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Mary Beith Memorial Lecture
Mary Beith was known as a lecturer and researcher of great clarity on the traditional medicines of the Highlands. Through her newspaper and magazine articles, her book Healing Threads, and her contributions to conferences and universities, she looked below the surface to reveal a systematic body of knowledge in the Highlands of the past, expressed in those times in training and professional contact and bodies of medieval manuscripts, and laid the foundations for a fresh research approach.
She had previously worked as a journalist in situations requiring courage and self-reliance, and she won an award for her exposure of the “smoking beagles” scandal and reported from Northern Ireland in difficult times. She spoke in the second Orkney Science Festival in 1992, and twenty-five years on, the Festival paid tribute to her in a Memorial Lecture. It was given by ethnobotanical researcher Anna Canning, who has a degree in herbal medicine from Napier University and much experience in the study of plants and traditional remedies and the insights that can be provided by modern scientific studies.
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A Little Money Goes a Long Way
Written by Plant With Purpose on March 28, 2013 in General
Talk about inspirational! The children at Mt. Soledad Presbyterian Church—a long-time partner of Plant With Purpose—engaged in a heated competition this month to raise funds for Plant With Purpose’s communities in need.
“The kids are overflowing with joy to give the $50 they raised to Plant With Purpose,” says MSPC’s Children’s Director, Sarah Johnson. The girls of Mt. Soledad’s children’s program exceeded their fundraising goal (though the boys weren’t trailing too far behind) and thus had first pick of where their hard-earned dollars would go.
With help from Plant With Purpose, Ms. Johnson presented a breakdown of how the kids could distribute their funds: $10 for a clutch of chicks, $20 for a pair of bunnies, $30 for a fuel-efficient stove, $50 for a family garden, or $10 for an orchard of trees.
Excited and full of spirit, the girls (and the boys) collaboratively decided to spread the grand total towards purchasing a clutch of chicks, a fuel-efficient stove, and an orchard of trees.
We at Plant With Purpose could not be more thrilled to bring hope to families in need with MSPC’s gifts of hope, just in time for Easter! May the energy and passion of Mt. Soledad Presbyterian Church’s children be an inspiration to us all during this Easter season.
Visit Plant With Purpose’s Gift Catalog to bring a gift of hope to a family in need this Easter.
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Moscow’s Five-Star Treatment of a Three-Star Army General
This is a special report from the AIM Center for Investigative Journalism
Before he left for Moscow to speak at a Russia Today (RT) conference, the former chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) inked a deal to write a book about how to defeat America’s enemies in the Middle East. The title of the forthcoming book by Lt. General Michael T. Flynn (Ret.) is, The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies.
But Flynn’s attendance at the RT “gala celebration,” including a special seat at the head table at the anniversary dinner, suggests that this retired officer, who attained a three-star rank during a 33-year Army career, views Russia as a potential U.S. ally in the war on terror.
In announcing his new book, Flynn said, “I am writing this book for two reasons: first, to show that the war is being waged against us by enemies this administration has forbidden us to describe: radical Islamists. Second, to lay out a winning strategy that is not passively relying on technology and drone attacks to do the job. We could lose this war; in fact, right now we are losing. The Field of Fight will give my view on how to win.”
We need military officials willing to fight and win. But Flynn’s participation in the RT anniversary celebration raises questions about what the DIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies know, or think they know, about the Russian role in global conflict and RT’s role in propaganda and disinformation.
What we can say for sure at this point is that it was not an accident that the former head of the DIA showed up in Moscow to celebrate the 10th anniversary of a TV channel that serves the interests of Moscow’s intelligence establishment. Flynn was right in the middle of the “Field of Fight,” and he must surely have known what he was getting into. It’s not called KGB-TV for nothing.
RT’s Disinformation Themes
In trying to attract and confuse an American audience, RT regularly features Marxist and radical commentators in the U.S. such as Noam Chomsky, Gloria La Riva of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, and 9/11 “inside job” advocate and radio host Alex Jones. It is preferable for the Russians to use foreigners, especially Americans, to make their propaganda points. Flynn is probably the most important American ever snared in RT’s web. He has added propaganda value because of his impressive background and years of service in the U.S. Army.
The RT conference was held at a time when the Russian regime was determined to divert global attention away from its military intervention on behalf of its long-time client state of Syria. Research analyst Hugo Spaulding of the Institute for the Study of War notes that Russia’s current air campaign in Syria “is focused on targeting Syrian armed opposition groups fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rather than ISIS.” The Syrian Network for Human Rights reportsthat Russian military strikes in Syria have killed hundreds of civilians during the course of bombing hospitals, bakeries, and markets. The result has been increasing refugee flows into Turkey and Europe.
RT, however, promotes a different version of reality, a “false narrative,” as Spaulding calls it. Indeed, that is the purpose of RT—to whitewash military aggression by the Russian state and focus attention on what the United States and its allies are supposedly doing in the world.
“Russian Air Force destroys 29 ISIS camps in Syria in 24 hours,” was the headline over a typical RT story about Syria. The channel portrays Russian President Vladimir Putin, who spoke to the RT 10th anniversary dinner, as a devout Christian fighting radical Islam.
However, Russia’s open war on the ethnic Turkmen fighting the Assad regime in Syria was something that NATO member Turkey could not ignore. The Turkish shoot-down of a Russian war plane flying through Turkey’s airspace became major news and the first incident in a developing confrontation that shows no sign of ending. RT immediately went to work claiming that Turkey was benefiting from ISIS oil. The U.S. Treasury Department countered with evidence showing that Syria’s Assad is buying ISIS oil through a Russian agent.
In addition to using Americans as props and pawns, RT relies heavily on glitzy graphics and beautiful women as anchors and correspondents to promote its propaganda. RT knows what it’s doing, having run a story titled, “From Russia with lust: Femme fatal Anna Chapman, to Russian mail-order brides, to our very own RT correspondents. Americans are infatuated with Russian women!”
It is noteworthy that RT openly cited Chapman, a sexy Russian spy who was seducing an unnamed cabinet official in the Obama administration in an effort to obtain classified information. She was caught, pleaded guilty, and was expelled from the U.S. in 2010. However, she returned to Russia and was honored with an award by none other than Vladimir Putin himself. Chapman had reportedly tried to seduce NSA defector Edward Snowden.
One of RT’s attractive female anchors, Sophie Shevardnadze, the granddaughter of former Soviet bureaucrat Eduard Shevardnadze, was tasked with interviewing Flynn during the conference, which was held at Moscow’s historic five-star luxuryMetropol Hotel. Flynn appeared on a special edition of her RT show, Sophie & Co, where he appeared grateful for the opportunity, saying, “…thank you so much for inviting me and having me here.”
In her interview with Flynn, Shevardnadze did not disappoint, echoing the Russian line on the Middle East by blaming the U.S. and its allies for conflict and violence. Rather than attack Putin’s military interventions in Ukraine and Syria, Flynn responded by saying that the U.S. and Russia have “to move forward” together. Flynn, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from July 2012 to April 2014, said on RT that “…in order for us to not move to a greater level of conflict between the great nations of the world, we have to come to grips of how do we work together, how do we take interests, interests that are converging. So we have a whole set of converging interests that we are seeing right now, and unless we understand it, we’re going to make mistakes, we’re going to make tactical mistakes that are going to lead to strategic consequences.”
He claimed that Russia has faced terrorism from Muslims within, as if Russia, like the U.S., is a victim of radical Islam. He said, “…there are some in this country that know this enemy from having dealt with it in Chechnya and Dagestan and other places. This is a very, very deadly enemy that we’re facing, and it’s not just hundreds or thousands, these numbers are much greater.”
In fact, as veteran Moscow correspondent David Satter and others have documented, what sometimes appears to be Islamic terrorism in Russia can be carried out with the approval—or even at the direction of—the Kremlin, in order to justify greater repression by the Putin regime. For example, the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings that served to solidify Vladimir Putin’s control of the country, and justify the war against the former Soviet republic of Chechnya, wereproven to be the work of agents of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, a successor to the old KGB.
Moscow’s Role in Terrorism
Could Moscow in fact be behind much of the conflict in the Middle East, including the rise of ISIS? If Flynn has rejected this theory out of hand, it wouldn’t be the first time in history that the U.S. intelligence community failed to understand and appreciate Moscow’s role in international terrorism.
Flynn’s announced co-author, or collaborator, on his new book, Michael Ledeen, has a deep understanding of the Middle East, knowledge of how the old Soviet Union operated, and how remnants of that regime guide Russian foreign policy today. Ledeen worked as a consultant to the National Security Council, Department of State, and Department of Defense during the Reagan administration, when Soviet involvement in global terrorism was highlighted and exposed.
Ledeen’s 2003 book, The War Against the Terror Masters, describes the impact of communist disinformation and deception in the conduct of foreign policy.
Ledeen wrote about the discovery of Soviet moles in the CIA, such as Aldrich Ames and Harold Nicholson, and the discovery of one such mole in the FBI, Robert Hanssen. Ledeen writes, “The discovery that Soviet moles had been at work at the highest levels of the American intelligence community had particular importance in our efforts to combat the terror masters. Agency [CIA] analysts had long insisted that there was no conclusive evidence of Soviet involvement in international terrorism. One now had to wonder if that conclusion had been fed to us through the KGB moles in our midst.” Ledeen writes about how the intelligence community ignored inside information provided by Soviet defectors, such as theMitrokhin documents, which exposed the nature of Soviet-backed international terrorism, as well as the identities of “thousands of foreign agents—Western politicians, journalists, movie makers, military officers, and diplomats.”
Soviet KGB operations continued after the “collapse” of the Soviet Union in the hands of its successor agencies, the FSB and SVR. The book Comrade J examines the activities of Russian master spy, Sergei Tretyakov, who handled all Russian intelligence operations against the U.S. while serving under cover from 1995 to 2000 at Russia’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
Since intelligence operations continued as if nothing had happened, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, why isn’t it reasonable to assume that the Russians maintained contacts with international terrorist groups?
To his credit, Flynn has been very critical of the role of Russia’s close ally in the Middle East—Iran. In June 2015 testimony, after his retirement, he cited Iranian cooperation with North Korea, China and Russia, and pointed with alarm to the “resurgence of Russian and Chinese influence” in the Middle East. He said Russian assistance to Iran was a part of the problem, noting that “After all, the Iranian nuclear reactor at Bushehr is Russian-built, the two countries work very closely together in Syria, and Russia is providing Iran with an effective antiaircraft system that could be deployed against any aircraft seeking to destroy the nuclear program.”
However, in the RT interview with Sophie Shevardnadze, Flynn’s criticism of Iran was couched in terms of getting all of the Arab and Muslim countries in the region to behave. He merely said “…Iran cannot continue to go the way it’s going” because it was contributing to the conflict.
The Birth of RT
The Russians have gotten far more sophisticated, especially in the field of global propaganda and information. But the reality of what is happening behind the scenes came to public attention when two RT employees, Elizabeth Wahl and Sara Firth, resigned in disgust at the propaganda that they were ordered to spew on the air. For example, the Russian managers ordered “news” that was designed todepict the Ukrainian government in a bad light and mask Russian military interference in that country, including the shoot-down and destruction of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was carrying almost 300 people.
At the RT anniversary dinner on Thursday night, Putin made no mention of those embarrassing resignations. Instead he presented the channel as a free and independent news entity featuring “creative” people who are serving the global public interest. He said to his audience (including Lt. Gen. Flynn), “You compete on the same playing field as international news giants, and are already beating them according to many parameters. In some regions of the world, you have higher ratings than traditional news organizations that have long been operating in the international information market.”
The speech was laughable, considering the Kremlin funding and control of the channel. Yet, it was posted on the president of Russia’s website, along with photographs of the affair. Moscow is obviously proud of what it has accomplished, with the cooperation of foreigners who appear on the channel and give it credibility.
The participation of a former chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency at the event was a major coup for RT. Film and photos of his participation will help the Russians in their ongoing propaganda campaign to depict the state-funded entity as simply a respectable source of alternative news and opinion that offers different views.
Showing the continuity between the old Soviet Union and Russia, former Soviet President Gorbachev was in attendance at the Thursday night dinner. He “congratulated RT and expressed his admiration for the network,” the channel reported. Outside the event, Gorbachev called the channel a “big success.”
The Case of Edward Snowden
Flynn’s attendance at the RT conference was shocking not only because Putin is an evil ruler whose regime murders opposition figures and truly independent journalists, but because Flynn was critical in the past about the damage done by NSA defector Edward Snowden, who escaped to Russia and now lives under Putin’s protection.
Flynn said in January 2014 that Snowden’s disclosures have caused “grave damage to our national security.” He added that “the greatest cost” of his disclosures will be “the cost in human lives on tomorrow’s battlefield or in someplace where we will put our military forces…when we ask them to go into harm’s way.”
It appears that the information stolen by Snowden has contributed significantly to the advances of the enemies and adversaries of the United States. Since his defection, Russia conducted a surprise invasion of Ukraine; Communist China mounted a series of cyber warfare attacks; and ISIS has gained ground in the Middle East and around the world. The bloody terrorist assaults in Paris and San Bernardino were carried out by plotters who clearly benefitted from Snowden’s revelations and were careful to plan their attacks using encrypted communications apps, such as Telegram, which was developed by a Russian, Pavel Durov.
RT has consistently portrayed Snowden as a whistleblower, and ran what was apparently intended as a humorous promotional ad in connection with the 10th anniversary celebration. It imagined that the NSA defector would return to the U.S. and be elected U.S. president. The ad shows an elderly Barack Obama in the year 2035 complaining about RT’s “propaganda.”
Snowden apparently wasn’t at the RT celebration, but former Russia Today TV star, Julian Assange, appeared via videotape from the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He was interviewed by the well-known American “progressive” commentator, Thom Hartmann, who is paid by Moscow to host an RT show that appeals to liberals and left-wingers. Incredibly, the issue being discussed was the “right to privacy”—a right that doesn’t exist in Russia itself. Assange was the recipient of massive leaks from former U.S. Army analyst Bradley Manning, who is becoming a woman named Chelsea while serving a prison term for espionage.
Obama’s Support for Terrorism
One issue raised in RT’s interview of Flynn was a heavily-censored 2012 DIA memo that has been interpreted by many as confirmation that the U.S. and some of its allies had armed the terrorist groups in the Middle East that eventually became ISIS. According to the memo, these groups were seen as effective in countering the Russia/Iran/Syria axis in the area. The memo also described China as backing the Syrian regime.
Flynn’s criticism of this policy since he left the DIA has been made in different venues, including in interviews with Al Jazeera and Der Spiegel. As Flynn has correctly indicated, it is apparent that Obama’s policy in the Middle East has been a disaster. The Benghazi terrorist attacks in Libya, which cost the lives of four Americans, came to pass after the U.S. “switched sides in the war on terror,” as areport from the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi has demonstrated. But just as the Obama administration must be held accountable for arming terrorists, so too must the role of the Putin regime in fostering terrorism be exposed.
In addition to the evidence of an FSB role in domestic terrorism, a defector from the Russian intelligence agency has just confirmed Russia’s role in creating ISIS by recruiting former members of Saddam Hussein’s security services. The former FSB officer told Ukrainian journalist Andriy Tsaplienko that “the Russian special services believed that if a terrorist organization was set up as an alternative to Al-Qaeda and it created problems for the United States as Donbas does for Ukraine now, it would be quite good.” Donbas is the name for the region of Ukraine that has been the staging area for terrorists from Russia, organized by the FSB, to seize territory and undermine Ukraine’s central government. Once again, Russia has demonstrated its commitment to global conflict rather than peace and reconciliation.
The FSB defector said that in order to create ISIS, the Russians selected former officers of the Iraqi army and members of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party. All of them had graduated from Moscow-based “educational institutions,” he said, referring to the time when the Saddam Hussein regime was in a close alliance with the Soviet Union. The overthrow of the Saddam regime was a huge blow to Russian influence in the Middle East. Iran and the Assad regime are the only firm Russian allies left in the region.
Russians Fighting for Terrorist Groups
The Daily Beast ran an article, “Russians Are Joining ISIS in Droves.” But the idea advanced by The Daily Beast that these terrorists are a threat to Russia is not borne out by the evidence. It seems like they are more of a threat to the rest of the world, especially the United States. In what could be seen as an observation or a threat, Putin himself publicly acknowledged that there are an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 Russians fighting for ISIS. By contrast, FBI Director James Comey has estimated that approximately 250 Americans have traveled or attempted to travel to Syria to join ISIS. These potential terrorists are believed to be threats to America.
On December 3rd, the U.S. Justice Department announced that Irek Ilgiz Hamidullin, a Russian national and former Russian army tank commander, had been sentenced to life plus 30 years in prison for conspiring to kill U.S. soldiers and bring down an American helicopter, as well as for “conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction and several other charges relating to an attack that he led against U.S. and Afghan forces in Afghanistan in November 2009.”
It is telling that the U.S., not the Russian authorities, prosecuted him. Perhaps the U.S. was reluctant to turn him over to Moscow. This is reminiscent of the case of the Russian arms dealer and former Soviet military officer Viktor Bout, the legendary “Merchant of Death” who is serving a 25-year sentence in U.S. federal prison. Bout was lured out of Russia, where he was living openly, and arrested in a sting operation in Thailand by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Some of the weapons Bout was selling were for communist Colombian terrorists to use against Americans.
RT has covered the Bout case relentlessly, always in a manner critical of the United States for apprehending and prosecuting him. RT has even highlighted how Bout’s wife has set up The Road Home Foundation to facilitate the return to Russia of Bout and other Russians convicted of crimes abroad.
In another sensational case, the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out by two brothers from Russia, but the Russian connection was immediately discounted on the ground that the Russians had reportedly warned U.S. authorities about the bombers’ travels back and forth to the old Soviet Union. Curiously, RT ran claims by their mother back in Russia that the terrorists were “set up” by the FBI.
It is indeed strange how a Russian connection seems to surface in some of these most sensational terrorism cases.
In the more recent San Bernardino attack, we have a case of two Russian beautiesmarried to Muslim men. A Russian blonde beauty had married into the terrorist’s family, and another Russian woman had married Enrique Marquez, a convert to Islam who bought the weapons used in the massacre.
Nuclear Jihad?
In his June 2015 testimony, Flynn acknowledged that the U.S. intelligence community has had a “mixed” record in one important area—“tracking clandestine nuclear weapons programs.” In this context, it is significant that in his December 9 testimony to Congress, FBI director James Comey made a passing reference to how the bureau had disrupted “a nuclear threat in Moldova,” an Eastern European country and former Soviet republic. There is much more to the story and it directly involves the criminal regime in Moscow.
The story came to light in October, when the Associated Press disclosed that “gangs with suspected Russian connections” had tried on several occasions to “sell radioactive material to Middle Eastern extremists.” AP said the latest known case came in February this year, “when a smuggler offered a huge cache of deadly cesium—enough to contaminate several city blocks—and specifically sought a buyer from the Islamic State group.”
In a follow-up report, the Center for Public Integrity said the nuclear material in the various cases “appeared to have the same origin—a restricted military installation in Russia.” It added that “no one in the West knows exactly who has this nuclear explosive material, and where they may be.”
The group concluded, “It’s a mystery that so far has stumped America’s best spying efforts, in no small measure because the government of Russian president Vladimir Putin has refused to provide needed information on the case—or even to acknowledge that some of the country’s nuclear explosive materials are missing.”
Don’t look for RT to get to the bottom of this.
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My contact with Europe has been between France and Italy, so three years ago I decided to go to Poland to make an internship. Country that had a good reputation with Erasmus supposedly had a good level of English to practice. But one reason for moving there was the challenge of living in a location with temperatures below zero and supporting the lack of light. This last is not uncommon counting in my city in winter dusk 3 hours later than in Poland.
Well, until then, I thought a little more dominated Europe until I met Mads Mikkelsen. A tall, dark and with an exotic command of English language. I tried to do some research on it and I was surprised that he was Danish. DENMARK !! Northern Germany … no? but they were blond, barbarians and have the Ikea. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !! Ikea is Swedish !! and with globalization there is much mixing … because nothing was going my ignorance diluted as it was seeing his works and knowing the culture and Danish history.
But hey! Who’s Mads?
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I COOK, I EAT IT.
[:en] Aaron Benjamin Sorkin is an American screenwriter, producer, and playwright born in June 9, 1961 (age 54) in New York City .
After graduating from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre in 1983, Sorkin moved to New York City where he worked in several jobs until he found one as IBM Selectric typewriter, job which he felt total confidence.
From first moment Aaron has been writing about American currently identity, is the case of A few Good Men, where play in the theatre as cinema a judge about Guantanamo prison.
After this, took part of several films growing his name and rising his worth.
His climbing on television to their own works began with (Sports Night, 1998), a show produced by Disney that recreates the intricacies of a sports writing.Although (Sports Night, 1998) was critically acclaimed, ABC canceled the show after two seasons.
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BECAUSE HE WORTH IT.
May 7, 2015 | p1r0r
Shivaji Rao Gaekwad, Rajinikanth 12 December 1950, Bangalore, India. Is an Indian actor and producer with a fanciful early and with great success thanks to its ability to adapt to changing times. Bangalore bus driver while studying for his performance diploma in Madras Film Institute. Since his debut with (Apoorva Raagangal,1975) began to participate in several Tamil films.
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THE BEAR & THE HARE
April 26, 2015 | p1r0r
[:en]In 2013, creative agency adam&eveDDB were already on a roll with their John Lewis Christmas adverts. The animated tale of what happens to two friends when the first snowflake falls was shot then put together throughout the summer.
Yves Geleyn and Elliot Dear worked with the talented team at Hornet / Blinkink to produce this heartwarming story of The Bear and The Hare.
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[:en]New York is invaded by a bunch of 8-bit creatures, Space Invaders bricked cabs left and right. Pac-Man chomped his way through the city’s subway system. (such as Donkey Kong and Pac-Man) Giant Tetris tiles match up with floors of skyscrapers. while gets a Tetris and blocks cleared entire floors. before the pixilation spreads and quickly takes over the whole world.
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Nov 15 L'OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE: Curated by Patti Smith
John Keats's bed, Fanny Brown House, London © Patti Smith
Article by and provided from: L'OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
On the occasion of the Paris Photo fair, Gagosian gallery presents Curated by Patti Smith, an exhibition where the American musician, writer, and visual artist, has chosen a selection of her own photographs to be shown alongside works by other artists including Diane Arbus, Eugène Atget, Richard Avedon, Peter Lindbergh, Sally Mann, Taryn Simon, Deborah Turbeville, or Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol.
Smith began taking photographs in 1978, developing an ongoing, emotionally unfiltered archive of solitary moments. Modest in scale, the softly-lit black-and-white images are totemic mementos, serving as a diaristic undercurrent to her writing, music, and performance. Throughout her travels, Smith often made pilgrimages to significant sites, from the River Ouse where Virginia Woolf took her own life, to Frida Kahlo’s house, or Susan Sontag’s grave. These settings evoke the literary and artistic figures that Smith admires, and she affectionately photographs their homes, chairs, slippers, beds, and other personal effects. Made using a Land 250 Polaroid camera, Smith’s photographs are thus symbolic portraits, the inanimate objects embodying the deep resonance of each encounter.
The River Ouse, East Sussex, England © Patti Smith
Cy Twombly, Detail, Bilbao © Patti Smith
Smith’s lifelong fascination with eulogy and remembrance is reflected in her selection of portraits by Richard Avedon, intimate photographs by Cy Twombly and Sally Mann, as well as the more objective gaze of Andy Warhol, in his photograph of the Empire State Building, and Taryn Simon, in her meticulous restaging of floral centerpieces from the signings of political accords and treaties. Curated by Patti Smith provides a glimpse of Smith and her fellow travelers, and is a coming-together of people, places, and relics.
Curated by Patti Smith
November 9-12 2017
Gagosian Gallery, Booth B16
Avenue Winston Churchill
http://www.parisphoto.com/
Virginia Woolf's Bed I, Monk's House © Patti Smith
Paintbrushes, Duncan Grant's Studio © Patti Smith
Nov 15 L'OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE: Karlheinz Weinberger, Getting dark
Nov 15 Art Out: Michel Delsol and Haruku Shinozaki - Edges of the Rainbow
Nov 15 L'OIEL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE: The Little-Known Horses of Eugène Atget
May 3 Book Review: In Time We Shall Know Ourselves by Raymond Smith
Mar 4 Patti Smith at Robert Miller Gallery
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Poll: Nearly half think U.S. in recession
The New York Stock Exchange
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Nearly half of Americans feel the U.S. economy is in a recession, marked by a significant decline in economic activity, according to a survey released Thursday.
The poll by the CNN-Opinion Research Corporation found that while 46 percent of Americans hold that belief, 51 percent don't.
Black citizens were more pessimistic than whites, findings show.
Sixty-nine percent of black Americans feel the United States is in a recession, while only 42 percent of white Americans feel the same way.
The National Bureau of Economic Research defines a recession as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP (Gross Domestic Product), real income, employment, industrial production and wholesale-retail sales."
The GDP measures the economy's output. It represents the total market value of all goods and services produced in the United States during a specified period.
According to the bureau, "a recession begins just after the economy reaches a peak of activity, and ends as the economy reaches its trough. Between trough and peak, the economy is in an expansion. Expansion is the normal state of the economy; most recessions are brief and they have been rare in recent decades."
The recession findings may be having an impact on President Bush's approval rating.
The CNN-ORC poll finds Mr. Bush's approval rating remains steady at 36 percent, but his approval rating among black Americans is just 15 percent.
CNN Polling Director Keating Holland says "a majority of whites also disapprove of Bush, although four in 10 have a favorable view of his administration. The president's approval rating has been stuck at 36 percent since late summer."
The sampling error for the survey is plus or minus 3 percentage points for all but the black vs. white breakdowns, which have a sampling error of 5.5 percentage points.
- CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser
Filed under: Economy • President Bush
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george bush did a good job he has gotten alot of people killed from the war and everybody is going broke thanks.
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HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT!!!
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Mazarron News - February 2018
Citizens will transfer Camposol's conclusions to the Prosecutor's Office and the Court of Auditors (28/02/2018)
The PSOE will transfer to the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Court of Auditors the findings on the Camposol development to see if there are indications of criminal and economic crimes (28/02/2018)
Deputy spokesman Alfonso Martínez Baños was convinced that there will be an agreement and next week will be The paper will be closed and sent to the House Plenary
We can request the transfer of the Camposol file to the Prosecutor's Office in case "possible crimes" have been committed (28/02/2018)
New free routes show the beauty of the virgin coves, the history of Bolnuevo and the Minas de Mazarrón (28/02/2018)
The Department of Tourism offers four guided tours (one in English) for the month of March.
More than 1,200 students participate in the Municipal School Sports program (27/02/2018)
The Beach Volley Lover Cup cites about 200 participants on the beach of La Reya (27/02/2018)
Beach volleyball competition scheduled for 2, 3 and 4 March with parallel leisure activities
New successes for local athletes in taekwondo and athletics (27/02/2018)
The I Bike Marathon Calas de Bolnuevo brings together 300 cyclists from Murcia, Alicante and Andalusia (26/02/2018)
Alejandro Ortigosa was the winner of the general in which Agustín Herreros from Mazarron took ninth place
The route of the lid of the festivities of San José de Puerto de Mazarrón will be held from March 16 to 25 (26/02/2018)
Publication of the registration bases for those establishments that wish to participate
The Women's Handball Association Villa de Mazarrón donates 5,600 euros to other associations in the municipality (26/02/2018)
Casas Consistoriales hosted a charity event during which the trajectory of local teams was reviewed
The Language School opens the application period for free candidates (23/02/2018)
Until March 2, the procedures can be completed electronically
Miguel López and Miguel Lorente win the first prizes of the poetry contest Declárate (23/02/2018)
The Councilor for Education and Libraries, Patricio Sánchez, handed out the prizes of a contest for which a total of 50 papers were presented
300 cyclists will take the start at the I Bike Marathon for the Calas de Bolnuevo (22/02/2018)
The participants will give two laps of 25 kilometers to a mountain bike circuit that will start and finish at the Sports Complex.
The recovery of the submerged archaeological heritage centers the interest of the VII edition of Phicaria (21/02/2018)
From the 2nd to the 4th of March, the International Encounters of the Mediterranean return to Mazarrón with the participation of Italian, British and Spanish experts
The women's handball association Villa de Mazarrón will donate its funds to associations of the municipality (21/02/2018)
Charity event that will take place next Friday, February 23 at 8:00 pm in Town Halls
Informative talk about quality stimulate, in the Health Center of Mazarrón (20/02/2018)
The "Declárate" poetry contest gathers 50 works (20/02/2018)
Miguel Rubio opens the Carlantum conference with his vision of the architecture of Mazarrón in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (20/02/2018)
The Mazarron journalist started a cycle of conferences that has already taken place 16 editions
Rosazul of Sangonera la Verde wins the parade of visitors' clubs (19/02/2018)
Dakarais and Shambala and Samaná, also from Sangonera La Verde, get the second and third prize
The parish priest of Santiago, Francisco José Fernández, will preach the Holy Week of Mazarrón (19/02/2018)
Authorities and neighbors remember victims of mining accidents (19/02/2018)
Institutional event that coincides with the anniversary of the tragedy lived in the María Elena well where 28 workers lost their lives
25 artisans will show their creations this Saturday in Puerto de Mazarrón (16/02/2018)
The Virgen de la Soledad stars in the Easter Week poster of Mazarrón (16/02/2018)
Pascual Méndez is the author of the image that the 2018 program will show, whose content will be announced in its entirety this Saturday at the Sanctuary of the Immaculate Conception
The XVI Carlantum conference will delve into the history of the municipality (16/02/2018)
From 19 to 26 February at 9:30 p.m. in the Exhibition Hall of the Popular University on the Avenida de la Constitución
Community and city council inform about the aid destined to the small commerce (16/02/2018)
Until the 9 of March a line of subventions is left open whose amount ascends to the 5,000 euros by project
15 clubs with more than 420 participants close the Mazarrón carnival next Sunday (15/02/2018)
The winning local clubs will open the parade of visiting groups that will start at 5:00 p.m.
Francisca Ballesta Acosta will be the proclaimer of Holy Week in Puerto de Mazarrón (15/02/2018)
The Brotherhood of San Pedro stars in the acts and the poster of 2018. Miguel Campo will be named Nazareno of the Year
The PSOE will focus its conclusions on the urbanization of Camposol in demanding solutions and political responsibilities (14/02/2018)
The deputy speaker Alfonso Martínez Baños indicated that the paper to analyze the urban development of this urbanization prepares its closure for the month of March
The Civil Guard has investigated five minors for broadcasting a video of a sexual nature of another minor (14/02/2018)
Five artists exhibit their work at the Popular University (14/02/2018)
"Unchained" is the title of the Ilustrazos exhibition that can be seen at the Cultural Center of Mazarrón until March 2
The municipality recognizes the young volunteers of the municipality (14/02/2018)
A dozen children lent their work in 2017 during the organization of events scheduled by the different Councils
The Civil Guard dismantles a violent criminal group that assaulted three passers-by in a week (13/02/2018)
Three people have been arrested as alleged authors of three crimes of robbery with violence and intimidation
Mazarrón will pay tribute to the victims of mining accidents (13/02/2018)
The institutional event will take place next Sunday, February 18 at 1:00 pm next to the monument located in the roundabout access to Las Moreras Avenue
The Government Delegation transmits to the municipalities recommendations in case of terrorist act (12/02/2018)
Juan Ã�lvarez and Jorge Gómez exhibit "Mazarrón: blue and brown" in Casas Consistoriales (12/02/2018)
The exhibition gathers, under the style of the cartoonists, well-known landscapes of the municipality.
The IES Felipe II dedicates its cultural week to the patrimony of Mazarrón (12/02/2018)
Conferences and guided visits in which writers such as Luis Leante or Mariano Guillén will be present to bring the history and intangible value of the municipality to the students
Beaches of Percheles wins the first prize in the carnival parade of local clubs (12/02/2018)
Ambarela, Salsalá, Ana Ruiz and Titanes Bahía Sur are awarded with the second, third, fourth and fifth prize, respectively
The AMPA of the Ginés García School and the Peña el Tolín win the first prize of the Children's Carnival (11/02/2018)
The Antonio Jara and De Rosa dance schools, AMPA of the La Aceña School and Semillas nursery, the other winners of a parade that brought together more of a thousand participants in the Avenida de la Constitución
Nuria Zamora and Irene Medrano, new muses of the Mazarrón carnival (10/02/2018)
Juan Antonio García and Jorge Marín, juvenile and children's muses.
The Community finances a museum in the Lonja de Mazarrón to make fishery compatible with tourism (09/02/2018)
The Minister of Water, Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries stresses that the project, with an amount of 59,000 euros, "will attract visitors to get to know the traditional fishing activity of this municipality "
The Port of Mazarrón fish market enhances its image as an interpretive tourist center (09/02/2018)
A musealization project financed with European funds adds tourist interest to one of the logistics centers of the small sector with the highest production in the Region of Murcia
Aid for small businesses worth up to 5,000 euros per project (09/02/2018)
Illustrators Juan Ã�lvarez and Jorge Gómez dedicate their last exhibition to Mazarrón (07/02/2018)
The retired teachers of Mazarrón will receive a tribute after a conference of César Bona (07/02/2018)
The event that will open the teacher nominated to the Global Teacher Prize will take place next Friday, February 16 in the CEIP Miguel Delibes of Puerto de Mazarrón at 17:00 hours
The Community improves the signaling at the intersection of the Mazarrón road to Cañada de Gallego (05/02/2018)
The action aims to prevent the risk of reaching a road through which an average of 5,000 vehicles transits, including a significant number of heavy transports. the agricultural companies in the area
The Works and Services Plan will invest 450,000 euros in Mazarrón in the period 2018-2019 (02/02/2018)
The expansion works of sports facilities in La Media Legua begin.
The Community allocates almost 230,000 euros for the construction of a beach soccer field and another for volleyball in Mazarrón (02/02/2018)
The Works and Services Plan 2018-2019 will exceed 450,000 euros of investment in various projects in the municipality
This Saturday returns to Bahia the beach volleyball league (02/02/2018)
Fourth day of a competition that has gathered in previous meetings a hundred participants
More than 40 clubs and 2,000 participants will meet at the Carnival of Mazarrón 2018 (01/02/2018)
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Desertification in China
Desertification is one of the most important environmental challenges facing the world today, however it is arguably the most under-reported. Desertification is the gradual transformation of arable and habitable land into desert, usually caused by climate change and/or the improper use of land. Each year, desertification and drought account for US$42 billion loss in food productivity worldwide.
In China, nearly 20% of land area is desert. As a result of a combination of poor farming practices, drought and increased demand for groundwater, desertification has become arguably China's most important environmental challenge. As the effects of increasing desertification appear, farmers are forced to abandon their land, levels of rural poverty rise and the intensity of sandstorms, which batter northern and western China each year, continue to intensify.
By traveling on China's 'desertification train' on the K117-T69-K886 route that dissects China's major northern deserts (The Gobi, Taklamakan and Badain Jaran) from Beijing, on the east coast of China, to Kashgar, on the western borders, photojournalist Sean Gallagher reports on the various implications of desertification on people's lives across the breadth of China.
Pulitzer Center Updates
March 17, 2014 | MIPJ
China: Sean Gallagher Photo Feature and Interview
MIPJ's latest edition includes an interview with Pulitzer Center grantee and photojournalist Sean Gallagher.
August 20, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
New E-book on China’s Environment
Caroline D'Angelo
New e-book on China's environment available from Pulitzer Center's award-winning e-book production team and photographer Sean Gallagher
March 05, 2012 | Asia Society, The Atlantic
China on the Brink
Pulitzer Center photojournalist Sean Gallagher talks to the Asia Society about his reporting projects on China's environmental problems and his experience as a freelance journalist in China.
April 01, 2010 | National Geographic (China)
China's Growing Sands (Chinese)
Sean Gallagher, China
Photographer Sean Gallagher's 12-page photo-essay 'China's Growing Sands' is featured in the April 2010 edition of National Geographic China. The work focuses on the subject of environmental crisis of desertification and its effects on northern China.
Read the full article at National Geographic Magazine China.
November 09, 2010 | Education Resources
Exploring Downstream: Water Resources
Through this webquest, students will use several different projects on the "Downstream" Global Gateway to examine the impact of water around the world.
September 01, 2010 | Meet the Journalist
Meet Sean Gallagher
Sean Gallagher is a British photographer currently based in China. To date he has lived and worked across the world, spending extended periods of time in locations as diverse as Japan, Brazil, New Zealand, China, the United Arab Emirates and various European nations.
November 16, 2017 | Education news
Sean Gallagher and the Importance of the Campus Consortium Network
Kamran Rahman
Sean Gallagher was interviewed by the University of Iowa's College of Public Health about his work covering environmental issues in Asia.
September 25, 2017 | Education news
University of Iowa Visit Focuses on Climate Change, Public Health
Sydney Combs and Kamran Rahman
Sean Gallagher interviewed by Daily Iowan during inaugural campus visit discusses importance of multimedia journalism in reporting environmental issues.
November 14, 2014 | General news, Project news, Education news
Video: "Meeting China's Environmental Crisis" at University of Chicago
Lauren Shepherd
Hear from journalists, academic experts on religion's unlikely role in meeting environmental challenges in China.
August 28, 2013 | General news, Project news
New E-books on the Creatavist Platform
Caroline D'Angelo and Rebecca Gibian
The Pulitzer Center is pleased to announce the publication of five e-books on the Creatavist platform, including the new book "Meltdown: China's Environmental Crisis."
Desertification is one of the most important environmental challenges facing the world today, however it is arguably the most under-reported.
Sean Gallagher is a British photographer and filmmaker who has been based in Asia for nearly a decade. His work focuses on highlighting environmental issues and crises, with a specific emphasis on...
Launched: April 13, 2009
Environment, Water and Sanitation
Sean Gallagher Shares Environmental Reporting During NYC Visit
Meeting China’s Environmental Crisis Through the Lens of Religion
Sean Gallagher Speaks at Beijing's Today Art Museum
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The Peachland Museum
Home of the Peachland Historical Society
Beach Avenue in Miniature – circa 1967
A Century of Life by Water
A History of Peachland
Digitized Okanagan History
About the Peachland Historical Society
The unique 8-sided Peachland Baptist Church was constructed, mainly by volunteers, in 1910 and served as a place of worship until 1964. Over the years it has functioned as a temporary Municipal Hall, Parks and Recreation Office, Fire Brigade Hall and Public Library.
The picture on the left shows it under construction. Note the peach tree growing in the foreground. Since 1980 the building has housed the Peachland Museum and since 1981, the church building was declared an official British Columbia Heritage site.
Hundreds of historical artifacts, photographs, newspapers and documents are on display. Together, they offer a glimpse into the rich history of Peachland and its people.
The personal histories of pioneer Peachland families are documented in three volumes: Peachland Memories 1 & 2 and the 2009 Centennial Picture Book. The books are available for purchase at the Museum.
The upper floor of the Museum houses a scale model of the Kettle Valley Railway, as it existed between 1955 and 1965, built and maintained by the Central Okanagan Railway Company.
What’s new at the Central Okanagan Railway Company?
New places to visit.
The Resurrection of Myra
IS THERE REALLY A SPANISH FORK IN BC ?
A Day at Lower Summerland
World wide recognition – sort of.
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The Aleph and the Knowledge Worker
or, The nature of knowledge in the wired world.
[warning -- formless braindump]
Borges' story The Aleph tells of a point at which a person can view the entire state of the world, everything concentrated and simultaneous. Typically, it's a metaphysical horror story with uncanny resonances in both present reality and the future. The Aleph was published in 1949, four years after Vannevar Bush's seminal article As We May Think, which described the Memex, the postwar technocrat's version of The Aleph as a realizable device. Did Borges read Bush, or just intuit a zeitgeist that was blowing through both of them?
Bush's article is an amazing mix of insightful prophecy and some laughably wrong technical predictions (ie, that storage would involve photographic processes). But mostly he got it right. What is really startling, however, is that despite the fact that we have information systems orders of magnitude more capable than he dreamed of, the problem still remains:
There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends. The investigator is staggered by the findings and conclusions of thousands of other workers' conclusions which he cannot find time to grasp, much less to remember, as they appear. Yet specialization becomes increasingly necessary for progress, and the effort to bridge between disciplines is correspondingly superficial.
He anticipated the primacy of search:
The prime action of use is selection, and here we are halting indeed. There may be millions of fine thoughts, and the account of the experience on which they are based, all encased within stone walls of acceptable architectural form; but if the scholar can get at only one a week by diligent search, his syntheses are not likely to keep up with the current scene.
Selection, in this broad sense, is a stone adze in the hands of a cabinetmaker. Yet, in a narrow sense and in other areas, something has already been done mechanically on selection. The personnel officer of a factory drops a stack of a few thousand employee cards into a selecting machine, sets a code in accordance with an established convention, and produces in a short time a list of all employees who live in Trenton and know Spanish.
And user interfaces:
One can consider rapid selection of this form, and distant projection for other purposes. To be able to key one sheet of a million before an operator in a second or two, with the possibility of then adding notes thereto, is suggestive in many ways. It might even be of use in libraries... One might, for example, speak to a microphone, in the manner described in connection with the speech controlled typewriter, and thus make his selections. It would certainly beat the usual file clerk.
And blogging and search trails and annotation (which the web has still not quite got right):
It affords an immediate step, however, to associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing.
When the user is building a trail, he names it, inserts the name in his code book, and taps it out on his keyboard. Before him are the two items to be joined, projected onto adjacent viewing positions... The user taps a single key, and the items are permanently joined..
Thereafter, at any time, when one of these items is in view, the other can be instantly recalled merely by tapping a button below the corresponding code space. Moreover, when numerous items have been thus joined together to form a trail, they can be reviewed in turn, rapidly or slowly, by deflecting a lever like that used for turning the pages of a book. It is exactly as though the physical items had been gathered together from widely separated sources and bound together to form a new book. It is more than this, for any item can be joined into numerous trails.
So. Now we are at a point where we have huge amounts of information at our fingertips, and reasonably good ways to search for it, and crude but effective ways to link it together. The combination of internet standards, high-speed access, Google and open access scientific publications has made a new world. We should be in knowledge paradise!
But that's not how it feels. The basic human problem of how to deal with information hasn't gone away, it's just been raised to the nth power. Finding documents is easy, deciding which are worth reading, and in how much detail, is as difficult as ever. Where should effort be focused, and how can one narrow down a global curiosity into a manageable subset?
Look at the typical modern knowledge worker, trying desperately to keep track of all the things they want to know, or ought to know. Maybe you aren't in this boat, but I am -- comes of too much intellectual curiosity. My RSS reader has 300 feeds! Categorized variously -- I read the politcs blogs mostly for entertainment (in that they don't generally spur me to action), the philosophic ones for ideas, the tech ones mostly out of obligation.
Even within tech, it's a lost cause. There are about five different programming languages I'm involved with right now -- do I want to keep up with current developments in them? And what about all the components and toolkits; what's going on with Prototyup or Scriptaculous? Or Lisp, Ruby, Python? Then there is the entire universe of Java language, components, and tools like Eclipse, which is a whole sub-universe unto itself.
There's no way I can be an expert in all of this stuff. Can I be an expert in finding out just the right piece of knowledge i need? Well, there's where Google comes in handy. I've had pretty good luck, the last six months or so, googling for answers to obscure or not-so-obscure tech questions. A couple of issues though:
It gives a big advantage to tools with a large user community. For instance, I've had occasion both to use Oracle and the very nice Virtuoso OpenLink, an open-source database/semantic web platform/middleware/kitchen sink. THe problem is, hardly anyone is uing Virtuoso so my stupid questions do not have a stupid answer available wit a quick Google. Instead, I need to mail the developers and maybe they get back to me in a day or so, or maybe not.
So where was I? Oh yeah, trying to think about Google and Borges and Memexes and focus and what it means to know everything...got distracted...
The point is it's impossible to know everything, and not even that useful. But what should an informational omnivore know? How to use Google effectively, sure....but there seems to be a deeper idea lurking somewhere in there.
The nature of knowing is going to be different in the future. I was trying to get at this when I coined the term "googlectual" -- as search gets incorporated into our thinking, the knowledge in the digital sphere becomes a part of what we know -- sort of. We lack good metaphors and ways for thinking about the relationship between knowledge-in-the-head and knowledge-in-the-world and the increasingly tight coupling between them.
Alright, I'll stop now.
Worst company names
Licketyship. A guy from there called my cell phone today for something, the connection wasn't so great, so I spent most of the call trying to figure out what sort of business model could involve coprophagy. Then there's the classic expertsexchange.com.
The grain of sand at the core of the wikipedia pearl
Holy shit, Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder and guru) is an objectivist. That is just weird on multiple levels. For one thing, it's another example of a right-libertarian being in the vanguard of what amounts to a left-libertarian vision. When I was at MIT the objectivists used to quite literally worship the $ sign, now we have one whose slogan is "free knowledge for free minds".
For another, the philosophy of wikipedia seems determinedly anti-objectivist, at least superficially. They disdain expertise and seem to expect that truth will bubble up from a crowd-based distributed process. This egalitarian attitude seems very un-Randian to me, although who knows, maybe it is objectivist on a deeper level.
Given that Wikipedia seems to have become the new default authoritative source of knowledge, it's guiding philosophy and structures of governance become exceedingly interesting and important. The fact that it's run by someone under the influence of a nuttily simplistic ideology is a wee bit disturbing. On the other hand, Wales does not seem to have the virulently rabid form of the objectivist meme, and it certainly hasn't interfered with the success of his efforts.
Labels: economics, epistemology, libertarianism, wikipedia
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The Ireland team announced the series against Bangladesh
Ireland announced the 14-man squad for the only ODI series against England and the tri-series in Bangladesh and West Indies. Veteran wicketkeeper-batsman Gary Wilson has returned to the squad. He had missed the series against Afghanistan in February-March due to problems in the eyes.
The team, led by William Porterfield, has been named as the new face of Josh Little and Larkan Tucker. The left-arm seamer has already taken 13 wickets in 10 T-20 matches. In January, he was called for the first time in the one-day squad for the 'A' team in Sri Lanka.
Ireland will play only one ODI against England on May 3. Then on 5-17 May, the Irish will play a tri-series with Bangladesh and West Indies.
Ireland squad: William Porterfield (captain), Andrew Bellbirnie, George Dockrell, Josh Little, Andrew McBrin, Barry McCarthy, James McCullum, Tim Murstag, Kevin O'Brien, Boyd Ryan Knockin, Paul Sterling, Stuart Thompson, Larkan Tucker, Gary Wilson.
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Pre-Certification Video > Admin Posts
What is a "pre-cert"?
26-03-2009, 06:19:08 PM
MarcMorris
69 année érotique
A "pre-cert video" (Pre-Certification) is any videotape (or laserdisc) issued in the UK before the introduction of the 1984 Video Recordings Act.
Pre-cert videos were not required by law to be submitted to the BBFC so the era was unregulated, leading to many uncut releases of videos which would have fallen foul of the BBFC's strict guidelines, and would therefore have been censored if submission to the board was a legal requirement.
However, whilst many of the larger respectable companies simply issued their previously BBFC certificated cinema releases onto video to play safe as they feared there was bound to be a clampdown at some stage, some of the smaller independent companies decided to take advantage of the unregulated video rentals market by issuing "strong uncut" versions depicting graphic violence and gore. A whole barrage of titles previously banned by the BBFC from getting a cinema release suddenly ended up uncensored on home video.
What began as a bill drafted by little known Luton Tory back bencher Graham Bright was made law after he and the tabloid press (most notably The Daily Mail) had successfully whipped the media into a frenzied hysteria over so-called "video nasties". Ban the Sadist Videos! was one of the more famous headlines they ran. When the bill was made law it became a legal requirement that all videotapes must be submitted to the BBFC for classification (and possible cuts).
The pre-cert video era is best remembered (amongst horror fans in particular) for the ensuing "video nasty" debacle in which a selection of 72 videotapes were singled out and prosecuted by the DPP (Director of Public Prosecutions) under Section 2 or Section 3 of the OPA (Obscene Publications Act). Of these, 39 titles were deemed by the courts to be obscene and it's those titles which formed the final "Video Nasties list.
Video releases from this unregulated "pre-cert" era have become increasingly collectible items. Whilst most can be picked up cheaply on eBay and through second hand stores and car boot sales, many titles are highly sought after. In fact some of the very hard to find titles have been known to command prices in excess of £500. There remains to this day a very dedicated pre-cert collector's market, and most of these die-hard collectors can be found lurking in this very web site's discussion forum.
Link: The Video Recordings Act, 1984
Link: About the BBFC
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Home Education and the Holocaust The Aftermath
|| Return to The Holocaust–A Guide for Pennsylvania Teachers ||
Much of Europe was destroyed in the war. Survivors of the camps were in terrible condition, both physically and psychologically. Trials were held in Nuremberg in 1945 at which top surviving Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes. Similar trials followed, but thousands of war criminals eluded justice, and some even remain at large today. The State of Israel opened its doors to all Jews and is a positive legacy of the Holocaust. Neo-Nazi groups today continue to spout hatred for Jews and other minorities, and insist that the Holocaust never occurred.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
Students will learn:
1. About the concept of war crimes and “crimes against humanity.”
2. That the loss of Jewish life and the destruction of an entire culture was the goal of the Nazis, and was almost a complete success in Europe.
3. About the conditions of the survivors from the camps when liberation finally occurred and what happened to them after liberation.
4. How the world community dealt with the perpetrators of Nazi war crimes.
5. How many Nazi war criminals escaped justice and received haven in many countries, including the United States.
CHAPTER CONTENT
World War II devastated Europe. Railroads, bridges, water systems, sanitation systems, electric lines, and other infrastructure were in ruins. Millions of homes were reduced to rubble. Manufacturing plants, businesses, farms, and other places where people would ordinarily work were unusable. Millions of people who would have been working in those facilities were dead.
Sixty million refugees were made homeless by the war. Millions of other civilians had been caught in the cross-fire of war, unintended victims. And there were an estimated eleven million intended civilian victims, murdered by the Nazis because of their race, religion, sexual preference, physical or mental handicap, ideological opposition, or resistance to Nazi genocide.
After the surrender of the Nazis, Germany was divided into four zones of occupation, controlled respectively by the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. Authority over Germany was vested in the Allied Control Commission, composed of representatives of those four victorious nations. The Allies liberated the camps, and what they found there left an indelible impression. The camps were littered with thousands of corpses. The German army had apparently tried to murder as many prisoners as possible one step ahead of the advance of the Allies. Many other thousands of prisoners were found, most of them clinging precariously to life. Most of these victims were literally skin and bones, having wasted away from years of hunger, starvation, and forced labor. Once healthy human beings who had weighed 160 pounds before their deportation now weighed less than 75 pounds.
Disease was so rampant that many of the camps had to be burned to the ground to prevent epidemics. Thousands of these survivors were in such poor condition that despite the offering of medical care and sufficient food, they died within days of their liberation.
Displaced Persons (DP) Camps
By the end of World War II, there were eight million persons who had been driven out of their native countries by the hostilities. By the end of 1945, as many as six million were able to return. There remained two million who were unable to be repatriated, and were put into Displaced Persons (DP) camps administered by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Among them were 50,000 Jews who had been liberated from the concentration camps. Many from Germany or Austria had no desire to return to their homes, and many from other countries had nothing to return to entire Jewish towns and villages had been wiped out. Many of these Jews were the sole survivors of large families. The DP camps were for the most part former military camps. Conditions were overcrowded and far from luxurious. Jews who escaped the Nazis by hiding or by fighting in partisan units made their way to the DP camps after the war.
In August of 1945, a report commissioned by President Truman to investigate the status of stateless persons in Europe gave special recognition to the plight of Jews. The President requested that the British grant 100,000 visas to Jews to enter Palestine, under the British Mandate. The British, seeking to limit Jewish immigration, granted only 6,000 visas. But 40,000 other Jews, including 30,000 who had lived in the DP camps, emigrated to Palestine illegally.
Nuremberg Trials
As early as October 1943, the Allies had scheduled formal conferences to discuss future legal actions against German war criminals once the Axis Powers were vanquished. Within weeks after the German surrender, an International Military Tribunal was established in the German city of Nuremberg to try captured Nazi war criminals and other high-ranking Nazis who had eluded capture. The Tribunal consisted of eight judges, two each from the countries of the U.S., Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. Twenty-one of 24 indicted Nazi leaders stood trial in the first series of what became known as the Nuremberg Trials. The charges brought against these men were conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
– A common plan to commit a crime in the future.
Crimes against peace
– Launching a war of aggression.
– Violations of international agreements governing the conduct of war, such as mistreatment of prisoners, murder, or forced labor of occupied civilian populations.
– Committing crimes against people, such as murder, deportation, and religious persecution, regardless of whether the action violated domestic law at the time.
The first trial lasted ten months. Eleven of the defendants were sentenced to death, seven received long prison sentences, and three were acquitted. A year later, 24 more war criminals were sentenced to death, and 117 others received prison sentences. The scope of these trials was limited to punishing those leaders who had instigated and carried out the Nazi master plan to enslave the world. The judges refused to take jurisdiction over individual “barbarities and perversions,” which may have occurred, according to the Chief American prosecutor. For many of the defendants, the legal defense was that they were “only following orders.” The Nuremberg judges rejected that justification.
Individual nations which suffered under Nazi occupation were encouraged to bring to justice thousands of other war criminals who had committed atrocities against their citizens. Many nations did so, and thousands of other war criminals were sentenced to death or received prison terms. In one celebrated case, Israeli agents tracked down Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and kidnapped him to face trial in Israel. The person most responsible for finding Eichmann was Simon Wiesenthal, who hunted down and brought to justice more than a thousand Nazi war criminals. Eichmann, who was in charge of the Nazi deportation units which sent millions of Jews to their deaths, was tried in 1961 and hanged. This was the only case up to that time in which a Nazi war criminal was tried and accused solely of committing a crime against Jews.
Thousands of Nazi war criminals escaped the clutches of justice, settling in friendly countries and living under assumed identities. The United States government participated in several conspiracies to help war criminals elude justice. Many of these criminals were talented scientists and engineers, and the U.S. government at that time made a policy decision that it was in the interests of this nation to exploit that talent rather than see that justice was done. The U.S. rocket program in the 1950s and 1960s was heavily influenced by the work of German rocket scientists who had participated in war crimes.
Only about 20% of the 150,000 Nazi war criminals were ever put on trial. Millions of others whose complicity was necessary in order to bring about the “Final Solution” and to put the master plan into effect escaped punishment. Today, a half century after some of these war crimes were committed, the search continues to bring perpetrators to trial.
Following the surrender, the Allies required the German government to begin making payments to war victims and agencies representing and providing services to war victims. In time, many Jews who survived the death camps were compensated for the value of their property which was confiscated. In 1952, West Germany, the newly-formed democratic nation created out of the fusion of the U.S., British, and French sectors of Germany, signed a treaty with Israel to pay reparations of about $1 billion over a 12-year period. In February 1990, East Germany admitted for the first time that it was also responsible for war crimes committed by the German people during World War II and agreed to pay reparations.
For survivors of the Holocaust, the establishment of the Jewish State of Israel was a positive legacy of this tragedy. Declared a sovereign nation on May 14, 1948, many of its first citizens were survivors of the Holocaust. Prior to its status as a nation, Israel was part of Palestine, under control of the British. The British had severely restricted Jewish immigration into Palestine in an effort to appease Arabs of that area. Arabs, like Jews, had claimed Palestine as their own land. A United Nations resolution in 1947 had recommended that Palestine be partitioned into a Jewish section and an Arab section. The Jews accepted this partition plan, but the Arab League rejected it.
When the Jews declared the birth of Israel, six Arab nations who were opposed to the creation of a new Jewish state invaded, hoping to drive the Jews into the Mediterranean Sea. Although many Arabs stayed, hundreds of thousands of them fled Palestine during the war. The invasion was repelled, and a nation was born whose citizens consisted of many people whom the Nazis had tried to murder.
American Neo-Nazis and Revisionists
There exist in the United States organizations, vocal, yet small in membership, whose message of racism, anti-Semitism, and bigotry against all minorities parallels the doctrines of the Nazi party of Germany in the 1930s. Many of the members of these organizations were not even born when Hitler was alive. Some leaders of these organizations deny that the Holocaust ever occurred, claiming that it is a fabrication of Jews to defame the “Aryan” race. This view of denying that the Holocaust ever occurred, despite the overwhelming documentation to the contrary, is called “revisionism.” Many other leaders of these groups assert that if the Holocaust did occur, it was justified then and would be justified now. African-Americans, Hispanics, and other minorities would be invited to join the Jews in the ovens according to Neo-Nazi doctrine.
On occasion, Neo-Nazis have been convicted of crimes ranging from murder, vandalism of synagogues and churches, to the intimidation of Jews and other minorities by threats of violence and actual physical attacks. Membership in these organizations nationwide may be no more than several thousand.
The United States Congress enacted legislation in 1980 to establish the United States Memorial Council. The purpose of the Council is to plan and build the United States Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and to encourage and sponsor observances of an annual, nationwide civic commemoration of the Holocaust, known as the “Days of Remembrance.” The Memorial Museum was designed by James I. Freed and will be located 400 yards from the Washington Monument in the nation’s Capital. As required by law, it will be built entirely with private contributions.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania participates in the Council’s Holocaust observance program. The Governor of Pennsylvania annually schedules a ceremony in the Capitol, in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Jewish Coalition, to commemorate the “Days of Remembrance,” which includes appropriate songs, poetry readings, and a proclamation signing, among other activities.
United Nations Genocide Convention
On February 19, 1986, the United States Congress ratified a United Nations Treaty outlawing genocide. The 1948 treaty had been signed by President Harry Truman that year, but was stalled in the Senate because of concerns about how the treaty would affect U.S. sovereignty. When the treaty was finally ratified, it was amended to address these concerns. A law to implement the treaty was enacted by the Congress on October 19, 1988. The law provides penalties of up to life imprisonment and a fine of up to $1 million as punishment for certain actions with a “specific intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.”
More than 90 nations, including the Soviet Union, had previously ratified the treaty.
Atrocity – An act which is shockingly brutal or outrageously cruel and barbaric.
– A plan to commit a crime.
– A type of crime newly defined by the Nuremberg Tribunal which included crimes against individuals and groups, such as enslavement, mass murder, or mistreatment of civilians regardless of whether the actions were violations of the domestic law where the crime was committed.
Displaced Persons (DP) camp
– A temporary shelter of tents or other housing established by the Allies to serve the needs of refugees.
– Persons living today who sympathize with the views of the Nazis.
– A series of trials held in Nuremberg, Germany, conducted by the victorious Allies, which charged high-ranking Nazis and German leaders with war crimes and “crimes against humanity.”
– A person who participated in atrocities and other crimes against the Jews, including those such as bureaucrats, lawyers, and railroad officials, whose actions indirectly resulted in those crimes being carried out.
– Payments made by the losers of a war to the victors or to war victims to compensate for damages.
Revisionists
– Those who rewrite history for political or ideological purposes.
– Crimes committed in war time against the enemy or prisoners of war which violate international agreements on the conduct of war.
Research newspaper accounts of the election of David Duke in 1989 to a seat in the Louisiana State Legislature.
Write a report on the history of the founding of the State of Israel, and the role of the British in the history of that nation.
Obtain a list of prominent war criminals who may still be alive and in hiding. Find out what they were accused of, and what efforts are being made to locate them.
Research the activities of the Office of Special Investigations (O.S.I.) in the U.S. Justice Department which is charged with the task of identifying and deporting Nazi war criminals. When and how was this office established?
Research the role of the U.S. government in bringing Nazi rocket scientists to the United States.
Research the case of convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk. Did he receive a fair trial?
Research the kidnapping and trial of Adolf Eichmann. Discuss whether this kidnapping was legal, and whether it was justified.
Did the Nuremberg Trials accomplish what they were supposed to?
Should the United States have permitted Nazi war criminals safe haven here in exchange for their scientific expertise?
Is there any value in continuing the search for and the prosecution of Nazi war criminals, most of whom are feeble old men, or should they be left alone to die in peace?
Is the response, “I was only following orders” ever a legitimate response for those who committed atrocities under the belief, real or assumed, that they would face punishment or even execution for not carrying out that order?
Should Neo-Nazis have the right to form organizations, run for office, and hold public rallies?
1. Define the following:
Displaced Person Camp
Neo-Nazi
2. What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Trials? What was different about the defendants that did not apply to many other perpetrators who were not tried?
3. Name three of the crimes with which the defendants of the Nuremberg Trials were charged.
4. When was Israel established? What form of government does it have? Why is it not yet accepted by the nations in the region?
5. How did many Nazi war criminals find their way into the United States?
6. Who is Simon Wiesenthal?
7. What was unique about the trial of Adolf Eichmann?
8. What was the job of the Office of Special Investigations in the U.S. Justice Department?
9. What were the conditions like in the Displaced Persons camps?
10. Compare post-war Europe to pre-war Europe, and discuss three major problems facing the Allies after their victory.
Recreate a discussion between a staffer in the U.S. State Department, former U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (who was the sponsor of legislation to create the Office of Special Investigations), a lawyer for a former S.S. member hiding in the United States, a Holocaust survivor, and Simon Wiesenthal.
The government of East Germany in 1990 began considering the question of providing war reparations for Holocaust survivors. Let the students discuss the reasons why East Germany never provided such payments in the past. Then permit the students to research the issue and discover if their reasons were consistent with those of the East German government.
Copyright 1990 Gary M. Grobman
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South Africa: Anglo Coal invests in solar technology company
Anglo Coal has ventured into the renewable energy market, by acquiring a 5.3% equity stake in Johanna Solar Technology GmbH (JST), a German photovoltaic technology company.
“Anglo Coal‘s interest in JST forms part of a wider involvement in promoting and developing carbon mitigation and offset technologies, as part of coal’s strategic response to meeting the environmental Green Challenge. Additionally, our involvement in JST also demonstrates support for cleaner energy research in South Africa” says Roger Wicks, Head of Energy in Anglo American plc.
In the coming months, JST, which is based in Brandenburg an der Havel near Berlin, will begin constructing, what will potentially be the most advanced plant for the production of solar modules based on a new thin-film technology. The EU and Germany in particular has in place market and other related incentives, which makes viable the introduction of this new technology.
Production, with a target capacity of 30 megawatts, is expected to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2007, and is anticipated to expand to an annual 60 megawatts facility by 2009. A total of 180 jobs will be created in the first phase of expansion alone, and there is potential over the medium-term for the construction of a similar technology plant in South Africa and other geographies.
This innovative photovoltaic technology, which was developed by the University of Johannesburg, has been licensed to JST – copper, indium, gallium, sulphide and selenium metals are used to produce the photovoltaic cells. Unlike regular solar modules, the new panels do not require the use of silicon, an increasingly rare and expensive raw material.
“It is currently the most powerful thin-film technology in the world,” says Jeroen Haberland, managing director of JST.
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Uganda: Total stations to use solar power
TOTAL has launched a solar power system for its stations, becoming the first oil company in Uganda to do so. The Vice-President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya lauded Total and Uganda Batteries for initiating solar power use for petrol stations, saying it is vital during loadshedding hours.
Bukenya said the Government is committed to helping investors in the power sector. He said the Government would soon come up with policy to provide incentives to investors who want to produce power from the sun and wind.
Total’s managing director, Christophe Jacquet said they had partnered with Uganda Batteries in contributing to the noble cause of saving energy and developing alternative sources of power.
“With the project now running in Luzira, we are showing that everything is possible and that solar as modern and renewable energy is able to run big facilities such as petrol stations,” Jacquet said.
He said they had recently launched gas for cooking in a smaller affordable size.
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Turkey - 13-16 Sep 18
Posted: September 15, 2018 7:12 PM - 2218 Hits
Round 10 - 2018 World Rally Championship
Live Results (Turkey 2018) Also available at: rally-base results & ewrc-results.com
Rally Radio: WRC All Live Audio Stream
News: www.wrc.com
Event Website: Rally Turkey
First stage each day - Irish/UK Times (Turkey is 2 hours ahead)
Shakedown - Thu 07:30
SS1 Thu - 18:08 (Superspecial)
SS2 Fri - 05:58
SS8 Sat - 06:35
SS14 Sun - 08:08
Devine Hoping For Turkish Delight On Season Finale
FIA JUNIOR WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP RALLY TURKEY, PREVIEW
FIVE-DAY SAILING PRIZE FOR RALLY TURKEY’S WRC 2 CATEGORY WINNER
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TURKISH DELIGHT FOR THE C3 WRCs
M-SPORT FORD IN SEARCH OF TURKISH DELIGHT
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LUXURY YACHT HOLIDAY TO BE OFFERED TO RALLY TURKEY’S WINNING DRIVER
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Turkey endorsed for 2018 WRC after successful pilot event
Posted: September 12, 2018 5:02 PM
Motorsport Ireland Young Rally Driver of the Year, Callum Devine, is in the final stages of preparation for the closing round of the 2018 Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC), Rally Turkey Marmaris. The round is a new addition to the 2018 series and the rugged, rock strewn roads will provide one of toughest challenges of the championship. Turkey is the culmination of a trailblazing season for the 24 year old Derry driver as he made his top flight debut. His season to date has seen him tackle events in Sweden, Corsica, Portugal and Finland and results have left Callum in 7th place in the JWRC heading into the season finale. Despite a non-finish round 3 in Portugal, he still, remarkably has an outside chance of the title.
“Mathematically, we actually still have a shot at the title here in Turkey this weekend as there is double points on offer, but even if we were to do all that was asked of us, we would still need others not to finish. To be honest, the long shot at the title is the farthest thing from my mind. This is going to a very demanding rally and going flat out here is not really an option. The stages are quite rough already so I can only imagine what they will be like after a few passes. Car and tyre management will play a big factor here, at times it may be more surviving than driving, but that’s all part of the challenge at this level” said Callum ahead of the event. Callum will once again be joined by co-driver Brian Hoy and the pair are happy with their pre event reconnaissance which will now require a few evenings looking over camera footage of the stages to fine tune their pacenotes.
Reflecting on his season, Callum continued; “It’s been an unbelievable experience to compete at this level and it really opens your eyes to the level of commitment needed. My pace has come on a lot and I’ve learned loads. Only for a puncture in Corsica and a silly mistake in Portugal, we would be a lot higher than 7th heading into the last round. I’ve done a small gravel rally at home to keep my eye in on the loose since Finland and having being so close to podium finishes twice this year, it would be a great way to end the season. I haven’t any definite plans for 2019 yet so I will be trying all I can to end this adventure on a high. I can’t thank all my family, friends and sponsors enough for all their efforts this year and Brian and Keith for keeping me under control too!”
The prize for the lucky JWRC winner, who will be crowned this weekend, will be a R5 Ford Fiesta along with support to tackle WRC2 rounds in 2019. This year’s championship has witnessed some close-fought rallying and the competition could not be tighter with 8 drivers in with a shot of the title. The drivers are equipped with identical 1 litre EcoBoost Ford Fiesta R2s, Pirelli tyres and Panta fuel. While Turkey has hosted a round of the FIA World Rally Championship before, the championship has never visited this region and absolutely everything is new. Rally Turkey Marmaris takes place between the 13th-16th of September and a short spectator stage getting proceedings underway on Thursday evening. Friday sees the rally start in earnest with 3 stages repeated twice meaning that leg 1 will be longest of the event at 147 competitive kilometres. Saturday follows the same format while the closing leg of the rally on Sunday is made up of 4 tests, a pair of new stages run once each and the Marmaris stage which will run twice and conclude the rally.
