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Pelosi calls on Acosta to resign, amid Jeffrey Epstein backlash
Epstein, the billionaire financier, was arrested over the weekend on federal child sex trafficking charges.
Casey Quinlan Twitter Jul 9, 2019, 10:39 am Updated: Jul 9, 2019, 10:57 am
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 27: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) answers questions during her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol on June 27, 2019 in Washington, DC. Pelosi answered a range of questions focusing primarily on immigration issues and pending legislation before the U.S. Congress. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called on Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta to resign on Monday for his role in protecting indicted child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. Acosta oversaw a 2008 plea deal for Epstein, the billionaire financier who was arrested over the weekend on federal child sex trafficking charges, when the former was the top federal prosecutor in Miami.
Thanks to the deal, Epstein avoided federal prosecution for an international operation in which he sexually abused underage girls.
Pelosi tweeted on Monday evening that Secretary Acosta “must step down” because he “engaged in an unconscionable agreement.”
.@SecretaryAcosta must step down. As US Attorney, he engaged in an unconscionable agreement w/ Jeffrey Epstein kept secret from courageous, young victims preventing them from seeking justice. This was known by @POTUS when he appointed him to the cabinet. #AcostaResign
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) July 9, 2019
After Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to two prostitution charges, he served only 13 months in Palm Beach County Jail and became a registered sex offender. The 2008 deal also gave immunity to “any potential co-conspirators’’ involved in his crimes. A federal judge ruled in February that, under Acosta, prosecutors broke the law by not telling Epstein’s victims about the deal and leading them to believe the FBI’s case about him was ongoing. Now he faces new federal charges for the alleged sex trafficking of children in New York and Florida between 2002 and 2005, which together carry a 45-year maximum sentence.
Pelosi is one of the most prominent Democrats to call for his resignation recently.
Senate Minority Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called for Acosta to resign on Tuesday morning. Schumer said, “If he refuses to resign, President Trump should fire him. Instead of prosecuting a predator and serial sex trafficker of children, Acosta chose to let him off easy.”
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) also called on Acosta to resign on Tuesday and tweeted, “We need leaders committed to fighting for justice for survivors of abuse, not protecting predators.”
Alex Acosta should resign as Labor Secretary. We need leaders committed to fighting for justice for survivors of abuse, not protecting predators.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 9, 2019
Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) tweeted that the next step to getting justice for Epstein’s victims is “getting rid of” Acosta.
This weekend’s arrest is one step closer to justice for #JeffreyEpstein’s victims. Next step: getting rid of @SecretaryAcosta, who let Epstein get away with these horrendous crimes. https://t.co/GX5sB8Lvum
— Katherine Clark (@RepKClark) July 8, 2019
In April, during a House appropriations panel, Rep. Clark asked Acosta if he could still act as secretary after a federal judge ruled that prosecutors broke the law when they concealed the deal from Epstein’s victims. Acosta defended the deal.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) also joined the chorus of Democrats calling for Acosta to resign, tweeting on Monday, “Acosta must go.”
Acosta must go. He handed a sweetheart deal to a serial sexual predator. Survivors of Epstein’s abuse have been denied their day in court for too long. I’m thankful other prosecutors stepped in to finally deliver justice.
— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) July 8, 2019
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) tweeted that the new charges make it “agonizingly clear that Acosta failed to deliver true justice for the underage girls Jeffrey Epstein mercilessly exploited.” For this reason, she called on Acosta to resign.
The new sex trafficking charges announced today make it agonizingly clear that Acosta failed to deliver true justice for the underage girls Jeffrey Epstein mercilessly exploited. Someone with such poor judgement & utter disregard for survivors should not be our Secretary of Labor
— Rep. Wasserman Schultz (@RepDWStweets) July 8, 2019
Following the February ruling on Epstein’s plea deal, 19 Democrats also signed a letter asking President Donald Trump to demand Acosta’s resignation.
The letter reads in part, “This despicable unjust plea deal that was arranged by Acosta showed no respect for the suffering of the victims and credible accounts of human trafficking and was a clear abuse of power for political gain.”
The February ruling, and a Miami Herald series probing details of the plea deal, brought increased scrutiny to Acosta, and it’s unlikely that senators were unaware about the deal when Acosta was considered as a nominee for labor secretary. Acosta was questioned about the deal by Sen. Kaine at a confirmation hearing in March 2017, and national media outlets wrote about the deal at the time he was being considered to lead the Labor Department.
Several Republicans who voted to confirm Acosta in 2017 have criticized Epstein, including Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ben Sasse (R-NE). They did not acknowledge Acosta as they condemned Epstein’s actions, however. Eight Democrats and one Independent voted to confirm Acosta in 2017.
This article has been updated to include include additional calls for Acosta to resign.
#Alex Acosta, #Jeffrey Epstein, #Labor Department, #Politics
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HomeGrange Hill. Series Twelve – Episode Seven
Grange Hill. Series Twelve – Episode Seven
July 22, 2020 July 15, 2020 archivetvmusings BBC Children's Programmes - 1980'sBBC, grange hill - series 12
Written by Chris Ellis. Tx 24th January 1989
Outside of Grange Hill, Chris Ellis’ cv is somewhat slight, but he (I’m assuming he’s a he, although I’m happy to be corrected) was rather chucked in at the deep end when starting work on the series. He began by writing the last two episodes of series ten, followed by the opening two from series eleven. Ellis also contributed just two episodes this year, but his ones – seven and eight – are key. After a faltering start, this is where the drama really begins to ramp up.
We begin in a slightly subdued way though. Suzi is becoming extremely agitated about the clothes she’s received on trial from her mother’s catalogue whilst Tegs continues to live in extreme squalor, something which concerns his new social worker. Tegs is encouraged to clean up his act (and his body and his shirts) by Justine, who gives him some top cleaning tips. Although he balks at her offer to come into the bathroom and scrub his back!
Trevor’s put a bundle of his and other people’s money on Lucky Shark (the horsey picked out by Vince). In one of the most predictable story outcomes ever, it fails to win.
Mrs McClusky gets the chance to demonstrate her skills as an organiser after she directs the traffic down both sides of a particularly gloomy corridor. The school is still in something of a state of disrepair, which makes safe navigation a tad tricky. As touched upon before, it’s unusual to see Grange Hill looking quite so shabby – although this isn’t a major plot point.
It’s simply an excuse to demonstrate a couple of things – first that Mrs McClusky can still bellow with the best of them and secondly that Mr Bronson is far from pleased about Danny’s new school contract. The fact that he chooses this congested spot to argue the toss with her speaks volumes about him.
He quickly runs into Danny and airs his grievances. “School is not a restaurant where you can pick and choose from the menu”. The problem is that Mr Bronson now appears to be totally powerless where Danny is concerned. Mind you, maybe Mr Bronson had a point when he earlier told Mrs McClusky that as deputy head he should have been consulted. Was this an oversight on her part, or did she simply not bother because she knew Danny wouldn’t get a fair hearing from him?
Mr Bronson has his revenge though – by warning Danny’s potential employers about the sort of person he is (or who Mr Bronson thinks he is). Cue a scene where both Mr Bronson and Danny berate each other at maximum volume. Given that Mr Bronson has been set to simmer for a number of episodes, his explosion is especially noteworthy.
This would make a reasonable but not terribly original episode ending. The fact that Danny appears to have stolen Mr Bronson’s car adds a little extra spice, but at present it’s still not clear how this part of the story will conclude ….
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December 22, 2020 December 22, 2020 archivetvmusings BBC Comedy - 1970's, Christmas Television bill owen, brian wilde, christmas television, last of the summer wine, peter sallis, roy clarke
There’s no reason why Christmas specials have to be set at Christmas – even though most of them are. Roy Clarke, who established a mild anti-festive tone in his previous LOTSW festive special, has his (Christmas) cake and eats it in this one – there’s plenty of Christmas talk, even though the setting is late summer.
It’s always a little jarring to revisit these early episodes and witness our three heroes doing their own stunts. The sight of Sallis, Owen and Wilde indulging in a spot of plastic bag sledging is a joy though – especially since even the normally reserved Foggy seems to be enjoying himself for once.
It’s not long before Foggy’s normal character clicks back into gear though. Back at Clegg’s house he – with typically military precision – inflicts a slide-show on the other two. Neither are exactly delighted. Compo hopes that it’s not Foggy’s holiday snaps again whilst Clegg is slightly anxious, re his curtains (“I hate drawing my curtains during the daytime. Suppose the neighbours start sending flowers”).
Foggy’s pictures reveal a dismal picture of last Christmas – after taking Compo’s advice all their Christmas shopping was carried out on the 24th of December, with the result that they had no trimmings and a rather paltry Christmas dinner (a fish finger and a chip). But the attentive viewer will know that their previous Christmas as transmitted on television wasn’t like this at all, so clearly time in LOTSW land runs in a different way to the rest of the country.
Determined not to be caught napping a second time, Foggy decides the time is right to start their Christmas shopping (but finds that festive cards and treats are thin on the ground in August). Things get no better later on after he buys himself a bargain (100 Christmas trees for just £10). The Forestry Commission are having a summer sale you see.
It slowly dawns on Foggy that he’s been had (but then if you exchange money in the pub with someone called Big Eric, what do you expect?). Poor Foggy is eventually brought back to reality when the three trek over to see his purchases – since each tree is 100 ft high, they’re going to be a tad tricky to cut down ….
Brian Wilde rather drives this episode. I love Foggy’s wistful shake of the head when Compo asks him whether MI5 had attempted to recruit him. “I dropped hints that I was available when me time was up in the army. I watched for the postman every morning since, but nothing”. The final scene – which plays over the end credits – of Foggy left alone also rather tugs at the heartstrings.
Elsewhere, Ivy and Nora enjoy a cup of tea and swop notes about the sex-pest in their lives – Compo. Over the years, as the regular female cast grew, these interludes would become a regular fixture. This one, despite being a two-hander, is still good though – Ivy advising Nora to take a spoonful of sugar occasionally (“you might find it might relax you. Keep your hands off your airing cupboard”). The mundanity of their conversation (“troublesome as men are, their old vests make for lovely dusters”) is delightful.
They then plot to stop Compo in his tracks. Nora advises Ivy to drop the chip pan down his trousers (“the sooner it gets covered in batter the safer it’s going to be”). Ouch! In the end they elect to just forcibly remove his trousers, but maybe – for the moment – it may have done the trick.
December 20, 2020 December 20, 2020 archivetvmusings BBC Comedy - 1970's, Christmas Television bill owen, brian wilde, last of the summer wine, peter sallis, roy clarke
Small Tune On a Penny Wassail opens with Wally – still dressed in his pyjama top – briefly tasting a moment of freedom before being dragged back into the house by Nora to continue his festive obligations. A reflective Compo, observing this domestic fracas, sighs before walking down the deserted streets. This is an early sign that Roy Clarke won’t be bashing you over the head with false Christmas sentiment – that’s simply not his way.
A moment of levity then occurs when Compo spies a lad with a new skateboard. Ever the child at heart, he can’t resist having a go (as you might expect, he falls off rather abruptly). This isn’t a big set-piece moment, but it does set things up for the episode climax.
The others are also given their solo moments. Foggy, after attending church, manages to accidentally hit the vicar in a very delicate place with his stick. It’s a typical Foggy moment – for a brief moment he’s given an air of authority and respectability, which is then abruptly punctured.
Meanwhile Clegg, never one to be overflowing with Christmas cheer, has nevertheless stirred himself and wandered off to the phonebox to ring up his friend, Gordon (Larry Noble). Gordon’s not in the mood to receive yuletide greetings though, due to the fact a fire’s broken out in his shed. What caused the fire remains an unresolved mystery ….
Eventually all three meet up at Clegg’s house for Christmas dinner. Compo’s assistance in the kitchen is clearly not called for, so he stalks around the house like a bored child whilst the other two reflect on the time of the year. Clegg: “Christmas comes but once a year, it just seems longer.”
The cynical Clegg gets most of the best lines during these scenes. “I gave up smoking so that I could live longer. It’s at times like this you wonder if you’re doing the right thing”. At least the meal prepared by Clegg looks like it was worth eating – which almost makes up for the air of melancholy that’s descended over them. Although when we drop in on some conventional family units later on it’s plain they’re not having a particularly sparkling time either.
Foggy suggests they pop down the hospital to visit poor old Edgar (Teddy Turner), who there all on his own. But of course it’s revealed that Edgar’s got everything he could wish for – all the food he can eat and plenty of attention from the nurses. Compo acidly mentions later that even the man dying in the next ward is having a better time than they are.
We’re then given a little vignette showing Ivy and Sid at home in their kitchen. They’re busy feeding the hordes of (unseen) relatives who have descended on them – Ivy with an air of duty, Sid with an ever increasing sense of exasperation. There’s a matching moment with Nora and Wally, where Wally is given a killer putdown. “Why don’t you go sit down, Nora? You’ve been on your mouth all day”.
Back at Clegg’s house it’s finally time for the presents. It’s always seemed slightly odd to me that Clegg and Foggy wrapped their presents for Compo in the same type of wrapping paper (plus their presents to each other were also in identical paper, albeit different from Compo’s). If you see what I mean. It’s probably easier to understand when you watch the scene but there’s something not quite right there.
They all seem quite chuffed with their gifts, as does Ivy when she receives an unexpected present from Sid. Sid and Ivy’s café based warfare can be vicious at times but there’s clearly still a frisson of love between them, even if it’s buried very deep. Her look of pleasure at the black negligee gifted to her by her husband suggests that his luck might be in later. Or not, depending on your point of view ….
We’re heading into the era when stunts (and stunt doubles) would dominate. This episode has been much more reflective and downbeat, but I suppose you can’t blame Roy Clarke for wanting to end things on a high – so an irresistible force (Compo on a skateboard) manages to navigate his way through a seemingly immovable object (the Dodworth Colliery Brass Band).
I’ve still yet to work out how the episode title ties back to the episode itself though. Answers on a postcard please.
H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man – Crisis in the Desert
December 11, 2016 December 10, 2016 archivetvmusings ITV Drama - 1950's adrienne corri, derren nesbitt, douglas wilmer, eric pohlmann, h.g. wells' invisible man, martin benson, peter sallis
Brady is approached by Colonel Warren (Douglas Wilmer) of Military Intelligence as one of their top agents, Jack Howard (Howard Pays), is being held prisoner in a Middle Eastern country. Howard, badly injured after an abortive escape attempt, is being guarded in a high security hospital and only the Invisible Man – along with the alluring local assistance of Yolanda (Adrienne Corri) – has any chance of freeing him ….
Fictitious Middle Eastern countries, forever teetering on the edge of instability, would be a staple of ITC adventure series during the next decade or so and Crisis in the Desert is an early example of this genre. Naturally, foreign location filming was beyond the series’ budget, so instead we have a reasonably dressed backlot (which doesn’t look too shabby, it must be said).
Ethnic actors would also tend to be in short supply whenever an ITC series headed abroad, so it’s no surprise to see British performers in all the main roles. The eagle-eyed will spot Derren Nesbitt in the background, but the bulk of the action is divided between Corri as Yolanda, Eric Pohlmann as Yolanda’s associate Hassan and Martin Benson as the villainous Colonel Hassan.
These three, along with Wilmer, make Crisis in the Desert a very enjoyable watch. Wilmer oozes charm as he persuades Brady (rather easily it must be said) to undertake a dangerous mission in the Middle East. It’s interesting that Warren reacts with horror when Brady tells him he thinks he’s close to reversing his invisibility – it’s obvious that Warren needs an invisible man to rescue Howard, but it’s odd that he doesn’t seem to have considered the possibility that once Brady has perfected his formula it could be duplicated. Creating a whole army of invisible agents would have obvious benefits. Given this, it seems a little foolhardy to risk Brady’s life (and the knowledge that only he has) on this jaunt abroad.
Corri had already racked up an impressive list of credits before appearing here as the glamourous freedom-fighter Yolanda. She looks very nice in a nurse’s uniform as well. Pohlmann has less to do, only react to Yolanda, but he’s effective enough. Benson is great fun as the sadistic Hassan – he opens the story by slapping Howard about and later suggests to an unfortunate surgeon (played by Derek Sydney) that he performs a little brain operation on Howard in order to make him more pliant.
Several actors black up – most notably Peter Sallis as Nesib, the ambulance driver. This probably isn’t a performance that’s going to be at the top of his cv, but for a working actor of this era playing the most unlikely nationalities was an occupational hazard (Sallis would later appear as an equally unconvincing Chinaman in an episode of Sergeant Cork).
The main problem with Crisis in the Desert is that there’s no real need for Brady to be there at all, as although he sneaks around the hospital in his invisible state, Nurse Yolanda is in plain sight all the time. As we’ll see, this proves to be something of a problem for the writers – often the gimmick of having an invisible man tends to be sidelined as Brady is shoehorned into plots that don’t require his invisibility skills to be utilised.
Softly Softly: Task Force – Cash and Carry
October 22, 2016 October 21, 2016 archivetvmusings BBC Drama - 1970's BBC, frank windsor, noman bowler, peter sallis, softly softly: task force series two, stratford johns
Stock is being pilfered from a local Cash and Carry. The two men responsible – James (David Spenser) and Fox (Roland Curram) – are quickly identified but Barlow is concerned that this relatively small-scale affair might only be the prelude to a larger crime.
Cash and Carry is one of those stories which is more than content to take its time. We initially see Snow and Radar, passing the Cash and Carry at night, become suspicious after they spy a light inside the building. Officers are then called out in force along with the keyholder Mr Lodge (Peter Sallis). None of them find anything so they leave empty-handed. By this time a good ten minutes has elapsed without the plot advancing a great deal.
The next day it’s quickly worked out how such a large amount of stock could have gone missing – James and Fox work at the Cash and Carry, driving the delivery van, and they simply pile it up with stolen stock and sleep in the building overnight, leaving the next morning as if nothing has happened. Donald likens it to the Trojan Horse, which is a neat description.
But this crime is so humdrum that there has to be more to the story. Barlow seems to think that an attempt will be made to rob the cashiers department on its busiest day (when there could be as much as twenty thousand pounds for the taking). If that’s the case (and Fox and James were the gang’s inside men) then it seems very foolish for them to have jeopardised the whole operation in order to make a little profit on the side.
Possibly the weakest part of Elwyn Jones’ script is Barlow’s sixth-sense which decides that an armed robbery is the real endgame. Just how did he work this out? The story would have probably been more satisfying if the information about the intended robbery had come from an informer and the stock pilfering section had been excised (the time spent on this dead-end part of the plot could have been used to develop the individual characters of the gang).
Barlow and Cullen clash over the potential operation. Barlow believes that the gang stand their best chance of succeeding if they make their attempt before the security guards arrive to take the money away, i.e. when the store is still open. Cullen argues that if they let things play out then innocent members of the public could get hurt. Barlow agrees, but he wants to catch them in the act and not just arrest them for conspiracy. Given that Cullen has always been portrayed as strong-willed and single-minded it seems a little uncharacteristic that he reverses his opinion so quickly and allows the covert operation to go ahead.
When Donald replaces one of the cashiers it’s easy to believe this is something of a sexist move (seemingly the only woman on the Task Force working at the till). But amusingly this is undercut just a few seconds later when Barlow tells Lodge that he plans to replace another of his cashiers with Armstrong, who he says even looks like an accountant. And with Watt dressed in overalls, shifting boxes into the back of a lorry, there’s another brief moment of humour to be enjoyed.
Will there be an attempt to steal the cash? Looking down the cast list, names such as Alan Chuntz, Dinny Powell and Terry Walsh should provide you with the answer. Although it’s fair to say that it’s a very long build-up for such a brief moment of mayhem (nobody’s ever going to mistake Softly Softly: Task Force for The Sweeeny). Evans gets shot, but only in the leg, so I’ve a feeling he’s going to live.
Even allowing for a few fisticuffs, Cash and Carry concludes the second series in a pretty low-key way. It lacks the character drama that characterised most of the other stories, so has to go down as one of the lesser entries. But generally the standard across the twenty six episodes was very consistent and I hope that it won’t be too long before series three is available.
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Habitica Challenges, Busy at Work Again, Finalized Computer Desktop
I'm finally caught up on all my recent entries for this year. I have to check if there are any entries from last year that I still need to write. There's still a bunch of things I'm behind on that I need to catch up on.
Things are very chill for now because I'm done with classes for a while. Next term though I'm going to be signing up for some very difficult classes. Eh. I don't know if I'll be able to pass them with my kind of procrastination and discipline. We'll try though. I mean I could get an A in every class if I just paid attention and did more than minimal effort. I've been keeping a timelog of everything I do, and basically I start on homework on the last day it's due a few hours before it's due.
I'm given a week to work on every homework assignment, the weekends are especially ample time, and yet I'm only working on assignments last minute. It's a shame. I need to improve in that aspect. I skip out on doing the homework so early because of how big the assignments are. Often they require reading more than 20 pages a week of textbook content, and with math and other technical subjects those pages take much longer to digest. If I did homework early, I feel like I would go through the pages one by one, which isn't a bad thing, it's just something I have difficulty with.
Anyway I woke up this morning at around 5 AM. This is because last night I fell asleep while working on a personal project, I basically just passed out without meaning to, and when I woke up I was in front of my computer and it was still on, all the lights in my room were still on too. I spent most of the early morning catching up on some journal entries. I wrote yesterday's entry, and then checked the previous day's entries if they were okay.
After that I worked on refreshing the Habitica challenges I hosted. This was one of the least active weeks for all the challenges, barely anyone joined. I'd expected more people to join the challenges especially since it was New Year's but what I think happened is that a lot of people made challenges on January 1st, and so the challenges I hosted got pushed down and vanished under all the other ones.
At around 8:30 AM, I got hungry, so I ate some breakfast. I have had this "only eating after 12 PM" streak going on for over 2 weeks now, but I was really hungry this morning, so I just ate something. I'm trying something new though, maybe "eat only until 3 PM" and then after 3 PM I can't eat anything. It's going well so far, I haven't eaten anything since around 12 PM, since I just didn't bother eating anything and then before I realized it, it was after 3 PM and so I can't eat anything now until tomorrow.
I made a goal list this morning right before work started, for things I wanted to accomplish in 2021. I used AYearAgoToday's planner, and I made it my homepage. A few of the things I listed were mandatory anyway, such as completing this year's taxes. So I need to do those. All I know is that it's going to be a pain with all the crazy things I've done last year.
Work went well today. I helped one of the clients out with a problem they were having, although after further investigation the issue was actually on their side and they would be the ones able to resolve it, not me. They sent a bunch of emails today with other issues they were having. Then there's extra work for this other client. All of a sudden I'm very busy again.
I played Beat Saber a few times during breaks, and I went through two shirts that I filled up with sweat. I'm starting to be able to do the hardest songs in the game now. I can see the notes coming as they approach, and I can hit them. I only fail the stage when they reach the point when there's like 50 notes coming at once every second and I feel like there's no way I could hit those notes.
Finalizing Desktop
After work I did a bunch more customizing of my desktop in order to make it look cool. I mainly worked on adding the taskbars at the top and bottom of the screen. I made mine very cool looking. There could be some more improvements here, such as changing the font. I just left the font as the default, which I think leaves a big room for improvement. Anyway this took me several hours to complete and the screenshots are the final result.
That's pretty much everything I did today. I'm probably going to play some Beat Saber before going to bed. I feel like I can sleep early tonight. We'll see. Anyway I'm gonna play some beat saber.
Alright I just finished playing Beat Saber. I'm better now than a month ago, but that doesn't mean better score. There's this one song called Rattlesnake that I pretty much got nearly perfect like the first time I played it. I played it again today and got 100k less points, about 15% less points, than my score today. It's weird because I'm better today than when I first played that song, meaning I've gained more experience since then and have played harder songs, yet I'm scoring worse.
I think maybe I'm fatigued right now. It's a very rare experience because I have played Beat Saber for hours on end a few times, like 2-3 hours before the battery would die and I still had full energy. When I played tonight, I started strong, and then it felt like my body didn't feel like hitting the notes anymore. Like my arms felt heavier and they just wouldn't move as fast.
I wonder what I look like playing some very fast songs like the entire Reason For Living song at 130% speed, or whatever that "Faster" setting is. I played that song tonight, and there's this super combo section where there's like 100 notes coming all at once, and I played it. I did that part 2-3 times tonight actually because I would fail on the next part where it repeats that one section near the beginning. Yeah you have to pass this same exact section near the beginning to reach this point, but for some reason I failed this repeat section a few times.
I watched some Boondocks lately. I think it's a hilarious show. Possibly hugely racist, because it stereotypes black people and white people in exaggerated ways. Most white people in the show are extremely well-mannered and proper, while black people in the show are portrayed as thugs and gangsters, these portrayals are comedic of course. It's what makes the show very funny, but I like how "real" the writing is for the show.
There's this one character named Thugnificent, who is a rich celebrity rapper akin to conglomeration of 50-Cent, Lil' Wayne, Lil' John, and a bunch of other rappers. Anyway he's portrayed as this super rich rapper who lavishly throws money away basically, he spends it on upgrading his home to a mansion, he built himself a lot of statues of himself, his doorbell is a woman in a bikini he hired to say "Ding Dong" whenever someone rings the doorbell. He also has a bunch of Hummers and sports cars and he wrecks them at will and doesn't care.
Well in another episode he becomes completely broke, and I just love the portrayal of how he's a regular guy. He had to find a way to get his money back, so he worked on making a new album, but clout alone doesn't create sales, and his album bombed. With his fame he was able to market his album well by getting on radio stations, and of course he has celebrity contacts and such, but his album still bombed. He resorts to selling crack in the streets, and at the end of the episode I think he gets a job as a UPS driver. What's incredible is how realistic that is. I don't see big celebrity musicians today bombing their sales, but it can for sure happen.
I also didn't notice there's a lot of vegan-related elements in the show which I thought was awesome. In this one episode called The Itis, Robert Freeman opens up this restaurant for "Soul Food" which basically served a bunch of fatty junk food animal flesh. The Itis is the name of the restaurant, and it's what Robert Freeman describes as happening after eating a huge meal, when a person feels really sleepy after eating.
Well that actually only happens when eating hugely fatty meals especially when eating animals, because I eat huge meals all the time and don't get "the itis". I sometimes go to restaurants with some people, and they order their animal flesh which they just can't live without for some reason, like yo can you go a meal without having to kill another animal, and I'm ordering some vegan meal. When we leave they're like "man I feel so sleepy" whereas I'm like, I pretty much never feel that way. It can happen though if I eat hugely fatty meals, but when I'm getting a lot of fiber and whole foods in I don't get that sluggish feeling at all. Food is supposed to rejuvenate you not make you feel tired.
Anyway Huey Freeman, one of the main characters, reads some passage from the book "How To Eat To Live" by Elijah Muhammad to an employee of the restaurant, probably about something related to how the pigs are treated and then cut up and served, and the employee ran out of the restaurant throwing up. In the episode "The Fundraiser" or whatever, Jasmine, a recurring secondary character, kept mentioning "I wanna donate the money for the animals" and by the end of the episode she donates all the money to Peta which is awesome. In the episode "The Fried Chicken Flu", when asked if she wanted to get some fried chicken she mentions "Fried chicken is murder" which was also awesome. Several times in several episodes Huey Freeman and the other main characters eat fake meat, the characters explicitly state "this is a veggie burger" or "this is a veggie sausage", and I think that's freaking awesome. Yo I never noticed those things ever, I guess it's been a long time since I've seen the Boondocks.
Why'd I start watching the Boondocks again? Because I've seen practically everything else. I've already seen every episode of Futurama, South Park, and Rick and Morty. I don't like the Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, or any of the other comedy cartoons as much, though I like the Simpsons most out of all of those. Oh I've also seen practically every anime out there, and as a result I have gotten bored of the entire anime category as a whole. It's all about main characters with extraordinary abilities who always wins. That's what practically every anime is. There is always something exceptional about the main character, they are always the "chosen one".
So my boredom of everything else, lead me to the Boondocks. Why do I even watch it? Boredom.
Anyway that was my day today. I'm not even feeling sleepy. I'll probably watch some videos or something before going to sleep. I'll post my timelog here and review tomorrow.
6:24 AM (of Tuesday, January 12th 2021)
Timelog
This is what my timelog looked like today:
Work 9:00
Work Tasks 9:00
Physical 0:38
Beat Saber 0:38
Intermediary 5:32
Eating 0:17
Sleeping 5:15
Organization 3:24
To Do List 0:10
Journal 3:10
Pictures for the Day 0:04
Productive 3:13
Personal 0:13
Misc 3:00
Unproductive 1:05
Browsing 0:01
Adult 1:04
Social Media 1:08
Habitica 1:08
It was a very mixed day today with a lot of different events going on. I spent the last hour of the night from around 11 PM thru the end of the day at 12 AM (and extending a little bit, but that's in tomorrow's timelog), looking up and watching adult videos. Overall I don't feel like I'm going to be paying for anymore adult videos, because my imagination is better and pictures and previews are enough for me to make use of my imagination. I really want to stop, but, it's hard. Well, not really. I just have an impulse to do it, and I think that's hard to control.
Overall a good day.
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Beaumont School House System
The House Leaders in Years 7-11 will be working towards achieving a Student Leadership Certificate.
In order to qualify they will need to work on a number of projects to lead their peers and to discuss issues relating to school life:
attending house leadership meetings chaired by their Sixth Form captains
organising house events
motivating their peers to take part in house events
organising charitable events
participating in student panels on interview days
giving their opinions on various aspects of school life, including their views on teaching and learning
At Beaumont we believe in preparing students for their future lives by giving them opportunities to lead. We also believe that they may have many valuable insights that can help shape the future direction of the school.
Beaumont has a House system which develops the community cohesion that is already a strong feature at the school. The Houses also offer opportunities for competitions both as Year Groups and vertically through the school. The Houses are based around the LEARNS Tutor Groups, (with B starting in September 2018) as follows:
Butler is named after the social reformer and activist Josephine Butler. The colour for Butler House is white.
Luther-King is named after the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jnr. The colour for Luther-King House is yellow.
Elgar is named after the composer Edward Elgar. The colour for Elgar House is green.
Austen is named after the author Jane Austen. The colour for Austen House is orange.
Redgrave is named after the Olympic rower Steve Redgrave. The colour for Redgrave House is red.
Newton is named after the scientist Isaac Newton. The colour for Newton House is purple.
Seacole is named after the Crimean War nurse Mary Seacole. The colour for Seacole House is blue.
House Points Totals so far for Year 7: 2020-21
House Points Totals so far for Years 7-11: 2020-21
Students gain points for their Houses through a number of routes, based both on group activities and competitions and on individual performance including the achievement of end of term Awards.
Main House events in the school year:
October : The Great Beaumont Bake Off
December : The Christmas Fair
March : House Day
June : Rob’s Festival
July : Sports Day
The ongoing House Points totals are displayed in the school and announced at the Awards Assemblies and the end of each term.
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BiotechDispatch Menu January 17, 2021
New CEO for Medical Developments International
October 15, 2020 Latest News
Medical Developments International (ASX:MVP), the maker of the Penthrox (methoxyflurane) ‘green whistle’, has announced the appointment of Brent MacGregor as its new CEO.
Mr MacGregor recently served with CSL's Seqirus as senior vice president for commercial operations.
He previously held a number of senior executive roles at Novartis, including CEO of the Novartis influenza vaccine business, president of Novartis Vaccines and head of North America.
“I have taken some time to do my due diligence and am very excited about the opportunities for MVP to capitalise on its global registration footprint," said Mr MacGregor.
"In Europe, the taking back of the business from Mundipharma is a big start in doing this. The breadth of MVP in Respiratory, Advanced manufacturing as well as its iconic Penthrox ‘green whistle’ see it very well positioned for growth well into the future. My family are also looking forward to coming back again to live in Australia.”
The chairman of Medical Developments International, Mr David Williams, said, “Brent’s role in the growth and globilisation of Seqirus, and his international experience are exactly the skillset we need to drive the next phase of MVP’s growth.
"It is a bonus that he has lived and worked in Australia before, and worked for an Australian company. We are very comfortable with his drive, his passion and the cultural fit.”
Acting CEO and director, Max Johnston, said, “I am delighted that Brent has agreed to join MVP and bring his global experience in healthcare at this exciting time in the company’s history. I look forward to working alongside him for the next few months whilst Brent relocates permanently. I am also looking forward to transferring to him all I have learned about the company working in it for the past 4 months. The strength of the business and the opportunities for growth are better than I had appreciated as a Director.”
Noxopharm says study advancing after clinical review
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Cannatrek to supply products in support of Europe's Project TWENTY21
Pharmaxis receives milestone payment from US partner
Greg Hunt announces funding for two new research centres
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Hearing, May 16, 1939
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interoceanic Canals
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Página 7 - ... of their commerce; and generally the merchants and traders of each nation, respectively, shall enjoy the most complete protection and security for their commerce, subject always to the laws and statutes of the two countries respectively.
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Página 2 - ... and to prepare and issue therefor coupon or registered bonds of the United States in such form as he may prescribe, and in denominations of twenty dollars or some multiple of that sum, redeemable in gold coin at the pleasure of the United States...
Página 12 - Corporations, or through subscription to or purchase of stock or shares, and that, subject to the provisions of the present Treaty, the said Government shall have and enjoy all the rights incident to such construction, as well as the exclusive right of providing for the regulation and management of the canal.
Página 11 - April, 1850, commonly called the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, to the construction of such canal under the auspices of the Government of the United States, without impairing the "general principle...
Página 3 - ... for the safety and protection of said canal and harbors. That the President is authorized for the purposes aforesaid to employ such persons as he may deem necessary, and to fix their compensation.
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Página 12 - Treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof , and by His Britannic Majesty; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington or at London at the earliest possible time within six months from the date hereof.
Página 2 - In addition to the members of said Isthmian Canal Commission, the President is hereby authorized through said Commission to employ in said service any of the engineers of the United States Army at his discretion, and likewise to employ any engineers in civil life, at his discretion, and any other persons necessary for the proper and expeditious prosecution of said work.
Página 8 - But in case real estate situated within the territories of one of the contracting parties should fall to a citizen of the other party, who, on account of his being an alien, could not be permitted to hold such property in the State or in the Canton in which it may be situated, there shall be accorded to the said heir, or other successor...
Página 1 - The Government of Nicaragua grants in perpetuity to the Government of the United States, forever free from all taxation or other public charge, the exclusive proprietary rights necessary and convenient for the construction, operation, and maintenance of an interoceanic canal by way of the San Juan River and the great Lake of Nicaragua or byway of any route over Nicaraguan territory...
Página 7 - Provinces, or in British vessels ; and the same duties shall be paid, and the same bounties and drawbacks allowed, on the exportation of any articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of the...
Título Hearing, May 16, 1939
Parte 1 de Additional Interoceanic Canal Facilities: Hearing Before the Committee on Interoceanic Canals, United States Senate, Seventy-sixty Congress, First Session On, S. 127, a Bill Authorizing Negotiations and Providing for the Construction, Maintenance, and Operation of an Interoceanic Canal Over Nicaraguan Territory, and for Other Purposes, and S. 2229, a Bill Authorizing and Providing for the Construction of Additional Facilities on the Canal Zone for the Purposes of More Adequately Providing for the Defense of the Panama Canal and for Increasing Its Capacity for the Future Needs of Interoceanic Shipping. May 16, 1939, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interoceanic Canals
Parte 1 de Additional Interoceanic Canal Facilities: Hearing[s] Before the Committee on Interoceanic Canals, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 127, a Bill Authorizing Negotiations and Providing for the Construction, Maintenance, and Operation of an Interoceanic Canal Over Nicaraguan Territory, and for Other Purposes [etc., Etc.], United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interoceanic Canals
Autor United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interoceanic Canals
Editor U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939
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Tag Archive: Cameron Deordio
The Bionic Woman joins Charlie’s Angels in new series
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Last year Dynamite brought Charlie’s Angels back from the 1980s for some new adventures, joining other classic TV series comic adaptations including Batman ’66, Wonder Woman ’77, The Six Million Dollar Man, and The Bionic Woman. Dynamite has combined a few classic TV shows already, including a story with Wonder Woman ’77 and The Bionic Woman taking down some fembots. This year the publisher is putting together two more dream team-ups with The Bionic Woman joining Charlie’s Angels on a mission in Charlie’s Angels/The Bionic Woman. When Bosley hands Kelly Garrett, Kris Munroe, and Julie Rogers their next assignment from Charlie, they encounter one of our favorite classic borg characters, the bionic-powered Jaime Sommers. Following the events of the television series into the 1980s, we catch up with a privatized Office of Scientific Investigation, and it’s up to these four women to make sure the OSI technology doesn’t get into the wrong hands for military applications.
It’s a great move using the latter trio from Charlie’s Angels for the new series. Artist Cat Skaggs′ rendering of Tanya Roberts as Julie on her cover variant to Issue #1 is perfect, and she also provides a great portrait of Lindsay Wagner as Jaime for the cover of Issue #2. Other covers were drawn by Ron Lesser and Jim Mahfood, whose Issue #2 features a gorgeous, stylized, throwback design.
Cameron DeOrdio (Josie and the Pussycats) steps in to write this series, and in the first issue she lays the groundwork for a compelling spy thriller. Artist Soo Lee (Strange Attractors) brings in her unique style to give the series an authentic early 1980s vibe. Her artwork has elements of manga and anime blended with Matt Kindt, but best of all the book looks as if it could have been drawn in 1982. Color work is by Addison Duke, with letters by Crank!
Here are some preview images and covers for the first two issues, courtesy of Dynamite:
Tags: 1970s television, 1980s, Addison Duke, Cameron Deordio, Cat Skaggs, Charlie's Angels, Charlie's Angels movie 2019, classic television, Columbia Pictures, Crank!, crossover, Djimon Hounsou, Dynamite, Dynamite Comics, Dynamite Comics previews, Elizabeth Banks, Ella Balinska, fembots, Jim Mahfood, Kristen Stewart, mash-up, Naomi Scott, Noah Centineo, Patrick Stewart, Ron Lesser, Sam Claflin, Soo Lee, The Bionic Woman
Josie and the Pussycats get new monthly series with plenty of variant covers
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Next week Riverdale’s most famous band is getting back together.
Archie Comics is releasing a new Josie and the Pussycats monthly series. Much like its release of its hit Betty & Veronica series this summer, Josie & Co. is getting a premiere with plenty of cover variants with works by J. Scott Campbell, Derek Charm, Colleen Coover, Veronica Fish, Francesco Francavilla, Jessica Garvey, Robert Hack with Steve Downer, Gisele Lagace with Shouri, Alitha Martinez with Kelly Fitzpatrick, Wally McNair, Sam Payne, and Marguerite Sauvage. The standard cover was drawn by Audrey Mok. Andre Szymanowicz is providing the colors. Archie Comics will also release a blank sketch cover version.
Marguerite Bennett and Cameron Deordio are scripting the series.
Josie, Valerie, and Melody make their current debut after Afterlife With Archie’s dark look at the band in the haunted parallel universe of that title’s October issue. Plus, the CW Network has its own new Archie series premiering in only a few weeks–Riverdale stars K.J. Apa as Archie, Cole Sprouse as Jughead, Camila Mendes as Veronica, Lili Reinhart as Betty, Ross Butler as Reggie, Casey Cott as Kevin, and Madelaine Petsch as Cheryl Blossom. And of course, the band is in the series as well, with Josie played by Ashleigh Murray, Valerie is played by Hayleau Law, and Melody is played by Asha Brom. Luke Perry, Lochlyn Munro, and Madchen Amick will also star in the series.
While you’re waiting for the TV series, check out these covers to Josie and the Pussycats:
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This is a collaborative post by Lizabeth (Betsy) A. Wilson, Vice Provost for Digital Initiatives and Dean of University Libraries; Denise Pan, Associate Dean for Collections & Content; Chelle Batchelor, Interim Associate Dean, Research and Learning Services; Director of Access Services; Tania P. Bardyn, Associate Dean & Director, Health Sciences Library; Corey Murata, Director, Collection Analysis & Strategy; Gordon J. Aamot, Director, Scholarly Communication & Publishing; and Elizabeth Bedford, Scholarly Publishing Outreach Librarian.
Like many of you, we have been following the negotiations between the University of California (UC) and the giant commercial scholarly publisher, Elsevier. UC’s announcement that they have broken off talks with Elsevier has sparked a wave of interest and commentary reaching beyond the walls of the academy. In a blog post by our colleagues at Duke and Iowa State University, they called this a movement, “closer to a tipping point in the ongoing struggle to correct asymmetries in the scholarly information ecosystem.”
There is a disconnect in the scholarly publishing ecosystem between the creators of scholarship and the ownership and distribution of scholarship, especially with mega-publishers like Elsevier. Researchers publish their findings without the expectation of additional compensation in the interest of advancing human knowledge and building careers. Researchers also evaluate each other’s work for free by doing peer review. But the results of this scholarly output are almost always controlled by publishers and usually hidden behind paywalls.
While the breakdown of the UC/Elsevier negotiation is big news, it is just the latest in a growing list of cancellations by our peer institutions of publisher “big deal” journal packages. In its Big Deal Cancellation Tracking list, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) provides the names of institutions and the packages they have recently cut. These cancellations are a reflection of the widening gulf between for-profit publishers’ demands to continually increase package cost well beyond the rate of inflation, and the ongoing erosion of support for higher education. In her annual address to the University of Washington last fall, President Ana Mari Cauce highlighted the unsustainability of the funding model for higher education in our state. While UW Libraries has been fortunate to receive strong support from the faculty and University, we can see that gulf forming.
With the Libraries in the implementation phase of our recently developed 2018-2021 Strategic Plan, it is valuable to step back and reflect on our values as we think about this changing landscape of scholarly communication and our future negotiations with publishers. Among these values are a focus on sustainability, equity and user-centeredness.
Sustainability: While we are committed to providing collections and resources for our students, faculty and researchers, we are unwavering in the knowledge that we must be good stewards of allocated funding to support research and teaching at the University of Washington. In our negotiations with publishers, we continually balance researchers’ needs with fiscal responsibility. Working collaboratively with our campus community to build collections can accelerate scholarship and learning through responsive collections.
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John Abraham Confirms The Remake Of Ayyappanum Koshiyum
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By Nisha Sharma / 2020-05-26
Actor and producer John Abraham is all set to bankroll the Hindi remake of super-hit Malayalam film Ayyappanum Koshiyum.
John Abraham’s JA Entertainment is all set to produce the Hindi remake of the blockbuster Malayalam action thriller – Ayyappanum Koshiyum. Directed by Sachy and starring Prithviraj Sukumaran- Biju Menon, the film received much praise and was a huge success when it released earlier this year.
John Abraham just took to his social media profile and confirmed the film. He tweeted, “Ayyappanum Koshiyum, a film that strikes a perfect balance between action, thrill and a good story. At JA Entertainment we are keen to bring such appealing stories to our audience…we hope to make a truly engaging film with this remake in Hindi. Really Excited!!!”
The cast and crew along with other details of the project are still under wrap and will be announced shortly. With Ayyappanum Koshiyum, JA Entertainment adds to its list of films across genres that have pushed the envelope!
Meanwhile on the acting front, John Abraham has lined up three big releases for his fans, such as Mumbai Saga, Attack and Satyameva Jayate 2.
Mumbai Saga is directed by Sanjay Gupta and produced by T-Series. It is a gangster drama and stars an ensemble cast of Emraan Hashmi, Jackie Shroff, Kajal Aggarwal, Suniel Shetty, Prateik Babbar, Pankaj Tripathi, Rohit Roy, Amole Gupte, Samir Soni, Gulshan Grover and Sharman Joshi.
Set in the 1980s and 1990s, the story shows changing faces of Mumbai people by closing mills to make malls and high rise buildings. The film is set to release on 19 June 2020.
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The Kissing Booth Threequal Is Confirmed! Catch Up On All The Info Now.
by Muskan Jaiswal
The Kissing Booth has successfully managed to rule on the hearts of teenagers. The first installment was highly appreciated and soon the second part was announced. The Kissing Booth is a teen romantic comedy movie based on the novel of the same name by Beth Reekles. It stars, Joey King, Jacob Elordi, and Joel Courtney in the lead roles. The first part was released in 2018 and the second one just came out recently.
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However, the fans are now wondering if the movie will release a threequal as well. So, here we are to clear all your doubts. And, yes there will be another part of the film.
So, go ahead and catch up on all the information:
The Kissing Booth 3: Is It Happening?
We are very happy to announce that The Kissing Booth 3 is happening. The movie got a green signal from the streaming giant a long time ago. It is believed that the movie will be out in 2021. However, nothing is confirmed as of now.
According to Netflix, the third part was shot at the same time with The Kissing Booth 2. Exciting! It is believed that part 3 is currently in the post-production stage. The news was also confirmed by the lead star, Joel Courtney when he revealed that it was the hardest secret to keep during a live chat.
In a Youtube life, which happened last month, gathered all the cast where they revealed about the third part. They told the fans that they secretly finished filming The Kissing Booth 3 before the pandemic happened. However, it still affected the upcoming film a little bit, but we are happy that they worked without any complications. And, of course, the film won’t be delayed compared to the other projects.
Courtney also revealed that sometimes, they were shooting scenes alternatively for the films in a single day. Both films were filmed in tandem in South Africa.
New Writing Wednesdays post on my blog! Check it out – Announcing The Kissing Booth 3: One Last Time – Coming 2021! https://t.co/dnkP0XHUIt pic.twitter.com/d6RprxX0OI
— Beth Reekles (@Reekles) September 11, 2020
Moreover, the third part of the novel is also on its way. Writer, Beth Reekles announced that The Kissing Booth: One Last Time will be out in 2021 alongside the movie. Reekles has written both the first and second parts of the novel on which the movie is based.
All the major characters from the movie will be seen in the threequal. The cast includes Joey King (as Elle Evans), Joel Courtney (as Lee Flynn), Taylor Zakhar Perez (as Marco V. Peña), Jacob Elordi as (Noah Flynn), Maisie Richardson-Sellers (as Chloe Winthrop), Molly Ringwald as (Mrs. Flynn) and Meganne Young (as Rachel).
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Hey, I am a 21-year-old management student who is passionate about writing. From blogs to poetry I write about almost everything. I love discovering and learning about new cultures and I have a dream to write music in the future as well. In short, I like to explore life like a free bird and I love it when people like what I write. You can get in touch with me at muskan@serenatamariachi.com.
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HomeNews ArticlesWorld NewsFarmers in war-torn Afghanistan hit by worst drought in decades
Farmers in war-torn Afghanistan hit by worst drought in decades
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan: After his wheat crop failed and wells dried up, Ghulam Abbas sold his animals and joined thousands of other farmers migrating to cities as Afghanistan’s worst drought in living memory ravages the war-torn country.
A huge shortfall in snow and rain across much of the country over the normally wet colder months decimated the winter harvest, threatening the already precarious livelihoods of millions of farmers and sparking warnings of severe food shortages.
Like hundreds of farming families in Charkint village in the normally fertile northern province of Balkh, Abbas, 45, has moved with 11 family members to the provincial capital Mazar-i-Sharif to find work.
“I don’t remember a drought as severe as this year’s,” Abbas, who has been a farmer for more than three decades, told AFP.
“We never had to leave our village or sell our animals because of a drought in the past.”
As dry conditions and high temperatures persist, there are growing concerns about the spring and summer crops that will be harvested later this year.
Afghanistan’s 2018 wheat harvest is already expected to be the lowest since at least 2011, according to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, set up by USAID in 1985.
Faced with an estimated shortfall of 2.5 million tons of wheat this year, more than two million people could become “severely food insecure” and would be in “desperate need” of humanitarian assistance in the next six months, the United Nations has warned.
Tens of thousands of sheep and goats have died and many farmers have eaten the seeds for the next planting season, as rivers and wells dry up and pastures turn to dust.
“If the authorities and the international community don’t step up to this challenge now, Afghanistan could face a calamity as we head into the next winter,” UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Afghanistan Toby Lanzer told AFP recently.
But thousands of farmers like Abbas have already given up hope, abandoning their land and moving their families to towns and cities to survive.
The UN estimates more than 70,000 people have been displaced to urban areas due to the drought.
“Three years ago it rained and snowed well in our village,” Abbas said.
“The crops yielded well and I made more than 300,000 afs (afghanis, or nearly $ 4,300). But this year, even though I sold my sheep and goats, I made less than 100,000 afs (about $ 1,400).”
The lack of precipitation in Balkh has left most of its farming and grazing land parched, Zabiullah Zoobin, provincial director of crops and cultivation management, told AFP recently.
More than 450,000 farmers and nomadic herders in the province have slaughtered their cattle, goats and sheep, or sold them for a pittance, he added.
“All villagers are wondering what to do with their livestock and how to keep them alive because that is all they have in life,” Hajji Sorab, a sheep and goat herder in Dawlat Abad district, told AFP.
The drought adds to Afghanistan’s woes as its security forces struggle to beat back Taliban and Daesh militants, and civilian casualties remain at record levels.
Agriculture is the backbone of the Afghan economy. Nearly 15 million people are employed in the sector in the 20 provinces worst affected by the drought, according to the UN.
With already high unemployment made worse by record numbers of Afghans returning from Iran and many more internally displaced by the conflict, their chances of finding other work are grim.
Prices of sheep and goats have plunged as farmers rush to sell their animals before they become even weaker, agriculture and livestock ministry spokesman Akbar Rustami told AFP.
At the same time, the cost of fodder has soared. Rustami said most of the country’s livestock are in “urgent need of food.”
Afghan authorities have so far provided limited assistance to farmers and international aid agencies are struggling to meet the growing demand.
UN food and other assistance has reached more than 460,000 people in drought-affected provinces in recent months, Lanzer said — less than a quarter of those who need it.
An agreement between international agencies and the Afghan government to release 60,000 tons of wheat currently held in the country’s strategic grain reserve and turn it into mineral-fortified flour will help.
“It won’t be enough for what is needed, but it’s a very good start,” Lanzer said.
If much-needed aid does not reach farmers soon, more might turn to more drought-resistant crops such as opium poppies, Abbas warned.
Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium, despite billions of dollars being spent on counternarcotics efforts since the US-led invasion in 2001.
“A government which is hardly able to pay its soldiers to fight cannot reach out to help people in these remote areas,” Abbas said.
“The conditions will eventually force people to turn to illegal crops.”
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Can documentaries on controversial science be entertaining—and accurate?
By Brooke Borel
In a scene from Island Earth, anti-GMO protestors march in Hawaii. Credit: Cyrus Sutton Island Earth
Three quarters of the way into Food Evolution, a recent documentary about genetically engineered food, agricultural economist Charles Benbrook glances furtively around a crowded lobby. He’s just participated in a public debate over GMO technology, and moviegoers know his angle: Benbrook is the author of several influential scientific papers that have been rallying points for pro-organic and anti-GMO folks, including one suggesting pesticide use skyrocketed after the introduction of GMOs, andanother claiming organic milk is more nutritious than conventional milk.
In the scene, Benbrook leans close to Chris Arnold, the public relations director for Chipotle—a company that has publicly shunned GMOs. It looks like Benbrook is about to kiss him on the cheek. “I’ve been hired as an expert witness by the Vermont defense statute,” Benbrook says. (Vermont had recently passed a law that would require companies to label GMO foods; lawsuits from pro-GMO industry groups followed.) Benbrook’s disclosure meant he was helping defend these labeling laws. He adds: “I’m whispering in your ear because I’m mic’d.”
“We might be funding your testimony,” Arnold replies. “We made a contribution to that defense fund.” The two men laugh.
While watching this scene from a packed Manhattan auditorium at the film’s theatrical debut in June, the audience shifted and muttered in discomfort—maybe even in disgust. In an earlier scene, Benbrook, who had presented himself as an independent scientist employed by the University of Washington, had looked straight into the camera and said: “I am deeply troubled by the sort of erosion of the integrity of science and the whole debate about genetically engineered food.”
Food Evolution also uses protest scenes from Hawaii to tell its story. But here, the message is that GMO food is safe to eat and that naysayers are overreacting. Credit: Black Valley Films
Yet here he was, behaving flippantly about the same lack of transparency and conflicts of interest that are typically associated with big biotech players like Monsanto. As Benbrook whispered in the ear of an industry representative, the audience saw another angle of the story: The organic industry is jockeying for its own capitalist interests, too, and sometimes using dubious strategies. This narrative established, the filmmakers lay out more evidence, including excerpts from Benbrook’s e-mails, released as part of a Freedom of Information Act request, showing requests to industry to fund his research. The film reveals that because companies like Whole Foods and Organic Valley funded Benbrook’s work for three years—and because he received no public grants during that time—U.W. ended Benbrook’s contract.
It’s a punchy scene, and one that was emblematic of Food Evolution’s message, which is that GMOs are safe to eat and much of the ado surrounding them is overblown or deceitful. The audience seemed convinced: After the credits rolled, the filmmakers repeated an informal poll they had taken before the movie played, asking how many people were afraid of GMOs with respect to human health. Before the film, around 25 people raised their hands. After, there was just one.
As a journalist who covers biotechnology, this raised a question: Just what is the purpose of documentary films that center around controversial science? Are they for entertainment or education? And if entertainment is prioritized over education, can a 90-minute film dutifully explore a topic as dense and politically fraught as genetically engineered food?
It’s an increasingly important question as genetic science advances and the ethics surrounding it get ever more complex. With CRISPR’d humans and gene drives that may shape entire ecosystems on the horizon, the need for accurate and contextualized storytelling will only grow. These technologies will provide compelling fodder for filmmakers. But how will they cover human embryos that scientists have altered by CRISPR or the next generation of GMOs? What will a documentary about the first publicly released gene drive organism look like—and whose voices will that documentary include?
There’s a lot to lose if the entertainment industry mangles this research or omits key perspectives in the name of a good story. On one hand, an unfairly critical view can spark public backlash, which can strangle innovation and halt projects and products ranging from new ways to curb disease to crops that can better withstand climate change. On the other, an overly rosy view cuts out legitimate concerns and critiques of that same technology.
Food Evolution is just one of the latest documentaries to delve into one facet of the GMO debate while presenting itself as a more comprehensive take on the issue. Another recent release is Island Earth, which follows several Hawaiians—including a young scientist studying biotechnology and chemistry—as they struggle to understand the impact of the technology on their islands. The takeaway is that although GMOs may be safe in a narrow sense, there are broader implications for how the technology is wielded as a form of modern-day colonialism. It’s a perspective that is too often omitted in conversations about modern technology. At an Island Earth screening in Brooklyn, just a few days after Food Evolution’s theatrical release, an eager audience seemed just as convinced by this narrative.
Dennis Gonsalves developed a genetically modified variety of papaya to combat ringspot virus, which devastated papaya yields in the 1980s. Credit: Cyrus Sutton Island Earth
Both films were fun to watch. They both also get a lot of the facts right. But did either of the audiences leave the theaters with a more comprehensive take on GMOs? Whether documentaries are primarily for education or entertainment is “one of the central dilemmas” in the industry, says Theo Lipfert, the director of the School of Film and Photography at Montana State University. “Documentaries have become really popular in the last few years and there is an absolute entertainment value to many that are being created right now.” Whereas documentarians draw from the real world, filmmakers are not necessarily journalists, he says. “We’re not doing science communication. We’re not training [our students] to be science journalists, to always find the other side and to be fair and balanced. We’re really teaching them about artistic expression and about communicating visually,” he adds.
Recognizing an opportunity to get more science in front of film audiences, the National Academy of Sciences started a program in 2008 called theScience and Entertainment Exchange, which provides free scientific advice to filmmakers. Most of the nearly 2,000 consultations the exchange has done so far—including working on Arrival, Ghostbusters, Star Trek, Frozen and various Marvel features—have focused on fiction.
But according to Ann Merchant, the deputy executive director for communications at the National Academies, that’s changing. “We have seen a rebirth of the documentary filmmaking medium,” she says. “There’s a new audience for them.” The academy is actively reaching out to filmmakers, and in September 2016, the exchange brought 15 documentarians and 15 scientists for a weekend of presentations in Woods Hole, Mass., to learn about a range of scientific research, from plant breeding to cosmology to bioethics. They have more workshops in the works. It’s an ongoing partnership that they hope will spark ideas for new—and, perhaps, more nuanced—projects.
In order to express their art, filmmakers, like all storytellers, are often drawn to fraught topics. A real-life drama such as the fights over climate change, GMOs and vaccines makes for compelling tales with high stakes. These stories also come with a built-in audience, Lipfert says. When hot-button issues collide with strong points of view, though, it can be difficult to present an accurate and compelling story at the same time.
When that documentary is about food, it gets even trickier, because how we eat is deeply personal and cultural. “I have yet to meet a single person who doesn’t have a bias towards food and [agriculture]—including myself,” says Jessica Eise, a communications expert at Purdue University and co-author of The Communication Scarcity in Agriculture. “Most people aren’t aware that they have a bias, so they don’t do the mental work to try and stretch around that bias.” This attitude can make it harder for subtleties to enter mainstream writing and film, she adds.
