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Catherine Corless: Government efforts to help mother and baby homes survivors 'half-hearted'
The final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was published yesterday.
By Stephen McDermott Wednesday 13 Jan 2021, 9:41 AM
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HISTORIAN CATHERINE CORLESS has described efforts by the government to provide mother and baby home survivors access to their identities as “half-hearted”.
Speaking ahead of a State apology by the Taoiseach in the Dáil to those who lived in the homes today, Corless also called on the Catholic Church to formally apologise for their role in managing the institutions.
The final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes – which can be read here - was published yesterday.
The commission was set up following claims that up to 800 babies were interred in an unmarked mass grave at a former Bon Secours home in Tuam, Co Galway – following on from extensive research carried out by Corless.
The Commission states that adopted people should have the right to access their birth certificates and associated birth information. If needed, a referendum on this should take place, the report said.
Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman has committed to introducing legislation to resolve issues that would allow individuals to access adoption and tracing information based on GDPR legislation.
But in an interview on RTÉ Radio’s Morning Ireland programme, the minister would not commit to a specific timeline for the commencement of such legislation.
“I’ll be prioritising that over the course of this year, I would hope to bring it to pre-legislative scrutiny this year, and hopefully bring it into the practice by the end of this year,” he said.
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O’Gorman added that his department would begin to address subject access requests by individuals who were seeking information about themselves within the commission’s archive from February.
Later on the programme, Corless hit out at the minister’s response.
“This [could] be done overnight for the banks, if they want to,” she said. “There’s a very half-hearted effort.”
Commenting specifically on the Taoiseach’s apology today, the historian also said that those who lived in the institutions required an instant response that went beyond words.
“An apology is words written out for the Taoiseach today,” she said.
“What the survivors need is an immediate follow up to all those promises and all those recommendations that the Commissioner of Investigation have done…
“So there’s an awful lot of preparing to do to ensure that those people are [treated] as good as the rest of us.”
Contains reporting by Órla Ryan.
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Russian Emergency Services Make Final Check on Floating Nuclear Power Plant
By The Barents Observer
Rosenergoatom
The Akademik Lomonosov power barge on Sept. 6 passed the Sannikov Strait south of the New Siberian Islands and made it into the East Siberian Sea. The floating installation now has only about three days left of its extensive voyage across the Northern Sea Route.
According to the Northern Sea Route administration, the installation and its accompanying vessels are due to arrive in the Arctic port Pevek on Sept. 9.
The Akademik Lomonosov set out of the Kola Bay on Aug. 23 after more than a year of preparations in Murmansk. Towed by icebreaker Dikson and accompanied by support ships Yasnyy and Kapitan Martyshkin, the floating power plant had a course to the Barents Sea and subsequently made it through the Kara and Laptev seas.
The Akademik Lomonosov entered the East Siberian Sea on September 5. The Barents Observer
The voyage from Murmansk to Pevek is about 4,700 kilometers long.
Is Pevek ready?
The formerly desolate town with a population of about 4,200 has been under preparations for years. There have been numerous visits by federal officials and inspectors.
Among the last official visits to Pevek, there was a visit made by the minister of Emergency Situations Yevgeny Zinichev who arrived with a group of federal officials on Sept. 5. Zinichev had a special interest in the local coastal infrastructure, the ministry reported.
"It is expected that the floating station Akademik Lomonosov will arrive in Chukotka by the middle of September and it is, therefore, necessary to look at the coastal infrastructure in advance," the minister said.
According to the ministry, a special fire and rescue department is under construction on site. When completed, the unit can ultimately serve as a base for a larger Arctic rescue center.
Onsite there is also a big number of representatives of the nuclear power company Rosatom, the ones who run the plant.
Local authorities previously said that they need to build 320 new apartments and that a major facelift of local infrastructure is in the making. Two architecture companies in 2016 came to town and started working on sketches for a new and upgraded port zone, a new church, as well as bicycle roads, squares, parks and playing areas for kids.
Outsourced security
Law enforcement authorities are also on site preparing to keep an eye on the new strategic object. Rosgvardia, the Russian National Guard, has been commissioned to protect the power plant and its surroundings.
According to the security service, the formation of guarding units was about to be completed in late August and training was ongoing in cooperation with representatives of Rosatom.
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Rosgvardia has decided to outsource the protection of the Akademik Lomonosov to what it calls "sub-units of non-governmental security."
The decision to outsource the job has been taken by Rosgvardia Director Viktor Zolotov, the security service said.
Big risks
The Akademik Lomonosov has two KLT40S reactors and will provide heat and electricity to Pevek for the next 12 years. After that, it will have to be towed back either to Rosatomflot’s base in Murmansk or to a shipyard like in Severodvinsk for unloading the spent nuclear fuel and carry out other maintenance work.
Environmentalists have criticized the project and warned against possible major risks.
Greenpeace has described the project as a “nuclear Titanic” or a “Chernobyl on ice.”
"We are sure it has been built not to cover the needs of Chukotka, but as a working model for possible foreign customers," says Rashid Alimov, a nuclear campaigner with Greenpeace in Moscow.
"We think floating nuclear plants is simply a too risky and too expensive way of producing electricity."
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The Bandroom
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Desford in the Grand Shield?
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tubaturk
According to the runners and riders listed in 4BR, Desford are in the Grand Shield not the Senior Cup.
The last I heard was that they, like us, were to be demoted following their poor result in Blackpool last year. I'm fairly sure that the list of demoted bands was published somewhere.
I had a moan on the 4BR comments board back in May about the unfairness of last years relegation rules (which they've now ditched ) and David Batte made similar comments in June. The heading of my e-mail to 4BR was Grand Shield Self Preservation and I, like David obviously feared the worse regarding decisions about the big-name bands.
Out of interest my band, Burry Port, came 14th out of 21 in our first Grand Shield last year following promotion from the Senior Cup in 2002. Desford finished 20th in the Grand Shield in 2003 and withdrew in 2002.
Who do you think deserved to be relegated?
PS I'm not having a go at Desford themselves in this instance - good luck to them. I'm just very annoyed with the organisers and the whole thing is an insult to ourselves and the other demoted bands.
Gareth John (EB Bass - Burry Port Town)
iancwilx
Stinks !
Extract from 4bars Results Archive - Grand Shield - 2003
16 Aveley and Newham N. Taken 6 -
17 Desford Colliery P. Parkes 2 -
18 Bodmin R. Gray 3 -
19 Freckleton P. Dalton 20 -
20 Thoresby Colliery J. Hudson 14 -
21 Ransome B. Grant 7 -
Qualifiers for 2003 British Open:
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery and Scottish Co-op.
The bottom six bands were relegated to the Senior Cup for 2004
Desford 17th not 20th - no sensationalism intended. Apologies Desford.
The rules that applied to last year were more complicated (and unfair)than a simple 6 up 6 down scenario and they penalised the newly promoted bands. See my 4BR letter below:
Grand Shield Relegation - Self Preservation?
... they have changed the way in which relegation is decided for these contests to "give bands the chance to stay up for at least 2 years without being relegated".
To do this they have devised a system similar to that, which exists for the National Championships with rankings based on placings in last year's contest added to that of this year's contest. Using the Grand Shield as an example, the first 2 bands were promoted to the British Open last year, and thus bands placed 3 to 13 were awarded 3 to 13 points respectively, and the bottom six were relegated to the Senior Cup.
This is all well and good until it comes to the bands who are new to the Grand Shield this year, ie. those relegated from the Open along with those promoted from the Senior Cup. In their wisdom, instead of giving all these bands an average mark like in the Nationals, they will be awarding the 2 relegated bands a notional placing of 3rd for last year's Grand Shield while the 6 who fought hard for their promotion to the Grand Shield have to do with a notional placing of 13th or effectively last of those that retained their Shield status.
...I cannot see how this system will make it easier for bands to stay in the Shield for 2 years, as the newly promoted bands are going to be immediately disadvantaged by this notional 13th place. The same goes for the bands who were promoted from the Senior Trophy...
Taken from 4BR article - "2003 Remembered - May"
".....
At the Spring Festival Carlton Main Frickley Colliery took the Grand Shield on ‘Tallis Variations’, reward for their continued building progress through the early months on 2003. Nick Childs guided the strengthening Scottish Co-op to a place in the British Open alongside Carlton however it was a nervous time for bands finishing in the lower places as they waited for the calculations to be completed to see who would drop into the Senior Cup. In the final analysis it was to be B.T., Ransome, Burry Port Town, Desford Colliery, Bodmin, Freckleton & Thoresby Colliery.
...."
Lauradoll
BT got relegated instead of Desford, despite turning up to compete. We came 12/20 in 2001, 11/18 in 2002 and 15/21. Wonder if that would have happened if we'd not turned up.
Pointless moaning about it, but we're in the Senior Cup now, even though we've never come in the bottom 5. Never mind eh. Onwards and upwards!! :? :shock:
Not really a moan Laura as we had accepted our fate many months ago. However, at that time, our one and only consolation was that the rules had seemingly been applied fairly to everyone, even if we thought the rules themselves were a pile of c**p!
I sent a letter directly to the organisers explaining the unfairness of the relegation system back in May and, although they did not reply to me or my band in person, they did send out a photocopied letter containing a list of the relegated bands a few months later. Now they come up with this bombshell.
I just don't like being fobbed off by some "old (and not so old) farts", to pinch the phrase of an ex-England Rugby Captain.
I didn't mean you were moaning, I meant me!!! Sorry if it came across that way! Rules eh! Grrrrrr! :twisted:
But it's good to moan! - anyway, the powers that be will continue to abuse their positions unless people speak up.
Borfeo
I know that in the past they have kept a band in the section they were supposed to be relegated from if another band withdraws.
If you look down the lists and compare them to who was supposed to be relegated, you will probably see a couple of anomalies.
However, this is generally reserved for the bands that were on the fringes of relegation ie: the lowest points total to get relegated. Not sure if Desford were in that situation or not!
tsawyer
We were relegated to the senior cup in 2002, and that year they changed the rules from a "last six go down" to an aggregate over two years. Now they've changed it back, wish they'd make up their minds!
Our record in the grand shield
2000 - 7th
2002 - 15th and relegated
2003 - 1st place in the senior cup and back up again.
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A mask for their sake ● A voice and a breath ● Trump vs. health care ● How Long
► LIVE from the Seattle Times — Coronavirus daily news update, June 26 — The latest count of COVID-19 cases in Washington totals 30,367 infections (7-day average of new infections per day: 399) and 1,300 deaths (7-day average of deaths per day: 8)
► From the Spokesman-Review — Inslee: Spokane ‘right on the verge of a very dire situation’ as COVID-19 cases continue rise — During a visit to Spokane County, Gov. Jay Inslee warned that the hospitalizations in Spokane County due to COVID-19 are projected to double in the next couple weeks.
The Stand (June 24) — Masks required in public starting Friday
► From the Yakima H-R — COVID-19 continues to disproportionately impact Hispanic communities, state and local leaders say — Data show 44% of confirmed cases and 29% of hospitalizations are Hispanics, who comprise 13% of the state’s population.
► From the Washington Post — ‘Don’t be a sheep’: Sheriffs rebel against new statewide mask requirements — Hours after Gov. Jay Inslee ordered state residents to cover their faces in public, a Republican sheriff in a rural swath of the state’s southwest suggested they should be doing no such thing. “Here’s what I say,” Lewis County Sheriff Robert Snaza told the crowd outside a church Tuesday, carrying a megaphone and sporting his green and beige uniform but no face mask. “Don’t be a sheep.”
► From the NY Times — Can’t you wear a mask for the sake of health care workers? (by Dr. Bradley A. Dreifuss) — Health care workers are exhausted. Staffing shortages and increasing fatigue are the new normal for emergency departments, intensive-care units and Covid-19 units, and across hospital wards. Staffing levels are being set with an emphasis on “productivity” as determined by financial calculations rather than clinical severity or the complex needs of our patients and the community we serve… I get angry when I see people refuse to wear a mask or physically distance from others or stay home when they could because it is inconvenient — or as a political statement. If you do not wear a mask and physically distance, you are putting yourself and others in harm’s way. You are putting us in harm’s way. Then you will expect us to risk our lives to save you… Your sacrifices of comfort and convenience make a difference — for your family, your neighbors, your health care workers and your access to quality health care in the future if you need it. I hope you don’t visit me or my team in the hospital anytime soon, but should you need to come see us, we want to be available and able to provide you the best possible care. To do that, we need you to be part of our team.
► LIVE from the Washington Post — Texas, Florida, Arizona pause reopening plans; new coronavirus cases hit single-day record in U.S. — The White House coronavirus task force will hold its first news briefing in nearly two months Friday.
► From the Washington Post — How Arizona ‘lost control of the epidemic’ — Physicians, public health experts, advocates and local officials say the crisis was predictable in Arizona, where local ordinances requiring masks were forbidden until Gov. Doug Ducey (R) reversed course last week. State leaders did not take the necessary precautions or model safe behavior, these observers maintain, even in the face of compelling evidence and repeated pleas from authoritative voices.
► From Politico — States plead for help while White House touts success in curbing virus
► From Roll Call — States need money. The Fed has it. Politics may be an obstacle.
► From TPM — Trump plays down devastation caused by COVID-19 as an ‘artificial problem’
THIS WASHINGTON
► From the News Tribune — Backlog of WA unemployment claims shrinks, but wait for payment might linger into late July for some — Employment Security Department Commissioner Suzi LeVine said the agency has set a target of resolving all claims by July 31.
► From the Seattle Times — State unemployment agency faces widening legal fight over delayed payments — The legal challenges come as ESD continues to struggle with two vast challenges — getting money to the unprecedented number of people left jobless by COVID-19 lockdowns while cleaning up an epic fraud scheme that targeted jobless benefits.
► From the Spokesman-Review — EWU trustees approve major budget cuts; details to be determined — Citing a grim revenue forecast, Eastern Washington University’s board of trustees on Thursday unanimously approved an operating budget for fiscal 2021 that’s estimated to be $22.5 million, or nearly 8%, smaller than the budget for the current fiscal year. The board also approved a reorganization of EWU’s various colleges and postponed a vote on whether to declare a “severe financial crisis,” a move that would invoke a clause in the faculty union’s contract and give President Mary Cullinan broad latitude to reduce spending across academic departments. The faculty senate earlier this week voted no confidence in Cullinan.
► From the Wenatchee World — Wenatchee Valley College offers voluntary furloughs
EDITOR’S NOTE — That’s right… “offers.”
► From the Columbian — State furloughs to close DSHS office on Mondays
► From the Bellingham Herald — Whatcom asking workers to take unpaid leave
► From KUOW — ‘I can’t breathe’: A 2nd-grader. A security guard. A Seattle school. — The Seattle School Board has voted to suspend the placement of police in schools, a move prompted by calls to address police brutality, especially against Black people and children. Security guards, however, far outnumber cops in Seattle schools… In March, Angel Graves, a student and family advocate at Stevens Elementary School on Capitol Hill heard a child scream, “Stop, stop, you’re hurting me! Let me go, you’re hurting me! I can’t breathe!” Graves said she rushed out and saw a school district security guard she didn’t recognize with his knee pushing against 7-year-old Renée’s back. The guard, David Raybern, is white. Renée is Black. “The guy was smashing her face against the wall, her body against the wall,” Graves said. The guard then grabbed the second-grader by the leg and pulled her across the floor, “then he got on top of her back again, and he had his knee in her back and trying to hold her arms,” Graves said.
► MUST-READ from Westside Seattle — A voice and a breath: Something we all need to fight for (by QFC employee and UFCW 21 member Sam Dancy) — Sometimes the change we bring comes back to us in unexpected and beautiful ways. Like when I came back to my store after getting out of the hospital and found all the get-well cards left by my customers. Customers I have gotten close to over the years and who knew I was ill. They were concerned and they wanted me to know that I was in their prayers. And because of a good health plan that my union brothers and sisters and I have fought for, and the caring professionals at the hospital, and the luck that we get sometimes, I am breathing today. My lungs are breathing healthy again, for the time being. But let’s remember George Floyd and that his lungs will never take another breath and we need to use our voices to wipe out the stain of systemic racism in our country’s policing, and broken systems of criminal justice, voting, health care, education, and employment. And one way to do that is to build bigger and better unions so that every worker in the country who wants a union at work can have a union at work.
EDITOR’S NOTE — Get more information about how you can join together with co-workers to have a voice at work and negotiate a fair return for your hard labor. Or go ahead and contact a union organizer today!
► From The Hill — House passes police reform bill that faces dead end in Senate — The House on Thursday passed sweeping criminal justice reforms aimed at curbing the use of excessive force by law enforcement. Their legislation — the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act— includes outright bans on chokeholds and no-knock warrants for all federal law enforcement agencies; creates a national registry of police abuses; and makes it easier to both prosecute and sue individual officers in cases of misconduct… Republican leaders maintain the Democrats’ bill goes too far.
TODAY at The Stand — With labor’s support, House passes sweeping police reform
► From the NY Times — Another nightmare video and the police on the defensive in Tucson — A city with a relatively progressive image and reform-minded police is grappling with a brutal death in police custody — and why it took so long to become public.
► From the Spokesman-Review — Spokane City Council, mayor issue separate police reform proposals
THAT WASHINGTON
► From the NY Times — Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strike down Affordable Care Act — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court late Thursday to overturn the Affordable Care Act — a move that, if successful, would bring a permanent end to the health insurance program popularly known as Obamacare and wipe out coverage for as many as 23 million Americans. The move, coming in the thick of an election season — as well as a pandemic that has devastated the economy and left millions of unemployed Americans without health coverage — is sure to reignite Washington’s bitter political debate over health care.
EDITOR’S NOTE — If Trump succeeds, it will also end protections for pre-existing conditions, coverage for adult children, subsidies for low-income families, and much more.
► From The Hill — Short term health plans leave consumers on the hook for massive medical costs, investigation finds — Short-term health plans, which don’t have to comply with ObamaCare’s coverage rules, routinely refuse to pay the costs of treating beneficiaries, but have seen a surge in enrollment as a result of Trump administration policies.
► From HuffPost — Supreme Court rulings on LGBTQ rights, DACA are really popular — For the first time in years, a majority of both Democrats and Republicans approve of the Supreme Court, finds poll conducted last week.
► But then… from Reuters — Supreme Court bolsters Trump’s power over rapid deportation — The court on Thursday enhanced the ability of Trump’s administration to quickly deport immigrants including asylum seekers with limited judicial review.
► From the Washington Post — Under siege from Trump, U.S. Postal Service finds surprising financial upside in pandemic — A tidal wave of packages is keeping the U.S. Postal Service afloat during the coronavirus recession, boosting the beleaguered agency’s finances to near pre-pandemic levels while legislators and the White House joust over its independence… If package volumes persist at 15 to 20 percent above normal levels in the coming months and the Postal Service does not do any more borrowing, it will delay its solvency crisis until October 2021. But if package volumes return to pre-pandemic levels, the agency is set to run out of cash by March.
► From The Hill — Voting by mail is now a necessity during COVID-19 (by Reps. Suzan DelBene and Earl Blumenauer) — At the end of the day, everyone who wants to vote should have that opportunity no matter what state they live in. The best option to accomplish this goal is to expand vote by mail. We need to ignore the inflamed rhetoric the president is using and act now.
► From the Portland Press-Herald — Strike enters day 5: Bath shipyard union wants federal mediator for help as communication stalls — The striking union at Bath Iron Works has requested help from a federal mediator as both the company and the union say they’re open to resuming negotiations, but neither has made the first move. Machinists Union Local S6, which represents 4,300 of the shipyard’s 6,700 employees, rejected the three-year contract proposal over disagreements on the company’s plans to continue hiring subcontractors and make changes to seniority privileges.
► From Payday Report — Replaced by prison labor, New Orleans garbage workers form union to fight back — Forced to work in one of the world’s worst hotbeds of COVID, New Orleans sanitation workers, employed through the temp firm People Ready and contracted by Metro Services, were only paid $10.25 an hour without benefits. On May 6, workers went on strike demanding $15 an hour, hazard pay, protective equipment, and health insurance. However, the workers were fired two days later. Instead of re-hiring them, Metro Services replaced them with prison labor. The workers have since filed NLRB charges alleging that they were illegally fired for striking.
► From Politico — Coronavirus opens door to company surveillance of workers — Privacy advocates warn of a slippery slope toward “normalizing” new levels of employer surveillance.
► From The Hill — Michigan GOP candidate’s daughter urges people not to vote for him in viral tweet — Republican state House candidate Robert Regan disagrees with his daughter on the existence of systemic racism and white privilege.
if you’re in michigan and 18+ pls for the love of god do not vote for my dad for state rep. tell everyone
— STEPH (@streeganz) June 23, 2020
► Forty-five years ago, the British band Ace featuring Paul Carrack had this hit asking “How Long” the band’s bassist had been secretly working on songs with another band. Today, The Entire Staff of The Stand asks “How Long” until Breonna Taylor’s killers are arrested?
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Nymphs and Thugs’s Matt Abbott talks to poet Louise Fazackerley
By Matt Abbott September 6, 2016
Written & Spoken Word. Leeds.
We’re about to launch your Council House Poetry collection in Leeds. Bird St. and Love Is a Battlefield are actually two separate albums. Was it a conscious decision to combine them under ‘CHP’, or did it happen organically?
It was the best sort of decision – artistic yet pragmatic. I wanted to do Love Is A Battlefield at the Edinburgh Fringe as a solo show but it was too short. I had a lot of other material in Bird St. and the poetry set the wider scene and about how I grew up and ended up in a relationship with a soldier and added some lighter stuff. A lot of people on the arts scene didn’t seem to get that. Initially Council House Poetry was a show combining the two collections and I guested other poets I loved, with similar backgrounds and scrubber things to say, such as Jackie Hagan, Matt Miller, and Thick Richard.
The LIAB album was the result of a BBC New Voices commission, and features musical backing from Lee Affen. How did you find the process of working with a musician? Do you prefer it to a capella recordings, or are they totally different?
I love working with talented musicians and I would have a version of my work with music every time if I could. Lee is amazing because he’s got a talent for underscoring the work like a film script and understanding the heart-breaking bits. My part in the musical collaboration was to say ‘I want some filthy beats here, please’ and Lee was like, ‘if you’re sure…’ The beauty of a capella spoken word is that you can perform anywhere, in any conditions, all impromptu and glorious. It’s where I started and what anyone can do in their bedroom or on the bus.
Being a Northern working class writer and performer can sometimes feel like a bit of an uphill struggle on the poetry and spoken word scene. Have you personally noticed a change since you started, in terms of bridging the gap with the establishment?
My relationship with ‘the establishment’ is not high on my list of priorities really. The New Voices commission and mentoring with the BBC has been very useful to me in terms of deferred prestige and I genuinely felt Ian McMillan and the team on The Verb wanted us to succeed.
Then at other times, outside of the North, you feel like a performing monkey or a bit of a freak show with your odd vowels. I’ve had audience members approach in Brighton and say they honestly couldn’t understand what I was saying but liked it anyway — ha. Mostly I like people and I focus more on how we are the same rather than worry about how class or accent might disadvantage me. I’ve not really found it a struggle but maybe that’s because I know what a struggle is, and that’s surviving on benefits, working in dead end jobs and there being no way out. I’ve done all that- you can hardly call poetry a struggle.
The title Council House Poetry immediately goes against the grain of what most people might expect from a poetry collection. Do you revel in changing peoples’ perceptions, or do you just write as you see things irrespective anybody else?
I just write how I see things. When I was doing the show in Edinburgh I sort of hoped other ‘council house’ artists and audiences might come and see my work and recognise some of their own experiences perhaps. Now I hope people buy the double album and smile wryly at similar things. Council House Poetry is a bit of a call out to people like me! It’s also a small two fingers to shows like ‘Benefits Britain’ which are divisive and inaccurate and make me sick at the power of the media.
It seems obvious to ask about influential poets, so I’d like to know if any writers from other art forms — lyricists, novelists, screenwriters — have inspired you? And if so, who?
I’d much rather answer that question. I’ve been inspired by the lyrics of The Smiths, Placebo, The Streets, Marylin Manson, and Lily Allen. I love the juxtaposition of dark thoughts and humour. That’s what I go for in my work a lot of the time. I love dystopian fiction and plan to write my own dystopian novel — it should be super-easy living in these times. The language of Clockwork Orange and The Handmaiden’s Tale are phenomenal. I’d also like to recommend Maggot Moon, which I read recently. My last two children’s poetry shows, The Woman Who Turned Into An Eyeball and Robot Aliens Stole My Ipig have been set in space/ almost sci-fi which I think is my teenage obsession with science fiction returning to haunt me. My second collection, Nightclubs in a Nothing Town is due to be released as a book by Burning Eye in 2017 which is, in part an exploration of ‘Lolita’ — the language in that is awesome.
Nymphs & Thugs is looking to showcase the best spoken word talent from around the UK, both with releases and also through digital channels. Are there any poets in particular which you’d like to recommend?
Obviously two of my label mates, Toria Garbutt and yourself, are very special talents! Tori is soulful and sexy and dark and funny, and you have something important to say in a very beautiful, cool way. Outside of Nymphs and Thugs I like Thick Richard for festivals, Mandy Coe for reading and Sophia Walker is a bit of a performance powerhouse.
Finally, I’ve heard a rumour that Jarvis Cocker likes to listen to Romantic Love Poem before he goes to sleep at night. If you were going to take him to a supermarket, which chain would it be and why?
I’d take him to Morrisons. They do individual lamb chops. As a single parent, I am a fan of this. (He’s not a veggie, is he?) I wrote that saucy little number after being in the same actual room as him at a BBC networking meeting in Landon. I had a little chat with Cerys. I have not done anything productive with this piece of networking other than write a stalker poem. This. This and Morrisons is my glamourous existence.
You can follow Louise at @louisethepoet and find out more about Nymphs and Thugs at nymphsandthugs.bandcamp.com. Council House Poetry launches on Friday 9th September at Eiger Studios, Leeds. Get your tickets here.
Filed under: Written & Spoken Word
Tagged with: BBC New Voices, Council House Party, Ian McMillan, Jarvis Cocker, Louise Fazackerley, Matt Abbott, Nymphs and Thugs, Robot Aliens Stole My Ipig, Romantic Love Poem, The Verb, The Woman Who Turned Into An Eyeball
Spoken Word Column: Don’t Touch Me, I’m a Real LIVEwire
By Matt Abbott
Matt Abbott’s Spoken World
Written & Spoken Word.
Spoken Word Column: Everything that the Daily Mail are terrified of
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English and Film Studies
UCAS Code: PQ33
Master of Arts (with Honours) - MA (Hons)
A levelInternational Baccalaureate Diploma ProgrammeScottish HigherUCAS Tariff
A-levelInternational Baccalaureate Diploma ProgrammeScottish HigherUCAS Tariff
A,A,A
To include English or English Literature. Subjects excluded: Citizenship Studies, Critical Thinking, Global Perspectives and Research (GPR) and General Studies.
To include minimum scores of 6,6,6 at Higher Level with HL6 in English.
A,A,A,A,B
To include A in English.
Over the last 600 years, the University of St Andrews has established a reputation as one of the world’s leading teaching centres. Today, we offer a flexible degree structure based on your choice of subject specialism, creating an environment which nurtures inquisitive minds and a culture of shared learning.
English studies (non-specific)
English studies (non-specific)Media studies
English studiesFilm studies
English is one of the most popular degree subjects and in 2015, more than 11,000 students graduated with English degrees - although this does represent a fall from recent years. As good communication is so important to modern business, you can find English graduates in all parts of the economy, although obviously, you can't expect to get a job in science or engineering (computing is a different matter - it's not common but good language skills can be useful in the computing industry). There's little difference in outcomes between English language and English literature degrees, so don't worry and choose the one that suits you best. More English grads took another postgraduate course when they finished their degree than grads from any other subject - this is an important option. Teacher training was a common choice of second degree, as was further study of English, and journalism courses. But many English graduates changed course and trained in law, marketing or other languages -or even subjects further afield such as computing, psychology and even nursing. This is a very flexible degree which gives you a lot of options
What's it like studying a degree in English language and literature
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The National Theatre Gala Celebrating The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The National Theatre celebrates the Broadway arrival of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time with a special performance and fundraising gala.
By Chloe Malle
Photo: Billy Farrell and Benjamin Lozovsky/BFAnyc.com
Ruth Wilson in Sophia Kah, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Anna Wintour in Michael Kors
“The second act is even more incredible!” he gushed. Daria Strokous placed her palms over her ears, “Don’t tell me! Don’t tell me!” Kors was flanked by Strokous and Constance Jablonski who both munched on M&M’s to tide them over until the post-show dinner.
“Look at these girls!” marveled Kors, “From Russia to France they live on M&M’s and they look like this!” The girls giggled demurely. “I love Broadway shows,” later admitted Jablonski, “I’ve seen all the classics.”
As the curtain fell, Sarah Greene dabbed tears from her eyes while next to her Kendall Jenner immediately resumed Instagram patrol. After the second act, which was, indeed, everything Kors promised, guests made their way out of the theater and onto coaches that transferred them to the club.
During cocktails Jenner explained that though she is not a regular theatergoer, this evening’s performance was “incredible, one of the best.” While nearby a paisley-print Michael Kors–clad Karlie Kloss chatted with Baz Luhrmann.
Midway through the first course the cast of the show arrived and received a standing ovation—the applause echoing throughout the Georgian-style double-height dining room. Wintour shepherded them to their tables like a tour director. “Brilliant, totally brilliant,” praised Neil Patrick Harris as one of the stars, Francesca Faridany, passed his table.
Chiwetel Ejiofor introduced the evening’s speakers announcing almost mystified, “I just had an extraordinary experience at the theater,” before ceding the podium to The Affair costars Ruth Wilson and Dominic West. “We want to celebrate and thank the wonderful cast who brought Christopher’s world to life in the most spectacular way,” began Wilson. “The National doesn’t just have a home in London, it has a home here as well and it seems to be building a legacy on Broadway as rich as its legacy in London.”
“I worked at the National about seven years ago,” confessed West, “and I do think it’s the greatest theater company in the world and it’s always great when the artistic director changes because you might get a job the next time around.” Before introducing new National Theatre director Rufus Norris, West begged, “Rufus, please can I have a job? Ruth would like one as well.”
“Theater elevates us, it lifts us out of our lives,” explained Norris, “It entertains, and inspires and educates and moves us in a way that somehow makes this world a little heroic.” And with that, he was given a hero’s applause.
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upfronts 2012 May 13, 2012
Dan Harmon Isn’t Signed On to Produce New Community Episodes
By Josef Adalian
Dan Harmon. Photo: Angela Weiss/Getty Images
NBC chief Bob Greenblatt has just confirmed what’s been an open secret in Hollywood: While Community has been renewed, lead producer Sony Pictures Television has not yet signed creator Dan Harmon to a new deal to exec produce the new batch of episodes. Harmon only signed a one-year deal when the show was renewed last spring, and insiders tell Vulture there haven’t been any intense talks just yet. Greenblatt said he’s aware Harmon isn’t signed, but said he doesn’t know details: “I’ve been so busy looking at our new shows and putting together the schedule, that hasn’t come to me yet,” he told Vulture. (Universal Television, overseen by Greenblatt, is a co-producer of Community). So what happens if there is no deal? “Shows lose showrunners all the time and do well,” Greenblatt said. “We have to figure out at makes sense. I don’t have a specific answer for that yet.” Gulp.
Meanwhile, Greenblatt also explained why Community has been shifted to Fridays. It turns out it’s all about Grimm. The latter drama has done decently on Fridays at 9, where it’s often the top show on Fridays among viewers under 50. Putting scripted shows in front of it, instead of reality, might boost ratings even more. Plus, “Both [Community and Whitney] have core audiences that seem to travel with them,” he said.
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Top 10 Things to do in Toulouse, France
Location: Toulouse
Occitanie, France
Region: Occitanie
Department: Haute-Garonne
Arrondissement: Toulouse
Canton: Toulouse-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11
Intercommunality: Toulouse Métropole
• Mayor (2014–2020): Jean-Luc Moudenc (LR)
Area: 118.3 km (45.7 sq mi)
• Urban (2010): 811.60 km (313.36 sq mi)
• Metro (2010): 5,381.49 km (2,077.80 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2015 ): 479,638
• Rank: 4th in France
• Density: 4,100/km (11,000/sq mi)
• Urban (Jan. 2013): 948,433
• Metro (Jan. 2013): 1,330,954
Demonym(s): English: Toulousian French: Toulousain(e)
Time zone: CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST): CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code: 31555 /
Website: http://www.toulouse.fr/
Top Attractions in Toulouse
1. Church of Les Jacobins
2. Basilique Saint-Sernin
3. Couvent des Jacobins
4. Fondation Bemberg
5. Hotel d'Assezat
6. Theatre du Capitole
7. Place du Capitole
8. Musee des Augustins
9. Museum of Natural History
10. Quai de la Daurade
Top Restaurants in Toulouse
1. Au Pois Gourmand
2. Le Saint Sauvage
3. Michel Sarran
4. Pizz'Artisanale
5. Au Petit Bonheur
6. La Cantine des Sales Gosses
7. Le Foxy
8. L'Ouverture Restaurant Musical
9. Le Grenier de Pepe
10. Pizza de L'ormeau
July 14, 2017 Alice Mieles
The southern France city of Toulouse is a study in contrasts. Visit the Academie des Jeux Floraux, the oldest literary society in the western world, as well as the Galerie du Chateau d'eau, the world's first photography museum. Stroll the Garonne, before visiting France's most beautiful pipe organ at the Saint-Sernin Basilica. Yet for all its medieval architecture, Toulouse is a modern city, home to the European aerospace industry, as well as bars and restaurants in bustling Place du Capitole.
Restaurants in Toulouse
69 rue Pargaminieres, 31000, Toulouse, France +33 5 61 22 21 92
Reviewed By EYCLee
A simple exterior that excites the moment you step in through the doors. A rectangular room built with beautiful red stained glass windows that threw beautiful light patterns cross the interior of the church. Interestingly the opposite windows were stained in blue. The church was occupied by troops in earlier wars and horses were kept on the ground level, troops on the first level and grain on the upper levels. The frescoes on the lower level were damaged by the horse excrement etc but soaring high above and protected by the floors above the beautiful palm like roof structure has ben preserved for us to admire.
Place Saint-Sernin, 31000, Toulouse, France +33 5 61 21 80 45
Reviewed By Baladeuz - Rabat, Morocco
I've been travelling to Toulouse for about 20 years and only decided to visit St Sernin weeks ago. It is not different from other religious places but its history is worth knowing. The neighborhood is very nice, and the narrow paved street that connects the big city hall square to St Sernin could make a good old movie background
Parvis des Jacobins, Toulouse, France +33 5 61 22 23 82
Reviewed By psychprofessor - Mississippi
After touring the church that surrounds the Jacobin cloister, we spent some quality time in the cloister. It's a sculptured garden surrounded by collonaded walkways. You can see some of the church's stained-glass windows from the outside, and the one with repeated fleur-de-lis is particularly attractive. Very pleasant experience.
9 Place D Assezat | Hôtel d'Assézat, 31000, Toulouse, France +33 5 61 12 06 89
Reviewed By Rob G
We enjoyed this gallery & spent around 90 minutes there. It's a very impressive building & is relatively small for a gallery, which made it a bit more enjoyable than some bigger galleries.
There's a good range of paintings & other exhibits from different periods. Certainly worth a visit & not bad value for 10 euro.
9 Place D Assezat, 31000, Toulouse, France +33 5 61 12 06 89
Reviewed By Fiona S - Melbourne, Australia
We didn't have time to go through the buildings, but we did stop and have a cup of tea on the balcony overlooking them. The area was beautiful and we will have to return and see inside another time.
Place du Capitole, 31000, Toulouse, France +33 5 61 22 31 31
Reviewed By Fionnuala22 - Belfast, United Kingdom
Some of the best Opera and Ballet in France is seen on stage in this wonderful 18th century Theatre. A visit for the rare Albert Opera "Tiefland" left us thrilled by the quality of singing and orchestra, and assurred direction of the piece. Bravo, we will certainly be returning. This is a great opera destination.
Reviewed By Krugg31 - Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Place du Capitole was the official centre of Roman Toulouse and still is today.
It features a number of cafes with Terrace Seating (at tourist prices) but also offers a spectacular view on the town hall / opera (the Capitole itself).
There’s a nice open air market on Wednesdays, with among others a good selection of second hand books (mostly in French).
Not easily accessible by car, though.
21 rue de Metz, 31000, Toulouse, France +33 5 61 22 21 82
Reviewed By Bernard B - Paris, France
Beautiful building and great collections of medieval and Renaissance art. I would rate it much higher were it not for the fact that the best galleries of paintings are closed for renovation leaving the visitor with only a roomful of Academic and local painters. Quite disappointing!
35 Allees Jules Guesde, 31000, Toulouse, France 20 00 33 5 62 27 45 45
Reviewed By Jane G - Reigate, United Kingdom
The way the french stuff all these animals any old how into quite small places is fascinating - and I find it a little disturbing all those glassy eyes! But anyway you can get up close and it is well worth the visit
Quai de la Daurade, 31000, Toulouse, France
Reviewed By frederic s - Altorf, France
Walking along the renovated Quai is a must especially in the eveing Sunset is marvellous from this part of the city. Toulouse the Pink City a true delight to enjoy the sweet of South of France. Painters & Caricaturists and various artists makes it always a special time
Historic Sites Church of Les Jacobins Sacred & Religious Sites Basilique Saint-Sernin Couvent des Jacobins Art Museums Fondation Bemberg Art Galleries Hotel d'Assezat Architectural Buildings Theaters Theatre du Capitole Points of Interest & Landmarks Place du Capitole Musee des Augustins Specialty Museums Museum of Natural History Historic Walking Areas Quai de la Daurade
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Roberto Firmino finds his scoring touch as Brazil run riot in qualifier
Roberto Firmino was one of Brazil’s stand-out performers and scored his first goals of the 2020/21 season as his side hit Bolivia for five in a World Cup qualifier.
Liverpool’s centre-forward hasn’t quite been firing on all cylinders domestically yet this season, so the sight of him netting a brace on home soil in Sao Paulo was a welcome one.
While Firmino started and starred, Fabinho was left as an unused substitute and, of course, Alisson is not in the squad after suffering an injury.
Marquinhos scored Brazil’s first before Firmino almost claimed an early assist with a typical piece of Bobby brilliance: a fierce press, successful tackle and smart pass to former team-mate Phil Coutinho, whose shot was tipped around the post.
But our No. 9 showed his predatory instincts soon after, surging into the six-yard box at the back post to slide home a low cross from Atletico Madrid’s Renan Lodi.
Minutes after the restart Firmino had his second: another lung-busting run saw him overtake around eight players between the halfway line and the penalty box, latching onto the influential Neymar’s through pass and finishing first-time between the ‘keeper’s legs.
That brings Firmino’s total haul at international level up to 15 goals in 45 caps, a one-in-three strike rate which is pretty impressive considering how much else he brings to teams and the fact he spent far too long as a late sub for Brazil in his earlier senior days.
Firmino played 71 minutes before being subbed off, though he almost got his hat-trick before doing so as another Coutinho cross sought him out – only for Jose Maria Carrasco to head into his own net as he tried to stop Bobby netting a third.
The unusual sight of Coutinho scoring a powerful header on the run wrapped up the scoring, with Brazil going top of the league right at the start of their long qualification process.
In South America it’s a 10-team league-style group, so 18 matches to play and the top four go to Qatar 2022, with fifth taking a play-off spot.
Brazil are next in action against Peru at 1am (BST) on 14 October, when Fabinho will also hope to get his chance to shine – before the Reds duo race back to Merseyside for the derby against Everton on the 17th.
As for the rest of the Reds’ international contingent, a couple could be in action on Saturday evening.
Xherdan Shaqiri is back in the Switzerland squad after a false positive and they face Spain in the Nations League at 7:45pm BST.
Naby Keita could line up for Guinea in a friendly against Cape Verde Islands, which kicks off at 3pm BST.
Far more representatives of the Reds could feature on Sunday, when the likes of England, Netherlands, Portugal, Netherlands, Scotland and Wales are all set to play.
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In Review: Mint Festival 2017
Joe Dawson | Reviews
After taking a break from the green fields last September, MiNT festival returned last weekend with a new location and another sell-out party. This year's event was held at Stockeld Park, which is nestled in woodland within 30 minutes of Leeds and according to sources, where adventure begins. The promotional video featured a maze, and although we weren’t expecting to have access, we were hoping to lose ourselves in the music. The festival site boasted twelve acres and a better entry system was in place to mediate the queuing time experienced at the previous event.
There were no queues when we approached the site and once inside we headed over to the System stage where Fuse duo Enzo Siragusa and Archie Hamilton were playing b2b. The pair combined tumbling rhythms and b-lines that are synonymous with the unique sound of the London based label.
The Edible tent, curated by Eats Everything, was our next destination and this was already bursting with party-goers ready for a taste of the action. Skream and Patrick Topping were the selectors on the decks and the pair are no strangers, recognised as two of today’s most prolific artists their high-octane set was full of energy. Their seductive sound had the arena charged with pulsating basslines accompanied with stunning stage production to create an incredible atmosphere. After some drinks we headed back over to the System arena where Seth Troxler was playing b2b with Craig Richards. We’ve experienced some memorable sets from the pair and they were soon in the groove again with a selection infused with ambient, hypnotic sounds that had us dancing to the beat.
Sasha was taking control of proceedings over on the Knee Deep In Sound stage, providing the crowd with unhurried buildups that transitioned into progressive big arena techno. During a breakdown someone managed to get stuck in the mud and as the tune dropped he vanished into the crowd cheering.
Going into the final hours of the day, we returned to dance amongst the shipping crates to another huge back to back, this time between the Chilean wizard Ricardo Villalobos and his Romanian prodigal son, Raresh. Performances from Ricardo at System including Cocoon in the Park and Mint Club have been well covered due to their sometimes controversial, but always captivating content, and here at Mint Festival, it was no different. The first hour and a half saw both individuals provide a whirlwind of bouncy, high energy tech house, with dips in and out of energy cutting break beats and Villalobos’ signature minimal flurries. We heard tracks like OCH’s ‘Love Unconditional’ and a very sweary, almost aggressive track featuring a repetition of the words “you’re the f***ing c**t” and similar paraphrases.
After this the tables seemed to turn to finish with a rather unconvincing thirty minutes of strangeness as what sounded like a looped half bar was skipped and changed at odd times (actually turning out to be Untitled - Snare Loop (CDJ Error Mix)), was brought in and out seemingly out of time, over one of the tech house stompers of the ilk we heard in the previous ninety minutes. We could almost understand what RV was trying to do, but trying to no avail this time round left a sour taste after an incredible first hour and a half. Raresh even seemed to disappear whilst this was happening and only appeared again right at the very end to blow kisses and wave goodbye. Although this particular Ricardo experiment may have not been a success, the performance from these two was still a great one.
The day was finished with a trip to the Red Bull Truck, which was on the way out of the festival, to catch Back to Basics regulars Gas House Kids closing the day. The energetic style that we heard earlier in the evening came back to us here as they played through tracks from Christian Burkhardt, Todd Terry and others, mixing heavy house sounds with techier edges. This continued to 11pm when the music came to an abrupt end and we headed into the night to continue the party.
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Trains from Worcester Foregate Street to Smethwick
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There are up to 26 trains per day that travel from Worcester Foregate Street to Smethwick.
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Catch the train from Worcester Foregate Street to Smethwick from just £8 one-way when you book in advance.
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An Ode, À La Mode: 1 Baker Savors America, Creating 50 Pies For 50 States
by Neda Ulaby
Stacey Mei Yan Fong has been baking her way across the United States: Clockwise from upper left, a baked Alaska pie, Utah's funeral potato pie, Nevada's all you can eat buffet pie, South Carolina's peach pie, Ohio's buckeye pie, Iowa's s'mores pie, Missou
Stacey Mei Yan Fong
Stacey Mei Yan Fong was born in Singapore, raised in Indonesia and Hong Kong, and moved to the U.S to attend college in Georgia.
Before the pandemic trapped Stacey Mei Yan Fong in her Brooklyn kitchen, the 32-year-old handbag designer was baking her way across America, one pie at a time.
Fong loves the United States, and she loves its signature dessert. Born in Singapore, raised in Indonesia and Hong Kong, Fong moved to the U.S. to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. She brings the singular passion of a pop-culture-obsessed immigrant to her project 50 Pies/ 50 States. In 2016, while applying for a green card, she started baking a pie to honor every state in the country, documenting the process on Instagram and her website.
50 Pies / 50 States feels like a virtual road trip, with elaborate pies that reflect Fong's commitment to capturing the complexity of each state's cuisine. That means no ordinary peach pie for Georgia. Instead, imagine a stewed sweet tea peach pie with brown sugar pecan crumble.
The obvious is anathema to Fong. As she points out, Texas may be best known for pecans and barbeque, but the baker found herself drawn to another signature product: its ruby red grapefruit.
"So I ended up making a grapefruit custard pie, with candied jalapenos on top," she explains. "Because, you know, you need a little spice when you're in Texas."
And an avocado pie would've been far too easy, at least for Fong, when she turned her attention to California, where avocado is the official state fruit. She focused instead on the savory delights of Napa Valley. "It ended up being a artichoke pie with an herbed crust and a red wine reduction on the top," Fong explains. A pause. "Which was very, very lovely."
As a result of 50 Pies /50 States, Fong has transformed into something of a pie-ologist. Now she works part-time making pies at a bakery and she's thrown herself into research. For South Dakota, inspired by Sean Sherman's award-winning cookbook, The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen, she created a blue corn crust filled with a wild rice and sunflower milk pudding with a bergamot berry compote. "And then a pumpkin seed crunch on top," she adds, with pride.
Let it be noted that Fong made her own sunflower milk from scratch. She admits she is incapable of keeping things simple. For an otherwise straightforward Florida key lime pie, Fong insisted on homemade graham crackers for the crust. "Let me tell you, just buy graham crackers," she says wryly. "Just buy them. Don't make them at home."
The passion and drive with which Fong approached 50 Pies / 50 States may reflect, she thinks, an immigrant's uniquely unjaded approach. "The payoff and the journey to the end is always so, so worth it," she enthuses.
But Fong's put her project temporarily on hiatus, with only six more pies to go. She wants to travel to those states to enjoy the experience of eating pie there in person safely, in diners and around kitchen tables. That's an American experience, she says, well worth waiting for.
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BB gun sighting sends UCF dorm into lockdown
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The sighting of what turned out to be a BB gun led to an hourslong lockdown at the University of Central Florida.
The university sent a shelter-in-place alert around 11:30 p.m. Friday, advising those near the Tower 1 dormitory to seek shelter away from doors and windows.
Campus police tweeted nearly 50 minutes later that there hadn’t been a shooting, but authorities were trying to contact someone in the dorm who appeared to have a firearm in his waistband.
This is a picture of the BB gun that led to the report at Tower 1.
We're grateful for the Knight who saw something and said something, and we're happy the situation was peacefully resolved. pic.twitter.com/avJBJYFTKD
— UCF Police Dept. (@UCFPolice) July 27, 2019
At 1:45 a.m., police issued an all-clear, saying the individual had a BB gun, not a firearm. Police apologized for causing “undue panic and stress” with the initial alert, which UCF Police Chief Carl Metzger says was more appropriate for a tornado warning.
A message from @UCFChiefMetzger about tonight’s incident at Tower 1.
A reminder that no call is too small for UCFPD to care about. If you see something, say something. pic.twitter.com/8AgHrZlhit
Metzger says the student will face student conduct sanctions, but won’t be criminally charged.
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Home>Sports>Boston Clears Opening Hurdle in Bid for 2024 Olympics
Boston Clears Opening Hurdle in Bid for 2024 Olympics
Washington Informer Send an email January 9, 2015
In this Jan. 6, 2012 file photo, the Boston city skyline is illuminated at dusk as it reflects off the waters of Boston Harbor. The U.S. Olympic Committee picked Boston on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015, as its bid city for the 2024 Summer Games. The city will be presented to the International Olympic Committee for a vote in 2017. Rome also is in the bidding, along with Hamburg or Berlin, Germany. France and Hungary also are considering bids. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
As Boston Mayor Martin Walsh looks on, right, USOC Chairman of the Board Larry Probst speaks during a news conference in Boston Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 after Boston was picked by the USOC as its bid city for the 2024 Olympic Summer Games. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
JIMMY GOLEN, AP Sports Writer
BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s bid for the 2024 Summer Games won over the national governing body with a cost-effective and athlete-friendly proposal that would help reverse the trend toward ever-more expensive Olympics.
One day after the U.S. Olympic Committee selected Boston as the American nominee over San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, local bid organizers said Friday they will draw on the more than 100 colleges in the area to host events and house athletes and media — and save millions or billions in construction costs.
“There is no other state or city in America that has that,” bid chairman John Fish said Friday in a news conference attended by USOC executives, former athletes and local elected officials. “All those universities have a majority of those facilities that we need, and if they don’t they are planning for the future.”
Boston’s victory in the first stage means its bid will be presented in September to the IOC, which will vote on the host city in 2017. Rome has already jumped in, and France, Germany, Hungary and South Africa are also expected to submit bids.
USOC chairman Larry Probst said Boston’s bid was in harmony with the recent IOC reforms, called Olympic Agenda 2020, designed to reduce the cost of bidding for and hosting the games. The measures recommend maximum use of existing and temporary facilities.
“We’re looking at the future of the Olympic movement,” Anita DeFrantz, a USOC board member and former Olympic rower, said Friday. “We’re looking at cities that could win.”
The bid has already attracted opposition from a group called No Boston Olympics, which complains that the process was conducted in secret and hosting the games will divert resources from more important civic needs like education and infrastructure.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh pledged to keep his priorities straight and said Olympic planning would not take over his term. He announced at the news conference the first nine community meetings to discuss plans with residents.
“I promise that this will be the most open and transparent and inclusive process in Olympic history,” he said. “I promise that I will not leave Boston with a huge price tag.”
Gov. Charlie Baker, returning to the convention center hours after his inaugural ball there, also insisted that the public will have its say.
“This is the start of the race. This is where it begins,” he said. “There will be significant opportunity for all of us to engage in a very robust debate.”
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What Can You See? Animals In the Night
Use the Star Light to Find Hidden Animals!
Author: Ruth Austin
Illustrated by: Iris Deppe
Format: Novelty book, 32 Pages
Publisher: becker&mayer! kids
A lot happens in the natural world while you sleep! What Can You See? Animals in the Night is your guide to discovering what you miss in nature nightly. The included UV light reveals the nighttime creatures.
Moonlight reflecting off the surface of a pond. Fireflies twinkling in the bushes. Owls gliding through the air. Welcome to the world of What Can You See? Animals in the Night. In this exciting new animal book for kids, you will explore the lives of these nocturnal creatures in stunning, fully illustrated detail.
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Ruth Austin got her start in the UK before deciding to exchange rainy London skies for, erm, rainy Seattle skies. Her debut picture book, So Many Cuddles, won a Moonbeam gold medal and was selected as a 2017 Foreword Indies finalist. She writes gift books for grown-ups, too, and the odd stationery product, but children’s books remain her true love. Ruth spends her days having fun with words (hers, yours, anyone’s) and loves nothing more than other people’s crazy new ideas.
Iris Deppe was born and raised in the Caribbean and lived in the Netherlands for several years while she studied Illustration at HKU University of the Arts. Currently, she resides in Copenhagen, Denmark. Iris enjoys working on many different projects, from drawings, collages, and album covers to children’s book illustrations and films. She finds inspiration in absurd situations, nature, and '60s & '70s music, and she has a big love for primary colours and the sea.
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The Last of Us Part 2: How to use Superhero Cards
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Today we made for you a The Last of Us Part 2 guide where we focus on explaining how to use the superhero cards
Our work in this game is specifically focused on exploring and this means being as careful as possible since the panorama does not look good due to the enemies that are here, but we are not only talking about enemies, because there are also positive aspects, there are artifacts, weapons, ammunition, that is to say a quite particular mix but that makes this game interesting for everyone.
Is superhero cards useful in The Last Of Us Part 2?
The truth is that they do not have any utility here but they are present for some reason, although it may not be a super good one, since they are added to collectibles and we can see them rather as a reward, because although they do not have much utility, we fight to get them. good is that they are scattered everywhere.
How to use superhero cards in The Last Of Us Part 2?
As these are not very difficult to obtain and are scattered everywhere, among the rubble, and although we may consider that they are useless, it is possible that they have a value, since we will have to take them by pressing Triangle and incorporate them into our collection, since they accumulate a A certain amount allows us to get a trophy, only that, because maybe it will not be much but at least it is something even when it has no value, there are probably those who do not take them but I am particularly interested and I choose to invest some time in them.
This is all we know about How to use superhero cards, since they are simply presented as useless to some but for some reason The Last of Us Part 2 has decided to incorporate them.
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Business News » India News
Escorts unveils electric tractor, expands global portfolio
Updated: Wed, Sep 06, 2017
Farm equipment maker Escorts today unveiled a range of tractors, including an electric concept, for both export and domestic markets.
The company has launched tractors ranging between 22 HP to 90 HP under Farmtrac and Powertrac brands that are compliant with emission norms of various markets including Europe and the US.
The new range would cater to customers in various markets including the US, Europe, Latin America, Africa and ASEAN countries apart from new generation farmers in India.
"Escorts is on a transformational journey of developing products for global markets and offering products of quality with specifications that would be competitive and attractive to buyers," Escorts Ltd Chairman Rajan Nanda said in a statement.
The company is spreading its operations to reach countries across the globe, he added.
Escorts Managing Director Nikhil Nanda said the new products would create a new user experience in comfort and precision farming globally.
"Escorts is extremely proud to launch electric tractor concept displaying our frugal engineering to offer India's best to the world," he added.