To keep up to date with Callum throughout the weekend and follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Callum’s debut season in the JWRC was supported by Motorsport Ireland, Sport Ireland, the Team Ireland Foundation, Fyth and Premier Car Parts.
Posted: September 12, 2018 6:34 AM
The 2018 FIA Junior World Rally Championship will come to an exciting close when Rally Turkey hosts the fifth and final round this week. Double points are up for grabs, and eight of the competing crews have a mathematical chance of clinching the title.
This year’s championship has witnessed some intensely close-fought rallying and the competition could not be tighter. The protagonists are equipped with identical one-litre EcoBoost Ford Fiesta R2s shod with Pirelli tyres, and the stage is set for a showdown of epic proportions.
While Turkey has hosted a round of the FIA World Rally Championship before, the championship has never visited this region and absolutely everything is new.
The crews must do their research in advance and be completely focused in the lead-up to the event. Brand-new pacenotes must be made for every kilometre, and the correct set-ups determined for the unfamiliar terrain.
This is the ultimate test on a completely level playing field and those who emerge victorious will have demonstrated all the skills of a deserving champion.
Currently leading the championship standings is Emil Bergkvist. The Swede may not have claimed a victory so far this year, but he has been in the fight at every event and competitive on every surface. Can he secure the title with victory this weekend?
Fellow Swede Dennis Rådström will be looking to prevent that. Rådström has won more events than anyone else this year and led the championship all season before being toppled by his rival at the previous round. Victory on home soil in Sweden and was followed by an intelligent drive to the top step of the podium in Portugal, and he’ll be looking to do the same in Turkey.
Another driver keen to taste the winners’ champagne is Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Franceschi. After winning his home event at the Tour de Corse, Franceschi has proved a quick learner and challenged for the podium positions at every event.
Rally Finland winner Ken Torn is also a strong candidate for victory and championship glory. The Estonian has speed in abundance and has regularly challenged at the top of the field. A mistake-free run in Turkey could see the Estonian snatch the title.
Also in contention for the title this week are Julius Tannert, Callum Devine, Enrico Oldrati and Bugra Banaz. Despite this being a brand new event for all concerned, Tannert’s experience of the championship could work in his favour as could Devine’s calm and composed character.
Having contested just a single rally sprint before the opening round in Sweden, Oldrati would never have dreamed of being in with a shot of the title come the final round, but here he is – his determination and will to learn paying dividends.
Local hero Banaz will also be looking to give the home crowd something to cheer about. The Turkish driver has contested a number of events in his homeland, and will be hoping that gives him the advantage when it comes to reading the road and conditions.
Also in competition this week are Luca Bottarelli, David Holder, Tom Williams and Emilio Fernández – all of whom will be looking to put everything they have learnt into practice and finishing the season with a positive result.
The Junior WRC also welcomes a newcomer to the service area in the form of Raul Badiu. Having contested a number of rallies in his homeland, the Romanian will make his WRC debut in Turkey.
FIA Junior World Rally Championship Manager, Maciej Woda, said:
“We have had such a fantastic season and the fact that eight of the competing crews in Turkey are capable of taking the title just proves how close-fought the competition has been. Every single competitor can be proud of what they have achieved this year. There are so many highlights, from so many of the crews, and whoever comes out on top will be a very worthy winner.
“But as we all know, it will not be easy and Rally Turkey provides the toughest test yet. This is a completely new challenge for everyone – a level playing field where everyone will have to make brand-new pacenotes and relay on their natural ability to read the road. We’re expecting the stages to be pretty rough, and the eventual winner will have displayed intelligence as well as speed.”
Emil Bergkvist said:
“I’ve really enjoyed this championship, but it’s not over yet. The goal from the beginning was to win the prize, and that is what we will remain focused on and try to do next week.”
Dennis Rådström said:
“The championship this year has been amazing with legendary events and new challenges on every surface. If we can win the championship it would be an honour as it has been a pleasure competing against all the other drivers. We have worked and fought hard and shown how far you can get by working hard. And now, we are ready to fight for the title.”
Jean-Baptiste Franceschi said:
“I’ve been really happy with my pace this year, and the championship has allowed me to learn and develop on all surfaces. I love to drive and give everything in every race, and anything is still possible in Turkey. A lot can happen and we have done as much preparation as possible so that we will have no regrets.”
Ken Torn said:
“All the rallies were new to me to me this year and I viewed the whole season as a lesson for the future. It really has been a fantastic opportunity for a young driver like me to compete on the same roads as the top-class drivers. I think Rally Turkey will be nice but also very hot inside the cars. We also need to see how hard the roads will be, but we will try to do our best.”
Julius Tannert said:
“I expected a big challenge this year and we have had some good and bad moments. Unfortunately we had no luck in Corsica and Portugal, but we will not give up in Turkey where we want to fight for another podium on the final round of the year. It will be a tough and hard rally, and everybody wants to fight for a good result at the end of the year.”
Callum Devine said:
“I’ve really enjoyed this season. The rallies have been very hard and challenging at times, but that’s what is expected at this level and the pace in this year’s championship has definitely brought me on loads with my own speed. Turkey will be new for most of us and I am looking forward to it as it should be a good even playing field. We’re expecting it to be pretty rough, so playing it smart and trying to keep out of trouble will be really important if we want to fight for the podium.”
Enrico Oldrati said:
“This was my first experience of rallying at this level and it is amazing. Every rally has allowed me to get experience with support and suggestions from the whole team. I know Turkey will be a really difficult event, but I will do my best in order to finish with a good result in the rally and the championship.”
Bugra Banaz said:
“I have really enjoyed this season and have finished all of the rallies which was my goal for the year. We’re in eighth position now, but my aim is to get into the top-five after Rally Turkey. This is a very special event for me as it is my home event and I am very motivated to do well here. We want to win and take maximum points on home soil.”
Luca Bottarelli said:
“I think it has been an amazing year with fantastic opportunities. I have learnt so much and I am sure that I will learn even more in Turkey where we will try to achieve the best possible result.”
David Holder said:
“It has been a tough year for us, but we’ve learnt so much at each event and there’s no doubt that it’s made me a better driver all round. I’ve particularly enjoyed spending time with all those involved in the championship – both the team and the other competitors. We’ve struggled a bit with speed and consistency all year, so in Turkey we’ll be looking to put down our best performance.”
Tom Williams said:
“The championship this year has been fantastic and really pushed me on. Much appreciation has to be given to all the hard work from everyone behind the scenes which has made everything run smoothly. The competition is very demanding so I have been through lots of ups and downs, but I’ve enjoyed every second of it and come away with some invaluable experience. In Turkey we want to continue where we left off in Finland – continuing our progress with a clean event. I imagine the conditions in Turkey will be similar to those in Portugal, so we will have to drive a clever rally.”
Emilio Fernández said:
“The championship was very enjoyable and now I am ready for Rally Turkey. It has been very nice to be a part of this championship, and a dream to walk in the same service park as the best rally drivers in the world. I don’t know too much about Turkey or what to expect, but for sure I think there will be a lot of rocks.”
Raul Badiu said:
“The FIA Junior World Rally Championship is rallying at the highest level – a championship where the best juniors in the world are competing for the biggest prize in rally; right under the eyes of the team managers. This is the best step I can make towards becoming a professional rally driver. I am expecting to compete in a very professional environment alongside true professionals. Regarding a result for me, it is too early to expect anything spectacular as this is my first rally outside Romania and with a car I have never driven before. First on the list is gathering kilometres and experience, then I will set higher targets. I am excited to be part of this great championship and looking forward to competing alongside the best drivers in the world.”
Five days after announcing that the outright winner of next week’s Rally Turkey will win a week’s holiday aboard ‘Bebe’, a luxury 47-metre super yacht, rally officials announced today (Friday) that the winner of the prestigious WRC 2 category would win five days aboard a state-of-the-art gulet – a traditional two-masted Turkish sailing vessel.
The stunning prize has been donated by TURK YACHT (https://www.turkyacht.com), a company that was established at the end of 1998 by Eyup Bayraktaroglu and Tufan Gules. TURK YACHT manages and operates various quality charter yachts, in addition to offering brokerage and management services and other support to high-end customers.
The company has a wide range of yachts available for charter in Turkey and the Greek islands and offers customers and the winner of WRC 2 in Rally Turkey a fabulous opportunity to experience a sailing holiday of a lifetime in one of the most beautiful regions of the world.
The WRC 2 category is the most popular amongst leading privateer and semi-professional teams in the FIA World Rally Championship and provides a superb stepping-stone into a World Rally Car for the leading contenders.
Rally Turkey has attracted 15 entries in the WRC 2 category and marks the first time that arch title rivals Jan Kopecký and Pontus Tidemand will go head-to-head on a WRC event this season. The Czech and the Swede both drive Škoda Fabia R5s and are separated by just seven points heading to their showdown in Marmaris.
Kopecký has taken four victories from as many starts in 2018 in Monte-Carlo, Corsica, Sardinia and Germany, while his Swedish rival won in Mexico, Argentina and Portugal and finished second behind Japan’s Takamoto Katsuta in Sweden. Victory in Finland fell to Eerik Pietarinen on his only appearance so far this year.
Other drivers keen to upset the applecart and challenge for the TURK YACHT prize next weekend include England’s Gus Greensmith and Chris Ingram, Chile’s Pedro Heller, Portugal’s Diogo Salvi, Poland’s Kajetan Kajetanowicz and the experienced Turkish drivers, Murat Bostanci, Ya?ic Avci, Burak Çukorova, Deniz Fahri, Erkan Güral and Bora Manyera.
“We are grateful to TURK YACHT for offering this superb prize to the winner of the WRC 2 section of Rally Turkey next week,” enthused Serkan Yazici, President of TOSFED. “This is one of the most competitive categories in the world and we are sure that the drivers and teams will enjoy the challenging special stages that we have laid on in the Marmaris and Mu?la regions.”
The ceremonial start of Rally Turkey will take place at the historic Marmaris Meydan area of the town from 19.30hrs next Thursday (September 13th).
Hyundai Motorsport heads to new territory next week as the tenth round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) takes place on the gravel roads of Turkey for the first time since 2010.
Despite playing host to WRC events in the past, this year’s Rally Turkey will be held in Mu?la Province in the south-west of the country, offering a brand new challenge for all competitors. The Service Park will be hosted in Asparan, close to the coastal port city of Marmaris.
Turkey can be considered the home of the i20, as the road car - on which the team’s WRC challenger is based - is produced at Hyundai Assan Izmit plant, close to Istanbul. The facility, which has an annual maximum capacity of 245,000 units, currently manufactures the i10 and i20 models, and acts as Hyundai Motor Company’s gateway to Europe, together with its Czech factory.
Hyundai Motorsport will field a three-car line-up for its maiden trip to Turkey with Andreas Mikkelsen/Anders Jæger (#4), championship leaders Thierry Neuville/Nicolas Gilsoul (#5), and Hayden Paddon/Seb Marshall (#6) in the respective Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC cars.
Although no testing has been permitted in Turkey, all crews have recently tested on gravel in the south of France to prepare for the event. The real challenge will come once crews are able to complete recce in the build-up to the rally, creating pace notes from scratch.
The itinerary includes 17 special stages, held over a total distance of 312km with the rally acting as an intensive learning curve for drivers and co-drivers. Hot temperatures and rough routes are expected to put the complete car package to the ultimate test. The unpredictable nature of the event is likely to create a rally full of action and surprise as the 2018 season builds to an exciting conclusion.
With just four events left to run, Hyundai Motorsport holds a slender 13-point lead in the manufacturers’ championship. Neuville tops the drivers’ table with a 23-point advantage over Sébastien Ogier, with Ott Tanak chasing in third. It means the Belgian will have the honour – and probable handicap – of being first on the road for the all-new Rally Turkey.
Team Principal Michel Nandan commented: “It has been quite some time since we visited a new location for a WRC event, so we are all excited to discover what Turkey has to offer. We will only truly find out what challenges await us once we experience the routes for the first time. Regulations have prevented us from testing there in advance, but all crews have had the chance to prepare in the south of France. As a brand new rally, it will be a completely level playing field. Teams will be constantly honing and improving the settings of their cars, while crews will have a tough job to create and update new pace notes for all 17 stages. We have to take the rally one stage at a time; the battle for victory could go in any direction.”
WRC Crew Notes: Mikkelsen/Jæger (#4 Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC)
Previously competed in Turkey back in 2008
Moved into drivers’ championship top-five after Rallye Deutschland
Mikkelsen said: “I took part in Rally Turkey back in 2008, which was held in a completely different part of the country to where we will be rallying next week. It’s going to be a totally new experience for all competitors and one that will undoubtedly spring some surprises. From what we have seen, it appears we will be competing on rough roads and in very hot conditions, which will be tough on the crews, cars, tyres and brakes. All in all, it will be a nice new challenge and one I am looking forward to.”
WRC Crew Notes: Neuville/Gilsoul (#5 Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC)
Leading drivers’ championship by 23 points
Took part in Rally Turkey in 2010 on stages in the north of the country
Neuville said: “Rally Turkey will be a step into the unknown for everyone. We don’t know much about the stages, but we have had the chance to see some video footage. It seems like the roads will be very rough. From our position as first on the road, I am expecting a tricky weekend. I like new rallies and new challenges; it keeps the championship fresh and offers teams and crews something entirely new to tackle. My main target is to enjoy the rally and, of course, to do all we can to preserve our position at the head of the championship.”
WRC Crew Notes: Paddon/Marshall (#6 Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC)
Participated in Rally Turkey in 2010 on roads near to Istanbul
Returns for fifth WRC event of the season
Paddon said: “I can’t wait to get back into WRC action; it feels like a long time since Finland! Turkey promises to be an unpredictable rally for everyone. I competed there back in 2010 but in a different part of the country so that experience is not comparable to what we’ll encounter next week. It looks like the stages will be twisty, rough and very hot, resembling an old Cyprus rally. As with any new event there are lots of unknowns, but we’re as prepared as we can be. We’ll definitely give it a good crack.”
Bite-size Turkey
17 special stages over 312km, starting on Thursday evening with a street stage in Marmaris
Friday will be the longest individual day of the rally, totalling 145km of stages north-east of the Asparan service park with a repeat loop of three stages
Saturday follows a similar pattern but in the western part of the region, covering almost 131km of timed tests
Four stages on Sunday morning will include two runs through Marmaris, the latter acting as the rally concluding Power Stage with its finale at the Service Park.
The TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team faces a brand new challenge on Rally Turkey (September 13-16): the 10th round of this year's FIA World Rally Championship and a new addition to the calendar for this season. The Toyota Yaris WRC, driven by Jari-Matti Latvala, Ott Tänak and Esapekka Lappi, will take on the gravel event fresh from back-to-back victories in Finland and Germany.
This will be the first WRC round in Turkey since 2010, and will be based in Marmaris on the Mediterranean coast. A mixture of smooth roads close to Marmaris and rockier mountain tracks to the north near Mugla are anticipated, but all of the stages will be brand new to the crews, who will use the pre-event recce to create their pace-notes from scratch. With testing in Turkey before the rally not permitted, the Yaris WRC was instead put through its paces on gravel in Portugal last week.
The rally will begin on Thursday evening with a street stage in Marmaris before two loops of three stages on Friday near Mugla. On Saturday the rally heads west for three stages all run twice, and the rally concludes on Sunday with four stages, including the Power Stage that will finish right by the service park.
Tommi Mäkinen (Team Principal)
“The last two rallies have been brilliant for us and our aim is of course to continue in that way, but there are many unknowns about Turkey for every team because it is a new rally. I did drive in Turkey when the WRC went for the first time in 2003: I remember that the conditions were very hard and the roads were pretty rough, but we are going to a different area this time and we don't know exactly what the nature of the stages will be. We have been preparing as well as we possibly can and we had a good test last week in the south of Portugal, where hopefully we simulated the conditions that we will face very well, especially the high temperatures.”
Jari-Matti Latvala (Driver car 7)
“This is the first time for many years that I am preparing for a completely new WRC event. There are many unknowns: you have to do new pace-notes, you don't know the characteristics of the roads and you don't know how they will change for the second pass. I remember from when we went to Turkey in 2008, near Antalya, that it was very hot. The long stages were very demanding and very hard on the tyres. From what I have seen so far, I think there will be some similarities to that rally and also to the Acropolis Rally. The pre-event test was really good for me. I was very happy with the car and we made some good steps with the suspension.”
Ott Tänak (Driver car 8)
“Obviously we have had some very good results recently, but I am still taking it rally-by-rally. It is difficult to have any expectations for Turkey as we don't have a lot of know-how about the rally. Everybody is talking about it being a rough event: we will have to wait and see how it is on the recce. We certainly know that it will be hot. I think that our pre-event test in the south of Portugal was good preparation for that and we are doing everything we can to be ready and be competitive. Now there is not too much more we can do until we get there and see the stages for ourselves.”
Esapekka Lappi (Driver car 9)
“We should expect the unexpected in Turkey. The information we have is that it will be rough with a lot of loose gravel, and that tyre management will be key. For that reason, the long afternoon loops will be crucial, I think. We saw on our test that the tyre wear is quite high when you have rough roads and it's 35 degress outside. In general the test went very well and I think we managed to find some nice settings with the car. I am looking forward to the challenge: it's a chance to learn something new. So far, being early on the road on loose gravel has not been a strong point for me, so I will try to improve that.”
Round ten of the 2018 season will see the C3 WRC experience Turkey for the first time, a country where its elder sister – the Xsara WRC – secured the brand's first win on gravel in the WRC and which will be hosting a world rally championship round for the seventh time. Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT will once again look to Craig Breen – Scott Martin, Mads Østberg – Torstein Eriksen and Khalid Al Qassimi – Chris Patterson to defend its chances.
THE HUB MOVES TO MARMARIS
The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjöll back in 2010, and the disruption to air traffic it caused, held up the WRC bandwagon in Turkey the last time the rally was part of the WRC, but the championship has not been back to the country since then. On its return to the WRC this year, the rally will be based in Marmaris, a Mediterranean seaside resort on the Turkish Riviera and its third hub after Kemer (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008) and Istanbul (2010). Despite moving the hub, the characteristics and difficulties of the event remain largely unchanged, described as being halfway between Rally de Sardegna and the Acropolis Rally. Initial feedback reported by those sent ahead to Turkey suggests that the rally will be once again technically difficult, with rock-strewn, loose gravel roads that will clean. The conditions also look set to be demanding for the cars and tyres, with very high temperatures expected. An unfamiliar test for the entire WRC field, the Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT crews are nonetheless determined not to be left behind, making the most of their efficient taking of pace notes, their ability to adapt and their sense of improvisation. Not forgetting, of course, that the brand holds the record number of overall victories in this country, winning four of the six rallies held here as part of the WRC.
A BIG TEST FOR STARTERS
The team has certainly prepared well for the rally with a three-day pre-event test in the Aude, reputed to have some of the roughest roads among the commonly-used test bases. Whilst Mads Østberg and Craig Breen will be attempting to make the most of their favourable starting position on the opening leg (eighth and ninth in the running order respectively) as they look to secure the team's fourth podium of the season, Khalid Al Qassimi will be making his third appearance of 2018 in the C3 WRC and will be determined to pick up his pace in the car during the weekend. Following a city-centre super-special stage on Thursday evening, the serious stuff starts on Friday with Çetibeli, which, at over thirty-eight kilometres, is the longest stage of the weekend. No messing about here, the crews will be straight into action at a race that promises to produce some surprises…
Pierre Budar, Citroën Racing Team Principal
"This rally is new for everyone, so all the teams and crews will start off on an equal footing. It looks set to be a very open race. Reliability might be one of the key factors this weekend, but we know we can count on the strength of our C3 WRC. Although we have a solid base, we'll need to adapt quickly to the conditions in any adjustments to the set-up, whilst the crews will have to be efficient when taking pace notes during recce so they can tackle the first pass on the stages with confidence."
Craig Breen
"The aim is really to get through the opening leg without any hiccups. If we manage to do that, we should be right up there, in the mix and well placed for the rest of the rally. It's difficult to take any real information from the on-board footage recorded by the organiser in a production car. One thing is sure, however: the course looks very interesting, with a good variety of roads, some narrow, technical and rough, others much quicker."
Number of appearances at the event: 1
Best result: 22nd (2010)
Mads Østberg
"We're expecting it to be hot this weekend. It's going to be a technically-difficult, demanding rally for the cars and that's what we prepared for during our pre-event test in the Aude. I'm feeling pretty confident because I always produce decent performances on this kind of surface. And the C3 WRC is even more efficient and easier to drive than it was in Sardinia, which is the last event contested on similar types of road. We're also going to be able to use some of the things we learned in Finland on this surface."
Khalid Al Qassimi
"I'm delighted to be back behind the wheel of my C3 WRC, especially at a new event. It's always exciting to contest brand new stages for the first time, especially as we're expecting fairly difficult conditions. I've always felt comfortable at events like this. I have some good memories of the Acropolis Rally, for example. It's always a question of finding the right balance between pushing and looking after the car."
Best result: 33rd (2005)
17 timed stages covering a total of 312.44 km
33 degrees celsius, the maximum temperature forecast in Marmaris for the week of the rally
4 overall wins secured by Citroën in six appearances at Rally Turkey: Carlos Sainz in 2003 (Xsara WRC), Sébastien Loeb from 2004 to 2005 (Xsara WRC), and then again in 2010 (C4 WRC)
A RALLY, A CHALLENGE
The challenge of taking pace notes for the first time
At the rallies that appear every year on the calendar, the crews generally compile their pace notes beforehand for the stages or portions of stages that are unchanged from previous years. In recce, all they then have to do is make pace notes for any new sections and make a few corrections for the stages they are already familiar with. The situation will be different for them this year in Turkey, where they will need to draw up pace notes for each of the 313 kilometres of timed stages. This means the crews will have to pay very close attention during recce, to produce a precise and consistent description of the difficulties they will face. Once racing gets underway, they won't be able to compensate for any shortcomings in their pace notes with knowledge of the roads. They will need to trust their pace notes fully, which may lead to large gaps appearing between the cars…
CITROËN SECRETS
Didier Clément, Technical and Sporting Coordinator, recalls…
"I remember the very first time that Rally Turkey was held, in 2003, based in Kemer at the time. The rally was special for us because it was Citroën's first win on gravel in the WRC, and it was also Carlos Sainz's first victory with the team. It also came in just the third race of the season, in our first year full-time in the championship, and after the famous one-two-three at Monte. We were still relatively inexperienced on this surface and our mechanics produced a minor feat in every service, as they tried to compensate for the lack of strength of the Xsara WRC's bodywork."
M-Sport Ford World Rally Team will revisit an old friend next week as the FIA World Rally Championship returns to Turkey – the home of Ford commercials including the Transit. The team secured one-two finishes at the event in 2006 and 2009, and are determined to deliver more Turkish delight this year.
Based around the holiday resort of Marmaris, this year’s event offers a completely new challenge with speed tests never before used on the world stage. The team have no previous data from these stages, and the crews have to make their pacenotes from scratch – making this the ultimate test on a completely level playing field.
In preparation for the challenges ahead, the team travelled to Greece where they completed a four-day test on roads similar to those anticipated next week. The team also have the advantage of being able to choose between chassis, and all three EcoBoost-powered Ford Fiesta WRCs will carry the original aero package.
The upgrades carried on the leading Fiesta in Finland and Germany provided increased performance at high speed, but in Turkey – where the average speeds will be considerably lower – the team have the luxury of opting for proven durability.
But it’s not just the main class that M-Sport Ford fans should keep an eye on next week. Of the 14 local crews in attendance, 12 will compete behind the wheel of the Fiesta and the Blue Oval accounts for a mammoth 67 percent of the overall entry.
The three Fiesta WRCs are joined by the older-specification Ford Fiesta RS WRC of Yazeed Al-Rajhi, and 10 EcoBoost-powered Ford Fiesta R5s will also tackle the loose gravel stages – eight of which as part of the WRC 2 category.
An impressive 21 one-litre EcoBoost Ford Fiesta R2s have also been entered – most of which will go head-to-head for one of the biggest prizes in motorsport as Rally Turkey hosts the final round of the FIA Junior World Rally Championship where nine drivers have a mathematical chance of clinching the title.
Team Principal, Malcolm Wilson OBE, said:
“It’s been a long time since we last welcomed a brand-new event to the championship, and I’m sure we’re all in for an exciting weekend of rallying. While we have been to Turkey before, we’ve not visited this region and absolutely everything will be new to both the team and the crews.
“We have no previous data from the stages and the crews will have to make pacenotes from scratch. With the other events becoming more and more familiar, this is something completely different and it will be interesting to see who masters the challenge.
“We’re hoping to do just that and both Sébastien and Elfyn had two days of testing in Greece to best prepare for the challenges ahead. Sébastien may be hampered by his early running order, but both could be in with a chance of challenging for the top results.
“Teemu had to go without a test on this occasion, but he should not be discounted for a strong result. He is such a quick learner and this is a new event which provides something of a level playing field, so it will be interesting to see what he can do.”
SÉBASTIEN OGIER/ JULIEN INGRASSIA
When the FIA World Rally Championship last visited Turkey, Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia were a month shy of claiming their maiden victory. Eight years later and the Frenchman have 43 wins and five championship titles to their name.
The reigning champions will have their work cut out as only the second car on the road through the opening day of competition, but have their sights firmly set on a strong haul of points to reignite their championship defence.
Previous starts: 1
Best result: 4th (2010)
Sébastien Ogier said:
“Rally Turkey will be an interesting event for sure as no one really knows what to expect. This is the first completely new event for a long time and, even though I contested the rally in 2010, next week’s event will be completely different.
“There will be a lot of work to do on the recce, and Julien [Ingrassia, co-driver] will have to write brand-new notes for every single kilometre! It’ll be a lot of work, but I’m looking forward to the challenge and to discovering what these new stages will be like.
“Our goal is to deliver the best possible result, but the loose gravel will make it a challenge. We’ll be the second car on the road and there will be a lot of fast drivers benefiting from a cleaner and faster road behind. We’ll need to try and stay as close as we can on Friday morning and then see where we are after that.
“The most important thing is to score a strong haul of points for our championship defence, and that is what we will focus on.”
ELFYN EVANS/ DANIEL BARRITT
Elfyn Evans and Daniel Barritt will face a brand-new challenge when they venture to Rally Turkey next week; but their determination and will to succeed remains as strong as ever.
Working hard in the lead-up to the event, the British pairing are well prepared and will look to use their later running order to their advantage whilst challenging for the top positions.
Elfyn Evans said:
“We’ll be taking a step into the unknown with a brand-new rally next week. I’m sure it will be an interesting weekend and I’m looking forward to discovering what the Turkish stages have to offer.
“For sure it will be hot, and we’ll need to be prepared for that. It also looks as though it could be quite loose which would give us a good road position for the first day; but it also has the potential to be fairly rough and everyone will need to have their wits about them.
“We completed our pre-event test on some pretty rough roads in Greece and the Fiesta proved as strong as ever. We’ve had to do a lot of preparation to get ready for this one, and the hard work will only continue next week.
“We’re as prepared as we can be and I think we’re all looking forward to experiencing something completely new – where the aim is to be in the fight for the top positions.”
TEEMU SUNINEN/ MIKKO MARKKULA
Teemu Suninen and Mikko Markkula will be in good company when they tackle the stages of Rally Turkey for the first time next week – their rivals, for once, not having the advantage of experience.
The Finns may not have had a pre-event test, but Suninen has proved himself a quick learner time and again. That, coupled with his advantageous running order on the first day, means that the young Finn should not be discounted for a strong result.
Teemu Suninen said:
“Whereas most of the rallies this year have been new only for me, this one will be new for everyone. That will make things really interesting and could bring me an opportunity as we will all be equal on experience before the first stage.
“No one is allowed is test in Turkey so we’ll all experience the roads for the first time during the recce and then the shakedown. Set-up wise, I’ll discuss with my team mates first to see what they have experienced and discovered. Otherwise, I will need to make my own conclusions and choices.
“As for what to expect, I have never been to Turkey before and will travel out a little earlier than usual to get a feel for everything. I’m expecting it to be a very hot rally and very demanding, but I hope to deliver a good result.”
Double points will be on offer at this weekend’s Rally Turkey for drivers taking part in the FIA Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC) in what promises to be a thrilling finale to the rookie category on the Turkish Riveira.
Rally Turkey has attracted 13 Juniors amongst the 14 WRC 3 entrants. Sweden’s Emil Bergkvist arrives in the tourist town of Marmaris with a 14-point lead in the JWRC category over fellow countryman Dennis Rådström. The advantage is largely irrelevant with 50 points available to the winner and a point on offer for each stage win. The championship is very much still wide open.
The 24-year-old category leader has yet to claim a victory this season, but second places in Sweden and Finland and third in Corsica have given him the advantage, despite Rådström taking victories in both Sweden and Portugal. His rival’s downfall was a costly accident in Finland. Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Franceschi, on the other hand, won in Corsica and has done well enough on the non-JWRC rounds - including taking the win in Sardinia - to have forged into an 11-point lead in the FIA WRC 3 category. “Anything is possible here,” claimed the Frenchman. “A lot can happen and we have done as much preparation as possible so that we will have no regrets.”
Estonian Ken Torn finds himself in contention for the title following an impressive victory in Finland, while Julius Tannert also has an outside chance of claiming the title along with the likes of Callum Devine and Enrico Oldrati. Terry Folb is still recovering from a torn clavicle ligament sustained in an August mountain biking accident.
Fifteen drivers have scored points in the series so far this year, including Turkey’s sole representative Bu?ra Banaz at the wheel of a Ford Fiesta R2. The 26-year-old Castrol Ford Team Turkey driver hails from the town of Eski?ehir and lies ninth in the points’ standings. While the JWRC title takes centre stage, Franceschi will be hoping to extend his advantage in the WRC 3 two-wheel drive R2 category for cars powered by 1.6-litre turbocharged engines. He currently holds the advantage over Finland’s Taisko Lario, Rådström and Bergkvist. Lario has moved into late contention for the title after finishing second in Sardinia and claiming the win in Germany recently.
As officials, media and team personnel from all across the world continue to arrive in Turkey, priority and non-priority drivers have now completed the first day of their stage reconnaissance for the 17-stage event.
Tomorrow (Wednesday), FIA Priority drivers will be able to carry out low-speed passes through the remainder of the special stages before the official five-kilometre Shakedown gets underway on Thursday morning at De?irmenyani.
2018 FIA JWRC Championship – latest positions:
1. Emil Bergkvist (SWE) 88 pts
2. Dennis Radström (SWE) 74 pts
3. Jean-Baptiste Franceschi (FRA) 62 pts
4. Ken Torn (EST) 49 pts
5. Julius Tannert (DEU) 31 pts
6. Terry Folb (FRA) 30 pts
7. Callum Devine (IRL) 28 pts
8. Enrico Oldrati (ITA) 22 pts
8. Bu?ra Banaz (TUR) 22 pts
10. Luca Bottarelli (ITA) 20 pts, etc
Belgian driver Thierry Neuville has a superb opportunity to move a step closer to a maiden FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) title at this weekend’s Rally Turkey.
On the country’s return to the WRC for the first time since 2010, none of the demanding rock-strewn gravel special stages in the Marmaris and Mu?la areas are known to the leading drivers. That means that it is a level playing field for the leading crews with starting positions and running order likely to be a crucial deciding factor on stages that could potentially clean over time. It also placed additional importance on the two days of reconnaissance sessions that finished today (Wednesday).
Neuville drives one of three Hyundai i20 Coupe WRCs in the event and arrives at the start with a 23-point advantage over the defending multiple champion Sébastien Ogier.
The man in form in recent weeks, however, has been Estonia’s Ott Tänak of the Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team. He survived a titanic battle with Citroën’s Mads Østberg to claim victory in Finland, after the pair had traded top spot on four occasions, and followed that performance with a stunning success in Germany.
The German win enabled Tänak to equal his fellow countryman Markko Martin’s record of five WRC wins and has catapulted the Toyota Yaris WRC driver into a comfortable third place in the title race – 36 points behind Neuville and a mere 13 adrift of Ogier. Two rallies before, the Estonian trailed the series leader by 72 points and Ogier by 45! “I am still focusing on rally-by-rally and not the championship,” he said defiantly.
With pre-event testing banned in Turkey, Toyota ventured to southern Portugal to try and seek out similar gravel roads and weather conditions. High ambient temperatures caused problems for the Yaris WRCs on oxygen-starved roads in Mexico in March and team principal Tommi Mäkinen is keen to maintain the momentum.
Neuville is convinced that he is now embroiled in a three-way fight for the title, despite finishing second in Germany. A possible 120 points are still available to the winner at the remaining rallies in Turkey, Wales, Spain and Australia, including a maximum five Power Stage points per rally, and that makes the permutations fascinating heading into the autumn showdowns.
Both Neuville and Ogier have destiny in their own hands at this point but maximum points for Tänak could still see the Estonian potentially falling short of his target. Punishing temperatures in the mid thirties centigrade, dust and excessive tyre wear could also be critical factors over the weekend.
Ogier tackled the last of the WRC Turkish events to be staged in 2010 and finished fourth. That event took place around a month shy of the Frenchman claiming the first of his 43 WRC wins.
The five-time WRC champion said: “This is the first completely new event for a long time. There’s a lot of work to do on the recce with brand new notes for every single kilometre. Our goal is the best possible result, but the loose gravel will be a challenge and a lot of fast drivers will be benefiting from a cleaner and faster road behind. The most important this is to score a strong haul of points. That is what we will focus on.”
The three-way battle amongst the drivers also brings a similar tussle between rival manufacturers into play. Hyundai leads the Manufacturers’ Championship by just 13 points from Toyota, while M-Sport Ford are a mere 17 further adrift.
Things can change swiftly with two drivers scoring points for their registered teams and a couple of podium finishes for Ogier and Elfyn Evans could easily hand the Blue Oval a superb opportunity of retaining the title they earned in Wales last autumn.
The Citroën Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team is a distant fourth, but Østberg has been in excellent form since joining the team for the remainder of the season at the expense of Kris Meeke and Craig Breen is also overdue a good finish after several positive recent performances. A recent three-day test session in the Aude in south-central France could be beneficial.
The French team has a good track record in Turkey, a place where the Xsara WRC secured the brand’s first gravel win. Besides, Citroëns won four of the six Turkish WRC events that ran in the past.
Østberg said: “We’re expecting it to be hot. It’s going to be a technically difficult and demanding rally and that’s why we prepared in the Aude. I’m feeling pretty confident because I always produce decent performances on this kind of surface. The car is more efficient and easier to drive than it was in Sardinia and we will use some of the things we learned in Finland on this surface.”
Hyundai and Toyota will be hoping that Andreas Mikkelsen and Jari-Matti Latvala can also push for the podium and boost their Manufacturers’ title chances. The Norwegian and the Finn lie fifth and seventh in the Drivers’ Championship after nine rounds, with Latvala’s team-mate Esapekka Lappi holding fourth place and Spaniard Dani Sordo shadowing Hyundai colleague Mikkelsen in sixth.
Thirteen World Rally Cars are on the 52-car entry list. Finn Teemu Suninen drives the third of the M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRCs and Kiwi Hayden Paddon wheels out the third Hyundai.
Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Khalid Al-Qassimi – who makes his third WRC start of the season - drives the third official Citroën C3 WRC and Saudi Arabia’s Yazeed Al-Rajhi has the number 21 on the side of his privately-run, older-specification Ford Fiesta RS WRC.
Tomorrow, a hectic day’s timetable gets underway with the opportunity for crews to carry out multiple passes through a five-kilometre Shakedown stage at De?irmenyani to work on the most effective car set-up for rally weekend.
This precedes the official FIA pre-event press conference in the Media Centre at Asparan and the ceremonial start at historic Marmaris Meydan from 19.30hrs. A short super special stage in the centre of Marmaris then gets the timed action underway from 20.08hrs.
Posted: September 3, 2018 2:27 PM
A week’s holiday aboard ‘Bebe’, a luxury 47-metre super yacht, will be the star prize offered to the winner of Rally Turkey, round 10 of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), at the finish of the four-day rally in Marmaris on Sunday, September 16th.
Officials at the Turkish Automobile Sports Federation (TOSFED) have released a promotional video (see link below) outlining details of the sensational star prize being offered to the driver who conquers the 17 special stages through the Marmaris and Mu?la regions on the event’s return to the WRC for the first time since 2010.
‘Bebe’ is a custom-built 47-metre motor yacht that was built by Vos Marine in 2015. The sophisticated exterior design and engineering was the work of SETA Design, while the plush and luxurious interior was the work of BTA Design.
The yacht sleeps up to 12 guests in six rooms and is capable of carrying 10 crew. ‘Bebe’ has a cruising speed of 13 knots and a maximum speed of 17 knots. On-board amenities include a barbecue, piano, swimming pool, deck jacuzzi, wifi and air conditioning.
“’Bebe’ is a stunning super yacht and I am sure the winning driver and his family and friends will enjoy a memorable holiday aboard,” said Serkan Yazici, President of TOSFED. “The Turkish Riviera offers stunning scenery, beaches, coves and mooring points and the winner of Rally Turkey will be able to relax and enjoy the region in luxurious surroundings.”
Turkey’s return to the WRC gets underway with the ceremonial start in the historic Marmaris Meydan area of the town from 19.30hrs on Thursday, September 13th.
Posted: August 27, 2018 6:39 AM
Turkey - 13-16 Sep 18 - ENTRY LIST
Posted: July 28, 2018 4:08 PM
Rally Turkey organisers have now released the itinerary for the 10th round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship, which takes place on September 13-16.
Officials at the Turkish Automobile Sports Federation (TOSFED) have laid on a competitive route of 317.28 kilometres in a compact total of 896.08 kilometres through the Marmaris and Mu?la regions that hosted an official FIA candidate rally last October.
The event’s Service Park will be located at Asparan, a mere 6.69km from De?irmenyani, which will host the five-kilometre Shakedown stage on Thursday, September 13.
The start ceremony is sure to attract thousands of rally fans, holidaymakers and enthusiasts to the historic location of Marmaris Meydan from 19.30hrs on Thursday evening. This precedes the opening Marmaris super special stage of 2.45km, starting close to the podium at 20.08hrs.
The longest stage of the entire event is also the first of the gravel stages on Friday morning that is also repeated in the afternoon. The Çetibeli special runs for 38.10km from 07.58hrs and is sure to provided its fair share of early surprises before the action continues with the first of two runs through the Ula (21.90km) and Çiçekil (12.55km) stages that are also repeated in the afternoon. Crews will tackle 145.10km of competition on the opening day.
Action resumes on Saturday morning (September 15) with the first of two runs through another three gravel stages, starting with the 36.00km of Ye?ilbelde at 08.35hrs. Runs through Datça (10.70km) and Içmeler (20.40km) follow at 10.08hrs and 11.11hrs respectively, and the three timed tests are repeated at 13.25hrs, 15.08hrs and 16.11hrs after a return to Asparan for the midday service and regroup.
There will be four special stages on the final morning (Sunday, September 16) starting with the first of two passes through the Marmaris special of 7.12km at 10.08hrs that finishes at the Service Park and will give teams a chance to make their final preparations for the second run that will act as the event’s final Power Stage (13.18hrs).
Before the points-scoring finale on the Power Stage, teams will tackle one pass through the Ovacik (8.04km) special from 10.46hrs and the Gökçe stage of 13.25km, starting at 11.24hrs.
Rally Turkey’s Clerk of the Course and ASN Sporting Director Murat Kaya said: “This year we are celebrating the return of Turkey to the WRC calendar following our last WRC rally, held close to Istanbul in 2010.
“With Rally Turkey now taking place in Marmaris and its surrounding area, the rally will offer superb stages and an insight into the fascinating history and culture of this ancient land and its breathtaking views. We have been working hard to offer a rally experience that sets new standards for the whole WRC with a compact route and efficient organisation of stages.
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Governorships of Mu?la and its districts together with the Mayors of Mu?la and Marmaris Municipalities for their full support throughout our preparations for Rally Turkey.”
The event first joined the prestigious WRC calendar in 2003 and was last held in 2010.
Posted: November 2, 2017 10:56 AM
Turkey was today (Wednesday) confirmed in next season’s FIA World Rally Championship calendar by the sport’s governing body.
The FIA’s WRC Commission rubber-stamped the country’s return after a seven-year absence following a successful dress rehearsal on Turkey’s Turquoise Coast last weekend.
M-Sport World Rally Team and Toyota Gazoo Racing sent representatives to the picturesque south-west holiday resort of Marmaris to observe the three-day dirt road rally, which was provisionally listed in the calendar a month ago.
They were joined by WRC Promoter management, WRC rally director Jarmo Mahonen and FIA safety delegate Michèle Mouton. All were impressed by the high standards of organisation, the quality of the special stages and the service park facilities.
“We wanted to observe a rally that is fit to take its place at the WRC’s top table,” said WRC Promoter managing director Oliver Ciesla. “The organising team at TOSFED delivered that and my congratulations go to them for securing a deserved place in the 2018 calendar.
“Next year’s fixture will be one of the most compact in the sport’s history. The special stages hug the coast with amazing backdrops overlooking the sea and WRC fans can look forward to stunning TV images.”
Large crowds watched the rally, which was won by Orhan Avcio?lu in a Skoda Fabia R5. Avcio?lu will compete in the WRC 2 support category at Dayinsure Wales Rally GB, this week’s penultimate round of the season.
Turkey’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Osman A?kin Bak, attended Friday evening’s start ceremony in Marmaris and TOSFED president Serkan Yazici said it showed the importance attached to Turkey’s WRC return.
“We’ve worked incredibly hard to bring the WRC back to Turkey,” he said. “The Government has pledged its support and last weekend’s successful rally was the final piece of the jigsaw which confirmed our country’s return to the FIA World Rally Championship,” he said.
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ABOUT RUSSIA / GEOGRAPHY AND NATURE / PEARLS OF RUSSIA / NAVAL MUSEUM
Central Naval Museum
The Collection of the Central Naval Museum began with ships' models collection of Tzar Peter the Great and Model Chamber of Saint Petersburg Admiralty, which is mentioned for the first time in Peter's letter of 24 January 1709. The main goal of the Model Chamber creation was to keep transport ships and warships draughts and models, constructed at the Admiralty shipyards for the Baltic Fleet.
Historical valuable materials and shipbuilding information were preserved in the Model Chamber. Its building was rather small for such a big collection and in 1805 a Maritime Museum was founded. Some years later engravings and pictures on marine themes in addition to draughts and ships models appeared in the Museum. But in spite of this in 1827 the Museum was closed because of the lack of room. And only in 1867 the Russian government opened the Museum again, yielded to public opinion and efforts of naval officers. Its collection was enriched by many valuable objects. Among them were personal things of emperor Peter I, the founder of Russian Navy, famous admirals and officers; paintings and engravings, specimens of cold steel and fire-arms. The main collection of warships and transport ships models was increased too. The restored Maritime Museum was located in the west wing of the Admiralty building. It was very popular among visitors. In 1909 it was renamed as Emperor Peter the Great's Maritime Museum.
The Revolution of 1917 and the Civil war in Russia 1918 - 1920 have brought essential correctives the Museum's exhibition. The main goal for it became to demonstrate the leading role of the Communist Party in restoration and development of the Navy. The collection enriched with materials concerning the work of seamen-communists, Fleet's Party and Comsomol organizations. The Museum has received items from the museums, closed to that time, for example, museums of Guards Naval Depot and Naval Cadet Corps. The subjects of a naval life, paintings wellknown marine painters as I. K. Aivazovskiy and A. N. Bogoliuboff, naval uniform, Russian awards and marks were obtained on auctions and the private persons. But at the same time, in 1920-30th the large number of subjects of the Romanov emperor's family, nobiliary surnames were annihilated in the Museum under the pressure of new circumstances. This loss has become irreplaceable. And only due to the true devotees of Museum it became possible to preserve the less, that makes the pride of its collection today.
During the World War II a part of the collection was evacuated to Ulyanovsk city. But a number of the employees had being worked in blocaded Leningrad, collecting the unique materials concerning the defenders of Leningrad. Excursion≤cturer work was going on the ships and in units of Red Banner Baltic Fleet, at the enterprises and in hospitals of the besieged city The mobile exhibitions worked.
The changes in Russia of the end 1980-th - beginning of 90-th have allowed the Museum to turn to the Museum's reserved collections and to show to public the subjects, documents and materials revealling pre-revolutionary history of the Russian Navy. The Museum has developed wide exhibition activity as in Russia and abroad. Peoples of the cities Nakhodka, Kaliningrad, Moscow, Archangelsk, Pskov, Yalta, Tyumen, Vyborg, Severodvinsk have got acquainted with its collections. Museum's assembly have received a high estimation in Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Spain, USA. The scientific and creative connections with museums of Russia and foreign countries have extended. The increasing of CNM's popularity and scientific authority has stirred up the first wave emigrants and their descendants. We were gifted the interesting materials from France, Holland, Japan, Tunis, USA. Citizens of Russian Federation do not leave us without attention too. �ollection of the Museum totals about 700'000 items today.
The Central Naval Museum repeatedly participated in joint exhibitions with State Hermitage, State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, State museums-reserves LMoscow Kremlin�, LPetershoff�, LTsarskoye Selo�, LPavlovsk�, LGatchina�, State Museum of history of St. Petersburg, State Museum of Religions history, Museum of anthropology and ethnography ("Cabinet of curiosities"), A. A. Popov Central Museum of communications, State Memorial Museum of A. V. Suvorov, Central Museum of the Armed Forces of Russian Federation, Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineering and Intercommunicational corps, Military Medicine Museum and others.
For last years authority of the Museum has considerably grown. It has become the member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) International Association of Military Museums & Military History (IAMAM), International Congress of Maritime Museums (ICMM), Union of the creative museum workers of St. Petersburg and region.
Large popularity and authority the CNM is obliged for those museum's patriots who works in it for many years. The proud of the Museum are: L. I. Bereznitskaya, A. K. Belik, K. P. Krasnopol'skiy, A. L. Larionov, V. B. Morozova, L. S. Petrova, L. G. Shuster, I. P. Sukhanov, T. N. Topornina, A. A Tron'.
Recently the Museum has celebrated its 290th anniversary. Its scientific employees have the large creative plans. Highly professional collective, its knowledge and purposefulness is the pledge, that the Museum will keep traditions of the oldest scientific-educational institution and perfectly will be the pride of Russian Navy and the treasury of maritime glory of Russia.
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While Uncertainty Prevails for Many Free Agents, Kris Johnson Has a Date in Major League Camp
November 15, 2012 by Bob Wirz · Leave a Comment
Kris Johnson was playing video games in the basement of his home outside Kansas City when he picked up the phone to hear a voice say he would like to talk to him about his latest news as well as his days pitching in an Independent league little more than one year ago.
While he might have preferred sticking with the video activity a while longer, the tone of voice said it all when the caller congratulated the left-hander, who only recently turned 28, on being invited to the Pittsburgh Pirates’ spring training camp three months from now.
“I couldn’t be happier for him,” echoed Tim Doherty, who managed Johnson at nearby Kansas City, KS in the American Association the second half of 2011 after a five and a half-year run in the Boston farm system had ended at the Triple-A level (Pawtucket, RI). That was the only organization Johnson had known since he left Wichita State as a decorated, first-round sandwich draft choice. He had been the 40th selection in the entire country in the ’06 draft.
Johnson has every right to be happy. He is one of probably less than half a dozen out of more than 80 players who have toiled in the Independent leagues and reached the top level of a minor league farm system recently who knows for certain he will be in a major league spring training camp.
Johnson has one other step before spring training as he keeps his fastball (up to 94), curve and change sharp and continues to work on developing a slider. That will be to pitch for Escogido in the Dominican Republic after Thanksgiving.
Greg Burke, Lew Ford Also Get Major League Invites
Right-handed reliever Greg Burke and 2012 headliner Lew Ford are two others with major league spring training invitations in their back pocket although one of them had to leave Baltimore to be certain.
Burke, who started his professional career in ’05 when Atlantic City, NJ was in the Atlantic League, got his invitation from the New York Mets. The 30-year-old had a solid major league season with San Diego in ’09 (3-3, two saves, 4.14 in 48 games), but has been in the minors the last three years, including 21 saves and three wins (3-1) plus a sparkling 1.53 ERA at Norfolk, VA without getting a call from the Orioles.
Ford drew lots of attention for Independent Baseball last summer when he went from hitting .333 in 19 games for the Long Island (NY) Ducks (Atlantic) to spending the last two months and postseason with Baltimore, often playing the outfield or serving as DH against southpaws (.183-3-4 in 71 at-bats). At 36, he had been out of the majors for more than four years, with three stints at Long Island. He was removed from the 40-man roster when 2012 ended, and settled for a new minor league contract.
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New Zealand Manager a Vet in Indy Circles
Andy Skeels was not terribly distinguished when he was an Independent Baseball player between 1994 and 2001, hitting only .250 in 217 games for six different teams, but his long term fortunes have gotten much better by managing in the San Francisco chain the last five seasons (San Jose, CA this summer) and he is leading underdog New Zealand in one of the final two World Baseball Classic qualifiers that started today (Thursday).
Indy Stars Making Mark in Winter Leagues
Independent players (past and present) are not only getting great playing time in winter leagues, but several of them are lighting up the leader boards.
Free agent outfielder Cory Aldridge, who once played in the Atlantic League (Newark, NJ), has a league-leading 12 home runs and shares the top spot in runs batted in with 26 in 28 games in Mexico. The 2011 Atlantic League batting champion, Kraig Binick (Long Island, NY), is showing he deserves another affiliated opportunity because of the fifth best batting average (.336) in Mexico, one spot ahead of former Can-Am League (Worcester, MA) star Chris Colabello (.327).
Free agent Seth Etherton, who played briefly at Long Beach, CA (Golden League) and onetime Southern Maryland (Atlantic League) hurler Jarrett Grube rank second and third, respectively, with 1.48 and 1.71 earned run averages in Venezuela and are among the strikeout leaders. Grube plays in the Los Angeles Angels farm system.
(This is an excerpt from the column Bob Wirz writes year round on Independent Baseball. Fans may subscribe for 2012 at reduced rates at www.WirzandAssociates.com, enjoy his blog, www.IndyBaseballChatter.com, or comment to RWirz@aol.com. The author has 16 years of major league baseball public relations experience with Kansas City and as spokesman for two Commissioners and lives in Stratford, CT.)
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Chancellor of Germany (1949–)
Title: Chancellor of Germany (1949–)
Subject: Heinz Felfe, Chancellors of Germany, Johnen (surname), Walter Kriege, List of people who have addressed both Houses of the United Kingdom Parliament
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
Bundeskanzler(in)
State flag of Germany
Coat of Arms of the German Government
since 22 November 2005
Appointer
The Federal President
In accordance with a vote in the Bundestag
The Chancellor's term of office ends when a new Bundestag convenes for its first meeting or when dismissed by the President (for instance following a constructive vote of no confidence),[1] i.e. usually 4 years (unlimited during state of defence)
Constituting instrument
Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany
First holder
www.bundeskanzlerin.de
The Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (known in German as Bundeskanzler(in), literally meaning "Federal Chancellor", or Kanzler for short) is, under the German 1949 constitution, the head of government of Germany. It is historically a continuation of the office of Chancellor (German: Kanzler, later Reichskanzler) that was originally established as the office of Chancellor of the North German Confederation in 1867. The 1949 constitution increased the role of the Chancellor compared to the 1919 Weimar Constitution by making the Chancellor more independent of the influence of the Federal President and granting the Chancellor the right to set the guidelines for all policy areas.[2] The role is generally comparable to that of Prime Minister in other parliamentary democracies.
There have been eight chancellors since 1949. The current Chancellor of Germany is Angela Merkel, who was elected in 2005. She is the first female Chancellor since the establishment of the original office in 1867, and known in German as Bundeskanzlerin, the feminine form of Bundeskanzler. Merkel is also the first Chancellor elected since the fall of the Berlin Wall to have been raised in the former East Germany.
History of position 1
Appointment mechanism 3
Votes of no-confidence 4
Style of address 5
Living former Chancellors 6
List of Chancellors 7
Further reading 11
Books 11.1
History of position
Constitution ("Basic Law")
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Federal Diet (Bundestag)
(Gemeinsamer Ausschuss)
States (Länder)
Administrative regions
(Regierungsbezirke)
Districts (Kreise)
Collective municipalities (Ämter)
Municipalities (Gemeinden)
The office of Chancellor has a long history, stemming back to the Holy Roman Empire. The title was at times used in several states of German-speaking Europe. The power and influence of this office varied strongly over time. Otto von Bismarck in particular had a great amount of power, but it was not until 1949 that the Chancellor was established as the central executive authority of Germany.
Due to his administrative tasks, the head of the chapel of the imperial palace during the Holy Roman Empire was called Chancellor. The Archbishop of Mainz was German Chancellor until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 while the Archbishop of Cologne was Chancellor of Italy and the Archbishop of Trier of Burgundy. These three Archbishops were also Prince-electors of the empire. Already in medieval times the Chancellor had political power like Willigis of Mainz (Archchancellor 975–1011, regent for Otto III 991–994) or Rainald von Dassel (Chancellor 1156–1162 and 1166–1167) under Frederick I.
The modern office of Chancellor was established with the North German Confederation, of which Otto von Bismarck became Chancellor (German, Bundeskanzler) in 1867. After unification of Germany in 1871, the office became known in German as Reichskanzler ("Reich Chancellor"). Since the adoption of the current constitution of Germany in 1949 the formal title of the office in the German language is once again Bundeskanzler.
In the now defunct German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), which existed from 7 October 1949 to 3 October 1990 (when the territory of the former GDR was reunified with the Federal Republic of Germany), the position of Chancellor did not exist. The equivalent position was called either Minister President (Ministerpräsident) or Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the GDR (Vorsitzender des Ministerrats der DDR). (See Leaders of East Germany.)
See the article Chancellor for the etymology of the word.
West Germany's 1949 constitution, the Basic Law (Grundgesetz), invests the Federal Chancellor (Bundeskanzler) with central executive authority. Since the 1961 election, the two major parties (CDU/CSU and SPD) call their leading candidates for the federal election "chancellor-candidate" (Kanzlerkandidat), although this is not an official term and any party can nominate a Kanzlerkandidat (even if there is no chance at all to lead or even become part of a coalition). The Federal Government (Bundesregierung) consists of the chancellor and his or her cabinet ministers.
The chancellor's authority emanates from the provisions of the Basic Law and from his or her status as leader of the party (or coalition of parties) holding a majority of seats in the Bundestag (federal parliament). With the exception of Helmut Schmidt, the chancellor has usually also been chairman of his or her own party. This was the case with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder from 1999 until he resigned the chairmanship of the SPD in 2004.
The first chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, set many precedents that continue today. He arrogated nearly all major decisions to himself, and established the chancellorship as the clear focus of power in Germany. He often treated his ministers as mere extensions of his authority rather than colleagues. While his successors have tended to be less domineering, the chancellor has acquired enough power that Germany is often described as a "chancellor democracy."
The chancellor determines the composition of the Federal Cabinet. The President formally appoints and dismisses cabinet ministers, at the recommendation of the chancellor; no parliamentary approval is needed. According to the Basic Law, the chancellor may set the number of cabinet ministers and dictate their specific duties. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard had the largest cabinet, with twenty-two ministers in the mid-1960s. Helmut Kohl presided over 17 ministers at the start of his fourth term in 1994; the 2002 cabinet, the second of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, had 13 ministers and the Angela Merkel cabinet as of 22 November 2005 has 15.
Article 65 of the Basic Law sets forth three principles that define how the executive branch functions:
The "chancellor principle" makes the chancellor responsible for all government policies which is also known as the Richtlinienkompetenz (roughly translated as "guideline setting competence"). Any formal policy guidelines issued by the chancellor are legally binding directives that cabinet ministers must implement. Cabinet ministers are expected to introduce specific policies at the ministerial level that reflect the chancellor's broader guidelines.
The "principle of ministerial autonomy" entrusts each minister with the freedom to supervise departmental operations and prepare legislative proposals without cabinet interference so long as the minister's policies are consistent with the chancellor's broader guidelines.
The "cabinet principle" calls for disagreements between federal ministers over jurisdictional or budgetary matters to be settled by the cabinet.
Appointment mechanism
The Bundeskanzleramt (Chancellery) in Berlin is the seat of the Chancellor
The Palais Schaumburg in Bonn is the second residence of the Chancellor
Every four years, after national elections and the convocation of the newly elected members of the Bundestag, the chancellor is elected by a majority of the members of the Bundestag upon the proposal of the President (Bundespräsident). This vote is one of the few cases where a majority of all elected members of the Bundestag must be achieved, as opposed to a mere majority of those that are currently assembled. This is referred to as the Kanzlermehrheit (chancellor's majority), and is designed to ensure the establishment of a stable government. It has in the past occasionally forced ill or pregnant members to have to attend parliament when a party's majority was only slim.
Unlike regular voting by the Bundestag, the vote to elect the chancellor is by secret ballot. This is intended to ensure that the chancellor's majority does not depend on members of his or her party only outwardly showing support.
If the nominee of the President is not elected, the Bundestag may elect its own nominee within fourteen days. If no-one is elected within this period, the Bundestag will attempt an election. If the person with the highest number of votes has a majority, the President must appoint him or her. If the person with the highest number of votes does not have a majority, the President may either appoint them or call new elections for the Bundestag. As all chancellors have been elected in the first vote as yet (1949–2010) neither of these constitutional provisions has been applied.
The chancellor is the only member of the federal government elected by the Bundestag. The other cabinet ministers are chosen by the chancellor himself or herself, although they are formally appointed by the President on the chancellor's proposal.
Votes of no-confidence
For more details, see Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
Unlike in other parliamentary legislatures, the Bundestag cannot remove the chancellor simply with a Motion of No Confidence. Instead, the early removal of a chancellor is only possible when it simultaneously agrees on a successor. In order to garner legislative support in the Bundestag, the chancellor can also call for a regular Motion of Confidence, either combined with a legislative proposal or as a standalone vote. Only if such a vote fails may the President dissolve the Bundestag.
This procedure exists to avoid the situation that existed in the Weimar Republic, when votes of no-confidence were over-used or abused by parties.
Style of address
The correct style of address in German is Herr Bundeskanzler (male) or Frau Bundeskanzlerin (female). Use of the mixed form "Frau Bundeskanzler" was deprecated by the government in 2004 because it is regarded as impolite.[3]
Living former Chancellors
There are three living former German Chancellors:
served 1974–1982, born 1918
List of Chancellors
Holding the third-highest state office available within the Federal Republic of Germany, the Chancellor of Germany receives €220,000 per annum and a €22,000 bonus, i.e. one and two thirds of Salary Grade B11 (according to § 11 (1) a of the Federal Law on Ministres – Bundesministergesetz, BGBl. 1971 I p. 1166 and attachment IV to the Federal Law on Salaries of Officers – Bundesbesoldungsgesetz, BGBl. 2002 I p. 3020).
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Evo 2014 to Include Expanded Bring Your Own Console Area
By Ian "iantothemax" Walker on April 23, 2014 at 11:55 am
While fierce competition in its main lineup is the largest draw for the Evolution Championship Series every year, the event also features an extensive casuals area for players to put on their own side tournaments, play with their friends, and generally enjoy their shared passion of fighting games in whatever title suits them.
To expand on this idea, Evo 2014 is set to feature an improved bring your own console space, which will be included in the main hall in order to place it closer to the action.
Evo co-founder Tom Cannon had this to say about this year’s BYOC area:
“Evo is about competing against the best in the world in the tournaments, but it’s also a common meeting ground to have a blast with other people who are just passionate about fighting games. We want to make sure that there’s plenty of fighting action even beyond of the core tournaments, which is why we’re greatly expanding the BYOC (bring your own console) area for 2014.
First we’ll have way more setups this year over 2013. Evo 2014 will be by far the largest BYOC we’ve ever had. We’re also moving the BYOC to the main tournament hall to make it more convenient for players and on-site spectators alike. We have a few more ideas that we’re tossing around, and would like to hear yours as well. What do you want to see in the BYOC at Evo 2014?”
Evo 2014 is scheduled for July 11-13 in Las Vegas, Nevada. More information on the festivities can be found through the event’s official website.
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Spilt Milk and Dairy-Free – Is it Worth Crying Over?
19 Jul 2018 11:17 AM | Aliya Umm Omar (Administrator)
Milk is as ancient as mankind itself as it is produced by all species of mammal, from man to whales as the perfect source of nourishment for their young.
The first reports of human consumption of other mammalian milks date back as early as 6000-8000 BC. At this time ancient man learned to domesticate species of animals initially for the provision of meat, and then later for the provision of milk for general consumption. Mammals used for milk production included cows, buffalo, sheep, goats, and camels, all of which are still used in various parts of the world for the production of milk for human consumption today.
In this modern era, industrialisation and urbanisation meant the supply of milk became a commercial industry, with specialised breeds of cattle being developed for dairy. Initially, more people were employed as milkers, but it soon turned to mechanisation with machines designed to do the milking.
Dairy plants receive and process raw milk they receive from farmers. They extend its marketable shelf life by heat treatment through pasteurisation, which removes enzymes and bacteria that would spoilt or sour the milk for human consumption. They would also produce other dairy products such as cheeses, yogurts, butters, creams and ice creams.
Most babies can digest milk without getting an upset stomach thanks to an enzyme called lactase. Lactase is needed to break down lactose, the sugar in milk. Some say that up until several thousand years ago, that enzyme turned off once a person grew into adulthood and did not require as much milk to nutritionally sustain them. This meant that most adults were lactose intolerant.
Studies have shown that people who consumed milk in its unprocessed form were usually nomads who did not settle down for long enough to make cheese out of the milk. Overall, these population-based and anthropological studies have shown that adult populations have adapted to milk consumption over many years.
In northern Europe, particularly Britain and Germany, unprocessed milk was consumed. However, milk consumption in adults was not common in southern European countries such as Italy. Even today, lactose intolerance is less relatively prevalent in the British, German and Scandinavian populations.
Genetic mutations seem to be at the root of this evolved lactose tolerance. Some studies have shown that a single genetic mutation occurred in around 4500 BC that spread worldwide. Another mutation could have come from the East African Tutsi population. The mutation has led to the populations of Northern Europe and India developing lactose tolerance so that they can safely consume milk and milk products. On the other hand, populations in sub-Saharan African, southern Europe and people native to America and the Pacific Islands do not continue to possess lactase into adulthood and are lactose intolerant.
It’s interesting to know the geographical differences in lactose sensitivity which explains why some regions have more people with lactose intolerance compared to others. This brings us onto the reasons why dairy-free diets are chosen and why it could benefit some more than others.
Dairy-Free Benefits
Dairy products such as milk, cheese, and yogurt do contain essential nutrients, such as calcium, potassium, phosphorus, protein, vitamins A, D and B12, riboflavin, and niacin. However, for some, its harm outweighs its benefits.
People follow a dairy-free diet for different reasons, but for most people, they’re searching for relief from digestive issues, bloating, skin problems and respiratory conditions that come from eating dairy products.
Dairy-free constitutes to removing milk, cheese, butter, cream cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream, custards and puddings, ice cream, gelato and sherbet, whey and casein, and other products that contain milk. People who are lactose intolerant may choose to reduce or eliminate foods that contain lactose. Some may be able to have smaller portions of foods containing milk proteins, and they may find that fermented dairy is easier on their digestive systems.
People with a cow’s milk food allergy, on the other hand, must completely eliminate milk proteins from their diets and find food allergy alternatives that provide calcium and other vital nutrients.
Prevents Digestive Problems
· Lactose intolerance is a problem for many causing symptoms such as bloating, gas, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.
· There are some that have a good amount of lactose-breaking enzyme lactase but are still unable to tolerate milk and dairy.
· Research suggests that proteins found in dairy can also have a significant impact on digestion, and that lactose may not be the only cause of gastrointestinal issues in those with an intolerance.
· A study published in the Nutrition Journal revealed that the A1 protein, found in cow’s milk, was to blame for triggering symptoms of milk intolerance.
· Scientists discovered that by removing the A1 beta casein protein, leaving just the A2 beta casein, sufferers were able to drink milk without gastrointestinal symptoms.
· Dairy has also been labelled as a key trigger of IBS symptoms and other digestive conditions.
Protects Against Fractures
· Milk and dairy products have been extensively promoted as strengthening bones, but research begs to differ.
· A 12-year prospective study published in the American Journal of Public Health found that drinking 2+ glasses of milk per day in fact increased women's risk of hip fracture by 45%. Those drinking 3+ glasses per day had a 60% greater hip fracture rate.
· For truly strong bones, eat more fruits and vegetables: women eating twice the fruit had 5% denser bones.
May Reduce Risk of Cancer
· A 2001 study conducted at Harvard School of Public Health found that a high calcium intake, mainly from dairy products, may increase prostate cancer risk by lowering concentrations of a hormone thought to protect against prostate cancer.
· Another study in 2011 found that drinking milk each day during adolescence, increased their risk of advanced prostate cancer by at least threefold.
· Another study, which analysed women from 40 countries across five continents, found that milk was closely connected to ovarian cancer. It revealed that consuming milk plus cheese showed the highest incidence of ovarian cancer. Women who drank just 1+ glass of whole milk per day were at three times greater risk for ovarian cancer.
· Milk consumed today is produced from pregnant cows rather than pasture-fed. Oestrogen and progesterone levels are markedly elevated in these cows.
· Milk products may also contain contaminants, such as pesticides, which have carcinogenic potential, and growth factors, such as insulin-like growth factor 1, which have been shown to promote breast cancer cell growth.
· While dairy can increase risk, vegetables can reduce it. Eating 3+ servings of vegetables per day dropped the risk of ovarian cancer by 39%.
Dairy-Free for Health
Below are some of the most common substitutes:
Milk Substitutes
Yoghurt Replacement
Butter/Cream Alternatives
Coconut milk yogurt
Vegetable oil blends
Almond milk yogurt
Coconut butter/cream
Soy milk yogurt
Nut butters/cream
Hemp yogurt
Cultured vegan butter/cream
made from coconut & cashews
Flaxseed milk
Hemp milk
Cow’s milk-free alternatives also include goats milk which is high in fatty acids and more easily absorbed and assimilated in the body than cow’s milk. The actual fat particles in goats milk are smaller and contain lower concentrations of lactose.
Fermented dairy options include kefir and amasai, which are often more easily digested, even by people with lactose intolerance.
Ghee is another option that’s clarified and easily digested by people with a lactose and casein sensitivity.
Cheese Substitutes
Soft Cheese –
· You can find soy- and nut-based versions of cream cheese, as well as a dairy-free, gluten-free and soy-free versions made from a blend of vegetable oils, tapioca starch and pea protein isolate.
· You can also make homemade cream cheese or soft crumbly cheese using cashews, macadamia nuts, Brazil nuts or almonds.
· And if you're simply trying to mimic the texture of cottage and ricotta cheeses, then you could use crumbled soft tofu as a replacement.
· Vegan cheeses are often highly processed and offer less protein than dairy cheese. However, you can also make homemade substitutions with whole foods like tofu, nuts and nutritional yeast.
Hard Cheese –
· Most brands use soy protein or nuts as a base, although there are some soy- and nut-free varieties that are made from vegetable oils mixed with pea starch or pea protein.
· Many people find nutritional yeast to be a good flavour substitute for grated Parmesan cheese.
· You can also make your own version by processing nuts and nutritional yeast with desired spices.
Although many non-dairy substitutes are available, there are a few things to look out for when choosing from the supermarket shelf:
· Added sugars:Many non-dairy products contain added sugars to enhance flavour and texture. While the sugar content is sometimes similar to that of regular dairy products, other times it can be much higher.
· Fillers:It is common for non-dairy cheeses and yoghurts to use a variety of additives in order to improve the texture of the product. While they aren't necessarily unhealthy, many people prefer more natural products.