Audiences, Lipfert says, might assume a documentary is a piece of journalism, where the creator has made an explicit attempt to be objective and fair. They may believe a documentary has a one-to-one relationship to the truth, and that watching it is enough to learn everything about a topic, rather than treating it as a starting point that requires more context.
In interviews with the filmmakers of Food Evolution and Island Earth, both say they actively checked their own biases during the production and editing. Inevitably, some of those leanings still made it to the final cut.
This problem is perfectly illustrated by public protests on Kauai that occurred as lawmakers were debating whether to ban GMOs on the island. Both films use similar footage from these events to evoke strikingly different feelings. Food Evolution films from outside the action, putting the viewer as an observer, and uses music in a minor key, which gives a sense of foreboding. Interview clips with protesters feature nonsensical statements that make them look cartoonish and uninformed. (The audience in New York City laughed and snorted at these scenes). Meanwhile the protest scene in Island Earth is a slow-motion montage scored with dramatic drums, giving the protesters an aura of underdogs rising up against an oppressor. At times, the camera films from within the protest, giving the viewer the feeling that they part of it—and rooting for it.
Other frames direct the viewer’s perspective, too. The Food Evolutionfilmmakers say they interviewed 200 experts but the focus is almost entirely on whether or not GMO foods are safe to eat—and how the misinformation about food safety is stifling potentially lifesaving technology in other parts of the world. Because they were laser-focused on this narrow frame they left out valid arguments against the technology such as its role in exacerbating herbicide resistance in weeds as well as the politicized fights over whether glyphosate, the main herbicide connected to GMOs, causes cancer.
And during the documentary’s takedown of Charles Benbrook, the filmmakers chose to flash a New York Times article on the screen, which laid out the scientist’s ties to the organic industry. Although it is true Benbrook has had financial ties to the organic industry, painting him as a pure villain isn’t quite right. In reality, he uses real data in his work, unlike many other GMO critics, and his perspective on GMOs and herbicide use can be quite nuanced. The film also failed to mention the biotech industry has also faced criticism for financial ties with university scientists, which is covered in that same Times article. By isolating Benbrook, viewers might think the organic industry’s actions are uniquely egregious when in fact questionable behavior has occurred on both sides.
Island Earth, meanwhile, lacks follow-through. In one scene a tractor fitted with a row-crop sprayer applies pesticides on an open test field that belongs to Pioneer, which sells GMO seed. A local resident named Malia Chun gestures toward the field and says, “almost every resident” on a street nearby has cancer, suggesting a link. Chun also says she had her daughter’s hair tested for pesticides, which turned up evidence of 36 different chemicals, eight of which were “restricted use.”
It makes for a powerful narrative. But the filmmaker, Cyrus Sutton, doesn’t give the viewer any context as to how likely it is that these pesticides are linked to cancer or other health problems. There are no interviews with toxicologists, epidemiologists or risk experts. It’s not clear whether the pesticides in Chun’s daughter’s hair were present in harmful amounts. These are all starting points for worthy investigation but the way they are treated raises more questions than it answers. When asked about the claims his subjects make, Sutton says he “tried to portray people’s sentiments as accurately as I could. On the science side of things, I tried to understand and convey the nuances on the issue with the limited time and resources that I had.”
The problem is, the very nature of documentary films demands a narrow storytelling lens, and both films left out key context that would have made for a fuller—and more accurate—depiction of GMOs. If only Island Earthcould have applied some of the scientific rigor from Food Evolution, and Food Evolution could have considered the broader implications of the GMO industry. Or, as Nathanael Johnson, a reporter at Grist who appears in both films, put it to me: “There’s probably a world in which some master documentarian would find a way to fuse these two [films] into something that was really solid.”
It may be an impossible task, but filmmakers eyeing the next generation of genetic technologies would do well to give audiences not only entertainment but also a story that captures more facets of their subject.
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Posts tagged ‘Sexual Abuse’
It is a shame the JW are still considered by many a sect. The documentary of Pano at VRT Eén and the days around it on ‘Terzake’ and ‘De Afspraak’ (both programs of the Flemish state television VRT channel Canvas), and in Van Gils (on Eén) tried to bring the religious organisation in the picture with something which can not be allowed in any group (be it religious, sportive or artistic).
Good for the elder who dared to come out of anonymity in the hope this abuse which could also be found in other religious groups (be them Catholic and/or protestant) would be uncovered and stopped.
scandal of abuse within Jehovah’s Witnesses first erupted abroad > received attention in Belgium since 27th of March Pano [TV show] report
the church failed to protect people from a predatory paedophile, which Jehovah’s Witnesses has denied.
Almost a week after the broadcast = more than seventy people involved in sexual abuse or domestic and psychological violence”, according to a press release from Reclaimed Voices Belgium.
serious psychological damage > exclusion by Jehovah’s Witnesses from community = greater impact in certain cases than abuse itself
In the Netherlands, theme gained momentum in early 2018 after establishment of non-profit association “Reclaimed Voices”, which collects testimonies about sexual abuse among Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Jehovah’s Witnesses’ elder, Kurt De Kerf (55) from Sint-Niklaas testified anonymously in Pano report but choose to leave anonymity <= “nothing to hide + because important this finally comes into the open.”
Crimes rarely reported to secular justice > Legal Committee, elders themselves investigate + punish crimes, ranging from intoxication, corruption to adultery.
Abuse been kept silent by Jehovah’s Witnesses organisation
Herbekijk: “Pano” over het toedekken van seksueel misbruik bij Jehova’s getuigen
This 2015 video from the USA says about itself:
Candace Conti: Former Jehovah’s Witness Takes on Church over Sex Abuse Allegations
Candace Conti says the church failed to protect her from a predatory pedophile, which Jehovah’s Witnesses has denied.
Translated from Belgian daily De Standaard, 3 April 2019:
Already seventy possible victims of abuse report to the Jehovah’s Witnesses hotline
The scandal of abuse within Jehovah’s Witnesses first erupted abroad, but has also received attention in Belgium since last week’s Pano [TV show] report. There are seventy possible victims reporting to the “Reclaimed Voices Belgium” hotline.
Since two weeks, “Reclaimed Voices” has also a hotline in our country, and in the aftermath of the Pano broadcast it is receiving “disturbing messages”. “Almost a week after the broadcast, there are more than seventy people involved in sexual abuse or domestic and psychological violence”, according to a press release from…
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The Watchtower’s child abuse protocols read like a mashup of Scripture and corporate policy.
From a 1989 Watchtower letter to all U.S. elders describing the importance of secrecy:
“Often the peace, unity, and spiritual well-being of the congregation are at stake.
Improper use of the tongue by an elder can result in serious legal problems for the individual
the congregation, and even the Society.”
Every year in the United States, 60,000 children (aged 11 and younger) are sexually abused.
Every year, 321,500 (aged 12 and older) are sexually assaulted or raped.
80% of all those sexually abused under the age of 18 are abused by a parent or stepparent. (RAINN, 2019).
Normally believing people following Jesus should try to have an immaculate life, taking care of and protecting those around them.
From Jehovah’s Witnesses one would expect that they would show respect for men, women and children and would take care that those who do something atrocious against the Law of God would be punished and would be put out of the community. Often we hear about people have been disfellowshipped for matters which could be talked about and which are not so terrible as for the matters we came to hear about the last few weeks.
At the end of March a documentary was shown on the Flemish state television about reports of sexual abuse by the Jehovah’s Witnesses. At the edition of “Pano” on VRT Eén the documentary brought to light that the organisation had been covering up sexual abuse of minors via an internal ‘disciplinary’ system for years. That way, none of the claims were reported to the police. One of the witnesses, who has been an elder in the organisation, was very straightforward in the documentary, in calling it
“a paradise for paedophiles”.
The (protected and therefore made anonymous) elder made it clear the organisation had in March 1997 already sent a letter to each of its 10,883 U.S. congregations, and to many more congregations worldwide indicating for the dangers if some news about paedophile acts would come into the public. The organization was concerned about the legal risk posed by possible child molesters within its ranks. The letter laid out instructions on how to deal with a known predator:
Write a detailed report answering 12 questions — Was this a onetime occurrence, or did the accused have a history of child molestation? How is the accused viewed within the community? Does anyone else know about the abuse? — and mail it to Watchtower’s headquarters in a special blue envelope. Keep a copy of the report in your congregation’s confidential file, the instructions continued, and do not share it with anyone.
The man in charge for Belgium, Louis De Wit was not really willing to give a reasonable reply for what was going on behind the doors of this religious organisation. He gave the impression he did not know about such “blue envelope”.
One would think Jehovah’s Witnesses disapprove of sexual abuse, and would do everything to react properly against such unwanted actions. When there were sent “blue envelopes” like many from different countries tell, are sent to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, they must have a large database of undocumented child molesters:
at least two decades’ worth of names and addresses —likely numbering in the tens of thousands — and detailed acts of alleged abuse, most of which have never been shared with law enforcement, all scanned and searchable in a Microsoft SharePoint file.
we known from more than one source.
In recent decades, much of the world’s attention to allegations of abuse has focused on the Catholic Church and other religious groups. Less notice has been paid to the abuse among the Jehovah’s Witnesses, though this Christian group with more than 8.5 million members was much spoken off at several fora and blogs of ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses, stating such and other problems in that organisation.
In the United States already millions of dollars have been paid over the years to keep it secret.
Because the church, and its community, is for many of those victims their life, it is even more difficult to cope with, because they also feel that they can give a negative impression over their religious group. Often they live in a certain way isolated of the outside world. They go to school but friendship with non-JW is not exactly recommended or encouraged. In several countries and several JW families kids aren’t allowed to play sports in school or participate in holiday observances in school.
When the abused persons tell others about what happened they are asked to keep it quiet or are treated as the trespasser and soon after talks with elders they become considered as a “reproofed” member of the congregation, being effectively shunned, not permitted to speak unless spoken to. Often they even become forbidden from participating in church activities and as such having been made invisible in the eyes of the church.
Having had little contact with the outside world, staying with their own, save for going door-to-door to convince others that their religion was the one and true path to salvation in these, the final days of human history, they feel like betrayed and shut down by their own “family”. For the devout, disfellowshipping feels literally like a death sentence, because according to what they have learned one has to be a JW or to “belong to the Truth” to be able to enter the Kingdom of God.
Jehovah’s Witnesses call their version of excommunication disfellowshipping, a punishment by shunning to rid the faithful of bad associations with those who break the laws of God. Though this time not the abuser is disfellowshipped but the victim which makes she or he as expelled person cannot have any further contact with Witnesses, even polite acknowledgement on the street, until they take back the accusations or allegations and have proved ‘their repentance and willingness to return obediently’ to the organization.
Midway through the last century, the Watchtower took the power to judge and punish Witnesses away from the entire membership of congregations and gave it to the elders in each kingdom hall. The Watchtower also began to emphasize the importance of keeping the organization “spiritually clean.” By the early 1990s, roughly 40,000 Witnesses were disfellowshipped each year, according to Watchtower literature.
For decades, Jehovah’s Witnesses literature has described the importance of cutting off unrepentant sinners, even when they are family members. A 1988 Watchtower article traces the roots of the organization’s shunning policies to Deuteronomy, which says Israelite parents must bring rebellious children before the elders to be judged and executed
“to clear away what is bad from the midst of Israel.”
Israelite parents even participated in the execution of their own children to show their loyalty to God before family, the article states, because such demonstrations of devotion can be necessary to save one’s own life.
From the way the organisation reactions we can have the impression those youngsters who say they are misused are rebellious children who themselves created such situations where the adult fell in their trap.
What is also so ‘funny” is that those people by others are called “man of God” and should receive full respect and as such nothing bad can or could be said about them.
The same as what seems to happen in many other countries (like the Netherlands) the organisation does not have any policies to prevent sexual abuse or report it to the police and even worse want to keep it silent, sometimes even giving the victims the idea that they are the cause or warning them that they may not let outsiders know about this.
Victims that quit the organisation are not only ignored completely but become disfellowshipped and considered outcast nobody of the JW (lower) members may have contact. Only elders are supposedly to have contact with them, but do not seem to do anything to help them really.
According to CIAOSN, an independent centre set up by Belgium’s Department of Justice to study sectarian organisations, there are similar findings in 12 other countries. The report concludes that the issues in all other countries are the same. Due to the strict hierarchy of the organisation, it’s very difficult to come forward, reports CIAOSN. Another issue that returns frequently in CIAOSN’s report is that victims have to give their statements about the abuse in the presence of their abusers. If the accused denies involvement, they’ll only further the investigation after two other witness statements. In all these 13 countries, there is not one woman involved in the internal disciplinary system.
Reclaimed Voices Belgium finds that it is noteworthy how many people that talk about the severe psychological damage that the exclusion by the community brings with it. They say
“In conversations we’ve had with victims so far, it seems that the trauma caused by the exclusion that follows when a victim speaks up about the abuse has an even bigger impact than the abuse itself.”
Over the past couple of years, Mark O’Donnell has been leaking stolen letters and other papers documenting instances of child abuse. (Lexey Swall)
A Secret Database of Child Abuse; A former Jehovah’s Witness is using stolen documents to expose allegations that the religion has kept hidden for decades.
Sexual or indecent assault in the Belgian Criminal Code
Amendment to hide child sex abuse claims
Jehovah’s Witnesses use 1st Amendment to hide child sex abuse claims
Jehovah’s Witnesses cover up child sex abuse and oust a victim
‘Punished’ for being sexually abused in York County: Jehovah’s Witnesses’ culture of cover-up
Jehovah’s Witness leader says child sex abuse claims are ‘lies’
She spoke about Jehovah’s Witness abuse, and her home was vandalized
Vatican removes Guam archbishop after conviction of sexual abuse
No Comment: Fordham’s Continued History of Silence on Sex Abuse Claims
George Pell: A Devil in the Disguise of a Saint – One of the worst immoral things/crimes I can think of is child abuse, physical or sexual.
Inerrantists are My Brothers and Sisters in Jesus—Not My Enemies
What Do the Church’s Victims Deserve?
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Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses revised its instructions to elders on dealing with allegations of child abuse
A modification of the October 1st 2012 letter to elders, which served as a guideline for Jehovah’s Witness elders who have come to obtain knowledge of an accusation of the physical or sexual abuse of a minor, is newly released to all elders dated August 1st 2016 by the Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
It seems that the organisation of the Jehovah’s Witnesses still does not advice its elders to go straight to the police or child protection authorities when they have heard of or have a misdoubt of sexual abuse by one of their members.
Leave me alone, dirty cuckold Português: Deixa-me em paz, corno tarado (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Though the organisation warns the elders that they may be obligated to report an allegation of child abuse to local authorities, they request them to inform the organisation first, immediately calling the Legal Department for legal advice when the elders learn of an accusation of child abuse.
If you are asked, make it clear that whether to report the matter to the authorities or not is a personal decision for each individual to make and that there are no congregation sanctions for either decision.
As such we can only hope those who know about such a case shall take it at heart to protect the victim and shall report it to the authorities.
For some it might be that the organisation is now obfuscating procedures by suggesting inaction on the part of elders, and shifting the burden of reporting abuse to the victim. There is a substantial difference between never telling someone not to report, and actively telling someone they should report.
From different sources we may know about the infamous JW “Two Witness” rule which allows an environment of tolerance to exist inside this religion which has paved the way for many sexual encounters between these predators and innocent Witness children. It is a well-known fact that often abusers confronted with what they have done shall lie and say no such thing happened or will try to make themselves in a victim of the one who challenged them.
In many cases, elders have disfellowshipped on the grounds of “lying” rather than the actual crime of child abuse. From many cases it also looks like the elders discouraging the Jehovah’s Witness from contacting the authorities for not damaging the community. Such request from the elders puts even more pressure on the victim and makes the chance of additional victims coming forward even more unlikely.
Big problem with the organisation is also that in several cases they have seem done all they could to avoid having the case come in court. Rather than co-operate with ongoing investigations in several countries, which would have given a clear signal that Watchtower felt it had nothing to hide, the religious group has instead fought tooth and nail to get the investigations killed off, mounting multiple legal challenges in order to prevent the investigation from even taking place.
The newly released Watchtower letter focuses a great amount of attention on the internal investigations of any accusations of physical or sexual abuse of a minor. It is significant that an organization which directs so much effort into their internal religious justice system has been the subject themselves of worldwide investigations by the very secular authorities which Witnesses claim to obey.
Still today a non-Witness parent his presence at a JW judicial meeting is completely undesired. When one of their children is abused by a JW the child may find it very difficult to have to face the abuser in the JW tribunal without its own parents their to help her or him. Now
“Elders should remember that during the investigation
process and during the judicial committee process, a victim of child sexual abuse is not required to make her allegation in the presence of the alleged abuser.”
News Bulletin: Watchtower again loses legal fight to stop UK Charity Commission Investigation
News Bulletin: Watchtower Releases Updated Child Abuse Directive to Elders; Lack of Adequate Policy Change Continues To Endanger Jehovah’s Witness Minors
A Former Jehovah’s Witness Talks About How Being Disfellowshipped Affects His Entire Life
Jehovah’s Witnesses asks court to toss sexual assault lawsuit
Man whips out cellphone camera when he realizes neighborhood Jehovah’s Witness is a convicted sex offender
Volunteers help Winston victims
Thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses flock to BIC for annual convention
Don Reed’s East 14th
Mary E. Wright
Russia’s battle against the Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jehovah’s Witnesses Shunning ex-members adverse effects on family relationships
Which Christian sect is the only true Christian church?
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All human beings can and shall make faults in their life; Nobody can escape. The only one who did nearly escape was Jeshua, the Nazarene Jew who did everything to please his heavenly Father. But by doing so he more than once probably frustrated his earthly parents; For sure he made them twice in his lifetime very worried and sad. Once when he was 12 years old and did not follow up the wishes to stay close to his family in the big city Jerusalem. there he had not thought of the worries his parents might get when he would not be in the caravan back home. An other time he worried his mother very much was when he was taken prisoner and later brought up to the hill for execution nearby the walls of that same city. An other time he got out of the normal behaviour a human being should stay, was when he saw all those sellers in the temple, the house of God. He really lost his temper and threw the tables over and shouted to those vendors in what Jesus considered a house of prayer and not a sales market. Jesus like any other human being could sin, but did not. What he did was righteous in the eyes of God.
To be all the time righteous for any person is ‘very difficult’. When you look around you, you shall be able to see people you like very much and others you like less, but also some you do not like at all. From those you know you also shall be able to tell good things but probably also bad things. Also about yourself you shall have to admit there are good and bad things.
There does not exist any organisation which can escape to undergo things in its ranks which would better not have occurred at any time. It is worse or gets really bad when organisations do not want to see what goes wrong in their organisation or worse even try to hide the things which went wrong in their organisation. In the last instance we do have to ask questions and we do have to be more aware of the danger of such activities.
When people in charge of parishes or communities to something wrong to people where they should take care off their wrongdoings are even worse than those who do not know better. We should always take into account the people who are poor in mind or who do have a brain which is not working like it should do. but by those who get a position to take care over a flock or some people who give their trust in his or her arms, than it becomes abominable.
When elders, priests, pastors, ministers commit acts which are an abomination in the eyes of God it becomes worse, because those people are considered ‘workers for God’ and should be defending the Faith. they should be an example for the community and for those who have to be brought to God. They should not be persons who give others the opportunity to blame the Church or to spit on religion or to defile the Name of God.
We can not deny that also by groups who call themselves Bible Students there can be found people unworthy of such name. We also can not deny that in such groups there can be found people who should know better, and who really study the Word of God, but could not resist doing things which are against the Laws of God.
No denomination in Christendom nor in Christianity seems to escape the evil of some men or women in own ranks. When there can be found such evildoers in a group which bears the name of the Most High it becomes even worse. But that should not get such organisations try to hide such things for others, because then they do even more damage to their own organisation and worse to the Name of God.
Rape Infographic (Photo credit: Snipergirl)
Former elder Mark Sewell is the last mentioned case of such an example which no Christian organisation would like to find in their midst. According to the accusations he used his “position of power” to “exploit and abuse” women and children over a ten-year period.
Officials at head office of the Jehovah Witnesses appointed a seven-man committee to investigate what had happened.
As a result Tom Brown was stripped of his post as presiding overseer but remained as an elder, while Anthony Sewell was removed as an elder because of events he concealed and tried to conceal.
A four-man committee then investigated the claims of assault and rape against Sewell, resulting in him being ‘disfellowshipped’, which meant being removed from the church and “shunned” by other Witnesses.
What is important that people look for the intentions of some one. Those of a person claiming to belong to Jehovah His organisation when he does fornication or rape does something which not only brings blame on that worldly organisation but also on the organisation of God and on His Name.
In 2012 the Watch Tower Society had already issued a letter to all Bodies of Elders instructing them on how to handle cases of child abuse in the wake of the Candace Conti verdict, but some years on now, we wonder how those elders in the different countries do the right thing and follow the rules of the countries in which they are working and living.
It was already chocking in 2012 that the Governing Body did not use the lessons learned from the Conti case to bring the Society’s child protection policy into conformity with the law, not to mention the basic principles of community responsibility.
Despite the jury’s multi-million dollar award of punitive damages against the Society in the Conti case, little was being done to ensure that similar cases would not arise in the future. And the world could hear of many many different cases of child abuse and of sexual harassment by elders and the female Witnesses.
For us we can not understand why parents in the 21st century still react like the parents in the 1950ies and 60ies did in the Catholic families. It can be that the Witnesses are only in that stadium and are 50 or 60 years behind the time, which would mean that over such time we are going to see empty Kingdom Halls or having only Kingdoms Halls in 2060 with just 5 or 6 attendants.
The organisation and the people leading a congregation should know that not one religion can make a psychological/criminal evaluation in case they themselves did not receive a higher education in that field. They also should know they have to take the responsibility to protect the weaker people in their community and should always investigate every sign of wrong going.
We agree that a person accused of being a paedophile should always be considered innocent until proven. But to say he is innocent unless two people witnessed the abuse (the victim and someone else) is ridiculous, because any sex offender shall probably take care there would be no witnesses or nobody who would come to stand up against him or her.
To have an organisation ruling out paedophilia because there would be no witnesses to confirm it would make that there nearly never would be a case in instances of child molestation to confirm the allegation. Certainly in very confined communities with very strict rules, like the Jehovah Witnesses or any small or big fundamentalist religious organisation, child molesters who are smart enough to carry out their despicable crimes without someone else watching, shall always feel the protective hand above them because nobody lower than them would go against them.
Saying that those accused of child abuse have not to be judged by “worldly” standards, but through God’s standards as determined through a mistaken application of the Mosaic law is taking the law in their own hands and not giving the Caesar what belongs to the Caesar (like Jesus said), but denying jurisdiction to do her work .
It was hoped that the Conti case might have resulted in the Society revisiting the “two witness rule”, but until now there is not such a thing.
Demanding a confession is not always to bring such a confession when somebody did really something he or she should know is really not allowable in our worldly nor in our spiritual society.
The rule the JW organisation asks to be followed goes in against any lawful acceptable position. when a child and her parents do not find others who have seen something which went wrong between the child and the sex offender, the parents may feel guilty to bring a complaint because they have no witnesses of the events their child is talking of.
“Do not admit an accusation against an older man, except only on the evidence of two or three witnesses. Reprove before all onlookers persons who practice sin, that the rest also may have fear…. The sins of some men are publicly manifest, leading directly to judgment, but as for other men [their sins] also become manifest later. In the same way also the fine works are publicly manifest and those that are otherwise cannot be kept hid.” (1 Timothy 5:19,24,25 – New World Translation)
However, in evaluating the evidence for internal congregational purposes, they must bear in mind the Bible’s clear direction: ‘No single witness should rise up against a man respecting any error or any sin . . . At the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses the matter should stand good.’ (Deut. 19:15) {Shepherding textbook, chapter 12, paragraphs 18-21}
When a girl, woman, boy or man is on his own, not finding somebody who has seen that she or he is molested, this would mean she or he does not make any change in the congregation to be heard, and worse could become seen as somebody bringing the unity in the congregation in danger, so becoming herself or himself an object of exclusion.
“the elders are not authorized by the Scriptures to take congregational action unless there is a confession or there are two credible witnesses.” {2012 letter to all Bodies of Elders paragraph 11}
shall not give any opportunity to righteous and honest elders to act lawfully and honestly.
Barbara Anderson, who once worked at the Brooklyn headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses from 1982 to 1992 and was a member of Jehovah’s Witnesses from 1954 to 1997, became a long-time campaigner for the Society to drop its negligent approach towards child protection. She did research as well as wrote a number of articles for their Awake! magazine and has done extensive research on issues related to child sexual abuse in the religion leading to interviews on major TV and radio programs as an outspoken critic of Jehovah’s Witnesses sexual abuse policies. The first time she heard about child sexual abuse within the organization was around 1984, which may be considered quite late, when we do know that lots of sexual offences in the other denominational churches had most of their offences in the 1950ies and 1960ies.
It can well be that by the wishes to stay truthful to Bible teaching there could be lesser cases, but as long as not more JW will come out of the dark to bring such accusations and developments after such knowledge into the open, we would not know for sure and could only guess. this guessing by the public can do more damage to the organisation which by many already now is considered to be a sect and not a proper church organisation.
Barbara Anderson writes on her website:
At the time I thought this behavior was an aberration, but later I found out just how wrong I was. The evidence that there were more than just the case related above where children of Jehovah’s Witnesses were molested and kept silent about the abuse, was the authorizing of a series of articles in the January 22, 1985 Awake! the cover title being, “Child Molesting, Every Mother’s Nightmare.” From my past experience with the Writing Department I knew that it was doubtful that the Society would have had a cover series of articles dedicated to the problem unless the child sexual abuse revelations were on the increase within the Witness organization and Witness leaders knew parents needed instruction how to protect their children from being molested and how to recognize signs of molestation. Sadly, though, there was little information in the articles provided to help caregivers and victims deal with the impact of abuse; neither was there a directive to immediately report abuse to the authorities. In fact, in the upstate New York case, it was school officials who notified the authorities about the sexual abuse of one of the children. {Awake! Articles Discuss Molestation; The Life and Discoveries of Barbara Anderson}
World headquarters of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society of Pennsylvania, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
From 1992 on she was so worried about the Watchtower Society’s problematic procedures in the matter of child sexual abuse that she missed seeing the obvious—Witness leaders were treating accusations of child sexual abuse no differently than from the sin of fornication or drunkenness. In case they are still doing this so, as it looks like, it is clear that the organisation world wide but even more important, the local organisations, would treat such accusations to serious to treat them on their own. Elders should understand that at first they may have to investigate it first, but as soon as they have any idea or hear of a possible child sexual abuse allegation, they should also inform the authorities, because child sexual abuse is a crime — a form of rape – a point the Society still does not seem to fully comprehend. Police handle crime, elders deal with sin!
Any crime is also a sin, but the handling should always happen on two sides. The first direction has to go to the police forces and juridical departments of the authorities. Next the juridical department of a church can take additional matters.
If elders need procedural directions for disfellowshipping someone for child abuse, it should be made clear that the instructions are only for that. Elders are not magistrates. If two witnesses are required to determine guilt to disfellowship the accused, so be it, but only so long as the authorities are notified of the accusation by those involved. {Finally Disillusioned; The Life and Discoveries of Barbara Anderson}
Putting the victims to the side where they have no voice or right of speaking made many leave the organisation but made also that many lost faith in the God which they had hoped would have protected them in “His Organisation”. What most of them forget to see is that William H. Conley, the first president of the Watch Tower Association formed in 1881 (not Charles Taze Russell) and Joseph Lytel Russell took care that people where willing to come to believe that what they, as human beings had formed, was not theirs but Jehovah His Organisation. They misused the Name of God to create an organisation which would take the right away to any other witness of Jehovah to call himself publicly a witness, because than everybody in the world would consider them to be a Jehovah Witness, being part of the organisation with that name.
Many Bible Students felt dishonoured by that organisation by which many people thought they would be part of, which they were not and are not. Lots of people take the Bible Students to be the same as the Watch Tower Society’s Organisation of Jehovah Witnesses.
Well-known Witness attorney, Hayden C. Covington with Lloyd Barry, Jack Barr, Arthur Worsley and Karl Klein did not take the necessary efforts to bring justice to those who did offences which should have been brought to justice. It were those persons who did not bring out the truth about Rutherford who choose only those around him who were willing to follow him and who would not oppose any idea of him. Rutherford endeavoured to mollify the authorities in every possible way. The organisation of today does not seem to respect the authorities yet.
Like we can see in other communities, like the Amish who are struggling with the changes in technology and society, there may be abusive domination and tyranny of women and children by rigid, domineering patriarchal men in the faith who used Bible teachings as a whip.
Gordon Leighton, 53, was found guilty on two counts of indecency with a child, and six of indecent assault after a six-day trial.
In the JW society many elders are aware of such facts but do not handle it properly. Still today there may be found too many unhappy Witness wives complaining of their husbands’ misuse of their authority as head of the house. For children having to face such patriarchal dictatorship it is very difficult to come up to their father or to their mother to tell them when they are misused. Probably a lot of abuses are not coming into the open in the family itself. Befroe it comes into the open outside the family circle it must be already a very severe case.
We can read on Barbara’s site:
One angry woman told me about a Witness who claimed she was raped by a man, who also was a Witness, when she was cleaning the man’s house. When questioned, the man admitted to the elders they had sex, but he said it was consensual and he expressed repentance. She denied it was consensual and said she was raped. She was disfellowshipped for lying; he was not disfellowshipped because he admitted and regretted his sin. Witness women who knew the accused were outraged because the man did not have a good reputation and they believed he was not trustworthy. (Incidentally, no one reported the rape to the authorities.) {Respect for Women; The Life and Discoveries of Barbara Anderson}
It can not be that only after a victim, when she has become an adult, breaks her silence by making a complaint to the police that the authorities could come to hear about such a case and can come to investigate. It is even worse to know that still today many elders refuse to cooperate with the police investigation.
We can only hope the JW organisation shall be uncovered one day and shall have to confess like the present pope of the Catholic Church did recently and too late.
Please do find additional reading:
Religions and Mainliners
People Seeking for God 2 Human interpretations
A visible organisation on earth
A Society pleading poverty
Do we have to be an anarchist to react
Catholicism, Anabaptism and Crisis of Christianity
Many churches
Surprising figures about Jehovah Witnesses
Around C.T.Russell
Biblestudents & T.C.Russell
Russell and his beliefs
Russell himself never claimed to be a prophet.
Bijbelonderzoekers en Russelism – Bibleresearchers and Russelism
Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger steps down as Pope Benedict XVI
Responsibility for children who were molested by clergy
Catholic church asking for forgiveness and promising to take action against child-abusers
An Ex-Muslim’s Open Letter
Why Think There Is a God? (3): Why Is It Wrong?
About sex abuse by Jehovah Witnesses:
The Watchtower Punished: Society loses legal battle over child abuse case
“We will decide who is a predator!” – New Watchtower Instructions to Elders on Child Abuse
Barbara Anderson’s Anecdotes
Why Watchtower shut down JWsurvey.org for over 24 hours
The Girl Who Took On The Watchtower – Candace Conti Speaks Out
Watchtower files appeal after JNOV motion is denied
Bo Juel Jensen: Could he be Watchtower’s worst nightmare?
Ex-Elder to appear in court after admitting to pedophilia on Facebook
Elders frustrate UK authorities in child abuse cover-up
In their own words: Candace Conti and Rick Simons speak out in their 2013 interview videos
License to harm: Predator Gonzalo Campos was allowed by elders to prey on children
Disfellowshipped but Not reported: UK pedophile subjected boys to “truly wicked” acts
Under Siege: Watchtower hit with fresh child abuse lawsuit
Zalkin files third JW lawsuit as New Mexico child abuse victim steps forward
Watchtower files reply brief as Conti appeal continues
Kathleen Conti supports new bill for victims of child abuse
The Lawsuit Landslide: Irwin Zalkin representing Eleven child abuse victims against Watchtower
Candace Conti speaks out at RNA 2013 conference
Governor Brown’s SB 131 veto leaves Watchtower child abuse victims frustrated
Oklahoma police investigating whether elders failed to report serial pedophile
Jonathan Rose – the pedophile elder who won the support of a congregation
Governing Body stands accused by District Attorney in Oklahoma child abuse case
Kathleen Conti breaks down during emotional SNAP presentation
Off the hook: Charges against Lawrence dropped as lawsuit is thrown out by judge
A Life Lost and a Life Found
Prevention order for jailed Jehovah’s Witness who fled to the Caribbean to molest kids
Piling on the torment – New Moston elders allow pedophile Rose to quiz victims
Elders labelled “spiritually corrupt and morally bankrupt” in Mark Sewell trial
Jehovah’s witnesses pedophile policy
This is the way Jehovah’s Witnesses treat victims of child sexual abuse
Jehovah’s Witnesses Child Molestation Victims seek justice
Pedophilia amongst the Jehovah’s Witnesses
Abused lambs speak out (Silent Lambs)
Battered lambs
Video’s: Jehovah’s Witnesses ordered to pay $21 million in child sex abuse case
Victim advocacy group for survivors of the Church of Jehovah’s Witnesses within Australia
Submission to Child Abuse Inquiry by Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia (April 9, 2013) – pdf
Submission to Child Abuse Inquiry by Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia Annexure 1 – (Policy Letter to all Jehovah’s Witness elders) – pdf
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Who are Child Sexual Abuse Predators?
Is Pedophilia a Sexual Orientation?
Dr. Benjamin Carson: Same-Sex Marriage and the correlation between Homosexuality, Pedophilia, and Bestiality
Domestic and Sexual Violence in the Church: A Sisterhood Reality Show Review
Five Frequently Asked Questions About Religious Spiritual Abuse and Child Sexual Abuse
Why do People Sexually Abuse Children? By Minister Marlene
What is Child Sexual Abuse Grooming?
Child Sexual Abuse: Submerge to Emerge
Child Sexual Abuse Grooming: Confusion and Manipulation
Sharp rise in paedophile sexual abuse calls
Probe into twenty schools over Sexual abuse
Women and Child Sexual Abuse
Homeless Teens: How to Protect your Child from Sexual abuse
You Are A Survivor Of Child Sexual Abuse
Silence is Violence: End Child Sexual Abuse
Ten Ways to Safeguard your Child from Sexual Abuse
Ten Ways to Safeguard your Child from Sexual Abuse #10
Why Child Sexual Abuse Grooming Must Become A Felony: The Story of Jason Kidd and His Daughter
How Can You Define Premeditated Child Sexual Abuse?
Overcoming Incest and The Effects of Child Sexual Abuse Grooming
Will the Church Help Child Sexual Abuse Survivors with Mental Illness?
How Should a Pastor Respond to Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse?
Sex Education: Is it grooming children for child sexual abuse?
[Media Release] Heal Me With Words™ Photo Exhibit during National Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Month 2013 +
Heal Me With Words ™ A National Campaign where Healed People, Heal People for Child Abuse Awareness Month
Marko Hamlin: One Man’s Story Of Overcoming Child Sexual Abuse and Depression
Is Child Sexual Abuse apart of a Government-Funded, Satanist-Organized Plan?
When Sisters Die: A Look At Child Sexual Abuse And Sisterhood
Five Myths About Lil’ Wayne and his Child Sexual Abuse
Sugar Ray Leonard at Penn State Child Sexual Abuse Conference
Why Ressurrection Graves Introduces Child Sexual Abuse Grooming As A Crime
[Exclusive Interview]: Domonique Scott of the Sisterhood Reality Show on Overcoming Child Sexual Abuse, Foster Care and Prostitution
Thandie Newton Speaks Out About Sexual Abuse
Pedophiles are Watching Coy Mathis, and Lil Poopy: What these Children have to do with Legalizing Sexual Abuse
Quote of the Day: National Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Month
Dr. John E. B. Myers at Penn State Child Sexual Abuse Conference on Family Court
The Jennie Withers Story: How An All-Star Became A Survivor Of Spiritual And Child Sexual Abuse
Jerry Sandusky: Guilty Of 45 Counts Of Sexual Abuse and What We Can Do To Prevent This From Happening In Our Own Lives
Survivor on Boy Scouts of America release of Internal Child Sexual Abuse ‘Perversion Files’
US border officials abuse unaccompanied migrant children: Rights groups
US Military is riddled with Sexual abuse
Female German Soldiers sexually abused
Paedophile gay couple sexually abused a Russian boy for years
Woman sues Jehovah’s Witnesses for alleged abuse
Child Sexual Abuse within the Dutch Catholic Church
Child Sexual Abuse : Spread the Word!!!
Sex, Celibacy, and Priesthood: A Bishop’s Provocative Inquisition
Catholic Clergy Sexual Abuse? They are Unsaved! By Minister Marlene
Acquitted Priest resumes Ministry after sexual abuse charges
Diary of a Seducing Spirit: Part 2 Creepy Church Abuse 1
New lawsuit accuses Philadelphia church of sexual abuse
1 in 3 sexually abused in Westminster
Over 800 complaints to Austrian Catholic Church sexual abuse commission and Abuse confession
Belgium launches legal action against the Vatican for sexual abuse by paedophile priests
Clergy sexual abuse victims ask Redemptorists to drop defense of defrocked priest AND
No change in abuse policy: US Bishops’ head and Retiring Bishop proud of his strong stance on sexual abuse
Papal Commission demands accountability for abuse in Catholic Church
Vatican named in lawsuit alleging sexual abuse
Vatican to set up clergy sexual abuse help centre
Victims of sexual abuse by priests barred from meeting pope
I’m anti-Catholic says Byrne after sexual abuse by priest
Top Catholic pins sexual abuse on married men
Senator names and shames priest accused of sexual abuse
German priest admits 280 counts of sexual abuse
Dutch Bishops Apologize for Sexual Abuse
Vatican protesters evicted by police and Catholic Diocese spends $1M on priest sexual abuse cases
Priest faces court over child sexual abuse allegations
Vatican sex crimes prosecutor warns bishops and Sexual abuse silence “deadly” for Church: Vatican official
“Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House of God” Documentary Blames Vatican For Poor Handling Of Catholic Sexual Abuse Case
Bura na Mano Holi Hai?
Say No to Eve-teasing!
Zhang Muyi a 24-year-old pop star in China is Child Sexual Abuse Grooming a Child from Canada with millions of approving followers
R&B Divas LA Reunion’s Reveal on Domestic and Sexual Violence
The Bible and Child Sexual Abuse
The Bible and Child Sexual Abuse II
UN denounces Vatican over child abuse and demands immediate action
United Nations wants the Vatican to hand over details of child sexual abuse cases
No privileges for bishops on abuse: Pope
The Anti-Pope to meet with sex abuse victims at the Vatican
Francis: I ask forgiveness for damage caused by abusers
The abuse survivor who reminds me that we are suppopsed to be a light to the world
More than 150 allegations of sexual abuse have been made against BBC employees
Sexual Abuse Scandal at Horace Mann School
Saudis sexually exploit teenage Syrian girls: Report
Little Tidbit #3: My Excuses (rebeccafellrath.com)
Our excuses are endless.“I got drunk, because there was alcohol at the restaurant.” “I lusted because that woman’s shirt was too revealing.” “I gossiped because I was on Facebook.” “I said those things, because of the bad music they play at work.”
Watching Porn At Church (leadingfamilydevotions.com)
our bodies are now the temple of God. Inside of them resides the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit desires for them to be set apart from defilement. Can you imagine bringing your iPad into the Jerusalem temple (assuming they had wifi) and pulling up a pornographic video to watch during the worship service? Of course you can not. That would be wrong wouldn’t it. But it is the same way with our bodies now. Our bodies are the temple of God’s Spirit. If we bring such garbage into the temple of our body, we are polluting and defiling God’s sanctuary. What a horrible effect this sin has caused in our society. Flee such perversion!
Season of Rape: Why we defile small girls – Pastor, others (vanguardngr.com)
Child defilement is becoming a source of concern in Benin-City, Edo State capital. It is even more worrisome when the act is carried out by supposedly men of God.In the last few weeks, no fewer than five children have, allegedly, been defiled in Benin-City by men old enough to be their fathers. On Thursday, Edo State Police Command paraded 32 suspected criminals, amongst them, three accused of defiling children. The suspects include a pastor with the Deeper Life Bible Church, Abudu, Edo State, Eze Fidelis, who was said to have had carnal knowledge of two girls: Joy, 9, and Anthonia,11.
Teacher arrested in Ibadan for defiling pupils (whatsupibadan.com)
A teacher at the Calvary Heritage Kiddies Castle, Oluyole Estate, Ibadan, Olayinka Oluwadare Folarin has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command for defiling three pupils under his care. Folarin is a teacher at the Heritage Home, a non-governmental organization where orphans and vulnerable children are catered for. His victims, who have been subjected to sexual trauma on a weekly basis since 2013 are said to be between 10 and 11 years old and they are primary five pupils. Two of the victims are orphans in the home where they have been living since they were two years old. Folarin allegedly began the escapade last year on a weekly basis inside the school toilet with a threat to kill the pupils should they tell anyone. For easy access, the father of four was alleged to have been applying lubricant gel on the girls. He was said to have been sacked from his previous school on account of the same behaviour. The secret act of the teacher came to the open when a group of male pupils found one of the teenage girls crying after being sexually abused by the teacher.
Islam’s Halal Sexual Practices (banislamofficial.com)
it is utmost important to study what sexual practices were carried out by him in his life so that all Muslims can practice those sunnas and follow his footsteps.
A Muslim man can have sexual pleasure with a little girl as young as a baby. But he should not penetrate her vaginally, however he can sodomize her.
Islamic Dogs of War – The Use Of Gang-Rape to Subjugate Infidels and Those that Resist (trevorloudon.com)
As a young child, standing by my father, watching the nightly news, I innocently asked what the word ‘rape’ meant. I never received an answer and rightly so. It was not something that you discussed – it was too evil, too horrific. Today, rape is a commonplace epidemic growing across Europe and the world — the perpetrators are primarily radical Islamists. Committed by power freaks and evil incarnate who are not spoken of because it is politically incorrect to do so. So, we tell our women to be quiet… to obey… to cover themselves and hide, rather than fight the depraved animals who degrade, torture, abuse and murder them in the name of Allah.
Abu Ghraib prison eulogy – Satire (younglbadult.wordpress.com)
Ah Abu Graib, the suspended garden of democrazy ! A great work of art, where photographing beautiful atrocities were so much fun.Remember the smile of Mrs England pointing her finger to a male sexual organ ? ( couldn’t remember what species ).
The Wedding Night in Islam With Hadith Explanation (ohack.in)
Our Beloved Prophet muhammad(pbuh) has clearly explain the sahaba about how to make an wedding night in islam,As Follower of islam we need to do same as what prophet muhammad(pbuh) has did, Many of them think’s that it is usual way as what other’s did(By watching Tv,hearing From Friend’s,Learning through Book’s).
Ramadan, Hadith Regarding Fasting
In ramadan Who ever fast should abstain from sexual activity from dawn to duck and also immoral behaviour like Anger,Abuse.
Muslims Allowed to Rape Captive Women (paulmarcelrene.wordpress.com)
Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess: Thus hath God ordained (Prohibitions) against you: Except for these, all others are lawful, provided ye seek (them in marriage) with gifts from your property, – desiring chastity, not lust, seeing that ye derive benefit from them, give them their dowers (at least) as prescribed; but if, after a dower is prescribed, agree Mutually (to vary it), there is no blame on you, and God is All-knowing, All-wise. S. 4:24 Y. Ali The above passage emphatically allows for the raping of women that are taken captive, even if these captives happened to be married!
The Paths of Deceptions-The Infiltrated Paths! (ministry786.wordpress.com)
Over 1400 years ago when the Quran was revealed; it was mentioned in Chapter 4 verse 119 that Satan will order people to change their looks that Allah (God Almighty) has created. Today you can notice that on a daily basis either on the roads or in TV! May Allah SWT guide those who are following the footsteps of Satan & may He guide us & increase our faith
Quran Chapter 4, verses 117 They call upon instead of Him none but female [deities], and they [actually] call upon none but a rebellious Satan.
The adultery of the eye is the lustful look and the adultery of the ears is listening to voluptuous (song or talk) and the adultery of the tongue is licentious speech and the adultery of the hand is the lustful grip (embrace) and the adultery of the feet is to walk (to the place) where he intends to commit adultery and the heart yearns and desires which he may or may not put into effect.
Bible Students, Christendom, History, Russell, Charles Taze
Anthony Sewell
Arthur Worsley
Barbara Anderson
Body of Elders
Child Molesting
Evil Women
Hayden C. Covington
Jack Barr
Joseph Lytel Russell
Liking persons
Lloyd Barry
Mark Sewell
Watch Tower Association
Watchtower Society
William H. Conley
Worker for God
We can not avoid talking about the news of the day. Yesterday the television-programs had their mouthful of the resignation of 85-year-old Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger alias Pope Benedict XVI.
Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square, Rome (2007).(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Roman Catholic church has always claimed to be the rightful bearer of the Church of Christ and having the right to have the follower of the apostle Peter, whom they consider to have been the first Pope. though if they would read the Holy Scriptures more carefully they would notice that there was not such an hierarchy in the first faith-group which tried to follow the teachings of Christ.
when Jesus was alive he also did not place one pupil in front of the other and taught them that they should be humble, respecting each other and trying to use all the gifts they received from the Father above to do their duties as good as possible. In the united body to honour God and to be followers of Christ, there is no such order that one person would be above or under the other. All have to be united as brothers and sisters in Christ. All having Christ Jesus as the cornerstone and the example to follow.
“for any other foundation can no one lay than the [one] being laid, who is jesus christ.” (1 Corinthians 3:11 MKJV)
The last few months we could notice that more than one person in that Catholic Church tried to cover up the crimes of their priests. Also Benedict, when he still was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, and led the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, this cardinal not only covered paedophile crimes, when he had become Pope, he and the Vatican office did first as if they did not know about such things. Only when letters proofed that they should have been aware of those crimes and did not the right thing, they agreed to the letters, but said they did what they could do, but forgot to warn the juridical powers.
In archdiocese documents released under a court order earlier this month, Mahony is revealed to have taken actions deliberately contrived to avoid legal prosecution of priests who had sexually abused — and even raped — children. The documents were so damaging that Mahony, now retired and once thought to be a contender for the papacy, was publicly rebuked by current Archbishop of Los Angeles Jose Gomez, and stripped of any public duties, an unprecedented censure of a cardinal archbishop by his successor.
Amid the cache of church records, released as part of a settlement between the archdiocese and 500 sex-abuse victims, are several letters to Ratzinger from Mahoney, in which the California prelate reports to the Vatican his reasons for various actions (such as defrocking) taken against the offending priests. The records amount to some 30,000 pages, so their full contents have yet to be pored through by investigators and journalists.
What is clear, though, is that Mahony repeatedly failed to act on concerns about the sexual abuse of children by priests that brought to him by pastors and church officials throughout the diocese, and that when he did, his actions were designed to avoid criminal prosecutions of the predator priests. And it is also clear that in his Vatican office, Ratzinger was the recipient of letters from Mahony informing the Holy See of what actions he had taken.
Back in 1045, the irredeemably outrageous Benedict IX – the only man to be pope more than once, and the only one ever to sell the papacy – also stepped down, essentially for the cash. Accused by St Peter Damian of “feasting on immorality”, by Bishop Benno of Piacenza of committing “many vile adulteries and murders” and by Pope Victor III of being a pope “so vile, so foul, so execrable, that I shudder to think of it,” Benedict ostensibly resigned to get married – but not before he had sold the office to his godfather, who became Gregory VI (and had to resign himself the following year because, even by the standards of the 11th century, buying the papacy wasn’t really on).
In 1415 we also find an other resignation. Bishop of Castello from 1380 and titular Patriarch of Constantinople in 1390 and pope on 30 Nov., 1406, forsaken by most of his cardinals, Gregory XII resigned. At that time there was also a rival pope in Avignon, Benedict XIII. The schism erupted in 1378 one year after Gregory XI was named the Pope in Rome, ending the sixty-seven year reign of the ‘Avignon Papacy’ during which time seven pontiffs ruled from that city in southern France. (Gregory XI was actually named Pope in 1370, as the last of the seven ‘Avignon popes,’ but he did not move to Rome until seven year later).
Following the death of Gregory XI in March 1378, under pressure from Romans to elect a Roman leader of the church, the cardinals named Pope Urban VI who was from Naples. Urban VI quickly fell out of favor, leading to the election of a ‘rival pope,’ Pope Clement VII, in September of that year, who re-established the papacy in Avignon – meaning the Catholic Church now had a pope and an ‘anti-pope,’ thereby dividing the European continent.
After Clement VII and Urban VI died, the schism continued through their respective successors, Pope Boniface IX (who became the ‘Roman’ pope in 1389) and Benedict XIII (the Avignon antipope who was crowned in 1394).
H.H. Pope Innocent VII (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Upon the death of Boniface in 1404, some hopes for a resolution to the schism emerged when the cardinals in Rome offered not to name a new pope immediately if Benedict would resign and give up the Avignon faction’s claims on the papacy. When Benedict and his representatives refused, the Roman Cardinals named Pope Innocent VII as the new pope in Rome. Upon Innocent VII’s death in 1406, Gregory XII was named his successor (while Benedict XIII still ruled in Avignon).
The dispute deteriorated into further complications in 1409 when a church council in Pisa elected yet another anti-pope, Alexander V, who lasted about a year, until he was succeeded by John XXIII.
The issue was not resolved until 1414 when the Council of Constance pressured anti-pope John XXIII to resign and excommunicated the Avignon Pope, Benedict XIII.
Gregorius XII
Due to his great piety and his earnest desire for the end of the schism after the death of Innocent VII the cardinals at Rome unanimously had elected Angelo Corporrario pope on 30 Nov., 1406. The split that divided the Catholic church for nearly 40 years and had, by the stage Gregory did the decent thing, reached the point where there were three different claimants to the papal throne: Roman Pope Gregory XII, Avignon Antipope Benedict XIII, and Pisan Antipope John XXIII.
However, Gregory XII’s resignation was not, strictly speaking, voluntary since it involved various behind-the-scenes machinations and intrigues, complicated by the Avignon and Pisa claimants.
Thus, perhaps the last truly voluntary resignation by a Pope occurred decades earlier, in 1294, when Pope Celestine V quit after serving only five months.
Succeeding Pope Nicholas IV in July 1294, perhaps Celestine V’s most notable achievement was issuing a decree which granted the right of a pope to abdicate (a step he himself took in December of that year).
Explaining his wish to resign, Celestine V said he was motivated by “the desire for humility, for a purer life, for a stainless conscience, the deficiencies of his own physical strength, his ignorance, the perverseness of the people, [and] his longing for the tranquility of his former life”.
Pope Benedict XVI who stunned the world by becoming the first Pope after World War II to step down earlier. Since no pope has retired in almost 600 years, there is no formal retirement plan for popes. However, as a bishop (and possibly a cardinal), Benedict will continue to have access to the Vatican’s lavish healthcare plan and probably also to the private doctors who currently manage his medical treatment. The pope does not officially receive a salary, though his needs are seen to by the Holy See. Canon law requires each diocese to provide support and housing for its priests after they retire, though the details of priests’ and bishops’ pension plans vary from country to country.
Dr. Donald Prudlo of the Vatican says about the significance of this decision of Ratzinger to resign:
“The important thing is that the Catholic Church is such an historically rooted church that we do have things to look to in order to deal with an event of this type. As unusual as it is, we can look back at other examples and know that the laws which govern these things have been long established in Catholic canon law (canon 332 of the Code of Canon Law). And so, for instance, the rules regarding the conclave that is to come up have been rehearsed for nearly a millennium. And the Pope, Blessed John Paul II in his Constitution Universi Dominici gregis, once again re-affirmed these things that have been thought about and discussed for an exceptionally long time. So while we have, what is to us, a very, very shocking, and something that makes us certainly have concern for Pope Benedict himself, we know that the church has the resources and has the things from her history to be able to meet these challenging situations.”
This occasion calls for looking into the reality of figures allowed or chosen by God to rule his church. The Roman Catholics do have their Pope, the Jehovah Witnesses do have their Watch Tower Society which receives the same infallibility as the Catholic Pope.
Jesus himself did not know when he would return, and for many things he said the people around him it was a matter of his Father. How on earth would other people receive more knowledge or power than Jesus? He himself also did not appoint anybody or wanted to have one person in a higher position than the other. The opposite, Jesus wanted all his followers to be humble brethren and sisters willing to be the slave of others, working as servants for God.
The apostles and prophets mazy be used for the foundation of a working community in Christ but that community at to be build up by the teachings of Christ Jesus making every person fit to be part of the building stones, fitting each in brick by brick. Stone by stone, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone that should hold all the parts together. As the apostles could see it taking shape day after day — a holy temple built by God, we too, today can still find people gathered together, willing to be under Christ, as one body of faithful believers.
The church or Christian community does not need a sorry bunch — pseudo-apostles, lying preachers, crooked workers — posing as Christ’s agents but sham to the core. The church of God should be made up by people who really love God and accept His son for what he really was and is. It should be people who call others also to be welcome to the living Stone, the source of life. People who know that it is God who knows the heart and God who chooses His people, His workmen. And those who may feel to be called should be humble workers for God and not for themselves or worldly organisations. God should be the priority, and the telling of the Good News of the coming Kingdom of God.
It is God who sets in the place of honour. Every believer has to present him or herself as building stone for the construction of a sanctuary vibrant with life, in which they’ll serve as holy priests offering Christ-approved lives up to God. The Scriptures provide precedent:
“4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by
God and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being
built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual
sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For in Scripture
it says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”” (1 Peter
2:4-6 NIV)
“20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord.” (Ephesians 2:20-21 NIV)
“But I do not think I am in the least inferior to those “super-apostles”.” (2 Corinthians 11:5 NIV)
“For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.” (2 Corinthians 11:13 NIV)
The apostle Peter knew that Christ was the ultimate rock.
“8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! 9 If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed, 10 then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. 11 He is “‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone.’” (Acts 4:8-11 NIV)
Also the apostle Paul was aware that he was not the most important apostle, nor peter whom he even rebuked at a certain point. (Galatians 2:11)
“23 Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office; 24 but because Jesus lives for ever, he has a permanent priesthood. 25 Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.” (Hebrews 7:23-25 NIV)
“For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.” (Romans 6:9 NIV)
“For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Saviour.” (Ephesians 5:23 NIV)
“22 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, 23 which is his body, the fulness of him who fills everything in every way.” (Ephesians 1:22-23 NIV)
When we look at 1 Corinthians 3:11 where we are called to remember that there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ, how can it than be that there should be special throned people who can be Pope and call themselves the main Leader of the Church?
“For no-one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 3:11 NIV)
When the Catholic Church or the Jehovah Witnesses claim that only the faithful slave, either the Pope for the Roman Catholic church, or the Watchtower Society, can be the one spokesperson and the one bringing infallible teaching to the flock, than you could wonder why Jesus is called the one mediator between god and man. Jesus, the son of God is namely sitting at the right hand of Jehovah God, and has taken the role of mediator, so that he can speak for the earthly beings, whom he also shall have to judge at the end-times.
“For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,” (1 Timothy 2:5 NIV)
God does not want an other mediator and Christ Jesus should be for us the most respectable and most perfect spokesman. We do not need a Pope when we trust that Christ Jesus also would lead his church here on earth and will follow it up from above in heaven. As Jesus trusted his Father we should trust God, giving to those who he thinks necessary to give guidance in the ecclesia and God providing people with the necessary gifts to proclaim the Good News and the Kingdom of God.
Pope Benedict XVI resigns
Yesterday the Vatican has confirmed that Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger’s papacy began in 2005 will come to an end at the end of the month, because Pope Benedict XVI is to resign. This is reportedly only the second time a head of the Catholic church has stepped down. The last time was nearly 600 years ago.
The Pope Resigns
The Roman Catholics claim that Jesus Christ appointed Peter, one of his disciples, the first Pope, and since then there has been a handing on, or a succession, to this office, right down to Pope Benedict himself.
They claim that here Jesus pronounces that Peter is to be the leader of the church. But a careful reading of what he is saying reveals that Jesus is actually saying that the rock on which the church is built is his confession and understanding of who Jesus is.
Virtually unprecedented: papal resignation throughout history
As Predicted in PETRUS ROMANUS: Pope Benedict XVI Resigns (watcherslamp.blogspot.com)
The Vatican’s Search For The Alien Savior
Prophecy of The Popes: Is The Final Pope The False Prophet?
The Final Pope and The False Prophet 2012
Breaking News:Pope Benedict to Resign on February,28 (akarabox.wordpress.com)
“I know well the difficulties, the problems and the limits of this age, and I know that these difficulties are aggravated for many people by the economic crisis,” the Pope said.
Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI Autographed Photo (ephemera.typepad.com)
Benedict XVI is the 265th Pope, a position in which he serves dual roles as Sovereign of the Vatican City State and leader of the Catholic Church. As Pope, he is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter the Apostle. He resigned his Papacy on 2-11-13.
In pictures: Pope Benedict XVI’s life (bbc.co.uk)
‘Traditionalist’ Pope Benedict XVI to resign (telegraph.co.uk)
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, as he was previously known, succeeded Pope John Paul II in April 2005 at the age of 78 to be the head of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics.
Pope Benedict XVI in shock resignation (countdowntoeternityblog.wordpress.com)
Pope Benedict XVI is Resigning (wsaz.com)
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Is your teenager spinning out of control? Looking for a therapeutic boarding school near Hamden, Connecticut?
There is nothing worse than having your teen spinning out of control, and no worse feeling than the despair parents experience in the process. It is hard to know what to do and how to react when your adolescent daily reaches new lows in disobedience, dishonesty, and disrespect, and chooses every wrong thing.
We know, because we went through it with our teenage son. Raised in a Christian home and mostly home-schooled until high school, we suddenly found that we didn’t know him. He had changed seemingly overnight. His grades started falling and his interest in sports and old friends shifted to a new group of friends — the kind parents are wary of — the kind of kids that got kicked out of a public school, so the local private school took them in.
Unknowingy, our son was already heavy into smoking pot, huffing, drinking alcohol and just about everything else his new peer group dared him to do. The downward spiral was dramatic — all the way down to holes-in-the-walls rages, running away for days at a time, and finally threatening suicide. After months in counseling, the therapist proclaimed that there was nothing more he could do. A local boarding school was selected.
Putting our son in a therapeutic boarding school was the hardest thing we’ve ever done as parents. . Worse yet, that program didn’t work out, so we were out a lot of money and still had no solution. We learned from this traumatic experience that therapeutic programs can be quite different and need to be selected based on their strengths and avoided if they have serious weaknesses. It’s important to know what those strengths and weaknesses are.
Some boarding schools are great, and others are not so great. Some target one set of issues; others are experts on other issues. But when you talk to them, they want to fill their beds, so they’ll often present themselves as “experts” in all areas having to do with behavior. But that’s usually not so. Some kids are just going through a rebellious stage, while others are dealing with very serious issues that may not be known to their parents. So choosing a “behavioral modification” program when a “therapeutic” program is what’s needed can be a disaster. It can also be a big waste of money.
No one was available to help us find the right school for our boy. We made a mistake to begin with, and that cost us dearly, but after months of research we found a good program that was able to help our son. Today, our family and even our son are thankful for that program.
The school we finally enrolled him in literally saved his life and got him off the downward spiral.
So, is your family experiencing the same storms of a teenager who is out of control? Are you walking on similar pins and needles around your teen? Does it sometimes seem like he or she has suddenly been taken over by aliens (well, not literally)?
Let us help you in finding the best program whether or not it is near Hamden, Connecticut. We’ve made it our life goal to know all we can about every school, so we can help parents (without cost) find the best possible choice for their troubled teen. We want to help parents avoid the same mistake we did.
Now, every day we hear from scores of frustrated parents in areas like Hamden, Connecticut, who share how their once normal and happy child has become seriously out of control — just like our son was. They talk about how it has disrupted their family and how they fear for their child’s future and very life. “My child is no longer who she used to be,” is an often repeated cry from these parents.
If your son or daughter is out of control, he or she needs you to intervene. That’s why you’ve landed on this site, so allow us to be the resource you need to help you find just the right program, hopefully near Hamden, Connecticut. The downward spiral your teen is on can have tremendous destructive potential with lifelong consequences, or even bring a young life to a quick end. Don’t wait. Act now based on what you know is true — your faith, your own beliefs, and what you know is best for your child.
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In 2008, Fortune Magazine and CNN Money picked Hamden as #33 on their “Best Place to Live and Launch” list, citing Hamden’s great blend of urban and suburban lifestyles. The article also pointed out Hamden’s exceptional education system as well as its “New England Charm”.
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Will digitization lead to cine-carnage in UK?
By Patrick von Sychowski | October 20, 2008 10:53 pm PDT
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Opinion pieces and leader column in UK media have been alive with the debate about whether the imminent switch to digital cinema (imminent, once the credit crunch is over, that is) will lead to death and carnage amongst the smaller cinemas on the British Isles.
The debate was triggered by a comment by the UK Film Council’s Peter Buckingham that whilst the UKFC had funded 240+ screens conversion to digital, the UK Government will not bail out at-risk cinemas (unlike at-risk banks, one hastens to add). From the Telegraph:
Peter Buckingham of the UK Film Council warned that 300 independent cinemas – many in rural areas – are in series danger of closing because they can’t afford the transition.
“If they haven’t got digital they aren’t going to have anything to show in five years time,” he told The Times. “I don’t know what Plan B is – there is no public money available.”
The major multiplexes, which account for about 85 per cent of film takings, have so far refused to use their economies of scale to help smaller cinemas convert. The UK Film Council estimates it would cost £50 million to update all the vulnerable cinemas.
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Pretty grim outlook. But over in the Independent, John Walsh argues that we have been here before:
The death of the nation’s independent cinemas has been predicted so often that hearing the news of another imminent demise is like seeing another re-run of The Great Escape. Britain’s old movie palaces have been heading the way of the stegosaurus for half a century, scuppered by television, bingo parlours, dwindling visitor numbers, too many crap movies chasing too few screens, and the rise of the all-conquering DVD. But I still wipe away a tear on hearing that the switch from celluloid to digital projectors and servers may drive smaller cinemas out of business.
A very measured assesment was offered by Screen International’s always-worth-reading editor Mike Gubbins, writing in The Times (‘The inability to evolve has darkened screens before’), with the first paragraph particularly worth pondering:
The switch to digital cinema has barely touched the consciousness of the public. Some may be aware of the hype surrounding 3D, while others may have seen an opera screened at the local cinema, but this is not a demand-led transformation.
The industry debate between those in favour, who hope to see greater choice, and opponents who fear more efficient domination of the Hollywood studios has rarely reached the public domain.
But the digital divide might become an ugly reality if large numbers of cinemas close. Stroll along any high street and see if you can spot the ornate frontage that was once a cinema.
For a sad reminder of previous cinemas that are now gone, visit Derelictlondon.com’s cinema page.
Patrick von Sychowski
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Patrick was a Senior Analyst at Screen Digest, went on to launch the digital cinema operations of Unique and Deluxe Europe, then digitised Bollywood at Adlabs/RMW, and now writes, consults and appears on panels about cinema all over the world.
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Negotiations in Pakistan put an end to bribery protests in blasphemy
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A Pakistani government team held talks late last Friday with an Islamist group that apparently had three days of rebel protests against the Supreme Court against a Christian woman charged with blasphemy against the holy Prophet of Islam.
The government agreed within the transaction to take "legal measures" to prevent the woman from leaving the country while the court is being heard against the judgment.
Tehreek e-Labbaik ya Rasool Allah or the members of the TLYR group blocked the roads in various cities of the country and had to fight the police overnight. In such a crashing mobile phone video, a protest by shooting a visible gun.
Tehreek e-Labbaik ya Rasool Allah demonstrators blocked the roads and disturbed traffic in various parts of Pakistan. (A. Tanzeem)
Protests began on Wednesday morning after the highest court in the country accused Asia Bibi's appeal of the guilty verdict. Since 2010 Pakistan has been under controversial blasphemy laws.
According to Bibi, he was wrongly accused of being subjected to such tense arguments against other women who refused the water he gave them because he was a Christian.
Other religious groups also held demonstrations on Friday, albeit in peace.
The government banned television coverage of demonstrations and suspended mobile telephony services in many cities during the day to prevent crowds.
The schools were closed nationwide, and many workers were home. The traffic was light and unpredictable, the roads were blocked by TLYR members or the police in some places.
People turned to Twitter, Facebook and other social media forums, as Pakistan had dozens of television channels. The following rumors and unconfirmed reports raised concerns among those who traveled or left their relatives or friends.
Media and foreign journalists frequently used cell phones, rather than cameras, to make recordings of the protests after several copies of TLYR members picked up the camera or broke the equipment.
While the protests were widespread, and there were no more than a few thousand of the spots, the attendants seemed to be filled and ready to fight.
"If the cops come here, then we'll get that stick." Here we are for Islam. If you do an operation, we are willing to die. We will not retire, "said an 18-year-old man who was standing in a wire rack from another town to attend the protest in the capital, Islamabad.
A man brought his young daughters and a baby in his lap to protests in Islamabad. He said that even if there was a security operation. (A, Tanzeem)
More people brought their children to protests, despite the danger of security operations, which could include tear gas, water cans, batons, or rubber goggles.
A man who brought four young girls and a baby to the Islamabad congregation said he was planning to stay in spite of the risk of his children.
"All my children, my parents, my whole family are the prophet," said Mohammad Zahid Niazi.
At the beginning of the week, TLYR executives called for the assassination of Bibi and Supreme Court judges who accepted the released sentence, the overthrow of the elected government, and the attack on the army against leader. This has led Prime Minister Imran Khan to respond to the strong wording of national television.
But on Thursday morning, the government seemed to relieve its position and announced that it was negotiating a peaceful end to protests.
On Thursday evening, TEDR leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi said the talks, including the prime ministers of the ISI Army and the Pakistani intelligence bureau, failed. He called on his followers to stop the country on Friday.
Faudad Chaudhry, Minister of Information, said at a checkpoint in the morning that the government was still negotiating with TLYR.
Pakistani army spokesman Asif Ghafoor told the Pakistani state television on Friday morning that the situation should be resolved peacefully.
"Both sides have to talk to each other. They can not reach the level where the armed forces are to be called," he said.
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The sea and proximity to sea air has long been associated with being beneficial for us and cultural ideas and practices based on this belief abound: from taking in the sea air to unwind and feel rejuvenated, to Victorian seaside convalescent homes viewed as a means of preventing tuberculosis, to the healing effects of sea water advertised in coastal spa towns for those suffering from skin conditions and aching joints. Much more recently, the appeal of ‘wild swimming’ is also based upon beliefs we hold about the mental and physical healing properties of water; be it saline, geo-thermal or punishingly cold! I confess that I have often found myself claiming the health benefits of water when telling people what it is I love about pilot gig boat rowing and why I brave the English Channel for a dip anytime between February and November without a wetsuit. In fact, I found myself taking my first sea swim of 2020 last weekend. A few friends and I collectively built the courage to submerge ourselves in a cold, cold sea in Studland (Dorset), where the only other things in the sea were fisherman’s bouys!
Definitely colder in than out! The 1st February is the earliest time in the year I have ever swam in the sea without a wetsuit and my skin was certainly tingling for a hour afterwards.
But I am at the stage in my pre-race planning, with my departure only 11 weeks away (!), where all talk with medical professionals is about how the sea’s environment and ocean racing is going to present challenges to my health, wellbeing and survival chances (if I end up in it)! It’s all getting rather technical and exhausting and feels a long way from the romantic allure of sun, sea and wave.
Right from the very beginning of my Clipper race journey the medical and health implications of my intention to sail across oceans has been openly discussed in fine detail with my GP, oral med consultants at Bristol’s Dental Hospital and Clipper medical staff. I was determined that my OFG, a rare condition I have had since I was a teenager, was not going to prevent me from joining the race and therefore, I have taken all precautionary steps available so I now have copious prescriptions for medicines that I will take onboard. But ultimately, if I get a bad flare-up, I will be asked to leave the race and I totally understand why. I do not want to be a ‘passenger’ and effect team morale by not being able to fulfill my role in the team.
But it doesn’t stop there! I have worn prescription glasses most of my life and this is now a technical point that is taking both time and money to address for the race. In discussion with my local opticians we are debating the merits of daily contacts, monthly contacts, prescription sports glasses with inter-changeable lenses or regular prescription sunglasses. My options are limited by my prescription and the conditions I will be living in whilst aboard Punta del Este. Currently, myself and the staff at my local high-street opticians are thinking that I take my two pairs of regular prescription glasses and be prepared to get them trashed (due to the weathering effects of salt water on the lens tints as well as the strength of the sun’s rays in the Caribbean), but invest in a pair of prescription sports sun glasses with removable lenses. I am keen to hear from sailors who have had similar issues to weigh up, so do get in touch if you can recommend a particular brand or solution for those of us who are reliant upon prescription glasses!
Another huge facet of health and wellbeing at sea – and one which most of us race crew don’t really consider before we start our Clipper training – is personal hygiene; how to avoid (at best) or minimise (more likely), body odour given that all crew are unlikely to get anything other than a weekly wet wipe ‘wash’ and opportunity to change base layers. This I where merino wool far exceeds other fabrics for minimising smell and my team mates and I have been debating the merits of different merino wool underwear brands for months…as well as seriously long-lasting anti-perspirants and different types of footwear. The consensus is that although they are significantly more expensive, leather footwear is kinder to one’s feet and therefore, to one’s team mates!
Of course, there’s the almost taboo topic among some, which has meant female race crew have had to form our own Facebook Group called ‘Clipper Girl’ to discuss all things related to the biological facts of our bodies! This is not an issue to take lightly and one that has caused some women considerable anxiety and always been a topic among ourselves during training. Like all other female crew, I’m hoping to avoid having to deal with periods at sea, but following a number of appointments with my GP to discuss options, there was no ‘obvious’ intervention. The same goes for the conversations with my optician and with my oral med consultants at the hospital about the best course of action for managing my less than 20:20 vision and OFG…It’s quite a task!
Initially, when I started my race training with Clipper 2 years ago, all talk of health and wellbeing at sea was focused on sea survival – all crew have to do the RYA Sea Survival Course as part of our Level 2 training – (i.e.) the extreme end of the health and wellbeing spectrum at sea – but as my day of departure draws ever closer, my consideration of health and wellbeing at sea has become more mundane, but no less important. A consideration of personal hygiene, dental health, multivitamin supplements and dietary needs, as well as a consideration of medications for the kit list to alleviate the all-too common ailments at sea: sea sickness, sun burn, heat stroke, skin infections, conjunctivitis and other eye infections, burns and scolds, dehydration, low mood and stomach upsets.
The other common crew ailments are more likely to arise from accidents – particularly broken ribs – usually from falling out of one’s bunk or being thrown around below deck when tacking or (crash) gybing and burns/scolds when on ‘mother watch’ in the galley. This is why Clipper drill it into us that we always have one hand for yourself and one for the boat when moving around above and below deck, particularly in bad weather when bruises, cuts, cracked ribs and broken bones are not beyond possibility; a lesson I learnt the hard way during my last level of race training in the English Channel! I have found myself instinctively learning the motion of the Clipper 70 yachts, anticipating how they jerk and spin – especially when gybing and from the wash of a big ship or sudden squall. This is also why crew on deck shout down to those ‘off watch’ below deck when a tack or gybe is about to take place so they can brace themselves for the manoeuvre. On the Clipper 70s we also use two sets of foreguy preventers to limit the swing of the boom to prevent crash gybing and we always wear life jackets and three-way safety harnesses tethered to the jack stays that run the length of the deck. Health and safety are paramount and drilled into us during training; especially with how to safely move around and work on deck.
As part of our sea survival training we had to learn how to deploy and enter a life raft from the water; much easier said than done and a lot of bailing is necessary!
We had to practice different means of treading water to conserve body heat and energy.
A requirement is that we have to digest this book from cover to cover prior to the race.
Given that the race is now over halfway through with all teams racing beyond Papua New Guinea in Leg 5, as far as I am aware, the only medical emergency so far (touch wood) has been a crew member aboard UNICEF who had suspected appendicitis so had to be disembarked in Durban upon departing for Leg 3 from Cape Town. Historically many transatlantic yachtsmen used to have an ‘elective appendectomy’ in order to avoid the possibility of this trouble at sea. Fortunately, now antibiotics can usually hold up the situation until help is at hand. All crew aboard UNICEF will have had the medical attention of the ‘doctor’s-surgery-by-sat-comms’, PRAXES. For more than 22 years, PRAXES has provided 24/7 remote medical advice to people operating in some of the most extreme and remote locations around the world. PRAXES will be on hand in the event they have to guide my Skipper over a satellite phone through complex medical procedures and help him diagnose injury or illness to his crew during the race. It is a source of some comfort.
Having said that, absolutely nothing could have fore-warned Clipper about the recent coronavirus outbreak, which has also had a huge impact on this race given that in this current leg – Leg 5 – the fleet were due to race into two Chinese ports. This is the latest official update from Clipper:
Message from Clipper Race Organising team:
03/02/20 – 13:00
“In view of the coronavirus outbreak, the Clipper Race, in consultation with the organising committees in both Sanya and Zhuhai, has amended its race schedule and delayed its arrival into China.
The fleet, currently racing from Australia, will now head to Subic Bay, Philippines, which was previously planned as the second of the three ports in Leg 5.
The estimated arrival window into Subic Bay is 13-16 February. There will now be an extended stopover in this port of a minimum of nine days.
The Clipper Race will continue to work with its Chinese organising committees and has contingency plans prepared should the race route need to be further amended.”
In this edition of the race, three of the eleven teams are backed by Chinese sponsors – Qingdao, Zhuhai and Sanya – with a significant number of Chinese crew aboard each. No amount of sea survival training or stockpiling for the ship’s medical chest could prepare the entire fleet for this. The coronavirus headlines remind me try to keep a sense of proportion and scale (i.e. avoid thinking the worst) and that ultimately, whatever we do in life, we’re never fully prepared (even if we think we are)…and that’s OK.
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All part of the plan: “Politically relevant disinformation” runs rampant on Facebook, helped lay the groundwork for election theft
A year before the presidential election, several news outlets reported on “politically relevant disinformation” running rampant on Facebook, and it’s quite clear that this helped lay the groundwork for the election theft we are seeing now.
In November 2019, outlets such as Vice and the Daily Mail reported that fake political posts had been viewed more than 158 million times on Facebook so far that year, with a “tsunami of disinformation” hitting the social media site. And unlike in the 2016 presidential election, the fake news wasn’t coming from Russia – it was coming from the U.S.
The posts made a broad range of claims about players across the political spectrum, according to a report compiled by the group Avaaz. They said that the more than 158 million estimated views of these posts were enough to reach every registered voter in the country at least once.
The posts were reportedly a mix of memes, photos taken out of context, and articles from so-called fringe websites.
Avaaz Campaign Director Fadi Quran said: “Every American who cares about free and fair elections in 2020, including the candidates and political parties, should be sounding the alarm about Facebook’s fake news problem.”
Quran added: “This is a company that can easily reach every voter in this country, and their tools are accelerating a wave of political lies that leaves us less informed and more polarized.”
They added that the number of people who viewed those fake news stories was more than double those who viewed the official Facebook pages for the Republican and Democratic Party that year. Nearly all of it, not surprisingly, was negative.
Anything that goes against their liberal worldview is “fake news” that must be censored
And while there is no question that Facebook is a poor source of news no matter how you look at it, all of this talk about the ”fake news” on the platform ultimately served to make it far easier for Facebook and other social media platforms to influence the election.
It allowed them to censor conservative figures and websites as part of their quest to correct their “fake news” problem. This proved especially useful when the New York Post published their bombshell report about the Biden family’s corruption. The story exposed how Joe Biden did indeed meet with an adviser to the Burisma board while serving as vice president, something he has denied, and exposed a variety of misdeeds carried out by his son, Hunter.
Internal documents from Facebook showed that they intentionally restricted the story’s distribution, according to the Guardian. It was not a move based on an algorithm, but a deliberate act done manually by moderators at Facebook. Their Policy Communications Director, Andy Stone, even admitted they would be reducing its distribution. An internal policy says the platform will remove any “unverified rumors” that may lead to harm, violence or voter interference. Twitter, by the way, locked the Post out of its account following the publication of the story.
However, it’s worth noting that no one disputed the veracity of the New York Post‘s story – not even Hunter Biden himself. The story explained where they got the information, and a Senate committee received files from the same source, so there really was no reason to block it. But it was all too easy for them to shout “Fake news!” and try to stop the public from seeing it.
These moves served to protect Biden from a big political scandal at a crucial moment during the run-up to the election, prompting Donald Trump Jr. to tweet: “Big Tech is openly trying to rig this election for Biden & should be held accountable immediately.”
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Situation as Story: Games and Atmospheric Narrative
[Originally posted on PopMatters]
A former professor of mine once told me that for a story to be a story, it must consist of a character being changed by events. Stories may be layered and make use of a gamut of literary devices and tropes, but everything is built on the foundation of a character being changed by an event. It is not enough to put an alcoholic in an ambulance with his dying mother or a rogue AI in a law firm run by God or an amnesiac engineer in a haunted sandwich shop. Those aren’t stories; they’re situations. They may be interesting situations with interesting people thinking and saying interesting things, but they’re just situations. And a situation, this professor stooped to tell us, is not a story. Something has to happen, and someone has to change because of it. A story has transparent motion between a distinct individual and their specific circumstances.
Of course, like most rules of literature, the rule disintegrates upon closer inspection. Kafka’s entire body of work is about people notchanging under the reader’s watch; even Hemingway was more interested in his unique brand of musing than in laying out what happened to whom and why it should be important. But I imagine that this professor of mine was just trying to break down a complicated world into manageable chunks for a new batch of undergraduates. Even if the “character-changed-by-stuff” criteria for the written word is imperfect at least it’s somewhat useful in understanding how literature functions. Games, on the other hand, do not fit this criterion at all.
Game narratives aren’t built on stories. Even the most linear, plot-heavy games focus not on what happens, when, and to whom, but rather everything around the events that help to set them up. The circumstances that make the plot possible are far more interesting in games than the plot itself. If literature is a growth chamber where a character is altered when stimulus is applied, then games are a big open room covered in clues, often occupied by fascinating people and explored by a stranger.
It isn’t just that world-building is more important than creating a plot, as argued by Nick Dinicola on this site, nor is it that the player must feel responsible for creating movement in the plot—although both are still necessary for the narrative to carry any weight—it is that a game’s situation, not its plot, is at the foundation of video game narrative. By narrative, I mean the sum of plot, world, character, scenes, environments, sets, dialogue exchanges, and anything operating in the mechanical system that could be said to evoke a feeling or thought (including the mechanics themselves).
Not to discount any of the great writing or directing authored in games past, but everything is built on a core situation. A player is dropped into a starting environment and everything is experienced through their exploration, deduction, and play. Even when the player has no authority over the game’s events, at the core the narrative is built on each new bit of atmosphere that the game establishes. Whether it’s a change from the Brecilian Forest to the deep roads, hopping out of a warthog and into a banshee, or just lining up four lines to clean up a once log jammed Tetris board, every mood and atmosphere is framed by a situation.
Think of how most levels begin: there may be a cutscene or even just a brief dissolve that wipes to a new screen, but ultimately a level puts an avatar into a world and leaves the player to explore—even if it is just in one direction. Even in adventure games, in which the player basically figures out how to move from one conversation or cutscene to the next, the narrative is built on the player moving their avatar or their screen or even just closely examining the elements of the world, until each puzzle is solved. Nothing happens until the player has explored the game enough to understand its context. In a novel, you don’t hear about how the character enters a room, approaching each piece of furniture in every new room just to see what they could do with it and what reasons that it could possibly be there (unless it’s a Henry James novel, am I right?).
Everything from “1-1 MARIO START” to the most dynamic cutscenes just establish context, put the avatar in an open space, hand the controls back to the player, and then leave things unresolved. Even if the resolution of a plot is unaffected by player input, most of the narrative substance (the artwork, music, character design, the effort required to move from A to B, the personal and statistical growth and changes in characters) all happen when the player is just exploring the situation. It’s why games will never—and should never—reach absolute verisimilitude. Because even while it isn’t natural for a hero to take twenty minutes away from a main quest because they thought they might have seen a neat-looking shark from a coastline or for villagers to greet heroes that barge into their homes or for people to repeat the same speech at every prompt or for enemies to walk and attack in the same patterns or for death to be an annoying setback instead of an absolute state, they facilitate exploration of the enormous situation, which is at the core of video game storytelling.
The plot doesn’t matter as much in games because it doesn’t exist until the player moves it. However, the situation is always there, and in the best games, it’s always interesting. Even in games stripped almost entirely of story like in a Mario game or where it’s irrelevant such as in a World of Warcraft raid or a League of Legends multiplayer match, the situation dictates the thoughts and feelings that become the story. Being clearly outclassed by an enemy leads to anxiety and desperation, resulting in carefully choosing the location of battle or baiting enemy aggression. Ultimately, exploring the game’s context leads to the story of a glorious come-from-behind victory or a humiliating defeat. The point is that the emotive and rational experience is dictated by what situations the game establishes.
The reason I believe why most players don’t finish games isn’t that games are too challenging or even that players get bored with their games. It’s that games lose their impact after too long a string of unpalatable, limited, or repeated situations. The problem is that as a game nears its conclusion fewer unexplored locations remain, fewer long-term goals need maintenance, and fewer characters are left with unresolved arcs. The more progress that the player makes, the more constrictive the overarching situation becomes. Essentially, there are fewer big open “rooms” left to explore and flesh out. How many players quit a 40 hour campaign right before the final boss just because it’s the last possible thing that they can do? By the time that the final dungeon opens up and the side quests are all wrapped up, the only situation remaining doesn’t need to be explored to understand: “I will beat the boss, or I will reset until I beat him and get the ‘good’ ending.”
For literature and film, plot is everything. Without moving events that shape (or fail to shape) the characters, there is only setup with no direction. We engage with these stories to see what a person will do and how the things that happen will shape them. But games, at the core, are setup. They create a place to wander and figure out for one’s self. All the story that may happen afterward results from play in an open space, the boundaries and significance of which is understood through experience.
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Mark Filipowich is a media critic whose work can be found on PopMatters and The Border House, Medium Difficulty, Game Church, Unwinnable, Nightmare Mode and The Ontological Geek. Many of his articles have been re-posted by Gamasutra, Critical-Distance and Good Games Writing View all posts by Mark Filipowich
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Everyone should have access to the media and the internet, including young people whose freedoms are limited e.g. those in the Juvenile Justice Centre. Young people with a disability or where English is not their first language should get the help they need to access the media. You should be protected from harmful media for example material that shows graphic violence.
You can express yourself in different ways such as talking out loud or posting things on the internet. Your parents/guardians can guide you in this but as you get older and more mature, your ability to hold beliefs that are different from others must be respected.
For example, if your religion/beliefs are different from other students at your school, your teachers should make sure you have the chance to practice your religion and customs during school hours, if you want to. You should be able to follow your own beliefs as long as these beliefs respect and don’t cause harm to others e.g. you don’t have the right to reveal private information or say harmful things about a person that are not true.
Your identity is made up of many different parts, including:
Your name and nationality
Your race, culture, religion and language
Your appearance, abilities, gender identity and sexual orientation
The government should not interfere with your right to any of these and they should be able to help if any of these things are taken away from you.
Children in care – This means that your name should not be changed, unless you want it to be.
Stateless children – being stateless can affect whether you can go to school or to the hospital. The government should not have any laws that discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, race, religion or gender to cause statelessness.
If you are in care you have a right to have a say in where you are going to live. If you are in a hospital you have a right to have a say when there are different treatment options available to you. As you get older and more mature you should have even more say in these types of decisions.
This means all adults, like your parents/guardians, teachers, social workers, doctors and the police. When adults make decisions that will affect your life they must always think about what’s best for you and make sure you have a say in these decisions, where possible.
Discrimination can be direct or indirect. For example;
Direct: If someone did not get a job because they had a disability or a different skin colour.
Indirect: If everyone had to climb up a flight of stairs to get to an after-school club, this would discriminate against children who couldn’t do that because of a physical disability.
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The successful candidate will have a relevant third level qualification, at least 3 years’ experience of working in a communications, PR or marketing role and experience of using offline and online marketing channels and tools including social media. The candidate should also have experience of project management and of working with a wide range of press and media and a knowledge of the media in Northern Ireland. They will have excellent copywriting and proof-reading skills and written and oral communication skills. The successful candidate will require a commitment to children’s rights including children’s participation.
Attractive terms and conditions apply including company pension. This appointment will initially be for three years with good prospects for renewal.
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CLC training aims to support all stakeholders in making children’s rights a reality in this jurisdiction by:
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Youth@CLC work closely with our Youth Participation and Advocacy Worker and other youth forums/young people in schools to raise awareness of children’s rights issues in Northern Ireland and advocate for positive change in children’s lives using children’s rights.
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CLC’s policy work ensures that where proposed governmental policies or legislation will impact on children and young people, government is reminded of its obligations to deliver on children’s rights as it is set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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Are there similar scales like the Scoville scale?
Are there any scales that have been applied to any of the five basic tastes or other types of food sensations that have been quantified based on their affect on people, similar to the Scoville scale?
Sure you could say that people's experience of something like sweetness is subjective, but you could say the same thing about spiciness.
flavor tasting
AaronAaron
Yes, and Wikipedia has a brief summary of these scales (with some further details in other portions of the article and the links).
Basically, at least four of the five recognized primary "tastes" have a reference compound that other foods are compared to subjectively. For sweetness, a solution containing the test compound is diluted until sweetness can barely be detected by a human taster (similar to the Scoville scale). Sucrose is given the reference value of 1 (or sometimes 100). Sourness is similarly rated in comparison to a dilute hydrochloric acid solution, saltiness is rated in comparison to a dilute table salt (sodium chloride) solution, and bitterness is rated relative to a dilute quinine solution. (I've not heard of any similar scale for umami.)
In most cases, the reference compound is given a value of 1. The most common way to reference these scales is as the "[taste] index," as in "Citric acid has a value of 0.46 on the sourness index," which means it has to be diluted slightly less than half of how much hydrochloric acid would be for it to be on the threshold of human sourness detection.
(By the way, while these scales show us something, they are mostly useful for comparing single pure substances. For culinary purposes, their value is somewhat limited by the complex interactions among various tastes and flavor components. Even individual substances can change flavor depending on environment: for example, a complex molecule may taste relatively neutral at neutral pH, but with increased acid and thus sourness, it may acquire a salty flavor.)
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I did see that in the wiki article, but I've never seen any of them used or referenced in a culinary setting. Yes, with complex interactions they do change, but Scoville is only used for unique raw peppers as well. – Aaron Aug 17 '14 at 7:05
@Aaron It depends on your definition of] "culinary setting". That kind of scale (for all taste directions) is very common among food technologists. None of these scales (including Scoville) is popular with home cooks. The Scoville is very frequently referenced among people who care about eating food, not preparing it, especially in a "my sauce is hotter than yours" settings. It is also popular in marketing material targeting eaters. – rumtscho♦ Aug 17 '14 at 13:17
In food science, these basic reference scales are generally used with rating tools known as Magnitude Estimation and the Labeled Magnitude Scale. I think the Scoville scale is more widely known because foods can achieve very high values. It's less impressive to say that a food is 0.6 on the sourness index, and most people would simply describe that as "fairly sour". – logophobe Aug 17 '14 at 16:05
OK, based on these comments, it sounds like the popularity of the Scoville scale over these other scales in common parlance is more marketing that anything. – Aaron Aug 17 '14 at 16:39
Your example of sweetness reminded me of degrees brix: the sugar content of an aqueous solution. Might this be an example of what you are seeking? Not sure I can come up with anything close for other tastes...
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There is a scale known as the pyruvate scale that measures the pungency of onions and garlic
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NIH...Turning Discovery into Health
Drugs of Abuse
Messages from the Director
Increased Abuse of Prescription Drugs is Cause for Concern
Recent news stories have highlighted the increasing number of teens and adults abusing prescription drugs, particularly painkillers.
For example, the National Institute on Drug Abuse's 2003 Monitoring the Future survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th graders found that 10.5 percent of 12th graders reported using Vicodin for non-medical reasons and 4.5 percent of 12th graders reported using OxyContin without a prescription.
Painkillers such as Vicodin and OxyContin are opiates and are very powerful medications against pain, but they need to be taken under close supervision of a doctor. These same medications when taken inappropriately can cause addiction for they act on the same places in the brain as does heroin.
These painkillers can be very effective in treating individuals with the medical need for these medications; however, using these drugs without the supervision of a physician or for purposes different from their intended use can lead to serious adverse consequences, including death from overdose.
As a physician, I want to raise awareness among other doctors about the potential for abuse of these drugs; however, I don't want to alarm them and their patients who have a legitimate medical need for painkillers and other prescription drugs.
I also want to remind young people, their parents and others that even though prescription drugs are medications, their improper use can have serious consequences. I'd encourage parents, grandparents, and other adults to check their medicine cabinets and to discard any prescription drugs that are no longer required to treat a medical condition so that these medications are not available to be misused.
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Increased Abuse of Prescription Drugs is Cause for Concern (March, 2004)
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Mr. Wiggles; identical twins; hoop earrings & wires; Sadlacks; & dancing...
~Wednesday~ The bus this morning brought us Madonna and Genetically-Beautiful Daughter in the front of the long center-facing seat on the right side of the bus, and passing them to choose my seat, I heard Sophia ask her mother, "But what about Mr. Wiggles?"
Approaching the second or third stop after mine, I saw a hot—but what turned out to be a "50-footer"—standing ahead at the stop. 50 feet closer and in focus, he was nawt hawt.
Li'l Dino got on at her usual stop, took a seat just a little too close to me, and said, "Hello," as she sat down. I was in the first front facing seat, and she was all the way to the left of the center facing seat front of me, which essentially put the side of her face to the front of mine. It was uncomfortable enough to be sitting that close without talking that I got out my book, and looked at it instead of into her ear canal.
We passed very slowly by the McKimmon Center stop, at which a bunch of students waited for the Wolfline bus. I saw two guys standing right next to each other, both with sweat jackets on, both with stocking hats on, and after looking back from one of their faces to the other and back again and back yet again, I confirmed that they were identical twins.
I could immediately see them pulling off this prank, in a men's room, of course:
At the Gorman and Sullivan intersection stop, a +++-sized man got on with a shirt that was like a moo moo, and pants whose legs had to be at least 1.5-feet wide (I'm not kidding). He stopped to take the seat behind me, and while he did whatever he was doing before taking a seat, his hips rub against my shoulder, and he pulled hard on the back of my seat as he slid himself in the seat behind me.
A girl in the seat across the aisle and one seat up from mine was listening to ear buds with huge hoop earrings on, and looking at her I wondered which one, if any, of these would be the ideal arrangement:
The ear bud wire under the hoop and into her ear
The ear bud wire over the hoop and into her hear
The ear bud wire through the hoop and in her ear
She was sporting look #1.
I met my friend Susan Katz at Sadlack Heroes for lunch, where David talked us both into trying the Turkey Burger, which had between cranberries and cranberry sauce (sort of like a jam consistency, I'd say) on it. It was pretty darn good, and much healthier I'm sure than what I normally would have chosen. However, I did get an order of fries with it.
We had great conversation, as always, and the hour flew by.
I had planned on getting a haircut after work, but by the time I got home at a little after 5:30, and with a commitment to meet Joe at Helios at 7:30, I just didn't feel like being rushed by trying to squeeze that in. A haircut always implies a shower afterwards. Plus, I had to eat dinner during that time.
I got to Helios at just a little before 7:30 and was annoyed by several things there at once that made me seriously think about other places we could meet the next time. Annoyances:
Once again, the parking sucked there. I had to park totally out of the Helios parking area, up on Boylan Avenue.
I had to clear a table that had a newspaper strewn over it and a used coffee cup, and then borrow a chair from another table for Joe.
No visible outlet was available, and none was found even after looking way up under the seats to see if anyone, or a power strip, was anywhere near close. News flash: Everyone needs power now for a gazillion gadgets. It's beyond me how this wasn't better addressed when they did the remodeling in there this past year.
I got cold and would have slipped out to my car to get my jacket if it wasn't parked a mile away.
Okay. That's enough things to bitch about.
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Dancing was surprisingly fun tonight. We were banned from doing a crossword puzzle, so we didn't. Actually, I'm sure if any of us wanted to badly enough we would have, but it was fine not doing it.
There was a decent crowd out tonight including Ernie, Wayne, Ernie and Wayne's friend Michael, Joe (Judge), Rick, Carl, Bill, Geromy, Steven, Joe, Phil, Steve H., his friend Rob, and my friend Joe.
Rick made me laugh at one point by noting that he would like to meet Grumpy Boy and My Three Sons (though I believe he referred to him as "the daddy") some day, neither of whom made appearances today or for several days for that matter.
Carl reviewed Good Time yet again for the lesson, which I again passed on. Still don't care for that dance.
I danced several two steps in both capacities: leading Joe Trostel, following Joe Judge, following Bill, and leading Rick two-thirds of a song and following him (with a mid-dance switch) the last third.
Joe and I went over to The Borough for a late-night snack. I got the Uberwisconsin, which was delicious. There were quite a few people in there for that late mid-week, and one group in particular was quite rowdy. Most of the whooping and hollering came about when a guy, who used to be a girl, sat on the lap of a girl (who presumably has always been a girl) and basically rode her.
Tags: affirmations (implicit), bar talk, bus, coffee shops, dancing, exercise, friends, grumpy boy, li'l dino, madonna & genetically beautiful daughter, my three sons, video
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#COVIDー19: CAN Suspends Sunday Services, Weddings In Adamawa
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has suspended Sunday services in all churches in Adamawa State.
The association also suspended revivals, vigils, crusades and all such gatherings that attract more than 50 worshippers.
The State Chapter of CAN which issued a statement on Tuesday regarding the outbreak of coronavirus and what it expects of members to guide against the virus said only small unit meetings of no more than 50 people which normally take place on days other than Sunday could be encouraged.
The statement from CAN, which was signed by state CAN Chairman, Bishop Stephen Mamza, said, “The pace at which the Corona Virus is spreading calls for collaboration and unity of purpose in the struggles for curtailing the further spread and the far-reaching damages of the disease.
“As a Church, therefore, we shall comply fully with the directives of the state authorities in curbing the spread of the Virus. This will definitely affect our faith-based practices, yet while keeping in mind the sacred responsibilities of our faith and practices, we immediately call on you dear brethren to cooperate maximally with the relevant Government agencies in their efforts and measures towards the welfare of the citizenry in the face of this killer disease.
“We encourage smaller units of congregational assemblies of 50 people only. We recommend the suspension of Sunday Services and Masses until further notice.
“The Faithful are encouraged to continue with private devotions in their respective homes.
Crusades, conventions, revivals, vigils are hereby suspended until further notice.”
CAN joined other authorities to advise against handshake and to encourage social distancing, saying, “We urge Christians to suspend the sign of peace, which involves handshaking and hugging in some Churches and outside churches. We encourage the recommended social distance of one meter or three feet.
“Burials should be restricted to only the close family members of the deceased. Weddings and social celebrations should be suspended until the situation comes under control.”
CAN asked that only outings which are strictly necessary are undertaken.
It stated, “We encourage people to please stay at home and go out only when necessary. Prevention is better than cure!”
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Energy venture
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Terry Murden, Editor | February 12, 2020
The Shawfair new town will be powered by Vattenfall
Energy firm Vattenfall has formed a 50-50 joint venture with Midlothian Council to drive the shift towards low carbon living in the area.
The partnership’s first project will be the installation of a district heating network to provide heat to new homes at the Shawfair development with a carbon saving of 75% when compared with conventional gas boiler heating.
Shawfair will be a new community of 4,000 new homes, businesses and retail outlets to the south of Edinburgh.
The low temperature system, expected to be operational in 2021, will bring fourth generation heat network technology to Scotland – building on Vattenfall’s experience in constructing and operating some of Europe’s fastest growing heat networks in cities such as Amsterdam.
Tuomo Hatakka, a senior vice president at Vattenfall, said: “This partnership will serve as a platform for further growth in low-carbon energy solutions in Scotland and the United Kingdom.
“Any organisation or company serious about reaching net zero has low carbon heating at the top of its to do list, and this energy partnership is no different.”
The heat feeding the network will be sourced from waste heat produced by FCC’s Millerhill waste and recycling plant and will be fed through a network of pipes to local homes.
The partnership will also begin actively exploring the potential of thermal storage and other local heat sources to enable the network to grow and expand across Midlothian and beyond.
This first £20m project will benefit from financial support of up to £7.3m from the Scottish Government’s Low Carbon Infrastructure Transformation Project, which is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund. The scheme will also benefit from a close working relationship on the project with Scottish Futures Trust.
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Noelle Frost’s journey with Maryland field hockey culminated in a career game vs. Virginia
“She did her time as a redshirt. She’s now got the groove, and she knows what it takes.”
David Suggs
Maryland field hockey’s season ends with 1-0 OT loss to Virginia in NCAA tournament
Goalkeeper Noelle Frost posted 11 saves, but the Terps were unable to stymie the Cavaliers' attack in overtime.
Maryland field hockey blanks Saint Joseph’s, 4-0, to advance to NCAA quarterfinals
The Hawks entered the day averaging the most goals per game in Division I.
Maryland field hockey’s defense will face its stiffest test yet in Saint Joseph’s attack
The Hawks average nearly four goals a game, which leads the country.
Despite reservations, Bodil Keus has embraced her captain role for Maryland field hockey
"She’s always going to show up ready to go, always positive.”
Three takeaways from Maryland field hockey’s Big Ten tournament letdown vs. Penn State
The Terps' road struggles continued, Madison Maguire shined and a shift to a shortened bench didn't produce results.
Penn State stuns top-seeded Maryland field hockey in Big Ten semifinals, 1-0
The Terps had multiple goals disallowed in the fourth period.
Hampered by injury, Kyler Greenwalt has still been a key cog for Maryland field hockey
Greenwalt tore her ACL last season and has played sparingly for the Terps this year.
A trip to Germany helped Kelee Lepage step up her game for Maryland field hockey
“Right now, she’s in it. She’s in it every day, she’s in it for the long haul, she’ll play hockey at the next level."
From club team to Maryland field hockey, Madison Maguire and Kelee Lepage keep clicking
The pair has combined for 45 goals and 47 assists over the course of their four seasons in College Park.
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Alumni couple says you’re ‘mine’
February 10, 2015 by Joe McCune
S&T alumni Genevieve (DuBois) Bodnar and Greg Sutton exchange vows in the Experimental Mine on Dec. 20, 2014. Contributed photo
Hard hats? Check. Overalls? Check. Steel-toed boots? Check.
Marriage license? Checkmate.
In an unusual twist on the fairy tale wedding, Missouri S&T alumni Genevieve (DuBois) Bodnar and Greg Sutton were married underground at S&T’s Experimental Mine on Dec. 20, 2014. Wearing hard hats, overalls and steel-toed boots, the couple tied the knot before hard-hat-wearing friends and family.
Bodnar and Sutton first met at a Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration meeting in St. Louis about eight years ago. They’ve both participated in and judged the International Intercollegiate Mining Competition, which is considered by some to be the Olympics of mining, with seven events that demonstrate techniques used by old time miners.
“We just came up with the crazy idea we wanted to be married in the student mine,” says Bodnar, who earned bachelor’s degrees in metallurgical engineering and mining engineering from S&T in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Bodnar also helped start the Haunted Mine that’s become a Rolla Halloween staple.
The wedding took place about 100 feet inside the mine from the adit – the horizontal entrance to the experimental mine. Portable lights illuminated the ceremony.
“We decided to do it that way because of our great appreciation of mining,” says Sutton, a 1988 mining engineering graduate. Sutton helped teach a drilling and blasting lab and a surveying lab at the mine during his time on campus. He also worked at the experimental mine as a laborer.
Jimmie Taylor, the experimental mine supervisor who oversees all mining operations, including explosives storage inventory, has worked at S&T since 1992. He’s seen about all there is to see when it comes to the mine – until December.
“It’s the first I have heard of anyone getting married at the mine,” he says.
They capped the ceremony – literally – by setting off seven blasting caps with an old-time plunger detonator on a five-second delay. Dr. Paul Worsey, director of explosives engineering education and professor of mining engineering, and senior mine mechanic DeWayne Phelps set up the explosions, Taylor says.
Dr. Samuel Frimpong, chair of the mining and nuclear engineering department, gave permission for the wedding to take place – safely. No alcohol was served.
These days, Sutton runs G&G (Genevieve and Greg) Mining Solutions in Bunker, Missouri, where the two make their home. Genevieve works for the Doe Run lead mining company, which is where Greg worked from 1992 to 2014.
For the couple, mining is in the blood, and getting married in S&T’s experimental mine was the next logical step.
“It was a way to incorporate our passion for each other into our passion for the mining industry,” Sutton says.
Are you one half of a Miner couple in love? Share your story in the Comments section.
By Joe McCune
Filed Under: Alumni, Campus, Faculty, Features, People Tagged With: Doe Run, Dr. Paul Worsey, experimental mine, G&G Mining Solutions, Genevieve (DuBois) Bodnar, Greg Sutton, haunted mine, International Intercollegiate Mining Competition, Jimmie Taylor, Metallurgy and Exploration, Society for Mining
A spooky tradition continues …
October 15, 2013 by Linda Fulps
The Haunted Mine was briefly illuminated for this photo by B.A. Rupert.
Watch this to get a feel for the Haunted Mine experience:
Filed Under: Features, Students Tagged With: experimental mine, Halloween, haunted mine, mining engineering, Missouri S&T, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Miners to the rescue
April 16, 2013 by Terry Barner
Ph.D. student Casey Slaughter leads an all-student mine rescue team. Photo by B.A. Rupert
The only sound in the darkened mine tunnel is water dripping off limestone walls. A lone injured miner lay motionless on the gravel floor. Five lights pierce the darkness as muffled voices announce the arrival of the rescue team.
Filed Under: Features, People, Students Tagged With: casey slaugher, experimental mine, mine rescue, mine rescue contest, mining engineering, Missouri S&T, missouri sandt, Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Indie Movie Theaters Nationwide Screening ‘1984’ | The Huffington Post
by Scott Brown on February 20, 2017 0 Comments
We have secured a spot on the nationwide roster of art house screenings of the film 1984, now we just need a theater.
If we secure the El Rey on April 4th, we hope that everyone will join us for a night of classic cinema and support of the National Endowment Of The Arts.
A complete list of participating theaters can be found here.
It’s all happening April 4. Mark your calendars, comrades.
Source: Indie Movie Theaters Nationwide To Protest Donald Trump By Screening ‘1984’ | The Huffington Post
Bryn Mawr Film Institute – History
by Scott Brown on January 15, 2017 0 Comments
The Bryn Mawr Film Institute is another fantastic example of a community determined to keep it’s historic cinema alive. Their sponsored National Theater Survey is an eye opener for those who doubt the significant economical benefits of local Art House Cinema and civic performance spaces.
Source: History of Bryn Mawr Film Institute | Bryn Mawr Film Institute
A call to rescue the historic Seville Theater, a center of Bryn Mawr community life since 1926, inspired the creation of the innovative film exhibition and education center, Bryn Mawr Film Institute.
That call, sounded in 2002 by Juliet J. Goodfriend (shortly to become BMFI’s founding president and executive director), was answered by a group of like-minded civic and academic leaders equally alarmed at the prospective conversion of the derelict—but beloved—theater to a health club franchise.
After seemingly endless zoning hearing board meetings and fundraising events, the newly incorporated nonprofit, 501(c)(3), Bryn Mawr Film Institute purchased the building in December 2004 and began a decade-long restoration, renovation, and expansion project. With great community support, the theater complex today boasts four state-of-the-art theaters, classrooms, community gathering space, a café, and a listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
Sundance Art House Convergence – National Theater Operations Survey 2015
by Scott Brown on January 2, 2017 0 Comments
Sundance Institute Art House Convergence
National Theater Operations Survey 2015
The Sundance Institute Art House Convergence’s comprehensive look at Art House theater operations ranging from concessions to fundraising. This survey, and others like it, confirm the viability of cinema and civic performance spaces for local economic and community growth.
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Sundance Art House Convergence – National Audience Survey 2015
National Audience Survey 2015
The Sundance Institute Art House Convergence’s comprehensive look look at Art House patrons and their movie-going habits.
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Source: AHC-2015-National-Audience-Survey.pdf
Community Foundation Fund Now Open!
by Scott Brown on December 14, 2016 0 Comments
We are proud to announce that our fund at the North Valley Community Foundation is now open.
So, if you are still looking for a tax deductible donation on your 2016 taxes, and you want to help us keep the El Rey Theater open and vibrant, what better place than the El Rey Theater Alliance!
Visit our NVCF page below!
by Scott Brown on November 23, 2016 0 Comments
Just a quick update on our progress. We know we have been a bit silent for the last month or so, but rest assured it’s not for lack of tireless work on securing a future for the El Rey Theater.
We have finished drafting our business plan as well as a 5 year financial projection, and are currently working with an investor to secure the purchase of the theater. Unfortunately, more details regarding the sale can’t be divulged at this point.
We have also joined the League of Historical American Theaters (LHAT) which offers a community of other historical theater operators as well as some amazing operational resource that we’ve already been able to take advantage of. We’ve also been graciously invited into the Sundance Arthouse Convergence, another incredible resource of theater operators created in connection with the Sundance Institute in Park City Utah. We are certain that with our own efforts as well as our collaboration with these, and other prestigious national organizations, the El Rey Theater can become a local and state landmark with regular programming that rivals the most well known and profitable theaters in the country.
As most of you already know, our El Rey Theater is the oldest continuously operated movie theater in California, as well as 3rd in the US. We plan to use this distinction to make it a destination location for cinema and performance audiences worldwide not just for the theater itself, but for all of downtown Chico.
Thank you all for your continued support!
The El Rey Theater Alliance Team
The League of Historic American Theaters – Home
Founded in 1976, the League of Historic American Theatres (LHAT) is a non-profit organization with the main purpose of sustaining historic theatres across North America for the benefit of their communities and future generations. The charter members of the League started out with the modest, but noble, cause of uniting historic playhouses across the continent.
Source: Home – LHAT
How Alamo Drafthouse is redefining the cinema experience – Videos – CBS News
Other visionaries that trust in the power of their local cinema house.
If you don’t already know about the Alamo Drafthouse cinema chain, it could change your view of going to the movies. Alamo Drafthouse is the brainchild of Tim League, a hardcore film buff since high school. It started small almost 20 years ago in Austin, Texas, but has grown into a high-concept theater chain with more than two dozen locations nationwide. Dana Jacobson reports from the newest site in Brooklyn, New York.
Source: How Alamo Drafthouse is redefining the cinema experience – Videos – CBS News
Our recent Letter to the Enterprise Record
by admin on October 19, 2016 0 Comments
Recently, Councilwoman Ann Schwab asked that the City Council agendize the “El Rey issue”, at the request of constituents. The city was charged to discover if they could protect the theater as a historical resource for the city of Chico. In response, the city stated that the El Rey Theater is within a historical overlay zone, and acknowledged that the interior murals are historically significant. Information was also provided during the Council meeting proving that the El Rey is currently the oldest continuously operated movie theater in the state and third in the U.S. Any changes to the theater would be subject to the usual procedure for historic buildings in this district. It was also stated that the city does, in fact, have the jurisdiction to declare the El Rey a city landmark.
The El Rey Theater Alliance, a non-profit corporation, is currently negotiating a possible purchase of the theater with the current owner. It never was, or ever has been, suggested that the City of Chico purchase the building, or force the current owners to maintain a business that they no longer want. We are dedicated to finding solutions that work for everyone, and will continue to do so tirelessly in order to keep the El Rey intact, restored, and vibrantly serving our community.
Lisa West, President
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We see a lot of lists made by adults telling other adults what teens enjoy, but I wanted to ask the teens I work with in my school library which books they enjoy. I used word of mouth and stats compiled on our library catalogue.
In the past, I’ve listed books that teachers in my school enjoy from the library, but I wanted to focus on the students this time!
Here are ten books that teens can’t get enough of at the library that I manage. I cannot recommend them enough!
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Twins Josh and Jordan are superstars on the basketball court in their high school. Their dad is a tough but gentle former pro basketball player with a bad heart. Written in verse, it’s a hard hitting story about breaking the rules, growing up and coping with hard decisions. Great for sports fans and poetry fans alike, this book flies off the library shelves!
Slick by M.M. Vaughan
Danny doesn’t have any friends, doesn’t have the right clothes or the right phone. Then he meets Eric, the new kid in his school. There’s something about Eric that’s a little off. It doesn’t take Danny long to discover that Eric isn’t a regular student, he’s an android. The question is, who made him and why did they place him in a high school? What follows is a biting satirical look at consumer culture and a straight up amazing action adventure. Don’t miss this great story.
Pages & Co: Tilly & the Book Wanderers by Anna James
Tilly lives above her grandparents’ bookshop in London when strange things begin to happen. Her favourite book characters have come to life and are inviting her into the pages of their books. Tilly soon learns that although this new ability to Book Wander is a lot of fun, it also carries with it a lot of danger.
The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf
A beautiful story about a young boy named Ahmet who travels to the UK from Syria. Bullied at his new school, a small group of friends team up and try to reunite Ahmet with his missing parents.
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
A devastating story of a young boy who is murdered by a policeman after he plays with a toy gun. His ghost is then able to communicate with other children who have met similar fates, namely Emmett Till, who helps guide him through the realm of the dead. A truly powerful look at institutional racism and police brutality that is not to be missed.
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Written in verse, this book tells the story of Will, whose brother Sean has just been murdered. Filled with rage and grief, Will grabs a gun and gets in an elevator to murder the boy who committed the crime. On each floor, he’s visited by a ghost, someone he knows from his past who also met a violent end. Truly riveting, a sad and very emotional story.
Gloves Off by Louisa Reid
Lily’s life is in turmoil: she’s brutally bullied at school, and at home her parents are dealing with major health and psychological issues. Desperate, she joins a boxing gym and tries to find something worth holding onto. One of the best YA out there to date.
No Ballet Shoes in Syria by Catherine Bruton
Aya is 11 years old and has arrived in the UK from war torn Syria with her mother and baby brother. While standing in line at an immigration centre, she overhears music coming from a building nearby. Curious, she stumbles upon a ballet class and its intimidating teacher. What follows is a really heartwarming story that carries deep meaning that will stick with you for a long time.
Can You See Me? By Rebecca Westcott and Libby Scott
Tally is 11 and about start a new school. On top of the standard anxieties that come with this change, Tally has autism, making these changes extra difficult. Can You See Me? is a wonderful story, funny, sad, uplifting and heartbreaking. It provides very powerful insight into the mind of a young girl with autism and should be required reading for anyone working in a school.
Jemima Small Versus The Universe by Tamsin Winter
Jemima is smart, funny and determined to be on a televised quiz show that asks students to recall random trivia. Holding her down is her low self-esteem. Bullied for her weight at school, her father enrolls her in “Health Club” which is immediately labelled “fat club” by the cliques and the bullies. It’s a perfect story for anyone needing a pick-me-up, anyone needing some light in these dark times.
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Human Lives Are Not More Important Than Animal Lives
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That’s right, animal lives matter. A lot. The article below, which was posted on Captain Paul Watson’s Facebook page, is so profound, I have republished it here in its entirety as I believe it is something every human on this planet needs to read and clearly understand.
Captain Paul Watson, environmental activist and founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society explains interdependence of species and why a biocentric approach is what the world needs.
Almost a half a billion non-human animals have perished in the Australian fires in the past month. A few dozen humans have also died. All of these deaths are a tragedy of epic proportions.
Imagine if that were half a billion humans. Hard to comprehend but such a horrific tragedy is on the horizon before the end of this century.
Some 8,000 Koalas have been reported as having perished in the fires. The numbers are most likely much higher.
The world is beginning to burn and the reality of the catastrophic consequences are beginning to pry open the closed minds of many deniers, especially when it is their home and their lives being directly affected.
Most of the media coverage is focused on the human tragedies but by comparison, humans fared relatively well, at least so far.
My thoughts and tears are for the unimaginable numbers of everything non-human, whose lives were recently destroyed.
Their lives were every bit as important as human lives.
Is a human life worth more than a koala, a kangaroo, a cockatoo or a crocodile.
I’m going to tread on some very sensitive toes with this commentary but I think it needs to be said.
My perspective is biocentric, whereas most of humanity looks on reality from an anthropocentric point of view.
I do not expect the anthropocentric mind to understand my position.
My position is that a human life is not more important than the life of a koala or a whale.
This is is going to make some people angry as hell but that does not concern me. What concerns me is the reality of our relationship with the natural world.
Columnist Dave Bry wrote in The Guardian a couple of years ago:
“As much as I love animals – and I love them very much – the idea that the life of a cat or a dog or a lion or a gorilla is as important as the life of a human is a terrible one, a wrong one, an insulting one.
[There] are powerful, important things about being a human being … Yes, I would save the life of Ted Kaczynski, Idi Amin or Donald Trump over any animal you could name. (Yes, even my beloved childhood pets: the cats Love and Honey, the dog, Yvette. Sorry, guys, RIP.)”