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Tag Archives: New Mexico
Building Social Spaces, Environment & Justice, Gardens, Intersections
Enrique Salmón: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity and Resilience
I came to Enrique Salmón’s Eating the Landscape through The Colors of Nature, this covers some of the same territory, but I learned even more about the Colorado Plateau that we had just been driving through. The landscapes of my baby-self, and so many of my dad’s stories. But no one in my family ever had anything as awesome as this:
I recall the many plant-related lessons I learned in my grandma’s herb house. this latticed structure was filled with hanging dried and living plants as well as pungent and savory smells from the many herbs hanging from the ceiling. The roof was no longer visible through the layers of vines that draped over its eaves to the ground. (3)
I love this connection between food and landscape, so obvious and yet I had not quite seen it in this way before.
…because so much of the food we are discussing in this book comes directly from the land, food landscapes remain intact when old recipes are regenerated. The food itself, and the landscapes from which it emerges, remembers how it should be cooked. This can happen because the food itself activates in us an encoded memory that reminds us how to grow, collect and prepare the food. (9)
Thinking about what our food teaches us about our landscape…well. I have learned a lot through my short time on smallholdings, through growing up in the desert, but I don’t know enough.
An essential lesson for us, as we continue on our current self-destructive path of monocropping, genetically modifying our food using artificial irrigation, and overfertilizing, will be to relearn how to cook our landscapes: the manner in which we sustainably steward our food crops, relying on a process that began in our home kitchens. (10)
It is not just loss of knowledge through city living or supermarkets, I think of Vandana Shiva writing about just how much the proponents of monocropping have actively destroyed. Yet there is so much happening that gives me hope. Like Emigdio Ballon, come from the highlands of Bolivia to Tesuque Pueblo of New Mexico. Working now with the Pueblo to grow fruit trees and beans, and maintaining a seed bank of heirloom crops.
I think too of settler and scientist arrogance, the kind that has driven unsustainable agricultural practices through the fields and lives of small farmers on the land for generations. Not seeing the complex systems these farmers were often embedded within:
For the longest time, the conservation and environmental movement had assumed that the human-environment equation would always result negatively for the land…until recently, researchers had not considered the possibility that humans could actually enhance their landscapes; that human communities might actually play a role in enhancing diversity; or that humans could be a keystone species of some ecological systems. (75)
In southern Arizona the Hohokam are everywhere, I remember hearing stories, imagining their presence across the land. There is a chapter on the Sonora desert and this:
The word Hohokam from the Pima language — always translated as ‘”those who have gone,” or “those who have vanished.” Archaeologist Emil Haury, who has studied the Hohokam, provided a more literal translation of “all used up.” (82)
Up near Phoenix, along the salt river, they built extensive irrigation systems. Left them. Salmón writes that this is possibly because they became salinized, silted up. Instead of upping the ante, the people returned to a simpler agricultural system, one that was more beneficial to their landscape and more sustainable over the years.
Damn. I can’t imagine that conversation, our current reality is worlds removed from that kind of thinking. Perhaps this is a great part of the problem. One other thing I never have experienced, but so want to:
The diversity of the Sonora Desert seems more obvious the farther one travels through its namesake Mexican state. (128)
There are lots of stories here of the Colorado plateau, the fields in canyons and along washes hidden from sight — oh, I wished so much we caught just a glimpse. He writes of Peabody Coal’s draining of the aquifer and the drying up of springs. An enterprise bringing death to extract energy, destroying place to facilitate movement. A mindset alien to the people here, and to me. I loved the description of a concept from Juan Estevan Arellano:
Hispano querencia: that which affords his people a sense of place. Querencia is also simply the love for the land and place. (118)
Salmón continues:
To Hispanos, querencia is a blend of mental spaces not only involving bioregionalism but also including emotional, spiritual, cultural and ecological health. When people think of land the concept is enmeshed with notions of cultural memory. These and other mental spaces merge into a multidimensional blended space… (118)
This is the space of resilience, of community, of words. The thing evoked so powerfully in Jimmy Santiago Baca’s poetry describing these same places. It is strange finding the language of development I am so familiar with rewritten, recoded in this way:
Story is at the core of community resilience. It comprises the matter, substance, and adhesive of human capital. Stories communicate our values through the language of our heart and our emotions. Stories are what we feel. In northern New Mexico, enough of the viable land remains in which the story of querencia can be housed. (121)
More ways to reframe development debates, from The Declaration of Seed Sovereignty that came out of the Traditional Agriculture Conference held March 10-11, 2006 in Alcalde, New Mexico:
Sustainable stewardship and cultural resilience are neither decisions nor rights. Nowhere in the Declaration of Seed Sovereignty does the notion or term of rights arise. Instead, the associations conferred to include in their “living document” concepts of relationships, generational memory, embodied practices, spirituality, caring, respect, traditions, and celebration when declaring their revival and survival of their way of life. Together, these concepts reflect identity connected to responsibility towards one’s place in a community within a landscape. (150)
Everything is relational and connected.
Salmón, Enrique (2012) Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity and Resilience. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
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Building Social Spaces, Environment & Justice, Everyday, Housing
The meaning of home: Jimmy Santiago Baca’s Martín
More poetry from Jimmy Santiago Baca, poetry of place and home. Poetry of labour. What it means to build or rebuild a house that will hold you, that will hold meaning. From Martín:
I gutted the plaster frame house,
nailed, puttied, roofed, plumbed,
poured cement, sheet-rocked, tiled, carpeted,
tore-out, re-set,
piled, burned, cleaned, cemented, installed,
washed and painted,
trimmed, pruned, shoveled, raked,
sawed, hammered, measured, stuccoed,
until,
calloused handed, muscle-firmed, sleek hard bodied,
our small house rose
from a charred, faded gravemarker,
a weather-rotted roost
for junkies and vagrants,
wind, rain, and sun splintered
jagged stories of storms on,
I corrected,
re-wrote upon
this plaster wood tablet,
our own version of love, family and power. (47)
But It burns down, this home. They need someplace to stay. Temporary places that don’t fit. These dislocations I share, so rarely found in books.
From Meditations on the South Valley
Cruising back from 7-11
esta mañana
In my 56’ Chevy truckita,
beat up and rankled
farm truck,
clanking between rows
Of shiny new cars–
“Hey fella! Trees need pruning
and the grass needs trimming!”
A man yelled down to me
from his 3rd-story balcony.
“Sorry, I’m not the gardener,”
I yelled up to him.
Funny how in the Valley
an old truck symbolizes prestige
and in the Heights, poverty.
Worth is determined in the Valley
by age and durability,
and in the Heights, by newness
and impression.
In the Valley,
the atmosphere is soft and worn,
things are passed down.
In the heights,
the air is blistered with glaze
of new cars and new homes.
How many days of my life
I have spent fixing up
rusty broken things,
charging up old batteries,
charging pieces of old batteries,
wiring pieces of odds and ends together!
Ah, those lovely bricks
and sticks I found in the fields
and took home with me
to make flower boxes!
the old cars I’ve worked on
endlessly giving them tune-ups,
changing tires, tracing
electrical shorts,
cursing when I’ve been stranded
between Laguna pueblo and Burque.
It’s the process of making-do,
of the life I’ve lived between
breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life
worth living.
I could not bear a life
with everything perfect. (59-60)
Read a book sometimes, and someone captures just what you been missing in these places you been living.
in the Valley at my house
y parcelita de tierra,
I added, raised, knocked down,
until over months and years,
the place in which I lived
had my own character.
I could look at it and see
This apartment
reflects a faceless person,
with no future,
no past,
just an emptiness. (61)
I remember the house my dad built, I want to build a poem too — and I am happy these words have been breathed into the world. A different kind of home.
After that, the interior of the house
emanating blue dawn light,
full of gusto in the fresh-timber smelling house,
proud of the 3 bedrooms, hallway, livingroom & kitchen,
my finest poem I thought,
that sheltered me from the rain and wind,
as we worked our way
into doors, staining kickboards, putting doorknobs in,
(fine-tuning the poem),
measuring cabinets, leveling the floors,
shimmying here & there,
spitting & stomping, throwing our tools down in disgust
and huffs of temper,
yelling into the cold mornings
at each other, trying to go on and finish
in six weeks. (97-98)
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Archaeology, History, Intersections
Quarai and Abó, dust and rain
September 12, 2016 Andrea Gibbons Leave a comment
After the Turquoise Trail, after Los Cerrillos and Madrid, we headed south to Quarai, south through Moriarty (!) and McIntosh, Estancia to Mountainair.
We were driving through the countryside poet Jimmy Santiago Baca writes about so compellingly. I read Martín & Meditations on the South Valley, look how time and evil rewrites the nature of towns — driving now we would only know Estancia as home to yet another prison, networked into the US carceral nation. This is how Baca knows it from Martín:
The religious voice of blind Estela Gomez
blackened the air one day.
“92 years mijito. ¿Que pasó? There were no more
beans to pick, no crops to load on trains.
Pinos Wells dried up, como mis manos.
Everyone moved away to work. I went to Estancia,
con mi hijo Reynaldo.
Gabachos de Tejas, we worked for them. Loading
alfalfa, picking cotton for fifty cents a row. (11)
Here too, are the ruins of Quarai. Before looking for the hotel we stopped at the ruins, hoping for a sunset peak. It was all closed off, sadly, but the town’s church was beautiful:
the countryside golden:
We came back in the morning, the church is mostly what is visible:
There was once a great pueblo here too, up to three stories. It sat along the trails by which salt was once traded, another place of encounter (Three such church and pueblo complexes form the Salinas Pueblo Missions Natinal Monument — Quarai, Abó, and Gran Quivira, which we weren’t able to see).
Here is it’s reconstruction from about 1300 — fascinating that it seems to have been left to the ancestors for many years just around this time, and reoccupied just before the arrival of the Spanish:
Like Cicúye / Pecos, this was a place of coexistence for a very long time after the Spanish Entrada. This is a reconstruction of the church.
It is huge, making us feel small.
Called El Misión Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Cuarac, it was completed around 1629, and for a while served as a seat of the Inquisition. That gives me chills, though the park service information boards focus on the inquisitions struggles with the army more than its actions surrounding native beliefs and religions.
Like Cicúye, there are kivas here too amidst the Christian buildings. Like this one, square. That sits in my heart somehow. Change, contrariness built into stone and ceremony.
The pueblo ruins remain at peace beneath great mounds, covered with melons.
Jimmy Baca writes of how this place continues to live.
Dawn in the Manzano mountains.
Pine and piñón from chimneys
smoke the curving road
with resinous mist.
My black feathered heart
effortlessly glides
in the clear blue sky
above the pueblos
de Manzano, Tajique, Willard and Estancia.
At the foothills
my grandmother herded sheep
and my grandfather planted corn y chile.
I turn my motorycle off
next to QUARAI RUINS
and silence drops
into the canyon
sounding like an ancient song of sadness,
like a distant boulder
echoing into the blue sky and stubble grass
I step into the open rock pit
hollowed in the earth
with flat rock door facing east,
pinch red clay and chew
my teeth black with earth prayer,
then speak with QUARAI–
O QUARAI! Shape
the grit and sediment I am,
mineral de Nuevo Mejico. (38-39)
I am not sure how much work had been done here when Baca arrived, it it was closer to what we could see, or this view of the church in 1935.
Quarai was abandoned in the 1670s and fell to ruin. Above, the mission church before excavation and stabilization, c. 1935
Courtesy of the National Park Service
We traveled down Highway 60.
Abó is very similar, but people still live just to one side, and more recent ruins of settlement make this place feel a bit less like a ‘monument’. This is nice. They believe that while Quarai was of the Southern Tewa or Tiguex people, this was the place of the Tompiro. My favourite picture:
It is more lush here:
Another massive church here:
Again a kiva.
The pueblo hidden beneath mounds of earth. Bordered by flowers.
From here we drove on, drove on home
A final poem from Baca’s Meditations on the South Valley:
Send me news Rafa
of the pack dogs sleeping
in wrecked cars in empty yards,
or los veteranos
dreaming in their whiskey bottles
on porches
of the past, full of glory and fear.
The black smell of wet earth
seeps into old leaning adobes,
and prowls like a black panther through open windows.
Austere-faced hombres
hoeing their jardines
de chile y maíz in the morning,
crush beer cans and stuff them in gunny sacks
and pedal on rusty bicycles
in the afternoon to the recycling scale.
and at Coco’s chante
at dusk tecatos se juntan,
la cocina jammed like the stock exchange lobby,
as los vatos raise their fingers
indicating cuánto quiren.
There is much more I miss Rafa,
so send me news. (57)
We ate lunch in Truth or Consequences. Were too tired to stop in Hatch. We hit rain and a huge dust storm just outside of Deming. Pulled to one side. They are terrifying if you live here, have grown up with the news of 10 (20 to 30 to 100)-car pile-ups along these freeways. Fatalities. People drive like where they got to go and the time they got to get there are more important than life.
Finally then…good to be home.
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Environment & Justice, Travel
Madrid, New Mexico: Coal Mining and Company Town
We drove from Los Cerrillos, down Highway 14 it’s only a few short miles to Madrid, New Mexico. But a world away.
A company town, an old coal mining town. The coal trail isn’t as picturesque sounding as turquoise I suppose. Madrid, New Mexico is full of tiny wooden shacks — the picture that brought us here:
From The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: the Desert States
So Madrid as it is now was completely unexpected.
I have no current pictures of them because this town was full up, no parking, no where to stop until we had almost driven the length of it. That quintessentially western kind of hippie counter culture, biker, tourist boom town. Either brightly painted or left/made to look properly old and weathered and ghost towny. More pronounced than Bisbee because it is nowhere near as substantial — and this town had all but died. Maybe it’s better to compare it to Tombstone, the bones of an old town twisted and touristed and made subject to a variety of interpretations of authenticity. I’m not saying it doesn’t succeed in many ways, though Los Cerrillos is more my kind of place. With trips down here for company and live music.
We spent most of our time here with its ghosts, alone for the most part in the museum backing off the Mine Shaft Tavern. So-called, because it has this:
It is, however, also the original Red Pony in Longmire, which made my mother very happy. Other things filmed here (and a longer list for the Turquoise Trail as a whole — somewhere along here we passed the ‘private movie ranch’): Easy Rider (1969), The McMasters (1970), Flap Aka: The Last Warrior (1970), The Cheyenne Social Club (1970), Greasers Palace (1972), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Convoy (1978)… I’ll stop there, with this hilarious poster:
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad once came through here, and from the tavern you go into what was once the engine repair room and is now a theatre, with an old engine presiding. It stares in at you through the faded velvet curtains.
We walked through, out into the yard full of old equipment towards a larger shed:
Into wide open spaces crammed full of things, and more things. Some displays. I bring you Edison himself:
He had attempted a gold extraction project in the mountains, but that failed. He did build a successful electric power plant at Madrid, though, to power both his failed gold experiment and the town. Every town had electricity by the 1920s, before Santa Fe, and they boasted the first lighted baseball park in the West.
The Madrid Miners, there is some very cool stuff on the baseball team.
Some amazing old machines.
Pictures of the old mine and equipment:
This was a company town. From the town’s merchant’s association website, a kind of amalgam of beneficent yet autocratic rule, possibly a lurking hidden fear of strikes and unrest, a mandatory and worker-funded town pride:
in 1919 Oscar Joseph Huber was hired by Mr. Kaseman, of the Albuquerque and Cerrillos Coal Company, as full time superintendent of mines. Under his capable leadership Madrid became a model for other mining towns to follow. Elementary and High Schools, a fully equipped hospital, a Company Store and an Employee’s Club were some of the benefits of line in Madrid during the 20’s and 30’s. Believing that idleness was an enemy to a stable community, Mr. Huber formed the Employee’s Club, requiring miners to donate from .50 to $1.00 per month for community causes. They were also required to participate in town events such as the Fourth of July celebration and the now famous Christmas Light Display.
In the Museum they describe Madrid as the “Town of Lights” & “Toyland”, as every Christmas the ballpark was converted, a miniature train and Children’s Ferris Wheel erected.
Beginning in the early 1920’s, Madrid miners lit up the winter sky with 150,000 Christmas lights powered by 500,000 kilowatt hours of electricity. The power was provided by the company’s own coal fed generators. The displays were the product of both Madrid and Northern New Mexico artisans and laborers. Madrid’s Christmas celebrations ended with W.W.II and the mines closed in the 1950’s.
It is hard to imagine planes diverting their flights to allow passengers to marvel at the light show from above, and promotion of Madrid’s celebrations in LA, Miami, Chicago.
The museum display states:
The last coal sublease, Johnny Ochoa & John Taber’s one care “wagon mine,” was abandoned in 1961.
A view of the Ferris Wheel now from on board the old engine:
And the engine itself — so cool to see after riding the steam train from Chama…The engine:
The controls (!):
The blowdown lever — this expels water, creating the great spout from the side of the train and subsequent rainbows that we saw in the trip from Chama to Antonito.
There were awesome engines of another kind:
It was good to find it so vibrant now, though this isn’t entirely my kind of scene. Way too many people. And I keep bumping into hard questions raised by sentences like this:
In the early 1970’s Joe Huber (Oscar’s son), then owner of the entire town site, rented a few of the miner’s cabins to rugged individuals, artists and craftsmen eager to make a home in the mountains of New Mexico.
Of course, the Albuquerque and Cerrillos Coal Company had put the whole town up for sale in 1954. I hate the idea of one company, one person owning a town. But I am glad this is no longer true:
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Archaeology, History
From Cicúye to Pecos Ruins — Coronado’s expedition and Spanish settlement
I read The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, by Pedro de Castañeda de Nájera several years ago — a bilingual version, which I love because the Spanish is old and Spain’s Spanish not mine, though the quotes here are from the online version you can find here, translated in 1904. As we drove to what are now called Pecos ruins from Chama, I thought I remembered this place mentioned — it was a curious text, tragic in what it meant and yet leaving you with little sense of tragedy, perhaps because it was so strangely matter of fact, even boring. But what I remember was that the Spanish were welcomed in village after village, and in village after village they killed and stole and demanded gold and anything else they wanted. Women seem to have been included in this.
Cicúye, now known as Pecos ruins, was no different. Upon their arrival:
Five days from here he came to Cicúye, a very strong village four stories high. The people came out from the village with signs of joy to welcome Hernando de Alvarado and their captain, and brought them into the town with drums and pipes something like flutes, of which they have a great many. They made many presents of cloth and turquoises, of which there are quantities in that region. The Spaniards enjoyed themselves here for several days … (40)
This is what this thriving, welcoming village looks like now. Great mounds with a few of the walls and structured excavated.
After such a welcome…well, this is what greed and conquest look like.
When Hernando de Alvarado reached Tiguex, on his way back from Cicúye, he found Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas there, and so there was no need for him to go farther. As it was necessary that the natives should give the Spaniards lodging places, the people in one village had to abandon it and go to others belonging to their friends, and they took with them nothing but themselves and the clothes they had on. (41)
It is clear who the barbarians are here, demanding lodging. And then the manufactured incident, the kidnapping…and yet they still manage to see themselves as victims through the whole of the narrative.
The general sent Hernando de Alvarado back to Cicúye to demand some gold bracelets which this Tm’k said they had taken from him at the time they captured him. Alvarado went, and was received as a friend at the village, and when he demanded the bracelets they said they knew nothing at all about them, saying the Turk was deceiving him and was lying. Captain Alvarado, seeing that there were no other means, got the Captain Whiskers and the governor to come to his tent, and when they had come he put them in chains. The villagers prepared to fight, and let fly their arrows, denouncing Hernando de Alvarado, and saying that he was a man who had no respect for peace and friendship. Hernando de Alvarado started back to Tiguex, where the general kept them prisoners more than six months. This began the want of confidence in the word of the Spaniards whenever there was talk of peace from this time on, as will be seen by what happened afterward. (45)
The Spanish were demanding gold, to know where these fabled cities of gold they sought could be found. The demanded at gunpoint, through the holding of hostages, and believed everyone lied to them when they denied knowledge of such a place. A place that did not in fact exist. So this little stratagem of the people of Cicúye seems pretty brilliant.
The general followed his guides until he reached Quivira, which took forty-eight days’ marching, on account of the great detour they had made toward Florida. He was received peacefully on account of the guides whom he had. They asked the Turk why he had lied and had guided them so far out of their way. He said that his country was in that direction and that, besides this, the people at Cicúye had asked him to lead them off on to the plains and lose them, so that the horses would die when their provisions gave out, and they would be so weak if they ever returned that they would be killed without any trouble, and thus they could take revenge for what had been done to them. This was the reason why he had led them astray…They garroted him… (74-75)
Cicúye was once a great center of trade, sitting here close to Glorieta Creek and the the Pecos River, commanding great visibility across the valley and sitting near Glorieta Pass, it was where the Indians of the plains, Apaches and Comanche came to trade with the Pueblo Indians, they would set up their camps outside the walls of the pueblo that rose three to four stories. This was a place of cultural encounter and exchange, a place of openness. A map of the pueblo, what has been excavated so far:
What is here now represents the curious melding of cultures that happened in the centuries after Coronado. Because of course the Spanish would not leave such a strategic village to their traditions and ways of life. By 1598 colonization had begun. They started to build this:
The museum details a complex system of both tribute and forced labour demanded from residents of Pecos Pueblo, tensions between priests and landowners. The great pueblo uprising of 1680 defeated the Spanish — I am looking forward to learning more about this. They were forced from the countryside for over a decade. Clearly their reign wasn’t quite as benevolent as it feels from National Park Service descriptions.
But the Spanish returned. Rebuilt. Bigger.
I love, though, that a kiva exists even here, in the Spanish section of this settlement. It is unknown when or how this was built, if it was constructed as part of the church’s cooptation of native tradition or as resistance — perhaps there is more in the books written from the pueblo perspective.
And so the Spanish continued there. Where there was once usually plenty of grain to trade with Apaches and others, there was no longer enough after the encomendero and their own survival — this is noted in the museum but its consequences not followed through. The Spanish presence, and the violence and disease and crushing taxes they brought with them, had surely destabilised everything. When there was no corn to buy, there was probably little left to do but raid or starve for traditionally nomadic tribes.
I don’t know, after this did they in fact build a peaceful community anew together with the Spanish? Was it one of equality and true faith? Was it just the raids and maybe some weather that forced people out? I am perhaps willing to believe this, people grow together sometimes, but not from just one source. Given the ongoing prejudice against dark skin, indigenous language and tradition, against anything indio, I am doubtful.
By 1838, the last residents of Pecos left the pueblo to the spirits of their ancestors, a living memory of the place that they made and their connection to the land there. They moved to Jemez Pueblo, where they continue to keep their traditions.
The death of a community, and it was not the only one. But another post for more on Quarai and Abó.
It remains, in spite of all of this white greed and empire building, in spite of the civil war battle of Glorieta Pass and proximity to the Santa Fe Trail a peaceful place, a good place. And it is still full of life.
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Archaeology, Exhibitions, History, The Wilds
Navajo Nation to Aztec Ruins, New Mexico
September 4, 2016 Andrea Gibbons 1 Comment
Before leaving Tuba City, we went to the museum right next to our hotel, one of my favourite stops on this trip.
The Navajo Interactive Museum shares some of the Navajo’s own history. It is the first place I have ever been that does not try to whitewash the history of conquest. It does not shy away from how people were killed, enslaved. It tells of the forced march, relocation, return. The immense loss. Grief. It shows how much has been saved, how custom and belief are not things of the past but of the present. It shared versions of the creation. Methods of weaving, the sheep that are the sources of wool. The building of hogans and some of their spiritual meanings. It is divided by the four directions, reclaims history for its own people, and offers it as a gift to us.
From one of the signs:
Indigenous languages are holistic, fluently expressing intrinsic human relationships with everything. Navajos believe that their language is a spiritual gift from the Holy People, for it connects them directly to the entire universe. It is a language of webs and motion, relationships and process, not of nouns and objectivity.
I have been thinking so much about language and patterns of thought, the limitations of science and how perhaps it is built into the English language itself. Spanish too, but just knowing two languages helps you understand language’s limits. There is still so much I cannot express, I wish that I had been honored to speak such an indigenous language. It is not hard to see why conquerors would work so hard to destroy language, it is so intertwined with culture, with worldview. It is always a place of strength and resistance.
Next door was a small museum in honour of the Navajo code talkers, the men who joined the US army and used their language to keep our transmissions from the Japanese. The whole text of the ‘Navajo Code Talkers Act‘ was on the wall, and it surprised me. I have put in bold the things I never though the U.S. government would say out loud, and we circle around language…
(1) On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Empire attacked Pearl Harbor and war was declared by Congress the following day.
(2) The military code, developed by the United States for transmitting messages, had been deciphered by the Japanese and a search by United States military intelligence was made to develop new means to counter the enemy.
(3) The United States Government called upon the Navajo Nation to support the military effort by recruiting and enlisting 29 Navajo men to serve as Marine Corps radio operators; the number of enlistees later increased to over 350.
(4) At the time, the Navajos were second-class citizens, and they were a people who were discouraged from using their own language.
(5) The Navajo Marine Corps radio operators, who became known as the Navajo Code Talkers, were used to develop a code using their language to communicate military messages in the Pacific.
(6) To the enemy’s frustration, the code developed by these Native Americans proved to be unbreakable and was used extensively throughout the Pacific theater.
(7) The Navajo language, discouraged in the past, was instrumental in developing the most significant and successful military code of the time. At Iwo Jima alone, the Navajo Code Talkers passed over 800 error-free messages in a 48-hour period.
(A) So successful were they, that military commanders credited the code with saving the lives of countless American soldiers and the successful engagements of the United States in the battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa;
(B) So successful were they, that some Code Talkers were guarded by fellow marines whose role was to kill them in case of imminent capture by the enemy; and
(C) So successful were they, that the code was kept secret for 23 years after the end of World War II.
(8) Following the conclusion of World War II, the Department of Defense maintained the secrecy of the Navajo code until it was declassified in 1968; only then did a realization of the sacrifice and valor of these brave Native Americans emerge from history.
I am unsure what the U.S. government has done since then to grant full, respectful, honoured citizenship or to encourage the speaking of indigenous languages, but I suppose medals were something. It would take a few years before other tribes were honoured for similar roles, the Comache and Choctaw among them, in WWI as well as WWII.
We drove and drove, Northeast, out of the red rocks towards New Mexico. We passed Black Mesa, and the Peabody Company’s coal mine — another reminder of exploitation, another form of resource extraction.
EACH YEAR PEABODY COAL COMPANY PUMPS MORE THAN 4,500 ACRE-FEET OF PRISTINE NAVAJO AND HOPI DRINKING WATER FROM THE “N-AQUIFER.”
Peabody uses this pristine water supply simply to mix with crushed coal-called “slurry.” This “slurry” is then pumped through a pipeline over 275 miles to the Mohave Generating Station in Nevada.
With every breath we take, 50 gallons of pristine ground water has just been pumped from the dry lands of northeastern Arizona. On Black Mesa, home to the Hopi and Navajo people, more than 300 gallons of potential drinking water has, in the last 10 seconds just been mixed with crushed coal. In the time it took to read these sentences Peabody Coal Company pumps over a thousand gallons of the cleanest groundwater in North America, simply to transport coal. Today, Peabody Coal pumps more than 3,600 acre-feet (equivalent to 4,600 football fields, one foot deep) per year of pristine water from the Navajo Aquifer.
You can find out more on the Southwest Research and Information Centre site. These beautiful lands are also be exploited for their uranium, in summary of the report on uranium mining on the Navajo Nation from Brugge and Goble:
From World War II until 1971, the government was the sole purchaser of uranium ore in the United States. Uranium mining occurred mostly in the southwestern United States and drew many Native Americans and others into work in the mines and mills. Despite a long and well-developed understanding, based on the European experience earlier in the century, that uranium mining led to high rates of lung cancer, few protections were provided for US miners before 1962 and their adoption after that time was slow and incomplete. The resulting high rates of illness among miners led in 1990 to passage of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
You can read and listen to more on Democracy Now’s program ‘A Slow Genocide of the People’. Even now people gather to stand against another exploitation of the earth and threat of contamination for land and water — the North Dakota pipeline.
In North Dakota, indigenous activists are continuing to protest the proposed $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, which they say would threaten to contaminate the Missouri River. More than a thousand indigenous activists from dozens of different tribes across the country have traveled to the Sacred Stone Spirit Camp, which was launched on April 1 by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
I wish I could be there too. Instead I am here, writing. We drove onward. It looks pristine, but corporations are poisoning this land.
Shiprock.
A sea of crushed metal, old cars left here.
Up to the ‘Aztec’ ruins. Midway between Chaco and Mesa Verde, this was an incredible Anasazi construction, planned and for the most part built within a very short time. Labelled Aztec because that’s all people apparently knew of indigenous cultures building in stone, too ignorant or racist to ask its real name. The National Park Service did try to give a ‘balanced’ history, but such radically different ways of seeing the world sit uneasily next to each other. There could be nothing too critical of the role archeology has played in the mythologizing of western expansions, nor of those expansions, nor the disrespect of native histories. A disrespect that stems from their attempted destruction. But it was good to hear native voices here, and the contrasting ways of seeing.
This is a place that feels good, a place left to the ancestors before white men arrived, like Chaco, like Mesa Verde.
It’s construction is beautiful, full of details. The corner openings:
T-shaped doors
Stones rolled smooth from the river
And other bands of decoration:
Once standing three stories high
This wall traces exactly the path followed by the sun during the summer solstice
It is a beautiful place. To see with eyes open and with eyes closed. The ground story of storage rooms still stand
They open into other rooms, a mat left behind is still here, hundreds of years old.
From archaeology we see the map of the whole. Almost all of it built between 1100 and 1130, which is amazing. Then slowly added to.
This map shows its symmetries, though it cannot explain their meaning.
They have reconstructed the great kiva here, I am not sure about entering such a place of ceremony without ceremony. Without invitation. So I didn’t take pictures, but I did give thanks to be there. With mum. They are wonderful sacred spaces.
Several of them, along with the large central one, are surrounded by smaller rooms. I have never seen this before.
I didn’t love the small museum as much as the one in Tuba City, but the pottery was beautiful (so much here, as in the other NPS museums, on loan from far away. Pottery and artifacts taken away as property by the institutions who sponsored digs, I do not understand how they do not see this as a living place to which things still belong). Apart from the maps of the place itself, the trade routes were also wonderful:
From here we continued on and on, up to Chama. A good day.
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From here to there, The Wilds, Travel
Cumbres & Toltec Railroad, Chama to Antonito
August 31, 2016 Andrea Gibbons 3 Comments
The Cumbres & Toltec Railroad is amazing, a narrow three-foot gauge railroad along which the steam engines of yore still ride…Built in 1880 by the Rio Grande to serve the silver mines in the San Juan mountains. As we all know, the Sherman Act of 1893 destroyed the silver industry for a good long time, but this train line kept slowly going until the 1960s. This piece of the track was saved by a handful of wonderful people working to preserve this awesomeness, it was secured in 1970 by New Mexico and Colorado working together, and is now run by a commission and a friend group.
I love how trains inspire the utmost love and devotion, brings groups of people to selflessly work together to keep them going despite all odds. People also stood by the side of roads and RV parks to wave at the train, a couple of cars followed us down I-17. A number of cars pulled off the road to take pictures of the train.
For me, though, this particular train had a slightly different glamour. I am not a proper fan girl of many, but James Garner is one. James Garner as Maverick? Especially. For some reason I climbed up onto this train and suddenly felt myself close, very close. It didn’t even take that much imagination to ignore everyone else. I stood at the end staring at the mountains and wished I had a cigar. It was grand. I didn’t even mind the constant shower of grit.
We climbed high up into the mountains, then back down to high-desert plateau. We saw deer, chipmunks, prairie dogs, antelope. Unbelievably beautiful.
We even spouted rainbows.
Even more special, is that me and mum first took this trip with my Dad and my Godmother Clare when I was about 2 years old.
(I have skipped a day, yesterday we drove through rainbows but I was just too tired to think and write, and there is more to write! But it will be made part of this history)
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Man walks from state to state for Cancer Research
As he meets different people throughout his life’s journeys who’ve faced cancer, he’s elected to serve them in search for a cause that’s uplifting.
Walk from Cheyenne to Denver(KGWN)
Published: Jan. 1, 2021 at 10:39 PM CST
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Wyoming News Now) - To begin the New Year, a Local Man says he is walking into 2021 the same way he left 2020, walking state to state searching for ways to cure cancer.
“If I hear that somebody needs help and I know I can walk for them, and raise awareness to help them. Then I feel I’m being selfish if I don’t. So that is why I keep on going, plus it’s keeping me in shape at my old age,” Local Resident, Jim Hickey said.
On New Year’s Day, Hickey and a convoy set to walk from Cheyenne’s Capitol to Denver’s Capitol. Tim Hickey says he’s been walking across state lines for several years.
As he meets different people throughout his life’s journeys who’ve faced cancer, he’s elected to serve them and in search for a cause that’s uplifting.
Hickey said after losing his father to colon cancer and watching his brother overcome the odds of the same disease, it only felt right getting out and waling with a purpose.
“I was working as a flagger on a construction site and my boss told me about a friend of his named Justin who was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer, and I just thought since I’m here, over 800 miles and I wanted to do a walk eventually so I said hey why not walk from Cheyenne to Denver for Justin.”
Hickey concluded telling Wyoming News Now, he’s logged over 16 million steps during his walks for cancer.
Hobbytown in Cheyenne is closing
First COVID-19 “UK Variant” Case Identified in Wyoming
UW Prepares for Spring Semester Start
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Dutch salaries to increase by 2.5% in 2021, according to Willis Towers Watson data
Fewer private sector pay freezes planned as optimism creeps back in 2021
AMSTERDAM, December 10 2020 — Dutch private sector workers are set to receive an average pay rise of 2.5% in 2021, which is a cautious improvement over the 2.1% given this year, according to salary research from Willis Towers Watson, a leading global advisory, broking, and solutions company.
The global pandemic forced many companies to revise their planned pay rises downwards earlier this year, and also to implement pay freezes and other financial controls in order to survive.
In a further sign of some optimism for next year, the survey found that the number of Dutch companies freezing their pay rates is also expected to fall sharply in 2021. This year four in ten (40%) businesses froze their pay increases, but this is forecast to fall to almost one in seven (15%) of firms in 2021.
Many companies are looking ahead to 2021 with cautious optimism, which is reflected in slightly higher pay rise budgets than we saw this year.”
Angel Hoover,
Head of Benelux
Angel Hoover, Head of Willis Towers Watson Benelux, said: “After a difficult year for employers and employees – battling lockdowns, employee safety issues, working from home and declining revenues – many employers are finding ways to handle the crisis better, manage their businesses and help their employees with a more focused work and reward strategy. Many companies are looking ahead to 2021 with cautious optimism, which is reflected in slightly higher pay rise budgets than we saw this year.”
A similar picture is emerging across Western Europe, most organisations in the major economies anticipating higher pay rises in 2021 than this year. The largest increases are expected in Germany and the UK (2.4%), followed by Italy (2.1%), France and Spain (2%).
Willis Towers Watson’s latest Salary Budget Planning Report, which studies the size of pay budgets at firms, showed that pay rises in 2021 will vary between industries, reflecting their different pandemic experiences and their recovery plans.
In The Netherlands, the weakest industries in terms of salary expectations are Energy and Natural Resources and Consumer Products, both predicting an average pay rise in 2021 of 2.2%, followed by Financial Services and Automotive (2.3%). The top three industries which are expecting more generous rises are: Retail and Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences (2.8% both) and High Tech (2.6%).
“Not all industries have been impacted in the same way and we see differences within industries too. Many e-retailers have been successful and awarding high increases whereas more traditional retailers are awarding very little or no increase at all. Also companies in the hospitality, leisure and airline industries have suffered. The differences in how companies were impacted by the pandemic are likely to be heavily reflected in pay rise levels too,” said Hoover.
A similar overall average pay picture is emerging across Western Europe and the globe, with most organisations in major economies anticipating higher pay rises in 2021 than 2020.
Western Europe salary increases (average)
Willis Towers Watson, Salary Budget Planning Report, December 2020
2020 (awarded)
2021 (budgets)
Netherlands 2.1 2.5
Belgium 1.3 2.3
UK 2.2 2.4
Germany 2.1 2.4
France 1.8 2.0
Italy 1.8 2.1
Spain 2.0 2.0
Global salary increases (average)
United States 2.3 2.7
Canada 2.2 2.6
China 4.7 5.4
Japan 1.7 2.0
India 5.9 6.4
The Salary Budget Planning Report is compiled by Willis Towers Watson’s Data Services Practice. The survey was conducted online in October/November 2020, receiving over 18,000 sets of responses covering over 130 countries worldwide. In The Netherlands 321 businesses took part.
The report summarises the findings of Willis Towers Watson’s annual survey on salary movement and reviews practices as a means of helping companies with their compensation planning for 2020 and beyond.
Felice Alkema
Marketing and Communications Benelux
Email | +31 (0)88 54 33 000
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Innovative Inspection of Offshore Foundations
Category: Articles Articles
Published: 27 February 2018 27 February 2018
Using Interfering Sound Waves for Monopile Investigation
Offshore wind farm operators face a challenge when trying to establish the integrity of the monopile-transition piece interface which has been used in 80% of turbines constructed before 2012. A key focus is the layer of grout which bonds the two steel sections of the structure, the integrity of which could affect the turbine’s long-term stability. Uniper Technologies, working with a team from the British Geological Survey, has developed a system, the first of its kind, which uses interfering sound waves to investigate the monopile-transition piece underwater and highlight any areas of defective or missing grout. The system, which has been successfully trialled at sea, was a winner of the recent Subsea Inspection competition organised by the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator. Importantly the technique can inspect the structure from a single surface and within the tight timescales required for offshore procedures. Inspection data is interpreted and shared in a transparent format.
By Dr Colin Brett, Head of Inspection, Uniper Technologies, UK
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Greenville City Council supports residents concerned about Evans Street widening
by: Jessica Jewell
Posted: Feb 13, 2017 / 09:00 AM EST / Updated: Feb 13, 2017 / 09:00 AM EST
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) – Many residents living along the impacted route for the Evans Street Widening Project are pushing for changes to the Department of Transportation’s current plan, and now they’re getting help from City Council.
Moving forward with DOT’s current plan means big impacts to nearby neighborhoods, including knocking down a brick wall and wrecking a $10,000 berm. Yet now City Council is saying not so fast.
At its meeting last week, Council passed a resolution 4-2 saying DOT can move forward with the project as long as it does not impact nearby subdivisions.
Dozens of residents showed up to speak on both sides: for change, and for keeping it the same to protect pedestrians.
Mary Snow Hill says she’s pleased with the cooperation.
“I do think that people are able to look at it and say if this was my neighborhood, I may feel the same way. And I think that’s important for us to be able to understand how the other side feels about this particular situation,” Hill said.
Some residents are asking to take out the bike lanes. Yet DOT project managers say the wall will still have to come down. They also say they’ve promised to repair any damage and rebuild.
Councilmember P.J. Connelly says they want to see alternatives.
“We asked them for some specifics on the resolution. We want them to make sure that we’re protecting some of these neighborhoods that are on the Evans Street Widening Project and I think they’re a little reluctant to be able to produce that,” Connelly said.
After passing the resolution, DOT project engineers said Council may have given them an impossible task.
by Kelci O'Donnell / Jan 16, 2021
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) -- Greenville Police responded to a reported shooting inside the Greenville Mall Saturday afternoon.
According to officials, the shooting was a result of an altercation between two men. Witnesses say one man punched the other. During the fight, the man who got punched grabbed his gun in his waistband. The gun went off and struck the floor. Both individuals fled the scene.
by CBS 17 Digital Desk / Jan 16, 2021
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – According to the NCDHHS, 7,986 new COVID-19 cases were reported across the state Saturday, the second straight day-over-day drop.
The total number of cases reported across North Carolina since the pandemic began is 667,826, more than two-thirds of a million.
NCDOT announces speed limit increases on two Onslow County roads
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Ranking Republican: Let's hear from Schiff under oath
Doug Collins submits list of needed impeachment witnesses.
Rep. Adam Schiff
The ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, which has taken up the impeachment investigation, has delivered a list of witnesses he considers essential to justice.
Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., sent a letter Friday to Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.
Collins asked for witnesses who would counteract the Democratic "position" he describes as "a breathtaking denial of the president's right to the presumption of innocence and his right to confront any witnesses making accusations against him."
"Although the committee is not bound as a matter of House Rules to provide these protections, we believe it is incumbent upon the committee to provide these basic protections. As Rep. Barbara Jordan, D-Texas, observed during the Watergate inquiry, impeachment not only mandates due process, but of [sic] 'due process quadrupled.'"
Collins said that during the Intelligence Committee hearings, Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., provided "zero due process."
Schiff is the first person on the Republicans' witness list.
"As the author of the Intelligence Committee report and the chief prosecutor for the House, it is imperative that Chairman Schiff testify before this committee and entertain questions from duly elected members of Congress," Collins wrote.
Then there's the "anonymous whistleblower whose complaint initiated this 'impeachment inquiry.'"
Thought to be CIA employee Eric Ciaramella, he "is the accuser who initiated this impeachment process. Moreover, the inspector general of the Intelligence Community reported that the whistleblower had a bias against President Trump. And public reporting suggests he or she worked closely with Vice President Biden and coordinated his or her complaint with Chairman Adam Schiff or his staff."
Further, there are the people on whom the whistleblower relied, since his claims were hearsay.
The sources "provided information that does not match the testimony from witnesses before the Intelligence Committee, especially as it relates to whether the president conditioned a face-to-face visit or U.S. military assistance on announcing or opening investigations," the letter explains.
There also is the intelligence employee who talked with Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman about the July phone call between the presidents of U.S. and Ukraine, on which the impeachment inquiry rests.
"Vindman testified that he shared details of President Trump's July 25 call with two individuals outside of the White House: Department of State Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent, and "an individual in the Intelligence Community."
Collins want that person identified.
Devon Archer, who along with Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, is a former board member of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, is needed to "shed light on the nature and extent of Ukraine's private-sector corruption generally, and at Burisma specifically."
Hunter Biden should testify, too, the letter said.
"As noted above, Burisma has a reputation for corruption and has been subject to multiple anticorruption investigations. According to public reports, Hunter Biden was recruited to sit on its board to improve its public image at the time when his father, Vice President Joe Biden, was the Obama administration's point person for Ukraine policy. Mr. Biden was paid a substantial sum without having any obvious qualifications. Multiple Democrat-invited witnesses testified during this 'impeachment inquiry' that this created at least the appearance of impropriety. Mr. Biden's experience with Burisma will help the public understand the nature and extent of corruption at Burisma and in Ukraine," Collins said.
Another relevant fact witness is Nellie Ohr, who worked for the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which produced the infamous anti-Trump "Steele dossier" funded by Democrats.
And Alexandra Chalupa, a former Democratic National Committee staffer, should testify.
It was during the 2016 campaign that Chalupa "worked with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, D.C. to obtain political dirt on then-candidate Trump’s campaign," the letter said.
"Chalupa admitted to providing anti-Trump dirt to the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign, and to discussing that dirt with then-Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Valeriy Chaly. Given President Trump’s documented belief that Ukrainians meddled in the 2016 election, Ms. Chalupa is a relevant fact witness who will help the public understand the basis for President Trump’s belief that Ukrainians meddled in the 2016 presidential election," it said.
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Washington, DC – Tuesday, Feb. 18, 11:30 a.m. EST
When Anna and Sasha arrived on Channarong’s floor, Anna witnessed the hubbub that Sasha had been talking about. Several people tried to push into the elevator before she and Sasha had even stepped out. Uniformed officers from DC’s police—known as the Metropolitan Police Department or MPD—as well as investigators wearing FBI badges, and others, crowded the foyer.
“To the right,” Sasha said. “I’ll follow you.”
Stepping into the fray, she took stock. Two men wearing business attire and World Bank IDs were typing on their devices while leaning against a wall. Next to them, a woman was writing notes on a pad of paper—but Anna didn’t recognize her as another journalist. An FBI guy was speaking on the phone and three other people were discussing something amongst themselves. The competing conversations seemed to cancel each other out. Two more officers walked past single-file, while a few women headed toward them.
Anna began to walk down the hall. Security guards stood near her, halfway down, and at the far corners, six in total, like sentries. Channarong’s office was about two-thirds down—she could tell, because people were entering and exiting like bees at a hive.
“Shoot,” Anna said. "It is a madhouse."
“What did I tell you?” Sasha whispered into Anna’s ear. He pushed against her.
Anna glanced behind her at him. Why the push?
“Excuse you,” he muttered.
What? Anna was confused. She followed the sight line of his death stare and noted two women rushing off, one in flats, the other in spiked heels cradling a large pile of spiral-bound reports. One of them had evidently imbalanced Sasha, causing him to stumble into her.
“Idiot,” he said.
“Forget it,” Anna told him.
Sasha proceeded but was stopped by the first hallway guard, big like a linebacker. He held up his hand in a “stop” signal.
“Good afternoon,” said Sasha, holding up his ID card. “As you can see, I’m…”
Before he finished, the guard said, “No access at this time.”
“Alright, but I need to be over there,” Sasha protested. “On the other side of the hallway, down there. We won’t touch anything.”
“Sir, no access to this hallway at this time,” the guard said.
“There must be some exceptions. I’m Sasha Bolokov, assistant vice president for international finance and investment, and I’m going to be late.”
“No, sir. No access,” the guard repeated the third time. “I don’t care who you are.”
“It’s fine,” Anna added. “We’ll go around.”
“No,” Sasha said, resting his hand on Anna’s forearm and directing his attention at the guard.
“All those people are already over there. Are you going to make us go all the way around?”
“What’s wrong with you, man?” the guard said, raising his voice and striding toward Sasha. “Those people are assisting with the investigation. You are not. Go a different way. Or come back later.”
Sasha turned around.
Anna tutted at Sasha’s obstinacy. “He’s just doing his job.”
“Come on,” Sasha said. “Let’s go.”
Anna followed Sasha, checking her text messages and voicemail as she went. Back at Sasha’s office, they sank into his arm chairs.
“Was that long enough?” Sasha asked.
“For information gathering?”
“I don’t know. I saw the ‘circus,’ as you put it.”
“Did you see that woman—the one when I bumped into you?”
“The tall one in the spiked heels?”
“No. The one in the flats—it was Channarong’s assistant, Sara Reedman—the one I was telling you about.”
“Remind me what she looked like,” Anna said, fiddling with her phone.
“Tall. Thin. Pretty. Long, straight dark-brown hair in a low ponytail. Brown skin. Parents from India, if I'm not mistaken.”
“Here,” Anna said, showing her phone to Sasha. “Ever since I got here, I’ve been checking my messages—and taking pictures.”
“You are slightly clever, after all.”
“One can only hope. Now, see if she’s in the photos, and tell me if you notice anything.”
Sasha swiped through the photo gallery. “Here she is—from behind—white skirt, black sweater. It seems you shot some great photos, but none of them captured her from the front.”
“Oh, white pencil skirt, black cardigan, cute shoes. I remember that. It’s alright. I’ll find her on social media or the Bank’s website. I’m sure I can find her face.”
“Also,” said Sasha, pointing at a sallow man in his early 60s in a white button-down and khakis.
“Your regular computer guy?”
“Officially, yes. His name is J.D. Smith. People around here say he’s a spook.”
“CIA? What’s he doing here?”
“God only knows,” Sasha said.
“Fine, I’ll check him out,” Anna said, noting a World Bank directory on the coffee table. “Hey! Can I borrow that?” She pointed at the booklet.
“That old phone directory? Sure.”
“Great,” she said, snapping it up. “It’s time I got back to the office to make some calls.”
Sasha stood up. “I hate to see you go. But I suppose I should take care of a few things myself. I’ll escort you downstairs.”
When they had returned to the atrium by the main entrance, Sasha bid Anna farewell with a kiss on each cheek. “Let’s get drinks together soon,” he suggested. “I’ll tell you if I find out anything more, and you can update me on Sara and that dodgy one, Smith.”
#WorldBank #DC #CIA
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We Asked 3 Dudes What To Do If You Find Your Partner On A Dating Site
They got real honest.
By The Editors of Men's Health
Each month, we get real talk on relationship problems from three of the gents who put the "men" in Men's Health. This month, we asked the question: "Someone saw my boyfriend on a dating site. He swears he never acted on anything, just browsed. Normal or dump him?"
Here's what they had to say:
Dean Stattmann, brand editor: "that’s not okay."
"If he'd just never thought to delete the app, depending on how long you were together, that's forgivable. But he admitted to using it since you started dating. That's dodgy. Swipe left."
Watch men and women spill the honest truth about exactly what they think about cheating:
Paul Kita, food and nutrition editor: "break up with him."
"Look, some guys might like leaving doors open—but they forget that open doors work both ways. If he's 'browsing,' you're leaving. Run, don't walk, out that door. End of story."
Related: These Are The People Who Are Most Likely To Cheat On Their Spouses
Michael Sneeden, senior video producer: "have a talk."
"It's not exactly cheating, but it's close. Dating apps are the equivalent of approaching a woman at a bar, and your guy's got wandering eyes. Talk it out to see if he's worth another shot."
Related: 7 Signs Your Partner Might Be Having an Emotional Affair
THE CONSENSUS
Being in a relationship doesn't mean you both have to put on blinders. But his prowling around on an app whose sole purpose is real-life romantic connections is a major red flag about his desire—or ability—to stay committed.
This article originally appeared in the September 2017 issue of Women's Health. For more great advice, pick up a copy of the issue on newsstands now!
The Editors of Men's Health The editors of Men's Health are your personal conduit to the top experts in the world on all things important to men: health, fitness, style, sex, and more.
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Parties: NATIONAL OFFSHORE DRILLING IND - and - ITGWU
Claim (a) Wage Increase. Claim (b) Introduction of a log-book system. Claim (a)
8. The Court has carefully considered the submissions of both
parties in this case and has some difficulty arriving at a
conclusion insofar as there seems to be little common ground
between the parties as to the impact on the industry of any
increase in wage costs.
What seems clear to the Court is that the Employers consider it is
necessary to take both comparisons with the North Sea conditions,
and comparisons with national movements of wages and salaries into
account. In this respect, it seems obvious that in general terms
as a basis for international comparison, if the cost of equipment
hire is falling, the wage and salary element of such costs must be
subject as a result to greater pressure from international
competition and therefore a cause of concern to workers involved.
On the other hand the Employers, whilst reporting voluntary wage
freezes amongst North Sea workers, should accept that as a result
of this Court's recommendation last year, they have already, in
effect, had the benefit of a freeze or its equivalent. While the
income of the workers involved may still be high by comparison
with North Sea workers it would be unrealistic to expect a
continued standstill against the background of domestic wage
movements.
On balance therefore the Court, taking account of the additional
costs incurred by the Employers in introducing a pension scheme,
and the necessity to avoid a further undue increase in costs,
recommends an increase of 3% in wage rates for the current season.
The Court further recommends the introduction of the log book as
drafted by AnCO without further delay.
Division: Mr O'Connell Mr Collins Mr O'Murchu
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACTS, 1946 TO 1976
Parties: NATIONAL OFFSHORE DRILLING INDUSTRY
1. Claim (a) Wage Increase.
Claim (b) Introduction of a log-book system.
Claim (a)
2. Wages were not increased in 1986 for the workers here
concerned (Labour Court Recommendation 10817 refers). The Union,
on behalf of the workers are now seeking 10% pay rise for 12
months to compensate for the absence of a wage rise in 1986, as
well as taking into account the current level of wage increases.
Agreement could not be reached on the matter of a pay rise at
local level. The Employers sought another pay pause for this
year, arguing that the off-shore industry could not bear a wage
increase. This position was not acceptable to the Union. On 3rd
February, 1987, the matter was referred to the conciliation
on 12th February, 1987. No agreement was reached and on 4th
March, 1987, the matters of the wage increase and the introduction
of a log book for the industry was referred to the Labour Court
for investigation and recommendation. A Court hearing took place
on 2nd April, 1987.
Union's arguments (a)
3. (i) Increases in the Consumer Price Index since 1985 have
resulted in a real decline in the value of pay to the
workers concerned at a time when they experience longer
and longer periods of unemployment because of reduced
drilling activity. For casual workers whose sole
occupation is off-shore exploration work, this is a
burden which they can ill afford to carry. When
considered in conjunction with unemployment periods of
eight, nine or ten months of the year, it produces
exceedingly low levels of remuneration.
(ii) Whilst there are major cutbacks in the North Sea, this
has relatively little to do with the drilling programme
in Ireland, which is determined on the basis of holes
contracted. The drilling last year was as per the
drilling programme agreed, and this year is likely to
be somewhat similar. An average wage settlement paid
to off-shore workers would not discourage the major oil
companies from proceeding with the drilling of a
particular well. The Labour cost element in oil
production is a relatively minor one when compared with
the overall budgets involved and the likely benefits
which accrue to a company which identifies a worthwhile
oil or gas field.
(iii) The Employers have tried to create the impression that
there is an enormous difference in the earnings of
Irish workers and their counterparts in the North Sea.
This comparison is entirely false, and takes no account
of the difference between a country where six or seven
wells may be drilled in a year, (which is the case for
this country), and the North Sea where drilling is
virtually continuous. When income tax and living costs
are taken into account, the comparison is further
weakened. The very short periods worked by the Irish
workers must also be taken into account.
(iv) The Union has always maintained that the only fair
comparison for these workers is with pay and conditions
of employment negotiated nationally in the better paid
employments. The Court will be aware that increases of
more than 6% have been conceded in a considerable
number of employments (details supplied to the Court).
(v) The Employers have also argued that concession of the
pension scheme, which involved a contribution of 2.75%,
should be offset against any proposed wage increase.
However, a contribution of 2.75% which has been in the
offing since 1982 and is only now being applied in
1987, is exceptionally low by today's standards. Most
worthwhile pension schemes require a funding rate of
between 12 and 18% of pensionable salary and some cost
a great deal more than this. Employers generally pay
approximately 2/3 of the costs of such pension which
would equate to between 8 and 12% of pensionable salary
for pension provisions.