· Protein content:Dairy cheeses, milk and yogurt deliver complete protein. However, the only plant-based replacement that mimics that level and quality of protein is soy.
· Nutrient content:Dairy products deliver potassium and calcium. Fortified non-dairy products may also offer these and other micronutrients, depending on the brand. Homemade products won't be fortified.
· Intolerances:Some people have allergies or intolerances to certain ingredients used in non-dairy replacements, such as soy or nuts. Fillers, such as inulin, can also be difficult for people to digest, causing bloating and flatulance.
· Price differences:Non-dairy alternatives often come with a higher price tag. On the other hand, this could be an incentive to make your own non-dairy substitutes.
Always read labels to see what ingredients and nutrients are in the product you're buying.
From the white elixir which we were all dependent on as babies to the white flag which we now have to surrender to in adulthood, this seemingly pure looking liquid has now become subject to scrutiny in recent times.
The evolution of the man-made milk production to industrialised machinery milk extraction may play a role into why lactose sensitivity is on the rise. It could also be due to the pasteurisation or homogenisation process which changes the composition of milk making it difficult for the body to digest. Other reasons for the rise in milk -related sensitivities could be the abnormally high hormones and contaminants that are making more and more people sick and search for alternative ways to treat diseases. From this, sufferers have now become more open to removing milk and dairy products from their diet and find tasty replacements for enjoying that creamy texture.
Going dairy-free has its benefits. It has shown to alleviate digestive problems, reduces your risk of certain cancers and could even slow down brittle bones in women. It makes sense to limit conventional dairy products and choose from the numerous delicious alternatives on offer. Better yet, make your own!
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US Supreme Court Center > Volume 43 > EX PARTE MATTER OF SIBBALD V. UNITED STATES, 43 U. S. 455 (1844)
EX PARTE MATTER OF SIBBALD V. UNITED STATES, 43 U. S. 455 (1844)
Ex Parte Matter of Sibbald v. United States, 43 U.S. 2 How. 455 455 (1844)
Ex Parte Matter of Sibbald v. United States
43 U.S. (2 How.) 455
Upon a petition so to alter a former mandate of this Court as to direct lands in Florida which had not been offered for sale under the President's proclamation to be included within a survey, as well as those lands which had been so offered,
Held that this Court has no power to grant the relief prayed.
This was a petition, the nature of which can be best explained by referring to the petition itself, which was as follows:
"To the honorable the Supreme Court of the United States, the petition of Charles F. Sibbald, respectfully represents,"
"That, at January term, 1836, of the Supreme Court of the United States, that the case of the United States, appellants v. your petitioner, the subject matter being on a grant of land derived from the Spanish government, and situated in Florida, its extent 16,000 acres, your honorable Court confirmed the entire grant of your petitioner."
"That the grant stipulated, and your Honorable Court decided the right, as exercised by your petitioner, of making surveys anywhere in Florida, at which decision three several surveys, as made, were accordingly confirmed to your petitioner. Vide 35 U. S. 10 Pet. 321."
"That it being ascertained that divers interfering surveys, under valid titles from the British and Spanish, as also some donations from the government of the United States, would deprive your petitioner of a large portion of the 16,000 acres as decided to belong to him, at the January term of your Honorable Court of 1838, he found it necessary to apply to have the former mandate of the court so strengthened or altered that the surveyor of the public lands in Florida and the judge of the United States court there would be directed to make surveys for such a quantity of land as that of which he was deprived by these conflicting claims within his former surveys."
"That your Honorable Court, 37 U. S. 12 Pet. 488-496, heard his petition, representing"
"that, by the opinion of this Honorable Court, he considered two points clearly settled, to-wit, the first, that he was entitled to 16,000 acres, according to the original grant; secondly, that he had an inherent privilege to direct, or point out, where other locations should be made in case the other surveys made for him were interfered with by older and good claims. "
"That your Honorable Court, 37 U. S. 12 Pet. 494, has directed the application of the Missouri law of 1824, which, you say, 'will meet the prayer of your petition, which you feel bound to grant, for the reasons set forth,' and in accordance with which a supplemental petition was added by the counsel of your petitioner at the suggestion of your Honorable Court referring to the Missouri law."
"That upon receiving the mandate of the Court, and examining this law, your petitioner ascertained that while the decree of your Honorable Court confirmed and decided his rights to select lands anywhere in Florida, he ascertained that this act only authorized the entry of such refuse lands as had been offered at public sale under the President's proclamation, and thus depriving him of the very spots he might wish to select."
"That also, while this act would limit and confine him to such lands as [are] surveyed, the fact exists that only a small portion of the public land in East Florida have been surveyed."
"That your petitioner therefore is obviously debarred in the exercise of his right to select the lands decreed to him, and prays your Honorable Court to order the mandate [to be] so amended as to meet his case."
"Your petitioner respectfully refers to the case of Smith v. United States, 10 Pet. 334, where your Honorable Court says:"
" Should this grant be confirmed, it must follow its tenor and purport; the decree must affirm its validity not merely to the quantity of land, but with the right of location, according to its express terms, which gives St. Vrain the unlimited choice of the most valuable portions of the public lands. It would be in direct violation of those rights, which constitute the great value of the claim (which were not of the quantity of land), to make a decree that they were secured to him by the law of nations, the treaty, and acts of Congress, as inviolable, and in the same decree to limit him in the selection of such lands in Missouri as should have been offered at public sale, without a bid beyond the minimum price of the public lands. This would necessarily deprive him of the very spots to which he would be entitled under our decree, wherever he might choose to apportion them by a lawful survey."
"Your petitioner further represents that in Arredondo v. United States, 6 Pet. 710, your Honorable Court said:"
" In conformity with the principles of justice and rules of equity, the court is directed to decide all questions arising in the cause, and by a final decree to
settle and determine the validity of title according to the law of nations, the stipulations of any treaty, and the proceedings under the same, the several acts of Congress in relation thereto, and the law and ordinances of the government from which it is alleged to be derived, and all other questions which may properly arise between the claimants and the United States, which decree shall in all cases refer to the treaty, law, or ordinance under which it is confirmed or decreed against."
"CHAS. F. SIBBALD"
" Filed 5 March, 1842"
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Sherri Duskey Rinker - January 31, 2018
Sherri Duskey Rinker is the author of #1 New York Times bestseller Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site and Steam Train, Dream Train as well as Mighty, Mighty Construction Site. Sherri lives in the Chicago area with her photographer husband, two sons, and one fluffy dog. See more at: sherririnker.com.
Mrs. Rinker will visit Stone Bank School to talk about her newest book: Tiny and the Big Dog. Students in grades 5K - 2 are invited to join us at this event, and may purchase an autographed copy of the book! Other Sherri Rinker books will be available at Books & Company on February 1st.
Mike Lowery - October 12, 2017
Mike Lowery is the author and illustrator of the Doodle Adventures series. His artwork has appeared in everything from greeting cards to children's books and the Kid's Awesome Activity Calendar. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and daughter where he also co-runs Paper Ghost Studio. See more at mikelowery.com.
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Carrie Jones is the author of Time Stoppers and its sequel Quest for the Golden Arrow, as well as the New York Times and internationally bestselling Need series, and After Obsession, co-written with Steven E. Wedel. She is also a part-time police dispatcher in Maine because she loves police stories.
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Before she became a writer, Liesl graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in music, dance, and theater. Her first book Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin, won over kids and critics alike, earning an IRA Award, a Texas Bluebonnet nomination, a Whitney nomination and a starred review from Kirkus, proclaiming it, "as good as gold." Her next book will be a fractured retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood."
Michael Perry - September, 2014
Michael Perry is a bestselling author from New Auburn, Wisconsin. He lives with his wife and two daughters on a small farm where he raises pigs and chickens. He is proud to serve with his neighbors on the New Auburn Area Fire Department.
Scavengers is Perry's first novel for young people. Maggie, the main character, lives in a dystopian future where climate change has ravaged the landscape and most of the population has retreated into enclosed Bubble Cities. But some, like Maggie and her family, choose to live outside, away from the control of the government and big corporations. They sell things they scavenge from a dump and fight of mutant solar bears and zombie-like "GreyDevils" who roam the landscape.
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Virat Kohli ‘heartbroken’ after batting failure wrecks India’s World Cup campaign
India lost the World Cup semi-final in the first 45 minutes of their chase against New Zealand, and will now return home “heartbroken”, according to their captain, Virat Kohli, who nevertheless insisted that his team had done a “commendable” job in the course of the tournament.
The several hundred India fans, who had opted to stay back for the second day of the rain-interrupted contest, were left aghast as Matt Henry and Trent Boult reduced their side to 5 for 3 and then 24 for 4 in the first Powerplay. And despite a spirited comeback, led by Ravi Jadeja and MS Dhoni, the damage proved too much to overcome in an 18-run defeat.
“The game pretty much changed in those first 40 minutes when we were batting,” Kohli said after the match. “The pressure created was immense in those first 40, 45 minutes. And when you lose 3 for 5 it is very difficult to come back into the game.”
Kohli admitted that India had clearly not been ready for the challenge presented by New Zealand’s seamers, who had been given a total of 239 to defend after adding a further 28 runs to their overnight 211 for 5. While that did not look like a substantial total at the time, a pair of hard-worked half-centuries from Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor had made it clear that the surface was not easy for run-scoring.
“New Zealand, the way they bowled, they did not provide any opportunities for us,” said Kohli. “For the first seven or eight overs we didn’t get a ball to drive. That shows the kind of control they bowled with and they put the fielders in the right positions and that was a perfect spell of fast bowling with the new ball, which really put us under a lot of pressure.
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“We are not shying away from accepting that we didn’t stand up to the challenge and we were not good enough under pressure. We have to accept that and accept the failure as it shows on the scoreboard.”
According to some reports, New Zealand prepared for the contest by watching videos of Pakistan’s victory over India in the 2017 Champions Trophy final – another match which featured key early wickets in India’s run-chase.
“I wasn’t surprised with how New Zealand played, to be honest,” said Kohli. “If there is a low total, we knew there’s probably only one or two sides in world cricket that will put seven fielders in the ring and one was going to be New Zealand.
“We knew they were going to attack more. They will not let the game go to the end, they won’t take it deep, they will go all out and play the game. Today, also, third man was up in the ring. In the one-day game you had five catching fielders. So they know how to put pressure because they play very consistent cricket.”
At 5 for 3 after 19 balls, India’s soft underbelly – their middle order – was brought into play earlier than at any other stage of the tournament. In each of their previous contests, at least one of the top three had endured to drop anchor into the middle overs, not least Rohit Sharma, who had notched five hundreds in his eight previous innings.
Virat Kohli congratulates Kane Williamson after the game Associated Press
“I don’t think that I would like to break things down immediately, but in time we’ll have to sit down and analyse where we went wrong and the things we could have done right in this game particularly,” said Kohli.
He did, however, add that a “couple” of batsmen might have reason to question their shot selection. He didn’t name names, although both Rishabh Pant and Hardik Pandya fell to rash aggressive shots after digging in hard to rebuild the innings. Pant opted to slog-sweep Mitchell Santner and bring to an end a dogged 47-run partnership, before Pandya, too, lost his head to a mow across the line and picked out Kane Williamson in the deep.
Immediately after Pant’s dismissal, TV cameras caught Kohli swiftly walking out of the Indian dressing room to have a chat with head coach Ravi Shastri. Was he furious at the youngster’s shot selection?
Kohli categorically said that was not the case, claiming instead that he wanted to discuss with Shastri the mini-targets that the team needed to set during such a chase. As for Pant, Kohli said he already understood his mistake but it was all part of the learning process for a 21-year-old player who had not even been an original selection in this, his first World Cup.
“He is an instinctive player and did well to overcome that situation and stringing a partnership with Hardik,” said Kohli. “The way they played after the loss of four wickets rather, was quite commendable. He’s still young. I made many errors when I was young in my career and he will learn, he will look back and think, yes, he could have chosen a different option in that situation and he realises that already.
“All these guys have a lot of pride and passion to play for their country and they are the ones who feel the most disappointed when a mistake happens. On the outside it looks like it was an error but the person who makes it, trust me, they are the ones who suffer the most with it.
“I’m sure he will reflect on it and he will come out stronger. The talent is there for everyone to see and the character is there, but, as I said, yes, a few shots, not just Rishabh, but that happens in sport. You make errors, you make decisions which are not right at that time and you have to accept it.”
The defeat will be doubly painful for Kohli because, once again, he failed with the bat in a crucial knock-out contest. In his three World Cup semi-final appearances, he has made scores of 9 (2011), 1 (2015) and 1 again today. Even in the Champions Trophy final in 2017, he made just 5.
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Today he chose to review his lbw decision after being struck on the pad by Boult, but was sent on his way after the umpire’s call was upheld by the replay. Kohli flung his bat in anger and disappointment as he left the crease.
He admitted afterwards that he had been unable to control his emotions in the moment, but owned up to failing when it mattered most for his team. “It is very disappointing not turning up when the team wanted me to. Obviously, it feels bad. Everyone gets disappointed when they get out so it was a natural reaction.”
Leading India at a World Cup for the first time, Kohli’s dream of making the final has been shattered despite India finishing top in the group phase. He did not hide his disappointment. “Of course, very disappointed,” he said, “to just go out on the basis of 45 minutes of bad cricket is saddening and it breaks your heart also, because you have worked so hard throughout the tournament to build momentum.
“You finish No. 1 in the table and then a spell of bad cricket and then you are out of the tournament completely. But you have to accept it.
“We are sad, but we are not, you know, devastated because of the kind of cricket that we played in this tournament. We know where we stood as a team and today we were not good enough and that is the nature of this tournament. A bad day in the knockout stage [and] you are out of the tournament
“But having said that, we have qualified to the semis and we have played some really good cricket, so we should be also proud of the way we have played and look at the positives also, because there were a lot throughout this tournament, especially Rohit’s performance was standout, Jasprit [Bumrah] with the ball and Jadeja given the opportunities. So there are many things that we can take back as positives.”
This article was originally published by Espncricinfo.com. Read the original article here.
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Senator Syverson receives YMCA Legislative Hero award
The Illinois Alliance of YMCAs has named State Senator Dave Syverson (R-Rockford) their 2015 “Legislative Hero.” The award is given to a member of the General Assembly who has helped to advance the mission of the YMCA organization, which is to nurture the potential of kids, promote healthy living and foster a sense of social responsibility.
“It is incredible to be by honored by such an amazing organization,” said Senator Syverson. “The YMCA has contributed immeasurably to the health of Illinois residents, while providing wonderful programs for youth throughout the state.”
According to the Belvidere Family YMCA’s Jen Jacky, she nominated Senator Syverson for his tireless support of the YMCA and its operations and community work. She added that he has consistently and fiercely advocated for the YMCA Child Care Assistance Program, demonstrating the Senator’s belief in the value of the program.
“Even with the tight budget constraints we currently find ourselves experiencing, we have to support the types of programs, like those provided by the YMCA, that truly make a difference in people’s lives,” said Senator Syverson. “I thank them for this recognition and look forward to continuing to serve as an advocate to protect and promote their valuable services.”
Senator Syverson receives the "Legislative Hero" award from Belvidere Family YMCA’s Jen Jacky.
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Visual Performance: a way of being
Posted on 12 October 2018 by Jess Richards
Sally J Morgan, Jess Richards, Mark Jeffery, Rona Lee, Roger Bourke, Emma Butchart, Gillian Wylde.
This is a composite article, prompted by Mark Jeffery in a callout to past staff and students of the Dartington College of Arts Visual Performance degree (VP). Mark provided a set of questions that contributors could choose to respond to.[1] The resulting commentaries have been edited by Jess Richards and Sally J Morgan and constructed into a single text that attempts to combine the memories of many. What we have here is by no means the whole story of Visual Performance at Dartington. Many later voices are not present, so this is only half a story. This is the tale of intentions and impacts, one that can, and should, be added to. If you would like to add your part of the story through word, images, or other audio-visual content, please contact Bryan Brown at B.Brown@exeter.ac.uk.
(Sally J Morgan and Jess Richards)
“Broken Bits of Time” handmade slate clocks (2014) by Jess Richards
0. How to do it
(Gillian Wylde, VP student 1997- 99, VP Lecturer 2000 – 2010)
#Feel the fear and do it anyway. Eliminate all forms of self-expression. Make un-training your instruction and don’t make any art. Take up post-colonial theory and fuck up imperialist narratives and colonial impulses. Take up queer theory it’s your job, and opt for alternative world making activities, anti-fascist counter culture desires. Tune in to voices of all women. Seek out low budget mysticism in everything. Try a new position for example: read more Gertrude Stein. The rules are that there are no rules. We are thinking about thinking. Do it more wrong. Make it worse.
1. Beginning
(Sally J Morgan, Lecturer, Art and Social Context 1984-1990, foundational Head of Visual Performance 1990 -1992)
Very good things sometimes come out of very bad things. The bad thing in this case was when Dartington College of Arts decided to close its cutting-edge art degree, Art and Social Context in response to a financial crisis. The good thing was that the continuation of a unique approach to creative arts education was enabled at Dartington College of Arts when Visual Performance came into existence.
Laced through Dartington’s DNA was the conviction that the arts had a function beyond the ‘self-criticism’ that the modernist critic, Clement Greenberg propounded in the 1960’s (Greenberg 1961)[2].
There is a symbolic moment that sums up the turn of the tide that became the wave that Dartington surfed like no other. In 1966, British artist John Latham held an event at St Martins College of Art, London, in which he and his students ripped up a copy of Greenberg’s Art and Culture. Chewing it page by page until it became liquid, they spat it into glass vials to produce the artwork Chew and Spit: Art and Culture. During the same year, Barbara Steveni, then married to Latham, set up the Artist Placement Group (APG), with the aim of placing artists in ‘non-art locations’ to make art in response to them. In contrast to Greenberg’s position, the motto of the APG was the context is half the work, and its major tenet was, to quote Graham Stevens, that ‘an artwork changes fundamentally in where, who with, and how it is made’.
These two events were powerful markers of change. Chew and Spit might be seen as the symbolic moment of rebellion; a visceral spurning of Greenberg’s modernism and an embracing of the things it forbade: those being politics, the ephemeral, transdisciplinarity, the theatrical, the ‘now’. The Artist Placement Group was the practical response, the ‘blue-print’ for a different way of understanding art; for no longer seeing it as a product or commodity, but as a process in which anything might be possible. Political and socially engaged art was emerging in this period as a form of art-world revolution. For British visual artists in the late sixties, such as Albert Hunt, John Fox and Stuart Brisley, the line between art and political action was mutable. New, process-orientated works became a possibility. Variously described as Happenings, Environments, Actions and Performances, and typified by Joseph Beuys’s Social Sculpture projects, these are artworks in a constant state of process. They cannot find, and do not desire, stasis. They emphasise the lived-experience of the perceiver and emphasise affect over form and materiality.
This then is the place from which Visual Performance developed; moulded by a particular historical moment in which traditional boundaries were dissolved and new boundaries established. The legacy of that time, for me, is that like Vito Acconci artists like me saw art as ‘doing’. Like Stuart Brisley we allowed that art may be political and social. Like John Latham we saw art as being a ‘state of radiant energy’. Like Yoko Ono we believed that art may exist as an experience in the mind of the participant. Like all those artists, our approach at Dartington was open-minded and curious. We were not confined to form or medium, our practices were unified by a conceptual approach and a search for affectivity at the point of connection with an audience, where there is, as Julia Kristeva noted in relation to the visual works of the sculptor and theatre-maker, Robert Wilson, ‘an intrication of the roles of the artist and the spectator, erasing the borders between the self and the other’ where ‘the traditional categories – painting, sculpture, stagecraft, etc. – no longer correspond to reality’ (Kristeva 1994, 64-65).
The timing for the inception of Visual Performance is an important part of this story. The College’s financial crisis of 1990 was the catalyst, and Sam Richards has covered this very well in his book Dartington College of Arts, Learning by Doing: A Biography of a College (Richards 2015). However, there were other important factors that made this the right initiative in the right place and time, and I’d like to expand on that a little here. As one of the annual DCA prospectuses stated, Art and Social Context staff and students had, ‘persistently chosen to make performance and installation art … and to collaborate with specialists in music or theatre’ (Dartington College of Arts 1992, 8).
This was certainly the case during my time there. I had arrived in 1984 to be a lecturer in painting on the Art and Social Context course, and I was particularly interested in political community action and cross-media collaboration. I had done a lot of this on the streets of Newcastle, Salford and London. I was used to working with theatre-makers and musicians and trying to find the hybrid spaces in-between.
I wasn’t the only one who was excited by this approach. There was a lot of two-way traffic between the Art and Theatre departments in particular. My colleague Rose Garrard ran fine art-based performance art projects in which she introduced gallery-based performance approaches to art and theatre students alike. Rose was an established art-based performance artist with an international profile. She came from an art school background and, like most artists of her ilk, she saw performance art and theatre as different disciplines. Whilst there isn’t enough space in this article to fully explain the distinctions between the two art-forms, they are important to this discussion, so I’ll try to convey the facts succinctly. Performance art, as understood in the art world at that time, vehemently disassociated itself from theatre. The form developed from a position best explained by the art critic, Lucy Lippard in her influential book ‘Six Years: The Dematerialisation of the Art Object’ (Lippard, 1973), in which she observed that visual art had moved away from objects as its end, and towards the enactment of concepts. The manifestation of this was that, beginning in the 1960s, Events, Happenings and Environments took the place of sculptures and paintings, and the active body of the artist became a vehicle of artistic expression. Early exponents included Allan Kaprow, Yoko Ono, Chris Burden, Joseph Beuys and, in Britain, Stuart Brisley.
Brisley was particularly opposed to the ‘theatrical’ in performance art. He defined performance art as real-time action. This term was a signpost to what differentiated performance art from theatre: that being the enactment of actual risk through an unscripted process of what I would describe as ‘controlled unpredictability’. A performance art work of this kind might be described as an event for which resolution must be found, but cannot be fully anticipated. In this scenario, no performance could ever be repeated, was normally shown in an art world context, and was to be judged as ‘art’ rather than ‘theatre’. Most of what I would describe as ‘hard-core’ performance artists of the time would have agreed with Northern Irish artist, Nick Stewart, when he complained that too many people conflated performance art with theatre, saying, ‘there is a difference (…) theatrical-based work tends to undermine the philosophical basis of visual arts ideas’ (Stewart 1995, 166).
Rose Garrard was certainly of the same view as Stewart, and she had a great influence on the development of art-based performance at Dartington. She was well-established in this field, with a practice going back to the mid-seventies. At that time, she was considered the UK’s leading female performance artist, and if Stuart Brisley was the Godfather of British performance art, then Garrard was certainly its Godmother. She had been a visiting lecturer at many of Britain’s leading art schools and had taught many of its practitioners. Her approach was intense and challenging, and I learned a lot from it.
I too ran cross-departmental projects in that period. After having been invited by theatre students to run ‘installation for performance’ projects, I began to work more closely with some of them who were interested in taking a visual approach to their work. I had been ‘outside-eye’ or examiner for a number of them, including Christine Malloy and Jo Lawlor who went on to be successful theatre and film-makers as Desperate Optimists (their name being based on my one-time description of them). I had also collaborated on a huge outdoor project with Theatre of Public Works Director, Pete Kiddle. I worked with art students Jules Dorey, Lizzie Coleman and Margie Fortune and with theatre students who included Andrea Phillips, Dave Izod and David Richmond. The collaborative partnership that had the biggest impact on me, however, was with Melanie Thompson.
Thompson was a Dartington graduate who had specialised in dance and had gone on to form the company Intimate Strangers. Her show Chine was described as having ‘a kind of irresistible logic and fascination yet remains inexplicable’ (Performance Magazine 1988). We started to work together when the then Head of Theatre, Roger Sell, teamed us up to run a cross-departmental project in Utrecht. The two of us went on to have a series of collaborations. The most significant of these for me, was a 1989 site-specific work entitled Frontiers. The participants were a group of second year students drawn from the theatre and art departments. The site was a decayed, brick cattle-shed in a paddock full of waist-high grass, lost in the woods on the Dartington Estate. I began by walking the site with the students looking at its visual and spatial possibilities. We decided that the audience would be drawn from point to point by encountering incidents on the way to the Cattle Shed. The students constructed installations, from which they developed the performance element. This was exciting to me because it was the first time that I had experienced the possibilities of performance that began from the visual rather than the dramatic, and I completely fell in love with it as a form that fell between fine art and theatre.
On the evening of the performance, the audience were met at dusk by a solitary guide and led through a gap in a dense hedge, down an overgrown bank, into a series of ‘accidental’ encounters with the student performers. At this point the separation of audience from performer dissolved. No longer safe in the seats of a theatre, the viewer had the sensation of accidentally witnessing a partial narrative for which they had to provide their own conclusions. It was akin to coming across a fleeting incident in the street, where you must imagine where the story has been and where it will go based on this moment in front of you.
Like Alice, they had slipped through a hole into a magical dimension. Here installation art and performance transformed the ‘now’ and the ‘real’ to produce Freud’s unheimlich. Literally translated as the un-home-like, the audience was offered the chance to experience Freud’s ‘uncanny’, where what we thought we knew was transformed in subtle and disquieting ways. This is where spillage from dreams, fears or longings, infects us, calling all reality into question.
The extraordinary and beautiful sensation of the unstitching of perception that this project produced in me was to turn into a passion for this way of working through discipline-hybridity. Students who did that project with us included Kirsten Lavers, John Bunker and Diana Collins. They, together with theatre students such as Christine Malloy, Jo Lawlor and others, formed a cross-departmental cohort exploring this uncharted state between art and theatre in remarkable and breath-taking ways, thus laying the foundations for what was to come.
Of course, this approach had not sprung up at the College out of nowhere. It built on a history of experimentation across artforms at Dartington. In 1964 John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Robert Rauschenberg’s interdisciplinary collaboration Story was presented on the Estate. Painter and experimental artist, Robert Rauschenberg recognised something familiar in Dartington’s ambience, noticing that the people there had ‘that Black Mountain beatnik kind of look’ (Kostelanetz 1970, 81).
The comparison was not unfounded, like Black Mountain, the Dartington experience was intense, incestuous and tumultuous. There was nothing there other than studios, a bar, acres of woodland, and a river that people drowned in. You could get as obsessed as you wanted and make weird stuff in ruined outhouses half-hidden in the woods. Frankly, there was nothing else to do but make art. The community was no more than three hundred people. In this environment where there was no boundary between art-life, social-life and home-life, interdisciplinary experimentation in wild and undisciplined ways was an almost inevitable outcome. The College was an isolated artistic hothouse. The Theatre Department brought the most current alternative theatre and dance companies, such as Forced Entertainment, Goat Island and Theatre de Complicite, to Dartington. Most of the students and staff attended these events. Practicing artists were invited to run intensive projects, including Dartington alumna Debra Levy (who was later short-listed for the Man Booker prize twice for her novels Swimming Home [2012] and Hot Milk [2016]) and Irish performance artist Nick Stewart. New York Wooster Group member, Nancy Reilly ran a cross-departmental project with first year students using the unconventional theatre methods she’d developed when working with Wooster Group. Influential avant-garde dancer/choreographers were also a part of our experience. Mary Fulkerson worked with students to use ‘real’ movements drawn from the banal moments of their own lives. These were repeated, condensed, exaggerated and minimised with an intensity that made the work seem auto-ethnographic.
As intimated earlier, this way of being an artist exploring the edges across disciplines and between art and life, had found its time. Live Art was coming into being in Britain, and it was a way of working that chimed with the Dartington approach. Originally coined by RoseLee Goldberg, the term was reclaimed and redefined by the Arts Council’s Performance Art Advisory Group under the leadership of Lois Keidan[3] (Heddon and Klein 2012). Keidan was, and still remains, a very active and generous supporter of Live Art as an ‘area of practice that cuts across and subverts traditional art form boundaries’ (Keidan 1991, i). She twice commissioned works of mine to be shown at the ICA in London, and she had a passionate vision for the building of an inclusive, cross-artform approach to performance works. Along with Nikki Milican, the Director of the National Review of Live Art, she facilitated a range of practices that might otherwise have died in the UK for want of care. In a 1991 Arts Council of Great Britain (ACGB) discussion paper, she reported that the ACGB had effectively renamed performance art by proposing ‘that we in Britain change our terminology from the “restrictive practice” of Performance Art to the flexibility and responsiveness of the term Live Art’ (Keidan 1991, 2). Her position was that, ‘Performance/Live Art … came from across a range of disciplines, producing ‘works based on image and concept that are not bound by traditional contexts’ (Keidan 1991, 2).
All of these factors primed the environment for the establishment of Visual Performance, but as I intimated earlier, the catalyst for its inception was the cataclysmic effect of the financial crisis that hit the College in 1990. The senseless closure of Art and Social Context annoyed me immensely, and I joined the small group that had been put together to design a ‘performance oriented’ curriculum, bringing with me the none-too-secret intention of ensuring that a visual approach to performance would be firmly knitted into all future offerings. Ric Allsopp suggested the name ‘Visual Performance’ and I proposed that we should capitalise on Dartington’s long history of experimental collaboration.
Once I got the curriculum-design group and the College management, in the person of the Principal, Dr Janet Ritterman, to agree that Visual Performance was going to be a ‘thing’, I set about constructing a course that would span art-based performance art through to performance design and scenography. I turned to Rose Garrard to help me develop the performance art modules, and Roger Bourke to work on the scenography elements. Garrard was the perfect person to do this with. As noted earlier, Rose was well-established in this field, with a record of performance art practice going back to the mid-seventies. She was a charismatic artist who had a great influence on the development of performance art as a subject in the Art Department. Her approach was intense and challenging, and I learned a lot from it. Roger Bourke had a background in experimental performance design and installation. Like me, he had trained as a painter and he had an intensely visual approach to experimental theatre-making. Later he turned to complex, beautifully performative installation, which threw up the kinds of questions that became a hallmark of his approach. In 2018, he wrote of his practice:
In conceiving installed and performative spaces as ‘intermediary spaces for the spectator’s intrusion’, the question becomes – how to make this space manifest the materiality of its own construction and thus draw the spectator into processing their own act of ‘spectation’? Both artist and spectator have to live with, and within, the knowledge that ‘somebody began it’ – in the ‘in-between’ – in the middle of their own production as agent – in the interstices of intention and interpretation. A Polish artist once asked me “what my problem was.” Temporarily a little put out, I finally realised that, for him, defining “the problem” was the key to developing an artwork. Specific strategies, procedures, exercises, etc., must derive from ‘knowing the problem’. In this case, strategies and procedures might include: exploring tactile, kinaesthetic and proprioceptive experiencing of defined spaces; testing the proximal, distal and panoptic; exploiting presence and absence in physical (hard) material and in the fluid materialities of light and sonic resonance; and construction that reveals construction. It might also include: working in the liminal through perceptual changes of orientation – strategies of detachment/ disorientation – what Husserl called ‘epoche’; building dialogues between the immediacy of the experienced moment and the past and future horizons of memory and speculation. Finally, it might engage in an exploration of ‘slippage’ – conflating perception and knowledge creation by, what I might call, ‘frame dragging’ imagery through processes of association and displacement.
We were all three different, but all three of us had worked on cross-departmental projects before. It all made sense to us.
Would there have been Visual Performance at Dartington if they hadn’t closed Art and Social Context? Yes, I think there would have been, because it was already there, but it wouldn’t have been a different degree, it wouldn’t have had that name, and it might not have attracted the kind of student who chose Visual Performance as a specialist degree. It would simply have been another way that we did things across and between the existing departments. As it was, the need to save the things I loved about Dartington, in some way or other, gave me an imperative to make a place for the things we’d been doing: a space for a way of being. The word ‘training’ was an anathema to us. The only training we imagined was the ‘un-picking’ of training. We were training them to be.
I was always surprised when people said they didn’t know what Visual Performance was. I never understood why they seemed to want it to be a thing – one thing – a penned-animal-of-a-thing, a neat answer that you could pin on the wall. The vision we had was for an inclusive approach to all things visual in performance. We imagined it producing performance designers, performance artists, video-makers, costume-designers and lighting designers as well as hard-core performance artists. It was meant for people who thought in images, and wanted to make them concrete through performance, whatever form that performance took (and we had a very fluid notion of what that might be). It would be a way of being, not a defined form. The thought of its first graduates becoming, as they did, highly successful stand-up comics (Chris Dangerfield), live-artists (Mark Jeffery), novelists (Jess Richards), production managers (Dave Baxter), video-artists (Karolyn Hatton), costume designers for film (Julie Butterworth) or community artists (Emma Butchart), as well as art-based performance artists (Francesca Goldsworthy), was a joyful prospect.
In the spring of 1991 we were ready to recruit our first students. I was the course leader and Roger Bourke my deputy, Rose Garrard was employed half-time, and ex-Art and Social Context student Diana Collins was offered part-time work. Later that academic year we appointed Tim Brennan and Gillian Dyson to the team. All of us were ‘out there doing it’. All of us made performance works that were witnessed by our students. The sense of an artist’s colony was very real. We were all in this together.
On a warm day as spring turned towards summer, I waited for my first interviewees, Jess Richards and Dave Baxter to arrive. Jess didn’t like to talk, but she had a portfolio of beautiful drawings and screeds of writing. She frowned at me in a young and serious way. She wanted to be somewhere where people were interested she told me. Dave wanted to build things like sets and installations, and he was political like the Art and Social Context students I’d had before. I liked them both and accepted them on the spot. The next interview was with a slender young man with ginger hair and loads of nervous intensity, Mark Jeffery. When I told him that he was ‘in’, he leapt up and down squealing and hugged me, apologising immediately afterwards. Later a blonde girl from Sunderland, who knew what to do with the colour red, looked surprised when we said we liked her work. Her name was Emma Bluett (later Emma Butchart).
2. Student
(Jess Richards, first recruit to Visual Performance)
I was the first student to be offered a place on the Visual Performance course at Dartington. I was very silent when I was there, preferring to ‘speak’ by ‘writing’. This method of communicating was encouraged there, just as those who spoke visually or musically or through the movements of bodies were also encouraged. We were young artists working within and across creative disciplines who were being trained (and constantly questioning that ‘training’) to express ourselves in wild, noisy, silent, still, dangerous, simple and complex ways. The materials we worked with were as varied as fire, liquid, power tools, photocopiers, glass, gravy, razorblades, white fabric, light…
My song is a spell, and is something I learned. Not what to sing, but how to sing. The risk and magic of words, written on clothing, pegged on lines or caught by the spine of a book. A song can be spoken or heard or sung. Shouted or chanted or told as a story. It can create a picture. It can be completely silent. Each iteration takes a risk as small as an egg or as wild as an illusion of flight.
Can you hear the song of your body, all blood, bones and heartbeat? There’s a song inside you, the one that tells you the sky will fall or the oceans will rise or the whole world is fighting or it’s just you who’s fighting. If it is, fight well.
Consider the height and the breadth of the sky between this light and dark forest, and that place of the past: a tilt-yard with no horses, a ploughed field under rain. Remember silently shouting that anger is evil and anger is good, and let the sky fall, if it dares.
The whole ethos of Visual Performance was experimental – partly because of how the course had been designed, and partly because it was new and passionately led, and we were new and passionately driven. It was all right ‘not to know’ what we were doing, as long as we were actively ‘not doing’ or ‘doing’ something. We learned from mistakes, discomfort and problems as much as we learned from breakthroughs. Learning by creative practice intermingled with learning by observing, participating, developing skills, discussing theories and methods. Objects and text, sound, light and bodies ‘performed’ as we imbued all things ‘visual’ with meanings or opinions and ideas – all tested out on critical audiences of other students and faculty members within muddy fields, up trees, in derelict buildings, domestic environments, music rooms, rooftops, rivers, corridors and studio spaces.
On the Visual Performance course, any notion of ‘training’ could also be argued as a process of ‘untraining.’ As students, we unlearned what we believed that we knew – a process which often resulted in the realisation that in life as much as in ‘art’ no one really ‘knows’ anything at all. From this place of ‘not-knowing’, we discovered what we cared about, as artists. These passions drove us to individually and collectively, find our ‘voices’.
Twenty seven years later, I still prefer to ‘talk’ by ‘writing’. I am the author of three literary fiction novels which are published by Sceptre, Hodder & Stoughton. These novels were written in response to questions which I explored within the content of each narrative, and I still use artistic and performative processes within my creative writing practice.
What if… there was an undiscovered island, just off the edge of a map? (Snake Ropes, 2012)
What if… an old woman was several people and not just one? (Cooking with Bones, 2014)
What if… love was a substance? (City of Circles, 2017)
I can trace this ‘questioning’ or ‘speculating’ – asking ‘what if…’ and the use of artistic and performative processes within creative writing back to my early experiments with written, printed, spoken and recorded texts which were used within durational performances and installations at Dartington. My education in Visual Performance trained me to ‘learn’ or ‘explore’ by ‘doing’ – to write texts using performative methods, and constantly ask the ‘art’ or ‘writing’ object that was emerging as a ‘product’ what it wants to become. Unlike most ‘creative writing’ training, where ‘product’ (e.g. the short story, the poem, the novel, etc) is more important than the ‘process’, in my creative practice, both ‘process’ and ‘product’ are of equal importance.
(Mark Jeffery, first cohort Visual Performance)
I now write this at the dining room table, 27 years later, in my Chicago home. When I till and turn over my art making as if it’s a field, the roots and soil from the Dartington Estate are still present, still present in how I remember and connect my making now, to my making then.
Over the three years on the Visual Performance course, and being part of the first cohort to go through the degree, you embody your teachers: Sally Morgan, Roger Bourke, Rona Lee, Tim Brennan, Sally Tallant, Nancy Reilly and Rose Garrard. In moments of ghosts that pass through you, practice is present, practice is allowing the anxiety of making to run through and past you in ways of multiple accidents and towards the unexpected.
I frequently think of Lewis Carroll’s Alice who would often take over my young queer body. In my Alice-self I would grow large and small. Heartbeats that take over a working-class farm labourer’s body. What was I doing in this art school? How were the instructions, the lectures, the workshops alerting each day my performing body? How was I taking on the instructions I was given, how now as an associate professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago do I understand the instructions I give from my training with my performing visual performance, Dartington body?
Back then, I would look at myself in the mirror and see an artist often unsure, not knowing what I was doing or why I was doing the things I did. A young adult would shake his hands in shivering and my hands would turn themselves as if they were birds trying to escape and fly from my performing body.
As a 19 year old queer artist, I tilled the field in the studio by looking at the words fear and control that my life-long mentor, Lin Hixson (Director at that time of Goat Island Performance Company from Chicago) told me to explore when I first met her. Sally Tallant told me to take a workshop in Bristol with Lin and fellow co-founder of Goat Island, Matthew Goulish in 1993 when I was a second-year student.
If this Chicago field had not been tilled, if this Alice hole had not been opened up, if this meeting of jumping high from the ground with my knees to my chest, shaking my hands and falling onto concrete had not happened, where would I be today?
I remember what it felt like, back then…
On the ground, in your studio you learnt to pick up concrete cinder blocks and turn them over, drill holes in them and ask people to enter your studio and take a sip of wine, spit into another glass and mix this wine with the blood from your hands, from cuts and sores from your sissy hands, mixing it with milk and taking a sip insert the fluid from your mouth into the hole you had drilled into the cement block. Lick and kiss the hole with your mouth and tongue. Lick and kiss the concrete blocks over and over. Blood and scars around your lips, your nose, your cheek bones, until the blocks form a makeshift pool, that you fill with powered calves’ milk and it becomes a resting place you slowly let your performing body enter into. Your performing body, queer, red hair, entering the cold of the milk and scar and blood and kisses and fear. Parts of your body submerged, parts of your body remembering the loss of your mother when she left you at 3 years old, parts of your body recalling and hovering over the milking parlour where your father milked the cows morning and night.
The young adult performing body quivers and shakes not knowing the visual, not knowing the ground he is performing on, not knowing what he is learning and learnt, not knowing 27 years and tears later that the ground was also shaking and that the ground of Visual Performance would last. On a Visual Performance field, the training is in always asking questions, of always moving forwards, of always finding what is new, current, what happened before you, what happens now and what strikes you as questions, as research. What is the performing body you left behind, submerged in milk, but forever seeing the milk drip, the blood drip, keeping the head now upwards, asking, always trying and never quite completing what needs to be asked.
(Emma Butchart, first cohort Visual Performance)
Throughout my time at Dartington, undertaking the newly formed Visual Performance course, I think I carried all the ghosts of my grandparents, but more particularly, the Nanas: the women of the family with me.[4] Not consciously at first perhaps, but they were there, as protection, comfort, guides.
An early group activity in the first few days, performed to the new cohort found me clinging to my ghosts for fear of losing who I was, forgetting myself. Being pulled along by strangely dressed and dyed creatures into some kind of self-expression, that could take any form, there were no specific rules. What if I got sucked into some alternative sphere or realm and misplaced my increasingly important identity?
I could hear my ghosts asking, ‘What are these kids doing?’
‘Where do you think this will get you?’
My vocal contribution to the performance was something along the lines of, ‘Why will they like me? I’m from Sunderland.’
Never before had I been so acutely aware of my voice, my North-Eastern English accent setting me apart from the more softly spoken southerners around me. It seemed so loud, so harsh, it felt like it ran around the room, looking for somewhere to hide… muttering, ‘stop listening to me!’
The ghosts just laughed, that’s ‘laugh’ with a flat, Sunderland ‘a’ sound! ‘Don’t be so bloody daft!’
Later… ‘Why is your work always about, well, you… stuff about you?’
At the time this comment from another student stung. It felt dismissive and critical. I suppose my Dartington world continued to feel alien to me with my background in the industrial North, all green, countryside, cows, sheep and farms and so I looked inside myself, asked the ghosts for inspiration, for their stories.
Finding out about them, asking questions, listening to the tales, collecting images. Exploring and celebrating the everyday, repetitive actions, the tasks and daily rituals performed by these women in my past. Why shouldn’t the work be about them, about me?
New ghosts, Nancy Reilly, Rose Garrard, Alison Marchant, Cindy Sherman joined my noisy crowd, often arguing, pulling, dancing, questioning and laughing with the Nanas. Bold, inventive, committed, imaginative, challenging ghosts that helped me see things differently.
Some keep asking, ‘Why are you doing that?’
Others reply, ‘Why not?’ in that great, big flat-vowelled voice.
“I’m Wearing my Dead Father’s clothes’. Excerpt: ‘A Life in Diagrams 1” (1993, Dartington) Sally J Morgan
5. Change
(Sally J Morgan)
In the midst of all this my father died. My grief was a flood that broke everything in front of it and my life fell apart. I felt badly treated by the College management in this period, and I left, not because I’d lost any faith or excitement about Visual Performance, but because the Principal had called me in to discuss the amount of time I was spending with my father who was rapidly dying from a brain tumour. Roger Bourke took over the leadership of the course, and Rona Lee joined the team along with Sally Tallant.
6. Continuation
(Rona Lee, core team-member Visual Performance 1993-2000)
It is interesting to consider ideas of training and legacy with respect to Visual Performance, as these are concepts that are in some ways at odds with the fluidity and discursivity that was key to its success. I remember talking with other staff once about the idea that the course should be deliberately disbanded every seven years to sustain a sense of immediacy and avoid institutionalisation; we imagined of course that reinvention would follow. Little did we anticipate the corporatisation of higher education that would follow and the pressures of resource rationalisation, auditing and bureaucracy to which the sector would be subject.
I joined the teaching team for Visual Performance in 1993, at a point where several of the staff that had piloted the course were moving on, and left in 2000. A period during which the identity and ethos of the course was subject to constant energetic, antagonistic, creative and intellectual debate, generating a climate of discussion and experimentation, in which students and staff alike participated.
Identity politics and ideas of performativity formed a central tenant within many of those exchanges: gender, sexuality, race and the body operating as both informing discourses and areas of study in themselves:
The body as sign, the body as material, the abject body, the hybrid body, the queer body, the female body, the uncanny, post-colonialism, feminism, queer theory, the carnivalesque, homovestism, gender trespass, subject / object, binaries, self / other / otherness, presence / absence, performativity, live presence, task-based action, duration, voyeurism, the gaze, the phallus, psychoanalysis…
Another important area of enquiry was site and context based work, along with related forms of participatory, situated and socially engaged practices; seeded through staff-led, local, offsite work in the first year and culminating in a semester long period off campus in the third year, where students pursued self-designed and directed projects (the assessment of which was based on their capacity to reflect on the experience and find appropriate forms to represent it). Activities which along with the teaching that supported them gave rise to ways of working, which understood art making as a social practice, audiences as constituted around different subjectivities and the artwork as a permeable entity. Fostering in turn work with objects and materials, technology, space and time working with ideas of immersion, the haptic and the sensory:
Audience as reader, performance/artwork as text, view and viewed, spectator / collaborator / participant / witness, absorption, locus, palimpsest, dialogic, the everyday, art / life, place, phenomenology, space, object / objecthood, time, immersive experience, materials, metonymy, inter-action/ activity, event…
Common to all of these different enquiries was a pedagogic approach that encouraged independence of thought along with reflexive interrogation of form, content and process.
Strategies, juxtaposition, deconstruction, pastiche, authorship, montage, collage, text/textual, inter / cross / disciplinarity, modern / post-modern, rules, logic, rogue element, agency…
Another dimension of this nexus was something that might be termed an ethos of practice, rooted in questions of social change, power and community which for some became a lived politics of making, teaching and working together. Dartington was, in my experience, unique in terms of the amount of work that staff, faculty and visiting, made and showed there, using it as a production and testing space in collaboration with and alongside students; sharing resources, giving assistance, exchanging skills, attending to the work and each other.
Messy, bloody, milky, muddy, funny, sexy, loud, dangerous, obscene, gentle, careful, tender, quiet, ugly, fractious, rhythmic, atonal, macho, ritualistic, empowered, queer, feminist, intimate, kitsch, green, detailed, subversive, disruptive, uncanny.
“Anteroom” (2005) by Mark Jeffrey, Judith Leemann and Judd Morrissey.
Sally J Morgan is Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts at Massey University, New Zealand. She has a long career as a conceptual artist who has shown internationally in galleries such as the ICA, Arnolfini, and venues across the USA, Germany, France and Japan.
Jess Richards is a writer, whose three literary fiction novels are published by Sceptre, Hodder & Stoughton. She is a Senior Tutor in Creative Writing at Massey University, New Zealand. Since 2015, she has performed in collaboration with Sally J Morgan as Morgan+Richards in galleries/venues in the USA, New Zealand and Ireland.
Gillian Wylde was a student on the Visual Performance course at Dartington between 1997 and 1999 and went on to teach on that course from 2000 to 2010. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Falmouth University. Her work has been shown at the ICA and Glasgow Film Festival and at international venues in Baltimore, Hong Kong, Lithuania, and Norway.
Roger Bourke spent many years at Dartington in the role of Field Director for Visual Performance and then Fine Art – Time Based Practices. His installation, video and sonic media works have been exhibited in the UK, Poland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, France, Romania, Canada, China, Japan and Ireland.
Mark Jeffery is a Chicago based performance/installation artist, curator of the biannual In>Time Performance series and Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute Chicago. He was a member of the internationally renowned Goat Island Performance group from 1996-2008.
Emma Butchart worked in Community Arts in the north east of England after graduating from Dartington, then from 2004-2015 she worked in pre-school and primary school education. She now works at Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park as the Grounds Learning Programmer, developing engagement with a wide range of audiences.
Rona Lee is Professor of Fine Art at Northumbria University, UK. Her performative work has been widely exhibited in national and international organisations, including the Amsterdam Light Festival, Gallerie Nord, Cerritos Art Gallery, and many venues across Europe and in the USA and Canada.
Examples of Sally J Morgan’s work can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/sallyjmorgan
Jess Richards’s website can be found here: http://jessrichards.com/
Gillian Wylde’s work can be viewed here https://www.instagram.com/gillianwylde/ and here: http://15minuteswithyou.org.uk
Roger Bourke’s website can be found here: https://rogerbourke.org.uk/work
Mark Jeffery’s website can be found here: http://www.markjefferyartist.org/
The organisation Emma Butchart works for can be found here: http://www.comptonverney.org.uk/art/
Rona Lee’s work can be found here: http://www.ronalee.org/ and http://florencetrust.org/
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Richards, Sam. 2015. Dartington College of Arts, Learning by Doing: A Biography of a College. Totnes: Longmarsh.
Stewart, Nicholas. 1995. “Live Head Legacy.” In Live Art, by Malcolm Dickson, 166. Sunderland: AN Publications.
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[1] As part of the Dartington ethos, the spirit of questioning was central to the VP degree and arguably a core aspect of its “training”. For more on how the spirit of questioning underpinned the entire Dartington project and a provocative counterbalance to the role of interdisciplinary work this post argues was essential to Visual Performance, see/listen to Peter Hulton’s interview elsewhere on this blog. Mark Jeffrey’s initial set of questions were:
What is an instruction you remember giving?
Who is the ghost you carry with you?
How did you practice or carry out an action?
What is a future imagined practice and discipline?
What is learned and knowing?
What is tilled and turned over?
How do you reiterate what you learnt?
How do you reach, kneel and pay attention to your past?
How do you rake, harrow, rip and tear into your practice?
[2] This was originally a broadcast-lecture for the radio program Voice of America, February 1961.
[3] Keidan went on to be Director of Live Art at the ICA, and later the Live Art Development Agency in London.
[4] In this entry, Emma Butchart is directly responding to the question “Who is the ghost you carry with you?” from Mark Jeffrey’s original set above.
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Diverse activities mark 50th anniversary of Quang Ninh province
(Oct 4, 2013) Nearly 20 events have been held to mark the 50th founding anniversary of Quang Ninh province. Many activities took place at the beginning of this year, and nine major activities will be held in October 2013.
Cultural Heritage Tourism Week of ethnic groups in Ha Giang Province 2013
(Oct 3, 2013) (TITC) - From 19th to 23rd November 2013, People’s Committee of Ha Giang Province will organize Cultural Heritage Tourism Week of ethnic groups in Ha Giang Province 2013 in districts of Quang Binh, Quan Ba, Yen Minh, Meo Vac and Dong Van. The event aims to honor the values of Ha Giang’s intangible cultural heritage forms recognized as national intangible cultural heritage forms and contribute to preserving and promoting their values in the province.
VNAT to organize food festival and tourism skill contests
(Oct 3, 2013) (TITC) - Responding to National Tourism Year of the Red River Delta – Hai Phong 2013, from 12th to 17th October 2013, the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism will hold the Red River Delta Food Festival, national Tour Guide Contest and national hotel Front Office Competition in Hai Phong City.
Toulouse Cultural Week to hit Hanoi
(Oct 2, 2013) A week-long festival highlighting the culture of Toulouse city will be held in Hanoi from October 4 to mark the 40th anniversary of Vietnam-France diplomatic ties.
Mekong Delta celebrates Nguyen Trung Truc Festival
(Oct 2, 2013) On September 30, the Nguyen Trung Truc Festival was organized across the Mekong Delta Provinces of Kien Giang and Can Tho to mark the 145th death anniversary of national hero Nguyen Trung Truc.
Vietnam, Laos, China to hold “con” throwing festival in Dien Bien province
(Oct 2, 2013) The city of Dien Bien Phu in the northern province of Dien Bien is preparing for the “con” (colourful fabric ball) throwing festival, which will take place on October 25-27, with participation of localities of neighbouring Laos and China.
Cham Kate festival to come to life next month
(Oct 1, 2013) The annual Kate festival of the Brahmin Cham ethnic groups in the central province of Ninh Thuan will take place from October 4-6 with an array of cultural and sporting events.
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Corpbank blip aside, SEE banking sector remains stable
by Doinita Dolapchieva
Most of the lenders in the SEE TOP 100 banks ranking closed 2014 in the black and the overall result of the sector would have been slightly positive if it hadn’t been for bankrupt Bulgarian lender Corporate Commercial Bank, Corpbank, which booked a staggering loss of 2.18 billion euro. The combined loss of the region’s largest 100 banks thus widened to 2.13 billion euro. The same banks reported a combined loss of 2.05 billion euro in 2013. Croatia’s Zagrebacka Banka climbed to the top spot in the ranking after being the runner-up the previous year. Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR) fell to the second spot, as its assets declined faster than Zagrebacka Banka’s.
With the exception of Corpbank, the banking system in Southeast Europe (SEE) managed to stay stable, but struggled to tackle high non-performing loan (NPL) ratios, weak lending activity and subdued economic growth. The ranking was again dominated by Romanian lenders, which accounted for nearly a third of the total assets of the largest 100 banks in the region.
As many as 74 of the entrants in the SEE TOP 100 banks ranking ended 2014 in the black, reporting a combined net profit of 1.8 billion euro. A total of 35 banks included in the ranking saw their assets decline in 2014, with Corpbank recording the sharpest drop, by 72.8%, followed by Romania’s Banca Comerciala Carpatica with a 20% fall.
Corpbank fell to the 74th spot from the 22nd after its assets sank to less than one third. In June 2014, the Bulgarian National Bank placed the bank under special supervision over risk of insolvency and appointed two conservators after
Corpbank notified the central bank it had run out of liquidity. Payments and all types of banking operations were suspended. In November, the central bank revoked Corpbank’s licence. In April Corpbank was declared insolvent.
Romania had 21 entries in the ranking with assets worth 77.1 billion euro at the end of 2014. Bulgaria, whose population is roughly one third that of Romania, had 18 banks in the chart with total assets of 41.8 billion euro.Serbia and Slovenia followed with 15 lenders each. Ten Croatian, six Bosnian and six Albanian banks made it into the ranking. Moldova and Macedonia had five and three representatives, respectively, and Montenegro had just one.
Zagrebacka Banka, a unit of UniCredit Group, topped the ranking despite a slight fall in assets. It saw its assets shrink by 3.8% to 13.4 billion euro while net profit more than doubled to 152.2 million euro mainly as a result of lower impairment and operating costs and stable income. Zagrebacka Banka managed to cut its NPL ratio to 17% at end-2014 from 15.7% a year earlier.
The Croatian bank was also the top SEE lender in terms of net profit, followed by Bulgaria’s UniCredit Bulbank which booked 123.6 million euro in net earnings.
BCR, a unit of Austria’s Erste, slid to second place in the ranking after posting a 7% drop in assets to 13.2 billion euro. The bank switched to a net loss of 586.7 million euro last year. The loss came mainly on the back of a surge in risk provisions, which doubled to 4.4 billion lei, or about 1 billion euro, driven by efforts to reduce NPLs, including portfolio sales and write-offs. Following these measures, its NPL ratio decreased to 25.7% at end-2014.
The assets of the top 100 banks in the region totalled 248.3 billion euro at the end of 2014.
Moldova’s Banca Sociala posted the strongest growth in assets among the top 100 SEE banks, nearly fourfold, entering the ranking directly at number 78. However, Banca Sociala together with two other Moldovan banks – Banca de Economii and Unibank – have been placed under special supervision after about 1 billion U.S. dollars went missing from them in November 2014. Moldova plans to liquidate the banks by October 9.
The top 10 featured the same banks as in the previous year, albeit not all kept the same positions. The 10 largest banks had assets worth a combined 90.7 billion euro, or 37% of the total assets of the 100 lenders included in the ranking.
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The Petersberg Phase II / Athens Declaration Process facilitates transboundary cooperation for the management of shared water bodies and their basins in Southeastern Europe.
The “Petersberg Process”, initiated in 1998, concerns cooperation on the management of transboundary waters. The Petersberg Process – Phase II is intended to provide support to translate into action the current developments and opportunities for future cooperation on transboundary rivers, lakes and groundwater management in the SEE. It is supported by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the World Bank .
The “Athens Declaration” Process concerning Shared Water, Shared Future and Shared Knowledge was initiated in 2003. It provides a framework for a long-term process to support cooperative activities for the integrated management of shared water resources in the SEE and Mediterranean regions. It is jointly supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the World Bank.
The Petersberg Phase II / Athens Declaration Process
The two processes progressively came together in order to generate synergies and maximize the outcomes for the benefit of the SEE region. Activities within the Process are primarily supported by the Governments of Germany and Greece and the World Bank. Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean provides technical and administrative support.
The main joint objective is to build capacity and share experience on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), and to develop IWRM plans for shared water bodies.
The Process supports a series of complementary activities that provide a forum for transboundary water management issues in SEE. The activities revolve around the political, economic, social and environmental benefits that can be realized through effective cooperation in the management of transboundary waters. Activities focus on a set of key areas and take place at an increasingly local level to facilitate a broader range of participants.
Learning, knowledge sharing and dissemination are supported to strengthen capacity of cooperating parties at the institutional and individual level.
Investments are not directly supported but the exchange of ideas and experience will help to create conditions that enable investment in activities by public and private sources on the national and international level.
The Process complements the EU integration processes and other ongoing initiatives in the region. It contributes directly to the scope and objectives of the Mediterranean Component of the EU Water Initiative (MED EUWI) and the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) MedPartnership.
GEF IW:LEARN is supporting synergy in the Petersberg Phase II / Athens Declaration Process, and contributions of practical experience from GEF projects working in transboundary river, lake and groundwater in the SEE region as well as elsewhere in the world.
Organizations and Institutions having experience and working in the field of TWRM, such as United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and UNESCO/IHP are collaborating partners. Synergies with active institutions, processes, initiatives and projects supported by GEF, other IFIs and donor countries, in the field of transboundary water management at the international, regional and national level, are developed.
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Hot Fuzz – a review (8/10)
15-02-2007 11-05-2007 thegirlinthecafe Uncategorized
Hot Fuzz (IMDB) is probably one of the most anticipated British films this year, and if you liked Shaun of the Dead (the one and only Rom-com-zom), you can just buy your ticket for this one. Satisfaction guaranteed.
The makers of this film have very cleverly used the internet to promote this film. They have been posting videologs while they were filming it last year, and build a community site for all the Fuzz fans waiting for the film to come out. Shaun of the Dead somehow turned into a cult film, and they have a lot to live up to with this one.
It is easy to see that they had lots of fun filming this, they have stolen from every action movie available and the jokes are hilarious. I really like Simon Pegg, he is a brilliant comedy actor. He plays Nicholas Angel a top cop from London whose arrest statistics are ten times as high as those from his colleagues, and he therefore gets transferred to sleepy Sandford on the country side because he makes his colleagues look bad in London.
Apart from Pegg the film features his buddy Nick Frost (also from Shaun of the Dead) as his sidekick, and a long list of British actors in shorter roles. Bill Bailey, Jim Broadbent, Martin Freeman, Stephen Merchant, and yes the mighty Bill Nighy too, they all have cameo roles in this film, and ex Bond Timothy Dalton is brilliantly casted as the village villain. The story has a lot of twists but never loses pace, and this is probably the only film in which I watch shooting scenes with a huge smile on my face. Only because they are so ridiculous. This is a comedy like only the Brits can make them.
The film is not released everywhere yet, but Catch the Fuzz, if it comes to a theatre near you. It’s a good laugh.
[rating:4/5]
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The Presidential Summit On Entrepreneurship
Ben Katcher - April 27, 2010
(Photo Credit: Khawaja’s Photostream)
Following the 47-nation nuclear security summit in Washington the week before last, the Obama administration is playing host to a much different series of meetings this week as part of its Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship – an effort to deepen ties among business leaders, foundations, and social entrepreneurs in the United States and Muslim-majority countries.
I think this is an excellent initiative – and one that has the potential to broaden the United States’ relationships with Muslim-majority countries with which we have traditionally enjoyed narrowly-focused bilateral relations focused primarily on security and energy.
Supporting entrepreneurship is particularly important in the Middle East as a way to help facilitate trade and closer ties among the countries of that region.
Here is a snippet from President Obama’s remarks at the summit yesterday, explaining the rationale behind the conference:
Entrepreneurship — because you told us that this was an area where we can learn from each other; where America can share our experience as a society that empowers the inventor and the innovator; where men and women can take a chance on a dream — taking an idea that starts around a kitchen table or in a garage, and turning it into a new business and even new industries that can change the world.
Entrepreneurship — because throughout history, the market has been the most powerful force the world has ever known for creating opportunity and lifting people out of poverty.
Entrepreneurship — because it’s in our mutual economic interest. Trade between the United States and Muslim-majority countries has grown. But all this trade, combined, is still only about the same as our trade with one country — Mexico. So there’s so much more we can do together, in partnership, to foster opportunity and prosperity in all our countries.
And social entrepreneurship — because, as I learned as a community organizer in Chicago, real change comes from the bottom up, from the grassroots, starting with the dreams and passions of single individuals serving their communities.
Obama’s full remarks can be read here.
It is also noteworthy that Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent a letter with Deulcom International’s CEO Baybars Altuntas offering to host a similar summit in Istanbul next year – an invitation that President Obama has accepted.
These kinds of initiatives are important and represent an opportunity to engage with Muslim-majority societies in a non-confrontational, non-zero-sum way that can lead to quantifiable results.
— Ben Katcher
Decision Points: The Auto-Bush-Ography
Political Tidbits While on the Road
6 comments on “The Presidential Summit On Entrepreneurship”
Jerry says: April 28, 2010 at 4:19 pm
The summit is another move by President Obama to promote constructive engagement of the U.S. in international affairs.
It clearly has the “potential to broaden the United States’ relationships with Muslim-majority countries.” As the U.S. winds down its military activities in Iraq and then Afganistan, the summit expresses and shapes future American intentions with respect to the Muslim world directly without needing intervening interpretations.
With the next summit set for Turkey, the summits, also, help establish a context within which Muslims can evaluate the U.S. relationship with Israel. No longer should they see this relationship as an exclusionary partnership in any manner. The door is open to any Muslim nation with shared interests to form an alliance with the U.S.
nadine says: April 28, 2010 at 2:43 am
Wigwag, they are probably too busy giving the seminar on the right way to discretely offer to make the President’s brother-in-law a sleeping partner of your firm to insure that that regulators don’t swoop down, find you in violation of health & safety rules, and fine you out of business.
Come to think of it, they should give this seminar for American entrepreneurs too. Did you know that every handyman, plumber and painter in America now needs Federal training and Federal certification? No kidding.
WigWag says: April 27, 2010 at 8:07 pm
A Note to President Obama.
In light of the economic calamity overtaking Europe including the potential collapse of the European currency precipitated by the crisis in Greece, would it be possible for you to arrange a series of seminars on entrepreneurship for the Europeans?
I understand that you might be reluctant to do so. Perhaps you are as annoyed at our European friends as millions of Americans are. With all their ranting and raving about American decline, how ironic it is that their great enterprise, economic integration, seems to be coming apart at the seams. I am sure you see the irony in the fact that it is now apparent that it’s Europe, not the United States that is continuing down the road to inexorable decline.
But please sir, don’t be too hard on the Europeans. They would really appreciate the assistance; they need all the help they can get.
One more thing; things are a little tight right now for the Europeans. If you do run seminars on entrepreneurship for them, would it be possible to waive the entrance fee?
Oh, hell no, here goes that old hopie thing again.
Finally, the U.S. is entering the 21st century with the rest of the world.
Interestingly, Professor Obama is reaching out to the next generation; a wise policy to reinvigorate.
Yes, the world can!
nadine says: April 27, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Obama is more likely to make American entrepreneurship look like that of Muslim countries than the other way around. Like most Muslim leaders, by ‘entrepreneurship’ he means crony capitalism with the government in control and getting a huge piece of the action.
WigWag says: April 27, 2010 at 12:19 pm
“It is also noteworthy that Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent a letter with Deulcom International’s CEO Baybars Altuntas offering to host a similar summit in Istanbul next year – an invitation that President Obama has accepted.” (Ben Katcher)
Erdogan has had a good week. After all, yet again Obama broke his promise and refused to call the Armenian Genocide by its real name.
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‘The Blue Peter Diaries’ by Richard Marson
23 September 2017 We Are Cult Books, News, Television 0
❉ In November 2017 Miwk will be publishing The Blue Peter Diaries by Richard Marson.
‘I love the way Rich writes. It’s so compelling and addictive, just makes you want to keep on reading…’ – Konnie Huq.
‘It takes you right behind the scenes. Sometimes it’s hilariously funny, sometimes really sad. If you’ve ever wanted to know more about life in TV, the highs and the lows, this is the book for you.’ – Gethin Jones.
Cover design: Colin Brockhurst.
Blue Peter is the world’s longest running children’s television programme, first airing in 1958 on the BBC. On the eve of the programme’s diamond anniversary, Richard Marson’s book offers a fascinating insight into the production and philosophy of this iconic programme.
Richard Marson became editor of Blue Peter in 2003 having already worked on the show for several years. He steered it into a multi-channel era, embracing new technologies and the internet. There were now more editions of Blue Peter than ever before, not just on BBC One but also on the new dedicated children’s digital channel CBBC.
Before joining and throughout his four years as Editor, Richard kept a diary. It details the incredible care and thought that went into the programme, not just on screen but behind the scenes as well. It is a frank, honest and occasionally frustrating account of production. Richard explains, ‘Not many people are lucky enough to work on their dream job, but that’s what Blue Peter was for me. I spent a decade of my life on the show and, as a result, had so many extraordinary experiences, as well as working with some amazing and fascinating people. I’ve kept a diary for many years but I hardly ever look back at it. It’s ten years since I left, and I thought perhaps that now was a good time to do so, to see what I remembered, and whether any of it made sense with the benefit of hindsight. It’s been quite an experience, sometimes joyous, sometimes extremely painful. Diaries are the witness, not to how things actually were, but to how you saw them at the time, and what feelings and emotions were involved.’
All Photographs (c) Richard Marson
Given the frank nature of the diaries, Richard made sure that all of his presenters had the chance to read the book first, and their feedback was positive!
Simon Thomas presented the show from 1999 to 2005 and says, ‘Reading these diaries brought many wonderful memories flooding back, as well as telling me loads I never knew about the inside workings of Blue Peter. A heartfelt, humorous, belter of a read!’
Stuart Miles (1994-1999) had this to say about The Blue Peter Diaries, ‘This book transported me back to the studio floor, the buzz of live TV and all the behind the scenes gossip. I raced through the diaries in a couple of days and just couldn’t put them down. With hilarious honesty Richard made me laugh so much and, in the end, cry too.’
The presenters were already aware that Richard kept a diary, as Gethin Jones (2005-2008) explains, ‘After all these years, it’s amazing – and a bit surreal – to get the chance to read chunks of it. I found it fascinating. It takes you right behind the scenes. Sometimes it’s hilariously funny, sometimes really sad. If you’ve ever wanted to know more about life in TV, the highs and the lows, this is the book for you.’
The Blue Peter Diaries really does transport you into the thick of it. The pressure of live television in the studio, where things can always, and often do, go wrong, through to the logistics of filming on location, often abroad, having to deal with language barriers and conflicting customs. There are close encounters with many famous guests and the documenting of key Blue Peter events like the unearthing of the famous time capsules, the various anniversary celebrations, and the day Her Majesty the Queen visited the studio.
But at its heart, The Blue Peter Diaries documents Richard’s tireless efforts to maintain the legacy, standards and expectations of Blue Peter, often in the face of the ever changing politics of TV and against the whims and absurdities of tabloid newspapers. His passion for the programme and its history shines through the text and is illuminating and infectious.
‘I love the way Rich writes,’ says Konnie Huq (1997-2008). ‘It’s so compelling and addictive, just makes you want to keep on reading…’
‘Blue Peter is such a special programme,’ says Richard himself, ‘and I hope these diaries bring it to life in a way that’s never been done before.’
❉ The Blue Peter Diaries will be published in November 2017 and is available from Miwk Publishing. You can preorder by clicking here.
