed the four-page FISA memo. The very next day, Andrew McCabe was asked to resign. Remember Sean, he was planning on resigning in March – that already came out in December. This time they asked him to go right away. You’re not coming into the office. I’ve heard rep[orts he didn’t even come in for the morning meeting – that he didn’t show up.
Hannity: A source of mine told me tonight that when Wray read this, it shocked him to his core.
Sara Carter: Shocked him to his core, and not only that, the Inspector General’s report – I have been told tonight by a number of sources, there’s indicators right now that McCabe may have asked FBI agents to actually change their 302’s – those are their interviews with witnesses. So basically every time an FBI agent interviews a witness, they have to go back and file a report.
Hannity: Changes? So that would be obstruction of justice?
Carter: Exactly. This is something the Inspector General is investigating. If this is true and not alleged, McCabe will be fired. I heard they are considering firing him within the next few days if this turns out to be true.
Meanwhile, several Republican Senators are asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to order a special counsel to probe the FBI’s conduct during its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election – including the use of the “Steele dossier” in seeking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against former Trump Campaign advisor Carter Page. The letter marks the second formal request by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The request comes amid controversy over Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s pension – which is in jeopardy after the Department of Justice’s internal watchdog found enough evidence of malfeasance to recommend firing McCabe immediately.
The letter also notes that Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who they have the “utmost confidence” in, “does not have the tools that a prosecutor would to gather all the facts, such as the ability to obtain testimony from essential witnesses who are not current DOJ employees.”
Senators Chuck Grassley Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and John Cornyn (Texas), signed a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions as well as Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to name a special counsel who can “gather all the facts.”
“We believe that a special counsel is needed to work with the Inspector General to independently gather the facts and make prosecutorial decisions, if any are merited. The Justice Department cannot credibly investigate itself without these enhanced measures of independence,” wrote the senators.
See the letter below, and click on the tweet for more background on the ongoing investigation from Nick Short of the Security Studies Group.
Nick Short
✔@PoliticalShort
Grassley, Graham, Cornyn, Tillis Seek Special Counsel to Work with Inspector General on Handling of Russia Investigation. https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-graham-cornyn-tillis-seek-special-counsel-work-inspector-general …
As Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller points out, the letter also “broke a bit of news”:
It reveals that Bruce Ohr, the former deputy assistant attorney general, was interviewed 12 separate times by the FBI in 2016 and 2017.
Ohr was in contact with Steele prior to the 2016 election. And shortly after the election, Ohr was in contact with Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that hired Steele to investigate Trump.
Ohr’s wife, a Russia expert named Nellie Ohr, also happened to be working as a contractor for Fusion GPS for its Trump investigation.
Senate Judiciary Republicans want to know whether the FBI and DOJ were aware of that relationship.
The committee letter lists all of Ohr’s FBI interviews, which were summarized on what’s known as a FD-302 document. The first interview with Ohr was conducted on November, 22, 2016. The most recent occurred on May 15, 2017. –Daily Caller
The DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced in January that it was opening a probe of the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email investigation. Meanwhile, Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked the OIG to explore whether FBI officials abused their authority when they used an unverified and salacious dossier from Fusion GPS to obtain a FISA warrant on Carter Page.
That said, Sessions has resisted repeated calls for a second Special Counsel.
Graham and Grassley also asked the OIG to look into the FBI’s conduct while handling the Russia probe, writing in a February letter:
“We respectfully request that you conduct a comprehensive review of potential improper political influence, misconduct, or mismanagement in the conduct of the counterintelligence and criminal investigations related to Russia and individuals associated with (1) the Trump campaign, (2) the Presidential transition, or (3) the administration prior to the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.”
The Senators also noted in their Thursday letter that if the DOJ declines to appoint a second special counsel, they want “a detailed reply explaining why not.”
Let us close out the week with this offering courtesy of Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog
Tensions Explode With Russia, Trump Fires Problems, Economic Update
By Greg Hunter On March 16, 2018 In Media
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (WNW 326 3.16.18)
The U.S., UK, France and Germany are all blaming Russia for a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Britain. Russia is denying the attack, but that is not stopping Prime Minister Theresa May from expelling Russian diplomats. Russia is reportedly responding in kind. President Trump is adding sanctions against Russia, and the whole thing may be a prelude to a global conflict or at least a trade war.
President Trump is using that old familiar phrase he made famous on the Apprentice TV show. He told his National Security Advisor and his Secretary of State “You’re Fired” this week and already has replacements lined up.
We have been told the economy is doing great, but the Atlanta Federal Reserve is saying otherwise. It is saying the first quarter of 2018 will come in with a sluggish 1.9% GDP. That’s way down from the projected 5% GDP number being talked about a few weeks ago. John Williams of ShadowStats.com is also warning of a slowing U.S. economy. He says watch what the Fed will do and watch the dollar.
Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he talks about these stories and more in the Weekly News Wrap-Up.
https://usawatchdog.com/tensions-explode-with-russia- trump-fires-problems-economic-update/
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ATP World Tour And ATP Champions Tour Unite At Delray Beach Open
by Kerry Shorr
From left to right: Leander Paes (India) and Jeremy Chardy (France) play the Bryan brothers (USA)
Photo Credit: CameraSportTennis fans will enjoy 10 days of break point action when the twenty-sixth annual Delray Beach Open bounces back into town February 16, 2018. Two tournaments in one—the ATP World Tour and ATP Champions Tour—the Delray Beach Open features a non-stop schedule of games, tennis clinics hosted by ATP pros, mixed doubles mega-mixers, ladies luncheons, and more. Guests will also have the chance to see and meet some of the world’s top players, including Juan Martín del Potro, Jack Sock, and the legendary John McEnroe. Click HERE for schedules, tickets, and more information.
We caught up with four returning ATP World Tour players, Sam Querrey, Steve Johnson, Donald Young, and Matthew Ebden, ahead of their matches to share their bucket lists, off-court activities, and what they enjoy most about Delray Beach.
Sam Querrey (USA)
Stats: 2016 Delray Beach Open singles champion | 2017 Wimbledon semifinalist | World Top 15
Photo Credit: Peter Staples
What’s your favorite tennis racket?
Babolat Pure Arrow
Which tennis player you’d most like to play with?
What do you like to do when you’re not playing tennis?
I like walking around the Farmers Market.
What’s something you’re passionate about?
Having great friends.
What is something about you we don’t know about you?
I have a one-year-old French bulldog named Lou. I take her to most of my tournaments.
Do you have a sports superstition?
I have no superstitions.
What skill are you famous for?
My serve
What can’t you leave home without?
A casual hat
What’s on your bucket list?
What’s your advice for young tennis players?
Have fun and don’t get too down on the losses.
What do you enjoy most about Delray Beach?
The Boca Raton Resort. It’s one of my favorite hotels, and hopefully, I will stay there again. It’s awesome.
Steve Johnson (USA)
Stats: 2014 Delray Beach Open semifinalist
Yonex V-Core SV98
Pete Sampras or Andre Agassi
Play a lot of golf, hit the beach, and enjoy life in Los Angeles.
Time spent with my family and friends are precious.
What’s something about you we don’t know about you?
I enjoy baking.
My forehand and backhand slice.
My tennis rackets.
Playing the world’s greatest golf courses.
It’s a long and tough road, but enjoy the process. It’s a thrill to do something you love and do it for a living.
I enjoy staying at the Boca Raton Resort. It’s a very peaceful place.
Donald Young (USA)
Stats: 2015 Delray Beach Open finalist
Favorite tennis racket?
Dunlop Srixon CT
Which tennis player would you like to play with most?
I would love to play Marcelo Rios. That would be cool.
Hanging out with my friends, watching movies, and taking naps. I’m a professional napper.
Helping kids.
What’s something about you we don’t know about you, but should?
I mentor at the Boys and Girls Club. I help kids with their homework, talk to them about life, and am a sports figure they can look up to.
When I’m in the United States, I always eat at Applebee’s every night before a match. The spinach and artichoke dip and chicken broccoli fettuccine Alfredo bowl save me every time.
Taking photos.
What’s something you can’t leave home without?
My phone.
To win a Grand Slam title.
What advice would you give to young tennis players?
Listen to your coaches. You can always improve and learn.
I love hitting up Rally’s for french fries.
Matthew Ebden (Australia)
Stats: Played five times in the Delray Beach Open
Photo Credit: ATP World Tour
Head Instinct
Andre Agassi. I always watched him play when I was growing up. He retired just as I came on the scene.
Watching movies and hanging out on the beach. I’m Australian so being near the water is relaxing.
Spending quality time with family, my wife, and our close friends.
What’s something we don’t know about you, but should?
I’m a watch nerd. I love collecting timepieces.
No superstitions, but I like when things run like clockwork. I have routines that make me feel comfortable, like how much sleep I get and when, or what, I eat and drink.
My wife.
Playing some of the greatest golf courses in the world.
I love this town. I especially like the beaches and outdoor activities, like swimming and stand-up paddle boarding.
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This is a Love Story
How Israel taught me the meaning of “E pluribus unum”
Posted on February 19, 2017 by Forest Rain
I can’t believe it’s been twenty years.
I remember it like it was yesterday. It’s not the day itself I remember, just one vivid scene that forever changed me.
I was in 10th grade. Recess. Suddenly the school sound system was broadcasting the news.
They never did that. Sometimes they played music. Usually it was used just to sound the recess bell. Never the news.
Israeli schools are loud. Israelis in general are loud, boisterous, passionate, excitable… Younger Israelis are generally noisier than grown-ups. Israeli schools, because they are made from concrete and don’t have carpeting or furniture that absorbs sound, can be extremely noisy during recess.
Not this time.
There was dead silence. The moment the news began every student froze on the spot. A silent scattering of statues, everyone was listening intently to the report.
I had moved to Israel the year before. At first, I didn’t understand what was happening. I didn’t catch the beginning of the news flash.
And then I heard the names.
Name after name after name. Oh, my God. A wave of horror swept over me. When will the list stop? How many names will they read?
Everyone was utterly silent. Listening.
73 names.
There had been a terrible helicopter crash. Two IDF troop-carrying helicopters collided mid-air, causing them to crash and kill all the soldiers who had been on-board. 73 soldiers died in the blink of an eye.
The headline reads: National day of mourning – The Nation of Israel unites in mourning the 73 sons who won’t come back
I was the outsider, looking in on something I couldn’t completely comprehend. I didn’t have a brother, friend or father in the army. Everyone else did.
I was listening to news that was happening to people I did not know. Everyone else was petrified, listening, praying not to hear the name of someone they knew and loved.
No one moved until the list was completed. Near the end of the recitation one girl burst in to tears and ran to the school’s pay-phone (no one had cell phones then, it was 1997). I remember watching her crying in to the phone and not knowing what to do with myself. What could I do?
That was the moment I understood the interconnectivity of Israelis. There is a bond unlike anywhere else in the world. Everyone knows someone who knows someone. If in America there are six degrees of separation, in Israel there are three (at most). Often this is a good thing. At other times, it is painful beyond belief.
In Israel, there is no such thing as someone else’s pain. It always comes back to us, it’s always connected.
This is what it means to be a family.
That moment, 20 years ago, changed my life. In my childhood, in America, I learned the image of the “rugged individual.” I didn’t truly understand the idea of belonging to a Nation. Until that moment I understood with my head but not with my heart.
The idea of “E pluribus unum” became real to me only after living in Israel.
We are the many who have gathered from the four corners of the earth to live our oneness. One family, each member strikingly different from the other but all connected by an unbreakable bond.
This is Israel.
These are the names of the soldiers who died in the helicopter disaster February 4th, 1997.
73 families ripped apart. Parents who grew older without their children, watching the friends of their children grow up and create families where they are left with only memories. Siblings missing their brother. Friends missing that special person who understood them so well. Women who had to find other men to love… Each death is not the death of one but the death of a world.
Lt. Shai Abukasis, 22, of Mikhmoret
Sgt. Itai Adler, 19, of Ra’anana
St.-Sgt. Avraham Afner, 21, of Kiryat Tiv’on
St.-Sgt. Idan Alper, 20, of Bat Yam
St.-Sgt. Avner Alter, 20, of Ashdot Ya’akov Ihud
St.-Sgt. Yonatan Amadi, 20, of Ma’ale Adumim
Sgt. 1st Cl. Saguy Arazi, 22, of Kfar Yona
St.-Sgt. Ran Arman, 20, of Ra’anana
St.-Sgt. Emil Azoulai, 20, of Ashkelon
Lt. Alon Babayan, 21, of Givat Ze’ev
St.-Sgt. Rafi Balalti, 20, of Migdal HaEmek
1st Sgt. Hussein Bashir, 28, of Beit Zarzir
St.-Sgt. Nir Ben-Haim, 20, of Yifat
Lt. Kobi Ben-Shem, 20, of Ramat HaSharon
Lt. Saguy Berkovitz, 21, of Alfei Menashe
1st Sgt. Maj. Paul Bivas, 26, of Ashdod
Lt. Dotan Cohen, 21, of Hadera
Maj. Yirmi Cohen, 23, of Rosh Ha’ayin
St.-Sgt. Assaf Dahan, 19, of Jerusalem
Maj. (Res.) Yasys Eden, 44, of Ramat HaSharon
Lt. Gil Eisen, 21, of Ness Ziona
Sgt. Noam Etzioni, 20, of Megadim
Sgt. Menachem Feldman, 20, of Haifa
Sgt. Moleto Gideon, 21, of Lod
Sgt. Avishai Gidron, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin
Sgt. 1st Cl. Tamir Glazer, 24, of Holon
St.-Sgt. Aviv Golan, 24, of Beit Yosef
Sgt. Tomer Goldberg, 19, of Dishon
St.-Sgt. Aviv Gonen, 20, of Petah Tikva
St.-Sgt. Micha Gottlieb, 20, of Tel Aviv
Maj. Ronen Halfon, 35, of Tiberias
Sgt. Alejandro Hoffman, 19, of Misgav Am
Maj. Yisrael Hushni, 34, of Tel Aviv
St.-Sgt. Shahar Kasus, 20, of Alfei Menashe
St.-Sgt. Michael Katz, 20, of Mitzpe Netofa
Sgt. Fadi Kazamel, 19, of Beit Jann
Sgt. Tomer Kedar, 21, of Negba
St.-Sgt. Tom Kita’in, 20, of Neve Shalom
St.-Sgt. Ilan Lanchitski, 20, of Haifa
Lt. Dvir Lanir, 21, of Moledet
Capt. Avishai Levy, 27, of Tel Aviv
St.-Sgt. Shilo Levy, 21, Karnei Shomron
St.-Sgt. Nadav Lishinski, 20, of Sde Avraham
Sgt. 1st Cl. Eitan Maman, 25, of Beersheba
Sgt. 1st Cl. Gal Meisels, 24, of Kiryat Ata
Sgt. Yaakov Melamed, 20, of Petah Tikva
Capt. Dr. Vadim Melnick, 34, of Safed
Sgt. Vladislav Michaelov, 22, Tel Aviv
Sgt. Idan Minker, 20, of Nir Yitzhak
St.-Sgt. Gilad Mishaiker, 20, of Jerusalem
St.-Sgt. Gilad Moshel, 20, of Tel Aviv
Lt.-Col. Moshe Mualem, 31, of Beersheba
St.-Sgt. Haran Eliezer Parnas, 20, Herzliya
Lt. Eren Hai Peretz, 21, of Deganya Alef
Sgt. Vitali Pesahov, 19, of Acre
Cpl. Shlomo Pizuati, 19, of Tiberias
Sgt. Gidon Posner, 22, of Tel Aviv
Capt. Dr. Vitaly Radinsky, 33, of Or Akiva
Sgt. 1st Cl. Kamal Rahal, 27, of Beit Zarzir
Sgt. Shahar Rosenberg, 19, of Ness Ziona
St.-Sgt. Assaf Rotenberg, 20, of Tel Aviv
Sgt. Moshe Saban, 19, of Hod HaSharon
Lt. Nir Schreibman, 20 of Kfar Saba
St.-Sgt. Itamar Shai, 20, of Jerusalem
St.-Sgt. Omer Shalit, 19, of Jerusalem
Sgt. Yiftach Shlapobersky, 20, Hod HaSharon
St.-Sgt. Gil Sharabi, 20, of Rehovot
St.-Sgt. Tsafrir Sharoni, 22, of Netanya
St.-Sgt. Tsafrir Shoval, 22, of Bar’am
Lt. Erez Shtark, 21, of Kiryat Ata
St.-Sgt. Assaf Siboni, 20, Nir Am
Sgt. Yaron Tsofiof, 20, of Tel Aviv
Sgt. Dani Zahavi, 19, of Haifa
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Roelf Buitendag says:
Hi Forest Rain!!!
I can recall still being at school in 1976 when Israel (IDF) rescued 250 (cannot remember exact figures) hostages at Entebbe airport. They were on their way to Paris from Tel Aviv. That is where my respect for Israel started in addition to what my religion teaches.Later in my life I worked closely with Israelis working on arms development.
All the best Roelf
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Inspiration from Zion: This is a Love Story wrote:
> Forest Rain posted: “I can’t believe it’s been twenty years. I remember it > like it was yesterday. It’s not the day itself I remember, just one vivid > scene that forever changed me. I was in 10th grade. Recess. Suddenly the > school sound system was broadcasting the news. They” >
Also, it is perhaps because Jews are a nation, even the diaspora, but certainty not to the level of an Israeli. I hope to get to your country soon.
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Adding to the Sweeter Moments of Life
Krin Rodriquez July 29, 2020
Bruktaweit Addis and Tif Slama have been feeling fairly superior about their second day, following having met on the dating app Bumble in March 2016.
They experienced invested their to start with date chatting about Ms. Addis’s fear of earthquakes and Mr. Slama’s enjoy of Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. the Rock, and were being organizing to devote their second day viewing a motion picture at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland, Calif., after having dinner.
At Ms. Addis’s recommendation, they purchased tickets to “The Witch,” even though neither of them was well prepared for how scary the motion picture would be.
“It’s terrifying,” mentioned Mr. Slama, 37, who operates as a freelance creative director and writer in San Francisco. “There are even now components of that movie, or even like personal frames of that motion picture, that are smeared into my brain.”
Ms. Addis, 31, who functions as the team leader of consulting services at the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Health-related Centre, had warned Mr. Slama that she may well run out of the theater in concern at some point. Right at the climax of the movie she did, building it back again in time for the credits. Afterward, Mr. Slama walked Ms. Addis, whose close friends simply call her Bruk, to her apartment. When it arrived time to say fantastic night, he was nevertheless way too caught on the motion picture to think of romance.
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Mr. Slama before long created up for it a handful of dates later when he invited Ms. Addis to his condominium to watch Beyoncé’s visual album, “Lemonade.”
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Considerably less than a 12 months afterwards the few moved in jointly in San Francisco, and about two yrs just after that they began buying for engagement rings.
“I generally experienced the ring in my bedside table for like a month or two right before I proposed,” Mr. Slama reported. “I was just ready for San Francisco to give us a sunny day on the weekend.”
Ultimately Mr. Slama could not hold out any extended, and after a brunch with close friends in February 2019, he took Ms. Addis on a wander to a lookout issue throughout from Ina Coolbrith Park. With a watch overlooking the North Seashore community in San Francisco, Mr. Slama proposed. A female from the community took place to be strolling her puppy close by, and when she saw that the pair experienced just gotten engaged, she ran inside of to convey them a bottle of champagne.
“I can explain all of the items that I adore about her from time to time,” Mr. Slama stated about Ms. Addis, “but then I’m also just like, I just like her. She’s my man or woman and I just love her.”
Ms. Addis and Mr. Slama had prepared to get married at the Awbury Arboretum in Philadelphia on June 20 they canceled those designs simply because of the coronavirus pandemic.
They retained the primary wedding ceremony date, but married at the very same lookout issue where they got engaged. Their near good friend Daniel Roskowski, who is a Universal Daily life minister, officiated. He also set out framed photos of the couple’s spouse and children users and wedding occasion on the grass, as a makeshift aisle.
“Even in the ugliest or darkest of periods, individuals do continue to slide in enjoy, folks nevertheless do get married,” Mr. Slama said. “The sweeter times in daily life continue to require to come about.”
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How to Refinish Carpeted Hardwood Floors
Home Painting
By Tami Mason
How to Install a Prefabricated Wood Floor
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If you have hardwood flooring hidden beneath the carpet in your home, removing the carpet and restoring the floor underneath will dramatically change the look of the room. This change also reduces some of the common problems associated with carpet -- such as worn patches in high-traffic areas and higher levels of dust mites. Studies indicate that around 45 percent of asthma sufferers also suffer from dust mite allergies, according to Michael F. Potter, extension entomologist at the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture.
Remove the carpet by inserting a prybar in between the carpet and the baseboard, starting in the corner of the room. If the carpet is not going to be reused, use a utility knife to cut the carpet into manageable-sized strips prior to removal, which makes it easier to transport it to the trash.
Remove any tack strips from around the edges of the room using a chisel to pry the strip away from the floor. If the carpet was glued into place, remove any residue left behind by applying a stripping agent to a small area of the floor. Leave for approximately five minutes, then use a scraper to remove any excess stripping agent. Clean the area thoroughly with denatured alcohol, and continue until the floor is free of residue. This is often the most time-consuming part of restoring a hardwood floor.
Tape over any openings with masking tape to prevent dust from entering areas such as electrical outlets, vents and light switches. Vacuum the floor.
Sand the floor with a drum sander -- available from any tool rental company. Move slowly but ensure you keep the sander moving constantly. If you pause in one place, you can create gauge marks in the floor. Move the sander in the direction of the grain, from one end of the room to the other. Begin with a coarse-grit sandpaper. After the first sanding, you can move to a medium and the fine-grade sandpaper. You will need to use a hand sander in the corners where the drum sander cannot fit.
Vacuum the floor and wipe down with a damp cloth to remove any leftover dust.
Stain the floor, if desired, following the manufacturer's instructions. If more than one coat is required, allow the previous coat to dry before applying the next layer. If you don't want to change the color of the wood, apply a clear sealer instead of a wood stain. Allow to dry thoroughly before replacing furniture.
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Prior to sanding, ensure the floor is a minimum of 3/4-inch thick. Sanding removes a significant amount of the surface of the floor, so proceed with caution or you risk sanding down to the subfloor. If the floor is very thin, avoid power sanders and sand with a fine-grade sandpaper by hand.
Ensure the room is well ventilated prior to sanding, and wear eye protection and a respirator mask.
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Moderna Builds on Clinical Validation of Systemic Delivery with Two Additional Development Candidates in New Autoimmune Therapeutic Area
January 12, 2020 at 2:00 PM EST
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 2020-- Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a clinical stage biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, today announced that it has entered a new autoimmune therapeutic area. Building on the clinical validation of systemic delivery of mRNA provided by data from its antibody against the chikungunya virus (mRNA-1944) program, this new therapeutic area will include autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The Company also announced that it will expand its pipeline of innovative vaccines in the near term, following six positive Phase 1 clinical trial readouts from its infectious disease portfolio and the initiation of a Phase 2 study for its CMV vaccine (mRNA-1647).
Moderna’s pipeline is organized into six modalities based on similar mRNA technologies, delivery technologies and manufacturing processes. The Company’s approach is to leverage early programs within a modality to generate clinical data and insights that reduce the technology risk of subsequent programs and accelerate the expansion of the pipeline in that modality. Today’s announcement reflects the Company’s belief that recent positive Phase 1 data from its infectious disease vaccine portfolio, including its complex CMV vaccine, and chikungunya antibody program have de-risked its prophylactic vaccines and systemic therapeutics modalities. As a result, Moderna intends to bring new development candidates forward within these two areas.
“2019 was an inflection point for Moderna with significant clinical advances resulting from our investments in science and manufacturing capabilities. The positive Phase 1 results from our CMV vaccine and chikungunya antibody programs validate our approach and help clinically de-risk the delivery technologies for our prophylactic vaccines and systemic therapeutics modalities. Based on these learnings, we are excited to enter a new therapeutic area in autoimmune disease and announce two new development candidates,” said Stéphane Bancel, Moderna’s chief executive officer. “We are entering 2020 with clear priorities, a strong cash balance and a talented team of employees focused on achieving our mission. With our CMV vaccine, we are preparing for our first pivotal Phase 3 study and we look forward to announcing additional new development candidates in our two clinically de-risked modalities, prophylactic vaccines and systemic therapeutics.”
Mr. Bancel will present an update on the Company and its pipeline of mRNA development programs on Monday, January 13, 2020 at 4:30 p.m. PT at the 38th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session. A live webcast of both the presentation and question and answer session will be available under “Events & Presentations” in the investors section of Moderna’s website at investors.modernatx.com. A replay of the webcast will be archived on Moderna’s website for 30 days following the presentation.
Moderna currently has 21 mRNA development candidates in its portfolio with 13 in clinical studies. Across Moderna’s pipeline, more than 1,500 participants have been enrolled in clinical studies. The Company’s updated pipeline can be found at www.modernatx.com/pipeline.
About Moderna’s New Autoimmune Therapeutic Area
Autoimmune diseases are characterized by immune activation in response to antigens normally present in the body, reflecting a loss of tolerance. Within this therapeutic area, the Company is developing two potential medicines, mRNA-6231 and mRNA-6981, designed to engage peripheral tolerance pathways to dampen autoimmune activation and help restore immune homeostasis, thereby reducing autoimmune pathology.
mRNA-6231 is an mRNA encoding for a long-acting IL-2 mutein designed to preferentially activate and expand the regulatory T cell population, dampening the immune response.
mRNA-6981 is an mRNA encoding for PD-L1 and is designed to augment cell surface levels of PD-L1 on myeloid cells, providing co-inhibitory signals to self-reactive lymphocytes.
As an initial step to addressing a range of autoimmune indications, the Company plans to conduct a Phase 1 study of mRNA-6231 in healthy adult volunteers and intends to pursue proof-of-concept with mRNA-6981 in a Phase 1 study in type 1 autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), a condition that involves liver inflammation and can lead to cirrhosis and liver failure. The Phase 1 study of mRNA-6231 will be the first clinical demonstration of subcutaneous administration of this delivery technology.
Both of these new autoimmune development candidates share the same delivery technology as mRNA-1944, the antibody against chikungunya, reducing technology risk. The autoimmune therapeutic area is Moderna’s fifth therapeutic area, in addition to infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases and cardiovascular diseases.
Program Updates by Modality:
Prophylactic vaccines: Moderna is developing vaccines against viral diseases where there is unmet medical need – including complex vaccines with multiple antigens for common diseases, as well as vaccines against threats to global public health.
Serious infections transmitted from mother to baby
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) vaccine (mRNA-1647): Moderna recently announced positive seven-month interim data after the third and final vaccination from the Phase 1 study of mRNA-1647, as well as dosing of the first participant in the Phase 2 dose-confirmation study of mRNA-1647. Manufacturing and planning are underway for the pivotal Phase 3 study designed to evaluate the efficacy of mRNA-1647 against primary CMV infection in a population that includes women of childbearing age, expected to start in 2021. Moderna owns worldwide commercial rights for mRNA-1647.
Zika virus (mRNA-1893): The 10 µg and 30 µg cohorts in the Phase 1 study of mRNA-1893 have been fully enrolled. This development candidate is being developed in collaboration with the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Moderna owns worldwide commercial rights to mRNA-1893.
Serious respiratory infections
Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) and parainfluenza type 3 (PIV3) vaccine (mRNA-1653): The first participant in the Phase 1b age de-escalation study of hMPV/PIV3 vaccine (mRNA-1653) has been dosed. Moderna previously announced positive data from the second pre-planned interim analysis of the Phase 1 study of mRNA-1653. Moderna owns worldwide commercial rights to mRNA-1653.
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine (mRNA-1172 or V172): The Phase 1 study of mRNA-1172 led by Merck is ongoing. Moderna has licensed worldwide commercial rights to mRNA-1172 to Merck.
Global public health programs
The Company’s global public health portfolio is focused on epidemic and pandemic diseases for which funding has been sought from government and non-profit organizations. Given current funding and priorities, the influenza H10N8 vaccine (mRNA-1440) and chikungunya vaccine (mRNA-1388) are being deprioritized at this time, contingent upon future funding. Discussions on funding the Company’s influenza H7N9 vaccine program through approval are ongoing.
Cancer Vaccines: These programs focus on stimulating a patient’s immune system with antigens derived from tumor-specific mutations to enable the immune system to elicit a more effective anti-tumor response.
Personalized cancer vaccine (PCV) (mRNA-4157): The randomized Phase 2 study investigating a 1 mg dose of mRNA-4157 in combination with Merck’s pembrolizumab (KEYTRUDA®), compared to pembrolizumab alone, for the adjuvant treatment of high-risk resected melanoma is ongoing. The Phase 1 study is ongoing. Moderna shares worldwide commercial rightsto mRNA-4157 with Merck.
KRAS vaccine (mRNA-5671 or V941): The Phase 1 open-label, multi-center study to evaluate the safety and tolerability of mRNA-5671 both as a monotherapy and in combination with pembrolizumab, led by Merck, is ongoing. Moderna sharesworldwide commercial rights to mRNA-5671 with Merck.
Intratumoral Immuno-Oncology: These programs aim to drive anti-cancer T cell responses by injecting mRNA therapies directly into tumors.
OX40L (mRNA-2416): The first patient has been dosed in the Phase 1 dose escalation cohort of mRNA-2416 in combination with durvalumab (IMFINZI®). The Company has removed the top dose of 8 mg in this cohort based on limitations due to the size of ovarian lesions. Moderna owns worldwide commercial rights to mRNA-2416.
OX40L/IL-23/IL-36γ (Triplet) (mRNA-2752): The Phase 1 trial evaluating mRNA-2752 as a single agent and in combination with durvalumab in patients with advanced solid tumor malignancies and lymphoma is ongoing. mRNA-2752 is an investigational mRNA immuno-oncology therapy that encodes a novel combination of three immunomodulators. Moderna owns worldwide commercial rights to mRNA-2752.
IL-12 (MEDI1191): The Phase 1 open-label, multi-center study of intratumoral injections of MEDI1191 alone and in combination with durvalumab in patients with advanced solid tumors, led by AstraZeneca, is ongoing. MEDI1191 is an mRNA encoding for IL-12, a potent immunomodulatory cytokine. Moderna shares worldwide commercial rights to MEDI1191 with AstraZeneca.
Localized Regenerative Therapeutics: Localized production of proteins has the potential to be used as a regenerative medicine for damaged tissues.
VEGF-A (AZD8601): The Phase 2a study of AZD8601 for VEGF-A for ischemic heart disease in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery with moderately impaired systolic function, led by AstraZeneca, is ongoing. Moderna has licensed worldwide commercial rights to AZD8601 to AstraZeneca.
Systemic Secreted & Cell Surface Therapeutics: In this modality, mRNA is delivered systemically to create proteins that are either secreted or expressed on the cell surface.
Antibody against the chikungunya virus (mRNA-1944): Moderna recently announced positive interim data from the first analysis of safety and activity in the Phase 1 study evaluating escalating doses of mRNA-1944 administered via intravenous infusion in healthy adults. Dosing of the cohort at 0.6 mg/kg with steroid premedication has begun. Dosing of an additional cohort with two doses of 0.3 mg/kg (without steroid premedication) given one week apart is expected. Moderna owns worldwide commercial rights to mRNA-1944.
IL-2 (mRNA-6231): mRNA-6231 is an mRNA encoding for a long-acting IL-2 mutein. This new autoimmune development candidate is designed to preferentially activate and expand the regulatory T cell population. The Company plans to conduct a Phase 1 study of mRNA-6231 in healthy adult volunteers. mRNA-6231 uses the same LNP formulation as mRNA-1944. The Phase 1 study of mRNA-6231 will be the first clinical demonstration of subcutaneous administration of this delivery technology. Moderna owns worldwide commercial rights to mRNA-6231.
PD-L1 (mRNA-6981): mRNA-6981 is an mRNA encoding for PD-L1. This new autoimmune development candidate is designed to augment cell surface expression of PD-L1 on myeloid cells to provide co-inhibitory signals to self-reactive lymphocytes. As an initial step to addressing a range of autoimmune indications, the Company intends to pursue proof-of-concept in a Phase 1 study of mRNA-6981 in type 1 autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), a condition that involves liver inflammation and can lead to cirrhosis and liver failure. mRNA-6981 uses the same LNP formulation as mRNA-1944. Moderna owns worldwide commercial rights to mRNA-6981.
Relaxin (AZD7970): Partnered with AstraZeneca, AZD7970 is in preclinical development for the treatment of heart failure. Under the terms of the collaboration, AstraZeneca would sponsor the Phase 1 trial to assess safety, tolerability and duration of systemic exposure to the Relaxin protein. Moderna shares worldwide commercial rights to AZD7970 with AstraZeneca.
Fabry disease (mRNA-3630): Individuals with Fabry disease have a deficiency in the α-GAL enzyme resulting in a reduced or complete inability to metabolize glycosphingolipids in lysosomes. mRNA-3630 aims to instruct cells to produce α-GLA both locally in multiple affected tissues, and to secrete it into circulation from organs such as the liver for delivery to distal tissues. mRNA-3630 is in preclinical development. Moderna owns worldwide commercial rights to mRNA-3630.
Systemic Intracellular Therapeutics: These programs aim to deliver mRNA into cells within target organs as a therapeutic approach for diseases caused by a missing or defective protein.
Methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) (mRNA-3704): The Phase 1/2 open-label, dose escalation study is actively recruiting patients for the first cohort at U.S. sites following a protocol amendment expanding the eligibility criteria to patients 8 years and older for the first cohort. This study is evaluating mRNA-3704 for the treatment of MMA due to methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (MUT) deficiency. The Company is planning to initiate several sites outside the U.S. and recently received Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approval in the U.K. The objectives of this study are to evaluate safety and tolerability, assess the pharmacodynamic response and characterize the pharmacokinetic profile of mRNA-3704. This is Moderna’s first rare disease program to advance into clinical testing. The mRNA-3704 program uses the same LNP formulation as mRNA-1944. Moderna owns worldwide commercial rights to mRNA-3704.
Propionic acidemia (PA) (mRNA-3927): Study start-up in the U.S. is ongoing for the open-label, multi-center Phase 1/2 study of multiple ascending doses of mRNA-3927 in primarily pediatric patients with PA. The objectives of this study are to evaluate the safety and tolerability of mRNA-3927 administered via IV infusion, assess the pharmacodynamic response as assessed by changes in plasma biomarkers and characterize the pharmacokinetic profile of mRNA-3927. The mRNA-3927 program uses the same LNP formulation as mRNA-1944. Moderna owns worldwide commercial rights to mRNA-3927.
MMA and PA Natural History Study (MaP): This is a global, multi-center, non-interventional study for patients with confirmed diagnosis of MMA due to MUT deficiency or PA and is designed to identify and correlate clinical and biomarker endpoints for these disorders.
Phenylketonuria (PKU) (mRNA-3283): Individuals with PKU have a deficiency in phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) resulting in a reduced or complete inability to metabolize the essential amino acid phenylalanine into tyrosine. mRNA-3283 encodes human PAH to restore the deficient or defective intracellular enzyme activity in patients with PKU. mRNA-3283 is in preclinical development. Moderna owns worldwide commercial rights to mRNA-3283.
Glycogen storage disease type 1a (GSD1a) (mRNA-3745): Individuals with GSD1a have a deficiency in glucose-6-phosphatase resulting in pathological blood glucose imbalance. mRNA-3745 is an IV-administered mRNA encoding human G6Pase enzyme, designed to restore deficient or defective intracellular enzyme activity in patients with GSD1a. mRNA-3745 is in preclinical development. Moderna owns worldwide commercial rights to mRNA-3745.
Information about each development candidate in Moderna’s pipeline, including those discussed in this press release, can be found on the investor relations page of its website: https://investors.modernatx.com/.
Moderna continues to execute on its corporate objectives for 2019-2020, which include:
Generate human proof-of-concept data for multiple medicines
Execute on current development pipeline
Create new development candidates in existing modalities
Invent new modalities
Corporate Updates
Continued growth across organization: Moderna ended 2019 with approximately 820 full time employees. The Company ended 2018 with 735 employees.
Continued strong cash position: The Company expects cash, cash equivalents, and investments at December 31, 2019 to be approximately $1.26 billion (unaudited), as compared to $1.69 billion as of December 31, 2018. Reiterating prior guidance, in 2020, the Company expects net cash used in operating activities and purchases of property and equipment to be between $490 million and $510 million.
Strategic alliances and available grant funding: The Company has established a wide range of strategic alliances with leading biopharmaceutical companies, as well as government-sponsored and private organizations focused on global health initiatives. Strategic collaborators contribute their therapeutic expertise, help to validate Moderna’s mRNA platform and have provided a quarter of the Company’s total capital to date. As of December 31, 2019, Moderna had up to $184 million in additional funding available from grants (including amounts not yet committed)1.
NASDAQ Biotech Index: The Company was added to the NASDAQ Biotech Index effective December 23, 2019.
Shareholder Letter: Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel published a letter to shareholders on January 6, 2020.
Key 2020 Investor and Analyst Event Dates
Manufacturing & Digital Day – March 4 at Moderna’s Norwood, MA facility
Vaccines Day – April 14 in New York City
Science Day – June 4 in New York City
R&D Day – September 17 in New York City
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Moderna currently has strategic alliances for development programs with AstraZeneca, Plc. (NASDAQ: AZN) and Merck, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRK), as well as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (NASDAQ: DARPA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a division of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Moderna has been named a top biopharmaceutical employer by Science for the past five years. To learn more, visit www.modernatx.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, including, but limited to, statements concerning: the success of the Company’s new autoimmune and inflammatory diseases therapeutic area; the timing and success of the Company’s planned Phase 1 studies of mRNA-6231 and mRNA-6981; the timing of expansion of its pipeline of innovative vaccines; the timing of the initiation of the Phase 2 study for mRNA-1647; the adequacy of the Company’s cash, cash equivalents and investments; the Company’s ability to retain its senior management and employees; the Company’s ability to maintain current and enter into new collaborations with partners; the Company’s ability to obtain funding to support the future clinical development of mRNA-1440 and mRNA-1388; the Company’s ability to fund its influenza H7N9 vaccine program through approval; the timing and expected outcome of Moderna’s clinical studies of its other development candidates; the Company’s ability to advance its preclinical-stage development candidates into clinical development; the Company’s ability to execute on its corporate objectives; and the Company’s ability to receive additional grant funding. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “will,” “may,” “should,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “aims,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” “continue,” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology, although not all forward-looking statements contain these words. The forward-looking statements in this press release are neither promises nor guarantees, and you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements because they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond Moderna’s control and which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties, and other factors include, among others: the success of the Company’s new autoimmune and inflammatory diseases therapeutic area; the clinical success of subcutaneous administration of its delivery technology; the ability to build upon the clinical validation of the systemic delivery of mRNA provided by mRNA-1944; the Company’s belief that recent positive Phase 1 data from its infectious disease vaccine portfolio and chikungunya antibody program have de-risked its prophylactic vaccines and systemic therapeutics modalities; the timing and success of Moderna’s clinical studies of its development candidates; the ability of the Company to advance a rare disease program into clinical testing; and those risks and uncertainties described under the heading “Risk Factors” in Moderna’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and in subsequent filings made by Moderna with the SEC, which are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Except as required by law, Moderna disclaims any intention or responsibility for updating or revising any forward-looking statements contained in this press release in the event of new information, future developments or otherwise. These forward-looking statements are based on Moderna’s current expectations and speak only as of the date hereof.
1Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). Additional funding is subject to agreement on scope of additional projects.
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This side-splitting new comedy comes to London’s Noel Coward Theatre just in time for Christmas 2020! Do not miss your chance to see the comedy duo from The Pin live on stage. Book your tickets for The Comeback now to avoid holiday disappointment.
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This original new play is sure to have the whole family in stitches! Brought to you by the award-winning duo from The Pin, Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen The Comeback is guaranteed to have you rolling in the aisles. This show has just the right balance of upbeat, head spinning escapism, bittersweet nostalgia and heart-warming feelings-- and to top it all off there will be a celebrity guest each night!
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When two comics on the rise, Ben and Alex, are booked to open up for a well-loved, though slightly past their prime, duo’s comeback tour feathers are bound to get ruffled. Neither pair are overly thrilled to be playing to an underwhelming crowd in a sleepy seaside village. But when rumour says that there’s a big Hollywood director secretly in the audience both acts are sure they’ve finally got a change to make their big break.
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96% of businesses say hiring an apprentice has brought at least one benefit to their business, according to research from the Department for Education (DfE). 202,000 new apprentices are expected to be taken on in the next 12 months, with current trainee-friendly businesses reporting a number of positive outcomes directly related to their fledgling worker. Apprenticeship Levy: What You Need to Know Over 75% of firms that employ novice workers report increased productivity thanks to product/service improvement, while more than 24,000 private enterprises say that hiring a beginner has actually helped them win business. National Apprentice Week runs from March 6-10 which helps raise awareness of the opportunities apprenticeships can offer school leavers, graduates and the unemployed. Mike Cher... »
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Sony UK Technology Centre Ffilm Factory 35 ‘thrilled’ to be among Decline and Fall filming locations
By Raspberry Jim, 30th April 2017
Wales’s flourishing film industry will once again be on display this week when an all-star adaptation of Decline and Fall hits our screens.
Evelyn Waugh’s comedy novel is set to appear on BBC One from Friday night starring comedian Jack Whitehall and Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria.
The TV mini series adapted from the 1928 novel, which also stars actor David Suchet, Tim Pigott-Smith and Nickolas Grace, is being brought to screens thanks to Fortitude producer Matthew Bird and writer James Wood.
And, in a further sign of confidence in the Welsh film and TV industry, the highly anticipated production was partly filmed just 20 minutes outside Cardiff.
Among its filming locations were Castell Coch, Pinewood’s Welsh Studio, Llantwit Major, and Sony UK Technology Centre (UK TEC) in Pencoed.
Sony UK TEC, which produces thousands of professional HD and 4K broadcast cameras annually has recently become a beacon for high-profile productions.
This is thanks to the success of its Ffilm Factory 35, which has hosted TV shows including Dr Who, American historical drama Will, and film thriller The Chamber.
The 30,000sq ft facility boasts easy access to the M4, on-site security 24 hours seven days a week, access via four loading bays, a variety of on-site services including a canteen for catering, space to house unit base and crew parking, a cinema room for screening, and on-site post-production facilities.
Sony UK TEC director of professional services Gerald Kelly said it was “thrilling” for the Pencoed site to consistently be chosen among filming locations for some of the biggest shows of the moment.
He said: “Since launching the Ffilm Factory in 2015 we have been blown away with the incredible response from the British and Welsh film industry.
“The facility has proved to be a huge success and we have been delighted to welcome some of the biggest productions of the moment to Pencoed.
“We were extremely excited to host the cast and crew of Decline and Fall, which we all look forward to watching from this week.
“We have also recently welcomed two more huge productions filming at Pencoed – Dr Who and Will – which truly demonstrates the versatility the Ffilm Factory can offer.
“I feel that the continued interest not just in our Ffilm Factory, but for filming in Wales, is an encouraging sign for the industry and we are thrilled to be a part of its success.”
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Diplomas: senior general secondary education (havo)
The total number of young people (aged 12-24 years) awarded a diploma after passing final exams in senior general secondary education (havo).
The numbers of young people passing school exams are based on the exam results register of the education inspectorate collected by the Information Management Group (IB-Groep). This register contains the exam details of more than 95 percent of all school exam candidates.
The figures in this publication refer to young people who pass exams in mainstream schools. Candidates who withdraw and those sitting state exams are not included.
The data refer to school years. 2005 is school year 2005/'06. The figures on passes refer to the situation at the end of the school year.
Data available from school year 2003/'04.
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August 3, 2013 14thdaymom
… Another baby protected to death while in the governments’ care…
A loving father lost custody of his little girl last November in Austin, Tx, after he admitted to.smoking marijuana at night after he put his child down for bedtime.
The precious little girl was not ill, or harmed by her fathers nightcap, nor was she exposed to the marijuana he smoked, yet this loving parent had his two year old baby girl taken by CPS and placed in foster care last fall.
At visits, the father noticed bruises on his daughter, and voiced his concerns for the welfare of his little girl at the foster home she’d been placed in. Those concerns went ignored by CPS.
Now this beautiful baby girl was MURDERED in foster care by an abusive foster mom who was in it for the money! Below is an article where the woman admits, after changing her story a few times, that she slammed the little two year old girl down on her head at least two times before losing her grip the third time, dropping the girl on her head. Causing her death.
The foster mother was angry at the little girl for waking up hungry and getting herself something to eat and some water to drink out of the kitchen. So she killed her.
This child was removed from her natural home because of a father’s recreational marijuana use. The same natural herb that is rapidly being decriminalized in many other U.S. states!! Really.
As an advocate for the foster children and families torn apart wrongly by the system, I have stated before, my stance, on the issue of drug use and CPS. I strongly believe that absent evidence of abuse or neglect, and absent injury or harm to the child,there should be no reason for the removal of that child from their natural home solely because of a parents’ drug use and/or drug addiction particularly if there is no reason to believe that the drug was never used in the presence of the child. If the use of the marijuana was kept outside the child’s awareness, smoked after bedtime, I do not agree with the removal of that child solely due to that recreational marijuana use if it truly had no deleterious effect on the child, and where there is no other sign of abuse or neglect, and no injury to the child!
If the social worker truly believes a parent has a drug problem.. there are plenty of outpatient rehabilitation programs available for the parent to receive help that the CPS worker could refer the parent to, while keeping the family unit in-tact.
Had an approach such a that been utilized in this situation, this baby girl would not have suffered abuse by the FOSTER PARENT and would not have been brutally and senselessly murdered! I also question the worker monitoring the visits who failed to investigate the signs of abuse that the father pointed out with obvious concern. What happened there?
What this is .. is a child welfare system failure at its worst!
I hope this case grinds deep into the minds of every cps worker. I hope this reminds them to rethink when they begin to needlessly remove a child from an abuse-free/neglect-free home where other in-home services are available.
CHILDREN ARE NOT A SOURCE OF INCOME …. THIS WOMAN, when convicted (seems inevitable since she’s already confessed though, technically, she is still innocent til proven guilty in the court of law) (supposedly) SHE DESERVES DEATH…(and in my opinion,a slow painful death)
It should be recorded and televised for foster parents to-be to watch in training class. Then maybe the “monsters to-be” who are getting into foster parenting to “earn an income” like this monster did.. will reconsider fostering and go get a JOB away from our children if they saw something REAL AND JUST being done about those who abuse and kill foster children!
God be with this baby girls’ family in this time of grief.
I hope this tragic loss changes something in the system, for change is so drastically needed.
May this little girls death not be in vain.
ROCKDALE POLICE: FOSTER MOTHER ADMITS SHE SLAMMED TWO YEAR OLD FOSTER CHILD ON HER HEAD
by ASHLEY GOUDEAU / KVUE News and Photojournalist ERIN COKER Bio | Email | Follow: @AshleyG_KVUE
ROCKDALE, Texas — Tucked away behind the trees in Rockdale, Texas is a normally quiet neighborhood, but the peace has been shattered.
“It shocked me. It really did,” said Lois Rash, who lives in Rockdale.
“It’s a shame. Never should have happened,” added neighbor Larry McAdams.