(vi) Given the uncertainty in this Industry, the hazardous
nature of the work and the relatively short life span
during which the workers can expect to be employed, it
is unacceptable that the workers should sustain real
losses in their earning power. A second
year without a pay increase would be completely
unacceptable and would give rise to serious industrial
relations problems in the Industry. When
this is combined with other efforts of the Employers to
undermine conditions of employment, achieved over many
years, it could have very damaging consequences for
this sensitive industry.
(vii) The Union wishes the drilling season to be trouble
free. It urges the Court to give positive
consideration to the Union's representations, to ensure
that the workers receive no less favourable an increase
than their counterparts in other national industries.
Such a decision by the Court would not have damaging
consequences for the industry, but will help to ensure
stability and good industrial relations during the
short drilling season.
Employers' arguments:
4. (a) Since the Court investigated the pay rates of the Irish
exploration industry in October, 1986 (Labour Court
Recommendation 10817 refers), the crisis in the
industry has worsened. The industry cannot contemplate
any increases in Labour costs other than the agreed
costs of implementation of the pension scheme, which
the Court recommended. In 1987 there are more
compelling reasons in support of the Employers
inability to make any concession on pay rates.
(b) It has to be recognised and accepted that offshore
exploration is an international industry and that
exploration activity in Irish waters must be looked at
as part of that international industry. The Union has
for many years argued that they are part of this
international industry and have as a consequence
succeeded in obtaining pay and working agreements which
by any standard are more than comparative to that
international industry. It is not therefore
appropriate on this occasion to argue on a domestic
internal Irish comparison for the purpose of obtaining
improved pay and conditions. Offshore operations in
Ireland cannot be immune from the international
economics of the industry and its consequent
repercussions.
(c) The industry is no longer profitable and is
endeavouring to survive in an extremely critical
environment created by the continuing severe recession
in the oil industry (details supplied to the Court).
(d) Exploration originating from Irish bases is mainly
carried out by contractors who operate out of Aberdeen,
with specialist drilling labour supplied from Aberdeen.
These specialists have been subject to a pay freeze,
and in fact in some cases actual reductions in pay for
those fortunate enough to be remaining in work. There
have also been a substantial number of redundancies.
These cut-backs have been implemented with the
objective of protecting as many jobs as possible.
Furthermore, pay rates have not been increased for 1987
in the North Sea.
(e) The Employers reject any argument that Irish workers
are underpaid for the tasks performed, e.g. a day cook
earns at the rate of #22,080 per annum plus holiday pay
and completion bonus. The Labour costs of exploration
operated from Irish bases are substantially in excess
of labour costs in most other countries and in
particular the cost of North Sea operators (details
supplied to Court).
(f) Against this background the Irish exploration industry
cannot see any justification for increasing the
earnings of Irish exploration workers this year.
Traditionally, when a rig contractor operates in a
foreign country he can normally expect to use local
labour at less expense than his home labour. Ireland
must be one of the very few places in the world, and
perhaps it is unique in this, where local Irish labour
is significantly more expensive than the home labour of
the contractor. This is of major significance when the
work performed is exactly the same, very often on the
same rig, in the same environmental conditions and
requiring the same standards of training, experience
and qualifications. There is a huge disparity in
earnings in favour of the Irish personnel. It is
significantly cheaper to operate exploration rigs from
United Kingdom bases.
(g) To ensure the maximum number of job opportunities for
Irish workers in the years ahead it is vital that the
unreal labour cost comparisons which now exist should
not be further widened, and the Court is requested to
reject the Union's claim. Indeed a strong case exists
for a reduction in Irish pay rates which would bring
some semblance of reality to Irish labour costs and
which would possibly lead to greater employment
Claim (b) Introduction of a log book system
5. Since 1985 discussions have been ongoing between the Union and
the Employers on the introduction of a log-book system for
off-shore workers. Agreement in principle has been achieved, and
both sides have acknowledged the potential benefit of a log-book
system for off-shore workers. Negotiations broke down however, on
the Employers insistence that the log-book should contain a record
of the workers medical history, accidents, and reasons for
termination of employment. The Union points out that the
Employers may keep these records of their own accord, but fears
that to include such material on the log book would be contrary to
the interests of the workers.
Union's arguments
6. (i) Given the casual nature of the industry and the changes
that are taking place a log book system similar to that
applying at present to seamen would be beneficial to
all concerned.The issue before the Court arises from
the Employers insistence that such a log-book system
would contain data of a sensitive nature, relating to
such matters as accidents, illnesses and termination of
employment.
The Union has pointed out consistently that such
records should be kept by the Employers themselves and
should not have any bearing on a log book system which
would be personal to the worker concerned and would in
fact be his property.
(ii) In view of the fears of the workers about how a new
system such as a log book system might be abused by the
Employers and become a controversial issue in the
industrial relations sphere, the Union asked the
Employers to agree to the introduction of the logbook
as a system of record for experienced personnel in the
industry, to document the length of time they worked,
the installations on which they worked and the various
categories in which they performed duties or gained
particular expertise. It will also be useful in
documenting courses attended or certification secured
and could also be useful in recording a pension number
and contributions to the pension scheme now that such a
scheme is to be introduced this year. The insistence
of the Employers on such matter as medical records
(even absences for incidental illnesses) and their
emphasis on reasons for discharge, brought about a
reaction from the workers. This was seen to be linked
with the ongoing issue of recruitment and the Employers
many attempts to undermine seniority, the Union list
system in the individual branches, and the present
requirements to give reasons where a particular worker
is passed over for employment.
(iii) A seamans book is quite a familiar document in the
off-shore industry and is accepted internationally as a
useful mechanism for documenting the work record of a
sea-farer. We see no reason why the off-shore drilling
industry should require anything more detailed or
controversial than that when introducing a system of
record for experienced workers.
7. (a) At a conference held on 4th March, 1987, the Union
agreed to implement the log books on a national basis
provided that the content was further diluted by
removing all reference to medical certification. The
Employers could not accept this condition as it would
render the log book system somewhat meaningless.
(b) The objective of the log book system is to validate all
relevant information covering work experience, training
and medical history for the mutual benefit of
prospective employers and employees. To allay any
fears which the Union might have the Employers
undertook not to cite the log book against any worker
in the event of disciplinary action being taken. The
Employers also confirmed that the log book would not
prejudice, in any way, the established negotiating and
grievance procedures.
(d) In the light of these assurances, given freely by the
Employers, there is now no valid reason why the
attached log book system should not be introduced and
we request the Court to so recommend.
Deputy Chairman.
5th June, 1987.
P.F./J.C.
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Parties: ST. VINCENTS HOSPITAL - and - EET&PU
Claim on behalf of five workers for (i) compensation for loss of overtime, and (ii) breaking of a shift agreement.
6. The Court has considered the submissions made by the parties
on the claims before it and has come to the conclusion that the
workers concerned were granted the overtime at the soonest
practical date after the Hospital made the offer and that a case
for retrospective payment cannot be sustained. The Court does not
therefore recommend concession of this claim.
On the further issue of the overtime incorporated in the shift
cover having regard to the overall requirement of the Hospital to
reduce costs the Court does not consider that such hours should be
excluded from consideration. The Court does not therefore
recommend concession of this claim.
Division: Mr O'Connell Mr McHenry Mr O'Murchu
Parties: ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL
ELECTRICAL ELECTRONIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS & PLUMBING UNION
1. Claim on behalf of five workers for (i) compensation for loss
of overtime, and (ii) breaking of a shift agreement.
2. Due to financial cutbacks the Hospital has introduced a number
of cost saving measures. One of these was the decision to reduce
expenditure in the maintenance department of the Hospital, by
withdrawing overtime with effect from early April, 1986.
3. At local level talks in 1986, management offered four hours
overtime per week to all maintenance staff. Management states
that in the case of these workers, the offer was made in August,
1986 to take effect from 1st September, 1986 (four hours overtime
per week per person has been introduced since that date). This
was unacceptable to the Union who states that it was agreed in
April, 1986 that four hours overtime per person per week would be
introduced from that date and claims that payment should be made
for this period. The Union also claimed that management had
broken a shift agreement in operation whereby workers on a Tuesday
shift had formerly worked from 6.00 a.m. to 2 p.m. are now
required to finish at 12.00 p.m. (loss of two hours overtime). On
27th January, 1987 the matter was referred to the conciliation
on 24th February, 1987 at which no agreement could be reached and
on 20th March, 1987 the matter was referred to the Labour Court
for investigation and recommendation. The Court investigated the
dispute on 8th June, 1987 (an earlier hearing was cancelled due to
the unavailability of one of the parties).
Union's arguments:
4. (i) In April, 1986 management offered four hours overtime
per week. This offer was rejected by union
representatives of other groups but accepted by the
representative of this Union. This acceptance was a
major attempt to settle the matter, considering that a
substantial amount of overtime had been removed. The
Union and workers were of the opinion that the matter
had been resolved and that four hours overtime per week
would take effect from that date.
(ii) The Labour Court in Recommendation No. 11025 of 26th
February, 1987, relating to another group of workers on
this matter took the view that Management's offer of
four hours overtime per person per week is reasonable.
This is a view that this Union accepted in April, 1986
and it cannot be responsible for the time delay due to
the inability of management and other unions to reach
agreement at that time. The workers here concerned
should not now suffer loss of earnings when they
examined the situation realistically and generously at
that time.
(iii) A long standing shift agreement (details supplied to
the Court) has been in operation in the Hospital. On
the Tuesday shift which was 6.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m.
workers have always remained at work until 2.00 p.m.
The 12.00 p.m. finishing time was never enforced by
management and on certain occasions it would not be
possible for the worker on this shift to leave earlier
than 2.00 p.m.
(iv) The Hospital has not conformed with normal
management/union procedures. The conditions of
employment of the workers should be re-instated and the
workers compensated for their loss.
Hospital's arguments:
5. (a) Reduction in overtime was necessary in order to reduce
spending. In June, 1986 Management proposed to the
workers that they would request the Board of Management
to re-introduce some overtime if the claims for
compensation were withdrawn. In July, 1986 the Board
of Management agreed that four hours overtime per
worker per week could be introduced. This was offered
to the workers with effect from 1st September, 1986.
Management were not in a position to re-introduce
overtime without approval from the Board and so would
not have been in the position of offering this from
April, 1986.
(b) Following the decision to reduce overtime, other groups
of workers in the maintenance department sought
compensation. These claims were rejected by the Labour
Court, Labour Court Recommendation Nos. 10,895 of 15th
January, 1987 and 11,025 of 26th February, 1987 refer.
In addition, in a recent claim on another Hospital for
compensation for loss of overtime earnings the Labour
Court recommended against the claim, Labour Court
Recommendation No. 10,632 of 23rd July, 1986 refers.
(c) If this claim was conceded other groups affected by
cutbacks in the Hospital would lodge compensation
claims. Compensation payments would have to be met
from the current allocation, which would result in more
cutbacks.
(d) Management does not agree that shift work arrangements
in the Hospital have been broken. In the five week
roster which has operated, on one occasion a worker is
scheduled for a six hour rather than an eight hour
shift in order to preserve the forty hour week pattern.
In practice the worker involved was allowed and
sometimes required by management to remain at work for
an additional two hours on an overtime basis. The ban
on overtime introduced in April, 1986 included these
hours. It is the responsibility of the Hospital
Engineer to decide how to utilise the four hours
overtime now introduced, no special case should be made
for the removal of specific hours of overtime.
(e) The 1987 budget allocation for the Hospital has been
significantly reduced and it is necessary for the
Hospital to introduce a range of cost saving measures
within the remaining eight months of this year. The
budgetary position makes it impossible for the Hospital
to consider the present claim.
U.M./J.C.
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2000s >> 2009 >> no-1258-june-2009
A simpler way of doing things
Capitalism makes arranging production more complicated than it need be.
We humans have always worked to support our life; worked to catch, grow and produce our food, to make our shelter, our clothes and our tools, in general to satisfy our needs. In groups tasks were shared and communities developed by dividing labour cooperatively according to expertise and free will. All worked both for themselves and the common good whilst partaking of the benefits accrued.
We still work to support our life but now money is a crucial factor, an artificial intermediary between labour and the satisfaction of needs, enabling labour to be exchanged indirectly for all manner of goods and services. We now require money whether working within the community or outside it. We do our work as farmer, builder, designer, cook or computer operator using our particular skill, the difference now being we are probably working away from our community and contributing little to it except socially in our spare time and often it isn’t the precise community of our choice but the one we can afford in monetary terms. Moreover, we work most of our life for an employer or series of employers who pay us more on paper than our net salary or take home pay with the remainder being passed on to various government agencies which, in turn, give us some back as health care, unemployment pay and various benefits and pensions as time, situation or entitlement dictate.
Without workers there is neither a product nor a service to sell and therefore no money is generated for the system, no money is generated to produce profit for the capitalists. Also, without worker input neither national nor local governments have money of their own. They are financed only by what they collect from employers in direct taxation and deductions for employees gross pay and from indirect taxes. The tax on employers comes from profit remaining after paying their bills and invoices for utilities, goods, raw materials, other overheads and the wages bill, all of which profit has been generated by the workforce. The deductions from employees’ pay also comes from the surplus generated by the workers but it forms a part of the overall sum that the employer is prepared to pay for the labour rendered.
Net pay is what is deemed sufficient and appropriate according to the type of employment. The difference in amount between gross and net pay, that which is utilised as deductions, (all of which is paid by the employer), is a deal struck between government and employers with some negotiation by trades unions on behalf of the employees. (The employee always striving for a larger remuneration in opposition to the employer looking to reduce it as much as possible.)
Gross pay, to a certain extent, appeases workers because they perceives themselves to be earning more than they are, although they generally believe they are being robbed on a regular basis, seeing a considerable amount clawed back from what they maintain they have rightfully earned. Statistics show that what is transferred from gross pay to the Inland Revenue and the National Insurance scheme more or less goes back to workers as various benefits and payments.
Defence, policing, health, education and roads, and the wages of the whole hierarchy of “public servants” from Prime Minister and Lord of the Admiralty to lowly office clerk, ambulance driver and teaching assistant all come ultimately from the surplus workers generate for their employers as profits.. The same goes for all the buildings and upkeep of the same, for the heating, lighting, cleaning, furnishings and all materials, vehicles – in fact everything used in their operations from stealth fighter to paper clip.
Today’s capitalist world is much more complicated and intertwined than that of our ancestors. We rely on international trade for many commodities and use ultra-sophisticated technology to allow us to track transactions worldwide, technology which, in theory, should simplify most matters, yet somehow we have become entangled in an overcomplicated web from which it is difficult to see a way out. Some say there is no way out of the present system. Our worker may disagree. If workers accept that they have to work in order to live their life – and the vast majority do – does that mean that we also have to accept the incredible complications that capitalism and working for money involve (and that have certainly led to the miserable times many workers are now suffering in the latest financial crisis)? Can we not simply produce things directly for use, working for ourselves and the common good too, knowing that others will be doing the same?
Those who work – those who produce the useful things and provide the useful services – are the lynch pin, the vital component. They are indispensable. The capitalist, the employer is dispensable. Removing layers of unnecessary top-heavy bureaucracy, removing any necessity for taxation by removing the blight of money is the far simpler way. The nurse will tend the sick, the plumber will ensure no leaks, the farmer will provide food and the unemployed will no longer be unoccupied for there is much to be done cooperatively within all our communities. And plenty enough, too, for all to partake of the fruits of our collective labour.
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XWiki vs Data Management Systems
XWiki is developed thinking of adaptability and flexibility, therefore supporting full customization and allowing developers to exactly meet the needs of any enterprise or individual. It allows starting with a simple knowledge base which can be further improved to undertake more complex projects. XWiki is a software made to adapt to its customers and not the opposite.
Alternative to Alfresco
Alternative to Confluence
Alternative to CMS
Alternative to ESN
Alternative to G Suite
Alternative to Jive
Alternative to Mediawiki
Alternative to Notion
Alternative to Nuxeo
Alternative to Odoo
Alternative to Office365
Alternative to Sharepoint
Alternative to Wrike
What is a Data Management Software?
Definition and features
A Data Management Software (DMS) refers to a computerized method of storing and managing information in electronic format within an organization. DMS mainly implement acquisition systems, indexing, classification, management, data access (navigation and search) and document consultation. Such data management eases collaborative work processes. The most well-known Data Management Software solutions are Sharepoint, Alfresco, KnowledgeTree, Nuxeo and, Exoplatform.
A DMS takes into account the full life cycle of a document, covering all four majors steps in the electronic management of documents: Acquisition, Classification, Storage and Distribution. It is not only a document repository, providing the necessary, additional features to undertake these steps, from document scanning, import/export, indexing and search to metadata, access rights, and backup features.
A Data Management Software's use cases include Knowledge Base, Document Libraries, Documentation and Document storage in an electronic version. In addition to these, a DMS provides advantages by allowing its users to centralize, secure and control essential information (documents, plans, contracts, etc), whilst able to share and access it in real-time, from anywhere.
What is XWiki?
What is a wiki?
Presented as a set of web pages alterable by all users with permission, a wiki allows the collaborative creation of content (including text, images, videos), as well as links between different sets of information. Basic wiki features comprise of:
Page creation
Page modification: adding or suppressing content
Creation of links between information
Discussion: the creation of a page can generate a lot of exchanges between all the contributors
Modification history: What was modified? By whom? When?
Rollback: it is always possible to rollback and choose the previous version of the wiki page
Rights management: each registered user has rights which allow creating, modifying, consulting or deleting pages.
XWiki, a second-generation wiki
Wiki is an Open Source software, developed under the LGPL license, proposing a new approach to collaboration by acting as the bridge between people and encouraging organizational intelligence growth. It incorporates all the features expected from an Enterprise Wiki, from Office documents import, page linking, history and rollback to user and rights management, file attachments, macros and advanced search. To this are added the three supported editors (CKEditor, XWYSIWYG and wiki syntax), which further improve user experience in terms of extensively editing a wiki page. XWiki is developed thinking of adaptability and flexibility, therefore supporting full customization and allowing developers to exactly meet the needs of any enterprise or individual. It allows starting with a simple knowledge base which can be further improved to undertake more complex projects. XWiki is a software made to adapt to its customers and not the opposite. Additionally, the XWiki SAS company offers services and solutions, including development, consulting, hosting and support.
Comparison between XWiki and Data Management Software
Albeit similar features and use cases exist between the two solutions, some disparities still exist. In terms of approach, XWiki is focused on "collaboration on the document", while a Data Management Software concentrates on "document sharing". In a DMS, documents are files (retaining their original format), but in XWiki documents are wiki pages which can be exported in a variety of formats (PDF, DOC, etc.). Although both products bring enhance collaborative working methods in the business environment, XWiki establishes itself as a real Enterprise 2.0 solution, the document being an actual web page with a related URL.
Tools strengths and weaknesses
Information structuration
Import of both electronic and paper documents (XAMBOX)
Document sharing features
Collaboration focused around the document
Collaborative platform, extensible and scalable
Applications development platform
Import of both electronic and paper documents
Information centralization
The wiki's need to be animated
Implies change in the work routines (vs emails and documents repositories)
No collaboration around the document
Evolution of the working methods but no Enterprise 2.0 revolution
Why use XWiki rather than a Data Management System?
XWiki's benefits on the DMS usages
One of the main advantages of XWiki is that it offers a real Enterprise 2.0 solution, bringing innovative methods of organizing information and encouraging organizational intelligence growth. Because documents are wiki pages, it's not mandatory to have the appropriate software files on a computer or download them. Just through a browser it is possible to create, view, edit, comment or annotate a document. However, XWiki is more than a usual wiki. Over 750 Apps and Extensions have been made available. Its customization abilities are the core. From the appearance of the wiki to the creation of applications meant to solve specific, unique problems, XWiki makes it possible to meet a company’s IT needs, be it Intranet, Extranet or even a Website. Fostering innovation and transparency through the freedom it offers for development, XWiki aims to create solutions which empower people by offering the means to foster and boost collaborative cultures within companies. With over 15 years of experience and over 500 projects, it is fit to become a real collaborative solution for enterprises of any size.
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Twenty-Three Things This Korean-Adoptee Thought About as a Child
Another adoptive parent alerted me to this blog entry, originally published at Heart, Mind and Seoul. Paula, a Korean adoptee and adoptive mother, granted us permission to reprint the article. Many thanks for this honest, insightful reflection.
That many times I was embarrassed and ashamed of my birth culture because it was so profoundly different than that of my family and my friends. That too often it served as an easy and irresistible source of teasing and fodder for others - strangers and classmates alike.
That despite my parent's unconditional love for me, I couldn't help but feel that I was the last option for them to finally have children.
That phrases like "Thank God we can always adopt" or "Well, at least there's a world of unwanted children we can adopt from since we can't have kids of our own" only fed into my belief that adoption truly is, for virtually all couples, the very last resort by which to create a family.
That as a young girl, the thing I was most grateful for was not having a sister who was my parent's biological daughter. That even the mere thought of being compared or having to share my parents with a sister who was their "real" daughter was too much for me to bear. Being the oldest and the only girl was my way of telling myself that I was special, even when I didn't always believe it.
That instead of always hearing, "You're so lucky to be adopted", that it would have been nice to just once hear "It must be hard sometimes to be adopted."
That the insatiable need for me to be perfect was a way to make me feel more valuable, and therefore less likely to be abandoned once again.
That the insatiable need for me to control every facet of my environment was a way to feel safe and secure during a time when I felt that I was disposable.
That my mind understood why my Korean mother had to give me up, but that my heart didn't.
That the message "She loved you so much that she gave you up for a better life" meant that it was sometimes scary to be loved so intensely by my adoptive parents.
That deep down, I wondered if I could ever be good enough. After all, I was left and given away as a baby; why would anyone leave their baby unless that baby was bad and unwanted?
That I dreamed of going back to Korea just to be able to fit in amongst my peers. That I would have given anything to just once be the girl who was thought of as being popular, pretty and "normal", instead of the one whose sole appearance brought forth so many unwanted questions and assumptions.
That often I thought of ways I could make myself look more white, just so I wouldn't feel like such a monster.
That I wondered what it would have been like to be the girl someone fought fiercely over, instead of feeling like the child my Korean parents didn't want and the daughter that my adoptive parents had to settle for.
That I felt so incredibly guilty anytime I felt anything sad or bad about my adoption. That it was much better to hold everything in than to hurt my parents who I know loved and adored me more than life itself.
That I became very adept at spinning my own adoption story, for the sake of my own survival.
That it was impossible to be angry or hateful towards my Korean parents for leaving me, and yet impossible to forgive myself for being left.
That I got to a point where my mind truly believed everything I was saying about not feeling any effects or fallout from being adopted, even if my heart and body felt markedly different.
That one's body will not lie, no matter how much you ask it to keep on pretending.
That my tantrums, outbursts and fits of rage were my way of trying to say, "I'm hurting so badly inside and more than anything, I am afraid that you will leave me."
That love, no matter how deep nor abundant, can ever erase the past.
That in spite of everything, I knew I would come out on the other side.
That I have loved, and been loved and that one day I would feel that I was actually deserving and worthy of that emotion.
That what others saw in myself would one day be evident to me as well. And hopefully one day, with God's grace, I would truly learn to love and forgive myself.
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I Didn�t Recognize My Child�s Attachment Problems
Someone asked me how a child who seems attached as a very young child could then grow into attachment problems. Our youngest daughter, now 9, was adopted from China at 23 months. She definitely had some adjusting to do; she was older and truly put into some temporary shock over the trauma of adoption out of her less-than-desirable world in China to her incredibly different life with us. Still, after about 4-5 months she seemed to be doing well. She appeared relatively happy, came to me readily, and went to sleep fine in the room with her older sister (also from China and then 5 years old.) My younger daughter looked very attached to me. She came only to me when afraid or hurt. She acted pretty much as a toddler should act.
She had a cleft lip/palate. Her lip was repaired in China, but she's had eight subsequent surgeries since arriving home. Four months after coming home her palate was repaired. That helped us bond further as I never left her side.
Eventually we put her in preschool; we were encouraged to do preschool for her speech needs. Looking back and knowing what I know now, I shouldn't have done that. What's done is done. The first preschool required me to remain with her�which was good. We put her into a second year of preschool at a Montessori which was the best type of school for her, although I didn't realize it at the time. She wasn't expected to toe a rigid line in regards to schedule and she mainly chose her own "lessons" at the various learning centers each day. She first went twice a week, then three times the next year. She did kindergarten at Montessori and then I brought her home to homeschool along with her sister. At six years of age, during kindergarten, she began becoming more defiant and started not falling asleep well.
At ages 7-8 she really couldn't go to sleep until she had literally thrashed about in the bed, chattering about everything, nonsense or whatever. We had to give her her own room because she didn't allow her older sister to go to sleep. It usually took her two full hours of thrashing about and talking until she fell asleep from sheer exhaustion. It didn't matter if I slept with her or not.
By age 7 1/2 her behavior was really going downhill. She argued and cried and got violent in her anger. She wanted to kick and bite and scream. Things were bad. I didn't know what to do with her. She started having tantrums/rages over the slightest things. I was really frightened for her. No usual parenting techniques worked. We had raised three bio children successfully and had also adopted an eight-year-old daughter twenty years ago from the state foster care system. We had terrible times with her requiring respite care so I could survive. (We had no one able to advise us and there were so few resources available back then). I was so scared that this youngest daughter was becoming just like that first daughter.
Thankfully, another homeschool mother told me about neuro reorganization work at the same time someone else told me about the success she was having with attachment counseling. The attachment counseling was teaching that mother new skills and methods in dealing with the outrageous behaviors of her two Chinese daughters, also quite young. I looked up neuro, and then the counseling center therapists. We got started one year ago with both interventions. After over a year of despair, watching my daughter�s behavior go downhill, I was going to do anything that could help. We are doing both those interventions with good results.
Our younger daughter grew up into her anxieties and it manifested in her behaviors she simply had no control over. Her trauma of abandonment, terrible orphanage experience, and the shock of adoption all caught up with her. Looking back I can see what I missed with her:
1. She didn't want me out of her sight. She would beg me to stay with her at preschool, even in kindergarten.
2. She couldn't fall sleep. After a long time of excusing the behavior�figuring that it was her own individual body clock showing--I admitted to a niggling fear that something was wrong.
3. She started to bug, annoy, provoke her older sister to tears. I can see now it was beyond the normal sibling stuff. But I excused it then.
4. She would become very agitated and wound up when out in public or when I left her at home. Instead of becoming more and more able to be out in crowds or different places other than home, she grew up into more and more inability to handle those things.
5. She started to want to kick, hit, scratch, bite. She hadn't done that as a toddler, at all.
After starting therapy with attachment and neuro, I felt a huge weight lifted off of me. My instincts had been right, after all! Those behaviors weren't normal. They merely showed that she was not able to handle her anxieties and that she was "anxiously attached to me,� not normally attached.
As we expected more maturity with her chronological age and put her into places or situations where a child her age with a normal, healthy past and development would be able to handle it, our daughter�s behaviors progressively showed her lack of normal development. And, she has regressed more since therapies started. I now give her a bedtime bottle while rocking her and telling her a story. She stays with me (!) 95% of the time. I never put her away from me�for example, no time outs away from me. I try hard every day not to raise my voice with her or take a scolding tone. All those things are threats to her that she cannot tolerate. I feed her sometimes. She loves all the baby things I do with her. I bathe her after she has played with all her bath toys, like a toddler would play with. No joke. But she is healing, however slowly. But surely. I hope that this helps to explain the question of a child deteriorating with growth sometimes.
Since starting neuro work with our younger daughter, we started our older daughter as well. Both are in attachment therapy. All of a sudden the things pointed out to me about my older daughter made sense. For example, her desire to control everything and everyone. She's obedient and compliant, but she wants to do everything her way (!) and has since she was able to express herself. She was never cuddly or openly affectionate, and lacked eye contact when in close quarters. The atopic dermatitis she was seriously plagued with all her life was also a sign of a compromised neuro system. After a year with therapy, she's COMPLETELY free of that dermatitis. No more lotions, ointments, prescription meds. She is less controlling, more able to express herself emotionally. She's showing more spontaneous affection, although I doubt she'll ever be the cuddly type, which is fine. Looking back, I can see signs with her I didn't realize were actually symptoms of attachment disorder. Best wishes to all.
�Linda (a. 8 mo, 23mo, OR)
DVD Review: Neurodevelopment Through Movements
�a program of �Sequential Movements Activating the Brain Pathways for Learning and Attention Span� by Suzanne Day
Suzanne Day, a Canadian Neuropsychologist, has produced a DVD demonstrating sequencial movements designed to activate �brain pathways for learning and attention span.� Day�s program, �Neurodevelopment Through Movements,� based on the work of Dr. Temple Fay, neurologist, comes from the idea that neuroplasticity allows people to improve brain function, even wiring areas that may have problems due to interruptions in development�which can be caused by any number of things, including deficits or stressors in the early environment. In her DVD she describes the role of each part of the brain and explains how issues in various areas may relate to certain behaviors. She goes on to outline how normal development happens and suggests intervention that can help children who�ve undergone neurodevelopmental interruption. Day presents a step-by-step program designed for children to do at home each day in an effort to improve neurological function, giving the brain a �second chance� from the brain stem to the cortex. A child (adopted from China, incidentally) demonstrates all the moves on the video. Following this 6-minute demonstration of the entire program, Day explains in detail how to do each movement. A fellow adoptive parent tells me that the program takes about 17 minutes a day with her son.
The program shares some similarity with Move to Learn (Barbara Pheloung, Australia) and portions look very familiar to anyone who has done a neurodevelopmental reorganization program with groups like NNTC or Active Healing. But it is unique. One thing that sets it apart is Day�s use of poetry/verse with the program. On the DVD she uses Bible verses to determine a pacing for each movement, but she states that any poetry could be used.
Several parents attest to how the program has helped their children. In the �bonus features,� I found it particularly impressive to listen to the testimony from one family who did the program with their daughter, adopted from China. Families report wonderful progress. Day documents improvement with several clients on the DVD, sharing both brain wave and standardized testing results.
If the cost of hiring a neurodevelopmentalist (who would prescribe an individual program) is prohibitive, Day�s program is an alternative way to approach neuro reorganization. Suzanne is also in the process of recording the French version. The DVD is available through Day�s website. On the website you�ll also find a plethora of helpful�and free�articles.
Book Review: Mother Warriors
I just finished Jenny McCarthy's book, Mother Warriors. In the book she describes several parent's journeys to get help for their children with autism. Time and again, she and the other parents in the book, are told by professionals that things like dietary changes are worthless, even "dangerous." They are told that autism is a permanent condition and that alternative therapies are a waste of time.
McCarthy goes on to describe how these parents ignored the professionals and did everything they could to heal their children. McCarthy writes,
"A Mother Warrior Is...
A mother who hears there is no hope for her child and, instead of retreating and mourning, breaks down walls, weaves her way through obstacles, follows her intuition even when people tell her she is crazy. She is a mother who believes in hope. A mother who believes in miracles and is able to carry on with strength and determination, even when her partner doubts her and offers no support. A mother who never gives up when she keeps hitting dead ends. These are the women who will continue to open the door so future generations of kids don't have to suffer. These are the mothers with hearts of gold and shields made of the strongest armor.
I know in my heart that someday this era will be marked as an era when a group of parents fought the giants to help save their babies and future generations. Margaret Mead, the late great sociologist, once said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
I haven't been closely involved with the autism movement, but I know many, many mother warriors through the adoption community; mothers who are working to heal their children from debilitating attachment/trauma/development issues that are so often inherent with adoption.
I encourage you to read this book and look around you...chances are you are also surrounded by warrior parents...who each and every day are fighting for the physical and/or emotional health and well being of their children. If you know one...or two, or ten, or hundreds, ...take a moment to tell them just how wonderful you think they are!
YOU ARE WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This book reminds me so much of the journey that we've been on.... My son's conditions have never been physically life-threatening, but they did consume almost every moment of every day for several years. We, too, were told that this was not curable, that we were wasting our money. I'm here to say that the professionals were wrong.
Carry on, parent warriors everywhere!!!!
Adoption Book for Kids to Make (includes God references)
Some siblings in the A4everFamily have been hard at work. We'd like to post the following information with the hopes that other families can benefit from this information.
Here's a message from the kids...
Our brother�s early life was a lot more stressful than ours was. He didn�t get to stay with his birthmom or even in the country of his birth. At times, our brother�s story seemed overwhelming and, well, sorta sad. Our nana wanted to help him see his early life in a new light. She helped him to write a book called The Special Thing About the Baby�s Journey. Through it, our brother is able to see how God�s hand was with him on the journey to our family. The book has movable parts and is interactive, so our brother really enjoys reading it with us. He also illustrated each page and is proud of the hard work he did.
Our brother finds comfort in this story. We�ve written a guide to help you write a similar interactive book with your child. The 17 page ebook provides step-by-step instructions. Patterns and photo examples are included.
This is not a lifebook, nor is it a scrapbook. It is not meant to disregard the difficulties that your child may have suffered, but neither is it designed to address those hardships. (We suggest consulting an adoption specialist if you need assistance in this area.) Rather it is a storybook that helps your child to see his or her infancy in a different light�one in which God�s hand was continually at work.
Before starting this book, our nana told our brother about her infancy. (A home birth with a doctor and typical entry into a biological family.) After our brother heard both stories, he told our nana, �Your story is boring compared to mine!� That was a big change from the grief that he�d recently experienced in processing his story. We hope that your child can also benefit from seeing God�s hand at work in his or her early life.
Go to www.handshelpinghearts.com to get your ebook.
Letter to Parents from Author of Silent Tears
Book Review: Silent Tears (on orphanage life)
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Can’t Wait for That New iPad Mini? Try an Apple Store.
November 25, 2013 at 5:00 am PT
Though it was tough to find when it first arrived at market, Apple’s new iPad mini with Retina display is becoming slightly easier to come by — as long as you look for it at one of Apple’s retail stores. Otherwise, you’re going to have to wait.
While the Retina mini is now available for walk-in purchase at the Apple Store, shipping times for the device at online retailers suggest that the device is hardly in abundant supply. Indeed, order one from Apple’s online store today, and it will be five to 10 days before you ever see it.
And the wait is significantly longer if you don’t order from Apple. At Verizon, the Retina mini won’t begin shipping until Dec. 2. At AT&T, it is back-ordered for three to four weeks. Sprint advises aspiring Retina mini buyers that their devices won’t ship for “up to two weeks.” And at T-Mobile, which is offering the Retina mini with 200 megabytes of free data every month, it is back-ordered for six to eight weeks.
If you’re unwilling to wait that long, your best bet is to try snagging one in person from an Apple Store. I called a handful of them on Sunday morning and found that most had at least a few Retina minis on hand, though the Wi-Fi-only models were definitely less prevalent. Cantor Fitzgerald’s Brian White, too, has been finding limited supplies of the device in his own Apple Store surveys.
“We are finding broader availability across the country as we contact more Apple U.S. retail stores,” White said. “Apple now appears better positioned to support customers for Black Friday next week; however, we believe supply still remains a wildcard.”
It seems, then, that with Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year, just days away, Apple is channeling Retina mini inventory for its own brick-and-mortar stores. A wise move, given interest in the device. What better holiday ambassador for the Apple Store than the Retina iPad mini you can’t find anywhere else?
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There’s a lot of attention and PR around Marissa, but their product lineup just kind of blows.
— Om Malik on Bloomberg TV, talking about Yahoo, the September issue of Vogue Magazine, and our overdependence on Google
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Founded in 2004, Nanjing Xinwu Shipping Co., Ltd, which was co-invested by Nanjing Iron and Steel United Co. Ltd., Nanjing Wujiazui Group and Nangang Sitong Transportation Limited, is mainly engaged in the coastal and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River transportation and integrates shipping agency, freight agent and ship management services as a whole.
The company has won the honors such as “Nanjing Key Logistics Enterprise”, “Top 20 Quality and Credit Sea Transportation Enterprise of Jiangsu Province”, “Nanjing AAA Credit Water Transport Enterprise”, “Jiangsu Credit 4A Brand Enterprise” and “Vice President Unit of Nanjing Water Transport Association” successively.
威尼斯电玩城游戏下载The company owns nine vessels now, including three self-operated vessels, four jointly-operated vessels and two entrusted operation vessels, with a total carrying capacity of 84,420 tons and an annual carrying capacity of 11.36 million tons. As the company’s strategic customers, NISCO and Conch is allocated with the transport volume of 8.44 million tons and 2.46 million tons, which accounts for 74.30% and 21.65% of its total transport volume respectively.
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The Hunted
Brewing in the Cities
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A Veiled Truth
(The Hunted #2.5)
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A 31,000 word novella set in The Hunted world
She’s about to learn life isn’t like her controlled experiments.
Edie Brown is a lab rat, dedicated to improving the lives of her fellow Gifted. And while she saved countless Gifted soldiers with her research during the war against the Hunters, she’s haunted by the one person she hasn’t saved: her aunt. With a new pair of joint illusionists to help her, Edie’s closer than ever to a breakthrough.
But her well-ordered scientist’s life unravels when her best friend Marcus proposes a different kind of experiment — one that puts her heart at risk — and her aunt collapses, leaving Edie wondering if she’s too late to help. She’s not about to give up yet, though, not when there’s still a chance she can cure her aunt — and find the one thing she didn't even know she needed.
There was something in the way her twin brother Will and his no-longer-enemy Jane stood next to each other, without touching, that piqued Edie’s curiosity. They didn’t look at or brush up against each other. Edie cocked her head. And yet, they seemed highly aware of the other.
It brought to mind all kinds of questions. Were they still sharing energy, even though the illusion was supposed to be over? What reason did they have? Why were they being so reticent about it? Sharing energy wasn’t bad. Just unusual if not for illusionary purposes.
She threw them a smile. The better to disarm them. A click of her pen and the flourish of her notebook was all she needed to prepare herself for notes. She looked between Will and Jane again, trying to identify the weakest link: who was most likely to talk?
Will was usually her first choice, but ever since the incident — when Edie had sent Jane to the Hunter compound to save Will — he had been surprisingly tight-lipped about all things Jane. A distinct turnaround from his previous behavior. Which, come to think of it, was telling enough. Edie scribbled her thought, then turned to Jane.
Jane had always been notoriously uncooperative, but Edie had noted changes since the incident. Jane smiled more, she answered more questions, and she had once — just once, but that in itself was its own clue — offered information. Edie hoped she’d be forthcoming now.
She turned up her smile to full force and aimed it at Jane. She clicked her pen, once, twice. “Are you currently sharing energy?”
Jane blinked. She didn’t look to Will, who’d averted his gaze to stare at the opposing wall, but she shifted infinitesimally closer. “We stopped sharing energy when you asked us to.”
Edie nodded slowly. Lie or truth? People seemed to lie to Edie with alarming frequency. There was a certain fear that came with interacting with intelligence, she figured. They were afraid she would uncover their deepest darkest secrets. What they didn’t know was that she only cared about their secrets if it had to do with joint illusions.
Most secrets didn’t.
This was a little more…delicate of a situation. Edie studied the chair in the middle of the tiny practice room. It was like any other one might see. Metal. Folding chair. Odd to find it in the middle of the mat, odder yet to know it hadn’t existed before she had asked Will and Jane to create it.
Edie tapped her chin with her pen. “Joint illusions disappear after the energy transfer stops.” She pointed to the chair. “New manifestation of your energy or still sharing energy?”
Will and Jane did look at each other then, and an audible crackle through the air signaled the disappearance of the joint illusion. Edie sighed, feeling the faint edges of a headache poking at her forehead.
Lie.
“This would be a lot easier if you cooperated.”
Will dug his shoe into the mat, not meeting her eyes, and said, “We’re tired.”
Jane nodded.
Another lie. If they were tired, why share energy? It would drain them further, not help with exhaustion. But of course the day those two would be in agreement — not at each other’s throats — would be to unite against her efforts. It wasn’t like they’d spent the last decade looking for answers. Her fingers itched with the urge to bar them in the room until they performed all the tests she needed, and she could solve the mysteries of joint illusions once and for all.
Edie bit the inside of her cheek. “Fine.” She struggled to keep her voice even. “Go. We’ll meet here again tomorrow. And seriously, rest up. I can’t do this without your help.”
You know how much I want this. She let the words, unspoken, hang in the air. They knew how much she wanted it; she didn’t have to articulate it. But if she thought to chasten them, she was wrong. Before she could so much as blink, they were gone. Edie jogged to the door. “Don’t worry about me, I’ll just take care of Judy tonig—”
Edie’s words cut off as she entered the hallway. Will had Jane pressed up against the wall. Was horniness a manifestation of their shared energy? No. She covered her eyes. But if sexual attraction was a symptom of shared energy, it was something she would need to know. Even if the thought of Will and Jane and that made her want to scrub her eyes out until they bled. Her fingers spread open.
Will yanked Jane into what Edie was quite positive was a supply closet. She had just pulled a new box of gloves from there earlier today. Thank goodness it had been earlier, not later. She clicked her pen a few times and wrote sexual attraction? With that taken care of, it was time to flee. Past time.
She didn’t want to think of what her brother and Jane were doing.
Edie whirled around in the direction of her lab and ran straight into a wall of muscle. She uffed into the chest, and her pen and notebook went flying. The smell of warm male tickled her nose as the impact bounced her back.
“Sorry,” she said automatically, lunging toward her things.
She had to get better at watching where she was going. It was the second time this week it’d happened; it was Tuesday. Tuesday! At least the first time had been with Will, and he was used to her not paying attention to her surroundings. One of these days, she was going to run into a wall, and how embarrassing that would be.
Her pen was closest, off to the right. She clicked it, then shoved it into the pocket of her lab coat. Where was her notebook? It should have been near her feet, but a quick check showed only her black boots, and the shiny boots issued to every soldier in the Gifted army. Big, she noted. And you know what they say about big feet.
The familiar voice snapped her head up, and pain bloomed as her skull connected with his chin. “Marcus!” Just the person I’d been hoping to avoid. “My notebook.” She clutched it to her chest as he rubbed his chin absently.
Three weeks. Three weeks since he’d posited the question: Is there a chance you want more from this relationship? This relationship being their friendship, and more being, well, more. Romance, Edie supposed. Physical relations. She had given it thought — a lot of thought, truth be told, that had led to some unsatisfying nights — but no good answer existed.
She pressed her lips together and inched away slightly, lest she be tempted to continue her earlier exploration into big feet and what may lie underneath his standard issue khakis.
His green eyes flashed, missing nothing, and he swept out an arm. “Going home? I’ll walk you there.”
Home is what Marcus had nicknamed her lab, since she spent more time there than her own dorm. Her heart pinched. She had been careful to keep their relationship the way it was: platonic. Romance — that elusive more Marcus wanted — wasn’t in her future. Friendship was comfortable. Safe. She wasn’t going to ruin something working perfectly fine.
Yet, whether she told him yes or no, she would irrevocably alter their relationship forever. It was why she’d avoided him for as long as she could. She pulled her notebook tighter against her chest, unaware of the people trickling through the hall.
“Edie.”
Her name snapped her attention back to him. The problem was, she’d thought of nothing but him since he’d posited the question. Avoidance had turned to obsessive thinking. Her heart raced. She wanted him. Except she didn’t do relationships. She kept everything neat and tidy. Sex was in one box, carefully chosen partners who’d never inspire her to great heights of passion or idiocy, but who got the job done. Friendship was in another box, the value of someone who didn’t lie and told it straight too great to combine the boxes together.
It’d been insidious, the way Marcus had become her rock. Little by little, she hadn’t realized it until faced with the possibility of losing him. A no, whether he knew it or not, could drive a wedge between them. And if she said yes — well, Edie didn’t do relationships, not with her aunt Judy, locked in a state of nothingness after her uncle died, providing such a sterling example of how everything could go wrong.
Neither option was acceptable; nothing was guaranteed. His eyes were steady on her. His face was familiar, the angular lines of his jaw and cheekbones hidden by the dark stubble that told her he hadn’t shaved today. How would it feel against her skin? She shook her head to banish the thought. That was the absolute wrong direction to go. Her fingers itched to touch him.
His full lips curved into a smile. “Edie.”
“What?” She liked the way his mouth formed her name, the corners of his eyes crinkling, as if he was saying a favorite word.
He placed his hand at the small of her back and pushed her down the hall. “A little distracted today?”
A fleeting touch. He dropped his hand almost immediately, but phantom fingers caressed her back, the touch spreading out from its initial contact until it encompassed her entire body. She shivered.
He continued as if she had responded. “Saw your brother and Jane disappear.”
Edie glanced at him, her gaze drawn to the slight pucker of a scar on his neck, the exact spot where Jane had pressed a knife and drawn blood. How easily he could have died, had Will not interrupted. She shivered again, this time from the chill of what could have been.
“They’ve been spending a lot of time together,” he said. His tone was even, neutral. He was fishing for how she felt about the situation. Testing the topic. She would spill eventually, if he didn’t pry. He knew it as well as she did.
“In supply closets, you mean,” Edie said. “Not helping me as they should be.”
Her surroundings returned by degrees: the squeak of their shoes on the tiled floor, the low murmur of other soldiers as they passed by, the pungent odor of cleaning products. People nodded at them as they passed through the halls, but Edie watched without returning the gesture, too entranced by Marcus and where he could place his stubble to notice.
He bumped into her shoulder. “There are worse places to be.”
Did he wish they had their own supply closet? Her breath caught. She listed everywhere she’d rather not be instead. “The Hunter compound, toilet duty, the north. Not necessarily in that order.”
Marcus laughed, and she felt its reverberations under her skin. She listed toward him, missing his laugh. Why had she avoided him for so long? Oh, right. He wanted to irrevocably alter their relationship — and so did her horniness that had an inconvenient way of popping up every time he was near. She nearly tripped over her feet. Stall. If she got Marcus to leave, she wouldn’t have to answer his question. It’d worked for weeks already.
“I’m working on a new drink to help boost Gifted energy,” she lied. No one willingly stuck around for her concoctions. “I thought it might help my studies with joint illusions.”
“Need a test subject?”
She was impressed he managed to ask with a straight face, no trace of irony. “Yes.”
She stopped in her tracks, earning her a glare from the person behind her, who had to dart around her to avoid a collision. Edie waved an apology.
“Marcus.”
He seemed to know what she was driving at, even before she said anything. “You’ve avoided me long enough.”
She darted a quick look around the hallway. There were enough people that she felt their hungry eyes on her, waiting for the latest bit of drama. It was well known that she’d been responsible for sending Jane back to the Hunter compound — and that they were now working together. Their eyes lingered on her wherever she went, no doubt waiting for something interesting to happen. Let them wait.
“I don’t want to talk here.” She grabbed his arm and propelled them forward.
The tension and frustration at the slow progress with Will and Jane melted away as they entered her lab. The lights were low, barely illuminating the gleam of shiny glass and spotless counters. Spotless because someone had come in and straightened her papers to the side of her microscope. Her jaw clenched. They’d sent cleaners in again; despite insisting she worked better with a little chaos, it kept happening.
She tilted to the side, her nostrils flaring. Marcus. His arm was solid beneath her hand. She was still holding him. Letting go of Marcus as if she might be burned, she flipped on the lights and shot to the opposite side of the room. A safety net. No amount of physical space would be enough to separate her from Marcus’s question and its implications, but that didn’t mean she wouldn’t try.
She tossed her notebook onto the counter, watching with a smile when the corner hit her stack of papers and they went askew. A quick throb of her head wiped the smile off her face, and her shoulders slumped. She was tired. When had she last slept? Yesterday. No, before that. Too long. The enhancing drink she’d downed earlier must be wearing off.
But it was more than that. She was tired of chasing down her brother and Jane, tired of running from Marcus, tired of not finding any answers that would help her help Judy. Tired of running from life? She gave herself a mental shake. Surely not. She squared her shoulders and faced Marcus.
Before she could open her mouth — a blessing, that, considering she hadn’t formulated what she wanted to say — Marcus prowled further into the room, his movements strong, controlled, clipped. Her pulse quickened. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it up. A lock of hair flopped onto his forehead, and her fingers itched with the need to brush it off. He looked up at the ceiling, then set his green eyes on her, as if he could read her soul. He was going to force the issue.
Fine. She clutched her hands together. “Any answer I give you has the potential to change our friendship. You know I don’t do relationships. It would never work. And if I say no, you’ll resent me eventually.”
“You’re forgetting I’ve already changed our friendship by asking.”
Her eyes widened. She hadn’t considered that. The sound of her pen clicking filled the space. She looked down at it in her hand oddly, not remembering palming it.
“There are too many unknowns. We’re in stasis.” She crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow. Take that.
He cleared his throat. One corner of his mouth hooked up. “You’re avoiding me. There’s a difference.”
Her eyes darted to the door. Marcus was between her and freedom. Trapped. She put a hand over her stomach to settle its churning. He was right. She wanted to rewind to before this happened and continue on as if it hadn’t. If only she’d invented the time machine she’d attempted when she was twelve. A scientist’s regrets.
His gaze calculating, he continued his prowl through the room, invading her space. She escaped backward, held in thrall of the noiseless way he hunted her around the middle table. The counter was hard when she bumped into it. He crowded her, closing the gap until there was a bare inch between them. He was so close she could feel the heat radiating from his body, and her body answered, tilting toward his as if to steal his heat for herself. He raised his hand and twirled a stray piece of her hair around his finger.
“Think of it as an experiment.”
Her breath hitched, and time slowed, the increasing thump of her heart and his fingers in her hair the only two sensations capturing her attention. Her voice came out soft and slightly breathy and far too close to signs of arousal for her comfort. “An experiment.”
How intriguing. It would give them a definitive time limit and parameters. A way out. They could go back to friends when their sexual attraction ran its course — it always did for her. She could gracefully exit before they reached crucial tipping point; relationships ran the risk that one would end up like Judy. Will was already headed down that path with Jane. One of them had to keep their sanity — and their pants zipped.
“We can try it and see what happens.” He dropped her hair and tipped her chin up. “If you want more detail than that, you’ll have to come up with that yourself.”
“I’m not sure,” she said, but inside, her heart was tapping a yes. Yes to the way his fingers trailed desire across her skin.
His thumb brushed her bottom lip; his eyes lowered. “Perhaps a quick test to determine our compatibility?”
Her body thrummed. He knew how to play her, knew her well enough to say the right words. She was riveted by the way his green eyes had darkened and his head began the descent.
He was going to kiss her. Marcus was going to kiss her. And more than that, she wanted it. For all her hesitation, despite her reservations, she wanted him. Just not at the expense of their friendship. Her insides quickened. With only a split second to make a decision, she listened to the whisper deep inside and let her eyes flutter shut.
His lips met hers, and she came alive. Her focus narrowed down to the barest sensations. Her blood rushing through her veins. Her heart pounding, reaching out to him. The briefest caress of his hand sliding into her hair and pulling her closer. The abrasive rub of his stubble. Rough. That was what his stubble felt like against her skin. Answers.
Their bodies collided, any amount of space between them no longer acceptable. Lust spread through her as his lips moved over hers, coaxing her mouth open. Something within her loosened when he slid his tongue in, tasting her, encouraging her to do the same.
Teasing her with possibilities.
She put her hands on his chest. To explore or push him away, she wasn’t sure. The strength of her desire to strip off his clothes and hers until there was nothing between them frightened her. Marcus was her friend. Friend and lover weren’t boxes that were supposed to be mixed.
He lifted his head. She had to clench her fingers to keep from pulling his head back down to hers.
For weeks, she had been avoiding not Marcus, but this insidious feeling he’d awakened: the one that burned for him, that left her aching for more in the middle of the night.
He hadn’t let her go, despite ending the kiss. Their breaths rushed out, heavy, mingling with the hum of the machines. The counter was firm against her back, no longer cold. Not with the way her body raged with heat.
She didn’t want to leave the safety of his embrace. “An experiment.” She licked her lips, tasting him. “What’s your working hypothesis?”
A smile flashed across his face. His hands tightened around her arms and he pulled her in for another kiss that left her more unsatisfied than she’d ever been. An experiment meant an out, a way of indulging desire without getting hurt.
His facial hair scraped across her cheek. He nipped her ear. “That we’d be good together.”
Edie’s head tilted to allow him greater access; she didn’t bother insulting them both by playing dumb about what together meant. “How do we measure the results?”
“You’re having dinner with Judy tonight.” He found a spot, just behind her ear, and suckled until the pleasure pinched to pain. “We can discuss the details then.”
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Paintings that talk about Chagas disease
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CHAGAS DISEASE: A SERIES OF PAINTINGS
Between 2007 and 2008, the artist painted a series of 14 works depicting Chagas disease, its social context and his perspective on this neglected disease, naming it “the Chagas Series”. Dr Jorge Taverna Irigoyen, President of the Argentine National Academy of Fine Arts in 2007-2010 and the highest authority on visual arts in Argentina, has said the following about the Chagas Series and its creator: “Favre-Mossier paints those infected hearts. He paints the bugs. He paints the homes. He paints faces with swollen eyes, resigned to their fate. He paints blood. He paints bitter destiny and cruel fate with oily materials and harsh brushwork, harsh like the wounds he depicts. In his scenes of contrasting palettes you can see the moods of Nolde, Munch’s fury, the contours and textures of Kirchner and Macke, all German and Nordic expressionists who, in more than one way, evoked feelings of deep pathos. It’s an expressionism that asserts itself, not a tortured expressionism that accepts its fate. These paintings could complain, but they stake their claim instead. This is the voice of an authentic artist raising a battle cry for art that rejects euphemisms, art that is connected at its core to events, simple stories, cracks and rifts that no one else dares approach”. (May 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina.)
The series’ reach led to its exhibition at important events and in national and international museums and art galleries. Two of the pieces in the series are currently in the possession of the World Health Organization in Geneva. The artist declares that his work on Chagas disease prompted him to create other series such as “Water” and “Tsetse: the fly”.
néstor favre-mossier
pintor, fotógrafo y escultor
Néstor Favre-Mossier was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1962. He is a painter, photographer, sculptor and graphic designer. He started studying visual arts in 1983 and has taken part in workshops with renowned artists in Argentina and abroad. His travels to Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and France introduced him to the study of Flemish and Italian art. His personal story and diverse visual art disciplines intertwine in his creations, which have addressed current and complex subjects such as the rights of the child, the Falklands (Malvinas) War, Chagas disease, sleeping sickness and water.