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Star-forming cloud seen from Antarctica
Tuesday, 25 February 2014 Stuart Gary
Giant bubbles of interstellar gas, formed from stellar winds and supernovae, are found throughout space (Source: NASA/Hubble)
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Map: University of New South Wales 2052
Making stars The formation of a giant molecular cloud, which will eventually give birth to future generations of new stars, has been seen by astronomers for the first time.
The discovery, reported in the Astrophysical Journal, provides new insights into the early days of star formation.
"We've been studying star formation for many years, but until now have never been able to see exactly how these giant clouds develop in the interstellar medium," says study lead author, Professor Michael Burton of the University of New South Wales.
The newly found molecular cloud, which has been named G328, is about 50,000 times the mass of the Sun, and is located 15,000 light years from Earth.
"We've found this elongated filament-like structure about 300 light years long, and 10 light years across, condensing out of the atomic substrate and forming this huge cloud," says Burton.
Stellar birthplace
Molecular gas and dust clouds are composed of mostly hydrogen and helium, produced through nuclear fusion in previous stellar generations.
Events such as supernovae explosions and powerful stellar winds generated by hot young stars can spark the sudden collapse of these clouds, to eventually form a new generation of stars.
"This process is taking place all across our galaxy, about one star a year on average," says Burton.
Molecular clouds need to reach temperatures as low as -250°C before they're dense enough to allow star formation to begin.
"Carbon plays an important role in cooling molecular gas and dust clouds, from a diffuse warm state down to the cold very dense state where protostars begin growing," says Burton.
"This means the process which leads to the formation of molecular gas clouds, can be followed by tracing the carbon from its ionised state to the atomic, and eventually the molecular forms. I call this following the galactic carbon trail."
However, the trail is difficult to follow because the signatures for carbon appear in parts of the electromagnetic spectrum that are blocked from the ground by water in the Earth's atmosphere.
"So you have to go to the very driest places on Earth to see carbon signatures from space," says Burton.
Cold remote telescope
To overcome the problem, Burton and colleagues used the new High Elevation Antarctic Terahertz (HEAT) telescope, which is part of the remotely controlled Australian PLATeau Observatory on Ridge A at the summit of the Antarctic plateau.
"It's almost 4000 metres above sea level, and the coldest place on Earth, getting down to -90°C ," says Burton.
"It's also the driest place on the surface of our planet. The lack of water vapour allows the far infrared signatures for carbon to be detected through the atmosphere".
Burton and colleagues combined data from the HEAT telescope and the CSIRO's Mopra radio telescope at Coonabarabran, New South Wales, to map the molecular cloud through its carbon content.
"This is a cloud in the early stages of formation, before star formation has turned on inside it," says Burton.
"Right now the cloud extends over a wider area of space than active star forming regions such as the Orion Nebula. But the density of the gas is far lower. However, in a few hundred thousand years, this cloud will break up into smaller molecular clouds in which stars will form."
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How Dutch Citizenship Laws Have Set the Stage for Third World War
Mass migration diluted the value of citizenship in the Netherlands to the extent that it is easier for the son of a Dutch citizen woman to move to Korea for work than to relocate to the country where his own mother can vote. In order for the 24-year-old son of a Dutch citizen woman to be granted a residence permit in the Netherlands, the mother must first establish that she has a job earning over 1500 euros a month. After age 25, the son of that Dutch citizen woman no longer has the right to live or work in the Netherlands, and is subject to deportation.
Since the Netherlands is home to the International Criminal Court, any legal action undertaken by an authorized agent of the Dutch government/crown which is not ruled unlawful becomes, after a certain time, international legal precedent. When an authorized agent of the King of the Netherlands issues an order to the son of a Dutch citizen woman, the same order becomes lawful to issue in any jurisdiction outside of the country to the son of a citizen in that nation.
After the rise of firebrand ultra-nationalist politician Geert Wilders, Dutch authorities have sped up the deportation process for anyone in the country suspected of harboring plans to remain illegally, without any concern for family links.
The primary method by which the Dutch seek out illegal immigrants in the country is by sending immigration authorities to homes where foreigners are residing. Since foreigners are required to register at city hall within 3 days of arriving in someone's house, this means that merely being found inside of a home while not registered at city hall is evidence enough to declare someone in violation of city hall ordinance.
If you're a foreigner in the Netherlands and the police, for whatever reason, decide that they don't like you, they can send the foreign police to raid your home and issue a city hall ordinance violation for failure to register to anyone found inside.
If the Netherlands were not part of the European Union, and if it were not home to the ICC, brutal immigration laws would be prudent due to the number of Moroccan nationals who commit citizenship fraud.
Sadly, it was only a matter of time until Dutch immigration authorities found someone inside of a house that was the son of a citizen, who had legal status in another European Union country, and who was not illegally in the country.
That person is our editor Jose Abreu, who in 2013 was given a 90-day exit order to Spain for suspicion of not registering at city hall after 3 days of being in a home. Mr. Abreu is a US citizen who can now argue, with no international lawyer that can challenge him, that it is lawful to deport the children of citizens to countries where they don't hold citizenship even if they're not in a country illegally.
The source of the King's power. © Abreu Report
As Mr. Abreu is currently residing legally in the Netherlands sponsored by his German partner, this means that he can also make the legal argument that a foreign national with a high-paying job should be given sponsorship priority over a pregnant citizen who does not meet certain income requirements.
Since it is unprecedented for someone to defend their deportation proceedings from the country where their mother is a citizen, there is simply not a legal system in place for the government to retroactively invalidate a deportation order, and this means that Mr. Abreu, should he be given the power to decree immigration law in a foreign nation, then those decrees will carry essentially the same power as the King of the Netherlands.
If Mr. Abreu were to rise to power in the Dominican Republic, to be stripped of his ability to decree immigration law with the same legitimacy as the King of the Netherlands, it would require the Dutch Crown delegitimizing itself, or the International Criminal Court performing a judicial coup d'etat in the Netherlands, thereby establishing a system of judicial review for the country's immigration laws.
If tomorrow the United States became signatory to the ICC, the Netherlands became a republic and retroactively granted Mr. Abreu citizenship, WWIII could very well be averted.
However, what will happen is that President Trump will implement the same immigration laws as the Netherlands, the Dominican Republic will deport 250,000 former citizens, and in the process a violent breakup of the world will take place.
The future isn't written, but I don't see much of a future unless the ICC is relocated to a place where no son of a citizen is illegal. Hundreds of thousands of Americans had to die for the bondage of people born on US soil to end, and millions of people may likely die so that one day our descendants look back to a time when human beings were illegal.
When the flames of civil war are extinguished in the United States and people ask why a Yale graduate who was given a deportation order from the country where his mom is a citizen decided to help Trump rise to power, let them say that it was for the same reason Abraham Lincoln went to war: he saw something that he decided needed to end, no matter the cost.
It used to be that when you arrived in America your name, your birth certificate, and your legal status were as important as your old identity; you kept it only if you wanted, and it wasn't supposed to matter. America must be set back on the right path, even if it means a trial by fire.
By Abreu Report on Tuesday, February 14, 2017
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How Do You Know What a Bank is Thinking? / January 24, 2017 by Adam Howard
Welcome to a New Year. Best wishes for what, I am sure, will be a cracking year!!
But then, we don’t know that for sure, do we?? I mean, we aren’t 100% sure 2017 will be a good one; healthy, safe, enjoyable, profitable…
And that’s it, right there.
I have spoken in the past about the human race’s poor forecasting skills. Our need to predict what will occur and our endless failures in attempting to do so.
If I wanted to be dramatic about it, I could say that organised religion is the result of our need to know what’s going to happen in the future.
Maybe 3 thousand years ago, or even more, a guy killed a rabbit just before his band of men had a fight with another band of men; a fight they won.
So, from that point on, every time they thought they might have a fight with another group of blokes they needed to kill a rabbit beforehand as that would ensure a win…..
And now we have the Catholic Church.
We are reasonable at forecasting simple events and contests, which technical speakers refer to as binary events; one with only 2 (maybe 3) possible outcomes.
Elections, sporting contests, stuff like that.
But even then, we get it wrong, and when we do the faceless crowd, the mob, is outraged.
Brexit, The Donald, The 2010 drawn AFL Grand Final….
Why did that happen? How could we not have seen that coming? What steps can we take to make sure that doesn’t happen again?
Humans crave predictability. We are like children who love watching the same movie a dozen times. Its safe, enjoyable and familiar, and we’ll even learn to enjoy the boredom in exchange for the stability.
A common mistake we make when we attempt to predict is confusing precision with accuracy. Accuracy is defined as the degree to which a measurement conforms to the correct value, while precision is defined as a refinement in a measurement as represented by the digits given.
An easy example of what I am talking about is the US Presidential Election result.
Nate Silver is a bloke I have spoken about before. A mathematician who made money as a professional poker player and became famous as a political forecaster in the US. Link to his website is attached here:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/
The day before the election, Silver’s prediction was a 67% chance of a Clinton victory and 33% chance of a Trump victory.
The average person reads those odds and thinks “Clinton’s winning. For sure.” But those odds actually mean that if you held the election 3 times, Clinton wins twice and Trump wins once. Pretty simple interpretation, but that’s it in a nutshell.
And guess what? It was Trump’s 1 day in 3.
So maybe Silver was accurate in the odds he provided, which is what he was striving for: accuracy. He never mentioned or promised to precisely predict the outcome.
Another good example is the weather forecast. It needs to be noted though that the weather is a slightly more dynamic system than an election.
I tend to visit the Bureau of Meteorology site as it gets updated regularly as new data is available and provides these probabilistic forecasts; something like, tomorrow there is a 70% chance of rain.
That then gets interpreted by the talking heads at the news stations who turn it into a forecast of showers tomorrow.
And that’s what the public believe; that it’s going to rain tomorrow. 100%. No doubt about it.
Plans are made. Picnics cancelled.
And then it doesn’t rain and people are outraged. How could the forecasters get it so wrong?? Idiots….
But they didn’t get it wrong. The Bureau updates their forecast regularly and produces a forecast including outcome probabilities. They don’t promise anything. They leave that to the trusted TV weather reporter.
So, maybe it’s a problem with interpretation and not forecasting??
Maybe people are no good at looking at odds and understanding what they mean? I think that is a good explanation as it explains why the gambling industry is so large and profitable. It’s an industry made up of games and contests based on multiple possible and/or probable outcomes, with the market makers mostly understanding the probabilities and getting them about right.
And the players play, with the vast majority misunderstanding the odds.
But there are exceptions. Leicester City winning the English Premier League last season?? That was a remarkable example of market failure. Check out the story of the changing odds during the season on the link below:
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11712/10261535/premier-league-201516-how-the-odds-changed-as-leicester-claimed-the-title
Leicester started the season at 5000-1 odds, which at the time seemed reasonable but, as with most extraordinary events when examined in hindsight, now seems ridiculous.
Interpreted, these odds meant that given 5,000 repetitions of the same event, Leicester City would finish on top just once…in a league of 20 teams that has only existed in its current form since 1991.
How can you possibly have 5000-1 odds when you have only had 24 instances on which to base those odds? Sample size is too small…
And the odds were slow to change too, with Leicester City still at 100-1 a third of the way through the season while sitting in first place!!
Summary? Extraordinary things happen and we underestimate the probability of them doing so.
Additional summary? Less than extraordinary things happen all the time and we do a bad job of understanding the odds in a real world manner.
So, why bang on about this? What’s my point this time around?
Well, I used to work for banks and so did my Dad. Banks have a reputation for being boring, predictable. And that’s the way people and the government like to think about them.
After all, that’s where your money is, right? What YOU do with your money can be exciting and uncertain but when someone else is looking after it you want certainty.
And banks are safe…or are they?
Australia’s economy is relatively small by western standards, and has recently been ridiculously stable, having avoided the worst of the Asian economic crisis of 1997-98, the Dotcom crash of 2000-01 and the GFC of 2007-08.
So, you could say our economy is the exception, rather than the rule, and it also represents a fairly small sample set, having only 24 million people and GDP of $1.6 Trillion.
Might not be the best environment to test our “banks aren’t really that reliable and stable” hypothesis.
How about we look at the USA? It’s the world’s largest economy with GDP of $17 Trillion and population of about $319 million. Big sample set.
The USA has also experienced 3 recessions over the past 25 years, while Australia has experienced one, and over the past 150 years appears to average a recession about once every 4 or 5 years.
If you were talking Bell Curves, the USA’s economic cycles are probably a bit closer to the average over the past 25 years than Australia’s.
So, what level of bank failure has the USA experienced?
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was established in the USA in 1933 following The Great Depression to insure customer cash deposits against the risk of bank failure, with the rationale being this would promote sound banking practices and confidence in the financial system (Yeah, right. Has worked well, huh?).
The FDIC very kindly maintains a year-by-year list of the number of bank failures, which you can check out via the link attached below:
https://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
Here is a quick summary:
- 23 bank failures
Period 2007 – 2016
- Total bank failures: 523
- Average failures per year: 52
The average number of bank failures is skewed due to the number of failures in 2009, 2010 and 2011 ( total of 389 failures)
- Average failures allowing for these three years: 19 failures.
That means that in the largest western liberal democracy on the planet about 20 banks fall over each year, and that’s in a market with about 5,100 banks. That’s a failure rate of 0.4%; not far off the long term failure rate for home loan borrowers.
Now I know; it’s not the same country, economy, regulatory system, blah, blah, blah. It’s just provided as an example.
Banks fail. They do. Just like businesses in any other industry fail. And why? Bad decision making by people.
Not because of short-selling. Not because of poor economic conditions. Not because of a black swan event. Because executives, who are really just managers with fancy titles, make bad decisions.
And yes, something like this could happen in Australia.
In 2008, at the height of the GFC, Bankwest was purchased by CommBank for $2 Billion; a fire sale by the then owner, Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS), who had attempted to make Bankwest the fifth pillar of the Australian banking industry.
Bankwest had grown at twice the industry growth rate for years and had done so by lending with NO MARGIN (at basically wholesale rates), expanding into the East Coast by chasing marginal, broker-introduced debt and not pricing risk appropriately.
Bankwest had been asking HBOS for more funds to meet operating costs for months, but when HBOS got crunched by the GFC (eventually being nationalised), Bankwest was left with no-one to help with funding operations, and started running out of cash….fast.
The Government brokered a rescue and CommBank got a screaming deal, buying Bankwest for much less than the net value of it’s assets.
This wasn’t a purchase; it was a bail out. And it was a bail out because Bankwest came very close to failing.
No-one would have seen that coming. No-one would have predicted that Bankwest, the home of Happy Banking, would have failed due to risky lending practices.
So, a quick summary is needed here.
Banks fail, and generally it's because of poor decisions made by people.
And, after holding deposits, the primary function of banks is to lend. And due to capital adequacy requirements, a bank's loan book is normally about 10 times the size of the deposits it holds.
So, if a bank lends poorly and has to write off bad debts, this places those deposits at risk and the bank at risk of being insolvent.
This means that, by extension, banks can fail because of poor decisions made by people when deciding who is and isn’t credit worthy. Who gets a loan, and who doesn’t.
And this is my question here regarding bank predictability. Who does and who does not qualify for a loan?
The answer to this fairly straight forward question isn’t, actually, as straight forward as it should be.
I’ll provide a scenario which kind of makes my point, but before I do so, just remember the following:
The “3 Cs” of lending are:
Capacity: Do you have the financial capacity to make the necessary repayments with some comfort?
Collateral: Do you have acceptable collateral you can offer as security for the loan? And
Character: Has your past behaviour shown you handle your financial obligations responsibly?
The final question you should probably ask yourself is “Would I lend this person my own money?”
My scenario involved an Australian husband and wife living and working overseas. The wife worked in a highly paid role in the finance sector, while the husband had run his own successful financial services business for a few years.
They had no debt and owned a property in the western suburbs of the Perth metro area which was fully paid for. All details regarding their living expenses, working lives and income were fully disclosed and they had asked for a loan against the Perth property to engage in some potential investment activity, with their background showing they had done so successfully in the past.
No issues in their lending past that would raise any concerns and the only thing that made this a little different was they wanted to borrow in the name of their family trust.
So, would you lend them your money? All our 3 Cs appear to have been covered. I mean, I would have...
But, strangely, they couldn’t find a bank in Australia who would lend to them, at least not at a rate within 1% of the rate offered to other investors.
Unpredictable, huh?
All of a sudden our banks all decided that lending to self-employed expats wasn’t possible…at all. Even if the proposal appeared to be strong, as the above did.
I pushed this as hard as I could, asking for a formal reason for the decision.
The best I could get was a mid-level manager telling me he had discussed this with the local head of credit (the area where yes/no decisions are made) who had told him to “Tell him (me) to drop it. We don’t like the application.”
I admit it was hard to foresee this application would play out in this way, but then, I have a drawer FULL of other examples where banks behaved in unpredictable ways when deciding whether or not to support a loan application; both in favour of and against the borrower.
And so we come to it. My point. Don’t believe the ads that promote banks as predictable, benevolent sources of easy credit.
Be a little skeptical and cynical.
I am not suggesting we all become conspiracy theorists but perhaps that we adopt an evidence based approach to developing an opinion on banks and their motivations.
Maybe just remember an old saying that goes something like “A bank manager is a guy who will lend you an umbrella when it’s sunny, and ask for it back when it starts to rain…”
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Nevsehir, with its settlements dating back to 7000 BC lived under the rule of many different civilizations. The city was taken by the Ottoman Empire in 1466, and became a province in 1954.
It is possible to sightsee many open-air museums, natural rock churches, valleys and underground cities which are still in good condition today. The Turkish philosopher Haci Bektas Veli and Grand Vizier Damat İbrahim Pasha who lived in this area, contributed to the cultural and touristic development of the city.
Nevsehir is located exactlyat the mid-point of Turkey at the volcanic region between the mountains Erciyes and Hasan. The province is under the effect of the continental climate and is warm and dry during the summer while it is cold and rainy during the winter.
Cappadocia, which has attracted attention for its impressive carstic landscape and natural formations, has also become an important filming location. World famous movies like Ghost Rider 3 was filmed in this area.
You are always welcome to take a tour with a hot air balloon, if you want to view Nevsehir and the natural wonder of Cappadocia from hundresds of meters above the ground!
Muğla, Fethiye, Bodrum at the crossroads of the Aegean and Mediterranean Region, is a piece of paradise comprised of coves such as Bodrum, Marmaris, Fethiye, Gocek and many more. Mugla is an indispensable summer resort offering a myriad of beautiful and unique holiday resorts.
Located at the foot of Mount Hisar, the city, with a history dating back to 3000 BC is home to many ruins and monuments. Mugla is literally an open air museum with 103 historical sites situated within the borders of the province. Situated on the southwestern tip of Turkey, Mugla, reigend by a Mediterranean climate, has the longest coast line of Turkey reaching 110 kilometers. Among one of the cities rich in forests, Mugla receives heavy rain particularly in the winter months.
Famous for its old Greek and Turkish style wooden houses, Mugla preserves its quaint streets and historic monuments in their original state.Vacationers who want to take a sojourn to the heavenly bays and taste the delicacies of the Aegean cuisine are always welcome in the province.
Izmir: (Cesme - selcuk - Ephesus - Kusadasi )The pearl of the west, is Turkey's third largest city and one of the most important port cities. It has a great nature and a rich historical and cultural heritage.
Also known as Old Izmir, Smyrna, built on an islet of hundred acres flourished into a great center oF civilization over time. Established about 8500 years ago, the city is now home to a variety of world heritages.
The largest city of the Roman Empire which set an example to other ancient cities, Ephesus with its architectural and cultural landmarks is one of the most visited regions near to Selcuk in Izmir province.
The city is known as "beautiful Izmir" as it is blessed with numerous scenic beauties and is under the effect of the Mediterranean climate. The summer is hot and dry where as the winter is mild. Lush for all seasons, Izmir is one of the biggest pine nut production areas.
One of the most beautiful descriptions of this city was made by Herodotus, who was also from Izmir: “they have founded the city under the most beautiful sky and the best climate that we know on Earth." Thus, the city has earned its place in history.
Izmir, with its thriving investments and developing façade, has become a cultural capital of the Aegean and is rapidly on the way of becoming a world trademark. Wouldn't you like to get to know this thriving capital of the Aegean region?
Bursa: The first capital of the Ottoman Empire with a history dating back to 4000BC at the heart of the silk and spice trade and Turkey's fourth largest and advanced city.
The city which has been the capital of many civilizations and religions for centuries is the hub of many monuments and historical works nowadays. The city's skyline is comprised of historical landmarks varying from mosques to madrasas and from churches to baths.
Attracting attention for its natural beauty as well as its rich cultural heritage Bursa is also a much preferred holiday resort for winter sports. Uludağ in Bursa is frequented by both winter and outdoor sports enthusiasts.
Home to many Islamic, Christian and Jewish monuments Bursa has also been the site of numerous council meetings which are of great importance to Christians. Within the province of Bursa, Iznik is the most important of the eight Christian pilgrimage sites located in Turkey.
Well-known for its large shopping centers, bazaars and museums Bursa has a temperate climate. The region is cool in the summer and mild in the winter.
One of the most important contributions of Bursa to the history of Turkish culture is the Karagöz and Hacivat shadow theater. Shadow Theater has reached the land of Bursa in the 17th century and become an important corner stone of Turkish culture since then.
Yalova: Surrounded by the Marmara Sea, Yalova is a peaceful and relaxing city rich in thermal springs and abundant nature.
It is estimated that Yalova was founded in the 7th century BC by Bithynians from Thrace. Yalova is rich in historical monuments as it has been home to many civilizations through the centuries.
The province is also rich in natural resources and welcomes a great number of visitors at its thermal facilities.
Yalova, with its thermal facilities, welcomes all visitors looking for relaxation within easy reach.
Sakarya: is one of Turkey's fastest developing cities surrounded by a lush green landscape abounding in natural wonders.
With a history dating back to the 8th century, the city has been one of the main settlements of major empires. Naturally, the region abounds in historical sites belonging to ancient times. Kerpe and Sapanca regions will be nice to visit, they are very near to Sakarya..
Also called Adapazari as it is intertwined with Adapazri district, Sakarya abounds in rivers, springs and waterfalls. The area has a transition climate between Black Sea and Mediterranean climate and has diverse weather conditions.A charming little getaway located in the vicinity of Istanbul, Sakarya is waiting to welcome you.
Rize is blessed with the most beautiful nature that has been preserved over the centuries. The fresh air of Rize has a regenerative effect on you with every breath you take.
Located in the greenest area of Turkey, the Eastern Black Sea Region, Rize is renowned for its unique architecture, delicious cuisine and the hospitality of the local people.
The mild and snowy winters provide for an ideal setting for the practice of winter sports such as skiing and mountaineering. The cool summer months, on the other hand, let one experience four seasons in one day. Rize which receives rainfall in every season is one of the few regions scented with the intense smell of lush nature.
Enshrouded in a fairytale landscape with high mountains, icy rivers and misty highlands getting foggy before sunrise, the city still bears the traces of village life.
Furthermore, Rize has a rich variety of natural and cultural assets to offer such as the Firtina Stream, wooden houses, corn bread or knitted booties.
Trabzon: Mentioned in the memoirs of Marco Polo andEvliya Çelebi, Trabzon, with its cultural andnatural riches, is a livablecity throughout the seasons.
The city, which was initially named asTrazepos, lies in a beautifulcountrysidebetweenthe Black Seacoast and themountainsZigane.
The city, which had lived under the reign of many civilizations throughout centuries, was taken by Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror during the Ottoman Conquest. It eventually became a city of the Republic of Turkey that was founded in 1923.
The festivities and activities organized in this city, famous for its folk dances and authentic instrument, the fiddle, provide for great entertainment.
Trabzon attracts the attention primarily for its silver and gold processing; and is famous for its specially designed bracelets called "Trabzon Bileziği."
A trading center of increasing value Trabzon, thanks to its rainy climate, is also rich in fertile lands.
Adana: One of the most beautiful cities of the Mediterranean and particularly well-known for its cuisine Adana has a variety of cultural and historical values worth exploring.
Adana, the fifth largest city of Turkey, was founded by the Luvi Kingdom connected to the Hittites in 2000 BC. The home of ten great civilizations Adana is home to both traditional and modern structures.
Located by the amazingly beautiful Seyhan River in Çukurova region, which is situated south of the Taurus Mountains and well known for its cotton fields, Adana has a mild Mediterranean climate. While summers are hot and dry in Adana winters are mild and rainy.The land of numerous monuments from antiquity to the present, Adana welcomes tourists any time of the year.
Kayseri: A cultural mosaic of diverse civilizations and home to innumerable natural wonders, Kayseri has been Anatolia's most important commercial center for many centuries.
Founded by the Hittite around 4000BC and surrounded by numerous mounds and tumuli, Kayseri province sheds light on Anatolian history.
Nestled in the foothills of Mount Erciyes, one of the highest peaks of Turkey, Kayseri has a Central Anatolian climate. The hot and dry summer months are followed by cold and snowy winters.
Kayseri with its feast-worthy cuisine, peculiar landmarks and fairytale- like landscape is ever ready to welcome visitors.
Bolu: Well known for its cuisine and great contributions to Turkish culinary culture, Bolu ranks also among the cities that fascinate visitors with their lush nature.
The early settlement of the city dates back to 5500 BC but Bolu has retained its importance and original façade from the ancient times to the present day.
Located in the Western Black Sea region and home to the most beautiful landscape, Bolu offers completely different scenic views in every season.
Edirne: One of Turkey's border cities and gateway to the West, a charming city with a fascinating nature and cultural heritage
Founded by the Thracians that migrated from Middle Asia in the ancient times, the city was named, “Paşa Sancağı” (an administrative division) during the Ottoman era. Edirne grew in importance as it served as capital city for 92 years after it was taken by the Ottomans.
Edirne province, which stretches along the Meriç River, is situated south of the Istranca Mountains. Edirne is under the effect of a continental climate. The long and cold winter months are followed by warm summer months.
Edirne, abounding in historical buildings and structures, has also many places worth seeing and many delicacies worth trying. A cultural mosaic, the city will embrace you with its hospitable inhabitants.
Are you ready to meet Edirne, one the most beautiful cities of western Turkey?
Well-known since the Ottoman Era for its talented cooks, the province has made major contributions to the Turkish and Ottoman cuisine and has become the cradle of the world's most successful chefs.
The venue of many festivals Bolu welcomes visitors any season of the year offering both scenic beauties and tasty dishes. Tourists who want to explore what Bolu has to offer are welcome any time of the year.
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Alitair Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Selected to Present at Cavendish Global Health Impact Forum
Forum brings together leading family offices, their foundations and sovereign wealth fund representatives seeking impact investment, grant-giving, and philanthropy opportunities within health and life sciences
MORRISTOWN, New Jersey – October 26, 2015 – Alitair Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company with multiple respiratory product candidates in development, announced today that it has been selected to present at the Cavendish Global Health Impact Forum co-hosted by the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, October 25 - 28, 2015.
The purpose of the forum is to help family offices and foundations develop and implement their individual pro-social impact investing, grant-giving, and philanthropy programs within health and the life sciences. Alitair was selected to present based on its pipeline products’ potential for transformational impact on the orphan respiratory disease Bronchiectasis.
Michael Moffat, Cavendish co-founder and chief executive officer said, “The theme of our Cleveland Clinic-hosted forum is a ‘Celebration of Philanthropy, Impact Investing and Innovation that Is Changing the World.’ With the help of our expert advisors, we conduct a global search of research institutions and private-sector companies in order to identify organizations that meet the required standard of excellence. The quality and originality of the Alitair Pharmaceuticals, Inc. approach to developing therapies for the orphan disease Bronchiectasis positions Alitair to make a major contribution to advancements in treatment for the 160,000 patients afflicted with this orphan disease in the U.S.”
“We are honored to have been selected to present at the upcoming Cavendish Global Health Impact Forum at the Cleveland Clinic,” said William W. Howard, president and CEO of Alitair. “We welcome the chance to interact with many of world’s most accomplished scientists, thought-leaders and philanthropic individuals and families who share our dedication to improving the health and lives of people around the world.”
“Bronchiectasis is one of the country’s largest orphan diseases, and the annual medical costs for patients with Bronchiectasis are higher than many other chronic diseases, including heart disease and COPD,” continued Howard. “We are eager to advance the development of two very promising compounds for the treatment of Bronchiectasis, Erdosteine and Doxofylline. We regard presenting at the Cavendish Global Impact Forum as an opportunity to inspire others to join us in our work to address the significant unmet need for effective and safe Bronchiectasis therapies.”
About Bronchiectasis
Bronchiectasis is a condition in which the lungs produce excessive amounts of mucus. Cystic fibrosis is the best known disease that causes Bronchiectasis. In Bronchiectasis, the mucus builds up in the airways, allowing bacteria to grow, which leads to recurring infections. Each infection causes more damage to the airways, impairing the airways' ability to move air in and out of the lungs. Bronchiectasis can lead to serious health problems including respiratory failure, atelectasis, heart failure, and death.
About Alitair Pharmaceuticals
(http://alitair.com/)
Alitair Pharmaceuticals, Inc., discovers, invents, and develops medicines for the treatment of respiratory illnesses. Alitair has two product candidates under development that have been granted orphan designations for the treatment of bronchiectasis.
About Cavendish Global
(http://cavendishglobal.com/)
Cavendish Global provides family offices and their foundations with a discrete, peer-to-peer knowledge expansion and relationship building environment, combined with the innovative resources required to help develop and implement their individual pro-social impact investment and philanthropy programs within health and the life sciences. Cavendish Global provides family offices with a number of innovative resources, which includes Cavendish Impact Forums. A unique gathering of leading family offices, Cavendish Impact Forums take place three times each year; the next Forum is being co-hosted by The Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Clinic Innovations.
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Doors Member Reacts To Mars Rover Playing "Break on Through"
. (TMZ) One member of The Doors is amped the Mars Rover mission plays "Break on Through" as a wake-up call in the morning -- telling TMZ, it's the perfect song for an extraterrestrial ... because The Doors are basically aliens.
In case you didn't know, several crew members on the Mars Curiosity Rover Mission answered a bunch of questions on Reddit last week-- and one question involved the rover's "wake-up" songs ... i.e. songs played by mission control to start their day. (It's a Mars rover tradition, apparently)
According to one crew member, the wake-up song list includes the "Mission: Impossible" theme, "Wake Up Little Susie" by Simon and Garfunkel, "Come Fly With Me" by Frank Sinatra ... and the Doors hit classic.
But Doors drummer John Densmore tells TMZ, he's not surprised by the crew's song selection ... claiming, "The Doors were always considered 'different'... like from Mars... no bass player, no flower power."
Densmore adds, "[last Thursday] the mayor of West Hollywood declared it 'Doors Day.' It seems appropriate that we are also waking up the Curiosity on Mars." more on this story
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Depeche Mode Plan Spring Album Release
. Depeche Mode announced that they will be releasing their 13th studio album in March 2013 via Columbia Records.
"I am very happy with how the album turned out," comments DM's Martin Gore. "The music has a similar vibe to Violator and Songs of Faith and Devotion and I think the songs on the album are among some of the very best we've done."
The band has announced that the new album will contain brand new tracks written by Gore and Dave Gahan. Gahan reveals, "The album has a very organic and direct feel to it. It's not a blues record, but it definitely has a soulful vibe. During the recording process we really tried to get the elements of performing and the live show into the album more."
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Tarja Releases 'Victim Of Ritual' Video
. (Classic Rock) Inspired by the one-movement orchestral piece Boléro by Maurice Ravel, the almost-six-minutes-long "Victim Of Ritual" is the first single from Tarja's forthcoming album 'Colours In The Dark' and she has released a video for the track.
"Victim Of Ritual" will be released as download, CD single and 7-inch vinyl this Friday (July 12) via earMUSIC. The physical releases are being made available in strictly limited quantities.
The four-song digipak CD single – featuring the tracks "Victim Of Ritual" / "Victim Of Ritual" (First Demo) / "I Walk Alone (Live From Luna Park)" / "Underneath (Live From Luna Park)" – is limited to 3,000 copies worldwide, while the two-track 7-inch vinyl is limited to 1,500 units.
"Colours In The Dark "will be released on August 30. Mixed by Tim Palmer (Pearl Jam, U2) in Austin, Texas, it features 10 brand new songs and over an hour of music from the Finnish soprano. It's said to showcase some surprising musical turns, introducing new sounds and new musical atmospheres. Check out the video here.
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By Asad Ismi On February 27, Nigerian voters re-elected President Muhammadu Buhari, leader of the All Progressives Congress party (APC), in a poll marred by large-scale violence, accusations of vote-rigging, last-minute delays and military intervention. When Buhari was first elected in 2015, turnout among registered voters was 44%. In this election it hit an all-time […]
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By Asad Ismi When South Africans go to the polls in May, they will have a radical new choice on the ballot. The Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party (SRWP) of South Africa, which announced itself in December, will formally launch its election bid this March. Created by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), […]
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The World Might Need Less Canada: Canada in Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation (Book Review)
By Asad Ismi YVES ENGLER Red Publishing/Fernwood Publishing 2015, 326 Pages, $24.95 Mainstream academics and journalists like to portray Canada as a positive force on the international stage, but Yves Engler’s new book, Canada in Africa, shows how frequently Canadian governments and corporations play a destructive role abroad. In Africa, Canada’s government and mining companies […]
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U.S. and China’s Rivalry Over Africa’s Riches Intensifies: China Gains African Goods With Loans, the U.S. With Guns
By Asad Ismi In my report on France’s invasion of Mali published in the March issue of The Monitor, I wrote that, “According to U.K. journalist John Pilger, ‘A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria, and Niger. The invasion […]
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A new steam locomotive for British railways
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Here’s a thing of wonder: the launch of a brand-new A1 Pacific steam locomotive built and paid for by enthusiasts, equipped to run on the mainline tracks, and reported on by The Independent.
Of course, the paper’s not absolutely accurate in its headline about steam returning to the railways, though that’s a pretty beguiling angle for the story. If you’re lucky enough to live in the right part of the country you can see preserved and rebuilt steam trains running pretty often, as special excursion services already use the mainline tracks. They need to pass certification tests to be allowed to do this, a potential problem which contributed to the difficulties experienced by the last private owners of the Flying Scotsman, herself an A1 Pacific, before she was bought for the nation by the National Rail Museum.
When I lived in an insalubrious part of west London I would regularly observe large crowds gathering at the local station to watch locomotives with Pullman coaches including, on at least one memorable occasion, The Flying Scotsman herself, running on luxury dining trips between Victoria and the West Country. You’d be hanging around on the platform, waiting for one of South West Trains’ hellish commuter boxes, and there’d be the scream of a whistle and the thump of some pistons, and for a few seconds the platform would be engulfed in steam, noise and motion. The spectators, thronging the bridge and hanging over the level crossing gates, would busily take photos, watch it out of sight then go off smiling. Occasionally you’d get to Clapham Junction or Victoria and see the engine sitting at a platform, polished to unfeasible brightness, steaming gently and surrounded by admirers.
Now I live on the East Coast Main Line, close to the start of the very straight section where the steam speed records were set. A few weeks ago I was at our local park taking part in the monthly litter clear-up, only to hear some very distinctive noises coming from the railway embankment above me. Unfortunately, I wasn’t in a position where I could see the locomotive pass through, but pass through it did, as evidenced by the excitement of the people elsewhere in the park who did manage to get a glimpse of it.
So these little moments of serendipity are available, as are any number of excursions on preserved and heritage railways – my favourite easily being the West Somerset Railway, running between Minehead and Bishops Lydeard in Somerset. But the launch of the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust’s Tornado is a truly wonderful thing, and a dream realised for many people. Here’s an excerpt from The Independent’s story:
Steam dreams: locomotives return to the tracks
Today, 40 years exactly since the fabled “Last Weekend” when British Rail signalled the end of one type of world and the start of another by running its final scheduled mainline steam services, the new A1, bearing the engine number 60163 and now christened Tornado, will make its first public movement. Some 600 enthusiasts will journey to the North-east from all over Britain to see it and hundreds of thousands across the world will monitor proceedings over the internet. It took an army of 2,000 supporters 18 years to raise the £3m necessary to fund the 150,000 man-hours required to build, from scratch, the first new mainline steam locomotive Britain has witnessed for almost half a century.
For Mark Allatt, chairman of the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust, who has ruthlessly driven the fundraising process, today’s short but symbolic shuttle a few yards along the tracks at Darlington, is the realisation of an audacious dream. The 43-year old-marketing director stands as tall as one of the locomotive’s huge steel wheels, an impressive 6ft 8ins. And, just as he has for the past decade, he has given up the annual leave from his City law firm to be close to the engine he loves. The divorced father of one, a self-confessed steam freak, travels thousands of miles to beat the drum for Tornado. Like his fellow Trust directors, he is unpaid, does not claim expenses yet works on the project every day. “People said to me when we set out on this that it would never be done,” he says. “They said you will never raise the money. I think we’ve proved a lot of people wrong.” Read full article here…
However, the Tornado project is the rebuild of a design over a century old. Even more exciting is the idea that a modern-design steam locomotive could be built.
Is someone trying this? Of course they are: 5AT Advanced Steam Locomotive Project. Now, this is one that I really would like to see realised.
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3 All-Region Selections | 21 All-Conference Honors
Men's Cross Country Places Three on NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team
BABSON PARK, Mass.—The Babson College men's cross country team had three harriers honored for their work in the classroom when the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) released its academic all-conference team on Thursday.
Seniors Jonathan Martin (Valrico, Fla.) and Jonathan Miller (Westford, Mass.) were recognized for the third year in a row, while sophomore Nicholas Virkler (Sudbury, Mass.) was named to the squad for the first time.
Miller, who has been one of the program's top runners over the last four seasons, is currently third on the squad with an average 8k time of 27:51. He recorded his best time of the season (26:46) at the Saratoga Invitational at Saratoga Spa State Park back on September 30.
A four-year member of the program, Martin came in 17th in Babson's season-opening dual meet with Wheaton back on September 1. Virkler, who has not competed this fall, finished with an average 8k time of 29:12 as a rookie in 2016.
Honorees must have met the following criteria: earned a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5/4.0 scale or 4.35/5.0 scale after the 2017 spring semester, achieved second year academic status at his institution, and been a member of the varsity team for the entire season.
Babson returns to action on Sunday when it heads to Franklin Park in Boston for the NEWMAC Championship meet beginning at 11 a.m.
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Exciting News, Upcoming Shows at Act II Entertainment
Daniel R. Mininni - BanderasNews.com
Act II is making the season a little brighter for Puerto Vallarta children this month. So far, more than 100 students and all of the kids at Corazón de Niño orphanage have enjoyed Cinderella, The Musical, at no cost.
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - If you love live music and theater, there's no better place to go in Puerto Vallarta than Act II STAGES, where both superstars and rising stars are ready to entertain you every night of thw week. Here's a look at this week's lineup of shows, and some exciting news!
Act II Entertainment Star, Diana Villamonte, makes it to the finals of La Voz Mexico!
Diana gained fame last year in both her Motown and Beyond & Tina Turner shows, quickly making her the top-selling show in Puerto Vallarta! This year, Diana opened her two new shows, More Motown and Beyond & The Whitney Houston Show, to sold out shows and 5 star reviews!
What's next for this Act II Superstar and Pride of Puerto Vallarta? This Sunday, December 16, Diana will compete in the last leg of the 'The Voice of Mexico' TV show, which is being filmed in Mexico City. At 6:00 pm, Act II will host a Finals Viewing Party in its Encore Lounge, and all of Diana's fans are invited! 2x1 cocktails will be offered until 9:00 pm and a special "Diana Drink," along with snacks, will be featured. Come help us cheer her on!
ACT II GIVES BACK TO THE COMMUNITY
Theater for Students
Act II is donating tickets to local schools for its show, Cinderella, the Musical this month. So far, more than 100 students, as well as all of the children at the Corazón de Niño orphanage, have received free tickets!
Christmas Donations
Act II Entertainment once again partners with Freda Thomson, winner of the 2016 Humanitarian Award, to collect bags of rice and beans, as well unwrapped presents, for Christmas at the dump. Please consider making a donation. Giving back to the community is a great way to share some holiday joy. Your donations can be dropped off at Act II from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm - 7 days a week.
Nunsense, Amen! Raising Money for Local Charities
Act II's hit musical, Nunsense, Amen! is not only great fun, but is also raising thousands of pesos a week for local charities! From now until Christmas, Nunsense will be collecting money throughout each of its shows which will be donated to the charities, "Christmas at the Dump" and Banderas Bay Women's Shelter. Just last week, the actors managed to collect 3600 pesos, which was donated directly to Christmas at the Dump organizer, Freda Thompson. Act II will also give 50 pesos off tickets for Nunsense and Cinderella when you bring a sack or rice or beans to donate.
TripAdvisor has just awarded Act II with the #2 spot on their list of "Best Things To Do in Puerto Vallarta," AND has designated Stages as the city's #1 Entertainment Venue! From stage plays and musicals to cabaret, drag shows, and concerts, audiences are thrilled with the calibre of the shows this year, and great reviews keep pouring in!
If you haven't lived the "Act II Experience," now's the time to do so! Take a look at the reviews and the schedule of this week's shows below, then visit act2pv.com for tickets. Shows are selling out fast, so get your tickets now!
THIS WEEK'S LINEUP OF SHOWS AT ACT II STAGES
"Fa La La," PVGMC Holiday Concert - 8:00 pm
Paul Fracassi, starring in "The Best of Paul Fracassi" - 7:30 pm
Hedda Lettuce, starring in "Gringa in Paradise" - 9:30 pm
"Little Shop of Horrors" - 7:00 pm
"Twist & Shout," song, dance and schtick, celebrating music of the 50s and 60s - 7:30 pm
Mama Tits, starring in "Triple D" - 9:30 pm
"Cinderella, the Musical" - Matinee 3:00 pm
"Nunsense, Amen!" - 7:00 pm
"Best of ABBA & Elton," starring Us Two and their LIVE BAND - 7:30 pm
Delighted Tobehere, starring in "She Haw" - 9:30 pm
Mama Tits starring in "Triple D" – 9:30 pm
"Girls Like Us," a celebration of Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon & Carole King - 7:30 pm
Steve Grand, starring in "Not the End of Me" - 9:30 pm
Us Two, Volume II – Classic music from the 50s to the 90s + Happy Days! - 7:30 pm
Cinderella, The Musical - 7:00 pm
CONTINUING SHOWS AT ACT II:
"Little Shop of Horrors"
A Cult Musical/Horror Comedy
Produced by Act II Entertainment
Directed by Alfonso Lopez
Wednesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays at 7:00 pm (through December)
One of Off-Broadway's most popular cult musicals, Little Shop of Horrors is the hilarious tale of a down-and-out Skid Row floral assistant, the girl he loved, and a strange new, man-eating plant threatening to tear their world apart. This cult classic was one of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows and has become a household name thanks to a highly successful film version and a fantastic musical score! For the past 30 years, people just can't get the catchy music out of their heads!
Directed by Alfonso López, the uber-talented director of "Rocky Horror" last year, this beloved horror/comedy/rock/musical is another first-class production at Act II and brings back the sounds and ambiance of the rock 'n' roll era. It stars many of your favorite Act II actors, plus some wonderful new faces, including Maria Rose, Joey Martinez, Alex McLauchlan, Andrew Sands, Shawn Morgan, Eli Estrada, Sasha del Oceano, and Ximena Peña Esparza. It also features the return of Act II Managing Partner, Danny Mininni, to the stage, with his portrayal of the crotchety and hilarious "Mr. Mushnik." With its delightful cast and toe-tapping music, Little Shop of Horrors is a must-see this season!
"Best show ever in Puerto Vallarta. A must see, amazing talent and set design. Would love to see it again." – Michelle S, 11/17/2018
"The Best of Paul Fracassi"
featuring "the best of the best" songs by Vallarta favorite, Paul Fracassi
Limited Engagement - Show Dates: December 14, 17 - 7:30 pm
Paul Fracassi opened his new show, "The Best of Paul Fracassi," in The Red Room on December 3 to standing ovations, tears and lots of love! One of Puerto Vallarta's most beloved performers, his shows have sold more tickets than any other show in Act II history! As the "consummate performer," this "Jersey Kid" from Toronto, Canada, bounds onto the stage with tremendous energy and expert stage presence. His powerful, well-trained voice created a big fuss up in Canada when he was a finalist on Canadian Idol, and shortly thereafter, created a "big fuss" in Puerto Vallarta, too! He is much in demand in Canada, Mexico, the U.S. and Europe. Paul's amazing vocals have been compared to the great crooners of the American songbook, and especially the high vocal range of Frankie Valli. He will be singing the "best of the best" from his past shows: Walk Like A Man, Legends, and Stayin' Alive. Tickets for this limited engagement at act2pv.com.
"...One of the best shows we have seen in Vallarta in our 20 years coming here. The choice of songs fit his voice... we will definitely be going back before we return to our home in Ontario." - Jack and Diane, Canada, on TripAdvisor 2/17/18
Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella, the Musical"
A musical based on the fairy tale, Cinderella
Directed by Alfonso López
December 16, 23, 30 - 3:00 pm
Friday - December 21, 28 - 7:00 pm
Act II is proud to be presenting Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella," a musical based on this beloved fairy tale! In Act II's inimitable style, co-producers Danny Mininni and Alfonso López add some hilarious twists and turns to this magical and much-loved story. In fact, it is the perfect family show. With its iconic and memorable music, the little ones in the audience will be enthralled and the adults will enjoy the irreverent and sometimes unexpected humor. Featuring MaryJo Nelson in the role of Cinderella, this crowd-pleasing, old-fashioned (with new twists) musical is a winner!
"I would highly recommend attending the production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella at Act II Entertainment for a quality evening's entertainment while in Puerto Vallarta. The show is well produced with innovative sets and costumes. The cast is well rehearsed for a seamless presentation. The quality of the singing is outstanding. This will be an evening to remember on your visit to Puerto Vallarta." - chegi2018, on TripAdvisor, 12/2/18
"Nunsense A-Men!"
This year's Funniest Musical... Bar Nun!
Every Sunday at 7:00 pm
After an irrefutably positive response to its preview last Spring, Act II brings back this hilarious, Off-Broadway smash hit, with its five MALE musical comedy performers! This "unholy" version features uproarious horseplay and side-splitting jokes that are performed by some of PV's finest actors, Bert Ramirez, Shawn Morgan, José Jasso, Roberto Gomez, and Al Carswell. Check out their video, #sheNUNigans, to see them parasailing, racing down the Malecon on Segways and experimenting with tequila... All in full habits! The Act II nuns are always up to something new and irreverent! Directed by Alfonso López and choreographed by Steven Retchless, "Nunsense A-Men!" is the kind of show that picks you up and shakes you around and makes you want to dance. What more could you want from a musical than passion and laughter and fun? This is a show not to be missed at Act II Stages!
It just keeps getting better! On this trip my husband and I attended 3 shows... Nunsense, Diana Villamonte and Little Shop of Horrors. All were very different and wonderful! I am happy to see that they are expanding the number and types of shows while continuing to bring PV quality live entertainment. The service is excellent and the setting fun. Go early and listen to the music in the bar. And yes, it is for everyone... please don't feel it is only a gay venue... don't miss it! - Connie, Long Beach, on TripAdvisor 11/16/18
"Twist and Shout"
Music and Dance from the 50's and 60's
Every Saturday at 7:30 pm
Act II is pleased to announce a brand new 50's and 60's show, "Twist and Shout," featuring musical hits from the 50's and 60's. The dynamic duo, Pedro Islas and Faride Talamás perform many of the songs that you love... I Wanna Be Loved By You, Can't Take My Eyes Off of You, Be My Baby, Lollipop, I Only Want to Be With You, Twist and Shout, and more! This show has a unique format and is full of singing, comedy, and dancing to the rhythms that changed the world!
"Twist and Shout" Reviews
"Saw Twist and Shout last night in The Red Room at Act II. So much fun. Music from the 50's and 60's with the premise of the two final contestants of a singing contest. The audience was laughing, cheering and singing along. Great addition to Vallarta nightlife." - Rick DiCarlo 11/25/18
"Twist and Shout was AMAZING! Great singing, great dancing and great concept! A must see!" - Bert Ramirez, Puerto Vallarta
"Twist & Shout had more heart than I've seen in a long time. Excellent and talented performers who gave 1000%!" - Dave Mohr
Delighted Tobehere, starring in "She Haw"
Any man of mine... better get tickets to SHE HAW! This country "ho down" stars the internationally renowned drag queen Delighted Tobehere, celebrating her third season in Vallarta at Act II Stages! She might live in NYC, but this FANCY lady hails from South Carolina and knows a "thang" or two about country music! In fact, when she performed on America's Got Talent Howie Mandel said she "just became the first country music drag star!"
Delighted combines celebrity illusion, vocal impressions, live vocals, lip sync, comedy, intelligence, and quick wit to wow her audiences! SHE HAW features hits from Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks, Patsy Cline, Carrie Underwood and more! A combination of songs and corny comedy guaranteed to appeal to the country fan or the country virgin! Delighted's packing her RED HIGH HEELS and hoppin' on her SIN WAGON to bring you this hilarious, live singing show that would make the Grand Ole Opry proud! Or should we say Grand ¡Olé! Opry? You'd be CRAZY not to get your tickets TODAY! Follow Delighted @QueenDelighted, or visit her website: imdelightedtobehere.com.
The Puerto Vallarta Gay Men's Chorus
"Fa La La" Holiday Concert Series
December 14 - 8:00 pm
The Puerto Vallarta Gay Men's Chorus (PVGMC) proudly continues its holiday musical tradition with the "Fa La La" concert series on December 11 & 14 at 8:00 pm, and on December 15 at 3 pm, on Act II's Main Stage. This debut of new Artistic Director, Derek Carkner, will take you on both a light-hearted romp of Christmas music in English and Spanish, as well as move you with more inspirational music. Joining the chorus will be Puerto Vallarta favorites, Miss Conception and Steve Grand. The PVGMC brings you the talents of gay men from Mexico, the United States, Canada and around the world. They perform choral music that entertains, enlightens and inspires, and they build bridges of understanding, acceptance and love. They are warmly embraced by the Mexican and expat community, as well as tourists from many cultures.
"Girls Like Us"
Featuring the beloved music of Carly Simon, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell
Produced by Don Pope and Rhonda Padmos
December 18 - 7:30 pm (Final Show)
In their inimitable style, Rhonda Padmos and Don Pope present the timeless music of 60's icons, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon. These women are three of the most enduring and important women in popular music. They collectively represent, in their lives and their songs, a great swath of girls who came of age in the late 60's. This show captures the music of the 60's like none other!
Steve Grand - #1 Selling Music Show This Season
"Not the End of Me"
Featuring Steve Grand, Openly Gay Internet Sensation and Recording Artist!
Shows sell out fast, so get your tickets now at act2pv.com
Tuesday, December 18 - 9:30 pm
Thursday, December 20 - 7:30 pm
Friday, December 21 - 7:30 pm (Bonus Show)
Steve Grand returns triumphantly to The Red Room for a 3-month run, after his extremely successful string of shows last season! 100% OF HIS SHOWS WERE SOLD OUT!! In 2013, Grand uploaded a music video to YouTube for his song, "All American Boy." Immediately, it went viral, and within 8 days, he had over 1,000,000 views! The song tells the story of unrequited love between a young man and his heterosexual male friend. As a result of his notoriety, this openly gay artist has been lauded as a trailblazer in the entertainment world and has had appearances on Good Morning America, CNN, Larry King Now, and other national outlets where he has used his platform to advocate for Human Rights and LGBT Equality.
"Steve Grand at the Red Room. My first time visiting Act II and I was impressed. Friendly staff and very well organized, along with some hilarious commentary while being seated, made for an enjoyable night! The small venue was perfect and intimate to watch Steve Grand play. A welcome addition to Puerto Vallarta." - WazzaH, TripAdvisor
Hedda Lettuce - "Gringa In Paradise"
Winner Funniest Drag show 2017 - 2018
Hedda Lettuce's smorgasboard of live comedy, songs, and stand-up improvisations
Every Thursday & Friday - 9:30 pm
Hedda Lettuce, the six-time Drag Queen of the Year Award-winner (HX magazine) and the legendary "green goddess" of drag, is excited to return to Puerto Vallarta for her FOURTH "sold out" season! Her show, this year, is a loving send-up to her favorite town... Puerto Vallarta! Hedda will glamorize another season as she dishes out a tossed salad of improvisational comedy, sultry songs, and dazzling gowns. (And it's entirely fat-free!) She will gladly engage you in a night of storytelling, bawdy and biting wit, spontaneous comedy, and live (not lip-synched) singing! Her show includes her nationally-acclaimed original comedic music that is peppered with parodies of old time favorites and startling satire. Hedda Lettuce is one of New York City's premiere drag queens and keeps the audience screaming with laughter for the entire show!
"HEDDA LETTUCE! My Queen! I met a very nice gentleman on the beach who told he was Hedda Lettuce and that I should check out his show at Act II Stages. I did and I am in love with this drag queen! Very funny, creative, quick come backs and one-liners. She had the audience gagging and sometimes gasping for air from beginning to end. Funny, unapologetic, witty, great singer and from what I gathered a great human being as well. Do not miss this show!" - Chispitaspark, LA, on TripAdvisor
Mama Tits - All new show! "Triple D"
Starring Puerto Vallarta's beloved 6'7" POWERHOUSE, Mama Tits!
Every Monday & Saturday - 9:30 pm
After her second record-breaking year as one of the Top Headliners of the illustrious Red Room Cabaret at Act II Stages, Mama Tits is thrilled to return for her fourth hit season! This year she is back with her raw and witty take on life, sex, relationships and living your truth. Mama Tits weaves her soulful live singing with her stories and comedy into one big joyride of a show, with a strong message of love, emotion and positive reinforcement, (not unlike her trusty underwire bra)! Jazz, blues, pop, rock and Broadway round out this year's eclectic selection of songs. Check out her many reviews on Trip Advisor!
US Two - "The Best of ABBA & Elton"
A musical tribute to ABBA and Elton John, featuring UsTwo and their LIVE BAND
Every Sunday - 7:30 pm
UsTwo presents a musical tribute to the timeless music of two unforgettable acts which began in the 70's, ABBA and Elton John! UsTwo will perform songs that you remember, such as Mama Mia, Dancing Queen, Chiquitita, Sad Song, Candle in the Wind, Rocket Man, and more. Their repertoire changes with each performance, but these amazing vocalists (and their band) will treat you to an unforgettable evening of music!
"I absolutely loved this high energy show. The band consists of very talented musicians. Danny & Noemi masterfully belt out song after song and bring the audience to their feet. Such talent." - Christine P, TripAdvisor
Act II is very proud of its talent this year and invites you to come and experience one (or two or three) shows for yourself!
Tickets to all shows can be purchased online at actiientertainment.com, at the box office, which is opens daily from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm.
The Act II Entertainment STAGES complex is located on the corner of Insurgentes and Basilio Badillo on the south side of Puerto Vallarta. For more information, call (322) 222-1512, or follow Act II on Facebook.
Click HERE to see what else is playing at Act II STAGES.
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Minutes of Annual General Meeting held on 3 September 2011
Directors in Attendance
Dinah McDonald Chair
Ron Cruickshank
David Eaglesham
Victor Sandall
Jim Aitchison
Evelyn Boyd
Janice Hampson
Teresa Lenton
Fraser Smith
Councillor Bruce Marshall Argyll & Bute Council
John Forth Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park
Before the meeting opened, a presentation on the work of Argyll Voluntary Action was made by Andy Ferguson. Andy distributed leaflets and invited interested parties to contact the organisation.
Minutes of last AGM
The minutes of the last AGM held on 11 September 2010 were proposed by David Eaglesham, seconded by Ron Cruickshank and Billy King and adopted.
Chair Report
Dinah McDonald reported on the activities of the Trust since last AGM.
Following from the completion of the Community Action Plan and the Community Profile, various subgroups continued to work on projects arising from the community consultation:
We applied for and were successful in obtaining a grant from Big Lottery to contract consultants to work with a sub group into the feasibility of a community shop along the shore. The feasibility study concluded there was the potential for one community shop and post office. As the Strone Post Office and shop continue to run, this meant it was not feasible to start a new shop. We are grateful to Jean Maskell and her team tor all the work they put into this, and are delighted to see Strone Post Office go from strength to strength.
We had feedback from the consultants looking at the possibility of an anaerobic digester to treat the sewage along the shore. They concluded that this would not be viable. But a follow on idea from this was to look at the possibility of a biomass heating system. At a public meeting held in Highgate Hall, those present voted to ask the Trust to apply for funding to look into the feasibility of this. Due to changes in the national grants for renewable energy, this was not a viable proposition. Following on from this, a local fuel supplier contacted the Trust and has begun supplying cheaper fuel to householders in the area.
The Paths group were successful in applying for three grants - from The National Park, from Leader and from SNH - to put in a new path link from Blairmore to Gairletter - this route was included in one of the walks in Cowal Fest and provides a fabulous link for cyclists from the shore to connect with the forest tracks further north and west.
Community Partnership Goes Green. As part of 8 communities throughout the National Park, we applied tor and were successful in getting a grant to assist those living within Benmore and Kilmun Parish to save energy. This project involved a library of energy monitors which were (and still are) available to borrow for everyone living in the area so that the energy use of your home could be broken down and calculated. Energy advisers called on householders to give advice on how to save energy within the home, including the social tariffs which were available and what grants may be available. 100 households took advantage of the insulation offer. We held a workshop with advisers from Historic Scotland and Changeworks discussing micro-renewable energy production and insulation in 'hard to treat houses'. The consultants offered advice to those with non-domestic buildings such as village halls. The Consultants worked with Strone School on raising awareness of the importance of energy saving.
At Graham's Point, we now have a bar-b-que for use by those visiting the point. The wall has been repaired. Our thanks to the volunteers who look after Graham's Point and to the Council staff who cut the grass.
As part of our grant application to the National Park, we included a donation towards the running costs of the local newsletter Loch'n’Glen. Many thanks to Ron for all his work over the past years and Good Luck to Lorraine and Janice in taking the newsletter on - we do appreciate how much work is involved, but also we realise the vital importance of this communication link between the many groups in the area.
Pearl Brown presented the report of the Trust finances through end of December 2010.
David McKenzie proposed the adoption of the Treasurer’s report; this was seconded by David Eaglesham and adopted.
Appointment of Directors
The Constitution of the Trust requires that five directors retire annually, although they can stand for re-election. It was noted that Jeanette Sloss had resigned as a director earlier in the year.
The following Directors retired as per the Trust Memorandum & Articles of Association:
David McKenzie
All of the retiring Directors, except Ron Cruickshank, indicated that they would be prepared to stand for re-election. Dinah McDonald proposed that the following members be elected as Directors:
The motion was seconded by Pearl Brown and approved unanimously.
Evelyn Boyd, a member and former Director of the Trust, indicated that she would be prepared to put her name forward to be a Director. Billy King proposed that Evelyn Boyd be elected a Director of the Trust. This was seconded by Dinah McDonald and approved unanimously.
On behalf of the Board, Dinah welcomed Evelyn back and also expressed the enormous debt of gratitude that the Board owed to Ron Cruickshank for his work over the years. Dinah hoped that, if circumstances change, Ron would consider re-joining the Board at some future point.
Next AGM
The next AGM will be held on Saturday 12 May 2012.
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Faizabad bypass in India connects Delhi with NH 28 through Uttar Pradesh.
A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety. A bypass specifically designated for trucks may be called a truck route.
If there are no strong land use controls, buildings are often built in town along a bypass, converting it into an ordinary town road, and the bypass may eventually become as congested as the local streets it was intended to avoid. Petrol stations, shopping centres and some other businesses are often built there for ease of access, while homes are often avoided for noise and pollution reasons.
Bypass routes are often controversial, as they require the building of a road carrying heavy traffic where no road previously existed. This creates a conflict between those who support a bypass to reduce congestion in a built up area, and those who oppose the development of (often rural) undeveloped land. However, some of those in the bypassed city may also oppose the project, because of the potential reduction in city-centre business.
3.1 Shoofly
5 Asia
5.1 Hong Kong
5.3 Malaysia
5.4 Philippines
In Ontario, examples include the Donald Cousens Parkway (formerly named the Markham Bypass from 2004-2006) and the Box Grove Bypass in the city of Markham; and in Toronto a section of Highway 401 was called the Toronto Bypass in the 1950s when the highway was built as a bypass of Highway 2, Ontario Highway 2A which was built to bypass Highway 2 between Toronto and Newcastle, and the Caledonia Bypass, a section of Highway 6 in Caledonia.
In Nova Scotia, the section of Highway 104 between Thomson Station and Masstown is colloquially named the Cobequid Pass; this name is for a section of road that bypasses the Wentworth Valley by crossing the Cobequid Mountains.
The Newbury bypass near Donnington
The idea of bypasses predates the use of motor vehicles. The first (northern) London bypass, the present Marylebone Road between Paddington and Islington, was started in 1756.
Bypasses can take many years to gain planning approval and funding. Many towns and villages have been campaigning for bypasses for over 30 years e.g. Banwell in North Somerset. [1]
There was large-scale protest during construction of the Newbury bypass—officially known as the Winchester–Preston Trunk Road (A34) (Newbury Bypass)—a 9-mile (14 km) stretch of dual carriageway which bypasses the town of Newbury in Berkshire, England. The protest was popularly known as the Third Battle of Newbury, a name which was also adopted by one of the main protest groups. The name was chosen in reference to the First Battle of Newbury of 1643 and the Second Battle of Newbury of 1644, both of which took place close to the town during the English Civil War.
Old by-pass sign on Maui for State Route 30 thru surface streets.
In the United States, bypass routes are a type of special route used on an alternative routing of a highway around a town when the main route of the highway goes through the town. The original designation of these routes were "truck routes" to divert through truck traffic away from the town, but the designation was changed to "bypass" in 1959 by AASHTO.[ citation needed] However, many "Truck" routes remain where the mainline of the highway is prohibited for trucks.
In a few cases, both a bypass and a business route exist, each with auxiliary signs (e.g. U.S. Route 60 in Lexington, Kentucky). Bypass routes are less common than business routes. Many of those that existed before the era of Interstate highways have lost their old designations. For example, in Missouri, the old bypass route of U.S. Route 71 to the east of Kansas City, Missouri was decommissioned as Interstate 435 supplanted it; the remainder that existed as suburban surface route became Missouri Route 291. Around St. Louis, Missouri, what had been U.S. Route 50 Bypass was absorbed into a diversion of U.S. Route 50 from Interstate 44 and Interstate 64.
In the Interstate Highway System in the United States, primary routes are designated with a one- or two-digit number, while bypasses and loops are generally designated with a three-digit number beginning with an even digit. However, there are many exceptions to this convention, where routes with three-digit numbers serve the main route through town while the routes with one- or two-digit numbers serve as the bypass. A few such examples can be found in the metropolitan areas of Des Moines, Iowa ( Interstate 235 goes through downtown, while Interstate 35 and Interstate 80 bypass downtown), Omaha, Nebraska ( Interstate 480 traverses the downtown area, while Interstate 80 is one of the bypasses), and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (the city is served by Interstate 279 and Interstate 376, while Interstate 70, Interstate 76, and Interstate 79 all bypass city limits).
Another meaning of the term bypass route (usually simply called a bypass) is a highway that was constructed to bypass an area that is often congested with traffic. This includes Interstate Highway beltways and U.S. Highways constructed to circumvent downtown areas. Examples of these are U.S. Route 60 bypassing Williamsburg, Virginia, Interstate 285 bypassing Downtown Atlanta, U.S. Route 20/ U.S. Route 31 bypassing metro South Bend, Indiana (on the St. Joseph Valley Parkway), and Interstate 75 bypassing Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida. These bypasses usually carry mainline routes rather than auxiliary "bypass" routes.
The first bypass route in the United States was completed in 1958, as Alabama State Route 210 (Ross Clark Circle) in Dothan, Alabama.
Shoofly
In the United States, the term shoofly – a borrowing from railroad jargon – is also sometimes used to refer to a short temporary roadway built to bypass a construction site or other temporary obstruction. [2] The U.S. Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices uses the term "diversion". [3]
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In Brazil the widest and busiest bypasses are located in the state of São Paulo, and many of them intersect and merge around large cities to form ring-like systems. Most notably the Rodoanel Mário Covas, which encircles the city of São Paulo and passes through other cities in the metropolitan area, is the largest project of such type with a planned total length of 180 km upon completion. It is divided into sections and connected to major highways and while not being a toll road itself, accesses to other motorways are often placed through toll booths.
Outer Bypass Road (Atal ORR) at Narsinghi, Hyderabad in India
Hong Kong contains several bypasses. The first are the Island Eastern Corridor, the East Kowloon Corridor, the West Kowloon Corridor, and the Lung Cheung and Ching Cheung Roads. Later ones are named directly as bypasses, such as Kwun Tong Bypass, Hung Hom Bypass, and the Ma On Shan Bypass. Other bypasses include the Tai Po Section of the Tolo Highway, the section within the Tuen Mun New Town of the Tuen Mun Road, the Yuen Long Highway, and the West Kowloon Highway. The Central-Wan Chai Bypass, which costs HK$28.1 billion, will be a series of tunnels between Central and Causeway Bay. [4]
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Malaysia also contain several bypasses such as Rawang Bypass, Kajang Bypass and Bidor Bypass.
Plaridel Bypass Road in Bulacan, an example of a bypass road in the Philippines
Bypass roads (or in other cases "diversion roads") in the Philippines are generally considered on national highways passing through adensely populated city or municipality. Local governments usually promote construction of bypasses where the existing highway becomes heavily congested. Bypasses are common in rural municipalities to deter through traffic from entering the poblacion or town centre. Careful planning is considered when planning a bypass through a community to ensure the original route is downgraded to local access. Control of access to properties is taken in account to avoid uncontrolled land development.
Types of special routes in the United States
Special route
Alternate route
Business route
Link road
List of special routes of the United States Numbered Highway System
List of business routes of the Interstate Highway System
National Highway No. 3 (Taiwan)
^ "Banwell bypass". Archived from the original on 2008-04-06. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
^ "Oklahoma's I-40 Crosstown Expressway: Glossary". Oklahoma Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on 2008-09-08. Retrieved 2008-04-16.
^ MUTCD Section 6C.09
^ Central – Wan Chai Bypass and Island Eastern Corridor Link Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
Route designations in the United States
Multistate systems
U.S. Highway
Intrastate systems
State highway
Secondary highway
County highway
Farm-to-market road
Special route types
Business/city route
Bypass route
Connector route
Divided route
Emergency detour route
Loop route
Spur route
U.S. Bicycle Route
Forest highway
Indian route
Territorial highway
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De-radicalisation programmes: defeating the Islamic State at the UK grassroots level
In the wake of the UK Parliament’s decision on Friday to sanction air strikes against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq, superficial comparisons with the 2003 Iraq War have invariably been drawn. In reality, the two wars could not be more different. Most importantly, from a legal standpoint, Iraq’s call for assistance from foreign nations validates lawful military intervention within its territory; the inclusion of regional players – Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Bahrain and Qatar – supplements the legitimacy of operations.
There is also one further key difference between the two wars: in 2003, European citizens were not flocking to Iraq to join the ranks of local insurgents and terrorists. This unprecedented phenomenon requires fresh approaches to be tackled.
EU officials estimate between 3-4,000 European citizens to have travelled to fight alongside ISIS – around a quarter of whom are thought to be UK citizens – presenting the dual-pronged threat not only of UK citizens fighting against the interests of the UK abroad, but also the potential catastrophe that awaits when these citizens return to the UK with radicalised ideas and behaviour. Dozens of jihadi fighters have been arrested already upon their return to the UK; however, the desertion of ex-ISIS fighters may yet prove to be a silver lining.