Personally I think this statement by Bry is asinine, insensitive and absurd. Idi Amin was a mass murderer. His life was not worth the life of a mosquito and if someone had shot the bastard, thousands of people’s lives would have been spared not to mention the slaughter of African wildlife under his authority. Would Bry say the same about Hitler, and if not, why not? So I think Brys’ position has not been thought out, and if it has, it is he who holds a terrible idea with a wrong position and insulting to every person who was slaughtered in WWII because of Hitler or in Africa under Amin. Bry is saying his cats and his dog are expendable but a vicious dictator is not, simply on the basis of being a member of the human species.
The reality is that some human lives are simply not worth more than other humans and also not more important than many animals.
A few years ago when I was teaching at UCLA I asked my students this question?
If you had to choose between a human life and the survival of an unknown species, what choice would you make?
And to make the question a little easier for them, I said the human life is a cute little baby and the species is a type of bacteria.
“So,” I said, “Does the baby live in exchange for the eradication of the species or do we save the species and allow the baby to die?”
They answered without hesitation and chose the life of the baby.
“What if I ask you to save 200 species of unknown bacteria in exchange for the baby?”
Again they chose the baby.
“Can anyone tell me why you made that choice? I inquired.
“Because human lives are more important.” One student answered. Another said, “The life of a baby is more important than some germs, how could you even ask such a thing?” she said with a look of disgust.
“Congratulations everyone,” I said. “Your choice just caused the extinction of the human race.”
This is because there are anywhere from 700 to 1,000 different species of bacteria residing in the human gut and without them we could not digest our food or manufacture vitamins for our bodies.
This was part of a lesson I was trying to teach on the law of interdependence, that all species need each other and without some species we cannot survive.
Are phytoplankton and zooplankton less important than human lives? If it was a choice between diminishing human numbers and diminishing worldwide populations of phytoplankton what choice would we make?
Again I put the question forth, this time to some die-hard anti-abortionists. If the choice is between forcefully preventing abortions and allowing the births of millions of unwanted babies or watching the disappearance of phytoplankton, what choice would you make?
They said that the lives of the babies were more important even if it meant the babies would not be properly cared for, nurtured, educated and loved.
One person asked me what a phytoplankton was?
“It’s a tiny marine plant,” I answered.
“You mean like seaweed?”
“Yes but much smaller.”
“So you’re saying that seaweed is more important than babies?” The man asked with a look of disgust on his face.
“Yes that’s what I am saying.” I answered.
“You’re a sick man,” he literally shouted at me.
And of course he was not interested in my explanation.
And the truth is that we have already made that choice to eradicate phytoplankton in exchange for increasing human populations.
Since 1950, the Ocean has suffered a 40% decline in phytoplankton populations and phytoplankton produces over 50% of the oxygen for the planet.
This is a serious problem but one which most people remain blissfully ignorant of.
Phytoplankton has been diminished because of pollution, climate change, acidification and the slaughter of the whales.
Why the whales?
Because whales provide the nutrients essential for the growth of phytoplankton, especially iron and nitrogen. These nutrients are spread to the phytoplankton in the form of whale feces similar to a farmer spreading manure on his crops. A single Blue whale defecates three tons a day of nutrient rich fecal material which makes the whales the farmers of the sea and a key species for the survival of phytoplankton.
Diminishment of whales means diminishment of phytoplankton which means diminishment of oxygen.
There are many species much more important that we are. Bees and worms, trees and plankton, fish, ants and spiders, bacteria, whales and elephants amongst many others.
They are more important for a very simple reason. Most of them can live quite happily without humans but humans cannot live without them. A world without bees and worms would be a world where we could not feed ourselves. A world without phytoplankton and trees would be a world where we could not breathe. A world without yeast (an animal) would be a world without beer and wine which I mention only because this is a loss that may get some people’s attention.
Nature has three very basic ecological laws. 1. Diversity, meaning that the strength of an eco-system is determined by the diversity within it. 2. Interdependence, meaning that the species within an eco-system are dependent upon each other and 3. Finite resources, meaning that there is a limit to growth, a limit to carrying capacity.
As human populations grow larger they literally steal carrying capacity from other species, leading to diminishment of other species which leads to diminishment of diversity and diminishment of interdependence.
In other words, no species is an island entire unto itself and that includes our own human species.
Humans have created a fantasy world called anthropocentrism, the idea that all of reality, all of nature exists only for humanity, that we are the only species that matters and human rights take priority over the rights of all other species.
In other words we look upon ourselves as divinely created superior beings when in reality we are simply overly conceited arrogant, ecologically ignorant, naked apes who have become divine legends in our own limited minds.
This anthropocentric view of the world has made us selfish, self-centred and extremely destructive to all other forms of life on the planet including our own. Our anthropocentric fantasies have allowed us to destroy the very life support systems that sustain us, to poison the waters we drink and the food we eat, to amuse ourselves with blood sports and to eradicate anything and everything we do not like, be it animal, plant or other human beings. We demonize each other and we demonize the entire living world.
This fantasy world we have invented has witnessed our creation of thousands of Gods out of whose invisible mouths we can give voice to our fantasies with the moral authority to justify our destructive behaviour.
Over the years I have risked my life and my crews have risked their lives to protect whales and seals, sharks, turtles and fish. I am often asked how can I ask people to risk their lives for a whale?
Very easy, is my answer because fighting for the survival of whales or fish means fighting for our own future.
The mystery however to me is how people can question risking our lives for a whale yet accept that young people are routinely asked to risk their lives for real estate, oil wells, religion and for a coloured piece a cloth they call a flag.
Apparently risking their lives to protect property is acceptable whereas taking risks to defend non-human lives is not.
This was very neatly summed up once by a ranger in Zimbabwe who was attacked by human rights groups after killing a poacher who was about to kill an endangered Black rhino.
The accusation was, how could you take the life of a human being to protect an animal?
His answer revealed the hypocrisy of human values. He said, “If I was a policeman in Harare and a man ran out of a bank with a bag of money and I shot him dead on the street, I would be called a hero and given a medal. My job is to protect the future heritage of Zimbabwe and how is it that an endangered species has less value than a bag of paper?”
Humanity slaughters some 65 billion animals every year for meat and takes even greater numbers of lives from the sea, much of which is discarded callously as by-catch. We kill animals for fun or because we consider them to be pests. There has never been a species as mercilessly destructive as the human primate. We kill willfully, viciously and relentlessly and we do so because we feel entitled to do so.
Anthropocentrism is an incredibly delusional conceit by a single species to lift ourselves above in value and importance over all other living things.
Humanity is so entrenched in this view of the world that we have stifled all empathy to the feelings and interests of all other species. We view them as expendable, as property, as nuisances, as sources of amusement, as slaves.
In an anthropocentric world only humans matter and this has absurdly led to beliefs that this entire planet was created just for us, that we are the pinnacle of evolution and the masters of the universe.
Every single anthropocentric religion places human beings at the centre of everything and above all other species. We have fashioned God in our image in order to justify our superiority and woe be it to any one of that questions this fantasy.
Anthropocentrism is a form of ecological insanity and is leading us towards self destruction, because only so many species can be removed before the laws of diversity, interdependence and finite growth lead to our own extinction.
Are humans the most intelligent species on the planet? Yes. because we define what intelligence is and therefore declare ourselves to be the most intelligent species. We define ourselves as moral, ethical, benevolent and wise despite the fact that our actions reveal that we are anything but moral, ethical, benevolent and wise.
I would define intelligence as the ability to live in harmony with nature and within the boundaries of ecological laws. We willfully ignore that dolphins and whales have larger more complex brains and we dismiss any speculation that animals think, make choices, dream and have emotions. We also dismiss the reality that trees communicate through chemicals and fungal networks. We pride ourselves on our art, our science, our religions, our politics, our cultures and totally reject that other species have their own cultures, their own realities completely independent of our hominid vanities.
There are 7.5 billion of us and every year there are fewer and fewer of everything else except for the slaves we breed for food and amusement.
Koalas do not contribute to climate change, to pollution of the ocean, to deforestation, to war or habitat destruction. They are gentle, vegetarian, shy, and intelligent self-aware sentient beings whose existence benefits the planet and gives hope for the future.
What human being can equal a koala for the virtues of harmlessness, sustainable living, peacefulness and ecological intelligence?
Not one of us. So in my opinion the life of a koala is not only of more value than the life of a human being, it is a hundred times more valuable, as are whales, gorillas, elephants, worms, snails, bees and trees.
Why? Because we cannot live on this planet without them.
They on the other hand would do exceedingly well without us.
My heart is pained when I think of how each and every koala, kangaroo and every other individual of every species that died or were maimed horribly in these fires suffered.
And let’s not forget, their suffering and their deaths happened because of us – all of us! It is our greed and willful ecological ignorance and our perverse and unnatural anthropocentric delusions that has brought about this tragedy and will bring about many more, even more devastating than this.
The Climate Change apocalypse has begun and still world leaders deny this reality and still they do nothing for fear of losing profits and materialistic comforts.
Oh and before I get hit by a deluge of hate comments for holding a koala, I need to point out that this little guy was recovering from a vicious attack by dogs and was being rehabilitated at the Wildlife hospital at the Australian Zoo which by the way, despite being overwhelmed, are tirelessly saving the lives of thousands of victims of these fires.
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EJW welcomes Brendan Beare as co-editor
EJW welcomes UCSD associate professor Brendan Beare to the team as co-editor. Professor Beare grew up in Australia, earned his B.S. from University of New South Wales, and later an M.A. in statistics and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale. Expert in statistical and econometric theory, Beare has published two papers in EJW, and his work also has appeared in Econometric Theory, Econometrica, Journal of Time Series Analysis, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Econometrics and Statistics, and several other journals. EJW looks forward to working with Professor Beare and thanks him for his support of the project.
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Who Should Get the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Why? A Call for Proposals
Econ Journal Watch plans a symposium on who should get the Nobel prize in economics, and why. The aim is not to canvass for opinion about who should get the prize, but to generate essay-form appreciations of the work of individual economists.
Send your proposal to write an essay explaining why Person A should receive a Nobel prize in economics to Jason Briggeman (EJW Managing Editor), at jason@briggeman.org. We also welcome mere queries in such direction.
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Proposers should be qualified to explain the merit of the work of Person A.
As we know, the prize sometimes goes to a person in the social sciences but not strictly economics, and in this project we certainly share that spirit.
The essay about Person A could be written by multiple authors.
We think it fine if the authors cooperate with Person A in producing and drafting the essay; any such cooperation may go acknowledged or unacknowledged, as the parties involved see fit.
The essay should aim to touch on all of Person A’s work, though it is fine of course to focus on the contributions that are especially thought to make Person A worthy of the prize.
The essay should be candid about significant shortcomings of A’s most important contributions, and significant criticisms.
We welcome proposals about Person A regardless of his or her ideological orientation. Proposers may expect ideological outlook to play no role in approving proposals.
We shall need to be selective about the Person A. Although not every Person A needs to be regarded by us as an actually conceivable prospective prize-winner, we do need to regard the Person A as sufficiently eminent, accomplished, or interesting to warrant such attention.
The case for Person A may involve justification “outside the box” of what we may think of as normal criteria for a Nobel prize in economics. Such unconventional justification for Person A is not unwelcome, but it may itself call for some justification within the essay.
We aim to publish the symposium in one of the issues of the year 2020.
Econ Journal Watch moves to the Fraser Institute
In 2007 EJW was done the great honor and service of being taken in by Atlas Network (then called the Atlas Economic Research Foundation), thanks especially to the kindness of Alejandro Chafuen, Brad Lips, Romulo Lopez, and the late Leonard Liggio. After ten years of generous support and always excellent assistance from Atlas, EJW is moving under a new roof. EJW will be ever grateful to Atlas for the tremendous help and friendship given to the project. We thank also Atlas friends (present and past) Harry Kalsted and Jim Cardillo.
EJW is honored again to be given the opportunity to move to the Fraser Institute, Canada’s leading think tank. The Fraser Institute is one of the great classical liberal organizations, and it is the parent of the Economic Freedom Project led by James Gwartney, Robert Lawson, Joshua Hall, and Fred McMahon; EJW has published numerous articles that make significant use of the index (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). (Here is Fraser's announcement of the partnership.) The move has been facilitated by the Institute’s Executive Vice-President Jason Clemens. EJW is proud indeed to have a partner in the Fraser Institute, and very grateful.
EJW apology to Professor Farley Grubb
From Daniel Klein: In 2006 (vol. 3, no. 2), Econ Journal Watch published an article titled “Farley Grubb’s Noisy Evasions on Colonial Money.” Professor Grubb has lately shared with us his sentiments about that title. EJW is edited so as to allow boisterous give and take (particularly when issuing from commented-on authors), but we at EJW now feel, sincerely, that that title was overly derisive, and that it was unprofessional on our part. We apologize to Farley Grubb for that title, and we are grateful to him for having communicated with his thoughts on the matter.
Professor Sir Angus Deaton joins EJW Advisory Council
EJW is proud to announce that Sir Angus Deaton of Princeton University has joined the EJW Advisory Council. Professor Deaton was awarded the Nobel prize in economics in 2015 for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.
EJW at the Southern Economic Association annual meeting
Two sessions held today in Washington at the annual meeting of the Southern Economic Association were devoted to author presentations of articles from the EJW symposium “Classical Liberalism in Econ, by Country.”
Morning session: Hugo J. Faria, Shruti Rajagopalan, and Josef Šíma
Afternoon session: Yong J. Yoon, Andrés Marroquín, Pavel Kuchař, and Young Back Choi
Langbert, Quain, and Klein to rectify coverage error
by Daniel B. Klein
Sean T. Stevens, in preparing a blog post for Heterodox Academy about the Langbert, Quain, and Klein article in EJW, scrutinized the article and caught a problem, and then kindly sent us a query about it.
Sean noticed that in footnote 5 (p. 424) we list University of Florida and University of Miami as among those universities that, though ranked high enough by U.S. News to be included in our investigation, were not included because they sit in states not covered by Aristotle (the database used for the study).
But Sean noticed that in footnote 4 (p. 423), listing the states not included in Aristotle, Florida is not listed. In fact, Florida is covered by Aristotle. In fact, those two Florida universities should have been included in our investigation.
To rectify the problem, we need to investigate the two universities that have been mistakenly left out of our analysis, which covered 40 universities. Although our subscription to Aristotle had expired, Aristotle has generously restored to us temporary access, to rectify the problem. We are proceeding now and will report back on the findings; look for a notice here at EJW News.
We are grateful to Sean for catching our error and bringing it to our attention!
UPDATE: We have made the corrections, publishing them in a brief article published in the January 2017 issue of EJW: “Faculty Voter Registration: Rectifying the Omission of Two Florida Universities.”
I am proud to be affiliated with Econ Journal Watch . Already, EJW is notorious for its incisive yet scholarly criticism. But EJW also points to how to do economics the right way. It represents Smith-Hayek economics, which believes in embracing the voluntary/coercive distinction, using it to formulate issues and arguments, studying real-world institutions without romance, and seeing people as people, not as mathematical functions. EJW is so successful because its critiques are made in the context of a positive vision.
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Railway union calls for 'direct action' if productivity linked bonus not paid by October 20
PTI Last Updated: Oct 17, 2020, 06:49 PM IST
AIRF general secretary Shiv Gopal Mishra said railwaymen worked 24X7 during the COVID-19 pandemic but the government was ignoring this "legitimate" demand of the railway employees.
The board's general secretary said that during the meeting, it was also decided to form "Save Railway-Save Nation Campaign Committees" at all 7,600 railway stations across the country.
The Railway workers union has threatened of 'direct action' if their productivity linked bonus, which is usually paid before the onset of Durga Puja, is not released by October 20. This was decided in a virtual standing committee meeting of the All India Railwaymen's Federation (AIRF) held on Friday.
"It was decided in the meeting that if orders for payment of productivity linked bonus to railwaymen are not issued by the Railway Ministry by October 20, direct action shall be taken on October 22, 2020," he said.
The file related to the bonus has been sent by the Railway Board (Ministry of Railways) to the Finance Ministry, which is not clearing it and adopting an indifferent attitude in this regard, Mishra claimed.
He said the payment used to be made before Durga Puja but this time it has not been done so far, resulting in serious resentment and unrest amongst the railwaymen.
In the meeting, officials also expressed anguish over anti-labour policies of the government and demanded direct action.
The meeting also raised issues regarding the privatisation/outsourcing and corporatisation in the Railways, restoration of the old pension scheme, and releasing of dearness allowance/dearness relief.
He demanded that local rail users and other prominent personalities be involved in the formation of the said committees to create an effective atmosphere to halt the policies of privatisation and corporatisation in the Indian Railways.
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19 Comments on this Story
Dhiraj Kumar89 days ago
It is hereby clarified that the bonus of this year is the profit share of financial year 2019-20, it is also true that govt has stopped increasing DA for 18 months for all employee and a supervisor level employee left their Rs. 2 lakhs for govt. for pandemic relief avtivities.
The next year bonus will be profit share of this financial year. It is also clarified that goods trains are being routine running in this pandemic situation where railway earns their 90% revenue, only 10% revenue portion i.e. passenger trains are affected in this pandemic.
Ramanujam Veraswamy90 days ago
In the period of endemic, while common man is still struggling to get work to earn his bread, Railway Men are
crying for sugar to mix with milk. Heartless creatures. Need no sympathy. Let them go on direct action and Govt can deal with them with mighty arms, resembling 1970 strike and it's effect on their economy.
SANJAY KUMAR91 days ago
Salaries are not high in railways as in private sector. I think we can defer parliament building construction and stop buying planes, chopper and cars for MLAs, MPs and pay these people. Remember Railways are lifeline of this country.
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Tools and Digital Platforms
Subtopics: Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing Automation, Content Management Systems (CMS), Physician Relationship Management (PRM), etc.
// By Althea Fung // When Virtua Health, a southern New Jersey-based health system, acquired Lourdes Health System in 2019, the leadership team decided it would be a good time to continue to build on how the now five-hospital system was investing in its marketing initiatives. “[The marketing department] had an opportunity to build technology Read More
Give someone a good experience, gain their trust, and you’ll earn their loyalty. That’s consumerism, the bargain consumers strike with any company they do business with, whether they’re shopping for products or services — including healthcare services. “Healthcare consumerism is looking at everything through the lens of the patient, even starting before they become a Read More
// By Jared Johnson // Now is an ideal time to explore opportunities for voice skills to improve a consumer’s healthcare experience. Seamus O’Reilly, senior director of content marketing and digital presence at Duke Health, and Matt Hummel, chief experience officer and vice president of consumer strategy and design at Paragon, presented on this topic Read More
The ratings and reviews that consumers post online can advance or damage the reputation of any organization, and healthcare is no exception. Online reputation management (ORM) and ongoing analysis of reviews have the potential to significantly improve the patient experience and positively influence customer lifetime value (CLV). BayCare Health System has spent the past two Read More
How Banner Health and Baystate Health are Creating Quality Digital Experiences for Prospects and Patients
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What We’ve Learned from COVID-19 — and How We Can Use the Knowledge to Improve Patients’ and Providers’ Lives
// By Dalal Haldeman, Ph.D. // The great difficulties we’ve faced in 2020 with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic are clear for us all, though our experiences may differ in the details, whether navigating patient surges or having our daily routines altered in ways both subtle and profound — or in the most horrific of Read More
Specialty Care Marketing Meets Consumerism at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Give me a good experience, gain my trust, and you’ll earn my loyalty. That’s consumerism, the bargain consumers strike with any company they do business with, whether they’re shopping for products or services — including healthcare services. “Healthcare consumerism is looking at everything through the lens of the patient, Read More
Well-Earned CRM “Magic” at Ochsner Health System
Is it possible for health systems to have their own version of “set it and forget it”? Can they really set up campaigns in their CRMs and let them run automatically based on pre-set rules? Maybe not right out of the gate, but with diligence, healthcare marketers can learn to crawl, then walk, then run Read More
How BayCare Health Is Building Deeper Customer Relationships and Driving Brand Loyalty
// By Marlene Kurban // The ratings and reviews that consumers post online can advance or damage the reputation of any organization, and healthcare is no exception. Online reputation management (ORM) and ongoing analysis of reviews have the potential to significantly improve the patient experience and positively influence customer lifetime value (CLV). BayCare Health System Read More
Living the Dream of CRM at Ochsner Health System
// By Jane Weber Brubaker // Is it possible for health systems to have their own version of “set it and forget it”? Can they really set up campaigns in their CRMs and let them run automatically based on pre-set rules? Maybe not right out of the gate, but with diligence, healthcare marketers can learn Read More
Dynamic Personalization in Healthcare Websites
Seventy-five percent of consumers prefer to do business with organizations that create personalized and relevant shopping experiences. But 60 percent of healthcare consumers report they don’t get that from healthcare organizations. There’s a huge opportunity to improve customer experience and increase conversions by bridging this gap.
Personalization can help connect the dots between consumer pain points and your healthcare services — helping consumers get value by more quickly and efficiently finding relevant information they seek, while allowing health systems to cross-promote services, improve loyalty, and drive patient volume. Done correctly, it’s a win-win.
In this session you’ll hear from experts who have worked with organizations including Duke Health, Geisinger, Johns Hopkins, and Cleveland Clinic. They’ll discuss how to use personalization tools to customize healthcare experiences while staying on the right side of HIPAA and the compliance department. You’ll get real-world examples and best practices to optimize your hospital website, leverage customer data safely, and deliver the more “Amazon-like” digital experience consumers expect.
How Has COVID-19 Affected Digital Healthcare Marketing?
“The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every industry in the U.S., but not all in the same way or to the same degree,” says Ben Dillon of Geonetric. “Healthcare’s experience has been unique, with the combination of shutdowns early in the crisis coupled with costly emergency response plans for many health systems. Teams pivoted to focus Read More
A Targeted Approach to Virtual Care Pays off for Rush University System for Health
The COVID-19 outbreak has been challenging for healthcare organizations, but one positive for marketers is that the pandemic has presented new opportunities to engage consumers digitally. When patients can’t see their providers in the office, they use virtual care or telemedicine services. Rush University System for Health, a network of physicians and hospitals in the Read More
How BayCare Health System Increases Customer Lifetime Value with a Proactive Strategy for Ratings & Reviews
What if you could create a customer engagement program in your urgent care service line that increases customer lifetime value by 22 percent?
Or increase the customer lifetime value of your primary care physician service line by 29 percent?
And what if you could document and prove those results based on a two-year scientific study that ties your customer engagement program’s impact to customer visit history?
That is precisely what BayCare Health System has done.
BayCare Health System has spent the last two years conducting a proactive “Review Requesting Program” in its urgent care and primary care physician service lines and analyzed the effect on clinical visit history and customer lifetime value.
Watch this webinar on demand, and learn from Ed Rafalski, BayCare Health System’s chief strategy and marketing officer how the program was executed and analyzed, and how it improved the health system’s business KPIs and clinical outcomes.
Why It’s Crucial To Be Proactive About Your Reviews and Star Ratings
“Now more than ever before, reviews and star ratings influence consumers’ purchasing decisions, especially in retail,” says Ed Rafalski, Ph.D., MPH, FACHE, chief strategy and marketing officer, BayCare Health System. Here’s an excerpt from Ed’s new article: When it comes to healthcare, consumers are factoring pandemic safety measures taken by physicians and care facilities into Read More
The Economic Value of Star Ratings and Reviews in Healthcare
// By Ed Rafalski // Using Customer Lifetime Value and ratings, organizations can identify the total cost of acquisition of new customers and the total incremental cost of retaining existing customers. BayCare Health has seen promising results with its proactive strategy. Now more than ever before, reviews and star ratings influence consumers’ purchasing decisions, especially in retail. Read More
How To Learn More From the Data You Are Already Collecting
Health systems and hospitals can use data they already have to help set marketing priorities and determine the best use of their budgets, according to Brandy Hill, director of marketing and public relations at Riverview Health in Noblesville, Indiana, and Mahek Thakkar, manager of integrated marketing at Healthgrades. Hill says Riverview’s experience showed that brand Read More
Digital Marketing Trends in 2020 — The Impact of COVID-19
// By Ben Dillon // The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every industry in the U.S., but not all in the same way or to the same degree. Healthcare’s experience has been unique, with the combination of shutdowns early in the crisis coupled with costly emergency response plans for many health systems. Teams pivoted to focus Read More
Riverview Health Mines Data to Uncover New Opportunities and Drive Growth
// By Jim Samuel // Health systems and hospitals can use data they already have to help set marketing priorities and determine the best use of their budgets. That was just one of the lessons identified during “Using Analytics to Inform, Plan, and Optimize Marketing,” a presentation given during the 2020 Healthcare Marketing and Physician Read More
On-Demand Virtual Visits Attract New Patients to Rush University System for Health
// By Wendy Stark Healy // The COVID-19 outbreak was challenging for healthcare organizations, but one positive for marketers was that the pandemic presented new opportunities to engage consumers digitally. When patients couldn’t see their providers in the office, they used virtual care or telemedicine services. Rush University System for Health, a network of physicians Read More
How Data and Analytics Can Help You Achieve Your Population Health Goals
Physician liaison and outreach departments should focus on more than volume growth and instead use data and analytics to help hospitals and health systems achieve their population health objectives. That, in turn, will help make outreach departments indispensable to senior leadership as they work to guide their organizations out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Intermountain Healthcare Read More
Using a CRM To Build a Multilayered Campaign at Johns Hopkins
Connecting the dots. That’s the value provided by a customer relationship management (CRM) database, a tool health system marketing and communications leaders increasingly use to deliver precision marketing to consumers and calculate accurate return on investment (ROI). Yet having a CRM is only one part of the digital marketing puzzle. Hospitals experiencing the highest level Read More
Consumers Now Control the Healthcare Marketing Experience
It’s time to stop thinking about marketing as two separate components — traditional vs. digital — and blend the best tactics of each discipline. “Tradigital” combines the best of both strategies and is redefining healthcare marketing today. That is the message of healthcare marketing consultants Kathy Divis, president and co-founder, Greystone.Net, and Rob Klein, founder Read More
How to Build the Case for Increasing Your Digital Marketing Budget in 2021
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Cutting Edge Outreach: Think Like a Data Scientist
// By Jim Samuel // Data and analytics can help physician outreach teams focus their efforts to achieve more of their objectives and make themselves indispensable to their organizations. Physician liaison and outreach departments should focus on more than volume growth and instead use data and analytics to help hospitals and health systems achieve their Read More
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What this blog is all about?
Va-Va-Voom!
Thanks, gocomics.org
My boss acts like the autocrats I investigate! I QUIT!
I recently resigned as a senior analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency after experiencing firsthand the actions of U.S. government leaders to suppress nonviolent dissent during the recent nationwide protests for racial justice. I was among the thousands of peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters tear-gassed in Lafayette Square and nearly knocked to the ground by the downdraft from a military helicopter hovering over Pennsylvania Avenue. In the course of my work, I have watched autocratic leaders around the world employ similar tactics, actions that often precede broader uses of violence against domestic opposition. Unidentified federal forces in cities across the United States committing abuses against demonstrators is an evolution in the Trump administration’s authoritarian approach to dissent, not an anomraly…
I left government service after more than a decade because I lost faith in the courage of the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to refuse unlawful orders from the President…While the military is, thankfully, out of the spotlight for now, the president has turned to other eager allies — in the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice — who believe their components of the federal government can clamp down on dissent with a veneer of legality.
I have seen up close the president’s disdain for democratic values, and recent events should be put in the context of a continuous slide toward authoritarianism…
Stop making sense! Republicans are confused enough as it is.
Trump’s postal pimp removes letter sorting machines
August 14, 2020 August 13, 2020 3 Comments
U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has reportedly started to remove mail sorting machines from Post Offices across the country.
The process of removing those machines has stoked fears that President Donald Trump and his allies in the executive branch are intentionally sabotaging mail operations in order to diminish the capability of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to sort and deliver mail-in ballots in a timely fashion for the 2020 general election.
Tampering with the mail and federal elections are crimes no matter who does it,” federal criminal defense attorney Tor Ekeland told Law&Crime. “Just because you run the bank doesn’t mean you get to steal the money. This reeks of mail and election fraud–the scheme to defraud using the removal of mail sorting machines without reason as a means to inhibit mail in voting. These are felonies and should be investigated and prosecuted appropriately.”
Trump and his postal pimp should be thrown in jail, right now, for interfering with the accurate and timely distribution of the US Mail. It is a criminal offense. Just because you think you’re the emperor doesn’t make you one.
500 International Monitors to check integrity of US election
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The democracy and human rights arm of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has issued an assessment of election conditions in the run-up to presidential and congressional elections on 3 November…
A week-long needs assessment mission by the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) beginning on 29 May found there was widespread concern that “election officials will face serious challenges prior to and on election day, due to new measures in response to Covid-19 pandemic, and expressed concerns over their ability to overcome them.”…
Most of the officials and experts the mission talked to said they would welcome the presence of foreign election observers…
In many US states there is no guarantee that international observers will be allowed in polling stations.
The tone of the 2020 ODIHR report reflects far more alarm than in 2016, and notes that only some of its recommendations for improvements in the US electoral system have been acted on.
Americans love to believe “we’re #1” at anything we do. Please don’t forget that includes serious fraud, organized crime – including the flavor with names of political parties on the stationery.
Still my favorite sign from the Women's March against our fake president
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Who uses NASA Earth Science Data? Data User Profiles
User Profile: Adnan Al-Azri
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Who uses NASA Earth science data? Adnan Al-Azri, to study why periodic harmful blooms of algae occur in the Sea of Oman and Arabian Sea.
Who Uses NASA Earth Science Data?
Adnan Al-Azri, Associate Professor, Department of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Research interests: Phytoplankton ecology, long-term time series and biogeography, physical regulation of biological systems, algal blooms and phycotoxins in coastal zones, biogeochemical cycles and processes of the coastal zone and their impact on the marine food chain.
Current research focus: Al-Azri and his team are working to unlock the secrets of why periodic harmful blooms of algae, plankton, and other microorganisms are occurring in the Sea of Oman and the Arabian Sea – and what these blooms may mean for the biodiversity and industry of Oman and other Persian Gulf countries.
“Almost all the countries bordering the Persian Gulf are impacted by these blooms,” notes Al-Azri. “For Oman, these harmful algal blooms pose a unique problem as our country … is not a major producer of oil but relies on fisheries, aquaculture, and tourism for its economy. Thick blooms have also been seen to cause coral reef mortality and impact the diversity of marine life.”
Data products and tools used:
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)-Aqua and Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS) Sea Surface Temperature and Chlorophyll Concentrations. Resolution: 4 km and 9 km. Data are distributed by the Ocean Biology Distributed Active Archive Center (OB.DAAC) and are available at http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov
Topography Experiment/Poseidon (TOPEX/Poseidon), Jason-1, Jason-2, Sea Surface Height Anomalies (merged data products). Data are distributed by the Physical Oceanography DAAC (PO.DAAC) and are available at http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov
Time series analysis and visualization of satellite data through the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) Giovanni interactive data browser. Giovanni may be accessed at http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni
“We use NASA’s ocean color chlorophyll products to routinely study the evolution of these blooms and track their movement along the coast,” notes Al-Azri.
Research findings: From an analysis of satellite sensor data and data collected at research stations along the coast of Oman, Al-Azri discovered that blooms caused by one species of harmful algae (Cochlodinium polykrikoides) are being triggered by low oxygen and nutrient-rich water brought to the surface by cyclonic eddies. In addition, it appears that human activities coupled with the unique oceanographic features of the Sea of Oman and the Arabian Sea also are contributing to the expansion of these blooms.
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Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS)
Topography Experiment/Poseidon (TOPEX/Poseidon)
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The new face of the Q family: the Audi Q8
15 November, 2018 / in Audi
The Audi Q8 combines the best of two worlds, the elegance of a four-door luxury coupe and the convenient versatility of a large SUV. Richly equipped, comprehensively connected and tough enough for off-road duty, it is a composed companion for business and leisure. A powerful, yet highly efficient 3.0 TDI engine with 210 kW powers the new top model in the Q family.
The Audi Q8 is a representative of the progressive design language that Audi first brought onto the road with the new A8. Strong contours and athletically tight surfaces convey a feeling of power, sophistication and the special dynamics of the permanent all-wheel drive. The Q8 interprets this in its very own way, as the fusion of an elegant four-door luxury coupe with a large SUV, and with echoes of an Audi icon – the original quattro.
Thanks to the frameless doors, the coupe-type roof line stretches low across the vehicle body visually, ending in a long roof spoiler. The roof line arches slightly towards the flat sloping, strong D-pillars, which are supported by wide, muscular contours – the quattro blisters, reminiscent of the original Audi quattro. The shoulder line stretches the SUV, elegantly connecting the powerful wheel housings, which house up to 20-inch wheels as standard.
The Audi Q8 3.0 TDI generates 210 kW and delivers 600 Nm of torque to the crankshaft. It accelerates the large SUV from 0 to 100 km/h in 6.3 seconds on its way to a top speed of 245 km/h. The drive system in the Audi Q8 is strong and highly efficient at the same time, thanks to the new mild hybrid technology (MHEV). This integrates a lithium-ion battery and a belt alternator starter (BAS) into a 48-volt primary electrical system. The rechargeable battery is located underneath the luggage compartment floor and stores 10 Ah of electrical capacity. The dynamic SUV can coast between 55 and 160 km/h with the engine switched off, then the BAS restarts the engine quickly and very comfortably. During deceleration, the BAS can recover up to 12 kW of energy.
The interior space exceeds that of the direct competitors in almost all relevant dimensions. With its large luggage compartment and generously sized storage compartments and tray areas, the Q8 is ideal for longer journeys. The luggage compartment of the SUV holds 605 litres as a standard, which increases to 1,755 litres with the rear backrests folded down. Two golf bags can easily fit in width ways.
The MMI touch response display is the central element of the interior of the Audi Q8. With its black-panel look, it almost dissolves into a large, black surface when switched off. Simple, easy-to-understand symbols stand for the digital precision from Audi and for the high level of integration of the architecture and operation – simplicity replaces complexity. All fundamental lines originate from the large display, for example the continuous air vent strip with integrated chrome fins and an elegant aluminium-look strip.
The paint range for the Audi Q8 offers eleven colors which underline the sporty design, including the latest colours – dragon orange and galaxy blue. The attachments are painted in body colour as standard. In an optional exterior package, they are painted in scandium grey. For the interior of the Audi Q8, customers can choose the S line package which sports Valcona leather seats with embossed S Logo on the front seat backrests.
Whether parking, in the city or on long journeys – the Audi Q8 supports its driver in many situations. Among the systems contributing here are:
adaptive cruise assist,
efficiency assist
crossing assist
curb warning
Behind all of these features is the central driver assistance controller. It continuously computes a differentiated model of the surroundings and uses this to manage the assistance systems. The required data is obtained from up to five radar sensors, six cameras, twelve ultrasound sensors and the laser scanner.
“The new design language and technical innovations introduced earlier in the year with the Audi A8 are distinctively visible in the newest member of the Q family. With its expressive exterior appealing to design-oriented customers and intuitive infotainment systems delivering a personalised driving experience, the Audi Q8 won’t disappoint.” said Dean Sheed, General Manager, Audi New Zealand.
Customers can now experience the new face of the Q family for themselves at Ebbett Audi and the Q8 3.0 TDI quattro is available with a Maximum Retail Price (MRP) of $149,900 + on road costs and optional extras.
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New European Service Centre in Pukekohe
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Audi Dealer Awards 2019
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UON Central Coast celebrates 25 years
By Leonie Brann
Central CoastEvents
The University of Newcastle is proud to be part of the dynamic community of the Central Coast with its campus at Ourimbah and partnerships with a diverse range of organisations and groups that drive innovation and build the intellectual and creative capital of the region.
From small beginnings in July 1989 when 89 UON students were enrolled in business and humanities courses, through to today with a record 4,500 students enrolled in a diverse range of programs and courses, the Central Coast campus is catering to the higher-education needs of the Central Coast community, by providing learning opportunities to suit people from all backgrounds.
With a focus on allied health, and the provision of hands-on learning opportunities, UON Central Coast offers programs in the fields of oral health, podiatry, exercise and sport science, food science and human nutrition and marine science.
A record number of students are undertaking Research Higher Degrees at at UON Central Coast Ourimbah campus, and are supported by the mutually-beneficial research relationships that UON has with its business, government and industry partners on the Central Coast.
The University of Newcastle will celebrate the Central Coast campus milestone anniversary throughout 2014 with a number of celebrations.
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Rs 900 million masterplan for promotion of Mahadev Dham in Dang
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The master plan amounting to Rs 900 million to develop and promote the religious spot Pandaveshwor Mahadev Dham at Dharapani in Dang district.
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Author: Idan Sharon, MD; Chief Editor: David Bienenfeld, MD more...
Sections Shared Psychotic Disorder
Background and Criteria
Subtypes and Characteristics
Patient and Family Education
Shared psychotic disorder, or folie à deux, is a rare delusional disorder shared by 2 or, occasionally, more people with close emotional ties. [1] An extensive review of the literature reveals cases of folie à trois, folie à quatre, folie à famille (all family members), and even a case involving a dog. [2]
In the most recent update to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), shared psychotic disorder was removed as a separate disease entity and was included in the section on other specified schizoprenic spectrum and other psychotic disorders. In the updated version the entity exists as “delusional symptoms in partner of individual with delusional disorder.” [3] According to the DSM-5, in the context of a relationship, the delusional material from the dominant partner provides content for delusional belief by the individual who may not otherwise entirely meet criteria for delusional disorder.
ICD-10 diagnostic criteria for Induced Delusional Disorder (folie à deux) is as follows:
Two people share the same delusion or delusional system and support one another in this belief.
They have an unusually close relationship.
Temporal or contextual evidence exists that indicates the delusion was induced in the passive member by contact with the active partner.
Delalle et al presented a case of folie à deux in which paranoid delusions were shared by a mother and her 15-year-old son. [4] In this case, the mother was considered the dominant psychotic individual. The son was the passive recipient. The parent-child relationship, like spousal and sibling relationships, is very common in folie à deux. The son was treated with medication.
Soriano et al presented a case of folie à deux that occurred between 2 sisters. [5] As in the parent-child relationship, the occurrence of shared psychotic delusions among siblings is common due to the close ties. As the authors of this study discussed with regard to the sisters, the occurrence among siblings can be particularly attributed to shared past experience or expectations. The sisters shared delusions of persecution and prejudice toward the Chinese community of their hometown. The sisters were separated and given psychopharmacological treatment.
Peritogiannis et al investigated a case of folie à quatre, which not only presented the issues of close familial ties as a contributing factor, but also the complications of occurrence in rural areas. [6] The authors described a situation in which 4 adult cohabitating siblings were revealed to share delusions about their neighbors. None of the siblings were cooperative, and the authors suggested that mobile psychiatric units that worked with PCPs would be useful in diagnosing and treating the condition in rural areas.
Roth et al investigated an interesting case of folie à deux in a married couple, in which the delusions in the husband, the primary person, were caused by Huntington disease. [7] In an example of organic psychosis leading to shared psychotic disorder, the wife adopted her husband's delusions through folie impossée, a category of folie à deux that occurs when the secondary person is otherwise mentally sound. Her condition quickly improved upon spatial separation from her husband.
Many highly detailed explanations of folie à deux pathogenesis have been developed, yet none appear to explain all aspects of the syndrome. A survey of the literature shows that most of those afflicted with the disease are women with higher intelligence quotient scores who are usually younger than their significant other (eg, partner, parent, sibling, friend). The survey further suggests that the primary patients are susceptible to schizophrenia and often are diagnosed with episodes of paranoid delusions.
Quite often, factors arise because of unhealthy or interrupted ego development during the early stages of life. As Freud suggested with his theories on the Oedipus and Electra complexes, children develop attraction to the opposite-sex parent, developing a greater sense of self by comparing and resisting identification with their same-sex male or female parent, recognizing that each is similar to or different from themselves. [8] If the relationship between parent and child is filled with jealousy, rejection, or anger, or if the relationship becomes more sexual than that of a healthy parent-child relationship, symptoms of folie à deux generally express themselves.
The adult-child identifies inappropriately with the opposite-sex parent and often perceives or has delusions of shared sexual intimacy with the parent. The person who has the disorder tends to form symbiotic relationships with a significant other who shares a common psychiatric disorder; often, they too are susceptible to unhealthy bonding, lowered self-esteem, and lack of personal responsibility that would otherwise foster healthy interdependence within intimate relations.
Studies of individual cases have shown that delusional ideas and psychotic symptoms are rarely transmitted to a healthy individual whose partner displays unhealthy behavior resulting from a psychotic disease; however, a passive person may have a genetic predisposition to psychosis and, as a result, may develop this disorder. [9]
Although Harvey described the first case of phantom pregnancy associated with induced psychosis in 2 sisters in 1651, the term folie à deux dates to a classic report by Lasègue and Falret in 1877. In 1942, Gralnick published a classification of 4 folie à deux subtypes. [10] These subtypes are as follows:
Subtype A is termed folie imposée. The delusions of a person with psychosis are transferred to a person who is mentally sound. Both persons are intimately associated, and the delusions of the recipient disappear after separation. The mental status exam of both affected individuals would be significant for delusional thinking, lack of judgment and insight, poor attention and concentration, and affect may or may not be affected. Both individuals would be perseverative and sometimes preoccupied with limited relatedness.
Subtype B is termed folie simultanée. The simultaneous appearance of an identical psychosis occurs in 2 individuals who are both intimately associated and morbidly predisposed. The mental status exam of the affected individuals would be consistent with paranoia, lack of insight, disorganized thought processes in extreme cases, and lack of relatedness.
Subtype C is termed folie communiquée. The recipient develops psychosis after a long period of resistance and maintains the symptoms even after separation. The mental status exam may be consistent with hypervigilance, obsessive thinking, brooding, rumination, anxiety, and lack of reasoning.
Subtype D is termed folie induite. New delusions are adopted by an individual with psychosis who is under the influence of another individual with psychosis. The mental status exam would be similar to one of a psychotic patient, namely, paranoia; lack of reasoning, judgment, and insight; and poor relatedness. Limited eye contact, bizarre mannerisms, and magical thinking may be apparent on assessment.
Since the times of Lasègue and Falret, shared psychotic disorder has been identified more frequently in women, reflecting the traditional submissive role of females in the family. Nevertheless, no confirmation of increased susceptibility of females exists today. Both female and male secondaries are equally affected by female primaries.
The involved individuals have an unusually close relationship and are isolated from others by language, culture, or geography. This explains the high number of reported twin cases (especially sister-sister pairs), in which biological and psychological factors are shared. Most of the reported relationships have been within the nuclear family.
Distribution of the relationships in Western countries differs from those indicated by Japanese data, in which mother-child and spousal combinations are the most common. [11] Also in Japan (contrary to Western countries), more cases of have occurred in which younger partners affect older partners rather than older partners affecting younger partners. Thus, the conclusion has been made that close association contributes more to the development of shared psychotic disorder than age.
Individuals with shared psychotic disorder lack insight and therefore do not seek treatment. Originally, induced delusions were thought to disappear in a person once he or she was separated from the person with genuine psychosis. New data gathered by analyzing published case reports show that separation from the primary is not sufficient. Most often, recovery of the secondary follows separation from the primary and the administration of antipsychotic medications. Interestingly, rare cases have been reported in which the secondary experienced hallucinations while the primary did not.
The dominating primary case is most commonly represented by persons with schizophrenia, delusions, or mood disorders. In Western countries, both the original delusions in the dominant person and the induced delusions in the submissive person are usually chronic and either persecutory or grandiose in nature. In Japan, acute psychotic reactions have been noted to be delusions of a religious nature.
In the literature, shared psychotic disorder has also been referred to as folie à deux, shared imposed psychosis, infectious insanity, shared paranoid disorder, and symbiotic psychosis. [12]
Table 2. Comparison of the Traditional Views and New Findings Based on Literature Analysis [13] (Open Table in a new window)
Traditional Views
Sex of the submissive person
Females and males are equally affected.
Age of the secondary
The secondary is younger than the primary.
The secondary has an equal chance of being either younger or older than the primary.
(in descending order)
Two sisters (most common), husband and wife, mother and child, 2 brothers, brother and sister, pairs of friends, whole families
Incidence in married or common-law couples is equal to that in siblings (incidence in sisters is more common than that in brothers, assuming cohabitation)
The delusion is similar to that of the inducer.
In 2 reported cases, the secondary experienced hallucinations while the primary did not.
Secondary hallucinatory experiences occur less frequently and are less intense than primary hallucinatory experiences.
level of intelligence in the secondary
Lower than the primary
Separation from the primary
Separation by itself is insufficient. Effective treatment of the secondary requires neuroleptics and separation from the primary.
Treatment & Management
Approach Considerations
The new standard of treatment for shared psychotic disorders includes the use of 2 agents. The atypical newer neuroleptics are the accepted mode of treatment for the spectrum of these disorders. Newer-generation anticonvulsants are also highly effective. Aripiprazole [14] (Abilify) and quetiapine (Seroquel) are extremely effective in these cases.
Initiation of aripiprazole at 5-10 mg PO qd with a titration upward by 5-10 mg PO every 3-5 days until a 25-60 mg PO qd dosage is achieved should thwart and alleviate the symptoms of the psychoses. Quetiapine is initiated at 25-50 mg PO bid and increased by 50 mg PO bid every 3 days until symptom resolution is achieved. Maintenance doses of 200-600 mg can be achieved easily.
The following case studies share many similarities and shed light on the seriousness of the disease; the complications associated with the disease; and the dire need for hospitalization, chemical therapies, and separation of the enmeshed pair as a primary form of treatment. These do follow the subtypes.
Case Report 1- Treating Subtype B
Potash and Brunell suggest multiple-conjoint psychotherapy for the treatment of folie à deux in identical twins. [15] In this case, twins were noted to have adapted roles resembling their abusive parents. Each twin took on the role of one parent, and, together, they reinvented their unhealthy past within their relationship. The twins developed a coping mechanism whereby they became inseparable until their hospitalization.
Mental status
The mental status was consistent with alert and oriented individuals whose thought content was significant for paranoia and preoccupations. Reasoning, judgment and insight was lacking. Attention was diminished and concentration was limited. EC was limited. Passive suicidal ideation with no acute plan, as well as violent and homicidal thinking was undertoned. Mood was irritable and affect was labile.
The twins presented with visual paranoia and shared delusional experiences; general hostility; feelings of betrayal and being taken advantage of; signs of depression, suicidal ideation, inseparability, despair about the future, and work problems; refusal to discuss the past for fear of reinjury; obsession with sex and/or promiscuity; and supporting, believing, and assuming identification with each other's delusions.
Indications for hospitalization
Hospitalization was required in order to ensure that the twins would remain separate throughout their treatment, would remain in a safe and controlled environment, and would not follow through on their suicidal threats. The twins feared the delusions and the confusion, and the hospital provided them with the sense of security that they would not come into danger when they were in a "blacked-out" state. Previous efforts at separating the twins proved ineffective, until hospitalization. Once hospitalization was established, the twins were treated with a regimen of multiple-conjoint psychotherapy and the issue of the twins echoing each other's delusions, going into depression, and making suicidal threats was thwarted.
The treatment in the hospital consisted of multiple-conjoint therapy. Through this treatment process, the twins met with a male and female therapist and were given the opportunity to have transference of their angry and confused feelings onto the therapist who most closely represented the sex of the mother and father. Through the treatment process and the expression of otherwise dangerous emotions in a safe setting, each patient had the opportunity to discover that her anger cannot harm her dependent partner or others and that the hostility she feels no longer needs to be denied or deflected into a delusional system.
Patient progress
Through the separation experience, each twin learned that being an individual provides safety and that being alone does not have to make one feel lonely and separate. Through this process of breaking dependency, each learned that she had her own ideas, beliefs, and interests that could be shared without the other having to accept it as her own reality. Working with both a male and female therapist, each twin was able to resolve many of her intimacy issues related to the same- or other-sex parent. Each developed a sense of health, using this chance to resolve many of the childhood dependency issues through the validation of the therapists and by developing their own individual identities.
In some cases, the interaction with the therapist was the girls' first experience with being treated with sensitivity. At the end of each session, in order to encourage discussion of the twins' differing perspectives, the therapists would direct any delusional thoughts to be more specific and to be attached to the feelings they covered up. This supported positive feelings that were then exchanged between the therapists and the patients themselves.
As the therapist would move progressively from the delusions to reality and feelings, the need for the twins to echo each other's delusions gradually disappeared. This process enabled the twins to recognize some of their distortions and pathology as they replaced them with healthy behaviors. Usually, by the end of the meeting, the twins expressed their fear and anger more directly and formed more constructive avenues for addressing their real-life complexities. As the patients' confidence increased and as positive transference occurred, the twins' childhood and family issues emerged and were dealt with constructively. Consequently, each twin began dealing with her own problems and feelings. So far, the multiple-conjoint model is the most beneficial means of treatment for folie à deux.
Case Report 2- Treating Subtype D
Emde, Boyd, and Mayo resolve folie à deux by allowing the patient to be responsible for developing healthy activities and relations while hospitalized and receiving medication therapies. [16] They examined a case of folie à deux involving a mother and daughter who were both diagnosed as having schizophrenic thinking disorder and a shared delusion that the husband/father was trying to poison them.
The patients present alert and oriented. Relatedness and eye contact were fair. Speech was logical. Mood was irritable and affect was labile. TC was characterized by delusions, obsessive rumination, and hypervigilance. Psychomotor agitation is present. Attention and concentration are preserved. Reasoning and judgment are poor and insight is lacking. No evidence has presented for suicidal or homicidal ideation.
The mother and daughter both exhibited signs of distortions in their communication, emotional distancing from others, masking of feelings in conflict situations, deviant behavior, isolation, and shift of roles across generational and sexual lines, including incest and homosexuality. The daughter behaved in a sexually explicit manner, attracting the father and the attention of other men, while she maintained a delusion of him wanting to impregnate her. The mother was diagnosed with catatonic schizophrenia. Both mother and child slept, ate, and bathed together.
Indication for hospitalization
Removing the daughter from the home before overt incest could occur was imperative. The mother needed to be hospitalized so that she could stop worrying and trying to control her daughter's behavior. She was overprotective and fearful that her daughter would be harmed. The mother and daughter switched roles when the daughter reached puberty, and the father began to pursue her as if she were the adult in the relationship with him. The mother behaved like a child, and the daughter became her caretaker. The dominant personality could not be determined in the psychosis; the role of parent and child interchanged frequently between the two. The mother and daughter were inseparable, and hospitalization was necessary in order to approach each of their complex symptoms.
Through hospitalization, separation was gradually introduced for the mother and daughter in order to establish role separation within the family and promote the development of healthy appropriate boundaries. The therapy for each included electroshock therapy and insulin, which facilitated temporary gains. However, these therapies achieved substantial improvement when coupled with phenothiazine therapy.
After 3 weeks, the daughter's speech became coherent and she returned to a school setting within the hospital. However, the fact that the daughter was still protective of her mother indicated that the similarity of folie à deux still existed between them. By the second month of hospitalization, both mother and daughter showed improvement, and the role of reeducating them was the major feature of the therapeutic setting. The mother was increasingly engaged in social and recreational activities together with a work assignment, while the daughter was more involved with school and with friends her own age. After 3 months of hospitalization, symbiosis was no longer present; both had independent feelings and reactions.
The mother was discharged with an understanding of her illness and a desire to make a better marriage with her husband. The daughter remained in the hospital for further support in her schooling, in building peer relationships, and in developing a stronger sense of independence and a distinctly separate identity. In the sixth month, the daughter and her mother were reexamined with psychological testing. By that time, both of their mental ideations were healthy and their stories were bound in reality; both recognized their early symptomatology and took responsibility for not returning to the unhealthiness of their earlier experiences. The father/husband was given opportunity to spend time with the daughter, developing a healthy relationship. The mother's jealousy was addressed as she and her husband worked toward developing intimacy in their relationship, separate from the daughter.
Case Report 3- Treating Subtype A
Brenman suggests a therapy of reconstruction in early folie à deux. [17] In looking at early childhood experiences, one must consider the effects of the outer environment on the unconscious inner environment.
A 28-year-old woman sought help regarding a suicidal depression, feelings of helplessness, and total inability to work. She was aware of her irrational, hateful, and angry feelings and thought she had been provided misinformation in her primary relationships. For example, her career was not satisfying because she felt her parents had pressured her choice, although she changed her career several times. She was very bright but could not complete her education. She called off several engagements when the pressures of intimacy became intolerable. She exhibited anxiety and fear when working with the therapist, and she would not allow him to diagnose her, believing that her own assessment would be correct. She was in denial and became fixated on achieving a sense of justice through an overactive superego.
In this case, no indication for hospitalization was present. Rather, the therapist treated her with a regimen of analysis and he generally attempted to assist the patient in realizing that her perspective did not foster the healthy successful lifestyle she sought.
Over the course of a year, the therapist tried to help the patient give up her need to control his opinion of her. The patient did not allow the analyst to develop a real experience of her feelings. After a while, he felt compelled to abandon his views and admire hers, creating a relationship between them that resembled a dependent relationship often seen in folie à deux.
Through psychoanalysis and reconstruction, the therapist attempted to develop the relationship between them to be one in which honesty in expressing feelings could serve to relieve the pressure of her past grievances from negative relationships. The value of the reconstruction was intended to allow her to express the distortions she perceived, to begin to see the truth of the matter, and to develop a different relationship to the stimulus that caused her pain. This provided her with a foundation for constructing new experiences and relationships. The purpose of reconstructing the transference was to analyze what was wrong in the past in order to form new foundations. The patient recovered a year later and regained the experience of her own feelings.
Case Report 4- Treating Subtype C
Bankier recommends treating folie à deux with antipsychotic medication and psychotherapy. [18] He studied role reversal in folie à deux, in which a man with alcoholism was sexually engaged with prostitutes. When his wife discovered his activity, he developed delusions that "prostitutes were following him with cars," and successfully convinced his wife of his delusions.
Mental status is significant for alert and oriented mentation. Speech is logical and coherent. Attention and concentration are preserved. Mood is irritable to euthymic. Affect is labile. Reasoning and judgment are limited and insight is lacking. The patients are limited in relatedness, delusional, and obsessive. They present with psychomotor excitation. No evidence is present for suicidal or homicidal ideation.
The patients, a husband and wife team, were both socially active, employed in professional positions, and affiliated with a religious/church life. The husband was an active alcoholic, was engaged in sexual promiscuity with prostitutes, and was spending large amounts of money. He began having paranoid delusions quickly thereafter. He would see prostitutes following him in cars, watching him on the streets, making improper phone calls to his home, and stealing the little bit of money he had left.
He became anxious and convinced his wife that his delusions were true. His wife, having no previous mental illness, believed him, and together they watched for suspect prostitutes and reported their harassment to the local police. She became ill following her husband's developing paranoid psychosis, suggesting a folie à deux. When she became very ill, she developed the delusion that prostitutes were entering her house to embarrass and harm her. She planned for her husband to kidnap a police officer in exchange for ransom, and, later, he was arrested for attempting to blow up the building that housed the headquarters of their supposed persecutors.
The wife was not charged as a partner in crime, and she refused hospitalization. She attended outpatient therapy for several weeks and reluctantly took a small dose of neuroleptic medication. The husband made an excellent recovery from paranoid schizophrenic illness following a hospital stay.
Clearly, the case is one of folie à deux, with both the husband and wife having shared delusions. They were associated intimately, supported each other's pathology, and reversed roles during the illness. At first, the husband was the dominant partner. When the wife became more ill, she believed the delusions to be true and took on a more dominant role, while he became submissive and enabled her illness to progress. The problem reached severe proportions when the wife convinced her husband to blow up the headquarters of their perceived persecutors; they were reported to the police.
After her initial anger at her husband subsided during the course of his hospitalization, the separation between the two allowed the wife to cease her psychotic behavior and make significant progress in his absence. The husband recovered completely from a diagnosis of a typical paranoid schizophrenic illness with treatment consisting of neuroleptic medications, group therapy, and occupational therapy. However, the wife was suspected of not taking her medication and, when last seen, still had delusional beliefs.
Bankier, following the traditional literature, recommends physical separation, antipsychotic medication, and psychotherapy to treat folie à deux. [18] He is supportive of conjoint-psychotherapy as an alternative therapy, together with neuroleptic medications to handle the treatment. Each of these methods has been used to a certain degree of success. However, many psychiatrists today are of the opinion that multiple-conjoint therapy further helps patients to deal with feelings of rejection, inducer-induced dimensions, anger, dependency, hostility, and distorted communication and provides healthier contrast to distortions in perspective. In some cases, medications may have to be administered jointly with the therapy to accelerate the process of recovery and further ensure successful completion of the readily accepted protocol for recovery.