Their neighbor, 54-year-old Sherill Small is now charged with the murder of her foster daughter Alexandria Hill, better known as Alex.
Monday night, police, fire and EMS crews were called out to the Small home. Small, who was the only person home at the time, called and said the two-year-old wasn’t breathing.
Alex was taken to the hospital, then airlifted to the children’s hospital in Temple. Alex’s biological parents rushed to her side.
“When I got there, it was about 1:00 in the morning and I found out that Alex was in a coma,” said her father Joshua Hill.
Wednesday night Hill and Alex’s mother decided to take her off life support.
“There’s not words to describe trying to make that decision,” said Hill.
Back in Rockdale, police say Small’s story about what happened kept changing.
“Originally, Mrs. Small reported that the child was running backwards and had fallen and this is how she had received the injuries. Later, it changed to kind of we were playing ring-around-the-rosy and I was swinging her and she fell,” said Rockdale Police Chief Thomas Harris. “And at some point somebody had gotten information that she was supposed to have been riding a bicycle and fallen off.”
Chief Harris said things just didn’t add up.
“I mean a two year old child doesn’t run backwards and fall hard enough to get this type of an injury,” explained Harris.
Doctors say Alex had hemorrhaging in her brain and eyes. An autopsy shows she had blunt force trauma to the head.
Harris says Thursday morning, Small finally told them the truth.
“She had evidently been frustrated with the child all day long. She had… the child… had evidently gotten up before the Small’s did and she had went and got into some food and some water,” said Harris. “That is what Mrs. Small was initially upset with her about…. had made her stand in a dark room, according to our reports, for at least three-to-four hours, wouldn’t let her sit or anything.”
Then around 7:00 that night, the young child, so full of life, was knocked unconscious.
“She actually admitted that she had slung the child down on the floor,” said Harris.
Small told investigators she raised the toddler over her head and slung her down toward the floor twice.
“On the third time down she said she lost her grip and dropped the child. Slammed the child down on the floor,” explained Harris.
Harris says Small’s husband, who wasn’t home when the incident happened, became emotional and even cried when talking to police. But not Small.
“I did not see a whole lot of remorse. I think it’s more like a lot of times these people’s, they’re sorry that they’re in trouble. This is the sense that I get. It’s still about them, it’s not really remorse about the child. I never got that feeling,” added Harris.
The Small’s had another foster child who is eight-months-old. That child has been removed.
Police say neither Small or her husband had jobs, but were instead planning to foster between five and six children as a source of income.
Small is in the Milam County Jail. Her bond has been set at $100,000.
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Suicide is the third leading cause of death among adolescents world wide. TODAY 6 children will commit suicide due to child abuse.
In Los Angeles, a 9 year old foster child hung himself while taking psychotropic medications that were not FDA approved for children . His mother that lost him to foster care had allegations of abuse that were never substantiated. She did, however, get a jail term on a marijuana case.
When the pain exceeds the ability to cope..
Researchers explain that suicides are caused by social and emotional conditions rather than a mentaldisease . Furthermore it is often associated with hundreds of suicides & suicide attempts .
” Researchers discovered attention problems & aggressive or delinquent behavior in 40 per cent of children aged five to 17 who were in home-based foster care,up to eight times more than in the general school -age population ” (Gough 2007 ).
Though the statistics vary extensively, it is generally believed that some 18% of patients with psychological problems finally do kill themselves, & illnesses may be associated with approximately 50 percent of all suicides (Youth Suicide Fact Sheet 2009 ).
Browne (2002) states that children in single family foster homes are more apt to commit suicides because of emotional & financial reasons.
Abrupt emotional trauma or upset doesn’t always cause suicidal ideals, there is believed to be an inherited factor involved in the kind of major depression that leads to suicide.
If a person has such a chemical makeup, the ordinary hurtful life events that make many of us mildly depressed can perhaps touch off a major clinical psychological distress.
” Severely depressed teenagers who attempted suicide while they investigate participants in one study of psychological distress excreted radically increased
amounts of this hormone in their urine just before they tried to kill themselves” (Browne 2002, p. 22).
Then, half of another group of depressed teens in the study — all with suicidal signs — researchers found to have high levels in the amounts of hormone found in their blood; more important, three patients who succeeded in killing themselves, and two who nearly did so, had high levels of the hormone prior to suicide or attempted suicide .
Single family foster homes are dangerous to these teenagers because they feel alone & insecure in those “families”. That can lead to social isolation, withdrawal from others, & suicidal thoughts &feelings .then they keep to themselves, & brew on dying.deep inside…& instead of reaching out for help or talking to someone they trust, they trust no one.
They tell no one. .. until they write their note ..thats when its apparent how desperate they felt, but its too late by that time to save them. Ironically their goal in committing suicide was to end their suffering & pain, but by ending their life, they are not alive to feel their pain cease. So the only feeling they will realize is their desperation & suffering that’s causing them to be suicidal. The relief does not come…
Their relief is only possible if there is someone who notices the signs of suicide beforehand who will get them help…
Those who work with foster kids about to “age out” should take particular notice to possible suicidal signs in teens. The “aging out” of foster care happens at the age of 18 for approximately 20,000 youth annually … suicide is rampant among these teens.
The number of those “aging out” of foster care was increasing and studies were consistently showing that these “aged out” children had serious adjustment problems transitioning to adulthood:
38% had emotional problems,50% used drugs, 48% did not have a high school education, & 25% had prior involvement with legal system.
They are the most likely candidates for homelessness, unemployment, and.incarceration.
It is estimated that 60% or more of the prison populations were abused as children and/or were ex-foster children and up to 60% of teens who “aged out” have experienced homelessness.
70% to 75% end up in prostitution, on drugs or dealing drugs.
With a future not so bright, many of them just kill themselves.
They don’t know what else to do.
They are scared.
They feel alone.
The same people ..the same system who intrusively took them from their homes, kept them, controlled them, changed them, damaged them, now abandon them at age 18.
They don’t stick around like families do to turn to in hard times. The system forgets about them once they “age out” and their families no longer exist, thanks to the system.
They are alone.
While suicide is the third leading cause of death for youth, suicide deaths are often preventable. Preventing suicidal behavior in youth involves a diverse range of interventions including effective treatment of those with mental illness and substance abuse, early detection of and support for youth in crisis, promotion of mental health, training in life skills, and reduction of access to the means of suicide.
Many youth in foster care experience trauma and risk factors such as mental illness, substance abuse, and family discord. They are more likely than other youth to think about, attempt, and die by suicide, so it is important to learn about prevention.
Losing a youth to suicide affects a community greatly. Aside from the devastating loss of a young person’s future and potential contributions to society, the bereaved families and friends are at higher risk for suicide themselves.
In 2009, 4,630 youth aged 10 to 24 died by suicide.
Studies have found that youth involved in child welfare or juvenile justice were 3 to 5 times more likely to die by suicide than youth in the general population (Farand, 2004; Thompson, 1995).
A large-scale study in Sweden found more than twice the relative risk for suicide among alumni of long-term foster care compared to peers after adjusting for risk factors (Hjern et al., 2004).
One of the strongest predictors for suicide deaths is a suicide attempt. Among high school students 6.3 percent reported having attempted suicide one or more times in the previous 12 months (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010).
Attempts point to a youth who in unbearable distress. As a result, foster parents and caregivers of youth who attempt suicide need to pay attention and follow up with them. Adolescents who had been in foster care were nearly four times more likely to have attempted suicide than other youth (Pilowsky & Wu, 2006).
Experiencing childhood abuse or trauma increased the risk of attempted suicide 2- to 5-fold (Dube et al., 2001).
Adverse childhood experiences play a major role in suicide attempts. One study found that approximately two thirds of suicide attempts may be attributable to abusive or traumatic childhood experiences (Dube et al., 2001).
Thoughts about taking one’s life range from passing thoughts to constant thoughts, from passive wishes to be dead to active planning for making a suicide attempt.
Among high school students 13.8 percent reported having seriously considered attempting suicide in the previous 12 months (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010).
Youth considering attempting suicide have significant mental health needs. Families of and caregivers for youth in foster care can help to reduce some risk factors, and support and advocate for services to build protective factors.
Other factors can’t be changed, but are important to address.
Mental illness including substance abuse
Prior suicide attempt
Self injury
Abuse and neglect
Parental mental illness and substance abuse
Family conflict and dysfunction
Family history of suicidal behavior
Poor coping skills
Social/interpersonal isolation/alienation Exposure to suicides and attempts
Suicide means availability/firearm in household
Violence and victimization
Being bullied, bullying
PROTECTIVE FACTORS
Psychological or emotional well-being Family connectedness
Safe school,school connectedness
Caring adult
Connectedness, support, communication with parents
Frequent, vigorous physical activity, sports Reduced access to alcohol, firearms, medications
For foster parents:
Contact your state suicide prevention coalition to find suicide prevention training, resources, and conferences.
To find your state suicide prevention coalition see http://www.sprc.org/states .
Being depressed is not a normal part of adolescence. If a youth seems especially sad or stops his or her usual activities, get help. For most youth in foster care, trauma-focused therapy is critical. The foster family may need to help their youth through stress reactions and to manage triggers.
Find our more at the National Child Traumatic Stress Network at http://www.nctsn.org/
You CAN help prevent suicide.
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10 Things To Remember If A Social Worker Comes To Your Home
August 21, 2012 14thdaymom
1. Ask for the social workers business card. Have your attorney contact the worker on your behalf if the situation is hostile.
2. Find out the allegations before allowing the social worker access to your home or child.
3. Do not waive your rights to be protected from illegal search and seizures by allowing anyone in your home without a court order or warrant.
These rights are guaranteed under the 4th amendment of the US CONSTITUTION.
4. Insist on being present when your child is interviewed by the social worker.
5. Tell the social worker you will call them after consulting an attorney. Then call an attorney.
6. Ignore intimidations. Social workers are trained bluffers.
7. Offer supportive evidence-
~A dr.’s statement after exam of child.
~References from individuals vouching for your good parenting.~Photos or home videos exhibiting happy healthy children.
8. Bring a tape recorder or credible witnesses to all meetings. Limit discussions to allegations and try not to tell past family events beyond what they already know.
What you say can and will be used against you.
9. Avoid potential situations likely to lead to cps investigations-
~spank in public
~do not leave children home alone
~do not spank other people’s children.
10. Pray and elicit prayers and support of local church members.
“The Government’s interest in the welfare of children embraces not only protecting children from physical abuse but protecting childrens’ interest in the privacy and dignity of their homes and in the lawfully exercised authority of their parents.” Calabretta v. Floyd 189 F.3d (9th cir 1999)
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Caseworkers changed, destroyed records in starvation case
December 23, 2007 14thdaymom
Documents: Counties changed, destroyed records in starvation case
Caseworkers from two neighboring counties and a state agency doctored or destroyed records pertaining to a 4-year-old girl whose starved body was found stuffed into a picnic cooler, according to a newspaper’s review of court documents.
One caseworker testified in a pretrial deposition that her supervisor ordered her to burn records pertaining to the girl, Kristen Tatar.
“And make sure that you sit down with a glass of wine and a box of Kleenex when you burn Kristen’s” records, Penn State Cooperative Extension worker Pam Walmsley testified in a deposition detailing her supervisor’s instructions. “And get it out of your system and move on.”
Tatar’s 11 1/2-pound body was found stuffed into the cooler that had been set on a curb for trash pickup behind her Armstrong County home in August 2003. Her parents, James Tatar and Janet Crawford, are serving life sentences for starving her to death.
Criminal investigators determined the couple grossly underfed the girl, who was often tied to a chair with a pacifier in her mouth and rarely bathed or nurtured.
The horrific details of Tatar’s life and death are scheduled to receive a second, more detailed airing in April when a federal judge in Pittsburgh hears a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the girl’s aunt, Cathy Fondrk. Fondrk, of Hyde Park, has adopted Kristen’s surviving brother and sued her parents and various child welfare agencies on behalf of the boy.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Wednesday reported that documents filed in the case reveal that Armstrong County officials admitted that they added details to Kristen’s case file after police found her body.
But Armstrong County officials are convinced that Westmoreland County officials also doctored records. Armstrong County has hired a chemist who will testify that dates and signatures on various forms don’t match, based on his analysis of the ink used.
A key issue in the case is whether Westmoreland officials should have warned Armstrong County that the girl was at “high” risk for abuse, not “moderate” or “low” as various Westmoreland records reflected.
Fondrk sued caseworkers and officials in Armstrong County, where the girl died; the Westmoreland Children’s Bureau and some of its caseworkers who supervised Kristen case before her parents moved to Armstrong County in 2001; and the Penn State Cooperative Extension, whose employees helped Westmoreland County supervise the Tatar case.
Westmoreland County officials got a judge to declare the girl dependent and in county custody due to neglect, and twice placed her in foster care in 1999 and 2000.
Generally, the Armstrong County defendants contend Westmoreland County never relinquished jurisdiction in the case, even after Kristen’s parents moved with her to Armstrong County. Westmoreland defendants have argued in court papers that they did the best they could to supervise the girl, but were not ultimately responsible for her death in another county because Armstrong County caseworkers had begun supervising the case by then.
The state Department of Welfare in 2003 found that Westmoreland caseworkers failed to monitor whether Kristen was getting adequate medical attention and that “lax supervision” and “infrequency” of caseworker visits led to the girl’s death.
Information from: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, http://pghtrib.com
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Schaefer: Trial by jury needed to remove child
December 2, 2007 14thdaymom
Last modified Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:03 AM EST
By Tom Law
Source: The Toccoa Record
State Sen. Nancy Schaefer last week called for an overhaul of the state’s child protection services provided through the Department of Family and Children’s Services (DFCS).
Among the recommendations by Schaefer, who represents the 50th District which includes Stephens County, was that a jury trial be held when a child is taken from their parents.
Schaefer also called for the requirement of a warrant signed by a judge before removing a child from their parents, except in an emergency situation such as a medical crisis.
“The Department of Family and Children’s Service, known as the Department of Child Protective Services in other states, has become a protected empire built on taking children and separating families,”
Schaefer said in a lengthy e-mail…
“This is not to say there are not children who do need to be removed from wretched situations and need protection,”
Schaefer said.
“This report is concerned with the children and parents caught in legal kidnapping, ineffective policies and DFCS that does not remove a child or children when a child is enduring torment and abuse.”
Schaefer offered as an example an unnamed county in her district where she met with 37 families to discuss the “gestapo” tactics of the DFCS.
“I witnessed the deceitful conditions under which children were taken in the middle of the night, out of hospitals and off school busses,”
“Having worked with probably 300 cases statewide, I am convinced there is no responsibility and no accountability in the system.”
Among Schaefer’s conclusions:
Poor parents are targeted to lose their children because they do not have the wherewithal to hire lawyers and fight the system.
“Being poor does not mean you are not a good parent or that you do not love your child or that your child should be removed and placed with strangers,”
All parents are capable of making mistakes and that making a mistake does not mean children should be removed from the home.
Parenting classes, anger management classes, counseling referrals, therapy classes, etc. are demanded of parents with no compassion by the system while they are at work and while their children are separated from them.
Caseworkers and social workers are often guilty of fraud.
“They withhold evidence. They fabricate evidence and they seek to terminate parental rights. However, when charges are made against them, the charges are ignored,” Schaefer said.
Separation of families is a growing business because local governments have grown accustomed to having taxpayer dollars to balance their ever-expanding budgets.
DFCS and juvenile court can always hide behind a confidentiality clause in order to protect their decisions.
There are no financial resources and no real drive to unite a family and help keep them together.
The incentive for social workers to return children to their parents quickly after taking them has disappeared.
The policy manual for DFCS is considered the last word.“The manual is too long, too confusing, poorly written and doesn’t take the law into consideration,” Schaefer said.
Children removed from homes may not be safer in foster care.“Children of whom I am aware have been raped and impregnated in foster care and the head of a foster parents association in my district was recently arrested because of child molestation,” Schaefer said.
Grandparents are not often contacted by DFCS when children are removed from homes.“Grandparents who lose their grandchildren to strangers have lost their own flesh and blood. The children lose their family heritage, and grandparents lose all connections to their heirs,” Schaefer said.Schaefer is calling for an independent audit of DFCS to expose possible “corruption and fraud.”She also called for immediate change. “Every day that passes means more families and children are subject to being held hostage.”Schaefer said any financial incentives to separate families should end, and parents should be given their rights in writing.She also called for a required search for family members to be given the opportunity to adopt their own relatives, and when someone fabricates or presents false evidence, a hearing should be held with the right to discovery of all evidence.
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Kiarostami Book Withdrawn From Sale As Ex-Wife Sues, Court Bans Release
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By Kayhan Life Staff
A court in Tehran has issued a cease and desist order to Nazar Publishers, banning it from distributing copies of a book by the late filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, titled “Man Khane Am” (I Am at Home: A Collection of Abbas Kiarostami’s Letters), the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) reports.
The court ruling follows a lawsuit by Mr. Kiarostami’s former wife, Parvin Amirgholi, and his son Ahmad Kiarostami.
“Parvin Amirgholi (Abbas Kiarostami’s former wife), and Ahmad Kiarostami did not approve the publication of ‘I Am at Home,’” Maryam Kianersi, the lawyer for Ms. Amirgholi and Ahmad Kiarostami, told ILNA. “That is why Mr. Kiarostami and Ms. Amirgholi have objected to the publication of this book.”
“Following the ruling by the honorable judge presiding over the case, the authorities seized hundreds of copies of the book at the publisher’s office,” Ms. Kianersi added.
The book reportedly contains a collection of Kiarostami’s private letters to his former wife.
Nazar Publishers has disputed the claims by Ms. Amirgholi and Ahmad Kiarostami.
“Nazar Publishers will remain silent concerning Mr. Ahmad Kiarostami’s untrue remarks,” Nazar’s managing-director Mahmoudreza Bahmanpour was quoted by the English-language Tehran Times as saying.
FILE PHOTO: Director Abbas Kiarostami poses during a photocall for the film 'Like Someone in Love' in competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival, May 21, 2012. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
Abbas Kiarostami underwent four operations in Iran before his death on July 4, 2016 at a hospital in Paris. He was reportedly suffering from a severe gastrointestinal disease.
There have been conflicting reports about the cause of his death.
The head of the Medical Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRIMC), Alireza Zali, told reporters in May 2017 that Kiarostami died after suffering a severe hemorrhage (subdural hematoma).
“Kiarostami died of an overdose of Heparin,” Mr. Zali said. “According to his file, Kiarostami was treated for pulmonary embolism by the French doctors. However, two days before being transferred to the hospital in Paris, Kiarostami underwent a chest CT scan at Arad Hospital that showed no embolism.”
In July 2018, the IRIMC said that Kiarostami died of “meningeal hemorrhage” (bleeding of the brain membranes), Mehr News Agency reported.
This article was translated and adapted from Persian by Fardine Hamidi.
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Houston Rockets trade James Harden to Brooklyn Nets in blockbuster four-team deal, per reports
The Houston Rockets are moving on from franchise superstar James Harden.
They are trading the 31-year-old to the Brooklyn Nets as part of a four-team deal, according to multiple reports including ESPN and The Athletic, citing sources familiar with the deal.
In return for Harden, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Houston is acquiring Caris LeVert and Rodions Kurucs from the Nets, Dante Exum from the Cleveland Cavaliers, three first-round picks from the Nets, one first-round pick from the Cavaliers via the Milwaukee Bucks, and four first-round pick swaps from the Nets.
Brooklyn is also sending center Jarrett Allen and forward Taurean Prince to the Cavaliers as part of the trade, according to ESPN’s Wojnarowski.
In a separate deal, Houston is trading LeVert and a second round pick to the Indiana Pacers for guard and two-time All-Star Victor Oladipo, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania.
Harden, an eight-time All-Star, was acquired by the Rockets from the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2012.
While in Houston, he was voted the league’s best player for the 2017-18 season and led the Rockets to the playoffs all eight years.
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The trade comes one day after Harden criticized the team.
“We’re just not good enough — obviously, chemistry, talent-wise, just everything — and it was clear these last few games,” he said.
“I love this city. I’ve literally done everything that I can. I mean, this situation, it’s crazy. It’s something that I don’t think can be fixed.”
READ: LeBron James hits no-look three pointer to win mid-game bet with teammate in LA Lakers rout
The postgame comments were the last of a string a of negative behavior from the disgruntled star, after arriving late to the team’s training camp, and then being sidelined for four days and fined $50,000 by the NBA for violating the league’s health and safety protocols days before the start of the season.
The former MVP now reunites with former Thunder teammate Kevin Durant and perennial All-Star guard Kyrie Irving in Brooklyn.
CNN Sport has reached out to the NBA to confirm details of the trade.
Further postponements
Meanwhile, the NBA announced on Wednesday that it was postponing its ninth game of the season.
Two games scheduled for Friday between the Phoenix Suns and the Golden State Warriros and the Washington Wizards and Detriot Pistons have been postponed as ongoing contact tracing means the Suns and the Wizards do not have the required eight players to contest the games.
Since January 6, 16 NBA players have tested positive for Covid-19.
The league announced on Tuesday that it had adopted stricter health and safety protocols to combat the spread of the virus.
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Sources: Fallout 76 Is An Online Survival RPG
Screenshot: Fallout 76 teaser trailer
When Bethesda announced Fallout 76 with a teaser trailer this morning, promising more information at E3, it was easy to assume that the new game would be a traditional single-player role-playing game. But Fallout 76 is in fact an online survival RPG that’s heavily inspired by games like DayZ and Rust, according to three people familiar with the project.
Those people, speaking anonymously so as not to damage their careers, confirmed that Fallout 76 is an experimental new entry in the longrunning post-apocalyptic series. When Bethesda first teased the game on Tuesday morning, fans and pundits speculated that it might be a Fallout 3 remaster or a New Vegas-style spinoff in a new location, but as Kotaku reported that afternoon, it is in fact something completely new and completely different. The teaser might lead Fallout fans to believe that this is a traditional entry in the series, but according to our sources, that’s not the case.
Originally prototyped as a multiplayer version of Fallout 4 with the goal of envisioning what an online Fallout game might look like, Fallout 76 has evolved quite a bit over the past few years, those sources said. It will have quests and a story, like any other game from Bethesda Game Studios, a developer known for meaty RPGs like Skyrim. It will also feature base-building—just like 2015's Fallout 4—and other survival-based and multiplayer mechanics, according to those sources. One source cautioned that the gameplay is rapidly changing, like it does in many online “service” games, but that’s the core outline.
The game is named after the series’ Vault 76, which has been mentioned in both Fallout 3 and Fallout 4. According to Fallout lore, Vault 76 was meant to open just 20 years after the nuclear war, allowing for a far less civilized setting than previous games. Fallouts 3 and 4, which are full of cities and settlements, both take place over 200 years after the war, after much of the population has had time to reconstruct human civilization. Fallout 76 will feel very different. As the narrator of the trailer says: “When the fighting is stopped, and the fallout has settled, you must rebuild.”
Fallout 76 is in development not just at Bethesda Game Studios’ main office, in Maryland, where the likes of Skyrim and Fallout 4 were made, but also at the company’s newest branch, in Austin, according to our sources. That Austin studio, formerly known as BattleCry Studios, had been working on an online hero combat game called BattleCry before that game was canceled. “We have concerns about the BattleCry game and whether it is meeting the objectives we have for it,” Bethesda told press in the fall of 2015. “We are evaluating what improvements the game needs to meet our quality standards. The studio remains busy during this process on multiple projects.” In March, Bethesda announced that BattleCry Studios had become part of Bethesda Game Studios.
Bethesda did not respond to a request for comment. We’ll see more of Fallout 76 at the publisher’s E3 press conference on June 10.
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so like the base building, resource gathering kind of survival game? like ark survival? id be down for that as long as they nail performance and optimization. oh! and keep the chinese farmers off the servers! they were so annoying in ark. caused lag and griefed players like there was no tomorrow!
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Orography (km) at (bottom) T21 and (top) T42 resolution from the atmospheric model component (Planet Simulator). Isolines are shown at 200 and 500 m, and at 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 km. Here the orography is the surface geopotential divided by Earth’s gravitational acceleration g = 9.8 m s−2. The speckled pattern over the oceans is due to the Gibbs effect. The thick contour line shows the land–sea distribution (coastlines) from the ocean–land surface model components (UVic).
Twelve-month running-mean AMOC (Sv) at 25°N for different orographic scalings at T42 resolution of the atmospheric model (black: OROSCALE = 1.5; red: OROSCALE = 1; green: OROSCALE = 0.5; blue: OROSCALE = 0) and at T21 resolution (purple).
Eulerian meridional overturning streamfunction (Sv) averaged between years 490–510 for the models with different orographic scaling at T42 resolution: OROSCALE (top to next to bottom) = 1.5, 1, 0.5, and 0; and from the (bottom) T21-resolution model. Flow is clockwise along positive streamlines (solid) and counterclockwise along negative (dashed) streamlines.
Vertically integrated flow (Sv) for model with (top) regular orography and (bottom) the flat-world model. Positive (negative) values of the barotropic streamfunction indicate clockwise (counterclockwise) flow.
Zonal-mean zonal wind stress (Pa) averaged between years 490 and 510 for models at T42 resolution with different topographical scaling (black: OROSCALE = 1.5; red: OROSCALE = 1; green: OROSCALE = 0.5; blue: OROSCALE = 0) and for the standard T21-resolution version (purple). Square symbols show the NCEP reanalysis data (Kalnay et al. 1996). Positive (negative) values denote westerly (easterly) winds.
The AMOC at 25°N vs Atlantic surface freshwater budget. Symbols are averages from model years 490–510 for the four model versions with different orographic scaling at T42 resolution (× symbols) and the model at T21 resolution (square). Shading represents observational estimates of the freshwater budget (0.28 ± 0.4 Sv) by Talley (2008) and the AMOC at 24°N (14.1 ± 2.3 Sv) by Wunsch and Heimbach (2006) and (18.0 ± 2.5 Sv) by Lumpkin and Speer (2007).
Evolution of Atlantic surface freshwater budget integrated north of 35°S and its individual terms—E, P, and R—for the models with different topographic scaling at T42 resolution (black, red, green, and blue) and the model at T21 resolution (purple).
Zonal-mean difference in Atlantic surface freshwater budget due to the presence of mountains (OROSCALE = 1 minus OROSCALE = 0) averaged for model years 20–22. Terms E (long dash), negative precipitation (−P; short dash), and negative river runoff (−R; symbol x) are shown individually.
Latitude–longitude maps of annual mean precipitation (mm day−1, color contours) from (top) observations (GPCP, Xie et al. 2003) and vertically integrated moisture transport (∫uqρ dz; 105 kg m−1 s−1, arrows) for model (left top) with mountains (OROSCALE = 1) and (left bottom) without mountains (OROSCALE = 0) calculated from daily data from years 20–22. (bottom right) Difference OROSCALE = 1 minus OROSCALE = 0. The left (bottom right) panel(s) show vectors every fourth (third) grid point in longitude and every third (second) grid point in latitude. In the bottom-right panel, the same vector length as in the upper two panels corresponds to half the amount of moisture transport.
Atmospheric circulation plotted for (left) austral winter and (right) boreal winter [December–February (DJF)] for (top) the NCEP reanalysis, (middle) the model with realistic mountains (OROSCALE = 1), and (bottom) the model with no mountains (OROSCALE = 0). Model results were averaged between model years 490 and 510. Black lines show the meridional streamfunction (1010 kg s−1), where values (positive, solid; negative, dashed) indicate motion (clockwise; counterclockwise). Gray shading depicts the zonal-mean zonal flow (m s−1) with 5 m s−1 isotach difference and white lines at 10 m s−1 isotach difference.
Horizontal map of differences in air temperature at 750 hPa (grayscale) and geopotential height at 500 hPa (contour lines; negative values are shown as dashed lines) during austral winter between the model with (OROSCALE = 1) and without (OROSCALE = 0) mountains and ice sheets averaged between model years 490 and 510. The diagonally striped pattern corresponds to areas below orography in model OROSCALE = 1. The thick white line indicates the land–sea distribution.
Zonal-mean air temperature during (left) austral winter and (right) boreal winter for (top) the NCEP reanalysis, (middle) the model with realistic mountains (OROSCALE = 1), and (bottom) the model with no mountains (OROSCALE = 0). Model results were averaged between model years 490 and 510. Solid (dotted) white lines in (top) show zonal mean (maximum) orography.
Zonal- and vertical-mean eddy kinetic energy for (top) the model with mountains and (bottom) the model without mountains for (left) Northern Hemisphere winter (DJF) and (right) Southern Hemisphere winter (JJA). Solid lines show total eddy kinetic energy , dashed lines show transient eddy kinetic energy , and dotted lines show the stationary eddy kinetic energy , where overbars denote time averages, square brackets indicate zonal averages, and primes and asterisks indicate deviations from the time and zonal averages, respectively (Peixoto and Oort 1992). Daily data from 5 yr of model output at the end of the simulation have been used to calculate the average kinetic energy over that period.
Northward meridional water vapor transport in the atmosphere from the model without mountains (OROSCALE = 0; solid line) and the model with mountains (OROSCALE = 1; dashed line).
Effects of Mountains and Ice Sheets on Global Ocean Circulation
Andreas Schmittner 1 , Tiago A. M. Silva 1 , Klaus Fraedrich 2 , Edilbert Kirk 2 , and Frank Lunkeit 2
1 Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
2 Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
https://doi.org/10.1175/2010JCLI3982.1
The impact of mountains and ice sheets on the large-scale circulation of the world’s oceans is investigated in a series of simulations with a new coupled ocean–atmosphere model [Oregon State University–University of Victoria model (OSUVic)], in which the height of orography is scaled from 1.5 times the actual height (at T42 resolution) to 0 (no mountains). The results suggest that the effects of mountains and ice sheets on the buoyancy and momentum transfer from the atmosphere to the surface ocean determine the present pattern of deep ocean circulation. Higher mountains reduce water vapor transport from the Pacific and Indian Oceans into the Atlantic Ocean and contribute to increased (decreased) salinities and enhanced (reduced) deep-water formation and meridional overturning circulation in the Atlantic (Pacific). Orographic effects also lead to the observed interhemispheric asymmetry of midlatitude zonal wind stress. The presence of the Antarctic ice sheet cools winter air temperatures by more than 20°C directly above the ice sheet and sets up a polar meridional overturning cell in the atmosphere. The resulting increased meridional temperature gradient strengthens midlatitude westerlies by ~25% and shifts them poleward by ~10°. This leads to enhanced and poleward-shifted upwelling of deep waters in the Southern Ocean, a stronger Antarctic Circumpolar Current, increased poleward atmospheric moisture transport, and more advection of high-salinity Indian Ocean water into the South Atlantic. Thus, it is the current configuration of mountains and ice sheets on earth that determines the difference in deep-water formation between the Atlantic and the Pacific.
* Supplemental information related to this paper is available at the Journals Online Web site: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010JCLI3982.s1.
+ Current affiliation: School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom.
Corresponding author address: Andreas Schmittner, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, 104 COAS Admin. Bldg., Corvallis, OR 97331-5503. E-mail: aschmitt@coas.oregonstate.edu
Keywords: Orographic effects; Ocean circulation; Ice sheets
The large-scale ocean circulation is an important component of the climate system, transporting heat, plant nutrients, carbon, oxygen, and other substances around the globe and connecting the atmosphere with the large reservoir of the deep sea. The processes that drive this circulation are not well understood in detail, although some general principles have been established. The importance of winds, for instance, is known to strongly affect the surface circulation because of momentum transfer. However, winds also affect the deep ocean circulation, particularly in the Southern Ocean, where the strong meridional gradient in westerlies, which coincides with the location of Drake Passage, leads to the upwelling of deep water and enhanced production and export of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) in model simulations (Delworth and Zeng 2008; McDermott 1996; Rahmstorf and England 1997; Toggweiler and Samuels 1995).
Buoyancy forcing is also important in driving the global meridional overturning circulation. The Atlantic as a whole loses freshwater at the surface (Broecker et al. 1985). Resulting higher salinities of surface waters in the Atlantic compared to the Pacific lead to a fundamentally different circulation pattern in the two basins. Whereas salty and dense NADW sinks to 2–3-km depths, travels south as a deep western boundary current, and sets up a global meridional overturning circulation system, no such sinking is observed in the North Pacific, where fresh light surface waters float on top of salty subsurface waters (Weaver et al. 1999). Water vapor fluxes from the Pacific to the Atlantic by midlatitude westerly winds are blocked by the Rocky Mountains in North America and the Andes in South America, whereas the easterly trade winds in the tropics transport water vapor through gaps in the mountain chains of Central America from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Although the configuration of mountains has long been implicated to contribute to the observed salinity contrast between the Atlantic and the Pacific (Dietrich and Kalle 1957; Weyl 1968), this effect and its implication on ocean circulation has not been quantified with a coupled ocean–atmosphere model.
Modeling the global ocean circulation remains a challenge. Early coarse-resolution coupled ocean–atmosphere models required flux corrections—that is, artificial heat, water, or momentum fluxes at the air–sea interface—to simulate a realistic overturning circulation (Manabe and Stouffer 1994), perhaps related to the too-coarse representation of mountains (Lohmann 2003; Zaucker and Broecker 1992). Although some modern, higher-resolution models simulate realistic deep-water formation rates and temperature and salinity distributions in good agreement with hydrographic observations, other models—for example, some of those that contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC AR4)—have large errors in both hydrographic fields and mass fluxes (Schmittner et al. 2005).
Here we attempt to further our understanding of the processes that drive the ocean circulation in coupled ocean–atmosphere models by studying the orographic effects of mountains and ice sheets. Model studies of the effects of mountains on the atmospheric circulation and climate have a long tradition (Kitoh 2002; Manabe and Terpstra 1974); however, to our knowledge, no study to date has investigated the effects on the global ocean circulation. We will show that mountains and ice sheets influence both buoyancy and momentum fluxes to the surface ocean that conspire to generate strong deep-water formation in the North Atlantic and set up the known pattern of the global ocean overturning circulation.
We use a new ocean–atmosphere model [Oregon State University–University of Victoria model (OSUVic), version 0.3] that combines ocean, sea ice, land surface, and ocean biogeochemical model components from the UVic Earth System Model, version 2.8 (Weaver et al. 2001), with the simplified atmospheric general circulation model Planet Simulator, version 15.043 (Fraedrich et al. 2005a,b). The complete Planet Simulator model, including sources and documentation, is available online (www.mi.uni-hamburg.de/plasim). The Planet Simulator solves the primitive equations and includes the hydrological cycle, clouds, and a simple radiation scheme. We use Planet Simulator at two horizontal resolutions: T21 ~(5.6° × 5.6°) and T42 ~(2.8° × 2.8°), with 10 vertical sigma levels and without a gravity-wave drag parameterization (Boer and Lazare 1988). The UVic model is used at the same resolution (1.8° × 3.6°, 19 levels) and configuration with a closed Bering Strait in all the numerical experiments described in this paper as described in more detail in Schmittner et al. (2008). The models are coupled through fluxes of momentum, heat, and water at the air–sea interface using the Ocean Atmosphere Sea Ice Soil, version 3 (OASIS3), coupler (www.prism.enes.org/PAEs/coupling_IO/software_OASIS3.php) to map between the different grids. No flux adjustments are used. More detailed information about OSUVic, the coupling, and comparison with observations can be found in the supplementary material (http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010JCLI3982.s1) and at the author’s Internet site (http://mgg.coas.oregonstate.edu/~andreas/OSUVic).
To investigate the impact of mountains and ice sheets on climate and ocean circulation, we have conducted four experiments that differ only in the height of orography over land. This was achieved by multiplying the default orography in the T42 model version with a constant scaling factor (OROSCALE). OROSCALE = 1 corresponds to a realistic orography at T42 resolution (Fig. 1); OROSCALE = 0 corresponds to a flat world; and OROSCALE = 0.5 and OROSCALE = 1.5 simulate a world with 50% lower and higher mountains, respectively. All other model parameters and forcings are identical. Note that this setup does not consider changes in river routing and vegetation type that would accompany orographic variations and their influences on albedo, roughness length, and water fluxes. The model at T21 resolution has a few parameters adjusted to simulate a realistic mean climate comparable to the T42 version.
Citation: Journal of Climate 24, 11; 10.1175/2010JCLI3982.1
The models were started from identical initial conditions taken from the World Ocean Atlas (Antonov et al. 2006; Locarni et al. 2006) and integrated for 500–600 yr. The atmosphere, surface, and upper ocean are close to equilibrium at the end of the integrations; however, the deep ocean is not.
During the first 25 yr, all models simulate a very similar evolution of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) starting at around 18 Sv (1 Sv ≡ 106 m3 s−1) at year zero and decreasing to 12–14 Sv around year 25 (Fig. 2). After year 25, however, the simulations diverge, such that models with higher mountains lead to a stronger circulation. All models show small interannual to decadal fluctuations of ~2 Sv. The models with realistic or higher mountains (OROSCALE = 1 and OROSCALE = 1.5, respectively) and the model at T21 resolution experience the long-term trend of the AMOC after year 150 and appear statistically to be close steady state. Conversely, the models with lower mountains continue to drift toward a weaker AMOC even after year 200, indicating that they are not in equilibrium. At the end of the flat-world simulation, no deep water is forming in the North Atlantic. The average salinity in the Atlantic north of 35°S decreases linearly throughout the flat-world integration from 35.01 to 34.83, and surface waters of the North Pacific becomes saltier than those in the North Atlantic (not shown), triggering deep-water formation there. This suggests that the state without deep-water formation in the North Atlantic is stable although no reverse circulation cell is apparent in the South Atlantic, the existence of which has been suggested to be responsible for the stability of the “off” state in models with realistic topography (Gregory et al. 2003; Saenko et al. 2003a).
A weaker AMOC in the experiments with lower mountains and ice sheets (OROSCALE = 0 and OROSCALE = 0.5, respectively) is obvious in the patterns of the meridional overturning circulation (Fig. 3). Models with shallow or no orography develop a meridional overturning circulation cell in the North Pacific, in contrast to observations. Shallower mountains and ice sheets lead to a weaker and shallower Deacon cell (clockwise circulation between about 60° and 40°S from about 2–3-km depth to the surface in Fig. 3). The strength of the Deacon cell, measured as the maximum total (including eddy induced transport; not shown) streamfunction south of 35°S and below 300-m depth, decreases from 31 Sv in OROSCALE = 1.5 to 21 Sv in OROSCALE = 0.
Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation increases and the associated polar meridional overturning cell between 80° and 60°S broadens and strengthens from ~6 to ~12 Sv as orography is lowered. The global bottom water meridional overturning cell (the counter clockwise cell below 1.5–2.5-km depth in Fig. 3) is very similar (10–12 Sv) in all simulations and does not seem to be affected by the increase in the polar AABW cell. Latitudes of important features of the meridional overturning circulation in the Southern Ocean—such as the upwelling of deep water, the maximum of the Deacon cell, as well as the zero streamfunction isoline that separates the Deacon cell from the polar AABW cell—are all shifted equatorward by up to 10° because of the lowering of orography.
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is faster the taller is the model orography (Fig. 4). Averaged flow through Drake Passage during model years 450–470 is 105 Sv (OROSCALE = 1.5), 100 Sv (OROSCALE = 1), 85 Sv (OROSCALE = 0.5), and 72 Sv (OROSCALE = 0). For comparison, observational estimates of the ACC are around 130 Sv (Lumpkin and Speer 2007). The presence of mountains and ice sheets also lead to a much stronger flow of Indian Ocean water around the tip of South Africa into the Atlantic (15 Sv in OROSCALE = 1 vs 3 Sv in OROSCALE = 0). Flow through the Indonesian archipelago is doubled because of the presence of orography (18 Sv in OROSCALE = 1 vs 9 Sv in OROSCALE = 0).
The ocean circulation in the model at T21 resolution is inconsistent with observations because it shows a too weak AMOC, very little AABW formation, too weak and too shallow inflow of circumpolar deep water into the Indian and Pacific Oceans, too little and too far northward-shifted upwelling in the Southern Ocean, and a very weak (30 Sv) ACC. Reasons for the poor performance of the coarse (T21) atmospheric resolution model are discussed in the appendix.
The large differences in circulation, particularly in the Southern Ocean, between the experiments with different orography discussed in the previous section, can be explained, at least partly, by changes in zonal wind stress. Mountains and ice sheets strongly affect the strength and pattern of zonal-mean wind stress at the sea surface outside of the tropics (Fig. 5). Models with lower orography display weaker westerlies in the Southern Hemisphere and stronger westerlies in the Northern Hemisphere. Weaker westerlies in the Southern Hemisphere are consistent with, and presumably an important reason for, the slower ACC in the models with shallower orography, although changes in buoyancy fluxes may also influence the ACC (Marshall and Radko 2003). The latitude of maximum wind stress in the Southern Hemisphere is shifted equatorward by up to 10° by lower orography, explaining the corresponding latitudinal shift in upwelling and meridional circulation in the Southern Ocean discussed above (Fig. 3, section 4).
In the Northern Hemisphere, the latitude of maximum wind stress is not affected by orography. A large asymmetry between the hemispheres with more than 2 times stronger wind stress in the Southern Hemisphere than in the Northern Hemisphere is apparent in the observations as approximated by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reanalysis data. The model with realistic mountains reproduces the observed asymmetry qualitatively (although it underestimates the interhemispheric differences because of overestimated wind stress in the Northern Hemisphere), whereas the model with flat orography displays an almost symmetrical distribution. This suggests that the observed asymmetry of zonal wind stress between the hemispheres is a result of the presence of mountains and ice sheets on Earth.
Models with realistic or higher mountains and ice sheets generally show better agreement with observations than models with low or flat orography. However, westerly wind stress in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly over the North Pacific (not shown), is overestimated by the model with realistic orography, perhaps because of the neglecting of gravity-wave drag (Boer and Lazare 1988). This bias could lead to an overestimation of the shallow, wind-driven circulation in the North Pacific.
To understand why the AMOC differs so much between the different simulations, it is instructive to analyze the Atlantic surface freshwater budget. In the following analysis, we distinguish between evaporation E, precipitation P, and river runoff R in determining the total freshwater budget F = E − P − R of the Atlantic north of 35°N, which is, per definition, positive if the ocean loses water to the atmosphere. The effects of melting and freezing of sea ice on the surface freshwater budget are negligible on a basinwide scale and the long time scales considered here. The Atlantic is a net evaporative (F > 0) ocean basin (Broecker et al. 1985). Close to equilibrium, the AMOC in the model at T42 resolution is approximately linearly related to the magnitude of this freshwater loss (Fig. 6), qualitatively consistent with earlier, more simplified models (Rahmstorf 1996; Stocker and Wright 1991). Comparison to recent observational estimates shows that in the models with shallow mountains (OROSCALE = 0.5 and OROSCALE = 0), the Atlantic is not losing enough freshwater at the surface and that the AMOC is too weak. In the model with tall mountains (OROSCALE = 1.5), the Atlantic is evaporating too much; however, the AMOC is consistent with observations. The model with full mountains and ice sheets (OROSCALE = 1) has a realistic Atlantic surface freshwater budget, but the circulation is in the lower range of the observational estimates. Note that processes other than the basinwide surface freshwater budget influence the circulation, such as redistributions of freshwater within the Atlantic drainage basin (Gregory et al. 2003), ocean mixing, and wind stress. This is perhaps most obvious for the model at T21 resolution, which has a very weak AMOC despite a larger-than-observed evaporative freshwater budget.
Interestingly, the total surface freshwater budget of the Atlantic is set almost immediately after the start of the simulations because of fast atmospheric dynamics, and it changes little with time (Fig. 7, top panel). It ranges from ~0.37 Sv for OROSCALE = 1.5 to ~0.16 Sv for OROSCALE = 0. These results demonstrate the importance of mountains in controlling the magnitude of the Atlantic surface freshwater balance.
Individual terms in the freshwater budget vary much more in time than the total budget (Fig. 7, bottom panels). River runoff is very similar for all the simulations without obvious systematic differences between them. During the first years, evaporation is also very similar for all the runs, presumably because it is strongly influenced by sea surface temperatures (SSTs), which are still close to the initial conditions. In the simulations with shallow orography, North Atlantic SSTs slowly cool because of reduced ocean heat transport, which leads to decreasing evaporation, whereas in the high mountains experiment, SSTs and evaporation increase. Once the AMOC differences have been established after about 100 years, evaporation acts as a positive feedback (Warren 1983) and dominates the difference in the surface freshwater budget.
However, differences in precipitation are crucial in setting up the initial differences in the surface freshwater budget and therefore in controlling the early transitions to the different AMOC states. Initial differences in precipitation are greater than 0.2 Sv, accounting entirely for the differences in the initial surface freshwater budget. Although those large initial differences slowly decrease with time, the difference between the case without mountains and the one with high mountains (OROSCALE = 1.5) is still ~0.05 Sv between years 450–470.
The Pacific north of 35°S receives more river runoff (0.55 Sv for OROSCALE = 1.5; 0.45 Sv for OROSCALE = 1; 0.3 Sv for OROSCALE = 0.5; and 0.23 Sv for OROSCALE = 0) and less precipitation (by ~0.1–0.2 Sv) the higher the mountains (not shown), whereas evaporation is similar between all experiments. These differences contribute to a total of ~0.13 Sv of additional surface freshwater input into the Pacific in the models with high orography (OROSCALE = 1.5 and OROSCALE = 1) compared to those with low orography (OROSCALE = 0.5 and OROSCALE = 0). Removing mountains (OROSCALE = 0) leads to more freshwater lost by the Pacific (~0.18 Sv) than by the Atlantic (~0.15 Sv), whereas in the presence of mountains (OROSCALE = 1), the Atlantic loses considerably more freshwater (~0.3 Sv) at the surface than the Pacific (~0.05 Sv).
In the Indian Ocean north of 35°S, a combination of more river runoff (by up to 0.1 Sv), decreased evaporation (by 0.1 Sv), and similar precipitation lead to about 0.2 Sv more freshwater input for the high orography (OROSCALE = 1.5) compared with the no orography case (not shown). The effect of present-day mountains is to decrease the amount of freshwater lost at the surface of the Indian Ocean from ~0.23 Sv (OROSCALE = 0) to ~0.13 Sv (OROSCALE = 1).
The importance of the initial differences in precipitation over the Atlantic Ocean basin between the experiments with (OROSCALE = 1) and without (OROSCALE = 0) orography in determining the fate of the AMOC, as argued in the previous subsection, warrants more detailed analysis of precipitation and water vapor transport during the early stages of the model integration. The presence of mountains and ice sheets results in decreased precipitation over most of the Atlantic Ocean that dominates the surface freshwater budget between 10° and 60°N (Fig. 8). River runoff decreases at midlatitudes north of 45°N and in the Arctic and shows large changes of both signs in the tropics, decreasing north of the equator and increasing south of the equator. Evaporation shows changes of both signs at midlatitudes and in the tropics. Runoff to the Arctic from all Eurasian and North American rivers is reduced because of the presence of orography because precipitation over North America and Eurasia is decreased (Fig. 9), as described in more detail below. These differences in Arctic river runoff could affect the density of waters flowing over the sills between Greenland and Scotland, which are important components of the NADW and modulate the strength of the AMOC (Döscher and Redler 1997; Schweckendiek and Willebrand 2005).