Many UK fighters have reached out with requests to return, fearful of the repercussions should they do so, and mandatory de-radicalisation programmes – though not a panacea – could offer the solution to increased spread of extremism at home. These programmes – which have historically enjoyed success with former Al-Qaeda fighters in Algeria, Morocco and Saudi Arabia – would allow the UK to rehabilitate existing fighters whilst simultaneously deterring more UK citizens from following the same path. Such use of cautionary tales and rehabilitation programmes already exists within government-endorsed schemes for the likes of ex-gang members leaving prison.
The existence of analogous schemes in European States such as Denmark could assist in dispelling any stigma accompanying the establishment of such a programme in a Western State. The programme’s success would depend primarily on popular and political support to enable the social underpinning necessary for de-radicalisation, but also on reaching out to the pool of the most vulnerable groups from which IS and other terrorist organisation recruiters traditionally draw – disenchanted and disenfranchised Muslim youths.
Extremist figures are able to garner support through silver-tongued rhetoric and mutilation of religious tenets, but also crucially by abusing a vacuum of uncertainty that exists amongst second-generation immigrants. As the son of Egyptian parents myself, I am familiar with the risks of identity crises that are created growing up in the UK to foreign parents; the clash between one cultural world at home and another outside can lead to sentiments of ostracism, solitude and isolation – ripe pickings for extremist ideologies.
Bespoke UK de-radicalisation programmes must therefore incorporate cultural awareness, ensuring that the rights and religious customs of the target audience are balanced with the principles that underscore modern Britain – democracy, equality and diversity.
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Marina Rosenfeld
Adjunct Professor, Sonic Arts
Marina Rosenfeld is a composer and artist based in New York. Her works have been presented by institutions including the Park Avenue Armory, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, The Kitchen, the Stedelijk Museum, the Serralves Foundation, the Tate Modern, the Secession, and the Arnold Schönberg Center; festivals including Wien Modern, Ultima, Borealis, and the Holland Festival; the Whitney, Montreal, PERFORMA, and Liverpool biennials; and many others. During 2017 she has had solo exhibitions at Portikus (Frankfurt) and the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies/Hessel Museum, and created new sound works for documenta 14 (Kassel and Athens) and Donaueschingen Musiktage.
Rosenfeld also performs frequently as a turntablist, alongside collaborators from Christian Marclay to Warrior Queen, and has created music for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (2004-08) and choreographers Ralph Lemon (2014-15) and Maria Hassabi (2016-17). Her awards include a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists award and honors from Ars Electronica and the New York Foundation for the Arts, among others. Rosenfeld has been a faculty member of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College since 2005, and has co-chaired its department of Music/Sound since 2007.
More information at www.marinarosenfeld.com.
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Women on Walls at RCSI in partnership with Accenture and Business to Arts unveils landmark Irish portrait collection with eight new artworks depicting historical female leaders in healthcare
Today, RCSI, Accenture and Business to Arts unveiled a series of new portraits of historical female leaders in healthcare at RCSI. Women on Walls at RCSI in partnership with Accenture recognises the pioneering achievements of a group of eight extraordinary women and aims to enhance the visibility of historical female leaders in healthcare to inspire future generations.
The portraits were officially unveiled today by Minister for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor TD and RCSI President Mr Kenneth Mealy. They will now hang in the Board Room of RCSI’s historic building on St. Stephen’s Green and can be seen at scheduled times throughout 2019.
In March 2018, artists were invited to submit a proposal to Business to Arts, project managers of the initiative. A selection committee identified six artists who were commissioned to paints the portraits. The group of artists have worked with RCSI archivists to research their subjects and complete the portraits.
The following artists have completed their commissions, creating a series of eight individual portraits:
Commissioned Artist Subject
Benita Stoney Dr Margaret (Pearl) Dunlevy (1909 – 2002)
Catherine Creaney Dr Barbara Maive Stokes (1922 – 2009)
Enda Griffin Sr Dr Maura Lynch (1938 – 2017)
Mick O’Dea Dr Emily Winifred Dickson (1866 – 1944)
Mick O’Dea Dr Mary Somerville Parker Strangman (1872 – 1943)
Molly Judd Dr Victoria Coffey (1911 – 1999)
Molly Judd Dr Mary Josephine Hannan (1859 – 1936)
William Nathans Dean Mary Frances Crowley (1906 – 1990)
Speaking ahead of the announcement, Professor Cathal Kelly, RCSI CEO said, “We are immensely proud to unveil these portraits of ground-breaking RCSI women today. These pioneers made significant contributions to education and healthcare here at RCSI, in Ireland and much further afield. We hope that by recognising them through this landmark initiative; we might inspire future generations of women and girls to pursue a career in healthcare and science.”
“Each of these women had a profound impact and we want history to remember their legacy. It is our duty to help preserve their story and celebrate their achievements. It is right and proper that today they take their place not just on these storied walls of RCSI but also in the history of healthcare.”
Dr Michelle D. Cullen, Managing Director and Head of Inclusion & Diversity, Accenture in Ireland added, “The contribution of women in society is too often invisible. Who we see on the walls, tells us about what we as a society value, about who is welcome, about who fits in. We set out on the journey of Women on Walls with the ambition of making women leaders visible to inspire future generations. It is truly moving to see these magnificent eight portraits being unveiled by RCSI today, reminding us of the impact these women had in healthcare.”
Andrew Hetherington, Chief Executive, Business to Arts said, “The artists commissioned, have created a powerful series of work highlighting the importance of gender equality. The Women on Walls campaign is a strong example of how art helps to communicate an important message. These eight extraordinary women whose portraits will hang on the walls of RCSI for years to come, represent the exceptional achievements of RCSI graduates and Fellows past, present and future. We salute the achievements of the six artists”.
A new Women on Walls podcast series was announced during the unveiling. The eight-part series celebrates the lives of these eight Irish women who forged careers in healthcare during a time in Ireland when women were expected to stay at home. The first episode features the impact that Dr Barbara Maive Stokes, a paediatrician and pioneering disability campaigner, had on Ireland as a tireless advocate for people with intellectual disabilities. Women on Walls is now available for download from Apple, Google and Spotify podcasts. A new episode will publish fortnightly.
RCSI is committed to promoting gender equality among staff and students for the advancement of the College’s mission to educate, nurture and discover for the benefit of human health. RCSI has been awarded Athena SWAN Bronze accreditation for positive gender practice in higher education.
Women on Walls is a campaign that seeks to make women leaders visible through a series of commissioned portraits that will create a lasting cultural legacy for Ireland. Accenture’s Women on Walls began in 2016 with the Royal Irish Academy which recognised the achievements of leading female academics and to inspire future generations.
You can read more about Women on Walls at RCSI in partnership with Accenture and find out more about scheduled tour times by visiting accenture.com/womenonwalls and women.rcsi.com.
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Daena Title
Raised on Long Island, Daena Title received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Theatre Studies from Wellesley College, and then lived in Manhattan until 1991 where she worked as an actress and a writer. Title then returned to painting as the best avenue with which to control her artistic message, mine her ongoing fascination/obsession with the relationship between women and society, and indulge her love of color and design.
Title's work focuses on the powerfully seductive force of modern female icons. She is fascinated by the line between beauty and distortion. Her colorist, expressionist paintings reflect the on going love/hate relationship between women, societal standards, and self-esteem. Aiming in turns for drama, emotion and irony, she includes a mix of representation and abstraction to tell a story and break some rules.
Title has been shown in gallery and museum spaces since 1998, including recent group exhibitions at the Carnegie Art Museum, the Long Beach Art Museum, the Oceanside Museum, the Riverside Museum, the Torrance Art Museum and the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. Title has received critical praise for past solo exhibitions from the Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly, and Huffington Post among other publications. Title's work is part of the Brooklyn Museum Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Online Feminist Art base and the Tullman Collection.
Website: www.daenatitle.com
September 7 - 28, 2017
Women of Absurdia
Painting Group Show
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Former SLIPKNOT Member DONNIE STEELE Guests On MURDER EARTH Debut
Former SLIPKNOT member Donnie Steele makes a guest appearance on "Waiting (For The End Of Man)", the debut album from the Des Moines, Iowa five-piece hard rock/heavy metal/groove metal band MURDER EARTH. The CD was recorded by Griffin Landa at The Establishment Recording in Des Moines.
MURDER EARTH's lineup consists of Ben Murphy (also of HANGOVER, ex-BARTYR IN BLOOD, ex-THE FALLEN) on vocals, Tim "Dominic" Flor (ex-DREDGE, ex-PAINFACE, ex-PYGWALK, ex-SHEDD) on rhythm guitar, Jim Stockham (ex-DAWN OF DESTRUCTION, ex-FACECAGE) on lead/rhythm guitar, Rick Stuber (ex-ALL THAT CRAWLS, ex-NOTHING, ex-PYGWALK, ex-TRIPWIRE, ex-VICE GRIP THROTTLE) on bass, and Jared Albertson (ex-ABSOLUTE POWER, ex-CANNOT JUSTIFY, ex-MARS ON FIRE) on drums. Jim doesn't appear on the album, having joined MURDER EARTH after the departure of previous lead/rhythm guitarist Ryan Thornton (ex-CALOUS, ex-NOTHING, ex-PYGWALK).
Steele stepped in on lead guitar to finish the recording of "Waiting (For The End Of Man)" after Thornton's exit.
SLIPKNOT's original guitar player, Steele returned to play bass for the band for a couple of years after the Corey Taylor-fronted outfit resumed touring in 2011 following the death of Paul Gray.
For more information on MURDER EATH, visit the band's Facebook page.
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QUIET RIOT's FRANKIE BANALI On Dealing With Haters: 'If They Don't Like Me, That's Their Problem'
Watch RUSH's ALEX LIFESON Demonstrate Mojo Tone Lerxst Omega Signature Amplifier
Ex-TESTAMENT Bassist Says He Was Treated 'Like A Thing, Like A Stage Prop' And 'Not A Person' By His Former Bandmates
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Cable consummated (Oman)
Tata Communications and Nawras have announced the launch of the Oman to India TGN-Gulf cable, which will be used to route voice and data traffic from Oman to Mumbai (India) and onwards via the Tata Global Network (TGN). Using its own cable stations, each party will have access to a new high-speed global route. The landing parties are Nawras (Oman), Etisalat (UAE), Qatar Telecom (Qatar), Bahrain Internet Exchange (Bahrain), and Mobily (Saudi Arabia).
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Edge of Tomorrow: Becoming Part of the Time Loop
By Sarah Newton
“Live, die, repeat” is the theme of the movie Edge of Tomorrow. This movie stars Tom Cruise, a military officer named “Cage”, who is untrained to fight and has never seen a day of combat in his life. After refusing to agree with his commanding officer, he is sent to fight in a war against an army of aliens, called “mimics”. The army seems impossible to defeat. The hoards of mimics are led by the Omega mimic and his squad of Alphas. The Omega is able to reset the day and seems to know the future with the help of how the Alphas perform in battle. After Cage is sent into battle he manages to kill one of the mimics before dying. The blood of the mimic splatters onto his face and absorbs into his skin. This event causes Cage to be sent in a time loop that continues to start over every time he dies.
The time loop initially is very frustrating to Cage, he is unable to communicate to those around him what is going on but eventually he learns the benefits of the repetition. Cage’s skills in combat increase and he memorizes the moves of the enemies allowing him to be one step ahead of the enemies. Time travel plays a major role within the movie, allowing events that occur to change and alter.
Due to the blood absorbing in to his skin, Cage has the same ability as the mimics and became a part of the cycle. Every time an Alpha dies, the Omega can reset time in order to collect information and make adjustments accordingly to what happened on the battlefield (Kendrick). Each occasion that time is reset, memories stay intact as if the day still happened. Cage was able to use this ability to loop as a way to trick the Omega until he could discover a way to defeat the Omega.
At the beginning when Cage killed the Alpha, its blood mixed with his own causing him to be integrated into the network controlled by the Omega. This allowed Cage to reset time each time he died because the Omega believed that Cage was one of its Alphas and would send Cage back in time with his memories and experiences so that, as an Alpha, he would learn how to correct the mistakes that happened (The Time Travel and Ending of “Edge of Tomorrow” Explained). Edge of Tomorrow brings about a lot of different questions and theories regarding time travel and how the system of Alphas works within the loopings of the Omega.
The Omega determines an anchor point where all Alphas and mimics are returned in order to view the past memories and fix the mistakes that occurred in the last loop. Cage as well as the Alphas would receive the memories and life experiences from the Omega of a future version of themselves who made different choices (The Time Travel and Ending of “Edge of Tomorrow” Explained). Cage finds himself looped back to a point before the fighting breaks out every time he dies. Cage uses this to his advantage where he trains and talks to Rita, a soldier who went through the same time loop situation herself in the past. Rita teaches Cage everything she knows about the time loop and how they are supposed to defeat the mimic army. She also informs Cage that if he ever gets a blood transfusion, he loses the ability to time loop again.
There seems to be a major flaw within the cycle of time loops that has been put in place by the Omega. The self defense mechanism made by the Omega, will more than likely have a mechanism for repairing problems when they arise. “In this case, this ‘time travel’ self-defense mechanism has one serious flaw: it would trap the Omega in a perpetual loop if there were an Alpha that was weak or broken, endlessly throwing itself into harm’s way when there is not sufficient danger to warrant a ‘reboot’” (The Time Travel and Ending of “Edge of Tomorrow” Explained). When this occurs, the Omega will send a vision to the Alpha with a signal that would attract the Alpha to a specific location. This happens to Cage eventually when the Omega believes that Cage is a defective Alpha. The location that the signal is sent from is far away from the Omega in order to keep it safe in case the Alpha is dangerous. When Cage goes to the location sent by the Omega, he believes he is going to see the Omega. However, once he arrives, Cage does not find the Omega and instead is confronted by an Alpha and a drone. While there Cage gets seriously injured and goes to kill himself in order to reset the loop. “The drone and the Alpha stopped Cage from killing himself because they do not want to loop again, since the whole point of the mechanism is to stop unnecessary looping” (The Time Travel and Ending of “Edge of Tomorrow” Explained). It is unclear what the Alpha and drone would have done if Cage had been successful in killing himself, but most likely if he had been a mimic, they would have removed him from the loop network. The mimics would possibly have performed a process similar to the blood transfusion, and then killed him. This is why the Alpha did not kill Cage; the Alpha did not want to trigger the loop again. Cage ends up in a hospital where he receives a blood transfusion, ending the cycle that he was in as an Alpha.
In the end of the movie, Cage finds the Omega and kills it by dropping a bunch of grenades into the being. He sacrifices himself in order to save the world and stop the war. The throwing of the grenades caused Cage to die; however his blood mixes with that of the Omega as they are both dying. This event causes Cage to regain his ability to be a part of the Alpha cycle. The Omega becomes desperate and in a final attempt to escape triggers one final loop to a distant past anchor point. This anchor point is further into the past than the original anchor point to which Cage had been looping. “The Omega itself wanted to escape an imminent threat to its core” (The Time Travel and Ending of “Edge of Tomorrow” Explained). Because of the blood, Cage became part of the cycle and retained the memories and experiences he had through all his past reboots.
“But, since the Omega exists at multiple points in time (rather than a single moving point) and was actually killed in the ‘future-present,’ the explosion actually rippled back in time and killed the Omega at all the other time points, too” (The Time Travel and Ending of “Edge of Tomorrow” Explained). When Cage wakes up, all those who had tragically died in the past cycle have been saved and are able to live their lives without fear of the mimics. There is a large surge of energy in Paris, signifying the death of the Omega in the new present time. The death “results in a total collapse of the aliens capacity to fight” (Liman). Cage holds knowledge of all the interworking of the mimic army and how they work, allowing his army to claim victory. Cage goes to the army base he was stationed at in his past cycles in order to see all those he had become friends with as well as Rita, to whom he fell in love with.
“Live, die, repeat”, a theme that reigns true through the entire film teaches a scared government worker the benefits of working hard, being strategic and how to survive. Cage is able to gain a new vision and view of the war against the mimics. The time loop that Cage gets trapped in, begins as a cage that he is unable to be free of, however Cage eventually views the cycle as a blessing to win a war and develop skills he had never had before.
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Ororo Munroe
Religion: Goddess worship
Name: Storm
Alter Ego: Ororo Munroe
Other Names: Windrider; Beautiful Windrider; Mutate #20; White King
Classification: hero
First Appearance: Giant-Size X-Men #1 (July 1975): "Second Genesis"
Creators: Chris Claremont, Len Wein, Dave Cockrum
Teams/Affiliations: Morlocks (leader); The Fantastic Four; X-Men; Lady Liberators; Weapon X (Exiles); The Twelve; X-Saviours; X-Treme Sanctions Executive
Occupation: queen, thief
During this time, Ororo was often represented as having an ability to commune with nature and detect life - whether this is a mutant or spiritual power is unclear
A+X #1 (Dec. 2012): "Fight for the Future" (photo/picture/video)
The Adventures of the X-Men #12 (Mar. 1997): "Better to Light a Small Candle..."
The All New Exiles Vs. X-Men
The All New Exiles Vs. X-Men #0 (Oct. 1995): "X-Over"
The All New Exiles Vs. X-Men #0 (Oct. 1995): untitled pinup gallery
Alpha Flight (vol. 1) #40 (Nov. 1986): "Love" (only on cover)
The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 1) #282 (Nov. 1986): "The Fury of X-Factor!" (only on cover)
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual 2000 (May 2000): "Fast Lane, Part 4 of 4: Back on Target"
The Amazing X-Men
The Amazing X-Men #1 (Mar. 1995): "The Crossing Guards"
The Amazing X-Men #2 (Apr. 1995): "Sacrificial Lambs"
The Amazing X-Men #3 (May 1995): "Parents of the Atom"
The Amazing X-Men #4 (June 1995): "On Concencrated Ground"
Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #14 (June 2006): "Torn: Part Two" (cameo)
Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #25 (Sep. 2008): "Ghost Box: Part One"
Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #26 (Oct. 2008): "Ghost Box: Part Two"
Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #27 (Nov. 2008): "Ghost Box: Part Three"
Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #28 (Mar. 2009): "Ghost Box: Part Four"
Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #29 (June 2009): "Ghost Box: Part Five"
Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #30 (Aug. 2009): "Ghost Box: Part Six"
Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #31 (Dec. 2009): "Exogenetic: Part One"
Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #32 (Jan. 2010): "Exogenetic: Part Two"
Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #33 (Feb. 2010): "Exogenetic: Part Three"
Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #34 (Aug. 2010): "Exogenetic: Part Four"
Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #35 (Oct. 2010): "Exogenetic: Conclusion"
Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #40 (Sep. 2011): "Meanwhile, Part Two"
Astonishing X-Men Sketchbook Special (July 2008)
Astonishing X-Men/Amazing Spider-Man: The Gauntlet Sketchbook (Sep. 2009)
Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes
Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes #1 (Dec. 2008): "Agent X-13's Report on the Emergency Annexation of Earth-616"
Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes #2 (Jan. 2009): "The Last Testament of Scott Summers"
Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis
Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis #1 (July 2010) (photo/picture/video)
Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis #2 (Aug. 2010)
Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis #3 (Nov. 2010)
The Avengers (vol. 1) #267 (May 1986): "Time -- And Time Again!"
The Avengers (vol. 1) #273 (Nov. 1986): "Rites of Conquest!" (only on cover)
Bizarre Adventures #27 (July 1981): "Show Me the Way to Go Home..."
Black Panther (vol. 3) #26 (Jan. 2001): "Sturm und Drang: A Story of Love and War, Book One: Echoes"
Black Panther (vol. 3) #27 (Feb. 2001): "Sturm und Drang: A Story of Love and War, Book Two: An Epidemic Insanity"
Black Panther (vol. 4) #8 (Nov. 2005): "Wild Kingdom 2 of 4: House of Paine"
Black Panther (vol. 4) #15 (June 2006): "Bride of the Panther: Part Two"
Black Panther (vol. 4) #18 (Sep. 2006): "Bride of the Panther, Part 5: Here Come a Storm"
Black Panther (vol. 4) #41 (Nov. 2008): "See Wakanda and Die [Part 3]"
Black Panther (vol. 5) #1 (Apr. 2009): "The Deadliest of the Species: Part 1"
Black Panther (vol. 5) #12 (Mar. 2010): "Power: Part 6"
Black Panther Annual #1 (Apr. 2008): "Black to the Future"
Captain America (vol. 1) #289 (Jan. 1984): "Tomorrow, the World?" (cameo)
Captain America (vol. 1) #323 (Nov. 1986): "Super-Patriot Is Here" (only on cover)
Captain America (vol. 3) #50 (Feb. 2002): "Stars & Stripes Forever"
Chamber #2 (Nov. 2002): "The Hollow Man, Chapter Two" (mentioned)
Civil War: Battle Damage Report #1 (Mar. 2007)
Classic X-Men
Classic X-Men #3 (Nov. 1986): "Warhunt!"
Classic X-Men #3 (Nov. 1986): "Mourning"
Classic X-Men #5 (Jan. 1987): "My Brother, My Enemy!"
Classic X-Men #6 (Feb. 1987): "Merry Christmas, X-Men..."
Classic X-Men #12 (Aug. 1987): "The Gentleman's Name is Magneto"
Classic X-Men #39 (Nov. 1989): "Wolverine: Alone!"
Classic X-Men #39 (Nov. 1989): "Briggs' Revenge" (lead character)
Cloak and Dagger (vol. 2) #9 (Nov. 1986): "The Lady and the Unicorn" (only on cover)
Contest of Champions II
Contest of Champions II #1 (Sep. 1999): "The Gathering"
Contest of Champions II #2 (Sep. 1999): "Process of Elimination"
Contest of Champions II #3 (Oct. 1999): "Culling the Hero"
Daredevil (vol. 1) #236 (Nov. 1986): "American Dreamer" (only on cover)
Daredevil (vol. 1) #327 (Apr. 1994): "System Error" (cameo)
Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia #1 (Aug. 2009): "Utopia: Part 1" (1-panel cameo)
DC/Marvel All Access
DC/Marvel All Access #1 (Dec. 1996): "The Crossing!" (character based on)
DC/Marvel All Access #4 (Feb. 1997): "Savior"
Deadpool / GLI - Summer Fun Spectacular #1 (Sep. 2007): "Drunk with Power"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #125 (Nov. 1983): "Hello, I Must Be Going. (or...Mad Dogs and Elvishmen!)" (cameo)
The Defenders (vol. 1) #150 (Dec. 1985): "Sassafras, the Dog Filled with Fear" (hologram)
Doomwar #5 (Aug. 2010): "Doomwar, Part 5"
Doomwar #6 (Sep. 2010): "Doomwar, Part 6"
Essential Spider-Woman #2 (25 June 2007): "Cry, Mutant!"
Excalibur (vol. 1) #64 (Apr. 1993): "Ascension" (cameo)
Excalibur Special Edition #1 (1987): "The Sword is Drawn" (cameo)
Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem (Dec. 1989): "Mojo Mayhem" (clone of)
Exiles (vol. 1) #10 (Apr. 2002): "A World Apart: Part 3"
Fantastic Four Annual #23 (1990): "When Franklin Comes Marchin' Home"
Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1 (July 2008): "Gone"
Giant-Size X-Men #1 (July 1975): "Second Genesis"
Heroes for Hire (vol. 2) #7 (Apr. 2007): "Mini Marvels: Making a Snowman"
Hulk (vol. 3) #7 (Dec. 2008): "Hell Hath No Fury..." (talked to, but not seen or heard)
Hulk (vol. 3) #8 (Jan. 2009): "...Like a Woman Scorned!" (1-panel cameo)
Hulk (vol. 3) #9 (Feb. 2009): "The Revenge of the Lady Liberators"
Identity Disc #1 (Aug. 2004): "Identity Disc, Part 1" (imagination)
Iron Man (vol. 1) #212 (Nov. 1986): "Precious Legacy" (only on cover)
Machine Man & Bastion Annual '98 (June 1998): "Deus X Machina" (cameo)
Magik (vol. 1) #1 (Dec. 1983): "Little Girl Lost"
Magik (vol. 1) #2 (Jan. 1984): "Cold Iron, Hot Blood!" (7-panel cameo)
Magik (vol. 1) #3 (Feb. 1984): "Soulquest"
Magik (vol. 1) #4 (Mar. 1984): "Darkchild"
Marvel Age Annual #1 (Jan. 1985)
Marvel Comics Presents
Marvel Comics Presents (vol. 1) #3 (Late Sep. 1988): "Save the Tiger, Part 3: The Gals" (cameo)
Marvel Comics Presents (vol. 1) #48 (Late Apr. 1990): "When It Rains..." (lead character)
Marvel Double-Shot #3 (Mar. 2003): "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit" (1-panel cameo)
Marvel Fanfare
Marvel Fanfare (vol. 1) #18 (Jan. 1985): "The Terry Austin Portfolio"
Marvel Fanfare (vol. 1) #23 (Nov. 1985): "More Pinups by Steacy"
Marvel Fanfare (vol. 1) #37 (Apr. 1988) (lead character)
Marvel Fanfare (vol. 1) #40 (Oct. 1988): "Deal with the Devil!" (lead character)
Marvel Fanfare (vol. 1) #40 (Oct. 1988): "Storm the Goddess" (lead character)
Marvel Fanfare (vol. 1) #45 (Aug. 1989): untitled cover
Marvel Fanfare (vol. 1) #45 (Aug. 1989) (lead character)
Marvel Graphic Novel #16 (Sep. 1985): "The Aladdin Effect"
Marvel Holiday Special #1 (Dec. 1991): untitled illustration
Marvel Holiday Special 2004 #1 (Jan. 2005): "Jonah's Holiday Carol" (cameo)
Marvel Holiday Special '96 (Dec. 1996): "Humbug!"
Marvel Knights 4 #23 (Dec. 2005): "Impossible Things Happen Every Day, Part 1" (statue)
Marvel Milestones: Black Panther, Storm & Ka-Zar
Marvel Milestones: Black Panther, Storm & Ka-Zar (2006): "Sturm und Drang: A Story of Love and War, Book One: Echoes"
Marvel Milestones: Black Panther, Storm & Ka-Zar (2006): "Cry--Vengeance!" (lead character)
Marvel Super Hero Squad (20 Oct. 2009)
Marvel Super-Hero Contest of Champions
Marvel Super-Hero Contest of Champions #1 (June 1982): "A Gathering of Heroes!"
Marvel Super-Hero Contest of Champions #2 (July 1982): "And the Game Begins..!" (cameo)
Marvel Super-Hero Contest of Champions #3 (Aug. 1982): "And the Winner...Death!"
Marvel Super-Heroes (vol. 2) #4 (Winter 1990): "pinup gallery"
Marvel Super-Heroes (vol. 2) #6 (July 1991): "Third Time's the Charm!"
Marvel Super-Heroes (vol. 2) #7 (Oct. 1991): "Sterility "R" Us!"
Marvel Super-Heroes (vol. 2) #8 (Winter 1992): "Three Strikes, Yer Out!"
Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars
Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #1 (May 1984): "The War Begins"
Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #2 (June 1984): "Prisoners of War"
Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #3 (July 1984): "Tempest Without, Crisis Within!"
Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #4 (Aug. 1984): "Situation: Hopeless!"
Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #5 (Sep. 1984): "The Battle of Four Armies!"
Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #6 (Oct. 1984): "A Little Death..."
Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #7 (Nov. 1984): "Berserker!"
Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #8 (Dec. 1984): "Invasion!"
Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #9 (Jan. 1985): "Assault on Galactus!"
Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #10 (Feb. 1985): "Death to the Beyonder!"
Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #11 (Mar. 1985): "...And Dust to Dust!"
Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #12 (Apr. 1985): "...Nothing to Fear..."
Marvel Team-Up (vol. 1) #100 (Dec. 1980): "Cry--Vengeance!" (lead character)
Marvel Team-Up (vol. 3) #1 (Jan. 2005): "Golden Child: Part One" (only on cover)
Marvel Team-Up (vol. 3) #5 (Apr. 2005): "Golden Child: Part Five"
Marvel Team-Up (vol. 3) #25 (Dec. 2006): "Titannus Lives! Part Two" (only on cover)
Marvel Team-Up Annual #1 (Dec. 1976): "The Lords of Light and Darkness!"
Marvel Universe: The End
Marvel Universe: The End #1 (May 2003): "Predestination"
Marvel Universe: The End #6 (Aug. 2003): "The Cure"
Marvel Year-in-Review #4 (1992)
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (24 Oct. 2006)
Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet #1 (Oct. 2000): "A Very Dangerous Planet" (1-panel cameo)
Mystique #12 (May 2004): "Maker's Mark: Part Two" (someone disguised or dressed as)
The New Avengers (vol. 2) #34 (Jan. 2013) (1-panel cameo)
The New Mutants (vol. 1) #45 (Nov. 1986): "We Were Only Foolin'" (only on cover)
New X-Men
New X-Men (vol. 1) #132 (Nov. 2002): "Ambient Magnetic Fields"
New X-Men (vol. 1) #140 (June 2003): "Murder at the Mansion, Part Two" (only on cover)
New X-Men (vol. 2) #13 (July 2005): "Into the Light"
Nightcrawler (vol. 1) #4 (Feb. 1986): "The Wizard of Oops!" (alternative reality version)
One-Shot Parody Issue #1 (1986): "Xmen (pronounced Zhmen -- 1 syllable)"
Rogue (vol. 2) #3 (Nov. 2001): "Passing Thoughts"
Rogue (vol. 2) #4 (Dec. 2001): "Of Trust and Time"
Rune (vol. 2) #2 (Nov. 1995): "Red Shift Rune"
Scarlet Spider (vol. 2) #17 (July 2013): "Wrath, Part 1" (cameo)
Scarlet Spider (vol. 2) #18 (Aug. 2013): "Wrath, Part 2"
The Secret Defenders #2 (Apr. 1993): "Second Chance" (cameo)
Secret Wars II
Secret Wars II #3 (Sep. 1985): "This World is Mine!" (cameo)
Secret Wars II #7 (Jan. 1986): "Charge of the Dark Brigade!"
Secret Wars II #8 (Feb. 1986): "Betrayal!"
Secret Wars II #9 (Mar. 1986): "God in Man, Man in God!"
She-Hulk Vol. 7: Here Today... (Mar. 2009): "Cosmic Collision"
She-Hulk: Cosmic Collision #1 (Feb. 2009): "Cosmic Collision"
Sleepwalker #3 (Aug. 1991): "Theater of Madness!" (dream)
Special Edition X-Men #1 (Feb. 1983): "Second Genesis"
Storm (vol. 1) #1 (Feb. 1996): "Sunburst and Snowblind" (lead character)
Storm (vol. 1) #2 (Mar. 1996): "The Ghost Has No Home" (lead character)
Storm (vol. 1) #3 (Apr. 1996): "The Tinderbox of a Heart" (lead character)
Storm (vol. 1) #4 (May 1996): "She Will Destroy You" (lead character)
Storm (vol. 2) #1 (Apr. 2006) (lead character)
Storm (vol. 2) #2 (May 2006) (lead character)
Storm (vol. 2) #3 (June 2006) (lead character)
Storm (vol. 2) #4 (July 2006) (lead character)
Storm (vol. 2) #5 (Aug. 2006) (lead character)
Storm (vol. 2) #6 (Sep. 2006) (lead character)
Storm (vol. 3) #11 (July 2015) (lead character)
Super-Villain Team-Up #14 (Oct. 1977): "A World For the Winning!" (cameo)
Ultimate Spider-Man #90 (Apr. 2006): "Silver Sable: Part 5: "Hey, wait up!! You can't just leave now!""
Ultimate X-Men #44 (June 2004): "New Mutants, Part Five"
The Uncanny X-Men
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #114 (Oct. 1978): "Desolation"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #115 (Nov. 1978): "Visions of Death!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #116 (Dec. 1978): "To Save the Savage Land"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #122 (June 1979): "Cry for the Children!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #123 (July 1979): "Listen--Stop Me If You've Heard It--But This One Will KILL You!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #125 (Sep. 1979): "There's Something Awful on Muir Island!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #126 (Oct. 1979): "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth...!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #130 (Feb. 1980): "Dazzler"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #132 (Apr. 1980): "And Hellfire is Their Name!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #133 (May 1980): "Wolverine: Alone!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #134 (June 1980): "Too Late, the Heroes!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #135 (July 1980): "Dark Phoenix"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #136 (Aug. 1980): "Child of Light and Darkness!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #137 (Sep. 1980): "The Fate of the Phoenix!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #138 (Oct. 1980): "Elegy"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #148 (Aug. 1981): "Cry, Mutant!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #151 (Nov. 1981): "X-Men Minus One!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #153 (Jan. 1982): "Kitty's Fairy Tale"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #160 (Aug. 1982): "Chutes and Ladders!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #164 (Dec. 1982): "Binary Star!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #169 (May 1983): "Catacombs"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #199 (Nov. 1985): "The Spiral Path" (vision)
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #201 (Jan. 1986): "Duel"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #247 (Aug. 1989): "The Light That Failed"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #265 (Early Aug. 1990): "Storm" (lead character)
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #266 (Late Aug. 1990): "Gambit: Out of the Frying Pan" (lead character)
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #267 (Early Sep. 1990): "Nanny: Into the Fire" (lead character)
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #270 (Nov. 1990): "X-Tinction Agenda, Part 1: First Strike"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #271 (Dec. 1990): "X-Tinction Agenda, Part 4: Flashpoint"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #273 (Feb. 1991): "Too Many Mutants! or Whose House is This Anyway?"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #275 (Apr. 1991): "The Path Not Taken!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #276 (May 1991): "Double Death"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #281 (Oct. 1991): "Fresh Upstart"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #286 (Mar. 1992): "Close Call!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #350 (Dec. 1997): "Trial & Errors"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #372 (Sep. 1999): "Rude Awakenings"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #377 (Feb. 2000): "The End of the World as We Know It"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #383 (Aug. 2000): "Moscow Knights"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #387 (Dec. 2000): "Cry Justice, Cry Vengeance!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #388 (Dec. 2000): "The Past is but Prologue!"
The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #392 (Apr. 2001): "From the Ashes of the Past... Still Another Genesis!" (cameo)
Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #455 (Apr. 2005): "Not Dead Yet?!: World's End, Part One"
Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #456 (Apr. 2005): "World's End Part Two: On Ice!"
Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #515 (Nov. 2009) (6-panel cameo)
Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #528 (Nov. 2010): "The Five Lights: Part Three"
The Uncanny X-Men Annual #16 (May 1992): "A Mutant Masterwork [2]"
The Uncanny X-Men Annual #16 (May 1992): "Roots of the Past"
Unlimited Access #2 (Jan. 1998): "Let's Do the Time Warp Again!"
Warheads #8 (Jan. 1993): "The Dream Trap: Part One"
Warheads #9 (Feb. 1993): "The Dream Trap: Part Two"
Wolverine (vol. 2) #38 (Apr. 1991): "See Venice & Die!"
Wolverine (vol. 2) #39 (May 1991): "Deconstruction"
Wolverine (vol. 2) #40 (June 1991): "Reconstruction"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #1 (Feb. 1986): "Third Genesis" (cameo)
X-Factor (vol. 1) #10 (Nov. 1986): "Falling Angel!" (only on cover)
X-Factor (vol. 1) #14 (Mar. 1987): "The Mutant Program!" (illusion)
X-Factor (vol. 1) #38 (Mar. 1989): "Duet!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #39 (Apr. 1989): "Ashes to Ashes"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #60 (Nov. 1990): "Brotherhood"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #61 (Dec. 1990): "Betrayal"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #62 (Jan. 1991): "Capital Punishment"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #69 (Aug. 1991): "Clash Reunion"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #70 (Sep. 1991): "Day of Decision"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #84 (Nov. 1992): "Tough Love"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #85 (Dec. 1992): "Snikts and Bones"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #86 (Jan. 1993): "One of these Days"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #101 (Apr. 1994): "Afterlives"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #102 (May 1994): "The Polaris Plot!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #114 (Sep. 1995): "That Certain Mystique" (someone disguised or dressed as)
X-Factor (vol. 1) #119 (Feb. 1996): "The Best Offense" (cameo)
X-Factor (vol. 1) #120 (Mar. 1996): "Meeting the Maker" (cameo)
X-Factor (vol. 1) #124 (July 1996): "Future Memories" (illusion)
X-Factor Annual #3 (1988): "Changes!" (cameo)
X-Force Annual (vol. 1) #1 (May 1992): "Shattershot Part 4: The Mirror Liars" (cameo)
X-Men (vol. 1) #94 (Aug. 1975): "The Doomsmith Scenario!"
X-Men (vol. 1) #95 (Oct. 1975): "Warhunt!"
X-Men (vol. 1) #96 (Dec. 1975): "Night of the Demon!"
X-Men (vol. 1) #97 (Feb. 1976): "My Brother, My Enemy!"
X-Men (vol. 1) #98 (Apr. 1976): "Merry Christmas, X-Men..."
X-Men (vol. 1) #99 (June 1976): "Deathstar, Rising!"
X-Men (vol. 1) #100 (Aug. 1976): "Greater Love Hath No X-Man..."
X-Men (vol. 1) #101 (Oct. 1976): "Like a Phoenix, From the Ashes!"
X-Men (vol. 1) #102 (Dec. 1976): "Who Will Stop the Juggernaut?"
X-Men (vol. 1) #103 (Feb. 1977): "The Fall of the Tower"
X-Men (vol. 1) #104 (Apr. 1977): "The Gentleman's Name is Magneto"
X-Men (vol. 1) #105 (June 1977): "Phoenix Unleashed!"
X-Men (vol. 1) #106 (Aug. 1977): "Dark Shroud of the Past!"
X-Men (vol. 1) #107 (Oct. 1977): "Where No X-Man Has Gone Before!"
X-Men (vol. 1) #108 (Dec. 1977): "Armageddon Now!"
X-Men (vol. 1) #113 (Sep. 1978): "Showdown!"
X-Men (vol. 2) #1 (Oct. 1991): "Rubicon"
X-Men (vol. 2) #1 (Oct. 1991): "Wish You Were Here..."
X-Men (vol. 2) #1 (Oct. 1991): "And the Best Is Yet to Come"
X-Men (vol. 2) #2 (Nov. 1991): "Firestorm"
X-Men (vol. 2) #3 (Dec. 1991): "Fallout!"
X-Men (vol. 2) #5 (Feb. 1992): "Blowback"
X-Men (vol. 2) #8 (May 1992): "Tooth and Claw"
X-Men (vol. 2) #14 (Nov. 1992): "Fingers on the Trigger"
X-Men (vol. 2) #15 (Dec. 1992): "The Camel's Back"
X-Men (vol. 2) #16 (Jan. 1993): "Conflicting Cathexes"
X-Men (vol. 2) #17 (Feb. 1993): "Waiting for the Ripening"
X-Men (vol. 2) #20 (May 1993): "Digging in the Dirt"
X-Men (vol. 2) #21 (June 1993): "The Puzzle Box"
X-Men (vol. 2) #25 (Oct. 1993): "Fatal Attractions: Dreams Fade"
X-Men (vol. 2) #26 (Nov. 1993): "Civil Disobedience!"
X-Men (vol. 2) #28 (Jan. 1994): "Devil in the House"
X-Men (vol. 2) #30 (Mar. 1994): "The Ties That Bind"
X-Men (vol. 2) #40 (Jan. 1995): "The Killing Time"
X-Men (vol. 2) #41 (Feb. 1995): "Dreams Die!"
X-Men (vol. 2) #42 (July 1995): "Heaven Can Wait"
X-Men (vol. 2) #46 (Nov. 1995): "They're Baaack..." (clone of)
X-Men (vol. 2) #47 (Dec. 1995): "Big Trouble in Little Italy!" (clone of)
X-Men (vol. 2) #48 (Jan. 1996): "Five Card Studs"
X-Men (vol. 2) #50 (Mar. 1996): "Full Court Press"
X-Men (vol. 2) #54 (July 1996): "Inquiring Minds"
X-Men (vol. 2) #57 (Oct. 1996): "Man"
X-Men (vol. 2) #58 (Nov. 1996): "Testament"
X-Men (vol. 2) #60 (Jan. 1997): "Night"
X-Men (vol. 2) #61 (Feb. 1997): "Bolt"
X-Men (vol. 2) #62 (Mar. 1997): "Games of Deceit & Death, Part 1"
X-Men (vol. 2) #63 (Apr. 1997): "Games of Deceit & Death, Part 2"
X-Men (vol. 2) #64 (May 1997): "Games of Deceit & Death, Part 3"
X-Men (vol. 2) #65 (July 1997): "Operation: Zero Tolerance Prologue: First Blood"
X-Men (vol. 2) #66 (Aug. 1997): "Start Spreadin' the News..." (hologram)
X-Men (vol. 2) #68 (Oct. 1997): "Heart of the Matter" (only on cover)
X-Men (vol. 2) #69 (Nov. 1997): "Last Exit" (only on cover)
X-Men (vol. 2) #70 (Dec. 1997): "Homecoming"
X-Men (vol. 2) #71 (Jan. 1998): "A House in Order"
X-Men (vol. 2) #72 (Feb. 1998): "Life Lessons"
X-Men (vol. 2) #73 (Mar. 1998): "The Elements Within Us"
X-Men (vol. 2) #74 (Apr. 1998): "Rituals"
X-Men (vol. 2) #75 (May 1998): "Anatomy of a Monster"
X-Men (vol. 2) #76 (June 1998): "A Boykie and His Dinges"
X-Men (vol. 2) #77 (July 1998): "Stormfront"
X-Men (vol. 2) #78 (Aug. 1998): "Stormfront: Part 2"
X-Men (vol. 2) #79 (Sep. 1998): "Little Morlock Lost"
X-Men (vol. 2) #80 (Oct. 1998): "Children of the Atom"
X-Men (vol. 2) #81 (Nov. 1998): "Jack of Hearts, Queen of Death!"
X-Men (vol. 2) #82 (Dec. 1998): "The Hunt for Xavier, Part Two: The Hunt for Charley!"
X-Men (vol. 2) #83 (Jan. 1999): "The Hunt for Xavier Part Four: Tomb of Ice"
X-Men (vol. 2) #84 (Early Feb. 1999): "The Hunt for Xavier The Conclusion: Dream's End!"
X-Men (vol. 2) #85 (Mar. 1999): "A Tale of Two Mutants"
X-Men (vol. 2) #86 (Mar. 1999): "Thanks for the Memories"
X-Men (vol. 2) #87 (Apr. 1999): "No Surrender!"
X-Men (vol. 2) #88 (May 1999): "A World Apart"
X-Men (vol. 2) #89 (June 1999): "Yesterday's News"
X-Men (vol. 2) #90 (July 1999): "Eve of Destruction"
X-Men (vol. 2) #91 (Aug. 1999): "Technical Difficulties"
X-Men (vol. 2) #92 (Sep. 1999): "Dream's End Part 2: Pressure Points"
X-Men (vol. 2) #95 (Dec. 1999): "Do Unto Others"
X-Men (vol. 2) #96 (Jan. 2000): "The Gathering"
X-Men (vol. 2) #97 (Feb. 2000): "The End of the World as We Know It: Part 2"
X-Men (vol. 2) #98 (Mar. 2000): "First and Last: Part 2"
X-Men (vol. 2) #99 (Apr. 2000): "Oh, the Humanity"
X-Men (vol. 2) #100 (May 2000): "End of Days" (only on cover)
X-Men (vol. 2) #109 (Feb. 2001): "Merry Christmas, X-Men..."
X-Men (vol. 2) #175 (Nov. 2005): "Wild Kingdom: Part One"
X-Men (vol. 2) #176 (Dec. 2005): "Wild Kingdom, Part Three: The Apes of Wrath"
X-Men (vol. 2) #205 (Jan. 2008): "Messiah Complex: Chapter Five"
X-Men (vol. 2) #206 (Feb. 2008): "Messiah Complex: Chapter Nine" (cameo)
X-Men (vol. 2) #207 (Mar. 2008): "Messiah Complex: Chapter Thirteen"
X-Men (vol. 3) #1 (Sep. 2010): "Curse of the Mutants: Part One" (3-panel cameo)
X-Men (vol. 3) #6 (Feb. 2011): "Curse of the Mutants: Conclusion"
X-Men (vol. 3) #41 (Apr. 2013): "Tin Man, Part 2"
X-Men 2 #1 (June 2003)
X-Men 2 (2003)
The X-Men and the Micronauts #1 (Jan. 1984): "First Encounter"
X-Men Forever
X-Men Forever (vol. 2) #Alpha (July 2009): "Rubicon"
X-Men Forever (vol. 2) #Alpha (July 2009): "Wish You Were Here..."
X-Men Forever (vol. 2) #Alpha (July 2009): "Firestorm"
X-Men Forever (vol. 2) #Alpha (July 2009): "Fallout!"
X-Men Forever (vol. 2) #Alpha (July 2009): untitled pin-up
X-Men Forever (vol. 2) #Alpha (July 2009): "New Dawn, New Day!"
X-Men Forever (vol. 2) #1 (Aug. 2009): "Love--and Loss!" (clone of)
X-Men Forever (vol. 2) #2 (Aug. 2009): "Comes the Father!" (1-panel cameo)
X-Men Forever (vol. 2) #3 (Sep. 2009): "The Cruelest Cut" (clone of)
X-Men Forever (vol. 2) #4 (Sep. 2009): "Strike-Back!" (3-panel cameo)
X-Men Forever (vol. 2) #5 (Oct. 2009): "Bury My Heart!"
X-Men Forever (vol. 2) #6 (Oct. 2009): "Play Day!"
X-Men Forever (vol. 2) #8 (Nov. 2009): "Fire on the Mountains!" (8-panel cameo)
X-Men Forever Giant-Size #1 (July 2010): "Armageddon Now!"
X-Men Origins: Emma Frost
X-Men Origins: Emma Frost #1 (July 2010): "Will & Love" (cameo)
X-Men Origins: Emma Frost #1 (July 2010): "Dazzler"
X-Men Unlimited
X-Men Unlimited (vol. 1) #1 (June 1997): "Follow the Leader"
X-Men Unlimited (vol. 1) #5 (June 1994): "Hard Promises"
X-Men Unlimited (vol. 1) #7 (Dec. 1994): "Memories" (lead character)
X-Men Unlimited (vol. 1) #24 (Sep. 1999)
X-Men Unlimited (vol. 1) #30 (Jan. 2001): "Covenant with the Devil"
X-Men Unlimited (vol. 1) #39 (Jan. 2003): "The Final Alternative" (lead character)
X-Men Unlimited (vol. 1) #39 (Jan. 2003): "Wounded Animals"
X-Men Unlimited (vol. 1) #39 (Jan. 2003): "Rebirth" (lead character)
X-Men Unlimited (vol. 2) #6 (Feb. 2005): "Tempest in a Teapot"
X-Men: Alpha #1 (Feb. 1995): "Beginnings..."
X-Men: Black Sun
X-Men: Black Sun #1 (Nov. 2000): "First Spell: Skin the Cat!"
X-Men: Black Sun #2 (Nov. 2000): "Second Spell: Spear the Angel!" (lead character)
X-Men: Black Sun #5 (Nov. 2000): "Final Spell: Cast the Magik!"
X-Men: Divided We Stand
X-Men: Divided We Stand #1 (June 2008): "Home" (3-panel cameo)
X-Men: Divided We Stand #2 (July 2008): "Planting Seeds" (photo/picture/video)
X-Men: Legacy
X-Men: Legacy (vol. 1) #208 (Apr. 2008): "From Genesis to Revelations" (2-panel cameo)
X-Men: Legacy (vol. 1) #209 (May 2008): "From Genesis to Revelations, Part 2" (1-panel cameo)
X-Men: Legacy (vol. 1) #212 (July 2008): "Sins of the Father, Part 2" (cover & 4-panel cameo)
X-Men: Legacy (vol. 1) #213 (Aug. 2008): "Sins of the Father: Part 3" (cameo)
X-Men: Legacy (vol. 1) #215 (Oct. 2008): "Walkthrough: Part 1" (cameo)
X-Men: Legacy (vol. 1) #220 (Mar. 2009): "Salvage: Part One"
X-Men: Legacy (vol. 1) #275 (Dec. 2012) (only on cover)
X-Men: Legacy (vol. 2) #2 (Feb. 2013): "Prodigal, Part 2"
X-Men: Legacy Annual #1 (Nov. 2009): "Devil at the Crossroads: Part 1 of 4" (only on cover)
X-Men: Liberators
X-Men: Liberators #1 (Nov. 1998): "Old Friends"
X-Men: Liberators #2 (Dec. 1998): "Home Is Where the Heart Is" (cameo)
X-Men: Liberators #4 (Feb. 1999): "Gifted Youngsters" (cameo)
X-Men: Millennial Visions 2001
X-Men: Millennial Visions 2001 (Jan. 2002): "Storm: Goddess of Thunder" (lead character)
X-Men: Millennial Visions 2001 (Jan. 2002): "X-Men: Reborn"
X-Men: Millennial Visions 2001 (Jan. 2002): "X-Men: War to Come"
X-Men: Millennial Visions 2001 (Jan. 2002): "X-Men: The Retro Men"
X-Men: The Hidden Years #6 (May 2000): "Behold a Goddess Rising..!"
X-Treme X-Men #1 (July 2001): "Now, It Begins!"
X-Treme X-Men #1 (July 2001): "Salvador Larroca Sketchbook"
X-Treme X-Men #2 (Aug. 2001): "Blindside!"
X-Treme X-Men #3 (Sep. 2001): "Hell to Pay!"
X-Treme X-Men #4 (Oct. 2001): "Dreamtime Serenade"
X-Treme X-Men #5 (Nov. 2001): "Deadline!"
X-Treme X-Men #6 (Dec. 2001): "Paradise Lost!"
X-Treme X-Men #7 (Jan. 2002): "Getting Even!"
X-Treme X-Men #8 (Feb. 2002): "Boomerang!"
X-Treme X-Men #9 (Mar. 2002): "Face the Music!"
X-Treme X-Men #10 (Apr. 2002): "Keys of the Kingdom"
X-Treme X-Men #11 (May 2002): "Beachhead!"
X-Treme X-Men #12 (June 2002): "Second Front!"
X-Treme X-Men #13 (July 2002): "Strikeback!"
X-Treme X-Men #14 (Aug. 2002): "All or Nothing!"
X-Treme X-Men #15 (Sep. 2002): "Final Gambit!"
X-Treme X-Men #16 (Sep. 2002): "While I Live, You Don't Die!"
X-Treme X-Men #17 (Oct. 2002): "Rogue's Destiny: La Suerte De Matar!"
X-Treme X-Men #18 (Nov. 2002): "Day of the Dead"
X-Treme X-Men #19 (Dec. 2002): "Passages"
X-Treme X-Men #20 (Mar. 2003): "Schism Part 1: The X-Treme Files"
X-Treme X-Men #21 (Apr. 2003): "Schism, Part Two: Broken Faith"
X-Treme X-Men #22 (May 2003): "Schism, Part Three: The Judas Boy"
X-Treme X-Men #23 (May 2003): "Schism"
X-Treme X-Men #24 (June 2003): "Prodigal"
X-Treme X-Men #25 (July 2003): "God Loves, Man Kills II Part 1"
X-Treme X-Men #27 (Aug. 2003): "God Loves, Man Kills II Part 3: 600 Chariots"
X-Treme X-Men #28 (Sep. 2003): "God Loves, Man Kills II Part 4"
X-Treme X-Men #29 (Oct. 2003): "God Loves, Man Kills II Part 5: Deliverance!"
X-Treme X-Men #30 (Oct. 2003): "God Loves, Man Kills II Part 6: Pale Rider"
X-Treme X-Men #31 (Nov. 2003): "This is the Way the World Ends"
X-Treme X-Men #32 (Dec. 2003): "Intifada Part 2 of 5: W.M.D. (Weapons of Mass Destruction)"
X-Treme X-Men #33 (Dec. 2003): "Manifest Destiny"
X-Treme X-Men #34 (Jan. 2004): "Crossed Swords"
X-Treme X-Men #35 (Jan. 2004): "Intifada Part 5: Detante"
X-Treme X-Men #36 (Feb. 2004): "Storm: The Arena Part One: Challenger"
X-Treme X-Men #37 (Feb. 2004): "Champion!" (lead character)
X-Treme X-Men #38 (Feb. 2004): "Slave" (lead character)
X-Treme X-Men #39 (Feb. 2004): "Gladiator" (lead character)
X-Treme X-Men #40 (Mar. 2004): "Prisoner of Fire Part 1: Ambush"
X-Treme X-Men #41 (Apr. 2004): "Prisoner of Love Part 2: Past Lies"
X-Treme X-Men #42 (Apr. 2004): "Prisoner of Fire Part 3: Eyes of Fire"
X-Treme X-Men #44 (May 2004): "Prisoner of Fire Part 5: Liberation" (cameo)
X-Treme X-Men #45 (June 2004): "Prisoner of Fire Conclusion: Hunting Bogan!"
X-Treme X-Men #46 (June 2004): "One For My Lady... ...One More for the Road"
X-Treme X-Men Annual 2001 (2001): "Queen of Shadows"
X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land
X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land #1 (Nov. 2001): "Savage Genesis"
X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land #2 (Dec. 2001): "Deluge"
X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land #3 (Jan. 2002): "False Haven!"
X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land #4 (Feb. 2002): "What Price, Freedom? What Price, Humanity?"
X-Treme X-Men: X-Pose
X-Treme X-Men: X-Pose #1 (Jan. 2003): "Chasing Smoke"
X-Treme X-Men: X-Pose #2 (Feb. 2003): "Watershed"
Young X-Men
Young X-Men #1 (June 2008): "Final Genesis" (only on cover)
Young X-Men #3 (Aug. 2008): "LifeDeath" (2-panel cameo)
Young X-Men #5 (Oct. 2008): "Fall of the Mutants" (2-panel cameo)
Young X-Men #10 (Mar. 2009): "Who the Hell is Cipher?" (mentioned)
- http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Storm.html
- http://www.comicvine.com/storm/29-1444/
- http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Uncanny_X-Men_164
- http://www.marvunapp.com/master/stonstq.htm
- http://www.marvunapp.com/master/mpmun.htm
- http://www.marvunapp.com/master/x0xmxz.htm
- http://www.comicboards.com/marvelguide/s5.html
- http://www.comicboards.com/marvelguide/ageofapocalypse.html
- http://www.marvunapp.com/master/xaxz.htm
- http://www.marvunapp.com/master/wimwin.htm
- http://marvel.wikia.com/Ororo_Munroe_(Earth-8280)
- https://www.comics.org/issue/28072/
- http://www.comicvine.com/giant-size-x-men-1-deadly-genesis/4000-14890/
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Second site opened for those needing daytime support
Gathering Place cuts the ribbon on new space in Deerfield River Valley
By Olga Peters/The Commons
DOVER—Dr. Karen Hein and her husband Ralph held hands as the doors to the Gathering Place’s Dover site officially flew open, June 18.
Ralph, a pediatrician, lives with Alzheimer’s. For the past few years, he has travelled on the Moover from his home in the Deerfield Valley to the Gathering Place’s Brattleboro location.
Karen smiled. The new Dover location means a shorter commute for Ralph, whom she affectionately calls “Ralphie.” Ralph lifted his head and smiled at the mention of his name.
The Gathering Place provides day programming for adults with disabilities and elders. Their services include nursing care such as managing chronic diseases.
Staff also provide therapeutic activities, and meals during the day. Staff administer medications, conduct art activities, and help clients bathe. They hold dementia-specific activities as well.
The Dover site opened last month. Currently 17 clients are enrolled, with an average of 10 clients a day using the site. The program can accommodate up to 50 people a day. The program is open to adults 18 years old and older.
According to board members, renovation and construction cost approximately $250,000. Purchasing the building, an additional $200,000.
“Donations are appreciated to cover some of those costs,” Board Chair Andrew Loney said.
Karen said that when former Gathering Place Executive Director Mary Fredette first proposed a Deerfield Valley location, Karen hoped it would happen in Ralph’s lifetime.
She credits the Gathering Place for giving Ralph a place to receive care and remain active. For her, the facility means respite. When her husband returns home in the afternoon, she feels “fresh” and ready to care for him.
As a former pediatrician, Karen said, Ralph is by nature a problem solver. When he first started attending the Gathering Place, he thought he was one of the medical team helping to solve problems. The staff made space for him to feel engaged and useful, Karen said.
At the ribbon cutting, Loney told the gathered crowd of clients, staff, family members, and visitors the Dover facility is dedicated to Fredette.
“During her tenure as [executive director] of the Gathering Place, she was able to bring us from small, underfunded nonprofit without the capacity to serve on the level we truly envisioned to where we are today with two facilities, a steady census, and the ability to serve many more,” Loney said.
He continued, “Vermont is aging, and it is places like the Gathering Place that will ensure no one will be abandoned — that everyone can get the attention and care that they need on a daily basis.”
Loney joined the board three years ago. “It’s been a fun ride so far,” he said.
He enjoys walking into the Gathering Place and seeing happy clients.
“I’ve had grandparents who had Alzheimer’s, who had Parkinson’s,” he said. “They get to a point where they almost feel abandoned.”
A facility like the Gathering Place, however, creates space for elders to stay healthy, he said.
“Just seeing them smile puts a smile on your own face,” he said.
Loney gave Fredette full credit for making the Dover site a reality. She proposed the idea three years ago, he said. Once the site was chosen, it was four to five months of construction.
“She was the driving force behind this,” he added. “We’re proud to be here, we’re proud to be in Dover.”
Fellow board member and attorney Amelia Lawrence Darrow said it took time to find the right spot for a second location.
One site the organization considered was the Old High School in Wilmington. Later, the board settled on a former Chinese restaurant in West Dover.
The work didn’t stop there, however, said Darrow. Substantial time went into renovating the restaurant into a care facility.
“Construction always runs longer than you think,” she said.
The organization is still fine-tuning its staffing between the two sites and recruiting clients, she said. The process is going well, she added.
Keeping it local
The project came into being after a number of Deerfield Valley clients and their families that use the Brattleboro site asked if the Gathering Place could create a second location closer to their homes.
At the time, the organization was growing its board and including Deerfield Valley members. Their presence provided a little more focus for the Deerfield Valley, Darrow said.
The Gathering Place serves all of Windham County, she noted. Clients come from Townshend, Jamaica, Wardsboro, and the Grafton area. It can be a challenge to get to Brattleboro, especially in bad weather, she said.
Darrow practices elder law. She said programs like the Gathering Place help people stay independent longer.
“I serve a population of people who are concerned as they grow older with finding ways that allow them to stay at home as long as possible, as opposed to moving into a residential facility such as a nursing home,” she said.
“Adult day provides one of many solutions for people to remain living at home or with loved ones,” she continued. “They might receive care in the evenings from loved ones but those family members may work during the day and they don’t feel comfortable leaving their elder home alone.”
Multiple funding sources
Funding for the project came through multiple sources, including commitments from the towns of Wilmington and Dover. Family members made donations. The organization also used some of the equity in its Brattleboro building, Darrow said.
Maggie Lewis is The Gathering Placen’s new executive director. She stepped into the position in April.
The Dover site is an expansion of the programs it currently offers in Brattleboro. She said one of the primary benefits is a shorter drive for clients in the Deerfield Valley. Some clients travelled as much as an hour one way to reach the Brattleboro site.
“It’s a great go-between, if there’s a need in a family ... we’re available to help that family during the day,” she said. “If someone needs to go to work, their loved one can come and spend the day with us. It really becomes like a family.”
Lewis has worked in health care for more than 25 years with a focus on long-term care. Most recently, she worked for the Vermont Alzheimer’s association.
Lewis said she was a child when her passion for elder care and supporting adults with disabilities took root. According to Lewis, her father operated a camp for disabled World War II veterans. Then that camp transitioned into a camp for children with disabilities. Many of the veterans stayed on as camp councilors. Lewis and her siblings also worked at the camp.
“Being nurtured in that way by my parents, I’ve always had a sense of service, so I think that’s where the spark started,” she said.
The passion continued through college and graduate school. She feels that she is the luckiest person alive to work at The Gathering Place.
Originally published in The Commons issue #466 (Wednesday, July 4, 2018). This story appeared on page A1.
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IMDb TV Triples Content Selection, Plans European Expansion
TOPICS:IMDb Freedive
IMDb, the #1 movie, TV and celebrity website in the world, announced today that IMDb TV, a free streaming video channel formerly known as IMDb Freedive, will triple its content selection, bringing thousands of new titles to the ad-supported service in the coming months. Additionally, IMDb TV will launch in Europe later this year, bringing a premium collection of movies and TV shows to customers for free.
Through new deals with studios like Warner Bros., Sony Pictures Entertainment and MGM Studios, customers can enjoy award-winning, box-office hits like Academy Award-nominated Captain Fantastic (Viggo Mortensen) available now and La La Land (Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling) available July 1, marking the first time the Academy Award-winning film is available on an ad-supported streaming service.
“With IMDb TV, viewers have discovered TV the way it ought to be – a free collection of premium TV shows and movies available anytime,” said Mark Eamer, Vice President of IMDb TV. “We deliver a top quality discovery experience that makes it easy to be entertained. With more titles than ever before coming to IMDb TV and our upcoming European expansion later this year, we’re excited for customers to tune in and enjoy all that IMDb TV has to offer, all at no cost.”
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You are here: Home » Business » USDA opens applications for ReConnect Rural Broadband Infrastructure Program
USDA opens applications for ReConnect Rural Broadband Infrastructure Program
Posted by Administrator • April 26, 2019 •
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting online applications for funding through the new ReConnect Rural Broadband Pilot Program.
These funds will enable the federal government to partner with the private sector and rural communities to build modern broadband infrastructure in areas with insufficient internet service. Insufficient service is defined as connection speeds of less than 10 megabits per second download and 1 megabit per second upload.
Beginning today, ReConnect funding applications can be submitted at https://reconnect.usda.gov.
“Reliable, high-speed broadband internet e-Connectivity is critical for economic prosperity and quality of life in the 21st century, from education to health care to agriculture to manufacturing and beyond,” Secretary Perdue said. “We at USDA are very excited to begin accepting applications for funds from this new and innovative program, which will bring critical infrastructure investments to homes, farms, ranches, schools and health care sites in rural America.”
USDA Rural Development State Director Timothy Hobbs said: “Rural Maine communities, businesses, and individuals rely on reliable, affordable, and dependable connectivity to help them thrive and succeed every day. The USDA Reconnect Program offers providers and other organizations the opportunity to expand broadband to towns and areas in rural Maine who would benefit greatly from these vital services.”
Congress first appropriated funds for the new Rural e-Connectivity Pilot Program, known as ReConnect, in 2018. The program will be a proof-of-concept, enabling USDA to create and implement innovative options for rural connectivity by providing various financial packages to our customers.
In this first round of funding, USDA is making available at least $600 million in rural broadband projects, through $200 million in grants, $200 million in loan and grant combinations, and $200 million in low-interest loans.
The application deadlines for each of these funding packages are as follows:
May 31, 2019, for projects seeking federal funds from the grants-only package;
June 21, 2019, for projects seeking a combination of federal loans and grants; and
July 12, 2019, for projects seeking low-interest federal loans.
This $600 million appropriation from Congress more than doubles federal funding available through USDA’s longstanding broadband programs. Future rounds of funding for ReConnect will be announced later this year.
For additional information about the ReConnect program, contact Shekinah Bailey, General Field Representative at shekinah.bailey@usda.gov or the Maine Rural Development State Office at (207) 990-9121. Details can be found on page 5981 of the February 25, 2019, Federal Register and page 64315 of the Dec. 14, 2018, Federal Register.
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Damian Mogavero is the founder and CEO of DM Ventures, author of The Underground Culinary Tour and founder and former CEO of Avero.
DM Ventures is a hospitality consulting and investment firm that empowers New Guard Restaurateurs through the use of data-analytics, competitive strategy, industry collaborations, and disruptive innovation.
Mogavero started and grew Avero, the leading restaurant analytics software company to 10,000 restaurants across 70 countries aggregating $24 billion. Avero was recently included in Fast Company’s Top 10 Restaurant Innovations of the past century.
Named “Restaurant Revolutionary” and “Innovator of the Year” by Cornell University’s Hotel School, Mogavero is leading a movement of New Guard Restaurateurs to dynamically transform the way America eats. From Fortune 500 companies to emerging restaurant brands, Mogavero has had the honor of inspiring hospitality professionals around the globe as well as educating top restaurant leaders through his annual Underground Culinary Tour, which uses New York City as a restaurant laboratory to showcase emerging trends. Described by Bloomberg as the “Data-Dining King” and “right-brain foodie with left-brain MBA” by Fast Company, Mogavero has continued to attract international attention as a sought after speaker and thought leader in the hospitality and tech industries.
After graduating summa cum laude from La Salle University, Mogavero earned his MBA from Harvard University. Before becoming a restaurant-CFO-turned-entrepreneur Mogavero worked on Wall Street as an investment banker at Dillon, Read & Co.
A passionate oenophile and coffee fanatic, in 2008 Damian passed the WSET Level 3 Advanced Certificate with distinction in Wine and Spirits in addition to the first part of his Barista certification through Counter Culture.
"The message to restaurateurs is simple: Ignore data at your peril, said Mr. Mogavero, the author of a recent book, “The Underground Culinary Tour,”about how data has transformed the restaurant industry."
"Damian Mogavero, a dining-industry consultant, has analyzed the data behind thousands of restaurants—which dishes get ordered, which servers bring in the highest bills, and even what the weather’s like—and found that these metrics can help inform the decisions and practices of restaurateurs. Ultimately, Mogavero believes that the data he collects is really a way to learn how to make customers happy. Mogavero recently wrote a book about analytics called The Underground Culinary Tour—which is also the name of an annual insider retreat he runs, in which he leads restaurateurs from around the nation to what he considers the most innovative restaurants in New York City, with 15 stops in 24 hours."
How data analytics is becoming a "moneyball" for restaurants – CBS News
“The restaurant industry, there’s a lot of artistry in it. And one of the things that I noticed when I was in the restaurant industry is I would ask very simple questions to my chefs and managers, you know, ‘Why do your food costs go up? Why do your labor costs go up? Who are your top and bottom servers?’” said Mogavero, founder of the software company Avero. “And I would get blank stares and wrong answers.”
Big data is revolutionizing the restaurant industry – Marketplace
The restaurant industry isn't a likely partner for big data, even though it generates a ton. Historically, decisions about how things are run are fueled by the chef's intuition. But where some saw an odd coupling, Damian Mogavero saw opportunity.
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Damian Mogavero is the author of The Underground Culinary Tour (Crown Business, January 2017), written with Joseph D’Agnese, and the founder and former CEO of Avero, the restaurant analytics software company based in New York City. Avero aggregates over $24 billion in food and beverage data and helps over 40,000 restaurant operators in 70 countries drive profits annually through the use of intelligent data.
Prior to founding Avero, Damian was CFO of a New York-based restaurant group, where he witnessed firsthand what happens when chefs and managers simply do not have the right tools to run their operations efficiently. Damian recognized that the restaurant industry needed revolutionary, easy-to-use software that could empower food and beverage operators to make faster, smarter and profitable decisions, while providing outstanding service to their guests.
Damian hosts the annual Underground Culinary Tour, which educates restaurant leaders on emerging trends, using New York City as a restaurant laboratory. He speaks to hospitality groups throughout the year on trends among what he calls the New Guard Restaurateurs and their constant innovations.
Mogavero was named Cornell University Hotel School’s Innovator of the Year in 2015, and received the Harvard Business School of NY America’s Entrepreneur Award. Damian regularly speaks at hospitality, food and technology conferences including the National Restaurant Association Show and Dreamforce. He addressed the Class of 2017 at Cornell University Hotel School as part of the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
A passionate oenophile and coffee fanatic, Damian passed the WSET Level 3 Advanced Certificate in Wine and Spirits in 2008 with distinction, and successfully completed the first part of his Barista certification through Counter Culture in 2014. Damian graduated summa cum laude from La Salle University and earned his MBA from Harvard University. Before becoming a restaurant-CFO-turned-entrepreneur, he worked on Wall Street as an investment banker at Dillon, Read & Co.