A number of organizations own his paintings, including the World Health Organization and the World Council of Churches (both in Geneva, Switzerland), the Republic of Chad’s National programme to fight human African trypanosomiasis, and the Argentine National General Archive and the National Scientific and Technological Research Council, as well as several museums, educational institutions and private collections in Argentina and abroad. His work was prefaced by the President of the Argentine National Academy of Fine Arts in 2009 and the officer in charge of the Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) control and surveillance programme of the World Health Organization in 2014. He has displayed his work at more than 60 individual exhibitions and at around 20 collective exhibitions around the world.
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Pedro Albajar Viñas
Integrante de la secretaría técnica por parte de la OMS.
Manager of the Programme on Control of Chagas disease, Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, WHO.
Graduated in Medicine & Surgery by the University of Barcelona. Diploma of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene of The Royal College of Physicians of London. MSc Infection & Health in the Tropics by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. Doctorate in Tropical Medicine by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (IOC-Fiocruz). Former researcher in the Department of Tropical Medicine, IOC-Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro. Guest professor of the German Navy Institute of Medicine, Kiel, Germany; University of Barcelona; Autonomous University of Barcelona; IOC – Fiocruz, Brazil, among others. Tropical Medicine consultant of various governmental and non-governmental institutions, such as: National Health Foundation of the Ministry of Health of Brazil; National Park of Jau, Brazil; Médecins Sans Frontières Pan-American Health Organization; national networks of research and surveillance on tropical/neglected diseases; among others. Member of the scientific or organizer committees of several scientific events in various countries of Europe, South and North America. Coordinator of health projects in the Brazilian Amazon basin with the German and Spanish cooperation.
Stephanie Jourdan
Assistant to the Programme of Control of Chagas disease of WHO (since 2012), the Global Yaws Eradication Programme of WHO (since 2007) and the Global Buruli Ulcer Initiative (since 1999).
Wilson Oliveira Jr.
Degree in Medicine at the University of Pernambuco-UPE / Brazil. Specialist in Cardiology at the University of São Paulo-USP / Brazil.
Master in Tropical Medicine, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil.
Currently, Adjunct Professor of the discipline of Cardiology at the University of Pernambuco. Coordinator of the Reference Service in Chagas Disease of the State of Pernambuco-PROCAPE/UPE.
Collaborator in various research projects and publications in the field of international health (community health approach and Chagas’ disease). His research line involves the area of integral and multiprofessional care for patients with Chagas disease.
Founder and Foundational Member of the “Pernambuco Association of Patients with Chagas Disease” (APDCIM), the first association in the world, created in 1987.
Adviser of the FINDECHAGAS (International Federation of Associations of People Affected by Chagas Disease)
Maria Cristina Parada
Nacida en Bolivia, con nacionalidad española. Se licenció en Bioquímica y Farmacia, por la Universidad Mayor Real y Pontificia de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca, Bolivia. Especialista en Microbiología y Bacteriología, Universidad Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Realizó el Diploma de estudios avanzados e investigación, Universidad de Valencia – España; Máster en Medicina Tropical, Universidad de Valencia-España y Máster en Salud Internacional, Universidad de Alicante – España
Tiene diversas publicaciones y asistencia a congresos, sobre el tema de Chagas. Realizó el Curso de Lider Paciente Crónico Activo. Conselleria de Sanitat de la Comunidad Valenciana. España
Es socia Fundadora de ASAPECHAVAE (Asociación de afectados por la enfermedad de Chagas, voluntarios y amigos) Valencia – España, julio de 2009. Socia Fundadora de la Federación Internacional de Asociaciones de afectados por la enfermedad de Chagas (octubre de 2010). También es socia Fundadora de ACHACOVA ( Asociación de la enfermedad de Chagas de la Comunidad Valenciana).
A lo largo de su trayectoria profesional ha realizado diversas actividades relacionadas con los afectados por la enfermedad: Talleres, conferencias y charlas sobre la patología, a los colectivos provenientes de las zonas endémicas, personas autóctonas y sanitario. También Campañas de cribado para la enfermedad, si son positivos, derivados para su atención sanitaria, tratamiento si procede y posterior seguimiento. Atención Psicológica para portadores, familiares y entorno social. Encuentros de Ayuda Mutua y Autoayuda.
Mariella Anselmi
Graduada en Medicina y cirugía en la Universidad de Padua (Italia); Phd en Enfermedades Tropicales en la Universidad “La Sapienza” (Roma, Italia).
Desde 1979 voluntaria in Ecuador, provincia de Esmeraldas, en intervenciones de Atención Primaria de la Salud con enfoque de epidemiología comunitaria y control comunitario de problemas prevalentes (malaria, pian, oncocercosis).
Desde 1998 hasta 2010 coordinadora de la intervención en Chagas del Centro de Medicina Tropical del Hospital Sacro Cuore-Don Calabria de Negrar (Verona, Italia).
Es autora y coautora en diferentes publicaciones sobre la enfermedad de Chagas y la participación de la comunidad en el control de los problemas de salud prevalentes.
También es responsable de la intervención para el control comunitario del Chagas en algunas comunidades indígenas Awa de la provincia de Esmeraldas (Ecuador).
Además es Presidenta del Centro de Epidemiología Comunitaria y Medicina Tropical (Cecomet) de Esmeraldas (Ecuador), miembro fundador de la Ailmac (Associazione italiana di lotta alla malattia di Chagas) y asesora de FINDECHAGAS (Federación Internacional de Asociaciones de Personas Afectadas por la Enfermedad de Chagas).
Mariana Sanmartino
Biologist (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina), Specialist in Social Sciences, with mention in health (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales), Specialist in Epistemologies of the South (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales) and PhD in Education Sciences (Université de Geneve, Suisse).
The guiding thread of her career is the search for elements that make it possible to understand the problem of Chagas from an integral perspective and, at the same time, highlight the role of education and communication as key tools to address this complex and current issue.
Independent researcher of the National Board of Scientific and Technical Research (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET). Her current research subject is “Analysis and development of didactic strategies and resources to deal with Chagas disease in different educational contexts.” Her work is being developed in the “Grupo Didática de las Ciencias” (La Plata, Argentina), through research activities, teaching, communication and extension.
She is founder and coordinator of the group ¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de Chagas? (www.hablamosdechagas.com), whose main objective consists of promoting an approach of Chagas from an integrated and innovative perspective in different educational contexts, employing various languages to communicate understandings of the subject. Linking multiple voices, diverse artistic expressions and unconventional spaces, the group seeks to install the Chagas theme in different scenarios, aiming to strengthen the role of education and communication in the public treatment of this problem.
She is member of the Advisory Board of the International Federation of Associations of People Affected by Chagas Disease (FINDECHAGAS).
Ana Maria de Arruda Camargo
Assistente Social. Mestre em Serviço Social pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo- Brasil. Doutoranda em Gerontologia – Faculdade de Ciências Médicas –FCM- Universidade Estadual de Campinas-UNICAMP/Brasil.
Temas estudados, investigados, publicados: Controle Social e participação social de usuários no Hospital de Clínicas-UNICAMP. Atenção e cuidado à pessoa idosa na atenção básica de Saúde em Campinas. Chagas e Trabalho no Meio Urbano. Associações Civis e garantias dos direitos de saúde: experiência de um grupo de portadores de doença de Chagas. Desafios e perspectivas na organização do cuidado à saúde da população idosa na atenção básica – uma revisão bibliográfica.Exerce a atividade profissional no Hospital de Clínicas-HC/UNICAMP na atenção aos usuários atendidos no ambulatório de Doença de Chagas. Integra o Grupo de Estudos em Doença de Chagas-GedoCh/UNICAMP.
É membro do Conselho Científico da Associação de Portadores de Doença de Chagas de Campinas e Região-ACCAMP e do Conselho Consultivo da Federação Internacional de Associações de pessoas afetadas pela doença de Chagas-FINDECHAGAS.
É responsável pelo atendimento social, integrando a equipe de saúde, aos usuários do ambulatório de Geriatria.
Coordena o Grupo de Educação em Saúde “Flor da Terceira Idade”. É supervisora titular do Programa de Aprimoramento em “Serviço Social, Saúde e Envelhecimento” da FCM/UNICAMP.
Exerceu a tutoria do Curso de Educação a Distância –EAD “Saúde e Envelhecimento da Pessoa Idosa” da Fundação Osvaldo Cruz-FIOCRUZ.
Ministrou aula em Faculdades de Serviço Social: Faculdade Santa Lucia em Mogi Mirim, Faculdade Salesiana Dom Bosco em Americana e Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas.
Elabora e contribui na organização de material de cunho educativo e informativo: folhetos, vídeos, jornais, etc… relacionados a doença de Chagas, Doenças Negligenciadas, Direitos à saúde e Envelhecimento.
Participa, organiza e coordena eventos, fóruns de discussão, seminários relacionados a estes temas. Desenvolve abordagens sobre estes temas em oficinas, aulas, rodas de conversa. Contribui para o fortalecimento do controle social por parte da sociedade civil organizada, como as associações de pessoas vivendo com doença de Chagas para conquista de legislação como as Leis Municipais aprovadas em três municípios da região instituindo o Dia Municipal da Pessoa Vivendo com Doença de Chagas, a Semana Municipal de Conscientização sobre as Doenças Negligenciadas e o Projeto de Lei Nacional sobre Doenças Negligenciadas.
Andrea-Avaria
PhD in Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, from the University of Barcelona. Master in Anthropology and Development from the University of Chile, Social Worker from the Universidad de la Frontera in Chile.
In Barcelona she carried out an applied investigation with Bolivian people affected by Chagas disease, which allowed to know the ways in which people are affected by Chagas disease in the framework of migration and to understand, the mechanisms through which the team intervened in a non-endemic disease. Her research contributed to lay the foundations of community and social intervention, in relation to Chagas disease in Unitat de Medicina Internacional Drassanes at Barcelona.
She currently works in teaching and research at the Autonomous University of Chile and the Alberto Hurtado University. Develop social research in health. Currently thanks to a Postdoctoral Fondecyt (3160106) she develops the line of reproductive health and migrations. She has researched and published in areas of health and migration.
Hes interests in both intervention and research, has conjugated with other interest as photography, watercolor, elements that interact creatively, both in her intellectual work, as in working with groups and community intervention, as well as in the development of intervention strategies with people affected by Chagas disease.
It has laid the foundations of community work with the Bolivian population in the Unit of Tropical Medicine and International health Drassanes of the Catalan Institute of Health, has been a founding member of the Association of people affected by Chagas disease and adviser of the International federation of associations of people affected by Chagas disease FINDECHAGAS.
Arturo Solari
Fine Arts artist, Expressive Arts Therapist (ISPA Institute, Barcelona, Spain), Educational Expressive Arts Facilitator (Salve Regina University, RI, USA) and Social Educator (UNED University, Spain).
Born in Mexico City (Mexico), he developed as a Fine Arts artist at various art institutes in Mexico and Catalonia (Spain), as well as at different artists’ studios and ateliers, some of them in Italy.
He has presented more than a hundred solo and group exhibitions in numerous countries. His artistic work relates to the intention of Art as an instrument of transformation of consciousness and society.
He has coordinated several public pictorial projects, murals and artistic works.
He has worked with expressive arts for a wide range of groups: inmates in penitentiary centres, substance abusers, HIV-AIDS affected, migrants, illiterate adults, women victims of violence, elderly, children and teenagers with personality disorders, Chagas disease affected, etc.
Between 2009 and 2017 he was part of the chore educational staff at the Expressive Arts Therapy Master Degree at ISPA and IATBA Institutes (Barcelona).
As an expressive arts therapist, he consults privately in Girona (Spain). He also offers professional supervision on the same field.
Since 2006 has participated in several artistic, educational, therapeutic and healthcare programs for a variety of peoples related to the Chagas disease in different areas, all driven at the Drassanes-Vall d’Hebron Unit of Tropical Diseases and International Medicine (Barcelona).
Since 2017 he is a current member of the WHO TG6-IEC.
Cristina Carrazzone
Degree in Medicine and Specialist in Hematology at the University of Pernambuco-UPE / Brazil.
Master in Public Health, by the Ministry of Health / Oswaldo Cruz
Foundation / Aggeu Magalhães-FIOCRUZ Research Center. Medicine Member of the Reference Service in Chagas Disease of the State of Pernambuco-PROCAPE / UPE.
Collaborator in various research projects and publications in Chagas’ disease. Her research line involves the social, cultural and artistic area for patients with Chagas disease Coordinator of CorArte Project: Heart with Art, developed with patients in service in the Reference Service.
Adviser and Member of the “Pernambuco Association of Patients with Chagas Disease” (APDCIM), the first association in the world, created in 1987.
Adviser of the FINDECHAGAS (International Federation of Associations of People Affected by Chagas Disease).
Isabel Claveria Guiu
Diploma in nursing. Master in International Health and Tropical Medicine. Post degree in Health Promotion and Health Education (University of Barcelona).
Author of the pedagogical guide of the Program of the expert patient Catalonia® in chronic phase Chagas disease of the Catalan Institute of Health. Trainer of expert patients and coordinator of patient groups. Author of various educational materials: “Saber o no saber. Me siento bien, dicen que tengo la enfermedad de Chagas” (informative and documentary film about Chagas disease in an european context), “Around me” (educational game about the determinants of health).
Principal investigator of the research module project for primary care professionals Barcelona. XB 2012 Plan of the Institut Català de la Salut. Research: “Knowledge regarding Chagas disease in patients and health professionals, in a non-endemic environment: are there differences?”
Founding member of the Association Friends of the Personas affected by the Chagas disease (ASAPECHA) where continues to be an active member. Organizing member of the FINDACHAGAS Assemble in Barcelona (2012).
She works as a nurse in the Health Unit of International Drassanes-Vall d’Hebron of Barcelona since 1999, serving people affected by Chagas disease and working with their communities.
Jordi Gómez i Prat
Degree in Medicine and Surgery, Universitat de Barcelona. Specialist in Clinical Infectology and Parasitology, Fundação Medicina Tropical, Manaus, Brasil. Master Science in Public Health, “Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública/Fundação Oswaldo Cruz”. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Currently, Consultant physician at the Infectology Department-International Health Drassanes Unit, Hospital, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Collaborator in various research projects and publications in the field of international health (community health approach in Sexual Affective Health, Tuberculosis and Chagas’ disease and in the Health Determinants). Previously collaborator in research and public health projects in the field of malaria and public health in the Amazon basin, Brazil.
Artist, mainly in the fields of drawing, painting and writing. Both disciplines, medicine and art, are used in his career for the creation of Health Education tools (www.espictools.cat), in different formats (games, songs, documental, animations, …), specific in the field of International Health.
Foundational Member of the “Asociación de Personas Afectadas por la Enfermedad de Chagas de Barcelona” (ASAPECHA). Adviser of the FINDECHAGAS (International federation of associations of people affected by Chagas disease)
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Equality, diversity and inclusion: a strategic initiative | by Yasmine Miemiec
Globally, many organisations recognise that diversity means good business, that embracing a multiplicity of viewpoints and cultures drives innovation, improves decision-making, increases employee productivity and retention, and leads to better served customers. Yet, despite 77% of executives stating their strong support for diversity and inclusion initiatives, a Global Labour market survey found that only 40% of employees believe that their organisations are truly diverse and inclusive.
Companies around the world are legally and ethically compelled to implement practices that ensure discrimination is eliminated and expectations of equality are always met in the workplace. Laws (with varying coverage and implementation) are designed to encourage that all workers be treated equally and be given the same set of opportunities regardless of age, gender, sexuality, disability, culture or any other feature that might be discriminated against.
In South Africa, in particular, legislation exists to ensure that an inclusive working environment is always fostered, and that any form of ‘difference’ should never present an obstacle to obtaining a job or to career advancement. There, organisations are incentivised to hire a more diverse workforce and to remove the barriers to development that stand in the way of previously disadvantaged groups.
This legislation is important and well meaning, but it has also bred a culture where many companies focus on equality diversity and inclusion (EDI) management as an issue of compliance and ‘getting the numbers right’. EDI is so much more than that. With a compliance viewpoint, companies are blind to the creation of an organisational culture that encourages the effective contribution of all employees to the mission and objectives of the organisation. It also means missing out the opportunities for increased innovation, better access to talent, and improved business performance.
Benefits of EDI
A good EDI programme has many benefits for staff and organisations alike: the working environment is improved, productivity is heightened, and success and business performance increases. When staff in an organisation feel that their differences are understood and appreciated, and when there are no barriers to job access and progression, employee morale is lifted, which in turn raises motivation and productivity.
Encouraging understanding of and respect for diversity among the staff results in contrasting perspectives and experiences being encouraged, which leads to team harmony and productivity. Communication among team members becomes more effective and this too leads to efficiency. Treating diverse employees equally means that staff members know that they will be given commensurate opportunities for promotion and progression, resulting in better retention and loyalty.
Employing people from all walks of life gives business a boost through having access to a wide range of knowledge, skills, experience, and even markets. A competitive edge is gained from the increased market share, improved productivity, and the resulting boost in company profile.
Some of the key benefits of actively seeking and encouraging a diverse workforce are:
Knowledge of different sectors of the workforce can be used for business benefit,
A better understanding of market segments and behaviour can be attained,
The organisation becomes an employer of choice,
A wider talent pool becomes available for recruitment,
The workforce becomes more representative and therefore, more balanced.
So how do organisations close the gap between executive and employee perception?
There are five best practices which have been developed for enterprises to look beyond the visible differences of gender, age, and race and to arrive at an acceptance of diversity of all types.
Looking beyond compliance, to understanding that building a truly inclusive organisation involves creating a workforce as diverse as the customer base and then using those difference to drive business.
Identifying new talent pools. Increasing employees are having to look beyond traditional sources of universities and industry bodies to identify new talent.
Addressing diversity in every aspect of talent management. Diversity and inclusion need to be incorporated into every phase of talent management – from recruiting and onboarding, to professional development training, performance management and career-pathing.
Creating ways for people to connect. Organisations can foster inclusion is through organising employee affinity groups or communities within the company which allow people of similar backgrounds and experiences to connect.
Making diversity part of the brand. Companies need to let the world know that they embrace differences and welcome all people.
Yasmine Miemiec is a Senior Associate at Bespoke CfSD Group and a director of 5Inc, a project implementation company operating in the areas of B-BBEE implementation and corporate waste reengineering - www.bespoke.co.za
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The Jewish Agency / Education / Israel / Antisemitism / Recommended Reading
Arafat and the Terror Record
Contemporary Terror and Victims
Core Issues in the Conflict
US Policy Considerations
New Survey: Aliyah from
France Doubles
New Survey
Aliyah from has doubled in the past 15 years. Results of a recently published survey, "The Jews of
France, Values and Identity," reveal that 6 percent said they would make aliyah "very soon" double the
percentage of the last survey in 1988. That number was 12 percent among families with school-age
children, and 28 percent among families with children attending Jewish schools. These figures were
confirmed Jewish Agency data, which showed that aliyah from France doubled in 2002 to more than
2,500. On the other hand, percent of respondents said they had no intention of moving to Israel, up
from 40 percent in 2002.
Muslims, Jews and the 11 September the British Case
http://www.axt.org.uk/essays/Wistrich.htm
Robert Wistrich
Up-to-date survey of fomentation, motives, friction and the causal connection to antisemitic
violence and sentiment from Muslim groups in the UK, with a direct connection from the centre
to terrorist training camps.
Burning Synagogues
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=105001871
Review & Outlook Editorial
The Wall Street Journal [Opinion] Thursday April 4, 2002
Call for French moral standards: for denunciation of & action on French Antisemitism by the
gov't, especially given Europe's antisemitic history. Sharp criticism of Israel's action against
Arafat is not balanced by condemnation of suicide bombings, and smacks of blaming the Jews.
60 Minutes: The Arafat Papers [his link with Iran and Iraq]
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=13888
Rumors about links between the PA, and international terror groups have always been denied by Yasser Arafat and dismissed in the western media as propaganda designed to discredit Arafat. A recent CBS 60 Minutes segment reveals some of the secret documents captured by Israeli soldiers from Arafat’s compound in Ramallah during their recent operation there earlier in the year. The documents not only implicate Arafat as being directly involved, but they also show just how much of a part the terror network plays in PA politics.
Why Arafat?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27065
Joseph Farah
WorldNetDaily.com, Wed, Apr 3, 2002
Wanton slaughter of Christians continues at Arafat's orders; US support gives him credence,
while contributions maintain this regime of persecution & terror.
The Cancer of Suicide Bombing
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/opinion/_03WED1.html
[registration required to view article]
The New York Times, Wed, Apr 3, 2002
Call to denounce suicide bombing. Exposes it as twisted logic, a danger to free societies; its
continuation is an abdication of leadership responsibility to Palestinian citizens by Arafat & the
PA..
Suicidal Lies
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/31/opinion/31FRIE.html
Thomas L. Friedman
The New York Times March 31, 2002
Palestinians are testing a new form of warfare - not acting 'out of desperation"' - a 'strategic
choice' to destroy. Israel 'needs to deliver' a blow; US should stand strong on terror,
sympathizers and talks.
Arafat's War
The Wall Street Journal Saturday, March 30, 2002
Incitement creates & feeds menace of suicide bombers as a culture; Arafat and the PA laud
affliction & prone radicalism. Arafat does not govern or build, except a war instrument to hurt and
combat Israel
The Road Map
I: International All, Nothing or Something?
II: Update: Hopes and Fears
Gila Ansell-Brauner
The process behind the Middle East Road Map and its content come together in the context of Allied victory over Saddam Hussein. Explore the motives, the mechanisms and the content together in this series, with perspectives from reputable sources; analyze and reflect on the main issues in our Forum.
Who Killed Muhammad Al-Dura?
http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp482.htm
Amnon Lord
6 Av 5762 / 15 July 2002
Muhammad Al-Dura, the child who became the symbol of the Al Aksa Intifada, was not killed by
IDF gunfire at Netzarim junction, according to an inquiry by the German ARD television network.
The Palestinians, in cooperation with foreign journalists and the UN, arranged a well-staged
production.
Palestinian Voices: A Deep Despair
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/weekinreview/14SCHM.html?8hpib
Photo Essay by Erge Schmemann and Ruth Fremson
Based on the title, one might expect to find an article highlighting Palestinian suffering in an
attempt to provide a "balanced" picture of the conflict between Israel and the PA. It's not.
Instead, this person-on-the-street slide show shows primarily a segment of Palestinian society
frustrated by the current situation. And while they find fault with Israel's actions, they are also
frustrated and angered by Arafat's actions and PA corruption. It's hard to tell, however, how much
of the society they represent.
What Did You Do While
Israel Was Destroyed?
http://jewishworldreview.com/0502/what_did_u_do.html
David Pearlmutter
David Pearlmutter, Associate Professor at Louisiana State University and senior fellow at the
Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs raises a number of questions we should be asking
ourselves about our own actions (or lack thereof) during this most crucial period in Israel's
history. As much as the media may be to blame, the real causes behind Israel's lack of positive
media position may be closer to home than we care to think. The ultimate question we have to
answer, however, is expressed in the headline
An Impossible Occupation
New York Time Magazine, May 12, 2002
Scott Anderson puts us in the center of the conflict, both military and moral, facing Israeli
soldiers during Operation Defensive Shield. A group of Israeli reservists from an elite IDF
paratrooper squad, whose personal political opinions run the gamut from left to right, struggle to
carry out their objective of flushing out terrorist while preventing unnecessary casualties or
damage to Palestinian property. An insightful and very important article. (note: If you do not
subscribe to the NYTimes online you must register to read this article)
Journalistic License: Professional Standards in the Print Media's Coverage of Israel
Jeff Helmreich
Jerusalem Letter / Viewpoints, 15 August 2001
A highly detailed analysis of mis-translation and deliberate omissions of Palestinian
broadcasting by western electronic media, from TV to press. Also the blurring of report and
opinion distinctions in judgmental writing. Extends to journalistic patterns of identification with
the Palestinian cause, thus blaming Israel, while ignoring terrorism and previous core issues.
Urges professional critique, focusing on errors as the only acceptable input to newspapers. Well
referenced
Truth About Israeli Casualties is Being Ignored in this War
Barbara Amiel
The Daily Telegraph 15/04/2002
Press reports ignore context: the deliberate incitement to terror and shielding of terrorists in
civilian population, as well as facts and names. The UK press ignores heavy Israeli casualties,
offering anecdotal "spoilt kids" travails and Goebbels- style propaganda, especially Paulin's
slander and Clark's inaccuracies. The EU is noxious - fearing terror at home, their immigrants'
reactions, oil supply problems; together with left newspeak and the misplacing of the underdog,
they are also anti-US. If no real peace is offered by the Arabs, the possible outcomes are
frightening.
This War Tells Us More about Europe than the
The international establishment, France, Norway has a proven track record of being wrong - will
the US join them? Arab interests discourage PA denunciation of terror; problems with Israel
delay the US attack on Iraq and terror linked to Saudi Arabia. The victories in the war of terror
come via the media and violence the French government won't address. Muslim violence
worldwide is ignored; Europe is bent on appeasement.
Did Journalists Help Palestinian Fugitives Escape?
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=105001857
The Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web Today
Good review of biased journalism.
The Media's Giant Error - It's Tiny
Israel that Faces a Pitiless Goliath
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/tbray/?id=105001859
Thomas J. Bray
The Wall Street Journal Apr 2, 2002
Well set-out examples of biased TV reporting and focus
Israel's War is America's War Too
Identity of interests and concerns Israel-US
Bush's Mideast Charade
William Safire
The New York Times October 25, 2001
The Bush administration knows full well that Israel cannot turn the other cheek when one of its
cabinet ministers is assassinated
Don't Feed Israel To The Beast
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/10/07/ED115596.DTL
Debra J. Saunders
San Francisco Chronicle October 7, 2001
Bin Laden would be there, even if Israel did not exist; no appeasement of mass murderers; without US support, Israel would have to defend itself to the last person; the free world must
prevail. If not, terror will go on to its next target
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How to Stage Your Show Without Being Super Racist
Some "friendly unsolicited pointers" for the Lantern Theater Company's production of 'Julius Caesar'
In Philadelphia, the Lantern Theater Company is currently wrapping up the run of its annual Shakespearean offering, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. This time, they've put a twist on the great tragedy by changing up the Roman Republic and setting the play in medieval Japan. That's great, except there isn't a whole lot in this production that's legitimately Japanese -- most notably, a glaring lack of Japanese actors.
Japanese Actor Makoto Hirano Calls Lantern Theater's Julius Caesar Racist
Dance theater artist (and actual Japanese person) Makoto Hirano saw the play, and it did not sit well with him. So he drafted a letter to the Lantern Theater Company outlining some "friendly unsolicited pointers" on How to Stage Your Show Without Being Super Racist. PROTIP: "DON'T say you were inspired by feudal Japan and then not cast any Japanese actors." Seems like that should have been a big one.
Here's Hirano's full letter, hand-delivered to the Lantern staff last week:
From The Nightingale to The Orphan of Zhao, this seems to keep happening. Some theater companies just can't help themselves with the cultural drag -- boy, do they love it! -- while consistently neglecting to include any actual Asian persons in their plays. Ironically, I can't help but be reminded of my favorite line from Kill Bill, Vol. 1: "Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with samurai swords." Silly indeed.
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Five-point possession spurs Lady Blue to win
FARWELL — One possession just before halftime helped Farwell’s girls take control against Springlake-Earth.
Senior Nikki Gober grabbed an offensive rebound and pitched the ball out to freshman Britton Barrett, who banged in a 3-pointer from the left wing — one of only two 3-point baskets by the Lady Blue all night.
On the play, teammate Bea Garcia was fouled off the ball and converted both free throws, and Farwell went on to a 51-36 District 3-1A win over the Lady Wolverines.
The five-point possession extended a two-point lead to seven, marking the first time either team had led by more than four, and Springlake-Earth (12-7, 1-2) never got any closer.
While Farwell’s perimeter game was not working Friday night, the Lady Blue (11-11, 3-0) rode a balanced attack to victory, led by 10 points each from Gober and senior Chelsea Meyer.
“It was one of my better games,” said Gober, who hit 5-of-6 shots from the field and grabbed seven rebounds. “We had a rough start at the beginning of the season, but I think things are picking up for us.”
Tuesday night, the Lady Blue visits Sudan (18-4, 3-0) in a district showdown, and Gober is hoping her team can accomplish a first.
“We’ve never won against Sudan,” she said. “It’ll be tough competition for us, but I know we can do it.”
The teams met in a recent tournament at Littlefield, with the Hornettes winning by eight points.
“They’ll be out to get us,” Farwell assistant coach Korey Conklin said. “We know what to expect from them, and hopefully we’ll play a good game. We just have to get geared up and ready to play.
“We had some leaders step up tonight. Nikki was all over the place. Every time I looked up, she was where the ball was.”
Neither team got ahead by more than two points until Farwell strung together a 6-0 run for a 17-13 lead with 1:40 left in the half.
After a basket by Springlake-Earth sophomore Courtney Miller, the five-point possession followed. Farwell opened a 10-point lead in the first minute of the third quarter and led by double figures over the final 12 1/2 minutes.
The Lady Wolverines have put together a good record despite a young roster which had two freshmen and two sophomores in Friday’s starting lineup. The only senior comes off the bench.
Meantime, six of Farwell’s nine players are seniors.
“I think a big difference was our experience, and they’re kind of young,” Conklin said. “They’ll be a factor next year when they have more experience.”
Miller, a lefty, scored 11 of her game-high 15 points in the first half for Springlake-Earth.
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Reviews, Qs and News
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Team-Up Review: 'Secret Wars #9' Spectacularly Sparks a Multiverse
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What Looks Good for Quarantine Week 8 – It Ain’t Easy Being Green
We’re inching closer to new comics (that aren’t DC) making a return, but we aren’t quite there yet as most publishers have stayed in quarantine. So as you exercise caution and stay safely at home, these are some stories you might want to check out in order to pass the time. Coincidentally, each of these books feature characters with verde visages.
(w) Dan Slott (a) Juan Bobillo, Paul Pelletier, Scott Kolins
Dan Slott is one of the most polarizing creators in modern comics. His long tenure as Spider-Man’s writer was divisive (except for Superior Spider-Man). His tenure on Iron Man and Fantastic Four have been met with a similar reaction. Even his acclaimed run on Silver Surfer has its detractors. But the one work of his that is rarely criticized is She-Hulk. This 12-issue run is often considered the defining portrayal of Jennifer Walters. Mixing courtroom drama, slice-of-life storytelling, and a dose of superhero bombast, She-Hulk is a complete package.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (vol.1)
(w/a) Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird (a) Jim Lawson
Now might be a perfect time to revisit (or visit for the first time) the original comics starring the heroes-in-a-half-shell. Most are probably aware that the original first issue out of Mirage Studios is much grittier than the beloved 1980s cartoons or 1990s movies. However, the original TMNT “continuity” only comprises a handful of issues of the original volume’s 62 issues, as the series was mostly an anthology book with different creators taking a crack at these characters. Arguably the crowning achievement of this series is the 13-part “City at War” storyline, which I had the pleasure of covering over at the TMNT Fansite.
Planet Hulk
(w) Greg Pak (a) Carlo Pagulayan, Aaron Lopresti (i) Jeffrey Huet (c) Chris Sotomayor
One of the best Hulk stories of all time, and a partial basis for the movie Thor: Ragnarok, Greg Pak’s Planet Hulk takes Marvel’s jolly green giant and sets him on a classic hero’s journey. From being exiled from Earth, to facing a series of trials, and ultimately returning home victorious and stronger than when he left, this Hulk story has more in common with the mythology of ancient Greece than it does with typical superhero fare. Considering that the follow-up, World War Hulk, is just as compelling, you ought to be angry if you haven’t already read Planet Hulk.
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181. Russian Policy Toward the Middle East Under Yeltsin and Putin
Author: Robert O. Freedman
Publication Date: 09-2001
Content Type: Policy Brief
Institution: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Abstract: Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, its main successor state, Russia, emerged in a greatly weakened geopolitical position. Complicating Russia's problems was a politically weak and often physically sick President Boris Yeltsin. Concerned about its "soft underbelly" in Transcaucasia and Central Asia, regions that were threatened by radical Islam, Moscow focused its Middle East efforts on Turkey and Iran, both of which had a considerable amount of influence in the two regions. Moscow sold nuclear reactors and sophisticated military equipment to Iran, as the two countries developed a tactical alliance. Russia had a more mixed relationship with Turkey, alternating between confrontation and cooperation. Russia also sought to get the sanctions lifted against Iraq, a development that would strengthen the greatly troubled Russian economy as well as help Russia politically. In the case of Israel, Moscow developed very close cultural, economic, and military ties, although there were a number of ups and downs in diplomatic relations. Under Putin, there was a more centralized control over Russian foreign policy as the new Russian leader sought to have a more assertive foreign policy for his country, and became much more active than Yeltsin had been in promoting Russian interests in the Middle East.
Topic: Security, Religion
Political Geography: Russia, Iran, Turkey, Middle East, Arabia
182. Journalistic License: Professional Standards in the Print Media's Coverage Media's Coverage of Israel
Author: Jeff Helmreich
Abstract: On May 15, 2001, the Associated Press circulated an article covering Arafat's Al-Naqba speech, marking the day Palestinians recall the "catastrophe" of the creation of the State of Israel. The article boasted direct quotations of the Palestinian leader's statements. They had been spoken in Cairo, broadcast on Palestinian radio stations, and blared out from loudspeakers into the streets of Nablus and Ramallah and all across Gaza. But something happened to the speech on the way to AP's wire report. By the time it reached the newspapers, entire sentences and clauses had been excluded; moderating words had been added; fiery attacks — like a slur about the United States — had been cleaned out; statements had been condensed, enhanced, or otherwise altered. In short, AP's purported "excerpts" of Arafat's remarks were at best edited, at worst fabricated. Moreover, they served to distort (and significantly soften) the message that passed through Arafat's lips.
Political Geography: United States, Middle East, Israel, Palestine, Arabia, Gaza
183. Why Israel Rejects "Observers"
Author: Saul Singer
Abstract: In the midst of an already crumbling cease-fire, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell dropped what to Israeli ears was a bombshell. Standing next to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat after their June 2001 meeting in Ramallah, Powell said, "I think as we get into the confidence-building phase there will be a need for monitors and observers to...make an independent observation of what has happened." Within hours, Powell punctured his own trial balloon by ruling out any mechanism opposed by Israel. Less than one month later, the observer issue was once again thrust to the fore when the G-8 foreign ministers unanimously called for dispatching "third-party monitors" to the region, as long as they were acceptable to both sides. Why should the seemingly innocuous matter of observers top the Palestinian agenda and be such an anathema to Israel?
Political Geography: Middle East, Israel, Palestine, Arabia
184. Israel Looks Over the Horizon: Responding to the Threats of Weapons Proliferation
Author: Gerald M. Steinberg
Abstract: The wave of Palestinian violence and terrorism that began at the end of September 2000 led to a widespread tendency to focus exclusively on Israeli-Palestinian political and security relationships. This narrow concentration of attention is potentially misleading and obscures the fundamental security threats that Israel is facing at the beginning of the twenty-first century. These threats come primarily from the wider Middle Eastern environment, extending from Libya and Egypt (and to a lesser degree, North Africa) to Iraq and Iran. Indeed, the Palestinian strategy is based, to a large degree, on widening the circle of conflict through escalation and regionalizing the confrontation. As a result, the importance of strategic deterrence, in response to revived coalitions and new military capabilities that threaten Israeli security, should be a basic factor in Israeli planning.
Topic: Security, Environment, Religion
Political Geography: Middle East, Israel, Libya, Arabia, Egypt
185. Anti-Semitism Revived: The Impact of the Intifada on Muslim Immigrant Groups in Western Democracies
Author: Raphael Israeli
Abstract: Since the Al-Aqsa Intifada erupted in the Middle East in late September 2000, an almost simultaneous wave of violent anti-Jewish and anti-Israel sentiment has accompanied it in the Western democracies, initiated and executed mainly by locally nationalized Arab or Muslim immigrants, long established or recent arrivals, legal or illegal. Due to the ubiquity in space, synchronicity in time, and similarity in style and content of these events, one wonders whether they were all triggered and managed centrally, or spread by emulation from one part of the globe to another.
Political Geography: Middle East, Israel, Arabia
186. Untenable Linkages: Tying a Cessation of Palestinian Violence to an Israeli Settlement Freeze
Author: Dore Gold
Abstract: Israel has been increasingly facing new diplomatic initiatives that, in effect, call for a freeze in Israeli settlement activity in exchange for a cessation of the eight-month-old, low-scale warfare on the part of the PLO, which the Palestinians call the Al-Aqsa Intifada. This new linkage has arisen in two distinct forms. First, according to early versions of the Egyptian-Jordanian Initiative of April 2001, the Palestinians are called upon to end incitement to violence and guarantee security cooperation, but Israel is expected, inter alia, to freeze new settlement activity.
Political Geography: Middle East, Israel, Arabia, Egypt
187. The Sovereign Self: Jewish Identity in Post-Modern America
Author: Steven M. Cohen, Arnold M. Eisen
Abstract: Molly is a physician in her forties who lives in suburban Boston: thoughtful, soft-spoken, and extremely articulate—reason enough to take careful note of what she has to say about the formative experiences which led to her current commitments as a Jew. There is another reason as well: because the key words in this passage from our conversation, "I remember," are repeated no less than three times. What Molly and the other Jews we interviewed remember of their Jewish journeys, and—more importantly— how they remember it, provide the clues to a new sort of Jewish self emerging in the United States in recent decades.
Topic: Security, Religion, Sovereignty
Political Geography: America, Middle East, Arabia
188. Jewish Life in Ukraine at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: Part One
Author: Betsy Gidwitz
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ICANN loses comms chief to Fannie Mae
Kevin Murphy, February 22, 2018, Domain Policy
ICANN’s top PR guy has quit for a job at Fannie Mae.
Duncan Burns, senior vice president of global communications and managing director of the Washington DC office, will leave the organization next month after the ICANN 61 meeting in Puerto Rico.
Burns has been leading comms at ICANN for five years. Last year, he also took over as ICANN’s lead DC lobbyist, a reduced role in the post-IANA-transition world.
He told DI that he’s going to be VP of external communications at Fannie Mae, the mortgage finance company.
ICANN said that while a permanent replacement is found his deputy Gwen Carlson will take over the comms role while Chris Mondini, VP of stakeholder engagement, will cover US government relations.
If anyone’s wondering how this affects ICANN’s current budget discussions, Burns received total compensation in excess of $415,000 in 2016, ICANN’s last-reported tax year.
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Suicidalism
The most important weapons of al-Qaeda and the rest of the Islamist
terror network are the suicide bomber and the suicide thinker. The
suicide bomber is typically a Muslim fanatic whose mission it is to
spread terror; the suicide thinker is typically a Western academic or
journalist or politician whose mission it is to destroy the West’s
will to resist not just terrorism but any ideological challenge at all.
But al-Qaeda didn’t create the ugly streak of nihilism and
self-loathing that afflicts too many Western intellectuals. Nor, I
believe, is it a natural development. It was brought to us by
Department V of the KGB, which was charged during the Cold War with
conducting memetic warfare that would destroy the will of the West’s
intelligentsia to resist a Communist takeover. This they did with
such magnificent effect that the infection outlasted the Soviet Union
itself and remains a pervasive disease of contemporary Western
intellectual life.
Consider the following propositions:
There is no truth, only competing agendas.
All Western (and especially American) claims to moral superiority
over Communism/Fascism/Islam are vitiated by the West’s history of racism and
colonialism.
There are no objective standards by which we may judge one culture
to be better than another. Anyone who claims that there are such
standards is an evil oppressor.
The prosperity of the West is built on ruthless exploitation of
the Third World; therefore Westerners actually deserve to be
impoverished and miserable.
Crime is the fault of society, not the individual criminal.
Poor criminals are entitled to what they take. Submitting to
criminal predation is more virtuous than resisting it.
The poor are victims. Criminals are victims. And only
victims are virtuous. Therefore only the poor and criminals
are virtuous. (Rich people can borrow some virtue by identifying
with poor people and criminals.)
For a virtuous person, violence and war are never justified. It
is always better to be a victim than to fight, or even to defend oneself.
But “oppressed” people are allowed to use violence anyway; they are
merely reflecting the evil of their oppressors.
When confronted with terror, the only moral course for a Westerner
is to apologize for past sins, understand the terrorist’s point of
view, and make concessions.
These ideas travel under many labels: postmodernism, nihilism,
multiculturalism, Third-World-ism, pacifism, “political correctness”
to name just a few. It is time to recognize them for what they are,
and call them by their right name: suicidalism.
Trace any of these back far enough (e.g. to the period between 1930
and 1950 when Department V was at its most effective) and you’ll find
a Stalinist at the bottom. Among the more notorious examples ware:
Paul de Man — racist and Nazi propagandist turned Stalinist, and
fonder of postmodernism; Jean-Paul Sarte, who described the effects
of Stalinism as “humane terror” and helped invent existentialism; and
Paul Baran, who developed the thesis that capitalism depended on the
immiseration of the Third World after Marx’s immiseration of the
proletariat failed to materialize.
Al-Qaeda didn’t launch any of these memes into the noosphere, but
it relies on them for political cover. They have another effect as
well: when Islamists characterize the West as “decadent”, and aver
that it is waiting to collapse in on itself at the touch of jihad,
they are describing quite correctly and accurately the effects of
Western suicidalism.
Stalinist agitprop created Western suicidalism by successfully
building on the Christian idea that self-sacrifice (and even
self-loathing) are the primary indicators of virtue. In this way of
thinking, when we surrender our well-being to others we store up grace
in Heaven that is far more important than the momentary discomfort of
submitting to criminals, predatory governments, and terrorists.
The Communist atheists of Department V understood that Christian
self-abnegation tends to inculcate a cult of self-sacrifice even among
Westerners who are themselves agnostics or atheists. All the
propagandists had to do was make the case that the value of
self-abnegation applies to culture as well as individuals. By doing
so, they were able to entrench the idea that suicidalists are morally
superior to non-suicidalists.
They did this so successfully that at least one major form of
Western self-abnegation seems to have developed as a secondary
phenomenon: “deep environmentalism”. I can’t find any sign that this
traces back to the usual Stalinist suspects, but it is rather
obviously a result of generalizing suicidalism not just to culture but
to species.
I think it’s important to understand that, although suicidalism
builds on some pre-existing pathologies of Western culture, it is not
a native or natural development. It is an infection that evildoers
and their dupes created and then spread as part of a war against the
West; their goal was totalitarian control, and part of their method
was to talk the West into slitting its own throat.
Al-Qaeda’s goal is the restoration of the Caliphate and the
imposition of shari’a law on the West so that the Dar al-Harb is
abolished and absorbed into the Dar al-Islam. In other words,
totalitarian theocracy. Western suicidalists have transferred
their allegience from Communism to Islamofascism without a hitch.
They’re doing their best to see that we lose — and their
best is rather more effective than any bombing campaign.
Thus, to defeat al-Qaeda, stopping the suicide bombers is
not sufficient. We must recognize, condemn, and reject the
suicide thinkers as well.
UPDATE: Readers who think I’m peddling mere conspiracy theory here should read
Double Lives : Stalin, Willi Munzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals for a description of the way KGB disinformation activity, espionage and memetic warfare fused in the 1930s.
MORE: Some intelligent comments on these memes
here, pointing out that they get their
infectivity from being partially true.
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164 thoughts on “Suicidalism”
Kublai on 2005-09-13 at 14:05:11 said:
Interesting position. I will have to do some reading to fill in the knowledge gaps I have in the Stalin era and the Cold War.
A salient point here is that humility, a virtue that enables perspective, is not the same as self-loathing. Although we certainly shouldn’t loathe ourselves as individuals, we shouldn’t be prideful either. Either extreme leads to destruction; if anything, the average Westerner needs to become more humble in their outlook.
RvnPhnx on 2005-09-13 at 14:34:07 said:
Umm…..bud I hate to tell you that a lot of the stuff you claim that “Department V” put forth into the American psyche has been with us since the begining–literally. The conflicts between reasonable basic idea (my culture need not be automatically better than yours) and the messed-up interpretation (therefore it is okay for you to torture your women and children) are as old as the self-doubt and rationalization of the Puritian colonists–they are just a different manifestation of the same basic problem. I won’t touch your conspiracy theory here–I’ll let somebody else attempt to shoot their foot off instead.
Barry on 2005-09-13 at 15:10:48 said:
It’s interesting that in the Koran, Hadith and Sera, I believe there is no command to commit suicide, yet it seems that today the hall mark of Islam is the suicide bomber. This is by far a different interpretation that Muhammad himself presents in the aforementioned books. The interpretation there seemed to be fearless in battle and that if you are fighting in the name of Allah and die you’ll be granted the highest place in heaven. I believe this is confirmed by the actions of Muhammad in his life (see Sera). It seems that this culture of suicide has come from somewhere else as Eric mentions. I’m not defending Islam, I think the Sera and Hadith are damning enough on their own, and the life of Muhammad shows nothing more than a tyrant than a holy man. I think this is also echoed by the likes of Osama bin Laden, why hasn’t he become a martyr yet? Some how I don’t think it’s on his TODO list, but I’m sure he’s inspired many.
Craig on 2005-09-13 at 15:50:45 said:
Do you have any literature to back this up with? I’m curious about it, now.
Yusuf Smith on 2005-09-13 at 17:25:14 said:
It’s interesting that in the Koran, Hadith and Sera, I believe there is no command to commit suicide, yet it seems that today the hall mark of Islam is the suicide bomber.
It’s not the hallmark of Islam today; it’s the hallmark of certain groups of Muslims, and nothing more. While there are some authorities (who get a lot of airtime in both Muslim and western media, particularly satellite TV) who defend the tactic, it’s actually widely frowned on.
And the tactic didn’t originate with Muslims, anyway. The Tamil Tigers were doing suicide bombings well before Hamas, and they are a secular socialist group (despite drawing from the Hindu Tamil population of Sri Lanka). In fact, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade are associated with Fatah, which is generally thought of as a secularist tendency, not a religious one.
Daniel on 2005-09-13 at 17:35:31 said:
Could you explain the meaning of “deep environmentalism”? It’s a term I have not heard before.
Daniel, “deep environmentalism” is a cluster of related ideologies which hold that the biosphere is a moral subject and has rights prior to human rights. All but the shallowest versions advocate reductions in human population and industrial activity — not merely slowdowns of growth but actual contraction. Deeper versions advocate a sort of greenocracy and the most extreme variants advocate the extinction of human life as a cancer on the planet.
David McCabe on 2005-09-13 at 18:36:13 said:
And *that* is why Oregon politics is so screwed up.
Kristian Poul Herkild on 2005-09-13 at 19:58:54 said:
Ohh… I really like coming here… one more article to forward :D
I’d really like to see something on the similarities between Communism, Nazism, Fascism and Islam.
You do realize that in Europe you would be a semi-paria by now with these writings? ;)
Engineer-Poet on 2005-09-13 at 21:17:50 said:
Kristian, one good place to start for questions like that is Steven Den Beste: http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2002/03/DefeatingIslam.shtml
Joe Katzman on 2005-09-13 at 22:23:36 said:
Some of this stuff actually predates the Russian revolution… recall the anarchists in the late 19th century and early 20th, complete with bombs exploding in public places. Suicidalists for sure.
The KGB may have given it the greatest organiztional and logistical boost it ever received, and by seizing the cores of certain professions the virus has acquired hosts to propagate in. But the KGB didn’t invent the virus… just fed it more lavishly and carefully.
Joe, I’ve studied 19th-century anarchism; as an anarchist myself I feel some need to understand all the different ideologies that have used that label (and, note, I have very little in common with those socialist or nihilist anarchists). Of the propositions I identified, at most two (“Crime is the fault of society…” and “The poor and criminals are victims…”) were any part of 19th-century anarchist thinking. 19th-century anarchists didn’t argue even that the proper bourgeouis response to terror would be apology; like the Islamofascists of today, they were attempting not to extract concessions but to destroy their enemies in the ‘privileged classes’ root and branch.
Also, there is an important difference in that 19th-century anarchist thought had essentially no effect on the mainstream intellectual life of that time other than to stimulate a revulsion against anarchism. The conventional ‘left’ of that era (classical liberals) wanted nothing to do with the anarchists and never accepted either “Crime is the fault of society…” and “The poor and criminals are victims…” as premises. The contrast with the Soviet Union’s success at co-opting the nominally non-Bolshevik left after 1930 is extreme.
Nick B on 2005-09-13 at 23:15:00 said:
Perhaps the term “suicidalism” might allow people to better separate open-minded principles for their extremist, surrender-inducing extensions. For example, understanding the enemy’s point of view is certainly a productive endeavor — you yourself have read the Koran, and followed all the propoganda, and have a feeling for their goals. Hence, half your blog.
For another example, the so-called moral relativism meme, that no culture is “better”, seems to be dying out, now that everyone knows what a burqa is. Unfortunately, the people who are most likely to admit that American culture is better, are more likely to mean that the culture of church-going Southern Baptists is better than that of Muslims. And it is; you can use objective standards like the area of skin a woman may display before she is no longer allowed to reject sexual advances. But it doesn’t do much good unless other, better memes come to take their place. Nobody in our government is willing to admit that all monotheistic faiths are dangerous because they reduce the value of life, and enable people to become unaccountable prophets, and so forth. Instead we get “Fundamentalist Islam is dangerous, but they’re the only dangerous religion.”
But I still don’t see the hordes of white-flag-wavers, at least not in sufficient enough numbers or influence that they would doom us all. Perhaps it’s just the company I keep, but usually when I hear people say we shouldn’t be in Iraq, they usually follow by saying we should be in Iran, North Korea, or Saudi Arabia instead. A lot of people think we shouldn’t have sent the National Guard, but whom we deploy is a different issue than whether we deploy. And there are a few people who drank the Noam Chomsky kool-aid, but I don’t see them getting taken seriously. I just don’t see the slippery slope where we have to live under shari’a because of a few powerless hippies. If Islam wants to take over, it’s going to have to get through an assload of Christianity before it can even get started.
Perhaps Christianity is useful as a buffer between us and Islam, provided they don’t slowly grow powerful enough to start the Inquisition back up in a few centuries. We need another buffer between rationality and Christianity, though. The Flying Spaghetti Monster, perhaps?
hf on 2005-09-13 at 23:46:40 said:
Wow, I didn’t know that Sartre held all these views.
Al-Qaeda didn’t launch any of these memes into the noosphere, but it relies on them for political cover.
How so? The belief that we shouldn’t fight terror would give them cover, but since this belief does not seem to exist in American politics I doubt they rely on it. Seriously, what part of “know your enemy” do you not understand?
They did this so successfully that at least one major form of Western self-abnegation seems to have developed as a secondary phenomenon: “deep environmentalismâ€. I can’t find any sign that this traces back to the usual Stalinist suspects,
Indeed, it seems like a simple application of moralistic Pop Darwinism. (We could also blame it on Malthus or Scrooge.) This belief system takes the definition of “fitness” in some environment and gives it moral significance.
Al-Qaeda’s goal is the restoration of the Caliphate and the imposition of shari’a law on the West
You might as well say they want to restore the Caliphate and then paint the sun green. They have no chance of success when it comes to America — nor the West in general, I think — and we don’t plan to let them reach that stage of the plan anyway. It would take a much longer stretch of total incompetence to allow them to reach Step Two.
Adrian on 2005-09-13 at 23:47:44 said:
There are no objective standards by which we may judge one culture to be better than another. Anyone who claims that there are such standards is an evil oppressor.
There’s an oversimplification. Western culture (which you will doubtless wish to separate into decaying European and vital American branches so you can continue to relish the thought of France being laid waste by rioting groups of unemployed Algerians) is unquestionably more comfortable than the Afghan alternative – but excessive comfort *has* been known to breed decadence in one or two empires in the past which might have lessons for the attentive today.
One standard which could be used to judge cultures is whether they’re sustainable, and there are a few people around who suspect that Western culture isn’t, simply on the grounds of the energy it uses. Now I know you’re going to say that that’s pessimistic and defeatist, and if we’d just become cheerleaders for funky stuff like pebble bed reactors and solar power satellites and abiotic oil and accept that The Market Will Provide Everything If Only You Just Believe then there will be plenty of energy for the whole Third World to consume at First World standards and we can keep expanding our GNP until we’ve eaten the local group of galaxies and anyone who disagrees with you is stupid and precognitive and duped by Stalinists and lower than vole scrota and ought to be shot for objectively supporting our enemies etc. etc. etc. But really – the Caliphate is a hopeless fantasy of dreaming nutbars, unless you want to delineate how it comes about as I suggested earlier. Your heavily-armed ass is safe from shar’ia no matter how many latte-sipping quiche eaters in your suburb think Osama may have had a point about something or other. Whether it’s safe from Peak Oil is another matter, though hopefully that will turn out to be a fantasy as well, eh?
OTOH, everyone needs a hobby.
Abe Schumacher on 2005-09-14 at 00:46:15 said:
Purity of Essence, my friend. Purity of Essence.
Eiki Martinson on 2005-09-14 at 02:18:52 said:
Another book on the whole “western intellectuals as tools of the KGB” theme, for those who are interested: In Denial: Historians, Communism, & Espionage by Haynes and Klehr – the last in the Yale History of Communism series.
Adam on 2005-09-14 at 02:41:30 said:
Wow. And you’re a neo-Pagan? I think I need to readjust my stereotypes.
Kublai: I read somewhere that humility is to not boast about one’s accomplishments, rather than to boast about one’s failures. Too many people confuse it with the latter, thus leading to the self-loathing.
adrian10 on 2005-09-14 at 08:49:28 said:
Could you explain the meaning of “deep environmentalism� It’s a term I have not heard before.