Low-level winds and resulting moisture transport vectors are much more zonal in the case without mountains (Fig. 9), particularly across North and South America, Europe, and Asia but also over the North Atlantic. The effect of mountains on precipitation therefore exhibits complex spatial patterns determined by both local orographic effects, such as uplift of air masses and wetter conditions upstream and drying in the lee of mountain ranges, and changes in large-scale circulation and humidity convergence–divergence. Generally, our results are similar to earlier studies (Kitoh 2002; Manabe and Terpstra 1974).
Direct orographic effects can be observed over northwest America, where uplift of moist Pacific air masses leads to increased precipitation along the northwestern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. As a result, less water vapor is transported into the interior of the continent, leading to dryer conditions inlands. Similar continental drying can be observed over Europe and central Asia. Over Southeast Asia, however, the presence of the Himalayas increases precipitation. The presence of the Andes leads to southward low-level flow over South America with a corresponding shift in precipitation from the equator toward the subtropics. Australia becomes wetter because of the presence of mountains, which lead to decreased divergence of water vapor. The southward shift of the midlatitude westerlies in the Southern Hemisphere is associated with a corresponding southward shift of precipitation.
Precipitation is generally not very well simulated by the model. Although it reproduces some of the large-scale features apparent in the observations—such as low precipitation over landmasses of North Africa, the Middle East, central Asia, Australia, South Africa, southwestern South America, and Antarctica; and high precipitation in the tropics, over the northwestern midlatitude ocean basins, and the Southern Ocean—regions of low precipitation over the subtropical oceans are not well captured, and rainfall is overestimated there and in the eastern tropical South Pacific and tropical South Atlantic. The latter bias contributes to larger-than-observed precipitation over the Atlantic [~2.5–2.9 Sv, Fig. 7, vs 2.0 Sv in the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) observational estimates]. Annual and long-term mean precipitation patterns are in best agreement with observations for the simulation with realistic orography (OROSCALE = 1; Table 1).
Metrics for agreement between models and observations from the GPCP (Huffman et al. 1997) for the spatial distribution of the logarithm of annual mean precipitation log(P): correlation coefficient r and root-mean-square error (RMSE) normalized by standard deviation of observations.
The zonal-mean circulation in the simulation with mountains is in good agreement with the NCEP reanalysis (Fig. 10). The Hadley cell in boreal summer is 16 × 1010 kg s−1 and hence just slightly weaker than in the reanalysis (18 × 1010 kg s−1) and extends not quite far enough north. The austral summer Hadley cell is slightly stronger (18 × 1010 kg s−1) than in the reanalysis (16 × 1010 kg s−1). The Northern Hemisphere winter zonal wind jet is slightly narrower and faster (50 m s−1) than in the reanalysis (40 m s−1). The Southern Hemisphere winter zonal wind jet is broader than that of the Northern Hemisphere—in agreement with the reanalysis—although the model does not capture the second poleward wind maximum at 100 hPa, presumably because the stratosphere is not resolved. In winter the reanalysis shows a strong polar overturning cell over the Antarctic, whereas no such cell is apparent over the Arctic. The model reproduces this difference between the hemispheres.
Note that the polar winter overturning cell over Antarctica vanishes in the model without mountains and ice sheets, suggesting that this cell is a consequence of the Antarctic ice sheet. We hypothesize that the lack of a lower atmosphere in the presence of the Antarctic ice sheet and the associated reduction of upward longwave radiation leads to less heating and colder temperatures in those mid–lower-tropospheric air layers directly above the ice sheet (Fig. 11). Cooler winter air temperatures reduce the geopotential height at 500 hPa (Z500) over Antarctica and steepen the pole-to-equator gradient of Z500 from about 650 to about 1000 m. Averaged zonally and over the year, Z500 is more than 250 m lower over Antarctica than over the Arctic in model OROSCALE = 1 and in the reanalysis, whereas it is identical at both poles in model OROSCALE = 0 (not shown).
The increased meridional temperature gradients in winter due to the presence of the Antarctic ice sheet sets up a thermally direct overturning circulation with the characteristic katabatic winds—strong boundary layer flow down the ice sheets’ slopes (Egger 1985; James 1989; Parish et al. 1993). Moreover, the zonal component of the jet stream in winter is much narrower, faster, and shifted equatorward in the flat-world model consistent with the shift in the surface zonal wind stress maximum (Fig. 5).
The zonal-mean air temperature in the model with mountains and ice sheets is generally in agreement with the reanalysis (Fig. 12). The isotherms in the presence of the Antarctic ice sheet are vertical in austral winter [June–August (JJA)], consistent with the polar overturning cell leading to descending cold air from the upper troposphere to the surface at high latitudes and strong northward katabatic flow down the slopes of the ice sheet. Because of the absence of this circulation and increased heating from upward longwave radiation, the meridional temperature gradient in the lower troposphere is much smaller in the Arctic.
This difference between the hemispheres is not present in the simulation without mountains and ice sheets. High southern latitudes are much warmer in the lower troposphere in winter; sea ice cover is reduced dramatically from ~15.5 × 10−12 m2, which is close to the observed value of 18 × 10−12 m2 (Cavalieri et al. 2003), to 3.5 × 10−12 m2; and the meridional temperature gradients are strongly reduced. Smaller meridional temperature gradients lead to a decrease of the high-latitude zonal winds via the thermal wind balance.
This suggests that the presence of the Antarctic ice sheet leads to the observed broader zonal wind jet in the Southern Hemisphere, which is also more extended toward high latitudes, compared with the Northern Hemisphere.
We conclude that the Antarctic ice sheet draws the surface westerlies southward by increasing the meridional temperature gradient in the lower troposphere.
A quantitative theory predicting surface westerly winds at midlatitudes remains lacking. Nevertheless, baroclinic eddies remove zonal momentum from the mean flow in the upper troposphere and transport it toward the surface (Gill 1982). This is part of the large-scale meridional transport of angular momentum from the low-latitude surface of the earth via the atmosphere to the higher-latitude surface (Hartmann 1994). In light of the important role of transient eddies in the zonal momentum transport it, will be useful to analyze the changes in eddy kinetic energy.
Figure 13 shows that the removal of mountains and ice sheets reduces the stationary eddy kinetic energy and increases the transient eddy kinetic energy, consistent with Manabe and Terpstra (1974). The largest increase in vertically averaged transient eddy kinetic energy occurs in winter in the Northern Hemisphere, where the maximum around 40°N increases by more than 50% from less than 80 m2 s−2 to more than 120 m2 s−2. Note that the latitude of the maximum eddy activity does not shift. A more efficient transfer of zonal momentum from the upper troposphere to the surface by increased transient eddy activity is consistent with the increase in surface westerly winds in the Northern Hemisphere in the simulation without mountains (Fig. 5).
In the Southern Hemisphere, the maximum of transient eddy kinetic energy has not increased; however, it is shifted northward by about 10°, and the peak is sharper in the simulation without mountains, consistent with the shift in surface westerlies (Fig. 5) and meridional water vapor transport (Fig. 9).
We have argued that the presence of the Antarctic ice sheet leads to a fundamentally different atmospheric meridional overturning circulation in winter in the Southern Hemisphere compared with the Northern Hemisphere, which increases the meridional temperature gradient and draws the westerly winds southward. This argument was supported by the difference between the hemispheres in the observations, as approximated by the NCEP–National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) reanalysis (Figs. 9 and 10). The reanalysis, which covers 40 yr from 1957 to 1997, probably includes anthropogenic trends. Stratospheric ozone depletion has increased the Antarctic polar vortex and westerly winds during the past 30 yr (Gillett and Thompson 2003; Thompson and Solomon 2002). However, the anthropogenic changes occurred in austral summer and do not affect our conclusions much, which are based on winter data.
In contrast to the large sensitivity of surface zonal winds to the presence of mountains that we find in OSUVic, Kitoh (2002) did not seem to find an appreciable response in the Meteorological Research Institute (MRI) coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation model, perhaps because of the coarse horizontal resolution of 4° × 5°, which corresponds to about T21. A more recent study by Kitoh (2004) at T42 resolution does not explicitly show surface wind stress, making a quantitative comparison difficult. OSUVic is simplified in many ways. In particular, the coarse vertical resolution with only 10 layers may be leading to some systematic model biases and may explain possible differences with Kitoh (2004). Also note that OSUVic does not use a parameterization of gravity-wave drag, which is known to slow down surface westerlies (Boer and Lazare 1988). Repeating simulations with different orography using a state-of-the-art climate model would therefore be desirable, particularly with respect to the surface wind response.
Our results may have implications for paleoclimates and/or future scenarios, particularly periods without the Antarctic ice sheet, suggesting that Southern Hemisphere winds were shifted northward and weaker before the glacial inception of Antarctica, with possibly important consequences for the carbon cycle.
Our numerical experiments show a strong influence of mountains and ice sheets on the general circulation of the ocean. Deep-water formation and meridional overturning circulation is stronger in the Atlantic and weaker in the Pacific the higher the orography. In a model world without mountains and ice sheets, deep water forms in the North Pacific and not in the North Atlantic—contrary to modern observations. The ACC is stronger and upwelling is shifted 10° southward because of the presence of the Antarctic ice sheet. We have identified two main mechanisms explaining the strong influence of orography on the ocean circulation.
First, the Atlantic becomes saltier the higher the mountains are, and the Pacific becomes fresher. This is explained by the presence of the Andes and the Rocky Mountains, which block atmospheric water vapor transport from the Pacific to the Atlantic at midlatitudes, whereas the trade winds move water vapor across the Central American isthmus from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Increased salinities in the North Atlantic promote deep-water formation and accelerate the AMOC, whereas the North Pacific becomes more stratified.
Second, zonal wind stress over the Southern Ocean is increased and shifted southward by the presence of the Antarctic ice sheet. This increases the ACC and shifts the upwelling of deep water in the Southern Ocean poleward and intensifies it. Stronger zonal wind stress over the Southern Ocean has been shown to increase the sinking rate of the NADW and the AMOC (Toggweiler and Samuels 1995), although presumably not as much as initially suggested (Delworth and Zeng 2008; Rahmstorf and England 1997). A southward shift of the westerlies intensifies the surface return flow of salty Indian Ocean water along the “warm-water route” around the southern tip of Africa into the Atlantic (Agulhas leakage; Fig. 4). (The “cold-water route” from the Pacific around the tip of South America occurs at higher latitudes and is therefore fresher.) Increased Agulhas leakage has been shown to increase the salinity of the Atlantic and the AMOC (Sijp and England 2009). A southward shift of the westerly winds leads to a southward shift of the storm tracks and increased atmospheric meridional moisture transport by transient eddies (Figs. 9 and 14), which has been shown to increase the AMOC by freshening Southern Hemisphere deep water (Saenko et al. 2003b).
These two processes—less atmospheric water vapor export from the Pacific to the Atlantic drainage basin and southward-shifted Southern Hemisphere westerlies—thus combine to enhance deep-water formation in the North Atlantic and accelerate the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in the presence of mountains and ice sheets. Future studies and additional sensitivity experiments will be required to quantify the relative roles of these two mechanisms. We conclude that the present configuration of mountains and ice sheets on Earth is key to determining the observed global circulation pattern of the contemporary ocean.
This work was supported as part of project PALEOVAR by the NSF paleoclimate program Grant ATM-0602395 to AS. KF, FL, and EK received funding through the DFG Project FR 450/10-1. KF, Max Planck Fellow, acknowledges support by the Max Planck Society. Constructive comments from three anonymous reviewers and from Marika Holland (editor) were appreciated and helped to improve the manuscript.
The reasons for the weaker AMOC in the T21 model version compared with the T42 model version are not entirely clear. The Atlantic surface freshwater budget is more evaporative for the T21 model (Fig. 6) and hence cannot be part of the explanation. Redistribution of freshwater within the Atlantic drainage basin diagnosed from (not shown) decreased precipitation and runoff in the tropics, and reduced evaporation and increased river runoff north of 25°N contributes to higher salinities at low latitudes and lower salinities at high latitudes in the T21 model version. In addition, the much weaker and northward-shifted zonal wind stress in the Southern Hemisphere (Fig. 5) will undoubtedly contribute to the weaker AMOC in the T21 model for reasons similar to those discussed in the main text.
Our results are consistent and provide an explanation for the diagnosis of Bryan et al. (2006), that in the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Climate System Model, version 3 (CCSM3), the AMOC increases with increasing atmospheric model resolution. Our results are also consistent with a too low AMOC and too weak and northward-displaced maximum surface wind stress maximum in the Southern Hemisphere in the T31-resolution model GENMOM (derived from combining the Global Environmental and Ecological Simulation of Interactive Systems, or GENESIS, and Modular Ocean Model GCMs; Alder et al. 2010). This raises the question at what resolution convergence of the simulated AMOC with respect to horizontal model resolution can be expected. The results by Bryan et al. (2006), who show a large increase in the AMOC between T31 and T42 from 15.3 to 19.5 Sv and a smaller increase to 21.8 Sv at T85 resolution, suggest that convergence of the AMOC occurs somewhere between T42 and T85, perhaps closer to T42, although even higher-resolution runs would be necessary to prove that assertion. Our OSUVic results support that rough estimate.
Differences in surface zonal wind stress between the T21- and T42-resolution versions (Fig. 5) are most likely dominated by meridional resolution as demonstrated earlier (Held and Phillipps 1993; Tibaldi et al. 1990) and not by the representation of orography. Our OSUVic results are consistent with earlier work (Tibaldi et al. 1990) that indicates that convergence of the Southern Hemisphere wind stress appears to occur around T42 resolution.
Our results have implications for results from climate models at low resolution, which are frequently used for paleoclimate applications because of the long time integrations necessary. Many of these models use flux corrections to simulate a reasonable AMOC. Goosse et al. (2002), for example, require to remove freshwater from the Atlantic in the widely used ECBILT-CLIO model [more recently also known as Loch-Vecode-ECBILT-CLIO-AGISM Model (LOVECLIM)] at T21 resolution to simulate a reasonable AMOC, yet this model has been used frequently to study AMOC variability and feedbacks (e.g., Krebs and Timmermann 2007; Okazaki et al. 2010). This is also true for the widely used Grid Enabled Integrated Earth system, version 2 (GENIE-2) model at T21 resolution (Lenton et al. 2007). OSUVic at T21 resolution also simulates a much too weak AMOC (~9 Sv). The requirement for flux corrections suggests that the model does not correctly capture one or more important processes. Two important processes that strongly influence the simulation of the AMOC are the Atlantic surface freshwater budget and the wind stress over the Southern Ocean. Here we have shown that both depend strongly on orography, the representation of which at low resolution (e.g., T21, see Fig. 1) is insufficient (Fig. 5). The results from the applications of these models to climates different from today therefore have to be regarded with reservation.
The importance of Southern Hemisphere westerly winds for ocean circulation and biogeochemical cycling are well known (Sarmiento et al. 2004). Problems of low-resolution models in simulating Southern Hemisphere winds may explain the inconsistencies of the carbon cycle response between some of these models (Menviel et al. 2008; Schmittner and Galbraith 2008). Moreover, the simulation of the Southern Ocean circulation remains challenging for coupled climate models (Russell et al. 2006), perhaps in some cases because of too low resolution.
The original purpose of the UVic–Planet Simulator model coupling exercise was to create a computationally efficient climate model for paleoclimate applications. However, the major biases (e.g., in surface wind stress and AMOC) we found in the T21 model version imply that this model version cannot be used for realistic paleoclimate applications. We argue that using a model with known large biases, even if some of those biases can be eliminated with flux corrections, leaves the results highly unreliable. Some of the issues of low-resolution models may be fixed in the future by clever subgrid-scale parameterizations. For example, it is conceivable to develop a subgrid-scale scheme of precipitation calculations, considering a high-resolution orography. Until then, however, low-resolution model results have to be regarded with skepticism.
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Cytochrome P-450-Dependent Bioactivation of 1,1-Dichloroethylene to a Reactive Epoxide in Human Lung and Liver Microsomes
Taylor F. Dowsley, Ken Reid, Dimitri Petsikas, Judith B. Ulreich, Robyn L. Fisher and Poh-Gek Forkert
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics May 1999, 289 (2) 641-648;
Taylor F. Dowsley
Ken Reid
Dimitri Petsikas
Judith B. Ulreich
Robyn L. Fisher
Poh-Gek Forkert
We investigated the cytochrome P-450-dependent metabolism of 1,1-dichloroethylene (DCE) by human lung and liver microsomes and compared the results from analogous experiments in mice. Metabolites were identified by HPLC analysis of their glutathione conjugates and/or hydrolyzed products and were detected by using [14C]DCE. The role of human CYP2E1 in the metabolic reactions was examined by comparing p-nitrophenol hydroxylase activities with levels of metabolites formed and by using the CYP2E1-selective inhibitor diallyl sulfone. The major products formed in microsomal incubations containing NADPH were the DCE-epoxide-derived glutathione conjugates 2-(S-glutathionyl)acetyl glutathione and 2-S-glutathionyl acetate. Lower levels of the acetal of 2,2-dichloroacetaldehyde were also detected. In lung samples from eight patients, the amounts of epoxide-derived conjugates formed ranged from 15.6 ± 4.23 to 34.9 ± 12.75 pmol/mg protein/min. The levels in murine lung were higher at 40.0 ± 3.8 pmol/mg protein/min. In liver samples from five patients, conjugate levels ranged from 46.5 ± 8.3 to 240.0 ± 10.5 pmol/mg protein/min, whereas levels in murine liver were 83.0 ± 6.2 pmol/mg protein/min. Conjugate levels formed in human liver correlated with the relative levels of p-nitrophenol hydroxylase activity present, but this relationship was equivocal in human lung. Diallyl sulfone inhibited the formation of the glutathione conjugates (20–65%) in liver samples from all four patients, whereas only one of five human lung samples exhibited this inhibition (27%). These results demonstrated that the DCE-epoxide is a major metabolite formed by human microsomes and is mediated by CYP2E1 in liver and in some individuals in lung.
Send reprint requests to: Dr. Poh-Gek Forkert, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6. E-mailforkertp{at}post.queensu.ca
↵1 This research was supported by Grant MT-11706 from the Medical Research Council of Canada (to P.G.F.), Grant RO1-CA73220-01 from the U.S. National Cancer Institute (to P.G.F.), the Arizona Disease Control Research Commission (to J.B.U.), and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Center Grant P30-ES-06694 (to J.B.U).
S-(2,2-dichloro-1-hydroxy)ethyl glutathione
2-(S-glutathionyl) acetyl glutathione
2-S-glutathionyl acetate
S-(2-chloroacetyl)-glutathione
DASO2
diallyl sulfone
1,1-dichloroethylene
p-nitrophenol
Received September 23, 1998.
Accepted December 3, 1998.
The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
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Serial Swatter and Stalker Mir Islam Arrested for Allegedly Dumping Body in River
A 22-year-old man convicted of cyberstalking and carrying out numerous bomb threats and swatting attacks — including a 2013 swatting incident at my home — was arrested Sunday morning in the Philippines after allegedly helping his best friend dump the body of a housemate into a local river.
Suspects Troy Woody Jr. (left) and Mir Islam, were arrested in Manila this week for allegedly dumping the body of Woody’s girlfriend in a local river. Image: Manila Police Dept.
Police in Manila say U.S citizens Mir Islam, 22, and Troy Woody Jr., 21, booked a ride from Grab — a local ride hailing service — and asked for the two of them to be picked up at Woody’s condominium in Mandaluyong City. When the driver arrived the two men stuffed a large box into the trunk of the vehicle.
According to the driver, Islam and Woody asked to be driven to a nearby shopping mall, but told the driver along the way to stop at a compound near the Pasig River in Manila, where the two men allegedly dumped the box before getting back in the hailed car.
The Inquirer reports that authorities recovered the box and identified the victim as Tomi Michelle Masters, 23, also a U.S. citizen from Indiana who was reportedly dating Woody and living in the same condo. Masters’ Instagram profile states that she was in a relationship with Woody.
Update, 12:30 p.m. ET, Dec. 24: Both men have since been charged with murder, according to a story today at the Filipino news site Tempo, and the police believe there was some kind of violent struggle between Masters and Woody.
“Police eventually recovered the box that contained the naked body of the victim that was wrapped in duct tape,” Tempo reports. The local police station head was quoted as saying “the victim was believed to have been killed in the Mandaluyong condominium she shared with Woody, her alleged boyfriend. He said medical examination showed scratch marks all over Woody’s body.”
Brooklyn, NY native Islam, a.k.a. “Josh the God,” has a long rap sheet for computer-related crimes. He briefly rose to Internet infamy as one of the core members of UGNazi, an online mischief-making group that claimed credit for hacking and attacking a number of high-profile Web sites.
On June 25, 2012, Islam and nearly two-dozen others were caught up in an FBI dragnet dubbed Operation Card Shop. The government accused Islam of being a founding member of carders[dot]org — a credit card fraud forum — trafficking in stolen credit card information, and possessing information for more than 50,000 credit cards.
JoshTheGod’s (Mir Islam’s ) Twitter feed, in April 2012 warning fellow carding forum carderprofit members that the forum was being run by the FBI.
In June 2016, Islam was sentenced to a year in prison for an impressive array of crimes, including stalking people online and posting their personal data on the Internet. Islam also pleaded guilty to reporting phony bomb threats and fake hostage situations at the homes of celebrities and public officials (as well as this author). Continue reading →
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3 Charged In Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack
Federal prosecutors have charged three men with carrying out a deadly hoax known as “swatting,” in which perpetrators call or message a target’s local 911 operators claiming a fake hostage situation or a bomb threat in progress at the target’s address — with the expectation that local police may respond to the scene with deadly force. While only one of the three men is accused of making the phony call to police that got an innocent man shot and killed, investigators say the other two men’s efforts to taunt and deceive one another ultimately helped point the gun.
Tyler “SWAuTistic” Barriss. Photo: AP
According to prosecutors, the tragic hoax started with a dispute over a match in the online game “Call of Duty.” The indictment says Shane M. Gaskill, a 19-year-old Wichita, Kansas resident, and Casey S. Viner, 18, had a falling out over a $1.50 game wager.
Viner allegedly wanted to get back at Gaskill, and so enlisted the help of another man — Tyler R. Barriss — a serial swatter known by the alias “SWAuTistic” who’d bragged of “swatting” hundreds of schools and dozens of private residences.
The federal indictment references transcripts of alleged online chats among the three men. In an exchange on Dec. 28, 2017, Gaskill taunts Barriss on Twitter after noticing that Barriss’s Twitter account (@swattingaccount) had suddenly started following him.
Viner and Barriss both allegedly say if Gaskill isn’t scared of getting swatted, he should give up his home address. But the address that Gaskill gave Viner to pass on to Barriss no longer belonged to him and was occupied by a new tenant.
Barriss allegedly then called the emergency 911 operators in Wichita and said he was at the address provided by Viner, that he’d just shot his father in the head, was holding his mom and sister at gunpoint, and was thinking about burning down the home with everyone inside.
Wichita police quickly responded to the fake hostage report and surrounded the address given by Gaskill. Seconds later, 28-year-old Andrew Finch exited his mom’s home and was killed by a single shot from a Wichita police officer. Finch, a father of two, had no party to the gamers’ dispute and was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Just minutes after the fatal shooting, Barriss — who is in Los Angeles — is allegedly anxious to learn if his Kansas swat attempt was successful. Someone has just sent Barriss a screenshot of a conversation between Viner and Gaskill mentioning police at Gaskill’s home and someone getting killed. So Barriss allegedly then starts needling Gaskill via instant message:
Defendant BARRISS: Yo answer me this
Defendant BARRISS: Did police show up to your house yes or no
Defendant GASKILL: No dumb fuck
Defendant BARRISS: Lmao here’s how I know you’re lying
Prosecutors say Barriss then posted a screen shot showing the following conversation between Viner and Gaskill:
Defendant VINER: Oi
Defendant GASKILL: Hi
Defendant VINER: Did anyone show @ your house?
Defendant VINER: Be honest
Defendant GASKILL: Nope
Defendant GASKILL: The cops are at my house because someone ik just killed his dad
Barriss and Gaskill then allegedly continued their conversation:
Defendant GASKILL: They showed up to my old house retard
Defendant BARRISS: That was the call script
Defendant BARRISS: Lol
Defendant GASKILL: Your literally retarded
Defendant GASKILL: Ik dumb ass
Defendant BARRISS: So you just got caught in a lie
Defendant GASKILL: No I played along with you
Defendant GASKILL: They showed up to my old house that we own and rented out
Defendant GASKILL: We don’t live there anymore bahahaha
Defendant GASKILL: ik you just wasted your time and now your pissed
Defendant BARRISS: Not really
Defendant BARRISS: Once you said “killed his dad” I knew it worked lol
Defendant BARRISS: That was the call lol
Defendant GASKILL: Yes it did buy they never showed up to my house
Defendant GASKILL: You guys got trolled
Defendant GASKILL: Look up who live there we moved out almost a year ago
Defendant GASKILL: I give you props though you’re the 1% that can actually swat babahaha
Defendant BARRISS: Dude MY point is You gave an address that you dont live at but you were acting tough lol
Defendant BARRISS: So you’re a bitch
Later on the evening of Dec. 28, after news of the fatal swatting started blanketing the local television coverage in Kansas, Gaskill allegedly told Barriss to delete their previous messages. “Bape” in this conversation refers to a nickname allegedly used by Casey Viner: Continue reading →
Men Who Sent Swat Team, Heroin to My Home Sentenced
It’s been a remarkable week for cyber justice. On Thursday, a Ukrainian man who hatched a plan in 2013 to send heroin to my home and then call the cops when the drugs arrived was sentenced to 41 months in prison for unrelated cybercrime charges. Separately, a 19-year-old American who admitted to being part of a hacker group that sent a heavily-armed police force to my home in 2013 was sentenced to three years probation.
Sergei “Fly” Vovnenko, in an undated photo. In a letter to this author following his arrest, Vovnenko said he forgave me for “doxing” him — printing his real name and image — on my site.
Sergey Vovnenko, a.k.a. “Fly,” “Flycracker” and “MUXACC1,” pleaded guilty last year to aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Prosecutors said Vovnenko operated a network of more than 13,000 hacked computers, using them to harvest credit card numbers and other sensitive information.
When I first became acquainted with Vovnenko in 2013, Fly was the administrator of the fraud forum “thecc[dot]bz,” an exclusive and closely guarded Russian language board dedicated to financial fraud and identity theft.
After I secretly gained access to his forum, I learned he’d hatched a plot to have heroin sent to my home and to have one of his forum lackeys call the police when the drugs arrived.
I explained this whole ordeal in great detail in 2015, when Vovnenko initially was extradited from Italy to face charges here in the United States. In short, the antics didn’t end when I foiled his plot to get me arrested for drug possession, and those antics likely contributed to his arrest and to this guilty plea.
Vovnenko contested his extradition from Italy, and in so doing spent roughly 15 months in arguably Italy’s worst prison. During that time, he seemed to have turned his life around, sending me postcards at Christmas time and even an apparently heartfelt apology letter.
Seasons greetings from my pen pal, Flycracker.
On Thursday, a judge in New Jersey sentenced Vovnenko to 41 months in prison, three years of supervised released and ordered him to pay restitution of $83,368. Continue reading →
Serial Swatter, Stalker and Doxer Mir Islam Gets Just 1 Year in Jail
Mir Islam, a 21-year-old Brooklyn man who pleaded guilty to an impressive array of cybercrimes including cyberstalking, “doxing” and “swatting” celebrities and public officials (as well as this author), was sentenced in federal court today to two years in prison. Unfortunately, thanks to time served in this and other cases, Islam will only see a year of jail time in connection with some fairly heinous assaults that are becoming all too common.
While Islam’s sentence fell well short of the government’s request for punishment, the case raises novel legal issues as to how federal investigators intend to prosecute ongoing cases involving swatting — an extremely dangerous prank in which police are tricked into responding with deadly force to a phony hostage crisis or bomb scare at a residence or business.
Mir Islam, at his sentencing hearing today. Sketches copyright by Hennessy / CourtroomArt.com. Yours Truly is pictured in the blue shirt behind Islam.
On March 14, 2014, Islam and a group of as-yet-unnamed co-conspirators used a text-to-speech (TTY) service for the deaf to relay a message to our local police department stating that there was an active hostage situation going on at our modest town home in Annandale, Va. Nearly a dozen heavily-armed officers responded to the call, forcing me out of my home at gunpoint and putting me in handcuffs before the officer in charge realized it was all a hoax.
At the time, Islam and his pals were operating a Web site called Exposed[dot]su, which sought to “dox” public officials and celebrities by listing the name, birthday, address, previous address, phone number and Social Security number of at least 50 public figures and celebrities, including First Lady Michelle Obama, then-FBI director Robert Mueller, and then Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan.
Exposed.su also documented which of these celebrities and public figures had been swatted, including a raft of California celebrities and public figures, such as former California Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger, actor Ashton Kutcher, and performer Jay Z.
Exposed[dot]su was built with the help of identity information obtained and/or stolen from ssndob[dot]ru.
At the time, most media outlets covering the sheer amount of celebrity exposure at Exposed[dot]su focused on the apparently starling revelation that “if they can get this sensitive information on these people, they can get it on anyone.” But for my part, I was more interested in how they were obtaining this data in the first place.
On March 13, 2013 KrebsOnSecurity featured a story — Credit Reports Sold for Cheap in the Underweb –which sought to explain how the proprietors of Exposed[dot]su had obtained the records for the public officials and celebrities from a Russian online identity theft service called sssndob[dot]ru.
I noted in that story that sources close to the investigation said the assailants were using data gleaned from the ssndob[dot]ru ID theft service to gather enough information so that they could pull credit reports on targets directly from annualcreditreport.com, a site mandated by Congress to provide consumers a free copy of their credit report annually from each of the three major credit bureaus.
Peeved that I’d outed his methods for doxing public officials, Islam helped orchestrate my swatting the very next day. Within the span of 45 minutes, KrebsOnSecurity.com came under a sustained denial-of-service attack which briefly knocked my site offline.
At the same time, my hosting provider received a phony letter from the FBI stating my site was hosting illegal content and needed to be taken offline. And, then there was the swatting which occurred minutes after that phony communique was sent.
All told, the government alleges that Islam swatted at least 19 other people, although only seven of the victims (or their representatives) showed up in court today to tell similarly harrowing stories (I was asked to but did not testify).
Security camera footage of Fairfax County police officers responding to my 2013 swatting incident.
Going into today’s sentencing hearing, the court advised that under the government’s sentencing guidelines Islam was facing between 37 and 46 months in prison for the crimes to which he’d pleaded guilty. But U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss seemed especially curious about the government’s rationale for charging Islam with conspiracy to transmit a threat to kidnap or harm using a deadly weapon.
Judge Moss said the claim raises a somewhat novel legal question: Can the government allege the use of deadly force when the perpetrator of a swatting incident did not actually possess a weapon?
Corbin Weiss, an assistant US attorney and a cybercrime coordinator with the U.S. Department of Justice, argued that in most of the swatting attacks Islam perpetrated he expressed to emergency responders that any responding officers would be shot or blown up. Thus, the government argued, Islam was using police officers as a proxy for assault with a deadly weapon by ensuring that responding officers would be primed to expect a suspect who was armed and openly hostile to police. Continue reading →
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Mir Islam – the Guy the Govt Says Swatted My Home – to be Sentenced June 22
On March 14, 2013 our humble home in Annandale, Va. was “swatted” — that is to say, surrounded by a heavily-armed police force that was responding to fraudulent reports of a hostage situation at our residence. Later this month the government will sentence 21-year-old hacker named Mir Islam for that stunt and for leading a criminal conspiracy allegedly engaged in a pattern of swatting, identity theft and wire fraud.
Mir Islam
Mir Islam briefly rose to Internet infamy as one of the core members of UGNazi, an online mischief-making group that claimed credit for hacking and attacking a number of high-profile Web sites.
Most importantly for the government, however, Islam was active on CarderProfit, a carding forum created and run by FBI agents.
Islam ultimately pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit computer hacking, among other offenses tied to his activities on CarderProfit. In March 2016 a judge for the Southern District of New York sentenced (PDF) Islam to just one day in jail, a $500 fine, and three years of probation.
Not long after Islam’s plea in New York, I heard from the U.S. Justice Department. The DOJ told me that I was one of several swatting victims of Mir Islam, who was awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty of leading a cybercrime conspiracy. Although that case remains sealed — i.e. there are no documents available to the press or the public about the case — the government granted a waiver that allows the Justice Department to contact victims of the accused and to provide them with an opportunity to attend Islam’s sentencing hearing — and even to address the court.
Corbin Weiss, an assistant US attorney and a cybercrime coordinator with the Department of Justice, said Islam pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy, and that the objects of that conspiracy were seven:
-identity theft;
-misuse of access devices;
-misuse of Social Security numbers;
-computer fraud;
-wire fraud;
-attempts to interfere with federal officials;
-interstate transmission of threats.
Weiss said my 2013 blog post about my swatting incident — The World Has No Room for Cowards — was part of the government’s “statement of offense” or argument before the court as to why a given suspect should be arrested and charged with a violation of law.
“Your swatting is definitely one of the incidents specifically brought to the attention of the court in this case,” Weiss said. “In part because we didn’t have that many swat victims who were able to describe to us the entire process of their victimization. Your particular swat doesn’t fit neatly within any of those charges, but it was part of the conspiracy to engage in swats and some of the swats are covered by those charges.” Continue reading →
‘Carderprofit’ Forum Sting Nets 26 Arrests
The U.S. Justice Department today unveiled the results of a two-year international cybercrime sting that culminated in the arrest of 26 people accused of trafficking in hundreds of thousands of stolen credit and debit card accounts. Among those arrested was an alleged core member of “UGNazi,” a malicious hacking group that has claimed responsibility for a flood of recent attacks on Internet businesses.
The carding forum Carderprofit.cc was an FBI sting operation.
Federal officials are calling the operation the largest coordinated international law enforcement action in history directed at “carding” crimes, in which the Internet is used to traffic in and exploit the stolen credit card, bank account and other personal information of hundreds of thousands of victims.
According to documents released by the Justice Department, the sting — dubbed “Operation Card Shop” — began in June 2010, when the FBI established an undercover carding forum called “CarderProfit” (carderprofit.cc) to identify users who were buying and selling stolen credit card accounts and goods purchased with stolen accounts.
The FBI kept track of Internet addresses used by forum members, and used members’ login information to gather additional information about registered users. The agency tightened the noose in May 2012, when it began imposing new membership requirements to restrict site membership to individuals with established knowledge of carding techniques or interest in criminal activity.
“For example, at times, new users were prevented from joining the site unless they were recommended by two existing users who had registered with the site, or unless they paid a registration fee,” the government said in a statement about today’s arrests. “New users registering with the [undercover] site were required to provide a valid e- mail address as part of the registration process. The e-mail addresses entered by registered members of the site were collected by the FBI.”
Carderprofit.cc as it appears now.
Meanwhile, the feds were collecting stolen credit and debit card accounts that were being traded by forum members, and feeding the information back to issuing banks. The Justice Department said it contacted affected financial institutions regarding more than 411,000 compromised credit and debit cards, and notified 47 companies, government entities, and educational institutions of the breach of their networks.
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A. Van der Ven, H.C. Yu, G. Ceder, and K. Thornton. "Vacancy mediated substitutional diffusion in binary crystalline solids." Progress in Materials Science 55 (2010): 61-105.
A. Van der Ven, and M. Wagemaker. "Effect of surface energies and nano-particle size distribution on open circuit voltage of Li-electrodes." Electrochemistry Communications 11 (2009): 881-884.
Q. Xu, and A. Van der Ven. "First-principles investigation of migration barriers and point defect complexes in B2–NiAl." Intermetallics 17 (2009): 319-329.
A. Van der Ven, K. Garikipati, S. Kim, and M. Wagemaker. "The Role of Coherency Strains on Phase Stability in Li x FePO4: Needle Crystallites Minimize Coherency Strain and Overpotential." Journal of the Electrochemical Society 156 (2009): A949-A957.
M. Wagemaker, F.M. Mulder, and A. Van der Ven. "The role of surface and interface energy on phase stability of nanosized insertion compounds." Advanced Materials 21 (2009): 2703-2709.
J.C. Thomas, J.M. Millunchick, N.A. Modine, and A. Van der Ven. "Surface atomic order of compound III-V semiconductor alloys at finite temperature." Physical Review B 80 (2009): 125315.
J.E. Bickel, N.A. Modine, A. Van der Ven, and J.M. Millunchick. "Atomic size mismatch strain induced surface reconstructions." Applied Physics Letters 92 (2008): 062104.
J. Bhattacharya, and A. Van der Ven. "Mechanical instabilities and structural phase transitions: The cubic to tetragonal transformation." Acta Materialia 56 (2008): 4226-4232.
A. Van der Ven, J.C. Thomas, Q. Xu, B. Swoboda, and D. Morgan. "Nondilute diffusion from first principles: Li diffusion in Li x TiS 2." Physical Review B 78 (2008): 104306.
H.C. Yu, A. Van der Ven, and K. Thornton. "Theory of grain boundary diffusion induced by the Kirkendall effect." Applied Physics Letters 93 (2008): 091908.
Q. Xu, and A. Van der Ven. "First-principles investigation of metal-hydride phase stability: The Ti-H system." Physical Review B 76 (2007): 064207.
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Professors Chandra L. Ford (UCLA), Bita Amani (Charles Drew University), Keith Norris (UCLA), Kia Skrine Jeffers (UCLA), and Randall Akee (UCLA), wrote the following open letter that outlines eight recommendations to prioritize equity in policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
An Open Letter to Policy Makers and Public Health Officials on
The Need to Prioritize Equity in Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Epidemic
Aggressive actions are necessary to contain the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the U.S. and the world. Some of these actions have resulted in policies of shelter-in-place, monitoring the movement and activities of the population, increased testing of the population and the closure of schools and other public assemblies. As experts in health disparities, however, we are concerned by a critical oversight that is likely to exacerbate the epidemic in the long run: the inadequate attention to health equity. Former president of the American Public Health Association (APHA), Dr. Camara Jones, defines health equity as “assurance of the conditions for optimal health for all people.” There is a crucial need to incorporate aspects of health equity into all public policies enacted to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
In the past, when health emergencies have occurred, failure to acknowledge and address health equity generated persistent and preventable damage to populations that often worsened over time. For example, scholars have documented such experiences in Venezuela (1992-1993) and Haiti (2010) with cholera epidemics. Short term thinking focused only on the immediate disease agent (i.e., bacterium or virus) and did little to eliminate the societal inequities which fostered the environment for the pandemic in the first place. Those inequities shape the nature and impact of its spread.
Numerous studies document that racism, anti-immigrant sentiment and racial scapegoating facilitate the dismissal of the health concerns and perspectives of undocumented immigrants, racial/ethnic minorities, incarcerated persons, people living on reservations, people living in poor communities and other vulnerable communities. Often, the concerns and particular needs of these individuals are overlooked or dismissed in the creation of public health policies in times of need and crises.
Assumptions about the availability of and access to resources often do not reflect the reality for many of these distressed and overlooked communities. For instance, in recommending frequent handwashing, one must also ask whether this is feasible for residents of neighborhoods with unsafe (or unavailable) tap water to regularly wash their hands with warm water and soap? Or, is it realistic for people detained in the prisons to maintain social distances of at least six feet? If the answer to any such question is no, then we have a professional responsibility to develop appropriate alternatives. Failure to extend recommendations, testing and treatment to such populations in a timely and appropriate manner is tantamount to designing an intervention that ignores over them completely.
Drawing on more than 500 studies published over the last twenty years on how social injustices produce health inequities, we urge serious consideration of eight recommendations to prioritize equity in policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
1. Prioritize the needs of diverse vulnerable populations at each stage of the response. These include, but are not limited to, immigrant communities, including the Chinese and Asian American communities that have already been the subject of online and in-person abuse and harassment, racial and ethnic minority communities, homeless persons, incarcerated persons, and people living in poor as well as rural communities.
2. Challenge narratives of the epidemic that scapegoat Chinese people or other Asians. Stereotyping in this way leads to fear, rude or discriminatory treatment, delayed testing or care, and ultimately further spread of the virus.
3. Ensure members of these populations have a seat at the leadership table in planning and carrying out the responses. That allows them to share directly the insights needed to develop effective, sustainable strategies for their communities.
4. Develop multiple prevention and intervention strategies, some that address the needs of the overall population and others that address the unique needs of marginalized groups. Recognize that the circumstances affecting vulnerable populations are multilayered. Accordingly, the solutions needed in these populations warrant greater initial investments than do the solutions needed in more advantaged communities.
5. Find out what the needs and wishes of these marginalized populations are. Many of the needs are shaped by longstanding structural inequalities, such as living in racially segregated neighborhoods, and related constraints affecting transportation, employment, education and healthcare access.
6. Consider the obstacles to implementing any potential policy or strategy that may already exist in diverse populations and situations. For instance, some communities may have barriers to handwashing due to unsafe or unavailable water sources; they may also lack access to personal protective equipment (latex gloves, masks) or to healthcare providers.
7. Allocate sufficient resources in the budget to implement the prevention and intervention strategies in the most marginalized communities. The budget must ensure the plan can be fully implemented.
8. Acknowledge that all communities have and draw on resilience. Noted global health educator, Collins Airhihenbuwa, emphasizes that every community, no matter how marginalized, has sources of resilience. These sources of resilience enables communities to sustain themselves and persevere even after the public health professionals have left.
The evidence from history is clear. Movement toward equity has always required health equity champions to fight from inside while community members organized in the streets. Unless our responses to the COVID-19 pandemic challenge its racial framing and prioritize the needs of racial/ethnic minorities, immigrants, poor and other vulnerable groups, COVID-19 is likely to persist in these pockets of our society. As long as it does, COVID-19 will remain a threat to the health of all. It has been suggested that a nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its most vulnerable members. This is our chance to show how great and equitable a nation we can be.
Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS
Bita Amani, PhD, MHS
Keith Norris, MD, PhD
Kia Skrine Jeffers, PhD, RN, PHN, SAG-AFTRA
Randall Akee, PhD
Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
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Factions Beginners’ Guide
Welcome to Factions! This is intended as a one-page guide to help Summoners get into Factions.
I’ve condensed this guide down into a few crucial bullet points.
Lore. Welcome to Factions. Summoners and the League of Legends exist. War still happens. The League’s mandate is not “world peace” (though some idealists believe it can accomplish that) but instead the prevention of another Rune War. Rune Wars involve the use of “magical WMDs”: rune spells that tear open leylines and nexuses to harness their raw power, and do massive collateral damage in the process. Factions also often use the League as a sort of international court to efficiently resolve disputes through trial by combat. Usually, Summoners and Champions fight for anyone who hires them. During major disputes, a different process is used, whereby Summoners and Champions must petition the League to represent their chosen faction on the Fields.
Declare for a faction. The first step is to decide whose side you’re on. As a Summoner of the League, you are among the few allowed to pursue the study of restricted rune magic, which has been modified into less destructive (but still dangerous) forms. These techniques also allow you to bond with Champions, lending them your strength and insight. These services are in high demand, and in any given dispute it is likely that all the various factions will seek to recruit you. Your oath binds you only for the duration of the arc.
Rules. There are usually no bans allowed in Factions matches. (Exceptions are noted on the Rosters page.) You should “burn” bans, by banning Champions not on either roster. Each side has 5 minutes of pause time in case of a disconnection; after that, the preferred practice is for someone on the other team to chivalrously return to the fountain to even things up.
Join the Factions chat. The main meeting place for Factions Summoners is the “Factions” chat.
Join your faction’s specific chat. If you want to get invited to a match, the surest method is to join your faction’s chat. (e.g. “Noxus”, “Shurima”, “Piltover”.) Match organizers look in these chats when setting up matches.
Create matches. You can also set up matches yourself. It’s not that difficult, but you may want to ask a more experienced Summoner for help at first. Remember to check the Champion rosters for each faction. The winning team has the responsibility for submitting the match results.
Join the forum. We have a discussion forum set up. It’s a good place to talk with your fellow Factioners.
How Factions Works
Factions was inspired by the Noxus versus Ionia tournament Riot held a few years ago, before the Great Retcon. There are two main differences. First, we use faction-specific Champion lists: Demacia gets mostly Demacian Champions, Noxus gets mostly Noxians, and so on. (When the original tournament happened, there weren’t enough Noxian or Ionian Champions to make decent rosters.) Second, whereas the original tournament was a one-time event in which only ten people could directly participate, Factions is designed so that anyone can start or join a match anytime, and all matches contribute toward the story’s resolution.
Factions runs one arc at a time. First, we pick the factions that will be playable in the arc by public vote. (The winner of the previous arc gets to add another faction in as a prize.) Then, we come up with something they might be fighting over. Summoners get started in an arc by declaring their allegiance to one of the factions. (Declarations only last for the duration of the arc; you sign up anew each time, and you can either stick with the same faction or switch around, as you like.) We then have about three months of matches, with factions gaining points from victories and losing points from defeats, accompanied by lore updates that follow the scoreboard, and interactive lore events that give Summoners a say See Previous Storylines for an overview of prior arcs.
The first step to joining an arc and playing a role in its outcome is to choose a faction and make your declaration of allegiance. This oath binds you for the remainder of the arc, but dissolves when the dispute ends. To clarify the answer to a very common question: no, you do not have to stick with the same arc forever; even if you want to stay with the same faction as in the previous arc, you still need to make a new declaration. We start with a blank Summoner List each arc.
Some other links:
Faction Rosters
Factions Forum
Factions Chat
Your first destination once you’ve signed up should be the Factions chat. This is not only a place to talk with other Factions members but also the primary source of invites for Factions matches. Typically, when starting a match, people will go through the Factions chat list and right-click invite people from the appropriate factions. Be on the lookout for random custom game invites.
We recommend that you set it to auto-join the Factions chat on launch. To do so, click the gear icon in the upper-right corner of the chat box and select “auto-join”.
If the chat is full, join Factions2 instead. Also join your faction’s specific chat — see below. The faction-specific chats are actually more useful for organizing matches anyway.
This will automatically log you into the chat whenever you sign in.
Your Faction’s Specific Chat
If you’re looking for an invite to a game, you should also join your faction’s chat room. For example, if you’re in Bandle City, join the BANDLE CITY chat.
This makes it easy for match organizers to find people from the factions they’re pairing up.
NOXUS
PILTOVER
SHURIMA
“Let’s Find Some Friends!”
We also suggest that people Friend some other Factions Summoners, especially from their own faction. You can use Friend Folders to sort by faction.
You can find a list of Summoners here.
Getting Into A Match
Once you’re signed up, you’re cleared to start or join a scored Factions match anytime.
Be on the lookout for invites:
People who are setting up a match will often invite everyone in the chat. Hop in!
The left/right order of the factions always follows the title. If the title is “Piltover-Demacia”, then Piltover is on the left-hand side.
You don’t have to follow Factions lore to enjoy Factions matches, but I do think it helps add some flavor.
Here are some resources for getting up to speed on the lore of the Factions universe.
Factions Lore — The main lore index.
Previous Storylines — Succinct summaries of prior storylines.
Overview — A narrative overview of the Factions saga to date.
The World of Factions — Some general background.
The Summoner’s Herald — Our in-universe newspaper. The first issue’s Notable Events section will get you up to speed very quickly.
A Note On Mixed-Tier Games
Although we don’t have the benefit of an automated Matchmaker system for Factions, we do try to make sure each team has roughly the same mix of Tiers. (An automatic point adjust is calculated based on any net discrepancy; if a high-Tier team beats a low-Tier team, it’s worth fewer points, and if a lower-Tier team scores an upset victory it’s worth more points.) If the teams mirror one another, the match is “fair” in a general sense.