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Stiles & Drewe Mentorship Prize - Weaving the Wicker Husband (Halfway Point)
Given that it's Boxing Day I probably shouldn't have been working... but given that I'm me, I was. I think it's something that may be an attribute of those in the creative industries.. For me, a holiday is just a different place to do some work. In fact the ony difference between a 'Writing Retreat' and a 'Holiday' is that on one of them I should be working.
So what have we been doing with the Wicker Husband since the fateful day on the 18th May 2016 when we were fortunate enough to win the inaugural MTI Stiles & Drewe Mentorship Award. On that day, when Rhys and I stumbled up, in a slight state of shock to the stage of The Novello Theatre, we were completely unaware of exactly what we had won. In fact it turned out that our mentors weren't exactly sure either but the most encouraging thing about that day was when they said (and paraphrasing):
GEORGE AND ANTS: "We have no idea how this is all going to work but we're going to find out together and it's going to be brilliant."
The thing about the word inaugural is that it's one that is full of possibility. No one exactly knows what they are doing so what it becomes is an opportunity for everyone to make it what they WANT it to be...
We are now almost at the halfway point of our year of mentorship and I thought it would be useful (particularly with the deadline for next years award coming up) to look back at how it's been so far and what we have left to expect for the future.
After the competition event we got to speak to George and Ants at the reception which was lovely, I bought George a glass of wine. He initially offered to pay and I thought, "No, this is the perfect opportunity to start buying George Stiles friendship." Bear in mind that I would have attempted to buy Ants friendship as well but he seemed actively engaged in a real friendship with someone else... we had some very excited sentences about The Wicker Husband and the it's future and Rhys and I decamped to the pub with some fellow attendees (includng brilliant writers Tim Connor and Eamonn O'Dwyer) our partners and our director/dramaturg Charlie Westenra and just ate a massive pile of pie. The congratulations poured in on social media and and our egos were stuffed with external validation as our cheeks were filled with potato mash.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WICKER HUSBAND
Prior to the award, we had been working on The Wicker Husband for about two and a half years, aside from our epic writing meetings we had completed;
1. A workshop at the Unicorn Theatre
2. Two weeks workshopping Act 1 at the RWCMD in Cardiif
3. A writing retreat in The Forest of Dean
4. A successful crowdfunding campaign to help fund our future work on the project.
We had entered several awards including the MTI Stiles & Drewe Mentorship Award (winner), The Stiles & Drewe Best New Song Award (finalist), The Kevin Spacey Artist of Choice Award (finalist), The Jameson Bursary (shortlist), The Little Angel Incubate Programme (Winner) and had applied for the Dunedin Operatic Executive Trust Award (winner). The deadlines of which all helped us move the project a little further along...
So now that we had the support of MTI, Stiles & Drewe and Mercury Musical Developments what was going to happen next?
WORKSHOP AT GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC & DRAMA (Not part of S&D Award)
Our director Charlie had already set up a week of workshops at the GSMD to work with their 3rd year actors on the 2nd act of the show and we went straight into those workshops the day after the award. It was great to get straight back into the work so quickly, helping to focus on the fact that we still had a hell of a lot of work to do to make this into the piece we all believed it could be. The week was brilliant, the students incredibly insightful and talented and in the evenings there would be emails from Victoria Saxton and Lettie Graham with congratulations and instructions on what we all needed to do to move forward. Availability checks for the writing retreat and for an initial meeting with Stiles & Drewe were all put in the diary and so it all began.
INITIAL MEETING
At our initial meeting with George, Ants and Lettie (they were in rehearsals for Wind in the Willows at Jerwood Space) we discussed many of the practicalities of the award including budgets, what was being funded and how and a reasonable timeline for the whole year based around everyone's availability. Together with this work shadowing opportunities were mentioned and of course none of us could help discussing the show itself. It was a very exciting and reassuring meeting, it was clear that George and Ants were going to use their considerable skill to help us make the show we wanted to make. We made some suggestions and they were very open to negotiations and flexibility in the award.We came away from the meeting with dates in the diary and hearts full of possibility. It was clear however, that if we wanted to make the most of this incredible opportunity we would have to put our noses to the grindstone and work like dogs.
At this point we started to think about the award as the backbone upon which we would base the next year of our work. Lettie and Victoria made it clear that they were happy to support us in applications for other funding which would enhance our ability to produce the best work possible. We used the prestige of the award to attract brilliant actors and musicians to the project, we also used the name and the budget to apply for an Arts Council Grant that would allow us to involve more people in the Progress Labs and the final Showcase. At the time of writing we have yet to hear from the Arts Council about the grant... we are hopeful...
WORK SHADOW OPPORTUNITIES
I asked George and Ants if there were any rehearsals for Wind in the WIllows that I might be able to attend, George came straight back with an offer to sit in on the orchestra trials at Mark Knopflers recording studio in Hammersmith. I jumped at the chance and arrived on the day, greeted outside by Lettie who saw me wandering off in the wrong direction and pointed me in the right one. Inside, George said a big hello and introduced me to all the incredible people working on the project including the two orchestrators, the fixer, the conductor and recording engineers. Desperate not to be a nuisance I plopped myself on the sofa in the live room and watched as George wandered around introducing himself to the musicians that he hadn't met in turn, humbly saying 'Hello, I'm George, I wrote the tunes.'
I was given a score to follow as they worked their way through 'Spring' an incredibly thrilling piece of work, beautifully orchestrated. Every now and again they would stop and one of the orchestrators or George would make a small suggestion or change that would completely change the feeling of a bar. The attention to detail was outstanding and I learnt an awful lot about the difference orchestration can make to your show. I won't go on, but it was a pretty special day.
For those of you who have been following this blog, the next part of it was the writing retreat, which you can read all about in detail in earlier August/September entries. If you are considering applying for the award this year, do have a look. But for now, suffice to say that the experience was life changing and at the end of it I genuinely felt that I could add George and Ants as friends on the facebook machine in the safe knowledge that we had actually become friends and I no longer needed to buy that friendship with alcohol. That's certainly something that I didn't expect and is a tribute to the warmth of character of both George and Ants. They welcomed us into their home (including our director Charlie) and they made us feel like part of their theatrical family. The writing retreat is absolutely what you make it. There was no timetable aside from the one you decide for yourself. At the start of the week, the one thing that Ants said he would love would be to know that a new song for the show had been begun on the retreat. As it happened I wrote four new songs that week, but for everyone it will be different and they will be happy either way. You set your timetable, you work as much as you want and they will be there on hand to help you when you want it.
As a general rule I worked down at my gite from 8 - 9.30am most mornings, walked up to Ants' house for breakfast for 10am, ate and chatted til about 10.45am then worked through til 1pm, had lunch for an hour, worked through until 7pm, had some dinner, some nights dinner went on until bed time and other nights I went back to work for a couple of hours, when Rhys was out there with me, we even continued working back at the gite til about 12.30am. All in all I'd say I did at least 10 hour of work a day. At the end of it I was exhausted but the show had improved exponentially, we had transformed some key song moments and I personally felt like I had greatly improved my knowledge of my craft.
I definitely urge next years award winners to keep a diary of the week as it goes by really quick and the knowledge and advice comes thick and fast... plus I'd really like to learn everything that you learn!
MERCURY MUSICALS DEVELOPMENT LAB
This could easily be overlooked as a part of the Award, as it appears to be less grand than the grandness of the other things that the award brings with it, but I urge future winners to get stuck in to it. The opportunity to regularly present work to professional writing colleagues on a regular basis is such an important part of this award. Working with this generous group of professional writers has helped immensely in the development of the show, in a way it's like having a whole team of mentors, not just Stiles & Drewe who will help you come to understand your show. Once a month we have had the opportunity to present a piece of the show and get valuable feedback on it. Sometimes we present a song/scene, sometimes just a song and sometimes just a selection of scenes. We have also learnt an awful amount in listening and feeding back on our colleagues work which has been brilliant and a huge learning experience as well.
ORCHESTRATION DAY (Not part of S&D Award)
This was not an official part of the award but it was certainly influenced by it. George wrote to us with some brilliant advice before the day which I will publish on this blog (with his permission). We got a free space to use in Pimlico, organised by our wonderful percussionist Ruairi Glasheen who also arranged for some other players to come along (Jon - Dulcimer and Hedi - Bass), we also had a trio of fiddlers Philippa, Hannah and Loren and Josh on the accordion. We spent the day playing around with a few of the songs trying out different ideas. Then we had a couple of my singer friends come in and do some singing for us (Anne Marie and Laura). It was a great day, made all the better with George's words ringing in my ears, which, when distilled essentially said: "Keep the storytelling at the heart of your arrangements." Golden advice. As a result of everyone's generosity I came away with what felt like the authentic beginnings of the sound of the wicker husband.
PROGRESS LAB 1
Some of you may have come along to this event at the Jerwood Space. We spent a good deal of time in the lead up to this casting the lab and getting a musical director for the day on board. On the day itself we had about 3 hours to put together the first 25 minutes of the musical... this was our choice. We consulted with George and Ants about what would be useful for other writers to see and what would be useful for us and we thought this section would be a good place to start. We really wanted to see how the narrative and songs were hanging together. With the help of George, Ants, Lettie and Victoria, Charlie did an incredible job of casting the lab for us and we managed to pull in some really high calibre performers including several West End leads which was a rea boost of confidence for us.
But... it turns out that we bit off slightly more than we could chew! This section included five songs, two of which were massive ensemble numbers ('The Ugly Girl' and 'Will Ye Lend Me a Suit', two huge solo/duet songs 'My Wicker Man' and 'The Heart of the Weave' and an opening number for the Basketmaker 'Once Upon a Withy.') All in all about 20 minutes worth of music and three hours in which our brilliant musical director Theo Jamieson had to teach everybody some (as it turns out!) pretty complicated stuff. Add to that the fact that there were several scenes in between the songs and it really was a bit much to have attempted. I'm glad we pushed at it though as it means that we have a much better idea of what is realistically achievable for the 2nd lab which will take place on the 7th February and that we are working towards now.
The lab had a panel of wonderful experts and of course the group in the audience were the Mercury Musical Developments writer community. It was so great to see a packed room and I was very happy to see a number of my writer and actor friends in the audience, with their friendly beaming faces there. In particular I was extremely happy to see two of my oldest friends (Angie and Charley) who wanted to come along and see the thing that I had been working on for so long. I would advise any writers to get at least a couple of your nearest and dearest along to this event as they provide the sort of reassurance that only ancient and deep friendship can give you. They remind you to believe in yourself and that no matter what happens, whether you fall on your face in the mud or get thrown up among the stars, they will still be there for you regardless and that's what is really important.
SO... that's where we are now. Writing, rewriting, consulting, rewriting again. Working towards the next parts of the award.
We have set our goals in place for the remaining aspects of the award.
In Progress Lab 2 we will aim to present the new opening number along with the crucial and problematic end of Act 1 which will be very useful. Based on the feedback we received from the first lab (which was in general very positive) we have been working hard on rewriting the opening scene to make sure that the problems we are going to be tackling in the show are very clear for all to see, as well as making the song better (I have never been entirely happy with it). Of all the songs in the show this one has had the longest genesis. It was the first song I wrote three and a half years ago and looking at it now, it has transformed completely (a couple of musical sections remain but the lyrics have undergone a total rework).
And we are aiming to do a full reading of the entire show at the showcase in April with a band of folk musicians playing along. It's going to be a hell of a lot of work but we are excited by the possibility...
Who knows what the future of The Wicker Husband will be following this incredible year of mentorship... but I do know that whatever happens it will remain the highlight of my career to date.
So if you are thinking about applying but haven't quite finished your 1st draft, then I urge you (and your writing partner(s) to get your skates on... Rhys and I were working right up until the midnight deadline to get our application materials together, and we sent it in with a minute to spare.
What a difference a minute can make.
Apply for the award here:
www.mercurymusicals.com/what-we-do/the-stiles-drewe-prize/
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A Guide To The 2019 European Union Film Festival: Week Four
Films I Neglected To Review: Eggs In The Face
A Guide To The 2019 European Union Film Festival: Week Three
Films I Neglected To Review: Cable Guys And Chopping Blocs
Films I Neglected To Review: Approaching the Borderline
A Guide To The 2019 European Union Film Festival: Week Two
A Guide To The 2019 European Union Film Festival: Week One
Films I Neglected To Review: This Is The End
Films I Neglected To Review: First Men
Short Stuff: The 2018 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts
Crawl by Peter Sobczynski
Swallow by Jay Seaver
Perfection, The by Rob Gonsalves
Luce by Jay Seaver
Last Black Man in San Francisco, The by Jay Seaver
Farewell, The (2019) by Jay Seaver
Nightmare Cinema by Rob Gonsalves
Third Wife, The by Jay Seaver
Spy Behind Home Plate, The by Jay Seaver
Unthinkable, The by Jay Seaver
by Peter Sobczynski
Please enjoy short reviews of "Finding Steve McQueen," "The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley," "Madonna and the Breakfast Club," "Transit" and "Wonder Park."
''Finding Steve McQueen'' is a heist film based on real-life events that involves a bunch of guys who get together with a seemingly foolproof plan leading towards an undeniably enticing reward that nevertheless proves to be a big disappointment. Unfortunately, that is also a pretty good description of the film itself, which knows that it has a potentially fascinating story to tell but no clear idea of how to present it. As the film opens in 1980, Harry Barber (Travis Fimmel) meets his longtime girlfriend Molly (Rachael Taylor) at a local diner to confess something to her. Eight years earlier, while living in Youngstown, Ohio, he went to Los Angeles with a crew including his sleazy uncle (William Fichtner) and his Vietnam-scarred brother (Jake Weary) to pull off a heist. The target is a bank with a vault that supposedly contains upwards of $30 million dollars of Richard Nixon�s slush fund money and the idea, according to the Nixon-hating uncle, is that no one would dare investigate the crime because doing so would cause a scandal that could potentially topple the presidency. Inevitably, the heist does not quite pay off as hoped and Harry ends up on his own, finding bliss with Molly (whom he meets cute with on the day of her estranged husband's funeral) but always waiting for the inevitable moment when the other shoe drops for him at last.
It is a great tale, to be sure, but as it turns out, it doesn't necessarily make for a great movie, at least in the hands of screenwriters Ken Hixon and Keith Sharon or director Mark Steven Johnson. They have made some effort to keep the film from turning into just another heist film exercise but the structure they have employed, including the parallel story of the locally based federal agents (Forest Whittaker and Lily Rabe) investigating the case while trying to figure out why hundreds of FBI agents have been sent in from Washington to ''assist'' them, Harry�s post-robbery life with Molly and the framing device in which he explains everything to her, is way too complicated for its own good and also diminishes a good deal of the tension since it is evident from the outset that at least our hero survived his predicament. It has a light and reasonably amiable tone that is a refreshing change from what one normally finds in most recent crime films but there are times when it veers a little too much towards the silly for its own good and the repeated foreshadowings of the impending Watergate scandal are delivered with all the subtlety of a motorcycle boot to the face. ''Finding Steve McQueen'' (the famed actor has nothing to do with it other than being Harry's idol) is occasionally interesting and some of the details are amusing, especially when we discover what leads to the downfall of the seemingly brilliant gang of thieves, but it just never quite clicks together into a completely satisfying whole.
Throughout his career to date, prolific documentarian Alex Gibney has never wanted for fascinating subjects to train his cameras on--he has so far covered such topics as the Enron scandal, Hunter S. Thompson, super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer, Lance Armstrong, Wikileaks, Scientology, Steve Jobs and the history of Rolling Stone--but in his latest work, ''The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley'' (premiering this weekend on HBO), he tackles perhaps his most jaw-dropping subject to date. It tells the story of Elizabeth Holmes, who was at one time considered by many to be the next Steve Jobs, her avowed idol. At 19, she left school to found Theranos, a Silicon Valley-based company that promised to revolutionize health care with a machine called the Edison, a device that could scan for identify hundreds of different diseases and complications from a single pinprick of blood that could allow users to learn of any problems without having to resort to expensive visits to the doctor or even pricier conventional blood tests. With her cool demeanor, undeniable good looks and a life story made for fawning magazine profiles, her company was soon raking in millions from people hoping to get in on the big new thing, including a deal to install Edisons in Walgreens pharmacies around the country, and she was being venerated by the likes of Joe Biden, Henry Kissinger and George Schultz. There is only one slight hiccup to Holmes's ascension to the pinnacle of the scientific community--not only does the Edison not work as advertised, it could never work under the rigid parameters that she set for her creation. However, that doesn�t stop her from continuing to sell people on the promise of her dream by any means necessary, including outright fraud, until it all finally collapses.
Those with some working familiarity with the story of the spectacular rise and fall of Theranos, either through its extensive media coverage or through John Carreyrou's best-selling book ''Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup'' (Carreyrou turns up as one of the numerous talking-head commentators) probably will not find anything especially new or revealing here. However, while laying out the story in a reasonably smooth manner (albeit one that could use a little bit of trimming in parts) that won�t scare newcomers away (unless they don't like the sight of blood or needles of any size), Gibney does give viewers something that the story wasn�t able to convey in its print incarnations--the sight of Holmes cheerfully going through her paces presenting herself as a tech genius and a brilliant entrepreneur long after she must have known that her product was a dud. Whether striding purposefully for the halls of her company, taking part in a Errol Morris-style interview (that turns out to have been conducted and filmed by Morris himself) or doubling down on her belief that Theranos is a success even after the house of cards begins to crumble, her friendly but serious-minded demeanor never cracks for a second and it is only when you realize that she hardly ever seems to blink do you get a sense of the effort that must have gone into creating and presenting that facade. Her clear detachment from reality, not to mention the willingness of so many to join her in that state, is what gives ''The Inventor'' its juice and will leave viewers flabbergasted and thinking that there is no possible way that anyone could ever again fall for a con of that magnitude--at least until the next one comes along, of course.
No, ''Madonna and the Breakfast Club'' is not a mashup of two of the more significant and lasting elements of American popular culture circa 1985. Instead, it is a largely bewildering and mostly tedious docudrama hybrid that focuses on the musical icon's pre-fame days as seen through the eyes of a few people who happened to be there at the time and held on to just enough mementos and memories to finally cash in on their bystander-to-history status. The main focus is on Dan Gilroy, a New York City musician who met Madonna when she arrived seeking fame and fortune in 1979, hooked up with her both personally and professionally and eventually made her a part of The Breakfast Club, the band that he formed with his brother, Ed, until Madonna�s undeniable talent and unstoppable ambition led her to go off on her own to superstardom within a couple of years. There are interviews with the Gilroys and other people hanging around during that period, ranging from the director of ''A Certain Sacrifice'' (remember that one?) to a deejay who is still inexplicably proud of the fact that he wouldn't play her tapes, but, in a bizarre twist, director Guy Guido also employs actors to play the characters and act out events even though most of this footage is combined with the narration of the real people instead of the dialogue from the actors.
Then again, after witnessing the rare moments when the doppelg�ngers are allowed to emote, most viewers will hardly be clamoring for any more from them. As Madonna, newcomer Jamie Auld so accurately resembles what she looked like in that period that the effect is downright disconcerting--unfortunately, she demonstrates none of the personality or raw charisma that allowed Madonna to strike such a chord with people when she first burst on to the scene. (As for the other actors, they are just as forgettable as the people they are playing.) Basically, ''Madonna and the Breakfast Club'' is a film about Madonna that contains no Madonna music to speak, no actual appearances by Madonna outside of bits of archival footage, old photos and an audiotape of a conversation between her and Dan that is not exactly Rosebud in terms of personal revelation, and no real insight as to who she was as a person back then and how those events helped make her into the global phenomenon that she would become. Deep devotees might check it out for sheer curiosity value--no doubt hating themselves for it when it is all over--but others will find themselves describing ''Madonna and the Breakfast Club'' with a word that is rarely applied to Madonna herself. . . boring.
Over the last few years, Christian Petzold has shot to the top of most lists of esteemed international filmmakers for reasons that I have never quite managed to personally understand--while undeniably talented from a stylistic standpoint, there has just been something about his films, especially the absurd ''Phoenix'' (2014), that has eluded me. Although I am still not entirely sold on him, I must admit that his latest effort, ''Transit,'' is the first of his films that I have seen that comes close to living up to the hype. As the film opens, France has just been invaded and an ordinary man, Georg (Franz Rogowski) has been charged with trying to smuggle a North African refugee with a dangerous leg infection to safety in Marseilles. Before leaving, Georg, a refugee without papers himself, stumbles upon the body of an author named George Weidel who has just committed suicide. At first, he just grabs the author's final manuscript and letters to his wife in the hopes of exchanging them for some money but he then decides to assume the dead man's identity so that he can escape as well. While forced to lay low in Marseilles while waiting for his transit papers to go through, he strikes up unexpected relationships with the young son of the man he brought back with him and a beautiful woman (Paula Beers) who he keeps running into and who turns out, perhaps inevitably, to be the wife of the dead man who does not yet know of her husband�s fate.
On the surface, ''Transit'' may sound like a standard WWII melodrama but that leads into Petzold's most fascinating stylistic coup. Although based on a semi-autobiographical 1944 novel by Anna Seghers, the film actually takes place in a time period mashup that combines the WWII era with contemporary times where contemporary cars are on the streets but the Internet does not exist and the word ''Nazi'' is never mentioned. This sounds like the kind of gimmick that could get old really quick but Petzold establishes it in a smart and not overly precious manner and uses it as a clever way to underline the fact that while the trappings of any given time period may change, other things--love, deception, bureaucracy and man's insatiable capacity to inflicting harm and evil on others--stay resolutely the same. The end result is akin to a surrealist spin on ''Casablanca'' that Petzold pushes through with equal parts suspense, romance and a certain degree of sly humor and which is aided by the undeniable chemistry on display between Rogowski and Beers. I may not totally be on the Petzold train quite yet but ''Transit'' is the first film of his strong enough to inspire me to look forward to what he comes up with next.
''Wonder Park'' is an animated film that spends its entire running time serving as a hymn to the power of imagination without ever demonstrating a sliver of such a thing itself. It tells the story of June, an obnox--I mean adorable and imaginative young girl who spends her time designing a fantastical amusement park (one evidently free of anything resembling safety inspectors) named Wonder Park with her doting mother (Jennifer Garner), only to trash all of their designs in a fit of despair and anger when Mom takes ill and goes away for treatment. Through complications far too uninteresting to get into here, June ends up in the woods and stumbles up what appears to be the actual Wonder Park, complete with the array of adorable animals (including Milk Kunis as a pig, John Oliver as a porcupine in love with said pig and Norbert Leo Butz as the monkey in charge who creates the attractions with the aid of his magic pen and voices of inspiration that only he hears). Alas, the park is now in ruins, the voices of inspiration have long since stopped speaking and the gang is constantly being chased by an army of garishly cute chimpanzombies. June soon--though not soon enough for audience members over the age of five--that she is responsible for both the existence of the park and its current state of disrepair and, with the aid of her new friends, struggles to bring the joint back to life before the chimpanzombies destroy it for good.
While I readily confess that I am decades removed from the film's target demographic, I have a sneaking suspicion that even if I saw it at a more age-appropriate time, i still would have hated the damn thing as much as I do now. The allegedly original storyline is nothing more than a compendium of themes, ideas and plot elements from too many other and better sources to fully list here--I noticed borrowings from everything from ''The Wizard of Oz'' to, of all things, ''The Talisman.'' The animation is undistinguished at best and garish at worst, the vocal performances are listless (they all sound as if they employed the Krusty the Klown approach to recording voiceovers) and the only laughs to be had come from how badly it fumbles the more serious emotional beats, especially in the way that it resolves the stuff about the sick mother. Forty years ago, when animated feature films were relatively few and far between, a film this shoddy might have been able to pass muster but at a time when a new family-oriented film hits theaters every couple of weeks or so, a film as lazy and uninspired as ''Wonder Park'' needed to either go back to the drawing board or go straight to the direct-to-video wasteland where it so clearly belongs.
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Art Week 2017 | from 17/08/2017 to 20/08/2017
Art Week 2017
Galeria Estação | Booth 14
Oct 17 (thursday): 12h - 22h (preview | guests only)
Oct 18 (friday) and 19 (saturday): 12h – 20h
Oct 20 (sunday): 12h – 18h
Hotel Unique
Av. Brigadeiro Luís Antônio, 4.700
São Paulo -- SP -- 01402-002
Entry: R$80?
Seven days in the art world
Organized around a fair that will bring together a select group of Brazilian and foreign galleries under an innovative curatorial concept, the Art Week will also be hosting a series of exclusive shows and cultural activities that will provide visitors with a unique experience Semana de Arte (Art Week) will be taking place in São Paulo between the 14th and 20th of August 2017, aiming to honor, discuss and expand a market that has been growing exponentially for the last 15 years, in the city that has consolidated itself as its epicenter.
Headed by gallerists Luisa Strina and Thiago Gomide, curator Ricardo Sardenberg and cultural impresario Emilio Kalil, the Art Week – presented by the Ministry of Culture and Bradesco Bank– is organized in the context of the visual arts, but its scope is much wider: the Week starts off with a series of exclusive performing arts, film, dance, music and literature shows strewn around a number of venues, followed by a cycle of panel discussions featuring national and international speakers, a round of architectural routes, and culminates in an art fair that will feature a select group of galleries from Brazil and the rest of the world.
– It is a small fair in which we curate the galleries as well as the art works on view. It is as though we were organizing various simultaneous exhibitions – says art dealer Luisa Strina, who opened the gallery named after herself in 1974, and who last year ranked among the world’s most influential people in the arts scene, according to ArtReview and Vanity Fair magazines. – We wanted a fair that was not just centered on the market, one that boasted a week filled with culture around it.
– One thing there is no shortage of is fairs – adds Thiago Gomide, partner-director at the Bergamin & Gomide gallery. – The market in São Paulo has grown so much in the last years that we feel there is room for a model that is different in terms of the criteria for choice, the quality of the content, one that offers a unique experience that is thought through to the very last detail. What is important is to surprise, that it does not feel like a large comercial event, that visitors are able to perceive that everything in it was thought through, discussed and selected. It is more than just an art fair; it is a grand art event. The idea is to offer a new format where primary and secondary markets will not be divided into distinctive sections, and the booths will be arranged in order to create a special flow between the spaces allocated to exhibitors as well as on a more in-depth involvement both with the art works on view and the galleries' propositions. All the exhibitors will be presenting special projects, whether it be solo booths, dialogues between two artists or around specific themes – like the reassembly of the gallery occupied by the artist Ridyas at the 1977's Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo or a show focused on Dadaism, Surrealism and their unfoldings in Brazilian art of the first half of the 20th Century. The diversity of names, periods and provenances is eye-catching: from Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Dadamaino and Martin Kippenberger to Marcius Galan, Amalia Giacomini, Los Carpinteros and Carlos Bunga. The fair will take place in the Hotel Unique from August 18th to August 20th, with a special opening for the press and guests on the 17th. Among the participating galleries are ones that do not normally frequent the Brazilian circuit, such as Luhring Augustine and Alexander and Bonin (both from New York). Foreign brands like Galleria Franco Noero (Turin), Galleria Continua (San Gimignano) and Galería Elba Benitez (Madrid) will also be present.
Nationally speaking, some of the country’s most important and/or most interesting galleries will be in attendance. As opposed to the open registration model used in large fairs of the international calendar, all the participants will have been selected and invited by the Art Week organization.
– I always say it is a fair for professionals, and for those who are active participants in the market. It is not a social program, it is meant for people who are actually involved. The São Paulo art scene is currently undergoing a process of specialization, and this is the reason for holding a fair for people who are part of this market, in view of how much it has grown and how professional and diverse it has become. Collectors are increasingly more sophisticated, regardless of their financial means – says Sardenberg, who was the Inhotim Institute’s first curator and co-founder of the publishing company Cobogó. – We could have done just an art fair, but I envisage São Paulo, Latin America’s largest city, as a veritable cultural melting pot, and I feel this is something that should be encouraged. The Art Week is our contribution towards this.
In addition to curating the fair, Sardenberg is in charge of a cycle of panel discussions that will take place at the Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo on Tuesday August 15th. At 10am, Fernanda Brenner (Pivô) and Bernardo José de Souza (Fundação Iberê Camargo) carry out a talk regarding curatorial models in non-profit private institutions amidst the current political context in Brazil. At 11:30am, artist Bernardo Ortiz talks about the exercise of walking by the landscape aware of perception – a divagation that runs throug color descriptions and questionings about how things are made and how they last. At 2:30pm, critic and curator Paulo Sérgio Duarte discusses with curator Maria do Carmo Pontes the work of Brazilian artist Antonio Dias, who will have a solo booth centered on his 1970's production put together by Galeria Nara Roesler during the art fair. Closing the day, at 4:30pm, art historian and curator Isobel Whitelegg, director of the MA Art Museum & Gallery Studies at Leicester University, presents her research of the history of Latin American biennials around the 1970's and 1980's, culminating in the Bienal de Havana's third edition, in 1989, and arousing a discussion on the meaning of globalization to these shows.
– A structural transformation took place in 1989, not just from an institutional viewpoint, but also where the market is concerned, and of course, also in terms of artistic production. Up until then, people had either only collected art from their country, or operated within the United States-Europe axis. That was when the real turning point for what is nowadays known as global art in the contemporary context happened – says Sardenberg. – And timing could not be better to debate this issue, as globalisation itself is undergoing a period of crisis. The world is seeing a resurrection of the State, a quest to find a national identity in lieu of a cultural identity. It suffices to look at the current political and economic scenario, whereby everything is being called into question. We do not know whether what is about to happen is an exhaustion or a great reform, but there is certainly much debate about the issue. As yet, it is unclear what the implications will be for the world of the arts, but depending on what happens politically speaking, there will undoubtedly be effects. The program beyond visual arts is being coordinated by Emilio Kalil, who along 40 years dedicated to cultural management directed the Grupo Corpo, produced the São Paulo Biennial, and more recently acted as Rio de Janeiro Municipal Secretary for Culture and president of the Cidade das Artes Foundation, in addition to having directed two of the most important theatres in Brazil, namely the Municipal Theatres of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Kalil organized a series of theatre, dance, film, music and literature presentations, all in line with the premise of originality.
– The idea is that the Art Week tours around São Paulo – says Kalil. There is a robust list of attractions – all of them free of charge and subject to room capacity. In Dance and visual arts: encounters, that occupies the Tucarena theater on Monday August 14th, curator Helena Katz organizes a video-dance festival centered around the work of choreographers who delved into the visual arts, as is the case of Trisha Brown, artist Robert Rauschenberg's famed partner, and Merce Cunningham, who in addition to Rauschenberg, also worked with artists such as Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. The program will be live narrated by actress Maria Luisa Mendonça. On the following day, also at the Tucarena theater, Escrevivência com o coração na ponta dos dedos gathers writer Conceição Evaristo and bandolinist and composer Hamilton de Holanda around literature and music, Always highlighting the presence of the African Diaspora in the arts made in Brazil.
On Wednesday August 16th, at the same venue, Hamilton Vaz Pereira commands a dramatic reading of the play Trate-me Leão, one of the most emblematic by the Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone theatre company; it will be performed by a new generation cast on occasion of the 40th anniversary of its debut. And on Saturday August 19th, there will be a special screening of the documentary Maria – Não esqueça que eu venho dos trópicos, that delas with the life and work of Maria Martins (1894-1973), acknowledged as one of Brazil’s greatest sculptors – married to an important Brazilian diplomat, she had a 20-year relationship with French artist Marcel Duchamp. After the projection, at the CineSesc, codirectorsFrancisco Martins and Elisa Gomes will take part in a debate with Graça Ramos, autor of the book Maria Martins – Escultora dos trópicos.
– Maria Martins travelled extensively throughout the world, and one might say she was something of a precursor of what is happening with Brazilian art today – says Kalil. The Art Week will also offer a series of routes around São Paulo’s architecture landmarks, guided by architect Aieto Manetti. Two will be author-oriented, visiting buildings by modernist exponents Lina Bo Bardi (Sunday August 20th, at 10am) and Paulo Mendes da Rocha (also on Sunday August 20th, at 3pm). The others will concentrate on the areas of Higienópolis (during a pre-opening on Saturday August 12th, at 11am) and the Centre (Saturday August 19th, at 3pm). The routes will be carried out by foot and/or van, and registration will take place through the e-mail educativo@semana.art.
Thiago Gomide, who worked as a producer for Inhotim and as an executive for Bolsa de Arte do Rio de Janeiro, concludes: for those who love, buy and live within the world of the arts, everything is related, linked, everything is inspiration.
Isabel De Luca
SP Arte 2019
Santídio Pereira: Between two skies
New Wood
Lina Bo Bardi: tupí or not tupí. Brasil, 1946-1992
Black on white, overlapping and nuances
Véio | Suddenly into the World
Véio | Sculptures
SP-Arte 2016
Véio at SEE••DS Gallery
Cícero Alves dos Santos [Véio] - Becoming Marni - Venice (Italy)
Outsider Art Fair - New York 2015
Outsider Art Fair - Paris
SP-Arte Brasília 2014
Outsider Art Fair - New York
Brazil Art Fair 2013
Brazilian Customs Snafu
Janete Costa: A Glance
Histoires de Voir – Show and Tell | 2012
2011 Art Exhibition
José Bezerra Sculptures | 2010
Casa Cor 2010 – Space for the New Age of Ugo, Raul and Maria Di Pace
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Friday April 22, 2011 12:25 pm
AT&T tells FCC that T-Mobile purchase will boost 4G coverage more than they thought
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Broadband, Corporate News, Wireless / WiFi
AT&T's bid for T-Mobile is now official. The carrier on Thursday filed the necessary paperwork with the Federal Communications Commission, kicking off what will likely be a in-depth review of the proposed merger.
In its filing, AT&T claimed that purchasing T-Mobile will allow it to deploy its 4G LTE network to 97 percent of the U.S. population, up from the 95 percent number it gave last month.
"After conducting a more refined analysis of the combined network, AT&T is increasing the scope of this commitment to 97.3 percent," the carrier said.
AT&T surprised the tech community recently when it announced plans to acquire T-Mobile for $39 billion. AT&T argued that the purchase will help stop the spectrum crunch and spur the companies's deployment of 4G service.
"In just the first five-to-seven weeks of 2015, AT&T expects to carry all of the mobile traffic volume it carried during 2010," the carrier said in its filing. "This merger provides by far the surest, fastest and most efficient solution to that challenge. The network synergies of this transaction will free up new capacity - the functional equivalent of new spectrum - in the many urban, suburban and rural wireless markets where escalating broadband usage is fast consuming existing capacity."
AT&T said it will incorporate T-Mobile cell sites into the AT&T network, providing benefits to consumers in as little as nine months, and doubling the amount of network traffic that can be carried in a given area.
AT&T also said that T-Mobile customers "who are happy with their T-Mobile USA rate plans will be able to keep them." They will also have access to AT&T's plans.
"To be clear, consumers will not have to make any changes to their T-Mobile USA services or devices upon the close of this transaction. Their handsets will continue to work, and they can remain on their current rate plans," AT&T said.
The FCC has not commented on the specifics of the deal, but said it will work with the DOJ going forward. Democratic Commissioner Michael Copps, however, has already expressed reservations.
AT&T insisted that the wireless market will remain competitive after the deal goes through, something with which Sprint has vehemently disagreed.
"We are opposed to an acquisition that creates a duopoly and blatantly consolidates market power in the hands of these two companies," a Sprint spokesman said earlier this week.
Last week, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said the deal poses a "serious threat" to the wireless industry and would push it "from competition to duopoly."
When asked about the merger during its earnings call yesterday morning, Verizon said it will "let that go through due process with the federal government [and] sit and wait and see."
If it's a market-based merger, Verizon will not have many objections, but if its a "regulatory merger," then Verizon will "have a harder time." Verizon "will not stand by" if the FCC or other agencies impose regulations that force Verizon to deliver services at a set price, for example, said Fran Shammo, president and CEO of Verizon Telecom and Business.
This article, written by Chloe Albanesius, originally appeared on PCMag.com and is republished on Gear Live with the permission of Ziff Davis, Inc.
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"Assassin's Creed" Blasts its Way to DVD & Blu-Ray
20th Century Fox recently released DVD and Blu-Ray information for their upcoming DVD and Blu-Ray release "Assassin's Creed". The film stars Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson and Michael K. Williams.
Special features on the Blu-Ray and DVD includes Take the Pledge: Behind the Scenes of Assassin's Creed – Join the Brotherhood as you go behind the scenes of Assassin’s Creed in a five-part documentary, Deleted Scenes Conversation with Justin Kurzel & Christopher Tellefsen,Deleted Scenes Conversation with Justin Kurzel, Gallery and more.
"Assassin's Creed" hits DVD and Blu-Ray on March 21st.
Enter the Animus and dive deeper into the action when Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment releases Assassin’s Creed on Digital HD on March 10 and 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray™, 3D Blu-ray™ and DVD on March 21. Ubisoft®’s blockbuster video game franchise is brought to life in this new powerful storyline, along with an arsenal of action and adventure, and continues with more than 90 minutes of high-powered unrelenting bonus features.
Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard star in this action-adventure film based on the critically acclaimed video game franchise. Through a technology that unlocks his memories, Callum (Fassbender) discovers he is a descendant of an ancient line of Assassins. Transformed by the past, Callum begins to gain the knowledge and physical skills needed to topple the Templar’s quest for world domination in the present day. Assassin’s Creed is a “beautiful cinematic experience that transcends its video game origins in every way.” (Andrew Freund, Dish Nation, Fox-TV)
An all-star cast is led by Academy Award® nominee Michael Fassbender* (Cal), Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard** (Sofia), and Academy Award® winner Jeremy Irons*** (Rikkin). Directed by Justin Kurzel****, a Cannes’ Jury Prize winner, Assassin’s Creed transforms the popular video game franchise into a must-have film for any avid gaming and action-film enthusiast.
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16/11/2017 19/07/2018 Ayse CULHA 0 Comments Alcala Gate, Atocha Train Station, Cibele Square, El Rastiro, Europe, Europr, Madrid, Madrid Travel Guide, Palacio de Cristal, Palacio de Velazquez, Palacio Real, Plaza Mayor, Prado Museum, Puerta del Sol, Reina Sofia Museum, Retiro Park, Spain
Translated by Berrak KUREL
This time, we have changed our course to Madrid and Andalusia to know Spain better with its bull fighting, flamenco music and its dance, tapas and sangria, cinema, football and basketball teams, Cervantes, Picasso, Salvador Dali, Lorca and many other world-famous artists that we all know more or less. We were certain we would feel home in this Mediterranean country in Europe, like we have in Italy.
The establishment of Madrid, the fifth most populated city of Europe, as a city and becoming the capital is based on recent periods. For the first time in ninth century by an Umayyad Caliph called Al-Waid I, a small fortress was built in order to rest and to protect Toledo from Christian invasion, where Palacio Real is situated today. The castle was given the name “Mayrit” in Arabic which means ‘water path’. The area for settlement for this fortress remained in Muslims until 1085.
When Toledo was invaded by Alfonso VI of León and Castile, fortress of Mayrit and settlement areas nearby is burned down and destroyed however, Toledo was chosen as the capital. Mayrit remains out of sight for a long time.
After being chosen as the capital city and after the moving of Royal Court to Madrid by Philip II of Spain in 1561; many important buildings were built, population grew and Madrid gained more importance. The gold and the treasure obtained after America’s discovery in medieval, Madrid became richer and grew.
It earned its European appearance during the era of Charles III of Spain in eighteenth century. Castellana Street, Alcala Gate, Prado Palace and Palacio Real are all monuments of this era. Between 1808 and 1813, it is invaded by France under Napoleon Bonaparte’s regime.
Spain has one of the biggest civil wars of the world between 1936 and 1939; hence starts the period of dictatorship in 1975 which lasted 36 years until the death of General Franco. During this era, all government institutions were gathered in Madrid, thus brought Madrid into the forefront compared to other cities.
Madrid in our days is a city both joyful and alive despite of its sad and blood guilty past.
The flight is 3 hours and 40 minutes long from Istanbul to Madrid-Barajas Airport. Since we were traveling as a group, we preferred to take a taxi to get to the city center (took 20 minutes and the price was 30 Euros fix). Our hotel was very close to Gran Via street and Gran Via metro station. After checking in to our hotel, We walked down from the Montera Street where the metro station is. Then we arrived to Puerto del Sol which is situated in the center of the city. There are many cafes and restaurants in this street which is only accessible for pedestrians. Later in the night, the street takes a whole new appearance.
Puerta del Sol (Gate of the Sun): The most famous square of the city. One of the gates the walls surrounding the city in fifteenth century was located here. The square took its name and semicircle shape from this gate. I was probably disappointed in this square and it was the one I least liked out of the ones I saw before because the buildings around were under renovation. The statue of ‘Bear and a Madrone Tree’ which is the symbol of the city and statue ‘Charles III of Spain’ are found in this square. A little effort is needed to see the the city’s symbol statue on one end of the square. The square which is a meeting and gathering spot for it people is always crowded because it is right in the center of the city.
“The House of the Post Office” with red bricks in this square which was built by French architect Jacques Marquet in 1766-1768 and was used as the Ministry of the Interior at the time; is also known for the corporal punishments for Franco opponents.
Puerto Sol which bears testimony for many important historical moments such as the suppression of the popular uprising by Napoleon in 1808, the killing of President Jose Canalelaj in 1912, and the 2. Proclamation of the Republic in 1932; is regarded as a demonstration center of Madrid.
The best way to explore this city is to walk, however, it is best to purchase a city tour when time is limited. We bought a city tour ticket (12 Euros) from a stall in the square. Those who have time, may purchase a one or two day Hop On-Hop Off ticket (21-25 Euros) and explore more of this city.
We arrive at Plaza de San Miguel after walking for some time on Calle Mayor. Our tour which has started from the bus stop at this square, finishes in this stop again. We learn the important areas and the general sketch of the city. La Latina districts drew our attention with its similarities with Istanbul. At the end of the tour, we decide on the shortest route that would take us to the Prado Museum which we have learned about in this tour. We get the chance to see near districts and the famous Bernabeu Stadium of Real Madrid from outside.
I think It would have been great to experience football in Spanish culture by watching Real Madrid and Barcelona have a match and wear a Barcelona uniform in this stadium that gave a hell of a time to Turkish teams during UEFA Champions League. Who knows, maybe one day…
The city is neither too big or small. It is organized, green and respectful towards is past with its historical buildings. Wide streets, squares and parks draws our attention at first sight. I feel like I can almost hear you say that all cities in Europe are likewise. The squares in Madrid and Spain overall reunite history and today and also keep today alive. Also, perhaps our fear of going out and our longing for these type of squares and parks in our own country made them look this attractive to me. Of course, long nights of summer might have had the same effect too, I’m not so sure.
Basilica de San Francisco el Grande in Los Austrias
Mercado de San Miguel: We visit Mercado de San Miguel after finishing the city tour. This place is a closed bazaar with its metal architecture where you can find many tapas, try sea food, find different sorts of beverages and charcuterie. Our friends who could not resist to the smell of the food here and have tasted them, found the tapas to be very delicious.
Cava Baja: We went to see the tapas restaurants in Cava Baja Street because we were looking for a place near to sit and rest. We didn’t have much trouble finding a place to sit since it was still early for lunch time. Our group divides into two restaurants and everyone is happy with their choice. We have almost ordered everything on the menu of restaurant called ‘TragaTapas’ and our favourites were sauced shrimps and calamari. Cost per person including beverage (Sangria) was 12 Euros.
On the way back, we arrive back at Puerto del Sol by crossing Plaza Mayor. We have learned the routes quite well. Once you get to Puerto del Sol, it is all easy. This time we take the street one before Montera. This street where retail shops and shopping areas are quite frequent, takes as directly to Gran Via.
Plaza Mayor (Main Square): There is a statue built by Philip III of Spain in the middle of the rectangle shaped square surrounded by three storey buildings with many balconies. The first design of the square is done by Juan de Herrera. The square which was used for royal ceremonies, bull fights, inquisition trials and executions long time ago, is now a restless touristic place hosting many local festivals, concerts, and street art.
To those who are curious about it, in one of the galleries on the first floor of Prado Museum, there is an interesting painting of Francisco Rizi which shows the usage of this square in the past.
It is quite possible to see these type of rectangle squares (Herrerian style) surrounded by buildings. which are a Spanish classic. “Place Reial” in Barcelona and “Plaza de la Corradera” in Cordoba are the first squares that come to my mind
The building that has colourful murals, is called the “Casa de la Panaderia – Bakery House”. The building which was used as royal offices in the past, is now the Madrid Municipality. It is used by the Cultural Affairs Unit.
We take a short break at this colourful and chirpy square which is surrounded by cafes. However, it would be disappointing to expect the same liveliness at night.
The square leads to arched passageways and streets and other squares. One of them is the arched passageway that leads to Plaza de San Miguel.
Gran Via: Gran Via which was built by demolishing a city and 14 streets in 1910, is one of the busiest streets with shops of famous brands. Plaza de Espana is on the west side of the street. Calle de Alcala is on the east side. There many buildings with different architectures on the street. The first skyscraper of Madrid Telefonica which is designed by American Weeks and Metropolis building designed by French architect Jules and Raymond Fevrier are only two examples for these buildings.
Live music concerts are performed on the square where Callao metro station is at Gran Via. The square is getting ready for a concert to be given at night.
For art lovers, we have museums of Prado and Reina Sofia on the second day of our trip in Madrid, “Country of Museums”. After arriving in Cİbeles Square (further down on the east side of Gran Via), we turn to Paseo Del Prado and find Prado Museum on this road.
Prado Museum: As one of the ‘must-see’ museums in Madrid and also as one of the worlds most respected museums, it has a very rich collection. In this museum that hosts important artefacts of North Renaissance art, you can find works of many important artists such as; Bosch, Rubens, Titian, Raphael, Murillo, Dürer, El Greco, Caravaggio, Ribera, Rembrant, Bruegel. Most of famous Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosh’ work of early renaissance is exhibited in this museum’s collection.
We get the chance to see works of many Spanish painters, Diego Valazquez who was known as the “Painter of Truth” and Francisco Goya who was regarded as the first painter of Spanish modern era. “Las Meninas- The Ladies in Waiting” (1656) is seen as the most valuable painting in Prado.
“The Third Of May” (1808) painted by Francisco Goya when he was 62, symbolizes the day Frenchman slaughtering Spanish civilians.
Reina Sofia Museum: A contemporary art museum where many photographs, paintings, statues, graphite and different work could be found. Work of many artists such as Salvador Dali, Miro and Pablo Picasso are exhibited in this museum.
The most valuable painting in the museum is “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso. Just like the best literary work describing the cruelty of war is “To Whom The Bell Tolls”, the same description comes alive in “Guernica”. Taking pictures is allowed in the museum, however it prohibited in the hall where Guernica was exhibited. Therefore, I am pasting a picture of it I found on the Internet.
Some paintings from Salvador Dali, Solana, Picasso
For more information you can read “Museums” that I have written.
After Reina Sofia Museum, we cross the Caudio Moyano Street to get to Retiro Park. There are second hand book stalls on this street.
Buen Retiro Park: The 350 acres of park belonging to the Royal Family, was opened to public near the end of nineteenth century during Alfonso XII of Spain’s ruling. A perfect spot to be inside the city but also feel away from it.
We spend around 3 hours in this park which we entered from the Angel Caido gate on the south and exit from the Indepencia Gate on the north of the park.
You can see many people skating around, cycling, reading and sunbathing in this parl where many book fairs, concerts and exhibitions are held.
There is an artificial lake on which you can get on a small boat and on which the monument of Alfonso XII is found.
There are two art galleries inside the park.
Palacio de Cristal: Palacio de Cristal (Crystal Palace) which was built as a greenhouse for exotic plants on 1887, now hosts temporary exhibitions for modern day artists. Some pictures from the gallery of “The Rocket and the Abyss” of Damian Ortega that coincided with our visit.
Palacio de Velazquez: It was built by Velazquez Bosco between 1881-1883 for a national exhibition, and was later continued to use for exhibitions. The building is neoclassic, has red bricks and tiles on the exterior. Today, it hosts exhibitions of Reina Sofia Museum.
“The Forest of Remembrance” built by planting olive and cypress trees for each person who have lost their lives in the attack on 11th of March 2004, is also situated in this park.
The Independencia Gate on the North side of the park, leads to Plaza de la Independencia and we see Puerta de Alcala (Alcala Gate) on this square. You can get to “Retiro” by taking the metro from here.
Alcala Gate: A three-arched monument built between 1774-1778 as the East side gate of the city during Carlos III’s ruling. This neoclassic monument which resembles triumphal arches of Roman architecture was designed by Italian architecture Frencesco Sabatini.
We see a group performing by dancing and singing on Calle de Alcala, when on our way to Cibele Square.
Cibele Square: It takes its name from the statue of Cybele Goddess of Fertility in a car being pulled by lions in the middle of the street. It is still not clear what the goddess of fertility of Phrygians who had settled in Anatolia. The square is surrounded by buildings of architecture similar to Palacio de Cibeles, Banco de Espana, Palacio Buenavista and Palacio de Linares. It doesn’t show clear because it could not fit into the frame. Palacio de Cibeles draws attention as it was the most magnificent building of the square. This square is also known for its celebrations for Real Madrid’s victory.
We contiune our tour as it doesn’t get dark early in summer and go to La Latina.
La Latina: I loved this place since it resembles Istanbul with its rough streets and its overall air with many bars, cafes and restaurants.
Aren’t the cautious peddlers in Latino so familiar?
With my dear friend Şengül, we adore the colorful sweet store (La Cyre Gourmande).
EL Rastiro: It is a very vast open bazaar, very similar to “Nişantaşı high-end flea market” located in the streets around Calle de Toledo on Sundays. For those who love shopping and antiques, it could be very interesting. You can find unique souvenirs for acceptable prices such as fans, castanets and magnets in this bazaar. To look around more comfortably, it is best to arrive early, because it could get too crowded. We took a taxi to get there, but it is possible to get here by metro with ‘Latina’ station.
On our way back from Andalusia, we saved Palacio Real for the the last day of our trip. We perfected our trip to Madrid with this beautiful palace. From Puerta del Sol, we headed toward west on Calle del Arenal and arrived at Plaza de Isabel II and at the palace near Teatro Real quite easily.
Palacio Real: The palace which was the official residence of King of Spain until 1937, was only used for official ceremonies. Spain is governed with parliamentary monarchy. The king who has symbolic authority lives in Zarzuella Palace upstate.
First, there was a castle built by King of Toledo for defense in ninth century. The neoclassic palace what V. Felipe wanted to build after the burning down of this castle in 1734, was completed in 1755. The Royal Palace hosted administrators during the Franco Era and the Republic era. It has approximately 3500 rooms, and is more glorious on the inside than on the outside. If we had enough time to properly see the biggest Royal Palace of Europe ( such as its throne room, rooms of Carlos III and Carlos IV, dining room and the ceramic room), I would have definitely wanted it. You need a lot time spared to do so.
As we have visited the Palace, I should also say that Sabatini Gardens, Gardens of Campo del Moro, Muralla Arabe where monuments remaining from Muslims from Medieval rest, Basilica de San Francisco el Grande and Plaza de Espana can ve visited.
Statue of Felipe IV on a horse in Oriente Square in front of the Palace.
Statues on the way for the Palace.
Teatro Real in front of the Palace where opera and theatre shows are held.
Almudena Cathedral: The construction of the Cathedral which was initiated during Alfanso XII in 1883, lasts longer than an 100 years due to civil wars, economic reasons (It did not interest rich Spanish people because the name of the donators were not to be announced) and etc. It was only completed in 1993. Actually, this construction was decided long ago. Initially Madrid’s first mosque and a chuch built by one of the Saints of Madrid called Santa Maria de la Almudena on the place where the Cathedral is built. After King Felipe II made Madrid the capital city, plans for a new church were being made. Even though the permission was given and the construction began, it never continued.
When King Alfanso XII lost his first wife Maria de Las Mercedes, the construction of the cathedral started again as a memorial and a grave for her. The cathedral has an eclectic architecture in which various architectures worked for a long time. The exterior was made to be neoclassic to be in harmony with the Palace in front of it. Neo-gothic and neo-romanesque architecture was used for interior architecture. Ceiling decorations and he altar stone from sixteenth century directly attracts attention. It is the only Spanish cathedral sanctified by Papa 2. John in 1993. However it was officially opened to public with the marriage ceremony of the current King Felipe and Letizia Ortiz in 2004. It is different than most of the other cathedrals and has a more modern architecture, therefore this Roman Cathedral deserves to be seen.
Atocha Train Station: The biggest train station of Madrid with a botanic garden inside it. It has an interesting architecture with cast iron, bricks and glass materials. Our paths crossed with this beautiful station frequently on our way to Toledo and Cordoba and on the way back from Andalusia.
191 people were dead because of the Al-qaida attack in 2004. For that reason, serious security precautions are enforced in train stations in Spain. Belongings go through X-Ray machines. It is possible that you may miss your train if you arrive at the last minute to the station because of all these security checks.
Personally I think that the energy of squares, parks and streets of Madrid effect you as well. In order to properly enjoy the city and open air venues, I advise you not to visit in winter.
There are many other venues and many other flavors to taste in Madrid other than Plaza de Espana, Plaza del Dos Mayo, Plaza de Santa Ana and etc. I don’t know if I convinced you to visit here but I would certainly want to come back to Madrid with another destination but this time especially to follow the footsteps of Cervantes. I have completed my ritual for this. I took a picture in front of the “Bear” statue which is the symbol of the city, and guaranteed my return.
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The P.T. Demo for PS4
By Jason Callina @jcallina Aug 22, 2014
If you haven’t played the P.T. demo for the PS4 be aware that there are SPOILERS that follow. Proceed at your own risk.
I’m not going to go into great detail about what P.T. is or how it came to be. The short version is that P.T. most likely stands for ‘Playable Trailer’, with a half a dozen other theories bopping about including the scientific name for a certain species of tree. If you can successfully play through the trailer (it isn’t easy) you will be rewarded with an additional trailer for the secret of the game. SPOILER follows:
The game is a teaser for a new Silent Hill apparently named Silent Hills.
I’m a horror nut, I’ve watched hundreds of horror films in my forty years on this earth and I’m not planning on stopping any time soon. Lately though I’ve had better horror experiences in video games compared to movies. I’m not really sure how to explain this, it may be the immersion quality of games where I am actually participating in the plot. In the movies you yell at someone to not enter the basement, in a video game this is something you actually control.
Out of my top three horror video games of all time Silent Hill 2 ranks really close to the top. The second installment is almost a perfect combination of suspense, atmosphere, music and resource management. Criticism would be poor English voice acting, some confusing elements and too much walking from place to place. The game is starting to age, even though I still pick it up and play a bit from time to time. It is thirteen years old at this point, which is relatively ancient in video game terms, so it gets a lot of grace from me.
I fell in love with Silent Hill 2 many years ago and stuck with the franchise even when the franchise didn’t love me back. I came at the P.T. demo backwards, finding out that it was a Silent Hill teaser before I played the game. This was an accident, but with all the info being spread around about it I probably would have been spoiled before I got the chance to actually play no matter what.
When I finally sat down and was able to play P.T. something really interesting happened, I had to stop playing. I stopped playing for the most embarrassing of reasons, I was too scared. Now I am a grizzled horror veteran, and while my tastes run more towards creeping dread and suspense rather than splatter I have seen my share of the icky stuff. I generally know how to read horror films so I get a bit of a telegraph before something happens. P.T. was completely disorienting, difficult to read and played on my fears in a slow building way where I was terrified before I even realized it. By the time an inevitable jump scare came I was not prepared and I lost it.
The last time something like that happened was in Dead Space, and before that it was Silent Hill 2.
If you make it all the way to the end and watch the final trailer it is revealed to be a Silent Hill game with participation from Hideo Kojima of Metal Gear Solid fame and my favorite modern director, Guillermo del Toro, a surprise bonus for me that means I will be paying close attention to the development of this game.
If you don’t have a PS4 and/or have no intention of playing you can get a partial experience by watching the video below.
Watching: Phenomena (1985)
By Jason Callina @jcallina May 16, 2014
Movie Posters of Yore
Look at that movie poster. Don’t you wish that you would see these beautiful painted posters again instead of the giant floating head Photoshop posters we get now? I’m not an ‘everything new is bad’ sort of guy but there are some luxuries of the past that I wish we had more of.
The Giallo
Dario Argento films in the Giallo genre are not for the faint of heart, but they have a special quality to them that is unique to Italian cinema. Phenomena is an especially odd film with some disjointed logic and a young girl who can telepathically communicate with insects. It is Jennifer Connelly’s first film, has an excellent early score by Goblin and a wheelchair bound Donald Pleasence playing a Scotsman. Something for everyone.
Here is a long form possibly fan made trailer for the film. A bit melancholy, but I think it captures the mood of the film nicely.
Phenomena inspired the 1995 Japanese point and click adventure game Clock Tower, even going so far as to copy Jennifer Connelly’s likeness plus scenes and plot lines directly from other Italian horror films. Check it out below.
Kansas City Bomber: Raquel Welch Roller Derby Exploitation
By Jason Callina @jcallina Nov 27, 2013
I consider myself a student of exploitation and B cinema but did not know this existed. Kansas City Bomber is a 1972 movie starring the great Raquel and what appears to be real Roller Derby athletes. I don’t much about this, but I guarantee that I will soon. I expect my weekend will be filled with finding a good print of this.
Watch the video below and be amazed.
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Topicwise Questions - World Cup Football
Multiple Choice Questions - World Cup Football
1. How many teams have won the World Cup since its inception in 1930?
Answer (a). Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, England and Uruguay
2. Brazil has the most number of World Cup titles to its credit. How many times has it won the World Cup so far?
3. In which year was the football World Cup held for the first time?
4. Which country won the first football World Cup?
5. Paul, a marine creature, which supposedly predicted the outcome of many matches in World Cup 2010 was a/an
6. In which country is FIFA World Cup 2018 scheduled to be played?
7. To which country does the famous player Ronaldo, who held the record for most number of World Cup goals, belong?
8. In which country are the headquarters of FIFA (International Federation of Association Football) located?
9. Who has the record for scoring the most goals in World Cup history?
Answer (c). He has scored 16 goals in World Cup history surpassing Brazilian player Ronaldo's record of 15 goals.
10. Who of the following won the World Cup both as the captain and manager of his country's team?
Mario Zagallo
Jupp Derwall
Answer (c). He belongs to Germany.
11. Which trophy was awarded to the winners of World Cup tournament until 1970?
Arsenal Trophy
Grondona Cup
Jules Rimet Trophy
12. What kind of animal was Zabivaka, the mascot for FIFA World Cup 2018?
13. Who of the following was awarded the Golden Ball or the Best Player Award at the 2018 FIFA World Cup?
14. In which year did France win the World Cup earlier?
15. Thibaut Courtois who was awarded the Golden Glove award for the best goalkeeper at the World Cup 2018 is from which country?
16. Who was the captain of the 2018 World Cup winning team of France?
Antoinne Griezmann
17. From which confederation did the most number of teams qualify for the World Cup 2018 final 32?
Answer (c). 14 teams qualified from Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).
18. Who of the following players scored a hat-trick of goals in the World Cup 2018?
Both (a) and (b)
Answer (c). Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal scored against Spain and Harry Kane of England scored against Panama.
19. Luzhniki Stadium which hosted the opening and closing ceremonies in World Cup 2018 is located in which city?
20. Which team was awarded the FIFA Fair Play Award at the World Cup 2018 tournament?
21. Which of the following was the official song of the FIFA World Cup 2018?
All In One Rhythm
Football in space
22. What name has been given to the special font typeface designed by Brandia Central for writing the official logo Russia 2018 of FIFA World Cup 2018?
Dusha
23. What name was given to the football used for the final match between France and Croatia at the FIFA World Cup 2018?
Telstar Elast
Telstar Durlast
Telstar Mechta
Telstar Plast
24. Which team scored the highest number of goals at the FIFA World Cup 2018?
25. Who of the following was the manager of the French team at the FIFA World Cup 2018 as well as the captain of the team which won the World Cup in 1998?
Juan Carlo Osorio
26. Who was selected for the Man of the Match Award in the finals of World Cup 2018?
Antoine Griezman
27. How much was the prize money awarded to the World Cup winning team France at the tournament?
22 million dollars
Answer (d). The runners-up took 28 million dollars while the 3rd and 4th position teams took 24 and 22 million dollars respectively.
28. Who of the following became the second teenager in the history of World Cup football to score a goal in the finals?
Answer (b). Pele was the first teenager to do so in 1958.
29. What kind of animal was Fuleco, the mascot for FIFA World Cup 2014?
Giant Anteater
31. Who of the following was awarded the Golden Boot Award for most goals in the tournament of 2014?
Miroslave Klose
32. Who was awarded the Golden Glove award for the best goalkeeper at the World Cup 2014?
Tim Krul
33. Who scored the winning goal for Germany against Argentina in the finals of World Cup 2014?
34. How many countries played at the World Cup 2014 tournament?
35. Match the players (winners of individual awards) with their countries?
A. Lionel Messi 1. France
B. Manuel Neuer 2. Argentina
C. Paul Pogba 3. Columbia
D. James Rodriguez 4. Germany
A - 3; B - 4; C - 1; D - 2
36. Who was the captain of the 2014 World Cup winning team from Germany?
37. How many teams from the Asian continent participated in the FIFA World Cup 2014 tournament?
Answer (d). Iran, Japan and South Korea.
Answer (c). Thomas Muller of Germany scored against Portugal and Xherdan of Switzerland scored against Honduras.
39. At which of the following stadiums was the final match between Germany and Argentina played in World Cup 2014?
Mineirao
Arena Castelao
Arena Da Amazonia
41. What was the slogan of the FIFA World Cup 2014?
Celebrate Humanity
Football For Peace
A Time To Make Friends
U.N.O.
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Ancient Egyptians Enjoyed A Government Health Care Plan
By Staff Reporter Nov 18, 2014 05:16 PM EST
Archaeologists gained fascinating insight into the medical practices of an ancient Egyptian village.
The residents of a village that is now called Deir el-Medina had access to what has been called "the earliest documented governmental health care plan," Stanford University reported. Written records have shown craftsmen who worked on the Egyptian pharaohs' royal tombs across the river from Luxor could take paid sick days and even receive free checkups at a health clinic. These workers were prevalent mainly during the 19th and 20th dynasties.
"The more I learn about Egypt, the more similar I think ancient Egyptian society is to modern American society," said Stanford Egyptologist Anne Austin. "Things we consider creations of the modern condition, such as health care and labor strikes, are also visible so far in the past."
An analysis of skeletons from the region also showed possible failures of the ancient health system. One individual appeared to have continued working while suffering from a blood infection.
"[Workers] nonetheless felt pressure to work through illness, perhaps to fulfill tacit obligations to the state to which they owed so much," Austin said.
The bodies also showed signs of stress from the tough climbing associated with pyramid building, and many of these individuals suffered from arthritis of the knee.
Some skeletons suggest those born with severe disabilities were well cared for and not forced to work because they did not show the same signs of wear and tear.
The findings provide insight into how these ancient people viewed health and disease.
"Egyptians thought about [disease] as a kind of contamination of the body. To get better, instead of balancing yourself, you had to purge yourself of the contaminant, Austin said. "It's very similar to modern germ theory. It shows an awareness of disease as being external."
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Fireworks for the 4th in ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 1, 2019 - 6:37pm
The Blip
CHICAGO – “Spider-Man: Far From Home” is remarkably light on its feet considering it takes place in the wake of the events of “Avengers: Endgame.” After the five year period between finger snaps which is now referred to as “the blip,” Peter Parker (Tom Holland) and some of his classmates have returned the same age, while everyone else has gotten five years older.
Journey to Conclusion is the Thrill of ‘Avengers: Endgame’
CHICAGO – When it comes down to this, and the creators do it right, there is no more satisfying conclusion than “Avengers: Endgame.” Admirers of this magnificent Marvel (Studios) Universe story will get everything they want. It is the “Gone with the Wind” of superhero epic films.
Brie Larson as ‘Captain Marvel’ is Not as Marvel-ous
Submitted by PatrickMcD on March 8, 2019 - 10:00am
Jude Law Annette Bening
Lashana Lynch
CHICAGO – Since the Marvel cinematic universe began over a decade ago with “Iron Man,” it’s shown an amazing talent for consistency. While only a few installments have surpassed their comic book origins to become great examples of the genre – and great stories in general – Marvel hasn’t had many out and out clunkers either (possible exception, the second Thor movie).
‘Ant-Man and The Wasp’ is Abuzz with Laughs & Shrinkage
Tip Harris
CHICAGO – Gag writers, it’s time to head to Marvel Studios. Apparently the direction their superhero franchises are going for is laughs. “Ant-Man and the Wasp” is a prime example… the second film in the “Ant-Man” series amps up the humor, priming a hero that can go super small or massive. Go ask Alice, I think she’ll know.
Formula Works Well in Hilarious ‘Deadpool 2’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 17, 2018 - 8:33am
CHICAGO – We could all use some laughs, and “Deadpool 2” blessedly delivers. The meta superhero Deadpool – who exists both as a anti-hero and actor playing him – provides the wisecracks in the midst of the mayhem he experiences, and entertains in a way that other comic book movies wish they could be.
Epic Comic Book Story in ‘Avengers: Infinity War’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 27, 2018 - 8:43am
CHICAGO – Coming off the multi-textured “Black Panther,” Marvel Studios now turns its assignment towards an Avengers movie, and man, everything is on the table. This overstuffed, somewhat overindulged journey of a tale never loses its flavor, and has surprises around every corner. Anticipate “Avengers: Infinity War.”
‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Spins a Web of Fun
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 2, 2017 - 7:33am
sony pictures entertainment
CHICAGO – Summer movies should be fun, and the superhero craze has Marvel Studios combining their adventures with a little joy. “Spider-Man: Homecoming” mostly contains that big high spirit, with Tom Holland portraying the title character with youthful zeal and energy.
Cut of Nostalgia in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 5, 2017 - 12:31pm
Karen Gillian
CHICAGO – When I first saw “Guardians of the Galaxy” I was unfamiliar with the comic book source. I enjoyed the film, but worried it might be just a little too nerdy and obscure to develop a following. Now with “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” the series has solidified itself as the class clowns of the Marvel Studios cinematic universe, and it’s been embraced for it.
‘Doctor Strange’ is Odd Enough to be Enchanting
Submitted by JonHC on November 4, 2016 - 6:34pm
Dr Stephen Strange
occult and supernatural
CHICAGO – We’ve reached a point where comic book films are no longer a scarcity, but an eventuality. With several coming out every year, each one competes for our attention even though the originality behind their approach has the opposite effect. A great cinematic fatigue is almost upon us, but “Doctor Strange” shows a promising deviation that could possibly alter the franchise’s fate.
Marvel Studios Reaches New Heights in Satisfying ‘Captain America: Civil War’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 5, 2016 - 9:10pm
Daniel Bruhl
emily van camp
scarlett johanssen
stephen mcfeeley
CHICAGO – “Captain America: Civil War” is more of an “Avengers” movie than it is a Captain America movie. But that’s okay because this is easily the best Avengers movie Marvel Studios has ever made, and it also might be the best movie the studio has ever made.