Numerous online resources are available to patients and their families. Many websites provide information about the disorder as well as information on support programs and resources. Clinicians may wish to consider directing patients and their families to any of the following websites for additional information on shared psychotic disorder.
Cleveland Clinic, Shared Psychotic Disorder
WebMD, Mental Health and Shared Psychotic Disorder
PsychForums.com
Depression Treatment Help
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Table 2. Comparison of the Traditional Views and New Findings Based on Literature Analysis [13]
Idan Sharon, MD Consulting Staff, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, Cornell New York Methodist Hospital; Private Practice
Idan Sharon, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Neurology, Medical Society of the State of New York
Roni Sharon, MD Neurologist, Private Practice
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Grandmaster tips on how to fight time-pressure
by Swapnil Dhopade
2/18/2020 – When we learn the rules of chess as a youngster we are told about the chess board, the chess pieces and how each of the pieces move. Once we master these basics, we can proudly tell everyone that we have learnt the game of chess. However, when you go to a tournament, there is one more element that is added, one which plays just as important a role as the board and the pieces: the chess clock! Time is one of the most crucial factors when playing a game, and somehow this is one of the things that chess players pay the least attention to. It doesn't come as a surprise that many strong chess players handle the clock and time in a very poor manner, losing several games due to time pressure. How do we avoid this problem? In this article GM SWAPNIL DHOPADE tries to acquaint you with the causes and solutions of this perennial problem.
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A nightmare for every chess player
Have you ever lost a winning position in time-pressure? I am sure the answer is a resounding yes! Every chess player has lost winning or equal positions in their games due to time trouble.
Imagine a situation:
You have prepared for hours before the game.
The efforts are paying dividends as your opponent falls into something that you have prepped for.
You get a slightly better position and also some extra minutes on the clock.
You invest your time on every move and slowly but steadily build up a clearly better / winning position until move 25-30.
But then you have around 3 minutes left on the clock with 30 seconds increment for the entire game. You being low on time, your opponent tries to create some mess on the board and you have to find that one single move, a deceptive one that wins on the spot!
With your time ticking away, unfortunately, you do not find it and the tables are turned against you. You either lose the game or draw a winning position.
The emotions after such a game of chess are felt by most of us at some point or the other in our careers. It further turns into agitation and you may end up cursing your luck or blaming yourself. You come out and tell your friends, coaches and parents that you played a nearly flawless game but only if you had some extra time at that exact moment, you would have found the required winning move and crushed your opponent. Doh!
Does this story sound familiar to you? If this happens once in a while, maybe it’s not that big an issue but if it happens game after game then it is high time to do something about it. Unless, of course, you enjoy playing under time pressure and find reasonably good moves without too many errors even in the most complicated of the positions. If this is the case, then, congratulations! You are the next Grischuk!
Alexander Grischuk — the time trouble specialist | Photo: Grand Chess Tour
On a quick note, the above-mentioned situations are not fictional, it happened with me when I was a young upcoming player. Well not just once, many times!
In the book secrets of practical chess, John Nunn writes:
The clock is just as much a part of the game as the board and pieces and losing because of time-trouble is no different than losing because of weak play – it’s still zero point on the scoresheet.
Remember, the clock is a very important part of the game — nearly as important as the position on the board!
Getting into time trouble in every game is a serious sin and I committed this sin many times in my childhood. Back then I was not self-reliant enough to resolve this problem in detail. But in my journey towards excellence as a player and a coach, I read a lot of books and that helped me to understand many things on how to avoid time trouble. To be honest even today I still find myself in this situation in a few games but the percentage has gone down drastically.
Before finding a cure to any problem it’s first important to understand the problem. So why do players get into time pressure regularly after all? Don’t they know getting into time pressure is bad for practical results?
We all know but it becomes a habit unknowingly. A habit which is difficult to break but is not impossible. If I can do it so can you.
Let us see a short video clip (watch the first 2 mins 20) of one of the fastest chess players in the world right now Ian Nepo who shares his story of how he improved his time trouble problem which he faced in his childhood.
Ian Nepomniachtchi on how he solved the time pressure issue
Nepomniachtchi:
When I was 10 or 11 years old, I used to have time trouble in every game. At some point my coach told me that you play as if you have one hour instead of two hours on the clock! (laughs) In the end it worked! There is also a funny story of Grischuk playing against Malakhov. The game began at around 6 p.m. and Malakhov had his last train back to Moscow at 8 p.m.! So while Grischuk thought for his moves and played, Malakhov was simply rushing. He had only 10 minutes for his game!
As you can see from Nepo's examples sometimes you have to try and bring about the change, sometimes the outside factors force you to play faster!
Reasons for time-pressure
Assuming every position as critical — I feel the major reason why players get into regular time-pressure is that they assume every decision that they make throughout the game is equally important. This is not the case. The decisions they make in the critical moments in the game, are far more imperative than the decision they make in the positions where there are several alternatives of more or less equal strength.
Self-doubt — Sometimes we intuitively feel that a certain move must be good because position demands it! But in order to prove ourselves right (because we are afraid of missing something even better), we calculate and calculate and calculate! After a while, we end up playing the same move but after losing unnecessary time on the clock.
Playing perfect chess — Some of us want to create a masterpiece, play a perfect game of chess. Such games rarely exist! Even in top-level games, there will be some inaccuracies here and there. If you spend time finding perfect moves from the early stages of the game, you may end up playing horrible moves towards the end due to shortage of time.
Procrastination — Some players do not make decisions, not only in chess but also in real life, until they are forced to by external circumstances. This results in a delay of simple decision making process over the board because there is no pressure until of course, the time-pressure arrives!
Bad opening preparation — You may lose a lot of time in the opening phase of the game itself if you have no idea how to continue after 7-8 moves into the game. Figuring out everything from the very start creates pressure and in return you lose a lot of time which may be difficult to cover later on.
Lack of concentration — Some players may suffer setbacks due to a lack of concentration during the game. Their mind is flooded with sometimes unrelated thoughts/ideas which distract them from focusing. The result — loss of valuable time.
So once we have understood the reasons of time pressure let’s dive into the solutions to overcome this.
Solutions for time pressure
1. Understanding the critical moments in the game — Basically spending the right amount of time and energy is a mark a strong practical player. On the surface, such players may not look like playing the best moves every time. But they will find accurate moves when important moments of the game come. Of course, finding accurate moves also depends on the strength of a player but they are able to find simply because they have time to think when it matters! How to identify which moments are critical and which are not, is an entirely different topic and I will cover this topic in future articles.
World-famous chess author and coach Jacob Aagaard has written an insightful chapter on decision making in his amazing book ‘Thinking inside the box’. You can refer to this book to know more about critical moments in the game.
2. Don’t doubt yourself on every decision — Stop doubting every move you play. Your intuition always has insights to offer in any given position. Trust them more often, except in positions where accuracy is the key!
3. There is rarely a perfect game of Chess — Spending loads of time on every move to find a perfect one is like driving a car in the second gear to avoid even the slightest of bumps on the road. If you play in the second gear from the start and when suddenly you feel the time pressure, you anxiously switch to the top gears and that is exactly where you drive into the unknown territory. Always aim for perfection in the critical moments of the game, not when simple decisions have to be made. Go ahead and play the moves that seem logical and obvious to you.
4. Don’t wait for outer reasons to force you — Players suffering from delaying decisions on the board for no apparent reason should examine if they do the same in other matters of their day to day lives. Many times our character reflects in our play in chess. Practise taking simple decisions faster in your daily life and it may help you in taking decisions faster on the board.
5. Improve your opening knowledge — If you find yourself thinking from the very early stages of the game you need to improve your opening preparations. When you already know the opening lines inside out, you automatically play faster and better moves thus saving a lot of time on the clock for the future.
6. Meditate if you have problems with concentration — If you face problems in concentrating during the game, it makes sense to work on this weakness on a daily basis. There are many ways to improve your concentration. Meditation is an ageless, proven way of doing it. Focusing on your breathing during the game can also be helpful. I will go in detail about this in future articles.
My last two suggestions are specifically for ambitious players. I have personally used these in my playing career too and also recommend my students who are facing issues related to time-trouble.
1. Use your opponent’s time — Most of the players have the habit of getting up from the board after playing the move and roaming around the hall. If the position is complicated and you have not yet figured out what reply you will make on some of the opponent's most obvious moves, then it is better you stay on the board and use your opponents time to calculate and figure things out. By this way, you will already have a lot of information about the position when the opponent actually makes his move as you have already calculated at least a few variations in your opponent’s time.
2. Record time after each move — This is a very important thing that you can do to improve your time-management during the game. After the first 5-6 moves are over, record the time shown on your and your opponent’s clock after each move on your scoresheet. In this way, you will get an idea of how much time you spent on each move. Keep the scoresheets safely or take a picture of your scoresheet and after the tournament, once you are back home, you can discuss with your coach or think for yourself why did you spend so much time on this particular move. You will get a lot of insights into your thinking process during the game. This habit has helped me a lot in improving my time-management and I have seen other friends of mine who are now world-class players use this method as well.
How to record time in ChessBase 15
Once you have noted down the time for your moves on your scoresheet during the game, it is a good idea to store them in ChessBase after the game as well.
When you open a board in ChessBase 15, you go to "Home" and then click on "Input Mode
Click on "Move Time"
Put the amount of time you took for a move.
Say for the first move 1.e4, you took two minutes during the game.
It comes like this right next to the move in the notation and can be a useful reference point
You can start using the feature if you already use ChessBase 15.
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The truth is, in spite of doing all of this, you will still find yourself in time-pressure every now and then. So...
What to do when you are in time pressure
Relax calm down — This is easy to say but difficult to apply. But if you get tensed in time-pressure then there is a strong chance that you may miss something. Tell yourself to relax and focus on the game.
Be tactically alert — Most of the misses in time-trouble are usually of tactical nature. Be tactically aware and be ready for some quick calculations. It would be great if you train your tactical vision and quick calculation skills at home.
The journey to playing faster
It could be one reason or a combination of two or more reasons that results in a habit of time pressure. The journey to turn it around into a good habit starts with first acknowledging that time pressure is bad for our practical results and second to take firm steps to resolve this problem once and for all. It would be very naive to expect that after reading this article or after taking steps you would never come into time-pressure again. Habits good or bad once formed take time to be changed. It is important to be patient and trust your abilities to overcome it.
You may try to play faster but make bad decisions in a game or two, get into a worse position and lose the game in the end. But that is OK. When you try to change something that has become your second nature (in this case playing slowly in every game) results never come as quickly as we expect them to. When you lose games by playing faster, remember that this is a just a step-back in your journey towards your goal. Remind yourself how many games you have lost by blundering or missing moves in time-pressure. A better way to look at your mistakes when you play faster is to investigate why you played that bad move, how can you improve your understanding of that position so that you can make better moves in similar positions rather than trying to go back to your old ways of playing very slowly.
I hope this article has helped you to understand the issue of time-trouble and gave you insights as to what are the steps you can take to improve this bad habit of time-pressure.
Swapnil Dhopade Swapnil Dhopade is India's 40th grandmaster. Hailing from the town of Amravati, Swapnil became the first GM of Vidarbha region. Since 2018, Swapnil has stopped playing competitively as a player and has shifted his focus to becoming a full-time trainer.
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Karpov vs Istratescu in Bucharest
3/25/2005 – Chess legend Anatoly Karpov is playing Romanian GM Andrei Istratescu in a match in Bucharest. There are eight games, four at classical time controls and four rapid chess games. The match lasts from March 20th to 26th March and is being shown live on the Internet. Karpov is in the lead.
Anatoly Karpov, double world champion (1975 – 1985 and 1993 – 1999), is one of the leading personalities of the history of chess. In his Romanian debut he is playing a chess match against GM Andrei Istratescu. The event is organised by Astral Chess Foundation, Gambit Foundation, Elisabeta Polihroniade and Sah Campion Chess Club. It is being held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Bucharest from March 20th to March 26th.
Karpov arriving in Bucharest
According to the organisers the media attention is overwhelming. "In Romania, chess has an old and famous tradition, earned by several medals in Chess Olympics and many gold medals in European and World Junior Championships. The number of Romanians interested in chess is so big that it is nearly impossible to find a family that has no member who is a chess player, either amateur or professional one."
For the first time in Romania, the games are being broadcast live on the Internet. The chess board and the chess clock were ordered especially for this event. They allow projection of the game on big screens for the onsite public.
20.03.2005 – Sunday 14:00h Game 1 Istratescu-Karpov 1/2
21.03.2005 – Monday 14:00h Game 2 Karpov-Istratescu 1-0
22.03.2005 – Tuesday 14:00h Game 3 Istratescu-Karpov 1-0
24.03.2005 – Thursday 14:00h Game 4 Karpov-Istratescu 1-0
25.03.2005 – Friday 14:00h Game 5 Istratescu-Karpov 0-1
25.03.2005 – Friday 16:00h Game 6 Karpov-Istratescu 1-0
26.03.2003 – Saturday 14:00h Game 7 Istratescu-Karpov
26.03.2003 – Sunday 16:00h Game 8 Karpov-Istratescu
Score: Karpov: 4½ – Istratescu: 1½
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Games 5 – 8: whole game in 30 minutes with an increment of 20 seconds per move from the first move
Karpov and Istratescu during the game
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Qom is the eighth largest city in Iran. It lies 125 kilometers by road southwest of Tehran and is the capital of Qom Province.
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Describe your route to a career in (or using) ecology. What challenges did you need to overcome? What was your training, and what positions have you held?
Having decided rather late in my undergraduate career to go on for an advanced degree, I had much course work to make up. My undergraduate experience, however, provided a very firm base for how to think and approach problems critically. My Ph.D. was in zoology with a minor in botany, and I have held faculty positions since 1961 at Dartmouth College, Cornell University, Rutgers University and Yale University. A fuller description can be found at http://www.ecostudies.org.
How did you learn about ecological careers? What is your position title now?
I am the president and director of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York, and I hold faculty appointments at Cornell, Rutgers and Yale Universities. At the time I was thinking about a career in science, most of the information I received was by word of mouth from professors at my undergraduate institution.
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How an Indian Maharaja’s Necklace Played Muse for a Hollywood Movie
A historical piece of jewellery from an Indian Maharaja’s stunning collection became the centre-piece of a glamorous Hollywood movie, writes Puja Shah.
On the eve of the momentous Christie’s auction of the Al Thani collection of jewels titled ‘Maharajas and Mughal Magnificence’, I made a trip to New York to catch a final glimpse of the pieces before they were dispersed, each making its way to a new home in different parts of the world.
An interesting observation that I made here while looking at the pieces was that though one considers jewellery to be mostly a woman’s prerogative in today’s time, more than 85 per cent of the jewellery in the exhibit belonged to and was worn by men.
I was intrigued by a magnificent turban ornament whose provenance stated that it belonged to the Maharaja of Nawanagar (present day Jamnagar, Gujarat). Since I am from Gujarat myself, I delved deeper into the Nawanagar jewels to know more.
Turban ornament (jigha, left) made by Cartier for the Maharaja Sir Ranjitsinghji Jadeja of Nawanagar (right)
The beginning of the 20th century saw a great deal of interest by the Indian maharajas for all things European, particularly jewellery. It also coincided with the visit of the famed jeweller Jacques Cartier to India. I stumbled upon a range of rare jewels that were commissioned by Maharaja Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji Jadeja and Maharaja Digvijaysinhji Jadeja of Nawanagar with Cartier.
And that is where I first came upon the story of the Nawanagar necklace. Commissioned in 1931, the Nawanagar necklace is one of India’s most famous and finest jewels through history. So much so that it was immortalised in a Hollywood movie, worn by the lovely Anne Hathaway in Ocean’s 8!
The princely state of Nawanagar was ruled by the Jadeja dynasty before Ranjitsinhji came to the throne in 1907. By then, he was a noted cricketer who had played for the English cricket team, Cambridge University and the county of Sussex. In fact, the Ranji Trophy, India’s first-class cricket tournament that has been the breeding ground for scores of international greats, was named in his honour later.
Ranjitsinhji had another great passion apart from cricket: collecting rare jewels. The ‘Nawanagar Jewels’ that he accumulated were described by his close friend, Jacques Cartier, as “unsurpassed in the world, not perhaps in quantity but certainly in quality.”
Cartier’s sketch of the Nawanagar necklace
The collection is considered unique even when compared with other great jewellery collections such as those of the Hyderabad, Baroda, Indore and Kapurthala royal families. One of the reasons is that the pearl fisheries around Gujarat were known to produce natural black pearls – it is no wonder that the Nawanagar royal family had a rare necklace made of these.
They also famously had an emerald necklace owned by the Ottoman Sultans, a beautiful lemon-coloured diamond known as the ‘Tiger’s eye’, and many other exquisite pieces.
Coloured diamonds – Ranji’s favourite – were a large part of his collection, including unusual shades such as pink, blue, green and black. The book Cartier by Hans Nadelhoffer speaks of a red diamond and even a brown diamond bought by the Maharaja, which would no doubt command astronomical prices today.
But the most important jewel from the Nawanagar collection is the two-line Cartier diamond necklace called the Nawanagar necklace. It had two strands of first-class white diamonds, linked on both sides by a pair of square pink diamonds.
Anne Hathaway in Ocean’s 8 wearing a Cartier replica of the Nawanagar necklace
The centre pendant comprised several pink diamonds, a large 26-carat blue diamond, a 12-carat green diamond, and the famous 136-carat ‘Queen of Holland’ diamond, even larger than the 105-carat Kohinoor!
Its total carat count was around 500 carats. Jacques Cartier described it as “the finest cascade of coloured diamonds in the world” and “a superb realisation of a connoisseur’s dream”.
But the connoisseur did not live long enough to enjoy his necklace. It was his nephew and successor Sir Digvijaysinhji Jadeja (1895-1966) who actually wore the necklace several times on state occasions (lead image). He too was a lover of jewellery and further expanded the Nawanagar collection.
Sadly, the necklace no longer exists except in archival photos.
But it was resurrected to celebrity status when Warner Bros collaborated with Cartier to recreate a replica as the centre-piece in Ocean’s 8. Though the design is exactly the same, the necklace used in the movie is reduced in size by 15 to 20 percent and adjusted to Anne Hathaway’s measurements as the original dimensions were for a man. And of course, those aren’t real diamonds; zirconium oxides were used instead.
The commissioned piece took 15 artisans eight weeks of high-intensity work at Cartier’s high jewellery workshop in Paris, and was named the Toussaint Necklace after Cartier’s then creative director, Jeanne Toussaint – an independent, pioneering woman who was fascinated by Indian jewellery and inspired by the splendour of the great Indian Maharajas.
It’s only fitting that the movie version of the Nawanagar necklace was worn in a women-centric film starring some of Hollywood’s greatest stars, a fun flick with high fashion and glamour!
Puja Shah is the founder of Aurus Jewels based in Ahmedabad. She is a jewellery designer trained at Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, and a history buff.
First published in eShe’s September 2019 issue.
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EU trying to salvage US deal on data privacy
Trump has issued executive orders that go against privacy (Photo: Reuters)
By Nikolaj Nielsen
Brussels, 30. Mar 2017, 09:27
The EU's commissioner for justice, Vera Jourova, is in Washington DC to prevent privacy safeguards for European citizens from unravelling.
European privacy in personal data sent to the United States is supposed to be maintained under the EU-US Privacy Shield accord, which was launched last summer.
"The commitments the US has taken must be respected, she [Jourova] has been very clear already on this and also publicly," said Paul Nemitz, a senior EU commission official on Wednesday (29 March) at the RightsCon digital conference in Brussels.
Around 1,800 companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, are self-certified under the scheme.
This means they are supposed to respect EU-level protection standards whenever the personal data of EU citizens is in the US.
But US authorities have failed so far to adhere to the terms of the agreement, while the US administration, under president Donald Trump, is rolling back privacy safeguards and stepping up surveillance through executive orders.
"Privacy Shield is on shaky ground, in part because some of the foundations of Privacy Shield are being undercut," said Greg Nojeim, a senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington-based NGO.
Jourova is hoping to address some of those issues following meetings this week with the US attorney general, the US secretary of commerce, and the US federal trade commissioner, among others.
US failures
The Privacy Shield terms had included a key oversight board in the US to ensure that the personal data of EU citizens is not abused. The five-member board has four vacancies.
The US was also supposed to set up a permanent ombudsperson, to whom EU citizens can file complaints if they believe their rights have been violated. Instead, the US has appointed an "acting" ombudsperson.
The Federal Trade Commission, which enforces the Privacy Shield, has three of its five seats vacant.
Former US president Barack Obama's presidential policy directive (PPD-28), on signals intelligence, is also being undermined. Obama's directive had limited the amount of data intelligence that can be collected and processed.
But Trump's picks for CIA director and US attorney general have both gone on record opposing PPD-28.
Trump had also issued an executive order that allows the National Security Agency (NSA) to share raw surveillance intelligence data with 16 other government agencies without any oversight from the courts.
Privacy campaigners in the US are hoping that upcoming debates on the NSA's section 702 on foreign intelligence gathering will shift the mood in Congress.
"It [debates] can make a difference in the US Congress in limiting the scope of the surveillance to make it more likely the Privacy Shield would actually survive," said Nojeim.
Section 702 is set to expire at the end of the year.
But the effort may prove difficult, given that, earlier this week, the US Congress decided to repeal another set of of Obama-era broadband privacy rules. Those rules aimed to protect the privacy of US customers.
Privacy Shield is also facing mounting criticism in Europe.
"It is amazing to see how Privacy Shield allows US companies to be on the European market with substantially lower protections that any European companies," said Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems.
"It is absurd that the European Union agrees to it because it allows Google to be in competition [with] a European company, without following the same rules," he added.
Last October, a privacy advocacy group, Digital Rights Ireland, launched national court proceedings against it.
The case was followed a week later by a second challenge from the Paris-based privacy advocacy group, La Quadrature du Net.
The French group is lodging their case directly with the General Court at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
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EU and Poland aim to calm tensions
Andrzej Duda (L) and Donald Tusk, two Polish politicians on opposite sides of the political spectrum, met in Brussels (Photo: Council of the European Union)
By Eszter Zalan
Brussels, 18. Jan 2016, 15:52
EU council president Donald Tusk and Polish president Andrzej Duda attempted to calm tensions on Monday (18 January), a day before a debate about Poland in the European Parliament.
The new Polish government of the Law and Justice party (PiS) has been accused by critics of curbing the constitutional court’s ability to check on the government and putting party loyalists in charge of state broadcasters.
The European Commission last week launched for the first time a monitoring procedure that is supposed to check the health of Polish democracy.
“Poland has no enemies in the EU,” said Tusk, who served as Polish prime minister between 2007 and 2014 with Civic Platform, a party now in opposition.
Tusk also warned that officials and politicians from the EU and Poland should not exaggerate in their statements and should refrain from hysterical behaviour.
“I want to deny any conspiracy theories supposedly created here in Europe,” Tusk said.
He criticised the procedure launched by the European Commission.
No EU Council discussion
“The European Commission is acting in good faith, it does not want to humiliate or stigmatise Poland. But this could be achieved by other methods, not necessarily by triggering this framework,” Tusk told the media on Monday.
“I’m not very enthusiastic about it, but this is an opportunity to tone down the negative emotions that have grown around Poland.”
Tusk also said he did not think Poland would ever become an issue for the European Council.
“I don’t believe it is a good idea to discuss the Polish situation at the EU Council,” he said.
For his part, Duda said he wanted to have a calm debate with Brussels.
“Nothing exceptional is happening in Poland,” Duda said, “we are not undermining our membership in the EU”.
“I appeal to calm down the debate, to have a rational dialogue, based on real facts, not some media creations, that have nothing to do with reality,” Duda said.
“I appeal to the European political scene to have an objective look at Poland, unnecessary emotions and lack of objective analysis very often lead to escalation, and this is not beneficial to the European unity.”
Tusk said it was of key importance for Poland to maintain the good reputation it had worked on for the past 25 years, recalling how Polish opponents of the Soviet-controlled regime had longed for EU membership.
“This reputation has been shaken slightly,” Tusk said.
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Duda said Poland wanted a deal that would help the UK remain in the EU.
“We must seek a cautious compromise that does not undermine basic freedoms that are important for Poland,” he said.
The Polish president heavily criticised the planned North Stream 2 gas pipeline that would circumvent Ukraine as a transit country, delivering gas from Russia to Europe, via Germany.
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April 16, 2020 Interviews
EveryMatrix’s Head of Product Development for sports, Malte Hegeler, examines the esports betting landscape in the time of COVID-19 and beyond.
There has been a lot of ink spilt over the Covid-19 pandemic, the toll it has taken on the sports world and its effects. For the iGaming industry, the most notable consequence is the cancellation of sports events, and 80 per cent drop across the sports vertical which followed within a week.
While the situation looks grim on a global scale, the long-term effect of this crisis is directly associated with how we position ourselves: at the end of the line or at a turning point? For EveryMatrix, we have chosen the latter, as this is a vast opportunity which we spotted amidst the turmoil. And our guesses were correct since at the start of April esports accounted for almost half of our total sports turnover.
With only a tiny selection of sports events available, such as the Belarusian Cup or the Tajikistani Higher League, the growing appetite for esports stood out. And the explanation is straightforward: bettors can either choose to watch a relatively unknown real-life competition, or they can pivot towards something new to them, yet filled with familiar teams and players and much more exciting: esports competitions.
Accelerated growth of the esports vertical
Esports are now more popular than ever in the betting world, but we should not ignore that esports are a global force on their own, with estimates going as far as counting almost 500 million esports enthusiasts in today’s world. More than half of the core audience of esports is represented by people aged between 21-35, many of whom are high-income, full-time professionals. Moreover, now with competitions being cancelled all over the world, we see a massive increase in the traditional bettors moving on to esports. Bookmakers have a rare opportunity and time is of the essence.
While esports represented less than 1.5 per cent of our total turnover before the COVID-19 crisis, by the beginning of April it had exceeded 40 per cent – a spectacular increase. FIFA and NBA2k take the lion’s share, marking 85 per cent of the esports’ turnover and with a higher number of bets, since a match takes just 8 to 15 minutes instead of 2 hours.
There is a huge potential in esports betting, and not just in the short term. This made us decide to take advantage of the situation and make sure we provide timely solutions to bookmakers not just alternatives to real-life sports betting events. Over the past week, we got the entire sports unit to work on this and we made it possible for our clients to launch into esports in just one to two weeks, via our customizable OddsMatrix Esports Hosted Solution and a massive esports events offering.
Next in line is the content – no matter how quickly you take care of the technical issues, the player experience is what matters most. So, we stepped in to help our clients keep punters entertained by providing them with more than 50,000 pre-live events and 25,000 live events, as well as an outstanding, real-time streaming experience available for 80 per cent of events.
The rising stars: FIFA and NBA 2k
Once we have ensured that we can get operators swiftly launched into esports, with a great quantity of engaging sports titles, we also took notice of which content performs better. Not surprisingly, esports games with a crossover to real-life sports are doing great. Although often viewed as tier-2 titles by esports specialists, FIFA and NBA 2k currently have the best adoption rate among traditional sports fans.
Traditional sports bettors tend to go towards the easiest replacers, such as FIFA and NBA 2k esports tournaments. They already know the basics and can familiarise themselves quickly with the particularities of simulations of real-life sports. And a piece of trivia: we noticed that the average bet for NBA bettors and NBA2k bettors was the same. We also see a sharp rise in the number of esports events which now have a chance to go mainstream. For instance, NBA2k Players Tournament premiered on April 3 on ESPN and features 16 current NBA players. In the following weeks our aim is to enrich our offering even more by adding eTennis and eHockey.
The sports crisis took its toll on bookmakers of all sizes, without exception. And now we can all agree that diversification across the sportsbook is never a bad idea. During a sports crisis, diversification means adding esports content to provide for the players’ needs and expectations.
Which leads me to another thing I want to pinpoint: esports betting is by no means just a damage control solution for the current situation. It is a long-term investment. We are diving deep into developing high-quality data feeds and technical solutions, and the current situation has provided us with a unique opportunity. While we don’t know how long this is going to last, it has given us a clear focus, and we can put our energy into developing the esports vertical now more than ever.
We can see how our numbers are increasing week by week across all segments: game titles and events we offer, betting markets, clients we help with integrating the esports into their offering, and so on. No one knows how or when the current crisis will end. There are many possible outcomes, but I am a believer in the chance this situation has put in front of us, and I am willing to bet on esports staying a success in the sports betting world.
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Who are the top Republican PR Firm CEOs
At Everything PR News we realize that the public relations industry is generally liberal, there are a handful of strong PR firms who have Republican CEO’s. Some on this list serve politicians, lobby for initiatives, and have worked for the Republican National Committee (RNC), while others have strong media contacts and are good “street-fighting” PR professionals.
Ronn Torossian 5WPR CEO
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Doug Goodyear, CEO – DCI Group
Erik Potholm, Partner SRCP Media
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The founder of 5WPR, a top 20 independent American PR firm is the rare NY Republican PR Agency owner. A native New Yorker, Torossian is a regular op-ed columnist for conservative news outlets including Newsmax, Frontpage Magazine, Truth Revolt and others, and has worked for many of the leading Evangelical churches in the United States.
Torossian has been named the PR Executive of the year on numerous occasions, won awards from Ernst & Young and has an office with 150 employees in New York City, directly across the street from Fox News. His agency also represents Sinclair Broadcasting, the largest independent broadcaster in the United States.
Well respected for his aggressive nature in crisis PR situations, he started his career working for the conservative Likud Party in Israel, and today is active with the Republican Jewish Coalition – so apparently 5WPR has a Republican PR Firm owner.
Diaz previously served as a communications director and chief communications strategist of the RNC. Diaz was regularly interviewed by national and international media outlets while acting as the Republican Party’s national spokesman. Before his time at the RNC, he worked as deputy communications director for John McCain 2008.
Diaz is a native of Washington DC and received his bachelor’s degree from George Mason University in communications. He is smart, and a Republican insider.
When he co-founded DCI Group in 1996, it was a single-client startup. Now it has grown to become one of the country’s largest independently-owned public affairs firms.
DCI Group has several industry associations and Fortune 500 corporations as their clients.
Goodyear first became active in politics in the 1980’s in Colorado, where he served as the state GOP political director. In ’88, he managed the New Jersey U.S. Senate campaign of Pete Dawkins. Goodyear is an avid baseball fan and helped bring major league baseball to Denver in 1990. He graduated from Tufts University.
Potholm has been creating and producing award-winning advertising for political referendum, initiatives, and candidates.
Erik is also active with other clients who include major trade associations and Fortune 500 companies.
He’s received numerous national advertising awards, and one of his ads was called “One of the best TV ads” by The Washington Post.
One of his most recent political clients was Mitt Romney for President.
Other clients include Wal-Mart Stores, Americans for Affordable Communications, and Keep America Connected Coalition.
Any Republican PR professional’s we are missing from this list? Let us know!
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NBA 2K18 locker codes: How to boost your VC on PS4 and Xbox One
NBA 2K18 is finally here, launching on Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch, with a PC version coming in the near future. Series veterans will be well versed in the game’s many different reward systems, which gift the game’s currency in Virtual Currency, or MyTeam cards. This currency — “VC” — can then be used to purchase in-game upgrades and aesthetics.
You can earn these rewards by simply playing the game as much as possible, purchasing the dreaded microtransaction, or by entering a free code, or a “Locker Code”.
Locker Codes can either be widely available and accessible for a limited time, or available in limited quantities for a select few. There’s a constant stream throughout the game’s 12-month period before the next release, however, so you’re likely to get your hands on a whole bunch at one point or another.
What separates Locker Codes from other rewards available in the game is that they can only be granted outside the game, and then inputted as a code into the game. They essentially act as a cheat code.
Here’s how you can get Locker Codes for NBA 2K18.
Following these accounts is wise if you’re after Locker Codes, as they will randomly and often gift them out to followers.
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Check these accounts weekly for new Locker Codes.
As of 9/20 and running until 10/31, you can also get Locker Codes via a cross-promotion with Mountain Dew. This Locker Code contains 5,000 VC.
In order to get this code, you’ll need to purchase two Kickstart cans of Mountain Dew from Walmart, and then email a photo of your receipt with your email address written on it to [email protected]
This is only open to North American players, however.
We’ll keep this updated with more Locker Codes promotions, so keep checking back for updates.
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Review: The Duff
Written by: Alyssa | February 21st, 2015
Hollywood gives many actresses the impression that if they’re not a perfect ten, they’ll never be more than a voiceover performer. Mae Whitman has done some marvelous voice work in shows like “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” As far as her live-action roles go, though, Whitman is usually restricted to playing the weird outsider or the butt of a joke, most notably Anne Veal (aka Her?) from “Arrested Development.” While she excels at playing those parts, it’d be nice to see a character actress like Whitman score more complex roles. She finds the perfect star vehicle for herself in “The DUFF,” a film that asserts just because you aren’t considered a ten doesn’t mean you’re not beautiful.
Whitman plays Bianca, the short, stout, overall-wearing best girlfriend of two high school knockouts. Bianca begins to worry that she’s the DUFF in her circle of friends. If you don’t keep up with modern acronyms, D.U.F.F. stands for Designated Ugly Fat Friend. Determined to be more than a player on the bleachers, she seeks guidance from Robbie Amell’s Wesley, the hunky jock next door. From there, the plot is a bit like “She’s All That,” but infinitely smarter.
“The DUFF” features some winning secondary performances from Ken Jeong as Bianca’s teacher, Bella Thorne as a classic mean girl, and Allison Janney, who’s perfected the quirky mom archetype down to a T. This is Whitman’s movie, however, and boy does she shine. Whitman stays 100% committed to whatever the filmmakers throw at her, but she’s never mean-spiritedly humiliated or degraded. This movie respects its main character and doesn’t try to change who she is. Whitman thus creates a heroine that’s identifiable, awkward, and lovable in every way.
At times, “The DUFF” demonstrates the potential for a great high school comedy such as “Mean Girls” or “Easy A.” There are a few problems, though, with Josh A. Cagan’s witty, yet familiar, script. We have to put up with a ton of lame conventions involving misunderstands, seemingly nice guys that turn out to be jerks, and Bianca creating some forced tension with her friends. Then there’s the climax at homecoming, which does admittedly lead to a nice, heartfelt conclusion. Of course you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know how the movie will resolve itself.
It takes talented people to make clichés like this work. Fortunately, Whitman and Director Ari Sandel, who won an Oscar for his short film several years ago, are more than up to the task. Although it doesn’t provide groundbreaking commentary, “The DUFF” is a funny, earnest, and insightful picture about being yourself. This can be especially hard in an age of cyber bullying and size zero models plastering billboards. That’s just one of the reasons why we could use a movie like “The DUFF” and a star like Whitman right about now.
Nick Spake is a graduate of Arizona State University. He has been working as a film critic for the past ten years, reviewing movies on his website,NickPicksFlicks.com.
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The outgoing President Donald Trump's administration continues to add pressure on China even as its term nears an end. In the latest move, U.S. has added China's leading smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp (OTC: XIACF) and its third-biggest driller CNOOC Ltd (NYSE: CEO) to blacklisted firms -- baning them from American investment due to ties with the Chinese military, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.What Happened: Xiaomi was added to the Department of Defense (DoD) list of nine companies for alleged military ties. "The Department is determined to highlight and counter the People's Republic of China's (PRC) Military-Civil Fusion development strategy, which supports the modernization goals of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) by ensuring its access to advanced technologies and expertise acquired and developed by even those PRC companies, universities, and research programs that appear to be civilian entities," DoD said in a statement.Companies in the DoD list are prohibited from American exchanges and investment. As per the administration's amended order, investors have a November 2021 deadline to sell sanctioned securities.Cnooc was added to the Department of Commerce (DoC) list -- which denies access to U.S. technologies for the driller without specific permission. Bloomberg noted that the list is under an order issued in December that has blacklisted more than 60 companies."China's reckless and belligerent actions in the South China Sea and its aggressive push to acquire sensitive intellectual property and technology for its militarization efforts are a threat to U.S. national security and the security of the international community," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a press release."Cnooc acts as a bully for the People's Liberation Army to intimidate China's neighbors, and the Chinese military continues to benefit from government civil-military fusion policies for malign purposes."Why It Matters: Xiaomi's stock crashed 10% in Hong Kong on the news. The company hit back by saying "it provides products and services for civilian and commercial use.""The Company confirms that it is not owned, controlled, or affiliated with the Chinese military, and is not a 'Communist Chinese Military Company' defined under the NDAA," Xiaomi said in a statement, as per CNBC.Xiaomi is the third-largest smartphone maker globally, and this move could have future implications, CNBC notes. The smartphone has not been put on the "Entity List," which bans sanctioned companies from using American technology. Xiaomi uses chips from QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM).As per the Bloomberg report, the move against Xiaomi was unexpected, which is viewed as China's answer to Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL). Unless the ban is reversed, Xiaomi risks being delisted from U.S. exchanges and deleted from global benchmark indexes.So far, the government has left three major companies -- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA), Tencent Holdings (OTC: TCEHY), and Baidu Inc (NASDAQ: BIDU) off the ban list considering the potential economic impact.Price Action: XIACF closed 9.35% lower at $3.88 on Thursday, and CEO closed 5.02% higher at $102.71.Related News: Top Us Banks To Remove Hong Kong-listed Products With Exposure To Sanctioned Chinese CompaniesPhoto courtesy: Ilya Plekhanov on WikimediaSee more from Benzinga * Click here for options trades from Benzinga * Trump Administration Issues New Order Clarifying Investment Ban Against Chinese Companies * Amazon Follows Twitter In Removing QAnon Related Products(C) 2021 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.
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Season 1. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later Photos View All Photos (1) Movie Info. (9)2017TV-14. I was a career firefighter in Long Beach, California and was in command of Task Force 11 in North Long Beach, just south of Compton. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later ( 2017) Photos.
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Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later - Gun Store Manager David Joo Looks Back | A&E. L.A. Looks back at decades of racial injustice in Los Angeles leading up to April 29, 1992. LA Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later User Name: Remember Me: Password : Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! The Los Angeles Riots: 25 Years Later Rodney King verdicts swept the City of Los Angeles into some of the most-destructive rioting in U.S. history. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later Season 1 at Amazon.com. L.A. Critic Reviews for L.A. Hundreds of residents, activists and community leaders... 25 years after racial tensions erupted, black and Korean communities reflect on L.A. riots.
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Zondo commission to zoom in on Parliament when hearings resume
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said public hearings would resume at the end of June.
FILE: Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo at the state capture inquiry on Tuesday, 8 October 2019. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN
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JOHANNESBURG - Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo on Wednesday said when the state capture commission of inquiry resumed, it would focus on Parliament’s oversight functions over the executive and whether it failed in its mandate to hold government officials accountable for state capture.
Zondo said public hearings would resume at the end of June.
“Parliament - by virtue of its oversight functions - has a big role to play to make sure that is done. But Parliament must have adequate and proper mechanisms and perform its functions,” the deputy chief justice said during a virtual press briefing.
He said while the lockdown had impacted on the inquiry’s already tight deadline, he expected it to finish its work before the end of March next year.
Zondo said several questions needed to be asked.
“Members of the public would be entitled to say ‘where was Parliament as all of this was happening?’ and one of the things I’ve said we would look at is how did Parliament exercise its oversight functions,” he said.
Zondo also confirmed that former President Jacob Zuma was expected to appear before the inquiry as soon as the inquiry resumed with its work.
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Charlie Chaplin Film by Film Thread. Pt. 3: Mutual
Discussion in 'Visual Arts' started by Rfreeman, Feb 21, 2017.
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We move on to discuss Chaplin's third and fourth years in films: 1916-17 at Mutual studios:
This continues from the discussion of Chaplin's work in 1914 at Keystone Charlie Chaplin Film by Film Thread
and in 1915 at Essanay Charlie Chaplin Film by Film Thread. Pt. 2: Essanay
Chaplin's star exploded bigger than ever with his Mutual contract, signed February 25 2016, guaranteeing him $10,000 per week to make 12 two reel films in a year, along with a signing bonus of $150,000. In gerneral these films are far more acclaimed than Chaplin's film's for Keystone and Essanay. He also got fairly complete creative control at this point, and there was no more timkering with any of his films or letting them slip into public domain as of this point.
My personal re-immersion in Chaplin began in 2006 when a then-definitive DVD set of these 12 films was released, and I then went back to view the Essanays and then the Keystones, so I am coming full circle on my 11 year Chaplin experience having bought the new and improved BluRay version of these that came out last year. I actually got the UK BFI release of these films which is reported to be better quality than the US release, in part because there are up to 4 soundtrack options for each film, and - where sound effects mark points in the action - these tracks (at least the main ones, with orchestration by Carl Davis) maintin better sync to the action than those on the US BluRay release by Flicker Alley. Note that the BFI version is Region 2, and will not work with most US BluRay players.
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Oddly, Chaplin's first film with Mutual is really more a step back than something that builds on the finest and most mature work he had done the previous year at Essanay. It does have a few wonderful sequences, but only in a pure physical comedy sense, as the plot is threadbare and lacks much of a resolution and there is no real character development. The print quality, while not as bad as some, is also below that of the better Essanays.
The viewer is thrown off initially, as the film initially focuses on a floorwalker in a department store - who is not played by Charlie but by Lloyd Bacon (albeit with a mustache and general look that resembles Charlie). It appears Chaplin is intentionally misleading the viewer here, as he later expressly plays up the similarity between the two characters. The plot is set up that the floorwalker and the store's general manager (the first appearance of the new Chaplin regular to be, Eric Campbell, in a Chaplin film ) have embezzled some money from the store and are on the verge of being nabbed for this. Their response is to take the rest of the money from the store and leave before they get caught. The satchel of money naturally changes hands as many times as a watch or umbrella in a Keystone park comedy. Edna is the Manager's assistant and oddly has no interaction with Charlie in this film (perhaps a first?)
When Chaplin makes his first appearance, nearly three minutes in, as a sort of customer in the store (he never buys anything), who is interacting humorously with mannequin legs, a drinking fountain, and a display of shaving and grooming supplies. Shortly thereafter Charlie meets the real star of the film - the up escalator - which is fallen up or run down about a s many times as the alarm clock rings in Groundhog Day. It does make for some good nonviolent physical comedy, but it gets pretty old by the end of half an hour. Reportely this was the first use of an escalator in a film, so its novelty may have made the gag funnier longer a century ago as compared to today. And surely it was one of the most expensive props used in his films to date, so there may have been a desire to use it to its fullest.
The highlight of the film is the fairly brief mirror motion scene between Charlie and the floorwalker - making clear that the similarity between them perceived in the opening shot of the film was intentional). This scene inspired many similar future silent comic scenes, including Harpo and Groucho in Duck Soup and Harpo and Lucille Ball on her TV show. After this scene the floorwalker and Charlie decide to swap clothes and identities because "you need a job and I need a change."
Also notable are the most express use of ballet/dance moves Chaplin has yet made, including a kick from a rolling ladder in the shoe department and in a fight scene with Eric Campbell. The film ends with a sped up to a manic pace in a Chase between Charlie and Eric that involves them going down an up escalator about 4 times. Oddly there is little real resolution as the film ends pretty abruptly with Charlie on an elevator that crashes down on Eric.
So this has a fair amount going for it as a knock about comedy,. but lacks any of the development shown in films like The Tramp, The Bank, Burlesque on Carmen, or Police (OK that one actually came out a couple days after this, though it was shot first);.
Of the 4 soundtracks on the BFI disc, the Carl Davis scored one is the most sophisticated - with his approach inspired by Chaplin's own scoring of later films like City Lights), but may not make for as fun as a viewing experience as the others. The Gabriel Thibaudeau score is a bit more uptempo and more fun at the outset, but gets a bit repetitive by the end. A fun (and really probably the most historically accurate) third way to view the film is with a piano accompaniment improvised by Antonio Coppola. There is also a dry but informative commentary track by Frank Scheide.
Rating: Content: 7.5 /10; Print 6/10
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The escalator runs up or down, or speeds up or slows down by the controls. According to Unknown Chaplin, Charlie saw one while in New York and decided to make it the centerpiece of his Department store comedy. And that was different as well. A department store was still a fairly new thing, and this was the first time that many had ever SEEN such a thing. Charlie and Eric running the escalator is roll on the floor time for me. The deadpan look on Charlie's face is just perfect.
For those that don't know, this was actually shot on an outdoor set on a fairly windy day. The outtakes have hair and dresses blowing around, and even in the final film the diffusers sometimes move letting in the sunlight, and ain't there a stiff breeze in this store?
"Why didn't WE ever think of a running staircase? - Mack Sennett
My Charlie Short rating? 9
JamieC, Feb 22, 2017
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On the sync front the only thing I noticed is the old guy blowing his horn. There is a slight delay, but like I said its not a deal breaker in the least. Kinda makes it funnier.
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I think this film has a lot more to it than a return to Charlie's slapstick origins. Yes, it lacks the pathos and character development we'd seen in some of the Essanays, but a lot of the comedy bits are well worked-out and many of them are quite subtle. It's interesting that Chapin DIDN'T try to crowbar in some sort of instantaneous romance or related act of chivalry between the tramp and Edna - almost refreshing in that regard.
The "switcheroo" bit is almost contrived, but there is a subtle wit to it in that each guy thinks he's putting something over on the other (since they both have their reasons for wanting to go incognito).
I think the "mirror" bit may only be diminished in its brilliance by the fact that it was copied later. When Charlie kisses the floorwalker in the second half of this encounter it's (to me) the funniest moment in the film - surprise being a big element of comedy. I also enjoy the sequence where Charlie spontaneously takes over as the shoe salesman, proving bigly yet again that the sexual harassment of today was just obnoxious flirtation 100 years ago.
Pretty much all the bits with the escalator score. And yes, they were probably a lot funnier in an age when many audience members would have been equally ill-equipped to deal with an escalator themselves.
The ending does seem abrupt, and there are a few moments where footage is obviously missing (I have the now-ancient Image DVDs). This isn't the best of the Mutuals, but to me it is a fitting inclusion among them.
RayS, Feb 22, 2017
Oh yeah, the 2 seconds at the end when the elevator comes down on Eric Campbell's head. Such a tiny fragment pretty much lost over time. Its probably the worst looking piece of film in the restoration but I am pleased its there.
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There are a few moments missing in the first reel as well, where action suddenly jumps.
Of course we're happy to have whatever we have!
Weren't they almost all shot on sets without ceilings to use natural light?
Looking into the various editions of the Blu Ray, it seems it is not just improvements in sync that distinguish the BFI edition. This is the only edition with the Carl Davis orchestrations on all the films (and as the default option). The Flicker Alley version only uses a Carl Davis or orchestration on One AM. The Flicker Alley version does benefit from two features, Chaplin's Goliath and Birth of a Tramp. I at least have the first of these on my Image DVD set.
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The escalator had a novelty value in 1915, that is surely lost on today's viewer. (The same might be said for the water fountain, which gets a lot of screen time.)
That said, the ingenuity and sheer number of gags he got from this expensive prop really paid off. I could watch the chase scene in an endless loop, and never stop laughing.
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There HAS to be a GIF of this out there!
Oh there is!
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Simultaneously Sisyphean and Chaplinesque.
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The Fireman (film # 54)
Two Reels 26:26
This film is Chaplin out-keystoning Keystone, but now with a budget to pay for it, time to work on it, and ability to execute on a larger scale that sustains for two reels at around the level of the best one reel Keystones. The Mutual Firemen are somewhere between the Keystone Kops and a silent version of a musical chorus, opening the show with a dance like routine. Showing a house on fire echoes A Film Johnnie, though they intentionally burned the two (condemned) houses for the film. Alarm bells and dinner bells make for regular use of synced sound in this film, most extensively in the alternate Robert Israel “Fotoplayer & Sound Effect” track - which uses bells, whistles and drums to punctuate the action.
Charlie enters the film as a fireman who drives the horse drawn fire wagon sleeping through the alarm bell signaling a fire drill. It is surprising to see that fire wagons are still horse drawn when we have seen so much use of motor vehicles in Charlie's earlier films. But these scenes were shot at a real fire station with real stables, so it is no doubt an accurate depiction. I guess cars were just play things of the rich at the time. What the escalator was to the Floorwalker, backwards cranking is to this film. Chaplin uses this effect in the first minutes to make horses walk backwards (both solo and pushing a fire wagon) and to effortlessly "climb" up the fire pole.
Returning to the firehouse backwards after responding to a drill (albeit without waiting for the firemen to board the wagon), Charlie goes back to illustrate firehouse life: shooting dice , dusting the horses, getting into conflicts with the chief (there is a lot of ass kicking for the score to punctuate) and serving the firemen - which involves a nice trick spinning a pile of dishes around his arm and the novelty of dispensing coffee and cream from taps on the fire wagon.
The plot is launched about half way through when a man plotting arson for insurance money comes in to promise the chief his daughter (Edna) if the chief will refrain from putting out the fire he is going to set in his house. Charlie and Edna start flirting, setting up a triangle. When the fire bell (for an accidental fire, not the arson) interrupts a checkers match, Charlie silences the bell to give himself time to lose the game spectacularly, and then still does nothing until Leo White comes and pushes the issue stridently.
While they are putting out that fire, the arsonist comes to get them to put out his fire, as his daughter Edna is trapped in the building. Charlie then has a fairly surprising star turn where he races solo to the building (losing the water tank off his fire wagon in the process), and scales the outside of the building to rescue Edna. Clearly on the way down the "Edna" he is rescuing is actually a cloth doll, not the real thing. Given reports taht some of the long shots of Charlie driving actually have someone other than Charlie driving the vehicle, I also wonder if the long rear view shots of Charlie climbing up and down the building may also be acted by a double, though I have not seen any reports to that effect.
Not that many moments to single out in this film, but it is entertaining from a movement perspective throughout and well put together. Breaks little new ground but executes on the old pretty perfectly.
I love the firemen running ridiculously in place in unison like a gaggle of morons.
The Keystone Firemen?
"The Fireman" is sort of an odd film to me. It has a plot ... yet, a lot of seems like it was Charlie coming up with "bits" and stringing them together. I find some the of the recurring jokes entertaining (Charlie's overzealous response to bells after being reprimanded, Charlie's "salute" response to being kicked in the ass). I also find Leo White's scenery chewing, particularly the scene where Charlie shadows his march back and forth, and the scene where he's nearly forgotten why he ran to the fire station in the first place. Not really sure what Charlie was thinking when it came to the Edna rag doll - you'd think he would have at least pulled the camera back, or cut away, or SOMETHING to hide the incredibly-obvious rag doll.
I feel like this is Mutual Charlie not quite hitting his stride just yet.
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He definitely is about to get a lot better with the next couple, to my taste
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Oddly there is little real resolution as the film ends pretty abruptly with Charlie on an elevator that crashes down on Eric.
I just rewatched this and realized something. that 2 seconds is important. The detective is in the elevator with Charlie dressed as the floorwalker, and is about to lay hands on and arrest Charlie and instead he lays hand on the real perpetrator, Eric, as he burst through the elevator floor.
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Somehow I got lost on the Essanay thread, I'll try to keep up better this time around.
I think the Mutual era represents the peak of Chaplin as a comedian, but I also think he got better as a filmmaker with his longer works.
The 2 films covered so far?
The Floorwalker:
I love the escalator sequence, as has been mentioned and of course, the great Eric Campbell.
To me, the mirror bit just doesn't work here. They really don't look too much alike to me. Certainly the Marx Brothers and Charley Chase and his brother Paul pull this off more to my liking. But it's still Chaplin!
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Actually my favorite thing about this one is the poor guy who's house is burning down! Leo White. That's my strongest memory of the Fireman. Go figure!
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Did you have to highlight my lengthy but incomplete sentence? I meant to say I find those scenes FUNNY (key word left out)!
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Yes! I did! It's how I roll, as the youngsters say it.
It did seem like something was missing from your post, but when you said scenery chewing, I took it as a criticism of his performance.
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But this is GOOD scenery chewing. Leo plays a ranting madman rather well - and he's got a reason to be upset - the man's house in on fire (even if he seems to forget that for a short while!)
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Apologies for the delay. I did a write up of The Vagabond about a month ago and put a lot of work into it and then it got deleted inadvertantly before I posted it, and it has taken me some time to get up the energy to try rewriting it. Coming soon.
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The Vagabond (film # 55)
I feel Chaplin does his finest work to date here, building on the sympathetic character development from The Tramp, The Bank and Police and foreshadowing his later feature films. This was probably the first Chaplin short I saw, since as a kid in the early 70s I almost exclusively saw Chaplin films when they played Art House cinemas - a format more suited to features (I had seen Modern Times, City Lights and The Gold Rush). Then I managed to catch this short as part of a triple bill with Marx Brothers' Room Service and W.C. Fields' The Fatal Beer (still remember the line "'it aint a fit night out for man or beast").
This film shows Chaplin developing a structural rhythm to make more effective use of the two reel format. He draws the audience in quickly with a 4 minute almost stand alone vignette that gets us interested in Charlie and introduces that he is a violinist (perhaps the first time his character has a real skill) but is not integral to the plot of the rest of the film. It works as almost a compressed half reel film about competing busking musicians getting into a fight over tip earnings. The fight scene and subsequent chase seem like a tribute to his Keystone days, complete with characters with mannerisms that resemble Sterling and Conklin. It is easy to imagine Chaplin using his reported "direct by miming others' parts for them" technique to encourage these performances. Sound is central to this opening sequence - with a competition between Charlie on solo violin and an Oompah band - and Carl Davis's score compliments it very nicely. Charlie has a fun moment breaking out of the dignity of being a violinist when his fingers won't stop moving after he finishes playing a trill until he uses one hand to stop the other.
The good will established in the viewer by the above sequence sustains us through a mercifully brief 2 minutes of Chaplin-free back story for Edna (Gypsies kidnapped her as a girl and parents are distraught). Then, having established Charlie and Edna each with some background, we move on to the interaction between them.
Charlie next sets up his violin busking ("I oughta do good here") , oddly, on a road that seems to be in the middle of nowhere but is next to the Gypsy camp where Edna is toiling away. One of my favorite sequences is Edna's sequences of reactions to Charlie's violin playing, as she mimes swooning, dancing a jjig, feelings of awe and romance, applause, and apologies that she has n0 money to give, yet asks for more music and touches him affectionately - showing how Edna has learned to follow Chaplin's direction better than any one else to date. When they are about to kiss, they are interrupted violently by Edna's Gypsy captor - who Charlie and Edna fight off together before riding away with their horses and caravan wagon. Another fine half reeler, even better than the opening one.
Reel two opens with Charlie and Edna's threadbare attempt at domesticity - foreshadowing Charlie and Paulette playing house in Modern Times. Charlie lets Edna have the caravan to herself and wakes on the ground extracting himself from a cactus. He does his housekeeping by raking the camp area and cracking eggs for breakfast with a hammer. When Edna awakes itchy, he offers her the rake to scratch her, then checks her for fleas and washes her hair.
Next we get the key dramatic sequences. As Charlie is setting up a washtub as a table for their, Edna takes a walk and meets an artist who paints her portrait. When she invites the artist to share the dinner Charlie has made for them it clearly breaks Charlie's heart though he tries not to show it, putting on a brave face, and later resolving to learn to paint himself. Before we see any signs of that, however, Edna's parents recognize Edna (from her shamrock birth mark) in the artist's painting in a gallery and enlist his help to find her. The artist and Edna's family arrive at the caravan and offer Charlie money for having rescued her, which he proudly refuses, and then drive her away.
Any earlier Chaplin film would have probably ended here. And honestly, this one might be a tad better as a film if it had as well - but it is a minor point. Instead it ends on a suspend-your-disbelief light note as Edna changes her mind and directs everyone to go back and cram Charlie into the car with them as well. It is a bit hard to envision how this arrangement is going to work out long term. Charlie makes sure to grab his violin - a nice unifying touch that reminds us of where the film began.
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And the next film may well be just as good, if completely different in every way. I understand a lot of formerly missing material has been added to the BR version of One AM and it is perhaps the film I am most excited to check out in an improved version.
This may be Chaplin's best film to date, but it doesn't hit the perfect combination of pathos and comedy that some of the other outstanding early career landmarks have. We're really short on laughs here in the second reel.
Interesting to see Chaplin's development as a filmmaker - the great opening shot through the swinging doors, and the camera placement for the getaway scenes in the caravan.
A very good film, and an obvious influence on future works.
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Why Zimbabwean villagers are struggling with a false scarcity of fuelwood
Many African countries depend on wood for fuel. About 81% of sub-Saharan African households use fuelwood for cooking. This is stoking concern about the links between fuelwood access, conservation and rural livelihoods.
Demand for fuelwood and charcoal is often thought to be driving forest degradation. Fuelwood is seen as a resource that needs to be regulated.
In Zimbabwe, fuelwood provides 61% of the total energy supply required. It’s estimated that six million tonnes of fuelwood are consumed every year.