However, unlike in matchmade games, there’s often a significant skill mix within a team. You might be a Silver on a team of Plats. This can frustrate new players when they end up, e.g., laning against a higher-Tier opponent.
Two things to keep in mind:
If you’re (say) a Silver up against a Plat, it’s likely that elsewhere on the map an enemy Silver is struggling against one of your Plats. You don’t need to beat the Plat: you just need to do better than that enemy Silver does against your Plat. It’s often a good idea to play safe.
If your team is higher-Tier than you, feel free to ask for advice, during and after the game. Factions can be a valuable learning experience and a rare opportunity to get guidance from some of the best players in the world.
Of course, if anyone is rude or ragey, report them after the game. Most of the time, high-level Factions players are nice people who will be happy to give you some tips and feedback on your play.
Featured Matches and Tournaments
We hold shoutcasted Featured Matches every Saturday and Sunday, starting at 12:30 p.m. Pacific (1:30 Mountain, 2:30 Central, 3:30 Eastern). Come watch and cheer your team on! You can also sign up to participate.
We’ve recently set up a forum for Factions:
You’re encouraged to sign up.
We have a LeagueFactions subreddit. Come join the discussions there. Don’t have a Reddit account? Making one is free and seriously takes about 30 seconds: you pretty much just type in a username and password.
We also have a shiny new Google Groups email list. Sign up here. (Select “send me messages as they arrive”, rather than one of the “digest” options.) We limit ourselves to no more than three emails per month.
Ask in the Factions chat, or contact staff directly. We’re happy to help answer questions.
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tormentingangel says:
how can we join the chat rooms…riot was mean and disabled them
I don’t think they’re actually disabled, just full. Try Factions2. Also, the faction-specific chats shouldn’t be at 200.
Argon Williams says:
There’s a typo on this page. It says you hold the Featured Matches on Saturday and Saturday, rather than Saturday and Sunday.
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Your Processing of Personal DataIn using Our Services and Website, You will Process Personal Data in accordance with the requirements of all relevant Data Protection Laws and Regulations and all Applicable Laws. That is, Your instructions for Processing of Personal Data shall comply with all such Laws and Regulations. You have sole responsibility for the accuracy, quality and legality (including obtaining all relevant consents) of Personal Data and the method You acquired Personal Data.
Our Processing of Personal DataIn providing the Services to You under this Agreement, We may Process Personal Data on Your behalf. We shall treat Your Personal Data as confidential information and only Process Personal Data on Your behalf to allow You to assess and manage Your risks and in accordance with instructions You provide in writing to Us and/or by Your access and/or use of Our Services as agreed with Us. We do not engage sub-processors to undertake any of Our processing operations under this Agreement.
Details of the ProcessingThe subject matter of Processing of Personal Data by Us in performing the Services under this Agreement, as well as the duration of the Processing, the nature and purpose of the Processing, the types of Personal Data and categories of Data Subjects Processed under this Agreement are specified in Schedule 1 (Details of the Processing of Your Personal Data) of this Agreement.
Data Subject RequestTo the extent legally permitted, We shall promptly notify You if We receive a request from a Data Subject to exercise its right of access, right to rectification, restriction of Processing, right of erasure (that is, to be forgotten), data portability, object to Processing, or right not to be subject to automated individual decision making (“Data Subject Request”). Taking into account the nature of the Processing, We shall assist You with appropriate technical and organisational measures, as far as possible, to fulfil Your obligation to respond to a Data Subject Request under Data Protection Laws and Regulations. Also, to the extent that You, in using the Services, are unable to address a Data Subject Request, We shall on Your request, provide commercially reasonable efforts to assist You in responding to such Data Subject Request, to the extent We are legally permitted, and the response to such Data Subject Request is required under Data Protection Laws and Regulations. You are responsible for any costs of Our provision of such assistance to the extent legally permitted.
ConfidentialityWe shall ensure that Our personnel engaged in Processing of Personal Data are informed of the confidential nature of that Data, have received appropriate training on their responsibilities and have executed written confidentiality agreements. We shall also ensure such confidentiality obligations survive termination of Our relevant personnel’s engagement.
ReliabilityWe shall take commercially reasonable steps to ensure the reliability of Our personnel engaged in Processing of Personal Data.
Limitation of AccessWe shall ensure Our access to Personal Data is limited to the personnel requiring such access to perform their duties under this Agreement.
Data Protection OfficerOur data protection officer, appointed under the Data Protection Laws and Regulations, may be reached at email: DPO@LMIGroup.com
Security: controls for protection of Personal DataWe maintain physical, administrative and technical safeguards designed to protect the security (such as protection against: unauthorised or unlawful Processing accidental or unlawful destruction, loss or alteration or damage, unauthorised access or disclosure of Customer Data), as well as confidentiality and integrity of Customer Data, including Personal Data, in accordance with Schedule 2 (Standard Contractual Clauses). During the term of this Agreement, We will not materially decrease the overall security of the Services.
Security: breach management and notificationWe maintain security incident management policies and procedures. We shall notify You without undue delay, after becoming aware of any accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised access or disclosure of, Customer Data, including Personal Data, stored, transmitted or otherwise Processed by Us, of which We become aware (“Customer Data Incident”). We shall undertake reasonable endeavours to identify the cause of any Customer Data Incident and take such steps as We deem reasonable and necessary to remediate that cause (to the extent the remediation is within Our reasonable control). Our obligations shall not apply to incidents caused by You or Your Users.
Return and Deletion of Customer DataTo the extent legally permitted, We shall return (where applicable) and delete all Customer Data within twelve (12) months from the expiry date of Our agreement with You or in accordance with any other timeframe and procedures which may be agreed with You.
Additional Terms for Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) Services
Customers covered by the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC)The SCC and the additional terms set out in this Clause (a) apply to: (i) the legal entity that has entered into the SCC as a data exporter and its Authorized Affiliates and, (ii) all Affiliates of Customer established within the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, which have agreed to the SCC Services. For the purposes of the SCC and this Clause the above entities are deemed “data exporters”.
InstructionsThis Agreement constitutes the Customer’s complete and final instructions at the time of entering the Agreement with Us for Processing Personal Data. Any other instructions must be agreed separately. For the purposes of Clause 5(a) of the SCC the following is deemed an instruction by the Customer to process Personal Data: (a) Processing pursuant to the Agreement; (b) Processing initiated by Users in using the SCC Services and (c) Processing to comply with other reasonable instructions provided by Customer (such as via email) which are consistent with the terms of the Agreement.
Audits and CertificationsThe Parties agree that the audits described in Clause 5(f) and Clause 11(2) of the SCC shall be carried out in accordance with the following provisions: Upon the Customer’s request, and subject to the confidentiality obligations in the Agreement, We shall make available to Customer (or Customer’s independent, third-party auditor that is not a competitor of Ours and has signed a nondisclosure agreement reasonably acceptable to Us) information regarding Our compliance with the obligations under this Agreement. Following any notice by Us to the Customer of an actual or reasonably suspected unauthorised disclosure of Personal Data, upon Customer’s reasonable belief that We are in breach of Our obligations of protection of Personal Data under this Agreement or if such audit is required by the Customer’s Supervisory Authority, the Customer may contact Us via email: DPO@LMIGroup.com to request an audit at Our premises of the procedures relevant to the protection of Personal Data. Any such request shall occur no more than once annually, save for any actual or reasonably suspected unauthorised access to Personal Data. Customer shall reimburse Us for any time expended for such on-site audit at Our then-current professional services rates, which shall be provided to Customer on request. Before commencement of any such on-site audit, We and Customer shall mutually agree upon the audit’s scope, timing, and duration as well as reimbursement rate for which Customer shall be responsible. Reimbursement rates shall be reasonable, taking account of the resources expended by Us. Customer shall promptly notify Us with information regarding any non-compliance discovered in the course of an audit.
Certification of DeletionThe Parties agree that the certification of deletion of Personal Data as described in Clause 11(1) of the SCC shall be provided by Us to Customer only upon Customer’s request.
ConflictIn the event of any conflict or inconsistency between this Agreement and any of its Schedules (not including the SCC) and the SCC in Schedule 2 (refer above LINK), the SCC shall prevail.
Website Terms and ConditionsBy completing this Agreement, you also confirm that You have accepted and agreed to all the “Terms of Use (Terms and Conditions)” specified in Our Website.
DefinitionsIn this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set out below and similar terms shall be construed accordingly.Affiliate means any entity that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the subject entity. “Control” for purposes of this definition, means direct or indirect ownership or control of more than 50% of the voting interests of the subject entity.Applicable Laws means (a) European Union or member state laws with respect to Personal Data which is subject to EU Data Protection Laws; and (b) any other applicable law with respect to Personal Data which is subject to any other Data Protection Laws.Authorized Affiliate means any of Customer’s Affiliate(s) which (a) is subject to the data protection laws and regulations of the European Union, the European Economic Area and/or their member states, Switzerland and/or the United Kingdom, and (b) is permitted to use the Services pursuant to the Agreement between Customer and Us, but has not signed an agreement with Us and is not a “Customer” as defined in the Agreement.
Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd. means Us as the Processor of Personal Data under this Agreement.
Controller means the entity which determines the purposes and means of Processing of Personal Data.
Customer Data means what is defined in the Agreement as Customer Data or Your Data.
Data Protection Laws and Regulations means all laws and regulations, including laws and regulations of the European Union, the European Economic Area and their member states, applicable to the Processing of Personal Data under this Agreement.
Data Subject means the individual to whom Personal Data relates.
GDPR means the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons regarding the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).
Parties means You and Us.
Personal Data means any information relating to (a) an identified or identifiable natural person and (b) an identified or identifiable legal entity (where such information is protected similarly as personal data or personally identifiable information under applicable Data Protection Laws and Regulations), where for each (a) or (b), such data is Customer Data.
Processing means any operation or set of operations which is performed upon Personal Data, whether by automatic means or otherwise, such as collection, recording, organisation, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, blocking, erasure or destruction.
Processor means the entity which Processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller.
Standard Contractual Clauses and SCC means the contractual clauses set out in Schedule 2 which are entered into by Customer and Us pursuant to the European Commission’s decision of 5 February 2010 on Standard Contractual Clauses for the transfer of personal data to processors established in third countries which do not ensure an adequate level of data protection.
Supervisory Authority means an independent public authority which is established by an EU member state pursuant to the GDPR.
We, Us, Our means Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd.
You, Your, Yours means the Customer and Controller and includes Your Users, related entities and Authorised Affiliate(s).
The terms “commission” and “member state” shall have the same meaning as in the GDPR, and their like terms shall be construed accordingly.
Legal EffectThis Agreement shall only become legally binding between the Parties when You have carefully considered and accepted all its provisions and You have provided your consent and acceptance via Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd.’s online registration process.As Processor, Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd. confirms that this Agreement commences upon the due and proper completion of Your online registration.
List of Schedules/Appendices
Schedule 1: Details of the Processing of Your Personal Data
Schedule 2: Standard Contractual Clauses
Appendix 1 to the Standard Contractual Clauses
SCHEDULE 1 – DETAILS OF THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Nature and Purpose of Processing
Continuity Coach Pty Ltd (We/Us) will process Personal Data as necessary to perform the Services pursuant to this Agreement and as instructed by You, including the provision to You of Our online storage vault which enables You to:
Input, record and manage Your data in a private and secure online environment.
Enter details including Personal Data of Your employees and third parties for retrieval and use as and when You require, such as Your assignment of specific tasks to employees, the management and mitigation of Your business risks.
Access Your own safe online environment for other purposes without the need to input Personal Data if required.
Duration of Processing
We will Process Personal Data for the duration of this Agreement, unless otherwise agreed with You in writing.
Categories of Data Subjects
You may submit Personal Data to Us (as determined and controlled by You in Your sole discretion) which may include (but is not limited to) Personal Data relating to the following categories of data subjects:
You, Your business partners, vendors and subcontractors (who are natural persons);
Employees or contact persons of Your customers, business partners, vendors and subcontractors;
Employees, agents, advisors and contractors of Yours (who are natural persons); and
Your Users, as authorized by You to use the Services.
Type of Personal Data
You may submit Personal Data to Us (as determined and controlled by You in Your sole discretion) which may include (but is not limited to) the following categories of Personal Data:
Contact information (company, email, phone, physical business address)
SCHEDULE 2 – STANDARD CONTRACTUAL CLAUSES
Standard Contractual Clauses (processors)
For the purposes of Article 26(2) of Directive 95/46/EC for the transfer of personal data to processors established in third countries which do not ensure an adequate level of data protection
You, as Controller and Customer pursuant to the Agreement with Us and as fully identified by You on entering this Agreement via the details of Your online Registration
(the data exporter)
Us, Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd., as Processor pursuant to this Agreement and as fully identified via Our Website, Our Terms of Use (Terms & Conditions) and Your online Registration
(the data importer)
each a “party”; together “the parties”,
HAVE AGREED on the following Contractual Clauses (the Clauses) in order to adduce adequate safeguards with respect to the protection of privacy and fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals for the transfer by the data exporter to the data importer of the personal data specified in Appendix 1.
DefinitionsFor the purposes of the Clauses:
‘personal data’, ‘special categories of data’, ‘process/processing’, ‘controller’, ‘processor’, ‘data subject’ and ‘supervisory authority’ shall have the same meaning as in Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data;
‘the data exporter’ means the controller who transfers the personal data;
‘the data importer’ means the processor who agrees to receive from the data exporter personal data intended for processing on his behalf after the transfer in accordance with his instructions and the terms of the Clauses and who is not subject to a third country’s system ensuring adequate protection within the meaning of Article 25(1) of Directive 95/46/EC;
‘the applicable data protection law’ means the legislation protecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals and, in particular, their right to privacy with respect to the processing of personal data applicable to a data controller in the Member State in which the data exporter is established;
‘technical and organisational security measures’ means those measures aimed at protecting personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access, in particular where the processing involves the transmission of data over a network, and against all other unlawful forms of processing.
Details of the transferThe details of the transfer and in particular the special categories of personal data where applicable are specified in Appendix 1 which forms an integral part of the Clauses.
Third-party beneficiary clause
The data subject can enforce against the data exporter this Clause, Clause 4(b) to (h), Clause 5(a) to (e), and (g), Clause 6(1) and (2), Clause 7, Clause 8(2), and Clauses 9 to 11 as third-party beneficiary.
The data subject can enforce against the data importer this Clause, Clause 5(a) to (e) and (g), Clause 6, Clause 7, Clause 8(2), and Clauses 9 to 11, in cases where the data exporter has factually disappeared or has ceased to exist in law unless any successor entity has assumed the entire legal obligations of the data exporter by contract or by operation of law, as a result of which it takes on the rights and obligations of the data exporter, in which case the data subject can enforce them against such entity.
The parties do not object to a data subject being represented by an association or other body if the data subject so expressly wishes and if permitted by national law.
Obligations of the data exporterThe data exporter agrees and warrants:
that the processing, including the transfer itself, of the personal data has been and will continue to be carried out in accordance with the relevant provisions of the applicable data protection law (and, where applicable, has been notified to the relevant authorities of the Member State where the data exporter is established) and does not violate the relevant provisions of that State;
that it has instructed and throughout the duration of the personal data processing services will instruct the data importer to process the personal data transferred only on the data exporter’s behalf and in accordance with the applicable data protection law and the Clauses;
that the data importer will provide sufficient guarantees in respect of the technical and organisational security measures specified in Appendix 2;
that after assessment of the requirements of the applicable data protection law, the security measures are appropriate to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access, in particular where the processing involves the transmission of data over a network, and against all other unlawful forms of processing, and that these measures ensure a level of security appropriate to the risks presented by the processing and the nature of the data to be protected having regard to the state of the art and the cost of their implementation;
that it will ensure compliance with the security measures;
that, if the transfer involves special categories of data, the data subject has been informed or will be informed before, or as soon as possible after, the transfer that its data could be transmitted to a third country not providing adequate protection within the meaning of Directive 95/46/EC;
to forward any notification received from the data importer pursuant to Clause 5(b) and Clause 8(3) to the data protection supervisory authority if the data exporter decides to continue the transfer or to lift the suspension;
to make available to the data subjects upon request a copy of the Clauses, with the exception of Appendix 2, and a summary description of the security measures, unless the Clauses contain commercial information, in which case it may remove such commercial information; and
that it will ensure compliance with Clause 4(a) to (h).
Obligations of the data importerThe data importer agrees and warrants:
to process the personal data only on behalf of the data exporter and in compliance with its instructions and the Clauses; if it cannot provide such compliance for whatever reasons, it agrees to inform promptly the data exporter of its inability to comply, in which case the data exporter is entitled to suspend the transfer of data and/or terminate the contract;
that it has no reason to believe that the legislation applicable to it prevents it from fulfilling the instructions received from the data exporter and its obligations under the contract and that in the event of a change in this legislation which is likely to have a substantial adverse effect on the warranties and obligations provided by the Clauses, it will promptly notify the change to the data exporter as soon as it is aware, in which case the data exporter is entitled to suspend the transfer of data and/or terminate the contract;
that it has implemented the technical and organisational security measures specified in Appendix 2 before processing the personal data transferred;
that it will promptly notify the data exporter about:
any legally binding request for disclosure of the personal data by a law enforcement authority unless otherwise prohibited, such as a prohibition under criminal law to preserve the confidentiality of a law enforcement investigation,
any accidental or unauthorised access, and
any request received directly from the data subjects without responding to that request, unless it has been otherwise authorised to do so;
to deal promptly and properly with all inquiries from the data exporter relating to its processing of the personal data subject to the transfer and to abide by the advice of the supervisory authority with regard to the processing of the data transferred;
at the request of the data exporter to submit its data processing facilities for audit of the processing activities covered by the Clauses which shall be carried out by the data exporter or an inspection body composed of independent members and in possession of the required professional qualifications bound by a duty of confidentiality, selected by the data exporter, where applicable, in agreement with the supervisory authority;
to make available to the data subject upon request a copy of the Clauses, unless the Clauses contain commercial information, in which case it may remove such commercial information, with the exception of Appendix 2 which shall be replaced by a summary description of the security measures in those cases where the data subject is unable to obtain a copy from the data exporter.
The parties agree that any data subject, who has suffered damage as a result of any breach of the obligations referred to in Clause 3 by any party is entitled to receive compensation from the data exporter for the damage suffered.
If a data subject is not able to bring a claim for compensation in accordance with paragraph 1 against the data exporter, arising out of a breach by the data importer of any of their obligations referred to in Clause 3, because the data exporter has factually disappeared or ceased to exist in law or has become insolvent, the data importer agrees that the data subject may issue a claim against the data importer as if it were the data exporter, unless any successor entity has assumed the entire legal obligations of the data exporter by contract of by operation of law, in which case the data subject can enforce its rights against such entity.
Mediation and jurisdiction
The data importer agrees that if the data subject invokes against its third-party beneficiary rights and/or claims compensation for damages under the Clauses, the data importer will accept the decision of the data subject:
to refer the dispute to mediation, by an independent person or, where applicable, by the supervisory authority;
to refer the dispute to the courts in the Member State in which the data exporter is established.
The parties agree that the choice made by the data subject will not prejudice its substantive or procedural rights to seek remedies in accordance with other provisions of national or international law.
Cooperation with supervisory authorities
The data exporter agrees to deposit a copy of this contract with the supervisory authority if it so requests or if such deposit is required under the applicable data protection law.
The parties agree that the supervisory authority has the right to conduct an audit of the data importer which has the same scope and is subject to the same conditions as would apply to an audit of the data exporter under the applicable data protection law.
The data importer shall promptly inform the data exporter about the existence of legislation applicable to it preventing the conduct of an audit of the data importer pursuant to paragraph 2. In such a case the data exporter shall be entitled to take the measures foreseen in Clause 5 (b).
Governing LawThe Clauses shall be governed by the law of the Member State in which the data exporter is established.
Clause 10
Variation of the contractThe parties undertake not to vary or modify the Clauses. This does not preclude the parties from adding clauses on business related issues where required as long as they do not contradict the Clause.
Obligation after the termination of personal data processing services
The parties agree that on the termination of the provision of data processing services, the data importer shall, at the choice of the data exporter, return all the personal data transferred and the copies thereof to the data exporter or shall destroy all the personal data and certify to the data exporter that it has done so, unless legislation imposed upon the data importer prevents it from returning or destroying all or part of the personal data transferred. In that case, the data importer warrants that it will guarantee the confidentiality of the personal data transferred and will not actively process the personal data transferred anymore.
The data importer warrants that upon request of the data exporter and/or of the supervisory authority, it will submit its data processing facilities for an audit of the measures referred to in paragraph 1.
These Contractual Clauses shall only become legally binding between the parties when the data exporter has carefully considered and accepted them and has provided its consent and acceptance via Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd.’s online registration process.
As the data importer, Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd. confirms its acceptance of the Contractual Clauses upon the data exporter’s due and proper completion of the online registration.
This Appendix forms part of the Clauses and must be completed and entered into by the parties via the data importer’s (Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd.’s) online registration process.
The Member States may complete or specify, according to their national procedures, any additional necessary information to be contained in this Appendix.
Data exporter
The data exporter will access the data importer’s online storage vault service for any (or all) of the following purposes:
Input, record and manage its data in a private and secure online environment.
Enter details including personal data of its employees and third parties for retrieval and use as and when required, such as the assignment of specific tasks to employees, the management and mitigation of its business risks.
Access its own safe online environment for other purposes without the need to input personal data if required.
Data importer
The data importer (Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd.) is a provider of the abovementioned online storage vault service which processes personal data upon the instruction of the data exporter in accordance with the terms of the parties’ Agreement.
Data subjects
The personal data transferred concern the following categories of data subjects:
At the data exporter’s sole discretion and may include (but not limited to) Personal Data relating to:
Prospects, customers, business partners, vendors and subcontractors of the data exporter (who are natural persons)
Employees or contact persons of the data exporter’s customers, business partners, vendors and subcontractors
Employees, agents, advisors, freelancers of the data exporter (who are natural persons), and their family members
The data exporter’s Users authorised by the data exporter to use the Services
Categories of data
The personal data transferred concern the following categories of data: The data exporter may submit Personal Data to the Services, the extent of which is determined and controlled by the data exporter in its sole discretion, and which may include (but not limited to) the following categories of Personal Data:
Localisation data
Processing operations
The personal data transferred will be subject to the following basic processing activities:
The objective of Processing of Personal Data by data importer is the performance of the SCC Services pursuant to the Agreement.
The provisions of this Appendix 1 shall only become legally binding between the parties when the data exporter has carefully considered and accepted them and has provided its consent and acceptance via Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd.’s online registration process.
As the data importer, Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd. confirms its acceptance of the provisions of this Appendix 1 upon the data exporter’s due and proper completion of the online registration.
Description of the technical and organisational security measures implemented by the data importer in accordance with Clauses 4(d) and 5(c):
General Controls. Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd. shall implement measures designed to:
deny unauthorised persons access to data-processing equipment used for processing Personal Data (equipment access control);
prevent the unauthorised reading, copying, modification or removal of data media containing Personal Data (data media control);
prevent the unauthorised input of Personal Data and the unauthorised inspection, modification or deletion of stored Personal Data (storage control);
prevent the use of automated data-processing systems by unauthorised persons using data communication equipment used to process Personal Data (user control);
ensure that persons authorised to use an automated data-processing system only have access to the Personal Data covered by their access authorisation (data access control);
ensure that it is possible to verify which individuals Personal Data have been or may be transmitted or made available using data communication equipment (communication control);
ensure that the functions of the system used to process Personal Data perform, that the appearance of faults in the functions is reported (reliability) and to prevent stored Personal Data from corruption by means of a malfunctioning of the system (integrity).
Personnel. Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd. shall take reasonable steps to ensure that no person shall be appointed by Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd. to process Personal Data unless that person:
is competent and qualified to perform the specific tasks assigned to him by Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd.;
has been authorised by Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd.; and
has been instructed by Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd. in the requirements relevant to the performance of the obligations of Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd. under these Clauses, in particular the limited purpose of the data processing.
Copy Control. Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd. shall not make copies of Personal Data, provided, however, that Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd. may retain copies of Personal Data provided to it for backup and archive purposes.
Security Controls. The Service includes a variety of security controls. These controls include:
Unique User identifiers (User IDs) to ensure that activities can be attributed to the responsible individual.
Controls to revoke access after several consecutive failed login attempts.
The ability to specify the lockout time period.
Controls on the number of invalid login requests before locking out a User.
Controls to ensure generated initial passwords must be reset on first use.
Controls to terminate a User session after a period of inactivity.
Password history controls to limit password reuse.
Password length controls.
Password complexity requirements (requires letters and numbers).
Email verification before resetting password.
Security Procedures, Policies and Logging. The Services are operated in accordance with the following procedures to enhance security:
User passwords are stored using a one-way hashing algorithm (SHA-256) and are never transmitted unencrypted.
User access log entries will be maintained, containing date, time and User ID.
Passwords are not logged under any circumstances.
Processor’s personnel will not set a defined password for a User. Passwords are reset to a random value (which must be changed on first use) and delivered automatically via email to the requesting User.
Intrusion Detection. Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd., or an authorised third party (subject to the terms of these Clauses), will monitor the Services for unauthorised intrusions using network-based intrusion detection mechanisms.
User Authentication. Access to the Services requires a valid User ID and password combination, which are encrypted via SSL while in transmission. Following a successful authentication, a random session ID is generated and stored in the user’s browser to preserve and track session state.
Incident Management. Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd. maintains security incident management policies and procedures. Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd. will promptly notify Customer in the event Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd. becomes aware of an actual or reasonably suspected unauthorised disclosure of Personal Data.
Viruses. The Services will not introduce any viruses to Customer’s systems; however, the Services do not scan for viruses that could be included in attachments or other Personal Data uploaded into the Services by Customer. Any such uploaded attachments will not be executed in the Services and therefore will not damage or compromise the Service.
Data Encryption. The Services use industry-accepted encryption products to protect Customer Data and communications during transmissions between a customer’s network and the Services, including 128-bit TLS Certificates and 2048-bit RSA public keys at a minimum. Additionally, Customer Data is encrypted during transmission between data centres for replication purposes.
System Changes and Enhancements. Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd. plans to enhance and maintain the Services during the term of the Agreement. Security controls, procedures, policies and features may change or be added. Continuity Coach Pty. Ltd. will provide security controls that deliver a level of security protection that is not materially lower than that provided as of the Effective Date.
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The 5 Best Concerts in St. Louis This Weekend, May 18 to 20
by Joseph Hess
VIA THE BILLIONS CORPORATION
Born Ruffians will perform at Old Rock House on Friday.
Each week we bring you our picks for the best shows of the weekend! To submit your show for consideration, click here. All events subject to change; check with the venue for the most up-to-date information.
Born Ruffians w/ Little Junior
8 p.m. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th Street. $12-$14. 314-588-0505.
Bands that start in high school rarely make it to graduation day, yet Born Ruffians have forged what looks to be a lifelong career out of ninth-grade jam sessions. The title of this crew’s latest record, Uncle, Duke and the Chief, is a reference to the founding members’ fathers — a callback to the camaraderie and familiarity that has been made audible throughout a discography spanning nearly fifteen years. From covering the likes of Grizzly Bear and Aphex Twin (a testament to the flexible sound) to touring with Franz Ferdinand and Caribou, these propagators of the poppy post-punk revival continue to age with grace.
Toad Road Music & Arts Festival
1:30 p.m. Granite City Elks Lodge #1063, 4801 Maryville Road, Granite City, Ill. $12-$15. 618-931-3557.
Brother Lee & the Leather Jackals top off an overflow of rock that veers in all directions, from the creeping folk of the Defeated County to the Zappa-esque rippers in Mother Meat. The common thread throughout this festival is quality that pairs well with quantity — ten bands are stretched over roughly ten hours, with art and food vendors on hand to sweeten the day. It should be sensory overload in the confines of the otherwise quiet Elks Lodge and its surrounding compound. Consider this a palate cleanser for the full summer of festivals to come.
Wake the Nation Tour w/ Caspa and many more
7 p.m. 2720 Cherokee Performing Arts Center, 2720 Cherokee Street. $20-$30. 314-282-8017.
All kinds of promoters and peddlers of quality art have their fingers in this two-stage juggernaut of a show taking place on both floors of 2720 Cherokee. DownRight Entertainment, Unknown Frequency, the Untz and ThazDope Records have all combined, Voltron-style, to deliver the Wake the Nation Tour, headed off by London-based dubstep deviant Caspa. The fourteen acts on the bill give the impression of a festival, and that’s not inaccurate: This roaming party is a precursor to the Untz Festival taking place in Mariposa, California, on June 2 and 3, with several of the same acts in tow.
A Night of Music and Action with the 442s
7 p.m. Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Avenue. $25. 314-833-3929.
With composer and multi-instrumentalist Adam Maness at the fore, the 442s take time to explore the middle ground between jazz and classical music, running over every contour with attention to texture and tone. That’s not to say the troupe won’t let loose when necessary, but the 442s take an attentive approach that can totally alter the mood of a room. Maness’ chops couldn’t be sharper, thanks to his weekly residency at Evangeline’s and a regular schedule of gigs throughout St. Louis. This is River City jazz at its finest, all in support of Cori Bush, a progressive activist running in the first congressional district.
Y La Bamba w/ Fatal Flaws
8 p.m. Foam, 3359 S. Jefferson Avenue. $10. 314-772-2100.
Portland songsmith Luz Elena Mendoza sits in the driver’s seat of Y La Bamba, an art-rock vehicle for amplified folk that draws from traditional Mexican music. Songs here strike a balance, moving with nuance through pop while subverting structure in subtle ways. Though the music is deeply personal — the themes include heritage, hardship and faith — Mendoza speaks in a universal language that is altogether accessible.
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Box Office Bounty Breaks all Barriers at $531M Worldwide
Simba Roars as Critics Cower…
Once more a Disney fan favorite is remade to record smashing box office receipts.
With a record $185M in it’s opening weekend in the US and a total Cume of $531M globally, the digital “faux” live action fantasy remake scores the highest ever domestic debut for a PG flick, and the ninth-biggest first week for any rating.
After being almost universally panned by critics for being, allegedly, to much of an exact copy of the original 1994 animated version, albeit with the technical twist, which was lauded, generally.
With overall box office performance in 2019 trailing the previous year by nine percentage points, going into the King’s inaugural weekend, it was a welcome event for industry insiders, as the feline’s performance lowered that deficit by almost two points, as the weekend tally began to emerge.
The powerful cat attracted female audience attentions by an almost 60% majority, a stat borne out by our own research.
Favreau’s recreation of the “everything the light touches’’ scene is perhaps not significantly different in content, yet is a new form of experience due to the presentation. This is the iconic scene where King Mufasa explains to his son Simba where and how they rule. Even better, James Earl Jones reprises his roll as King Mufasa, and delivers a commandingly enunciated speech once again.
For those who have not yet seen a preview of the box office wonder, the official trailer can be viewed above.
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EARLY LEAD ESCAPES DUCKS LATE IN SERIES FINALE
Travis Snider collects pair of doubles in matinee
(Central Islip, N.Y., June 17, 2018) – The Long Island Ducks were defeated by the Lancaster Barnstormers 4-3 on Sunday afternoon in the finale of a three-game series at Bethpage Ballpark.
The Ducks opened up the scoring with a three-run third inning. Travis Snider’s RBI double and a two-run double by Ramon Cabrera highlighted the inning.
It stayed that way until the top of the eighth inning when four runs scored for the Barnstormers to put them in front. Blake Gailen’s RBI single, a run-scoring passed ball and a two-run double by Nate Coronado did the damage.
Neither starter factored into the decision. Bennett Parry tossed six shutout innings for Long Island, allowing three hits and three walks while striking out six. Jonathan Albaladejo pitched six innings for Lancaster, yielding three runs on eight hits and a walk with one strikeout. Matt Marksberry (1-1) collected the win after pitched a scoreless seventh inning. Ashur Tolliver (0-2) suffered the loss, surrendering four runs (three earned) on two hits and two walks in one-third of an inning. Matt Reynolds picked up his 12th save with a scoreless ninth.
Snider, Jordany Valdespin and Daniel Fields each had two hits for the Flock.
The Ducks continue their homestand on Monday night when they open a three-game series against the Sugar Land Skeeters. Game time is slated for 6:35 p.m., with the Bethpage Ballpark gates opening at 5:35 (5:20 for full season ticket holders). It’s a Military Monday! As a thank you to the men and women of the armed forces who risk their lives to keep us safe, active military members (with valid military ID) will receive a special $7 ticket offer when purchasing tickets to the game at the Bethpage Ballpark box office (subject to availability). Left-hander Jake Fisher (2-1, 3.80) gets the start for the Ducks against Skeeters southpaw Ben Griset.
Tickets to the game, and all 2018 Ducks home games, are available by visiting the Bethpage Ballpark box office, calling (631) 940-TIXX or CLICKING HERE. Those unable to make the game can follow all the action on the Long Island Ducks Broadcast Network. Live streaming HD video and audio will be available via BoxCast on the Ducks official Facebook page, YouTube channel and at LIDucks.com.
The Long Island Ducks are members of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball and play their home games at Bethpage Ballpark. For further information, call (631) 940-DUCK or visit www.liducks.com.
About the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (ALPB)
The Atlantic League has been a leader in professional baseball and a gateway to Major League Baseball since 1998. Over 38 million fans have attended Atlantic League games and more than 900 players and 50 managers and coaches have joined MLB organizations directly from the ALPB. The Atlantic League emphasizes winning baseball games, showcasing the talent of top-caliber players and offering affordable family entertainment.
For more information, please visit www.atlanticleague.com.
Lancaster Barnstormers 4 AT Long Island Ducks 3
Lancaster AB R H BI AVG L Island AB R H BI AVG
Noel, R CF 1 0 1 0 .350 Valdespin, J 2B 5 1 2 0 .347
Sandford, D CF 3 1 1 0 .279 Ford, L LF 4 0 1 0 .253
Gailen, B RF 4 1 1 1 .288 Snider, T DH 5 1 2 1 .272
Casteel, R DH 5 1 2 0 .336 Washington, D 1B 3 1 0 0 .248
Hobson, K 1B 4 0 0 0 .143 Cabrera, R C 2 0 1 2 .271
Robinson, T LF 3 1 0 0 .278 Ezersky, K C 1 0 0 0 .000
Coronado, N 3B 4 0 1 2 .226 Bonifacio, E PH 1 0 0 0 .286
Frias, V SS 1 0 0 0 .348 Fields, D CF 4 0 2 0 .252
De La Rosa, A C 3 0 0 0 .211 Puckett, C 3B 4 0 1 0 .256
Garcia, C 2B 4 0 0 0 .319 Ard, T 3B,PR 0 0 0 0 .254
Vega, A RF 3 0 1 0 .156
Lyons, D SS 3 0 0 0 .167
32 4 6 3 35 3 10 3
Lancaster 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 - 4 6 0
L Island 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 3 10 0
2B--Coronado, N 3B (2), Snider, T DH 2 (7), Cabrera, R C (5), Fields, D CF
2 (5). RBI--Gailen, B RF (40), Coronado, N 3B 2 (6), TOTALS 3 (0),
Snider, T DH (34), Cabrera, R C 2 (8), TOTALS 3 (0). HP--Ezersky, K C
(2), Lyons, D SS (6). SB--Sandford, D CF 3 (31), Casteel, R DH (2), Frias,
V SS 3 (9), De La Rosa, A C (1), Valdespin, J 2B 3 (10). CS--Noel, R CF
(5), Vega, A RF (1).
LOB--Lancaster 8, L Island 11. DP--V. Frias(SS) - K. Hobson(1B).
Albaladejo, J 6.0 8 3 3 2 1 0 4.30
Marksberry, M (W,1-1) 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1.65
Granitz, G 0.1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1.00
Anderson, J 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.20
Reynolds, M (S,12) 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3.44
9 10 3 3 4 3 0
Parry, B 6.0 3 0 0 3 6 0 1.85
Dunning, J 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 8.46
Tolliver, A (L,0-2) 0.1 2 4 3 2 0 0 5.79
OGrady, D 0.2 1 0 0 1 1 0 2.05
Perez, W 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.46
WP--Albaladejo, J (4). PB--Ezersky, K 3. HB--Albaladejo, J (2), Marksberry,
M (1). SO--Hobson, K 2, Robinson, T, Coronado, N, De La Rosa, A 2, Garcia,
C, Snider, T 2, Fields, D. BB--Sandford, D, Gailen, B, Robinson, T, Frias,
V 3, De La Rosa, A, Ford, L, Washington, D 2, Vega, A. BF--Albaladejo, J 28
(192), Marksberry, M 5 (80), Granitz, G 3 (75), Anderson, J (67), Reynolds,
M 4 (80), Parry, B 23 (195), Dunning, J 4 (104), Tolliver, A 5 (67),
OGrady, D 4 (91), Perez, W 3 (80). P-S--Albaladejo, J 89-55, Marksberry, M
19-9, Granitz, G 10-4, Anderson, J 4-2, Reynolds, M 12-11, Parry, B 103-65,
Dunning, J 18-10, Tolliver, A 20-8, OGrady, D 18-11, Perez, W 14-9.
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‘Ammonite’ Director Francis Lee to Receive NewFest’s Inaugural World Queer Visionary Award (EXCLUSIVE)
New York’s LGBTQ film festival NewFest will honor “Ammonite” director Francis Lee with its inaugural World Queer Visionary Award.
“Ammonite” star Kate Winslet will present Lee with the kudos ahead of the movie’s opening night drive-in screening at the Queens Drive-In at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Oct. 16.
The 32nd edition of NewFest, held virtually for the first time, will run through Oct. 27.
The complete lineup will be announced on Sept. 23. Intros for the films are being shot at numerous LGBTQ landmarks in New York City. “The idea behind recording intros in front of LGBTQ landmarks in NYC was to capture the energy of the city and the incredible queer legacy that exists here,” NewFest executive director David Hatkoff tells Variety. “We want to acknowledge and celebrate our community’s history, as well as shine a spotlight on queer gathering spaces, community organizations, and LGBTQ-owned businesses that have been impacted by the pandemic.”
Variety caught up with Hatkoff earlier this week to talk about this year’s festival.
How did the World Queer Visionary Award come about and why is Francis Lee so deserving of the honor?
LGBTQ visibility and advocacy remain essential to the global conversation around human rights, and NewFest has always made it a priority to reflect the international nature of New York City by featuring stories from around the world. Francis’ debut film “God’s Own Country” was our International Centerpiece at the 2017 Festival, and he’s delivered another stunner this year with “Ammonite,” making him the perfect inaugural recipient for this honor.
Why was it important that NewFest take place this year, even if it has to be virtual? How important is it for audiences to continue to see LGBTQ representation in cinema?
NewFest was founded more than 30 years ago in direct response to the AIDS crisis. With our country battling a pandemic, reckoning with racial injustice, and dealing with an economic downturn ahead of a hugely consequential election for LGBTQ+ lives and rights, maintaining a safe space where queer stories are told and shared has never been more important. Going virtual has given us an incredible opportunity to make sure these stories can be viewed from anywhere in the United States.
Is there a theme to this year’s festival?
With full awareness that the festival is taking place in the weeks leading up to the presidential election, we aim to capture through film, conversation and celebration the spirit of pride and protest that inspired the founding of NewFest. The poster design for this year’s festival, illustrated by queer NYC artist Marcos Chin, reflects this sentiment — that queer stories will not be silenced.
The drive-in opening night is obviously something new.
In a year when the festival will be available virtually in people’s homes throughout the country, we are thrilled to have found a way to begin the festival with an in-person event. One of the most special things about NewFest is the way it brings members of our community together to celebrate our stories, so we felt a drive-in was the best, and safest, way of kicking off 11 amazing days of local and international queer content with our NYC audiences.
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The Vermont Department of Liquor & Lottery, Division of Liquor Control is seeking interested parties in/near Orwell/Shoreham who may have an interest and a suitable location to operate a State Liquor Agency.
The VDLC requires at least 150 square feet of retail space, and 75 square feet of storage space, all devoted to retailing liquor, adequate parking, signage, loading and unloading facilities.
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Purser Street house fire in London, Ont. on Nov. 21, 2020. (Jordyn Read/CTV London)
LONDON, ONT. -- A 43-year-old woman has succumbed to injuries she suffered from a weekend townhouse fire on Purser Street in London.
The Office of the Chief Coroner is working on the cause and manner of Faten Al-Haddad's death.
London police say two children, a seven-year-old girl and five-year-old boy, remain in critical condition in hospital.
Emergency crews were called to the Purser Street address shortly after 11 a.m. Saturday. The three were immediately rushed to hospital.
The Major Crimes Section and the Ontario Office of the Fire Marshal continue to investigate the cause of the blaze.
Faten Al-Haddad is seen in this undated image. (Source: Faten Haddad / Facebook)
Brother shares heartfelt message in wake of London fire that's left 3 in critical condition
London police investigating townhouse fire that sent 3 people to hospital in critical condition
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Lake Travis’ scrimmage with Vandegrift Friday night will likely be remembered more for who didn’t play than who did.
The Cavaliers scrimmaged without a number projected starters. Head coach Hank Carter said Monday that several players did not participate due to an off-field situation but would not comment further.
Of those who did play, Carter said the scrimmage showed him exactly where the Cavaliers stand entering the opening week. He liked what the offense accomplished but said the defense’s performance left room for improvement.
“Defensively, we’ve got to come on,” he said. “We need to see a big jump by Friday. I was a little bit disappointed in how we executed defensively and how we tackled. But that’s why we practice.”
Sophomore Charlie Brewer quarterbacked Lake Travis’ starting offense. He threw a pair of touchdown passes to sophomore Mac Humble and led three scoring drives. Carter said Humble’s performance likely caught those outside the program by surprise.
“They aren’t surprises to us because we see them every day, but I think a lot of people are trying to find out who Mac Humble is today,” Carter said Monday. “Maleek Barkley, Cade Green, Abe Willows, all those guys are fairly new to the general public but they are great young players.”
Unofficially, Brewer completed 14 of 22 passes for 140 yards and two scores. Kevin Hathaway completed nine of 18 passes for 162 yards and a score, an 88 yarder to Barkley, who had a team-high six catches for 116 yards. Willows rushed 12 times for 74 yards and a score.
Carter said the plan had been to start Humble off with the junior varsity to maximize his playing time, but after Friday, he might figure more prominently in the varsity lineup, possibly as a defensive back.
“What he did Friday wasn’t a revelation to us,” Carter said. “We know he can do that. He does that every day in practice. With our depth at DB right now, Mac may work a little bit there because he has the speed and athleticism to do that.”
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90 Confirmed Coronavirus Cases in Hawai‘i: 14 New Cases
March 24, 2020, 12:24 PM HST
* Updated March 24, 8:21 PM
*This post has been updated to reflect clarifications provided by the state Department of Health.
There are now 90 total positive cases of COVID-19 in Hawaiʻi. This includes 12 new cases on Oʻahu, bringing that island total to 64; and one new case each on Maui and Hawaiʻi Island, bringing their island totals to 12 and 5 respectively.
The new cases include 10 Hawaiʻi residents, 3 US non-Hawaiʻi residents, and one pending case, which officials have yet to classify into existing categories.
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Although earlier figures released by the Department indicated a decrease in cases on the neighbor islands from previous day counts, the discrepancy appeared to have been from an attempt to provide greater clarity in terms place of residency with non residents moved to a different category. *(Our graphic has been recalibrated to reflect updated figures. A more detailed table is provided below by the state Department of Health).
The current case load on Maui includes confirmation today that an employee with Maui Health is among those confirmed as COVID-19 positive.
*VIdeo Courtesy Hawai‘i Joint Information Center / Hawai‘i Department of Health.
First COVID-19 Death Report Undergoing Confirmation
The Dept. of Health continues to investigate the death of an elderly adult on O‘ahu. Irregularities in testing conducted by the State Laboratories Division prompted DOH leadership to order retesting. The State lab initially received an indeterminate test from a private testing lab and late yesterday the state lab reported the test as positive for COVID-19. Retesting is underway now and confirmatory results will be released, possibly this evening.
Statewide Stay-at-Home, Work-at-Home Order
To protect public health and safety during this pandemic Governor David Ige signed a supplementary proclamation Monday, ordering the entire state to stay at home and work from home starting at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, March 25 through April 30th. Essential workers, such as health care professionals and public health workers are exempt.
The state and county orders are implemented to reduce the risk of spread of the COVID-19 virus and to protect the ability of public and private healthcare providers to handle the influx of new patients and to safeguard public health and safety. Many additional closures and restrictions are in place statewide and the Dept. of Health encourages all citizens to stay up-to-date and to practice social distancing protocols at all times.
Reminder of Governor’s Order for Self-Quarantine of All Travelers to Hawai‘i
Effective, Thursday, March 26, 2020, Governor David Ige has ordered that all persons entering the State of Hawai‘i to self-quarantine for 14 days or for the duration of their stay in Hawai‘i, whichever is shorter. Upon arrival, residents are required to quarantine in a designated location in their residence. Visitors will quarantine in their hotel room, rented lodging or in a room if staying at a residence. Quarantined individuals may only leave their designated location for medical emergencies or to seek medical care. Failure to comply with all rules and protocols related to quarantines is punishable by fines of up to $5000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.
FDA Guidance on Food Safety
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has provided guidance on food safety for the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently there is no evidence that the virus has spread from food or food packaging. The FDA is also aggressively monitoring the market for fraudulent COVID-19 testing kits. Complete information on food safety and approved testing can be found at: http://www.afdo.org
The DOH reminds people to be judicious when shopping for food and essential goods so that kūpuna and others in need are able to purchase necessary items.
Who should be tested?
Individuals who are not experiencing systems do not need to be tested. DOH strongly urges public health and healthcare professionals to prioritize testing among three specific groups:
Health care workers and first responders with COVID-19 symptoms.
Older Americans who have symptoms of COVID-19, especially those living in congregate settings.
Individuals who may have other illnesses that would be treated differently if they were infected with COVID-19 and therefore physician judgment is especially important for this population
Other people with mild illness should help protect our most vulnerable and conserve our precious supplies by practicing social distancing measures, monitoring their illness, and calling their healthcare provider if their symptoms worsen or persist.
Guidance and guidelines for public health professionals and healthcare workers: www.cdec.gov/covid19
Social Distancing:
COVID-19 recommendations are changing the rules on how much physical distance individuals should keep from each other. Cancelling events that do not allow attendees to be at least six feet apart—the equivalent of two arms-length—and avoiding unnecessary physical meeting with others are proven strategies to mitigate the spread of the virus. The effectiveness of these initiatives largely depends on the cooperation and compliance from the public. The recommendations are intended to protect the most vulnerable populations: kupuna and those who are medically fragile.
14 New Positive Cases on O’ahu and Maui
As of March 24,2020, there is a total of 90 presumptive or positive COVID-19 cases in Hawai‘I, including one death, reported last night. 70 of these cases involve Hawai‘i residents and the majority (57) are on O‘ahu. Travel or contact with a traveler is the risk factor in 57 cases, and only one case has no travel history. The cause of the virus in 32 cases is unknown. Please note, that as the number of cases rises daily it may take health professionals longer to investigate possible sources of infection for individual cases.