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The Holy Martyrs Cyricus and His Mother Julitta
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Saints and Feasts: The Holy Martyrs Cyricus and His Mother Julitta, Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles of Kiev, The Finding of the Head of St. Matrona of Chios, Donald and his Nine Daughters, Swithun, Bishop of Winchester
Epistle Reading: St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 13:11-14; 14:1-5
BRETHREN, when I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. Make love your aim, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, he who prophesies speaks to men for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. He who prophesies is greater than he who speaks in tongues, unless some one interprets, so that the church may be edified.
Gospel Reading: Matthew 17:24-27; 18:1-4
At that time, the collectors of the half-shekel tax went up to Peter and said, “Does not your teacher pay the tax?” He said, “Yes.” And when he came home, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tribute? From their sons or from others?” And when he said, “From others,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free. However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook, and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel; take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.”
At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them, and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
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5 key features
Durban and New York, two cities at the forefront of resilience to climate change and natural hazards
Green Soluce 23 May 2019
Urban areas are directly affected by climate change for which they are partly responsible, contributing 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions (C40, 2016). In order to preserve their heritage and become sustainable, several cities have implemented mitigation actions and strategies to become resilient to climate risk.
Durban, an African city pioneering resilience
Durban, a coastal city in eastern South Africa, has felt the effects of climate change for decades, including its impacts on biodiversity, water supplies and agricultural production. It faces extreme weather events related to its rapid urbanization such as floods and droughts. Durban, located in one of the poorest provinces in in South Africa, has recently been praised for its innovative actions in terms of environmental excellence: it was the first African city, along with Dakar, to join the 100 Resilient Cities network, a network created by the Rockefeller Foundation that helps cities become resilient to climate risk. By 2030, it aims to become the most pleasant city in Africa to live in, taking into account all the challenges of sustainability in its urban development. Musa Mbhele, Head of Development Planning, Environment and Management of the city, summed up Durban’s ambitions as follows: “It will be a space where people will have access to affordable green transport, he said, with solar panels on the roofs, more urban gardens, protection of green spaces, which will serve as protection against floods”.
Durban has exceptionally low rainfall periods, which puts the issue of drought at the forefront of the city’s concerns. To manage this issue, the city has engaged in several transformation programs, including the uMngeni Ecological Infrastructure Partnership, which modernizes water infrastructure and protects natural infrastructure such as wetlands. Indeed, wetlands participate in the storage and gradual release of large quantities of water, making it possible to feed water tables during periods of drought. Wetlands also contribute to maintaining good water quality in the city because they function as real filters: the soils and plants that make them up retain a very large part of the pollution caused by man.
At the same time, local authorities have made a parallel commitment to reduce chronic stress by promoting eco-social well-being, for example with regard to social inequalities and air pollution: For example, on the outskirts of a city on the edge of a landfill site, a green forest is growing in order to improve the quality of life of the neighbouring community that includes some of Durban’s poorest citizens. This project also promotes the local economy in creating 43 full-time and several part-time jobs and by developing a local reforestation system that allows the city’s real estate projects to be built with local materials.
The city is therefore committed to reducing chronic stress (pollution, social inequalities, etc.) but also major shocks (floods, droughts, etc.) by implementing a global policy under the prism of resilience, co-led by all the teams of all the city’s departments. A locally relevant action plan is being developed with the objective of being understandable by all citizens and easy to implement for them to participate in the development of resilience to Durban’s climate risk.
New York, intelligent flood risk management
As the prism of resilience demands, New York has responded to a climate change challenge by reducing risk but also by providing new, pleasant and sustainable infrastructure for New Yorkers.
Following the heavy loss of life and physical damage caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, New York City spent $20 billion to create resilient infrastructure. New York City has more than 520 miles of coastline and more than 8 million people, nearly 400,000 of whom live in areas vulnerable to coastal flooding and rising sea levels.
New York has developed a new approach to becoming resilient to flood risk and wants to create protective infrastructures that are not just walls and barriers. The objective is to protect, but also to develop the shoreline area, thanks to less invasive infrastructures and technological innovation. The “BIG U” project, scheduled for completion in 2024, is a good example of this strategy: it will create a belt around Manhattan to protect the population from flooding, safeguard biodiversity and provide citizens with new areas for relaxation and recreation. It is a 16-kilometre urban belt composed of parks, public parkways, bike rides and baseball diamonds. All these spaces will be floodable, independently of each other, meaning that a space can be flooded without any consequences on the adjacent space. At Brooklyn Bridge, a folding panel system will be present in the event of a flood alert and will stop the progression of the water. The rest of the time, these panels will be folded and used to light public spaces in a playful way.
Project Big U: The belt created around Manhattan will be composed of relaxation and recreation areas that can be flooded in the event of extreme weather events
Crédit: Business Insider
In addition, since New York is fragmented into several districts separated by rivers, local authorities have developed the “New York City Ferry”, a network of ferry lines used as public transport. This project will develop a new mobility, reconnect the different areas of New York and propose alternative transport infrastructures to those already existing, whose vulnerability was proven by Hurricane Sandy. Water is no longer a border, but a link between the inhabitants. This new network consists of a system of boarding platforms to withstand extreme weather events: boarding docks are connected by footbridges to floating platforms, held in place by pylons. Thanks to these floating platforms, this transportation system operates continuously, even in the event of flooding, unlike the subway, which was closed for several weeks following Hurricane Sandy.
New York is therefore part of a policy of a resilient, sustainable, viable and productive city: a “water sensitive city”.
Article researched and written by Lucille Christien for Urban Chronicles™
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Actualités climate risk, drought, Durban, flooding, New York, resilience
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IBTL » Rashtra Vandana
Veer Savrakar - The Eternal Hero
Published: Monday, May 28,2012, 10:19 IST
Source: IBTL
Veer Savarkar occupies a unique place in the history of Indian freedom struggle. His name evokes controversy. While some consider him as one of the greatest revolutionaries in the Indian freedom struggle, others consider him a communalist and Machiavellian manipulator. Vir Savarkar was also a great orator, prolific writer, historian, poet, philosopher and social worker. He was an extraordinary Hindu scholar. He coined Indian words for telephone, photography, the parliament, among others.
Veer Savarkar’s original name was Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. He was born on May 28, 1883 in the village of Bhagur near Nasik. He was one among four children born to Damodarpant Savarkar and Radhabai. Veer Savarkar had his initial education at the Shivaji School, Nasik. He lost his mother when he was only nine. Savarkar was a born rebel. He organized a gang of kids ,Vanarsena when he was just eleven.
During his high school days, Veer Savarkar used to organize Shivaji Utsav and Ganesh Utsav, started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak (whom Savarkar considered as his Guru) and used these occasions to put up plays on nationalistic themes. Savarkar lost his father during the plague of 1899. In March 1901, he married Yamunabai. Post marriage, in 1902, Veer Savarkar joined Fergusson College in Pune.
In Pune, Savarkar founded the “Abhinav Bharat Society”. He was also involved in the Swadeshi movement and later joined Tilak’s Swaraj Party. His instigating patriotic speeches and activities incensed the British Government. As a result the British Government withdrew his B.A. degree.
In June 1906, Veer Savarkar, left for London to become Barrister. However, once in London, he united and inflamed the Indian students in England against British rule in India. He founded the Free India Society. The Society celebrated important dates on the Indian calendar including festivals, freedom movement landmarks, and was dedicated to furthering discussion about Indian freedom. He believed and advocated the use of arms to free India from the British and created a network of Indians in England, equipped with weapons.
In 1908, brought out an authentic informative researched work on The Great Indian Revolt, which the British termed as "Sepoy Mutiny" of 1857. The book was called "The Indian War of Independence 1857". The British government immediately enforced a ban on the publication in both Britain and India. Later, it was published by Madame Bhikaiji Cama in Holland, and was smuggled into India to reach revolutionaries working across the country against British rule.
In 1909, Madanlal Dhingra, a keen follower of Savarkar shot Sir Wyllie after a failed assassination attempt on the then Viceroy, Lord Curzon. Savarkar conspicuously did not condemn the act. When the then British Collector of Nasik, A.M.T. Jackson was shot by a youth, Veer Savarkar finally fell under the net of the British authorities. He was implicated in the murder citing his connections with India House. Savarkar was arrested in London on March 13, 1910 and sent to India.
After a formal trial, Savarkar was charged with serious offences of illegal transportation of weapons, provocative speeches and sedition and was sentenced to 50 years' of jail and deported to the Kalapani (Blackwaters) at Andaman cellular jail.
In 1920, many prominent freedom fighters including Vithalbhai Patel, Mahatma Gandhi and Bal Gangadhar Tilak demanded the release of Savarkar. On May 2, 1921, Savarkar was moved to Ratnagiri jail, and from there to the Yeravada jail. In Ratnagiri jail Savarkar wrote the book 'Hindutva'. On January 6, 1924 he was h freed under the condition that he would not leave Ratnagiri district and abstain from political activity for the next five years. On his release, Veer Savarkar founded the Ratnagiri Hindu Sabha on January 23, 1924 that aimed to preserve India's ancient culture and work for social welfare.
Later Savarkar joined Tilak's Swaraj Party and founded the Hindu Mahasabha as a separate political party. He was elected President of the Mahasabha and toiled for building Hindu Nationalism and later joined the Quit India movement.
The Hindu Mahasabha opposed creation of Pakistan, and took exception to Gandhi's continued Muslim appeasement stances. Nathuram Godse, a volunteer of the Hindu Mahasabha, assassinated Gandhi in 1948 and upheld his actions till his hanging. Veer Savarkar was arrested and indicted by the Government of India in the Mahatma Gandhi assassination case. But he was acquitted by the Supreme Court of India, for reasons of lack of evidence.
Veer Savarkar died on February 26, 1966 at the age of 83.
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Jeanine Pirro, Proves that Anyone Can Have The Surgery
A lot of people do believe that the surgical procedures, plastic surgery has been taken as one of the most instant way taken by most Hollywood celebs. However, this was rather incorrect and, presumably, no longer true in as much as Jeanine Pirro plastic surgery has shown that anyone can keep their gorgeous look by cosmetic treatment and control. Most people will agree that Jeanine Pirro is not a big star in the Hollywood industry. In fact, she is just a good prosecutor and judge. It will be undebatable that she has a gorgeous look after she had plastic surgery. Jeanine Pirro once was reported to have different surgeries ranging from face lid, botox treatment, and many more. Of course, you cannot imagine that she is truly sixty years old and, contrastingly, looks like a thirty-three-year-old woman. This for sure makes the rumors about her taking plastic surgery even surprising. Of the most shocking news is that Jeanine Pirro is so popular for her smooth legs.
What she has gained from the surgical procedures
Jeanine Pirro became so popular by her fascinating appearance in a show named Judge Jeanine Pirro. She, additionally, got an Emmy award. Most people say that the Jeanine Pirro plastic surgery was a rumor. However, the professional surgeon claimed that the artists had used plastic surgery to boost her look. There are lots of differences that you can see. Jeanine Pirro was reported to have some botox treatment in order to make her skin tight and sexy. Her skin, particularly on the forehead is getting tighter after the use of botox injection that she took. There was no line at all that you can see on her face. She constitutes a pretty lady that makes use of plastic surgery. Most celebrities use botox injection to cope with the sign of aging. It has been widely known that botox injection is one of many cosmetic treatments that can bring about lots of significant change, something that everyone surely fancies. Each person can make use of Botox treatment to keep their skin tight and young. Jeanine Pirro plastic surgery once again affirmed that not only the wealthy and famous Hollywood superstars that can use plastic surgery to foster their youthful look. She does indeed look younger than her age. Most professionals in the surgery enterprise notice that there is not any wrinkle on her face and there is no line on her face. All of this news altogether made the news about Jeanine Plastic surgery even more convincing and sound true.
Was it more than a facelift?
Due to the rumor Jeanine Plastic surgery via evercorem.com, it was reported to have eyelid treatment that caused her to look much more attractive. After having done the surgical work, Jeanine Pirro once looked even charming with her bright eyes. It was due to the rumored work which was done enlarge a small part of the size of the cheek and lip. Before the surgery, her lip was rather thick and voluminous. However, after she had the surgical procedures, the artists looked so young in as much as her lips looked smaller and nicer than before. In addition, there was also nicety in the chin which can be noticed easily. Her chin was also different.
On the whole, Jeanine Pirro indeed did look better than she was used to. Again, it affirmed the rumor that she had taken some plastic surgery to boost her look. This also corroborated that plastic surgery did not necessarily tie to famous Hollywood superstars.
Jerry Jones Plastic Surgery- Was it really successful?
Jerry Jones, one of the famous figures in the history of American basketball leagues, was an inspirational person who once played for the character Baxter Cain. He was also known as the owner of the Dallas Felons, captured in a movie entitled BASKETBALL. Jerry Jones once had a brief cameo appearance in the late 1990s. It was made for the purpose of reunion movie Dallas: War of the Ewings. in addition, Jerry Jones was also involved on a TV show named Coach as well as a television commercial, Diet Pepsi MAX. It was in this commercial that he worked with Wade Phillips and Tony Romo. Jones has been recently involved in a commercial named Papa John’s wherein a stunt man taker part to perform a dance action. Needless to say, there was also some popping buzz about Jerry Jones running plastic surgery to keep his youthful look, which apparently does not withstand the aging problem. Well, just like any other figures in the realm of the Hollywood industry, the issues pertaining to the surgical procedures were almost always incumbent on every figure. This also included Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones was once reported to have had plastic surgery. This was, of course, shocking to everyone in as much as Jerry Jones was involved in a great number of businesses.
Did Jerry Jones indeed have plastic surgery?
If we are really tempted to find out the answer, it will all depend on your personal judgment. There have been lots of pictures evoking myriads of issues about Jerry Jones plastic surgery. It was also grappled with the plastic surgery issue that once he was also said to have recovered from a mysterious surgery, which, of course, made the plastic surgery rumor even more mysterious yet confusing. Facelift denotes a type of the plastics surgery that is usually taken to bring down or to get rid of the wrinkles. In addition, it also can make a change in the shape of the face to be tighter or slighter. Based on some issues buzzing about Jerry Jones plastic surgery, it was also known that the surgery which was chosen by Jerry Jones in his appearance. If you look at some pictures issued on the internet, you will see some changes in his appearance. His facelift was rather different from the other men at his age. For sure, he does look young even though he has been aged. In fact, Jerry Jones is already seventy years old. It was not surprising of course to see such a wealthy person to have such a youthful look when he is supposed to look old. For Jerry, having this kind of plastic surgery done to excel his appearance is a piece of cake.
Jerry Jones plastic surgery- was it true?
Just as we heard shocking news about plastic surgery, the news on Jerry Jones taking plastic surgery was also rumored to be true, rather than being a mere rumor. Once there was an interview in which Jerry Jones indeed made a statement saying that he once had the plastic surgery. He said that ladies would not leave him as he already got a new look, a more fascinating one and, without a doubt, somewhat youthful. It was also corroborated by some pictures in which Jerry Jones was caught to be with a sexy chick in a hotel room. This picture clearly showed that Jerry Jones pawed the lady’s boobs and her genitals. In addition, he was also seemed to have her crawling underneath his privates. Public thought that the plastic surgery was done in purpose to keep him popular among ladies.
Shocking Rumors about Janice Dickinson Plastic Surgery
Janice Dickinson, once was an American supermodel, has appeared in an extensive number of commercials. There was a lot to say about the model who is now in her forties. Some of them, like any other celebrities, are nice, while some others are rather shocking. One of much shocking news said about Janice Dickinson was the rumor buzzing about Janice Dickinson plastic surgery.
Some Rumors on Janice Dickinson
Just like what we normally hear in the community of artists or Hollywood superstars, there is so many buzzes about the shocking news or, presumably, rumors, about artists who once, reported, to have plastic surgery to boost their beauty and youthful look. It is not surprising to see how many rumors and news have been said on that particular issue in as much as charm denotes one of the most prominent aspects that holds superiority in being so fascinating and, of course, popular. And this is also incumbent on Janice Dickinson’s career. The rumors about Janice Dickinson plastic surgery was once so booming in that public were utterly shocked by the rumors. It was even worse when there was news saying lots of things about Janice Dickinson pictures just before and after she was, rumored, to have the surgical procedure. Let us talk about those pictures. The batch of pictures trying to compare Janice’s difference before and after the surgical procedures was, to some extent, undebatable. It was due to the fact that there were some real differences in the picture. If you see closely you will see some difference in her boobs before and after the surgical procedures. This famous and sparkling mouthed model is barely a shrinking rose but this time this shameless American went a little bit too far. Due to her thirty-year-old boob sagging, Janice Dickinson has determined to have some artificial work done on her breast. It was just when the model realized that the breasts began to show their aging and were about to sag down.
What was known about Dr. Terry Dubrow? Janice Dickinson Plastic Surgery was Truly Arduous
Presumably, this is the other facet of the rumor that is worth knowing, what has happened to the supermodel just after the plastic surgery Janice Dickinson had. It was Dr. Terry Dubrow the one who was in charge of carrying out the knife job. Some news said that Dr. Terry demanded the supermodel to have some works done on her breasts to withstand the challenge of aging. However, it was not the surgical procedure that is shocking to him, but what went on after that. Shortly after the first implant was done, Janice had spotted some rippled area occurring around the implants. It was known that Janice’s implants were more than thirty-year-old implant was in need of another implant job. This was the cause of doctor’s recommending her to take implant job every ten to fifteen years. Dr. Terry Burrow once said that in his twenty-five year experience in running plastic surgery, Janice was by far the most complicated person to deal with and he ever had. He furthered that Janice appeared as her ultimate breast’s enemy. When he was on the go running the plastic surgery, Burrow said that Janice asked for more pain killers, which put forward that after three days would go on aspirin. Burrow claimed that Janice demand was more of classic drug seeking behavior. When Janice returned for another check-up, wherein she unfolded that she had no recollection at all and was not aware of whether she broke the sobriety. Soon after, Janice Dickinson plastic surgery was on everyone’s lips as she appeared in a skin care line with her newly implanted breasts in her photo shoot.
Shocking Rumors, Janet Jackson Taking Plastic Surgery
Janet Jackson, also known as Janet Damita Jo Jackson, was an American pop star, songwriter, and actress. This American superstar was born on May 16th, 1966. Janet Jackson gained her fame and popularity when she was popular for a series of innovative, conscious and, mainly sexually, provocative. In addition, she was also popular for her elaborate and fascinating stage performance, film roles, and television roles. The other achievement that she made was being a prominent figure in the culture of pop songs for more than twenty-five years. This youngest child in the Jackson family began her career trajectory with a great number of television series, such series as The Jackson, as well as Good Times and Fame. She commenced these television careers in the 1970s to 1980s. Having sung for a contract with A&M in 1982, Janet Jackson turned into a great pop icon which led to the release of her album entitled Control in 1986. It was in this album that Janet made her collaboration with famous record producers such as Terry Lewis and Jimmy Jam. In this album, they made a tremendous success by infusing the elements of funk, disco, rap, industrial beats, and rhythm and blues. Following all these sparkles about Janet Jackson, there were some rumors saying that Janet Jackson had once taken plastic surgery to keep her youthful beauty intact. Those shocking news were exactly on everyone’s lip. The rumors about Janet Jackson plastic surgery were also made even shocking when there were a great number of pictures explicating the difference between before and after she took the surgical procedure.
A Real Youthful Look?
So what did she get from the knife? Well, there has been a plethora of rumors that kept the buzz about Janet Jackson taking the plastic surgery. These were corroborated by the popping pictures showing Janet Jackson’s difference before and after taking the surgical procedures. Regardless of the anonymity of the resources relinquishing the pictures as well as the accompanying photos, the public was totally shocked by the existence of the images on the internet. Once it was rumored that Janet Jackson decided to undergo the surgical procedures on doctor’s demand, it was popped when she was taking part in a Vogue conference in Dubai. It was during this special event that Janet Jackson was not recognized! Soon after, the public began speculating about the artificial beauty that was so popular among superstars. This youngest sister of the late Michael Jackson admitted that she once took plastic surgery to have her nose done.
What the photos said about the plastic surgery around Janet Jackson
When asked to confirm this statement, she, however, mentioned that she would not have another surgery. This surely was contradictive to the ever emerging news about Janet Jackson plastic surgery. The other thing that was also said about the change was that her body. Most people would think that she had another knife work on her body. But, Janet Jackson disconfirmed this issue and said that she gained her sexy look through a strict diet and tough workouts on a daily basis. Now let us try to have some comparison, like most people do when they are shocked by the news. If you refer to the photo on the net which compared her face in 2012 and that in 2014, you may spot some differences. If you look carefully at the former photos showing her nose and breasts, you will see that Janet Jackson had plastic surgery. This was convinced by the artificial look in those aforementioned areas. Nowadays, either through modern day enhancements of natural relaxation, she does look beautiful and natural as if she had modern day procedure.
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» Media and Communications in Thailand
Media and Communications in Thailand
The kingdom of Thailand has excellent communication facilities, excluding remote areas there is brilliant connectivity throughout Thailand especially in and near tourist areas.
The Ministry of Communications is responsible for Thailand’s public postal, telegraph and telephone services. Citizens are said to enjoy liberty of speech and a free press.
However, the laws prohibit criticism of the royal family, threats to national security and insults to Buddhism.
Most all large businesses operate in English, language spoken even between Thais. Recently in Thailand there are widely-available multi-language communication facilities. There are several English, Thai and Chinese newspapers in distribution.
Thailand is the principal newspaper marketplace in Southeast Asia with an estimated circulation of at least 13 million copies daily in 2003.
Television is the most accepted communication medium in Thailand. The first mainland Asian television station was established in Bangkok in 1955. More than 80% of population are estimated to rely on television as their most important source of information. Thailand is a affiliate of INTELSAT and maintains trans-Pacific and Indian Ocean satellite communications stations.
All free-to-air channels except one are government owned and run by MCOT (Mass Communications Organization of Thailand) and the Royal Thai Army.
Radio stations are supposed to be regulated by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). But because of delays in launching the NBC, radio broadcasting is regulated by a group of government agencies, including the MCOT, military, Telegraph Department, state universities among others. Community radio stations operated with low-power transmitters have propagated in the last few years, offering listeners an unusual choice to the official radio stations.
Internet services in Thailand are widespread and most are inexpensive, the speed of connection is generally reasonable. Internet Cafes can be found easily in Thailand. Most hotels provide free or inexpensive Internet access by LAN or Wi-Fi, so you can bring your own computer.
The internet is the most free of media in the country, thought it still comes under government inspection. The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology aggressively blocks Thai ISPs from accessing web pages it consider offensive, principally pornography pages, but political pages, mainly those having to do with the South Thailand rebellion are also blocked.
Notebook users can also buy provisional Internet access accounts from the countries ISP’s like CSComs and KSC, but Loxinfo is considered as the fastest and best provider.
The internet country code in Thailand is .th
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Free! The changing countenance of monetisation in a digital world
Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired magazine, has just published a new book, entitled Free!, which attempts to shed light on the changing countenance of monetization in the digital world. I have not read the book yet but, based on an interview with Anderson that was broadcast as a Bloomberg podcast last week, it appears that the book is devoted to the issue that, in the digital world, contents are available at little or no cost to the user. Anderson then goes on to explore the implications of this observation.
As I understood from the podcast, because the marginal cost of each item of content is zero, or nearly so, Anderson suggests that the appropriate marketing approach in such circumstances is what he calls “freemium”. In the bricks and mortar world, a company would promote its product by distributing for free a small percentage of its products (say 10%) in order to develop sufficient customer buzz and then to recoup the investment by (it hopes) increased sales. The basis for the model is that the marginal cost of each such unit is material, such that the person will have to rely on sales of the remaining 90% in order to achieve a profit.
In the digital world, however, the circumstances are reversed. Because the marginal cost of production and distribution is so low, the appropriate strategy is to distribute a large quantity of the product for free, and then ideally to recoup by sales of relatively small number of units, where the after-cost-of-sales-of-goods profit for each unit sold is large. It appears that the book is available for free in a limited fashion for online reading (it was in fact blocked in my geographic area), and there is a form of variable pricing for hardback and soft back versions.
What particularly grabbed my attention, however, was Anderson’s observation about the possibility that what is particularly attractive for him is the possibility of making substantial sums from ancillary activities, such as speaking engagements and the like. Here, the profits from such ancillary activities will presumably go straight to the author only. That is the rub for me. What happens if the “freemium” model does not prove economically successful for the publisher, but the ancillary activities prove lucrative for the author?
If so, the day may not be too distant where the publisher for the three-dimensional copy will become increasingly irrelevant to the book business. Once promotion and distribution of book titles on the internet are perfected, the publisher’s role is severely diminished. Revenues are garnered by differential pricing for on-line reading, Kindle-like downloads, and permission to make a single copy from the on-line text. For the really successful books, the author and his ancillary activities may become the prime source of revenue. The publisher is irrelevant.
In such a case, we will have a reversal of the balance of interests in book publishing from the model that prevailed in the 16th-17th century, in the run-up to the Statute of Anne. In that period, publishing was largely about regulation and censorship by the Crown, and profits for the guild-protected publisher. The author, to the extent that author-based contents were published, was largely irrelevant. By contrast, in the Free! World of Anderson, the public’s interest is directed supported by the author only, who acts both as content creator and distributor (not to mention personal celebrity, if the book enjoys success). Like the author in the pre-Statute of Anne days, the publisher of the not-to-distant future becomes largely irrelevant.
With such an eventuality lurking, I am compelled to express a word of caution. Being a hopeless romantic about books and publishing, I still believe that a three-way relationship between the public, the author and the publisher is in the best interests of all three. If so, and if the ancillary book-related activities of the author become a material part of the book’s revenues, I would suggest that the better arrangement is to provide for a sharing of these revenues between the author and publisher with respect to revenues received by the author in connection with the author’s book-related ancillary activities. In this way, the publisher will have a greater incentive to carry out its distribution and sale function, while taking into account that the on-line world will likely materially alter the nature of the publishing business and the sources of publishing profits.
For a review of the book Free!, see here
Posted by Neil Wilkof at 05:49:00
Labels: "freemium", Chris Anderson, monetization of books
Michael F. Martin said...
I think if you dig a little deeper into most of Chris Anderson's claims, there is some truth. But as usual, his advertising is misleading.
How can an author distribute her own work over networks owned by large corporations?
Neil Wilkof said...
Thanks for your observation. Still, the dream of the internet being the ultimate disintermediator is never far away, is it?
ildibad said...
The role of a publisher is to select and not to print.
It has always been the case. Before tha publisher beared the risk to loose a lot of money if the choice was not good.
++Will++ you afford to risk a lot of time and energy to select through a MMOMUW (massive mass of mostly useless words)?
Do you have the energy to wander through zillion of blogs ?
The question is what is the business model for that ?
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JLedger / November 11, 2010 / No Comment
Goldstein-Garelick Wedding
Garelick-Goldstein Wedding
Joanna Lynn Garelick of Trumbull and Evan David Goldstein of New York, N.Y. were married on Oct. 10 at Congregation Rodeph Sholom in Bridgeport. Rabbi Emeritus Israel Stein and Cantor Jason Green officiated with Rabbi Kenneth Hain of Congregation Beth Sholom, Lawrence, N.Y.
The bride is the daughter of Jacqueline and Melvin Garelick of Trumbull. She is the granddaughter of Florence and Maurice Lipnick of Fairfield and Elizabeth and Martin Garelick of East Meadow, N.Y. A graduate of the Hopkins School in New Haven, she received a B.S. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Juris Doctor degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University. She is an associate attorney with the firm of Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper and Scinto in New York City.
The groom is the son of Maxine and Irwin Goldstein of Lawrence, N.Y. A graduate of Lawrence High School, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received an MBA from Duke University Fuqua School of Business. He is senior managing consultant with MasterCard, Inc. in Purchase, N.Y.
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Around Connecticut CT News
LedgerOnline / May 2, 2018 / No Comment
“Mitzvah Mania” spreads across Stamford
Bi-Cultural Day School was caught up in a frenzy of community service last month, when students engaged in the school’s second annual “Mitzvah Mania.”
For one full day in May, preschoolers through eighth-graders fanned out into the community to perform much needed mitzvot. It seemed as if students were everywhere: entertaining residents at Atria Senior Living; packing food and toiletries for residents of Inspirica and Pacific House Shelters; preparing meals for Schoke Jewish Family Service clients; baking challah for Chabad of Stamford’s Loaves of Love program; stocking shelves at the Fairfield County Food Bin; and more. Even the school’s eighth-graders, still on their Israel Experience trip, packed food donations for an Israeli food pantry.
“We strongly believe that going out into the community and working with our hands and our hearts to improve the lives of our neighbors is truly what tikun olam is all about,” said Head of School Jackie Herman.
By the end of the “Mitzvah Mania” day, many of the students understood that when you give a part of yourself, you get something back.
“It was fun meeting Anne,” said fifth-grader Jack Jaffe of his time spent chatting with a 93-year-old resident of Sunrise Senior Living. “She was nice and gave us advice and told us many stories about her life. She told us she was ‘shedding wisdom.’”
Jack was so moved by the experience that, accompanied by a few friends, he returned the following week.
“I wanted to go back because I thought it would be nice for her. She told us that she loved talking to kids and didn’t get to do that often. She touched me.”
Besides, he says, “I think that the seniors have a lot to teach us and we can learn a lot from them.”
His mother couldn’t help but ‘qvell.’
“As a parent you aim to foster a sense of humanity and empathy in your children,” says Jack’s mother, Terri Jaffe. “When my son jumped into my car overjoyed by the happiness he and his friends had brought to the seniors that they visited, I realized that he was well on his way. Bi-Cultural Day School provides the most unbelievable opportunities for our kids to become mensches.”
CAP: Anne, a 93-year-old resident of Sunrise Senior Living, enjoys ‘shedding’ her wisdom with (l to r) Bi-Cultural fifth-graders Ayden Riker, Travis Fuchs, Jack Jaffe and Richard Baer, who were visiting the residence as part of the Stamford school’s “Mitzvah Mania” day.
Talking Sukkot in Trumbull
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Grand Coulee Dam
This article is about the dam itself. For the song by Woody Guthrie, see Grand Coulee Dam (song).
Location of the dam in the western U.S.
Grant / Okanogan counties, near Coulee Dam and Grand Coulee, Washington
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Power, regulation, irrigation
Construction began
Construction cost
Original dam: $168 million
Third Powerplant: $730 million
Operator(s)
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Dam and spillways
Type of dam
Concrete gravity
Impounds
550 ft (168 m)
Width (crest)
30 ft (9 m)[1]
Width (base)
Dam volume
11,975,520 cu yd (9,155,942 m3)
Spillway type
Service, drum gate
Spillway capacity
1,000,000 cu ft/s (28,317 m3/s)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Lake
9,562,000 acre·ft (12 km3)
Active capacity
5,185,400 acre·ft (6 km3)
74,100 sq mi (191,918 km2)
125 sq mi (324 km2)
Commission date
1941–1950 (Left/Right)
1975–1980 (Third)
1973–1984 (PS)
Conventional, pumped-storage
Hydraulic head
27 × Francis turbines
6 × pump-generators
Installed capacity
6,809 MW[2]
7,079 MW (max)
Annual generation
20.24 TWh[2]
http://www.usbr.gov/pn/grandcoulee/
Grand Coulee Dam is a gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington built to produce hydroelectric power and provide irrigation water. It was constructed between 1933 and 1942, originally with two power plants. A third power station was completed in 1974 to increase its energy production. It is the largest electric power-producing facility in the United States.[3]
The proposal to build the dam was the focus of a bitter debate during the 1920s between two groups. One wanted to irrigate the ancient Grand Coulee with a gravity canal and the other supported a high dam and pumping scheme. Dam supporters won in 1933, but for fiscal reasons the initial design was for a "low dam" 290 ft (88 m) high which would generate electricity, but not support irrigation. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and a consortium of three companies called MWAK (Mason-Walsh-Atkinson Kier Company) began construction that year. After visiting the construction site in August 1934, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt began endorsing the "high dam" design which, at 550 ft (168 m) high, would provide enough electricity to pump water to irrigate the Columbia Basin. The high dam was approved by Congress in 1935 and completed in 1942; the first water over-topped its spillway on June 1 of that year.
Power from the dam fueled the growing industries of the Northwest United States during World War II. Between 1967 and 1974, the Third Powerplant was constructed. The decision to construct the additional facility was influenced by growing energy demand, regulated river flows stipulated in the Columbia River Treaty with Canada and competition with the Soviet Union. Through a series of upgrades and the installation of pump-generators, the dam now supplies four power stations with an installed capacity of 6,809 MW. As the center-piece of the Columbia Basin Project, the dam's reservoir supplies water for the irrigation of 671,000 acres (2,700 km2).
The reservoir is called Franklin Delano Roosevelt Lake, named after the United States President who presided over the authorization and completion of the dam. Creation of the reservoir forced the relocation of over 3,000 people, including Native Americans whose ancestral lands were partially flooded. The dam has also blocked the migration of salmon and other fish upstream to spawn.
2.1 Low dam
2.2 Cofferdams
2.3 Design change
2.4 First concrete pour and completion
2.5 Reservoir clearing
2.6 Labor and supporting infrastructure
2.7 Irrigation pumps
3 Expansion
3.1 Third Powerplant
3.2 Pump-generating plant
3.3 Overhauls
4 Operation and benefits
4.1 Irrigation
4.2 Power
4.3 Spillway
4.4 Cost benefits
5 Environmental and social consequences
The Grand Coulee is an ancient river bed on the Columbia Plateau created during the Pliocene Epoch (Calabrian) by retreating glaciers and floods. Originally, geologists believed the Grand Coulee was formed by a glacier diverting the Columbia River but it was revealed in the mid-late 20th century that massive floods from Lake Missoula carved most of the gorge.[4] The earliest known proposal to irrigate the Grand Coulee with the Columbia River dates to 1892, when the Coulee City News and The Spokesman Review reported on a scheme by a man named Laughlin McLean to construct a 1,000 ft (305 m) dam across the Columbia River, high enough that water would back up into the Grand Coulee. A dam that size would have its reservoir encroach into Canada, which would violate treaties.[5] Shortly after the Bureau of Reclamation was founded, it investigated a scheme for pumping water from the Columbia River to irrigate parts of central Washington. An attempt to raise funds for irrigation failed in 1914, as a bond measure was rejected by Washington voters.[6]
Such a power if developed would operate railroads, factories, mines, irrigation pumps, furnish heat and light in such measure that all in all it would be the most unique, the most interesting, and the most remarkable development of both irrigation and power in this age of industrial and scientific miracles.[7]
– Rufus Woods
A lawyer from Ephrata, Washington, named William M. Clapp proposed in 1917 that the Columbia be dammed immediately below the Grand Coulee.[8] He suggested a concrete dam could flood the plateau, just as nature blocked it with ice centuries ago. Clapp was joined by James O'Sullivan, another lawyer, and by Rufus Woods, publisher of the Wenatchee World newspaper. Together, they became known as the "Dam College".[9] Woods began promoting the Grand Coulee Dam in his newspaper, often with articles written by O'Sullivan. The dam idea gained popularity with the public in 1918. Backers of reclamation in Central Washington split into two camps. One side, known as the "pumpers", favored a dam with pumps to elevate water from the river into the Grand Coulee from which canals and pipes could be used to irrigate farmland. The other side, known as the "ditchers", favored diverting water from northeast Washington's Pend Oreille River via a gravity canal to irrigate farmland in Central and Eastern Washington. Many locals such as Woods, O'Sullivan and Clapp were pumpers, while many influential businessmen in Spokane associated with the Washington Water and Power Company (WWPC) were staunch ditchers. The pumpers argued that hydroelectricity from the dam could be used to cover costs and claimed the ditchers sought to maintain a monopoly on electric power.[5]
The ditchers took a number of steps to ensure support for their proposals. In 1921, WWPC secured a preliminary permit to build a dam at Kettle Falls, about 110 mi (177 km) upstream from the Grand Coulee. If built, the Kettle Falls Dam would have lain in the path of the Grand Coulee Dam's reservoir, essentially blocking its construction.[10] WWPC planted rumors in the newspapers, incorrectly stating that exploratory drilling at the Grand Coulee site found no granite on which a dam's foundations could rest, only clay and fragmented rock. This was later disproved with Reclamation-ordered drilling. Ditchers hired General George W. Goethals, engineer of the Panama Canal, to prepare a report. Goethals visited the state and produced a report backing the ditchers. The Bureau of Reclamation was unimpressed by Goethals' report, believing it filled with errors.[10] In July 1923, President Warren G. Harding visited Washington state and expressed support for irrigation work there, but died a month later. His successor, Calvin Coolidge, had little interest in irrigation projects. The Bureau of Reclamation, desirous of a major project that would bolster its reputation, was focusing on the Boulder Canyon Project that resulted in the Hoover Dam. Reclamation was authorized to conduct a study in 1923, but the project's cost made federal officials reluctant. The Washington state proposals received little support from those further east, who feared the irrigation would result in more crops, depressing prices.[11] With President Coolidge opposed to the project, bills to appropriate money for surveys of the Grand Coulee site failed.[12]
File:FutureGrandCouleeDamSite.jpg
Photo of the dam site taken before construction, looking south
In 1925, Congress authorized a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study of the Columbia River.[13] This study was included in the Rivers and Harbors Act of March 1925, which provided for studies on the navigation, power, flood control and irrigation potential of rivers. In April 1926, the Army Corps responded with the first of the "308 Reports" named after the 1925 House Document No. 308 (69th Congress, 1st Session).[14] With the help of Washington's Senators, Wesley Jones and Clarence Dill, Congress ordered $600,000 in further studies to be carried out by the Army Corps and Federal Power Commission on the Columbia River Basin and Snake Rivers.[15] U.S. Army Major John Butler was responsible for the upper Columbia River and Snake River and in 1932, his 1,000-page report was submitted to Congress. It recommended the Grand Coulee Dam and nine others on the river, including some in Canada. The report stated that electricity sales from the Grand Coulee Dam could pay for construction costs. Reclamation—whose interest in the dam was revitalized by the report—endorsed it.[14][16]
Although there was some support for the Grand Coulee Dam, others argued there was little need for more electricity in the Northwest and crops were in surplus. The Army Corps did not believe construction should be a federal project and saw low demand for electricity. Reclamation argued that energy demand would rise by the time the dam was complete.[17] The head of Reclamation, Elwood Mead, stated he wanted the dam built no matter the cost.[18] President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who took office in March, 1933, supported the dam because of its irrigation potential and the power it would provide, but he was uneasy with its $450 million price tag. For this reason, he supported a 290 ft (88 m) "low dam" instead of the 550 ft (168 m) "high dam".[19] He provided $63 million in federal funding, while Washington State provided $377,000.[16] In 1933, Washington governor Clarence Martin set up the Columbia Basin Commission to oversee the dam project,[20] and Reclamation was selected to oversee construction.[19]
On July 16, 1933, a crowd of 3,000 watched the driving of the first stake at the low dam site, and excavation soon began. Core drilling commenced that September while the Bureau of Reclamation accelerated its studies and designs for the dam.[21] It would still help control floods and provide for irrigation and hydroelectricity, though at a reduced capacity. Most importantly, it would not raise its reservoir high enough to irrigate the plateau around the Grand Coulee. However, the dam's design provided for future raising and upgrading.[17]
File:GrandCouleeeastdam.jpg
The east-side cofferdam after the west base was complete
Before and during construction, workers and engineers experienced problems. Contracts for companies to construct the various parts of the dam were difficult to award as few companies were sizable enough to fill them. This forced companies to consolidate. In addition, Native American graves had to be relocated and temporary fish ladders had to be constructed. During construction additional problems included landslides and the need to protect newly poured concrete from freezing.[16] Construction on the downstream Grand Coulee Bridge began in May 1934 and more considerable earth-moving began in August. Excavation for the dam's foundation required the removal of 22,000,000 cu yd (17,000,000 m3) of dirt and stone.[22] To reduce the amount of trucking required in the excavation, a conveyor belt nearly 2 mi (3.2 km) long was built.[23] To further secure the foundation, workers drilled 660–880 ft (200–270 m) holes into the granite and filled any fissures with grout, creating a grout curtain.[24] At times, excavated areas collapsed from overburden. In order to secure these areas from further movement and continue excavation, 3-inch (76 mm) diameter pipes were inserted into the mass and chilled with cold liquid from a refrigeration plant. This froze the earth and secured it so construction could continue.[25]
Final contract bidding for the dam began June 18, 1934, in Spokane, and four bids were submitted. One bid was from a lawyer with no financial backing; another was from actress Mae West which consisted of nothing more than a poem and promise to divert the river.[26] Of the two serious bids, the lowest bid was from a consortium of three companies: Silas Mason Co. from Louisville, Kentucky, Walsh Construction Co. of Davenport, Iowa and New York and Atkinson-Kier Company of San Francisco and San Diego. The consortium was known as MWAK and their bid was $29,339,301, almost 15% lower than the $34.5 million option submitted by the next bidder, Six Companies, Inc., which was building Hoover Dam at the time.[27]
Cofferdams
Two large cofferdams were constructed for the dam, but they were parallel to the river rather than straddling its width, so drilling into the canyon walls was not required. By the end of 1935 about 1,200 workers completed the west and east cofferdams. The west cofferdam was 2,000 ft (610 m) long, 50 ft (15 m) thick and was constructed 110 ft (34 m) above the bedrock.[28] The cofferdams allowed workers to dry portions of the riverbed and begin constructing the dam, while water continued to flow down the center of the riverbed.[29] In August 1936, once the west foundation was complete, portions of the west cofferdam were dismantled, allowing water to flow through part of the dam's new foundation. In February 1936, MWAK had begun constructing cofferdams above and below the channel between the east and west cofferdams. By December, the entire Columbia River was diverted over the foundations constructed within the east and west cofferdams. On December 15, 1936, the Wenatchee Daily World announced that the river was diverted and by early the next year, people were arriving in large numbers to see the riverbed.[30]
Design change
File:Grand Coulee Dam construction.jpg
Base of the dam in 1938
On August 4, 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited the construction site and was impressed by the project and its purpose.[31] He gave a speech to workers and spectators, closing with this statement: "I leave here today with the feeling that this work is well undertaken; that we are going ahead with a useful project, and we are going to see it through for the benefit of our country."[32] Soon after his visit, Reclamation was allowed to proceed with the high dam plan but faced the problems of transitioning the design and negotiating an altered contract with MWAK. In June 1935, for an additional $7 million, MWAK and Six Companies, Inc. agreed to join together as Consolidated Builders Inc. and construct the high dam. Six Companies had just finished the Hoover Dam and was nearing completion of Parker Dam. The new design, chosen and approved by the Reclamation office in Denver, included several improvements, one of which was the irrigation pumping plant.[31]
Roosevelt envisioned the dam would fit into his New Deal under the Public Works Administration; it would create jobs, farming opportunities and would pay for itself. In addition, as part of a larger public effort, Roosevelt wanted to keep electricity prices low by limiting private ownership of utility companies, which could charge high prices for energy.[17] Many opposed a federal takeover of the project, including its most prominent supporters, but Washington State lacked the resources to fully realize the project.[33][34] In August 1935, with the help of Roosevelt and a Supreme Court decision allowing the acquisition of public land and Indian Reservations, Congress authorized funding for the upgraded high dam under the 1935 River and Harbors Act.[35] The most significant legislative hurdle for the dam was over.[36]
That for the purpose of controlling floods, improving navigation, regulating the flow of the streams of the United States, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof, for the reclamation of public lands and Indian reservations, and other beneficial uses, and for the generation of electric energy as a means of financially aiding and assisting such undertakings the projects known as "Parker Dam" on the Colorado River and "Grand Coulee Dam" on the Columbia River are hereby authorized and adopted.
—1935 Rivers and Harbors Act SEC 2, August 30, 1935, [H.R. 6250] [Public, No. 409][36]
First concrete pour and completion
The dam after completion and water over-topping the spillway
On December 6, 1935, Governor Clarence Martin presided over the ceremonial first concrete pour.[37] During construction, bulk concrete was delivered on site by rail-cars where it was further processed by eight large mixers before being placed in form. Concrete was poured into 50 sq ft (4.6 m2) columns by crane-lifted buckets, each supporting eight tons of concrete.[38] To cool the concrete and facilitate curing, about 2,000 mi (3,200 km) of piping was placed throughout the hardening mass. Cold water from the river was pumped into the pipes, reducing the temperature within the forms from 105 °F (41 °C) to 45 °F (7 °C). This caused the dam to contract about eight inches in length; the resulting gaps were filled with grout.[29]
Until the project began, the stretch of the Columbia River where the dam was to rise was as yet unbridged, making it difficult to move men and materials.[39] In January 1936, the Grand Coulee Bridge (a permanent highway bridge) was opened after major delays caused by high water; three additional and temporary bridges downstream had moved vehicles and workers along with sand and gravel for cement mixing.[25][40] In March 1938, MWAK completed the lower dam and Consolidated Builders Inc. began constructing the high dam. The west power house was completed in December 1939 and about 5,500 workers were on site that year. Between 1940 and 1941, the dam's eleven floodgates were installed on the spillway and the dam's first generator went into operation in January 1941. The reservoir was full and the first water flowed over the dam's spillway on June 1, 1942, while work was officially complete on January 31, 1943.[41][42] The last of the original 18 generators was not operational until 1950.[2]
Reservoir clearing
File:GrandCouleeDamLastTreeFall.jpg
Banks and Smith felling the last tree in the reservoir zone
In 1933, Reclamation began efforts to purchase land behind the dam as far as 151 mi (243 km) upstream for the future reservoir zone. The reservoir, known later as Lake Roosevelt, flooded 70,500 acres (285 km2) and Reclamation acquired an additional 11,500 acres (47 km2) around the future shoreline. Within the zone were eleven towns, two railroads, three state highways, about one hundred and fifty miles of country roads, four sawmills, fourteen bridges, four telegraph and telephone systems, and many power lines and cemeteries. All facilities had to be purchased or relocated, and 3,000 residents were relocated.[43] The Anti-Speculation Act was passed in 1937, limiting the amount of land farmers could own in order to prevent inflated prices.[14] The government appraised the land and offered to purchase it from the affected residents. Many refused to accept the offers, and Reclamation filed condemnation suits.[44] Members of the Colville Confederated and Spokane tribes who had settlements within the reservoir zone were also resettled. The Acquisition of Indian Lands for Grand Coulee Dam Act of June 29, 1940, allowed the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land on the Colville and Spokane Reservations, eventually accounting for 21,100 acres (85 km2).[45] By 1942, all land had been purchased at market value: a cost of $10.5 million that included the relocation of farms, bridges, highways and railroads. Relocation reimbursement was not offered to property owners, which was common until U.S. laws were changed in 1958.[44]
In late 1938, the Works Progress Administration began clearing the reservoir zone of trees and other plants. A total of 54,000 acres (220 km2) were cleared. The cut timber was floated downstream and sold to the highest bidder, Lincoln Lumber Company, which paid $2.25 per thousand board feet.[46] The pace of clearing was accelerated in April 1941 when it was declared a national defense project, and the last tree was felled on July 19, 1941. The felling was done by Reclamation Supervising Engineer Frank A. Banks and State WPA Administrator Carl W. Smith during a ceremony.[47] A total of 2,626 people living in five main camps along the Columbia worked on the project. When it was finished, $4.9 million had been spent in labor.[48]
Labor and supporting infrastructure
File:GrandCouleeDamWorkersPenstock.jpg
Workers installing a penstock section
Workers building the dam received an average of 80¢ an hour; the payroll for the dam was among the largest in the nation. The workers were mainly pulled from Grant, Lincoln, Douglas, and Okanogan counties and women were allowed to work only in the dorms and the cookhouse.[49] Around 8,000 people worked on the project, and Frank A. Banks served as the chief construction engineer. Bert A. Hall was the chief inspector who would accept the dam from the contractors. Orin G. Patch served as the chief of concrete.[16][50][51] Construction conditions were dangerous and 77 workers died.[21]
To prepare for construction, housing for workers was needed along with four bridges downstream of the dam site, one of which, the Grand Coulee Bridge, exists today. The Bureau of Reclamation provided housing and located their administrative building at Engineer's Town, which was located directly downstream of the construction site on the west side of the river.[25] Opposite Engineer's Town, MWAK constructed Mason City in 1934. Mason city contained a hospital, post office, electricity and other amenities along with a population of 3,000. Three-bedroom houses in the city were rented for $32 a month.[52] Of the two living areas, Engineer's City was considered to have the better housing.[53] Several other living areas formed around the construction site in an area known as Shack Town, which did not have reliable access to electricity and the same amenities as the other towns.[54] Incorporated in 1935, the city of Grand Coulee supported workers as well and is located just west of the dam on the plateau.[55] MWAK eventually sold Mason City to Reclamation in 1937 before its contract was completed.[56] In 1956, Reclamation combined both Mason City and Engineer's Town to form the city of Coulee Dam. It was incorporated as a city in February 1959.[53]
With the onset of World War II, power generation was given priority over irrigation. In 1943, Congress authorized the Columbia Basin Project and the Bureau of Reclamation began construction of irrigation facilities in 1948. Directly to the west and above the Grand Coulee Dam, the North Dam was constructed. This dam, along with the Dry Falls Dam to the south, enclosed and created Banks Lake, which covered the northern 27 mi (43 km) of the Grand Coulee. Additional dams, such as the Pinto and O'Sullivan Dams, were constructed alongside siphons and canals, creating a vast irrigation supply network called the Columbia Basin Project. Irrigation began between 1951 and 1953 as six of the 12 pumps were installed and Banks Lake was filled.[57]
Third Powerplant
File:John Diefenbaker and Dwight Eisenhower at signing of Columbia River Treaty (January 1961).jpg After World War II, the growing demand for electricity sparked interest in constructing another power plant supported by the Grand Coulee Dam.[58] One obstacle to an additional power plant was the great seasonality of the Columbia River's streamflow. Today the flow is closely managed—there is almost no seasonality. Historically, about 75% of the river's annual flow occurred between April and September.[59] During low flow periods, the river's discharge was between 50,000 cu ft/s (1,400 m3/s) and 80,000 cu ft/s (2,300 m3/s) while maximum spring runoff flows were around 500,000 cu ft/s (14,000 m3/s). Only nine out of the dam's eighteen generators could run year-round. The remaining nine operated for less than six months a year.[60] In 1952, Congress authorized $125,000 for Reclamation to conduct a feasibility study on the Third Powerplant which was completed in 1953 and recommended two locations. Nine identical 108 MW generators were recommended, but as matters stood, they would be able to operate only in periods of high water.[58]
Further regulation of the Columbia's flows was necessary to make the new power plant feasible. Water storage and regulation projects in Canada would be needed, as well as a treaty resolving the many economic and political issues involved. The Bureau of Reclamation and Army Corps of Engineers explored alternatives that would not depend on a treaty with Canada, such as raising the level of Flathead Lake or Pend Oreille Lake, but both proposals faced strong local opposition.[58] The Columbia River Treaty, which had been discussed between the U.S. and Canada since 1944, was seen as the answer. Efforts to build the Third Powerplant were also influenced by competition with the Soviet Union, which had constructed power plants on the Volga River that were larger than Grand Coulee.[61] On September 16, 1964, the Columbia River Treaty was ratified and included an agreement by Canada to construct the Duncan, Keenleyside and Mica Dams upstream.[62] Shortly afterward, Washington Senator Henry M. Jackson, who was influential in constructing the new power plant, announced that Reclamation would present the project to Congress for appropriation and funding.[63] To keep up with Soviet competition and increase the generating capacity it was determined that the generators could be upgraded to much larger designs. With the possibility of international companies bidding on the project, the Soviets who had just installed a 500 MW hydroelectric generator on the Yenisei River indicated their interest. To avoid the potential embarrassment of an international rival building a domestic power plant, the Department of the Interior declined international bidding. The Third Powerplant was approved and its appropriation bill was signed by President Lyndon Johnson on June 14, 1966.[64]
One of the new turbines in the Third Powerplant
Between 1967 and 1974, the dam was expanded to add the Third Powerplant. Beginning in July 1967, this involved demolishing the northeast side of the dam and building a new fore-bay section. The excavation of 22,000,000 cu yd (16,820,207 m3) of dirt and rock had to be accomplished before the new 1,725 ft (526 m) long section of dam was built. The addition made the original 4,300 ft (1,300 m) dam almost a mile long. Original designs for the powerhouse had twelve smaller units but were altered to incorporate six of the largest generators available. To supply them with water, six 40 ft (12 m) diameter penstocks were installed.[65] Of the new turbines and generators, three 600 MW units were built by Westinghouse and three 700 MW units by General Electric. The first new generator was commissioned in 1975 and the final one in 1980.[2] The three 700 MW units were later upgraded to 805 MW by Siemens.[66]
Pump-generating plant
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Cross-section of the Pump-Generating Plant
After power shortages in the Northwest during the 1960s, it was determined that the six remaining planned pumps be pump-generators. When energy demand is high, the pump-generators can generate electricity with water from the Banks Lake feeder canal adjacent to the dam at a higher elevation.[67] By 1973, the Pump-Generating Plant was completed and the first three generators were operational. In 1983, two more generators went online, and by January 1984 the final was operational. The six pump-generators added 314 MW to the dam's capacity.[68] In May 2009, the Pump-Generating Plant was officially renamed the John W. Keys III Pump-Generating Power Plant after John W. Keys III, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's commissioner from 2001 to 2006.[69]
A major overhaul of the Third Powerplant, which contains generators numbered G19 through G24, began in March 2008 and will be continuing for many years. Among the projects to be completed before the generators themselves can begin to be overhauled include replacing underground 500 kV oil-filled cables for G19, G20 and G21 generators with overhead transmission lines (started in February 2009), new 236 MW transformers for G19 and G20 (started in November 2006), and several other projects.[70] Planning, design, procurement and site preparation for the 805 MW G22, G23 and G24 generator overhauls are scheduled to begin in 2011, with the overhauls themselves to start in 2013 with the G22 generator, then G23 starting in 2014, and finally G24 starting in 2016, with planned completions in 2014, 2016 and 2017, respectively. The generator overhauls for G19, G20 and G21 have not been scheduled as of 2010.[71]
Operation and benefits
Map of the Columbia Basin Project. Green denotes land irrigated by the project. Grand Coulee Dam near top-right
The dam's primary goal, irrigation, was postponed as the wartime need for electricity increased. The dam's powerhouse began production around the time World War II began, and its electricity was vital to the war effort. The dam powered aluminum smelters in Longview and Vancouver, Washington, Boeing factories in Seattle and Vancouver, and Portland's shipyards. In 1943, its electricity was also used for plutonium production in Richland, Washington, at the Hanford Site, which was part of the top-secret Manhattan Project.[72][73] The demand for power at that project was so great that in 1943, two generators originally intended for the Shasta Dam were installed at Grand Coulee in an effort to hurry the generator installation schedule.[74]
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Water is pumped via the Pump-Generating Plant's 12-foot (3.7 m) diameter pipes 280 ft (85 m) from Lake Roosevelt to a 1.6 mi (2.6 km) feeder canal. From the feeder canal, the water is transferred to Banks Lake which has an active storage of 715,000 acre·ft (882,000,000 m3). The plant's twelve 65,000–70,000 horsepower pumps can transfer up to 1,605 cu ft/s (45 m3/s) to the lake. Currently, the Columbia Basin Project irrigates 670,000 acres (2,700 km2) with a potential for 1.1 million.[67] Over 60 different crops are grown within the project and distributed throughout the United States.[57]
Grand Coulee Dam supports four different power houses containing 33 hydroelectric generators. The original Left and Right Powerhouses contain 18 main generators and the Left has an additional three service generators for total installed capacity of 2,280 MW. The first generator was commissioned in 1941 and all 18 were operating by 1950. The Third Powerplant contains a total of six main generators with a 4,215 MW installed capacity. Generators G-19, G-20 and G-21 in the Third Powerplant have a 600 MW installed capacity but can operate at a maximum capacity of 690 MW which brings the overall maximum capacity of the dam's power facilities to 7,079 MW. The Pump-Generating Plant contains six pump-generators with an installed capacity of 314 MW. When pumping water into Banks Lake they consume 600 MW of electricity. Each generator is supplied with water by an individual penstock. The largest of these feed the Third Powerplant and are 40 ft (12 m) in diameter and can supply up to 35,000 cu ft/s (990 m3/s). The dam's power facilities originally had an installed capacity of 1,974 MW but expansions and upgrades have increased generation to 6,809 MW installed, 7,079 MW maximum. In 2014, 20.24 TWh of electricity was generated, resulting in a plant factor of 35%.[2]
Hydroelectric generators at Grand Coulee Dam[75]
Location Type Quantity Capacity (MW) Total capacity (MW)
Left Powerhouse Francis turbine, service generator 3 (LS1-LS3) 10 30
Francis turbine, main generator 9 (G1-G9) 125 1,125
Right Powerhouse Francis turbine, main generator 9 (G10-G18) 125 1,125
Third Powerplant Francis turbine, main generator 3 (G22-G24) 805 2,415
Francis turbine, main generator 3 (G19-G21) 600 (Max: 690 MW) 1,800
Pump-Generating Plant Pump-generator, peak generator 4 (PG9-PG12) 53.5 214
Pump-generator, peak generator 2 (PG7-PG8) 50 100
Totals 33 6,809
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Pump-Generating Plant and Roosevelt Lake at bottom, feeder canal to Banks Lake at top
Grand Coulee Dam's spillway is 1,650 feet (500 m) long and is an overflow, drum-gate controlled type with a 1,000,000 cu ft/s (28,000 m3/s) maximum capacity.[68] A record flood in May and June 1948 flooded lowland below the dam and highlighted its limited flood control capability at the time,[76] as its spillway and turbines hit a record flow of 637,800-cubic-foot-per-second (18,060 m3/s).[67] The flood damaged downstream riverbanks and deteriorated the face of the dam and its flip bucket at the base (toe) of the spillway.[77] The flood spurred the Columbia River Treaty and its provisions for dams constructed upstream in Canada, which would regulate the Columbia's flow.[78]
Cost benefits
The Bureau of Reclamation in 1932 estimated the cost of constructing Grand Coulee Dam (not including the Third Powerplant) to be $168 million; its actual cost was $163 million ($1.85 billion in 1998). Expenses to finish the power stations and repair design flaws with the dam throughout the 1940s and '50s added another $107 million, bringing the total cost to $270 million ($2.6 billion in 1998), about 33% over estimates.[79] The Third Powerplant was estimated to cost $390 million in 1967, but higher construction costs and labor disputes drove the project's final cost in 1973 to $730 million ($2.93 billion in 1998), about 55% over estimates. Despite estimates being exceeded, the dam became an economic success, particularly with the Third Powerplant exhibiting a benefit-cost ratio of 2:1.[62] Although Reclamation has only irrigated about half of the land predicted, the gross value of crop output (in constant dollars) had doubled from 1962 to 1992, largely due to different farming practices and crop choices.[35]
Environmental and social consequences
The dam had severe negative consequences for the local Native American tribes whose traditional way of life revolved around salmon and the original shrub steppe habitat of the area. Because it lacks a fish ladder, Grand Coulee Dam permanently blocks fish migration, removing over 1,100 mi (1,770 km) of natural spawning habitat.[80] By largely eliminating anadromous fish above the Okanogan River, the Grand Coulee Dam also set the stage for the subsequent decision not to provide for fish passage at Chief Joseph Dam (built in 1953).[81] Chinook, Steelhead, Sockeye and Coho salmon (as well as other important species including Lamprey) are now unable to spawn in the reaches of the Upper Columbia Basin. The extinction of the spawning grounds upstream from the dam has prevented the Spokane and other tribes from holding the first salmon ceremony.[82]
Grand Coulee Dam flooded over 21,000 acres (85 km2) of prime bottom land where Native Americans had been living and hunting for thousands of years, forcing the relocation of settlements and graveyards.[83] Kettle Falls, once a primary Native American fishing grounds, was inundated. The average catch of over 600,000 salmon per year was eliminated. In one study, the Army Corps of Engineers estimated the annual loss was over 1 million fish.[84] In June 1941, Native Americans throughout the Northwest met at the Falls for the "Ceremony of Tears", marking the end of fishing there. One month later, the falls were inundated.[82] The town of Kettle Falls, Washington, was relocated. The Columbia Basin Project has affected habitat ranges for species such as mule deer, pygmy rabbits and burrowing owls, resulting in decreased populations. However, it has created new habitats such as wetlands, and riparian corridors.[84] The environmental impact of the dam effectively ended the traditional way of life of the native inhabitants. The government eventually compensated the Colville Indians in the 1990s with a lump settlement of approximately $53 million, plus annual payments of approximately $15 million.[85] The Spokane tribe still seeks compensation, currently through congressional bill H.R. 3097.[86]
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Grand Coulee Dam commemorative stamp, issued 1952
Built in the late 1970s, the Visitor Center contains many historical photos, geological samples, turbine and dam models, and a theater. The building was designed by Marcel Breuer and resembles a generator rotor.[87] Since May 1989, on summer evenings, the laser light show at Grand Coulee Dam is projected onto the dam's wall. The show includes full-size images of battleships and the Statue of Liberty, as well as some environmental comments.[88] Tours of the Third Powerplant are available to the public and last about an hour. Visitors take a shuttle to view the generators and also travel across the main dam span (otherwise closed to the public) as the formerly used glass elevator is indefinitely out of service.[89][90]
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Panoramic view of the dam, looking Southeast. The Third Powerplant at left.
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John L. Savage – Bureau of Reclamation's chief design engineer during construction.
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McClung, Christian (2009), Grand Coulee Dam: Leaving a Legacy, Great Depression in Washington State Project
Sundborg, George (1954), Hail Columbia: The Thirty-year Struggle for Grand Coulee Dam, New York: Macmillan. OCLC 531329
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Is Twitter Dead? Who Killed It?
By Mike Elgan | June 12, 2009
As murder-mysteries go, this one is baffling, in part because the corpse is still breathing. The one-word answer is: Oprah. But the full truth is far more interesting.
Twitter was the hottest, fastest-growing, most attention-grabbing social service for a while, but suddenly it appears that many of its users don't actually use it and its growth is no longer growing.
Let's check the facts:
The Internet marketing firm HubSpot says more than half of all people who signed up for an account never posted a tweet (55%), aren't following anyone (56%) and have no followers themselves (53%).
Nielsen Online reported two months ago that most new users (60%) bail on Twitter after creating an account.
Harvard Business School says the average Twitter user tweets once and never again.
Twitter's meteoric growth came to a screeching halt in May. Mashable reports that during the month of May, Twitter's visitor growth suddenly "flatlined," growing only a 1.5%.
TechCrunch says that the ol' 80-20 rule is in full effect on Twitter: 20% of Twitter users are creating 80% of the activity. Harvard Business School says it's even more extreme than that: 10% of Twitter users post 90% of the Tweets.
A survey from Pace University and the Participatory Media Network found that only 22% of people between the ages of 18 and 24 use Twitter (though nearly all have social networking profiles).
These different studies don't all agree with each other exactly, but they paint a similar picture. It appears that most people who sign up for Twitter don't use it, and those who do use it are using it less often.
What's going on here? I think I can explain nearly all of this, based on many conversations with hundreds of people I've talked with after previous columns on Twitter, and also with friends and family who have varying degrees of interest in Twitter. Here goes:
Is Twitter dead?
The answer is yes and no. Yes, Twitter as the Facebook-competitor, the sweeping cultural phenomenon, the Google killer and all the rest is dead. Or, more accurately, never existed. It was a media mirage, a product of the echo chamber.
Ultimately, Twitter is nothing more than an extensible, SMS-friendly status update service, with the optional ability to direct messages at individual people. Nice, but it's no cure for cancer. The media hype was overblown, obviously.
The real Twitter isn't dead at all. A large and growing number of people are still getting a lot of value out of it, and that will continue.
Why do people sign up for Twitter, then not use it?
I did this myself. I signed up for Twitter in late 2007, looked around and didn't really understand it, then stopped checking it. If some of these studies would have been conducted back then, I would have been one of the laggards who posted only one message and didn't really follow anybody.
Late last year I had a "twitpiphany," and realized its value. Now I post about 15 tweets a day and have something north of 12,800 followers.
I think millions of people are doing what I did. They're signing on, scratching their heads, then wandering away.
An episode from the sitcom "The King of Queens" demonstrated how this works -- not with Twitter, but with cell phones. The protagonist's aging father-in-law Arthur gets this vague idea that he's missing out on what's happening "in the modern world." So he buys a cell phone, goes to Starbucks and sits there for hours staring at the phone. Nobody calls. He doesn't get it, etc.
This is exactly what people experience with Twitter. They hear everyone talking about it, sign up and hear the sound of nothing. Even if they let Twitter find other Twitter friends on Gmail, Yahoo or AOL, or sign up for a few "suggested users," it's not very compelling at first.
Just like with cell phones, Twitter is pointless unless you engage. You've got to seek out like-minded people to follow. You've got to post. You have to be active, or it doesn't make any sense.
Why is a minority of users sending all the tweets?
The Harvard Business School team concluded from their study that Twitter is more of a one-to-many publishing service (like a blog) than it is a one-to-one conversation service (like chat or e-mail). Twitter is dominated by people who use it that way.
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Beware of sketchy websites when buying fan gear for Panthers, Cyclones and Hawkeyes
August 30, 2018 August 30, 2018 Dave VickersKROS News
Via Radio Iowa
The football teams at all three of Iowa’s public universities open their seasons on Saturday and fans are warned to be careful if they’re trying to buy gameday tickets, t-shirts and other merchandise.
Susan Buck, spokeswoman for the Better Business Bureau, says to beware of buying anything from unknown or unreliable online retailers. “They’re just trying to scam you for your credit card information or your personal information or they’re selling counterfeit merchandise, which is also something you want to steer clear of,” Buck says.
Before you buy a Hawkeye hat, a Cyclone jersey or a Panther sweatshirt, Buck says to look for the telltale signs that may reveal a scam or counterfeit company. “Poor website design and sloppy English,” Buck says. “If it’s a legitimate company with an established website, they’re not going to have spelling errors and grammatical errors on their website.” The site may offer discounted prices and free shipping to save you some cash, but Buck says it’s likely best to punt.
“You are kind of taking a leap of faith and that’s why it’s really important to do your research first, before you hand over your credit card number,” she says. If the website looks fishy, it’s best to move on and find another one. Iowa’s three state schools all have official websites for apparel.
Here are the school links:
https://www.panthersupply.com/
https://hawkeyefanshop.com/
https://www.cyslockerroom.com/
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1st September 2011 by andym
Okay. It took Revista de La Liga just thirty minutes on Tuesday to mention a topic that has very much become the elephant in the room of Spanish football recently - the domination of Barcelona and Real Madrid and the ever-growing gap between them and their fellow La Liga competitors in terms of finance, performance and control. … [Read more...]
Hutton Poised To Leave White Hart Lane
Spurs defender Alan Hutton could be ready for a move away from Tottenham Hotspur at the end of the season after a heated dressing room clash with manager Harry Redknapp. The Scottish international has been rumoured to have clashed with manager Redknapp following his side's embarrassing 4-0 FA Cup defeat against Fulham in January. Since Spurs' FA Cup exit Hutton has found his chances limited at White Hart Lane which has added more weight to the argument that the full-back has sought a move elsewhere. With his impressive performances for the Champions League side this season there'll be no … [Read more...]
Ray Wilkins sacked from Chelsea
11th November 2010 by andym
Breaking news as Chelsea assistant manager Ray Wilkins has parted company with his club after they have took the decision not to renew the 54 year old's contract. Wilkins who joined in 2008 under Luiz Felipe Scolari will end his stint with Chelsea with immediate effect. The former England midfielder enjoyed a successful playing career appearing for AC Milan, Man Utd, QPR and Rangers respectively after starting out life as a Chelsea apprentice in the 1970's. He managed both QPR and Fulham before taking on the assistant coaching role twice at Chelsea helping Gianluca Vialli in 1999 and 2000 … [Read more...]