So far government and development agencies have focused on the physical availability of fuelwood in their approach to energy and conservation. Based on this approach, diagnoses of problems and the designs for solutions have been largely based on simple models of supply and demand. But this approach ignores a critical factor – the power dynamics at play when it comes to accessing fuelwood.
This oversight has led to a gap in fuelwood policy because it gives the impression that fuelwood scarcity is not a political issue. I conducted research in the Buhera district, Manicaland province, south-eastern Zimbabwe, into how rural people’s access to fuelwood is influenced by power dynamics in the form of government’s control measures. The study showed how these dynamics contribute to fuelwood scarcity in villages that depend entirely on the resource.
The power dynamics
My study established that fuelwood was not scarce. It was available, but power relations were the determining factor in accessibility. One villager put it bluntly:
The Environmental Agency Officers came to our ward and they taught us that we should not cut live trees otherwise we will receive erratic rainfall. They told us that there is a connection between trees and rainfall, also trees help to prevent soil erosion and they warned us that should we not be careful, desertification will come soon. Ever since then, we have been following what we were taught by the experts.
It’s not clear whether this local view, learnt from the government officers, is correct.
According to the villagers, the Environmental Agency became active in their district when woodlands began to diminish faster. This was happening because the villagers were desperate for fuel, having no other options. They said the rules and regulations preventing tree felling, put in place with the stated aim of combating climate change, were mostly affecting people who needed wood for basic subsistence, not for sale.
Some research studies have argued against forestry as the best form of land use for water conservation. Forests neither increase rainfall nor prevent large-scale floods. These issues should therefore be approached in a context specific manner.
Hydrologists have challenged many assumptions about the benefits of forests. For example, they suggest that forests don’t prevent large-scale floods. Rather, their protective role against flooding is effective only in small catchments.
But in Buhera, it appears that the measures to control access to live indigenous trees are based on this flawed belief. And this unproven “expert knowledge” plays out as domination power because local people’s concern about their trees is shaped by the knowledge imposed on them by the state whose interest lies in conservation.
From the study, it also emerged that power could take a disciplinary form. It creates a disciplined population that follows the government’s regulations without question. This results in the impression that fuelwood scarcity isn’t a political issue.
Given that it’s a crime to cut live indigenous wood, the locals confessed that they always think they are always being watched. Consequently, they subject themselves to power. A villager recounted her experience:
Ever since those (Environmental Management Agency) ‘agents’ – local villagers who report people who cut indigenous trees to the environmental agency – became active in our area we live in fear. This is because even if I want a pole for my cattle pen, it’s hard to go out there and get one because I won’t know who is watching me; even my neighbour can report me to the Environmental Management Agency.
Here, fear of the unknown is indirectly regulating the local people’s actions when collecting fuelwood. This is social control. Arguably, this proves to be a cost-effective strategy for the environmental agency, as they wouldn’t need to be on the ground all the time. Rather, the people constantly monitor their own and others’ behaviour. Thus, the scarcity they are experiencing has less to do with availability than with the villagers’ limited bargaining power.
The government and development agencies must work with people to achieve a fair balance between environmental conservation and people’s needs. They should not use power to dominate or discipline people.
As it stands, it appears that the techniques and successes of conservation need to be feared rather than celebrated. This is because of conservation’s contribution to various forms of artificial scarcity, which has the effect of denying access to the poorest. Mainstream conservation must manage natural resources in democratic and non-hierarchical ways.
Ellen Fungisai Chipango does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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Guilt: Use it And Lose it
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Isn’t that the truth? Sometimes it seems that when we eat, guilt is always on the menu.
That reminds me of another saying: Guilt is the mother of invention.
That’s why so many biotech scientists are trying to create food that’s guilt-free. We’ve already used biotechnology to improve some of our most basic crops, such as corn and soybeans. But most of the immediate benefits have accrued to producers, who have seen their yields go up along with the environmental benefits.
What’s coming is good news for consumers–though many people don’t often see the link between what happens on the farm and the purchases they make when they shop in grocery stores. Large numbers of them aren’t even aware of how biotechnology has revolutionized agriculture in the United States and around the world.
That’s going to change soon, and consumers will come to embrace biotechnology. A recent survey conducted by North Dakota State University scholars Cheryl Wachenheim and William Lesch proves the point. They conducted phone interviews with more than 400 North Dakota consumers to gauge their attitudes about biotechnology.
It should surprise nobody that many respondents didn’t know much. Although controversies over biotechnology are in our newspapers constantly, few in the survey could describe what GM foods actually are. Moreover, large numbers did not know which products were most affected by genetic modification. Only 6 percent thought that soy products contained genetically enhanced ingredients, even though 85 percent of all the soybeans grown in the United States have been improved through biotechnology.
These results are entirely consistent with other polling data. The simple truth is that Americans don’t know much about biotechnology.
But they do like it, especially when they come to understand its benefits in real-world terms. Among North Dakotans, for instance, nearly 80 percent said they would choose a hypothetical variety of pasta that has been genetically modified over ordinary pasta, so long as the GM pasta contained extra vitamins and minerals. A majority also said it would prefer pasta that’s been genetically enhanced to have better taste as well as pasta that’s been genetically enhanced to include zinc that helps prevent head colds.
In short, if biotechnology can give folks a reason to lose the guilt when they sit down to eat, it will win widespread public acceptance.
The survey also showed a high level of support for biotechnology’s altruistic applications. Seventy-two percent endorsed grain genetically modified to improve nutrition in poor countries. More than 60 percent favored GM foods to help diabetics as well as wheat with vitamin A to combat blindness. Nearly half agreed that “unjustified fears have seriously blocked development of GM foods.”
This is an indisputable fact. The fears about biotechnology definitely are unjustified–there isn’t a scrap of evidence anywhere suggesting that the biotech foods now on the market are anything but perfectly healthy to eat. Yet fears about biotechnology certainly have blocked the development of new foods. In Europe, fear-mongers invoke the bogeyman of “Frankenfoods” to keep regulators from approving biotech products that are commonly eaten in the United States.
Those of us who support agricultural biotechnology here in North Dakota were disappointed with Monsanto’s decision a few months ago to shelve its plans for a form of wheat that’s been genetically modified to resist herbicide. There were no health concerns about the product.
What’s more, the recent cold snap we just endured–a lot of my neighbors are feeling blue over how their beautiful crops have sustained frost damage–demonstrates that we need to look to biotechnology for more solutions. How about crops that can survive a frost or are more tolerant to cool weather like this summer in North Dakota?
Yet there was no shortage of false impressions about GM wheat. Monsanto ultimately made a marketing decision, based on its belief that consumers would have resisted the new product. The feeling seemed to be that although Americans might accept GM wheat, the Europeans and Japanese–import buyers of U.S.-grown wheat–would not.
That’s too bad, because herbicide-resistant wheat is simply the first step toward a future that North Dakotans and many others seem eager to achieve.
Isn’t that something we should feel guilty about?
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According to the rumors of recent months, the Battle Royale mode of Call of Duty Black Ops 4 will come in a standalone version on Nintendo Switch. So many people were waiting for the confirmation of this edition during the reveal event of yesterday, but it did not happen.
To clarify the issue, in the course of an interview the editors of Twinfinite asked to Yale Miller and Matt Scronce, senior producer and gameplay designer at Treyarch, about the release on Black Ops 4 on Nintendo Switch. To the question “Are there any plans to bring any aspect of Black Ops 4 to Nintendo Switch?”, the two developers responded with a straight-forward answer “No there is not”. It seems, therefore, that the title will not arrive on the console of the Big N in any form.
In other news, we remind you that, for the first time in the history of the series, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will not have a traditional single-player campaign, but will offer only the possibility to play some missions as Specialists: the team wanted to focus on multiplayer, on Zombie mode (which will boast 3 campaigns titled IX, Voyage of Despair and Zombies Blood of the Dead) and on the Battle Royale Mode “Blackout”.
If the company has worn a lot of old episodes on the previous Big N consoles, Black Ops 4 will be the second episode to be ignored on the hybrid console, and probably marks a willingness not to compromise on the technique, and/or the estimate of an unattractive market.
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Off the grid — Gears Tactics review
On the heels of another truly awesome entry in the Gears series, it might seem bizarre for The Coalition to release the exact opposite kind of game you’d expect fans to have an interest in. Gears Tactics is a turn-based strategy game that throws the old Gears rulebook out the window and reinvents itself in a completely unexpected way, which is a pretty weird move for a series that has always been associated with fast-paced shooting and gore. Luckily for us, this gamble has resulted in an awesome, complex, addictive, ambitious strategy game that’s far better than it has any right to be.
Gears Tactics immediately differentiates itself from other tactics games by having a pretty compelling story, and one that’s rooted deeply in the lore that Gears fans have been following for more than a decade. In between gameplay segments one might even mistake it for a proper mainline entry in the series, which got me invested in the story more than other tactics game has succeeded in doing. The story focuses on Gabe Diaz, ancestor of Kait Diaz, the protagonist of Gears 5, and his crew as they hunt a Locust named Ukkon. Ukkon is responsible for creating all the giant monsters you see throughout the Gears series and so dealing with him becomes a priority for the COG.
While the setup is compelling and the cinematics are top-notch, sadly the story doesn’t really do much beyond the initial premise. Gabe and the rest of the crew don’t standout as characters either, certainly not to the degree we’re used to seeing from the Gears franchise. Ultimately, Gears Tactics feels a lot like a straightforward “hunt the bad guy” action movie, with very few twists and turns.
The main way Gears Tactics sets itself apart from other tactics games is that it’s far less rigid. Instead of placing everything inside a grid, Gears Tactics has open levels that feel more fluid. Instead of having one turn for movement and one for attack, you get three moves that you can use in any manner of your choosing. What’s more, executing downed enemies via Gears’ signature brutal finishers rewards additional moves. These tweaks to the genre speed up gameplay and help it retain the feel of an action game despite the massive departure from third-person gunplay. And because your units can do more, it means there can be far more enemies in play than in other tactics games, so you really feel like you’re fighting off a full invading army rather than a handful of enemies.
And that’s the real triumph of Gears Tactics: It’s a turn-based strategy game for the PC that somehow feels right at home with the mainline Gears franchise, and that’s no small achievement. Chainsawing enemies in half, ducking behind cover while shooting at charging locust hordes, and staring down massive, frenzied beasts in a chaotic boss fight are all present and accounted for. And as a fan of Gears from the very start, that’s goddamn fantastic.
Gears Tactics also innovates “overwatch,” the mechanic that lets you play defensively and guard against enemy attack. Instead of your units randomly firing at inopportune times, overwatch lets you place a cone of effect onto the battlefield that your unit will guard. Stretching the cone farther out makes it wider, but also makes your unit less likely to hit (with the notable exception of the sniper, which is less accurate close-range). Also, if your unit has multiple moves left on their turn, all of those moves can be applied to overwatch, so they’re able to down multiple enemies foolish enough to charge through their line of sight.
It wouldn’t be a Gears game without boss fights against oversized Locus monstrosities, and again, Gears Tactics delivers. In these levels, methodical chess matches of positioning and cover are replaced with disordered and frantic encounters where constant movement and dishing out DPS to the boss are paramount. In one such encounter, a particularly nasty Brumak tries to stomp out your team, stopping regularly to loose a barrage of missiles. Winning becomes a matter of spreading out to control the battlefield and attack from all sides. These encounters don’t always make the best use of the abilities you’ve spent valuable time optimizing, but they do help break up the monotony of running otherwise straightforward missions.
Speaking of which, the RPG mechanics of Gears Tactics are surprisingly robust and addictive. Skill trees are massive and filled with game-changing abilities and upgrades that are genuinely hard to choose between. Similarly, gear you earn or find on the battlefield is diverse and can be optimized for different play styles. Once you get started upgrading a character’s build, it’s easy to become obsessed with creating the perfect Locust slayer. It’s unfortunate, however, that there isn’t any kind of base-building mechanic seen in games like XCOM. Though the character customization is so deep it hardly needs it, as an RPG fan it would have been nice to have another way to progress and improve. Combat also may have been benefited by having slightly more classes to play around with. Gears Tactics only has five classes, and while they all vary widely and have numerous different builds to play around with, it pales in comparison to the variety seen in other tactics games.
Like other tactics games, the objectives in each level are pretty run-of-the-mill. You’re told you need to blow up this thing, steal that thing, free this prisoner, or simply kill the enemy. While the core experience of fighting off Locusts is awesome and rarely gets stale, the mission types don’t always feel so fresh. This is especially noticeable since each chapter is padded out with side quests when you’ll repeat the same types of missions numerous times in between major story beats. It’s not the end of the world, since combat is consistently enjoyable, but there’s a lot of wasted potential in having to rescue teammates from Locust pods for the eighth time when Gears is known for its creativity in campaign design.
Gears Tactics
Gears Tactics is a stellar tactics game that still manages to feel like the Gears you know and love. With a solid story, addictive RPG systems, and dozens of hours of gameplay, this is a must-play for any fans of turn-based strategy games or the Gears franchise in general.
—Travis Northup
Fluid, strategic combat
Deep, rewarding RPG systems
Interesting boss fights
No base-building mechanics
Repetitive mission types
The story is just okay
You know that jerk online that relentlessly trash talks you after every kill? That guy was probably Travis "Tie Guy" Northup. Competitive, snarky, and constantly wearing a tie, Travis has been writing his opinions about electronic media since he was a teenager, and is pretty much the only person to hold his opinions in high regard.
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2010 in Review: April
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Developer seeks approval for RV resort
A resort that would accommodate visitors to Big Bull Creek Park is underway, although the county has yet to develop plans for the 1,300-acres of park land near Edgerton.
Michael Riley, Texas, owner and developer, said it’s premature to talk about the proposed travel-trailer resort.
Bevan resigns from USD 230
Board of Education members withdrew their intent not to renew the contract of Pam Bevan, Spring Hill Intermediate School Principal, on Monday night. Instead, they accepted her resignation.
Bevan informed the board she has accepted a job in Hutchinson, Kan. Next school year, she will be the principal at Lincoln Elementary School in USD No. 308.
“It is unfortunate that I have been placed in a situation in which I must resign my position as principal at Spring Hill Intermediate School in order to avoid a non-renewal on my record,” Bevan wrote in a letter to board members. “I have enjoyed my six years in Spring Hill and truly feel that I have always done what is in the best interest of the children.”
Edgerton officials selected a new logo in 2010 using a contest. An early rendering of the winning logo is pictured here. File artwork.
Crandall terminated from Allen Group of KC
Bill Crandall’s employment with the Allen Group’s Kansas City operation has been terminated, according to the official who now will oversee the office.
According to the Monday, April 12, press release, Patrick Robinson, director of engineering at the KC office, will assume the duties of director of development.
KDOT selects new interchange location
The Kansas Department of Transportation announced its selection for a new interchange to service the BNSF intermodal project Wednesday afternoon.
KDOT officials told the Technical Advisory Group – a committee of more than 30 people including Gardner, Edgerton, Johnson and Miami Counties, KDOT officials, and BNSF representatives – that an interchange on Homestead Lane between Gardner and Edgerton is the preferred location for new access to Interstate 35.
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New Ancient Greek Action Novel Sons of Zeus
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July 12, 2013 December 14, 2017 Ethan Gilsdorf1
Noble Smith’s Sons of Zeus , on the walls of the citadel of the archaeological site of Plataea, Greece. (Image: Noble Smith)
I’ve been following Noble Smith’s career ever since the publication of The Wisdom of the Shire: A Short Guide to a Long and Happy Life last year. And, it seems, Smith has been following mine. Mwwhaha!
Smith is a cool guy. He’s an award-winning playwright, video-game writer, documentary-film executive producer, and the former media director of an international human rights foundation. He is the author of that aforementioned nonfiction book, The Wisdom of the Shire , and he lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and children.
Now he’s got another book [Writer’s note: curses, preccciousss!, so prolific!]–the brand new action/adventure novel Sons of Zeus , just out from St. Martin’s Press.
We convened our Mutual Appreciation Society recently, via the magic of email, and virtually sat down to talk about that new tome, Sons of Zeus , what connects Dungeons & Dragons to ancient Greece, and how exactly Smith gets it all done.
Ethan Gilsdorf: How did you decide your next book after Wisdom of the Shire would be Sons of Zeus , an action novel about a young warrior named Nikias set in ancient Greece?
Noble Smith: It seems like an odd transition, right? Well, I wrote Sons of Zeus several years before The Wisdom of the Shire . I put it out myself as one of the first iTunes ebooks (where it was downloaded over 20 thousand times). My guide to life for Hobbit-lovers was part of a four book deal with Thomas Dunne Books, but it was released first to coincide with the Hobbit-hysteria of Peter Jackson’s film. Ancient Greeks and Hobbits were very similar, however. They both loved wine and had very hairy feet.
EG: You’re a D&D nerd (like me) and a Tolkien fan (ditto). I did not know about your interest in classical Europe. How did you get up to speed to write this book or did you already have a knowledge base in this area?
NS: You know what’s great, Ethan? You helped make being a D&D nerd cool. [Interviewer blushes.] All those hours I spent locked in my bedroom painting Ral Partha figurines and drawing dungeon maps on grid paper have finally paid off! Actually, when I was a kid I went straight from Tolkien to ancient Greek mythology and history. Tolkien was a huge fan of the Greeks and he said that he was introduced to the classics through Homer (and I’m not talking about Homer Simpson, kids). Several things in Tolkien’s legendarium were most likely inspired by the Greeks, from the fall of Númenor (Atlantis) to Sauron’s One Ring (the Greek legend of the Ring of Gyges–a ring of invisibility).
Proof that Noble Smith is a D&D, Tolkien and ancient Greece nerd. (Image: Noble Smith)
EG: Talk about your research trips. How does one do research in a country like Greece for a book project? Or was it more for inspiration?
NS: I just got back from a trip to Greece. It’s one of my favorite places in the world. The people are incredibly kind. My series takes place in 5th century B.C. in the independent city-state of Plataea. This small democratic nation became caught between the two warring superpowers of the day: Athens and Sparta. Their heroic stand against tyranny is a remarkable true story that most people have never heard. You can go to the archaeological site of Plataea and stand in the ruined guard towers or walk through the ancient cemetery with its crumbling sarcophagi. You feel the weight of history there. You realize that this place was as real as the stones beneath your feet. Or the big huge scary snakes that I kept stepping on.
Noble Smith standing in front of the ruins of Plataea (Image: Noble Smith)
EG: What do you think explains this resurgent interest in ancient Greece and Rome, and particularly for kids reading the YA genre and the mythological spin we see in Percy Jackson et al?
NS: It’s weird. My eight-year-old son loves those Percy Jackson books. Back in the day I was hooked by the same sort of cheesy mythological adventure stuff with the Ray Harryhausen films. (I’m still terrified of skeleton warriors!) People love magic and heroism. I guess that that time period and the mythoi associated with it are filling a void left by Harry Potter . I’m waiting for Gilgamesh to become hip. He was the original superhero, after all.
EG: Does your novel largely conform to the reality of that era or are there magical/mythical elements or other ways you’ve taken liberties with the past?
NS: My book is straight-up historical fiction, like the TV shows Spartacus or Rome , or the novel Gates of Fire . There is no magic. But the characters in my story believe with all their hearts in those gods and the power of their magic. So my story is infused with mythology/religion through the thoughts and actions of the characters.
The Greek cover for Sons of Zeus
EG: What are the overlaps in building a world and storytelling for D&D , or having a deep knowledge (as you do) of Middle-earth, vs. telling a story in ancient Greece?
NS: This is where being obsessed with D&D and Middle-earth as a kid comes in really handy. God is in the details, as the old saying goes. Tolkien knew where every damn twig and leaf was in his world. And a great Dungeon Master knew every square inch of his realm. When I set out to write Sons of Zeus ten years ago, I started by reading every single work of literature that had survived from that era. And I created for myself a sort of dungeon master’s guide to ancient Greece. In the end I knew everything from the clothes that they wore to what they ate to how they liked to make love.
EG: How do you make all the parts of your life work together–playwright, author of nonfiction, doc film producer, video game writer, novelist, in and around the various less artistically-satisfying day jobs you’ve held?
NS: With lots of help from my lovely and geeky wife. With whom I just celebrated our 20th anniversary!
EG: Wow. Congrats, man. AND you’re also a parent. How do you find time to be creative and also raise a kid? I can barely find the time and I’m without kids. [Interviewer sniffs.]
NS: The thing that you have to learn when you have kids, Ethan, is how to be a selective listener. Believe it or not, it is quite possible to completely tune out all the crazy noise in your house and concentrate on writing. I call it “Going Lobot.” It’s like you’ve got built-in noise cancelling Bose headphones glued to your ears. But make sure at night that you still have time to read The Lord of the Rings or Percy Jackson out loud to your kids. That’s way more important than being creative. That’s geekdaddy love.
EG: Anything else you’d like to add?
NS: Could you put in my Twitter handle and blog?
EG: Sure thing. You can follow Noble Smith’s tweets at @warriortrilogy or his life and thoughts online at www.thewarriortrilogy.com (P.S. It’s a trilogy! It’s a trap!)
Tower and clouds: a ruined guard tower of the city walls of Plataea (Image: Noble Smith)
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I had read son of zues novel just only a sample. Its an awesome one. I like mostly historic novels. I like son of zues novel a lot. So please keep a free PDF file for guys like us to read at free. Hope u will do it
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What is Gamergate?
Posted by Josh Heath | Aug 23, 2019 | Feminism, LARP, Pop Culture, Tabletop Gaming, Video Games |
Gamergate is a movement, led largely by male gamers, that claims to be concerned with ethics issues in game journalism. It began as an attack on Zoe Quinn, who was accused by an ex-boyfriend of using sex to gain favorable reviews for their game. It spiraled into a larger force of cultural antagonism toward women in gaming culture and spaces and has had larger impacts on US culture since it began.
Gamergaters would have you believe their concern is about ‘Ethics in Games Journalism,’ or the idea that there are corrupt people who report on games for their own benefit. Of course, in reality it’s a concerted effort by male trolls who are scared that women exist in gaming and want to gatekeep.
It doesn’t matter that women have been around since the beginning of gaming.
It doesn’t matter that there are corrupt men out there in games journalism.
The targets of Gamergate are women, and that’s the problem. (Naturally, Gamergaters also tend to dislike other marginalized game industry journalists, experts, and designers as well.)
The Inception of Gamergate
Gamergate and its corresponding #gamergate hashtag began with the aforementioned attack on game developer Zoe Quinn. This attack was misogynistic to its core and rooted in this idea that Quinn had sex with people — and their ex-boyfriend was mad about it.
From there, Gamergate snowballed and has wrecked a lot of people in its wake. Death threats, doxxing, harassment; these things still continue on an all too regular basis against content creators in all types of gaming, including larp and tabletop.
Game Journalism Ethics
Gamergate aficionados have claimed that games journalism is fraught with problems. If that was all they claimed, they might be close to right. There are some troubles in game journalism. In table-top and larp journalism, the communities are small. To be a journalist in these communities you are never an outsider. You are either a creator yourself, or a fan first who also happens to write about the games you love and enjoy.
I can think of only a tiny portion of TTRPG journalists, podcasters, or actual play creators who don’t want to write, art, or otherwise be involved in our tiny little industry. And so, there is a push not to piss off the companies you might want to work for. You maybe hold back criticism a little about a gameline you think was mismanaged; you might smile and share a fluff piece you don’t really agree with, or you occasionally just don’t review something because you don’t want to piss off the person you want a paycheck from.
Do you want to critique that? We need to have that conversation. Even with that said, being friends with creators as a journalist is not unethical. That’s human behavior. You become friends with people you like and interact with regularly. You might even fall in love, or lust, but that doesn’t undermine your ethics inherently. It might, and if you think it will, you should pass the project off to another person. But again, with Gamergate, none of that is the actual point.
Gamergate and the Rise of the Alt-Right
What does Gamergate have to do with the alt-right (also known as the latest rebranding for conservative white supremacists)? Sadly, the two go hand in hand. Same with incel culture, toxic masculinity, and general acts of misogyny.
In 2016, The Guardian showed the links that existed between the alt-right and Gamergate. Gaming has become a recruitment place for the alt-right. YouTube streamers are seemingly coming out all the time as alt-righters.
What is Gamergate? #Gamergate is a symptom of a greater problem, a disconnect between men and boys and the world around them. It’s a symptom of a sickness of disconnection, hate, and misogynistic gang-allegiance. It’s a symptom of the false Alpha. Issues of belonging, connection, tribalness. None of these are new.
Every generation complains about kids joining gangs or doing other things that lead them to make bad decisions and ruin their lives and leave them with regrets. The issue we are dealing with right now is how much of this is directed at 52% of the human population.
And of course, sadly this is just another cycle of patriarchy and misogyny. This answers part of our question above. Why Gamergate? Because we are a society in transition, fighting a culture war about how women are included, how gender is expressed, how people of all races are treated, and how we choose the best direction for the common good. All of those things are woven into why Gamergate occurred and why it continues to resonate through gaming and beyond.
How Do We End Gamergate?
#Gamergate was a flashpoint that has merged with and spawned the problems we outlined above. How do we end Gamergate for good?
We support and uplift content creators who come from diverse places in society. We support and uplift companies that support people of color, women, and people of all genders. We build bonds and support one another. We exist.
Allies also need to mobilize in opposition to the attitudes of Gamergate. We recruit, and we talk about things that matter in creating an inclusive world. We talk to young people who are on the fence and we demonstrate the value of inclusivity and diversity. We also need allies who are willing to listen to those on the fence. These will likely be white cis-men, and we’ll need to watch them so they don’t slip off the fence in the wrong direction, but someone has to be willing to talk with those at risk or directly challenge those who have gone all the way off the tracks.
We can’t ask for people that are already fighting these fights to fight them in more places. We need to recruit allies and point them toward tools to get educated.
But to eliminate Gamergate, we have to use the tools of persuasion that the right has co-opted. We steal their weapons and turn them against them. We meme, we YouTube, we create web content that is just this side of ‘reasonable logic’ that leads people away from their lairs in the darkest places of the internet.
I can hear folks now. “It can’t be done. They’re lost, too far gone.” Maybe, some of them are, but we need to prepare to use the tools at our disposal in a war for minds; the minds of the youth. Let’s not leave them in the dust.
It was a moment in time that has galvanized the world. It has galvanized the despicable and it is galvanizing those of us that want a better world. The future deserves better, and we can make it happen. Come join us.
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Valiant Entertainment Releases For March 16, 2016
By Waerloga69 | @ | March 16th, 2016 at 8:00 pm
Here are the newest comic releases from Valiant Entertainment. The big one here is the new A&A: The Adventures Of Archer & Armstrong; it is definitely my pick of this group. Too often comic books take themselves too seriously, whereas this seems to take delight in having a good time. But take a look through them all, you might find something that’s just right for you!
Topics: Comics, Features, Solicitations
Tags: David Lafuente, Imperium, Joshua Dysart, Juan Jose Ryp, Khari Evans, Rafer Roberts, Robert Venditti, The Adventures Of Archer & Armstrong, Valiant Comics, Valiant Entertainment, Wrath Of The Eternal Warrior
Valiant Entertainment Comic Solicitations For April 2014
By Dave3 | @ | January 23rd, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Below you’ll find the solicitations information and cover artwork for all of the Valiant Entertainment comic titles hitting stores in April of 2014, including issues for Matt Kindt’s Unity, Greg Pak’s Eternal Warrior, and more.
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Comic Review: Harbinger Wars #1
By PS Hayes | @ | April 11th, 2013 at 4:30 pm
Harbinger Wars #1
Written by Joshua Dysart
Story by Joshua Dysart & Duane Swierczynski
Art by Clayton Henry, Clayton Crain and Mico Suayan
Color art by Brian Reber
Letters by Dave Lanphear
Covers by Lewis LaRosa, Clayton Henry, Clayton Crain, and Patrick Zircher
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Harbinger Wars #1 is the first effort in a line wide crossover from the newly returned Valiant Entertainment. Now, I haven’t been keeping up like I should have or wanted to with the rest of the Valiant line, but thankfully the whole team has done a great job not to let me get lost and make it an enjoyable read.
Joshua Dysart, the writer of this series, does a nice job in the first few pages in bringing you up to speed on who’s who and what’s what in the Valiant Universe. It’s never confusing or convoluted, and flows naturally with the kind of story telling that he’s using in this issue. That said, I’m not a huge fan of first issues of big crossover story lines because the author normally DOES spend a number of pages catching the audience up with what has come before. Again, that being said, this one is quick and painless and then hits the ground running. This issue certainly gets the ball rolling bringing several of the Valiant Universe characters together in what seems is a confrontation that’s been brewing for awhile. Very cool, nicely written issue.
Tags: Brian Reber, Clayton Crain, Clayton Henry, Dave Lanphear, Duane Swierczynski, Harbinger Wars, Joshua Dysart, Lewis Larosa, Mico Suayan, Patrick Zircher, Valiant Entertainment
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DB-API Database Backend
Revision as of 13:12, 5 May 2016 by Dsblank (talk | contribs) (→Password protecting)
Gramps 5.0 comes with a new, alternative database backend called DB-API. The default database will be the old standard Berkeley DB (often abbreviated as BSDDB). Gramps 5.0 is the initial test of the DB-API backend. If it works well, then Gramps 5.1 will make it the default.
What is DB-API? DB-API is a very loose standard to connect to "SQL engines". DB-API doesn't standardize any of the SQL, but merely standardizes the ability to connect, query, and get results back. You can read more about the DB-API specification.
Gramps has been designed to work with three DB-API SQL engines:
sqlite3 - single or multi-user on single operating system
postgresql - local or remote, single or multi-user
mysql - local or remote, single or multi-user
sqlite3 has been tested the most and is the default SQL engine. However, advanced users can adjust the details of the SQL connect. See #Advanced uses for more details.
Gramps 5.0 provides the opportunity to set up your databases in many different configurations. Some possible uses:
Users will just use DB-API with the default sqlite. Nothing will really be different from previous uses of BSDDB, but there is no lock file, and the data is much less likely to become corrupted.
Users can share their sqlite file on a single file system. Any user logged into that computer can work together on the same file. Operations like import will lock the file, but individual edits can be made simultaneously. Note: there is no code to prevent editing the same record at the same time. For sqlite, we would have to implement our own row-locking code. Or perhaps just give a warning if the data has changed since we started editing it.
Users can put their sqlite database on a file-sharing drive, like Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. This is tricky to understand. These systems are file-sharing, not record-sharing. That means that you can't have two users writing at the same time. In fact, if you have two users writing, you probably want to keep the session short. Start gramps, make changes, exit. Or just browse. Or take turns.
Multiple users can use postgresql and mysql locally. This is relatively speedy, but only really useful if the database is also made available over the network. Otherwise, you would probably just use sqlite.
Multiple users can use postgresql and mysql remotely. This is the most powerful option, but also the slowest. Gramps is currently written in a manner that assumes a fast, local connection to the database. Over time, we can refine Gramps code to support this mode better, which will make the other uses faster as well. In any event, this mode should work well, once you have your large data loaded. All operations should work as normal.
There are other possibilities, and even combinations of the above.
Advanced uses
The easiest way to use a variation in SQL engines is to make a new DB-API database. You can do that by changing the default backend in Preferences -> Family Tree -> Database backend, Converting an existing database (new button in Manager), or CLI importing:
gramps --config=behavior.database-backend:dbapi -C "DB-API" --import filename
Once you have a database, you can edit the default_settings.py file in your grampsdb/*/ directory.
For a remote postgresql database, it might look like:
from dbapi_support.postgresql import Postgresql
dbapi = Postgresql(dbname='postgres', user='postgres',
host='remote.computer.com', password='MyPassW0rd8723')
Getting a postgresql server running on Ubuntu is fairly easy.
SQL Details
Does the use of DB-API mean that Gramps data are now relational? Does it provide additional data integrity? No. Currently, we are using the SQL engines in exactly the same way that we used BSDDB: all of our data is pickled "blobs" (serialized tuples). However, the flat (non-hierarchical) data is also stored in their own column, and indexes are made on each of those. This allows us to have very fast ad hoc queries on any non-hierarchical data, and JOINS between primary objects. As far as I know, we always did sequential scans in BSDDB. If we connect the SQL WHERE capability up to Filters, then our filters will not require a linear scan through all data. This will be a huge win, but requires a some serious refactoring of views, filters, and the use of the database. Nick is looking at that.
Gramps could have used an SQL abstraction layer, such as SQLAlchemy or Django, but that would be a large dependency for Gramps. The DB-API layer is completely separate; each SQL engine provides its own DB-API interface. As this first step away from BSDDB, we avoided any dependencies. That allows us to write directly in SQL, but also requires that all of the SQL that we do write has to be understood by our SQL engines.
All of the SQL statements are in a single file: gramps/plugins/database/dbapi.py. If we wish to write more abstractly than raw SQL using, say, SQLAlchemy, then we need to just re-implement that file. That will add a dependency, but will allow us to add Oracle and SQL Server to the list of supported SQL engines, and allow us to write more sophisticated and optimized SQL. Of course, as this is a plugin, any new backend can be added to addons at any time. Two other possible future backends are MongoDB and CouchDB. Both of these match our data better (hierarchical), but are also newer/less stable, and limited in variability. Sqlite file structure is well-known, backwards compatible, and rock solid. Postgresql and MySQL provide server/shared abilities.
The SQL engines are all placed into "autocommit mode". That means that any updates automatically will be placed into a transaction. However, batch transactions (such as an import) will explicitly use a SQL "BEGIN TRANSACTION;" statement, and end with a "COMMIT TRANSACTION;" statement.
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Grrl Power #895 – Fine print, bitches!
by DaveB on November 23, 2020 at 5:00 am
Characters: achilles, brut, heatwave, henchwench, maxima
Apparently Hench Wench got her gorge under control. It’s been suggested that Hench Wench’s day job is a contract attorney. Makes sense to me.
I don’t know if LLCs have officers or are referred to as charters. I did a minimal amount of googling, but I figure I retroactive it if Hench is talking total nonsense in panel two there.
I do like the idea that Hench Wench comes in, gets herself hired, then goes bezerk with everyone else’s abilities, runs roughshod over their plans and basically tops from the bottom. But even though she’s infamous in super villain circles, everyone keeps hiring her because she’s such a god damned force multiplier.
Weirdly, Hench Wench’s clothes aren’t getting burned, but her stocking can get torn up because that’s kind of sexy, especially on the knee there. Also keeping track of a bunch of progressive battle damage on her outfit is a pain in the butt. I only did it with Maxima’s outfit because I knew I’d only have to track it for two pages. :)
[cough]Kelek.[/cough]
Speaking of LLCs, here’s a book recommendation that I think I might have recommended before, but I’m recommending it again because book 4 just came out after 3 years. It’s Delvers, LLC. It’s an isekai series, but there’s two unique things about it that I like. One, the main characters are two guys who are friends transported there at the same time, so it’s like a buddy isekai series. Two, the series tries hard to set up a harem for both guys, but as I recall through the end of book 3, it doesn’t happen. I’m relistening to the books because as I said, book 3 came out just over 3 years ago, so I might be wrong. I’ve only just started in on book 3.
Actually, the thing I like most about the books is the world building. The setup for the MCs having a harem is that the world has a 3 to 1 female to male ratio. A lot of books would kind of leave it at that, but Delvers goes into how most marriages are different, and how the women of the world think it sounds exhausting to be the only other person in a marriage. Most guards and mercenaries are women because men are considered to be more valued, stuff like that. I also dig all the details about how the animal people are super sensitive to body language and ear/tail positions and how much teeth they’re showing. Man I love good xenoanthropology.
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└ Tags: achilles01, brut01, heatwave01, henchwench01, max02
Yebo
Hench Wench believes she has covered all the bases with the fine print in the LLC’s charter. Arianna gets a court order to place the LLC into receivership with Arianna herself the court appointed overseer. At that point Hench Wench losses the powers of the previous LLC directors and finds herself limited to Arianna’s powers, or lack thereof. Arianna then discovers a non-compete clause that prevents Hench Wench from joining up with any other group of super villains. Thus ends the career of Hench Wench.
Rhuen
these conversations had returned and once again every single one is ignoring something.
they have said they are in an LLC, not what the LLC is named, where it was made, nor even what their real names are, so there is no way right now for anyone to even find out which LLC it is.
if they could find out which one it is, they could send a court order to disband due to engaging in illegal activities. But without variable ONE, action B is impossible to even begin implementing.
SeveredNed
Brüt has shown he is willing to comply, and given he is also a signatory he would have all the knowledge someone like Arianna needs.
Yes, he is a signatory, which means they would also have to track down the others (and seriously doubt there is only 3 of them)
And, again, this all takes time!!!!!
He can at least identify it, there after it’s all paperwork.
Smoutwortel
Brüt can provide the information needed to forcefully disband the LLC.
That having said it’s a tactic that works only if they either win enough time or if Hench Whench escapes.
Nope. As long as you have the name and venue, you can destroy the LLC *administratively* even without a court order. Just get a state drone to reject the application and back it out. Or Leon can hack in and change the “charter officers” of the LLC to “Donald Duck” etc and see what happens.
N0083rP00F
Please no looney toons else she will get the powers of toons.
Yeah, toons always win vs matches, toon logic is overpowered.
I wouldn’t worry about Donald Duck, but Bugs or Taz would be worse than Brut.
November 24, 2020, 10:55 pm | # | Reply
This is also correct. Specifically someone working in the office of the New York Department of State. Or even the Secretary of State of New York himself/herself.
And you are ignoring the fact that Max can easily get all the info needed from Brut, who is suddenly very cooperative thanks to Max’s fire arm’s current target.
I am in awe…
Bharda
I am _miffed_.
That bitch (who I am still insane in fan-love with) is (trying) to hurt my husbando with spinny-centripetal-slamming stuff. I know it can’t hurt him, but I can’t help feeling like even making him dizzy is an UNFORGIVABLE CRIME.
I want her punished. Punished!
Does Dabbler have a Bigby’s Spanking Hand spell? And not the fun version.
Fun fact due to how humans get dizzy being indestructible should prevent that from happening.
brichins
Hmmm… dizziness is tightly linked to balance and proprioception, which are tied the motion of fluid in the inner ear. I don’t see why invulnerability would affect that at all, aside from maybe clamping down on the nausea.
Well his inner ear nerves can’t be damaged so,
nor can his circulation be cut off or disrupted by spinning, or optical nerves for that matter; rapid changes in blood pressure caused by the head moving quickly, or damage to the inner ear. He shouldn’t be affected by a flash bang to his sight, or sonics, rapid movement, or such disrupting (which is a mild form of damaging) her sensory nerves that affect balance.
so yeah, if he is as invulnerable as advertised then things that we take for granted as being caused by mild damage should also not be possible.
basically while the more severe causes of dizziness should be obvious no goes like infection or severe damage; he should also be immune to disruptions to his nervous system via eyes, neural sensory of position in space and relation to gravity, and inner ears.
IndigoFenix
Dizziness from spinning isn’t associated with any actual tissue damage though, it’s caused by the fluid in the ears continuing to slosh around due to momentum after the body stops moving.
I guess it all comes down to what is considered “damage”. Is damage defined as “anything that can cause the body to function at less than optimum, even temporarily”? Or is it restricted to actual cellular injury? I think it should probably be the latter, as the former would raise a whole lot of weird conceptual questions, like for example if you could blind Achilles by spraying his eyes with ink, or why being grappled doesn’t count as preventing his muscles from working.
On a related note, I’m also curious about what would happen if you tried to drown, suffocate, or starve Achilles. Being immune to tissue damage doesn’t mean that your body can create energy from nothing. My guess is that he would go into a kind of hibernation, his invincibility preventing cell death but not actually keeping him functional under these circumstances.
I wouldn’t expect any “normal” level of starvation to affect him at all. Suffocation and drowning clearly do not. His cellular existence is not subject to normal biological laws, and he’s been buried and had to dig himself out so often that it’s a running gag on the team… if he’s missing, look for the largest mound of heavy stuff…. and wait.
I took his invulnerability which seems to extend also to eating diseases to mean that it prevents any abnormalities, like sleeping gas not working, flash bangs not working, prevent anything detrimental or abnormal to change the status of the body; that said this would also mean spicy food while having a flavor would not have the kick due to no reacting to the capsaicin.
This has already gone so much further down the rabbit hole than I would ever have expected.
I love it! X’D
I’m still calling dibs on Achilles for husbando, however.
My head cannon says he is basically 60-something in the body of an exceptionally fit (and invulnerable) 30 year old. And weirdly, I love that. A fully mature & well-experienced gentleman who can out rock, out party, and out last anyone “his age”. Even if if he is a goofball, nearly always.
I love him. ^_^
I will now refer back to my (soopr brief) thesis of Achilles as the CMHB: https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-879-immovable-grapple/comment-page-2/#comment-858714
Every spell Dabbler has is the fun version, even the ones that are devastating in battle
I did not fully consider what I was saying.
Clearly, I am not ready to leave the Temple. (Of Love, cause yeah I’m sure Dabs rocks that jam)
scantrontb
Nah, Bigby didn’t do enough research when mad in order to get the worst effects. However… EVAN did do the necessary research when really peeved, in order to come up with THIS.
…I’d forgotten all about that. O.o’
Thank you (?) for reminding me that exists. You are now my new favorite person.
No problem, glad i made someone’s day a bit better (?)
Elfguy
She’s just flirting with him. Remember the Barnes and Barnes song “Love tap?” That’s her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGqzaMZRy5U
“Game over, man! Game over!”
RIP Hudson’s balls
Krenn
Sounds like the easiest way to defeat Hench Wench is for one of Harem’s copies to just pop in on a local judge, show them a video of Hench Wench bragging, and then get a court order dissolving the LLC as a criminal enterprise.
When the LLC dies, so do her powers.
Hmm, must have missed the page where the name of the L.L.C. was mentioned, or where it was formed, mind linking to that page?
it wasn’t specified, but she DID say that it was formed recently, and that apparently all the supervillains are officers of the corporation.
A quick public records search MIGHT turn it up.
Alternatively, it’s an open question whether or not you could simply get away with a blanket declaration stating that any such LLC, whatever it’s name and wherever it was incorporated, is hereby dissolved and/or nationalized by the nearest federal court that covers the jurisdiction they’re currently standing in…. without regard for whether or not the LLC was even incorporated domestically in the first place.
They don’t actually need that information – they just need Brut’s name. Which I suspect he will readily give to Maxima as soon as she says ‘What’s your full name’ assuming he does not have a record already and his real name cannot be found out from all the cameras he’s on via ARCHON’s resident hacker. LLCs are registered with the secretary of state and are publicly available information. IF it’s not registered with the secretary of state, then it’s not a legal LLC in the first place. Also it needs to be published in several newspapers.
Not to mention, Maxima can just say ‘What’s the name of your LLC’ if we want to be picky.
Not even that.
MAX: (whisper) what’s the name of the LLC?
BRUT: StrivingWenches please don’t hurt me.
I mention that in the post above – last sentence. :)
Thinking on it, the LLC shouldn’t have worked at all, since the LLC is a legal entity itself. it’s not the people who run it. She should only have, like, the power to hire people, and pay taxes on income *after* expenses, instead of before… and get a great tax rate and business accounts with distributors and suppliers. And a postage machine, The LLC is not the people who run the LLC; that’s the whole point of incorporating, so individuals who run/own the company are not personally responsible for it. I Guess Hench Wench’s powers work on her personal beliefs, not on legal facts, so dissolving the company might not stop her either
Good thinking. Her powers shall disappear in a puff of logic.
I agree that is probably how her powers work. However, just making her believe that the LLC was dissolved would stop her, then. It would be good to convince her it would never work again, while you are at it.
this would admittedly be a very hilarious and Douglas Adams-y way of resolving this.
Garbler
What’s going on over Achilles’ head in the first panel? TV screen on the side of a building?
Probably a billboard, seeing how they are in, or near, Times Square
TempoDiValse
It occurs to me that Brut is surrendering only partially because he has a shotgun pointed at his junk. The other portion is that it is maxima pointing it at his junk. I’m not sure what his plan was, he appears to have been really hoping that the surprise attack would take out maxima. Or he may have had an escape option as part of his equipment, which due to dabbler’s declotheing, he suddenly doesn’t.
Either way, it is weird that he stayed to brawl in what should have been a smash and grab operation.
He has realized he is a B class at best fighting an S class whose gun alone can cause his knee to be sore so a nut shot is going to hurt. He either greatly over estimated his own power or some how several under estimated Maxima’s power. A common problem of B class supers is that they have that chip on their shoulder so strong yet there are still those above them and it drives them nuts
Think guys like Sabertooth , or Venom (when written well), as prominent B classes.
JoeScmhoe
Most likely, he used that first shot to try and gauge her ‘actual’ combat power, not knowing that her power has a limited pool, so she was at almost her physically weakest. Probably the most common ‘Maxima prep’ for anyone looking to challenge her is going to be her fight with Kevin and the shot of her nuking the ship (I don’t recall any other non-staged public displays of her combat power). Realistically, she can’t deploy the nuclear blast, so he’d likely bank on being able to stun or at least knock her about, and with those two data points, it’s possible she’s been pegged as a ‘glass cannon’ even though she’s nowhere near that.
From there, his actions at the start of the fight were a mix of probing and mission creep. Step one was securing some alien tech, possibly with the option to secure more. Step two was attacking Maxima to see how tough she actually is (and to test the likely ‘glass cannon’ theory from above). From there, he was likely expecting her to be at or near his own level of toughness/power, and from his reaction, we can expect he’s used to pistol and/or rifle rounds, not anti-materiel rounds.
Yeah I can see that. When we step back from the semi-omniscient stand point of the audience and think of it from an in universe not on the team perspective.
Her standing in her own fall out at the tank display could be shrugged off by other supers if this world *and Heat Wave’s power supports this* works on the metaphysical defense feed back principle where a super can’t be hurt by their own non-biological *energy, elemental force, supernatural forces, ect..* powers. Like Cyclops beams can’t hurt him nor is there any opposite reaction to his head when he fires them, and so on…
so her standing there would look cool to those not knowing that but supers with experience with their own powers or others with energy powers might shrug it off as her showing off because her own special energy just doesn’t affect her.
The fact she keeps standing back during fights until the last moment as if she is charging up, and the misunderstanding that even Sciona got that electricity made her weaker and no one could tell how strong Vehemence really was because during that fight it was mostly focused on Maxima so not knowing her strength to compare to it would be hard to determine how strong he was for an outside observer. Had he first ground slammed an earthquake or threw a bus at someone it might have helped an outside observer gage that better.
I would also posit that any displays of power which are obviously staged would be either discounted, or taken with a grain of salt as propoganda. That’s why I used the ‘public brawl’ qualifier. We’ve seen her pull some serious shit with Sciona, but that wasn’t in a public battle, so no one that’s not part of the Council is likely to have that information beyond simple second hand information.
Anyone preparing with a fight for someone like her is probably going to look for actual recordings of unplanned fights, or fights where Maxima is an attacker on an enemy force to get a look at her actual combat skills and abilities. There’s likely at least some footage of her fighting Taliban, ISIL, or other super powered military targets from her time in the actual military, but we haven’t seen any of that, and we also don’t know the approximate power level of her opponents.
I’ve got a bad case of old man memory, but the only two public battles I can recall were with Vehemence and against the alien psycher plague carriers. Both of those would lend themselves toward the glass cannon, or possibly just high level flying brick w/ a dash of plasma weapons, as it’s doubtful that Kevin ever really went to town with his Vehemic magical energy (and if that would be covered by the Council) so without any measuring stick to compare him and his powers too, all the in universe video will show is Kevin hammering Max into the ground.
What I want to know is where did the rest of his grenades and equipment go? Dabbler isn’t sloppy (well I mean, not in combat *blush*) she wouldn’t risk detonating weapons if the pin got eaten before the explosive, and I assume the clothing nibblers only ate cloth, maybe leather and synthetic fabric. Are there half a dozen grenades rolling around?
It looked like he used up his grenades and I’d say Dabbler’s spell/summoned nano bots ate everything on him except his underwear.
He did have one left he was tossing up and down prior to the de-clothing
Stroth
Okay, I know everyone’s trying to come up with clever legal work arounds, but this is definitely at the level where Max would be far beyond justified in just slapping her until she gives up. And the fact that she’s not, and allowing a fight to continue in the middle of a busy city, is probably gonna get her chewed out.
Well, honestly, she’d be justified in just punching her head off for that last, very clearly attempted lethal, attack, but there are tourists around.
Except, as LEO, she is expressly not permitted to do that, which is why she attempted to get Juggernot to de-power her
I feel obligated as an attorney to come up with clever legal workarounds… but yeah your idea would likely work just as well or better :)
We literally have no idea how many powers HenchWench has, but teleportation seems likely. It’s not obvious how much work it would have been for Max to take down Brut, and HenchWench is more powered up than him. “Slapping her down” is not likely, at least until after Brut leaves the LLC.
Why does teleportation seem likely? We’ve seen no evidence of that yet. And Maxima is ridiculously powerful – she could probably take down Brut very easily. The only reason he was even able to get a hit in on her was because she was in a slow field and had her armor down to it’s minimum since her speed was at maximum, which no longer required. Remember, Maxima took a punch to the face to a powered-up Vehemence and all it did was make her move back half a step. Even when Vehemence was at his maximum, he was unable to kill her (yet) and when he was near maximum, she blew off his entire arm. I do not think Brut is anywhere near on Vehemence’s level.
We don’t know exactly how the grenades got inside her clothes.
I’d go with sleight of hand before I assume he has the ability to teleport grenades into another person’s clothes AS WELL AS superstrength/invulnerability. Those two powersets seem like an unusual fit.
Sung-jin Woo does the best “Arise!” you just lost all credibility lady!
It’s a good thing Achilles is on a team. Because being unkillable without any other ability would suck if you got trapped somewhere.
One of my favorite book series has an immortal main character. And that was his only power (as far as he knew). So when a supervillain encased him inside a cement staue? He stayed there for 17 years until a super couple broke it during their…interlewds.
Lost Question
hench wench is drunk on power and being drunk on power is a good way to end up catching the dead (too much of a liability to let her live). if she’s captured alive she’s probably going to be signing a lot of paperwork devised by the keenest (non-super) legal minds archon has access to and all to the extent that she won’t be able to use her powers in any manners that aid or cause a crime to occur
Brett Bellmore
Get a court order prohibiting her from being employed by anybody with super powers. Poof, her power becomes useless, at least until she moves outside the jurisdiction of the court in question.
You want a judge to issue an order enforcing discrimination? o_O
Riniko
So, what happens to Hench Wench if Brüt decides that his best bet here is to quit the LLC? Will she instantly lose his powers which seem to be a big part of her power set here.
Easy done. Your the invulnerable one right? Fucking quit. See how she feels when those atks start to hurt.
Membership could be hard to resign from, due to the rules of the llc.
Dibbit
Not to get into a huge discussion on this, but you can always quit any job.
If you can’t quit, it’s called slavery, and we don’t do that anymore.
Now, there might be consequences for quitting, and it might be unwise, but no one can force you to stay.
What Dibbit said, yes.
Brilliand
I don’t think part-ownership of an LLC would count as a job. Seems to me that it’s something you “own”, so giving up the position would follow the rules for abandoning property rather than the rules for quitting a job.
a. You can always quit, but not always within one day. Sometimes you’re contractfully obligated to wait a week after quitting.
b. This isn’t about a job, this is about ownership. Ownership can only be transferred or emitted in the atmosphere.
You cannot legally put in an LLC agreement anything to prevent members from voluntarily leaving the LLC.
However, in order for the LLC to bestow powers on HenchWench, the members may have had to “contribute” their powers into the LLC as an in kind contribution. It would have no physical effect on them… but then to leave the LLC might not even affect the power delegation that gives her access to them.
It’s all magical hand waving, so it operates according to the laws of cool, funny etc.
Powers are not some specific item though. I think the aspect of being an employer is what is needed – so if an employer quits, it would have the same effect as her being fired, at least for that particular power.
Yes, that is arguable. I agree that is what would be expected, not counting law-fu. She was hired by the LLC, not the individuals, or an LLC wouldn’t have been needed.
Whenever something is contributed to an LLC, it is not necessarily withdrawable except per the terms of the LLC. I put in my trade secrets, you put in the deed to a property, a third and fourth person throw in money. If I want out, the trade secret doesn’t necessarily come with me automatically.
Powers are clearly an intangible, so I doubt that they paid any attention to how she wrote that part of the contract. “Upon resignation of an officer, the LLC is entitled to the continued use of the contributed powers for 90 minutes…” would be a statement that she could easily have included.
Anyway, rule of funny/cook applies to whatever happens here. Dave has plenty of fun suggestions now. The question is if Sydney gets to blow HenchWench’s mind and pop the LLC with an ADHD question, or maybe Arianna with legal fu, or Leo with a hack.
Dark horse answer would be if Ray Cosmos managed to nullify her power with any of the above, because THAT would have endless possibilities for further developments.
1) I now love the word ‘law-fu’ and plan to use it in my daily conversations. So thank you there.
2) Trade secrets are intellectual property, and are different than a person’s particular skills or physical ability – which are NOT property at all – intellectual or otherwise. Trade secrets come under intellectual property law (which is the main part of my law practice:) ). It would be illegal to require a person to contribute their skills or physical ability after they quit – and putting that in a contract would be illegal as well.
3) There’s a difference between intangibles like LABOR and intangibles like trade secrets. The most that can be done is to make a non-competition clause, where the member or employee cannot compete with the LLC after they quit the LLC. And even that is limited in scope, time and area. Also has nothing to do with this particular example anyway. :)
4) Rule of Funny is true, but comic book geeks such as we tend to also want there to be some sort of consistent in universe rules. :) It’s one of many reasons why movies like The Last Jedi sucked so much.
5) I would love if Ray Cosmos nullified her powers somehow, although I honestly do think Arianna is a perfect way to nullify her, plus it would be really funny as well. :) I do think Sydney giving her an ADHD question which completely makes her pause would be hilarious as well, especially if her powers from employment are just psychosomatic. :)
Scott's Folly
Can you put in a ‘notice period’ between the notification to resign and the resignation taking effect? It’s not exactly analogous to employees’ contracts, which invariably do include such provision, but it could be justified on the same grounds: giving the remaining partners time to restructure around the resources/abilities which will shortly be withdrawn, rather than leaving a surprise hole in the LLC’s capabilities. Brüt would still have the unilateral right to start the withdrawal process at any time, but Hench Wench would still be able to borrow his powers while that process was running.
No, but you can put a no compete clause in the resignation requirement. Basically if someone wants to quit, they can quit. Whenever they want to do so. There MIGHT be a fiduciary argument (probably would not hold up though as an argument), but you can’t force a person to work against their will. Like Dibbit mentioned…. that’s slavery or indentured servitude, and not legal. And like I (and others) have accurately stated multiple times, you cannot have an illegal contract. If nothing else, it would be an unconscionable requirement.
And according to Hench Wench’s description of her powers, they are directly tied to whoever she happens to be working for at the given time. Meaning you can’t say ‘but Hench will still be able to use his powers even after he quits’ – because that’s not how Hench Wench’s powerset works.
Logic died earlier
Hench Wench is stupid super character. But describes well where this comic is going.
Deleting this shit from my reading list.
this comic has been like this since day one.
I swear these must be spam bots from a rival comic, every page now there is ONE of these as if they think this is going to convince people who have been reading this comic to go elsewhere. Get over yourselves. Don’t like it, don’t read. Making this show of it just makes you look like that spoiled brat who has to scream in the store and walk out so everyone is looking at them; a petty self entitled child.
Imagine creating a new name, and leaving a comment for the first time in order to leave such a lame exit statement.
The person must suffer from toxic entitlement.
Ro Jaws
It seems it takes some maturity to enjoy a silly superhero comedy like this. More or less stupid super characters is what it have been about for all these years.
Bye! We’ll miss you! Thanks so much for your eye-opening, grammatically correct, well thought out critique. I’m sure we have all learned a lesson and feel deep shame for continuing to read without you!
Ternbugle
rewinn
You think *that’s* a stupid character?
Paris of Troy gets everyone he cares about killed because he can’t keep it in his pants.
Hamlet gets everyone he cares about killed because he can’t make up his mind.
Batman (at various times) is o.k. with killing henchmen but mysteriously insists on keeping Joker alive.
Literature is FULL of stupid characters – or at least characters whose motivations we don’t fully understand – it’s the most realistic thing in this comic!
It may be difficult to understand the physics of HW’s powercopying power, but that’s inherent to powercopying. The limitation of “only powers of my employer” may be a psychological kink, that’s all, or maybe it’s an aspect of whatever HW uses to tap the Thaumion Field (if that’s what she does) https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-813-metaphysics-101/
AlyxVixen
Going back to the first appearance of Brut and his LLC’s employee, what he said to the alien merc implies that they are there to fight with ARC-SWAT, and the alien tech is just an added bonus. Given she wasn’t able to stop him taking the stasis gun when he seemed to realise that he could take them down.