Please note the following: There was one duplicate in a previous case list, so total case count dropped by one. One case was misattributed to Hawai‘i Island when it should have been attributed to Kaua‘i.
Hawaii COVID-19 Counts
As of 3/24/2020 at 12:00 Noon
Reported 3/24/2020 Reported since 2/28/2020*
Total Cases 14 90
HI Residents 10 70
Non-HI Residents 3 14
County of Diagnosis
Honolulu 12 64
Hawaii 1 5
Maui 1 12
Kauai 0 4
Adult (>18 yrs) 14 88
Pediatric (0–18 yrs) 0 2
Hospitalized 2 6
Not hospitalized 0 25
Unknown 12 59
Deaths 1 1
Travel 5 57
Community 0 1
Unknown 9 32
Definition of Community Spread
Community spread is defined as cases that cannot be traced back to a traveler and have absolutely no travel related or involved connection with travel. We have been informed that there are residents of Hawai‘i who believe all COVID-19 positive cases originate from visitors to the state. Unfortunately, there is stigma developing against visitors in Hawai‘i. We’re asking the media to help people understand that of the 77 positive test results to date, 47 of them are the result of traveling residents. The majority of cases are residents who returned home after traveling. At this time, there may be residents returning home from a school that has closed or from other essential travel. It is important for all travelers to monitor their health for 14 days after traveling and to avoid exposing others and stay at home.
Thank you for your assistance in reducing and preventing stigma and increasing understanding during this rapidly changing situation.
More than 3862 tests performed for people in Hawai‘i by private clinical labs to date.
The DOH State Laboratories Division has tested 322 Persons Under Investigation (PUI) and 263 sentinel surveillance samples. The 263 sentinel surveillance tests have all been negative. These are representative samples taken from every county from people with flu-like symptoms who tested negative for influenza.
Private laboratories are receiving steadily increasing numbers of test samples and this has created some delays in the processing of test results. Test results from private laboratories are currently taking approximately a week or more to complete and health care providers and their patients should expect results may take longer as demand continues to increase.
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The Aloha United Way call center is open daily between 7 a.m. – 10 p.m. For information or questions about COVID-19:
Call 2-1-1 from any location in the state
Visit health.hawaii.gov/covid19 or coronavirus.gov
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Ingram leads Pelicans to 113-80 win over Thunder
OKLAHOMA CITY: Brandon Ingram had 20 points and seven rebounds before being ejected in the third quarter and the New Orleans Pelicans beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 113-80 on Thursday night (Friday in Manila).
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Eric Bledsoe added 17 points and Lonzo Ball had 16 points, nine assists and eight rebounds for New Orleans, which lost all four of its games last season to the Thunder. But in their first meeting this season, the Pelicans built an 11-point halftime lead and never were seriously threatened after that.
“Early in the year, we’re trying to get better,” New Orleans coach Stan Van Gundy said. “We’ve been struggling offensively so it was good to see the ball go in the basket. It was good to score some points. I thought our defense was pretty good overall. It was just a good night and we need to keep moving forward. The games come fast and furious here.”
Oklahoma City, which lost its third straight game — all at home — after winning its season opener at Charlotte, had won 10 of its 12 previous games on New Year’s Eve. Al Horford led the Thunder with 17 points and six rebounds.
The Pelicans led 77-67 with 3 minutes left in the third quarter when Bledsoe’s arm caught Isaiah Roby across the face as Roby looked for a layup on a fast break. Officials ruled it a flagrant foul and ejected Ingram, but Roby missed both free throws and Oklahoma City came no closer than seven points the rest of the quarter.
The Pelicans extended their lead to 85-73 entering the fourth quarter and continued pulling away, eventually leading by as many as 33 points while matching their season high in scoring.
Steven Adams, in his first game against the Thunder after being traded during the offseason, had 14 points and 10 rebounds. Josh Hart added 12 points and 11 rebounds.
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Pelicans: New Orleans posted a 58-40 rebounding advantage … Ingram entered the game averaging 10.3 points this season during the third quarter and had eight against the Thunder before his ejection … JJ Redick and Oklahoma City’s Hamidou Diallo each were slapped with a technical foul in the third quarter after jawing at each other.
Thunder: George Hill returned to the starting lineup after missing Tuesday’s loss to Orlando due to neck spasms … The Thunder matched their season high with 15 3-pointers (in 48 attempts).
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Thunder coach Mark Daigneault, on his team’s high volume of 3-point attempts: “(The Pelicans) are really aggressive with their on-ball defense and on help defense, and that leaves the perimeter open. I keep telling the team we’ve got to take what the defense gives us. If you have open 3s, you’ve got to take them. You’d like to have a bit more balance, and I thought there were times we tried to do too much with the ball, but overall we took good shots.”
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Adams spent seven seasons in Oklahoma City, where the New Zealand native became a fan favorite. The Thunder posted a tribute video to Adams on social media before the game and during pregame introductions, they turned up the fake crowd noise in the arena to simulate extra applause for Adams.
Pelicans: Will begin a four-game homestand on Saturday against Toronto.
Thunder: Will begin a five-game road swing on Saturday in Orlando, four days after losing to the Magic in Oklahoma City.
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Syrian security official in Italy
Written Questions 09 Mar 2018
Marietje Schaake, supported by 22 colleagues today submitted urgent questions to High Representative Mogherini following reports that a member of the Assad regime visited Italy, in violation of EU sanctions.
Ali Mamlouk, a member of the Assad regime, was reported to have been in Italy last month to discuss security issues with Italian authorities (1). Mr Mamlouk is a top security official under Assad and was one of the first to be placed under EU sanctions. These require member stakes to "prevent the entry into, or transit through, their territories of the persons responsible for the violent repression against the civilian population in Syria" (2).
Is the HR/VP aware of Mr Mamlouk's presence in Italy and if so will she condemn his presence within an EU member state in the strongest possible terms, insist the Italian government do the same and will she inquire where the application of sanctions failed?
Under the principle of universal jurisdiction, national courts may prosecute individuals for serious crimes against international law, including crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide; does the VP/HR agree that Italian authorities should have arrested Mr Mamlouk if he was in Italy, to hold him to account for the ongoing atrocities committed by Assad and his regime against the Syrian population?
Will the HR/VP investigate the circumstances under which Mr Mamlouk was able to arrive in Italy and what actions will she take against Italy for flagrantly violating EU sanctions?
(1) http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/75699
(2) https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/bbd8dca1-b6d0-4ce1-bcee-896df0022868/language-en
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Megunticook 50
Brutal. Beautiful.
Brutal. Beautiful. Two words that only begin to describe this event in the remote Midcoast area of Maine. It’s the only race to be held in the popular Camden Hills State Park and the 50K traverses over 90% of the trails of this gem with a minimum of overlap. The views along the course are stunning and even the speedy “contenders” will be tempted to stop and take them in.
But it’s not a race for the faint of heart. Neither is it well-suited for the first-time ultra runner. There are over 7600’ of elevation gain and the trails are steep with lots of rocks and roots. If you’re not going up or down, you’re probably off course. The cutoff time may seem generous at 10 hours, but this course will beat you up physically and mentally. And while it doesn’t have the 3000’ climbs of some of the races in the West, it has more overall vertical than most of those and would stand shoulder-to-shoulder with any of them for the level of difficulty. We’ll wait to hear from our finishers before declaring it the toughest 50K of any particular area.
It’s not a circuit run multiple times and there are only 3 out-and-backs of 1.7 miles, .15 mile and .5 mile. There are 5 aid stations, two of which are hit twice for a total of 7. You’ll top all 6 of the significant peaks in the park (Battie, Bald Rock, Derry, Frohock, Cameron and Megunticook), experience numerous lookouts and cross an abundance of brooks and streams along the way.
Miles Pavement
Miles Closed Gravel Road
Miles Single Track Trails
Carry plenty of water. This especially so if the weather is warm. There are a lot of brooks on the course that can be used if things get desperate. It’s good water but no guarantee you won’t get Ghirrardia. Symptoms won’t appear for several days anyway. Dehydration, on the other hand, is immediate and very dangerous.
The course will be well-marked. However, people do get off-course. If you go more than a couple hundred yards without seeing a sign or some flagging, turn around and go back until you see one.
Study the course before the race. Not only will it help you know where to go but it will also help you know when the climbs are coming.
Train for this event. Both are toughies and if you think this is an ordinary race, you could end-up in trouble.
Aid stations 3, 4, 5 and 6 will have snacks as well as water and electrolyte drinks. Aid stations 1 and 7 will have only water.
Use bug spray. Ticks are gross.
Use sunscreen. Sunburns hurt.
Aid Stations
2.4 mi to Aid #1 at Battie
4.5 mi. to Aid #2 at Jack Williams
7.4 mi. to Aid #3 at Ski Shelter
14.4 mi. to Aid #4 at Lincolnville Entrance
21 mi. to Aid #5 at Ski Shelter
25.5 mi. to Aid #6 at Highway 52 (9-hour cutoff)
28.3 mi. to Aid #7 at Jack Williams
Out-and-Backs
Frohock (1.75)
Cameron (.15)
Zeke’s (.5)
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The Mini Flyers were Art Asylum/Playalong’s way of getting more DC Minimates into the market without making larger sets. The Mini Flyers feature one Minimate and one small flying craft. The piece count is low, with 44 pieces in this set, but really the emphasis is on the Minimates with these small sets. This set features one of the 7 core members of the Justice League, speedster the Flash.
The packaging is a very small semi-window box, it’s a lot smaller than the basic sets in waves 1 and 2. The Justice League Unlimited logo appears at the top left. The packaging is done in the normal C3 style, but interestingly, perhaps to highlight the Minimate more, they have added the Minimate head graphic style from the Marvel Minimates sets to the side of the box. I always liked this on the Marvel packaging, and likewise really like the use of it here. To the right, you can see the Minimate very clearly in the window portion of the box.
The C3 pieces are all bagged up in the main part of the box, and the Minimate is packaged in a tray on the right hand side. There is one twist-tie holding the figure in.
The back of the box shows the cross-sell of the other new C3 sets, and a “technical specification” type drawing to show off the set itself.
The Figure
This is the second time Wally West, the fastest man alive, has received the Minimates treatment. The first Flash Minimate came with another core JLA member Martian Manhunter, and the Mini Javelin. This figure is for all intents and purposes identical to that Flash, apart from one slight change.
The expression on the face of the Flash is different. Before it was a toothy, cocky grin, whilst here, it’s a more goofy-looking smile. I prefer the old expression, but this one is OK and still suits the Flash.
The costume is identical to the first one. Not a huge problem for a couple of reasons, first, the Flash isn’t known for his wide array of crimefighting attire and second, it was done really well before and is superb again on this one. Maybe they could have differenciated them by making a battle-damaged one. There’s certainly a precedent for it in the Marvel line.
For accessories, Flash comes with a hairpiece, same as the first Flash but this time the brown colour is a tad lighter. He has the C3 feet, obviously.
Overall, this is almost a complete re-issue of the first Flash. That was a good figure, but was included in a set that was hard to get hold of. If you couldn’t find him before, this figure will be well received. If you already have a Flash, then this one holds no surprises for you.
MMC Score – 7 out of 10
The Construction Set
Mini Flyer
The Flash Mini Flyer takes the iconic yellow lightning symbols of the Flash and incorporates them into a vehicle. Ignoring the absurdity that the Flash even needs a vehicle, apart from perhaps to fly (although this doesn’t seem to have big enough wings to enable high altitude), it does look the part.
The colours are very bright, very vivid, being red and yellow. The colouration makes the vehicle scream “Look at me!” in the same way the Riddler’s Mini Flyer did. Like the Nightwing Mini Flyer the main problem with the design is that it’s not as big and complex as it needs to be. The lighning-styled wings and the wheel-like assembly at the back are both nice visually, but I really feel if you added more blocks to get some bigger wings or an engine piece onto the back half of the flyer it wouldn’t look quite so weedy. As it is, it’s a nice miniature vehicle but it could have been so much more.
As with the other Mini Flyer sets, there are no real gimmicks to speak of, apart from the red translucent canopy which opens and the usual well-designed cockpit area for the Minimate.
Overall, the Flash Mini Flyer works well within the confines of the Mini Flyer concept, it’s bright and fun. However I can’t shake off the nagging feeling that it’s not quite as good as it should be, and that the Flyer concept is hampering this one’s full potential.
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Christine Benedetti | July 19, 2019 | People
Through art and events, Aspenite Skye Weinglass aims to up downtown’s energy level.
Artist Spencer Hansen creates life-size creatures as pieces of art, so when gallery owner Skye Weinglass accompanied him to install one of the sculptures in a local art collector’s home, the fact that it was sandwiched between 12 Warhols wasn’t lost on either of them. Hansen’s show at Skye Gallery was his first fine-art exhibition—ever. “Aspen gives you that opportunity to bridge art worlds,” says Weinglass.
She’s done that, and much more. Since it opened in 2018, in addition to being a place for emerging artists to show works, Skye Gallery has become a community hub. The gallery hosts four to six events each month, from workshops to cocktail parties. During STS9’s three-night concert run in March, Weinglass collaborated with members of the band to hang four exclusive pieces they’d made (multitalented guys). One already sold and three are on hold.
“Growing up here, I’m fighting to keep local businesses in Aspen and provide a fun community space,” she says. She has a role model to follow, since her father, Lenny “Boogie” Weinglass, owned and operated Boogie’s retail and restaurant in a space across the street for almost 30 years.
The younger Weinglass wants to support up-and-coming artists—specifically women. Her entire staff is female, from gallery manager to art installer. “It’s great girl power,” she says. This summer exhibitions are exclusively women, featuring Gemma Danielle, This Is Beautiful Because You Are Beautiful, running July 20 to Sept. 1.
She started the first iteration of the gallery, a pop-up over a three-day weekend, in 2016, as a way to show her own work; she’s a painter and printmaker with a specialty in intaglio etching and woodglass. But after that stellar response, it’s morphed into Skye Gallery. Now, she doesn’t have time to focus on her own art-making, with her energy directed toward the success of the gallery, which will remain open at least through May 2020. (“Rich landlords are the biggest challenge we have in making business work here,” she says.)
“Aspen is thirsty for a place for people to hang out and foster creativity,” says the gallery owner. And, for now, she’s quenching some of that. 10am-8pm, 535 E. Cooper Ave.
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COSATU rejects the appointment of Jabu Mabuza as Executive Chairperson and Acting CEO of Eskom
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) rejects the appointment of Jabu Mabuza as both the Executive Chairperson and Acting CEO of Eskom. This foolhardy and mischevious appointment is going to blur the lines of accountability and give unlimited powers to a person with a history of destroying workers livelihoods at Telkom.
The Federation has previously complained about the recycling of leadership in government departments and in the State-Owned-Entities. This latest appointment shows not only a dearth of leadership in the state but signifies a reversal of the fight against State Capture and Corruption.
A power utility that remains not only a burden to taxpayers but a threat to the economy cannot be allowed to engage in cronyism, lack of transparency and mediocrity. Jabu Mabuza has done nothing in the last eighteen months to earn the trust and confidence of the workers and South Africans at Eskom and his appointment is cronyism of the worst kind.
Under his tenure, we have seen no solid and coherent plan to turn the power utility around, or manage the escalating debt levels and eradicate corruption. We are yet to see a comprehensive forensic audit of Eskom’s legendarily corrupt contracts.
We demand the immediate reversal of this decision and for a new and competent Board and CEO to be appointed to lead and fix the power utility. This recycling of mediocre people in the SOE’s is the reason why they are collapsing.
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Iannone wins; Ducati 1-2 first since 2007
By any measure, today’s Austrian Grand Prix was an eventful race. The starting grid featured an all-Italian front row for the first time since Motegi in 2006. Andrea Iannone, late of the factory Ducati team, won his career first premier class race, several whiskers in front of teammate Andrea Dovizioso. Ducati bikes finished 1st and 2nd for the first time since Phillip Island in 2007. But once the celebration dies down, the Bologna factory may need a reality check, as explained below.
The practice sessions on Friday and Saturday made it seem like the world had been turned upside down. Maverick Vinales, on the Ecstar Suzuki, and the factory Ducatis dominated the proceedings in cool weather, while the Aliens of the factory Honda and Yamaha teams were loitering in the middle of the pack. Marc Marquez trashed his RC213V early in FP3 and got a free helicopter ride to the local hospital to have his shoulder and head examined, pronouncing himself fine a bit later. “Fine,” in this instance, meaning only a dislocated left shoulder and a near concussion.
A bracing Qualifying 2 saw the top four places change completely in the final 30 seconds of the session. Lorenzo, Dovizioso, Rossi and, finally, Iannone topped the timesheets, with Rossi having owned it for roughly two seconds. Ducs finished 1st and 3rd, Yamahas 2nd and 4th. Repsol Hondas in 5th and a discouraging 12th for Pedrosa, a full second off the pace. Suzuki Ecstars in 6th and 9th. Overall, the factory Ducatis must have felt gratified; the Yamahas relieved; the Hondas (with a wounded Marquez) lucky, and the Suzukis disappointed, especially Vinales, who was a blur during the first three practice sessions before backing off in FP4.
Confusion at the Start
Moments before the red lights went out, four back markers jumped the start, including WSBK defector Stefan Bradl, satellite Ducati pilots Yonny Hernandez and Hector Barbera, and malcontent Cal Crutchlow on the LCR Honda. Three of the four took their ride-through penalties like men. Barbera, lacking some spatial awareness (Pitboard? What pitboard?) and with a faulty “Call Home” light on his dashboard, failed to realize his sin until he was black-flagged around Lap 11. Jack Miller, who had pronounced himself fit for the first time this year on Friday, suffered his third fall of the weekend during the morning warm-up and was held out of the race with hairline fractures to his wrist and several vertebrae, a mudhole in his chest, his customary limp back in place. Those of us who thought his win in Assen was a fluke are being proven right. Monty Python fans worldwide are starting to call Miller The Black Knight.
Marquez, hurt but not injured, approached the race in damage control mode. The lead group materialized early, consisting of the factory Ducati and Yamaha teams. With Marquez settling into fifth place and Vinales into sixth, Dani Pedrosa showed up out of nowhere in seventh; these three riders would hold their respective spots all day. The action, and plenty of it, would be amongst the front four.
The setting was ripe for drama. The factory Yamahas had recently experienced two rounds of hell on wheels, a “black period” in Lorenzo’s words. Rossi had crashed out at Assen and finished eighth in Germany, while Lorenzo had a tenth and a 15th to show for his last two rounds. The Ducs, meanwhile, started the race with bad history and completely different tire configurations, Iannone opting for softer options on the front and rear than Dovizioso. With the track as hot as it had been all weekend, a number of viewers, myself included, suspected The Maniac of being overly aggressive in this choice. We would be proven wrong.
Racing Gods Wore Red Today
The first quarter of the race featured a lot of jostling, a verb we seldom use, as all four riders took faint, uncommitted runs at one another. By Lap 7, the Ducatis had established a slight margin over the Yamahas, who were trailing but well within striking distance. For most of the next 13 laps, the order consisted of Dovizioso, Iannone, Lorenzo and Rossi. Anyone who had watched the race in Argentina early in the season suspected this alignment would not last. Iannone’s reputation as a destroyer had many of us expecting the worst for the Bologna factory’s representatives. These expectations were magnified by his tire choice.
Iannone proved everyone wrong. He went through cleanly on Dovizioso on Turn 9 of Lap 20, cementing the final finishing order in the process. The expected challenge from Rossi never materialized; he appeared satisfied to simply finish in front of Marquez, unwilling to flirt with disaster by trying to go through on Lorenzo. Lorenzo appeared capable of challenging Dovizioso and probably would have at any other circuit. But the Red Bull Ring is just too fast, the fastest track on the calendar. The superb handling of the YZR-M1 never came into play today. At the end, the lone remaining challenge left to the four riders was the same as it always is—beat your teammate. In this, Iannone and Lorenzo prevailed.
In their post-race comments to Dylan Gray, Dovizioso sounded like he had finished 13th, so great was his disappointment at not having been able to track down perhaps his least favorite rider on the track. Lorenzo, on the other hand, was jubilant, having emerged from the “dark days” and taken five points out of Marquez. Now, if he can take five points out of Marquez every round through Valencia, he will only lose the 2016 title by three points. An unlikely prospect, to be sure, as Marquez is a quick healer, and there is a chance of rain between now and November.
Early in this writing, I alluded to the notion that today’s celebration in the Ducati garage should be tempered slightly by the context in which it was earned. Certainly, with 100 races between today’s win and their last at Phillip Island in 2010 a celebration is justified. But consider:
The circuit layout was ideal.
The weather was ideal.
The Michelins were superb.
Marc Marquez was off his game.
Jorge Lorenzo, coming out of his funk, trailed Iannone by only 3.4 seconds at the finish.
Certainly, a win is a win is a win. I’m just sayin’ that it was facilitated by a confluence of conditions unlikely to repeat themselves until, well, next week at Brno, with Phillip Island another more remote possibility. Ducati has put themselves back in the winner’s circle. To assert they’re all the way back is premature.
So the top five riders for the season remain unchanged. Iannone and Dovizioso leapfrogged their way into Tranche 2 past Pol Espargaro who, now sitting eighth, remains the top satellite rider on the grid, and Hector Barbera, who got KO’ed today. Scott Redding, the top Brit finisher today in eighth place, remains the top Brit for the season, completing the top ten.
Eugene Laverty, the Urgent Ulsterman, was running comfortably in 11th place when disaster struck in the last turn of the last lap, when he crashed. Based upon his lap time, it appears he hoisted the bike on his shoulders and carried it across the finish line, finishing 18th but doing nothing to hurt his merit for a premier class ride somewhere next season.
One of our readers, who had predicted an all-Ducati podium, was closer to being right than I expected. This same reader is, at this moment, expecting me to crack wise on Cal Crutchlow. Sorry to disappoint, but I’m confident Cal will come out with something in an interview today or tomorrow far more embarrassing than anything I could dream up. Something questioning the parents’ marital status at the time of his birth of the wanker who claimed he jumped the start of the Austrian Grand Prix. In a gesture of conciliation, I have decided to ignore Cal’s scurrilous 15th place finish today and promote him to Tranche Four.
At MO, we are determined to keep things fair and balanced.
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Brickyard 400
Tag: Brickyard 400
Buescher Finishes 23rd at Bristol
June 1, 2020 Mike
BRISTOL, Tenn. (May 31, 2020) — After a promising start and another stage point collected with a 10th–place finish in the second stage of Sunday’s 500-lap race at Bristol Motor Speedway, Chris Buescher and the No. 17 SUNNYD team’s bid at a strong finish came to a halt when the No. 17 Ford contacted the wall and cut a tire midway through the event, ultimately resulting in a 23rd- place finish. Buescher rolled off the grid at the .533-mile oval in 19th battling a tight handling condition. The No. 17 team made their first trip down pit road with the competition caution at lap 20 for four tires, fuel and a track bar…
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Buescher Comes Home 22nd at Charlotte
CONCORD, N.C. (May 28, 2020) – After earning a valuable stage point by finishing 10th in the first stage of racing Thursday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Chris Buescher and the No. 17 Fastenal team battled a tight handling car to a 22nd -place finish in the second race at the 1.5-mile track this week. The team got off to a fast start, rolling off the grid 11th and holding position through the first caution of the race on lap one. At lap 29, another caution flag flew for lightning in the area and the team came down pit road for a 75-minute red flag delay. When the caution flag was displayed again, the No. 17 team…
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Brad Keselowski Wins Rain-Delayed Coca-Cola 600
After a 68 minute rain delay, the Cup drivers got back to it with few cautions until the very end when the final caution came out with Chase Elliott on his way to what appeared to be Victory Lane.
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Bristol Invitational Advance – Clint Bowyer Simultaneously Simracing and Broadcasting
April 3, 2020 Mike
Details: • Race: Food City Showdown (Round 3) • Series: eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series • Time/Date: 1 p.m. EDT on Sunday, April 5 • Location: Bristol Motor Speedway (.533-mile oval) • Format: Two 50-lap heat races followed by a 150-lap main event • Note: Finish of each heat race determines starting order of main event. Where to Watch: • FOX network • Announcers: Jeff Gordon, Mike Joy and Larry McReynolds, with in-race commentary from Clint Bowyer. • FS1 (DIRECTV Channel 219 and Dish Channel 150) • FOX Sports Go app • FOX Sports Racing for fans in Canada • Twitch.tv/StewartHaaseSports (Stream begins at 12:30 p.m. EDT) DYK?:…
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NBC SPORTS’ RACING WEEK IN AMERICA BEGINS MONDAY, APRIL 6 ON NBCSN
More Than 65 Hours of Motorsports Coverage from NASCAR, INDYCAR, IMSA, Supercross and More Themed Nights of Memorable Races on NBCSN Include “Mayhem Monday,” “WednesDale,” “Best at the Brickyard,” and “Daytona Speed Day” NASCAR America Presents NBC eSports Short Track iRacing Challenge Monday-Thursday at 7 p.m. ET on NBCSN; Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin Headline Competitors Content to Stream on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports App STAMFORD, Conn. – April 2, 2020 – Beginning April 6, NBC Sports will present Racing Week in America on NBCSN, providing racing fans with…
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View From the Virtual Pit Box – SHR Crew Chiefs Offer Their Take on iRacing
March 27, 2020 Mike
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (March 27, 2020) – “When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.” This is an ancient Chinese proverb, and it’s particularly apt when it comes to NASCAR and its embrace of iRacing.
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Stewart Back at the Brickyard
March 5, 2020 March 11, 2020 Webmaster
NASCAR Hall of Famer To Compete in NASCAR Xfinity Series Race July 4 at Indianapolis KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (March 4, 2020) – Tony Stewart will compete in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race July 4 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a Ford Mustang from Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR).
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NASCAR HALL OF FAMER DALE JARRETT WILL BE PART OF PPB MOTORSPORTS RACECAR & TRADE SHOW
OAKS, PA December 26, 2019 . . . Three time NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500 winner Dale Jarrett, now an NBC Sports broadcast team member, will be making his first visit to the Pioneer Pole Buildings Motorsports 2020 fueled by Sunoco distributed by Insinger Performance Racecar & Trade Show on Saturday, January 18th.
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MSF Responds to Pharmacia's Announcement on Non-profit Distribution of AIDS Drug
HIV/AIDS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND TRADE
Geneva, 24 January 2003 — Pharmacia/ International Dispensary Association (IDA) agreement is good news in the sense that is sets a precedent among drug companies, for the first time, a company is offering a non-profit organisation rights to distribute its AIDS drug in a large block of developing countries. The bad news is that the drug in this first case is delavirdine, a three times daily antiretroviral that is not recommended by the World Health Organisation and not a drug of choice. The drug is also not currently used in MSF antiretroviral projects.
MSF however is supportive of the concept of companies granting licenses and providing know how to non-profit entities, such as IDA, to produce AIDS medicines. We call on producers of other AIDS medicines to do the same. If they are not willing to voluntary allow this type of distribution in poor countries, the WHO and WTO need to support an international mandatory mechanism to make this happen.
"This offer is proof that developing countries will only get the left over AIDS medicines unless the WHO and WTO figure out how to mandate that companies give affordable access," said Dr. Morten Rostrup, President of MSF International Council. "There are mandatory rules on patents, why aren't there mandatory rules on ensuring access?"
MSF currently treats people with AIDS in 11 developing countries and plans to increase this by two fold in 2003.
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Tracking Devices on Milwaukee Police Cars Blocked
November 23, 2006 by Michael Zimmer1 Comment
GPS systems installed on Milwaukee Police squad cars to help dispatchers track officers’ whereabouts have recently been found covered with foil, rendering them useless and the cars invisible to monitoring. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports:
A Milwaukee police captain was walking through the District 7 garage over the summer when he noticed something wasn’t right about the satellite tracking antenna on the back of a squad car.
A closer look revealed that the small square global positioning system antenna was wrapped in aluminum foil.
Capt. Donald Gaglione called the radio shop and confirmed what he suspected: Foil disables the expensive GPS, essentially making the car invisible to dispatchers.
A check revealed that an antenna on a second car also was wrapped in foil. Gaglione ordered that every car be checked at the start of every shift and during patrols, according to department e-mails obtained by the Journal Sentinel under the state open records law.
Deputy Chief Dale Schunk, in charge of the patrol division, responded quickly.
“This sabotage of our equipment will not be tolerated,” Schunk wrote in an e-mail to all his commanders. He ordered that every district begin checks and that he be personally notified of other incidents.
The GPS trackers are part of an $18 million radio and communications upgrade the department has been installing since 2004. The department has added the GPS systems on about 25% of the department’s roughly 650 squad cars.
Dispatchers use the system to track the location of squad cars so they can send them more quickly to calls and to rush help if an officer is down.
Officers have quietly talked about GPS being used as a way for internal investigators to build cases against them. Assistant Chief Leslie Barber was fired two years ago after investigators put a GPS on his car and found that he was living outside Milwaukee.
Department officials downplayed the foil incident as a one-time problem that hasn’t resurfaced. Chief Nannette Hegerty called it a “non-issue.”
Asked why an officer might disable the device, Hegerty said, “I don’t know. Don’t ask me why some of the officers do what they do.”
Aldermen reacted with outrage.
“Are you serious? Officers are doing it themselves?” Common Council President Willie Hines said. “It is ridiculous incidents like this that bring the entire department under fire. . . . That is what you expect of kids, very immature kids.”
Ald. Joe Davis said the incident shows the need for the Fire and Police Commission, which received two investigators in the most recent budget, to closely monitor police.
“This type of act by law enforcement is unconscionable,” Davis said. “When we are looking for truth and integrity, what we are getting is unethical behavior.”
My friends in discourse analysis would have a field day with this, noting how resistance to workplace surveillance is considered “sabotage” and “unethical.”
I’m heading to Milwaukee today for the Thanksgiving holiday. I’ll drop off some extra tin foil at the local precinct…
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Tagged: GPS Locational privacy
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Krstafer Pinkerton says:
I had a meeting with the police chief on our small island to discuss the need to implement the same type of technology in Kauai police cruisers.
I have since been arrested 4 times in 11 months. My website details their conspiracy and displays the evidence that exposes the corrupt police. Their plea offer is also a sign that the evidence on my webite is authentic.
Have a look and enjoy the bright lights on the Kauai Police Department.
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Carlo, Prince of Nossia
(Redirected from Carlo I)
Prince of the Nossians
Portrait of Carlo of Nossia.
Prince of Nossia
5 January 2016 – present
Throne established
Ivan, Kanfre of Lifréia
Ban of Horvatia
13 March 2018 - present
Weslley, Duke of Agram
Carlo de Lamburgo-Massaca
House of Lamburg
7 July 2000 (2000-07-07) (age 20)
Florianópolis, Brazil
Minister of Information, Writer
Lapsed Catholic
Carlo of Lamburg-Massaca, also known as Carlo of Nossia and The Sun Prince, is the Prince of Nossia. He is the first Prince of Nossia and the founder of the Principality, being also a dynast of the House of Lamburg and younger brother of Ivan, Kanfre of Lifréia. Under his reign, the principality overcame the difficulties of the civil war. He is also the President of the Republic of Palco.
1 Early Life and Micronationalism
1.1 Early Reign
1.2 Later Reign
1.3 Currently
3 Titles, styles and honours
3.1 Full style
3.2.1 Nossian decorations
3.2.2 Foreign decorations
3.3 Military Command
3.4 Honorary Appointments
Early Life and Micronationalism
Prince Carlo of Nossia Announcement, broadcast in 2018.
Prince Carlo of Astra was born on 07 July 2000, in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, second son of the Princes of Astra e younger brother of Prince Ivan of Lamburg. He was baptized in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, the hometown of his family, later that year. His subsequent early life was less than typical, save a few particular incidents involving his close family.
Early Reign
His reign started the same day Nossia was founded, on 05 January 2016, with his coronation occurred on 12 January 2016, after the Nossian-Lifreian Civil War, in which he led the Nossians from July until December 2015. He then used his new influence as Prince on behalf of the reconstruction of the diplomatic ties with the Empire of Lifreia and to the establishment of peace again. He also began the participation of the principality, an until-then, isolationist nation, albeit on a small scale, on foreign affars.
Later Reign
"Carlo of Nossia", 2017.
After almost a year of reign, Carlo and Oscar I, Emperor-King of Karnia-Ruthenia began negotiations to unite Nossia to the Empire with the status of member state. He also saw the participation of principality in the Lundener Civil War, supporting the loyalist side in a propagandist capacity.
However, it was determined that the principality would be a protectorate for a period of one month since for the imperial government it would be a sufficient period of time for the princely government end all their disputes to join the Empire or give up doing it. Despite the relatively peaceful period, the principality chose to maintain its independence through a referendum held on 16 March 2017, the result of which was recognized by the Emperor-King of Karnia-Ruthenia the following day[1]. The prince was also appointed as the Minister of Information of Karnia-Ruthenia and as a member of the House of Representatives. On 13 March 2018, due to the Imperial Decree n. 135-2018, the Banate of Horvatia was restored and he was appointed by Oscar I, Emperor-King of Karnia-Ruthenia to become the first non-Horvatian to assume the office.
The Prince at the meeting room of the Nossian Embassy in Brazil, photograped in 2018.
The Prince enjoys reading, writing, watching movies and television series. His favorite films are "The Aviator", "Kingdom of Heaven" and "Solntse", by Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott and Aleksandr Sokurov respectively; He enjoys the music of Kavinsky and is an avid fan of 70's and 80's metal and rock bands. The prince has renal assimetry, where one of his kidneys is atrophied and the other has also assumed the functions of the later.
Titles, styles and honours
Princely styles of
His Serene Highness
Spoken style
Your Serene Highness
Alternative style
07 July 2000 - 04 January 2016: Mr. Carlo Massaca.
05 January 2016 - present: His Serene Highness, Carlo, Prince of Nossia.
Full style
His Serene Highness, Carlo, Prince of the Nossians, Hereditary Prince of Lamburg, Count of Ambordia, Baron of Ibelina and Kanfrerine of Lifreia.
Nossian decorations
Grand Master of the Order of the Fair and Most Serene Crown of Nossia
Five-Year Service Medal
Nossian-Lifréian Civil War Medal
Foreign decorations
Officer of the Order of Bouvet (Relinquished)
Prince of Lamburg
Knight of the Most Excellent Order of St. Paul
Knight of the Most Noble Order of St. Peter
Grand Cross of the Dynastic Order of the House of Lamburg
Military Command
Marshal of the Princely Army of Nossia
Honorary Colonel of the IV Imperial and Royal Army
Honorary Appointments
President of the Serene Republic of Palco
Karnia-Ruthenia
Principality of Nossia
Empire of Lifréia
Republic of Palco
↑ Imperial Decree n. 082-2017, that restores the independence of Nossia and other provisions. 17 March 2017.
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Male micronationalists
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Principality of Optima
(Redirected from Northern Territories)
This article refers to a micronation which is defunct and no longer exists. You can help make the article reflect that or ask on the talk page for further information.
De unueco venas komikeco (Esperanto: From unity comes hilarity)
L'Internationale (provisional)
Adelaide, South Australia; Engadine and Sanctuary Point, New South Wales; London and Nottinghamshire, England
Largest city
Official language(s)
Optiman English (based on Australian English)
Official religion(s)
Optiman (archaic: Optimiser)
multi-head-of-state republic, nominal monarchy
HRÜ Jeremy Oakes
- Chancellor
Reuben Howe
- Prime Minister
Brian Mounce (renaming of position in progress)
Area claimed
TBA (across 18 sections)
Optiman Standard Time (UTC+9:30), Optiman Eastern Time (UTC+10), Barrettois Standard Time (UTC); Optiman Summer Time (UTC+10:30), Optiman Eastern Summer Time (UTC+11), Barrettois Quasi-Summer Time (UTC+1)
National drink
Lemon lime and bitters
The Principality of Optima was a constituent nation within the Kingdom of Dranoria which claims land in South Australia, New South Wales, and England, and has one province close to the Republic of Cooriengah, part of A1. It was founded on the 20th of October 2008 by Jeremy Oakes, became active on MicroWiki in May 2010, and now has 8 citizens.
1.1 Pre-formation
1.2 Formation
1.3 Expansionist era
1.4 Entrance to MicroWiki
1.5 Citizens' Congress
1.6 Dranorian merger
3 Administrative divisions
3.1 Former divisions
5 Currency
6.1 Prima Water
Pre-formation
Although Optima would not be be formed for another three years, it was in late 2005 that the structures and attitudes that would come to shape Optima began to form. As part of a school project, Michael Sander was required to run a fantasy nation, called Ssink, for two and a half months. The next year, Jeremy Oakes and Michael Sander were placed in the same class at school and subsequently became friends. They, along with other members of the class (some of them would later become Optiman citizens), ran a number of fantasy nations through school, including the Cityworld, Gumnut City, 3D City, and Cityworld II. Following their transfer to a new school in 2007, however, little in the way of micronationalism happened until the foundation of Optima.
On October 20, 2008, Jeremy Oakes drafted a declaration of independence and a constitution (which, to this date, has not yet been completed) to create the Principality of Optima, with his house and yard as territory and he as the prince. Many of his friends signed up as citizens and some pledged their homes as territories.
The government structure would remain very undefined and provisional for the next two years.
Expansionist era
In September 2009, one of his friends, Brian Mounce chose to create his own micronation, Pimpleg. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared the name "utterly stupid" and declared war. After Pimpleg's loss to Optima in a round of Rock-Paper-Scissors, it surrendered and ceded its territorial claims (a house in Adelaide, and Jupiter) to Optima.
In December of that year, two wars were declared against Australia in one night. They were both victories for Optima and resulted in annexation of 2 patches of land, leading to the creation of Graceland and Parklife, as well as expansion of the Garella National Park.
Several outer space territories were claimed around this time, in the spirit of the Aerican Empire's claims, although these have since been relinquished.
Ambitious projects such as RetCart were started in this era, many of which did not progress.
Entrance to MicroWiki
In mid-2010, after only having established relations with the Aerican Empire earlier, Optima first became active in the MicroWiki sector after Oakes found the website; the first MicroWiki nation contacted by Optima was the Colony of Iego, which borders Optima's Dayneville province. Membership in the Organisation of Active Micronations and treaties with the Federated Republics of A1 and Students' Isocratic Oligarchy of Yabloko soon followed.
Optima's population peaked at approximately 20 in early 2010, but several inactive citizens renounced their citizenship.
Citizens' Congress
...[Optima] jumped to the other side of the ‘unworkable disorganisation’—‘unworkable bureaucracy’ continuum.
— Jeremy Oakes on the execution of Optima's political reforms, June 12 2011
By the end of 2010, Optima's government was very sprawling and disorganised. Oakes and Sander sought to define and reform the governmental structure, so, in a sudden action, Oakes called for a mandatory forum of all citizens, which would become known as the Citizens' Congress.
The congress resulted in several governmental functions being moved online,[1] mostly for good record-keepings' sake and in preparation for Optimans moving to different schools in 2011, although Optima remains a primarily real-world nation. The time from November to December 2010 was marked by increased activity, though this slumped for reasons including Michael Sander's departure from Optima, summer holidays, and Optima's population spreading across different schools.
Dranorian merger
At the beginning of the 2011 school year, a classmate of several Optimans made his own micronation which was joined by several other students of the school, as well as Jeremy Oakes and Brian Mounce. Due to a crippling lack of activity (not helped by the sudden departure of Michael Sander), Optima sought to become a constituent nation within Dranoria and a treaty was soon negotiated, being signed on March 11. Due to Dranoria's lack of foreign relations at the time, Dranoria legally succeeded Optima in Organisation of Active Micronations and TASPAC membership, as well as in several alliance treaties.
Since most governmental functions were moved to the Dranorian government, Optima's government has become inactive, save for awarding several awards to foreign micronationalists.
Further reading: Politics in Optima
The Optiman Senate uses open party list proportional representation, elected in the same way the Australian Senate is, except without any constituencies. The Happy Party currently occupies all three seats.
Optima's main territorial divisions are provinces, duchies, counties, and cities, among other nobility- and feudal-style divisions. These have almost no legislative power and are mainly to distinguish geographical areas, but, as Optima is a unitary state, power can be technically devolved to these divisions.
Prima October 20, 2008 Jeremy Oakes Semper ad libertatem contortio
Contains Optima's capital, Prima City. It is an enclave of the Adelaide council area of Marion. It is home to landmarks such as Prima House, the Prince's former palace (formerly Parliament Shed), and the headquarters of the Royal Dranorian Military Corps.
South Garella c. October 2008 Michael Sander Art nisi provideris testimonio estis res describere non est facta
Originally named "Pepsi presents South Garella". Located just over 2 kilometres almost due south of Prima. Landmarks include the Optiman Aquatic Centre and the Garellan Space Centre. Its capital is Bacigalupi. It has a tradition of failed secessionist movements, the first having been founded in early 2009 in response to a drug deal gone wrong between Michael Sander and Jeremy Oakes.
North Garella c. 2008 Michael Sander
North Garella is an noncontiguous territory, which originally consisted of an empty block directly south of South Garella, despite the naming (caused by the Garellan Secession Crisis in early 2009). It now has one part of land north of South Garella. In early January 2011, it was amalgamated with other nearby territories: Graceland, which consists of a park north of South Garella; Parklife, consisting of a park south of the original part of North Garella; and the Valley of Death, a large empty plot of land immediately south of Parklife. It features a walking trail, several trees, and the Cashew Military Barracks, a historical military facility.
Hackett c. 2009 Brian Mounce
Another Adelaide enclave, Hackett consists of three roughly equal-sized parts, with the capital in what was formerly Muncia and an exclaves in what was formerly the entirety of Frankville and the newer acquisition Fort Fleming. It was renamed from Frankville following a suggestion by the premier that was assented to by the other citizen.
Sherlock c. 2009 Joshua Earle
Sherlock is another enclave of Adelaide. It is the home of Chancellor Joshua Earle, and contains two houses. It also claimed the asteroid 5049 Sherlock before Optima relinquished all its extraterrestrial claims.
Northern Territories c. 2009 Jeremy Oakes
The Northern Territories consist of several parks and unused areas north of Prima. Several expeditions were made into the area, mostly in 2009 and 2010.
Dayneville c. 2009 Dayne Mercer All for one, one for all, and none for Scott Morrison
Dayneville is a province split off from Prima on the 15th of May 2010. Its main sector is an enclave of the Sutherland Shire, in southern Sydney, Australia, close to the Republic of Cooriengah, part of A1. It is named after its first and only governor. It has other sectors in other parts of the Sutherland Shire, the Illawarra, and Jervis Bay regions of New South Wales.
Barrett c. 2010 Joshua Earle
Named for Syd Barrett, whose deathday is the day the province was proclaimed, Barrett is a province containing two enclaves of England, one of London, called Mansfield, and one of Nottinghamshire, called Coppergton Gren.
Altlebury c. January 2011 Jarred Kelly
Altlebury, formed in January is an enclave of Modbury, in Adelaide's north-east. It is divided into Altlebury, a house; Upper Altlebury, a vacant lot uphill from Altlebury; and Lower Altlebury, a wedge of land between Altlebury and the northern bank of Dry Creek.
Grand Duchy of Mitchell Park November 5, 2010 de jure Sleiman Andary You got no face, so shut your face (de facto)
Crown Protectorate and former puppet state of Optima that claims a Catholic private school (formerly attended by many Optimans) as its territory, and all its students and staff as population.
The Nameless Province c. May 2011 Luke Thomas
Originally a Lesser Dranorian province. Not etymologically related to the alias of Michael Sander.
Former divisions
Several non-serious terra nullis and outer space claims were made in Optima's early days, though were relinquished.
Kaynestown was an Adelaide enclave prior to its disestablishment on the 11th of January, 2011.[2]
There are several practices unique to English spoken by Optimans, including pluralised forms like boxen as opposed to boxes, and Pepsis Max as opposed to Pepsi Maxes, and loanwords such as zannen.
Optima's government is officially secular. Most Optimans are irreligious or follow nontheistic religions or philosophies.
In a previous attempt at micronationalism, Reuben Howe created the reuble, pegged to the Australian dollar (at a rate which has since been forgotten). During Optima's early days, several currencies were proposed, but not fully implemented. The Optiman dollar was pegged to the Australian dollar at a rate of O$0.50:AU$1; the xanthum was pegged to the price of bananas (in Australian dollars) at the Foodland near Sander's house at a rate of OPX1:0.5 kg bananas. The Austral, pegged to the Australian dollar at a rate of 0.05 AUD:1 OAU, was until recently Optima's official currency, but was not used often, and on the 19th of November 2010 was dumped in favour of the Australian dollar, which was already the de facto currency.
Optima relies heavily on Australian (and in the case of Barrett, British) infrastructure. Dayneville and Prima have solar panels for peak electricity generation, and exports some electricity when it is not being used locally. Similar solar panels are to be installed in Hackett.
Prima Water
Prima Water was established when three rainwater tanks in Prima were nationalised in late 2009. Prior to this, the only utilities serving Optima were Australian companies SA Water, Sydney Water, and United Water, a French subcontractor of SA Water. Rainwater tanks in Altlebury and Dayneville have since also been nationalised.
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Lesser Dranoria
Kasugrad • Nyannapolis • West Garella • Rainbow Shire • Shechnya • Realm of Nachington
Prima • South Garella • North Garella • Hackett • Sherlock • Northern Territories • Dayneville • Barrett • Altlebury • Mitchell Park • The Nameless Province
Foreign affairs • Happy Party • Royal Dranorian Military Corps • Dranorian Readiness and Alertness Barometer
2011 • 2012 • Dranorian Electoral Regulatory Post
Calendar • Dranorian Broadcasters' Guild • Grand Order of GOG • Memes • Spindle Games • Guilds • Symbols
Joshua Earle • Brian Mounce • Nachington • Jeremy Oakes • Damon Reece • Luke Thomas • Sonja Yeare
Calendar • God and Cthulhu's Kingdoms' Exaltation Regime • Government of Optima • Awards and decorations • Optiman Geologic and Geographic Organisation • Un-iversity of Optima
Fantastic Federation of Ssink • Defence Alertness Scale • Michael Sander • OptimaForum • Optiman Broadcasting Commission • RetCart
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Strathan Space Programme
The Strathan Space Programme
SSP Logo
Motto Somnia Materiam Quaerere
Trans. To Seek the Stuff of Dreams
Current Projects Project Horizon
Headquarters Langford, Communist People's Republic of Strathy
James H Whittle
Deputy Chief of Operations Position Vacant
Founded 20 June 2011
The Strathan Space Programme, or simply The SSP, is the organisation run by the Strathan Government charged with exploring outer space. Founded in mid-2011 by the coalition of The Strathan Observatory and The Strathan Institute for Scientific Research and Development, The SSP has become the largest scientific organisation in Strathy. Its mission is to further scientific knowledge and understanding of the universe through space exploration. Using affordable materials and volunteer scientists and engineers, they hope to put micronations into space and show that space is not simply the domain of the rich and the powerful.
1.1 Past Missions
1.1.1 Project Atlas
1.1.2 Project Doppler
1.2 Current Missions
1.2.1 Project Horizon
1.2.1.1 Collaboration
The Strathan Space Programme is a relatively young venture and has been, until now, mostly concerned with ground-based observations and simulations. However it was decided that new, more practical applications of existing knowledge needed to be utilised- the prominent issue being; can we put a probe into space?