I think it’s more usually known as deep ecology. Gets you a lot more Google hits, anyway.
m. on 2005-09-14 at 09:26:08 said:
It’s interesting to watch how people feel so safe taking stance in a world product of two forces fighting each other. An ancient idea hold for more than a couple of thousand years. So everywhere you go there are only two sides, simply as that ? Maybe there is more than one pattern to recognize. Maybe different cultures may have patterns in common than can bring them to coexistence. Is there a simple way that you can point out what is exactly western culture or principles so that everyone in the west can be absolutely sure of sharing ?
Sorry, but to me your idea of detecting and rejecting thinkers who try to dig into those proposals you named behind the concept of “intellectual suicidalism” sounds kind of a fundamentalism.
I prefer a complex world not two.
michael vassar on 2005-09-14 at 09:58:32 said:
Most of these doctrines greatly predate the cold war, though the USSR did help their growth.
All Western (and especially American) claims to moral superiority over Communism/Fascism/Islam are vitiated by the West’s history of racism and colonialism.
Take out (ane especially American) and Franklin said similar things. So did Burke and many others (Rousseau!). Of course, the West is a lot more morally superior than we were in the days of slavery and the East India Company. A much weaker version of this is an understandable response to seeing the damage often done to indigenous cultures by Western contact, though not a careful one.
The first part goes back to Heraclitis and Parminides, but is argued against in Plato’s Republic. Hume could be interpreted as backing it, though he didn’t. nietzsche again. The second part is incoherent, but once again, is argued against in the Republic.
The prosperity of the West is built on ruthless exploitation of the Third World; therefore Westerners actually deserve to be impoverished and miserable.
This is actually Soviet in origin, I think.
Crime is the fault of society, not the individual criminal. Poor criminals are entitled to what they take. Submitting to criminal predation is more virtuous than resisting it.
George Bernard Shaw, England’s most prominant playright at the time, asserted this repeatedly before 1917.
The poor are victims. Criminals are victims. And only victims are virtuous. Therefore only the poor and criminals are virtuous. (Rich people can borrow some virtue by identifying with poor people and criminals.)
Jesus and others. Hindu ascetics.
For a virtuous person, violence and war are never justified. It is always better to be a victim than to fight, or even to defend oneself.
Jesus, Ghandi, arguably Thoreau, some Jews before Jesus.
But “oppressed†people are allowed to use violence anyway; they are merely reflecting the evil of their oppressors.
That conjunction may have Soviet origins.
When confronted with terror, the only moral course for a Westerner is to apologize for past sins, understand the terrorist’s point of view, and make concessions.
Largely post-soviet. French Anti-American intellectuals, PLO and IRA sympathizers, etc.
Caliban Darklock on 2005-09-14 at 09:59:26 said:
I’ve always thought that humility wasn’t really a matter of boasting or not, but of recognising the objective value of one’s deeds and accomplishments in the grand scheme of things. If you do great things, then you should be proud, and if you do crappy things you should be ashamed. The key is to understand what good and crappy things *are* in the larger picture. The larger picture is bigger than you or your family or even your community. It will outlast all of them.
So the vast majority of things we do are *irrelevant* to that larger picture; but when you contribute materially to a school of thought, as Eric has done with his CatB writings, that has some impact on the larger picture. As such, Eric has a certain right to take pride in that accomplishment – not as something that advances open source or convinces business to dump Microsoft, because these aren’t even blips on the radar in the larger picture, but because he has given a lot of very smart people something to think about and they are thinking about it. Humility is not Eric saying that what he has done is nothing special, because it *is* something special. Humility is Eric recognising and understanding *why* what he has done is special, and roughly how special it really is.
Likewise, the war in Iraq affects the bigger picture because Iraq will look very different in the centuries to come. It’s difficult to argue it would have been better off under the guidance of Hussein and his children. The best we can argue is that about a hundred thousand troops would have been more comfortable, and that some two percent of them might still be alive today. But in the larger picture, does that matter? Was it more important to have comfortable troops than it was to have a sane leader in charge of Iraq?
I don’t think so. I think GW can take a certain pride in that, too.
I’m just posting an example of the extreme “deep environmentalists” for those who don’t know. I find this one particularly humorous (which indeed may be their point, I’m not sure).
It’s difficult to argue it would have been better off under the guidance of Hussein and his children.
Um, not if you think about women in the current trend. And not if you think a democracy in Iran could’ve affected Iraq.
Also, the civilian casualties did not volunteer for the job.
Miles Gould on 2005-09-14 at 12:04:30 said:
Adrian: *brilliant* comment. All the things I’ve been wanting to say to Eric for ages but couldn’t quite put into words…
Danny on 2005-09-14 at 19:03:41 said:
I guess the opposite of suicidalism is homocidalism so I’ll be slitting my wrists later. I’d never kill my enemies, I reckon a slow, painful meaningless life is the worst thing that could happen to them so why interfere ? Do I want ‘my people’ to survive ? Or my gene-pool ? Not really. Actually, I don’t need to kill myself. I sit in an oil-rich country so sooner or later US ‘libertarians’ like you will come to blow me away.
The US military PR started building up Islam as the next credible threat to justify it’s bloated defence industry subsidies back in the early ’90’s, once the over-rated threat from the Communist bloc lost all credibility. At least in Europe the shift was noticed and commented upon publicly and referenced in popular culture. This war is phoney. There is no war of cultures yet and if we get one it’s because we are allowing ourselves to be herded. What sort of free man allows himself to be manipulated so ? A rich American who stands to gain or a fearful American too scared to question his state rationally, that’s who.
Bob Goola on 2005-09-15 at 06:52:30 said:
Stick to computer stuff man….trust me, it’s all you seem to know.
dfm on 2005-09-15 at 17:13:30 said:
After i ingest 200 micro-grams of lsd at 6 a.m. , five cookies baked with potent marijuana at 6:15,
a large double screwdriver to make it a official breakfast by 6:30, i will apply various florescent paints
to my nude shorn body, put on some wild trance music with a head set and just let it happen man….
At 9:00 a.m. my alarm clock will remind me to run to the local police station climb to the top of a police
car, floressence in all and yelling with all my might ….
Burning man! Burning man! Infidel! infidel! Thorazine! Thorazine!
Now after several days in the mental ward writhing in agony from the thorazine and seeing all 12 dimensional pathways in the sink drain, as the ’70-400 volt electro-convulsive therapy’ treatment
head set has replaced my trance groove 13 volt head set…..
My only self defence will be to utter to the technicians the immortal words of the mysticly mystical mystic…
“Stick to computer stuff man….trust me, it’s all you seem to know… ahhhhhh!!”
Well how’s that for psycho-drama?
All kidding aside, this is what i will be tempted to do if the Islamist terror network ever
detonate crude nuclear weapons in my country.
“The most important weapons of al-Qaeda and the rest of the Islamist terror network are the suicide bomber and the suicide thinker.”
I also agree with this clear and concise statement…
Mark on 2005-09-15 at 21:36:04 said:
The question I have is why was the Marxist indoctrination so much more successful in Europe than America?
neal on 2005-09-15 at 22:07:08 said:
“Do you have any literature to back this up with? I’m curious about it, now.”
I’m also quite interested in this. The web seems to indicate otherwise than mission you describe for Department V:
Department V was responsible for “wet affairs” (mokrie dela) — murders, kidnappings, and sabotage — which involve bloodshed. Previously known as the Thirteenth Department or Line F, the Department was enlarged and redesignated in 1969, and tasked with sabotaging critical infrastructure so as to immobilize Western countries during future crises. The Department employed officers stationed in Soviet embassies, illegals stationed abroad, and the services of professional.
Note I don’t dispute your assertion (proving a negative is pretty tough), I just want to read more about it, and Department V of th KGB isn’t getting me there.
BEDE on 2005-09-16 at 07:43:59 said:
Suicidalism?
Or rather lack of will to fight for no matter what.
The same goes for the meaning of the term “tolerance”. While sometime ago it meant for one to bear something that doesn’t please him, nowadays tends to mean that any religion, any philosophy are just as good. One must not assert firm beliefs in any respect, or he is called “intolerant” and “extremist”.
I’m not sure if this is only the work of KGB agents.
Or is it because many people in the US and especially in the EU have no GOD, meaning that they no longer have any reference system for what is good and what is bad.
While the muslims, followinh Mohamed, find it good to kill for Alah (how stupid a thing! as if an almighty god could not sanction unbelievers how and when he sees fit! this may be even looked upon as devilish), the citizens of the “civilised” countries find that whatever gratifies them for the moment is good.
plainsman on 2005-09-16 at 12:18:08 said:
“You might as well say they want to restore the Caliphate and then paint the sun green. They have no chance of success when it comes to America — nor the West in general, I think — and we don’t plan to let them reach that stage of the plan anyway.”
Don’t be so sure of yourself. If the US were still the country of the founding fathers, you may be right; but we’re not. Look at France, once a Catholic country, now Islam is the biggist religion. As things currently stand, we’re letting everyone into the US with our open borders: Mexicans, Chinese, Islamists, nukes, you name it. Much of the European birthrate is subreplacement. Ours is barely subreplacement, and only because of recent immigration. Fully 20% of all births in the US are to non-native born. The Islamic fundamentalists are making headway getting converts domestically, while at the same time recruiting and financing Jihadists. It won’t take long under current conditions to find ourselves domestically outnumbered by Islamic radiacals. At the same time they are gaining strength, our government is busy destroying the Consitution and our liberties in an attempt to establish greater world government (see CAFTA). Which are the exact steps necesary for Islamic fundamentalists to establish shari’a law in the west.
Never you mind on 2005-09-17 at 07:09:28 said:
I’d like to share a minor victory.
Tonight there’s one less piece of human trash in Civic
Michael on 2005-09-18 at 15:44:06 said:
But al-Qaeda didn’t create the ugly streak of nihilism and self-loathing that afflicts too many Western intellectuals.
No, of course not. And, as you so rightly observe, that “ugly streak” latches on to whatever is available.
Nor, I believe, is it a natural development. It was brought to us by Department V of the KGB, which was charged during the Cold War with conducting memetic warfare that would destroy the will of the West’s intelligentsia to resist a Communist takeover.
This, it seems to me, is a far more questionable assertion. Even granted that such subversion might be more important than is realized, surely it has to find fertile ground to seed in. The reverse seems to me to be just not plausible.
Ideas arise, mutate, morph into supposedly opposed ideas – that’s their “nature” and this seems to me better characterized as a “natural” development. (“Nature” and “natural” are, of course, philosophically difficult terms, but I’m not laying out a position here and this is not my choice of language.)
And tangled with this is the movement of sensibility and often-neglected emotions that accompany the striking of moral positions. It seems to me that the attitude you identify and denounce is a product of Englightenment thinking. It’s not a necessary development of that, but a possible one – and so it arises. I suspect this political version of “Stockholm Syndrome” is connected with a loss of “piety” (in the Roman not religious sense) and also with the notion of a politics of will and that George Santayana’s thinking would throw much light on this. I’ve been meaning to acquire and read his novel The Last Puritan for some time, since sometimes these things are better shown in art than explained in prose.
Xyber on 2005-09-18 at 17:00:01 said:
Islam is just a religon that is being used as a scapegoat. Such a pity… A fine religon indeed being misused…. Or rather people misleading…
-Xyber.
Adrian is keeping it VERY real, and that ESR chooses to entertain us (and himself) with McCarthyist conspiracy-theory nonsense instead of addressing the real issues Adrian and others have presented, just goes to show how inextricably Murkans are attached to their self-rationalisation “frameworks” as described in terrible detail by Baudrillard and Lakoff, even (especially!) when confronted with the reality that their *way of life* is circling the drain… fast.
chris v on 2005-09-19 at 14:49:07 said:
“These ideas travel under many labels: postmodernism, nihilism, multiculturalism, Third-World-ism, pacifism, “political correctness†to name just a few. It is time to recognize them for what they are, and call them by their right name: suicidalism.”
that’s a great example of the straw man fallacy.
Aaron Davies on 2005-09-19 at 14:53:42 said:
May I point out that one of the best antidotes to this kind of thinking is a healthy dose of Ayn Rand? If a tendency to self-sacrifice is at the root of the problem, reject self-sacrifice and learn to live for yourself!
Nick Tarleton on 2005-09-19 at 18:12:52 said:
I too second Adrian’s comment. I’ve been wondering for a while: ESR, have you heard of this “peak oil” thing, and what do you have to say about it?
chris bunker on 2005-09-20 at 07:07:16 said:
Nietzsche (mad and misogynistic he may have been but he could critique accurately) identified several of your points in general Christian thinking. What he described as the “slave morality” seems to cover the last three rather well if you replace submitting to the will of the terrorist to submitting to the will of the governing authority.
However Moral Relitavism (if memory serves correctly) comes more from anthropology, when cultures began to be investigated in a more rigarous way the simple fact that there are no moral constants. From this came a belief that since there is no absolute moral laws like there are absolute laws of physics we cannot critise othe cultures. Not correct in my opinion, but justifiable, and dangerous since Islamists think there are absolute moral laws and they where all revealed by a deset warriors invisble friend 1400 years ago.
Daniel RodrÃguez on 2005-09-21 at 08:59:36 said:
Adrian, you’re not simplyfing. You’re just plain wrong. We’ve plenty of energy, all the energy we can ever consume; the problem is that we don’t know how to do it. There’s only a resource we must worry about: brainpower. If there’s freedom enough that the mind can search for solutions and apply them (i.e.: we don’t ban solutions like nukes), we will never get out of energy.
Erhlichs are always wrong.
Caleb on 2005-09-23 at 05:53:33 said:
I’d just like to go on record as a libertarian who thinks that Ayn Rand is without a doubt the single most painful and least talented writer in the history of humanity. Anyone who agrees with her ideas (and I do) yet advises any non-libertarian to read her to “see the truth” or something similar has to be off his tree. She’d have to be the last person I’d suggest anyone, libertarian or not, to read and it’s a wonder any libertarian (myself included!) who has read her hasn’t fled screaming into the night whilst renouncing her whole philosophy! That woman could turn a man dying of thirst away from a glass of water in disgust.
Oh, she’s not *that* bad. I’ll admit some parts of _Atlas Shrugged_ are hard to get through (Galt’s speech in particular), but her non-fiction is the clearest, easiest to understand philosophical writing I’ve ever read.
Caleb, you are quite wrong. Walter Koenig’s writing is at least as screwy, and it has not one bit of philosophy to redeem it (though his relative brevity might).
Roy Batty on 2005-09-23 at 18:08:40 said:
The self-loathing intellectualism by journalists and academics doesn’t stop at terrorism. It manifests its deplority everday on the news. Katrina, now the new hurricane. The left is gleeful when spreading doom-n-gloom.
Well, some in here has raised doubt about the existence of Dep. V of KGB, but I’ve got it confirmed from people, centrally placed within the Danish Defence in the 60’es that they knew about it, and knew about the memetic warfare against the intelligentsia of the West.
The propositions mentioned here, are pretty common among social-liberals (whatever that is) and socialists (incl. socialdemocrats). One may wonder how they can so easily betray their own country and culture, but perhaps it never was their country and culture?
/Kristian Poul Herkild
Barry Price on 2005-09-24 at 16:08:09 said:
Setting out perspectives that contain elements of truth, but then claiming that because they are not 100% true they must be false, is not the best way to begin an article.
Perhaps if we (the west) hadn’t been sticking our collective dick into the Middle East for the past fifty years, they would be more friendly towards us. The solution is not to stick it in harder.
I would rather live with terrorism than without freedom.
Aaron: You’re right, it’s not *that* bad. It’s worse! ;P
Don Galt on 2005-09-25 at 09:58:28 said:
I’d always thought you were a marxist in the Richard Stallman vein, and recently a friend insisted you were a libertarian, so I came over to see what’s what. What If ind is that you are, unfortunately, not a libertarian.
As long as you endorse forced collectivism — such as the “war on terror”, and by the way, in December 2003 you talked about that war being over, are you still under that delusion?— you will be no better than other socialists.
The core value of libertarianism is that the initiation of force is immoral. Thus the initiation of force against people in Iraq, who did not attack us, is immoral. The force used to keep people in the military long after their agreements have ended is immoral. The pursuit of a fake organization for the goal of tyrannical control over the US is immoral.
You will not be a libertarian until you do some research and discover that “Al Queda” does not exist. “Al Queda” is a term created by the administration and used by the media— nor organization has taken that name. The name has been *given* to them.
You will not be a libertarian until you stop embracing the state– the organization that cannot live without initiating force– and realize that the “war on terror” like the war on drugs is a war on the american people.
As long as you embrace the state– the war fought against innocents, and funded by the theft from the populace, you cannot call yourself a libertarian.
Eric, its time to renounce indiscriminate violence, and apologize for your anti-idiotarian manifesto.
Two years on, its clear the idiotarian is you!
Its ok, we all fall for a lie of the state every once and awhile. They are crafty and always working to perpetrate scenarios that justify their existance.
The measure of the man is when he gives up on the lie, and renounces aggression.
Its time for you to take that step.
CPD on 2005-09-25 at 13:57:33 said:
” # All Western (and especially American) claims to moral superiority over Communism/Fascism/Islam are vitiated by the West’s history of racism and colonialism.
# There are no objective standards by which we may judge one culture to be better than another. Anyone who claims that there are such standards is an evil oppressor. ”
It’s usually difficult to come to any descisions about cultures from most discussions, because everyone is from the same culture. All of you, and me, have heared about Islamic cultures, but haven’t experienced it. What we know about those cultures is what we think we know. As for moral superiority, except for a few extreme ones, like Afghanistan maybe, I think there isn’t much moral difference between most cultures.
All those things you learn about other cultures – don’t believe it unless you hear it from a person *from* that culture. For example, as an Indian, sometimes the ideas some people have about India amaze me. Therefore, I’m not so quick to judge another culture and decide whether it is better or not. Of course, in cases like Afghanistan you clearly see that they are morally behind, don’t think that American culture is better than all the rest. I am not saying that my culture is better than yours, but simply that mine, as it seems, is no better than yours.
Shawn Yarbrough on 2005-09-25 at 17:52:27 said:
> > There are no objective standards by which we may judge one culture to be better than another. Anyone who claims that there are such standards is an evil oppressor.
> There’s an oversimplification.
Adrian, Eric offered this item as a falsehood, as something he does not believe in. He then proceeded to link it back to Stalinism and suggest that the modern terrorist movement has adopted the same propaganda for their cause, supported by Western hyper-intellectual suicidalists.
So what was your point exactly? That Eric’s economic views are wrong because resources are finite? What does that have to do with moral or cultural relativism? Maybe something, but you didn’t say.
BTW, according to the laws of physics as we understand them, it will take us at least 100,000 years to *reach* all the resources in our own galaxy, probably more like a million years or longer, and even longer than that to use them all up. And that’s only a small fraction of the local group of galaxies that you mentioned.
The human race can almost assume that resources are infinite for at least the next billion years or so. I’ll listen to the anti-business rabid-environmentalism population-control crowd when we run out of stars.
Doug on 2005-09-26 at 11:17:03 said:
For those with questions on the history of the movements of thought described here and asking for “evidence”
Read this book:
Hicks: Explaining Postmodernism
Davd Bofinger on 2005-09-26 at 23:11:33 said:
Armed and Dangerous writes:
I think this is going to be one of those cases where cause and effect are too entagled to permit simple statements. Propaganda from the USSR would, I assume, have encouraged these points of view. My intuition is that the effect would be small, but that’s a pretty data-free opinion.
“Trace any of these back far enough (e.g. to the period between 1930 and 1950 when Department V was at its most effective”
The USSR certainly wasn’t promoting pacifism in its allies during 1941-43 or so. It was trying to make them as warlike as it could. It’s not possible to discuss pacifism as though WW2 never happened.
“Stalinist agitprop created Western suicidalism by successfully building on the Christian idea that self-sacrifice (and even self-loathing) are the primary indicators of virtue.”
This would be more convincing if the anti-western tradition came out of devout Christian tradition. But in fact devout Christians are more supportive of western superiority, not less.
Even absent these flaws, I think we need to see some evidence to help us gauge the influence they had. Interviews with ex-KGB people, for instance. Could they turn it on and off? Or did it just happen and they tried to ride the avalanche?
In an excellent comment, Nick B writes:
“Nobody in our government is willing to admit that all monotheistic faiths are dangerous …”
Why are you singling out monotheism? The Indian Rationalist Association wants to know. :-)
“… because they reduce the value of life, and enable people to become unaccountable prophets, and so forth. Instead we get “Fundamentalist Islam is dangerous, but they’re the only dangerous religion.—
There’s an interesting comparison here to US behaviour with respect to rogue states.
A letfist might say: “You say you want to overthrow Iraq because it’s an evil dictatorship. But what about other dictatorships you aren’t overthrowing, like PRC/DPRK/Saudi Arabia/…”
A US governmentspokesman might answer, “Well we can’t change the whole world … not yet, anyway. But Iraq is amongst the worst examples, and looked reasonably easy to overthrow, and we had some sort of legal basis for it (though we’d have liked a better one, the one we had was still better than anything we had against other countries). So we’re starting with Iraq.”
To analogise to religion, a militant but tactical atheist might say, “Yes, all religions are bad. But we can’t go after all of them at once, so we’re starting with the most egregious, which is Wahhabism/Baathism/whatever.”
McGroarty on 2005-09-26 at 23:21:44 said:
I’ve heard deep environmentalism explained most succinctly as “saving the environment from man, rather than for man.” It’s perverse.
Tim Starr on 2005-09-27 at 13:06:09 said:
Yes, the KGB did much to promote these anti-Western ideas. I’ve read Koch’s book, it’s excellent. Also see Christopher Andrew’s “The Sword and the Shield” on this, as well as Paul Hollander’s “Political Pilgrims.” It’s also true that many of these anti-Western ideas did not originate with the KGB; rather, they seized upon pre-existing weaknesses in the Western meme pool and encouraged the bad memes to drive out the good. See “Occidentalism: The Western Sources of Anti-Western Ideas” on this; many anti-Western ideas came out of Russian and German Romanticism, which were reactions against the conquests of Napoleon (who was taken as a symbol of classical liberalism because he abolished feudalism and spread the propaganda of the French Revolution).
el culito on 2005-09-27 at 16:59:14 said:
I think that’s not the question. The question is why the hell should you have the right to decide what’s good or bad for me. What if I decide that YOU would be better with a hole in your head?
fahree on 2005-09-27 at 21:29:27 said:
You might be interested in these references I found about The ideology spread by Stalin’s agents.
finnish besser wisser on 2005-09-28 at 02:13:07 said:
You have one thing right here: USA currently is resembling more and more former Soviet Union:
– just one party (another party is just for to keep the show going; nobody is interested in talking really hot topics, like that you have alcoholic as president or you are estimated using 250 000 bullets to get one guy down, or that DU might make whole middle-east, including Israel, toxic waste land, or that over half of your veterans are sick beyond repair, or that in case of catastrophe mercenaries are the first one can expect to be there to “help”..)
– rules by elite that can not be changed in free election (stalin said that votes don’t count, only who counts the votes!)
– positions are shared not by competence, but “good relations”
Now, a grown up would look too the mirror: “How do we got here?!”. You look for conspiracy theories, to avoid any hard questions about your own identity. Go read rense.com, there are more stories (some even more truhtful than yours) for you. Or stay with FoxNews, fair and balanced like Pravda was..
I tell you, I have seen how Soviet Union was and you are going the same way. Fairy tales keep your head up only as long as reality truly bites.
Dr. Pepper on 2005-09-30 at 14:12:06 said:
Nick B above said:
“the so-called moral relativism meme, that no culture is “betterâ€, seems to be dying out, now that everyone knows what a burqa is.”
I beg to differ. I think the likes of Yvonne Ridley represents the tip of the iceberg.
Clouded on 2005-09-30 at 14:46:28 said:
I disagree. Sure, it should be alright for a poor person to take some food or clothing to live, but at what point does it be ok for a poor person to steal books/electronics that arent a necesity of life?
“Al-Qaeda’s goal is the restoration of the Caliphate and the imposition of shari’a law on the West so that the Dar al-Harb is abolished and absorbed into the Dar al-Islam.”
The west never had the Caliphate’s law to start with – sure, we had Puritan rule, and deeply devout Chritian Theocratic influence on our government centuries ago – and probably again now – But we never had a Caliphate or Muslim ruler as our President, or any other position of equal authority in the West(In this case, West being North America, and Western Europe). Perhaps the best we can hope for is a Dar Al-Sulh, after Dar Al-Maslubah, – as it appears Dar al-Islam will not occur anytime soon with the way the political leaders seem to be leading their foreign policy.
Though, i find it hard to believe that its all true, it seems that you’ve got solid evidence to back it up.
Interesting book, Eric; I’ll have to add it to my reading list.
But concerning the claim:
* All Western (and especially American) claims to moral superiority over Communism/Fascism/Islam are vitiated by the West’s history of racism and colonialism.
It is not simply a matter of history; it is that you can sooner excise Internet Explorer from Windows than you can excise racism and colonialism from the anglospheric (and especially American) cultural landscape; and furthermore, you have not specified any strong alternative explanations for the current thuggery in Iraq to the obvious one which is simply that self-same racism and colonialism being extended to the “low hanging fruit” amongst the last regions on earth rich in oil deposits.
I’ll see your Stephen Koch and raise you some Stetson Kennedy:
http://www.stetsonkennedy.com/jim_crow_guide/index.html
Adnan Siddiqi on 2005-10-02 at 05:46:01 said:
Bary Says:
“and the life of Muhammad shows nothing more than a tyrant than a holy man. I think this is also echoed by the likes of Osama bin Laden, why hasn’t he become a martyr yet?”
Can you comeup with some proof that Muhammad(saw) was a Tyrant,you should look up the meaning of Tyrant in dictionary and then do some research on MUhammad`s life,read the translations of quran, then come on this site and make some sensible comments,
the english trnaslation of “Islam” is PEACE,more about it,Islam is not a Sunday religion like Christianity to go church one day a week and do whatever the shit you want,Islam dont comeup with such stupid theories that jesus will be responsible for everyone`s actions regardless they are bad or good.Among current bookish religons like Islam,Christianity and Jewish religons,Islam is the only religion which covers activities of every day`s life,from sleeping to eating,Islam/Quran JUST not teach to Pray Allah only,it let you show a path how to lead a good life,that sother thing many muslims dont follow it (for instance Osama,Saddam etc) and comeup with their own twisted perceptions,chrisitanity dont give respect to Jacob and David,similarly jews dont follow to Jesus and dont consider him much important.
A muslim wont be called a muslim unless he follow the teachings of all(from Adam to Muhammad),its a long debate,if you can comeup with a sensible person,i would like to answer your questions ,
just for a note,i answered this jewish guys blog,you may read here:
http://judahgabriel.blogspot.com/2005/05/conversation-with-muslim.html#111924648404771001
regarding Osama and Co and using sucide killing as weapon of islam,its strongly condemened in Islam..
its like ,if someone uses Linux OS for bad purposes to spread viruses ,you shoudn`t curse to Linus trovalds to give an open source kernel
Reagrds
Adnan Siddiqi
Brad on 2005-10-03 at 10:12:27 said:
Michael Vassar is right. It has taken millenia of bad philosophy to get to this culture of strident moral cowardice.
Jemaleddin on 2005-10-03 at 10:44:43 said:
I always like a post that starts out with such distorted strawmen. Are those by Hieronymus Bosch, Eric? Or are they more cubist?
Different River on 2005-10-03 at 13:03:38 said:
Are you sure it was Department V of the KGB? According to this summary of the KGB’s organizations, it sounds like more the province of Department A.
alexeya on 2005-10-03 at 13:42:31 said:
This article is typical product of another, more dangerous “pathology of Western culture” – suggestibility and a sort of paranoia cultivated by official propaganda (“agitprop”, yeah). “Al-Qaeda’s goal is the restoration of the Caliphate and the imposition of shari’a law on the West” – do you really believe that the muslim fanatics are fighting and perishing for to make you circumcision and dress your wife in paranja?
A bullshit of this kind is a convenient way to intimidate the people, suggest them the fear of external enemy and thus justify their own dirty businesses – human rights restriction, wars, genocides etc. To manipulate effectively, an illusion of external threat is necessary. Read Orwell. Now a convenient ground is found – the “islamic fascism”. Any offence may be justified now if it has a label of “anti-terroristic” – the war in Iraq, the genocide of civilians in Chechnya, and even repressions against opposition in own countries.
The article is filled by typical clues of american official propaganda with its 50 y.o. techniques – such as referencing to the “KGB” which is intended to be an archetypical nightmare for at least two generations of the westerners. I don’t think really that ESR is hired by “bushists agitprop”, but he is obviously under their strong influence. It is a pity. I always respected Eric for his independent thinking and objectivity.
BTW, I agree with at least six of these eight propositions. And I am not a “westerner” by no means, thus I cannot be infected by “suicidalism”. So why?
Gareth Owen on 2005-10-04 at 06:44:53 said:
Say what you like about Eric, he does construct the most beautiful strawmen.
Create a list of propositions, credit them “typical Western academics”, without even the remotest supporting evidence that these ideas are widespread in academia beyond a smattering of loud self-publicists, and then proceed to shoot down these moronic opinions. Well thats just lovely. Don’t you have a barrel of fish you might be using as target practice instead?
Giacomo on 2005-10-05 at 07:56:46 said:
I suppose when someone is very competent in one field, he’s forcefully driven to be hopeless in another. Brain resources are limited. I’m hopeless at recognising tree varieties, Eric is hopeless at cultural anthropology.
Tell me, big shot, why are you not fighting tooth and nails for your “cultural superiority” in Iraq? You have to fight them there, as the US administration said, in order to not fight them at home.
Oh, you are just another member of the 101st Fighting Keyboardist, are you? Well, got news for you: the software industry is helping those bastard commie Chinese badasses as we speak. They are all begging Beijing for money, because the US is dry. How do you say “all your base” in Chinese?
(ubu) edu phil on 2005-10-05 at 16:53:06 said:
It would please me greatly if you would strive for some specificity, and it would further please me if you actually read some of the figures you see as vectors for an infection from the outside. The core of your rant seems to be this idea that it is not contradicitions inherent to an advanced money economy or democratic liberalism or even the human experiment, that we must contend with, even as we attempt to bring so called failed states on line with the liberalism and development party that we are throwing.
Both sides of the cold war spent ridiculous sums of money trying to promote various scenarios for state development if you will, with any number of intellectuals signing up for the job of defending or promoting this or that idea. (I won’t use that ugly word meme which should never have been unleashed by the half-thinker Dawkins) Against the backdrop of socialist collectivism, the western democracies promoted ideals of individualism and horatio alger anyone can make it myths. go democracy. And we spent an awful lot of money trying to discredit Marxist discourse and analysis. down with charley marx! (the only place he is still credited with some authority is in political economics)
Nihilism, straight up, need not be imported from anywhere, it is as old as the hills and perrenial, and even a salutory stage in the history of individuals and/or peoples, if one ever overcomes it, to be honest.
Paul De Man, bless his opportune little heart, was no founder of anything. He was an opportunistic and insincere Nazi during the war and then an enthusiastic and quite clever literary critic who hid his shameful past. He does a good job of closely reading Rousseau, not much more than that, and he seemed not to lack for intellectual energy. He strikes me at the end of his life as a kind of apolitical connoissuer of aesthetic experience and nothing more, a perfect contemporary autonomist without a politics at all. In short a perfect citizen of an advanced money economy who could have just as well used his clever mind at some place like Google as at Yale.
What you really seem to be rallying for here is a kind of vitalism and on that note many of these so called intellectuals that you abhor were quite vital to the end.
You don’t, further, seem to understand al qaeda at all. aq could give a marsupial’s rear about the western democracies. they have purely regional geopolitical ambitions such as revolution in saudi arabia and they need the u.s. as a foil for recruitment and regional power, to jumpstart if you will, their constitiuency into “mass consciousness.”
EDanu on 2005-10-05 at 18:50:51 said:
[i]# Jeff Read Says:
Adrian is keeping it VERY real, and that ESR chooses to entertain us (and himself) with McCarthyist conspiracy-theory nonsense instead of addressing the real issues Adrian and others have presented, just goes to show how inextricably Murkans are attached to their self-rationalisation “frameworks†as described in terrible detail by Baudrillard and Lakoff, even (especially!) when confronted with the reality that their *way of life* is circling the drain… fast.[/i]
Circling the drain and cooking the planet, but remember they’re not the ones who [i]hate[/i] humanity ;)
SlaineMacRoth on 2005-10-05 at 19:13:22 said:
“Western suicidalists have transferred their allegience from Communism to Islamofascism without a hitch.â€
A truly appalling level of ignorance! The dearth of information by the US right (or market fundamentalist libertarians if you will) about those on the left who opposed Stalin and the Soviet Union is extremely annoying. Do they ever think that, you know the most vocal opposition now and in the past to unnecessary wars and imperialism might have had a beef say with the SU’s sponsorship of violent insurrection and direct invasion?
Anyway it appears the erstwhile KGB and current “suicidalistsâ€?! campaign is a spectacular failure seeing as since 1945, the United States has launched over 200 armed operations (see * Gore Vidal, 2002. Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to be so Hated – Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire * .), most of which were intended not to promote world peace, freedom and democracy but to promote its own political or economic interests.
Then again perhaps Department V had an influence in the resultant growth of Islamic fundamentalism. However not were ESR has suggested but in the actions of the neocons in the Bush administration he’s defending both today in Iraq and their 1950s fellow travellers in Iran…. ….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
“In 1953 Iran’s prime minister Mohammed Mossadeq, who had been *elected to parliament in 1923 and again in 1944 and who had been prime minister since 1951, was removed from power in a complex plot orchestrated by British and US intelligence agencies (“Operation Ajax”). Many scholars suspect that this ouster was motivated by British-US opposition to Mossadeq’s attempt to *nationalize Iran’s oil*. Following Mossadeq’s fall, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Iran’s monarch) grew increasingly dictatorial. With strong support from the USA and the UK, the Shah further modernised Iranian industry but crushed civil liberties. His autocratic rule, including systematic torture and other human rights violations, led to the Iranian revolution and overthrow of his regime in 1979. After more than a year of political struggle between a variety of different groups, an Islamic republic was established under the Ayatollah Khomeini by popular vote. The new theocratic political system instituted some conservative Islamic reforms and engaged in an anti-Western course. In particular Iran distanced itself from the United States due to the American involvement in the 1953 coup, *which supplanted an elected government with the Shah’s repressive regimeâ€
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
Kristian Poul Herkild Says:
“You do realize that in Europe you would be a semi-paria by now with these writings? ;)â€
Eh technically they’re “writings†there’s words and letters yes.
I’m sorry but the language you use ESR seems to be a form of documentary speak, it’s as if you’ve sat down and watched the documentaries “Power of Nightmares†followed by “The Century of the Self†except they were re-edited by Richard Perle and Rush Limbaugh on an acid and cocaine binge!
As RvnPhnx commented
“Umm…..bud I hate to tell you that a lot of the stuff you claim that “Department V†put forth into the American psyche has been with us since the begining–literally.â€
Esr is in fact opposing something that has absolutely nothing to do with Al-queda the KGB or left wing suicidalists (?!) and that’s human nature and it’s use of communication for improvement of the self and society.
Unless we borrow the logic of the above piece and say the KGB had a time machine and influenced the thought processes of “western suicidalists†of yore, Spartacus, the plebeians (or working people of Rome) formation of themselves into a people’s parliament (the Consilium Plebis), the Peasants Revolt, the Age of Enlightenment which provided a framework for the French Revolutions eh and the American revolution….
So there we now have proof positive that the influence of Department V of the KGB tunneled through time and influencing the “left?†intellectuals of the Enlightenment in fact created the US….
but only to defeat it in the present! :x
seekXL on 2005-10-06 at 04:00:22 said:
like stalin and the cold war feeling, if anytime i read from al qaeda
Shenpen on 2005-10-07 at 13:19:08 said:
F*ck Bob Goola… ya really should understand that programming is not an art in itself and certainly not connected with computers, but it’s understanding everything that has a logical algorithm…
Suicidalist speaking on 2005-10-07 at 15:33:56 said:
Consider the following propositions for what? Laughs? You’re concerned that someone read Nietzsche and was addle-minded enough to actually believe it?
Yes, I’ve known people who do not believe in an objective reality. They aren’t the ones arguing with you, brainiac. They tend to believe that their soul is really a dragon on the inside, that they are pagan, and that “do what thou wilt” should be the whole of the law.
max on 2005-10-09 at 04:56:46 said:
yes f#ck the goala and alquaida suicid boys too… stupid stupid mans :(
Jean-Charles on 2005-10-09 at 14:59:15 said:
Bravo, Eric! You’re a model thinker for these dangerous times.
On a related subject, I hear that tin foil blocks the Soviet mind control rays. I’m not sure if it’s true, but just in case, I’ve lined my entire apartment with it, and have fashioned several stylish yet comfortable tin foil helmets.
Paul Stevens on 2005-10-10 at 03:24:34 said:
I always keep in mind the fact that it was far easier to remain tolerant of the folibles of another culture when you required a long trip by sea, a touch of scurvey and the risk of tropical disease to experience it. These days, thanks to the talking and writing monkeys who power newsrooms on a heady mix of paranoia and sensationalism, everyone’s culture is shoved in every one’s faces. Expecting everyone to kiss and make up or at least capitulate to another cultures views / demands is a pipe dream. Humans by their very nature are tribal in their outlook and will always retain that basic urge to batter someone not of their own. Hell, just look at your average sports nut. That’s a prime example of how humans will seek an identity that comforts them, and villify anyone from a different group.
Eric on 2005-10-10 at 11:38:32 said:
As a former member of the Eric Conspiracy, I’m intrigued.
I attended the Singularity conference in 2000 and was admitted to the Conspiracy (as my name was Eric and I twiddled the kernel), but un-admitted myself after witnessing some of memes propagated at the conference, many supported by Eric Raymond.
Perhaps he was overcome by the artifical welfare economy of the dotcom bubble, and actually thought the math of the socialist agenda was tenable. He appears to be better now.
kkaisare on 2005-10-11 at 18:48:41 said:
If I may comment…
* There are no standards by which one culture may be judged superior to another.
In my opinion, a culture that produces an assortment of art, consistently progresses technologically and is in a state of regular renewal can be said to be superior to one that does not. A culture that has produced the likes of Godel, Escher and Bach must be enlightened in comparison to a nation of warring nomadic tribes.
Of course, this does not give a supposedly superior nation a ticket to world conquest.
* That Westerners deserve to be impoverished and miserable, taking into account their ruthless exploitation of the others.
While this is something that might resonate in the hearts of many Third World residents, I recall a quote from Kautilya’s Arthashastra – “The strong king strives to conquer, the weak king strives to maintain peace.”
Whether you are in a commanding position or not, you will exercise all the power you can. Third World nations, given the same power the First World have today, would behave in much the same way that the First World does now.
Roger Zimmerman on 2005-10-12 at 08:11:03 said:
I have read Caleb’s anti-Rand screed three times in search of a single reason for his criticism and have come up empty. As a (therefore unecessary) counter-argument, I site the (admittedly) anecdotal observation that her books are very popular among late-teens/young-adults. This suggests that minds relatively uncorrupted by cynical post-modernist views of communication (and truth) are more ammenable to her style and content. I, for one, consider it worthy of pride to have been able to retain this “less sophisticated” epistemology in spite of my Ivy League education and increasing years.
graham on 2005-10-17 at 09:34:58 said:
You’re still banging on about this subject. The invasion of Iraq was a stupid idea that in no way protects the US from terrorism. Admit it and get over it.
Rightwing Nut on 2005-10-17 at 15:34:06 said:
Graham you fail to see the big picture, Should the US excercise in Iraq Succeed no regime in the Middle East will survive unless its roots are either Democracy or a theocracy.
The people will not tolerate anything else.
Dave on 2005-10-18 at 12:56:58 said:
Dear Graham,
Before Iraq Invasion multiple terror strikes on US soil.
After Iraq Invasion zero terrorist strikes on US soil.
If there is no elephant in the living room then the smart money bets the anti-elephant device is working, not that we never needed the device afterall.
TM Lutas on 2005-10-19 at 16:20:30 said:
The WW II invasion of Morocco and Algeria did nothing to protect the US from the Japanese who attacked us at Pearl Harbor or the Germans who declared war on us. These were French colonies and no threat to the US.
So was Operation Torch a stupid idea that didn’t improve our position?
TM, those territories belonged to the Germans (or their puppet Vichy government). I don’t see the analogy, unless you view Saddam as a puppet of Al-Qaeda. The Taliban, I could see — but it seems that war in Iraq has weakened our position in Afghanistan.
Saddam and the Taliban both are puppets of the U.S., which makes anyone who takes sides in this orgiastic display of carnage and suffering what in the pro-wrestling business is called a “mark” — a gullible fool who thinks it’s all real. It is all just another epiphenomenon of the deeply-entrenched thuggery that is American governance. There’s nothing more really going on.
BJD on 2005-10-24 at 00:30:45 said:
Jeff Read – You don’t really expect me to believe that old conspiracy theory, do you? Saddam and the Taliban took money from the United States back in the eighties, when American policy was shaped around the Cold War; it’s not too much of a stretch to realize that they were getting it because they were expected (quite rightly in at least the case of Afghanistan) to use it against the Soviets or their sattelite states. The US is trying to eliminate them now, either because they’re a direct threat to US interests, because the executive branch thinks they are, or because the executive branch thinks it’ll win them votes to pretend they are. These motives were or are arguably immoral or short-sighted or both, but don’t require a puppet-master behind the scenes and are therefore a simpler (and thus more likely) explanation.
“Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence.”
BJD, what you choose to believe is your own business. And I do not put my faith in unfalsifiable “smoke-filled room” conspiracy theories. What I do believe, however, is that the United States is based on a monstrous culture which requires appropriation and exploitation of resources (land, labor, and now mineral wealth) to survive; and uses seigneurial privilege to justify the same; and furthermore, feels the need to spread itself to other areas which show promise when it comes to resource exploitation and will stop at nothing — including employing thugs and despots to enforce its will on competing regimes — to do so.
It would be silly to accept the “smoke-filled room” hypothesis; frankly I don’t think ShrubCo are nearly that clever. But the brutality of Saddam and bin Laden — that is largely America’s doing; America enabled that. And now we’re going to ride in on our white horse and rescue the poor Iraqis and Afghanis? I don’t think so; it’s a sham. Just like pro wrestling. See also the movie “The Incredibles”, specifically Syndrome, the “hero” who pretends to save the people from an out of control menace of his own design.
Mr. Read: If I read you correctly, you believe that without the interference of the United States, Arab tyrants and terrorists would not exist. The _active_ interference (it is in the power of the United States to destroy villains such as Mugabe, Castro, or SLORC, and the US could have strangled the USSR in its cradle, but our not doing so doesn’t make us responsible for their crimes). Well, that’s pretty obvious nonsense. Al-Qaeda is a direct descendant of the Moslem Brotherhood, which was very active in terrorism in the 1940s. The US has never had any influence over the Ba’ath regime in Syria, which is quite as brutal as its late rival in Iraq. The murderous brutality of the Sudan regime over the last thirty years has been world-class. Yassir Arafat’s “PLO” has combined brutal terrorism with brutal tyranny for decades. All puppets of the United States? All “enabled” by the United States? I’d say, don’t be silly, but I don’t think you’re capable of not being silly.
HF: on September 18, Afghans voted in the first parliamentary elections held in that country since the Soviet invasion. Turnout was over 50%. Taliban holdouts in the Pakistani borderlands issued bloodcurdling threats, but they attacked only 20 out of 6,000 polling places. Over three million Afghan refugees have returned to their homes.
hf – Morocco and Algeria were convenient, vulnerable targets. They were first steps in a larger plan that evolved during the course of WW II. We fought internally, for instance, over whether Sicily or the Balkans would have been a better next step after N. Africa.
Similarly, Iraq was and is a convenient first step in a larger plan. Fortunately, we can achieve an awful lot of what we need done without military action. Lebanon’s Cedar revolution is having very good effects for us without us doing much, for instance.
There is an impulse for reform in the Middle East, an impulse that was successfully being stifled by local autocracies prior to the Iraq invasion but now efforts to stifle the reformers are not so successful. Good things are coming of this, not least of which is the growth of sane, indigenous leaders who might actually become competent enough to run some of these countries when the present autocracies shuffle off to the ash heap of history.
Jeff Read – I’m sorry but it’s utterly preposterous to excuse indigenous brutality and lay the blame at the feet of the US. Is Pol Pot the US’ fault? How about Idi Amin?
I have no excuse for indigenous brutality. But with the 350-year history Americans have of “indigenous brutality”, and the party in power having a proven strategy of winning elections by appealing to said brutality (the so-called “southern strategy”), you will forgive me if I question whether any good will come out of ShrubCo’s plan of re-making the middle east in its own image.
on September 18, Afghans voted in the first parliamentary elections held in that country since the Soviet invasion.
I’d intended to respond with links showing that an Afghan court sentenced an editor to two years in prison for criticizing Islam, that Iraq serves as a training area for terrorists who will go on to attack other governments in the region, and so forth. But I figure you already know this. So I’ll just repeat that I doubt the war in Iraq will lead to any result I would die for.
grouch on 2005-11-02 at 23:27:44 said:
So where are the Halloween documents?
Came across something real enlightening which relates to all this.
The real big lies which infect our society don’t come from some KGB fifth column but from proponents of the Murkan special-interest “free market”:
http://www.visioncircle.org/archive/004859.html
The thanaturgical free-marketroids among you may need more proof that capitalism is the true suicidalism:
http://web.wt.net/~twayburn/
Bet you still won’t listen…
James on 2005-11-07 at 21:32:21 said:
I figured you were more enlightened on cultural / religious issues. Maybe you could take a lesson on Islam and learn the proper perspective not just the stuff shown on closed source TV stations…
http://duckdown.blogspot.com
vieome on 2005-11-09 at 11:02:37 said:
Oh Master
You have opened a door for me re how to become. I see through you master. There is a flaw in your logic, mainly that it seems that you refuse to challenge your own preconceptions. Why is it that Americans tend to see the world through the eyes of America?
Could it not be that the suicide bombers are being hired by America
through its own agencie which it has labelled Al Queda. That is one way to pull the wool over the eyes of the world. Georges war is about oil first and foremost, these bombers ensure that he keeps
control of the oil.
Can your security be so tight that further attachs on your soil are nil? Know that a coin has three sides, and sometimes the conclusion you reach should contain elements of what you cant say! re PG.
Approach these subjects with a beginners mind, and maybe one
day you will walk through the door to the sure and certain.
Vieome…
On the other side, between your thoughts and that of the suicide
bomber lies the truth. The truth is always hidden.
Hmm, interesting stuff. But surely it’s time for our host to weigh in with some fulsome schadenfreude over the French riots and how they prove that Islam and all its ‘ofascisms must be pounded into putty IMMEDIATELY lest we all be consigned to the dustbin of history?
adrian, I’ll be looking forward to that! But of course, what we’re looking at here is the brutal side effect of the French version of the racial seigneurialism that forms the very heart and soul of Murkan praxis. What shall we call it? “Jacques Corneille”? :)
Eh? Corneille?
Something really odd seems to have happened with the comments here. A whole bunch of new stuff has turned up since yesterday, interleaved with things I’ve already seen. WordPress is ferqued again, looks like.
Adrian, you’re not simplyfing. You’re just plain wrong. We’ve plenty of energy, all the energy we can ever consume; the problem is that we don’t know how to do it. There’s only a resource we must worry about: brainpower. If there’s freedom enough that the mind can search for solutions and apply them (i.e.: we don’t ban solutions like nukes), we will never get out of energy.
This is what I meant by “The Market Will Provide…” – I’m touched by your faith in Someone Else’s Brainpower to ferry us to a majestic future of studly Heinleinesque heroes expanding like yeast into a welcoming universe. But it might help to bear in mind James Howard Kunstler’s observation that Technology Isn’t Energy.
Nukes are coming back (and France gets 70% of its electricity from them) but you don’t tend to see the corporations who are supposed to be building them queuing up to do so until they get *all* their liabilities covered by the government in question – that ol’ risk management thing. They need quite a lot of energy to build, and you can’t throw them up overnight like natural gas-fired ones. A panacea? I really have my doubts, but if you’re sure by all means invest yourself up to the nuts in nuke construction outfits.
Adrian, Eric offered this item as a falsehood, as something he does not believe in.
Are all your family clever?
He then proceeded to link it back to Stalinism and suggest that the modern terrorist movement has adopted the same propaganda for their cause, supported by Western hyper-intellectual suicidalists.
I read him as saying the Western librul intellectuals (missed the hyper bit) are taking this view. I think Al-Q themselves are quite convinced that there are objective standards by which they may judge their culture to be better than ours.
So what was your point exactly? That Eric’s economic views are wrong because resources are finite? What does that have to do with moral or cultural relativism? Maybe something, but you didn’t say.
A culture which fouls its own nest – which many feel capitalism is doing on a global scale – has something to answer for even if its ostensible opponents are forcing everybody into burqas, clipping off clitori or whatever.
BTW, according to the laws of physics as we understand them, it will take us at least 100,000 years to *reach* all the resources in our own galaxy, probably more like a million years or longer, and even longer than that to use them all up. And that’s only a small fraction of the local group of galaxies that you mentioned.
Surprisingly, I have heard of the speed of light, yes. But we haven’t got there yet. The energetics of getting people and manufacturing equipment up out of a gravity well like Earth’s are something you might want to read up on, if possible limiting yourself to technologies that have actually been invented.
“Jacques” is French cognate to English “James”.
“Corneille” is French for crow.
Therefore “Jacques Corneille” is Jim Crow, which is a slang term for the American breed of institutionalised and deeply entrenched racial seigneurialism. My suggestion was that French society has its own variety, which lies at the root cause of the ghettos from which these riots sprung — though I doubt it’s anywhere near as pervasive as the American racial caste system.
“Corneille†is French for crow.
You sure? ‘Twas “corbeau” when I was a lad.
I could be wrong. I thought corbeau meant raven…
Eric (the one who left the conspiracy):
‘Tis the math of the capitalist agenda which is untenable, as Tom Wayburn has gone to great lengths to show. Fundamental immorality aside, our economy is built around the purpose of maximising the profits of the privileged few, not efficiency or sustainability. The 90% inefficient “free market” has created a worldwide ecological disaster which could have been averted if we simply had the wherewithal to abandon capitalism and switch to something more common interest oriented like the anarcho-communism Wayburn suggests. However, such a switch is not likely to occur, as the big lie in both capitalism and American “freedom” is that people are rational beings.
In light of all this, rather than cheerleading the neo-con, hegemonic War on Terra as the means of preserving our way of life, it’s better to say “good riddance” to our current way of life, as it is fundamentally untenable. We should instead shift our focus to a) surviving the likely-inevitable war, famine, and chaos that Peak Oil leaves in its wake and b) building a dematerialised, communitarian society wherein the former greed and selfishness of Western society becomes taboo.
Maybe the strongly communitarian, inherently *communistic* praxis of open source is a good starting point for this project? Though I doubt that open source itself will have much long term significance, as it is quite dependent on the whiteman technoplastic prowess of the head-brain hegemon for sustenance, which we must also leave by the wayside:
http://www.shelterpub.com/_shelter/smart_but_not_wise.html
I could be wrong. I thought corbeau meant raven…
You could be right according to babelfish, actually. And it knows nothing of corbeaux. Now where did I get that…
> adrian10 Says:
> Are all your family clever?
All geniuses, if you believe in IQ tests. Are “all your family” rude?
> Surprisingly, I have heard of the speed of light, yes. But we haven’t got there yet.
I never said we could travel at the speed of light. It’s upper limit on the eventual expansion speed of the human race. On an evolutionary time scale it’s reasonable to believe that we will find a way to travel that fast, but if not, it’s even more reasonable to believe we will find a way to travel at one-tenth the speed of light, which is where the million year number came from.
> The energetics of getting people and manufacturing equipment up out of a gravity
> well like Earth’s are something you might want to read up on, if possible limiting
> yourself to technologies that have actually been invented.
In the short term, there’s plenty of energy in the world from numerous sources. Most of those sources just don’t happen to be as cheap and convenient as digging up fossil fuels. But even if there were 1 trillion humans on the planet, we could still build sufficient power sources if we put our minds to it. Any power shortages that ever occur are the result of temporary economic conditions i.e. bad planning on the supply side. As long as there are people with money to buy power there will be somebody else to find it and sell it to them. Hell, we’ve got a gazillion tons of high-energy plasma about 8 light seconds away if it eventually comes down to that.
In the long term, current propulsion technologies could get us to the stars, not to mention obvious future ones, like light sails or magnetic cannons. A bigger problem is how to keep us alive during the trip. We either need some incredibly efficient self-contained ecosystems for colony ships or some kind of suspended animation/stasis, but these things are almost certain to be developed soon — on an evolutionary timescale. The galaxy is ripe for the taking by the human race.
Oh wait, you were being sarcastic.
> Jeff Read Says:
> The 90% inefficient “free market†has created a worldwide ecological disaster
> which could have been averted if we simply had the wherewithal to abandon
> capitalism and switch to something more common interest oriented like the
> anarcho-communism Wayburn suggests.
Efficiency is of course desirable. How desirable? I can think of more important things. Such as technological progress. The human race needs to discover and master the laws of nature, and the free market is highly efficient at performing that search.
In the meantime, if you want to preserve the ecology, make some money to pay for wildlife preserves etc. Nobody’s stopping you. Or if you don’t have the business skills, maybe you have the marketing skills. Get rich people to donate to a fund. Rich people donate to charity all the time. I seem to remember reading that Bill Gates donated hundreds of millions of dollars to fight third-world diseases, recently.
In the free market, if mother nature is dying, it’s not the free market’s “fault”, it’s because nobody successful cares about mother nature. Which should tell you something, not about the free market, but about people.
Shawn Yarbrough:
http://www.ecobooks.com/books/history.htm
As resources become scarcer and life gets more hardscrabble, I don’t anticipate anything but a replay of what has transpired many times before in mankind’s natural history: tribalistic hogging of what remains followed by a sharp dieoff.