So going by all the Lawyer talk in the comments above (and previous pages), the LLC was put together to fight the Super Police, so isn’t a legal LLC. So can be dissolved with a single phone call.
Right? *looks at Pander*
This is correct, yes. An LLC agreement is like any contract or agreement. If it’s for illegal purposes, the contract becomes void. And even if the LLC members say they want to defend against something as summarily done as a phone call to a judge, they are free to contest/argue it. In court. In the meantime though, I dont see how Hench can be an employee of an LLC once the LLC agreement has been ruled as illegal. :)
This may be a choice-of-laws question.
Criminals often form agreements among themselves for criminal purposes; these would be void within the legal system of New York or most other jurisdictions – so no judge would enforce it – but be enforced among and by themselves.
Consider side-agreements made while playing a board game. These are (generally speaking) not enforceable in any court, but thoroughly enforceable within the context of the game.
The tactical question is not whether an American judge recognizes the contract, but whether HW’s power recognizes it. What are the choice-of-law provisions she inserted into the contract?
My point is if she specifically said they formed an LLC, in order to be able to have the powers of all the members in that LLC, then there are specific things that must be done for an LLC to be valid. If the LLC is not valid (ie, declared void for being for an illegal purpose, thus making it an illegal contract), then there will be no LLC, and at best, Hench Wench can only be hired by one person, as soon as a judge or someone in the Department of State of NY says so. :)
As for ‘choice of law provisions’ inserted into the LLC agreement, it’s a moot point of the Secretary of State or a judge says the LLC Agreement is not valid – HW does not have an agreement with either the Secretary of State or the judge – she has, at best, an agreement with the members of the LLC. And for that to be true, there has to still BE an LLC.
Which is why I said earlier if she had been really smart (when dealing with people with fast access to government officials and judges), she would have instead had them form a general partnership, which is harder to dissolve since it doesn’t require a written agreement approved by the Secretary of State of NY. But then you also could not have put that firing clause in there either.
Why would a general partnership not be able to freely negotiate an employment contract with a third party that requires a majority of the partners to void the contract?
Because a general partnership does not require a legal document that can undo the entire business, and it would be more difficult to negate the employment contract without a trial first (although not impossible for a judge to still give a summary judgment, even if he would probably be overruled later on). The LLC can be removed purely administratively, or (temporarily at least) judicially via a phone call. A general partnership can not.
Most of the time, people form LLCs because of tax liability and personal liability protections, so it seemed odd that they’d use that form of business setup since they were planning on doing illegal stuff anyway, which would make any LLC pretty much impossible to have once they start doing the illegal stuff (ie, a drug cartel cannot use an LLC to protect themselves from liability for the crime of growing/making/selling/distributing drugs, because the LLC would not be legal in the first place and as soon as the person who certified it nullifies it, there goes the LLC, and no one would be able to enforce anything in the LLC Agreement anyway).
Them being there (as in, Times Square) to fight ARC-SWAT doesn’t mean the L.L.C. was formed to fight ARC-SWAT
They had clearly planned the attack as a group, they hired Hench Wench who had them form the LLC so she could gain all the members of the LLC’s powers to be more effective in this endeavour, so the LLC was created for this attack.
They knew that alien tourists would be arriving, in the middle of Times Square? And that Archon would be sent as interim border security and customs?
That means one of the Unknown in the L.L.C. is a pre-cog? That means they knew what would happen when they attacked Maxi
Dave, don’t forget the Nora Hazard books are part of the Delvers LLC verse, and takes place from a local person’s perspective. IIRC, the end of Nora Hazard 3 begins crossing her over as a major character in Delvers. I also think there’s an anthology of short stories, which includes major plot developments/reveals.
LitRPG style, I’ve found I’m migrating toward ‘the game comes to reality’ versions, where humanity as a whole has to deal with the sudden addition of magic and game mechanics to reality. It tends to give a nice post apocalyptic feel to them compared to the more fantasy heavy elements (not that those are bad, but sometimes you want something different). Scifi are the harder elements to find for me at least, Endless Online being the closest and it effectively balances magic and tech deliberately.
I’ve also found I really liked the Divine Apostasy series https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TTDGKP2 as it’s got the somewhat novel approach of having no isekai elements at all, instead relying on the character having to learn mechanics of a class he didn’t plan to pick.
e_voyager
Yeah let’s Sydney have her.
what an anti-climatic take down if her shield can block this just like Vehemence’s aggro aura. Form the shield around herself and Hench Wench (wide mode likely), the affect is blocked, Sydney aims gun at Hench Wench ordering her to lie down and surrender.
That would be a bad call. HenchWench, even if missing her major powers, is likely to be able to cripple Sydney hand-to-hand, and has shown no compunctions about hurting people.
I assume Sydney has a gun, if not her orbs are able to fly about and hit hard enough to break a troll’s arm (even if Sciona regenerated), Hench Wench minus the durability boost would be pummeled, and Sydney has been training; heck at the start she could flip a guy…also who says she ONLY brings Hench Wench into the field, the shield only cuts off external use of powers like with Vehemence. so extend the shield around Hench Wench and Achilles and/or Amorphous so they can now take her down as easily as any human, maybe Dabbler too and put a sleep spell on the now defenseless Hench Wench so next time the shield is dropped she is asleep and can be carted off. Assuming Dabbler isn’t unconscious or recovers from that by this time.
Molest-orb has been shown to work both inside and outside the shield.
And a light tenticle being able to move through a barrier that anything else CAN’T has certain lethal options….
No, the Violatorb can not work inside Mr Buble, she tried that against Kevin and it didn’t work, that’s why she was reduced to having Dabbles play Skip Rope outside
Sasha Whitefur
It worked on the :kaiju”.
no she teleported inside the bubble she did not use light hook
That fight doesn’t prove that Sydney cannot use the Lighthook inside the Shield, only that she did not. If she had manifested it outside the Shield to begin with, Vehemence would have been alert to a potential trick, and less susceptible to Dabbler’s distraction. By claiming that she had tried and failed to manifest it inside the Shield, she encouraged Vehemence to let his guard down under the impression that she’d just lost Plan A and had no Plan B, and thus to open himself up to Dabbler’s sight-based hypnotism.
Of course, hiding a capability like this is the sort of trick that only works once, and it requires Sydney to maintain the bluff right up to the point that she really needs the bonus action. The moment anyone sees her use the Lighthook inside the Shield, the secret is out and the potential attacker knows to be wary.
No, it expressly proves that she cannot because she tried to have it form inside
She needed something to defend herself against Kevin, and there was no chance in Hael she was going to risk using the PewPukeBall, which left her only remaining offensive defensive trick: tie him up
She tried. She literally was not able to, though.
That means she can’t. YET. There might be an upgrade in the future that lets her. Or maybe there’s some knowledge in the center ring which will let her learn how to do so. But currently, in the comic, she cannot form the lighthook within the shield. Which is why she came up with the Dabbler doing jump-rope idea.
That’s the impression given by Sydney’s actions, yes. But it may be a deliberate and false one. Again, all that it proves is that she did not, not that she can not.
(Apologies, this post ran rather longer than I thought it would!)
To summarise the relevant pages:
p280:
Sydney gives Vehemence the verbals as if building up to a major attack. At this point she has almost his full attention, and he’s fully on his guard against attacks and trickery. He can tell that he’s just been cut off from his violence fuel, and Dabbler is very kindly demonstrating that nothing’s getting in either, so all he has to worry about is the Maxima he’s got electro-pinned and the easily squishy Halo. Vehemence also knows that the Lighthook had minimal effect and was easily disengaged even before he levelled-up (see p257), and Sydney knows that directly attacking him is a bad idea (see p267).
And then the Lighthook pops up outside the Shield. Right next to Dabbler.
Sydney immediately starts on an ‘improvised Plan B’, which just happens to use the Orb whose payload ‘unexpectedly’ materialised right next to its second essential component. Within half a page, Vehemence’s grip is loosening as he’s drawn in by Dabbler’s “literally hypnotic” corsetage – as highlighted with a Sydney-specific flashback.
Jiggawatt finally notices the long message detailing a multi-step “Plan” that Sydney has apparently sent to all of “the Good Guys”. With Dabbler keeping Vehemence distracted, there is now time for Jiggawatt to get in close, surprise him, and neutralise the electricity that’s been keeping Maxima pinned.
From memory, I questioned the apparent series of events based only on the actions on those three pages. After going back to get the citation links just now, I’m inclined to call “The Plan” as stronger evidence that Sydney’s ‘Plan B’ was in fact Plan A. It’s definitely written from a time-point before she cages Vehemence with the Shield (“if that works” (page 282, panel 5)), almost certainly as the product of page 278‘s memory-association montage (first panel after montage). DaveB‘s footnote about typing fast with one finger (p282) is therefore misdirection, if it’s taken to imply that The Plan was only written after the ‘shift to Plan B’.
Note that the montage not only includes several prominent flashbacks to Dabbler’s chest, but also calls attention to Vehemence being “like pro-mode Sebastian Shaw“. A character primarily known for his energy absorption, but also well known as both a principal and a patron of the Hellfire Club. It would be a stretch to say that Vehemence must be especially susceptible to Dabbler’s distractions based purely on that parallel, but the association could easily serve to bring that angle of attack into Sydney’s mind.
If The Plan did falter for a page or two, about which the message says nothing either way, it’s been steered back on track by the time the Shield is lifted (hence stopping my summary at that point).
Now consider another pair of references: pages 741 and 742. In which we see that Sydney is very well aware of the operational advantage that can be gained by not disclosing the full extent of her abilities until she really needs to, even within the confines of ARC itself.
There isn’t any proof that Sydney can use the Lighthook inside the Shield, granted. But that she cannot do so, we only have her word. Her word spoken to a dangerous adversary, when she was in the middle of executing a plan against him.
I can never attack someone for writing long posts or I’d have to attack myself on an almost daily basis whenever I write a post here. Plus I like long posts :)
If you notice in the last two panels on that page (and I’m pretty sure you do since you seem to have done a lot of research on your post on this), Sydney specifically says that she does not know how to make it (the lighthook) appear inside her shield. Which makes her have to modify the plan slightly. I’m assuming her initial plan was for Maxima to punch him in the throat as she distracted him with the lighthook, then immediately wrap the lighthook around his damaged throat, which had to be changed when she realized she couldn’t do that first part anymore. So instead, the distraction came from Dabbler’s hypnotic boobs and the most erotic jump rope session ever depicted in a comic.
I’m assuming. I havent seen much jump rope in comics except for She-Hulk, which turned out to be a big tease.
“Sydney immediately starts on an ‘improvised Plan B’, which just happens to use the Orb whose payload ‘unexpectedly’ materialised right next to its second essential component.”
Sydney has already been shown, since the very first page of the comic, to be good at improvising strategies when her initial plans don’t work, like she did in the tabletop RPG, or how she did against the Kaiju on Alari Prime.
Jiggawatt finally notices the long message detailing a multi-step “Plan” that Sydney has apparently sent to all of “the Good Guys”.”
Most of the plan sent to the good guys involve them AFTER Vehemence’s throat is damaged though, in order to keep him continually off balance. The one improvised part – the part with Dabbler jump-roping, was not texted to anyone, as it was not part of the initial plan, and actually hampered the plan a bit since everyone was too busy staring at Dabbler. :)
“The Plan was only written after the ‘shift to Plan B’.”
It didnt really need to be rewritten, since everyone else’s part in the plan only takes place after Vehemence’s throat is damaged and the lighthook is used to keep him from being able to heal it.
“Sydney is very well aware of the operational advantage that can be gained by not disclosing the full extent of her abilities until she really needs to, even within the confines of ARC itself.”
I find it very unlikely, and also very counter to Sydney’s natural thinking process, to risk Maxima’s life on her plan when Maxima was very close to dying. Sydney even states this afterwards, that her main focus was to try to prevent Maxima from being killed by Vehemence. And Sydney is not exactly someone who is able to easily focus on multiple things on a continual basis in a short term time limit (ie, remember her fight against the Super Mannekiller which started while she was having to upgrade, or her choice paralysis on Alari Prime before she realized she had to choose or she would probably die), even though she’s able to formulate plans very well and even improvise when one part of the plan goes wrong.
“But that she cannot do so, we only have her word.”
Seems like a very unusual time to practice deception when Maxima’s close to being killed. Occam’s razor – it looks far more likely that she thought she’d be able to use the lighthook inside to distract Vehemence from killing Maxima, then realized she wasn’t able to, which made her need to improvise the plan a little to get to the part where the other good guys could help.
Good theory, but I don’t think it’s nearly as likely as what most people think happened – that Sydney is not able to (at least not yet able to) use any offensive powers (like PPO or Lighthook) within the shield, and she was not even aware she could not until she found she couldnt use the lighthook in the shield. She even thought she would be able to use the PPO, but she never followed through on that. If she had, it probably would have gone the same way as the lighthook.
Think about it like this – the Enterprise can’t fire its phasers INSIDE the ship, and cannot use a tractor beam inside the ship either. And Sydney’s orbs operate as a ship, essentially.
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I did notice Sydney’s lines in the last two panels of p280, I’m just not convinced that they’re truthful.
Note that there are two separate claims implied in those panels: [i] that Sydney intended to use the Lighthook inside the Shield in this situation, and [ii] that she is unable to manifest the Lighthook inside the Shield. If we accept [i] as true, then her failure to do so implies that [ii] is also true. If we posit that [i] is in fact untrue, then we cannot say (on the information available) whether [ii] is true or false.
Sydney needed a distraction of some sort, to get Vehemence to drop the aggression aura and to keep his attention occupied afterwards. This let her lift the Shield, allowing Jiggawatt to wrap his arm in ‘darkning’ so that Maxima could get free and start punching. You’re taking her at her word, assuming that there was only one layer of direct distraction planned. I’m suggesting that her plan was for a multi-layered and indirect distraction, with the ‘admission of inability’ being a crucial psychological component – whether the admission is true or not. How accurately she communicated that plan to everyone else…
But consider: it’s trivially easy for Sydney to check where the Lighthook can operate. Even if she hadn’t thought about it before that night, it would be the work of seconds to do while formulating The Plan if it were really a keystone element. Getting caught by surprise on something so basic and avoidable just seems out of character for a disciple of Batman.
If she is deliberately bluffing on p280, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a deliberate and prolonged misinformation campaign. She’s not really had any other call to use the Lighthook within the Shield, and it’s only in those circumstances that she has to decide whether to reveal the capability (if she does have it).
It’s the sort of thing where we won’t get a conclusive answer until we get new evidence – when Sydney either cashes in the bluff or takes a serious hit from the inability. Until then, truce?
Robin Bobcat
And Achilles demonstrates ‘bad’ superpowers – in order for his abilities to be shown, he has to be clobbered with incredible amounts of force. It may not hurt him, but he’s definitely a magnet for it. If she’d done that to Heatwave, it would have been messy…
to be fair, Heatwave isn’t invulnerable, so she wouldn’t have attempted a grapple. Achilles’ most effective attacks are “break their hand on my face” and “hug them tight so they can’t hit anyone else”. The “I must get injured to demonstrate my healing power” trope isn’t entirely applicable here; it’s actually his most useful tactic, to soak attacks that would hurt other team members if they connected.
Ariana should ask Max to start interviewing Brüt about the LLC for the information she needs to have it disbanded.
Questions like: “How’s your LLC called? In which Jurisdiction is your LLC registered? Who’re the other members? Where do you keep your version of the contract?”
Also Maxima would probably benefit from having her gun duty relieved. Is there a special super police car to lock supers in? Can someone replace her with a rifle or something? How long will it take for help to arrive?
How would a super police car work?
I would do it this way:
– Start with a semi-truck
– Make all parts easy to replace with a differing set of rare tools/keys.
– Get a really energetic power source that can’t be more voluminous than most of the truck(leaving enough room for a few systems, the driver, the motor, the arrested figure and other necessary parts).
– Get a few increasingly smaller versions of this power source.
– Get an electromagnet strong enough to lift a heavy human.
– Get a few weaker electromagnets
– Get a lot of ferromagnetic thins that can be assembled on and in humans in varying ways.
– Get an energy regulating system for the power source.
– Get heavily armored walls.
– Get layers of varying materials you can click to those walls.
– Get motors that work by differing kinds of systems for the truck.
– Get a self driving system for the truck.
– Get a remote driving system for the truck.
– Get remotely controlled TASER systems
– Get remotely controlled gas weapons in the truck.
– Get hermetic closing doors in the back of the truck.
– Get a window on top of the cell part of the truck.
– Get mirrors for the inside truck of which you can choose the angle while installing.
– Get high kinetic weaponery for inside the truck.
– Get a way to pressurize the insides of the truck.
– Get a way to remove the air inside the truck.
– Get gear that keeps someones bodily pressure normal and provides oxygen(doesn’t have to be human shaped as long a human fits in it)
– Get internal flame throwers.
– Get a disease/poison only the government has the cure for with many methods of injecting and a slowly lethal effect.
Feel free to comment, add and answer.
That would mean a impractically big and heavy truck if you use real tech but since this is a superhero comic we don’t have to care about such boring details. Since there are teleporting technology in this comic you could just have fast and sturdy car that can handle mildly uneven terrain. That way you can just teleport whatever equipment and weapons you need for this specific super villain to the trunk and teleport him directly to super jail when subdued.
See this is where the confiscated stasis tech would come in oh so handy.
Stasis cuffs and then stack them like cord-wood in an armoured truck.
Effective and funny.
Well… now they (ARCHON) has access to stasis pod technology :)
Assuming Dabbler does not refuse to give back the power cell to ARCHON once the battle is over. She doesn’t give out her own tech, but tech that humans legitimately captured from attackers seems to be a precedent in Earth’s favor after the Fel incident, especially since Earth seems to have things which are valuable for trade purposes in the future.
That’s why I suggested the second point.
How would you fit an involuntary super strengther in a car with the equipment needed to restrain them?
My plan was to use those magnets and a power source to keep them airborne, but that would take more volume than a car provides.
Just occurred to me that what Heatwave is doing would be horrifically fatal if Hench Wench wasn’t apparently fireproof.
palmvos
Hench Wench has past the point where ‘restraint’ is required. she presents a current and ongoing threat to both law enforcement and civilians in one of the most populous cities in the US. relieving Max or retrieving some other high class team member to stop her needs to be a priority.
Pretty sure burning someone alive constitutes “excessive force”
Heathwave already tried it once on Hench Wench, when she got first introduced and as she has shown in the Vehemence fight while getting stabbed in the food she tends to start lower than her absolute limit.
What I think is, thus happening here is that Heathwave first tried a “normal human uncomfortable” dose of heath and now tried a “normal human lethal” dose on Hench Wench.
It would explain, why she is still participating in the fight at all after Hench Wench resisted her first attack and why she uses her potential lethal attacks on Hench Wench.
Nah. Peggy has shot people with a 50 cal in the eye (Vehemence) and head (Concretia/Concrete lady?) as a non-lethal option :)
Yorp
Mmm, I wonder which of Hench Wench’s employers has either the ‘flash forward’ or the ‘flashback’ powers? ;-)
Nice to get to see this scene play out though, a lot of folks had been eagerly anticipating it, myself included.
{Phew!} And longer than I care to count after living most of a year in a place with dodgy internet connection, I’m finally caught back up to the current page. An unexpected upside to so many of the usual commitments being put on hold this year! Now, which will be the next webcomic to try to catch up on…
Mark T
Hench-Wench might have an unpleasant surprise if she ever tried anything like this in the UK. Under the law the Queen has massive legal powers which she never uses but are still, strictly speaking, in force. Might be quite amusing for Hench-Wench to square up for a fight with the UK’s super team when all legally empowered, only for Her Majesty to show up. Inform her that she forbids the existence of such an arrangement and then shoot her in the face.
James/G
And Max still has her BFP(Big Freaking Pistol)pointed at Brut…
Is it just me, or is he speaking about five octaves higher? :LOL:
Anyone else concerned that Sydney has not made an appearance or a glib comment in several pages? Just what is she doing amidst this chaos?
I'am a Redguard!
No, she gets more than enough screen time as is. It’s nice to see other characters doing things by themselves.
Remember Sydney? It’s a song about Sydney.
You can get anything you want…
Just gonna say this once, ‘cos it’s true. No other reason than that, really.
Hench Wench’s powers, as stated, are logically ridiculous.
If we’re running with it, we could say she has some knid of ultra-versatile or enormous power set but some psychological problem prevents her from being able to access more than the slice of it represented by her employers’ power set.
But that’s still ridiculous. Just, you know, maybe a little less ridiculous. The distinction between no logic and comic book logic, maybe.
Well, so are Varya’s, if you think about it.
But it does point to one possibility – that superpowers are the product of intelligent action, and not simply random chance/genetics/etc. In other words, *something* out there said ‘Let”s give this one powers based on bureaucratic nonsense’.
Jabberwokky’s power is also largely psychologically based, probably – hence her tendency to shout out her attacks like she’s in an anime before her powers change to suit the attack. Either she has to do it, or she’s so used to doing it that she can’t use her powers effectively if she doesn’t shout the attacks out first or during the attack. Even when she was under Dabbler’s influence, she still did that.
Hench Wench could be the same way.
So is a mirror nonsense? You have an object and a visual duplicate of an object.
Clearly super powers grant an energy source of some kind (for example to fuel Maxima’s nuke-like blast attack). They also create a (very varied) bound on how that energy can be utilised (for Max it is to go boom with that power, whereas for Anvil it is to be able to add energy to that pool, or release it, via kinetic energy).
So Hench Wench’s boundaries are defined by social behaviours. Whilst this seems esoteric, there are commonalities with other super powers. Take Max’s variable powers, as a good example. Maxima knows that she can mentally transfer power from speed to defence or to super strength. This is an unseen energy source being redirected by mind alone, but constrained by Maxima’s belief in what her capabilities are.
Testing, of course, will have shown and helped to define those beliefs. And likewise Hench Wench will have have to have had some flukes (e.g. being hired by someone with super powers) and experimentation, to discover the scope of her powers and the social constructs which bound them.
And all this is within the premise of the setting as it is already firmly established that
… oops my kitty decided that there had been enough typing.
All this is within the premise of the setting as it is already firmly established that supers get ‘good looks’, which are based on a social norm. Mostly the ‘California beach babe’ social concept. So if we accept that the appearance of the supers can be bounded by social perceptions, why not their powers too?
I think with the ‘good looks’ thing, it’s mainly that however supers get their powers might be artificially tailored, for a ‘perfect human form’ – which WOULD mean lightly toned feminine muscletone for woman and more bulky muscletone for men, although I know there’s like four different ‘ideal human forms’ in biology for human beings. We even see that in the 1920s, they had the same MODERN idealized human form, even though back then the social ideal might have been to be a bit more…. how can I put this delicately…. zoftig … to show that you were of a higher social class during times of economic strife.
So I don’t think it’s just because of social norms – I think it’s that the idealized human form just happens to currently be a form that most people find incredibly attractive in modern times. Although if it IS artificial based on social preference, that definitely would be interesting. But I definitely don’t think it’s based on social preference of the super themselves. IE, I don’t think we’ll be seeing anyone like the Blob from X-Men as a super, or Big Bertha from DC Comics.
U.N Owen
Wonder what would happen with Hench Wench if someone used mental manipulation to make her think she WAS fired…..
Logically she would not use any of the powers, as she would think that she could not. However if any of the powers were persistent ones (such as the heat resistance she demonstrates above) and its ongoing effects were obvious to her (such as not getting burnt by an attack), then she may well break free of the mental manipulation, and thereby regain control of the powers.
But it is possible that thinking she was fired would fool her super power too, and have exactly the same results as actually being fired.
Given that she has a gestalt power, I wonder what would happen if Varya touched her…
Varya would gain some kind of power. Maybe some type of gestalt power, maybe not. Or it may behave similarly to Varya being able to (speculatively) share control of Halo’s orbs. So perhaps Varya and Hench Wench would share the pool of powers that Hench Wench’s employers have? Given that HW can only use a limited number of the powers at once, that would make them a very effective team up.
Depending on the theme of her employer’s powers they could make up specialist power combinations to prioritise their immediate needs. For example a group of super burglars would have a different pool to a mercenary team. So for the former they should both be able to get a variety of stealth powers. With one specialising in threat detection and nullification, whilst the other could go all ninja.
Whereas the merc combo might end up with one being a tank and the other going for aerial fire support. Both with a bunch of secondary and tertiary powers to make each very very good at those roles.
Or Hench Wench could call dibs on something to create an invincible monster, leaving Varia with all the leftover odds and ends she did not find useful. But getting all the lesser used powers (and duplicates of the powerful ones) from an entire villain group would still grant a shedload of varied abilities. And Varia would be one of the few people with the necessary experience in diverse super powers, to make good use of them.
Varia’s powers only sometimes have something to do with the people she touches. Not always. It probably influences her gestalt power but not always. So with touching Hench Wench, we have no firm idea on if Varia’s powers would be related to Hench Wench’s powers or not.
Or even if touching Hench Wench when she has powers would be different than touching Hench Wench when she has no powers. Clearly Varia’s powerset changes when someone has powers vs when they don’t, because if her powers when she touches Sydney are the ability to use the orbs as well, then it had to have changed from when Sydney did NOT have orbs.
Well, that book recommendation got me thinking…
I’m not sure the world building math checks out.
3 women per man is a very, very low number to set up a world where men are “too valuable to go to war”. In fact, I don’t think there is any way to set up a harem world simply having a high female:male birth ratio
A 16 year old boy, which is about the horniest a (legal) human male gets, can easily have sex once in the morning and once in the evening. Do that for a lunar month, and you have pretty much guaranteed that two women will have gotten pregnant by the end.
A normal pregnancy is 10 lunar months, so by the time the first batch of babies is out of the oven our stud could have knocked up another 20 women. Assuming you are going to let the newborns get breastfed for at least a year, rather than throwing the new mother back into the rotation, you could consistently keep about 50 women either pregnant or breastfeeding at all times for each male teenager available.
Which means, even with a 10:1 birth ratio you would still be able to get every single woman pregnant even if the father didn’t survive past his teens.
In fact, up to a birth rate of 200 females for each male, every teenage boy will sire his replacement before he stops being a teen.
What higher ratios do mean is that men can no longer be the sole providers for the family… But then, men never were the sole providers for their families in ancient times. That is a relatively recent invention, despite the weird revisionism we currently have, pretending that in ancient times women were locked in the house by an evil patriarchy while the men went out to do all the work and have all the fun.
What happened in reality was that men went to to all the work that required physical strength, which women were not well-suited to do, while women went to do the work that required uninterrupted stretches of time, which would have left the men unable to do an important portion of their own work. It was, obviously, very much a partnership, and having multiple women for a single man would have meant the man would not be able to do enough of the work that was expected of him, while the women would have ended up with not enough of the work that was expected of them.
Particularly strong (or particularly smart) women could find workarounds, but there’s a reason harems were generally reserved to rich men: they used their economic power to hire (or buy) other men to do the work that required strength. The women, on the other hand, left without enough work to do, would spend their time practicing harem politics.
Back to the topic: for world-building purposes, if your birth ratio is slightly in favor of females, you get a world that is pretty much the same as our own; OTOH, if it is highly in favor of females, men’s strength becomes pretty much irrelevant, as you simply don’t have enough men to do all the work that requires male strength.
Which means that, as a species, you have to find workarounds. It means more simple machines (things like pulleys), wider use of animal-powered tech… And generally more stuff that actually makes men irrelevant except as studs.
Make the ratio high enough, and you end up with a world where, rather than men having harems, communities of women own small pools of men, who exist for reproduction purposes.
I don’t think there is really an in-between where men have harems and women prefer it, not as a single point of departure from our world, anyway. Now, in a world where females are bigger and stronger, *and* have a higher birth ratio, then a harem world becomes a much more reasonable option.
TheUnplanner
So Hench Wench has the same role (trolling everyone during super battles and there’s nothing anyone can do about it) as Nyah-Nyah Can’t Hit Me Man?
Cleyton Carlos
I wonder when Sydney is going to show up (and to something Sydney)
That guy is really desperate now… understandably.
Power creep is killing this comic
Hench Wench won, and the comic should end. There is no way for protagonists to win, without bailing out Moffat style. Stupid writer.
Samuel Victor
I don’t see why Maxima can’t win with excessive ultra violent lethality. Because she can. But she is choosing to explore options other than lethal force because she’s such a nice woman. Truly Maxima is an example for all LEO to aspire to.
If Hench only has Brüt level physical stats, and only has a decently powerful geokinetic, and only a bunch of mid tier powers, then Maxima can definitely still pull out a win. If all else fails Serious!Face!Meme!Maxima could go around and murdergank the power sources, can’t be employed by someone if you’re dead, can you…. actually would that depower Hench?
Just because Hench Wench could hypothetically have all the powers doesn’t mean she does right now.
same troll as page one I assume, who has been trolling several pages now trying to get people to think the comic is badly written or whomever is on the page at the time is over powered. Also noticing the “I think I typed this at the last minute before the next page would come up guy” expecting to be super visible to anyone reading the comments as a result.
But alas fair troll, your obvious user name choice and comment gives you away. Seriously though is this one person because I am seeing a pattern here; one troll post on page one day the comic goes up hating on it, then another shortly before the next comic would go up. Is this a rival comic person trying to smear this one. Because the comments keep making these accusations that anyone who reads the comic can easily dismiss as non-issues or blatant fabrications as only one who hasn’t read it would accuse.
It is nice that this forum is very resistant to trolling.
Well mostly because most of the people on this forum are really nice and okay with an argument without getting too insulting. Plus DaveB seems to also respect everyone as well without putting his foot on the scale one way or another, and doesnt get bent out of shape when someone who does seem to be trolling says something like ‘stupid writer’ when DaveB is actually one of the better webcomic writers on the internet that I’ve seen, usually with a very well thought out storyline and descriptions of powersets and tropes. Like someone who genuinely does like comics.
Plus the rare times there are trolls, they tend to be about as subtle as a mallet to the head, like this guy has been. Usually with very easily countered arguments.
There are SO many ways for the heroes to win actually. So far the only three people who have attacked her are the three with the weakest powersets in ARCHON – Achilles, Heatwave, and Mr. Amorphous.
Frankly, Maxima could likely kill or knock her out rather easily given her powerlevel. Dabbler could use her railgun to de-limb her, or use her non-lethal weaponry to take her down if she’s ramped them up to work on a powered-up Vehemence. There’s also the tickle gun, which could probably keep HW out of the game if she can’t think straight.
There’s also Sydney – we have no idea how much Brut can take, but we know that a shot to the knee with a ‘non-super’ high calibre gun’ smarts. Whcih probably means Sydney’s PPO would do a whole lot more than just smart. Heck, Sydney would probably be able to use her speed and lighthook to take her into orbit or at least high enough for HW to lose consciousness. I forget if any other members of ARChon are there currently. Or if electricity will affect HW – in which case Jiggawatt could be effective as well
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Snooki and Lindsay Lohan not even close in comparison [Video]
By Debra Wattes on March 26, 2013 Entertainment, Lindsay Lohan, Snooki
Snooki, and Lindsay Lohan, I would say, not even close in comparison to one another. But as I understand it, a judge differs with this opinion. Snooki got handed a $500 fine and community services sentence for her Seaside Heights shenanigans in 2010, the judge aptly compared Snooki to Lindsay Lohan stating she was a […]
T-Mobile To Overhaul Business Model To Be Competitive With Apple Inc.
By Debra Wattes on March 24, 2013 android, Apple, iPhone, Samsung, Smartphone, Technology
Has acceptance of Brand hype led to lower product quality for consumers?
T-Mobile has overhauled its business model in order to be more competitive with Apple Inc. This includes removing contracts, in favor of pre-paid. A press conference will be held on March 26, where they are likely have more information about their plans. T-Mobile will talk more about how it has shifted it’s focus for customers. […]
Tilda Swinton Sleeps In Glass Box at MoMa
By Debra Wattes on March 24, 2013 Entertainment, New York City
Tilda Swinton travels the globe to share her performance art.
Tilda Swinton: from London, to Rome and now New York. Tilda Swinton, as part of a surprise performance piece, engaged fans who visited the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa). The popular “Moonrise Kingdom” actress was on display at the MoMa in New York City Saturday as part of an exhibit. “The Maybe” showcased Swinton sleeping in a glass box […]
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FXXK! It’s the 1036bhp track-only LaFerrari!
Maranello’s hybrid hypercar has spawned a race-spec ‘XX’ version. Evil has a new posterboy.
Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. Cheery Chinese New Year. This is the LaFerrari FXXK (yes, we know) – the track-only, experimental iteration of Maranello’s hybrid masterpiece – and if it hasn’t gone straight to the top of your festive wishlist, you may wish to check you haven’t perished on the inside.
The basics, then. The entirely-not-road-legal FXXK employs the same basic V12-plus-electric drivetrain as the road-going LaFerrari, but making even more power. 101bhp more power, to be precise, boosting total output to 1036bhp: 848bhp coming from the 6.3-litre naturally aspirated V12 (at 9200rpm, no less) and 187bhp from the electric motor. Combined torque stands at ‘over 664lb ft’.
The internal combustion engine has been substantially overhauled for track duty, with new camshafts, redesigned intake manifolds and, most intriguingly, mechanical tappets replacing the traditional hydraulic efforts.
Ferrari also notes that the silencers on the exhaust system have been ‘eliminated’, an appropriately sinister word for a noise likely to cause lasting, wonderful aural damage.
Though there’s no word on a 0-62mph time, that extra power – along with some mighty trick-sounding Pirelli slicks, which feature embedded sensors feeding back information on longitudinal, lateral and radial acceleration – will mean a substantial decrease on the road-going LaFerrari’s 2.9-second benchmark. Fast.
Aero? You can’t handle the aero. The FXXK has sprouted a whole bunch of additional devices of downforce, innovations Ferrari says are derived from its expertise in endurance racing’s GT category. At the front lurks a deep, double-deck spoiler, with vertical fins that channel air over the car’s flanks, and boost the efficiency of the aerodynamic underbody.
There’s yet more madness round the back, where a monster diffuser optimises air extraction from the underbody, and makes the FXXK a bugger to reverse-park.
Most interesting are those fin-winglet arrangements either side of the retractable rear spoiler. In ‘low-drag’ configuration (with the rear spoiler retracted), these winglets function as guide vanes, while boosting the spoilers efficiency in ‘high downforce’ mode.
Ferrari says it all adds up to 50 per cent more downforce than the standard LaFerrari can muster, the FXXK generating 540kg at 133mph.
The LaFerrari’s HY-KERS electric system has been overhauled for race duty, too, with four modes now selectable from the steering wheel manettino: Qualify (for maximum performance), Long Run, Manual Boost and Fast Charge. Speaking of that manettino, you’ll also be able to call up a newly calibrated version of Ferrari’s genius Slide Slip Angle Control traction technology, which will do a far better version of metering power to those 345-section rear tyres than your puny right foot will ever manage.
A point of order: this is not, officially at least, the LaFerrari FXXK. Ferrari refers to it simply as the FXXK, with no mention of the LaFerrari anywhere in its press bumf. The ‘FXX’ part you’ll be familiar with, while the ‘K’ refers to its kinetic energy recovery system. Any resemblance to a popular expletive is purely coincidental.
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PETER TEMPLE (1946 – 2018) . . . A tribute
The distinguished Australian crime writer Peter Temple has died of cancer at the age of 71 at his home in the Victorian city of Ballarat. When some modern writers might have their output weighed rather than critically assessed, Temple wrote just nine novels and devoted much of his career to journalism – at which he excelled – and teaching others how to write. Nine novels only, but each is a gem – polished, hard, multi-faceted and brilliant. If he is known at all among casual readers of crime fiction in Britain, it may be for his four novels featuring the gritty private investigator, Jack Irish.
Irish, a former lawyer, inhabits an Australia which might surprise those who have never lived and worked in Melbourne. November through to March in the Victorian capital is pretty much the stereotype beloved of those who caricature Aussie life. It gets bloody hot, you don’t leave home without fly repellant and, across at the MCG, cricket fans, with the obligatory Eskies full of beer, are baying at the opposition players. But visit Melbourne between April and October, and you see a different city. The winter rain is usually an incessant but penetrative drizzle rather than a downpour and the wise supporter wraps up well to go and support his ‘footie’ team on a Saturday afternoon. The world of football – that strange hybrid we know as Aussie Rules – is one of the two contrapuntal themes in the Jack Irish novels, the other being the big business of horse racing. Whereas Jack Irish comes no closer to football than gloomy suburban pubs where old men rage against the dying of the light – and the current losing streak of their local team – his horse racing connections are far more potent. He has an uneasy relationship with a millionaire former jockey and the ruthless minder who looks after him, and his loyalty to the pair is sometimes repaid in cash but, on other occasions, with supportive but devastating violence.
The four Jack Irish novels are all in print, as follows:
Bad Debts (1996)
Black Tide (1999)
Dead Point (2000)
White Dog (2003)
Never content to rest comfortably in the arms of a literary formula, Temple also wrote five other novels, each with a different protagonist, as follows:
An Iron Rose – featuring Mac Faraday (1998)
Shooting Star – featuring Frank Calder (1999)
In The Evil Day – featuring John Anselm (2002)
The Broken Shore – featuring Joe Cashin (2005)
Truth – featuring Steven Villani (2009)
In The Evil Day is the only one of Temple’s works that has an international flavour. John Anselm is an ex-Beirut hostage who is eking out an existence working in surveillance in Hamburg, but becomes involved with a beautiful investigative journalist in London and an unscrupulous mercenary. Messrs Faraday, Calder and Cashin, on the other hand, ply their trade in deeply conservative country towns a couple of hours up the highway from the bright lights of Melbourne. Steven Villani, however, is back in Melbourne (which may seem more English than England, with its daily evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral, and its exclusive gentleman’s clubs) but there is nothing cosy or quaint about the corruption and venality that the hard-bitten police officer must confront.
Peter Temple was a fine journalist. Part of his training would have involved being cudgeled by hard-nosed editors into saying as much as possible in the fewest words. In his novels he added the imagination of a poet and the compassionate humility of a medieval saint. We have lost a writer who employed a style that was so terse and direct that it gave him the space and time for moments of such grace and perception that they take the breath away.
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YOU TELL ME: THE DEATH OF THE FOUNDER OF RT
So many of you sent me this story that I have to comment about it, because most of you are probably thinking the same thing I am: the death of the founder of Russia's very popular RT television channel in Washington DC positively invites our usual high octane speculation:
Putin Associate Found Dead in DC Hotel
And, in case you're wondering about Lesin himself, there's this:
The Dark Past of Putin’s Media Chief
So without further ado, let's dive into the high octane speculation. The death of Mr. Lesin, in Washington DC no less, raises a number of questions, and occurs at a peculiar time, when suspicions already abound over the demise of the Russian airliner in Egypt. That sad event itself occurs in an even wider context of the Russian intervention in Syria, its evident success (so far) in combatting the Washington-sponsored ISIS, and in general showing up the American war on terror for the selective make believe that it is. (Of course, Russia and its Iranian ally and its ties to Hezbollah also need to be examined, and so far, the silence from Moscow on that issue has been deafening.) All of that occurs in the even wider context of the Washington-sponsored and supported coup in Kiev, the Russian couner-action in the Crimea, and the ongoing mess in the Donbass in the eastern Ukraine.
Lesin's death, in other words, couldn't have occurred in a more suspicious context. And interestingly enough, Russia appears to appreciate this problem, as does America, as stories very quickly appeared in both nations' media that Mr. Lesin had been suffering for a long time from some unspecified ailment or disease. And it could very well be the case; but whether the case or not, both countries seem eager to quash any ideas that his death was anything other than coincidental and natural.
So let's assume for the sake of argument, and our high octane speculation of the day, that it isn't. If not, what might it mean?
At one level, it would mean that there has been an escalation on the ongoing covert warfare by which both countries are now fighting each other, and that escalation is significant. In many interviews and blogs, I have been suggesting for a number of years that the "new world order" - that all encompassing overarching conspiracy that so many people believe is behind everything - is a Mafia. The family, or factional, capi may indeed all meet around a table, smoke cigars and drink brandy, and plot how they're going to dominate the world. But that doesn't for a moment stop them from shooting at each other if there are disagreements as to method, timing, or, most importantly, which faction gets to rule the roost once the end game (world domination) is in sight. And if Mr. Lesin's death is ultimately determined to be of a "suspicious nature" or that "foul play is suspected," then what it may indeed herald is that there is now a full scale shooting war with prominent members of Mr. Putin's political "family" being in the crosshairs of American and western "covert ops."
That's a shooting war, folks.
And if that's the case, then the Russians will shoot back. Not obviously, of course, but nonetheless the message will be sent: prominent American advisors or corporate hacks may suddenly drop dead of heart attacks, have airplane accidents, ski into a tree, and so on. And as is the case in all such Mafia wars, the targets in each case will start "low", and work their way up to the more prominent members of each "family". If Mr. Lesin's death should eventually prove to be the result of foul play, then the message is "no one is now safe." If you're a player in the NWO Mafia, you're a potential target in any Mafia war.
So is this reading correct? Well, as noted, Mr. Lesin was apparently also dealing with some unknown ailment. So the "proof" of this high octane speculation - that WW3 has now moved into a full scale Mafia-style shooting war - may have to wait the coming months, and whether or not there are increasing suspicious deaths, or sudden resignations and replacements, in various governments.
So for now, a death is just a death...
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12 thoughts on “YOU TELL ME: THE DEATH OF THE FOUNDER OF RT”
Wayne D says:
Poor Mr. Lesin.
Another rags to riches story courtesy of Gazprom no doubt. Ever wonder why these guys have expensive homes in other nations? Mr. Lesin reportedly had two multi million homes in Los Angeles, U.S.A. and other places outside of Russia.
They all have their supposedly safe places to flee to outside of Russia. Switzerland if they have stolen enough billions to be welcomed and Israel and USA as favorite destinations.
DownunderET says:
RT has been out ranking all the western media by a country mile. Jeeez those MSM guys are really pissed off and in light of the Paris attacks the “spin” won’t be far away.
And to boot, and this may seem off topic, there is now the story of one of the Paris shooters had his passport on him, oh dear where have we seen this before. AND I’ll bet the name on the passport is Mohammad Atar, well aren’t they all?????
For me, the photo in the “Putin Associate Found Dead in DC Hotel” article says it all. It is obvious in the photo that Putin and Lesin were true friends and compatriots. They were looking straight into each other’s eyes, and there was a world-weary solidarity. They were close.
This was not a ‘servant’ that may have been bumped off. This was one of Putin’s ‘family’. If this gets proven (even in the shadows) that this was a bump-off, expect severe payback.
If this were chess, I would say Leslin was bishop-level. Expect the payback to also be on bishop-level – at least. And, I would expect Putin to go for someone Really Responsible for this, not a symbolic tit-for-tat response…
There is a hypothesis that the Paris attacks are yet another false flag (step 1) by a part of the French oligarchy so that France can get a “piece of the action” in Syria (step 2) and not leave all the “military glory” to Russia. They’ve been itching to intervene for a while, given that country’s heavily ingrained colonialist attitudes. We’ll shortly see if this step 2 actually materializes…
sjy1969 says:
France already has a “piece of the action” in Syria…
“Washington-sponsored ISIS”
DAVID GOLDMAN says:
Re: “(Of course, Russia and its Iranian ally and its ties to Hezbollah also need to be examined, and so far, the silence from Moscow on that issue has been deafening.)”
I’d appreciate a blog about your anti-Hezbollah position.
The Banksters dropping dead?
Will the presstitutes be next?
Will these killings work their way up the parasitic-chain?
Cross your fingers?
I light of the Gladio attacks in Paris yesterday what’s the death of one of the founders of Russia Today. Are they connected the CIA-NSA-DIA operations must be running on steroids chaos is their only business kowtow before your masters France or else and the rest of Europe better tow the line.
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/
Russia Reacts…
Does full-blown tyranny loom in the name of defending national security?
Likely false-flag, and all the usual suspect telltale signs of another BIG LIE.
Milton Zentmyer says:
Yes, the punches are coming fast. Putin is up to it though.
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University sector set for shakeup – or is it simply an excuse to cull?
While the Spending Review remains a few weeks away, the knives appear to be sharpening at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). A Government Green Paper on Higher Education will be released imminently, and there is growing speculation that the proposals will have a significant impact not only on Universities, but on BIS itself.
According to leaked reports, the Green Paper is expected to suggest abolishing the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the sector’s primary funding body since 1992. Removing the main body for Higher Education could present a significant challenge for the functioning of the sector, with any new organisation likely expected to encompass a range of other regulatory and quality assurance duties at a time of spending restraint. While on paper scrapping HEFCE may fulfil plans set out by Sajid Javid and the chancellor to merge parts of the department, its removal could prove more costly than many civil servants have envisaged.
It could also spell the beginning of the end for a number of partner organisations across BIS. In a sector all too often criticised for its inefficiencies, a consultancy firm was hired in early July to undertake a review of spending on external bodies. As such, a further leaked report outlined that by 2020, the department’s sites will be consolidated and partners reduced by more than half. With 25-40% cuts at BIS on the cards when the Chancellor delivers his Spending Review on November 25th, the question on everyone’s lips is, where else will the axe fall?
The cull of organisations is unlikely to stop at HEFCE. The Coalition’s Office for Fair Access, which works to further widening participation in higher education, also looks set for structural change. The Minister for Universities, Jo Johnson, previously hinted at a new regulatory framework for new and existing providers in his keynote speech to the sector in July. However, his flagship policy of a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) has been met with serious reservations. There is also fierce criticism over a proposed reward system whereby institutions that have excelled in certain criteria relating to teaching and widening participation may be allowed an inflationary rise in tuition fees – not least because inflation currently stands at -0.1%. Observers can but hope for in-depth detail regarding the controversial reward system in the Green Paper.
Universities have been beholden to the same underlying structure for over twenty years, and despite some scepticism, many are welcoming changes to the system, with priorities focusing on greater competition, quality of teaching and encouraging more disadvantaged young people into entering higher education. However, cuts to BIS may impact on the new plans for the university sector, with renewed pressure on student opportunity funding and the conversion of maintenance grants to loans. The Chancellor may be inadvertently raining on Jo Johnson’s parade.
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How to Redo a Dresser With a Formica Top
By Josh Hulbert Updated July 21, 2017
Formica, which is commonly used as a countertop material, can also be used in furniture as a durable and attractive finished surface. Applying Formica to a dresser top is a somewhat tedious process, but can easily be completed by one person in several hours.
Formica makes a durable, attractive top for a dresser and can be applied easily.
Measure the top of the dresser and acquire a sheet of Formica large enough to cover the surface with room for cutting and trimming.
If the top of the dresser is stained or painted it must be sanded before attaching the Formica. It is not necessary to completely strip the surface, but the majority of the finish must be taken off.
Clean the surface with a mild soap and water to remove any dust or grease. Allow the surface to dry completely.
Cut the Formica
Mark the dimensions taken from the top of the dresser on the sheet of Formica. Leave a little extra at the edges for trimming. Using a Formica cutting blade in a utility knife, score the sheet at the marks using a straight edge as a guide. Apply firm, consistent pressure to the knife to make a clean score across the sheet, and then snap the sheet at the score.
Set the Formica on top of the dresser and check the fit. Any excess can be trimmed off once the sheet is attached to the surface.
Make sure the Formica lays flat and evenly on the surface of the dresser. If it sags or rises at any point the surface of the dresser may need to be sanded more for the Formica to lay evenly.
Attach the Formica
Using a brush and roller, spread the adhesive on the surface of the dresser in an even, thin layer. Do the same on the back of the Formica piece.
Start at one end of the surface and lay the Formica down into the adhesive, gradually laying more and more of the piece down. This process is easier with an assistant.
Once the entire sheet is set into the adhesive, adjust as necessary and gently press down to ensure a good bond. A rolling pin or similar object can be helpful to make sure the Formica is pressed completely into place.
Allow the adhesive to dry. Trim excess Formica off the edges using a utility knife and a straight edge.
Finish the edges of the dresser top using a method consistent with the style of the dresser. Edges may be finished with small strips of Formica glued vertically, which is common in counter top installations. It is also common to finish the edges with sections of hardwood trim which can be painted or stained to match the rest of the dresser.
Sheet of Formica
Utility knife with Formica blade
Have someone help lay the Formica into the adhesive to avoid a mess and mistakes. Use adhesive sparingly. It is important to get complete coverage with the adhesive, but using too much will cause excess to run out onto the surface of the dresser and can create a large mess.
Use the adhesive in a well ventilated area and wear a mask. Wear gloves and quickly wash off any adhesive that comes into contact with skin according to the instructions on the adhesive packaging.
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Based near Seattle, Josh Hulbert has been working in technical and leadership roles since 1998. He has authored technical articles for various online and print publications, and consulted for several major tech companies. Hulbert holds a B.A. in mathematics and a B.S. in computer science, as well as several industry certifications. His areas of expertise include software, security and infrastructure design.
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The Top Five Moments of Furusiyya Nations Cup Day at HITS Ocala
2015-02-14T09:52:37+00:00By Horse & Style|Showing|
There were lots of question marks ahead of the only Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup competition that takes place annually in the United States. When sponsorship commitments pulled the Nations Cup league class away from its longtime home in Wellington, FL to three hours north in Ocala, FL, the change caused its fair share of grumbling, but also became a chance for HITS Horse Shows to step up and prove that its HITS Post Time Farm was a fitting venue to host top level, FEI-ranked show jumping competition.
With a little luck (brilliant blue skies), a lot of spectators, and many talented riders, Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup day in Ocala did indeed unfold as a success. From an afternoon full of action, these are Horse & Style’s top five moments from an exciting first Nations Cup CSIO4* at HITS Ocala.
Closing Down the Show
What at first sounded like a whacky idea from HITS manager Tom Struzzieri turned out to be a brilliant move that helped put the Nations Cup firmly in the spotlight: stop competition in all other rings at the vast HITS Ocala venue so that all exhibitors, trainers and grooms could gather at the grand prix stadium to watch the class. Not only did this help fill in the background with spectators, it placed more importance on a competition that sometimes is a little tougher for American audiences to “get.” Read on:
The large crowd made for a great backdrop during the Nations Cup
A Mid Afternoon Treat
While Struzzieri had the option to schedule the Nations Cup as a night class, he chose the Friday at 1pm timeslot instead. He joked that if he didn’t want to stand outside on a February evening in Ocala (the day itself was chilly, with temperatures in the 40s), neither would anyone else. I agree completely and not just because of the weather, the two-round team format is different than your usual grand prix, and in previous years, at Wellington, I’d watched the audience lose interest in the Nations Cup as the night grew later and its long format dragged on under the lights. We Americans like our entertainment in digestible segments, and hosting this Nations Cup in the afternoon went a long way towards holding the interest of the 4,000 spectators who lined the grassy berm around the arena (as did the roster of just six teams, rather than 12.) From 1:00 – 4:00pm, all eyes were on the Nations Cup. And at 4:30pm, after the class? It was right back to business on the showgrounds as classes resumed.
Classes were held in the morning before the Nations Cup
The Irish Cheering Section
No one of any age can match the Irish when it comes to team spirit. It’s safe to say that even if their parents hadn’t won the day, Daniel Kerrins, Murial and Gwenyth Babington would have enthusiastically cheered their respective fathers on, but when Ireland took first place in the competition, this trio of young show jumping fans decked out in the colors of the Irish flag went into overdrive. Of special note was the end-game style dance that came over young Daniel when he was invited to stand with the Irish team in front of the podium. We should all be so lucky to have such a joyous cheering section.
Georgina and Juvina
It was a day of mixed results for Team USA, but two pairs of double clear rounds from Georgina Bloomberg and Juvina, and Beezie Madden and Simon helped the USA claim second place. While I’m the #1 fan of current H&S cover subject Beezie Madden (don’t miss our behind the scenes look at Beezie and John Madden’s home base in Cazenovia, NY) and Simon, there was just something extra special about Bloomberg and Juvina on Friday. Maybe it was just the way that the spectacular mare’s grey coat shone under the bright blue sky, or the energy with which Juvina carried herself (she was still fresh after two rounds, spooking as she left the arena), but these two were a highlight of the day and a pleasure to watch and photograph. Best of all, down-to-earth Georgina proved that she always has time for her fans, sticking around after the class to sign autographs and pose for pictures with the young riders who look up to her.
Bloomberg piloted Juvina to two picture perfect rounds
Lorcan Gallagher
Then there was Lorcan Gallagher. The 23-year-old rider is an employee of Shane and Ali Sweetnam at Sweet Oak Farm, and for two and a half years he’s worked under Shane, an accomplished international rider himself. Now, with Shane generously passing on the ride of Diktator van de Boslandhoeve, Gallagher is getting a chance to prove himself in a team setting, and making headlines back home in Ireland. Friday’s competition was his first Nations Cup ever, and his first opportunity to compete for Team Ireland and sit next to chef Robert Splaine. How does it feel to step up and represent your country for the first time, to listen to the team chef call you most valuable player, and to win? From Gallagher’s wide smile, it feels pretty damn good. Thanks to this young man for reminding us that hard work does lead to great things.
They were both feeling pretty good about themselves
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Retired tennis star James Blake is speaking out against the NYPD officer who used excessive force against him last week, stating the cop should be fired for “tarnishing his badge.”
In an interview with the The New York Times, Blake opened up about the incident that left him embarrassed and shaken up. While Blake, who was in NYC to attend the US Open, was standing outside of his 42nd Street hotel Wednesday, he was tackled by plain clothes officer James Frascatore. Frascatore believed Blake was a suspect in a major credit card fraud ring.
Footage of the incident was released on Friday, revealing Frascatore never informed Blake he was a police officer. For this and many other reasons, Blake believes the cop isn’t deserving of the NYPD badge.
“He shouldn’t have a badge,” Blake told the New York Times on Saturday, “because in my opinion what he’s doing is tarnishing that badge. I’ve never experienced that kind of violence in my life. I think there needs to be a public apology to all of them, all of those people who don’t have the same stature I have,” Mr. Blake said.
Since the incident, Blake has taken on a new role in discussing police practices and brutality. Speaking with NBC News, Blake revealed he’s received letters and messages from families sharing similar stories. For his case, Blake — who is biracial — said he does believe race played a factor in Frascatore’s actions.
“I probably even wouldn’t be so indignant about it, if it wasn’t so obvious,” Blake said. “He picked me up and body-slammed me. He put me on the ground, told me to turn over and shut my mouth and put the cuffs on.”
Blake has heard from Mayor Bill de Blasio, who apologized on behalf of the NYPD. Days after his encounter with Frascatore, fans gave him a standing ovation at the men’s semifinal match at the US Open on Friday. During an interview with Robin Roberts last week, Blake said he hasn’t directly heard from the NYPD.
Meanwhile, the city is standing by Frascatore after another man claimed he was verbally assaulted by the officer during an arrest. Medic Stefon Luckey identified Frascatore as the cop who falsely arrested him in a Queens deli in May 2013. In his multi-million dollar lawsuit, Luckey says his arrest was racially profiled. He was allegedly pepper sprayed by officers while Frascatore punched him twice in the stomach and called him a “f- -king n- - - -r.”
City lawyer Elissa Jacobs claims Frascatore’s memo book shows he was inside the 113th Precinct stationhouse from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. processing an arrest. Luckey’s incident with the cops occurred around 1 a.m. However, the officer’s chances of winning the case might be slim — Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told reporters Frascatore falsified records in the James Blake incident.
Regardless of the claims, Jacobs told a judge on Friday the two incidents are no way related, and Luckey reportedly didn’t name Frascatore as a suspect until last week.
“We’ve already made that decision about this incident, which, frankly, I don’t believe (Frascatore) had any involvement in the first place.” she said. “We see them as separate incidents. Whether any discipline is taken in the (Blake) incident, I don’t believe it impacts on what a jury may or may not think of him in this case.”
Frascatore is also a defendant in three other suits alleging excessive force.
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The whole of Muscle Creek Catchment was being degraded by farming practices and urbanisation. The landcare group was formed in 1995 to start reversing this trend. It was formed by concerned citizens, both rural and urban. Soon after its formation a River Plan and Catchment Action plan were formulated, to set future directions for work in the catchment.
“Bringing the mussels back to Muscle Creek” is the unofficial motto.
The group works in the catchment of Muscle Creek, mainly in the urban area of Muswellbrook, where it attempts to address issues such as salination, revegetation, habitat, bank and bed stabilisation and weed removal.
Over the years the group has benefited from many hours of Conservation Volunteers Australia visits and partnerships with the Hunter Catchment Management Trust, Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority and, more recently, Muswellbrook Shire Council has contributed more resources to sections of the Creek.