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In this Part of this Act—
" appropriate consent " means—
in relation to a person who has attained the age of 17 years, the consent of that person ;
in relation to a person who has not attained that age but has attained the age of 14 years, the consent of that person and his parent or guardian; and
in relation to a person who has not attained the age of 14 years, the consent of his parent or guardian;
" fingerprints " includes palm prints;
" intimate sample " means a sample of blood, semen or any other tissue fluid, urine, saliva or pubic hair, or a swab taken from a person's body orifice ;
" non-intimate sample " means—
a sample of hair other than pubic hair;
a sample taken from a nail or from under a nail;
a swab taken from any part of a person's body other than a body orifice ;
a footprint or a similar impression of any part of a person's body other than a part of his hand ;
" the terrorism provisions " means—
section 12(1) of the [1984 c. 8.] Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1984; and
any provision conferring a power of arrest or detention and contained in an order under section 13 of that Act; and
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LGIM's address is: 1 Coleman Street, London, EC2R5AA, United-Kingdom, phone number + 44 02031243000.
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The person responsible for editorial content (sec. 55 (2) rstv) is: LGIM Marketing, One Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AA,
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Home GENERAL NEWS Desperate measures needed for current economic woes-VJ
Desperate measures needed for current economic woes-VJ
Vernon Mwaanga
DESPERATE economic measures are required to mitigate the current economic challenges world countries are going through, veteran politician Vernon Mwaanga has said.
He said the measures that are needed included stemming high unemployment levels especially among the young, arresting the galloping inflation, dealing with high interest rates and Government budget deficits.
Dr Mwaanga said the current global economic and financial meltdown has had a negative impact on the world markets and the citizens across the globe were faced with uncertainties of unprecedented proportions if ways of dealing with the season of economic discontentment were not found.
He told the Daily Nation that the global economic slump was initially blamed on China which had revised its economic growth downwards to seven percent from its projected nine percent while remaining the world’s fastest growing economy.
Dr Mwaanga said after revising its economic growth to seven percent, China took its corrective measures by adjusting its exchange rate of its currency, the Yuan against other convertible currencies such as the US dollar, the Euro and the British Pound apart from cutting interest rates to stimulate its growth.
He explained that it had become clear that the global economic growth had slowed down due to factors such as the unusually low international oil prices which had fallen to below US$40 per barrel because of over-production thereby stripping its demand on the world market.
Dr Mwaanga stated that the prices of metals such as Zambia’s copper fell considerably to US$5000 per ton from US$7000 per ton which had negatively affected many copper-producing countries in Africa and Asia.
He stated that the Sub-Saharan economy was performing better than most continents with an estimated growth of between four and five percent with countries such as Zambia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Botswana, Rwanda and Kenya having recorded stability in their economic growth.
“It is now clear that although the so called slowdown of the Chinese economy…the second largest economy in the world and which is still growing far above any other economy in the Western world, there has been a negative impact on the growth figures on the world market in the United States, Europe and Asia, clearly showing that world economic growth has generally slowed down and that the initial forecasts had to be revised downwards almost everywhere by the International Monetary Fund (IMF),”Dr Mwaanga said.
He warned that difficult times were still expected as production figured in the industrialised world were entering negative territory forcing local currencies nose-diving trading in the unchartered range of K10 to a US dollar.
Dr Mwaanga said other currencies in the region had not been spared from the global economic battering with the South African Rand hitting a record R14 to a United States dollar in as many years.
“When the economies of the developed world begin to sneeze, the smaller economies of the world catch a cold. It is less than certain how the smaller and larger economies will react in the short, medium and long term but what is certain is that desperate measures will be required to stem the high levels of unemployment, especially among the young people, arrest galloping inflation. Better managed economies with constituent and clearly thought out and managed plans will emerge with less damage than those that are poorly managed,” Dr Mwaanga said.
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Mike Chisenga 05/09/2015 at 19:52
Zambians are waiting patently if the government improve the economy.
Cornelius Mwila 05/09/2015 at 19:51
Call for indaba mr president
Nelson Chibuye 05/09/2015 at 19:41
You married many women when the economy was good
Samuel Sikalumbi 05/09/2015 at 15:12
Tell us the measures old man
+ seven = 10
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Worth a groan...
Author Topic: Worth a groan... (Read 6631 times)
Man goes to doctor, complains about leg. "It keeps talking," he says.
Doctor tells him to take off trousers and lie on examination couch. He
then listens to man's thigh through stethoscope.
Thigh says, "Lend us a tenner."
"Remarkable," says doctor, moving stethoscope down to knee.
"Lend us a fiver," says knee.
"Incredible," says doctor, moving stethoscope down to ankle.
"Lend us a couple of quid," says ankle.
"Amazing!" says doctor.
"What's wrong?" asks man.
"Your leg is broke in three places."
Re: Worth a groan...
Huge, huge groan.
Light chuckle.
No comment..................................GG
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Magic & Rocketry
Brett Bryan has spent most of his life building independent businesses. His first venture was launched at the age of ten, becoming a professional boy magician.
In 2000 Brett co-founded the tattoo equipment maker Pulse International, who supplies tools to artists around the globe. He is also the founder of the publishing house Presto Art. He was the editor and designer of over 20 titles.
As a lifelong entrepreneur of the unconventional, Brett has developed a unique inside out perspective to business and marketing. The freelance design studio Magic & Rocketry is his design enterprise.
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Henry Frankel
Henry Frankel, 84, of Peabody, Mass., and formerly of Burlington, Vt., died Feb. 6 in Danvers, Mass., of complications from Parkinson’s disease.
Frankel owned community newspapers, which he later consolidated into The Burlington Citizen, which covered politics, local history and community events, and published editorials in Burlington and Chittenden, Vt. The Citizen went out of business in 1986.
He leaves his wife, Helene; three children, Donna, Alan and Steven; two grandchildren.
William Alfred Dempster Jr.
William Alfred Dempster Jr., 85, of Williamsburg, Va., and formerly of Hudson, N.H., and Chelmsford, Mass., died Feb. 9.
Dempster was advertising director for five different newspapers and was northeast director of Multi-Ad Services, based in Peoria, Ill. He also had been employed with the former Minuteman Publications, which covered Lexington, Acton-Boxboro, Concord, and Bedford, Mass.
Before Dempster retired in 1998, he had covered all of New England, New York, and Eastern Canada for Multi-Ad Services.
Dempster also was employed with the Malden Observer and the former Medford (Mass.) Mercury, and had covered the rag market for the former Boston Record American.
The New England Advertising Executives Association awarded him a lifetime membership on his retirement.
Besides his involvement in the newspaper business, he was the parks and recreation commissioner for Chelmsford.
He leaves his wife, Audrey; two sons, Wayne and William III; a daughter, Linda; three grandchildren; a brother; a sister.
Eliot Hallowell
Eliot Hallowell, 94, of Kingsland, Texas, and formerly of Concord, Mass., died Feb. 16 at CelesteCare in Llano, Texas.
Hallowell was a newspaper editor for the Montachusett Review, based in Fitchburg, Mass., and an advertising salesman for The Public Spirit of Ayer, Mass.
He also published a book of his poems titled “Dry Martini & Other Poems.”
Hallowell leaves five children; Jane, Beth, Anne, Joe and Kate; five grandchildren, Joanna, Paul, Koji, Sam and Lily; six great-grandchildren.
Barbara (Butler) Carroll
Barbara (Butler) Carroll, 87, of Southington, Conn., died Feb. 14 after a lengthy illness.
Carroll retired as human resource manager after 45 years with the Southington Step Saver.
She leaves her husband, Richard “Dick”; two sons, Patrick and Michael; four grandchildren.
Bill Beardsley
Bill Beardsley, 85, of Mashpee, Mass., died Feb. 21.
Beardsley was a sales manager for The Wall Street Journal. In 25 years with the Journal’s then-parent company, Beardsley headed its book division, Barron’s, the National Observer and The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly. He also was president of the stateside and international divisions of the Sales Promotion Executive Association.
He was a member of the Outdoor Writers Association and wrote a regular fishing column for the Falmouth (Mass.) Enterprise. He also broadcast fishing reports for WCIB-FM in Falmouth, Mass., and had stories published on various topics in many publications.
He leaves his wife, Marilyn; two sons, Bruce and Brian; four grandchildren.
Anne T. Corcoran
Anne T. Corcoran, 66, of Quincy, Mass., died Jan. 29 at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth. Mass.
Corcoran was a supervisor in the editorial department of The Boston Globe for 25 years. She was also a union activist and served 10 years on the executive committee of the Boston Newspaper Guild, formerly The Boston Globe Employees Association. Corcoran was president of the Boston Newspaper Guild in 1987 and 1988.
Corcoran was involved in Quincy politics. She assisted in campaigns for the late Paul Harold, a Democratic state senator in Massachusetts.
She leaves two sisters, Kathleen and Maureen; a brother, Patrick; six nieces and nephews; four great-nieces; a great-nephew.
William Joseph Whitney
William Joseph Whitney, 84, died at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield.
Whitney began his newspaper career on the copy desk of what is now The Republican of Springfield when it was known as the Union News and Sunday Republican. He was employed there for 25 years, and he eventually became city editor before retiring in 2002. He was known for writing the Sunday Drive Column and Just Browsing, both popular because of their humor.
He leaves his wife, Andrea; a brother, Pat; three nephews and nieces; two great-nephews.
Nino S. Secchi
Nino S. Secchi, 91, of Westport, Conn., and formerly of Greenwich, Conn., died Jan. 31.
Secchi joined the Greenwich Time as sports editor, then moved to the Port Chester (N.Y.) Item three years later. He was sports editor and a columnist there, and soon became the suburban editor of the Item.
In 1960, Secchi joined Greenwich-based American Machine & Foundry, where he handled a corporate newsletter, public relations and communications.
After he retired, he was a columnist for the Greenwich Time.
Secchi served with the Greenwich town meeting for 14 years. He was an alternate member of the Greenwich Planning and Zoning Commission. He was a member and treasurer of the Greenwich Republican Town Committee.
Secchi leaves three children, Lou, Steven and Joseph; three grandchildren, Taryn, Tristen and Taylor; two great-grandchildren.
Willie Wright Jr.
Willie Wright Jr., 82, died Jan. 23 at home in Manchester, Conn.
Before his retirement from The Hartford (Conn.) Courant, he was a circulation supervisor there for many years and a newspaper carrier there for more than 20 years.
He leaves his wife, Hilda; three sons, Willie III, Rickey and Mark; four daughters, Cathy, Helen, Betty and Pennie; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren.
Helen A. (Johnson) Douglas
Helen A. (Johnson) Douglas, 94, of Athol, Mass., and formerly of Orange, Mass., died Jan. 30 at Quabbin Valley Healthcare in Athol.
Douglas was a reporter a total of 12 years for the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester, Mass., for the then-Springfield (Mass.) Union News, and for the former Orange Enterprise and Journal.
Douglas leaves a daughter, Susan; three grandchildren Michael, Gina and Megan; six great-grandchildren; a sister.
Peter Sudarsky
Peter Sudarsky, 88, of New York City, died Jan. 27 in the Mease Dunedin (Fla.) Hospital.
He had been a reporter for The Hartford (Conn.) Courant.
He leaves his wife, Roseanne; four children, Julie, Laura, Jennifer and Noah; six grandchildren; two brothers.
Fruma Dara Efreom
Fruma Dara Efreom, 72, of Warwick, R.I., died Feb. 17 at Kent Hospital in Warwick.
She was a reporter for The Kent County Daily Times, based in Wakefield, R.I.., and wrote for Grace Ormonde Wedding Style Magazine, based in Barrington, R.I.
She served on the Lincoln Park Cemetery Board in Warwick.
She leaves three children, Alana, Yael and Avi, and three grandchildren, Leo, Chloe and Jerome.
Horace ‘Rambo’ Bacon Jr.
Horace “Rambo” Bacon Jr., 81, of Springfield, Mass., died Jan. 26. at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield.
Bacon was a machinist for The Republican of Springfield for many years. He retired from there in 2002.
He leaves his wife, Blanche; two sons, Horace and Malvin; a special son, Seymour; two daughters, Sarah and Pauline; a special daughter, Lizan; 15 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; three brothers; seven sisters.
John J. Thompson, 66, died Jan. 25 at Twin Oaks Nursing Home in Danvers, Mass., where he had received care for the past seven years after a lifelong battle with a variety of disabilities.
He had been employed on the sports desk at the Boston Herald.
He leaves his life companion, Lori Henry; three brothers, Clifford, Michael and Glenn; five nephews and nieces; several cousins.
Janice (Brennan) Sprogell
Janice (Brennan) Sprogell, 99, formerly of West Hartford, Conn., died Feb. 3 in Needham.
Sprogell was the first female proofreader at the then-Springfield (Mass.) Daily News.
She leaves three daughters, Katherine, Sarah and Mary; four grandchildren, Agostino, Dominic, Sarah and Charles; six great-grandchildren.
Erna Jane ‘E.J.’ Silke
Erna Jane “E.J.” Silke, 73, of Westbrook, Maine, died Feb. 9.
Silke was a local news correspondent for Cape Elizabeth, Maine, for the Portland (Maine) Press Herald,
She leaves her partner, Jeffrey; three children, Christopher, Brendan and Rachel; four grandchildren.
Robert Finley Delaney
Robert Finley Delaney, 92, formerly of Newport, R.I., Venice, Fla., and Washington, D.C., died Jan. 28. He also had lived on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
Delaney wrote columns once a month for Newport (R.I.) This Week, a weekly newspaper that covers Newport, Middletown and Jamestown, R.I., and for a Washington-based magazine about defense policy. He also wrote, edited and contributed to a dozen books, including “Your Career in the Foreign Service.” He wrote about 100 articles on international affairs for magazines and professional journals. He often wrote under the pseudonym David Finley.
He leaves five children, Flynn, Nancy, Carrie, Deirdre and Sarah, and seven grandchildren.
Margaret A. Coulombe
Margaret A. (Martin) Coulombe, 67, of Taunton, Mass., died Feb. 19 at Morton Hospital in Taunton.
In the 1980s. Coulombe was a suburban news correspondent for the Taunton (Mass.) Daily Gazette.
She also was an information editor for the F.W. Dodge Division of McGraw-Hill in Boston.
She leaves her husband, Tom; three daughters, Bonnie, Mary and Carol; three grandchildren; three sisters.
Jack Apfelbaum
Jack Apfelbaum, 93, formerly of Hamburg, Germany, and of Littleton, Mass., died Feb. 1 in his home.
Apfelbaum wrote a column for the Littleton Independent called Thoughts from the Sweat Lodge.
He also wrote engineering texts and two children’s books.
He leaves his wife, Eva; three daughters, Claudia, Ananda and Maya; a granddaughter.
James Edward Bransfield
James Edward Bransfield, 72, of Middletown, Conn., died at Hartford (Conn.) Hospital Feb. 24 of complications from surgery.
Bransfield wrote for the Middletown Press for 30 years. His last column was published four weeks before his death.
He leaves a son, Chris; two grandchildren, Clara and Henry; two brothers.
William Joseph Newman
William Joseph Newman, 94, of Springfield, Vt., died Feb. 22 at Springfield Health and Rehabilitation Center.
Newman wrote a human interest column for the former weekly Springfield Reporter.
He leaves a niece, Catherine; and was predeceased by a brother, Richard.
Rosemarie T. (Buttacavoli) Topor
Rosemarie T. (Buttacavoli) Topor, 83, of North Fort Meyers, Fla., and formerly of Norwich, Conn., died Jan. 29 at the Hope Hospice in Cape Coral, Fla.
Topor had been employed with the Norwich Bulletin before her retirement.
She leaves two daughters, Laurie and Leslie; a son, James; a brother, Thomas.
Francis Gros ‘Lou’ Louis
Francis Gros “Lou” Louis of Leesburg, Va., and formerly of Wilton, N.H., died Jan. 31 after a brief illness.
During his time in Wilton, Louis wrote a weekly column, opinion pieces and editorial content for local and statewide newspapers.
He leaves three children, Cheryl, Melissa and Brian; 10 grandchildren; a great-grandson.
Kristine D. ‘Krissy’ Housel
Kristine D. “Krissy” Housel, 50, died Feb. 15.
For 20 years. Housel delivered newspapers for the Seacoast Media Group, publisher of the Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald, Foster’s Daily Democrat of Dover, N.H., and four smaller newspapers in New Hampshire and Maine.
She leaves her mother, Lynda; her husband, Duane Sr.; two sons; Duane Jr. and Robert; a grandson; four siblings.
Mary Lou Nason
Mary Lou Nason, 62, of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, died March 5 at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough, Maine.
She delivered the Portland Press Herald in Old Orchard Beach for several years.
She leaves four sons, Peter, Jerry, Dennis and Daniel; 13 grandchildren; two brothers; a sister.
Muriel Madeline (Whalen) Deck
Muriel Madeline (Whalen) Deck, 91, of West Hartford, Conn., died Feb. 13.
Deck was employed after her high school graduation with the newspaper company that publishes what is now The Republican of Springfield, Mass., and its sister Sunday newspaper.
She leaves five daughters, Karen, Kathy, Norma, Theresa and Patricia; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren.
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Unravelling the Canadian Copyright Policy Laundering Strategy
The Conference Board of Canada plagiarism and undue influence story – which with the Board’s report and overdue apology to Curtis Cook will now go on hiatus until new reports are issued in the fall – has obviously attracted considerable interest. Looking back, while plagiarism is rare, it is the public airing of the copyright lobby policy laundering effort that is the far more important development.
This lengthy post seeks to unravel the effort further by demonstrating how there has been a clear strategy of deploying seemingly independent organizations to advance the same goals, claims, arguments, and recommendations. Over the past three years, this strategy has played out with multiple reports, each building on the next with a steady stream of self-citation. The following diagram highlights the key players:
Although there are many groups involved in copyright lobbying, at the heart of the strategy are two organizations – the Canadian Recording Industry Association and the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association. CRIA’s board is made up the four major music labels plus its director, while the CMPDA’s board is comprised of representatives of the Hollywood movie studios. Those same studios and music labels provide support for the International Intellectual Property Association, which influences Canadian copyright policy by supporting U.S. government copyright lobby efforts.
In addition to their active individual lobbying (described here), CRIA and CMPDA have provided financial support for three associations newly active on copyright lobbying – the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s IP Council, and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (there are other funders including pharmaceutical companies and law firms). Those groups have issued virtually identical reports and in turn supported seemingly independent sources such as the Conference Board of Canada and paid polling efforts through Environics.
The net effect has been a steady stream of reports that all say basically the same thing, cite to the same sources, make the same recommendations, and often rely on each other to substantiate the manufactured consensus on copyright reform. The relevant reports are as follows:
CACN – Report on Counterfeiting and Piracy in Canada: A Roadmap for Change (2007)
Ontario Chamber of Commerce – Protection of Intellectual Copyright: A Case for Ontario (2008)
Environics polling (2008)
IP Council (Canadian Chamber of Commerce) – A Time For Change: Towards a New Era for Intellectual Property Rights in Canada (2009)
Conference Board of Canada – Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Economy (2009 – recalled)
Just how similar are these reports? First consider some sample recommendations (note particularly the Ontario Chamber and Conference Board recommendations which include arguable plagiarism problems):
Recommendation CACN Ontario Chamber IP Council Conference Board
Create an IP Council Establish a federal Intellectual Property Coordination Council consisting of senior civil servants and IP rights holders whose key objectives would include:
(i) creating and implementing educational programs, with emphasis on Canadian youth, that teach the rationale for and importance of intellectual property;
(ii) communicating with IP right holders to ensure that their IP needs are being met by the current application of the laws; IP Inter-Ministerial Coordination Council:
– comprising high-level representatives from ministries involved in innovation and intellectual property rights protection (Ministry of Research and Innovation, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Finance) partnered with key industry stakeholders
– will be responsible for creating policy programs to promote the protection of IP and increase innovative capacity, such as education programs targeting youth as well as an awareness campaign for businesses and consumers Establish an Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Council consisting of senior government officials, representatives from the business community, and IP rights holders. The Council should develop and implement a robust IPR framework that promotes the creation and exploitation of innovative products and services in Canada. IP Inter-ministerial coordination council: comprising high-level representatives from the IP sector; would create policy programs to promote the protection of IP; would enforce key elements such as exposing the dangers and risks to consumer health and safety, highlighting the relationship between IPR crime and organized crime, providing information and resources to SMEs, and creating programs to exploit IPR.
Create an Intellectual Property Crime Task Force Adequately fund an Intellectual Property Crime Task Force, composed of police officers, customs officers, and federal prosecutors, to guide and coordinate IP criminal enforcement. IP Task Force:
– comprising of specialized IPR prosecutors and police officers dedicated to IP related crime
– will coordinate enforcement and prosecution activities against counterfeiters and pirates
– will work with border officials to address counterfeit products detected at border crossings Establish a specialized IP Crime Task Force to guide, coordinate and lead anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy enforcement efforts in Canada. IP Task Force: comprising individuals dedicated to IP-related crime; would coordinate enforcement and prosecution activities against counterfeiters and pirates; would work with CBSA to track counterfeit products.
Tougher penalties Immediately encourage prosecutors to seek more significant penalties, including jail time. The Federal government must strengthen current IPR protection legislative framework by (…) Incur sufficiently severe penalties to deter and neutralize offenders, i.e. inclusion of jail/prison time as punishment. impose stronger penalties for counterfeiting and pirating violations that endanger the health and safety of Canadians enact appropriate penalties as a deterrent
Implement the WIPO Internet Treaties and anti-circumvention measures Enact criminal legislation clearly defining offences for commercial circumvention activities (including trafficking in circumvention devices) The Federal government must strengthen current IPR protection legislative framework by (…) Implementing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Internet Treaties to curtail internet piracy and counterfeiting. The Government of Canada should rapidly adopt IP legislation that fully implements the WIPO Internet treaties in a manner that is consistent with international norms and standards and enables the curtailment of counterfeiting and piracy in the online environment (whether physical or digital) implementing WIPO Internet treaties to curtail Internet piracy and counterfeiting
Create public education and awareness programs creating and implementing educational programs, with emphasis on Canadian youth, that teach the rationale for and importance of intellectual property Private and public sector stakeholders should work in partnership with consumer protection groups and education institutions to generate greater public awareness of the impact of counterfeiting and piracy on public health and safety, as well as to the economy Establish an intellectual property education program targeting the public, businesses, innovators, creators, and government officials. Private and public sector stakeholders should work with consumer protection groups and academia to generate awareness of the impact of counterfeiting and piracy on public health and safety, as well as to the economy.
Increase funding and resources to tackle IP crime Provide the RCMP and the Department of Justice with adequate financial and human resources to effectively address counterfeiting. Federal and provincial governments to provide additional funding and training to CBSA, police, Crown attorneys and judges specifically for the purpose of enhancing IPR protection. the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) should be provided with the legislative
authority and resources needed to target, detain, seize and destroy counterfeit and pirated goods on its own initiative. Federal and provincial governments should provide additional funding and training to all relevant enforcement authorities for enhancing IPR protection.
Not only are the recommendations the same, so too are the claims and the arguments used to support the recommendations. First the claims:
1. Counterfeiting costs the Canadian economy billions. (see posts on the uncertainty associated with counterfeiting claims here, here, and here)
Organization Claim Source
CACN The RCMP estimates that the cost to the Canadian economy from counterfeiting and piracy is in the billions. Royal Canadian Mounted Police “Intellectual Property Crime in Canada – Hazardous and Costly” RCMP Feature Focus 2005 Economic Crime in Canada
Ontario Chamber In Canada, the RCMP and others have acknowledged that there is no comprehensive study regarding the specific amount of pirated and counterfeit goods. However, a widely accepted estimated cost of counterfeiting and piracy to the Canadian economy, ranges between CDN $10 billion and CDN $30 billion. Royal Canadian Mounted Police “Intellectual Property Crime in Canada – Hazardous and Costly” RCMP Feature Focus 2005 Economic Crime in Canada
IP Council It has been conservatively estimated that counterfeiting and piracy cost the Canadian economy $22 billion annually in lost tax revenue, investment and innovation. Royal Canadian Mounted Police. “Intellectual Property Rights Crime.” Presentation. Montreal. Sept 16, 2008.
Conference Board Although the RCMP and others acknowledge that no comprehensive study has been done on the specific amount of pirated and counterfeit goods, they concur that a widely accepted estimated cost of counterfeiting and piracy to the Canadian economy ranges between $10 billion and $30 billion per year. Ontario Chamber of Commerce, Protection of Intellectual Copyright: A Case for Ontario
2. Lost revenues in the software industry (see my post on the BSA numbers here, dodgy software numbers here)
CACN In 2005, the loss to the software industry as a result of piracy was approximately $736 million. This meant a tax loss of $345 million and a loss of thousands of software-related jobs. Royal Canadian Mounted Police “Intellectual Property Crime in Canada – Hazardous and Costly” RCMP Feature Focus 2005 Economic Crime in Canada
Ontario Chamber The RCMP reports that in 2005, the Canadian software industry lost approximately $736 million and 32,000 software related jobs as a result of counterfeiting and crime, the majority of which were lost in Ontario. Royal Canadian Mounted Police “Intellectual Property Crime in Canada – Hazardous and Costly” RCMP Feature Focus 2005 Economic Crime in Canada
IP Council According to a study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), losses to the Canadian economy due to software piracy surpassed $1 billion in 2007. Business Software Alliance. News Release. “BSA Urges Stronger Copyright Legislation To Reduce Impact of Piracy on Canadian Economy.” May 14, 2008.
Conference Board Losses to the software and film industries are approximately $1 billion in Canada. Ontario Chamber of Commerce, Protection of Intellectual Copyright: A Case for Ontario
3. Losses Due to Film Piracy (see my post on movie industry losses here).
CACN The annual consumer spending loss in Canada due to film piracy in 2005 was estimated at approximately $270 million, while the loss of tax revenues due to film piracy in Canada in 2005 was estimated at approximately $41 million The Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association (CMPDA) Beyond Borders: An Agenda to Combat Film Piracy in Canada (Beyond Borders) 2006.
Ontario Chamber The annual consumer spending loss in Canada due to film piracy in 2005 was estimated at approximately $270 million with a loss of tax revenue accruing to an estimated $41 million The Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association (CMPDA) Beyond Borders: An Agenda to Combat Film Piracy in Canada (Beyond Borders) 2006.
IP Council Film piracy resulted in consumer spending losses of approximately $270 million in 2005, as well as tax revenue losses of $41 million The Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association (CMPDA) Beyond Borders: An Agenda to Combat Film Piracy in Canada (Beyond Borders) 2006.
4. Losses to the Music Industry
CACN As a result of the combined impact of the physical and online black markets, the Canadian music industry’s retail sales of pre-recorded CDs and cassettes declined by 48 percent ($637 million) from 1999 to 2006. The Canadian Recording Industry Association, Press Release, March 2, 2006.
Ontario Chamber The Canadian music industry’s retail sales of pre-recorded CDs and cassettes have declined by 44 percent from 1999 to 2005, a decrease of $541 million. As a result, the Canadian recording industry has had to shed its workforce by 20 per cent, with most lost in Ontario The Canadian Recording Industry Association, Press Release, March 2, 2006.
IP Council Canada’s music industry, faced with unchecked online counterfeiting and piracy, experienced a 48% ($637 million) drop in retail sales from 1999 to 2006. The Canadian Recording Industry Association, Press Release, March 2, 2006.
And a few of the arguments:
1. Piracy is out of control in Canada
CACN Piracy can only thrive in a culture where citizens view the acquisition of counterfeit goods as acceptable, thereby opening the way to consumer demand for those products. This appears to be case in Canada – particularly among youth – where research has found that stealing IP is increasingly regarded as morally acceptable.
Ontario Chamber the OECD found in a December 2005 report that Canada had the highest level of peer-to-peer downloading among OECD countries.
IP Council The RCMP has identified an “ever-growing use of the Internet for IP crime” in Canada, and predicted that the problem will escalate because “soft ware, music and movie piracy are easy, low-risk activities.” In November of 2007, the Quebec Superior Court declared that unauthorized file sharing in Canada was an “endemic” problem.
Conference Board The Internet piracy problem within Canada continues to worsen and is causing serious problems for markets in other countries.
2. The U.S. is unhappy with Canada
CACN The United States Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus, which designated Canada as a “Watch List Country” (along with China, Russia, Mexico, India, and Malaysia) because of its failure to amend its copyright law in accordance with its WIPO obligations and because of “Canada’s lax border measures [that] appear to permit the importation of pirated products from East Asia, Pakistan, and Russia.”
Ontario Chamber Further, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has stated that Canada’s lax border measures “appear to be non-compliant with TRIPS requirements” and the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network has stated that “Canada has effectively failed to meet” its TRIPS obligations.
IP Council Several international organizations and countries have specifically identified Canada for its failure to adequately protect IP rights. In March 2008, the International Intellectual Property Alliance placed Canada in the same league as well known counterfeiting havens like China and Russia by listing it among “countries of the greatest concern.” In April 2008, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) placed Canada on the Special 301 Watch List for the fourteenth consecutive year.
Conference Board There is ongoing debate and outcry in Canada regarding the 2007 and 2009 Special 301 Reports issued by the Office of the United States Trade Representative.
3. Canada’s lax IP protection hampers innovation and puts foreign investment at risk
CACN By providing a marketplace where investments in creative goods and services will be profitable, IP protection fosters innovation, job creation and economic prosperity. In developed nations like Canada, where innovation has become a key economic driver, this has never been more important. Unfortunately, it appears that all levels of government in Canada lack a sophisticated understanding of the connection between innovation and IP.
Ontario Chamber There is a real concern that mounting criticism of Canada’s IPR regime will impact Ontario’s attractiveness to foreign investors, its ability to foster innovation as well as overall competitiveness
IP Council Canadian failure to properly protect IPR directly affects the willingness of foreign firms to invest domestically.
Conference Board Canada is not among the top innovation nations, but is well positioned to do better if it can bring together its fragmented and uncoordinated innovation infrastructure. Otherwise, Canada will continue to offer only a marginal framework for developing and exploiting intellectual property from both the private and public sectors. The role of intellectual property systems in Canada has received inadequate attention. If Canada does not change, its economic outlook will suffer.
False Momentum
It is not just that these reports all receive financial support from the same organizations and say largely the same thing. It is also that the reports each build on one another, creating the false impression of growing momentum and consensus on the state of Canadian law and the need for specific reforms. Consider the IP Council’s A Time for Change, which was released in early 2009. The very first chapter of the report is titled “Canada’s Emerging Consensus on Intellectual Property Rights.” Where does this consensus come from?
According to the IP Council, it starts with the CACN report, followed by two House of Commons committees that heard primarily from these groups and which led to the 2007 Speech from the Throne and Canada’s participation in ACTA. The chapter then states that IPR policy was taken to the “next level” with the Ontario Chamber report, the founding of the IP Council, and the 2008 Conference Board of Canada conference that led to the three recalled IP reports. The chapter then notes the “growing public awareness of the need for action” which cites Environics polls (paid for by the IP Council) and a Toronto Star supplement on counterfeiting (paid for by the CACN). In all, the IP Council cites the CACN four times, the Ontario Chamber twice, the Conference Board of Canada proceedings 13 times, and the Environics research five times.
Environics
The influence over some of these independent reports is evident in other ways. For example, Environics has emerged as the survey company of choice for this effort (Pollara was a favourite until Duncan McKie left to run the Canadian Independent Record Production Association). Environics lead on these issues was once Don Hogarth, who now provides communications for CRIA. On June 4, 2008 – one week before the introduction of C-61 – Environics released a poll that it said found that Canadians are looking for leadership on IP issues. The report repeats the CACN, Ontario Chamber, and IP Council assertions, stating:
over the past several years Canada has fallen behind the international community when it comes to the protection of intellectual property and products of the mind. The gap between Canadian laws and international standards in the area of counterfeiting, piracy, and illegal downloading is growing ever wider. Canada has been maintained by the U.S. Trade Representative on a special watch list specifically because of its laxity in the realm of protecting intellectual property.
What makes the timing particularly noteworthy is that even though Environics issued a press release claiming that the data came from a new study, the data was not new. Rather, it was drawn from a 2006 survey that seemingly sat idle for two years until the opportune moment to raise it days before the introduction of new copyright legislation. Who funded the questions related to intellectual property? It will come as little surprise to find that CRIA paid for those. Moreover, Environics oddly proceeded to re-issue the identical press release six months later (June 2008 version, December 2008 version) in conjunction with an IP Council commissioned survey on counterfeiting.
At a certain level, none of this will come as a surprise. Companies lobby for their position and what made the Conference Board of Canada series of events so unusual was the way in which it was exposed. Yet the Conference Board of Canada’s recalled reports were clearly just a part of a much larger strategy to influence Canadian copyright policy by creating a narrative of crisis and the false impression of Canada as a piracy haven. This week’s comments from Industry Minister Tony Clement and Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore provide the strong sense that they better understand the current dynamic around copyright, but it is obvious that the lobbying on the issue is only going to intensify in the months ahead.
Tags: cmpda / conference board / copyright / CRIA / environics / policy laundering
PPoC says:
Micheal Im in complete awe that you have taken your precious time to share this information.
Unsurprisingly this is what most already knew, just never took the time (as you have) to point it out. Once again your persevereance of the truth is inspiring. I have to admit this would have made me chuckle if it wasn’t so sickening.
captcha phrase: charcoal found . IRONY…..
what specifically is this about? are they creating a new copyright bill?
M. C. in B.C. says:
Loss to the software industry?
How much of the loss posted is actually due to piracy? Seems to me that most jobs were outsourced to nations with no wage laws and shoddy human rights records. The taxes collected from workers in Canada in the software industry are no more due to corporate greed.
These business types are not exactly know for being upfront and honest. I call BS.
crade says:
corruption?
It is upsetting that a few get to have more influence over our government than the voting population just because they are rich. We should get them to make some laws to control this sort of behavior. We should be able to get a decent number of people to consent that bribery shouldn’t be tolerated, even if it’s thinly veiled. Now if only we could somehow influence what our government does based on what a majority of the electorate wants…
Simon Tooke says:
Foreign influence
Wouldn’t it be useful to show the major players in the CMPDA, CRIA, etc.? I suspect some of them can be traced back to the USA. I thought the Canadian CDMA was mostly written by U.S. interests, but maybe I’m misremembering.
PJL says:
I am left in awe at the arrogance and willful contempt that these corporations are showing to their customers and fellow citizens. Karma is unforgiving and these RIAA corporations have had it coming since Napster so let them play their dirty games but when WE THE PEOPLE decide enough is enough they won’t be able to sell their products to anyone because their customers will hate them so much for what they have done to them in the past.
In the end it’s all about the fight to save our Canadian culture and how it’s being stolen from us by giant and organized American corporations. Almost a bad horror movie plot but it’s real. Thank you Mr. Geist for a very informative article.
Richard Bell says:
The rest of us walk.
Alex Storino says:
Exposing Them
Exposing this for all to see is the next step share this piece with friends.
Disgusted_Canadian says:
Thanks Michael,
I shall be writing my MP about this and this past Thursday. It’s time I got involved, this is a major strike against Representative Government and Government by the People.
Jot says:
Write an article on your methods Dr. Geist
Hello Dr. Geist,
Again thanks for all your amazing work, no one else is speaking for the masses on this matter besides you it seems. Ironic since I remember voting for my MP and not the CMDPA or CRIA. I am concerned though that its just you doing this work, while they apparently seem to have a small army spewing their lies. Please write an article on where you are getting your reports from, perhaps a small volunteer group can also filter through items. We can then get multiple people blogging and writing about these matters.
Jason K says:
Can someone also please tell these organizations that the CRIA doesn’t represent the music industry as a whole. I’m a bit disappointed to see the Ontario Chamber’s position on this. Remind me not to renew my membership.
Gez says:
gezlhume@gmail.com
No connections to SOCAN? I know they were involved with the CRIA in getting the private copying levy created…
kenny says:
A communications disruption can mean only one thing — invasion
🙂 The phantom menace 🙂
losses = fake
I love when they talk about losses.
The part they never mentioned is the one about where these “losses” go? Do they supposedly leave the country?
Oh, right. We’re consumers. When the money is “lost” it just goes elsewhere within the country. This is why there are so many loopholes in the “money lost” idea. If everyone was making a profit off “illegal copies” then there’d be real money lost. However, since we’re just getting it for free and spending elsewhere, the money is still going back into government taxing and what have you.
Also, good writeup, maybe people will realize soon that they are colluding. Does Canada have laws against this type of collusion?
pat donovan says:
reactions, emotions, objectives.
the term is to ‘buffalo’ here, i think.
something like bull, right?
odd the wiretaping, bugging (glass beads, anyone?), and other sir-valence tech
didn’t get a mention. It is a communication system, after all.
Brammer says:
for being on our side!
Very disappointed with Environics being tied to this.
Dark Phoenix says:
Response to “Loss in the software industry?”
“How much of the loss posted is actually due to piracy?”
Likely a whole lot less than they claim. The Business Software Alliance is an American-based front group for large software companies in the US (Microsoft, Adobe and Autodesk are the main contributors), who are paid to find and punish copyright infringement. I’d believe one of their arguments about as much as I’d believe an argument about copyright from the CRIA.
Linux Kid says:
I thought us Canadians were nice
Hello, but I am a bit confused here by this quote
“In Canada, the RCMP and others have acknowledged that there is no comprehensive study regarding the specific amount of pirated and counterfeit goods. However, a widely accepted estimated cost of counterfeiting and piracy to the Canadian economy, ranges between CDN $10 billion and CDN $30 billion.”
That works out to about $1 billion worth of “theft” for each and every Canadian. Well I have not copied any IP, neither has my wife, so some louse is doing lots for both of us if these figures are true.
But I have purchased CD’s directly from Canadian artists at their concerts. These are talented Canadians (who record and produce their own CDs) that the recording industry lobbyists have never heard of.
Linux Kid: not sure what you meant to say, but $30 billion / $30 million = $1000. And ya, that’s a ridiculous amount.
Hopefully the Government does not want to be painted with the same brush that tarnished the Conference Board
It seems that the web of “mis-truths” that are the foundation of CRIA, MPAA and their bed mates are finally visible to the Government. I guess that they needed a consistent pattern over many years to get it. The real test is whether legislation reflects the truth, or lobby lies. Now that the Conservative Government gets it – Liberals, what’s your position on the matter? (just in case there is a change in government)
The lobbyists and their patrons probably have dart boards with Dr. Geist’s image at the bulls eye since he and his researchers, and peers, have diligently reminded us about the pack of lies (oops … mis-truth) emanating from these individuals and organizations.
Is there an english word that describes individuals who sell their soul, moral integrity, nay – their bodies for money?
… Gez/Linux Kid: $30 billion / 30 million = $1000 for every man, woman, child. And this is supposed to be annually.
I guess that means Dad gets a new copy of AutoCad, Mom Photoshop, a few copies of Vista, and the kids a couple hundred CD’s/DVD’s. And that’s every year!
C’mon, people … the name’s Tucker, not Sucker.
. And ya, that’s a ridiculous amount.
Exceptional work!!
Congratulations Michael Geist for exposing these cartels what they’re worth, nothing. You have my humble thanks!! ^o^
Richard Stallman says:
This article exposes two aspects of the copyright lobby’s propaganda:
the multiple front organizations, and the false claims they repeat.
However, there is another aspect which works at a more insidious
level: propaganda terms such as “piracy” and “intellectual property”
which are designed to lead people to frame the issue in a way that
favors the copyright lobby. Each one of us who uses those terms
(rather than denouncing them as propaganda) becomes, in that moment,
a front for the copyright lobby’s ideas.
So let’s not do it!
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html for more explanation.
Good work Michael, we will now see if the actual government is working for the people who voted for them or if it is working for the money provider corporate liars!! . The way they will proceed with this bill, will tell us.
bcodeproject@yahoo.com
>> [damage] ranges between CDN $10 billion and CDN $30 billion.
> That works out to about $1 billion worth of “theft” for each and every Canadian.
Aha! I caught anti-copyright advocates advancing a false argument, therefore, the anti-copyright crowd is wrong about everything!
Are there only 10-30 Canadians in Canada? I think your numbers should be $333-$1000 per Canadian. Obviously those numbers are wrong for two reasons: First, because it’s unlikely to be that much money per person, and second, the “losses” aren’t to the Canadian economy. The Canadians are largely pirating American content, so those would mostly be losses to the US. Of course, from a completely selfish standpoint, Canada might as well rip-off other countries.
..for being our voice, you are becoming a Canadian hero.
PenGun says:
Don’t Support Them
http://mininova.org
Voice from the Wilderness says:
Michael Geist for Order of Canada! For this is true patriot love.
Michael A says:
Why do you need to lie about Canada’s enforcement?
“clearly just a part of a much larger strategy to influence Canadian copyright policy by creating a narrative of crisis and the false impression of Canada as a piracy haven.”
Punishment for private copyright infringement in Canada is extremely rare, as you would find it impossible even if hard pressed to disprove. By all reasonable definitions, from this fact ALONE, Canada can be described as a ‘piracy haven’ – if something is done at will and not punished, then by definition, there is a ‘haven’ for it. Why do you need to lie about the strictness of Canadian copyright enforcement, Mr. Geist?
Thanks for the excellent work Mr. Geist. Just goes to show when you have no transparency and accountability in any level of government that it feeds corruption. Corporate lobbyist with their deep pockets making contributions and deals behind close doors with politicians and high level government bureaucrats; that don’t change with the the whims of the elections.
Sadly it’s not just here but all over the world. In Sweden, a shocking show trial to get rid of the “world’s largest Bit Torrent tracker”. Yet despite obvious bias in judges the decision was in made in favour of the corporations; despite not being able to prove a thing in the court proceedings.
It’s a shame when corporate greed & power has more say than an individual’s right and freedoms.
What a result
Brilliantly done.
Tom Hartley says:
Copyright law is antiquated; thanks Mr Geist for helping to speed up the process.
http://www.orato.com/entertainment/coming-through-rye-banned
Ben Hurr says:
Soooo, a relatively small amount of pro-copyright groups paid many other groups to parrot their views so it would look like there is a ‘copyright emergency’, basically?
I didn’t know DeviantArt shenanigans worked in real world politics.
JANIEMeadows21 says:
That’s cool that we are able to get the loan and that opens completely new chances.
lyjn says:
1984 – Desinformation Ministry and New Talk
While everybody is busy discussing how much is “lost” by “piracy” and “stolen” content, I want to protest the use of such words of “piracy” and “stolen” in the first place, which are designed to brain wash the population into thinking IP is like real property. Here are some quotes:
1 – When talking about piracy the entertainment industry and politicians often use the term “theft.†This is a huge problem according to the Swedish sociologist of law Stefan Larsson. In his thesis “Metaphors and Norms – Understanding Copyright Law in a Digital Society,†he explains that these metaphors are in part keeping the wide gap between people’s norms and the law intact.
http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-is-not-theft-111104/
2 – Canadian law professor Stephen Waddams, in a well-regarded book about how we think about law, wrote that when a dispute arises about intangibles, such as copyrighted works, information, or… time,
[T]he claimant is always eager to categorize the claim as proprietary. Thus, the conduct of the defendant is apt to be described by claimants as piracy, highway robbery, and brazen theft. This is rhetoric: the taking of a photograph, the re-broadcasting of television signals, the use of confidential information, or the copying of a design cannot, in fact or law, be piracy, robbery (on or off the highway), or theft, and if it were any of these things, the rhetoric would be unnecessary…
[…] Describing someone as a thief or trespasser is a metaphoric step in gaining property rights, and not the result of having a property right in the first place. If one already had a property right, the property owner would sue for violation of that right and would not have to strut around… blaring loudly about “piracy.â€
Copyright owners [describe] their right as “intellectual property.†The purpose of advocating something as a property right is to take it outside of the need for any empirical, social justification. As a property right we do not ask about incentives, and we do not ask whether the property interest benefits the public. Property simply is and need not be justified. Those who own property rights are entitled to hunt down unauthorized users as free-riders, as criminals, as a threat to polite society just as surely as who break into our homes and steal our cars.
Copyright law isn’t about theft and clearly fenced-off property. It’s a set of social relationships between creators and the public, granting creators certain exclusive rights, for a limited time, for the benefit of everyone. Abusing the theft metaphor shifts the focus away from the fundamentals of copyright, making it difficult to have any sort of meaningful or fruitful discussion about copyright.
http://www.rootsmusic.ca/2010/01/25/why-copyright-infringement-isnt-theft/
“intellectual property is composed of two parts: the right of sale, and the intellectual monopoly. The first gives the producer or any rightful owner of a copy of the idea the power to sell it to another party. The second gives the patent or copyright holder the right to control and limit the usage of the idea by any other person.
The latter is not just a simple well-defined right of property. It establishes a monopoly that we do not usually allow producers of other goods. We will argue that this monopoly creates many social costs, yet has little social benefit. It largely redistributes income and wealth from the many that do not have it, to the “lucky†ones who have managed to obtain it.
Boldrin & Levine: Against Intellectual Monopoly, Chapter 1, page 8
http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm
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Separating Fact From Fiction: The Reality of Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing, and Education
This week, I had the honour of speaking at a packed event at the World Intellectual Property Organization titled How WIPO Can Contribute to Achieving the Right to Education. The panel featured speakers from around the world focusing on the copyright-related education issues. My talk, which used emerging data from the copyright review, focused on the reality of Canadian copyright, fair dealing, and education. A recording of my remarks embedded into my slide presentation is posted below in a YouTube video.
May 31, 2018 — 8 comments — News
Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing and Education, Part One: Making Sense of the Spending
The review of Canadian copyright law continues this week with the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology set to hear from Canadian ministers of education and the two leading copyright collectives, Access Copyright and Copibec. The committee review has now heard from dozens of witnesses, including a week-long cross-country tour. With the initial focus on copyright, education, and fair dealing, the MPs are grappling with three key trends since 2012: educational spending on licensing has increased, publisher profit margins has increased with increased sales of Canadian educational texts, and distributions from the Access Copyright licence have declined. This post, the first of four this week on copyright, fair dealing, and education, takes a closer look at the three trends and how they can be reconciled.
Fair Access: Striking the Right Balance on Education and Copyright
Academic Matters, a semi-annual publication that explores issues related to higher education, has just published a pair of essays on education, fair dealing, copyright, and collective licensing. Roanie Levy, the Executive Director of Access Copyright, wrote an essay in support of the role of her copyright collective. I wrote the other essay, arguing that emerging forms of access for copyrighted works lessens the value of the Access Copyright licence.
The full piece – Fair Access: Striking the Right Balance on Education and Copyright – can be found here. I conclude that:
any [copyright law] review must account for the millions being paid by educational institutions for access and the modest interpretations of fair dealing law in Canada, which have resulted in copying guidelines that are still more restrictive than those found in some other countries. Indeed, a fair review of the current system reveals that the problem facing Access Copyright is not that copies are not valued, but rather that in light of new forms of access and the evolution of the law, its licence is no longer valuable.
January 22, 2016 — 2 comments — News
The Future of Education Is Here, It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed
William Gibson, the American-Canadian science fiction writer who coined the term cyberspace, is well-known for having stated “the future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.” The quote succinctly points to the gradual dissemination of new technologies that start with first adopters but can take years to spread more widely.
To borrow from Gibson, in recent weeks it has become increasingly clear that the future of education is here, though it is not evenly distributed. My weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) notes the emerging model flips the current approach of expensive textbooks, closed research, and limited access to classroom-based learning on its head, instead featuring open course materials, open access to scholarly research, and Internet-based courses that can simultaneously accommodate thousands of students. The concern is that other countries are becoming first adopters, while Canada lags behind.
May 18, 2012 — 7 comments — Columns
Appeared in the Toronto Star on May 13, 2012 as Is Canada Lagging Behind in Online Education? William Gibson, the American-Canadian science fiction writer who coined the term cyberspace, is well-known for having stated “the future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.” The quote succinctly points to […]
May 18, 2012 — Comments are Disabled — Columns Archive
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Mitchell’s has been an approved supplier to the United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP), an honour that vouches for the high quality of the company’s products.
For us, quality control starts with the acceptance of incoming raw materials, for which we have exacting standards – materials are not taken into the factory until they have been thoroughly tested and approved. ISO 9001:2008, Halal, PSQCA, YUMS, HACCP.
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Annually, we have the capacity to produce around 18 million bottles of fruit squashes, nectars and juices, 18 million jars of jam, jellies and marmalades and 14 million bottles of sauces, as well as 5,000 tonnes of confectionery, 2,400 tonnes of enrobed chocolate bars and 600 tonnes of moulded chocolates.
State of the art , industrial equipment, professional management and a trained workforce, all combine to ensure that Mitchell’s continues its dominance as the innovator, market leader and trendsetter.
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Lovechild is an emerging psychedelic Americana band from New York City. With songwriting influences spanning Dylan and Neil Young to Frank Ocean and Kendrick Lamar, the band's music has been praised as "the kind of musical poetry we've been missing."
Lovechild is an emerging psychedelic Americana band from New York City. With songwriting influences spanning Dylan and Neil Young to Frank Ocean and Kendrick Lamar, the band’s music has been praised as “the kind of musical poetry we’ve been missing.” Led by singer-songwriter and Manhattan native Leo Liebeskind, Lovechild has spent the past 4 years tirelessly gigging around the New York area, while working on demo recordings in bedrooms, basements, and warehouse spaces around the city. After going through a number of personnel changes, the consistent lineup of Woodstock-raised twin brothers Aaron and Wyatt Mones (lead and bass guitar) and Wisconsin-hailing Karl Markgraf VIII and Daryl Cozzi (keys and drums) bring a diverse range of sounds and influences to Liebeskind’s poetic folk rock songs. Acoustic picking and country-tinged guitar cries are often found morphing into overdriven, psychedelic jams. Slow, soulful ballads are mixed and mashed with up-tempo rockers. And stark, rootsy 70s grooves are often juxtaposed with wild sonic explosions into and beyond the 21st century.
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Final Fantasy Digital Card Game
Final Fantasy Digital Card Game announced for PC and mobile devices in Japan
Square Enix has announced that a new online Final Fantasy card game is coming to Japan in 2019 on PC and mobile devices through Yahoo! Game Plus. Titled Final Fantasy Digital Card Game, players will be able to build their own decks, collect and raise cards, and face off against rival players in turn-based gameplay. Cards will not only feature familiar heroes and characters from previous Final Fantasy titles, but also Summoned creatures and beasts as well. Square Enix will also be…
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/Porzellan Allach SS Julleuchter
The Julleuchter (Yule Lantern or Yule Candlestick) was arguably the most essential piece of cultural paraphernalia invented by the SS for its members and their families to practice what was to become Heinrich Himmler’s new religion for the SS. A contrived neo-pagan ‘religion’ with set of proceedings for SS celebrations that Fritz Weitzel documented in the book “The Celebrations In The Life Of The SS Family”.
In 1933 a group of candle holders appeared in Hermann Wirth’s ‘Die Ura Linda Chronik’, a translation into German of the Frisian ‘Oera Linda Book‘, a 19th century Frisian manuscript. Wirth was a lay scholar and the early leader of the SS Ahnenerbe. Wirth’s ‘Die Ura Linda Chronik’ has always been a subject of great debate, even in the Third Reich it was rejected by prominent National Socialists such as Alfred Rosenberg.
Image from the book ‘Die Ura Linda Chronik’ – Hermann Wirth
The image above from shows a group of pottery candle holders, the far right example being the piece in the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm., a design clearly copied for the SS Julleuchter, Wirth describes it in his Ura-Linda-Chronik in 1933 as “a farmer’s candlestick of clay in tower form from Halland (1) with the Heart of the Irtha and the Wralda’s Å Jul on each of the four walls”
It was intended that every member of the Allgemeine SS and Waffen-SS would eventually receive the SS Julleuchter from Himmler. This intention was partly realised as huge numbers of Julleuchter were produced but it is likely many were received but were left unused. According to the book ”Order of the Deathshead”, 1969, Heinze Hohne, from documents residing in the United States National Archives from Reichsführer-SS Himmler’s own office (though, date of documents not mentioned), “54.2% of SS personnel continued to attend Protestant Churches while 23.7% continued to be practicing Catholics..” This leaves 22% that could have worshipped at the altar of Himmler’s new religion. Hohn continues; “only in the SS armed forces did Himmler gather more believers, “53.6% in the Verfügungstrüppe and 69% in the Totenkopfverbände. The war however, drove the “believers” on the “offensive” even in the Waffen SS. Catholic Chaplins appeared from time to time among the troops and the “Germanic Volunteers” were allowed to go to Church; in some units (those of Obergrüppenführer Bittrich, for instance) notices of church services were posted in the offices.”
Right; SS Leitheft Supplementary Edition Cover with Julleuchter Design
Below; “The Celebrations In The Life Of The SS Family” (transl.) by Fritz Weitzel;
“ The home of the SS Man should be recognisable through its SS corner which is set aside for the special celebrations of his family. From this Jul-corner and SS-corner a happy and strong glow should envelope the whole house and all the people living in it. In this corner all those things should be kept which strengthen the voice of our blood and the duties to land and Folk, everything that demonstrates our beliefs. The corner should be dominated by the family chest, holding any family heirlooms and the decorations which are used throughout the year. A small table may be used at first, but gradually every family should have their own chest.
The Julleuchter stands on the chest all year round, surrounded by the Jul Plates, one for each member of the family, which are being used for all the yearly celebrations as well as for birthdays, weddings, and the day of death. At times the Jul Plates are replaced by the Jul Wheel, which is used for holding the Tree Of Life, Advent Wreath, Easter Wreath, May Wreath, Solstice Wreath, and Harvest Wreath. On the wall behind the chest the pictures of our Führer and the Reich Leader Of The SS, family pictures and ancestor’s names, memorabilia of war times. The large SS Runes the Swastika must also be present.
The Jul and SS corner is the measure of how much the SS Man and his wife take part in the customs of the SS.”
The Allach Porcelain Factory from October 1937 after moving from the original smaller two-storey building
Pouring the clay into the slip-cast Julleucter moulds.
The Julleucter in production at the Allach Porcelain factory. Workers cutting the clay to form the hearts and hagal runes of the Julleuchter before going to the firing process. Over 350,000 Julleuchter are estimated to have been produced.
A large firing kiln.
Above, a superb Julleuchter, believed to be very early production, possibly pre-dating the 6-dot form.
An original Allach Julleuchter in a red/brown clay with the 6-dot pattern with Julkerz
SS Jul-Kerze Document (Yule Candle Document)
An original example of the Jul-Kerze (Jul-Candle) document that accompanied the Julleuchter Candle sent to SS men each year in time for Weihnachtfest. Signed (printed signature) “H. Himmler – Reichsführer SS – Field Command Post, December 21, 1943″
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Equity Gallery
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Huck Snyder: 1984
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Solos x3
Andrew Cornell Robinson & Matt Rota, Hard-Line
Hyeseung Marriage-Song, Modern Prometheus
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Elizabeth Gilfilen & Molly Herman, Cadences
Collective Memory: Artists Reflecting on the Arts
2018 Purchase College MFA Thesis Exhibition- Beyond
Fanny Allié, Waiting to Be Found
SPRING/BREAK Art Show: You Don’t Belong Here
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Steve Pauley, Light/Weight
Collapse of Vision
Jason Bryant & Charles Cohen: Taking Heart in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Catherine Tafur, Regime
Liana Finck, Passing for Human
Margaret Inga Urias, Return to Me
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Not the End
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Gori & Kelly, Sightseers
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Way to Go, Einstein!
Rhys Hecox, Between Here and Our Destination
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Patrick Meagher, Suggested For You
Meghan Keane, Displacement
A Foothold on the Rocks
Ofri Cnaani, File Under: ?
Call for Entries- It Could Be You: Portraiture in a Constructed World
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MAUREEN SULLIVAN
Founder of Red Art Projects, curator, and art marketing expert.
Maureen Sullivan is the founder of Red Art Projects, an art consulting company that works with artists and organizations to promote their art projects and events, as well as independently curating and writing. Previous experiences include serving as the marketing, communications and events director for Creative Time and The New Museum of Contemporary Art, and consulting and producing limited editions for art organizations nationally and internationally.
Consultant, curator, writer—you inhabit many roles within the contemporary art world. Where did your professional journey begin, and how did you arrive where you are today?
My first art job was working for a group called Checkerboard that made documentary films on living artists. We produced one film a year, and I would also organize a film festival of shorts to kick off the premier. The first film I worked on was with Roy Lichtenstein, and it provided my first glimpse into the day-to-day life of a successful artist. But my real immersion into the art world came through my next job at The New Museum of Contemporary Art. I was hired as their events manager and later created their marketing department. Producing the annual auctions and limited editions involved working with collectors, artists, and all the contemporary NY galleries - I met everyone in the art world at once, baptism by fire. It opened my eyes to many facets of the art world that I hadn’t known before. Working in a smaller museum, as it was at that time, had the benefit of getting a broad base of knowledge by wearing many hats and working intimately on a daily basis with the Director, curators, educators and the Board – something not possible at a larger organization.
Christian Jankowski, Crying for the March of Humanity, 2012, video still, courtesy of the artist. Presented by Maureen Sullivan at Spring/Break Art Show, NY 201
You run a private art consultancy, Red Art Projects, which has provided strategic planning, marketing, and communications expertise to a host of acclaimed artists and arts organizations. What advice would you give to an up-and-coming young artist looking to launch their career?
Engage. Engage with a positive network of friends and art world colleagues, and support each other to create opportunities. Learn how to show remotely (on an ipad or phone) as well as in the studio. Write and talk about your work clearly and /succinctly, and—this is important—not all the time! Protect your energy and time – you want to spend as much time creating your work as you can. That often means figuring out how to write grants or barter with someone who can write with you. If you’re working too many full or part-time jobs, it can drain your time and energy to create.
Want a gallery? Do your homework. Research which galleries you respect and what it is about their program and reputation that you admire. If it seems like a good fit, from the artists they show and audience they attract, think about who you know that could make an introduction: a collector, a curator, or an artist with a relationship to the gallery. Remember, there are opportunities outside the gallery system including artist organized group shows. Build your resume by saying “yes” to strategic opportunities.
Are there resources that you think young artists should be more aware of?
There are organizations like NYFA and Creative Capital that connect artists to resources and mentorships. There are numerous residencies that allow artists the time to focus on their work away from day-to-day distractions and they can provide good networking opportunities. Non-profit spaces like Equity and Howl provide access to information and talks targeted to help artists with experts in art law, low-income housing for artists, instruction on how to write an artist statement, and more. This is the kind of practical knowledge that often isn’t disseminated in art school but is an essential component of the artist’s survival kit.
In addition to Red Art Projects, you also curate exhibitions, produce editions, and write on contemporary art. Has your experience in marketing and communication influenced your approach to curation?
When I was with larger organizations, there was a significant divide between the curatorial and other departments; one was seen as the creative side, while the other was, respectively, the business side. With many new spaces opening up, a broader discourse has evolved outside the museum with projects and ideas directed by artists, curators, collectors, and writers – a range of people that are informed and creative thinkers who are deeply engaged with artists and the artworld. They bring together ideas from varying perspectives. My experience working directly with artists on projects and limited editions - including Jeff Koons, William Kentridge, Mona Hatoum, Barry McGee, Fred Tomaselli, and many more - I’ve been involved in the creative process from idea to production to sales. This inspired me to organize exhibitions and give exposure to artists that speak to interesting issues of our time, and provide exposure for artists that haven’t received exposure here.
Jennifer Wen Ma, Paradise Interrupted, Spoleto Festival USA, 2015. Photo Julia Lynn
What is the most exciting exhibition you’ve worked on recently?
It wasn’t an exhibition exactly, it was artist Jennifer Wen Ma’s first expansion from visual art to directing and co-producing a Chinese opera that opened at Spoleto Festival last year and then at Lincoln Center Festival this past summer before traveling worldwide. Major projects in which an artist pushes her boundaries, and breaks into another genre while building on and connecting ideas that have infused the work throughout her career, are the most exciting opportunities to support. It was important to strategically communicate and position the work to engage art, music, and performance writers that were being introduced to the artist’s work for the first time, in a short performance window of three days at the world famous venue.
You have worked for artists and institutions across the United States and internationally. Is there something unique about New York that keeps you here?
I was born in N.Y., and my family is all based around the northeast. So, as much as I fantasize about living somewhere else, somewhere quieter, somewhere saner, somewhere cheaper, I’m drawn back here all the time. I’m still intrigued by New York and buoyed by the energy of it. You’re never bored, and you never quite feel on top of things. As long as you keep a balance, get up to the mountains or get out to the ocean – or at least get into a sauna, you can quiet your mind. But … post election, I’m actively looking for opportunities to finally use my EU citizenship and escape America for a little while. I’ll be back, but the daily news and directions the country is going in under the GOP leadership, are taking a heavy toll my mind and soul.
What is it like working with an individual artist versus a large arts organization?
My preferred opportunities are working directly with artists on their dream projects - with an organization’s support and funding! I didn’t like the way many PR companies would come to a project and pitch without knowing the artist’s work intimately and understand how to present it. When you’re speaking on behalf of an artist, I believe it’s important to be as knowledgeable and immersed in their practice as possible. I enjoy applying my experience to help artists see a bigger picture and expand possibilities. For example, when the internationally acclaimed artists Eve Sussman and Simon Lee collaborated on “White on White Algorithmic Noir,” presenting it at an emerging gallery gave them the freedom to experiment, but it was too limiting to get the attention it deserved. So after brainstorming amongst ourselves and reaching out to mentors from Creative Capital, we were able to expand the scope of the presentation to include screenings at The Toronto Film Festival, Sundance, and SF MoMA. It’s about finding the best opportunities for the artist with each project.
Eve Sussman / Rufus Corporation, still from whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir, 2009-11, courtesy of the artist.
With the Spring/Break Art Show, for 5 annual presentations, I’ve worked directly with artists who love the opportunity to get their hands dirty and take over a raw space with the challenge of having no funding and doing it all ourselves. I’ve had the pleasure of introducing artists for their first major art installations, such as Fall on Your Sword, and presenting new work by Eve Sussman, Simon Lee, Ghost of a Dream, Christian Jankowski, Yorgo Alexopoulos, and more. Curating shows for galleries have often been more theme oriented such as Fairy Tales or New Yorkers seeking calm but drawn to frenzy which have brought together major artists such as Ugo Rondinone, Sue De Beer, Ragnar Kjartansson, and Lorna Simpson with more emerging artists.
Do you make your own art? Did you ever consider a career as an artist?
When I was growing up, if you didn’t draw well, which apparently I didn’t and still don’t, you were told you weren’t going to be an artist. The door was closed. I performed in theater in high school, and I was always drawn to art, but I never thought of myself as an artist. If I grew up in the current creative environment, I probably would have been a multi-media artist, but I enjoy being an accomplice to artists I truly believe in, and my creative outlet is through curating. I’m constantly in awe of the courage it takes to put yourself out there as an artist.
What aspect of your work do you enjoy the most?
The conversations and exchange of ideas. We talk about the most absurd and interesting things, and my relationships with artists, and with the artistic community, is a constant inspiration for me. I pity people working in banking and insurance; though I envy their beach houses and retirement funds, I can’t imagine how dull the day-to-day conversations would be.
Which artist would you most like to work with in the future?
I have a fascination with artists who address big ideas, and I’d like to give exposure to artists who haven’t had as much of a presence in NY as in Europe. Bigert & Bergstrom are one example. They’re based in Sweden and explore issues of climate control and science, but their work is on such a large-scale that it requires major institutional support and financing. I’m also intrigued by a young Paris-based artist duo, None Futbol Club, who I met during their residency for Copenhagen Art Week this past August. We’re going to work together for their New York premier at Spring/Break Art Show this spring. And there is my ongoing obsession with film, video, and sound art – so I’m always looking for new discoveries at art fairs, galleries and Biennials. It is, of course, the most challenging art to sell.
What does an artistic community mean to you?
In New York, the art world has become very market-driven so it’s important to remind ourselves to focus on fostering creativity and idea driven art. When I was in Mexico City and San Francisco over a decade ago, I saw how community-oriented the art scene could be when it wasn’t as market focused. It’s a hard balance for New Yorkers to strike, when the cost of living forces artists further and further out, small and mid-sized galleries are being squeezed out, and the glamour side of the art world seems to often dominate. Having said that, we’re so fortunate to have so much cultural enrichment surrounding us with the museums, non-profit centers, galleries, and artist-run spaces. We have to strive to find funding models that can make creative life viable and less stressful here.
Interviewed by Benjamin Stolurow
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Arts festival returns to Penn Yan ADVERTISEMENT
Arts festival returns to Penn Yan
PENN YAN--The eighth annual Keuka Arts Festival will make its return to the outlet trail this weekend. Running Saturday and Sunday, June 13 and 14, the yearly event will include a variety of arts and crafts along with food, refreshments and live music. The event is free and open to the public, running from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
The festival will feature approximately 100 vendors specializing in painting, photography, pottery, jewelry and more. Some 50 new artists will be on display over the weekend.
"We have a lot of nice new art coming in," event organizer Christopher Vaughan said. "We have a lot of interesting jewelry, wood works, paintings, metallic art and a lot of new and different art items that will be featured."
Vaughan added local Keuka Lake restaurants will offer an array of culinary dishes, and the farmers market will feature local, seasonal produce. A selection of drinks from some six Finger Lakes wineries and three area breweries will also be available for tasting during the event. Picnic tables are located throughout the festival area.
The sounds of bluegrass and acoustic rock will also be featured during the festival as several area bands will be performing live. The entertainment lineup includes The Town Pants, Virgil Cain, Crosseyed Cat Band, and Rebecca Colleen and the Chore Lads. There will also be a children's area where they can work on arts and crafts, while Rich the Magic Man will also provide entertainment for both kids and adults.
"It is going to be a heck of a lot of fun," Vaughan said. "A few years ago we expanded the festival to go all the way to the Main Street bridge. It is a scenic, park-like atmosphere all along the waterway, which is developing nicely with the addition of a few new businesses."
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UN humanitarian chief calls for additional support for drought-hit Ethiopian region
Posted by ONA Admin / July 10, 2011
9 July 2011 – The United Nations top humanitarian official today stressed the need to scale up relief delivery in an Ethiopian region affected by drought and to improve security there to make it more accessible to aid workers.
“It is essential that the humanitarian community has both the funding and resources needed to meet urgent needs, as well as access to the populations affected by the drought,” said Valerie Amos, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, after visiting the Somali Region of Ethiopia on the second and final day of her visit to the country.
Ms. Amos, who is also the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, travelled to the regional capital, Jijiga, to meet with local officials. She welcomed the leadership provided by the regional authorities in preparedness and response planning, but emphasized the need to boost security for aid workers there to improve access.
Humanitarian operations in parts of the Somali Region have in recent years been affected by limited access to some areas because of insecurity.
“We need to work together to address these security challenges,” said Ms. Amos.
She also travelled to Bisle Kebele in the northern area of the Somali Region, where she visited a health and nutrition screening centre run by a mobile team. In Besle, Ms. Amos spoke with women from the community who had brought their children for nutritional screening.
Severe water shortages earlier in the year made more than one million people – nearly a quarter of the region’s population – dependent on water trucked in from others areas until the end of April.
Although rainfall in May brought temporary relief, drought conditions are expected to reemerge in the coming months before the next rainy season begins in October.
Large-scale livestock movements have been reported across the Somali Region into and from neighbouring Somalia and Kenya as pastoralist communities move to places with better pasture and water sources.
Livestock deaths have resulted in smaller herd sizes – by 40 to 60 per cent in some areas – and reduced milk production. Milk is an essential component of women’s and children’s nutrition in most pastoralist communities.
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