Project Atlas
Project Atlas, launched in September 2011, was a joint venture with the Strathan Observatory and an opening project for the SSP. The Project consisted of ground based observations and computer simulations to observe and chart the celestial bodies and their movements with respect to the observatory. Many objects have been observed and catalogued. More prominent objects include planets of the solar system - specifically Mars' retrograde motion - and a number of stellar constellations such as Orion. Project Atlas is still ongoing, however is now mostly in the domain of The Strathan Observatory.
Project Doppler
Project Doppler was a short, three week project to determine the existence of extra-solar planetary bodies orbiting distant stars. The project observed two phenomena, The Dopple Wobble effect and The Transit Dip. The Doppler Wobble used the fact that any two bodies will attract each other gravitationally. Hence any orbiting planet would drag the star towards it by some amount in its orbit. This allowed the team to observe a Doppler shift in the star's light as it was pulled about, hence allowing the team to determine the mass of the planet and its orbital characteristics. The Transit Dip used the simple fact that as a planet crosses between it's parent star and the observer, a dip in the intensity of light from the star would be observed. This dip, whilst not so accurate of very distant stars, still allowed for observation of the planetary characteristics.
Project Horizon
The Project Horizon Banner
Project Horizon is the SSP's latest venture. The ultimate goal is to put a functioning satellite into orbit around the Earth to take photographs and send them back to the control centre. This ambition is still a long way from being accomplished and Project Horizon will likely go forward in a number of stages, the first being simply to get a probe past the The Kármán line, ie into space - 62 km above sea level.
The project is in its planning stages just now and designs are still being considered, however, the most popular design so far is that of a rocket that could be launched at altitude from a helium balloon.
As Project Horizon is likely to be very large undertaking, The SSP is currently considering collaborating with other micronational space agencies to accomplish its goal.
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Camille Claudel: The Tumultuous Life and Incredible Work of a French Sculptor
Artist Reimagines Famous Artwork from the Past as Exquisite Hyperrealistic Portraits
By Sara Barnes on October 10, 2019
Michelangelo’s God
Artist Joongwon Jeong puts a hyperrealistic twist on iconic artwork and famous people from the past. He's brought new life, for instance, to both Michelangelo’s God and Adam that appeared in the celebrated Sistine Chapel fresco. The two subjects, reimagined with Jeong's masterful painting skills, look like they could be photographs. He showcases fine wrinkles and sunspots on the skin and hair that you could run your fingers through.
By focusing on the past, Jeong offers us a new way to think about the figures we’ve seen many times before. His goal is to incorporate and communicate his views of the subjects he's depicting. “I think that drawing pictures is a process of conveying the visual gaze to the viewer by looking at the object unfamiliarly and expressing it in my own formative language,” he explains. “Even familiar objects are expressed in various shapes depending on the emotions and thoughts of the observer, the colors and materials used, and the shapes of lines and brush marks.” In doing this, he's given the artistic tradition of reproductions a personalized touch. “A picture is just a replica reproduced on a two-dimensional plane, but from that image we see, feel, think and imagine the original object again.”
Jeong teaches his impressive painting techniques for achieving incredible likenesses in his online class on Class 101.
Artist Joongwon Jeong creates hyperrealistic portraits of iconic artwork and famous people from the past.
Michelangelo’s Adam
Venus de Milo
Costanza Bonarelli
The Death of Seneca
Joongwon Jeong: Instagram | Facebook | Blog
My Modern Met granted permission to feature photos by Joongwon Jeong.
The Evolution of Hyperrealism: From Religious Paintings to Simulated Reality
Artist’s Giant Pencil Drawings Blur the Line Between Hyperrealism and Surrealism
This Artist’s Oil Paintings of Women Are Considered the Most Realistic in the World
Sara Barnes
Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met and Manager of My Modern Met Store. As an illustrator and writer living in Seattle, she chronicles illustration, embroidery, and beyond through her blog Brown Paper Bag and Instagram @brwnpaperbag. She wrote a book about embroidery artist Sarah K. Benning titled 'Embroidered Life' that was published by Chronicle Books in 2019. Sara is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She earned her BFA in Illustration in 2008 and MFA in Illustration Practice in 2013.
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Roland Opens Nashville Artist Relations Center
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Home Casino News No more access to online casinos without a Swiss license
No more access to online casinos without a Swiss license
Published by Giselle
From 1st July 2019, it will no longer be possible in Switzerland to access the websites of online casinos that do not hold a licence in Switzerland. The access restrictions laid down in the Money Gaming Act are intended to ensure that Swiss players no longer play on foreign sites, as the operators of these sites do not pay any social security contributions in Switzerland and, according to the Federal Gaming Commission (SFGB), do not do enough to protect players.
The last hour of foreign casinos
With a clear majority of 72.9%, the Swiss voted by referendum on 10th June 2018 in favour of the new Money Gaming Act, which came into force on 1st January 2019. The law not only extended the licences of Swiss casinos by six years but also created the legal basis for them to offer online casino games in the future.
Four of Switzerland’s 21 licensed casinos received their first licences to operate their online casinos from the Federal Council at the beginning of the month. Since then, the Swiss have been able to play online casino games with real money on the websites of the casinos in Baden, Lucerne, Davos and Pfäffikon.
As the Swiss Federal Gaming Bank Commission (SFGB) stated in a media release on Monday, the Money Gaming Act and the associated strict allocation of online licences only make sense if access to online casinos without licences is efficiently blocked at the same time.
From 1st July this is to be made possible by means of electronic access blocking. Swiss citizens who attempt to access the websites of foreign online casinos after this deadline will receive a warning and will be informed that the content accessed is not legal in Switzerland.
The communication states that this is the case:
It is not expedient to set high standards for legal gaming services if players have easy access to illegal services that are subject to fewer restrictions and may, therefore, appear more attractive to players, at least at first glance.
The future block on access was already firmly planned when the law was adopted and defined in Article 86(1). The many foreign online casinos thus had the opportunity to withdraw from the Swiss market in good time voluntarily. However, only very few did so.
Blocking lists accessible to Swiss citizens
In principle, the goal of the SFGB is simple: only Swiss casinos with a Swiss online licence should be allowed to operate online casinos within their national borders.
However, Swiss Internet users have so far been able to access countless online casinos and play for real money. The SFGB’s task is, therefore, to comb the entire network for providers who have not independently blocked their casinos for the Swiss market.
The SFGB and the Lottery and Competition Commission (Comlot) will, therefore, draw up blacklists of all illegal online casinos. The list is to be updated continuously and each decision formally announced by a reference in the Federal Gazette. Players can view the official blacklists at any time on the websites of the authorities.
The list of licensed casinos will also continue to be available on the SFGB website and will be updated as new online licences are issued.
Swiss casinos for Swiss players
Given the huge number of international online casinos, it can be estimated that the blacklist will become very long. However, the list of Swiss casinos with online licences will be much shorter.
The Money Gaming Act stipulates in principle that only the physical Swiss casinos may extend their services to the Internet. There will be no pure online casinos without a licensed casino on Swiss soil.
Unless new casinos are built in Switzerland, a maximum of 21 online licences can be awarded. The main reason for this is that the Federal Council wants to ensure that taxes and social security contributions are paid as planned.
Currently, all Swiss casinos with gross gaming revenues of up to CHF 10 million are required to pay a casino levy of at least 40%. For every additional million CHF, the tax rate increases by 0.5 %. The upper limit of the levy is 80%. The funds flow directly into the old-age, survivors’ and disability insurance.
For the incomes from online Casinos, however different yardsticks are to be set. On gross gaming revenues of up to CHF 3 million, 20% levies are to be paid. For every further million, the rate will rise by 5%, also up to an upper limit of 80%.
However, other standards are to be set for income from online casinos. On gross gaming revenues of up to CHF 3 million, 20% levies are to be paid. For every additional million, the rate will increase by 5%, also up to an upper limit of 80%.
In addition to the levies, however, the security of players, especially in the new online area, is also a major issue in the Federal Council. In order to obtain a licence to offer online games, Swiss casinos must be able to prove that efficient measures have been taken to protect players and prevent gambling addiction.
It remains to be seen how the Swiss gaming market will develop in the future. The current licences are initially valid for six years, i.e. until 31 December 2024. By then, at the latest, it will have become clear how the new Money Gaming Act will affect the market.
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Home Locomotives Q6 63395 (NER T2 2238) Q6 Blog Wendesday 9th May 2018
Wendesday 9th May 2018
Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:29 Chris Lawson Q6 Blog
Well....not everything went as forecast yesterday. First, it was a lovely sunny and warm day so no need to fire up Bill's new stove after all. Then it turned out that Ian had had a fall over the weekend and damaged his shoulder so he was unable to be present - and had even had to cancel a driving turn the previous day! As a consequence, and because of my late arrival following car problems over the weekend, there were no cups of tea to start the day - except for Bill, who was there really early and managed to sneak one in. A disastrous start for what was a big team, particularly from Hartlepool, consisting of Bill Dobson, Roy Marshall, Dave Whitfield, Dave Donegan, Nigel Bill, Jon Bradley, Steve Hyman, Nigel Hall and, eventually, myself. We also had visits from Bob Grey and Derek Norris who had been for a ride out to Pickering, and Terry Newman who was on Repton for the day.
Work concentrated on the header, which Mark O'Brien had managed to remove the previous week - never in a long time had so much effort been concentrated on that large lump of metal in such a relatively short time. Jon Bradley and Roy Marshall took various parts away to be glassblasted down at the MPD, while Nigel Bill and Dave Whitfield cleaned up the header itself. The holes where the elements fit in the header were NDT'd by myself and showed no evidence of any problems. Then it was a case of all hands to prepare blanking plates and seals to prepare the header for a hydraulic which Bill had hoped to carry out by the end of the day. What an optimist! Rubber sealant sheet had to be obtained from the MPD store, cut to shape, along with holes for the many studs, the studs themselves had to have the thread cutter run down them while those that came out with the nuts received attention from Steve Hyman in the workshop, and nuts, bolts and washers of varying shapes and sizes had to be found from the workshop to secure the blanking plates to the header. A long and frustrating job, but by the end of the day, and fortified by cups of tea, the header was all boxed up, apart from the 6 plugs needed to test the saturated side of the header. Bill is going to try to get it taken down to the boiler shop today, clamped on the swaging block and filled with water for the hydraulic test. However, we all know what happens to the best laid plans ......
In between times we did manage to get lunch, with some dining in the sun at the picnic tables up by the wheeldrop, while others stayed back in the shade on the bench in Deviation Shed.
Because of a commercial filming project, services appeared to be running to the Green rather than Red timetable, with 80136 top and tailed with the Class 26 on the Gresley teaks for the filming people, and the normal service trains, which were generally very busy, in the hands of 76079 and Repton, while the B1 came in for wash out.
Working party on Saturday as usual, for which milk will be required and the water bottles need filling before any cups of tea can be poured. In respect of the milk though, can I please ask that opened bottles of milk are not left sideways in the fridge - they leak and the curdled consequences have to be removed from the bottom of a very smelly fridge, along with anything else that was stored there and been affected. Please always leave the milk bottles standing upright, and buy single pints as they fit in that way. Many thanks.
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Bamboozled
On Sloan's walk home, she runs into her big brother Big Blak Afrika F/K/A Julius (Yasiin Bey). In Sloan's apartment, Julius and Sloan argue about his values, and he tells her to introduce him and his political hip-hop crew, the Mau Maus, to Delacroix.
Actors: Damon Wayans,
Damon Wayans 4 September 1960, New York City, New York, USA
Savion Glover,
Jada Pinkett Smith,
Jada Pinkett Smith 18 September 1971, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Tommy Davidson,
Tommy Davidson 10 November 1963, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Michael Rapaport,
Michael Rapaport 20 March 1970, New York City, New York, USA
Thomas Jefferson Byrd,
Thomas Jefferson Byrd 1941, Griffin, Georgia, USA
Paul Mooney,
Paul Mooney 4 August 1941, Louisiana, USA
Sarah Jones,
Sarah Jones November 29, 1973 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Gillian White,
Gillian White 16 January 1975, Los Angeles, California, USA
Susan Batson,
Susan Batson 27 February 1943, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Yasiin Bey,
Yasiin Bey 11 December 1973, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Trump Teases New Revelations From Declassification: Chance ‘To Break The Deep State’
Posted by 0Censor | May 26, 2020 | Opinion, Political News | 0 |
By Chuck Ross –
President Donald Trump on Sunday hailed recent disclosures of information regarding government surveillance of the Trump campaign, saying that it has afforded him a chance to “break” the so-called “deep state.”
In an interview with journalist Sharyl Attkisson, Trump suggested that additional information is going to come out about the surveillance efforts.
“Other things are going to come out, too. And a lot of other things are going to come out, but you don’t even need other things,” he said.
“I would like to see it move much faster,” Trump added.
Trump went on to accuse the “deep state” of trying to derail his presidency through the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
“If it keeps going the way it’s going, I have a chance to break the deep state,” Trump said.
“It’s a vicious group of people. It’s very bad for our country. And that’s never happened before.”
Trump called former FBI Director James Comey a “dirty cop,” and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe a “bad guy.”
Trump praised Richard Grenell, the acting director of national intelligence, for declassifying and releasing a slew of documents related to investigations of the Trump campaign.
“Richard Grenell is a superstar. He had guts, he had courage to do what he did,” Trump said.
He also said he has high hopes for Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe, who takes over for Grenell on Tuesday.
“We have another superstar going in as you know, John Ratcliffe.”
Earlier this month, Grenell declassified a list of Obama administration officials who requested intelligence reports regarding Michael Flynn.
In April, Grenell declassified footnotes from a Justice Department inspector general’s report which showed that the FBI had evidence in 2017 that Russian intelligence operatives fed disinformation to Christopher Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier.
Grenell said Saturday the he is working on declassifying other documents related to the FBI’s investigation of Flynn.
“When you look at what Richard Grenell has done in eight weeks, these people didn’t do anything for two and a half years. They should have been exposing this.”
Trump criticized Dan Coats, who served as director of national intelligence through August 2019.
“Coats, he sat there,” Trump said. “He didn’t do anything.”
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The giant Wimbleweather lived during the reign of Caspian X. He fought on the side of the Old Narnians during the Narnian Revolution; his home was at Deadman's Hill.
Wimbleweather was a simple giant who wanted to help Aslan's side in any way possible. He helped the Old Narnians in their war against the invading Telmarines, but he was not especially clever. This led to some battles being lost, and Wimbleweather felt horrible for his mistakes, crying the night after the battle.
In fact, he cried so much that his tears fell on the mice below him, who had been in the midst of getting warm and drowsy. They shouted in outrage, stating whether he thought they weren't wet enough without this sort of thing? This led to other animals being woken up, and telling the mice that they had been enrolled as scouts, not as a concert party, and could they keep quiet. Wimbleweather then left to find another place where he could be miserable in peace, only to step on a fox's tail, which in turn bit him. As a result, everyone was out of sorts that night.
During King Peter's duel with the Telmarine's King Miraz, Wimbleweather was asked to be a Marshal of the Lists, for the duel. He, Glenstorm and one of the Bulgy Bears stood by the dueling field, as King Peter fought to gain the crown usurped by Miraz for Prince Caspian. After the duel was over, and the treachery was made by Lord Glozelle, Wimbleweather fought in the ensuing battle.
Wimbleweather was featured in the BBC version of Prince Caspian. His actor was not credited, since Wimbleweather mostly laughed during his appearance.
Wimbleweather was featured in the Disney version of Prince Caspian, played by Jan Pavel Filipensky. He was shown at the meeting on the Dancing Lawn, and later with Edmund and Glenstorm. In this version, Wimbleweather's spot as a Marshal was filled in by Edmund, as Wimbleweather was with the other Narnians when it came to collapsing part of a cavern underneath the battlefield.
He is in the Prince Caspian video game.
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Life Phase Series: ‘Fall Gardening with the Experts’ Sept. 17
Aug. 22, 2019—Join Danny McKissack and Laura Barker from the Vanderbilt Plant Operations Grounds Maintenance team for “Fall Gardening with the Experts” on Tuesday, Sept. 17, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center.
Life Phase Series: ‘Raised-Bed Gardening with an Expert’ Feb. 26
Jan. 24, 2019—Laura Barker, a horticultural specialist with Vanderbilt Plant Operations’ Grounds Maintenance team, will discuss raised-bed gardening from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, at the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center teaching kitchen.
Life Phase Series: ‘Flower Gardening – Tips and Trends’ March 8
Feb. 21, 2018—Join Laura Barker of Vanderbilt Plant Operations for “Flower Gardening – Tips and Trends” from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, March 8, in Medical Center East, Room 8380B.
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Jan. 23, 2017—The Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center presents “Container Gardening – Tips and Trends” from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, in Light Hall, Room 202.
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Mar. 26, 2014—One of the best things about spring is the amazing assortment of flowers, trees and plants that bloom on campus. Vanderbilt landscapers and groundskeepers offer tips on making your own garden healthy and vibrant while leaving as little negative impact on the environment as possible.
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Saudi Aramco kick-starts what could be world's biggest IPO, offers scant details
Sign of Saudi Aramco's IPO is seen before the start of a news conference by the state oil company in Dhahran
By Rania El Gamal, Marwa Rashad, Saeed Azhar and Davide Barbuscia
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia/DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's giant state oil company finally kick-started its initial public offering (IPO) on Sunday, announcing its intention to float on the domestic bourse in what could be the world's biggest listing as the kingdom seeks to diversify its economy away from oil.
But in its long-awaited announcement, Aramco, the world's most profitable company, offered few specifics on the number of shares to be sold, pricing or the date for a launch.
Bankers have told the Saudi government that investors will likely value the company at around $1.5 trillion, below the $2 trillion valuation touted by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman when he first floated the idea of an IPO nearly four years ago.
Aramco also did not mention what measures it has taken to beef up security following unprecedented attacks on its oil plants in September.
Sources have told Reuters the oil company could offer 1%-2% of its shares on the local bourse, raising as much as $20 billion to $40 billion. A deal over $25 billion would top the record-breaking one of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba <BABA.N> in 2014.
"Today is the right opportunity for new investors to reap the benefits of Aramco's ability to achieve value, and boost it on the long-term," Aramco Chairman Yasir al-Rumayyan told a news conference at the company's headquarters in the eastern city of Dhahran.
The company will spend the next 10 days talking to investors and sounding out their interest and the price range will follow, he said.
The IPO is designed to turbocharge Prince Mohammed's ambitious economic reform agenda by raising billions to build non-energy industries and diversify revenue streams.
Rumayyan said a decision on an international listing for Aramco shares will be made in the future, without giving a time frame or possible venue.
"Selling a small piece of Aramco in a captive market gives the KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) more control to prop the value of Aramco up over its fair value," said Gary Ross, CEO at Black Gold Investors.
Confirmation of the sale of shares in the oil giant, whose formal name is Saudi Arabian Oil Co, comes about seven weeks after the crippling attacks on its oil facilities, underlining Saudi Arabia's determination to push on with the listing regardless.
Aramco said it does not expect the Sept. 14 attacks, which targeted plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industry and initially halved its production, would have a material impact on its business, operations and financial condition.
Aramco accounted for about one in every eight barrels of crude oil produced globally from 2016 to 2018, it said on Sunday.
Its net income for the third quarter of 2019 amounted to $21.1 billion, according to Reuters calculations, dwarfing the income for the same period of oil giants such as Exxon Mobil Corp <XOM.N>, which was just over $3 billion.
Chief Executive Amin Nasser said at the news conference that Aramco plans to release the prospectus on Nov. 9.
To help get the deal done, Saudi Arabia is relying on easy credit for retail investors and hefty contributions from rich locals.
"Whatever this local round achieves, with domestic players being strong armed into investing, international investors are still going to value this well below the expectations of (Crown Prince) Mohammed bin Salman," said Rory Fyfe, managing director at Mena Advisors.
LURING INVESTORS
The Saudi stock market fell 2% on Sunday after the announcement. The benchmark index <.TASI> is down nearly a fifth since May as local institutions sold shares to prepare for the Aramco deal, fund managers and analysts say.
Salah Shamma, head of investment, MENA, at Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity, said some local investors could be selling other shares in order to shift investments to Aramco, but this could well be a case of "short-term pain for long-term gain."
To comfort investors, Aramco said on Sunday the state will forgo its right to receive a portion of cash dividends on shares, giving priority to new shareholders.
Aramco is also cutting royalties it pays to the state. Effective Jan. 1, 2020, it will adopt a progressive royalty scheme, with a marginal rate set at 15% up to $70 per barrel, 45% between $70 and $100, and 80% if the price rises higher.
The firm said the Saudi market regulator, which approved the application to list on Sunday, issued an exemption for non-resident institutional foreign investors to subscribe.
Saudi investors would be eligible to receive bonus shares - a maximum of 100 bonus shares for every 10 allotted shares.
At a valuation of $1.5 trillion, Aramco would still be worth at least 50% more than the world's most valuable listed companies, Microsoft Corp <MSFT.O> and Apple Inc <AAPL.O>, which each have a market capitalisation of about $1 trillion.
But a 1% sale would raise "only" around $15 billion for Saudi coffers, ranking Aramco as the 11th biggest IPO of all time, Refinitiv data show. (For a graphic on the top 10 largest global IPOs, see https://tmsnrt.rs/33gWypM)
"Some perspective on the Aramco IPO for the overall Saudi diversification story is needed: the likely Aramco IPO proceeds will be less than the Aramco dividends the government received in the first half of 2019 alone," said Hasnain Malik, head of equity strategy at Tellimer.
(GRAPHIC: Aramco vs. Oil Majors 9-month earnings: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/ce/7/7184/7166/Pasted%20Image.jpg)
THE 'RIGHT TIME'
The promised listing has had Wall Street on tenterhooks since Prince Mohammed flagged it in 2016.
Aramco mandated 27 banks to work on the deal including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley.
"I think this is the right time for us to take Aramco to be a public company ... we wanna go IPO and we wanna go now," Rumayyan told reporters on Sunday when asked about the timing.
Initial hopes for a blockbuster international listing of about 5% were dashed when the share sale was halted last year amid debate over where to list Aramco overseas.
Aramco said the IPO timetable was delayed because it began a process to acquire a 70% stake in petrochemicals maker Saudi Basic Industries Corp <2010.SE>.
Prince Mohammed also came under intense international criticism last year for the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul by Saudi operatives, a murder for which the crown prince has said he bears responsibility "because it happened under my watch."
The death tarnished the image of the kingdom's de facto ruler and imperiled his plans to diversify the economy. Republican and Democratic lawmakers, also citing the civilian toll from a Saudi air campaign in Yemen, have ramped up efforts to block U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
IPO preparations were revived this summer after Aramco attracted huge interest in its first international bond sale, seen as a pre-IPO relationship-building exercise with investors.
But a listing announcement expected on Oct. 20 was delayed after advisers said they needed more time to lock in cornerstone investors, three sources told Reuters.
A growing movement to fight climate change and embrace new "green" technologies have put some fund managers, particularly in Europe and the United States, off the oil and gas sector.
The bond sale in April forced the secretive company to reveal its finances for the first time, including net income of $111 billion -- more than a third bigger than the combined net income of the five super oil majors. Those companies have been raising payouts to shareholders to counter rising pressure from climate activism.
Aramco said on Sunday it intended to declare aggregate ordinary cash dividends of at least $75 billion in 2020.
At a valuation of $1.5 trillion, this would mean a dividend yield of 5%, below that offered by rival Royal Dutch Shell <RDSa.L>. Shell's dividend yield is over 6%, according to Refinitiv data.
(GRAPHIC - Aramco valuation vs oil majors: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/ce/7/7185/7167/Pasted%20Image.jpg)
(Reporting by Saeed Azhar, Davide Barbuscia, Rania El Gamal and Marwa Rashad; Additional reporting by Dmitry Zhdannikov and Carmel Crimmins; Editing by Gerry Doyle, Frances Kerry and Lisa Shumaker)
Pelosi denounces 'punk' seen wearing 'Camp Auschwitz' shirt in Capitol riot
The House speaker said she couldn't help but be overcome with anger when she saw a Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with the words “Camp Auschwitz.”
Sasse: Capitol Rioters ‘Weren’t Drunks Who Got Rowdy — They Were Terrorists’
Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) on Friday called for the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol last week to be “prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” saying those who participated in the unrest that left five dead were “terrorists attacking this country’s constitutionally-mandated transfer of power.” Sasse’s comments come after the Department of Justice said in court documents that the rioters breached the Capitol with the intent to “capture and assassinate elected officials.” In a memo requesting that “QAnon shaman” Jacob Anthony Chansley be kept in detention, Justice Department lawyers in Arizona wrote that “strong evidence, including Chansley’s own words and actions at the Capitol” show that the intent was to harm elected officials. Sasse said it would be “wrong” of “rage-peddlers” to “try to whitewash the attack on the Capitol, saying that a few bad apples got out of control.” “Every American needs to understand what the Department of Justice has just made public: Investigators have strong evidence to suggest that some of the rioters who stormed the United States Capitol planned to kidnap and possibly assassinate the Vice President,” he said. “These men weren’t drunks who got rowdy — they were terrorists attacking this country’s constitutionally-mandated transfer of power,” he added. “They failed, but they came dangerously close to starting a bloody constitutional crisis.” He concluded: “They must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The FBI is investigating widespread calls for violence across the country and every American has an obligation to lower the temperature.” Last week, before the House impeached President Trump for a second time on an “incitement of insurrection” charge, Sasse had vowed to consider any articles of impeachment against Trump that came before the Senate. “The House, if they come together and have a process, I will definitely consider whatever articles they might move,” Sasse said in an interview with CBS. “I believe the president has disregarded his oath of office…what he did was wicked.”
12 Pakistani police fired for not protecting Hindu temple
Pakistani authorities sacked a local police chief and 11 other policemen for failing to protect a Hindu temple that was set on fire and demolished last month by a mob led by hundreds of supporters of a radical Islamist party, police said Friday. The 12 policemen were fired over “acts of cowardice" and “negligence" for not trying to stop the mob when it attacked the temple, with some having fled the scene. Another 48 policemen were given various punishments following a probe into the attack, the police statement said.
Florida Republicans issue litmus test on Cuba, Venezuela policies for Biden nominees
Three Republican lawmakers from Florida are asking the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to reject President-elect Joe Biden’s nominees unless they agree to take a tough stance on Cuba and Venezuela, according to a letter obtained by McClatchy.
EU regulator: Hackers 'manipulated' stolen vaccine documents
The European Union's drug regulator said Friday that COVID-19 vaccine documents stolen from its servers by hackers have been not only leaked to the web, but “manipulated." The European Medicines Agency said that an ongoing investigation showed that hackers obtained emails and documents from November related to the evaluation of experimental coronavirus vaccines. The agency, which regulates drugs and medicines across the 27-member EU, had troves of confidential COVID-19 data as part of its vaccine approval process.
Rodgers, Allen lead Packers and Bills into title games
Judge calls Capitol siege 'violent insurrection,' orders man who wore horns held
Rams won't have WR Cooper Kupp for playoff game with Packers
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CANTO: Behemoth, Tesseract, Ozzy, Year of the Locust, and More
February 8, 2018 February 8, 2018 CoreyLeave a comment
2/8/2018. Every other day routine this week, apparently.
So I guess Ozzy isn’t all-the-way retiring after all. Just from large-scale tours. Ozzfest and such will go on. Probably because money.
Tesseract will be releasing their next album, Sonder, on April 20th. It’s their fourth album. It’ll be out on Kscope. They’ll be on tour in the U.S., too. So many things!
Here’s Nergal recording vocals because a light at the end of any long day is acknowledgement that new Behemoth is on the horizon.
Year of the Locust have given us a new video on this cold, dark Thursday. It’s for “Sunrise”, which dropped back on January 29th. Enjoy.
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CANTO: Goatwhore, The Agonist, album sales, and more
July 20, 2016 July 20, 2016 CoreyLeave a comment
“As the Darkness creeps over the Northern mountains of Norway and the silence reaches the woods, I awake and rise… Into the night I wander, like many nights before, and like in my dreams, but centuries ago.”
Let’s start with a shiny new tour. Goatwhore has announced a tour in the United States in September that supplements their appearance at Ozzfest. If you’re out west, or out west-ish, check it out.
The Agonist is set to drop their latest album, Five, on September 30th. The melodic death metallers new album with be out on Napalm Records and it looks like the release will be supplemented by a run of shows… or something.
It’s a slow day and we haven’t covered album sales in awhile, so let’s do that. Check out notable releases from Chevelle and Nonpoint. Inter Arma and Gone is Gone are down there somewhere as well.
Jason Newsted, former Metallica bassist, has returned with a solo project called Would and Steal. The project will be mostly acoustic, but at this point that’s all we really know. More to come on Friday over at the Mighty Fine Guitars Facebook page.
Apocalyptica covered Metallica’s “Seek and Destroy” and… well, here it is.
– Corey
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CANTO: Ozzfest meets Knotfest, Misfits reunion, and more
May 12, 2016 May 12, 2016 CoreyLeave a comment
“When it’d appear, the dawn of twilight, I felt my rightful way. I was so cold, the blood in me, the dawn, the crystal glow of night. High above, the crystal glow.”
This was teased for a few days, and now we get our big news. Ozzfest Meets Knotfest. This is going to be a MASSIVE back to back festival weekend. The headliners? Equally as massive. Black Sabbath will be headlining day 1.
More big festival news as Danzig has announced his plans to reunite with Jerry Only. This means that the original Misfits will be playing Riot Fest. Neaaaaaaaat.
Ghost is staying busy. Those clever men in masks have announced they will be releasing a new EP later this year.
Meshuggah news is always exciting. A new album (yet to be named) will be coming this fall. They are also touring Europe, which doesn’t help me at all.
Apocalyptica have released a video for their cover of Metallica’s “Battery” and ya know what? The strings make it kinda cool.
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CANTO: Five Finger Death Punch, Belphegor, Periphery, and more
April 26, 2016 April 26, 2016 CoreyLeave a comment
“One day I’m gettin’ to the point where I ain’t gonna do nothing but try to be strungout on you. You let me drown way deep down below, for the fleeting past to let go. Until the end I raise and batter around, lookin’ at my own reflection. Forever i shall kiss you goodbye to kill my soul addiction.”
Trouble at the Five Finger Death Punch camp! The band is being sued by their label, Prospect Park, on grounds that they are trying to rush shitty music before Ivan Moody’s eventual downfall. Well… that certainly is something.
Not long after they got harassed in Russia, Belphegor have announced a headlining tour here in the United States. They will be supported by Origin and Shining, among others.
Is Ozzfest going to be a thing again? Rockstar Mayhem Fest is dead and they’ve been all kinds of active with throwbacks on their Facebook page recently. Hmmm.
Didn’t Periphery just drop a double album? Not that it matters. They have announced their next album, Periphery III: Select Difficulty, will drop on July 22nd. Upcoming U.S. tour to follow in August.
Lacuna Coil‘s “Delirium” because why not?
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CANTO: Album news from King Diamond, drinking horns from Johan Hegg, and adventures with Brent Hinds
July 7, 2015 July 7, 2015 CoreyLeave a comment
Forget what I said yesterday. It feels like this week is starting to drag already.
I am definitely not a Kanye West fan. So, a good way to earn points in my book is to call him out whenever possible. Corey Taylor did just that in a recent video clip for Music Choice.
In other good news, it looks like we’re primed for some new King Diamond! The King announced work on the next album would commence after Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. I hate writing that.
For better or worse, we all know what Babymetal is. Well, now we have something even weirder. Let me give you Japan’s Ladybaby. It’s VERY satirical and VERY creepy. It can go away now.
I fully encourage the use of drinking horns when consuming alcohol. What I’m not so sure of, however, is this Johan Hegg horn that will run over almost a grand.
Finally, in lieu of a new video today, I’ve decided to share another reason why Brent Hinds is one of my favorite humans. Apparently at 2005’s Ozzfest, he was kicked out for taking shrooms and running around naked. A+ good sir.
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Deep Ghatak
Deep Ghatak is a senior Corporate Communications and Change Management Professional. He is also an author, playwright and lyricist. His first novel, Fish in Paneer Soup, was first published in 2011 and went into reprint. Ticket to India is his second novel.
Deep travels widely and lectures at various international academic institutions. He has a keen interest in globalisation and the amalgamation of popular cultures. He blogs at www.deepghatak.com
Fish in Paneer Soup
Books by Deep Ghatak
A romantic idealist, Somashish Mukherjee, a.k.a Som, learns the first lesson of his life when he is spurned in love. Crestfallen, he leaves Kolkata and heads to Delhi in search of better luck.
The capital holds many surprises in store for Som. He finds a job in a public relations firm and makes friends, only to lose everything in a sinister conspiracy. Like a fish pulled out of water and flung straight into hot soup, Som struggles for survival. He tries
The capital holds many surprises in store for Som. He finds a job in a public relations firm and makes friends, only to lose everything in a sinister conspiracy. Like a fish pulled out of water and flung straight into hot soup, Som struggles for survival. He tries to get back what is rightfully his, including the love of his life.
Will he succeed in this game of one-upmanship?
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Ticket to India
Even as the obsession with everything ‘foreign’ continues unabated among India’s middle classes, something did change in the later part of the millennium’s first decade.
Students, Expatriates, Non-Resident Indians and Persons of Indian Origin are flying by the planeloads to a resurgent country– a land that defies logic and one that is not easy to navigate. It is a return trip for some, a two-way journey for many and a one-way ticket for several
Students, Expatriates, Non-Resident Indians and Persons of Indian Origin are flying by the planeloads to a resurgent country– a land that defies logic and one that is not easy to navigate. It is a return trip for some, a two-way journey for many and a one-way ticket for several others.
Is India truly worth the sustained hype? Is it indeed the next superpower? What is it like to live and work in a nation that is seemingly managed by God himself?
Book a ticket to India and join the employees of Primetech Inc. as they stumble upon a few revelations.
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Saskia’s Garden
A bird’s eye-view of Saskia’s house before the project
Saskia begins work on her xeriscape garden
The first summer Saskia Makela spent in the first home of her own, she resented the time spent watering her lawn. “I’d look across the street at Knox Mountain and it was beautiful. There were grasses and a variety of colour—and no one was watering over there,” she comments. “On our side of the street, it was all just green lawns,” she adds. “We had lots to do inside our new home, yet we were spending all our time in the yard watering and mowing the lawn,” she explains.
Makela grew up in Kelowna and learned that the lush green vineyards, orchards and golf courses can be deceptive, like the deep blue lake that is a feature of the Okanagan Valley. It’s actually a very arid climate, with little natural precipitation. As it happened, that north end home was bought in the spring of 2003, which turned out to one of the driest years in recent memory.
Early stages of the xeriscape garden
A playground of purchased, donated and found xeriscape plants
“I had no clue about gardening. My mom was a gardener, but I’d never done any” she explains.
However, that fall, she dug up the green lawn she’d watered all summer, turned it upside down to compost over winter, and formed a berm with it. It was on the advice of an old family friend, Gwen Steele, who then owned Dry Valley Gardens. Gwen is well-known for her expertise creating colourful gardens with year-round interest that require very little water.
When the snow melted the next spring, Makela says she had a pile of composted soil in her yard and no idea what to do next.
Xeriscape plants thriving in a shady area
A beautiful low-cost, low-maintenance xeriscape garden
“I didn’t have much money for plants, but I went out and bought anything that said it was drought tolerant. I accepted plants people had divided up and I found some irises in the alley. Since then, I’ve killed lots of plants, but I’ve learned a lot, and I just keep playing with it,” she explains. She calls it being cheap and lazy, but she says she’s found that it’s surprising how low maintenance the garden she’s built really is.
She now has two young children, so time is in short supply, but even in mid-summer, she only waters her garden a couple of times a month. New plants get a little more attention, but now even in pots on her porch, she uses drought tolerant ones which need little water through the summer.
Colourful sun-loving xeriscape plants in full-bloom
Butterflies and birds love the diversity of the xeriscape garden
In her back yard, she has a vegetable garden but she removed the poplars and put in a native Oregon grape hedge, and she left a patch of lawn for the kids. However, she’s quick to point out that the kids spend half their time in the front yard, enjoying the little gravel pathways and the tall plants. “It’s like they’re in a forest because the plants get so big,” she notes. “People think because there’s no lawn in the front that it’s not kid-friendly, but they love it,” she adds. Something she didn’t think about when she embarked on this adventure was the return of butterflies and birds to her yard, with its new diversity. In fact, she admits the final product is not what she’s expected. “I just wanted to get rid of that lawn,” she says. In the process, she now finds she’s done what everyone else wants to do: create a xeriscaped yard, which is low maintenance; uses little water; needs no fertilizer or chemicals, yet has few insect pests and diseases. Saskia’s advice to others contemplating a similar move: “Go for it. Just jump in!”
Xeriscape gardens are unexpectedly kid-friendly
The result – a colourful xeriscape garden with year-round interest
Text credits: Judie Steeves Photo credits: Gwen Steele
XERISCAPE IN ACTION
We will be showcasing many other xeriscape garden projects around the Okanagan as our site develops. We welcome your stories, photos and inspiration. Please contact us at: info@okanaganxeriscape.org
Share your xeriscape adventures with other gardeners in our community!
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NEW SOIL ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY
“IN THE UNITED STATES, when you go to meetings, farmers talk about their farms by their soil types,” explains Greg Kitching, integrated solutions consultant at Premier Equipment in Elmira, ON. Kitching, also a certified crop advisor (CCA), has been interested in large-scale agronomic data collection for decades; more recently, with the help of new software by Trimble. In Ontario, Kitching admits, “we don’t have historical soil data that is as good as Americans do.”
Farmers know a lot about their land, but he says we generally do not know much past the top six inches. This is especially the case for larger operations growing crops on land they rent which doesn’t usually provide them access to a lot of comprehensive historical data. It is also a concern on newly purchased land that they have not had the opportunity to work for very long.
Kitching, along with the rest of Premier’s Integrated Solutions team, wants to help alleviate some of that risk through the use of new technology and a lot of math.
Agronomy is partially a decision science; through research and observation, and constantly evolving tools and techniques, we learn how to make decisions about our land and our crops. Farmers have always collected data. Within the last decade, it has become possible to collect data sets so large and complex that traditional measurement and analysis methodologies have become obsolete — the challenge is not gathering information so much as it is making sense of it.
The agriculture industry has taken notice, and a number of companies — like the Trimble Connected Farm platform and John Deere’s My John Deere web portal — are working to harness the power of big data to make agronomic decisions.
One Thursday in early August, Ontario Grain Farmer magazine joined Kitching, his colleague Kaye McLagan, and a soil sampling rig in a freshly-harvested wheat field just east of Guelph. When work started the day before, Kitching and McLagan created a digital map of the field using one of Premier’s fleet of John Deere Gators and an electromagnetic (EM) sensor rig built by Milton, Ontario’s DualEM.
Kitching uses the EM map to determine where he needs to take physical soil samples. On this roughly 66 acre field, he used GPS to mark drilling points at a ten-metre resolution (in the past, he has sampled fields at as small as one-metre resolution).
The soil sampling rig, mounted on the back of a John Deere 3520, is made by Giddings in Colorado. The specialized probe is made in Vermont by a company called Vertek. All of the equipment constantly streams data to software made by Trimble.
The software, which uses the data to output an interactive soil map, is what Kitching credits as the key to this process. “We were already using all of this equipment and we were already capable of measuring this, but we didn’t know what to do with it in a comprehensive way. The algorithms, made by Dr. Daniel Rooney, Trimble’s stategic development manager, are what make
it special.”
The sophistication and quality of the output of the product is why Kitching is proud that Premier Equipment is the only operator in Ontario.
The difference between an EM map, which is relatively easy to build with a sensor like the DualEM one Kitching uses, and Trimble’s soil maps is the quality of information. An EM sensor does not measure the soil itself; it registers the rate a current travels through it. Trimble has found that an EM map will often show the same reading in different parts of a field, across a variety of different soil property types. While EM is an excellent tool, it is limited because it is only one variable. Trimble’s system weighs EM data against other types of data collected to build a more complete soil map.
Kitching collects this additional data with the Vertek probe — an expensive, sensitive piece of equipment that needs annual calibration and servicing in the United States. While drilling at a depth of four feet, it measures tip pressure, sleeve pressure, moisture content, and electrical conductivity. The pressure along the sleeve of the probe correlates to the texture of the soil, while the pressure on the tip correlates to soil compaction.
“We think of compaction, especially, as something we’ve done to the soil by driving on it or using equipment. But there is a natural relationship between compaction and texture, which is important,” says Kitching.
Electrical conductivity is an increasingly popular method of determining nutrient management zones.
“The process maps variability in the field,” says Kitching. Using the soil map, one can identify areas that are severely compacted, and would therefore likely need mechanical tillage. Especially in a field with some known problem areas, a farmer can save man hours and diesel by tilling only where he needs to, and using a cover crop for the rest of the field.
FUTURE APPLICATIONS
In the future, Kitching believes that it will be possible for precision equipment to make tillage depth adjustments on the fly, based on GIS information from soil maps like these. “Most new systems are already tracking things like tillage depth and streaming it to programs like My John Deere; in the future it could be pretty easy to program these types of directions based on GPS.”
Kitching believes the hydrology data he is able to collect with this system is the most useful and most often overlooked aspect. He sees future drainage and irrigation design opportunities; the team has already used one of their soil maps for a drainage survey. The software is already able to output a nutrient capacity map for application management, based on moisture and conductivity measurements, and Kitching hopes that it can be used to more accurately document phosphorus levels at a high resolution.
“Economically and environmentally, it would be win-win,” he says about the potential for using this system to manage nutrient stewardship issues as they relate to water quality.
Also important not to overlook is the way he is able to share data from this system. As with any other decision-making tool, soil maps are only as good as the relationship between the farmer and his agronomist. Portals like this one allow trusted advisors up-to-the-minute access to farmers’ field data, and that free flow of information is what really makes this product so useful. •
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Australia: Balls & No Trump = No SARS CoV-2!
Thread starter Asher Kelman
sars cov-2 beaten by australia! stopping covid 19
How is it we can’t learn from Australia. One needs to isolate, test, trace and quarantine and then one gets to stop infections!
A bit of pain, a lot of gain!
Australia's COVID-19 hotspot relaxes curbs after 9th day with zero cases
Australia's second most populous state, the epicentre of the country's COVID-19 outbreak, will relax restrictions after recording its ninth consecutive day with no infections, state Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said on Sunday.
www.reuters.com
Tom dinning
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Don’t assume the process was less than painful for some. Lockdown in Victoria was harsh. It needed to be. Confidence was getting out of hand, mostly caused by different parts of the government and general population letting their guild down or simply ignoring the responsibility each of us has for others during such a time.
Despite the criticism thrown at the decision makers, the front man stood his ground, calmly and methodically. He took the advice of the medical experts and altered the course of a possible disaster. Fortunately, the population generally saw the wisdom of his ways or responded to the threat of fines and gaol time.
But it’s not over yet. Extreme caution is built into every decision made. Quarantine still exists with some areas of the population and crossing of boarders is heavily secured. Businesses are still restricted as to numbers and space, public transport is still a risk.
In general, people have seen the need for the actions taken Australia wide. They have been compliant, patient and tolerant.
Besides, it’s too ducking hot to get excited. I went for a cycle this arvo and went quite wobbly after about 15 minutes.
Even the bougainvillea plant keeled over and died on me. A worm wondered into the pavement and instantly turned to a piece of string. Birds are sting on poached eggs.
In spite of the heat I’m grateful once more for living where I do. I look briefly at other countries and although they might me nice to visit I’m very content with my neighbours and politicians. They’re such a laid back lot.
Tom dinning said:
Don’t assume the process was less than painful for some. Lockdown in Victoria was harsh. It needed to be. Confidence was getting out of hand, mostly caused by different parts of the government and general population letting their guild down or simply ignoring the responsibility each of us has for others during such a time......
So Tom,
If we are to benefit from the hard learned lessons in Australia, what would you tell our government to do to stop the spread and death toll?
Don’t get me started.
It’s to just the people in power, although they could do with a bit of rational thinking.
For starters, I’d suggested a decent education for most. Work on the sciences, health, geography and English.
Then get rid of religion.
Inform the population that US is not the greatest country by a long shot.
Put some Valium in the water so the population calms the fuck down
Ban firearms for everyone.
Stop calling blacks black and whites white. In fact, stop putting some other country in front of American when identifying nationality.
Don’t make any more comedy tv or movies. American humor isn’t funny.
That’s a start for today. It should clear the air a bit for some common sense to prevail.
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It’s an attitude thing, you see.
Some call it culture, others might refer to it as bad manners.
As a whole, US citizens are probably nice people deep inside where they live.
But when the shit hits the fan or they need to formulate an opinion things go haywire.
I heard once it’s the cheese they eat; what’s taken as cheese anyhow.
Personally I thing it’s the uncomfortable place they feel themselves in; like wearing underwear that’s two sizes too small.
It all started back when Columbus thought he’d found a new country. Much like Australia, he took it on himself to grab it for his queen, then remove any inhabitants he might find that he hadn’t noticed before. The rest just followed.
Then the. New residents decided they didn’t want to do the hard yards so they grabbed a few people from other places to do it for them. The workers were consoled my getting fuck all for they labour.
Then some clown decided to free the workers. Sounds reasonable, but the people who had the workers disliked working so much they tried to kill of all the people who wanted to give the workers freedom.
Somewhere among this hullabaloo everyone got the idea that guns were a household item like toothbrushes and a horse.
Trouble is they’d didnt have anyone to shoot, so they started shooting each other.
This was all mixed in with a dab of good old religion. Did you know religion provides an excuse for just about anything? They even invented a few of their own religions, and banned a couple of others.
Of course, to show what nice people they really are they invited others to join them. The Italians and Jews seemed to fit in but the Mexicans and anyone with a decently tan were considered rubbish. Still are.
Education became important about ten years back. Up til then the population couldn’t drive in a straight line. Nor did they realise there where other countries out there belong the horizon. Still don’t.
..... Then some clown decided to free the workers. Sounds reasonable, but the people who had the workers disliked working so much they tried to kill of all the people who wanted to give the workers freedom.
But racism never left! Being black means as a youth, after dark, there’s a target on your back
One of our delusions! I’d you trust the police so much, why do you need guns
Most have no idea of the origins of belief, they inherit the meme, just like grandmother’s China!
Here need to Give you a brief eye opener: the very excellently pale blue eyes Irish were considered just cheap almost slave labor to build the railroads and homes and work in factories. They had no status nor rights and children were used to plant explosives in the rocks to open routes for the railroads!
Chinese, almost white, were not considered human persons and were banned from living on Los Angeles! Killing a Chinese man was not murder as the victim wasn’t a person!
The major “Achilles Heel”, of the USA is it’s largely uneducated population who see freedom means owning a gun and hating anyone who is not like them, especially people of color and non-Protestants!
Worse, even the educated 50% have little training in logic, deduction, methods of proof for the basics of science, genetics and evolution to be able to grasp the concepts needed to fight infectious viruses and infectious memes!
I was, of course, exaggerating somewhat.
Thanks for your reflection Ash.
Any of us could do the same for our own culture.
To a large extent, cultural adherence encourages such idiotic behaviour.
Generally, the preservation of cultural memes does not harm. Wearing a funny hat or dancing in leather pants looks like fun in a weird way. But there’s a persistence with some thought bubbles that has generated animosity, even violence and certainly a great deal of hatred and tension.
I abhor the word ‘race’ and all its derivatives. It has the effect of division which, in turn, generates suspicion and greed.