Muscle Creek Landcare has faced a variety of challenges including obtaining funding after the initial grants, gradual loss of volunteers and ageing of volunteers, varying climate and lack of rainfall. Additionally, industrial landfill along the urban section of the Creek also proves difficult for tree planting and bank stabilisation. However, it all becomes worth it as you can see the creek gradually being transformed.
The urban section has benefited by revegetation, weed removal and replanting. The rural section has benefited by the salinity studies and strategic plantings to alleviate the problem.
It can be difficult to get grants after the initial funding runs out.
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The Hunter Region Landcare Network acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this nation. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands on which we carry out our work as Landcarers. We pay our respects to Elders, past and present. The Hunter Region Landcare Network honours the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas.
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If you haven’t heard of Lil Trix yet, then here’s your opportunity to clear your disappointing conscience. With a couple of records under his belt, Lil Trix is one focused artist who seems to clearly understand the direction he is moving in. It is a rare discovery to find one who is so calculated with the art. And it’s that concentration that managed to make Lil Trix one of our 2017 Freshmen with almost 15k votes counted for him. The trust and confidence from the people is clearly there, so we had to find out more about his current hip hop voyage. We had to stay woke.
Before we start, let’s talk about how you got to be in hip hop in the first place and how those crucial moments in the past introduced you to the culture.
I’ve always been a creative and I just love to create anything. It started when I was nine years old and I just loved doing poetry. My teachers would always enter me into poetry competitions. I did really well in them and that was my thing. I would then experiment with different things; in the beginning it was poetry, then I tried making video games and movies. I was young. One day I came across my cousin, he came down to Eldos where my grandmother stays, wearing hip hop gear, headbands, sweatbands, baggy clothes, and he was like, “I rap now” [laughs]. He always considered me like his partner in crime and said I should join him. I actually did make music at one point and he said I should do it and call myself Lil Trix. I was like, “Why?” He said because it sounded dope. So he gave me the name and I ran with it. I was 10 years old at that time. We were a duo at first and we called ourselves Illuzion. I got really deep into it, we made a couple of songs and he used to gas me up by saying he had a contract for a record company and I would have to speak to my parents, so I had to build up the strength to tell them what I wanted to do. It took a good year. At 11 years old, I went to my mother and asked her what she would say if I wanted to be a rapper. She straight up told me that she would be quite disappointed of that direction in my life. At least I got the strength to tell them and let them understand what I was doing. Then I got really deep into it when my sister had a toy Casio keyboard that she hadn’t used in years and wanted to throw out. I told her to give it to me so I could just play around with it. I got the proper equipment and I got the proper recording software, then I started making music on my own. And as means to not depend on producers or downloaded instrumentals every time, I decided to teach myself how to produce, and at that time I was 13. In 2009 I had my first proper solo song. I was 14 and I played it for people at school and they said it was dope. Every week a new song would come and I would send it out to people at school. That’s actually when it got really, really serious.
Damn. How real was that moment when your mom told you she would be disappointed if you went down this hip hop route?
Not to be cliché, but the ‘I told you so’ moment? When my mother told me that, it was like I was never about following what people said, even if it was my parents. If they told me I couldn’t do this, I would always just want to do it anyway. When my mother told me that she wasn’t really cool with it, she sort of accepted it in a way. Over the years (when I was 16), we actually got our first song on Yfm’s Hot 99 hip hop chart at the time and when she (my mother) heard that song on the radio, her views on the entire thing changed completely. She started supporting me, she started believing, and for her it was just a case of seeing that music doesn’t make money. In the past three/four years, she has seen that you can make a living off this. It’s very cool looking back at what she said then and what she’s saying now. She’s really supportive now.
Word. Now when you got into the game, how did you see yourself fitting in an already crowded sport?
To be honest, when I started out, I was very optimistic and confident. I thought I was the missing link in South African hip hop. I thought hip hop needed me and that’s how I felt. So it wasn’t a hard thing to see how I fitted in, because I knew that my music was what the people needed. Fast-forward, I can see competition now and I can see people out there doing their thing. There are people out there really blowing up and doing big things in this country. For me, my music is what makes me unique and what makes me fit in. What everybody is doing right now is cool and really great, but there is something missing.
So basically you are filling that gap, huh?
I’m filling in that gap, because I feel like what makes me a good artist, I believe, is my attention to detail. I just pay a large attention to detail.
What sort of mentality does Lil Trix have to dive into to tackle down the music and let the art fully kick in?
For me, it’s story. I feel like there needs to be something at that time. For me it’s not a case of what beats do you have; this beat is dope let me just write to it. It’s never that case, it’s always about a statement that I’m trying to make at the time and in relation to the project. I feel like most look at a project like it’s just an album, mixtape or just a bunch of songs put together. You can’t make a horror movie and then Barney (the dinosaur) makes an appearance in the middle of the movie randomly. It wouldn’t make sense, and I feel like that’s the way we need to look at projects, albums, EPs and all of that. We need to look at them as one thing. We need to follow that concept and follow that theme in order to make one project. We need to go back to that mentality of how albums were back in the day and we need to focus on that full package.
Now do you think that SA hip hop has appreciated your music the way you would want them to appreciate it?
To be honest, I can’t really say that they haven’t or they have, because right now I’m not really out there properly yet, so there isn’t much of an audience to actually judge that by. But the audience I do have right now, I feel some of them do appreciate it to that extent and some of them really appreciated it to that extent. Most people aren’t really fans of yours and just want to hear really good music.
But surely you must have had moments when you were frustrated by the game’s acceptance of your music?
So many times. I could work on one song for two years and would pay so much attention to it. I would go so hard on it and really feel very confident about it. Then when the release comes, it fails and doesn’t do as well as I thought it would, and I feel like that was when my audience didn’t appreciate it as much as I would. That is very frustrating, because then it feels like it’s a failure, and then I really start to hate it because of their reception. Something that I really appreciated so much.
Word. It’s interesting that you were part of Blayze Entertainment at some point and are solely handled by African Star. How have you changed from being under that umbrella?
When I went on Blayze Entertainment I was 17 years old. I was new to the game. I didn’t know anything about anything. I didn’t know you could get in trouble for tweets, and African Star and Blayze Entertainment really taught me a lot about that. My approach to music as well at that time was different. I didn’t really care too much about the world and would say ignorant things. There were a couple of times when they would shout at me and say I couldn’t do this or say that. So I learnt a lot, I was very young and naive, and I learnt a lot at that point in my life. Then came a time when Blayze wanted to focus on himself and be a rapper, so I needed to focus on myself and needed someone who was going to help me out. Blayze was really just like my manager, and it wasn’t like a record label or anything, and that’s when I went out of Blayze Entertainment and approached African Star to take me on as their client. Now my music is very careful and I’m very careful with my product.
To end it off, tell us what Lil Trix is striving to achieve with his music and what impact he wants to make.
It’s easy for me to just talk about it now, because a lot of artists generally just talk about it. I actually want to make a difference and be the difference in South African hip hop. And I don’t just want to say that, I want to actually do it. I have ideas, ideas that no one in the world actually has. I just need that platform to just express my creativity, and I just want to make a difference in the world.
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Digital skills should be core subjects, says report
By grespa on February 24, 2015
Children should be taught ‘digital literacy’ as a core skill alongside maths and English, a report by a House of Lord committee says.
Computer technology brings “huge opportunities for the UK, but also significant risks”, the Lords Digital Skills Committee warns.
The internet should be viewed as a utility service, alongside water and electricity, it says.
But without action, the UK may fall behind in the new digital era. The reports says:
No child should leave school without basic digital literacy
Universities should ensure all graduates are “digitally competent”
Apprenticeships should have a greater emphasis on digital skills
The committee calls for action to give teachers in England the confidence and skills to deliver the new computing curriculum, otherwise “inconsistent teacher training” risks letting pupils down.
In particular, a “paucity” of women in digital careers and in science, technology, engineering and mathematics generally risks holding back UK competitiveness, the report says.
“Girls have to be engaged earlier and across all education levels” and the perception of these jobs as “male-oriented” must be addressed, it adds.
The report says 35% of current jobs in the UK could be automated within 20 years.
It urges an ambitious approach to secure the UK’s digital economy, with the government acting as the “conductor of the orchestra”, focusing on business and education.
Read the full article: http://www.bbc.com/news/education-31501917
YouTube Kids: Child-friendly video app launches
Second Māori language learning app developed for beginners
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Tizen OS: Brief History, Roots, and Current Status
This year’s Mobile World Conference was different from most. There were still all the device presentations, announcements, and revelations that we’ve come to expect from the biggest tech event of the mobile industry each year. What’s different was that this time, the spotlight wasn’t taken by hardware, but rather by software—and for good reason. After all, it isn’t every day that three upcoming mobile operating systems backed by big names like Samsung, Intel, Mozilla, and Canonical are showcased at the same event. Apart from Mozilla’s Firefox OS and Canonical’s Ubuntu Touch, MWC 2013 also saw Samsung and Intel finally showcase Tizen OS running on actual hardware.
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Among all contemporary mobile operating systems, Tizen OS has had perhaps the most tumultuous and complex history. First there was Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin, before the two companies decided to combine them together into MeeGo, in collaboration with many major hardware and software partners. Then Nokia decided putting all its eggs in Windows Phone’s basket, and abandoned the platform after releasing the amazing N9 running MeeGo with Nokia’s Harmattan UI that won hearts of users and critics alike, despite not making many sales due to Nokia’s abandonment. While all this was occuring, Samsung had also decided to build an open OS of its own in order to decrease its dependence on Android, and the result was Bada. After Intel’s abandonment, the future looked bleak for MeeGo, and it indeed proved out to be so as well. The OS was shortly abandoned completely by all other supporters as well, and Tizen was born under the patronage of The Linux Foundation. Later, Samsung decided to join the picture as well, with an aim to merge Bada with Tizen.
After being in works for several years under all the different names, it was actually disappointing to see what was showcased at the MWC demo. With a conventional home screen that seemed to be nothing more than a mere grid of icons and an overall UI not too different from Android’s, Tizen seems to bring nothing new to the table that might lure users into switching to it when devices running the OS show up in the market. Granted it’s still in the making and what was demoed was essentially an early preview, it came nowhere close to what Canonical showcased in Ubuntu Touch.
The experience offered by the OS running on the demo devices was sub par at best, being laggy as well as lacking anything truly special and intuitive that’s not already out there. For an OS that has been in the making for several years by now and has major names of the industry backing it, this seems nothing short of inexplicable. One good thing was the announcement of the Tizen 2.0 Magnolia SDK being made available for developers to start working on apps for the OS. That said, there’s still a long way to go before we start seeing devices running Tizen hit the market. There have been no official time frames announced in this regard, but it is expected to be late 2013 by earliest. Also, since Bada is essentially being merged into Tizen, many are speculating whether Samsung will decide to abandon the devices running Bada, or upgrade them to the new platform in the future.
Here at XDA, we get excited about any development in the smartphone industry, especially when it’s an open-source mobile operating system aimed to offer a completely open alternative to Google’s semi-open Android ecosystem. We have also merged our Tizen and Bada forums to consolidate development for them under once roof, where you can also join several discussions about the OS.
You can learn more about Tizen and download its SDK from the Tizen website.
This Article originally appeared on XDA-Developers:
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Odisha Mining Corpn. to be 20 mtpa company, CM launches New Management System
By IW News Service | Dec 1, 2020 | Business, National |
Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik Tuesday launched Customer Integrated Management Services (CIMS) and Stockyard Management System (SMS) applications of OMC through video conferencing.
OMC is currently one of the fastest growing PSUs of the country in the mining sector.
Rolling out these two applications, chief minister Patnaik said that the OMC has demonstrated its customer-focus vision and integrity of the stockyard management.
These two applications will transform online sales process and despatch management with transparency and efficiency taking root in the system under the 5T framework, he added.
Describing OMC as a flagship public sector company of the State and one of the oldest Public sector companies with a history of over 6 decades, he said that it has significantly contributed for the development of the State.
He appreciated the role of OMC during the Covid pandemic and its support to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund and various welfare measures.
Saying that mining is a sensitive sector with large socio-economic and environmental implications, he praised the commitment of OMC for its social responsibility with support to schemes like Aaahar, Adarsh Vidyalayas, Sports.
He also commended the PSU for its large scale forest conservation activities and endeavour to make all its mines to be rated 5-star by IBM.
He wished the OMC to emerge as a major PSU in the country and earn a name for itself as a socially-committed, environmentally-sensitive, technologically-intensive, efficiency-driven company and become a booster for the economic growth of Odisha.
Prafulla Kumar Mallik, minister, steel & mines, said that the OMC is committed to realise chief minister’s vision to make it one of the most efficient and responsible corporate organisations.
Principal secretary, steel & mines and chairman of OMC Surendra Kumar focused on the current initiative and the vision of OMC.
A short video was also screened on the two new applications.
Managing director of OMC Vineel Krishna gave the details of the new initiatives of OMC in his welcome address.
Director Finance offered the vote of thanks.
Chief secretary Asit Tripathy, development commissioner Suresh Mohapatra, principal secretary, finance A.K. Meena were present on the occasion.
Secretary to Chief Minister (5-T) Shri V.K. Pandian moderated the programme.
It may be mentioned here that the CIMS redefines the customer engagement of OMC. Customers will now get access to a separate dashboard for registration, evaluating order and stocks, get weekly dispatch report, order status, region wise total sale, grievance status and mineral wise dispatch history.
CIMS is integrated with the i3MS of the State government, e-auction platform of MSTC, SAP of OMC to ensure a seamless integration for end-to-end customer service
The SMS has been deployed at OMC’s Baliparbat stockyard within its flagship Daitari Iron Ore mines.
The key components of the system includesunmanned weighbridges, transport scheduling, digital identification, parking management, weighment automation, real time reporting, multi point mobile applications for real time data reconciliation.
OMC has been consistently performing in terms of ore production and sales revenues in the last few years.
It is expected that OMC is on its path to cross 20 Million tonnes per annum iron ore production.
OMC sales also include Chromite and Bauxite ores. OMC is also obtained all clearances for a Khondolite mine and the production will start shortly.
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INDIVISIBLE VENTURA
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How to Communicate with Members of Congress
Fri 8/23: This is your 3-day warning…The Trump administration is handing over our national forests to industry & “right-sizing” our ability to comment. Deadline 8/26.
Everybody! There are just over 35,000 comments here. Blast them with comments! It’s as easy or hard as you want to make it.
(Guest column from Rebecca August of Los Padres ForestWatch with a new comment generator!) Good morning! The Trump administration is launching a bold move to undercut environmental regulations in national forests as a gift to timber companies and other special interests.
The proposed regulatory changes will effectively gut the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) as it relates to national forests by not requiring thorough environmental analysis or consideration of public input prior to approving commercial logging, mining, oil drilling, and other projects in places like the Los Padres National Forest.
“By going to such great lengths to obstruct public input, the administration shows its hand, and how much power there is in our collective voice.” Rebecca August, Public Lands Advocate, Los Padres ForestWatch.
The administration’s proposed rule was recently published in the Federal Register and at regulations.gov. Deadline is now August 26th, 11:59 pm EST.
Comment with LPFW great new “original comment” generator here!
Or, go old school and comment here.
(Lots of source material below under “Deeper dive for “right-size” comments!“)
Basic background on the crazy stuff this plan would allow…
Allow commercial logging on up to 6.5 square miles at a time without an environmental assessment or public comment period
Allow the Forest Service to avoid preparing an environmental assessment if it vaguely claims that there will be “long-term beneficial effects”
Allow for projects up to nearly 11.5 square miles in size to be conducted without an environmental study and analysis of alternatives
Allow the Forest Service to legitimize illegal roads and trails without study of environmental impacts and to build up to five miles of road at a time without public input, environmental study, or analysis of alternatives
Allow the agency to ignore criteria such as a project’s impact on sensitive species when deciding whether to prepare an environmental assessment
Create new loopholes for projects that the public and organizations won’t be able to formally object, meaning litigation will be the only way for the public to seek changes to a project after it is approved
Drastically limit the public’s ability to comment on proposed projects during a process known as “scoping,” meaning the public loses its right to help direct what impacts the agency studies as well as its development of alternatives based on concerns from local communities.
Recently, two commercial logging projects were approved across 4.5 square miles of the Los Padres National Forest under similar loopholes, and the Trump Administration’s proposed changes would facilitate more of these types of activities over larger areas without robust environmental review.
“This is yet another attempt by the Trump Administration to chip away at the bedrock environmental laws that keep public lands, wildlife, and people safe from damaging activities. These rule changes only serve to benefit private interests like timber companies.” Bryant Baker, Conservation Director, Los Padres ForestWatch
These changes are being directed by unelected members of the Trump administration without the consultation of your elected representatives. Once these rule changes are approved by the Forest Service, they can only be blocked by an act of Congress and the approval of the President.
Deeper dive for “right-size” comments!
(Note from Indivisible Ventura: The government pointed out that in the previous stage – “Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” – they received only 1,229 unique comments out of 34,674 and, in Trump-speak, they were happy to dump all the copies. Don’t copy anyone else’s comment! Pretend you’re in Creative Writing Class 101 and come up with a comment (or two) reflecting your unique voice. (IV is all about the snark.) We’ve provided some source material below to help. In a hurry? Use LPFW’s AWESOME comment generator! )
Break trail, not public processes. If you want to have a voice in the management of public lands, now is the time to speak louder than ever. Photo Credit: Thomas Woodsen
(For those writing their own original comments, here’s a little more meat from this great article by the forestpolicypub.com people, which we’ve dropped in here whole. Remember, rephrase, rephrase, rephrase!)
Forest Service Draft NEPA Rule Would Sharply Curtail Environmental Analysis and Public Review of Forest Management
On June 13, 2019, the Forest Service released a proposed rule amending its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) procedures. (1) The public has 60 days – until August 12, 2019 – to comment on the proposed rule. Information about the proposed rule, how to comment, and upcoming informational webinars are available on a Forest Service webpage. The agency is also revising its directives, Forest Service Manual 1950 and Handbook 1909.15, to reflect the proposed rule, with the proposed directives to be published in the Federal Register at an unspecified later date for public review and comment. (2)
According to the Forest Service, the proposed rule is designed to “increas[e] the pace and scale of work accomplished on the ground” – with a focus on removing hazardous fuels – by “complet[ing] project decision making in a timelier manner.”(3) The proposal, however, is much broader than its stated goals, exempting unqualified commercial timber harvest and a breathtaking range of other forest management activities from environmental analysis or public review via a suite of new and expanded categorical exclusions and other mechanisms that fundamentally undermine NEPA’s bedrock principles of government transparency, accountability, public involvement, and science-based decision-making.
Rather than focusing on and addressing the actual causes of agency inefficiency in environmental decision-making (e.g., funding, staffing, training, and turnover), the Forest Service has targeted America’s “magna carta” of environmental laws with its radical proposal. Ironically, the result is likely to be increased litigation and poorer management of our shared national forests, as corners are cut, laws are broken, and the public is cut out of decision-making.
(Indivisible Ventura: Before we start, the idea of “right-sizing” public comment over the treatment of our own land makes us itchy to start typing. We hope it inspires you too.)
The proposed rule would:
1. Add new “exclusions” to help industry rip through our forests faster – and “right-size” public engagement into nothing.
The proposed rule would adopt seven new categorical exclusions (CEs) and expand two existing CEs (4) to shield from any environmental review or public process a wide array of projects. The Forest Service estimates that up to 3⁄4 of decisions that currently receive public input could proceed under CEs in the future. (5) These include, but are not limited to:
1a. They want to re-define “restoration” and “resilience”
The proposed rule would broadly define “ecosystem restoration and/or resilience activities” on up to 7,300 acres, including commercial logging of up to 4,200 acres, as long as it includes at least one restoration add-on (e.g., replacing a culvert to restore fish passage). CE could be used to authorize up to 6.6 square miles of logging with NO PUBLIC IMPUT OR ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS!
Other exceptions: Mineral and energy exploration — such as using seismic testing to gather geological data and various small-scale infrastructure building — could also be exempt if it lasts less than one year. The proposed rule would also add to categories of actions “normally” requiring an EIS any mining operations that authorize surface disturbance on greater than 640 acres over the life of the proposed action.
(nevadacapitalnews.org) Sam Evans, national forest and parks program leader for the Southern Environmental Law Center: “Just to give you a sense of the scale of the logging projects that we’re talking about in the southeast where I live and work, the projects on our local national forest range from about 300 acres on the small to medium side to about six to 700 acres on the big side. There are some outliers on either end, but that’s sort of the size that we’re talking about for a normal project. The new categorical exclusion, the new loophole would allow the Forest Service to do 4,200 acres at a time. That would entirely devour the timber sale program in the southeast, which means that in the future, the public wouldn’t be involved in any of the decisions to cut trees on the national forests.”
(Indivisible Ventura) Commercial logging is NOT a “restoration” or “resilience” activity and “right-sizing” public comment is not a thing! Throw in some factoids from this fascinating article on a similar action to speed up post-fire logging in 2015 from (hcn.org): “…The third-largest wildfire in California history, 2013’s Rim Fire, burned more than 400 square miles, including parts of Yosemite National Park and the Stanislaus National Forest. A year later, the Forest Service proposed cutting down the dead and damaged trees across about 50 square miles, but environmental groups sued to stop the salvage logging, saying it would harm wildlife and impede forest regeneration. Their appeal was denied and logging began, but the groups’ concerns are increasingly borne out by science: Recently-released studies point to the crucial importance of burned-over habitat for many species, including the Pacific fisher and black-backed woodpecker….Despite this, Congressional Republicans (pushed) two bills (that year), supported by the timber industry, that would speed up logging in national forests after wildfires and reduce environmental review…The bills’ supporters say that cutting burned trees soon after a wildfire reduces fuel for future fires, and allows the Forest Service to recoup some of the trees’ value as timber. They continuously, and wrongly, blame reductions in commercial logging for increased fire risk…
…But researchers are finding that commercial logging and clearcutting may actually increase damage from future fires. In the Rim Fire and other large fires, the areas that burned least intensely were those that had been protected from logging, in which big, mature thick-barked trees more readily withstood the heat of the flames. Young, recently-planted trees and debris from logging operations proved highly flammable. The ecological importance of large mixed-intensity fires is clear — they help produce a mosaic of habitat types, and patches that burn at high intensity, where most or all of the trees are killed, become “snag forests,” one of the rarest but most ecologically vital habitat types, says Chad Hanson, director of the John Muir Project, a nonprofit group that opposes salvage logging.”…Salvage logging shortcircuits the post-fire rejuvenation process, many studies show, removing the snags and downed trees that create shade and shelter. Heavy machinery can destroy regenerating conifers and other plant life and create erosion, while herbicides prevent the growth of beneficial shrubs and forbs (a herbaceous flowering plant that is not a grass, sedge, or rush. Hanson describes it as “kicking the forest when it’s down.” Read more here. Also see ‘The Myth of “Catastrophic” Wildfire’ and “The Big Lie: Logging and Forest Fires” by Chad Hanson.
Update 8/9/19: After a telephone interview with Chad Hanson of the John Muir Project regarding the role logging played in the ferocity of the Camp Fire, he has sent additional information, which we’re attaching here.
Camp Fire Photo Report: here. (Photo below contained in report)
“The Myth of “Overgrown” Forests (2018) here
“Does increased forest protection correspond to higher fire severity in frequent-fire forests of the western United States? (2016) here
“Common Myths about Forest and Fire” (2019) here
“We Cannot Effectively Fight Climate Change Without Increasing Forest Protection” (2019) here
Dead Trees (“Snags”) Do Not Make Forests Burn More Intensely (2017) here
Financial aspects to consider too…
This article has some interesting facts to use too… “…national forests provide many favorite places for recreation by Californians. But all of these benefits are harmed by one activity—commercial logging on national forests through the Forest Service’s timber sale program, in which private timber companies pay the Forest Service to be allowed to cut down trees on public land. However, the Forest Service spends so much money preparing these timber sales, such as through road-building and trying to repair some of the ecological damage after logging, that the Forest Service’s timber sale program is a net money loser, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
In other words, the timber sales program functions as a particularly destructive form of government subsidy to private logging companies.
This subsidy is so large that if the government ended the Forest Service timber sales program, a portion of the money saved could be used employ every timber worker that is currently involved in cutting down national forests to instead work on ecological restoration, repairing the damage that has been done to our forests, and there would still be millions of dollars remaining in taxpayers savings. At the same time, less than four percent of U.S. wood supply comes from our national forests, a tiny fraction that could easily be replaced through a bit more recycling or a little less waste. So commercial logging of our national forests is not only ecological damaging and economically wasteful, it is also unnecessary. In the 90’s, the John Muir Project published these conclusions in “Ending Timber Sales on National Forests: The Facts”, a report which was reviewed and approved by the Congress Research Service, the non-partisan research arm of the U.S. Congress.” (See their page on monitoring logging projects propose in mature and old-forest areas)
1b. They want to cede control of road planning to ORV riders (?!?)
The proposed rule would convert illegal off-road vehicle (ORV) routes to official Forest Service System roads or trails – contrary to decades of Forest Service travel and transportation management policy designed to make more ecologically and fiscally sustainable the agency’s bloated transportation system and ensure that any ORV route designations “minimize” impacts to resources and conflicts with other recreational uses; WITH NO PUBLIC INPUT OR ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS.
(Indivisible Ventura) Off road vehicles cause widespread environmental damage. There’s already been a lot of public interaction between the Forest Service and the public on how they can work together to protect the land. PinelandsAlliance.org created this graphic document to visualize what’s happening with illegal off-roading. The pic above is from their document.
1c. They want to allow the construction of new roads against best practices – ACTION ITEM!
The proposed rule would allow construction of up to 5 miles or reconstruction of up to 10 miles of Forest Service System roads – also contrary to long-standing policy that the agency is no longer in the business of building permanent system roads and that projects may be implemented via construction of only temporary roads that must be decommissioned, WITH NO PUBLIC INPUT OR ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS.
Action – Call your legislator on the “Roadless Area Conservation Act”
(Indivisible Ventura) New legislation proposed by Sen. Maria Cantrell, along with Congressman Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) have introduced legislation to permanently protect millions of acres of national forests from adding any new roads. HR 2491/S.1311 – “Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2019”. This bill would codify the 2001 Roadless Rule, which limits costly roadbuilding and logging on roadless areas across the National Forest System. This legislation is said to “protect hunting and fishing opportunities, provide critical habitat for 1,600 threatened or endangered species, lessen wildland fire risk, and supply clean drinking water to millions of Americans in 39 states”.
Reps.: HR 2491 is currently supported by 44 representatives here. Brownley and Carbajal are already cosponsors. If yours isn’t on the list, call… (instructions below)
Senators: S.1311 is currently supported by Senator Harris, as well as these senators here. Sen. Feinstein was on the 2018 version, remind her to sign on. If your senator isn’t on this list, call them! It’s easy! Ten seconds tops.
Minimal script:“Hi, I’m calling from [zip code] and I want to Rep./Sen. [___] to cosponsor (Rep:/HR 2491/Sen: S.1311) – “Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2019”
Rep. Julia Brownley (CA-26): Thank her with an email,
or Rep. Salud Carbajal (CA-24): Thank him with an email.
Senator Feinstein: email, DC (202) 224-3841, LA (310) 914-7300, SF (415) 393-0707, SD (619) 231-9712, Fresno (559) 485-7430
and Senator Harris: Thank her with an email,
Who is my representative/senator?: hq-salsa.wiredforchange.com
2. The “rules” would allow 98% of actions take place with ZERO public oversight.
The proposed rule would eliminate the requirement to conduct public scoping (6) for 98% of all proposed actions, including those covered by CEs. (7) The agency would be required to provide notice of CE projects only in its Schedule of Proposed Actions or SOPA, which may not be published until AFTER the decision has been made and the project completed.Without an opportunity to weigh in on proposed CE projects, the only option for the public to have its voice heard would be to resort to the federal courts. Most projects will occur with WITH NO PUBLIC INPUT OR ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS
(winterwildlands.org) “If these revisions go through, you’ll be in the dark about most Forest Service projects. You may not even know that your local forest is considering building a new road or approving a new logging project, and litigation will be your only option for speaking up for the public lands you value. Cutting corners and disenfranchising the public is no way to manage our national forests.”
(NYTimes) Sam Evans “Each federal agency has some leeway to implement the law, but the Forest Service’s newly proposed rules would instead circumvent it, creating loopholes for logging projects, road construction and even permits for pipelines and other utilities...Far too often, the Forest Service proposes logging in rare old-growth forests, near sensitive streams, or on steep, fragile slopes. Or it proposes building new roads or permitting pipelines in undeveloped backcountry areas. Under current law, new roads and all but the smallest and least consequential timber sales require, at a minimum, advance public notice and the opportunity for the public to comment and suggest improvements. Most of the time, bad projects are relocated or improved because of public input. In fact, on the Southern Appalachian national forests where I work, public input is responsible for reducing or avoiding harm to old-growth, roadless areas, rare species and habitats, and soil and water 77.4 percent of the time…Without accountability, harms will multiply: more logging in the wrong places, more roads built in remote areas, more pipelines and utility rights of way fragmenting habitats. And there will be no chance for individuals to speak up to protect the special places that matter to them most. The public tolerates commercial logging on public lands only because passionate forest advocates have found ways, working with industry representatives and agency professionals, to minimize harm and even to harness logging for ecological good. If the Forest Service abandons the process that makes this possible, it will undermine the cooperation that allows us to share our public lands.”
(southenvironment.org) Sam Evans “The Forest Service is trying to create loopholes for itself that would entirely remove the public from most decisions affecting public lands. National Forest users–hikers, bikers, and wildlife watchers–won’t know what’s coming until the logging trucks show up at their favorite trailheads, or until roads and trails are closed.” The agency’s claim that it can commercially log up to 4,200 acres at a time without causing any harm to ecological values, without participation, doesn’t pass the laugh test,” said Evans. “To put that number in perspective, in our Southern Appalachian national forests, where I live, work and hike, timber projects are never more than a fraction of that size, and they still routinely include logging in old growth forests, recreation areas, and rare habitats. Most of the time, the public speaks up for those values, and as a result they are protected. But they can’t be protected without transparency and accountability, and that’s what the Forest Service is proposing to eliminate.”
(wilderness.org) Susan Jane Brown, staff attorney and public lands director with the Western Environmental Law Center: “The Forest Service has used the mantra of ‘shared stewardship’ to describe its management goals for national forests with stakeholders such as states, tribes, and the broader public. But this proposed rule cuts the public out by authorizing nearly every land management action without detailed environmental analysis and public comment or administrative review. That’s no one’s definition of shared stewardship.”
Kirin Kennedy, Sierra Club deputy legislative director for lands and wildlife: “Yet again the Trump administration is rolling back vital safeguards and curtailing public input. These changes will not protect our forests from fire, but rather risk their future.”
Ted Zukoski, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The Trump administration is trying to stifle the public’s voice and hide environmental damage to public lands. These rules would let the Forest Service sidestep bedrock environmental laws. Logging companies could bulldoze hundreds of miles of new roads and chainsaw miles of national forests while ignoring the damage to wildlife and waterways. All of this would happen without involving nearby communities or forest visitors.”
3. “Sensitive, schmensitive”
The proposed rule would weaken the “extraordinary circumstances” backstop for CE proposals. (8) If a proposal implicates “extraordinary circumstances,” it is ineligible for a CE, even if it would otherwise qualify. The proposed rule would eliminate the presence of “sensitive species” as an extraordinary circumstance.
Even worse, the proposal would impose a significantly higher threshold for when extraordinary circumstances exist, requiring a “likelihood of substantial adverse effects to the listed resource condition” and allowing a Forest Service line officer to make this science-based determination without the benefit of any environmental analysis or public oversight.
(Indivisible Ventura) OK, stay with us on this… the rule proposal provided a WHOLE PARAGRAPH (provided below to study) on why they needed to remove two words – “Sensitive Species”. This is a clear sign in this incredibly corrupt administration that some chicanery is about to take place, as clear as Trump accusing others of things he’s done. Two things come immediately to mind. First – they are also going to start pulling “sensitive species” out of other documents, until it can’t be found anymore or be connected to NEPA projects, not unlike their unremitting campaign against the words “climate change” and “global warming”, as well as “diversity, entitlement, evidence-based, fetus, science-based, transgender and vulnerable.” Next, unless instructions are branded on their foreheads, the hacks running this administration either don’t know nor care about following any rules. Hence our president’s team of “acting” officials and Hatch Act violators, the current kerfuffle with Agriculture Secretary Perdue not consulting Congress before forcibly relocating his department to Kansas City, and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, prune-faced with the indignity of having to listen to a clear explanation by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez that he needed to file THREE reports as required by law. So…no. Leave “Sensitive Species” in. Make it an entire chapter. With pictures.
(regulations.gov) “The proposed rule would adjust and refine instructions for evaluating extraordinary circumstances. The proposed rule would revise the list of resource conditions to be considered in determining whether extraordinary circumstances warrant analysis and documentation in an EA or EIS. The proposed rule would remove “sensitive species” from item (i). The Agency’s 2012 planning regulations marked a transition away from the term “sensitive species,” and retention of the term in the NEPA procedures is unnecessary. All land management plans have direction to provide for the diversity of plant and animal communities and support the persistence of native species in the plan area. All Forest Service projects must comply with relevant land management plans; therefore, it is not necessary to include sensitive species in the list of resource conditions.”
As for allowing Forest Service line officers to make decisions about issues facing endangered species or other sensitive environmental issues…they lost that right in the late 90’s-2000, when they grifted for the logging industry at the expense of California spotted owls, as they ignored public input and contradicted scientific information. Sorry, restoring trust in the Forest Service’s pronouncements is absolutely not going to happen during this administration.
4. Like a kid hiding broccoli on his plate...
The proposed rule would permit the use of multiple CEs to carry out land management decisions. (9) The Forest Service would have discretion to authorize larger, complex projects without preparing any NEPA analysis by breaking apart the various project elements and picking and choosing CEs from the agency’s expansive list to cover each element, resulting in a far greater likelihood of significant effects. Large projects would be completed WITH NO PUBLIC INPUT OR ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS.
(nevadacapitalnews.org) Sam Evans – “In Nevada, mining activity is largely conducted on Bureau of Land Management land, but when licensing mines, the proposed rule change would allow the Forest Service to use a categorical exemption to authorize mining activity of up to 640 acres of surface disturbance. A football field is 1.32 acres in size…. Six hundred and forty acres is not a large area, but the concern is, once a mining project gets started, it often goes through a number of expansions, so this is a way of kind of leapfrogging in,” said John Hadder of Great Basin Resource Watch. “Starting out with a small operation, no environmental analysis, and then they begin to expand. And even though the expansion process may require an EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) they’ve already got the mine there. Putting controls on what happened at that point is a lot more limited once the mine is in place already, especially if you want to try to oppose it in any kind of a high level.”
(nevadacapitalnews.org) John Hadder “Another large red flag… is that the proposed rule change as written could authorize a massive underground mine with a categorical exemption because it disturbs less than 640 acres on the surface. Underground mines often require deep groundwater pumping operations, so miners can access ore deposits, but according to John Hadder, these types of mines have the potential to significantly affect ground and surface water with no public oversight if approved with a CE.
“There are mines that tend to go underground that often have a lot less surface disturbance,” Hadder said when asked how the proposed rule changes could affect the licensing of mines in the state. “The example that I was looking at is the Hollister underground mine project, which in the draft EIS would only disturb 220 acres (on the surface). So that one would be excluded from an EIS in the future, however, an underground mine has significant impacts on the groundwater that we noted in our comments.”
Even though the Hollister mine, located just outside Winnemucca, Nevada recently closed for lack of profitability, Hadder said small mines can have significant environmental and cultural impacts.“The Hollister mine actually infringes upon Western Shoshone cultural areas, the Tosawihi quarry, and so in an EIS process you look at how the mine affects the whole region, so even though the mine footprint itself may be fairly small, you have to look at cumulative impact. And so this is where this 640 (acres) is really a too narrow a scope. Even a small mine could have significant regional impact depending upon where it’s located. So that’s the clause we definitely want to see removed.”
5. “Close enough for government work” is not close enough.
The proposed rule would adopt another interior review process called “determinations of NEPA adequacy” (10) or DNAs, which are a mechanism that the Department of the Interior has long used to claim that an existing environmental assessment (EA) or environmental impact statement (EIS) adequately analyzed a new/different proposed action and so no EA, EIS, or CE is necessary. Often the existing EA or EIS is outdated and/or never contemplated or analyzed the specific impacts of the new proposed action. (BTW – NEPA stands for “National Environmental Policy Act“) The Forest Service rarely monitors the actual effects of its decisions, so it’s unlikely that the agency can rationally conclude that future projects will have no environmental impacts. Moreover, given the severely degraded condition of many of our national forests, it is arbitrary to suggest that past land management decisions have resulted in limited environmental impacts. Projects that are “sort of like” another project will go through WITH NO PUBLIC INPUT OR ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS.
Example: (Center for Biological Diversity) “The BLM used “determinations of NEPA adequacy… to auction off more than 2,300 acres of Wayne National Forest for fracking, (using) DNAs to avoid any analysis of site-specific environmental harm before leasing public lands to industry. Conservation groups have mounted administrative or legal challenges to these lease sales. “In a time of accelerating climate change, biodiversity loss, and air and water pollution crises, this action by the supposed stewards of our natural resources is unconscionable,” said Heather Cantino of Athens County Fracking Action Network. “Wayne and BLM’s justifications for this action are not based on science or the public interest, which by law they must be. Today’s protest stands up for the law and the rights of the American people.”
The Trump administration recently issued a directive calling for expanded use of DNAs for fracking leases on public lands across the country. That directive effectively excludes the public from the public-lands leasing process, shortens protest periods to just 10 days from 30 days, and restricts BLM staff from postponing lease sales to protect sensitive resources.”
The Forest Service, like the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) will become a rubber stamp for projects that the public won’t even learn about until the construction equipment is at their gates.
6. What’s one little fracking platform, or skinny little pipeline, in a wilderness area?
Think that it can’t happen?
The proposed rule would remove Inventoried Roadless Areas (IRAs) and potential wilderness areas from the classes of actions that normally require preparation of an EIS. (11) The proposed rule reasons that the Roadless Area Conservation Rule provides adequate protections for IRAs. A robust body of case law demonstrates that damaging projects are often proposed in IRAs, despite the Roadless Rule. Moreover, the Roadless Rule itself is under significant threat. The proposed rule would similarly remove projects in potential wilderness areas (i.e., areas identified in a Forest Service wilderness inventory) from increased PUBLIC INPUT OR ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS.
(Senator Cantrell) “The Roadless Rule protects key recreational areas, vital watersheds, and irreplaceable fish and wildlife habitat,” Senator Cantwell said.“Hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians depend on roadless areas for clean drinking water and to drive our juggernaut outdoor recreation economy. It’s time to permanently safeguard our remaining undeveloped forest lands as the foundation of our outdoor recreation economy, a home for wildlife, and a heritage for future generations.” (Indivisible Ventura – see “Action” in #1c above!)
(Rep. DeGette) “The Roadless Rule is one of the most broadly supported environmental policies in the country that protects nearly 60 million acres of untouched forests for people to enjoy – yet, now it’s under attack. We are not going to sit back and allow this administration to undo this important rule and the protections it provides some of our nation’s most treasured landscapes.”
(Indivisible Ventura – see “Action” in #1c above!) “The Roadless Rule was developed by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) during the Clinton administration and finalized in 2001. Legislators said in their release it was introduced “following several years of deliberation, 600 public meetings in local communities nationwide, and 1.6 million public comments, including 60,000 from Washington state alone. They say that 96% of comments received favored strong protection for National Forest roadless areas while a March 2019 poll by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that three out of four respondents said they supported keeping roadless forest protections, and only 16% oppose it.”
(Center for Biological Diversity) Trump Plan to Ramp Up Fracking, Mining in National Forests Threatens Climate
(LA Times) “Mark Rose, a representative for the National Parks Conservation Assn., said Trump’s proposal to open up 1 million acres in CA to drilling is concerning because it includes so much territory, some of which borders pristine forestland like Yosemite and Sequoia national parks. “When you open up … this wide swath of land, it really scares us that wells could be drilled right next to a national park like Sequoia, which is already one of the most polluted parks in the country for air pollution.”
7. “Condition-based management” = loophole
Embraces “condition-based management,” (12) which allows the Forest Service to authorize land management activities – usually including timber harvest – without first gathering information about the resources that would be affected on the ground. Under this approach, the public would lose a fundamental right under NEPA – the chance to speak up for specific places or resources when they are proposed for logging. This lazy, industry-friendly giveaway would happen WITH NO PUBLIC INPUT OR ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS.
(nevadacapitalnews.org) “For environmentalists, condition-based management is a loophole for oversight and scientific rigor. Because a “broader proposed action” guides the project under the condition-based management scheme, the Forest Service is then able to conduct land management actions, typically timber harvests with no deference to specific conditions on the ground like insect outbreaks or high fuel loads, for instance. Site-specific analysis would not be required under condition-based analysis. Since its inception in 1970, the environmental analysis process as laid out in NEPA has been centered on the development of more environmentally friendly alternatives to proposed projects, but for Sam Evans, the shift toward conditions-based management undermines the heart of NEPA compromise.
“So the way this rulemaking looks at the National Forest is it says that one acre is no different than another acre and one logging project over here is no different than another logging project over there. But we know the different areas on the National Forest are really special for different reasons and special to different people, so the process that we’ve always used to figure out where are good places to go and do logging projects and where not, that’s the process that’s being proposed to eliminate.”
So what is the real problem here, beside corporate pressure?
Not enough people work at the Forest Service.
To justify its proposed rule, the Forest Service argues that changes to NEPA are necessary to increase its efficiency and increase the pace and scale of land management decisionmaking. However, the Forest Service itself has acknowledged that a lack of internal agency capacity and training, as well as an agency culture that rewards “moving out to move up” (or, agency turnover), leads to delays in planning and implementation. The proposed rule does not address this fundamental problem.
(nevadacapitalnews.org) Sam Evans, national forest and parks program leader for the Southern Environmental Law Center “What I’ve learned is that the main impediments to getting work done are its budgets and its lack of good training mechanisms for getting its staff up to speed on how to work with the public. But instead, we’re seeing a rulemaking that scapegoats the environmental review process that really has very little to do with the delays that the Forest Service often experiences when it’s trying to get a decision done.”
John Hadder is the director of Great Basin Resource Watch based in Reno, Nevada. Hadder agrees with Evans’ assessment and adds that the solution to speeding up thorough and much-needed environmental assessments is to hire more people. “They talk about the justification and the need for what they call a more efficient process around NEPA and they pin it to increasing resources that are needed to fight wildfires, a lot of emphasis on the need to deal with wildfires and how much greater percentage of their staff has gone to wildfire abatement and wildfire fighting. My response to that at first is, well, hire more people to deal with NEPA instead of just trimming it back. Protection of our environment in the communities that depend on it is critical, and I would argue that probably some of the very projects that might slip through could actually affect fire issues. It’s mismanagement of our land in part, and that has resulted in increasing wildfires. If we’re going to spend more money on things then we certainly should spend a little more money on processing projects on public land.”
We really like this politely worded smack-down from the Rural Voices of Conservation Coalition, which addresses budget issues and training for employees.
(Sierra Club) With more than 240 million people living within 100 miles of a national forest or national grassland, the benefits of protecting national forest roadless areas are significant.
Water: Undisturbed ecosystems in wilderness areas produce clean water for thousands of communities. Twenty-nine million people drink water from watersheds that encompass roadless areas. National forests and grasslands, including wilderness, are the nation’s most important water source, providing drinking water to some 60 million Americans.
Outdoor Recreation: Tracts of intact roadless forests represent the last great opportunity for conserving our best outdoor recreation opportunities on our national forests.
Local Economies: Safeguarded landscapes boost the bottom line for local economies, attracting visitors and adding to local residents’ quality of life. Across the West, for example, counties with permanently protected public land report higher per capita income and above-average job growth.
Wildlife habitat: Roadless areas nationwide provide important habitat for fish and wildlife in our national forests, including more than 2,100 threatened, endangered, or sensitive animal and plant species.
There’s not as much as you think: Although the National Wilderness Preservation System has grown to 109 million acres, that’s just 5 percent of the U.S. landmass, and half of this acreage is in one state, Alaska. We continue to lose more than 6,000 acres of open space a day to development. More can be done to ensure a natural legacy for future generations.
(1) 84 Fed. Reg. 27,544. If finalized, the regulations will be codified at 36 C.F.R. Part 220.
(2) 84 Fed. Reg. at 27,550.
(4) 84 Fed Reg. at 27,546-49 and proposed rule § 220.5(d) & (e).
(5) 84 Fed. Reg. at 27,550-51.
(6) 84 Fed. Reg. at 27,545 and proposed rule § 220.4(d).
(7) Under the proposal, scoping would be required only for EISs. Between 2006 and 2016, only 678 of the ForestService’s 29,746 decisions (about 2.3%) were analyzed with an EIS.
(8) 84 Fed. Reg. at 27,546 and proposed rule § 220.5(a) & (b).
(9) 84 Fed. Reg. at 27,546 and proposed rule § 220.5(a).
(10) 84 Fed. Reg. at 27,546 and proposed rule § 220.4(i).
(11) 84 Fed. Reg. at 27,549 and proposed rule § 220.7(a).
(12) 84 Fed. Reg. at 27,545 and proposed rule §§ 220.3 & 220.4(k).
Posted on August 23, 2019 by indivisibleventuraTagged Environmental justice, Environmental War Crimes, Forest Service, Indivisible Ventura, NEPA.
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Instilling a STEM mindset
Many students get bogged down in what Jared Gee, a teacher at Sugar-Salem High School, calls the “single mindset” to problem solving: Find the answer, turn in the assignment. But, Gee notes, “that doesn’t match up with what the real world requires.”
The answer might come out to be a clean integer when experimenting in a controlled lab, but it is often a little messier in the field. For instance, when his students created miniature solar-powered cars, they didn’t think of how half the car would be in the shade because of the sun’s angle. The panel that remained shaded couldn’t generate power, and the car sputtered. It took some brainstorming and a few wiring tweaks, but the students’ willingness to tinker and try new solutions eventually saw the car up and running.
The science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) mindset to approaching these issues, involving a trial-and-error approach, is one that Gee and other educators know is crucial to creating critical thinkers — and Idaho National Laboratory is helping instill that mindset in students by providing schools around the state with grant money aimed at broadening hands-on learning experiences.
“One of our main goals is to inspire Idaho’s future STEM workforce,” said Jennifer Jackson, INL’s K-12 Education Enrichment Programs manager. “This involves much more than just curriculum — it really depends on encouraging students to hone in skills like problem-solving and creativity.”
‘It clicks for them, and they get motivated’
Sugar-Salem, where Gee teaches, won INL’s first STEM Impact grant, which awards $15,000 to one school each year. Sugar-Salem used it to purchase equipment to expand experiential learning and materials for class projects, such as the solar car project. Other activities include a project to measure soil moisture data to track differences across large fields, and even a 3D printer to create contoured maps to study water runoff patterns.
The focus in Thunder Ridge High School’s technology lab is on getting students interested in STEM early and giving them a problem-solving mindset (Photo credit Thunder Ridge High School).
Gee said the INL grant helps students get outside the classroom and see how their hypotheses fare when put to the test.
“That’s been the biggest impact,” Gee said. “The students are like, ‘We’ve got so many ways to do something. We’re gonna do everything we can to address the programs.’”
But getting there isn’t easy, Gee said. By high school, many students have decided whether they are good at math or other STEM subjects. Gee tries to frame it differently when recruiting students to his physics class.
“The reason engineers are good at math is because they do it a lot,” he said. “Once they realize they can eventually do it, it clicks for them and they actually get motivated to do it. That’s once they get past the notion that only really smart people can do math, when in actuality, the people who do it are the people who want to do it.”
The next experts
At Mountain Academy of Teton Science Schools, teachers try to help students envision how they can use technology to support projects they’re working on. The school bought a 3D printer through an INL STEM grant last year, and it now has older, more experienced students help teach younger students how to measure twice and print once.
The school’s curriculum focuses on project-based learning, through which students independently investigate ideas during in-depth projects. Teachers act as facilitators, but these projects are mostly student driven. Elle Shafer, associate head of the School of Mountain Academy of Teton Science Schools, says this environment helps the school build up its older students as experts and create a pipeline of students with the STEM mindset.
“We strive to support our students to be the experts in the field and to help students on our campus — or the campus in Jackson, Wyoming — to use technology in their projects,” Shafer said. “Exposing these students to the idea of technology as a tool for learning is so important.”
A course called “Maker” that the school created after buying the 3D printer allows students to study one topic in depth over the course of three months. In one example, students took their project work focused on the history of technology and ran with the concept in many directions, ranging from the origins of the computer to studying how water bottles are created.
“On our campus, we have a number of computers and other technology, but we don’t necessarily have other sorts of technologies that people can use like the 3D printer,” Shafer said. “It just opens up another realm of possibility to use technology to enhance education.”
‘Widening our effect’
Idaho State University hosts annual summer STEM camps to engage educators, students and parents in emerging technologies and other STEM concepts. A week before students visit the camp, K-12 educators attend a weeklong workshop where technical instructors teach them how to use emerging technology such as vex robots, which are modular robots that some schools are using to introduce students to robotics.
Over 300 students attended Idaho State University’s summer STEM camps in 2019, which engaged educators, students and parents in emerging technologies and other STEM concepts (Photo credit Idaho State University).
Ryan Pitcher, an ISU instructor who organizes the camp, says providing this knowledge to students and teachers ensures it is passed on to students who can’t attend.
“These educators can go back to their schools and incorporate the technology into their class curriculums,” he said. “That teacher goes out, and they can teach hundreds of students. It’s widening our secondary effect.”
More than 300 people attended the 2019 summer camp, an attendance rate helped in part by an INL grant that subsidized costs for students to attend, and also aided by bringing in more technical experts to teach the concepts to K-12 teachers. In addition to expanding K-12 teachers’ technical skills, Pitcher said the grant helped broaden ISU’s community reach by introducing parents to the STEM-related programs the university has.
“The grant made it possible for K-12 students to participate in a camp that would have otherwise been economically unfeasible for a lot of them,” Pitcher said.
‘Get them interested’
Thunder Ridge High School, built in Ammon in 2018, was outfitted upon construction with a technology lab filled with 3D printers, 3D image scanners and computers with design software, all of which an INL grant helped pay for.
Thunder Ridge High School, built in 2018, was outfitted upon construction with a technology lab filled with 3D printers, 3D image scanners and computers with design software (Photo credit Thunder Ridge High School).
Though that lab is physically located in the high school, the teachers who run it mostly work with sixth graders. And though technology rapidly changes, Thunder Ridge teacher Darren Guthrie said the teachers focus on instilling interest in students.
“We like to let the kids do discovery learning,” he said.” You can listen to a lecture all day. But when you get into a project, it can fail. And you can learn a lot from that.”
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“Congenital Foot Deformity in Caravaggio’s Scholar Painting: A Likely Diagnosis of FATCO Syndrome”
Fabio Nicoli ,
University of Rome "Tor Vergata", IT
Davide Lazzeri
Villa Salaria Clinic, Rome., IT
Keywords: Caravaggio, art painting, foot deformity, FATCO syndrome, medical diagnosis, Saint Peter
How to Cite: Nicoli F, Lazzeri D. “Congenital Foot Deformity in Caravaggio’s Scholar Painting: A Likely Diagnosis of FATCO Syndrome”. International Journal of Orthoplastic Surgery. 2018;1(3):79–80. DOI: http://doi.org/10.29337/ijops.23
Published on 14 Nov 2018
Accepted on 27 Oct 2018 Submitted on 09 Oct 2018
Congenital foot deformities are occasionally represented in paintings [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. An interesting picture entitled “Saint Peter heals the cripple” is exposed at Barberini Palace in Rome. The opera is probably attributed to Monsu’ Lucens, a minor artist who worked in the Venetian laboratory of Carlo Saraceni in the early XVII century. The painting is strongly influenced by the realism of Caravaggio’s techniques and the new Baroque style. The scene is inspired by “The Acts of the Apostles” (III, 1–8) when Saint Peter and Saint John the Apostle met and healed a cripple in the Jerusalem’s Temple. The figure of the suffering personage is particularly described by the artist and the anatomical details of the disease are shown in the foreground. A clinical examination reveals a congenital deformity to the lower left limb, anterior bowing at the distal third of tibia, oligosyndactyly of toes with complete absence of one ray and the left foot is also twisted. A bandage to the lower leg is drawn probably to cover an ulceration or a skin wound caused by an eventual exposed bone fracture or other anomalies. A probable fibular aplasia or hypoplasia could justify the deformity of the lower leg and the ulceration of skin wound. The right lower limb looks normal and associated anomalies to the upper limbs are difficult to evaluate (Figure 1).
Saint Peter heals the cripple, by Monsu’ Lucens, oil on canvas, [from the Barberini Palace, Rome, Italy].
After the Renaissance Age, the increasing interest in anatomy and the correlation between various parts of the human body allowed artists to produce realistic portrayals. As the close relationship between medical science and art, observers expected artworks to be a real illustration of what artists were observing, combining medical and artistic knowledge [4]. The representation of some kind of deformities and anomalies were usually present because this demonstrated the artists’ hallmark styles and their ability to reproduce human figures; although generally the rule was to depict the body as natural as possible [5].
Limb malformations affect in about 1 to 1000 newborn [2]. The fibula is the most common long bone associated with a congenital absence [1]. Fibular aplasia can be a part of a malformation syndrome when associated with focal deficiency of the proximal femur and distal digital and/or toe anomalies. Absent/hypoplastic fibulae frequently are associated with an absence of postaxial rays.
Furthermore, fibular aplasia is sometimes associated with shortness or deformity of the extremities as well as growth retardation [8]. In the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database, malformation syndromes that have fibular aplasia are summarized into eighteen categories, which include, Fibular Aplasia or Hypoplasia, Femoral bowing and Poly-, Syn- and Oligodactyly (Fuhrmann syndrome, MIM228930), Brachydactyly-Ectrodactyly with Fibular Aplasia or Hypoplasia (Fibular Aplasia with Ectrodactyly, MIM113310) and Fibular Aplasia, Tibial Campomelia, and Oligosyndactyly syndrome (FATCO syndrome, MIM246570) [1, 3]. The latter two disorders seem to be similar and do not show facial anomalies.
Although foot deformities are difficult to be identified and classified in paintings [7], especially without radiologically examination, we can consider that the personage portrayed by the artist is affected by FATCO syndrome.
Funding Statement
There was no funding received for this paper.
The authors have no competing interests to declare.
Both authors contributed equally to this work.
Fabio Nicoli is the guarantor.
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Nicoli, F. and Lazzeri, D., 2018. “Congenital Foot Deformity in Caravaggio’s Scholar Painting: A Likely Diagnosis of FATCO Syndrome”. International Journal of Orthoplastic Surgery, 1(3), pp.79–80. DOI: http://doi.org/10.29337/ijops.23
Nicoli F, Lazzeri D. “Congenital Foot Deformity in Caravaggio’s Scholar Painting: A Likely Diagnosis of FATCO Syndrome”. International Journal of Orthoplastic Surgery. 2018;1(3):79–80. DOI: http://doi.org/10.29337/ijops.23
Nicoli, F., & Lazzeri, D. (2018). “Congenital Foot Deformity in Caravaggio’s Scholar Painting: A Likely Diagnosis of FATCO Syndrome”. International Journal of Orthoplastic Surgery, 1(3), 79–80. DOI: http://doi.org/10.29337/ijops.23
Nicoli F and Lazzeri D, ‘“congenital Foot Deformity in Caravaggio’s Scholar Painting: A Likely Diagnosis of FATCO Syndrome”’ (2018) 1 International Journal of Orthoplastic Surgery 79 DOI: http://doi.org/10.29337/ijops.23
Nicoli, Fabio, and Davide Lazzeri. 2018. ““congenital Foot Deformity in Caravaggio’s Scholar Painting: A Likely Diagnosis of FATCO Syndrome””. International Journal of Orthoplastic Surgery 1 (3): 79–80. DOI: http://doi.org/10.29337/ijops.23
Nicoli, Fabio, and Davide Lazzeri. ““congenital Foot Deformity in Caravaggio’s Scholar Painting: A Likely Diagnosis of FATCO Syndrome””. International Journal of Orthoplastic Surgery 1, no. 3 (2018): 79–80. DOI: http://doi.org/10.29337/ijops.23
Nicoli, F.and D. Lazzeri. ““congenital Foot Deformity in Caravaggio’s Scholar Painting: A Likely Diagnosis of FATCO Syndrome””. International Journal of Orthoplastic Surgery, vol. 1, no. 3, 2018, pp. 79–80. DOI: http://doi.org/10.29337/ijops.23
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