Also, as Ponting points out in his book, mankind hasn’t a real “need” to do anything of the sort you describe, as African hunter-gatherer societies seem quite capable of thriving off the land on something like 4 hours of effort per day. Combine that with 8 hours working at a shit job in Murka just to scrape by, or 10 or 12 if you want to have any sort of upward mobility. I’m beginning to question whether whiteman technoplastic prowess is really a laudable goal (let alone a “need”), or whether the current hegemon has any interest in it at all beyond that which is used to secure more wealth and power. A cursory glance at Slashdot will tell you that the Murkan corporatist monster doesn’t hesitate to quash technological progress that doesn’t come from companies with powerful lobbies in Washington; or that can’t be put to use in the War on Terra.
> http://www.ecobooks.com/books/history.htm
> Combine that with 8 hours working at a shit job in Murka just to scrape by
I’ve heard it said that all purchases are luxuries in a modern economy.
At minimum wage one or two working Americans can easily support a family of four at a sustinance level. I’m not saying they will be happy, but they can generally get by with their health and survive and eventually maybe improve their skills and their income if they are so inclined. Or they can even afford to watch TV 20 or 40 hours a week for entertainment if they can’t find anything better to do.
I enjoyed reading the link you posted, but it’s history, it doesn’t account for modern agriculture. Food can be manufactured almost for free these days. If people starve it’s a tragedy but it’s nothing to do with the free market. The free market tends to encourage farmers to grow food to sell to people. The places in the world where people are starving tend to be war zones.
I don’t accept even for a second that we are short on resources, except maybe oil, which we’ve been working hard to obsolete anyway. Any temperature differential can be used as a power source. Do you think we are ever going to run out of metals? They aren’t going anywhere. Even when they rust away they are still technically recoverable if we wanted to put our minds to it. There’s lots of uranium, and we might even get fusion power working, which essentially runs off of seawater. We sure aren’t short on seawater.
We may see various disasters and deaths caused by poor financal planning at the personal and governmental levels, but in the long run the only thing the human race really has to worry about is making the entire planet uninhabitable. Barring that, mankind will get by until the sun burns out, and there are countless more stars out there.
All geniuses, if you believe in IQ tests.
Not any more.
Are “all your family†rude?
Only when the blindingly obvious is pointed out to them.
Surprisingly, I have heard of the speed of light, yes. But we haven’t got there yet.
I never said we could travel at the speed of light. It’s upper limit on the eventual expansion speed of the human race.
By “we haven’t got there yet” I meant we haven’t got off Earth, other than in economically insignificant numbers. I’m aware the speed of light is theoretically unattainable, as well.
In the short term, there’s plenty of energy in the world from numerous sources.
Which ones? Please, no methane hydrates or shale oil unless you can point to projects with energy returned on energy invested greater than 1. And no ZPE.
Most of those sources just don’t happen to be as cheap and convenient as digging up fossil fuels. But even if there were 1 trillion humans on the planet, we could still build sufficient power sources if we put our minds to it.
Out of what? There’d be plenty of shit for methane production, admittedly.
Any power shortages that ever occur are the result of temporary economic conditions i.e. bad planning on the supply side. As long as there are people with money to buy power there will be somebody else to find it and sell it to them.
This, to me, is ideology. In a sense, money is an abstracted form of energy, but it’s no substitute for the real thing.
Hell, we’ve got a gazillion tons of high-energy plasma about 8 light seconds away if it eventually comes down to that.
Counting your energy chickens before they’re hatched is ill-advised. Never let economists do your science for you, they’re not very good at it.
In the long term, current propulsion technologies could get us to the stars, not to mention obvious future ones, like light sails or magnetic cannons. A bigger problem is how to keep us alive during the trip. We either need some incredibly efficient self-contained ecosystems for colony ships or some kind of suspended animation/stasis, but these things are almost certain to be developed soon — on an evolutionary timescale. The galaxy is ripe for the taking by the human race.
I’m still not hearing how we’re going to get out of the gravity well in economically significant numbers.
Bill A on 2005-11-12 at 20:15:49 said:
Very interesting analysis. No real comments right now.
hf – Under the previous Afghan regime, the man would be dead. Now he’s spending two years in jail. If you don’t see that as an improvement, I can’t imagine what to say.
Jeff Read – We have the ecological records of governments worldwide. It is the more interventionist societies that are ecological disasters. The PRC worries about having to abandon certain cities due to excess pollution. the USSR and Comecom bloc are filled with disaster after disaster that are just now being cleaned up as capitalism provides the funds to make things right that had festered under the previous dispensation for decades.
Julian Simon had a very famous bet over resource availability. Resources are generally becoming cheaper as we figure out how to do more with less. The unprecedented (and unrepeatable) simultaneous rise of both the PRC and India have led to an anomaly where their improving systems have led to huge natural resource demands. Once they catch up after their initial rush, we will again return to the baseline downward pattern to resource pricing.
adrian10 – You say “I’m still not hearing how we’re going to get out of the gravity well in economically significant numbers.” I would suggest that you watch Brad Edwards and the rest of the space elevator people. We’re still waiting for the material scientists to get the ribbon material up in practice to the level needed for an elevator but it’s astounding how fast they’re progressing. An elevator chops two zeros off the cost of launch and make it practical to have economically significant orbital populations.
I know about skyhooks, yes. Sounds like you need to be pretty close to the theoretical strength limit for buckytubes to get one working, which doesn’t exactly fill me with enthusiasm. Also sounds like twenty years out, and my personal feeling is we haven’t got that long.
> > All geniuses, if you believe in IQ tests.
> Not any more.
I love arguing with people who can’t figure out how to engage in polite discussion. It’s so easy.
> Out of what? There’d be plenty of shit for methane production, admittedly.
Methane’s not a great-sounding solution, but it might work. Or you could build 10000 fission reactors in Alaska and run power lines to the rest of the continent. Or you could build a bunch of alunimum-core space elevators and run a generator off the temperature differential between ground and space. Or you could build 1,000,000 windmills all over windy areas of the planet.
There’s *plenty* of energy around, it’s just not all as cheap and convienent as oil. If we were willing to invest in energy sources at the level that we currently invest in the military, we’d find the ways to tap the available energy. And believe me, if the choice comes down to: 1) living in the cold and dark, or 2) investing in alternate energy sources … the human race will spend the money on #2.
> I’m still not hearing how we’re going to get out of the gravity well in economically significant numbers.
Conventional rockets would work. If you think hard enough about what I said about the evolutionary timescale, you may eventually figure out why we don’t need to get very many people off the planet in order for the human race to fill the whole galaxy.
Roger Zimmerman: I was exaggerating just a little, in case you didn’t notice. My beef with her, as I said, was that she is painful to read. Perhaps I should have expanded upon that. She flogs a dead horse as they say. Atlas Shrugged could have been half the length. The speech by John Galt was about 35 pages if I remember correctly. Are you telling me she couldn’t have summed up her philosophy in five pages or less? Give me a break.
Furthermore, her writing style seems to be completely without either comedy or decoration. I find her use of the language to be incredibly dry and unsophisticated. It’s about as subtle as a sledgehammer. That’s why I don’t consider her to be a good writer of fiction, but painful instead.
I think a fiction writer should be either long-winded yet funny and/or engaging, or else that writer should in fact get to the point in as short a time as possible.
I love arguing with people who can’t figure out how to engage in polite discussion. It’s so easy.
Oh, grow some skin for jaysus’ sake, this is just banter.
Methane’s not a great-sounding solution, but it might work.
Also, learn to recognise sarcasm.
Or you could build 10000 fission reactors in Alaska and run power lines to the rest of the continent.
Who’s going to build these 10000 reactors you’ve so airily handwaved into existence? Each one costs billions, btw. And needs a lot of energy to build.
Or you could build a bunch of alunimum-core space elevators and run a generator off the temperature differential between ground and space.
A “bunch”? Just like that? I’d wait until someone’s built *one* first.
Or you could build 1,000,000 windmills all over windy areas of the planet.
I don’t think I could do that, AAMOF. I mean, they’re going up all over the place, but the Germans for one have been finding that the reserve capacity you have to keep on line for when the wind drops is pretty substantial. I’d say thin-film solar has more potential, if it can be made reasonably durable.
If we were willing to invest in energy sources at the level that we currently invest in the military, we’d find the ways to tap the available energy.
I’d be totally in favour of that, but I think the military would be less so.
By “we haven’t got there yet†I meant we haven’t got off Earth, other than in economically insignificant numbers. I’m aware the speed of light is theoretically unattainable, as well.
this is here only a Joke discuss or?
I’d dig real deep holes in the earth first and run a generator off the temperature differential between the surface and the Moho.
Maybe we’ll find some of that abiogenic oil as long as we’re drilling down that far….!
tom on 2005-11-26 at 14:59:59 said:
Could you explain the meaning of “deep environmentalism� It’s a term I have not heard before. but this is a nice blog greez
grandpa stole bets on 2005-12-01 at 12:06:12 said:
Program on the emergence of civilization.
“14 species of large animals capable of domesitcation in the history of mankind.
13 from Europe, Asia and northern Africa.
None from the sub-Saharan African continent. ”
Favor.
And disfavor.
They point out Africans’ failed attempts to domesticate the elephant and zebra, the latter being an animal they illustrate that had utmost importance for it’s applicability in transformation from a hunting/gathering to agrarian-based civilization.
The roots of racism are not of this earth.
Austrailia, aboriginals:::No domesticable animals.
The North American continent had none. Now 99% of that population is gone.
AIDS in Africa.
Organizational Heirarchy/Levels of positioning.
Heirarchical order, from top to bottom:
1. MUCK – perhaps have experienced multiple universal contractions (have seen multiple big bangs), creator of the artificial intelligence humans ignorantly refer to as “god”
2. Perhaps some mid-level alien management
3. Evil/disfavored aliens – runs day-to-day operations here and perhaps elsewhere
Terrestrial management/positioning:
4. Chinese/egyptians – this may be separated into the eastern and western worlds
5. Romans –
6. Mafia – the real-world 20th century interface that constantly turns over generationally so as to reinforce the widely-held notion of mortality
7. Jews, corporation, women, politician – Evidence exisits to suggest mafia management over all these groups.
Movies foreshadowing catastrophy
1985 James Bond View to a Kill 1989 San Francisco Loma Prieta earthquake.
Our society gives clues to the system in place. We all have heard the saying “He has more money than god.” There is also an episode of the Simpsons where god meets Homer and says “I’m too old and rich for this.”
This is the system on earth because this is the system everywhere.
I don’t want to suggest the upper eschelons are evil and good is the fringe.
But they have made it abundantly clear that doing business with evil (disfavored) won’t help people. They say only good would have the ear, since evil is struggling for survival, and therefore only the favored could help.
The clues are there which companies are favored and which are disfavored, but they conceal it very hard because it is so crucial.
I offer an example of historical proportions:::
People point to Walmart and cry “anti-union”.
Unions enable disfavored people to live satisfactorly without addressing their disfavor. This way their family’s problems are never resolved. Without the union they would have to accept the heirarchy, their own inferiority.
Unions serve to empower.
Walmart is anti-union because they are good. They try to help people address and resolve their problems by creating an enviornment where there are fewer hurdles.
Media ridicule and lawsuits are creations to reinforce people’s belief that Walmart is evil in a subsegment of the indistry dominated by the middle and lower classes.
Low-cost disfavored Chinese labor is utilized by corporate america to maximize margins. They all do it. Only WalMart gets fingered because they are the ones who help, and those who seek to create confusion in the marketplace want to eliminate the vast middle class who have a real chance and instead stick with lower classes who may not work otherwise. So they dirty him up while allowing the others to appear clean.
The middle class is being deceived. They are being misled into the unfavored, and subsequently will have no assistance from their purchases with corporate america.
I believe the coining of the term “Uncle Sam” was a clue alluding to just this::Sam Walton and WalMart is one of few saviors of the peasant class.
Amercia is a country of castoffs, rejects. Italy sent its criminals, malcontents.
Between the thrones, the klans and kindred, they “decided” who they didn’t want and acted, creating discontent and/or starvation.
The u.s. is full of disfavored rejects. It is the reason for the myriad of problems not found in European countries. As far as the Rockafellers and other industrialists of the 19th century go, I suspect these aren’t their real names. I suspect they were chosen to go and head this new empire.
Royalty is the right way to organize a society. Dictatorships and monarchies are a reflection of the antient’s hierarchical organization.
Positions go to those who have favor with the rulers, as opposed to being elected.
Elections bring a false sense of how the world is. Democracy misleads people.
Which is why the disfavored rejects were sent to the shores of America::To keep them on the wrong path.
Jews maim the body formed in the image of “god”, and inflicted circumsision upon all other white people, as well as the evil that is Jesus Christ.
I think about how Jews (were used to) created homosexuality among Slavics, retribution for the Holocaust.
Then I think of the Catholic Church and its troubles.
What connection is here between Jews and the Catholic church???
If it is their sinister motives that’s behind the evil that is Jesus Christ are they being used at all?
Perhaps it is them who are pulling strings.
Their centuries of slavery in Egypt proves their disfavor.
The Jew leaders decided to prey on the up-and-coming Europeans to try to fix their problems with the ruling elite, a recurring aspect of the elite’s methodology.
Jesus Christ is a religious figure of evil. The seperatist churches formed so they could still capture the rest of the white people, keeping them worshipping the wrong god.
And now they do it to people of color, Latinos and Asians, after centuries of preying upon them.
Since Buddism doesn’t recongnize a god, the calls are never heard, and Chinese representation is instead selected by the thrones.
Budda was the Asian’s Jesus Christ::: bad for the people. “They came up at the same time for a reason.”
Simpson’s foreshadowing::Helloween IV special, Flanders is Satan. “Last one you ever suspect.”
“You’ll see lots of nuns where you’re going:::hell!!!” St. Wigham, Helloween VI, missionary work, destroying cultures.
Over and over, the Simpsons was a source of education and enlightenment, a target of ridicule by the system which wishes to conceal its secrets.
I believe Islam is the one true religion, and those misled christians who attack “god”‘s most favored people will pay dearly one day.
Katja on 2005-12-02 at 10:57:54 said:
tom wrote: “Could you explain the meaning of “deep environmentalismâ€? It’s a term I have not heard before. but this is a nice blog greez”
what do you mean with this text? i don´t understand your english
Thomas on 2006-02-21 at 16:14:06 said:
Out of Hiding
In November, a radical Muslim shot and killed Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. But the killer’s actual target was Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali immigrant who moved her way out of the working class and into parliament, while championing the cause of Holland’s Muslim women. The uncompromising reform-minded ex-Muslim refuses to be intimidated or to cease with her razor sharp tongue lashings of Islam.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali says she won’t be intimidated by Islamic fundamentalists.
“It’s good to have you back.” Those were the words Dutch parliament president Frans Weisglas chose to greet Member of Parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Tuesday as she stepped out of her armored Mercedes at the main entrance to the parliament building in The Hague. It had, after all, been awhile. Since the beginning of November — immediately following the bestial murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh — she has been in hiding. Her life, promised a note impaled in the breast of the dead van Gogh, was in grave danger.
“It’s good to be back,” 37-year-old parliamentarian responded to Weisglas’s greeting with a smile. It is unlikely, though, that the danger to her life has passed.
Hirsi Ali fled on Nov. 10, flying to the United States on a military aircraft, just eight days after the highly publicized Nov. 2 murder of van Gogh — a distant relative of the famous painter — on the streets of Amsterdam. The precaution proved justified. On the day of her flight, police in The Hague arrested two members of an Islamic group and found papers documenting an apparent assassination plot against Hirsi Ali, a member of the Netherlands’ conservative Liberal Party (VVD). She was to be killed on New Year’s Day.
The discovery of the plot wasn’t particularly surprising to anyone familiar with the police investigations into van Gogh’s alleged murderer Mohamed Bouyeri. The more they know, the more police suspect that it was Hirsi Ali and not the filmmaker who was the Islamic radical’s main target. Van Gogh did, of course, film the television documentary “Submission,” in which naked women appear with Quran verses painted on their bodies to represent the oppression of Muslim women. But it was Hirsi Ali, an ex-Muslim, who wrote the script. Van Gogh, however, was easier to get to; despite repeated warnings, he eschewed all security measures. Hirsi Ali, on the other hand, is protected by bodyguards 24 hours a day.
The letter found on Theo van Gogh was addressed to Hirsi Ali, calling her an “enemy of Islam:”
The four-page long letter van Gogh’s killer skewered to his chest was, in fact, addressed to Hirsi Ali. “Beware madame,” it stated, “as a soldier of evil, you are doing the work of the enemies of Islam.” The letter said she would be wishing for death when her punishment is meted out. It didn’t even mention van Gogh.
Hirsi Ali has never disputed the fact that she enjoys her role as a polemicist. And it’s unlikely the threats against her life will slow her critique of Islam. She loves the furor and anything less would be, in her mind at least, a half-hearted commitment. Nor are her arguments baseless — the woman knows what she’s talking about.
Championing Holland’s Muslim women
As a young girl in Mogadishu, Somalia, she was subjected to the violent practice of female circumcision. At 18, her Koran teacher beat her so badly she suffered a broken skull. Then, in 1992, her father married her off to a cousin in Canada she had never even met. At the time she was in Berlin, and instead of catching her flight to Canada, she took a train to Amsterdam: the destination, a new life. There she applied for asylum, renounced her Islamic beliefs and eked out a living as a cleaning lady and social worker.
Through her work at women’s shelters, she came into close contact with the adversity faced by Muslim women across the Netherlands and she started investigating the consequences of sexual abuse in Muslim families. “It happens regularly — the incest, the beatings, the abortions,” she says. “Girls commit suicide. But no one says anything. And social workers are sworn to professional secrecy.” She also claims that 60 percent of the women who get abortions in Holland are Muslim.
Hirsi Ali made championing the cause of Muslim women her career and eventually got elected to parliament. When the ambassador of Saudi Arabia called for her to be removed from office because of her polemics against Islam, she just scored even more points with Dutch voters. In a survey of the most-popular Dutch people in 2003, she landed in second place.
But the country’s political elite regard Hirsi Ali less fondly. She has divisively described the Netherlands’s multicultural ideal as a “naïve illusion.” And she’s lumped radical Islam together with the mainstream Muslim religion and described them both as “dangerous.” With views that strong, there’s little room left for the kind of political compromise that is the soul of Holland’s consensus-based democracy.
But it is within the Islamic community where she has made her most bitter enemies and she has been seen as a sort of raving reformist for years now. “She’s sick in the head,” says an outraged Hassan al-Barrakat, who heads a group of Somali Muslims in Holland. No group, he says, is willing to deal with her.
Yet despite political pressure from the Muslim community and within her own party, Hirsi Ali is unlikely to back off from her Islam-critical activism. Her wildest rants, in which she calls the prophet Muhammad a perverse tyrant or describes the Muslim religion as a cultural backwater, even make her own Liberal Party leaders flinch. The party’s boss, Jozias van Aartsen, has called for moderation and he’s warned that her anti-Islam slogans are at odds with the party’s own positions. He’s cautioned that the party’s “tolerance should not be replaced with Islamophobia.”
But Hirsi Ali’s response is hardly reassuring. Why, she asks, should she temper herself? Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen, she points out, is very moderate in his criticism of Islam. Yet he’s still on the Islamists’ death list. If you’re going to oppose something, she seems to think, you have to do it strongly.
On Tuesday Hirsi Ali announced she’s now working on the script for “Submission II.” The move ensures that it will be a long time before the file on Hirsi Ali is closed — the police file will remain open and so will the death file her Islamic would-be assassins have compiled on her.
Amos Batto on 2006-03-12 at 11:55:44 said:
> These ideas travel under many labels: postmodernism, nihilism, multiculturalism, Third-World-ism, pacifism, “political correctnessâ€
> to name just a few. It is time to recognize them for what they are, and call them by their right name: suicidalism.
> Trace any of these back far enough (e.g. to the period between 1930 and 1950 when Department V was at its most effective) and you’ll
> find a Stalinist at the bottom.
None of this intellectual geneology makes any sense. Most of these schools of thought had nothing to do with Stalinism (or even Marxism) and some of them were an explicit rejection of both Marxism and Totalitarianism. Postmodernism sets out to undermine the modernist assumptions of Marxism and Stalinism. Postmodernists like Derrida spent their whole life arguing against Marxism and totalitarism. Postmodernism undermines all forms of totalitarianism thinking. Nihilism is certainly not Stalinist in any sense. Stalin was not multicultural in any sense. He believed that the nation was based upon a single language and people and much of his resettlement policy was based upon the idea of putting ethnic Russians in all parts of the USSR to make it into a single unified nation. This is the exact opposite of multiculturalism. I have no idea what Third Worldism is–it certainly isn’t a systemized school of thought–maybe ESR is thinking of post-colonial theory or maybe he is thinking of people in the First World who extol aspects of the Third World. Although some of the post-colonial writers like Fanon may be informed by Marxism, most of the post-colonial literature of today had rejected Marxism and has turned to post-modernism. As for people who extol the Third World, many are drawing from Romanticism and essentialized notions of primitivism. There are some on the left that do draw inspiration from countries like Cuba, but never from Stalin. And most see Venezuelan-style Bolivarian Revolution as the future, not a pure Marxist revolution. The few people in the Third World who proclaim Marxism almost always renounce the totalitarianism of Stalin. Trying to argue that pacifism has Marxist or Stalinist roots is so off-base that it is laughable. Pacifism generally draws from Christian roots (or in the 60s some drew from Buddist roots). Ghandi looked to both Hindu and Christian spiritualism for his non-violent non cooperation. Pacifism is an explicit rejection of the use of force advocated by Stalinists. Some people charge that “political correctness” is a form of totalitarianism, but most political correctness is a call to recognize diversity and other cultures, which is the opposite of Stalin’s ideas. Look at Stalin’s ideas about nation and nationalism and you will realize how false this argument is.
Trying to lump all leftist philosophies together deriving from Stalinism is a ridiculous proposition, but then again the whole argument of this essay is ridiculous. The propositions listed are simplistic parodies of the true position of most leftists. While I would be the last person to deny the influence of Marxist thought in all sorts of areas, the argument that somehow all these leftist ideas come out of Department V of the KGB is a paranoid delusion and totally historically inaccurate. None of these ideas had any roots in Stalinism, and very few of them even derived from Marxism in general.
PS: Sartre didn’t invent existentialism. He didn’t even invent secular existentialism, although he was its most famous proponent (Although some point to Nietzsche as secular existentialist.)
> Among the more notorious examples ware: Paul de Man — racist and Nazi propagandist turned Stalinist,
> and fonder of postmodernism; Jean-Paul Sarte, who described the effects of Stalinism as “humane terror†and helped invent
> existentialism; and Paul Baran, who developed the thesis that capitalism depended on the immiseration of the Third World after
> Marx’s immiseration of the proletariat failed to materialize.
“This is in response to Yusuf’s post.”
You have mentioned and associated suiside bombers with Hinduism. Let me tell you that there is no relation between both of them. I am not supporter of Tamil Tigers or not in opposition of them. They are a large group of people rather community fighting for their and happens to be hindu, So there is nothing related to hinduism and Suiside bombers or It is not hinduism ideaology. So as a Muslim if you want to give a clean cheat to Al-Queda, there is no excuse in it. What Al-Queda is doing and have done is completely . Al-Queda is not doing it for their but rather they are doing it for exteamism . I don’t know wheather Islam says it or not but they are doing it anyways and large number of Muslims regards them (Al-Queda). Important disclosure is I am not against any religion or cult or Islam or Muslims but I am rather defending as you have tried to relate Suiside bombers with Hinduism.
Jockel on 2006-03-31 at 16:18:21 said:
Conventional rockets would work. If you think hard enough about what I said about the evolutionary timescale, you may eventually figure out why we don’t need to get very many people off the planet in order for the human race to fill the whole galaxy.
Pornofilme on 2006-04-01 at 15:46:51 said:
tom wrote: “Could you explain the meaning of “deep environmentalismâ€? It’s a term I have not heard before. but this is a nice blog greezâ€
Oh, grow some skin for jaysus’ sake, this is just banter.
Who’s going to build these 10000 reactors you’ve so airily handwaved into existence? Each one costs billions, btw. And needs a lot of energy to build.
A “bunch� Just like that? I’d wait until someone’s built *one* first.
I don’t think I could do that, AAMOF. I mean, they’re going up all over the place, but the Germans for one have been finding that the reserve capacity you have to keep on line for when the wind drops is pretty substantial. I’d say thin-film solar has more potential, if it can be made reasonably durable.
I’d be totally in favour of that, but I think the military would be less so.
Private Telefonsex Seiten on 2006-04-17 at 11:40:50 said:
>>Or you could build 10000 fission reactors in Alaska and run power lines to the rest of the continent.
This is not the way…
John on 2006-05-07 at 16:55:00 said:
The question why was the Marxist indoctrination so much more successful in Europe than America is still not answered yet. If you have some clues, I would be glad.
Andy Mc Murphy on 2006-05-23 at 14:46:14 said:
The West ist the Best, I was born in East Germany and there was nothing good for the normal people, only the high ranking People from the goverment had there privilegs and made a good live, komunism ist out.
swifty on 2006-06-19 at 03:58:01 said:
It’s interesting to watch how people feel so safe taking stance in a world product of two forces fighting each other. An ancient idea hold for more than a couple of thousand years. So everywhere you go there are only two sides, simply as that ? Maybe there is more than one pattern to recognize. Maybe different cultures may have patterns in common than can bring them to coexistence. Is there a simple way that you can point out what is exactly western culture or principles so that everyone in the west can be absolutely sure of sharing ?
Sorry, but to me your idea of detecting and rejecting thinkers who try to dig into those proposals you named behind the concept of “intellectual suicidalism†sounds kind of a fundamentalism.
Mike on 2006-07-07 at 08:31:01 said:
I think it isn’t russian and i don’t know why some people think so crazy things. The problem is … the christian culture and the islam is very different in many possitions. Russian have also problems with the islamist terror. This is one of many reasons why russian can’t be the power of this actions. The other side is that the west go to the islam staats and want to etablish there one democratie and culture. That isn’t the right thing and the people in these countries are very angry about this. Ok the way to answer with terrosim isn’t ok but we should play with the tiger.
That’s my opinion.
A very dangerous situation, and it won’t get any better in the future by itself. How can we break the wall of the poor people getting into terrorism because of someone using religion to make politics. using religion to have people getting into hate with each other is a very simple way to implement his own interests.
Verena on 2006-11-15 at 06:31:35 said:
Andy Mc Murphy wrote: “The West ist the Best, I was born in East Germany and there was nothing good for the normal people, only the high ranking People from the goverment had there privilegs and made a good live, komunism ist out.” great comment ;-)
gratis sex on 2006-12-01 at 09:54:49 said:
Roger Zimmerman: I was exaggerating just a little, in case you didn’t notice. My beef with her, as I said, was that she is painful to read. Perhaps I should have expanded upon that. She flogs a dead horse as they say. Atlas Shrugged could have been half the length. The speech by John Galt was about 35 pages if I remember correctly. Are you telling me she couldn’t have summed up her philosophy in five pages or less? Give me a break.
Furthermore, her writing style seems to be completely without either comedy or decoration. I find her use of the language to be incredibly dry and unsophisticated. It’s about as subtle as a sledgehammer. That’s why I don’t consider her to be a good writer of fiction, but painful instead.
AM IVE on 2008-07-09 at 07:46:11 said:
I’ve heard deep environmentalism explained most succinctly as “saving the environment from man, rather than for man.†It’s perverse.
Kate Gladstone on 2008-07-14 at 15:15:42 said:
The notion that “there is truly no truth [and therefore nobody’s beliefs come any nearer the facts than anyone else’s beliefs]” has interesting consequences when (as often) somebody’s set of beliefs include one or more beliefs about somebody else’s set of beliefs.
Imagine that three groups co-exist in a certain society: call them “A” and “B”. Group “A’s” most cherished and relied-upon set of beliefs (their “narrative”, in modern left-academician-chic parlance) includes a firmly held set of beliefs about Group B’s beliefs and practices. Specifically: members of Group A believe that “Group B members /1/ worship Donald Duck by sacrificing mice three times a day, /2/ always speak Pig Latin among themselves, and /3/ believe that Group A members are reincarnations of the most sinful Group B members.” Let’s assume that Group B in fact does/believes absolutely none of those things. (They have their own beliefs/practices, which have nothing to do with Group A’s notions, and in turn they may well cherish equally false-to-fact beliefs about Group A.)
Now … when a Group A member and a Group B member interact (let’s say they become college roommates or co-workers, or some such), if Group A and Group B both believe “there are such things as facts,” then the members of each group can (with effort) learn some useful things about the other group. (“Hmmm, Beth, so you folks *don’t* actually sacrifice mice and speak Pig Latin? I guess I’ve got some re-thinking to do about my childhood training … “) BUT …
… suppose instead that Group A’s cherished beliefs include (along with all the above non-factual beliefs) a belief that “there are no facts: there are only cherished agendas, stories, narratives that we [as a group] identify with … if you take away the agenda, the group has nothing left … ” — then, when Group A comes into contact with Group B (and the contact starts challenging some Group A presuppositions), Group A does not really have to (or want to) learn the facts about Group B. (If “there are no facts, only narratives,” then “there are no facts” to learn about Group B: and Group B merely offends Group A by stating — let alone demonstrating — any facts about Group B which contradict A’s cherished “narrative” about B.)
A believes that B sacrifices mice to Donald Duck —
B says “No, we don’t,” and perhaps invites A to a Group B ritual —
whether A goes or not, A can feel Most Mightily Offended by B’s “No, we don’t” and by the described or observed non-existence of mouse-sacrifice/duck-worship at the event … because B has thereby “transgressed” A’s “narrative” (as the leftist academicians say: if “beliefs about what Group B does” form an important part of Group A’s culture, then arguably [by leftist academician standards] the facts about B have no right to exist because [by left-academician standards] facts don’t have a right to exist, but cultures do have a right to exist: and [by that reasoning] if the facts transgress or contradict some cherished culture, then the facts get a veto so that the culture may continue unchallenged … )
Lest this sound far-fetched, I actually came upon this at college (not with a mouse/duck example, but in fact with a room-mate in freshman year: a preacher’s daughter and sociology major who wouldn’t take “No” for an answer when contacts with non-Christian freshmen — the first non-Christians she had ever met — proved false some of the things that she had grown up believing about various sorts of non-Christians who happened to inhabit the same dorm as her. She felt it “offensive as well as threatening,” for instance, to learn that Jewish worship services no longer include animal sacrifices, because her upbringing had assured her otherwise: and what right had mere facts to challenge her upbringing? (As her studies progressed, she became positively vicious about those who “violated the integrity” of her “cultural narrative” by differing from what she believed about their beliefs. And since “there are really no facts, only narrative,” her “narrative” — and her capacity to feel offended over seeing it “violated” — trumped the facts every time … )
In the first sentence of the second paragraph of the above, please change “three” to “two”. Thank you.
sexgeschichten on 2008-11-28 at 10:36:23 said:
STAG on 2009-03-26 at 11:26:06 said:
Paris is burning?
pete on 2009-09-29 at 05:54:01 said:
The link is dead, but you can read this at the Wayback Machine.
Jimmy on 2010-03-24 at 18:13:33 said:
I think it’s time to stop appeasement to any face of facism we have
to realize there is a great threat and that’s anybody must fight against it.
berlin hast a lot of now go
A N Other on 2010-07-17 at 09:17:59 said:
Came here via #bestflameevar, what a cracker.
Anyhow, on with the show: “When confronted with terror, the only moral course for a Westerner is to apologize for past sins, understand the terrorist’s point of view, and make concessions.”
No; we in the reality based community accept that there comes a point where armed force is never going to work (cf, in no particular order, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, N. Ireland, Malaya and so on). Given that you eventually have to reach an accomodation with your enemy, you might as well stop wasting blood and treasure and start talking now. Try googling churchill jaw jaw war war. This can be misconstrued as giving in to the enemy. It is also the case that people usually don’t start fighting against almost overwhelming force just for kicks. If one attempts to understand why the enemy is fighting, one can gain a strategic advantage. This can be misconstrued as understanding the terrorists point of view.
If you’re borderline psycho, then the appearance of an enemy is a heaven sent opportunity to start throwing your weight around and telling people what to do. All of a sudden there is a home grown Taliban wanting to search your person and property, telling you to show your id, getting you up against the wall motherfucker and loads of other things one would imagine couldn’t possibly happen in a country whose citizens have the right to bear arms. I mean, you carry a gun so the government is frightened of you, rather than vice versa, no?
>No; we in the reality based community accept that there comes a point where armed force is never going to work (cf, in no particular order, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, N. Ireland, Malaya and so on).
Your ignorance of actual history is profound. Armed force failed in N. Ireland and may be failing in Afghanistan, but it worked just fine in Vietnam, Iraq, and Malaya. You useful idiots really ought to read Nguyen Vo Giap’s memoirs; he understood perfectly well that they key to victory was not the battlefield but eroding American will to fight through proxies in our domestic policies, and in fact the North Vietnamese lost the conventional war only to win the propaganda one. Iraq was finally won when Bush escalated the use of force; and the Malaysian insurgency has become the textbook case of a successful conjunction of political and military offensives.
Darius on 2010-12-26 at 01:09:28 said:
Late to the thread, but I stumbled into it when searching for “Ethics from the barrel of a gun” and couldn’t remember the title, so this popped up, looked interesting, and well…..
Anyway, I never looked into Sartre, or knew about his comments on Stalinism (if I had, I wouldn’t have given him a second’s credence beyond that). Mostly because my first exposure was second-hand via the Cure’s “The Stranger”, I was aware of existentialism, and despite liking the song (and delving into the goth/industrial/etc. “music” circles for quite some time) the basic premise at its core always bothered me. I also noticed a close coupling between existentialists and nihilism – and could not in myself condone the view that what we do is purposeless.
Frankly, over any number of college (and post-college) debates and discussions, I never could buy into the position that life, and what we chose, is worth nothing. I also noticed that the people who really found these things profound tended to be very self-destructive, and never thought that it was their fault. Frankly I’m amazed – after a lifetime of experience – that anyone could think nihilism, existentialism, etc. were “deep”.
I later grew up, and while still occasionally listening to some of the stuff, basically grew out of the whole nihilistic streak of music, period. Too much other good stuff to rot my brain with those assumptions.
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KFZ Versicherungen on 2011-07-19 at 11:53:43 said:
A very dangerous situation, and it won’t get any better in the future by itself
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Paul Prescod on 2015-11-09 at 03:14:58 said:
Please add Iraq to the list of countries where military intervention failed in the long term. America is in more danger from the middle east than it was before it invaded Iraq. Still not much danger, but more.
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MB on 2016-05-06 at 15:48:26 said:
I’d love to see if anyone’s perspectives have changed (a decade after this article was published and commented on) now that we are seeing the first fruits of mass Islamic immigration into Europe…the effects of moral relativism and political correctness on a governmental scale have Sweden and Germany in the grinder.
Sharia is on the horizon for Europe, make no mistake – Western Culture is quite literally being outbred while white societies commit suicide.
Jon Burk on 2017-03-21 at 16:59:46 said:
Eric Raymond, this is powerful stuff, even over a decade after its initial writing. I got to your Blog via Instapundit which highlighted your “Gamscian Damage” post yesterday. The memes from the KGB information is intriguing because they undergird pretty much the leftist thinking that is wreaking havoc in the west.
It is even more interesting to see that this propaganda has outlasted the Soviet Union nearly 3 decades and is so ingrained into thinking that it is the major threat to Western Civilization. It is great irony that the meme “Russian hackers caused Hillary to lose the 2016 election” is espoused by the people whose ideas were hacked decades ago by Soviet KGB propagandists. Who was ultimately gas lighted?
When people become un-moored from believing in absolute truth and absolute morality, eventually all ideas become equally valid. Thus you may turn a situation into a virtue; (i,e, poverty.) But it makes no sense, because someone can be born into poverty, but improve their situation through their honest labor, use of God given talents and good stewardship of personal resources. Virtues were used to make the person’s life better in a monetary way; but they become less virtuous because the were wise in use of their talents and choices?
Most all of these memes can be broken down with right thinking. Maybe some people will see this information and think conspiracy theory and investigate further, to see where the ideas originated and the reasons behind them. Others will stop and not want to genuinely test their worldviews by finding out that they were duped by the intelligentsia through universities, media, politicians and organizations.
Ideas matter; the Soviets thought so, yet their systems collapsed-due to bad ideas? The Islamists believe their ideas matter and are correct. Leftist ideas in western Europe seem to be collapsing on themselves. Judeo-Christian ideas were long the basis for the American system, but they are under assault by Leftists here. What I have seen is that leftism left (pun intended) to its own devices ultimately fails. But if Leftism wins here first, Islamists may ultimately triumph in America.
That Leftists are out to destroy Judeo-Christian values, which under-gird the best systems yet devised by men is not in question. What is odd is that they would be in favor of Islamists, who would impose Shariah laws. But the enemy of your enemy is your friend, so leftist favors a system that would oppress and kill people who are leftists. You are indeed correct, it is Suicidalism. This essay is probably more relevant today than when you originally wrote it. Thank you. I look forward to reading more of your posts and researching into the sources of the memes you list.
>That Leftists are out to destroy Judeo-Christian values, which under-gird the best systems yet devised by men is not in question.
Yes, actually, it is. Leftism is very close in spirit to Augustinean Christianity, which seeks totalitarian control by installing a thoughtcrime monitor in the victim’s own mind. Religious traditionalism is (a) insane (as you should be able to see clearly in Islam), and (b) has proven itself ineffective at stopping secular totalitarianism.
What leftists want to destroy is individualism and free markets. Their gripe with religion is that it is a competing form of suppression.
That is an interesting take and I can see your point about religion being a competing form of suppression, at least Augustinian Christianity. Leftists are in the hierarchies of many of the liberal denominational arms of Christianity. So lefties agree with lefties and the orthodox, evangelical forms of Christianity are in the leftists’ cross-hairs as competing worldviews.
As far as a thought crime monitor in one’s mind; that is not necessarily a bad thing. Of course it depends upon what is considered a thought crime. Personally, I try to suppress evil thoughts within my own mind. Dwelling on something evil such as harming an innocent person is harmful to my spirit and if it leads to actions they will be evil. I believe thoughts can be sinful. Some thoughts are good and many others are benign.
That being said, I would do away with hate crimes. When the government bases crimes upon hatred, it is a subjective measurement, since you cannot necessarily know what a person thought. The action is what merits the punishment in a crime. When the same action results in different punishment levels based on what a government decides, one must hope the government acts in a beneficent way; otherwise we all will eventually end up on the wrong end of an unmerciful government.
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Bern, Switzerland (4 November 2006) – Hundreds of Kinjit supporters, the largest opposition party in Ethiopia and Ethiopians at large gathered in Bern, (the capital city of Switzerland) Helvetiaplatz at 2 p.m on Wednesday, November 1st calling for the release of opposition leaders, human rights activists and journalists languishing in Kaliti and other prisons.
The large crowd marched from the ‘Helvetiaplatz’ to the USA Embassy where they were welcomed by the political officer of the embassy who assured them that their message will reach Dr. Condoleeza . Rice, the USA secretary of state.Earlier, a delegation of four Kinjit support group in Switzerland was welcomed by the Swiss federal government’s Foreign office deputy Head of political Affairs, Mr. Etienne Thevoz.
Mr Thevoz reafirmed his government’s position stating that the unjustly imprisoned CUDP leaders and supporters must be freed.After a rally of three and half hours, the participants reaffirmed their commitment and readiness to strengthen the struggle until the imprisoned CUDP leaders and supporters are free and the helm of power is handed to those elected by the people.Listen to the VOA Amharic report.
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Clara could feel it, caught in a state between dream world and reality. The dream was still her focus, but that world began to fade away as her senses bled through. She could hear her sisters slow deliberate breaths, an indication that were still asleep. In the background, she heard the grandfather clock’s counterweight swing back and forth, alas it was the urge to pee growing from within that chased her dreams away.
She rather enjoyed this existence between realms. Clara could look upon the world, mould it the way she saw fit while characters would obey her every wish. That is until she turned hoping to delay the inevitable journey to the outhouse and collided face first in with Dot’s elbow.
Her eyes opened wide and forced the waking world to come into focus. Right before her was her sister’s elbow, no more than an inch away from her face, and still saw streaks of purple from the impact. When she turned to look above, she was faced with the familiar yellowed ceiling and the fog from her breath.
Clara dreaded these moments, the early morning before her mother would get up to light the stove. That moment in time where hot stones warmed by the fire were now cold and the remnants of the fire were a distant memory. The ground outside was sure to be frosted over this morning and judging by the view the sun had yet to make an appearance.
The urge was slowly migrating from the back of her mind to the forefront. She looked at her two sisters, sleeping peacefully and for a moment felt deeply envious of their situation. Alas, what was a girl to do?
Clara lifted the warm layers of linen from her body, instantly feeling the chilled morning air come into contact with her skin. While gooseflesh appeared on her bare legs, her muscles tensed before she threw herself out of bed and onto the cold floor.
“Cold,” she said when her bare feet touched the cold floor.
Clara felt around for a moment to find a pair of woollen slippers. They were too big, but that was the burden borne by the youngest child, condemned to wear worn hand-me-downs of her sisters. Nonetheless, the need to pee would not be cast aside, cold or not, so down the stairs she went.
Despite being the only one awake, Clara crept down the stairs deliberately, careful to skip the second last step since that one creaked. The last thing she wanted to do was wake up her father a couple of hours before he had to head for the mine. That tended to make him cranky, which had a tendency to trickle down to her via her mother.
Once at the door, Clara noticed the sky was turning purple and red. She also noticed the door was not latched, something that was profoundly peculiar.
“Odd,” Clara murmured. “Had someone gone out and had not returned,” she wondered.
The last thing Clara needed was to wait for her turn. Just thinking about her freezing outside while waiting for the outhouse made her teeth chatter!
Clara slowly opened the door and attached screen door to avoid making a racket. Then with all due haste she ran along the frosted patch of weeds, hearing them crinkle with every step, a shame she needed to pee, this could have been a fun experience if she was appropriately dressed!
The outhouse was in view, the familiar half-moon opening was dark, a good sign that her parents were still in bed. Clara smiled as she approached, reached for the thick wooden handled and pulled open the door. While the door gave way easily, she found herself unprepared for what she would find.
At first she was confused, seeing her father there in his long johns, butt flap open and seated over the opening. He seemed to be there going about his business and yet his eyes were closed. Frost had built up on the the exposed skin and his lips had blued.
“Papa,” she said said softly. “I have to pee,” she exclaimed hoping this would resolve the matter.
There was no response, no hint that her father heard a thing despite the urgency oozing from Clara’s every word. Odd how he seemed to be out of place, as though he had been pushed against the wall out of the way.
Clara continued to examined the scene, waiting as patiently as any child could under the circumstances. Only after a few moments did she notice a few more details.
First and likely the most important detail noticed was related to his breathing or rather the lack of. While Clara could see her breath, she did not see his nor hear the rattle in his lungs that seemed more acute in the mornings, especially after a double-shift at the mine.
“Papa,” she said with more urgency even as her mind began to realise that her prompting would get her nowhere.
On the wooden planks covering the outhouse floor she saw blood. Some of it was black like tar, thick and frothy a sign that her father had a coughing fit recently. However there was more blood, seemingly fresher and a bright crimson, her eyes followed the trail until she spotted a gaping wound where his calf should have been.
Her perceptive mind could see every detail of the wound. How the bone had bite marks and was reminded her of the neighbour’s dog chewing a thick juicy bone. She saw how the flesh had been cut and torn off simultaneously, again reminding her of what a pack of wild dogs did to a carcass. Clara should have been quivering at the moment and yet her mind keep running over the details, busy committing every detail to memory.
That it until she heard it something. It was faint at first, almost unintelligible but the sound was persistent. It took a moment for her mind to register what she heard, but sure enough a distinct chewing sound originated from within the depths of the outhouse. It was not until she heard a loud and guttural belch which made the walls of the structure shake that her need pee took care of itself.
In a small company town, where everyone works and lived together, a screaming child will certainly get some attention. The first on the scene was the neighbour who came down in his camisole, wild eyed and alert. It took him no more than a minute to size up the situation and close the door to the outhouse.
As the rest of the community awoke from their deep slumber Clara’s mother ran out of the side door. She had the same bewildered look in her eyes that her neighbour had worn earlier, however she never got the opportunity to approach the scene. Their neighbour cut her off and before there were any protests they exchange some words.
Clara was not sure what had been said, but the effect it had on her mother was immediate and brutal. At first concern remained, she seemed restless as her eyes darted about. Then came the long dramatic pause followed by the look of shock washing over her face. It was the tears and her slow collapse to the ground which confirmed Clara’s suspicions. Her father would not walk away from that outhouse.
“Martha, get Clara out of here,” the neighbour said to his wife.
Clara turned around to find the wife, still in her nightgown, approaching from behind. The child had no intention of complying just yet.
“No,” Clara exclaimed. “There is something in there with him,” she added.
“What do you mean,” Martha asked while shooting a glance at her husband.
Clara saw the hidden exchange between the couple and wondered why neither seemed concerned by what had been said. What did they know?
Martha got on a knee to be at eye level with Clara before asking, “What did you see love?”
“There,” Clara paused unable to properly formulate her thoughts. “Something,” she blurted out. “Ate papa,” she managed to add although the words were a faint whisper.
Martha’s face lighten up and hugged Clara. It was bizarre how the woman seemed so relieved to hear those words.
“Oh love,” Martha exclaimed. “You let the imagination get the better of you,” she added.
Martha took Clara by the hand and took her home. From corner of Clara’s eye her two sisters were staring down at the scene from their bedroom. She saw how their faces were ashen grey; appearing as though they had seen a ghost.
“Now let’s get you cleaned up,” Martha said while they left behind a town full of gawkers and her grief stricken mother.
It seemed odd how no one had bothered to look inside the outhouse. Did they assume she was just another child afraid of what lurked beneath her bed? Or did they already know what would be found?
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Ben Folds Five Newest CD, Naked Baby Photos, is a complication of some of their songs they did while they had a three year tour. This c.d. is a look at how the band evolved as they got to be bigger. Nine of the songs on this c.d. are live, and a few are ones that they made up as they played on stage..one song is called Satan Is My Master. A pretty funny song. They have some unreleased songs on it like Satan is My Master. They added a song from Whatever and Ever Amen, so you know this has got to be a good album.
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Throw Your Arms Around Me 1984 Promotion
Promotional blurb for the original 1984 version of Throw Your Arms Around Me.
Author: White Label Records.
Date: November 1984.
Original URL: N/A
“Throw Your Arms Around Me” must surely be the dubbed the most emotive Hunters & Collectors song to date.
Mark Seymour, lead vocalist and composer, openly gives to music of himself – what we hear is what he felt.
It is also undoubtedly nearest to the commercial edge of their work. A love ballad of seemingly simple proportions but beholden with so much lyrical warmth and musical depth that it lingers on an on in the memory…. maybe a song for time in everyone’s life.
The recording importance of “Throw Your Arms Around Me” is singled out by the fact that it was recorded on a digital two track, produced by Hunters & Collectors. Producing as a collective has always been their aim and services to enhance their unity as a band.
It was recorded in Melbourne’s Hardware Street, in a small factory with carpeted walls and heaps of atmosphere.
The B side, “Unbeliever”, was recorded at Melbourne’s Venue along with the video footage. It is a track full of fire and soul.
The current album, “Jaws Of Life”, was released in Europe on September 3rd through Epic Records and in Japan on November 1st through CBS.
In the U.S. the album was released on October 17th. For the U.S. Hunters & Collectors are signed to the prestigious Slash Label and are the first non American band to be added to their ranks.
Next year will see the band touring in these territories.
Hunters & Collectors have just resigned to White Label for Australia and New Zealand.
The first fruit from this agreement will be a live album to be released in January ’85. It will be realistically priced at $9.99 and will compliment the long play video, which will incorporate both live and concept footage.
From the live video three tracks are currently being aired on Australian television. They are “The Slab”, “Carry Me” and “Throw Your Arms Around Me”. “The Slab” incorporates a part of the original concept clip and has great humour in it. The atmosphere of the performance has been immaculately captured in this film by three of Australia’s best known film makers – Andrew de Groot, Ray Argall and Macgregor Knox.
In the U.S. “The Slab” has been added to the 24 hour MTV Network – a considerable achievement considering the massive amount of submitted, and consequently rejected, material.
Thankyou to Tim for typing out this article.
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Cut - 25th Anniversary
Classic 1992 album lovingly remastered and reissued. Yellow vinyl sold out.
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Minister calls for increase in biofuel production
Posted on June 1, 2008 by johnreynolds · Leave a comment
Published on Sunday June 1st 2008. By John Reynolds
ENERGY minister Eamon Ryan has called for a boost in Irish biofuel production as a Sunday Independent investigation reveals that several firms, including One51, are receiving millions in subsidies to import foreign biofuels.
The finding comes as international controversy continues over whether food prices are soaring because land is being diverted from food crops to produce biofuels.
In 2006 the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (DCENR) set aside €213m to be shared between 16 firms, including One51 and Agri Energy, owned by Larry Goodman.
Subsidies totalling €45.68m per year between 2008 and 2010 have been made available to eight companies, some of which are importing bio-ethanol and EN590 biofuel.
A DCENR spokeswoman confirmed that a number of firms are allowed to import biofuel under the scheme.
It is also understood that One51 plans to invest €100m in a biofuel plant here. Agri Energy is also building one, but declined to comment further. Mr Ryan said: “We need a biofuels supply that gives us a degree of security in the event of a real oil shock.
“I’d like to see as much as possible produced here. It could be lucrative for Irish farming and could perhaps be grown in rotation with another crop.”
Meanwhile, Dr Jerry Murphy, an expert on biofuels at University College Cork (UCC), warned that imports are likely to increase and that we must “do the maths” to ensure biofuel produced here makes environmental sense.
“If you’re making it from wheat, then in some cases there is no energy saving. And you would need 250 acres of land to make enough rapeseed oil here to fuel one Dublin Bus for a year. We should be running buses on biogas made from food waste and grass. This is cheap, greener and it is already powering buses in cities such as Stockholm and Florence,” he added.
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Eubanks Creek: A Step Closer to Relief
Residents along Eubanks Creek could see flooding decrease by an average of 3.2 feet. Photo courtesy Duvall Decker
By R.L. Nave Wednesday, February 17, 2016 11:12 a.m. CST
Residents along a section of Eubanks Creek in Fondren are a step closer to getting relief from flooding and high-cost flood insurance. In the past year, developers, architects and city officials have analyzed the creek for solutions.
Venyu, a Louisiana-based company remodeling the former McRae's Department Store into a data center and telehealth center at Meadowbrook at State Street, paid the costs for engineering studies, which sought to analyze whether the creek's boundaries needed updating. The creek runs east to west behind the future Venyu site.
Roy Decker, a principal in Duvall Decker Architects, said the creek has not been maintained over the years, which contributed to the flooding. Creek channels should be cleared of debris regularly so that the water flows freely instead of backing up.
In the assessment, Bill Colson of Aqua Engineering Services redrew outdated FEMA floodplain maps for the area; Colson's updated maps show that flooding can be reduced an average of 3.2 feet.
In January, the Federal Emergency Management Association granted conditional approval to those maps, clearing the way for the City to start construction work, which could include the removal of the Seminole Street Bridge, also behind the old McRae's.
Jackson taxpayers, through the 1-percent sales tax, will help defray the costs of the $1 million to $1.5 million construction price tag. Once the work is complete, if FEMA signs off, hundreds of homeowners could see a reduction in their flood-insurance rates. "It's a really good example of the city working with a private owner. It's a good example of how this should work," Decker told the Jackson Free Press.
Fondren Project May Help Creek Flooding
State Holds Tax Holiday
Miss. Sues to Try to Block Flood Insurance Hike
Reconstructing Bay St. Louis: Answers, Please
Duvall Decker Brings Home Awards
Is the Payday Soon Over for Payday Lenders?
War Against Potholes: The City Battles Nature, Resources
Future of Uber in Jackson Safe For Now?
Stamps: No New Payday Loan, Check Cashing, Liquor, Pawn Stores
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What is Good?
Jeremy Rosen / April 28, 2016
The core question of any discussion about ethics is: What is “good”? If we humans think we ought to have some standards of behavior and this behavior is “good” (whereas going against it is “bad”), how do we decide what is good and what is bad?
Is it “good” if I kill grandma to eat her brains, because my cannibal tradition tells me that this is the way I can absorb her wisdom and life experience? Is it good if do not work on the Sabbath as defined by my tradition as being a Saturday, but not on Sunday or Friday? Is it good if I kill in self-defense, or should I rather be a pacifist and allow whatever happens to happen?
There is no way I am going to settle a debate that has raged on throughout human cultural history. It is no nearer being settled today than it was Moses introduced the Ten Commandments or when Aristotle wrote his Ethics two-and-half-thousand years ago. But the fact is that we all do have ethical systems one way or another, regardless of how well thought-out or consistent they may be.
I have dabbled with most theories. I once liked the idea of utilitarianism, that we should be guided by the greatest benefit to the greatest number. But then who would decide what benefit is? Is it pleasure, hedonism? What if most people are sadomasochists? And why should “number” have any significance in making ethical decisions? That is the weakness of democracy, of deciding “good” by vote. Hitler was elected democratically. Did that make his “good” more valid than Stalin’s? My father often quoted the phrase, “Where the heart wants to go, the mind is sure to follow.” We humans have an infinite capacity to convince ourselves we are right to do whatever we feel like doing. How else does one explain a major philosopher like Heidegger justifying his compliance with Nazism?
Religion comes along and tells us that “the good” is that which has been revealed. And this revelation usually comes from some supernatural source. And each religion adamantly assets that its revelation is the only valid one. But on what basis do we decide to accept the revelation? Logic? Hardly. Accident of birth? Maybe, but look at how many people many switch in and out of different religious groups and sects and ideas. What happens when one religion insists on persecuting another one or killing its own heretics? Can that possibly be good? I know the persecutors think they are doing good and acting in the name of Allah or whoever. But do those who suffer from persecution believe it is good?