As a single over riding factor in American history, the recognition of individuals being allocated to a race has been the most disturbing influence on politics and socialisation. Then comes religion without a doubt.
We, like all populations have had our fair share as well. For a planet who seems to think unity might win the day, division is high on everyone’s list.
Love one another is rhetorical bullshit.
Divide and conquer seems to fit better into current moods.
America seems to be demonstrating their inner hatred and distrust of the next man in line, in every aspect of their daily lives.
It’s a distorted reflection of what has been going on in other places. America shows distain at what is happening in China, the Middle East, Africa, South America, Mexico, south east Asia, etc yet they display the same ideologies and responses they abhor elsewhere.
I know a few Americans, such as yourself. They are frightened by what is happening. They are the educated ones, the ones with insight, with broad experiences, with values that others benefit from.
It appears that the ‘family’ of the US has a spoilt child in its midst. And it ain’t just Trump. It’s a culture and it’s been the instigator of what’s happening right now across your country.
Work with the next generations. Their your only hope of survival.
Unfortunately, right now poor Vietnamese fisherman in fragile wooden boats who eke out a meager living of $100 a day for the crew are getting attacked and sunk!
They are now are getting rammed every day by Chinese patrol boats made of steel and sunk!
The South China sea is shared resources rich treasure-trove for many coastal nations.
But China is doing a massive imperialist power grab! Several barely above water islands of coral have been reinforced by massive dredging and concrete overlays. They now boast intimidating airfields misde batteries and radar emplacements to essentially racially extend the distant Chinese coast to this stolen imaginary “Chinese” territory and so allow fraudulent claim to international waters and Internationally recognized of their maritime neighbors
Strangely Australia, NZ and a bunch of other countries joined a free trade area run by China that replaces the one Trump crazily withdrew from!
I woukd get islands from the Thais and Vietnamese and build our own militarized opposing airfields to neutralize the Chines sea grab!
Frankly, if the keto acting aggressively, I would stop all trade with the Chinese and let them be friends with Russia, Pakistan and Iran!
They have to release the one million Ukgar civilians from concentration camps and stop selling the organs on the world market!
We should preferentially import from Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Thailand and Taiwan! We can use all your iron ore!
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Uric acid is associated with adiposity factors, especially with fat mass reduction during weight loss in obese children and adolescents
Yang Niu1 na1,
Xue-lin Zhao1 na1,
Hui-juan Ruan1,
Xiao-meng Mao1 &
Qing-ya Tang1,2
Current adult studies suggest that uric acid (UA) is associated with body fat, but the relationship in obese children is unclear. Thus, we aim to evaluate the association between uric acid and body composition of obese children.
A total of 79 obese children were included in this study, and 52 children (34 boys and 18 girls) underwent a 6-week weight loss camp, including 34 boys and 18 girls. Six-week weight-loss interventions were performed on all participants through aerobic exercise and appropriate dietary control. Laboratory tests and body composition were collected before and after the intervention.
Before the intervention, correlation analysis demonstrated that uric acid was positively correlated with height, weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, hip circumference, fat mass (FM), and free fat mass (FFM) with adjusting for age and gender (P < 0.05). After 6 weeks of intervention, the participants gained 3.12 ± 0.85 cm in height, body fat percentage decreased by 7.23 ± 1.97%, and lost 10.30 ± 2.83 kg in weight. Univariate and multivariate analysis indicated that uric acid at baseline was associated with FM reduction during weight loss (P < 0.05).
This study is the first report that uric acid is associated with BMI and FM, and may play an important role in the reduction of FM during weight loss in obese children and adolescents. The interaction between UA and adiposity factors and its underlying mechanisms need to be further explored.
This study was registered in Clinical Trials.gov (NCT03490448) and approved by the Ethics Committee of Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.
In 2014, a large-scale study of the world's obese population revealed that the number and proportion of obese and overweight people worldwide has been increasing in the past 30 years [1]. The total global obese and overweight population has increased from 857 million in 1980 to 2.1 billion in 2013, and the number of obese and overweight children has increased by 47.1% [1]. Obesity has been defined as a worldwide epidemic metabolic disease by the World Health Organization (WHO), and it has become a worldwide public health problem endangering human health [2]. Childhood obesity not only leads to an increase in the incidence of chronic diseases such as fatty liver, diabetes, lipid metabolism disorders, and hypertension, but also easily leads to psychological problems such as inferiority and social disorders.
Hyperuricemia, previously thought to occur in adults, is also increasing in children, especially in obese children. The United States of American Bogalusa Heart Research Institute found that the incidence of hyperuricemia in boys and girls of normal weight was 8.1% and 8.5%, respectively, while that of obese children increased to 24.6% and 23.9% [3]. In present, a large number of current studies are exploring the relationship between serum uric acid and body mass index (BMI), glucose and lipid metabolism and blood pressure in children [4,5,6,7]. However, BMI has some limitations because body composition is not taken into account. Studies in adults have shown that blood uric acid levels are related to body composition and may be affected by fat mass (FM) and free fat mass (FFM), which are the major components of body weight [8, 9]. But no studies have explored the associations between FFM, FM, and serum uric acid in obese children and adolescents.
Therefore, this study is to explore the potential relationship between blood uric acid levels and FFM and FM, and the effect of serum uric acid on FFM and FM during weight loss in obese children and adolescents.
A total of 79 obese children and adolescents who participated in the 6-week weight loss camp in Shanghai from July to August 2014 were selected as the research subjects. All participants and their parents signed written informed consent. All enrolled children had no prior liver and kidney damage and had no history of using drugs that affected uric acid. According to the WHO standards, obesity is diagnosed when it equals or exceeds the 95th percentile (P95) of the BMI of children of the same age and gender [10].
Interventions and methods
A 6-week weight loss program was conducted for all participants under the guidance of professional weight loss coaches and medical staff, and weight loss was performed according to a unified exercise and diet program. Prior to the intervention, all subjects were required to undergo an exercise stress test to ensure safe and effective physical exercise. ① Sports programs: Sports programs mainly included ball sports such as basketball, table tennis, badminton, as well as aerobic sports such as jogging, brisk walking, power cycling, and swimming. All sports were carried out indoors under the guidance of a full-time coach. Exercises are performed 6 days a week, once in the morning and afternoon, and 2 h each time. Preparatory activities were performed for 15–20 min before and after the exercise. During exercise, the participants' heart rate was monitored though the sports wrist watch to ensure that the participant performs a small-medial load aerobic exercise. ② Diet plan: Considering the needs of children's growth and development, the diet should guarantee the daily energy and physiological requirements, and the basal metabolic rate (BMR) is calculated according to the Harris–Benedict formula to formulate the diet. The diet consists of 20% protein, 30% fat and 50% carbohydrates. In the menu provided to the participants, we increased the amount of coarse grains and vegetables and reduced the intake of high-fat foods. All foods were mainly cooked by steaming, boiling, and cold and dressed with sauce, rather than fried. All subjects did not take any type of nutritional supplement during weight loss.
Physical measurements and laboratory examination
Before and after the intervention, all participants were measured for height (Seca264, Germany), weight (Inbody 370, Korea), waist circumference (WC), hip circumference (HC) ( Measuring with a tape measure), and systemic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) (HEM-7052, Omron, Japan) in the morning and fasting state. BMI, waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) were calculated as follows: BMI (kg/m2) = (weight in kg)/(height in meters)2; WHR = waist circumference (cm)/hip circumference (cm); WHtR = waist circumference (cm)/height (cm). We evaluated participant's body fat percentage (BFP), FM, and FFM using bioelectrical impedance analyses (BIA) by whole-body impedance (Inbody 370, Korea) in the morning and fasting state.
In the same state, participants' serum uric acid (UA), fasting blood glucose (FBG), fasting insulin (FINS), triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (TC), high density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C), and low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) were measured and collected. All laboratory indicators were tested by Aidikang Medical Test Center, FBG is tested by HK method, FINS was detected by chemiluminescence method, HDL-C and LDL-C were detected by homogeneous assay method, TC was detected by cholesterol oxidase method, TG Enzymatic GPO-POD was used for detection, and UA was analyzed using urase method. Homeostasis model assessment‐insulin resistance (HOMA‐IR) and Homeostasis model assessment‐β (HOMA‐β) were calculated as follows: HOMA‐IR = FBG (mmol/L) × FINS (mIU/L)/22.5; HOMA‐β = 20 × FINS (mIU/L)/[FBG (mmol/L)‐3.5]%. The relative changes (Δ) = the value after intervention − the value before intervention. Therefore, in the expression of the results, a positive value indicates a increase, and a negative value indicated an decrease.
SPSS V.25.0 statistical software was used for statistical processing. Normal distributions of parameters were assessed using the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test. For the continuous variables, the independent sample t test was used, which was expressed as the mean ± standard deviation. For the categorical variables, the chi-square test and percentage (%) were used. Non-normally distributed data were presented as median (P25, P75). Firstly, univariate analysis was used to analyze the correlation between uric acid before intervention and relative changes of uric acid and variables. Considering that children's uric acid was related to age and gender [11,12,13], age and gender were adjusted while analyzing the correlation between uric acid and various indicators.
Secondly, in order to further analyze the correlation between the reduction of body fat and various indicators at baseline, participants were divided into two groups according to fat mass reduction during weight loss: an ΔFM < 10 kg group (n = 29), and an ΔFM ≥ 10 kg group (n = 23). The correlation between FM and other factors was assessed using the Pearson correlation, partial correlation analysis was used with adjusting for age and gender. Multiple linear regression analysis was conducted to further evaluate the impacts of the associated variables. A two-sided P value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
General data and factors associated with uric acid before and after the intervention
Initially, a total of 79 obese children (52 boys and 27 girls) with the mean age of 13.13 ± 2.15 years (9–18 years old) participated in the weight loss camp. Before the intervention, correlation analysis demonstrated that serum uric acid was positively correlated with height, weight, BMI, WC, HC, FM, FFM, TC, and TG (All P < 0.05, Table 1). Furthermore, after adjusting for age and gender, there were still significant correlations between UA and BMI, HC, FM, FFM, TC, and TG (P < 0.05, Table 1).
Table 1 The correlation between uric acid at baseline and variables before intervention
However, Only 52 children (34 boys and 18 girls) underwent a 6-week weight loss camp, with the mean age of 13.21 ± 2.20 years (9–17 years old). After 6 weeks of intervention, the indicators after the intervention were better than those before the intervention. After adjusting for age and gender, UA was associated with BMI, HC, and FFM (P < 0.05, Table 2), but not FM (P > 0.05, Table 2).
Table 2 The correlation between uric acid and variables after intervention
As for the changes before and after intervention, the participants gained 3.12 cm in height, body fat percentage decreased by 7.23%, and lost 10.30 kg in weight (Table 3). Weight loss is dominated by a decrease in fat mass (9.92 kg), but with little increase in free fat mass (0.28 kg) (Table 3). The correlation analysis indicated that serum uric acid before intervention was negatively correlated with the relative change of weight, BMI, TG, FM and BFP (All P < 0.05, Table 3). After adjusting for age and gender, serum uric acid was still negatively correlated with the relative change of weight, TG, FM and BFP (All P < 0.05, Table 3), but the correlation coefficient was decreased.
Table 3 The correlation between uric acid at baseline and relative changes of variables during weight loss
General data and factors at baseline associated with fat mass loss
ΔFM ≥ 10 kg group (13.83 ± 1.58 years) was older than ΔFM < 10 kg group (12.72 ± 2.18 years), and the serum uric acid level (532.91 ± 98.50 vs 424.66 ± 88.53 mmol/L) was also higher than that of ΔFM < 10 kg group (both P < 0.05, Table 4). Compared with ΔFM < 10 kg group, ΔFM ≥ 10 kg group had significantly higher height, weight, BMI, WC, HC, WHR, WHtR, FM, FFM and BFR before intervention, and had worse glucose metabolism (all P < 0.05, Table 4). Furthermore, there was significant difference in FINS, TG, UA, SBP and DBP before intervention between the two FM groups (all P < 0.05, Table 4). However, multiple linear regression analysis showed that only UA before intervention were not conducive to the reduction of FM during weight loss (P < 0.05, Table 5).
Table 4 Comparison of variables at baseline with relative changes of fat mass
Table 5 Multiple linear regression of variables at baseline with relative changes of fat mass
In this study, we investigated the correlation between serum uric acid and body fat before and after weight loss in obese children and adolescents. The results showed that a combination of aerobic exercise and appropriate caloric control can help reduce weight, especially FM. Importantly, we found that UA was associated with BMI, FM, and FFM with adjusting age and gender, and played an important role in weight loss.
To date, the research on weight loss methods is roughly divided into dieting, exercise, meal replacement, drugs and surgical weight loss. Among them, exercise combined with diet intervention is considered to be the most scientific and reasonable way to lose weight [14, 15]. In terms of exercise methods, aerobic exercise is characterized by activities that are fun and have low exercise load intensity, which is more suitable for children. In addition, when the aerobic exercise time exceeds 30 min, the fat decomposition efficiency in the body is increased, and the body functions as a main energy supply material, thereby achieving the effect of weight loss [16]. Aerobic exercise not only helps to reduce fat and retain muscle [12], but also improves glucose and lipid metabolism [17, 18]. Likewise, our results showed that after a 6-weeks weight loss interventions, participants' weight and body fat were significantly reduced, while muscles were little increased. The average weight loss in obese children was 10.30 kg (12.07%) consisting of 9.92 kg of FM, which was more evident than in many other studies.
Globally, the incidence of hyperuricemia is estimated to be about 2.0–3.1%, and it is higher in men than in women [19,20,21,22]. With the increase in the incidence of childhood obesity, it is one of the reasons for the increase in the incidence of hyperuricemia in obese children [23]. Importantly, a 21-year follow-up study found that obese children were 3.25 times (male) and 3.55 times (female) more likely to develop hyperuricemia than adults of normal weight [3]. However, since the normal range of uric acid depends on age and gender [11, 12], the cut-off points for the diagnosis of hyperuricemia in children and adolescents are also different, which also brings some trouble for pediatricians to diagnose hyperuricemia.
Previous studies have shown that an elevated uric acid levels are associated with obesity, metabolic syndrome, hypertension and disorders of glucose and lipid metabolism in childhood [24, 25]. In addition, studies in adults indicated that hyperuricemia is positively associated with BMI, WC, and body fat, but is also positively associated with muscle [9, 26]. Surprisingly, the results from our study found that uric acid in obese children and adolescents was not only positively related to BMI, FM, and FFM, but also to the decrease in FM during weight loss. To the best of our knowledge, this result is first reported herein and is a highlight of our research.
However, the pathophysiological mechanism involved in the occurrence of hyperuricemia in obese children is not yet clearly established, and the mechanism of the effect of UA on body fat is also not yet fully understood. Previous study indicated that hyperuricemia induced inflammation of fat cells and oxidative stress. And fat cell inflammation and oxidative stress were the key mechanisms for fat mice to develop obesity and metabolic syndrome [27]. In addition, as for the association between blood uric acid and TC and TG, significant relationship was found in this study with adjusting for age and gender before and after intervention. This might imply that high uric acid affected the redistribution of adipose tissue by inducing the abnormality of lipids metabolism.
In light of the findings of this study, we should pay close attention to blood uric acid levels during weight loss in obese children, which may be a sensitive and useful signal indicator. However, for obese children diagnosed with hyperuricemia, whether uric acid lowering treatment is needed before weight loss should be considered and further researched. But it was worth mentioning that our research found that reasonable diet and exercise can reduce uric acid by 53 mmol/L.
Of course, the limitations of this study should be considered. First, the sample size of this study is small, and it is difficult to elaborate the mechanism of uric acid on body fat. Second, clinical data were only monitored and evaluated before and after the intervention. Finally, this study did not follow up on the effects of aerobic exercise combined with dietary weight loss on children's long-term quality of life and health status.
In conclusion, a reasonable and professional aerobic exercise combined with proper diet control is of great significance for the reduction of body fat and muscle retention in obese children. It is found that a positive correlation between uric acid and body fat, but the higher the serum uric acid level before intervention, the more beneficial it is to reduce body fat. For this unexplainable results, it is worth studying what the reasonable range of serum uric acid is beneficial for the reduction of body fat at different age and gender. Therefore, in the future research, it is necessary to further explore the exact mechanism of the effect of uric acid on body fat through basic and clinical trials on the premise of expanding the sample size.
All our materials and data are available. Data and materials are kept in the Department of Clinical Nutrition, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine.
Free fat mass
BFP:
HC:
WHR:
Waist-to-hip ratio
WHtR:
Waist-to-height ratio
SBP:
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DBP:
UA:
FBG:
Fasting blood glucose
Fasting insulin
High density lipoprotein-cholesterol
Low density lipoprotein-cholesterol
HOMA‐IR:
Homeostasis model assessment‐insulin resistance
HOMA‐β:
Homeostasis model assessment‐β
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The authors thank the staff of Shanghai Dianfeng Sports Management Co., LTD for the intervention guidance and data collection during weight loss camp, and participants and the parents of participants.
Shanghai Key Laboratory of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (No.11DZ2260500).
Yang Niu and Xue-lin Zhao contributed equally to this study and share first authorship
Department of Clinical Nutrition, Xinhua Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200092, China
Yang Niu, Xue-lin Zhao, Hui-juan Ruan, Xiao-meng Mao & Qing-ya Tang
Shanghai Key Laboratory of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Shanghai, 200092, China
Qing-ya Tang
Yang Niu
Xue-lin Zhao
Hui-juan Ruan
Xiao-meng Mao
YN, XZ and QT conceptualized and designed the study, drafted the initial manuscript, and reviewed and revised the manuscript. XM and XZ designed the data collection instruments, collected data, carried out the initial analyses, and reviewed and revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Qing-ya Tang.
This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.
The all authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Niu, Y., Zhao, Xl., Ruan, Hj. et al. Uric acid is associated with adiposity factors, especially with fat mass reduction during weight loss in obese children and adolescents. Nutr Metab (Lond) 17, 79 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12986-020-00500-9
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Oatmeal induced gut microbiota alteration and its relationship with improved lipid profiles: a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial
Mengyao Ye1,
Jianqin Sun ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5285-61481,
Yanqiu Chen1,
Qian Ren1,
Zhen Li1,
Yanfang Zhao1,
Yiru Pan2 &
Huijun Xue2
In vitro and animal experiments reported a microbiota-regulating ability of oatmeal, however, related in vivo evidences remained limited. Thus, we conducted this study aiming to investigate the oatmeal-induced alteration of gut microbiota and its potential relationship with the improvements of lipid profiles.
Methods and study design
Data of anthropometric measurements and biochemical parameters were extracted from a randomized, controlled clinical trial, in which 62 hypercholesterolemic men and women (18–65 years old) were provided with either treatment of 80 g/day oatmeal or 80 g/day refined white rice for 45 days. Fasting blood samples and fecal samples were collected both at baseline and endpoint of the study for lipid profiling and microbiota 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing, respectively.
Totally 28 participants (56 fecal samples) qualified with the new criteria and were thus included in this secondary analysis. The results of microbiota analysis showed that no significant difference was observed in the alteration of its overall α or β diversity between two groups throughout the study. Nor did any notable between-group difference was found in the relative abundance changes of microorganism at different taxonomies. However, results from linear discriminant analysis effect size in the oatmeal group indicated a significant positive response of Firmicutes phylum following oatmeal consumption. Further Procrustes analysis suggested a concordance trend between microorganism alteration and alleviation of hypercholesterolemia phenotypes throughout the study (P = 0.05). The results of within-group comparison from Spearman’s correlation in the oatmeal group demonstrated a significant association between the enrichment of Blautia genus and the reduction of serum total cholesterol (P < 0.05), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (P < 0.01), and apolipoprotein B (P < 0.05).
Positive response of Firmicutes phylum might be a critical characteristic of oatmeal-induced alteration of microbiota, whereas, one of the underlying cholesterol-lowering mechanism of oatmeal consumption might be its microbiota-manipulating ability, in which the enrichment of Blautia genus played a potentially significant role. Current results should be taken cautiously and more studies were needed for further verification.
Trial registration: ChiCTR, ChiCTR180001864. Registered 30 September 2018, http://www.chictr.org.cn/showproj.aspx?proj=31469.
Oatmeal, being abundant with fermentable fiber, was assumed to be able to influence the composition of microbiota by many ways, such as utilizing the discrepancy of processing capacity in different energy substrates or changing intestinal microenvironment like pH [1]. Meanwhile, current evidences supported that gut microbiota regulation toward enhancing proportion of beneficial members of microorganism community might be a novel and promising ecological strategy for hypercholesterolemia management [2,3,4]. These evidences provided a new perspective, that oatmeal was potentially able to regulate microbiota effectively and its microbiota-manipulating ability might be an underlying mechanism of its hypocholesterolaemic effect.
Most of animal experiments have suggested a prebiotic effect of oatmeal consumption [5, 6]. However, in vitro fermentation researches tended to show contradictory results, with some being consistent with the previous animal experiments [7, 8], yet others the opposite [9, 10]. Limited clinical trials also reported mixed results due to inconsistent microbiota testing methodologies, experimental models and study designs [11,12,13]. Moreover, whether the oatmeal-induced microbiota alteration was related to the cholesterol benefits of oatmeal consumption also remained unexplored.
Consequently, based on a randomized, parallel, controlled trial, we further tested the fecal gut microbiota and did this secondary analysis, aiming to investigate the oatmeal-induced gut microbiota alterations and further explore its relationship with improvements of lipid profiles.
Participants and study design
The data of clinical parameters and the fecal samples both came from the randomized, controlled, parallel trial conducted at Huadong hospital in Shanghai, which mainly focused on the cholesterol-lowering effect of oatmeal consumption. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and all participants were given informed consent before participation. The study protocol was registered in the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (Identifier: ChiCTR180001864) and was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Huadong Hospital (No. 20180059).
The detailed study design of the clinical trial has been described before [14]. Briefly, 62 men and women aged 18–65 years old with mild to moderate hypercholesterolemia (5.2 mmol/L ≤ total cholesterol [TC] ≤ 6.8 mmol/L; triglyceride [TG] < 2.3 mmol/L) were recruited. Principal exclusion criteria including: having hypocholesterolaemic medication; having diabetes; having heart, liver, kidney, gastrointestinal, or hematopoietic system diseases, or being mentally ill; with a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 28 kg/m2; having had a regular intake (≥ 3 times per week) of oatmeal or other foods rich in β-glucan in the past 6 months; any dietary restrictions that would affect trial completion. And to ensure the effectiveness of the microbiota analysis of this study, two extra inclusion criteria were added as follows: (1) without a history of antibiotics intake within 3 months before the beginning of the study as well as throughout the study; (2) providing qualified fecal samples both at baseline and endpoint of the study.
Interventions and measurements
Participants were equally randomized to consume either 80 g/d oatmeal (oatmeal group) or an equal amount of refined white rice (control group) substituting part of their staple food, whereas under a context of keeping in a habitual dietary pattern and physical activity for 45 days. The compositions of two food were presented in Table 1. Considering the common food intake amount of Chinese and the fact that most of participants were office workers who usually ate their lunch at canteens or restaurants, participants were required to consume the given food at breakfast and dinner (40 g per meal) to ease the difficulty of realistic execution. The participants were instructed to boil the oatmeal or refined white rice with hot water before consumption. All the above cooking and consumption directions were given by well-trained researchers before the beginning of the study. To record the corresponding food consumption, adverse events and drug usage during the study, telephone follow-ups were carried out weekly, whereas face-to-face visit was carried out every 2 weeks. The oatmeal and refined white rice were provided in an amount that was sufficient for 2 weeks each time (at the last visit, the provided amount was expected to be sufficient for 17 days), so the food was also replenished during the face-to-face visit.
Table 1 Composition of oatmeal and refined white rice (per 80 g)
Fasting venous blood samples and fecal samples were collected both at baseline and the endpoint. Serum was further extracted and stored at − 80 °C until further lipid profile testing, which involved the assessments of TC, TG, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), small dense low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (sdLDL-C) and apolipoprotein B (apoB). All lipid profiles were tested by using commercial kits with the help of fully automated analyzer. Non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL-C), which mainly consisted of LDL-C and very-low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, were calculated as the absolute concentration difference between TC and HDL-C. Collected fecal samples were also stored at − 80 °C until further deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) extracting and sequencing. Dietary intakes and physical activity were monitored both at baseline and the endpoint as potential confounding factors by conducting 3 days 24-h dietary recall and physical activity questionnaires, respectively. And dietary intakes were calculated on the basis of the nutrients content in the China food composition (2002) [15], but the composition data of oatmeal and refined white rice at endpoint were using the corresponding data in this study.
Finally, 28 (14 per group) out of 62 participants were qualified and included in this secondary analysis. The flow chart was shown in the Fig. 1.
DNA extraction, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and Miseq sequencing
Totally 56 samples were included for 16S rRNA sequencing. The PCR amplification and Illumina sequencing process was similar to a previous study [16]. In brief, microbial DNA was extracted from stool samples using QIAamp DNA Stool Mini Kit protocol (Qiagen, Germany). The V3–V4 regions of the 16S rRNA gene were amplified by using the primer pair of 357F 5′-ACTCCTACGGRAGGCAGCAG-3′ and 806R 5′-GGACTACHVGGGTWTCTAAT-3′. Another two pairs of primers contained the Illumina 5′ overhang adapter sequences for two-step amplicon library building, and all processes followed the instructions of manufacturer for the overhang sequences. The amplified DNA products were verified by agarose gel electrophoresis and recovered by using AxyPrepDNA Gel Recovery Kit (Axygen, China). They were then quantified using FTC-3000TM real-time PCR and sequenced on the MiSeq platform by 2 * 300 bp paired-end sequencing using MiSeq v3 Reagent Kit (Illumina, USA). The raw reads were deposited into the NCBI Sequence Read Archive database (Accession number: SRP230372).
The raw fastq files were demultiplexed based on the barcode. Trimmomatic (0.35) [17] was used for quality filtering (low-quality base pairs removing parameters: Slidingwindow: 50:20 and Minlen: 50) and FLASH program (1.2.11) [18] was used for reads merge (parameters: minimum overlap length = 10 bp, maximum ratio of mismatch = 0.2). Low-quality contigs were removed by using Mothur (1.39.5) (filtering parameters: maxambig = 0, minlength = 200, maxlength = 580, maxhomop = 8). UPARSE pipeline (https://drive5.com/usearch/manual/uparse cmds.html) was then used for operational taxonomic unit (OTU) clustering with a pairwise identity threshold of 97% and UCHIME was used for chimeric reads filtering [19]. Taxonomically classification of representative OTU sequences was assignment by using Mothur (1.39.5) in according to Silva 128 database (confidence score threshold = 0.6). Unannounced OTUs were removed prior to statistical analysis. The phylogenetic tree was built by using FastTree (2.1.3), [20] and the acquired OTU table as well as the phylogenetic tree were used for diversity analysis.
Fecal microbiota analysis
The statistician kept blinded to the treatments. The richness and diversity of microbiota composition were evaluated by the Ace index and Shannon index of α diversity by using R (3.6.0). Bray–Curtis dissimilarity distance was calculated by Mothur (1.39.5). Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) was based on the Bray–Curtis dissimilarity distance of 448 OTUs. Unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) based on Bray–Curtis dissimilarity distance of 448 OTUs was used for clustering analysis. Procrustes analysis was also performed in R (3.6.0) by using the vegan package, and Monte Carlo P values for rotational agreement significance testing was determined from 999 permutations. Between-group differences in the relative abundance alterations of microorganism (defined as the difference from baseline) at different taxonomies during study period were evaluated by using multiple test corrected by Benjamini–Hochberg false discovery rate (FDR), with Q value of 0.20 being set as significance. Whereas, the data of microorganism alterations used in the Spearman correlation analysis was calculated from log-transformed fold changes between microbial relative abundance at 45 day against those at 0 day. And before deriving fold changes, the zero values were first additively smoothed by the minimal non-zero abundance among all observed measurements within the group. The data of lipid profile changes used in Spearman correlation analysis was also calculated as the log-transformed fold changes between baseline and endpoint concentrations. The data of microbiota was not normally distributed and unless otherwise indicated, Mann–Whitney U test (two-tailed) and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests (two-tailed) were used throughout the study for unpaired and paired sample comparisons, respectively. All statistical analysis of microbiota data was performed in R (3.6.0), unless otherwise stated. The pwr package and HMP package in R (3.6.0) were used to conduct post-hoc power calculations with a significance level being set to 0.05 and a sample size of 14 per group. The results were shown in the Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1.
Clinical parameters statistical analysis
The statistician kept blinded to the treatments. All parameters were expressed as mean ± standard error (SE). Unless otherwise indicated, the continuous data with normal distribution and homogenous variance was statistically tested by using independent t test (between-group comparisons) and paired t test (within-group comparisons), respectively; whereas the other continuous data was statistically tested by using Mann–Whitney U test (between-group comparisons) and Wilcoxon Signed rank test (within-group comparisons) respectively. Chi-square test was used for between-group comparison when analyzing classify variables. For data of dietary intakes and physical activity, comparisons between changes from baseline were analysed in order to minimize the bias of baseline differences. Between-groups differences of lipid changes were evaluated by using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) after taking baseline concentration of lipid profiles and any other unbalanced baseline measurements as covariates. Besides, any significantly different changes of dietary intakes and physical activity between two groups were also taken as covariates if with necessity. SPSS (23.0) were used for statistical analysing in this part. A value of P < 0.05 (two-tailed) was considered significant for all statistical analysis.
Baseline characteristics
The average eating amount of corresponding testing food were 78.1 ± 0.9 g/day and 76.4 ± 1.6 g/day in the oatmeal and the control group, respectively, which indicated a satisfactory compliance by all participants. Only two participants (both from the oatmeal group) reported various degrees of gastrointestinal reactions like bloating and frequent fart, yet all basically relieved within 3 weeks. The quite high consuming compliance and the quite low incidence of adverse events indicated a good feasibility of substituting parts of staple food with 80 g/day oatmeal toward increased dietary fiber intake in the population of current study. Between-group imbalances of TG (1.44 ± 0.13 mmol/L vs. 1.08 ± 0.07 mmol/L, P = 0.02), sdLDL-C (1.06 ± 0.12 mmol/L vs. 0.73 ± 0.04 mmol/L, P = 0.02) and every-day working time (8.86 ± 0.41 h/day vs. 6.14 ± 0.94 h/day, P = 0.01) were observed at baseline. Besides, other baseline characteristics kept comparable between two groups (Table 2).
Table 2 Baseline characteristics of participants
Changes of dietary intakes and physical activity during study period
Compared to the control group, the fiber intake was notably increased in the oatmeal group throughout study (6.7 ± 1.5 g/day vs. 0.6 ± 1.4 g/day, P < 0.01), and results from within-group comparisons confirmed the critical role of fiber intake surge from the oatmeal group (7.12 ± 1.41 g/day vs. 13.78 ± 0.73 g/day, P < 0.01) in accounting for this significant between-group difference. Besides, no other significant within- or between-group difference was seen in nutrients intakes throughout the study (Table 3). And no significant difference was seen in the changes of any physical activities between two groups during study period (Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 2).
Table 3 Changes of dietary intakes in the oatmeal and control group throughout the study
Changes of lipid profiles during study period
Our data indicated that, consistent with the results of the primary trial, significant reductions were observed in the TC (− 1.00 ± 0.12 mmol/L vs. − 0.43 ± 0.10 mmol/L, P < 0.01), LDL-C (− 0.29 ± 0.09 mmol/L vs. 0.20 ± 0.07 mmol/L, P < 0.01), non-LDL-C (− 0.97 ± 0.11 mmol/L vs. − 0.41 ± 0.10 mmol/L, P = 0.02), sdLDL-C (− 0.19 ± 0.08 mmol/L vs. 0.23 ± 0.05 mmol/L, P = 0.02) and apoB (− 0.13 ± 0.02 mmol/L vs. 0.02 ± 0.02 mmol/L, P = 0.01) after oatmeal consumption when compared to the control group. Whereas, no significant between-group difference was seen in the regulation of TG or HDL-C (Table 4).
Table 4 Changes of lipid profiles in the oatmeal and control group throughout the study
Compositional alterations of bacterial community during study period
A total of 1,929,466 sequences were obtained with an average of 34,455 ± 4446 reads per sample. Totally 448 OTUs were obtained at a similarity level of 97%, and 11 phyla, 103 genera as well as 138 species were identified in this study. The result of clustering analysis demonstrated a more similar gut flora composition within group throughout the study, indicating that the giant heterogeneity of individuals outweighed the interventions and played a more critical role in the between-group differences of gut microbiota composition in this study (Fig. 2a). Therefore, our further analysis mainly focused on the respective microbiota alterations within group during study period, and saw if there were any differences between them.
Diversity analysis of microorganism in the oatmeal and control group during study period. (a) Clustering analysis of gut microbiota. UPGMA was used based on Bray–Curtis dissimilarity distance of 448 OTUs. (b) Ace index. (c) Shannon index. Boxes showed the medians and the interquartile ranges (IQRs), the whiskers denoted the lowest and highest values that were within 1.5 times the IQR from the first and third quartiles, and outliers were shown as individual black dots. Wilcoxon signed-rank test (two-tailed) was used for within-group comparisons; whereas, Mann–Whitney U test (two-tailed) was used for between-group comparisons. * indicated a P value under 0.05. Whereas, the P value in the right upper corner was from Mann–Whitney U test (two-tailed) evaluating the difference of the index alteration throughout the study between two groups. (d) PCoA for the oatmeal and control group at baseline and endpoint based on Bray–Curtis dissimilarity distance of 448 OTUs. PC1, principal coordinate 1; PC2, principal coordinate 2. (e) Bray–Curtis dissimilarity distance (on the basis of 448 OTUs) between baseline and endpoint in the oatmeal and control group. Mann–Whitney U test was used for statistical analyzing. (f) The microbiota composition at phylum level in both groups. Oat Day 0: baseline in oatmeal group; Oat Day 45: endpoint in oatmeal group; Con Day 0: baseline in control group; Con Day 45: endpoint in control group
Our data showed that no significant between-group difference was seen in the alteration of Ace index or Shannon index during study period (Fig. 2b, c), nor was any notable difference observed in the β diversity of the overall microbiota composition between groups throughout the study (Fig. 2d, e). Besides, between-group comparisons involving relative abundance alterations of microorganism at different taxonomies showed that no significant difference was observed in the alteration of microbiota composition from phylum to species levels between two groups during study period (FDR > 0.20, data not show). However, a transition of the first predominant-phylum, from Bacteroides to Firmicutes, was observed within oatmeal group throughout the study (Fig. 2f), along with a significant decrease in the relative abundance of Bacteroides phylum (7.0% ± 2.7%, P = 0.02) and Proteobacteria phylum (− 1.7% ± 0.8%, P = 0.03), while a notable increase in the relative abundance of Firmicutes phylum (9.8% ± 3.2%, P < 0.01) in the oatmeal group during study period. Whereas, such notable transition was not observed in the control group (Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 3).
This result drove us to consider that the quite small sample size (n = 14 per group) and the consequently accompanied low detecting power had limited the ability to detect the independent microbiota-regulating effect of oatmeal in this study and thus, might be the reason to blame for the above negative results. Therefore, we further made within-group comparisons by using Wilcoxon signed rank test, trying to trace the significantly altered microbiomes in the oatmeal and control group, respectively, and saw if it could provide any clues for the tendencies of oatmeal induced microbiota alterations. Simultaneously, borrowed from the analyzing idea of linear discriminant analysis effect size (LEfSe), a threshold of logarithmic linear-discriminant analysis (LDA) score being set to 2.0 was also combined during screening process, ensuring to obtain the potential microorganism with real influence. The results showed that, at genus level, 3 positive responders (i.e., the relative abundance of them were significantly increased after intervention), including Blautia, Erysipelatoclostridium and Subdoligranulum (all from Firmicutes phylum), as well as 3 negative responders (i.e., the relative abundance of them were significantly decreased after intervention), including Odoribacter (from Bacteroidetes phylum) and Aliihoeflea, Pelagibacterium (both from Proteobacteria phylum), were found in the oatmeal group (Fig. 3a). Whereas, in the control group, only one negative responder (Megamonas genus from Bacteroidetes phylum) was observed at genus level (Fig. 3b). These results, to some extent, reconfirmed the critically role of Firmicutes phylum as a positive responder in the oatmeal group.
Results of LEfSe in two groups during the study period. (a) Oatmeal group; (b) Control group. Wilcoxon signed rank test was used for statistical analyzing. The threshold of LDA score was set to 2.0. The regions marked with yellow indicated no significant difference between baseline and endpoint within group. Light pink and dark pink circles and nodes designated microorganism that were significantly decreased and increased after treatment in the oatmeal group, respectively; while light blue and dark blue circles and nodes designated microorganism that were significantly decreased and increased after treatment in the control group, respectively. Oat Day 0: baseline in oatmeal group; Oat Day 45: endpoint in oatmeal group; Con Day 0: baseline in control group; Con Day 45: endpoint in control group
Associations between alterations of gut microbiota and improvements of lipid profiles
We then made a further inquiry in the association between the above significantly altered microbiota and the changes of lipid profiles following interventions. The Procrustes analysis demonstrated a trend (P = 0.05) of association between microbiota composition alteration and lipid profiles changes in all participants during study period (Fig. 4a). And respective Procrustes analysis in two groups further supported the concordance of compositional alteration of microorganism and the alleviation of hypercholesterolemia phenotypes after oatmeal consumption (Fig. 4b, c). Next, on the basis of significantly changed microbiota found respectively in two groups, Spearman’s correlation analysis was conducted at phylum, genus and species levels to identify if there were any specific intervention-induced microbiota alterations that would be potentially responsible for the improvements of lipid profiles (Fig. 5). The results turned out that, in the oatmeal group, Blautia genus stood out, with its enrichment being positively associated with the improvements of TC, LDL-C and apoB after oatmeal consumption. Besides, the decreases of Parabacteroides faecis species and Aliihoeflea genus following oatmeal consumption were observed to be positively and negatively related with the improvement of TG, respectively. Whereas, in the control group, the results showed that no significant association was seen between the microbiota alterations and changes of lipid.
The concordance between the structural alteration of 448 OTUs and the alleviation of hypercholesterolemia phenotypes. Procrustes analysis combined the principal coordinate analysis from 448 OTUs (end of lines with big solid symbols) with the principal coordinate analysis from the lipid variables (end of lines with small solid symbols) for (a) all participants, (b) oatmeal group, (c) control group. P value was from 999 Monte-Carlo simulations. PC1, principal coordinate 1; PC2, principal coordinate 2. Oat Day 0: baseline in oatmeal group; Oat Day 45: endpoint in oatmeal group; Con Day 0: baseline in control group; Con Day 45: endpoint in control group
Identification of the major microbiota associated with the improvements of clinical phenotypes in the (a) oatmeal and (b) control group. Heatmaps showed the results of spearman correlations analysis. Only microbiota that were significantly changed after interventions (according to the result of LEfSe) were shown. The color represented positive (black) or negative (red) correlations with the improvements of lipid profiles, respectively, and the P value was denoted as follows: *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01
Our study demonstrated that there was no significant difference in the compositional microbiota alteration of overall α-diversity or β-diversity between oatmeal and control group throughout study, nor there be any significant difference in the relative abundance alteration at different taxonomies between two groups. However, the within-group comparisons suggested a potentially critical role of Firmicutes phylum in the oatmeal-induced characteristic of microbiota alteration as a core positive responder. Moreover, the further within-group results of correlation analysis hinted that, the enrichment of Blautia genus was worth of being researched as an underlying mechanism of oatmeal-induced cholesterol lowering, since it showed a significantly tight relationship with the reduction of TC, LDL-C and apoB in the oatmeal group.
Similar to a previous clinical oatmeal feeding study [11], our data showed no significant increase in the overall diversity of microbiota community after oatmeal consumption, which challenged the previous conception that greater diversity implies better health [21]. However, these negative results of the microbiota alteration of overall α or β-diversity, to some extent, could be an increment evidence supporting the emerging notion that a mild alteration in microbial composition might be sufficient to drive significant functional changes [22, 23]. Besides, different from the previous reports [5, 7, 12], we did not observed any prebiotic effect of oatmeal in this study.
A transformation of a Bacteroidetes-predominated pattern to a Firmicutes-predominated pattern was seen after oatmeal consumption. And the result of within-group LEfSe further supported the important role of Firmicutes phylum in the oatmeal-induced microbiota characteristics. Both Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes were the predominant bacterial phyla in the large intestine of healthy human which were able to ferment dietary fiber [24]. Bacteroidetes phylum possessed tremendous numbers of carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) and was found elaborated a few thousand enzyme combinations to break down glycans [24]. However, despite a far less abundance of CAZymes than Bacteroides, Firmicutes phylum was found being actively respond to changes of major dietary carbohydrate in various clinical trials, which showed a consistency with our study [25, 26]. One of a current point of view was that Firmicutes phylum played a role in breaking down specific kinds of carbohydrate like fermentable fiber (“as specialists for a select set of glycans catabolism”) under a context of Bacteroides phylum being the primary polysaccharides degraders (“generalists for glycan catabolism”) [24]. Thus, the “nutritionally highly specialized” characteristic of Firmicutes phylum due to its ability of producing specific kinds of CAZymes for oatmeal degrading, might be a reason explaining the enrichment of Firmicute after oatmeal consumption in our study.
Further Spearman’s correlation analysis suggested that the enrichment of Blautia genus responding to oatmeal consumption might underlie the oatmeal-induced improvements of lipid profiles. Blautia genus was a short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) producing genus, and it was reported to be a beneficial bacterium negatively associated with metabolic syndromes, with its mainly biological function thought to be producing butyrate [27]. Although we did not test the concentration of SCFA in fecal or serum samples, the observed enrichment of Blautia genus following oatmeal consumption matched up to the result of increased fecal butyrate concentration from previously reported in vitro fermentation studies and animal experiments [28,29,30]. Besides, considerable evidences have reported that SCFA, especially butyrate, might participate in cholesterol metabolism in various ways, such as inhibiting intestinal cholesterol absorption [31], increasing fecal excretion of bile acid [32, 33] as well as promoting uptake and metabolize cholesterol from blood [32]. Consequently, together with some similar evidences, which also showed a positive relationship between enrichment of Blautia genus and improved lipid profiles [34], we speculated that the enrichment of Blautia genus might play its significant role in improving lipid profiles by inducing a subsequently elevated production of butyrate. In addition, a majority of bacterial phylotypes, which associated tightly with a high fecal coprostanol level, were found basically being from the Lachnospiraceae and Ruminococcaceae family, suggesting a potentially coprostanoligenic activity of members from these families [35]. Therefore, direct participating in the process of converting cholesterol to coprostanol may also one of the underlying mechanisms of Blautia genus enrichment toward cholesterol lowering.
Besides, we also found the oatmeal-induced decrease of two genus (Parabacteroides and Aliihoeflea) shared opposite correlations with the decrease of TG. This opposite microbiota-regulating effect toward TG following oatmeal consumption seemingly provided a great explanation for the currently recognized notion that oatmeal was ineffective in regulating serum TG. And it again, together with the results of Procrustes analysis, supported our hypothesis that microbiota-regulating effect might be an underlying mechanism of oatmeal induced improvements of lipid profiles.
However, there was no denying that the small sample size has limited our ability in detecting the between-group differences in the alterations of microbiota composition, and results from the within-group comparisons could only provide underlying clues involving. This was one of the drawbacks of our study, and it failed us to draw exactly reliable conclusions in the independent microbiota-manipulating effect of oatmeal consumption. Moreover, higher concentrations of sdLDL-C and TG in the oatmeal group at baseline might also cause some confounding effects in the oatmeal-induced microbiota-regulating effect. Because, if the hypercholesterolemia phenotype did associate with the gut microbiota composition as we expected, a more severe hypercholesterolemia status might lead to a more anomalous microbiome composition from that of healthy population, and thus, left more “space” for improvements. In addition, due to limitations in quality and quantity of fecal and serum samples as well as lacking of collecting urinary samples, we did not detect the concentrations of SCFA or any other microbiota metabolites in these samples, nor did we separate any significantly altered specific strains from oatmeal group for further corresponding verificational animal experiments, which might be stronger evidences in supporting our arguments.
Eating 80 g/day oatmeal for 45 days did not induce notable alterations in the overall microbiota structure, yet a positive responding of Firmicute phylum might be a critical characteristic of its microbiota alteration. And on the basis of the tight association between the oatmeal-induced enrichment of Blautia genus and the lowering of TC, LDL-C as well as apoB, microbiota-regulating effect might be a promising underlying mechanism of oatmeal-induced cholesterol lowering. However, with drawbacks of small sample size as well as lacking of evidences from further verificational experiments, current results should be taken cautiously.
The raw reads of 16SrRNA were deposited into the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) database (Accession number: SRP230372). Other datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol
High-density lipoprotein cholesterol
sdLDL-C:
Small dense low-density lipoprotein cholesterol
apoB:
Apolipoprotein B
non-HDL-C:
Non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol
DNA:
PCR:
OTU:
Operational taxonomic units
PCoA:
Principal coordinate analysis
UPGMA:
Unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic mean
FDR:
False discovery rate
Standard error
ANCOVA:
LEfSe:
Linear discriminant analysis effect size
LDA:
Linear-discriminant analysis
CAZymes:
Carbohydrate-active enzymes
SCFA:
Short-chain fatty acid
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The authors appreciate the considerable support from the research team at the clinical nutrition center of Huadong Hospital and are grateful to all the participants in this study for their cooperation. And we sincerely appreciated Professor JS Zheng for his helpful advice in improving the manuscript. We would also like to thank TinyGene (Co.Ltd) for technology supports in PCR amplifications and the Illumina MiSeq sequencing of 16S rRNA genes.
This research received no external funding.
Clinical Nutrition Center, Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, 221 West Yan’an Road, Shanghai, 200040, People’s Republic of China
Mengyao Ye, Jianqin Sun, Yanqiu Chen, Qian Ren, Zhen Li & Yanfang Zhao
Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, 221 West Yan’an Road, Shanghai, 200040, People’s Republic of China
Yiru Pan & Huijun Xue
Mengyao Ye
Jianqin Sun
Yanqiu Chen
Qian Ren
Zhen Li
Yanfang Zhao
Yiru Pan
Huijun Xue
Conceptualization, MY and JS; Data curation, YC and QR; Formal analysis, YC and QR; Investigation, ZL, YZ, YP and HX; Methodology, JS and YC; Writing—original draft, MY; Writing—review and editing, MY and JS. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Jianqin Sun.
Informed consent was obtained from all participants before the beginning of the trial, and the study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Huadong Hospital (No. 20180059).
Additional file 1.: Supplementary Table 1.
Results of post-hoc power calculations. Supplementary Table 2. Changes of physical activities in the oatmeal and control group throughout the study. Supplementary Table 3. Alterations of microbiota composition (relative abundance [%]) at phylum level.