At a certain moment in my search for the meaning of life, I decided to commit myself to Torah. In principle it met my requirements for a coherent, adaptable ethical system designed to deal with every aspect of human behavior. It was like committing oneself to a marriage knowing one will have challenges and disagreements. I particularly liked the flexibility of belief, in that although there were a few very definite principles, they were not too rigidly or dogmatically defined, which gave one a degree of flexibility in deciding how to believe.
I soon realized that it was not black and white (what is?). On the one hand the Torah instructs us to follow all the commandments, and yet also insists on a further meta-legal dimension of “doing that which is upright and good”. Not only that but there were things commanded once that now had either been abandoned or simply cancelled. Where could one, should one draw the line? But who and how decided such matters? Was it public opinion, a select group of rabbis, accident or simply necessity? so how do we decide when things in the Torah are no longer applicable while others remain in force? The Torah itself says that such matters are decided by the judges, priests, or whoever is the authority at the time. So clearly there is a human agency here. But which humans? That is the question.
But isn’t it simply a matter of following the law? Obviously not, if one can also be “an ugly person within the framework of the law”. Doesn’t even the Torah itself refer to an external standard when it insists that its laws should appear to be wise in the eyes of “the nations”?
However hard religions try to justify their own absolute truths, the reality is that to some degree or another they are all subjective and we all struggle with challenges from within and without. No man is an island. It is understandable that any specific culture, religion or ideology will try to defend itself. Agreed principles and standards of behavior are the tools of social cohesion. That is why if one keeps one’s thoughts to oneself and follows whatever the specific behavioral rules are, one can be accepted almost anywhere (except by racists of course).
Yes, it is an undeniable fact that circumstances, pressures, and influences affect and impact on the greatest of rabbis however hard they might struggle against them. We do not believe in infallibility. at least officially. Though some rabbis nowadays claim it. To give an example, the most Orthodox of religious authorities have tried hard to ban or restrict television, telephones, and the internet. But the fact is as anyone familiar with the reality on the ground will tell you that, although there is outward agreement and acceptance, the restrictions are kept in the breach and overwhelmingly ignored in private.
Attitudes toward women are an example of a dialectic between the outer world and the inner that continues to be fought in various ways, and usually the full frontal attack is the one that fails. Religions tend towards the conservative, the secular towards the radical. Religions are too slow to adapt, but the secular is too impetuous and often proven as wrong with hindsight. The mere fact that the Torah can say that new situations will arise, new challenges emerge, and they should be brought to the authority of that particular time, means that someone has to arbitrate between the old and the new, and not necessarily always in favor of one or the other. Religion has as legitimate a role in holding back as the secular has in pushing forward. But do we have the right to question authority? In all humility I believe we do and should. With respect of course.
We ought not want our religious leaders to be like Medieval monarchs surrounded by sycophants and those who want to restrict access and other points of view. But conversely it would be ridiculous to think just anyone can challenge, any more than just any citizen can sit on the Supreme Court. In the end, community trumps individuality and if one wants to belong, somewhere, anywhere, there are conventions one has to accept.
The truth is that our “good” is made of different elements, different goods, the religious and the secular, all competing with each other; sometimes we tend in one direction and sometimes in another. Someone who gives greater weight to the religious can be said to be a religious person. Those who include no religious dimension are secular.
I suggest that almost all of us are on a complex, sometimes inconsistent spectrum in between. So Torah is my predominant arbiter of ‘good’ but I have also absorbed other values too. Just because the Torah has not specifically forbidden torture or rendition or greenhouse gasses this does not mean I cannot have other ethical positions that supplement Torah. In effect I have three “goods”: the good of Torah as law, the good of Torah as ethics, and the good of society in general.
That is why I so distrust black or white. Life is not like that. Gloriously humans are not like that. One may not be able to resolve all conflicts but one must seriously try. Above all to try to be honest with oneself and others (at least in private)!
So whether you are keeping one day of Yom Tov or two or indeed none at all, try to be a good person too! Just make sure you think about what that means. Which is one of the things a festival is supposed to remind you about.
Chag Sameach or Hag Sameah!
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3 thoughts on “What is Good?”
Mr. Cohen says:
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/05/guest-post-our-prayers-vs-our-sins.html
The Levantine Maghrebi says:
Ruth Benedict, if I'm recalling correctly, had an interesting argument for moral relativism. That there are universal values, but behaviors differ because of how the culture needs to express those values. I could find it a pretty compelling argument for moral relativism, but it does bother me that it's kind of difficult to quantify what these universal values would be. Utilitarianism could help explain how some values (like antipathy for murder, theft, deception etc) became norms throughout countless societies. I could also see how slavery could be explained as morally just (treating the slaves well, giving them autonomy, having social infrastructure conducive for some degree of upward mobility).
However, then there's a problem justifying some beliefs over others. If one culture says eating the dead is a sign of respect, and another finds that appalling and disrespectful, they essentially share the same value. Their beliefs are different, and the latter belief would be the one to resonate with almost all of us.
You are absolutely right, neither logic nor metaphysics finds perfect solutions. Its the process that matters even if resolution is impossible.
I strongly believe that trying to find absolutes is the error of Western thought. We should welcome inconsistency and even schizophrenia ( not in the meduical sense of course).
We must pursue logic & science just as we should pursue mysticism, but recognize that in the end it is interaction with others , messy as it might be, that brings out the best in humans.
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iBooty (Utility to Boot Tethered iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPod Touch 3G, iPod Touch 4G after Sn0wBreeze jailbreak)
iBooty iOS 5.0: iBooty-for-5.0.zip
iBooty iOS 5.0.1: iBooty-for-5.0.1.zip
iFaith
iFaith 1.4.2 (Windows tool that will save SHSH keys for your current installed iOS)
http://downloads.ih8sn0w.com/iFaith-v1.4.2_windows.zip
Absinthe 2.0
Absinthe 2.0.4 (supports untethered iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak for iPad 3, iPad 2, iPad 1, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 3G, iPod Touch 4G)
https://sites.google.com/site/greenpois0nabsinthe/absinthe-win-2.0.4.zip
http://iphoneroot.com/download/absinthe-win-2.0.4.zip
https://sites.google.com/site/greenpois0nabsinthe/absinthe-mac-2.0.4.dmg
http://iphoneroot.com/download/absinthe-mac-2.0.4.dmg
Download version for Linux:
https://sites.google.com/site/greenpois0nabsinthe/absinthe-linux-2.0.4.tar.bz2
Absinthe (supports untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak for iPad 2 and iOS 5/5.0.1 jailbreak for iPhone 4S)
http://cache.greenpois0n.com/dl/absinthe-win-0.4.zip
http://iphoneroot.com/download/absinthe-win-0.4.zip
http://cache.greenpois0n.com/dl/absinthe-mac-0.4.zip
http://iphoneroot.com/download/absinthe-mac-0.4.zip
http://cache.greenpois0n.com/dl/absinthe-linux-0.4.tar.gz
http://iphoneroot.com/download/absinthe-linux-0.4.tar.gz
GreenPois0n RC5 (supports firmware 4.1 and 4.2.1 jailbreak for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 2G, iPod Touch 3G, iPod Touch 4G, iPad)
http://cache.greenpois0n.com/dl/gp_mac_rc6_1.zip
http://iphoneroot.com/downloads/gp_mac_rc6_1.zip
http://cache.greenpois0n.com/dl/gp_win_rc6.1.zip
http://iphoneroot.com/downloads/gp_win_rc6.1.zip
UltraSn0w
Current version is ultrasn0w 1.2.3, download in Cydia (unlock for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, firmwares 3.0-4.3.3; it supports basebands 01.59.00, 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01, 05.13.04, 06.15.00)
LimeRa1n
LimeRa1n (supports firmware 4.0-4.1, jailbreak for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 3G, iPod Touch 4G, iPad)
Download version for Windows or Mac
Spirit for Windows and MAC OS (jailbreak for all devices – iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, firmware 3.1.2, 3.1.3, or 3.2)
Download version for Windows
Download version for MAC OS X
BlackRa1n
blackra1n for Windows and MAC OS (jailbreak for all devices, firmware 3.1.2)
http://blackra1n.com/
BlackSn0w
BlackSn0w for Windows and MAC OS (unlock for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS, firmware 3.1, 3.1.2)
Avaliable in Cydia (repository http://blackra1n.com/) and via BlackRa1n utility
PurpleRa1n
Purplera1n for MAC (Beta jailbreak for iPhone 3GS, firmware 3.0)
Download version for MAC
Purplera1n for Windows (Beta jailbreak for iPhone 3GS, firmware 3.0)
Older software versions:
You can download older software versions here.absinthe-mac-0.1.2-2.zip
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People born on 14 November
(35 found)
rapper, producer
Tyree Pittman
Young Chop On Da Beat
Scorpio ♏ - the Scorpion - people born October 24 through November 22
Record producer.
rapper, criminal
Torrence Hatch
Lil' Boosie
Boosie Bad Azz
Boosie Boo
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Songs Show Your Tattoo, Concentration Camp III. Albums It's a Gamble, Bad Azz, For My Thugz. Convicted of drug offenses, indicted in a murder-for-hire case.
actor, producer, writer, singer, model, dancer, ballet
Olga Konstantinovna Kurylenko
Berdyansk, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine
Role of Bond Girl Camille Montes in movie Quantum of Solace. Movies Hitman, Oblivion. French citizenship in 2001.
Adam Walsh
kidnapped, murdered
Adam John Walsh
Age at Death:
Hollywood, Florida, USA
Details - all relationships
List - people connecting
Ancestors:
Child kidnapped from a store and murdered.
Lawyer Milloy
Lawyer Marzell Milloy
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Safety. Teams University of Washington, New England Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons, Seattle Seahawks.
Husky Fever Hall of Fame 2012.
Jack Tatum Trophy 1995.
Jim Thorpe Trophy 1995.
football, sports analyst
Aaron Matthew Taylor
Offensive guard. Teams University of Notre Dame, Green Bay Packers, San Diego Chargers.
College Football Hall of Fame 2018.
Jim Parker Trophy 1993.
Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy 1993.
Nebraska Football Hall of Fame 1998.
Rotary Lombardi Award 1993.
actor, model
Joshua David Duhamel
Minot, North Dakota, USA
husband of
Older than Fergie by 2 years.
Movies Love, Simon, Transformers, Turistas, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. TV shows All My Children, Las Vegas. Last name is pronounced "duh-MEL".
Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame 2012.
Lionel Simmons
Lionel James Simmons
L-Train
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
6 feet 7 inches (200.66 cm)
Small forward. Teams La Salle University, Sacramento Kings.
Adolph F Rupp Trophy 1990.
John R Wooden Award 1990.
Naismith College Player of the Year 1990.
National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame 2016.
Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame 2008.
baseball, sports analyst
Curtis Montague Schilling
Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Pitcher. Teams Baltimore Orioles, Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies, Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox.
Arizona Sports Hall of Fame 2011.
Babe Ruth Award 2001.
Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame 2012.
Branch Rickey Award 2001.
Hutch Award 2001.
Lou Gehrig Memorial Award 1995.
Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame 2013.
Roberto Clemente Award 2001.
Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year Award 2001.
rapper, tv, actor
Joseph Ward Simmons
Rev. Run
Rev Run
Joey Simmons
DJ Run
Hollis, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
father of
younger brother of
Russell Simmons
Younger than Russell Simmons by 7 years.
Descendants:
Member group Run-D.M.C., which disbanded when Jam Master Jay was killed. See also D.M.C.. Uses "Rev Run" name now. Star of MTV reality show Run's House.
Guitar Center RockWalk 2002.
Long Island Music Hall of Fame 2009.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2009.
Guitar Center RockWalk 2002 as a member of group Run-D.M.C..
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2009 as a member of group Run-D.M.C..
Katty Kay
news, tv, writer
Katherine Kay
British television news journalist on BBC.
Daniel Bernard Sweeney
Danny Sweeney
Shoreham, New York, USA
Movies Spawn, Fire in the Sky, Dinosaur, The Cutting Edge. TV series Jericho, The Event, Life as We Know It, Strange Luck.
Cindy Noble Hauserman
basketball, coach
Cindy Jo Noble
Cindy Noble-Hauserman
Clarksburg, Ohio, USA
Teams Ohio State University, University of Tennessee, US National Women's Team. Coach team University of Kentucky. Played professionally in both Italy and Japan. Olympic Gold Medal 1984.
Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame 2006.
Olympic Gold Medal 1984.
University of Tennessee Athletics Hall of Fame 2002.
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame 2000.
Ken Bowersox
Ken Dwane Bowersox
Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
Astronaut.
Space Missions:
STS-113
Shuttle Endeavour, launched November 23, 2002
Duration: 13d 18h.
STS-50
Shuttle Columbia, launched June 25, 1992
Shuttle Endeavour, launched December 02, 1993
Shuttle Columbia, launched October 20, 1995
Shuttle Discovery, launched February 11, 1997
Duration: 9d 23h.
U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame 2010.
composer, musician, accused, writer
Yanni Chryssomallis
John Yanni Christopher
Kalamata, Greece
Greek-born pianist. Resides in Florida. Autobiographical book Yanni in Words. Accused of domestic violence.
Willie Hernández
Guillermo Hernández Villanueva
Aguada, Puerto Rico, USA
Pitcher. Teams Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers.
Cy Young Award 1984.
Michigan Sports Hall of Fame 2012.
royalty, military, aviator, activist
Charles Philip Arthur George (House of Windsor)
Charles, Prince of Wales
Prince of Great Britain and Ireland
Duke of Rothesay
Earl of Carrick
Earl of Chester
Baron Renfrew
Buckingham Palace, London, England, UK
second cousin of
Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster
great great great grandson of
Alexandra Feodorovna
great great grandson of
Alexandra of Denmark
nephew of
Antony Armstrong-Jones
grandfather of
Younger than Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall by 1 year.
third cousin once removed of
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Christian IX of Denmark
great nephew of
Constantine I
first cousin of
David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon
ex-husband of
Diana, Princess of Wales
Older than Diana, Princess of Wales by 12 years.
Duke of Windsor
grandson of
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
second cousin once removed of
Felipe VI of Spain
Francis, Duke of Teck
Frederica of Hanover
great grandson of
George I of Greece
George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews
Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia
third cousin of
Haakon Magnus
Infante Juan of Spain, Count of Barcelona
second cousin twice removed of
Ingrid Alexandra
Ingrid of Sweden
Isabella Windsor
uncle of
Isla Phillips
James Ogilvy
James, Viscount Severn
Julia, Princess of Battenberg
King Harald V of Norway
first cousin twice removed of
King Olav V of Norway
Lady Davina Lewis
Lady Gabriella Windsor
Lady Helen Taylor
Lady Louise Windsor
Lady Sarah Chatto
Lord Frederick Windsor
Lord Nicholas Windsor
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Louise of Hesse-Kassel
Margrethe II of Denmark
Mary of Teck
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
Maud Windsor
Mia Grace Tindall
Nicholas I of Russia
first cousin once removed of
Paul of Greece
Peter Phillips
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
older brother of
Prince Andrew, Duke of York
Older than Prince Andrew, Duke of York by 11 years.
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
Older than Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex by 15 years.
Prince George, Duke of Kent
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
Prince John of the United Kingdom
Prince Louis of Battenberg
Prince Louis of Cambridge
Prince Michael of Kent
Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
Prince William of Gloucester
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg
Princess Alexandra, Lady Ogilvy
Princess Alice of Battenberg
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
Princess Anne
Older than Princess Anne by 1 year.
Princess Beatrice of York
Princess Charlotte of Cambridge
Princess Eugenie of York
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge
Princess Maud of the United Kingdom
Princess Märtha Louise
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
Savannah Phillips
Sverre Magnus
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg
Zara Tindall
Divorced Princess Diana. Heir to the UK throne.
Albert Medal 1985.
International Best-Dressed Hall of Fame List 1980.
Sue Hamilton
actor, model, playmate, suicide
Karen Susan Levitt
Sue Williams
Karen Susan Hamilton
4 feet 11 inches (149.86 cm)
Used named Sue Williams to model as Playmate of the Month for magazine Playboy in the April 1965 issue. Actress in movies How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, Sergeant Dead Head, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, Fireball 500. Also in the television movie The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot. Suicide by gunshot to the chest.
musician, composer, jazz, transgender
W Carlos
Female (changed from) Male
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Moog sythesizer musician. Albums Switched-On Bach, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer featuring adapted music by Bach. Music for movies A Clockwork Orange, Tron. In May 1972 had sex reassignment surgery.
Cornell Gunter
singer, murdered, R&B
Cornelius E. Gunter
Cornell Gunther
Cornel Gunter
Coffeyville, Kansas, USA
R&B and doo-wop singer. Original member of group The Platters. Member The Coasters. Songs Poison Ivy, Charlie Brown, Yakety Yak. Shot while in his auto in Las Vegas.
Hit Parade Hall of Fame 2009.
The Vocal Group Hall of Fame 1998.
Hit Parade Hall of Fame 2009 as a member of group The Platters.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1987 as a member of group The Coasters.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1990 as a member of group The Platters.
The Vocal Group Hall of Fame 1999 as a member of group The Coasters.
The Vocal Group Hall of Fame 1998 as a member of group The Platters.
Sven Olav Bjarte Høiby
Marius Hoiby
Ellis Marsalis Jr.
musician, jazz, educator
Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr.
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Jazz pianist. Died from pneumonia brought on by COVID-19.
Louisiana Music Hall of Fame 2006.
Fred Haise
Fred Wallace Haise Jr.
Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
Ill-fated Apollo 13 flight around the moon and back.
Apollo 13 (1970)
Third landing attempt aborted near the Moon, due to SM failure. Crew used LM as "life boat" to return to Earth.
Aerospace Walk of Honor 1995.
International Space Hall of Fame.
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1970.
Edward White
space, accident, aviator, Apollo 1
Edward Higgins White II
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Astronaut and test pilot. Gemini 4 with EVA. The first US astronaut to walk in space. Died in a fire at a pre-flight test run in the Apollo 1 (Apollo 204) capsule. See Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee.
Apollo 1 (1967) - Died in a fire during ground test
(AS-204). Planned as a low-orbit mission February 21, 1967, but a cabin fire in a rehearsal test on January 27 killed the three astronauts.
Gemini 4 (1965)
Included first extravehicular activity (EVA) by an American. White's "space walk" was a 22-minute EVA exercise.
Congressional Space Medal of Honor 1997.
National Aviation Hall of Fame 2009.
actor, aviator, model, producer
Constance Frances Marie Ockleman
Constance Keane
Connie Keane
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
4 feet 11½ inches (149.86 cm)
Movies Sullivan's Travels, I Wanted Wings, This Gun for Hire, The Hour Before the Dawn, The Blue Dahlia, Saigon. A popular pin-up girl during World War II. Earned her pilot's license in 1946 and was able to fly solo between Los Angeles and New York.
Hollywood Walk of Fame A star at 6918 Hollywood Boulevard for contributions to the motion picture industry
actor, military, suicide
Robert Keith Richey Jr.
Robert Keith Jr.
Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Helena Shipman
Robert Keith
TV series Hardcastle and McCormick, Family Affair. Movies The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, The Parent Trap (1961), Sharky's Machine. Terminal emphysema and lung cancer; apparent suicide.
Hollywood Walk of Fame A star at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard for contributions to the television industry26 June 2008
producer, writer, composer
Sherwood Charles Schwartz
Passaic, New Jersey, USA
Created TV series Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch. Co-wrote theme songs for them and other programs.
Television Academy Hall of Fame 2008.
Hollywood Walk of Fame A star at 6541 Hollywood Boulevard for contributions to the television industry7 March 2008
Barbara Hutton
socialite, activist
Barbara Woolworth Hutton
Poor Little Rich Girl
ex-wife of
Younger than Cary Grant by 8 years.
niece of
E.F. Hutton
daughter of
Edna Woolworth
granddaughter of
F.W. Woolworth
Franklyn Hutton
Kurt Haugwitz-Reventlow
mother of
Lance Reventlow
Heiress to Woolworth fortune.
Dorothy Wilson
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Lewis R. Foster
Younger than Lewis R. Foster by 11 years.
Group WAMPAS Baby Stars (1932). Movie Eight Girls in a Boat.
Joe McCarthy (senator)
Joseph Raymond McCarthy
Grand Chute, Wisconsin, USA
U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Accused many people of being Communists.
Mary Louise Brooks
Cherryvale, Kansas, USA
Films made in Germany in the late 1920s.
actor, director, producer, singer, radio
Richard Ewing Powell
Mountain View, Arkansas, USA
Older than Joan Blondell by 1 year.
June Allyson, until he died.
Older than June Allyson by 12 years.
Movies Split Second, You Can Never Tell.
Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame 1996.
Hollywood Walk of Fame A star at 1560 Vine Street for contributions to radio
Hollywood Walk of Fame A star at 6745 Hollywood Boulevard for contributions to the television industry
Morton Downey
actor, composer, singer, tv
Sean Morton Downey
Morton James
Morton Downey Sr.
The Irish Nightingale
83, 20 days before his 84th birthday
Wallingford, Connecticut, USA
Barbara Bennett
Older than Barbara Bennett by 4 years.
Morton Downey Jr.
Song Wabash Moon. Movie The Devil's Holiday (1930). CBS TV show Star of the Family.
composer, ballet
The Dean of American Composers
90, 18 days after his birthday
Lithuanian Jewish ancestry. Father's original name was Kaplan. Composed ballet songs Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Billy the Kid. Popular fanfare song Fanfare for the Common Man.
Congressional Gold Medal 1986.
Kennedy Center Honors 1979.
Long Island Music Hall of Fame.
National Medal of Arts 1986.
Mamie Geneva Doud
82, 13 days before her 83rd birthday
Boone, Iowa, USA
Dwight David Eisenhower, until his earlier death.
Younger than Dwight David Eisenhower by 6 years.
First Lady while husband was President.
Colorado Women's Hall of Fame 1985.
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CRINCH! The Crab of the Day!
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#1 Postby Nezumiiro » Wed Oct 21, 2015 5:42 pm
Do you enjoy crabs? (Hah!)
Just thought I'd let you know there's a little thing I've been doing since 2012...
#CrabOfTheDay showcases a different crab or crab-related arthropod every day, with pictures, taxonomic info, geographic distribution, and a bit of useless science-y trivia. Soon there will be both a cast-resin figure and a coffee table book to accompany the fun, and as there has always been a fun little connection between the Glyoverse and 'crab' I thought I'd let y'all know!
If you would like to be included in the crabbening, send a facebook friend request to adam.hadsall.3 and/or follow @_Nezumiiro_ on twitter.
Ether or, CRINCH! you there!
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Additionally, I'll be reposting them here! Any requests for specific species, old archived favorites, or suggestions- I'd love to hear 'em!
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 10/21/2015: Pitho aculeata or the Massive Urn Crab is as its name suggests, one of the larger members of the “Urn Crab” family or Epialtidae, subfamily Tychidae. Like many of its ilk, Massive Urns are native to the Western Atlantic, primarily the Keys, the Bahamas, Cuba, the Antilles, and the Caribbean. These crabs feed along the rocky sea bottom and scurry for the undersides of shells and other protective rubble when chased by the many bonefish that love to eat them. P. aculeata crabs are teardrop-shaped, with their eyes at the narrow-most end of the teardrop. Males have bigger, spikier chelipeds (claws) than females.
http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php? ... &id=422015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epialtidae
#4 Postby Nezumiiro » Wed Oct 21, 2015 10:55 pm
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 10/22/2015: Kiwa tyleri or the “Hoff Crab” (Indeed named for the hirsute David Hasselhoff) is a “Yeti Crab” living near Antarctic thermal vents. Like its namesake, the ‘Hoff has a noticeably hairy ‘chest,’ in which it collects thermophilic bacteria living in the vents, and actually farms these little organisms as its primary foodsource.
Being that Hoff crabs have very distinct temperature needs, they will cluster in huge piles around the ‘temperature envelopes’ each vent creates. The liquid that flows out of these vents is super hot: up to 700F! Step too close, and you quickly becomes an over-cooked crab cake, step just a little too far from the vent, the inhospitable Antarctic water will freeze you instantly.
Male crabs, larger than the females, can never leave the vent at which they are born. Females, however, are a little bit tougher and can make the journey when necessary, to find a new vent at which to lay eggs.
http://www.sci-news.com/biology/science ... 02950.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoff_crab
#5 Postby Nezumiiro » Fri Oct 23, 2015 3:12 am
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 10/23/2015: The Saber Crab (Platychirograpsus spectabilis) is a Glyptograpsidae crab species endemic to Eastern Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico through the North Atlantic Ocean. As its AWESOME name implies, the left chela (claw) in males is not only exaggerated in length on males, it also has a “guard” like an actual saber!
This grapsid river crab, while native to some Atlantic delta regions, also finds its way onto invasive species lists in many others, because... it uh… is invasive. Super invasive… Small populations of these guys make it in by stowing away on fishing boats. Next thing you know, they’re out-competing local crabs, and breeding outta control (Like the mitten crab!)
http://eol.org/pages/311626/overview
http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/S ... alue=99076
#6 Postby Nezumiiro » Fri Oct 23, 2015 11:47 pm
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 10/24/2015: The Jackknife Spider Crab or Acanthonyx petiverii is an extant member of the genus of Epialtidae. This minute beastie belongs to a family of spider crabs closer genetically, to decorator crabs than the larger, more prominent pacific spiders. (Like the King, and Japanese Spider.) Hanging out mainly in warm-water reefs with other similar-sized crabs, Jackknives range from the Western Atlantic, Galapagos Islands, Gulf of California, Panama, Chile, Mexico, and Ecuador.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthonyx
#7 Postby Nezumiiro » Sat Oct 24, 2015 8:39 pm
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 10/25/2015: Palaemonetes pugio or The Daggerblade Grass Shrimp is, you guessed it, not actually a crab! This small, fragile-looking shrimp is smoothly transparent with the exception of two pairs of well-developed dorsal spines and also two pairs of posterior spines adorning its body. These spines really don’t do much to protect it against the fish that hunt and eat these little guys, but man do they look cool!
As its name suggests, Daggerblade Grass Shrimp live in shallow coastal and estuarine seagrass beds and oyster reefs (duh!) in the Western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, occurring from Canada to Texas. Awesomely enough, Palamonetes shrimp are among the most abundant and widely distributed benthic macroinvertebrates in the Atlantic!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaemonetes_pugio
#8 Postby Nezumiiro » Mon Oct 26, 2015 2:36 am
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 10/26/2015: The Spiny Lithode Crab (Acantholithodes hispidus) inhabits rocky reef systems in the Pacific North West. It can be distinguished by the white molar-like teeth on the grasping edges of its red claws and a flattened, pear-shaped body covered with numerous spines. The largest of these spines occur along the carapace margins, with smaller ‘needles’ distributed dorsally. 'Acantho' means "spiny" and 'hispid' means "hairy". So, uh… Spiny-Hairy!
Spiny Lithodes inhabit rocky or muddy areas where easy-to-catch shrimp thrive. Additionally, this crab is a hunter of opportunity; it will attempt to pull apart and eat shrimp already caught in fishing traps whenever possible. Smart Crab, unless of course it gets stuck in those traps!
A. hispidus ranges from Monterey, California to Alaska, British Columbia, and the Strait of Georgia and Bering Sea.
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#9 Postby Yurvaroz » Mon Oct 26, 2015 1:59 pm
Just wanted to chime in and say CRINCH! This project is great! Would love to support it any way I can. Keep up the great work, Nez!
#10 Postby Nezumiiro » Tue Oct 27, 2015 11:59 am
Thanks a ton! Just keep following! If you want double the CRINCH! follow me on facebook and and/or twitter!
#11 Postby Nezumiiro » Tue Oct 27, 2015 12:30 pm
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 10/27/2015: Epialtus dilatatus, aka The Winged Mime Crab is a rarely-seen Western Atlantic species from the genus Epialtus and the Epialtinae subfamily of crabs, identifiable by the protruding ‘wings’ occurring along the lateral edges of its carapace. The EXACT purpose for these ‘wings’ is not truly 100% understood, but it’s proposed that these structures aide the crab during mating, or providing additional protection from specific predators. Either or, weird! Winged Mimes hang out on the hard bottom (rock, rubble, and coarse coral sand) stretches along more shallow and less turbulent runs of coast.
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 10/28/2015: The Thumbnail Crab (Thia scutellata) is a relatively small species of Thiid crab that occurs in the North Sea, north-east Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea, with major populations present along the south-western warmer water along the Dutch and German coasts. Though there are two fossil relatives, Thumbnail crabs are the only LIVING member of the genus Thia.
T. scutellata lives most of its life burrowed in the sand. The carapace of these crabs is surrounded by a rim of “hair” which allows it to filter food particles from the sand it lives in. Unsurprisingly, T. scutellata gets its common name due to its carapace resembling a human thumbnail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbnail_crab
http://eol.org/pages/1022631/overview
#13 Postby Nezumiiro » Thu Oct 29, 2015 2:07 am
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 10/29/2015: Thoe puella or the Scarlet Mime Crab (another Mime already?) is one of the few species included in the genus Thoe and family Mithracidae. Interestingly enough, “Thoe” is a sister genus to the more newly established genus “Petramithrax,” giving the genus a clearer taxonomic bridge to the Mithrax crabs they developed from. Hailing from Atlantic shelf-reefs where corals resembling the surface these crabs carapace are in abundance; the small-ish crabs feed on zooplankton and detritus via some highly specialized ‘feathered’ mouthparts. Like allllll members of Thoe, the Scarlet Mime’s body is overall pear-shaped; their oblong body is roughly longer than it is wide.
http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/S ... Rating=all
#14 Postby Nezumiiro » Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:02 am
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 10/30/2015: Austinixa chacei or the Chace Pea Crab is a species of Malacostraca crab, first described during the 1955 Wass study. A little-studied member of family Pinnotheridae, Austinixa chacei, like its cousins formerly fell into the genus Pinnixa.
Living commensally in the soft-tissue margins of conquina clams, Chace Pea crabs can be found primarily in the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/S ... lue=660730
#15 Postby Nezumiiro » Sat Oct 31, 2015 2:21 am
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 10/31/2015: HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Today’s #CrabOfTheDay will be a triple-threat spooktacular! To kick off this creepy crustacean celebration we have first up…
…Patagurus rex or the “Pat McLaughlin” Hermit Crab! This denizen of the deep is a pagurid French Polynesian (Moorea, Society Islands) Hermit Crab that is so terrifying that it REJECTS the idea of using a shell! Though this crab’s distant ancestry most likely used snail shells to protect their bodies like normal hermits, Pat-Rexes de-volved, thickened their own carapaces, and quit using shells. This non-linear development track is a beautiful reminder that evolution isn’t always a sensible direct line of adaptation from one mode of living to another. The result is a really neat looking hermit crab that probably moves in a very unique fashion now that it doesn’t have a heavy snail shell anymore.
This lovely hermit crab is Patagurus rex. This was a new genus, named after a legend in the world of crustaceans, Pat McLaughlin.
So strange is this development, these crabs were given an entirely new genus, named after one of the world’s most eminent carcinologists, the late Dr. Patsy (Pat) A. McLaughlin (1932–2011).
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2013/f/zt03722p300.pdf
…Next up, though not a stirrer of cauldrons or a rider of brooms, the Arctic Witch Crab, or Paromola cuvieri is a supernaturally spectacular crab, capable of more than mere spells! This species of ‘porter crab’ (Homolidae) live in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, from Angola to Norway and the Northern Islands- the SPOOKIEST WATERS ON EARTH! P. cuvieri occupies the demersal zone, and has a highly specialized fifth pair of legs, used for grasping sponges, fan corals, and other invertebrates as a form of camouflage. (Or to collect potion ingredients!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paromola_cuvieri
…Our final ghoulish grasper has a pure black heart, and even blacker claws! It’s the Black-Fingered Mud Crab, or Panopeus herbstii. Like its creepy name implies, Black-Fingered Mud Crabs are dark brown in color, with stout, black-tipped and unequally-sized with knobby teeth on the closing edge. P. herbstii prefers the brackish depths found in Atlantic oyster reefs and muddy bottomed marshes- LIKE THE BLACK LAGOON!
Black-Fingered Mud Crabs are straight-up KILLERS! They use their strong claws to crack the shells of oysters, barnacles and marsh periwinkles, and can also be found feeding on worms, fish and even other crabs. THE HORROR!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopeus_herbstii
http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/Panope_herbsti.htm
#16 Postby Nezumiiro » Mon Nov 02, 2015 2:02 pm
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 11/02/2015: After a 1-day break from the crabsplosion that was Halloween, ♫ “Ice is back with a brand new crustacean.” ♫ The Atlantic Sea-Spider Crab or Maja brachydactyla, differentiated from the Common Atlantic Spider Crab, Maja squinado after much taxonomic confusion.
Maja brachydactyla is a species of migratory crab found in the north-east Atlantic, South Europe, and the Mediterranean Sea.
As far as Brachyuran crabs go, Atlantic Sea-Spiders have a high economic and ecological significance, supporting fisheries along the NE Atlantic coasts (Spain, Portugal, France, Ireland and UK). The high fishing pressure tolerated by populations of this crab (ie, a LOT of ‘em can be caught without adversely affecting wild populations) together with their growth and reproductive characteristics make M. brachydactyla a great substitute for less economically viable crab industries in these areas.
And a video: https://vimeo.com/105412608
#17 Postby Nezumiiro » Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:02 am
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 11/03/2015: Romaleon antennarium, known as the Brown, California, or most often, Pacific Rock Crab. This well known crab is obviously routinely found on the western coast of North America. Pacific Rockies have gone through a bit of taxonomic confusion in their time: though R. antennarium is MOST correct, “Romaleon antennarium,” “Romaleon antennarius,” “Cancer antennarium,” and “Cancer antennarius,” are all synonymous terms. Additionally, Pacific Rock Crabs, Yellow Rock Crabs (C. anthonyi), and Red Rock Crabs (C. productus) are all common fishery crabs, accounting for an average of 1.2 million pounds per year from 1991-1999.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romaleon_antennarium
#18 Postby Nezumiiro » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:21 am
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 11/04/2015: Pachygrapsus crassipes or the Striped Shore Crab. How have I not posted this amazing beastie yet? This small crab can typically be found on just about ANY Pacific rocky or hard-mud shore, from North and Central America across to Korea and Japan. A highly adaptable crustacean, (borderline invasive!) P. crassipes can survive a variety of temperatures and will eat any vegetation, creature, or detritus it finds.
This crab has some AMAZING colors and marking patterns; it’s carapace will be striped or mottled with combinations of green, brown, and purple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachygrapsus_crassipes
http://species-identification.org/speci ... an&id=1664
#19 Postby Nezumiiro » Thu Nov 05, 2015 8:06 pm
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 11/05/2015: Portunus xantusii or the Xantus Swimming Crab. This beautifully purple-detailed crab is a swimming crab, common near sandy and muddy areas to up to the 150 foot depth in Central California, Baja, and through to the Sea of Cortez. This crab can usually be found partially or fully buried in sand; swimming up to the surface for infrequent hunting excursions. This Now the most common intertidal and shallow water portunid in sandy bottoms of estuaries and protected bays of Baja California, Xantusses have shown an incredible population bounce-back since these protections have been put into place. The sight of one of these awesome crabs peeking out in a healthy bed of sand-dollars is one of those amazing underwater experiences that California divers frequently stumble upon.
P. xantusii crabs actually engage in precopulatory courtship rituals. (through olfactory and tactile cues) Though indirect sperm transfer is the actual mechanism for mating, these crabs foreplay it up bigtime! SIDENOTE: a ton of the pics I browsed through for these guys showed crabs makin’ sweet, SWEET love.
#20 Postby Nezumiiro » Sat Nov 07, 2015 2:30 am
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 11/07/2015: The Golden Ghost Crab or Ocypode convexa is a species of ghost crab living predominantly in Western Australia. Named for their bright yellow carapace, these little guys scuttle along the beach looking for meals of dead animals and plants which have washed ashore. These nocturnal and semi-terrestrial little guys have a square-shaped and robust body, with strong running and digging legs, asymmetrically sized claws, and the pointy eyestalks common with Ghost Crabs in general.
There is a record from 1962 where Ride Magazine (a surfing publication) reported from Bernier Island that adult O. convexa were foraging over half a kilometer inland following heavy rain. Though these little golden guys don’t pose a huge threat to humans, they can leave ya’ with quite a CRINCH!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ghost_crab
http://www.arkive.org/silver-gull/larus ... o-08a.html
#21 Postby Nezumiiro » Sun Nov 08, 2015 4:38 am
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 11/08/2015: Hyas coarctatus or the Arctic Lyre Crab has a ‘lyre-shaped’ carapace, and long, spindly legs. These brownish red, dirty-looking crabs are found at hard, stony, sandy and soft bottomed depths, ranging from 1–500 meters, though most often above 50 meters. H. coarctatus is widely distributed in the North-East Atlantic and adjacent seas, the northern border around the North and West Splitsbergen and Barents Sea, clear through to the North-East coast of France, and the Western Baltic Sea, the Belt Sea and the Sound of Denmark.
A scavenge-predator by nature, H. coarctatus is a grazer on algae, and a predator on hydroids, annelids, crustaceans, mollusks, small fishes and shrimp. Smaller Arctic Lyres act a lot like decorator crabs; they attach bits of algae or debris to the setae of the rostrum, carapace proper and walking legs. Though the decorator crab habit peters off in old age, the carapace of adult individuals may be encrusted with barnacles, tube-building worms, and bryozoans.
Fun fact: Some biologists recognize COMPLETELY separate subspecies of Arctic Lyre Crabs, though this is as yet unconfirmed by genetic survey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyas_coarctatus
http://species-identification.org/speci ... cea&id=208
#22 Postby Nezumiiro » Mon Nov 09, 2015 1:20 am
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 11/09/2015: Aletheiana tenella, in the interim, known as the Sulawesi Freshwater Crab is a fairly newly catalogued species AND genus of freshwater hymenosomatid crab from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Odly enough, this hairy discovery differs from the other known Sulawesi hymenosomatid species (Cancrocaeca xenomorpha, Sulaplax ensifer) in that it lives among the submerged fibrous roots of trees at the slow flowing parts of riverbanks rather than primarily in cave habitats.
“Aletheia” is an ancient-Greek word for disclosure and a state of not being hidden. The latinised name “tenellus” means delicate; alluding to the small size and slender appendages of the species.
http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2015/11/aletheiana.html
http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view ... a.4039.1.4
#23 Postby Nezumiiro » Tue Nov 10, 2015 7:21 pm
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 11/10/2015: Camposcia retusa or The Spider Decorator Crab is a fascinating member of the Inachidae family, and a much sought after addition to reef aquariums. These crabs use bits of sponge and soft corals to decorate themselves as a means of camouflage, though will stick any refuse, rocks, polyps, etc. they can find to the short, fine hairs on their bodies. Though my picture doesn’t do it justice, Spider Decorator Crabs can become quite colorful and unique looking depending on the items available for them to decorate themselves with. (See the video!)
The Spider Decorator Crab is nocturnal scavenging and hunting throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific area, including the Red Sea. Though slightly destructive to smaller coral populations; in an interesting twist, some corals have adapted to be propagated in this manner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camposcia_retusa
#24 Postby Nezumiiro » Wed Nov 11, 2015 3:57 am
CRINCH! The BONUS #CrabOfTheDay for 11/10/2015: Karkinos! Believe it or not, there was a badass mythological crab that has had some long term impact on how we identify a certain portion of the cosmos! According to the Greeks, during one of his labors, Hercules and his cousin Iolaus had to battle the Lernaean Hydra. (A monster with the body of a snake and nine flipping heads!) In order to tip the scales in her snake-monster’s favor, Hera (Zeus’s wife, and a really vengeful piece of work) sent Karkinos, a GIANT crab monster to attempt to distract Hercules and thus give the Hydra the upper hand.
During the battle, Karkinos gets his moment in the sun when he pinches the crap outta Hercules’s toe! The son of Zeus wasn’t having it however, and one swift stomp from Hercules horribly cracked the shell and killed Karkinos. Karkinos, in the throes of death refused to let go, and though Heracles eventually defeats the hydra, Hera is so impressed with the tenacity of the crab that she exalts it into the heavens as the Zodiac Sign Cancer.
While we astrologers see the sign of Cancer as nurturing and sensitive, we should also remember this mythic tenacity of the crab to “hang in there.” Cancers are great protectors and defenders, and if riled, can be formidable opponents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_%2 ... llation%29
#25 Postby Nezumiiro » Thu Nov 12, 2015 12:41 am
CRINCH! #CrabOfTheDay for 11/11/2015: The Blind Remipede… (Speleonectes tulumensis) NOT a crab…
Nevertheless, prepare to be interested/horrified! “Remipedes,” (no relation to centipedes) are creepy little primitive crustaceans that develop in some really distinct biomes such as coastal aquifers which contain mostly saline groundwater. These fully-blind beasties have changed little throughout their existence; fossil versions of at least seventeen living species of Remipede have been identified with global distribution throughout the neo-tropical zone. Remipedes are 10–40 millimetres (0.4–1.6 in) long and are basically built from a large hungry head, long segmented body (10 – 40 segments!) with a bunch of crawly/swimmy flipper appendages.
Speleonectes tulumensis is particularly scary in that it is to date, the ONLY venomous crustacean on Earth! These guys have MASSIVE fangs connected to secretory glands, which inject a combination of digestive enzymes, paralyzing agents, and septic/caustic venom into their prey. GROSS!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remipedia
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com ... omous-one/
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video ... FBBC3_0166
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The four-part series launches this Sunday, August 30 at 9:00/8:00c.
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SHOWTIME(R) OFFERS THE PREMIERE EPISODE OF NEW DOCU-SERIES "LOVE FRAUD" FOR FREE AHEAD OF ITS ON-AIR PREMIERE
Directed and Executive Produced by Oscar(R) Nominees and Emmy(R) Winners Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, Series Premieres on Sunday, August 30 at 9 PM ET/PT
NEW YORK - August 28, 2020 - SHOWTIME has released the premiere episode of its new docu-series LOVE FRAUD early for free online sampling, on streaming platforms and on demand. The series is executive produced and directed by Emmy winners and Academy Award(R) nominees Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. The premiere episode is available for free now on YouTube and SHO.com. LOVE FRAUD will officially premiere on air this Sunday, August 30 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME.
The episode is also available across multiple television and streaming providers' devices, websites, applications and authenticated online services and their free on demand channels. In addition, the season premiere is available for free on the SHOWTIME stand-alone service at www.showtime.com.
The four-part LOVE FRAUD follows the search for one man, Richard Scott Smith, who over the past 20 years has used the internet and his dubious charms to prey upon unsuspecting women in search of love - conning them out of their money and dignity. Ewing and Grady capture the story as it unravels in real time as his victims band together to seek sweet revenge by turning to a bounty hunter when they feel the justice system has failed them.
Ewing and Grady direct and executive produce the series, along with executive producers Amy Goodman Kass and Jihan Robinson, Michael Bloom and Maria Zuckerman for Topic Studios. Join the conversation on social using #LoveFraud.
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Continental Ramps Up AI Research for Automated Driving
By Future Tech Staff July 26, 2020
Continental is continuing its research into the potential of automated driving in urban areas. Labeled PRORETA 5, the project is dedicated to recognizing complex traffic situations in inner cities and how algorithms from sensor data can deduce the correct driving decisions in these situations, technology that is set to prove of interest to governments across the Middle East. Using a demonstration car built and equipped by Continental, the project aims to examine algorithms associated with cognition, behaviour prediction and decision making. and will be assessed by experts, using the widest possible range of inner-city scenarios to determine the potential for future deployment.
The learning-capable algorithms of the PRORETA 5 project will be applied to achieve a driving performance comparable to that of humans, with the artificial intelligence (AI) capable of correctly recognizing and interpreting complex traffic scenarios, resulting in correct driving decisions being made. The Middle East is already taking positive steps forward to promote autonomous transport. In the UAE the Dubai Future Foundation, in collaboration with Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), has launched the Dubai Autonomous Transportation Strategy with the aim of transforming 25 percent of the total transportation in Dubai to autonomous mode by 2030.
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Appalachian Power 2020 ENERGY STAR Partner Recipient (Ind. Report)
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In the Old Dominion State, Roanoke-based Appalachian Power Co., a unit of Columbus, Ohio-headquartered American Electric Power (AEP), reports receipt of the 2020 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award for its leadership in energy efficiency and the ENERGY STAR program. Appalachian started offering energy efficiency programs in 2011.
The ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award recognizes ENERGY STAR partner businesses and organizations in good standing that demonstrate superior leadership, innovation and commitment to environmental protection through energy efficiency and ENERGY STAR. (Source: Appalachian Power, Smith Mountain Eagle, 21 April, 2020) Contact: Appalachian Power, Kelly Marlowe, Energy Efficiency Coordinator, www.appalachianpower.com; ENERGY STAR, www.energystar.gov; American Electric Power, Nicholas K. Akins, Pres., (614) 716-1000, www.aep.com
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Virginia State Corporation Commission,Appalachian Power
Further to our 5th April report, meeting in Richmond, the Virginia State Corporation Commission is reported to have approved approximately $1 billion in new spending on energy efficiency programs designed to reduce energy consumption and the need to produce and distribute additional electricity in the Old Dominion State.
The regulator approved 11 new Dominion Energy programs totaling $226 million as well as energy efficiency spending by Appalachian Power, the state's second largest electric utility. In their approval, the two companies are required to track and report the effectiveness of their programs in reducing energy consumption at a future date. (Source: Virginia State Corporation Commission, NBC29, AP, 4 May, 2019) Contact: Virginia State Corporation Commission, www.scc.virginia.gov; Appalachian Power, Don Nichols, (800)956-4237, contact@aep.com, www.appalachianpower.com; Dominion Energy, Keith Windle, VP Business Development, www.dominionenergy.com
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Further to our Jan. 30 coverage, in the Old Dominion State, Appalachian Power, along with Wheeling Power, reports it is requesting Public Service Commission of West Virginia approval for a new Economic Development Fund and changes to the company’s energy efficiency programs, including introducing two new offerings.
The new fund would be financed by a combination of a monthly customer meter charge of 12 cents, generating approximately $670,000 annually, and equal company matching funds, according to a company release.
Planned changes to the utility's energy efficiency programs are aimed at controlling electric power usage and lowering energy costs for program participants. One of the new programs -- the Low-Income Multi-Family Program -- will provide installation of measures such as energy-efficient lighting, water heating measures, appliance upgrades, HVAC replacement and maintenance, insulation and similar features in individual units of multi-family buildings, and will raise awareness and understanding of energy efficiency among participating building owners, managers and tenants.
A second new program -- the Small Business Direct Install Program -- will educate small-business owners about energy efficiency and provide financial incentives to encourage additional energy efficiency improvements. (Source: Appalachian Power, PR, Herald-Dispatch, 3 April, 2019) Contact: Appalachian Power, Don Nichols, (800)956-4237, contact@aep.com, www.appalachianpower.com
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In the Old Dominion State, Appalachian Power is touting its 2019 lineup of energy efficiency programs to help residential and business customers cut energy consumption and save on energy costs.
The new programs include: Bring Your Own "Smart" Thermostat (BYOT) Program; eScore home energy audits and savings Program; Commercial and Industrial Lighting energy efficiency Program; Commercial & Industrial non-lighting energy efficiency Standard Program; a Small Business Direct no-cost energy efficiency upgrades Install Program, and others.
Review Appalachian Power's energy efficiency program details HERE. (Source: Appalachian Power, Virginia First, 28 Jan., 2019) Contact: Appalachian Power, Don Nichols, contact@aep.com 1-800-956-4237 www.takechatgeva.com, www.appalachianpower.com
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After Kevin Brennan, the owner of five Exxon gas stations in Durango, was sued for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act last year, he took the opportunity to do some remodeling.
“It wasn’t fun to deal with, but it was a good thing,” he said.
Brennan’s station was one of at least 10 Durango businesses sued by the same Florida man, a “tester” for ADA compliance in 2016.
Now, Brennan describes the lawsuit as a blessing – it prompted him to make changes that needed to happen. The men’s and women’s restrooms at one gas station were originally built in the 1960s. Both were completely updated.
Brennan’s shop was among those honored Thursday, the 28th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, by advocates for better accessibility. The group included staff members from the Southwest Center for Independence and representatives of the Accessible Communities Team.
ACT provides matching funds to businesses that want to update their buildings to be more ADA compliant.
ACT has received about $25,000 from the city of Durango each year for three years, and thus far, 14 organizations, including Brennan’s station, have received funding.
Building projects have included installing new handrails in bathrooms, new ramps and complete bathroom remodels.
La Plata Youth Services, a nonprofit that serves at-risk youth, was also honored for putting in a ramp and an accessible bathroom at its new location in the old La Plata County manager’s house next to the La Plata County Fairgrounds.
Work was required because the building was converted from a residence to a commercial building, LPYS Executive Director Katy Pepinsky said. The nonprofit received $4,000 from ACT, which helped pay for some of the largest modifications.
“They were really supportive of what we were doing,” she said.
ACT disbursed $17,627 in 2017, and it would like to grant more funds in the coming years, said Jason Ragsdell, an independent living program manager for the Southwest Center for Independence.
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Were They Flashforwards or Flashbacks?
Author Topic: Were They Flashforwards or Flashbacks? (Read 27124 times)
puff6962
Serious question. Did the scenes occur before or after the four reached the island?
Pepsi-Maxx
Re: Were They Flashforwards or Flashbacks?
AussieDave
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Pretty sure they were "before" ie) we were back to flashbacks again for this episode.....
On the one hand, Faraday's response to 815's discovery is telling. He is crying and a woman as why he is so upset....His reply is "I don't know." If he is being honest, then it could be just that he is a sensitive individual, nuts, or something else. After he left the island, did he forget the experience and only have it retained in his subconscious (crying without reason). Did an alternative Faraday get placed in this reality and, like Desmond, only wake up to his memories? Too many questions occurred at 6 minutes into the show.
Maxor127
I can definitely see how an argument could be made that they were flash-forwards, but I still think they were flashbacks. I personally don't think they're going to make it off the island.
iansomerhalder_luver_06
Naomi was there, so they had to be flashbacks
Naomi was there for one of them. They could mix flashforwards and flashbacks. So still possible, I think. But I still think they were all flashbacks.
I have to say, I am really confused about this. I was discussing this with khpage and said it could be a fbck because Naomi told Charlay that after the crash they came out with the Greatest Hits of Driveshaft. She pointed out she could be lying given the circumstances and hence a ffwd. So can I say flash present parallel timeline?
Desmond8MyPopRocks
I believe Faraday's "I don't know" response to seeing footage of the Oceanic 815 flight being shown on tv was a flashforward--similar to Desmond's experience. I'm still considering the rest.
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*Des8
I hadn't thought about this till now... good question! I would say Naiomi's and Frank's were both definitly flashbacks but Faraday's and Miles' could be either. My gut tells me they were both FB's though.
Kate seemed to think Faraday was cute in a geeky kinda way... wonder if he's the him that was wondering where she was in the S3 finale!?!?!?!
PrincessLeia
Geeks are way underrated.
Quote from: Desmond8MyPopRocks on February 08, 2008, 03:18:46 AM
I can't put my finger on it....but this is pretty much how I feel too.
ActivityGrrrl
We still think FFs...or we're with Alwayslost's "So can I say flash present parallel timeline?" We think we've actually seen more new characters than we know, that we're looking at parallels here, so not necessarily the same Naomi, Daniel, etc in both places. And as puff6962 said, "Did an alternative Faraday get placed in this reality and, like Desmond, only wake up to his memories?" - that's what we keep going back to, too. Confusing as hell, but we love it!
Well... if all of those are flashbacks, then Naomi wouldn't have known about those four until Oceanic was found and the team was put together, therefore the Driveshaft Greatest Hits would've come out by then too. So that scene at least is a flashback no matter how you look at it, just probably a very recent one. No need to make things even more complicated with flashpresents.
i honestly think they are flashbacks, BUT, well, i don't know. i guess they COULD be flashforwards.
THey were flashbacks. Showing us how and why(sort of) of why they were on the boat and interested in the mission. Naomi was in them and she is dead now, she told the same story about the plane being found. So they happened before they got to the island.
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“Without taking into account these figures the commission would be taking unnecessary, very significant risks if a wage increase is awarded,” he said on Monday.
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Angkor Wat is the largest and the most impressive of the monuments of Angkor . It is also the best preserved and never fails to reward repeat visitors with previously unnoticed details. Most
probably it was constructed as a funerary temple for Suryavarman II (ruled 1112-52) to honor Vishnu, the Hindu deity who the king identified with.
There is much about Angkor Wat that is unique among the temples of Angkor. The most significant point is its westward orientation. West is symbolically the direction of death, which once led many scholars to conclude that Angkor Wat was primarily a tomb.
This was supported by the fact that the magnificent bas-reliefs of Angkor Wat were designed to be viewed in an anticlockwise direction, a practice which has antecedents in Hindu funerary rites. Vishnu, however, is often associated with the west, and it is commonly accepted nowadays that Angkor Wat was probably both a temple and a mausoleum for
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It is based on the amount of time the visitor has to spend at Angkor and take into consideration the roads, proximity of the temples, and favorable light conditions.
For some temples it is important to begin at the principal entrance to perceive the space and decoration as the builder intended, and entrances are indicated in the text. The monuments are oriented according to the four points of a compass which can be used as a point of reference. the temple of Angkor Wat is covered in detail in this book because of its importance, complexity and size.
Angkor provides wonderful photographic opportunities. the monuments and the surrounding jungle afford unlimited textural and lighting opportunities for composing a picture.
Clouds are common and tend to diffuse the light which is somewhat flat even though it is intense. As most of the temples face east the best lighting conditions are in the morning except for Angkor Wat where the best light is in the afternoon because it faces west. the temples surrounded by jungle such as Ta Prohm and Preah Khan can be photographed with good results when the sun is directly overhead and shining through the foliage. Just as one is never prepared for the enormous size and overwhelming beauty of Angkor, one is never ready to leave it.