Ye, M., Sun, J., Chen, Y. et al. Oatmeal induced gut microbiota alteration and its relationship with improved lipid profiles: a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial. Nutr Metab (Lond) 17, 85 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12986-020-00505-4
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▼ After 40 years of research, in vitro systems for mammalian embryo production produce lower quality embryos than those derived from in vivo sources. Recent reports have demonstrated that in vitro bovine oocyte maturation systems benefit from the addition of oocyte secreted factors, specifically Bone Morphogenic Protein 15 (BMP15) from heterologous sources. However, known amino acid sequence variation and species-specific patterns of post-translational glycosylation lead us to hypothesize that utilization of bovine-specific oocyte secreted factors would be more beneficial than the observed effects of heterologous factors. To test this hypothesis, wild type, bovine BMP15 was cloned using reverse transcriptase PCR from RNA obtained from bovine ovarian tissue. For improved detection and purification of the biologically active recombinant protein, a FLAG tag peptide sequence (Asp-Tyr-Lys-Asp-Asp-Asp-Asp-Lys) was incorporated into the wild type BMP15 gene by PCR. This modified protein was cloned into the pCDNA 3 mammalian expression vector. HEK-293 (human embryonic kidney 293) and FBK (fetal bovine kidney) cell lines were transfected via electroporation and then selected to homogeneity. Collection and purification of rbFL-BMP15 from conditioned medium was accomplished by incubation with anti-FLAG affinity gel and the use of 3X FLAG peptide for elution. Peptides of 15.4 kDa and 17 kDa were noted from the human HEK-293 transfected cell line, while in contrast, bovine FBK cells produced a single 17 kDa protein. Bioactivity and BMP receptor signaling specificity were ascertained using in vitro treatment of HeLa cells and Western blotting for the BMP signaling molecule phosphorylated-SMAD 1/5. Inhibition of this signaling cascade using dorsomorphin, a selective bone morphogenic protein receptor I inhibitor, demonstrated the purified proteins served as BMP15-like agonists. To examine the impact of our purified, bovine-specific peptides on oocyte maturation, cumulus oocyte complexes were in vitro matured for 24 hours in the presence of 100 ng/ml recombinant human BMP15 or rbFL-BMP15 from human or bovine cell lines. Real time quantitative PCR analysis of BMP15 stimulated genes, PTGS2 and TSG6, revealed statistically significant increases in transcript level for treatment with human BMP15 by a Dunnett’s test (p<0.05). In this report, however, we failed to detect a significant affect of rbFL-BMP15 on the gene expression of in vitro mature cumulus oocyte complexes at 24 hours with 100 ng/ml rbFL-BMP15. Future studies including differing time points and concentrations, along with the addition of GDF9 to form a possible heterodimer should be investigated for the possibility of improving bovine oocyte in vitro maturation. Advisors/Committee Members: Long, Charles R (advisor), Golding, Michael C (committee member), Li, Qinglei (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: BMP15; IVM; TGFB; recombinant protein; FLAG; BMPRI; ART; cattle; bovine; COC; oocyte
Burns, G. W. (2013). Production and Functional Analysis of Recombinant Bovine Morphogenic Protein 15 . (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151804
Burns, Gregory Willis. “Production and Functional Analysis of Recombinant Bovine Morphogenic Protein 15.” 2013. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151804.
Burns, Gregory Willis. “Production and Functional Analysis of Recombinant Bovine Morphogenic Protein 15.” 2013. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Burns GW. Production and Functional Analysis of Recombinant Bovine Morphogenic Protein 15. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151804.
Burns GW. Production and Functional Analysis of Recombinant Bovine Morphogenic Protein 15. [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151804
2. Chang, Cheng-An Richard. The Epigenetic Effects of Preconception Paternal Alcohol Exposure on Adult Health and Disease.
Degree: PhD, Biomedical Sciences, 2019, Texas A&M University
► Alcohol is a notorious teratogen and a major driver of both mental and physical defects. Recently, alcohol has been discovered to exert intergenerational effects on… (more)
▼ Alcohol is a notorious teratogen and a major driver of both mental and physical defects. Recently, alcohol has been discovered to exert intergenerational effects on offspring development. While maternal exposure to alcohol in-utero has been linked to the development of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, paternal contributions to this disorder remain poorly understood. Emerging evidence suggest the association of paternal environmental exposures and long-term metabolic dysfunction1,2. Using a mouse model, our preliminary studies have identified an association between preconception paternal alcohol use and deficits in both the prenatal and postnatal growth of the offspring. These growth defects are accompanied by altered transcriptomic profiles in the fetal liver at gestation day (GD) 14.5, which persists into the adult stages. In this study, we will examine the mechanism by which paternal alcohol exposure drives the development of prenatal growth retardation and long-term postnatal growth restriction in the offspring, as well as the abnormal metabolic response of the offspring to dietary challenge. Advisors/Committee Members: Golding, Michael C (advisor), Safe, Stephen H (committee member), Burghardt, Robert (committee member), Miranda, Rajesh C (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Epigenetics
Chang, C. R. (2019). The Epigenetic Effects of Preconception Paternal Alcohol Exposure on Adult Health and Disease . (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/188715
Chang, Cheng-An Richard. “The Epigenetic Effects of Preconception Paternal Alcohol Exposure on Adult Health and Disease.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/188715.
Chang, Cheng-An Richard. “The Epigenetic Effects of Preconception Paternal Alcohol Exposure on Adult Health and Disease.” 2019. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Chang CR. The Epigenetic Effects of Preconception Paternal Alcohol Exposure on Adult Health and Disease. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/188715.
Chang CR. The Epigenetic Effects of Preconception Paternal Alcohol Exposure on Adult Health and Disease. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/188715
3. Keith, Ashley Brooke. Consequences of Maternal Nutrient Restriction on Ovine Placental Development.
Degree: PhD, Physiology of Reproduction, 2015, Texas A&M University
► Maternal nutrient intake and partitioning, uteroplacental blood flow, nutrient transporter activity, and fetoplacental metabolism mediate nutrient delivery to the fetus. Inadequate delivery of nutrients results… (more)
▼ Maternal nutrient intake and partitioning, uteroplacental blood flow, nutrient transporter activity, and fetoplacental metabolism mediate nutrient delivery to the fetus. Inadequate delivery of nutrients results in intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), a leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. The present studies exploited natural population variance in nutrient-restricted (NR) ewes to identify subpopulations of IUGR and non-IUGR fetuses as subjects for research to elucidate adaptive mechanisms of fetal-placental development. Singleton pregnancies were generated by embryo transfer and assigned to receive either 50% (n=24) or 100% (n=7) of the National Research Council’s (NRC) recommended dietary intake from Day 35 to Day 125 of gestation, at which time ewes were necropsied. Maternal weight did not correlate with fetal weight; therefore, differences in development of the six heaviest (NR non-IUGR) and six lightest (NR IUGR) fetuses from NR ewes, as well as the seven fetuses from control ewes were compared. Mean weights of NR IUGR fetuses (2.8±0.1 kg) were lower (P<0.05) than for control (4.0±0.1 kg) and NR non-IUGR (4.1±0.1 kg) fetuses. The first study investigated potential mechanisms regulating nutrient availability for fetuses. Results indicated that normal fetal growth in a subpopulation of NR ewes is associated with enhanced delivery of a number of amino acids and their metabolites into the fetal circulation, which may at least partially result from up-regulation of expression of amino acid transporter mRNAs in the placentome. The second study elucidated potential physiological mechanisms regulating placental growth and development in ewes having NR IUGR and NR non-IUGR fetuses. Results suggest that placentome morphology and angiogenic growth factor expression varies in response to maternal nutritional challenge during pregnancy and may play critical roles in regulating fetal growth. The third study was conducted to capitalize on natural population variance in NR ewes to identify novel factors regulating placental growth and function. Results suggest that enhanced fetal growth in NR non-IUGR pregnancies is associated with an altered expression of genes related to immune response and function in the placentome. Collectively, results of these studies suggest that enhanced fetal growth in a subset of NR ewes is associated with enhanced expression of select nutrient transporters and angiogenic factors, increased nutrient availability to the fetus, altered placentome morphology, and an altered immune response within the placentomes of those ewes. Advisors/Committee Members: Satterfield, Michael C (advisor), Dunlap, Kathrin A (advisor), Bazer, Fuller W (committee member), Wu, Guoyao (committee member), Golding, Michael C (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: placenta; nutrient restriction; IUGR; sheep
Keith, A. B. (2015). Consequences of Maternal Nutrient Restriction on Ovine Placental Development . (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155706
Keith, Ashley Brooke. “Consequences of Maternal Nutrient Restriction on Ovine Placental Development.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155706.
Keith, Ashley Brooke. “Consequences of Maternal Nutrient Restriction on Ovine Placental Development.” 2015. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Keith AB. Consequences of Maternal Nutrient Restriction on Ovine Placental Development. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155706.
Keith AB. Consequences of Maternal Nutrient Restriction on Ovine Placental Development. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155706
4. Pinzon Arteaga, Carlos Andres. PRECISE AND EFFICIENT THERAPEUTIC GENOME EDITING FOR THE CORRECTION OF GENETIC DISEASES IN ANIMALS.
► There are more than 6,052 identified genetic mutations linked to disease in humans and animals. Thanks to the advent of gene editing based on programmable… (more)
▼ There are more than 6,052 identified genetic mutations linked to disease in humans and animals. Thanks to the advent of gene editing based on programmable nucleases and the advances in DNA sequencing and writing technologies, it is now possible to make precise changes in eukaryotic genomes with the potential to correct monogenic diseases, from affected cells, tissues, organisms and eventually whole populations. This is the concept behind therapeutic genome editing, which arises out of the idea that instead of pursuing palliative care, the ideal therapy for monogenic diseases would be to develop a method that can directly correct the disease-causing mutations. Many of these disease alleles have been have been unknowingly co-selected when performing phenotypic genetic selection on plants and animals. Although selected breeding has been successful in the establishment and improvement of many different strains of plants and breeds of animals, we have been propagating these disease alleles in the populations. One of these deleterious alleles is the Glycogen Branching Enzyme Deficiency (GBED), which is caused by a nonsense mutation (C > A) in the first exon of the GBE1 gene that severely disrupts glycogen metabolism. This mutation is lethal in homozygotes and an estimated 9% of Quarter Horse and Paint Horse lineages are heterozygote carriers. In this work, we corrected this mutation in a heterozygous cell line derived from a high genetic merit American Quarter Horse stallion, by using CRISPRCas9. The long-term goal is to use the corrected cell lines for somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) thereby generating a cloned animal that maintains the genetic merit of its predecessor, but is free of the GBED mutation. Precise genome editing requires the introduction of a double stranded break (DSB) at an exact location in the genome and the correct DNA repair outcome. Although CRISPRCas9 has allowed for the introduction of precise DSBs in a very efficient manner, the lack of control over cell-autonomous repair mechanisms namely non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) and homologous recombination (HR), is still the major bottle neck for seamless genome editing. The DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK), composed of the Ku 70 - Ku 80 heterodimer and the DNA-PK catalytic subunit (DNA-PKvcs), is best known as the NHEJ molecular sensor for DNA damage, but has been also identified as a pattern recognition receptor (PRR) that defends against the invasion of foreign nucleic acids. Here we devised a novel strategy that capitalizes on the natural ability of the Vaccinia virus (VACV) C16 protein that evolved as an elegant subversion mechanism to inhibit the detection of the VACV genome by the host cytoplasmic PRR defenses, specifically the Ku-mediated DNA sensing. Advisors/Committee Members: Long, Charles R (advisor), Golding, Michael C (advisor), Satterfield, Michael C (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: genome editing; CRISPR; genetic engineering; CRISPR-Cas9
Pinzon Arteaga, C. A. (2017). PRECISE AND EFFICIENT THERAPEUTIC GENOME EDITING FOR THE CORRECTION OF GENETIC DISEASES IN ANIMALS . (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/187291
Pinzon Arteaga, Carlos Andres. “PRECISE AND EFFICIENT THERAPEUTIC GENOME EDITING FOR THE CORRECTION OF GENETIC DISEASES IN ANIMALS.” 2017. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/187291.
Pinzon Arteaga, Carlos Andres. “PRECISE AND EFFICIENT THERAPEUTIC GENOME EDITING FOR THE CORRECTION OF GENETIC DISEASES IN ANIMALS.” 2017. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Pinzon Arteaga CA. PRECISE AND EFFICIENT THERAPEUTIC GENOME EDITING FOR THE CORRECTION OF GENETIC DISEASES IN ANIMALS. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/187291.
Pinzon Arteaga CA. PRECISE AND EFFICIENT THERAPEUTIC GENOME EDITING FOR THE CORRECTION OF GENETIC DISEASES IN ANIMALS. [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/187291
5. Skiles, William Mark. Environmentally Induced Epimutations, Their Persistence, and Potential Causality in the Development of Disease in the Offspring of Exposed Individuals.
► In recent years, there has been increased interest into better understanding how environmental In recent years, there has been increased interest into better understanding how… (more)
▼ In recent years, there has been increased interest into better understanding how environmental In recent years, there has been increased interest into better understanding how environmental exposures influence the long-term health of an organism. Chemical pollutants, dietary deficiencies, embryonic stress and multiple other external factors have all demonstrated long-lasting effects upon development, metabolism, and health even after transient exposures. The mechanisms by which these exposures can impact development far beyond the period of exposure remain largely unknown. To gain better insight into the developmental origins of both birth defects and disease, we must better understand how environmental exposures alter development. In this work, we will examine the capacity of the environment to impact chromatin states, and then determine whether these changes are heritable; and are thus potentially causal in the development of disease. This is an important question due to the recent recognition that aberrant chromatin states can lead to pathological patterns of gene expression, a circumstance commonly referred to as “epimutations”. Dysregulation of gene expression patterns during development have been shown to cause a multitude of irregular phenotypes in offspring and lifelong disorders in mature organisms. This altered chromatin state, coined an epimutation by Dr. Emma Whitelaw, is important due to the mutation not being in the genetic code itself, but in the way DNA regulatory regions are packaged within the chromatin template, and thus accessed by the protein factors directing gene transcription. The body of work presented here will examine the ability of common environmental exposures to modulate chromatin structure. We will examine these changes over time in an effort to better understand the inheritance of epigenetic change. Secondly, we will measure whether environmentally induced alterations in chromatin structure within the germline persist, and are heritable. These questions are all relevant to better understanding the developmental origins of disease. Advisors/Committee Members: Golding, Michael C (advisor), Long, Charles R (advisor), Seabury, Christopher M (committee member), Johnson, Natalie M (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: oxidative stress; assisted reproductive technologies; genomic imprinting; histone demethylase; TET; DNMT; DNA methylation; epigenetics; developmental programming; DOHAD; birth defect; epigenetics; preconception; sperm
Skiles, W. M. (2017). Environmentally Induced Epimutations, Their Persistence, and Potential Causality in the Development of Disease in the Offspring of Exposed Individuals . (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/173200
Skiles, William Mark. “Environmentally Induced Epimutations, Their Persistence, and Potential Causality in the Development of Disease in the Offspring of Exposed Individuals.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/173200.
Skiles, William Mark. “Environmentally Induced Epimutations, Their Persistence, and Potential Causality in the Development of Disease in the Offspring of Exposed Individuals.” 2017. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Skiles WM. Environmentally Induced Epimutations, Their Persistence, and Potential Causality in the Development of Disease in the Offspring of Exposed Individuals. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/173200.
Skiles WM. Environmentally Induced Epimutations, Their Persistence, and Potential Causality in the Development of Disease in the Offspring of Exposed Individuals. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/173200
6. Snyder, Matthew D. Analysis of the Histone Methyltransferase ASH2L via RNA Interference and CRISPR-Cas9 during Bovine Early Embryonic Development.
► Epigenetic patterns established during early bovine embryogenesis via DNA methylation and histone modification patterns are essential for proper gene expression and embryonic development. Epigenome patterns… (more)
▼ Epigenetic patterns established during early bovine embryogenesis via DNA methylation and histone modification patterns are essential for proper gene expression and embryonic development. Epigenome patterns established during this period, if improperly maintained, can lead to developmental anomalies and may partially explain the lower pregnancy rates of in vitro-produced embryos. We hypothesized that the histone methyltransferase of ASH2L would alter preimplantation development, epigenetic reprogramming, and gene expression profiles in the early bovine embryo. We observed that the depleted and deleted ASH2L embryos developed to the blastocyst stage with suppressed ASH2L having comparable development rates with its respective control (31.3 ± 2.0%, n = 466 v. 34.8 ± 1.9%, n = 418). To see if errors were in the chromatin structure at the blastocyst stage, DNA methylation and histone modifications were examined to further explain the role of ASH2L during embryonic development. Blastocysts from each treatment (N = 601) were fixed and prepared for immunocytochemistry following standard laboratory protocol. Our findings show ASH2L may play a role in DNA methylation by decreasing 5mc and 5hmc conversion, which is a key event during early embryonic development. Suppression of ASH2L also alters global levels of H3H4me3 and H3K27me3 (p<0.001), which may lead to transcription aberrations. RNA-seq showed altered gene expression profiles in 407 genes in the morphologically comparable Day 17 conceptus (p<0.05). Closer examination showed that there is altered mesenchymal stem cell differentiation present in the Day 17 conceptuses. Analysis of ASH2L shows to not have a detrimental effect during preimplantation development but altered chromatin status and gene expression profiles suggest that ASH2L could play a vital role later in development. Advisors/Committee Members: Long, Charles R (advisor), Westhusin, Mark E (committee member), Golding, Michael C (committee member), Satterfield, Carey (committee member).
Snyder, M. D. (2016). Analysis of the Histone Methyltransferase ASH2L via RNA Interference and CRISPR-Cas9 during Bovine Early Embryonic Development . (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/157784
Snyder, Matthew D. “Analysis of the Histone Methyltransferase ASH2L via RNA Interference and CRISPR-Cas9 during Bovine Early Embryonic Development.” 2016. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/157784.
Snyder, Matthew D. “Analysis of the Histone Methyltransferase ASH2L via RNA Interference and CRISPR-Cas9 during Bovine Early Embryonic Development.” 2016. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Snyder MD. Analysis of the Histone Methyltransferase ASH2L via RNA Interference and CRISPR-Cas9 during Bovine Early Embryonic Development. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/157784.
Snyder MD. Analysis of the Histone Methyltransferase ASH2L via RNA Interference and CRISPR-Cas9 during Bovine Early Embryonic Development. [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/157784
7. Veazey, Kylee Jordan. An Epigenetic Basis to the Etiology of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.
Degree: PhD, Genetics, 2015, Texas A&M University
► Observations from a number of independent laboratories indicate that ethanol has the capacity to act as a powerful epigenetic disruptor and potentially derail the process… (more)
▼ Observations from a number of independent laboratories indicate that ethanol has the capacity to act as a powerful epigenetic disruptor and potentially derail the process of cellular differentiation. The aim of this dissertation was to determine the epigenetic effects of alcohol on chromatin structure, the heritability of these effects in vitro and in vivo, and whether the severity of these alterations is tied to the differentiation state of the cell. First, we investigated the epigenetic impact of ethanol exposure in a murine neural stem cell model using chromatin immunoprecipitation, quantitative polymerase chain reaction (ChIP-qPCR) and RNA analysis. We found that two widely-studied histone modifications, trimethylated histone 3 lysine 4 (H3K4me3) and trimethylated histone 3 lysine 27 (H3K27me3), were disrupted at promoters of a panel of homeobox genes involved in neural development in the presence of alcohol, and that these disruptions do not correlate with changes in the expression of the examined genes. Second, we determined whether the disruption of chromatin structure caused by alcohol is heritable through cell division after an acute exposure in vitro. We monitored changes in H3K27me3, H3K4me3, and acetylation/demethylation of histone 3 lysine 9 (H3K9ac and H3K9me2, respectively) at the promoters of our candidate homeobox genes using ChIP-qPCR. We found that alterations in these marks persist beyond the window of exposure, and do not retain the same levels compared to controls after a recovery period in which ethanol is withdrawn. Furthermore, changes in the expression of these genes often occurred after recovery and again do not correlate with histone modifications present at their respective promoters. These alterations occur despite no indication of cell stress, but are associated with increased expression of genes involved in cell proliferation and neural lineage markers after recovery. A decrease in many oxidative stress pathway genes was also observed upon exposure that was rectified after recovery. Importantly, changes in the gene expression of histone methyltransferases and DNA methyltransferases were observed, with a concurrent change in DNA methylation. We next chose to determine if the observed alterations in chromatin structure also appear in vivo using a mouse model of early acute ethanol exposure. Pregnant dams injected with 2.9 g/kg ethanol at gestational day (GD) 7 were sacrificed at GD17, and the fetuses scored for ocular and forebrain defects. Levels of H3K27me3 were low at the promoters of many of the candidate genes in affected mice, and high levels of H3K9me2 specifically identified ethanol-affected mice, suggesting its potential as a marker for FASD phenotypes. Finally, we determined whether the epigenetic effects of ethanol are dependent on the differentiation state of the cell using a murine embryonic stem cell (ESC) model. Acute ethanol exposure resulted in oscillating changes in levels of histone modifications for a long as 10 days post-exposure. Despite these changes in… Advisors/Committee Members: Golding, Michael C (advisor), Long, Charles R (advisor), Miranda, Rajesh C (committee member), Zhou, Beiyan (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Epigenetics; FASD; Histone Modifications
Veazey, K. J. (2015). An Epigenetic Basis to the Etiology of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders . (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156462
Veazey, Kylee Jordan. “An Epigenetic Basis to the Etiology of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156462.
Veazey, Kylee Jordan. “An Epigenetic Basis to the Etiology of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.” 2015. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Veazey KJ. An Epigenetic Basis to the Etiology of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156462.
Veazey KJ. An Epigenetic Basis to the Etiology of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156462
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By Eric WatsonJuly 24, 2017No Comments
When Pokémon GO first launched in July 2016, it instantly became a cultural phenomenon. Its unprecedented mainstream popularity lead to widespread network issues that lasted for weeks.
Unfortunately all reports from last Saturday’s Pokémon GO Fest on July 22 tell a similar story. While it was meant to be a fun one-year celebration gathering, it instead brought back the same network issues that plagued the game at launch.
Connection issues hampered excited players throughout the day, with most event-goers unable to do the one thing they bought a ticket for. Amenities and organization were also subpar, with few charging stations and very long lines to get in (and out of) Grant Park.
Pokémon GO Fest ended up being such a disaster that Niantic announced mass refunds for everyone who attended ($20 ticket price). They’re also offering $100 worth of PokeCoins. Of course many people paid much more than that with airfare, hotel stay, and the typical overpriced event food.
There’s a video now circulating on YouTube from the event that features very disgruntled event-goers, and Niantic CEO John Hanke being booed on stage.
Niantic released an official statement:
Today at Pokémon GO Fest in Chicago, technical issues created problems for a large number of players attending the event. From everyone at Niantic, we apologize to all of the Trainers who came out to Pokémon GO Fest today. Although we were able to solve many of the technical issues, we were not able to offer every attendee a great experience. We appreciate the patience of all the Trainers who joined us in Chicago this weekend. We will strive to make sure our experiences are of the highest quality going forward.
In addition to the refund and PokeCoins, all attendees will have the Legendary Pokémon Lugia added to their account. Lugia was meant to be the big reward for completing the challenges, but connectivity problems lead to Niantic simply releasing it. Apparently Team Mystic came out ahead on the few Pokémon captures that could be earned, unlocking Articuno as the other Legendary Pokémon.
Given how well Niantic has supported Pokémon GO and stabilized the servers following its rough launch, it’s exceedingly disappointing to see a large-scale event like this crash and burn. Niantic has had a year to iron out the kinks. You would think they’d be able to better prepare for an actual scheduled, ticketed event.
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Shock Poll (If You're a Gun-Grabber): Majority of Americans Say Having a Gun in the Home Makes It Safer
By Bryan Preston Apr 19, 2013 2:57 PM ET
How…how how how how how will President Obama and his allies spin this?
A Washington Post-ABC News poll — not a Rasmussen or some Rove outfit, but the Post and an alphabet network — finds that by a wide margin, more Americans believe that having a gun in the home makes it safer than not. It’s not even close. A majority — 51% — believe that having a gun in the home makes that home safer. Only 29% believe the opposite.
Moreover, the trend favors the guns. In a 2000 Gallup poll, the numbers were flipped, with 51% believing guns in the home made them less safe, while on 35% took what’s now the majority view.
For all the pouting and griping that Obama did after the Senate killed his gun bill, these numbers help explain what really happened. It wasn’t the “gun lobby” that killed that bill, but ordinary Americans. We did it.
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Lowe triumphs at UA&P Tambuli Awards with 9 wins Posted on 19 June 2012
Lowe Asia Pacific walked off with 9 awards at this year’s UA&P Tambuli Awards, held in Manila. Lowe was among the most awarded networks regionally at the awards.
Rupen Desai, Regional President, Lowe Asia-Pacific, says of the wins: “The Tambuli Awards reward not only the business impact of campaigns, but also their genuine significance in building societal values. It strongly resonates with Lowe’s philosophy of Populist Creativity that positively influences human behavior, on and offline. This recognition by University of Asia & Pacific’s Tambuli Awards is very encouraging”
Lowe Malaysia won four of the nine awards for the network with two bronzes and two silvers for their brands Carefree and Ikea. Commenting on the wins, Khairudin Rahim, Chairman Lowe Malaysia noted, “This is the second year Lowe Malaysia has entered and won. This effectiveness award is truly unique as it recognizes work that not only drives business results but also the betterment of people’s lives. We are thrilled to receive recognition for our ideas that indeed changed human behavior”
Lowe Philippines picked up two golds for their campaigns for Alaska Corp. and Red Cross, and a bronze for Neurogen. Leigh Reyes, President and CCO notes, “The Tambuli Awards recognize, in the words of Tourism Secretary Mon Jimenez, advertising that doesn’t just build brands, but builds character. We are delighted to have our work deemed gold-worthy. Not only that, but one of our agency’s client partners, Blen Fernando of Alaska, won CMO of the Year. These are wins we are all proud of.”
Lowe’s tally for the evening was completed with two silver awards for Lowe Lintas India for their campaign ‘Pure Air Lovers Society (PALS)’ done for the client Suzlon Energy.
Now in its sixth year, the UA&P Tambuli Awards is the only global award that celebrates Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) effectiveness and the promotion of societal values in one award. It aims to fulfill two objectives:
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Tuna showdown looms at Samoa conference
'Bigeye Tuna: Head to Tail' culinary event, pictured in New York, on May 4, 2013
Small Pacific island states and powerful foreign fishing nations are heading for a showdown next week over management of the world's largest tuna fishery.
The islands want the annual meeting of the influential Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) in Samoa to limit fishing for bigeye, a tuna prized by sashimi markets in Asia, America and Europe.
They also want limits placed on catches of other tunas to maintain stocks.
Nearly 60 percent of global tuna supplies comes from the central and western Pacific which has been "fished unsustainably, in contradiction to strong scientific and management advice", said Amanda Nickson, director of Global Tuna Conservation at the Washington-based Pew Charitable Trusts.
"Today, 50 more large-scale purse seine vessels are fishing these waters than 10 years ago."
Despite increasing concern over declining tuna stocks in the Pacific's US$6.0 billion fishery, the WCPFC has been unable to agree on measures that will limit fishing to what scientists see as sustainable levels.
The WCPFC includes the so-called "distant water" fleets from as far afield as Europe, China, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.
Battle lines have now been drawn between these nations, which dominate fishing in the region, and the Pacific islands which have banded together to wield greater influence in the industry.
"The tuna commission needs to change its way of doing business and how it treats small island developing states," Glen Joseph, the Marshall Islands director of fisheries, said ahead of the December 1-5 summit.
Joseph is frustrated by what he says is a lack of action on high seas fishing, a WCPFC responsibility, to back the conservation measures eight Pacific nations, known as the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA), have imposed in their economic zones.
"The WCPFC must step up by taking effective action to curtail overfishing of bigeye in our fishery," said PNA chief executive Transform Aqorau.
"Each year, stock assessments have painted a bleaker picture about the status of bigeye and yellowfin tuna. The WCPFC cannot continue avoiding the issue.
"Bigeye is now subject to overfishing and yellowfin stocks are being fished at their maximum capacity. This is not sustainable and must be reversed."
The PNA has put an action plan on the table at the summit to cutback the catches of long-line vessels which target bigeye and yellowfin.
They also want to reduce the ability of purse seine fishing boats that use large nets to scoop out tonnes of tuna at once.
In the 10 years since the WCPFC was established, several Asian nations have refused to provide their catch data which is a requirement of membership.
Pacific fisheries chief warns tuna stocks dangerously low
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October 16, 2019 DetroitInvestingNewsPassive IncomeReal Estate InvestingRetirement by Peter Corrado
Brush Park’s Rapid Redevelopment, Mapped
In recent history, no other neighborhood in Detroit has had as much residential development as Brush Park. The neighborhood between downtown and Midtown was once all but forgotten, with historic Victorian homes crumbling and tall weeds growing in vacant lots as a backdrop for media coverage.
In just a few years time, the neighborhood looks completely different.
Smaller condo projects are nearing completion, while the first residents of City Modern have moved in. Long-vacant and nearly-demoed homes are being restored.
We’ve included some finished projects, plus many that are underway. Some remain question marks as the projects work their way through pre-development.
Did we miss something or do you have an update on a project? Let us know in the comments section.
Note: Projects ordered by timeline of completion.
12 developments set to transform Detroit
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Mapping developments in the works in and around New Center
1. Ransom Gillis House
Ransom Gillis House, 205 Alfred St
The restoration of the Ransom Gillis House in 2015 brought a lot of attention to the neighborhood. Nicole Curtis documented the transformation on her show Rehab Addict, and the restoration was funded by Quicken Loans. This house was like many in others in the neighborhood before—a shell of what it once was.
2. The Scott at Brush Park
3150 Woodward Ave
The first major new construction in the neighborhood was the Scott at Brush Park, a $65 million development with 199 apartments, plus restaurants and retail space. It opened in late 2016, put up for sale in July 2018, then ultimately refinanced for $50.1 million in January this year.
3. Rainbow Child Care Center of Detroit
320 Mack Ave
Standing at the corner of Mack Avenue and Brush Street, the Rainbow Child Care Center added a new handsome brick structure and important service to the neighborhood.
4. James Place Lofts
Facing Mack Avenue just east of John R Street, the nine-unit James Place Lofts finished in July this year. has two kinds of floor plans. The condos come with two bedrooms, 10-foot high ceilings, and a private balcony. They went for between $400,000 and $500,000 most of the sold by the time the building was finished.
5. 64 Watson
64 Watson St
Construction wrapped on this six luxury condo development in August this year. The Devon Building on Watson Street, built in 1905, was torn down and a new one rebuilt in its place that faithfully recreated the original’s facade.
The units themselves range in size from a 734-square-foot one bedroom for $384,900 to a two-story, 2,450-square-foot penthouse with a private elevator that costs $1.57 million.
6. City Modern
Brush St
The largest development currently underway in Brush Park, when completed, Bedrock’s City Modern will bring over 400 new residential units to the neighborhood.
It’s well underway. A number of condo and apartment buildings have been completed, including The Flats, which offers affordable housing for seniors.
7. Eliot Street Condos
284 Eliot St
Work is finishing up on new condos along Eliot Street. Readers have had some opinions about the exterior, paired with a lot of enthusiasm for the interior and building materials. The brick three-story will fill a formerly vacant lot on the residential street.
8. Henry Glover House
229 Edmund Pl
The Henry Glover House could have been demoed. Instead, in early 2017, the crumbling building went up for sale for $315,000. The new owners have been tracking their progress on a facebook page. It will result in five apartments or condos, with a new garage in the back.
9. Erskine Mansion
304 Erskine St
Method Development will be redeveloping the 8,000-square-foot mansion at 304 Erskine Street into eight apartment units. The total cost of the project is an estimated $1.8 million. Construction has already begun and is expected to be completed by summer 2020.
It’s remarkable this building is getting saved. The Erskine mansion was abandoned sometime in the late 1970s, eventually caught fire, and was itself slated for demolition according to the Brush Park Preservation Society.
10. Patterson Terrace
3412 John R St
We don’t know the exact details for this renovation, but people have been working on it. If you have intel, drop us a note in the comments section.
11.Brush + Watson
3099 Brush St
Announced in 2018 and set to break ground in this year, Brush + Watson will be a mixed-income, mixed-use development. Three buildings will have 180 units. 90 will be designated affordable, with 45 units at 80 percent area median income ($42,000) and another 45 at 30 to 60 percent area median income ($16-28,000 per year). The development, led by American Community Developers, will also have 170 underground parking spaces and 8,500 square feet of commercial space.
It was recentlyawarded $1.5 million in Low-Income Housing Tax Creditsfrom the state of Michigan and is expected to be completed in 2021.
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The Mission is Evangelical, and embraces members of all the leading denominations of Christians. Methods somewhat unusual and peculiar were adopted for working the newly-proposed organisation.
That duly qualified candidates for missionary labour should be accepted without restriction as to denomination, provided there was soundness in the faith in all fundamental truths.
That all who went out as Missionaries should go in dependence upon God for temporal supplies, with the clear understanding that the Mission did not guarantee any income whatever; and knowing that, as the Mission would not go into debt, it could only minister to those connected with it as the funds sent in from time to time might allow.
The Mission is supported entirely by the free-will offerings of the Lord's people. The needs of the work are laid before God in prayer, no personal solicitations or collections being authorised.
No more is expended than is thus received, going into debt being considered inconsistent with the principle of entire dependence upon God. In he and the missionaries went to China.
A four-month voyage was considered speedy at the time. While in the South China Sea and also the Pacific Ocean the ship was nearly wrecked but survived two typhoons.
They arrived safely in Shanghai on 30 September The arrival of the largest party of missionaries ever sent to China—as well as their intent to be dressed in native clothing—gave the foreign settlement in Shanghai much to talk about and some criticism began for the young China Inland Mission.
The party donned Chinese clothing, notwithstanding—even the women missionaries—which was deemed semi-scandalous at the time.
When other missionaries sought to preserve their British ways, Taylor was convinced that the Gospel would only take root on Chinese soil if missionaries were willing to affirm the culture of the people they were seeking to reach.
He argued, from the example of the Apostle Paul, "Let us in everything not sinful become like the Chinese, that by all means we may save some.
They travelled down the Grand Canal of China to make the first settlement in the war-torn city of Hangzhou.
Another daughter was born to them in China Maria Hudson Taylor. Taylor began practising much sought-after medical work and preaching every day under an exhausting schedule.
Hundreds came to hear and be treated. Conflicts within the Lammermuir team limited their effectiveness, but when Taylor's daughter Grace died of meningitis in , they united for a time and sorted out their discord after witnessing Taylor place the cares of his fellow missionaries above even the concern that he had for his ailing daughter.
Many of the Lammermuir crew were converted to Christianity. In the Taylors took a party of missionaries up to Yangzhou to start a new work.
But problems continued in , when their mission premises were attacked, looted and burned during the Yangzhou riot. Despite the violence and injuries, no one was killed.
Unfortunately, the international outrage at the Chinese for the attack on these British nationals and the subsequent arrival of the Royal Navy caused also the China Inland Mission and Taylor to be criticised in the British press for almost starting a war.
Taylor never requested military intervention, but some voices in the British Parliament called for "the withdrawal of all missionaries from China".
However, the Taylors returned to Yangzhou later that year to continue in the work and many converts to Christianity were made.
In Hudson was influenced by a passage on personal holiness from a book called "Christ Is All" by Henry Law that was sent to him by a fellow missionary, John McCarthy.
Judd, God has made me a new man! In another child, Charles, was born into the Taylor family, and in , Taylor and his wife made the difficult decision to send their older three surviving children Bertie, Freddie, and Maria—Samuel died earlier that year home to England with Miss Emily Blatchley.
James Taylor hit big in the s, but his artistic journey began in the previous decade. Unfortunately, Taylor's young adulthood was stymied by urgent health issues, both mental and physical.
At age 16 , Taylor dropped out of high school in order to form a band with his brother, Alex Taylor. The future star was living in New York at the time, and in , the year-old developed a deep and persistent depression.
Taylor later told the Chicago Tribune that he "spent [his] college education money staying at a psychiatric hospital.
After starting a band called the Flying Machine in , Taylor decamped to England, where he won the favor of Peter Asher, a talent scout who worked for the Beatles' Apple Records.
That label released Taylor's first, self-titled album in It didn't sell very well, and Taylor couldn't immediately promote it because he returned to the United States to seek professional help for drug addiction.
Taylor's life and career were on track by the early s, only for him to suffer another setback. According to Snopes , there's a widely accepted theory as to the meaning behind James Taylor's hit "Fire and Rain.
That's hinted at in the lines that go "Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you," as well as "sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.
However, the truth about "Fire and Rain" is more complicated and arguably even more tragic. In , when he was recording his first album, he learned that Schnerr had committed suicide months earlier, the news purposely withheld by their mutual friends because "they didn't want to shake me up.
As for the rest of the song, according to a interview with Rolling Stone via The Girl in the Song , the second verse is about his personal and professional anxiety, while the third verse "refers to [his] recuperation in Austin Riggs," a residential treatment facility.
One of James Taylor's first professional music projects was a late-'60s, New York-based band called the Flying Machine. Not only was that the place where Taylor honed the musical chops that would propel his career for decades, but it's also where he got his first taste of hard drugs.
Thus began an addiction to opiates that lasted for the better part of 20 years. From late to early , "I was clean," Taylor told Rolling Stone.
I went to Europe and started to take opium, and then I got into smack heavily for about nine months. Upon his discharge, a Chicago doctor got him onto a sobriety-aiming "methadone maintenance" regimen, but after about 18 months of that, in the summer of , Taylor was back on drugs.
While James Taylor successfully kicked his heroin addiction in the early s, he soon became reliant on methadone , a sometimes addictive opiate that's used to help heroin users wean themselves off that harder drug.
Taylor used it from the mids up until , when he decided he needed to free himself of all intense substances.
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Taylor, who grew up in North Carolina, fused Appalachian mountain music with sophisticated, often cryptic personal confessions of emotional disorder.
The arrival of the largest party of missionaries ever sent to China—as well as their intent to be dressed in native clothing—gave the foreign settlement in Shanghai much to talk about and some criticism began for the young China Inland Mission.
The party donned Chinese clothing, notwithstanding—even the women missionaries—which was deemed semi-scandalous at the time. When other missionaries sought to preserve their British ways, Taylor was convinced that the Gospel would only take root on Chinese soil if missionaries were willing to affirm the culture of the people they were seeking to reach.
They travelled down the Grand Canal of China to make the first settlement in the war-torn city of Hangzhou. Another daughter was born to them in China Maria Hudson Taylor.
Taylor began practising much sought-after medical work and preaching every day under an exhausting schedule. Hundreds came to hear and be treated. Conflicts within the Lammermuir team limited their effectiveness, but when Taylor's daughter Grace died of meningitis in , they united for a time and sorted out their discord after witnessing Taylor place the cares of his fellow missionaries above even the concern that he had for his ailing daughter.
In July, Noel was born, though he died of malnutrition and deprivation two weeks later due to Maria's inability to nurse him.
Maria herself died several days later, with the official cause of death being cholera. Her death shook Taylor deeply, and in , his own health began deteriorating further, leading to his return to England later that year to recuperate and take care of business items.
Back in England, Taylor was married to Jane Elizabeth Faulding who had been a fellow missionary since They were in Nanjing when Jennie gave birth to stillborn twins—a boy and a girl in Two years later, the Taylors were forced to return once again to England because of the death of the mission secretary and their children's caretaker, Emily Blatchley.
During the winter of and Taylor was practically paralysed from a fall he had taken on a river boat while in China.
In this state of crippling physical hindrance, Taylor confidently published an appeal for 18 new workers to join the work.
When he did recover his strength, Jennie remained with the children, including a new son and daughter, Ernest and Amy, as well as the orphaned daughter of fellow missionary George Duncan and in Hudson Taylor returned to China and the 18 requested missionaries followed him.
It was at this time that Hudson's evangelical work in England profoundly affected various members of the famous cricketing Studd family, resulting in three of the brothers converting and becoming deeply religious themselves; one of them, cricketer Charles Studd , became a missionary to China along with fellow Cambridge University converts, known as the Cambridge Seven.
From to Taylor travelled throughout inland China, opening missions stations. This was made possible by the signing on 13 September of the Chefoo Convention , a settlement between Britain and China that made it possible for missionary work to take place legally in inland China.
In , Jennie returned to China and began working to promote female missionary service there. By there were missionaries in the CIM.
Taylor returned to England in to recruit more missionaries speaking of China's needs, and returned to China, working now with a total of missionaries and 59 churches.
In their numbers increased by another with The Hundred missionaries , and in , Taylor brought 14 missionaries from the United States.
In Hudson's and Maria's only surviving daughter, Maria died in Wenzhou , leaving four little children and her missionary husband, John Joseph Coulthard.
She had been instrumental in leading many Chinese women to Christianity during her short life. News of the Boxer Rebellion and the resulting disruption of missionary work in distressed Taylor, even though it led to further interest in missions in the area and additional growth of his China Inland Mission.
Though the CIM suffered more than any other mission in China 58 missionaries, 21 children were killed , Taylor refused to accept payment for loss of property or life, to show the 'meekness and gentleness of Christ'.
The Chinese were also touched by Taylor's attitude. Due to health issues, Taylor remained in Switzerland , semi-retired with his wife.
His wife, Jennie, died of cancer in in Les Chevalleyres , Switzerland, and in , Taylor returned to China for the eleventh and final time.
There he visited Yangzhou and Zhenjiang and other cities, before dying suddenly while reading at home in Changsha.
The small cemetery was built over with industrial buildings in the s and the grave markers were destroyed. However, the marker for Hudson Taylor was stored away in a local museum for years.
His great-grandson, James Hudson Taylor III , found the marker and was able to help a local Chinese church re-erect it within their building in In the land for the cemetery was re-developed and the demolition of the old industrial buildings revealed that the Taylors' tombs were still intact.
On 28 August the graves were excavated with the surrounding soil and moved to a local church where they will be reburied in a memorial garden. Here is a picture of gravestone and stele at Xuande Church in Zhenjiang.
Gravestone is underground in a pit where the church is awaiting construction of a proper memorial hall - timeline for completion of memorial hall is postponed according to church officials.
Dedication marker is outside under a tarp covered up unless visitors know it is there. The beginning of " faith missions " the sending of missionaries with no promises of temporal support, but instead a reliance "through prayer to move Men by God" has had a wide impact among evangelical churches to this day.
Taylor had thoughts of retiring by the time he played the Rock in Rio festival in Rio de Janeiro in January I sort of hit a low spot.
I was asked to go down to Rio de Janeiro to play in this festival down there. We put the band together and went down and it was just an amazing response.
I played to , people. They not only knew my music, they knew things about it and were interested in aspects of it that to that point had only interested me.
To have that kind of validation right about then was really what I needed. It helped get me back on track. The song "Only a Dream in Rio" was written in tribute to that night, with lines like I was there that very day and my heart came back alive.
Taylor's next albums were partially successful; in , he released Never Die Young , highlighted with the charting title track, and in , the platinum New Moon Shine provided Taylor some popular songs with the melancholic "Copperline" and the upbeat " I've Got to Stop Thinkin' About That", both hit singles on Adult Contemporary radio.
In the late s, he began touring regularly, especially on the summer amphitheater circuit. His later concerts feature songs spanning his career and are marked by the musicianship of his band and backup singers.
He provided a guest voice to The Simpsons episode " Deep Space Homer ", and also appeared later on in the series when the family put together a jigsaw puzzle with his face as the missing final piece.
After six years since his last studio album, in Taylor released Hourglass , an introspective album that gave him the best critical reviews in almost twenty years.
The album had much of its focus on Taylor's troubled past and family. Flanked by two greatest hit releases, Taylor's Platinum-certified October Road appeared in to a receptive audience.
It featured a number of quiet instrumental accompaniments and passages. Overall, it found Taylor in a more peaceful frame of mind; rather than facing a crisis now, Taylor said in an interview that "I thought I'd passed the midpoint of my life when I was Always visibly active in environmental and liberal causes, in October , Taylor joined the Vote for Change tour playing a series of concerts in American swing states.
These concerts were organized by MoveOn. Bush in that year's presidential campaign. Taylor's appearances were joint performances with the Dixie Chicks.
In early , MusiCares honored Taylor with performances of his songs by an array of notable musicians. Before a performance by the Dixie Chicks, lead singer Natalie Maines acknowledged that he had always been one of their musical heroes and had, for them, lived up to their once-imagined reputation of him.
The digital discrete 5. On November 28—30, , Taylor, accompanied by his original band and Carole King, headlined a series of six shows at the Troubadour.
The appearances marked the 50th anniversary of the venue, where Taylor, King and many others, such as Tom Waits , Neil Diamond , and Elton John , performed early in their music careers.
Parts of the performance shown on CBS Sunday Morning in the December 23, , broadcast showed Taylor alluding to his early drug problems by saying, "I played here a number of times in the 70s, allegedly".
Taylor has used versions of this joke on other occasions, and it appears as part of his One Man Band DVD and tour performances. The resulting live-in-studio album, named Covers , was released in September An additional album, called Other Covers , came out in April , containing songs that were recorded during the same sessions as the original Covers but had not been put out to the full public yet.
During October 19—21, , Taylor performed a series of free concerts in five North Carolina cities in support of Barack Obama 's presidential bid.
Taylor appeared briefly in the movie Funny People , where he played " Carolina in My Mind " for a MySpace corporate event as the opening act for the main character.
The tour was a major commercial success, and in some locations found Taylor playing arenas instead of his usual theaters or amphitheaters.
It was one of the most successful tours of the year. He appeared in in the ABC comedy Mr. Sunshine as the ex-husband of the character played by Allison Janney , and performs a duet of sorts on Leon Russell 's classic " A Song for You ".
Then, on July 2, , Swift appeared as Taylor's special guest in a concert at Tanglewood. He was active in support of Barack Obama's reelection campaign , and opened the Democratic National Convention.
He performed " America the Beautiful " at the President's second inauguration. After a year wait, James earned his first No.
The album, which was released on June 16 through Concord Records , arrived on top the chart of July 4, , more than 45 years after Taylor arrived on the list with Sweet Baby James on the March 14, list.
The album launched atop the Billboard with 97, equivalent album units earned in the week ending June 21, according to Nielsen Music.
Of its start, pure album sales were 96, copies sold, Taylor's best debut week for an album since 's October Road.
Taylor cancelled his concert in Manila as a protest to the extrajudicial killings of suspects in the Philippine Drug War.
Taylor's album American Standard was released on February 28, American Standard debuted at 4 on the Billboard albums chart, making Taylor the first act to earn a top 10 album in each of the last six decades.
Taylor's four siblings Alex , Livingston , Hugh, and Kate have also been musicians with recorded albums. Livingston is still an active musician; Kate was active in the s but did not record another album until ; Hugh operates a bed-and-breakfast with his wife, The Outermost Inn in Aquinnah on Martha's Vineyard ; and Alex died in on James's birthday.
Taylor and Carly Simon were married in November His children with Simon, Sally and Ben , are also musicians. John the Divine in New York.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the solo musician. For other persons with the same name, see James Taylor disambiguation.
American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Boston, Massachusetts , U. Carly Simon. Kathryn Walker. Caroline "Kim" Smedvig. Folk rock rock pop soft rock blues Christmas music country folk.
Vocals guitar harmonica keyboards [1]. John B. James had been through so much by the time he was twenty that he had so much to express in his music.
Other young artists of his age whom I worked with sang about how good or bad life was but really had no idea what they were singing about.
James was already singing with the conviction of a singer much older than himself. Everything that he had already been through was evident in his songwriting.
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