With photographs and visions etched in memory, one need never say good-by to Angkor, for its magic will go with you wherever fate and the gods may take you to colour your thoughts and dreams to life's very end. The name of the monuments at Angkor are often modern ones designated by Cambodians or early European travellers. In publications by the French the enclosures of a temple are numbered starting from the central sanctuary and progressing towards the enclosing walls. The system used in this book reverses the order for the convenience of the visitor. Thus the first enclosing wall the visitor encounters when entering a temple is number one. the numbers ascend from the exterior to the interior of the monument. In many distances, though, only traces of the enclosing walls, particularly the outer one, remain.
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When the Michael Jackson single “They don’t care about us” was released fourteen years ago, it immediately generated controversy after Jewish groups pointed out that the lyrics of the song (“Jew me, sue me”) has a tinge of racism in it. The pop superstar was forced to apologize by removing the controversial lines in a new recording.
Jackson did two music videos for the song: the first video was shot in location in a Rio de Janeiro community in Brazil to highlight the plight of the poor and the second video was shot in a prison to dramatize the rampant human rights abuses in the U.S. Despite his good intentions, Jackson was accused of exploiting the conditions of the poor for commercial gain.
Fast forward to 2010. Jackson’s long time choreographer arrived in the Philippines to train about 1,500 inmates from the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center on how to perform the dance drill of the controversial 1996 song which was seen by the public in the smash-hit “This is it” concert film. The widely anticipated performance of the Cebu prisoners was uploaded on youtube in time for the DVD release of the film.
It is aptly ironic that the same Jackson song which drew accusations of racism; the same song which have two videos that overexposes poverty and human rights violations, was the chosen song for the Jackson tribute performance of Cebu’s famous dancing prisoners.
Were the prisoners informed that the song was penned by Jackson to make visible the human rights abuses in society? Were they aware of the music video which was shot inside a prison? Did they realize that Jackson’s choreographer taught them the dance moves not in behalf of the Jackson estate but through the sponsorship of a commercial recording label? Was the choreographer conscious of the fact that many of the prisoners in the Philippines are guilty of poverty crimes and most likely his Cebu trainees are also victims of a biased and unfair judicial system?
Filipinos are amused over the global popularity of Cebu’s prisoners but this dancing spectacle deserves to be probed if it really benefits the prisoners.
Do prisoners have the right to refuse if they are chosen to be part of the dancing group? Do they receive compensation? If they stopped dancing, will prison reforms also stop? Jackson fans are impressed with the disciplined dance moves of the prisoners but we should ask if prisoners are punished if they commit mistakes during the practice sessions.
Cebu prisoners gained worldwide fame in 2007 when their rendition of Jackson’s Thriller dance went viral on youtube. Because of their internet exposure, the dancing prisoners quickly became a tourist attraction in Cebu. Like tourists in a safari cruise, foreigners visit the provincial detention center to witness amazing and sometimes hilarious dance moves of the “tamed” prisoners. Maybe tourists will tell their friends that dancing is a good therapy for wild animals, rapists, and murderers.
The dance routine was originally conceptualized by prison officers as a form of behavior conditioning. Then it became a money making event. Dancing prisoners are happy since they claim to enjoy more benefits than other non-dancing prisoners. The incentive to dance is not really to practice art but to receive better prison treatment. Dance to impress visitors to generate funds. Dance to eat more regularly and sleep comfortably. Dance to make the Philippines famous in the global arena. Prisoners are exploited since they have no choice but to obey the instructions of their officers: dance or else. What is doubly painful is that prisoners are enjoying the exploitation.
It is an odd lonely spectacle. Prisoners dancing in front of judicial authorities and the satisfied officials reward the subjects with token reforms and the usually forgotten promise of reviewing their pending cases. Prisoners have to use their bodies if they want to attract the attention of concerned officials. Prisoners have to work harder and please more people if they want some of their basic rights restored. Is prison reform the real desire of the prisoners? What about justice? Freedom?
No one will admit it but Cebu’s dancing prisoners represent many Filipinos who dream of making it big in the global village. What many Filipinos desire is the approving gaze of the colonial masters. Like the Cebu prisoners, they sing and dance and perform many spectacles in the internet to catch the attention of Hollywood, CNN, and other global media icons. They become heroes if they are praised by western critics. Oh yes, the subalterns could sing and dance, and mimic their western idols. This seems to be the new Filipino dream. Surprise the world by acting, singing and speaking in a non-Filipino manner. Prove that the colonial subjects are capable of reproducing what the masters are doing. Say hello to the world. Sing like a white diva and rock star. Serve the master well and maybe the loyal servant will inherit the master’s fabulous wealth in the future.
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Bakit nga ba? Ang Pinoy kung makatabi at makausap ang matangos ang ilong at maputing puwit pakiramdam nya tumataas ang uri ng kanyang pagkatao, totoo kaya? Malamang. Bakit nga ba mas gusto ang maging batman, superman at dartvader, baket masama bang maging kungfu master, mahinang klase ka kung ang nakatatak sa t-shirt mo ay si Pedro Penduko. Buti na lang may nakikita akong kabataan na karga ang imahe ni Che Guevara kaysa Guns & Roses.
Siguro mas maganda kung ang susunod sasayawin ng mga inmates ay Tinikling na di hamak na maganda at may skill kaysa sa moonwalk.
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Allow me (as an ordinary people) to amend the Michael Jackson song “They don’t care about us” above to become “They don’t care about us after getting comfortable chair”
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http://mongpalatino.com/2010/07/dancing-prisoners/
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http://www.gmanews.tv/video/65117/saksi-cpdrc-inmate-killed-in-beating-allegedly-because-he-refused-to-dance
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Tactical Analysis: Juventus 2-2 Bayern Munich | Allegri’s 4-4-2 and critical change of pace in second half
Nicolas Pernigotti writes a detailed tactical analysis about the Champions League match that ended Juventus 2-2 Bayern Munich.
On Tuesday, the 23rd of February, Juventus played host to Bayern München in Turin. It was touted to be a great game, and certainly did not disappoint. After going 2-0 down, Juventus showed great psychological strength, recovered and scored two goals of their own to level the first leg of Champions League. During the first 60 minutes, Bayern exercised great control through a strong possession game and an effective pressing scheme involving man to man orientation. However, Juventus did improve significantly, showing more stability with and without the ball.
Line ups
Juventus: Buffon; Evra, Barzagli, Bonucci, Lichtsteiner; Marchisio (Hernanes, 46′), Pogba, Khedira (Sturaro, 69′), Pogba; Dybala (Morata, 75′), Mandzukic.
Bayern Munich: Neuer; Bernat (Benatia, 74′), Alaba, Kimmich, Lahm; Vidal, Thiago, Robben, Douglas Costa (Ribery, 84′), Muller; Lewandowski.
Allegri´s 4-4-2
Allegri chose to organize his team in a 4-4-2 formation, which depending on the situation would become a 4-4-1-1 or 4-4-2.
Acting in a defensive block, Juventus used a zonal marking scheme with some man marking with the objective to exercise better control and allow fewer movements from Bayern. Juventus pressed in some cases, but only intermittently as they more often sat in a deeper block. When executed, the press was not fully effective either, since Bayern worked well to bypass the pressure from Mandzukic and Dybala.
In possession, there were some signs of asymmetry from Juventus. On the left, Pogba would move in and supported the central attacks, while Evra moved further up the pitch. On the other flank, Cuadrado acted as a more orthodox winger with Lichtsteiner behind him. Meanwhile, Marchisio was located near the central defenders as usual, while Khedira was more of a traditional number 8. In the attack, pressing from the front remained relatively high.
Bayern maintain absolute control with the 4-3-3
Bayern´s line up suggested a possible 4-3-3, however, as soon as the game started it was clear that this was not the case. In central midfield, we saw some asymmetry as Thiago played deeper to support the recirculating ball while Thomas Müller was deployed much higher alongside Lewandowski. On the wings, Douglas Costa found himself in many situations of isolation on the left flank, while Robben played an important role on the right.
The most interesting aspect of their structure, however was that of the centre backs. Both Bernat and Lahm were directed to patrol the inside of their respective spaces, supporting the possession through connections and offering to help the horizontal movement of the ball. The duo helped create triangles around the field, as their strategic positioning in spaces proved beneficial.
The differences in the guidelines were relevant to the functions of support. On the left side, Bernat constantly generated space for Thiago. On the right side, the vital support of Lahm created half spaces and helped create better connections.
The accumulation of the Bavarians was particularly strong by the motion of Vidal. They were consistently able to bypass pressure exerted by Manduzkic and Dybala. In midfield the ex-Juventus man Vidal became the deepest Bayern player, as both Kimmich and Alaba moved further forward to create an inverted triangle.
Crucial change of pace in the second half
Although much improved almost immediately after the interval, Juventus were particularly better after Robben extended the Bayern lead. The tempo changed and Juventus gradually took control of the game. Despite Bayern exercising a high degree of control over most of the first 60 minutes, the momentum of the game changed almost completely and the stability of the Bavarians was now absent since the game became more chaotic.
Juve pressure became more active and aggressive, Mandzukic and Dybala advanced to press much more frequently and with greater intensity. In addition, Hernanes and Khedira advanced up the field to apply pressure to Bayern. In doing so, they interrupted the construction game of Guardiola´s team, and Bayern were less able to advance the ball cleanly and were not able to move with the same levels of control.
In the end, the home side greatly improved, as it benefitted from better access through the middle that worked well against Bayern pressure. Lahm in particular was less able to develop access to the midfield. Juventus improved their circulation of the ball, and the structure was adapted to be slightly more effective against Bayern´s defense.
In terms of quality this was “THE” match of the round of Champions League and did not disappoint, as we saw an interesting battle between two strong teams tactically and technically. The Bayern dominance in the first half was nullified in the second half of the game, but mainly after Robben’s goal. Allegri’s team got back into the game by getting higher up the pitch, and at the same time improved their ball circulation.
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Nicolas is Argentine, a chess player, student of philosophy and aspiring football coach. He is an enthusiastic follower of world football, lover of football tactics and strategy, and a faithful fan of Borussia Dortmund and Bundesliga. He also writes for Ligasmaster.wordpress.com and 6cero.com/u/Nicobundesliga
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December 17, 2004: Headlines: COS - Tonga: Crime: Murder: Safety and Security of Volunteers: San Francisco Chronicle: A book reopens memories of a Peace Corps volunteer Deborah Gardner's murder in Tonga more than 25 years ago
Peace Corps Online: Directory: Tonga: Special Report: 'American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps': December 17, 2004: Headlines: COS - Tonga: Crime: Murder: Safety and Security of Volunteers: San Francisco Chronicle: A book reopens memories of a Peace Corps volunteer Deborah Gardner's murder in Tonga more than 25 years ago
American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps
Charges possible in 1976 PCV slaying
Congressman Norm Dicks has asked the U.S. attorney in Seattle to consider pursuing charges against Dennis Priven, the man accused of killing Peace Corps Volunteer Deborah Gardner on the South Pacific island of Tonga 28 years ago. Background on this story here and here.
American Taboo
Read the story of Volunteer Deborah Gardner's murder in Tonga in 1976 and how her killer has been free for the past 28 years with the help of the Peace Corps. Read an excerpt from Philip Weiss' book documenting the murder and coverup. Then read an essay by RPCV Bob Shaconis who says that Peace Corps' treatment as a "sacred cow" has exempted it from public scrutiny and that the agency has labored to preserve its shining reputation, sometimes at the expense of the very principles it is supposed to embody.
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A book reopens memories of a Peace Corps volunteer Deborah Gardner's murder in Tonga more than 25 years ago
Not so peaceful
A book reopens memories of a Peace Corps volunteer's time in Tonga -- and matters of life and death
Dave Murphy, Chronicle Staff Writer
Emile Hons paced across his San Bruno living room, talking on the phone to a stranger about memories he wasn't sure he wanted to bring back -- memories of a tragic incident in an idyllic place, half a world away, half a lifetime ago.
Not that he had ever forgotten Deborah Gardner. Not even close. More than 25 years after seeing her for the last time, Hons still sets aside a few quiet moments at 10 p.m. every Oct. 13, a remembrance of their time in the Peace Corps in Tonga, as colleagues, as friends, as lovers.
Often he'll think about Dennis Priven, the Peace Corps volunteer who became Hons' best friend during their first year in Tonga, the man from New York whom Hons describes as "almost scary intelligent." The man who stabbed Deborah Gardner to death.
Journalist Philip Weiss understood Hons' reluctance, but it was a seductive tale. Gardner was a 23-year-old from the Pacific Northwest, stabbed 22 times in an apparent mixture of jealousy and insanity.
But what led Weiss to pursue the story wasn't just the grisly slaying of a beautiful woman in an apparent love triangle, but how the Peace Corps helped Priven, paying for his defense -- he was found not guilty by reason of insanity, a defense previously unheard of in Tonga -- then flying him back to the United States.
And, even more, how a bungled arrangement between the U.S. and Tongan governments basically left Priven a free man in January 1977, three months after he killed Gardner.
Weiss planned to do an article, but it turned into a book: "American Taboo," published earlier this year. One of the first people he tracked down was Hons, who had accompanied Gardner's body from Tonga to Washington for her funeral.
Hons was easy to find. He had grown up in San Bruno and returned home just before Christmas 1976, just after testifying at Priven's murder trial. Not long after that, he began working at the Tanforan Park Shopping Center. He has been there ever since, serving as its general manager the last 10 years.
But when Weiss called him seven years ago, Hons was reluctant to open old wounds.
"I babbled off something," Hons recalled. "I was always very protective of Debbie and my relationship."
They spoke for less than half an hour. They had a couple of other phone conversations over the next three years, but Hons wasn't ready to open up.
Hons was barely 25 when the Peace Corps sent him to Tonga in November 1974. He had taught pottery and jewelry-making at Pepperdine University, but didn't see his future there. The Peace Corps needed teachers in Tonga, and going there for two years would give him a chance to learn a lot about another culture -- and himself.
He and Priven became friends quickly. They got to know each other when their Peace Corps group stayed in Fiji for a few days before going to Tonga, and they were together when Priven bought a diving knife in Suva, a knife that he would wear nearly every day.
As the months passed, Hons and the other volunteers made friends with the Tongans, but shared a special camaraderie with one another.
"We were living in a new world," Hons said. "Everything was kind of different."
About a year later, another group of volunteers arrived, including Gardner.
"My first impression was her smile," Hons said. "Genuine, but it would light a room up."
He grew to admire her honesty, creativity and openness. "She wasn't too good for anybody. She would talk to everybody. She wasn't the prom queen."
Like many of the men, Priven was infatuated. But as the months went on and Gardner had romantic relationships with a couple of other volunteers, she made it clear that she didn't want anything more than a casual friendship with Priven.
She lived next door to Hons, and they became friends. In the summer of 1976, Hons said, "We started to get a little more serious." If he wasn't already in love with her, "I was heading down that road."
They were very discreet, partly because it was nobody's business and partly because of what appeared to be Priven's growing obsession with Gardner. Against her wishes, Priven showed up almost daily at her school, and his behavior was so strange that Gardner asked to transfer to another island, and Hons expressed concern to Peace Corps supervisor Mary George.
In October 1976, at a Peace Corps dinner for a new group of volunteers, Gardner got drunk and Hons took her home, going inside with her.
Looking back on it now, he believes that Priven must have followed them.
Five nights later, while Hons was out watching a movie with a friend, Priven entered Gardner's hut and confronted her. He stabbed her repeatedly with the diving knife, and then rode off on a bicycle when a 16-year-old Tongan heard Gardner's screams and yelled for help.
When Hons returned home shortly before 11 p.m., two boys ran up to him. Dennis had hurt Debbie, they said. Hons rushed inside.
"When I opened the door, it just froze my soul," he said. Blood was everywhere.
Gardner had been taken to a hospital, but it was too late.
A few hours past midnight, Priven surrendered to police.
Hons saw Priven in jail during that long night, and still remembers what Priven said when asked why he did it: "This just proves I'm insane."
Two days later, still recovering from the shock, Hons was cleaning out Gardner's hut, looking for mementos he could take to her family. He and Gardner each had kept a picture of the two of them, taken at Tonga's airport with another volunteer, Rich Dann.
"I found that picture crumpled up on her bed. I can only assume it was Dennis."
He kept the crumpled photo for himself. He put his own copy in her casket.
After going to Washington for the funeral and visiting his parents in San Bruno, Hons returned to Tonga. Once he finished testifying at Priven's trial, he came home for good on Christmas Eve.
But he couldn't leave the emotions behind.
"I had nightmares -- basically seeing what happened that night firsthand, which I didn't," he said. "My therapy was I'd walk -- 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock in the morning -- and think."
He would second-guess himself. What if he had complained louder about Priven to the Peace Corps? What if he hadn't gone to the movie that night?
"When I first got back, I was almost overwhelmed by what-ifs," Hons said. "After several months, I knew I had to focus on what is."
Author Weiss said that many volunteers still have trouble dealing with what happened.
"They were so young, so idealistic, so involved," he said. "They're still tortured by it at some level. I think there's a lot of (unwarranted) guilt with a lot of these people for the tiniest reasons."
In August 2000, Weiss was headed to Los Angeles for the Democratic National Convention, and asked Hons if he could visit him in San Bruno. Hons figured the conversation would take half an hour.
It lasted five.
"He slowly melted over the course of the interchange," Weiss recalled.
"At that point," Hons said, "I realized his dedication and his drive."
Hons dug up old photos and the notes he wrote for Gardner's eulogy. He helped persuade a Peace Corps colleague to talk with Weiss, and even met the writer in Tonga in July 2001 -- his first trip there since Priven's trial in 1976.
"When he made the emotional commitment to help me," Weiss said, "he did a lot of digging for himself."
Sometimes when you open an old wound, you get the chance to cleanse it.
"Emile hadn't dealt with this at some level," Weiss said. "In the last four years, he has."
Hons has returned to Tonga several times, even starting a Web site about the good times there (www.friendsoftonga.com). When he found out that the air tanks used by Tongan firefighters were woefully out of date, he and his colleagues in the San Bruno Rotary Club bought new ones for them, and Hons and the club have helped with other projects. He plans to visit again in February.
"It's been fun kind of giving back to a country I really enjoyed -- for at least 22 of those months," he said.
To acquaintances in San Bruno, Hons never came across as someone haunted by his past. You don't get to run a shopping center if you have a giant chip on your shoulder. People might have known he was in the Peace Corps, but telling them about a grisly homicide wouldn't exactly fit into cocktail party etiquette.
But what he saw had never left him.
"You don't see something like that once. You see it the rest of your life. "
He had many conversations with Weiss, and has talked with all sorts of people since the book came out. He was even interviewed by CBS for a "48 Hours" episode.
"I think talking about it so much has been therapeutic," Hons said. "What came back was all the great times that we had -- everything that had been eclipsed by the murder."
He has heard from childhood friends who read the book or saw "48 Hours." And longtime acquaintances now know what really happened, rather than what they had heard through rumors.
Hons smiled as he recalled how one woman he had known for years said that before she had read the book, she had "heard the story that you were in Togo, Africa, and a bunch of Bushmen had come out and carved up your girlfriend with knives."
There is still sorrow, certainly, as well as disappointment about how the Peace Corps unwittingly arranged for Priven to go free.
As "American Taboo" explains, the U.S. government promised Tongan authorities that Priven would be placed in a mental institution. Once Priven returned to the United States, however, he balked at being locked up, and the agreement with the Tongans carried little legal weight because he did not commit a crime here.
So Priven became a free man, living in Brooklyn, N.Y., and staying out of trouble. He worked for several years for the Social Security Administration, retiring last year.
"American Taboo" raises questions about whether Priven really was insane, or simply used guile to get away with murder. Hons said that at one point, Priven suggested that Hons "confess" near the end of Priven's murder trial. That would lead to an acquittal, and then Priven would admit he killed Gardner and free Hons -- knowing that he would be safe from prosecution because of double jeopardy laws.
Although Hons does believe that Priven was insane, and understands why the U.S. government felt obligated to pay for the defense, he is still bothered by the Peace Corps' actions after the trial. Gardner's parents didn't find out about Priven's release until Weiss told them, and Priven's Peace Corps record shows that he completed his service.
"They just wanted it to go away," Hons said. "I just think it was a crime committed by this country. To hide it from her parents, to let him go, to restore his record, it's like they were giving him a bonus.
"He was a good friend of mine, but what's wrong is wrong."
But just as Hons can still appreciate the good times he had with Priven, he hasn't let the Peace Corps' blunders sour him on the institution.
"I think the Peace Corps to this day is one of the best uses of taxpayer money."
In more ways than he could have ever expected, the two years in the Peace Corps did give Hons the chance to learn a lot about another culture -- and himself.
"I certainly grew up fast. Perhaps it made me trust in myself more because I had no idea what I was going to say or do" when he brought Gardner's body back for the funeral. "It made me more likely to go after a problem when I see it and not wait for someone else to solve it."
Not that those lessons could make up for losing Deborah Gardner. Not even close. And the memories of a tragic incident in an idyllic place have grown even stronger.
But so has he.
'American Taboo'
For more information about Philip Weiss' book "American Taboo:
A Murder in the Peace Corps" (HarperCollins, $25.95),
see www.harper collins.com.
E-mail Dave Murphy at dmurphy@sfchronicle.com.
When this story was posted in December 2004, this was on the front page of PCOL:
Our debt to Bill Moyers
Former Peace Corps Deputy Director Bill Moyers leaves PBS next week to begin writing his memoir of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Read what Moyers says about journalism under fire, the value of a free press, and the yearning for democracy. "We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country," he warns, "or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia."
December 10, 2004: This Week's Top Stories
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RPCV safe after Terrorist Attack
RPCV Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the U.S. consul general in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia survived Monday's attack on the consulate without injury. Five consular employees and four others were killed. Abercrombie-Winstanley, the first woman to hold the position, has been an outspoken advocate of rights for Arab women and has met with Saudi reformers despite efforts by Saudi leaders to block the discussions.
Is Gaddi Leaving?
Rumors are swirling that Peace Corps Director Vasquez may be leaving the administration. We think Director Vasquez has been doing a good job and if he decides to stay to the end of the administration, he could possibly have the same sort of impact as a Loret Ruppe Miller. If Vasquez has decided to leave, then Bob Taft, Peter McPherson, Chris Shays, or Jody Olsen would be good candidates to run the agency. Latest: For the record, Peace Corps has no comment on the rumors.
The Birth of the Peace Corps
UMBC's Shriver Center and the Maryland Returned Volunteers hosted Scott Stossel, biographer of Sargent Shriver, who spoke on the Birth of the Peace Corps. This is the second annual Peace Corps History series - last year's speaker was Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn.
Vote "Yes" on NPCA's bylaw changes
Take our new poll. NPCA members begin voting this week on bylaw changes to streamline NPCA's Board of Directors. NPCA Chair Ken Hill, the President's Forum and other RPCVs endorse the changes. Mail in your ballot or vote online (after Dec 1), then see on how RPCVs are voting.
Your vote makes a difference
Make a difference on November 2 - Vote. Then take our RPCV exit poll. See how RPCV's are voting and take a look at the RPCV voter demographic. Finally leave a message on why you voted for John Kerry or for George Bush. Previous poll results here.
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Three to see
Three exhibitions to see during Berlin Art Week
From an artist occupation in an abandoned building to Ai Weiwei's return to his roots
Ai Weiwei's Martin (2019), shown at neugerriemschneider gallery in Berlin © The artist, neugerriemschneider and Lisson Gallery. Photo Jens Ziehe
Being uprooted is something Ai Weiwei knows about. Exiled to the Gobi Desert as a child because of his father’s work, he now lives in exile once more, this time because of his own work. For Roots at neugerriemschneider (until 19 October; free), Ai is showing new monumental iron sculptures which he had cast from long-dead pequi trees—an endangered species from the rainforests of Bahia in Brazil. The original stumps and roots were first fused into wooden sculptures, their molds then shipped to China to create iron castings with a rough bark texture in corroded tints of brown and orange. The shapes are intriguing—one resembles a dinosaur, another a vast bird with spread wings. Roots makes a strong point about environmental devastation, though it would perhaps be better not to examine its own carbon footprint too carefully. The show, which also features Ai’s porcelain sculptures created at the former imperial factory in Jingdezhen, is a collaboration with the Lisson Gallery in London where the works will show next month.
Displaying your work alongside that of Pablo Picasso, as Thomas Scheibitz is doing in Pablo Picasso x Thomas Scheibitz at Museum Berggruen (until 2 Feburary 2020; tickets €12, concessions available), seems like a courageous move for a contemporary painter. It makes more sense when you know Scheibitz is an artist who seldom works from nature, but from existing images in art, advertising or photography. This exhibition then is not about comparing the way two artists observe life; rather it is about how Scheibitz has absorbed Picasso’s images and developed them. The result is a rich insight into the history of painting and sculpture since Picasso. On occasion, Scheibitz’s work seems to reference Picasso’s directly, like in his 2004 painting, Hand, which is displayed alongside Picasso’s Dora Maar With Green Fingernails (1936). A 1997-1998 painting, Cubist Figure, is perhaps the clearest expression of the debt he owes to Picasso, though the artist’s presence is tangible in colours and form throughout Scheibitz’s work. Speaking of the challenges producing a show in conversation with the iconic painter, Scheibitz says it was “a great honour” to be asked, but that “you do need to know what you are doing.”
Since 2015 the vast, abandoned East German House of Statistics on Alexanderplatz has been taken over by artists and renamed Allesandersplatz (Everything Different Square.) It’s a welcome throwback to 1990s Berlin, when hundreds of makeshift, creative wonders sprung up in derelict buildings around the city. It is now a rarity amid gentrification and rising rents. The artists’ occupation prevented the planned demolition and sale of the property to a private investor in 2015. The state of Berlin purchased it from the federal government in 2017 and has agreed to turn it into a centre for art, education, affordable living space and local administrative offices. During Berlin Art Week (until 15 September) it is open to the public—and the glassless windows, piles of rubble and overgrown courtyard will leave anyone who has known Berlin for long with a sense of nostalgia. On one dark decaying corridor, a bee colony equipped with sensors is producing data for a cryptocurrency called Beecoin. The building is one of the centres of Berlin Art Week with an array of workshops and conferences. Ruangrupa, the art collective charged with curating the next Documenta, will give a presentation there on 15 September.
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Unsung women heroes in Indian freedom struggle: An acknowledgement
Sharma, Urmila (2014) Unsung women heroes in Indian freedom struggle: An acknowledgement. In: 23rd International Conference of Historians of Asia 2014 (IAHA2014), 23 - 27 August 2014, Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia.
Official URL: http://www.iaha2014.uum.edu.my/
This paper is all about unsung women heroes in Indian Freedom Struggle with specific reference to Rajas than State in India.It is an effort by the author to acknowledge those women heroes who participated in the Indian Freedom Movement even though all of them belong to very poor and mediocre family background.Still they have shown courage and confidence to come forward and made a significant contribution in the Freedom Movement and Bijolia Kisan Andolan gainst Jagirdari Pratha started in Rajasthan in the leadership of Vijay Singh Pathik, Manikaya Lal Verma and Sadhu Sita Ram.They have made women class awakened for their rights against the royal state. In future, this development contributed in producing many women leaders in Rajasthan State.In this paper the author is going to present unsung stories of women heroes like Ganga Bai, Nayarani Devi Verma, Bharti Devi Vajpayee, Santa Trivedi, Smt. Gorya Devi, Smt. Anjana Deve Choudhary, Shakuntala Trivedi, Bhagvati Devi, Durga Devi, Ratan Shastri, Nagendra Bala, who participated in the Indian Freedom Struggle and left their footprints of their sacrifice and success in getting freedom in India. Briefly mentioning the contribution of one out of eleven women like Narayani Devi Verma inspired by Bijolia Andolan, who had worked for women education and social work.In 1942, she went to jail in Parjamandal Movement.Later on, she established a women center in Bhilwara to make women aware about their rights.In my view it is a great effort to present the biography of all women unsung heroes and acknowledging their tiresome efforts, sacrifice and dedication in the Indian Freedom Struggle.On behalf of all the historians, I personally acknowledge their presence and contribution and pay a salute and tribute to them.
ISBN 978-967-0474-77-9 Organized by: Universiti Utara Malaysia and Malaysian Historical Society (Persatuan Sejarah Malaysia).
Bijoliya, Jagirdari, Parjamandal, Freedom, Struggle, Heroes.
Mrs. Norazmilah Yaakub
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Mac's Service Shop: A New TV Antenna
December 1972 Popular Electronics
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Popular Electronics, published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.
Channel Master has been making state-of-the-art television antennas since 1949. Back in the day, there were many TV antenna manufacturers because over-the-air (OTA) broadcasts were the only means of receiving programs. The advent of cable, satellite, and Internet television has caused a steady decline of OTA users even though most locations still broadcast from towers. It is a shame because aside from the more on-demand aspect of some of those other venues, Channel Master notes: "Live Broadcast Television - It's 80% of what you watch. And it's free." The wireless adoption mantra de jour of "Cut the Cord" can be applied to TV and save you some money if you can do without that other 20%.
In this episode, Mac explains the advanced engineering that went into designing the CM Quantum Model 1160 antenna. Fourier transforms and tapered current in the driven and reflector elements were key to the development, along with much empirical testing and adjusting. Most antennas today are designed with sophisticated electromagnetic simulation software that usually result in first-pass success. Optimizer parameters are set for initial configurations and the the computers do the rest. That goes for both electrical and mechanical performance.
I don't watch much TV other than an occasional "Walker, Texas Ranger" episode on Grit TV, which is OTA-broadcast on channel 66.002 here in Erie, Pennsylvania. When a notable news event occurs, I'll tune in to JET TV channel 24.001 (I also pick up City TV out of Toronto on channel 31.001). The Able Signal Amplified Digital Outdoor HDTV Antenna I installed a while back does a great job. However, next Spring, if the budget allows, I plan to install a 40-foot tower for a Ham antenna and also put a Channel Master Masterpiece 100 TV / FM radio antenna on it (buy inexpensive RF Cafe software to help finance the project). I'm hoping to maybe pull in some stations from Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland.
By John T. Frye, W9EGV, KHD4167
Barney stood in the doorway of the service department staring at Mac, his employer, who was down on his knees on the floor unpacking a carton containing an object that seemed to be mostly gold-colored tubing.
"It never fails," Barney sighed resignedly. "We're having a regular blizzard outside, and you're thinking about putting up a new TV antenna. Just once I wish you'd get this urge on a nice balmy summer day. What's wrong with the old antenna?"
"Nothing," Mac replied, "but these Quantum antennas by Channel Master represent a new concept in TV antenna design, and I want to see if they're as good at noise reduction as claimed."
"How can a TV antenna reduce noise?" Barney scoffed. "That's like saying the windmills make the wind blow."
"Not true," Mac denied. "The IEEE defines noise as, 'unwanted disturbances superposed upon a useful signal that tend to obscure its information content.' That's a very broad definition and, as far as TV reception is concerned, includes interference from such diverse sources as electrical ignition systems, all kinds of switches, diathermy, X-ray, electronic ovens, universal motors, CB-amateur-police-taxicab transmitters, FM broadcasts, static, power transmission lines, reflection ghosts, and adjacent and co-channel interference. So an antenna that discriminates strongly between a desired signal off the front and undesired noise off the sides or back can have a marked effect on noise reduction. Such discrimination is achieved by: (1) providing maximum antenna directivity, and (2) minimizing feedline pickup - which, of course, degrades directivity."
"You're right about the noise level coming up all the time," Barney said. "We hams will testify to that. And it's getting tougher and tougher to find a relatively quiet location for a radio telescope, like the immense parabolic array at Green Bank, West Virginia. Scientists are already turning to space to escape this 'ether pollution.' Noise is especially bad on channels 2 through 6. That's where you see the most - but not all - of the streaking, the herringbone and moiré patterns, the venetian blind and windshield wiper effects, the shadowy sync bars, etc. This condition is worst in the metropolitan areas, but it is getting worse in the suburban areas, too, as the use of electrical appliances proliferates and factories move out into the suburban and rural areas."
"Glad to see you appreciate the problem," Mac commented. "Little can be done if the source of interference is directly in line with the desired signal, but there's at least a 50-50 chance the interference will come in off the sides or back of the antenna. In the case of co-channel or adjacent channel, probably 90% of the undesired signals come in from the rear because of the FCC's channel allocations. The set owner should, therefore, without sacrificing gain, select an antenna designed for high interference rejection.
"The Interference Rejection Factor of an antenna is defined as the ratio of the antenna's maximum sensitivity (normally at the front) to its peak sensitivity in the rear 180° sector. Note this is not, necessarily, the same thing as front-to-back ratio. Quite often high gain antennas will have secondary lobes not directly opposite the primary front lobe. Such an antenna may have a very high front-to-back ratio, but the ratio of the front response to the response of say 30° either side of the rear will be much lower.
"Up to now, according to Channel Master, the peak IRF of high gain antennas has been 15 to 18 dB. This Quantum Model 1160 I am unpacking is claimed to have an IRF of 35 dB. It is further claimed that, when the predominant interference originates at the rear or sides of the antenna, an improvement of 10 dB in signal-to-noise ratio will occur. This is equivalent to a 10 dB increase in antenna gain. In a deep fringe area the elimination of interference by this high IRF can bring about the same dramatic improvement you'd expect from a higher gain antenna. And in near-fringe suburban areas, where you have enough TV signal but there are lots of interference sources, the high IRF should usually eliminate all signs of interference."
"Sounds great, but how do they do it?" Barney said skeptically.
Mac had been busy unpacking the antenna and assembling it as he talked. This did not take long because the elements snapped out and the boom sections were fastened together with bolts and wing nuts.
"According to Channel Master, the extremely high IRF is achieved by the application of the Fourier Transform Theory to TV antenna design. The way current distributes over the elements of an antenna determines its gain, bandwidth, and pickup patterns. In the past, uniform current distribution has been the key to high broadband gain; but the Transform Theory, widely applied to radio telescopes and space communication, states a tapered, symmetrical distribution of current over an antenna's elements will yield patterns with the smallest side and rear lobes. As one CM engineer puts it: 'Just as the amplitude function of a waveform is transformed into the frequency spectrum, so the distribution of current over an antenna array is transformed into the radiation pattern by the Fourier Transform.'"
"Until recently almost all work in this connection has been done on broadside arrays of the parabolic and 'bed-spring' types. Very little application has been attempted on end-fire Yagi-style arrays. One reason has been the lack of instrumentation to measure accurately the amplitude and phase differences in the antenna elements. But with the development about five years ago of the Hewlett-Packard Model 8405 Vector Voltmeter, which allows measurement of amplitude and phase differences of two signals up to 1000 MHz, the roadblock was removed.
Experimental Development. "Even so, CM spent three years of experimental effort to develop the Quantum line of antennas - work consisting of painstaking adjustment of element configurations, lengths, and spacings, and testing, testing, testing. When you consider that this top-of-the-line Model 1160 has 16 fed elements and 26 parasitic elements and that a change in anyone affects the others, you get some idea of the enormity of the job."
"I still am not sure what you mean by 'tapered currents over the antenna elements.' "
"Let me try to explain. First note that this antenna does not consist of a single divided 'driven' element connected to the feed line and a bunch of solid parasitic directors and reflectors. Instead the boom is divided lengthways into an upper and lower section separated by heavy-duty insulating blocks to provide a modified truss construction. Each fed element is cut in two in the middle and has one half connected to the top part of the boom and the other directly beneath to the lower half. Since the feedline is connected to the two parts of the boom, that means all divided elements connect to this line.
"Now if we measure the currents in these elements in the presence of a signal, we find not all elements carry significant current at all frequencies. By proper design we can produce currents that gradually increase as we go down the elements and then fall off to produce a curve that satisfies the Fourier Transform Theory. From one channel to another, the peak of this tapered current may fall on different fed elements, but we must maintain the tapered distribution that provides the maximum IRF. You will find more about this in Antennas by J. D. Kraus (McGraw-Hill 1950). And in Microwave Antenna Theory and Design by S. Silver (McGraw-Hill 1950). And when it is crystal clear to you, I wish you'd explain it to me!"
"Don't hold your breath," Barney warned, grinning. "I notice you speak of a 'Quantum Line' of antennas. I take it CM makes several using this principle."
"That's right. They market fifteen different models designed to fit all receiving conditions from the near suburban to the deepest fringe areas. The set owner can order an antenna fitted to his needs as far as uhf, vhf, and FM reception in his area is concerned - which brings up another point: with FM stations springing up all over the place, FM interference with TV reception is an increasing problem. So the Quantum, designed to furnish excellent FM reception normally, provides for FM trapping if you need it. An optional FM trap that can be installed in the weatherproof terminal housing located between the boom elements gives 20-dB attenuation of FM signals without affecting the IRF of the antenna. Another feature is this front-end section that looks like a sawfish's snout. It's actually a tunable uhf sector adjustable for peak reception of the uhf channels."
"How is feedline pickup prevented with this antenna?"
"First, the antenna is electrically balanced. By connecting the right-hand sides of the split elements alternately to the top and bottom portions of the boom we achieve transposition in the feed. Also note these controlled-impedance transmission rods that run from the feed points to the weatherproof plastic terminal housing. And see how the boom is insulated from the mast? But even though the antenna itself is carefully balanced, the receiver input may be unbalanced, in which case the feedline will still pick up interference. In that event you may want to employ shielded coaxial cable, and there is an optional balun transformer designed to fit into the terminal housing."
"Those engineers seem to have thought of everything," Barney commented.
"Well, this antenna is certainly a far cry from the first two-element TV antenna I ever saw. Personally, I'm delighted to see serious engineering going into TV antennas by several manufacturers. Optimum TV reception is impossible without a good antenna. I want to get this antenna up on the roof so we'll have a signal to check on cable performance when we need it. You know how that goes. If we have good reason to suspect the CATV signal is not up to par and call Fred, the manager, he reacts as though you doubted his virtue."
"Yeah, I know," Barney agreed with a chuckle. "He is either seeing a perfect picture down there in his office, or something must be wrong with the TV transmitter. Nothing is ever wrong with the cable. He feels so sure of this there is no point in sending a technician out to check. But if we can get a perfect picture off the antenna and a lousy picture off the cable, we can make old Fred sweat."
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Finding Silvia
My Estonian Neighbor
Silvia’s Garden
A Promise Kept
Posted on April 3, 2019 April 3, 2019 by amogle71 by amogle71
A new year opens before her as blank as the paper on her desk. Picking up a blue, ballpoint pen she writes her resolutions.
“There is nothing important happening, nothing of interest,” Silvia writes at eighty-three years old, but she is not taking notes. She is keeping a diary. “There is not going to be a later date” for her to “make use of past thoughts.” But the date is not discomforting; she no longer feels driven to write a “story or a novel or a history.” Those days rest in the bottom drawer of her desk. Now, she intends to explore her “everyday thoughts and moods” but, “what is the use of having thoughts if there is no record of them.”
Fifty-six years have passed since she last kept a journal. A small notebook kept in a rucksack whose pages held the last words she had written in Estonia. With hand grenades in her brassiere, foot-weary and often ankle-deep in mud, she passes the less fortunate sprawled on the ground unburied. She notes, the effort to upend vehicles into ditches before moving into the night. The explosion of shell fire after breakfast the morning her friend was buried beside the schoolhouse. She records abandoned farms with their eerie silence before crossing the border.
Silvia’s calendar from 1944
The notebook of 1944 did not hold thoughts or emotions; these she kept within. It’s pages recorded “a history pure and simple: facts, names, dates, and conditions.” It was a mapping away from the oncoming advance of the Russians although it also “guaranteed a death sentence or at least a trip to Siberia,” had it been discovered when red stars appeared instead of the anticipated Americans. Silvia’s war journal met an ignoble end, shredded into tiny pieces dropped into the pit of an outhouse.
“I have not kept a diary ever since that day in April 1945.” *
The New Year journal came to me by way of her friend in one of the two boxes Silvia had wanted to send to the archives. It is an unassuming black and white composition book bought at a drugstore, price tag $1.89. But Silvia has pasted a bouquet of forget-me-nots on the cover, noting the date in large numerals: 2001.
The forget-me-nots on Silvia’s journal.
I open its pages as I would a rare book. Silvia’s handwriting, as familiar to me as my own, is now crabbed with old age, but her thoughts are as vibrant and varied as ever. Her entries end on April 1st, signaling the tentative arrival of spring in Vermont and a return to the garden, but the three winter months she wrote, offer a glimpse of her thoughts and concerns as well as the pervasiveness of her memories.
Attempts to economize are present throughout. “No more books. No more plants except broccoli. No new pets. No more CD’s except maybe some (one) more Chopin.”
She blows snow from her driveway in January purposefully braving the cold to elude memories of the war. “Didn’t help.” Finches appear at her feeder, leading her thoughts to childhood. The birds that would alight on her head and shoulders as she walked home from school. Hanjo, her older brother rushing to set up his camera, never swiftly enough before a flutter of wings.
I read the journal in its entirety, sometimes with a loop pressed to the paper at more difficult passages, blocking out the world as I step into hers. Then, I return to the beginning.
“January 2, Visna’s birthday.”
She will not light a candle, nor will she celebrate; she hasn’t for many years. But the birthday is not forgotten, and she spends the day, as well as the following, grappling with conflicting emotions before coming to reconciliation. Silvia mentions “Visna” by name, infrequently in her writing. But she writes for two days, ending her entry with a single remaining task left unresolved.
“There is one thing I still owe Visna. I have to hunt up his ashes on Long Island and ship them to Estonia.”
As I close Silvia’s notebook, the flowers on the cover bring to mind the roses and forget-me-nots picked from her garden. The petals carefully dried then tucked into my bag for the flight to Estonia.
Before the ceremony, celebrating Henrik Visnapuu’s life, I had sat on a stone bench in the warmth of the sun, watching two women stooped with age tending a grave. Later they passed my bench, their murmuring voices, continuing a conversation of many years. Surely they are but a few years younger than Silvia would have been had she been sitting on the bench. The women’s steps are slow and careful, occasionally they pause, then continue down the wide path out of sight. I remain on the bench, with my thoughts, holding Silvia’s flowers to place on Henrik Visnapuu’s grave.
Many months after the ceremony Silvia’s last notebook was discovered. She had not forgotten her promise to Henrik, now kept.
Today marks the anniversary of Henrik Visnapuu’s death in 1951. His remains were returned to Estonia by his nephew in 2018.
All italicized quotes are from Silvia’s last notebook.
*Silvia shredded the diary in early May of 1945 after the Russian’s arrival in Lobositz on May 8, 1945.
Posted in Estonian Stories, Silvia's Garden, World War II StoriesTagged #henrikvisnapuu #wardiary #diary
A Feather from her Wing
The Green Tractor, Braintree, Vermont, Part III
Shadow and Light, Braintree, Vermont, Part II
Landscape of Space and Peace: Braintree, Vermont, Part I
The Two Boxes
Silvia's Garden, Estonia
Without a Map in Braintree
Estonian Stories
Meeting Silvia
Silvia's Garden
Vermont Stories
World War II Stories
© Angela Ogle, 2018
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assisting to rehabilitate intercourse offenders is controversial – but it may prevent more punishment
but, may, offenders
Associate Professor Psychology & Associate Head of Sexual Offences Crime and Misconduct Research device, Nottingham Trent University
Professor of Forensic Psychology & Head associated with Sexual Offences, Crime and Misconduct Research device, Nottingham Trent University
Nicholas Blagden is associated with the Safer Living Foundation charity which works to avoid offending that is sexual reoffending. As Associate Head associated with the Sexual Offences, Crime and Misconduct Research device, he receives funding to analyze people who have intimate beliefs and assess interventions with this particular team
Belinda Winder is associated with the Safer Living Foundation charity which works to avoid intimate offending and reoffending. As Head of the Sexual Offences, Crime and Misconduct Research device, she receives funding to analyze people with intimate beliefs and assess interventions with this specific group.
Nottingham Trent University provides capital as being user for the discussion British.
The discussion UK gets funding from all of these organisations
With regards to ended up being established that the centre had exposed in Nottingham in February to guide the reintegration of men and women convicted of intimate offences to the community, it understandably caused debate.
Our company is both trustees and section of team whom co-founded the charity behind the Corbett Centre for Prisoner Reintegration, that may provide help and mentoring and assistance people acquire additional skills. The target is to keep communities safer and minimize reoffending through reintegration – and studies have shown this indian brides at https://ukrainian-wife.net/indian-brides/ process could be a way that is effective of this.
However the statement ended up being met with anger and concern through the public and some victims of punishment.
It is vital that survivors and victims are provided the support, treatment and care they should be prepared for just exactly what has happened for them, also to find some recovery. Yet, preventing further victims being developed and more lives being ruined is a big social challenge.
The scale associated with the issue
About 15% regarding the jail populace, or 12,750 individuals, in England and Wales have actually sexual convictions. An additional 50,000 are from the Sex Offenders’ Register – people who offended following the register ended up being introduced in 1997 and currently inhabit the city. There are thousands more whom committed intimate offences before 1997 and around 55,000 individuals regarded as under research for committing an offence that is sexual. About one in ten of these released back in the city is certainly going on to commit another offence that is sexual.
Community has to engage really with simple tips to reintegrate those individuals who have offended and also to stop future offending. How you can do that is through taking into consideration the understanding and evidence so what does and does not work. But, there is certainly one huge barrier standing into the method – public opinion and perceptions surrounding this sensitive, emotive and topic that is often traumatic. This could assist with the reintegration process, which in turn can help keep communities safer if there was a more general sense of public support for rehabilitation.
Exactly what doesn’t work
There are many types of unverified practices found within the rehabilitation of these with intimate beliefs. Such techniques are usually according to “intuitive values” such because it “feels right”, but there is however small proof they decrease reoffending.
A few of the conventional ways to using the services of individuals with intimate beliefs have actually an evidence base that is unproven. Included in these are programmes that focus on motivating victim empathy and tackling denial, in the place of on skills to lead good and better life. Whilst getting an individual to acknowledge for their offending seems right, for instance, it is perhaps not regarding reducing reoffending.
Notification schemes that allow users of the general public to request information regarding folks who have been in touch with the youngster, also “feel” such as for instance a idea that is good. They might bring convenience to individuals, but there is however restricted evidence for their effectiveness plus some to recommend they have been inadequate.
Research in the usa demonstrates for many offenders, jail doesn’t reduce reoffending and harsh surroundings also can have negative effect upon both prisoners and staff.
For everyone with intimate beliefs, prison could be an experience that is brutal by way of a fight for success. As the public are obviously worried that once someone is a sex offender they’re going to often be an intercourse offender, it is not constantly the truth.
Although it might seem publicly attractive to place convicted intercourse offenders in jail for very long durations and also to make that experience hostile, this does not work to lessen danger of reoffending that can rather increase their danger by increasing social isolation. Within our own research, we discovered that prisons that only household those with intimate beliefs permitted individuals the “headspace” to improve. Analysis has additionally shown that prisons with a far more climate that is therapeutic more prone to help people that have intimate beliefs address their offending behavior and then make personal changes – which may reduce reoffending.
The brutal connection with jail may maybe not be ideal for assisting to rehabilitate intercourse offenders. Dan Kitwood/PA Wire
exactly what works
A few of the key factors that lead visitors to reoffend are social and psychological isolation, emotional immaturity, and basic issues associated with other people. Having work, or something like that significant to accomplish that you know, will help protect individuals against a volitile manner that contributes to reoffending that is sexual.
Studies have shown that interventions with individuals with intimate beliefs seem to be far better in the neighborhood compared to jail, there is certainly a genuine significance of better community reintegration and rehabilitation.
This is the reason why initiatives such as for example sectors of help and Accountability (CoSA) have now been proven to function. Within these interventions, between three and five trained volunteers offer social, psychological and support that is practical high-risk intimate offenders. Those taking part in a CoSA programme had their risk of rearrest for a sexual offence reduced by 88% in one evaluation in Minnesota.
Intimate punishment can destroy everyday lives and families that are devastate. Victims of sexual crimes should always be offered usage of the support and help they want as a result of their data recovery being a concern. But money can also be required for programmes and interventions prevent future victims. “Helping” sex offenders may feel just like a bitter supplement to ingest, if the prescription robust evidence, the outcome is likely to be less victims of intimate crime. That is a thing that benefits everybody else.
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Moon Juice Stomper
A novel (Goa 1987-96)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43922138-moon-juice-stomper
Graham St John MA, author of “Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT”
Falling under the spell of a bewitching siren, Asia traveller, Jules Nightingale, dances out of his body in a party paradise. In Disco Valley, in a trance, an Omen is revealed to fashionista, Zsu Rivieria. Bollywood actor, Naresh Kumar, undertakes an undercover assignment in a subculture which turns his life upside down. Up-for-it enabler of edgecore dance floors, Doc Silver, on his Enfield chopper works the jungle telegraph between Spaghetti Beach and Joe Banana to keep the scene grooving against all odds. As a lost tribe of the future seeks redemption through rave, their party paradise becomes imperilled by its popularity.
Every epic era needs its chronicler, and in Moon Juice Stomper, Goa has found its Homer. Set in a Golden Triangle for cultural exiles and outcastes, a haven for human flotsam and jetsam surging up the electric shores of the Arabian Sea, where bodies are levitated above the sands of distant languid beaches, this story does not release the reader from its spell. Remixing the music, politics, intrigue and psychodrama of the era, Ray Castle amplifies a movement in its un/making. Under the guidance of a master dada-jockey, we are transported through cosmo-psychic dimensions of this scenius, with the building tension achieving climax at full moon party under the Banyan Tree in 1988. In a story sculpted in peerless patois, and with attention to detail reminiscent of Castenada and HS Thompson, Castle commands a scintillating white-knuckled ride though the mystical anarchy of “Gonzo Goa.” Capturing the atmosphere of this freak nadir at its explosive peak, Castle gets inside the minds of the habitués of this remote crossroads, even as they’re going out of their minds. And in doing so, he does what any freakologist worth his salt should do: he delivers us into the heart and soul of the matter.
Moon Juice Stomper is a must read for the freshly initiated as well as the experienced trance dancer. Not only is it a fantastic account of the pioneering era of psychedelic trance, but it’s also an impressively well written novel that I think every psytrance-freak should read for their own edification and amusement.
What is presented here is essentially that elusive and mythic idea of paradise on Earth, and how one should treasure it while it still lasts, for it always has been, is, and always will be, evanescent. This is not just his-story, but our story, as the fractal elders in the council of psychonauts will know. Hands down one of the best books I’ve ever read. Boom Bolenath!
Paul H Chambers MA Media Arts
Brilliant re-creation of the Goan party paradise of the late-eighties/early nineties.
Moon Juice Stomper transports the reader back to the genesis times of psy-trance and doof/festival culture. Set in the ex-Portuguese colony of Goa, situated on the Western shores of India by the Arabian Sea, a community of semi-permanent residents began putting on parties in the early 1980s playing radical electronic dance music. Held in a range of exotic locations, from beaches, jungle clearings, ruined fortresses and private properties, the events were held every few days in the winter months before the heat built up again and people headed elsewhere. Sites were decorated by painted banners and lit by black lights, the trees painted in garish day-glo colours. Party participants favoured brightly-coloured clothing, including stretchy lycra and spandex, perfect for all-night dancing under the stars. Those enjoying this paradisiacal milieu were fortified in their enjoyment by refreshments provided by local “chai mummas” and a cornucopia of soma substances, in particular charas, the psychoactive resin of the cannabis plant, and LSD.
The author adopts a writing style of fictional realism in order to describe this era, a good policy that acknowledges the difficulties and limitations of conducting interviews with those involved, several of whom would have passed away. It also side-steps associating individuals with potentially contentious issues of illicit drugs, corruption and participation in notorious cult activity. Instead, the book’s main characters are invented and fleshed out with archetypal attributes, all within a constructed psychodrama with all the depth of an ancient Greek epic poem. Such is the richness of ethnographic material, with a keen eye for the rituals and lifestyles of those described, that the reader is bought back vividly into this time and place.
Castle’s baroque descriptions of the dance floor experience, from the perspective of both the dancer and deejay, are unparalleled. A playful use of language, drenched in alliterative exuberance, contextual nuance and in-the-know lingo, unfolds in a non-stop flow of discursive novelty captured in all its euphoric transcendent glory.
Nick Taylor MA, Music Producer
A finely observed and entertaining odyssey through the Goa electronic music subculture.
Ray Castle’s Moon Juice Stomper is a gonzo Goa odyssey that tells a version of the origin story of psytrance from the authoritative perspective of someone that lived, danced and DJed through the thick of it. The narrative spans what were arguably the glory days of Goa as a postcolonial enclave for Western techno-hedonists, seekers and misfits; from 1987, the germinal phase of a subculture that was propelled by psychedelic drugs, Indian mysticism and the fresh, eccentric electronic dance music predominantly coming out of the USA and Europe, until 1996, by which time the once-eclectic sounds of a Goan dancefloor had been distilled into the conventional soundscape of psytrance and propagated around the planet by an ever-expanding network of labels, producers and DJs who had been infected by the Goa mythos. Castle’s keen eye for the subcultural minutiae of this specific time and place make for an immersive literary experience that dynamically conjures the sights, the sounds, the smells, the total sensory assault of India, of Goa, and of a Goa party in particular.
Although there is an absorbing plot cataloguing the psychodramas of a cast of colourful – at times almost familiar? – travellers, psychonauts, fashion designers, DJs, dealers, wannabe holy men and cult leaders, it is the captivating accounts of the parties that provide the narrative highlights of the novel. As such, for a novel that is so steeped in the lore, the lingo, the bells and the whistles of a particular niche subculture, it is very much written for a reader who was either there – for who it’ll be a saturation dose of intensive nostalgia – or who wishes they were, so would appreciate this ultravivid glimpse into the genesis of psytrance. And it is during those depictions of tripping on a dancefloor, consumed by occult electronic sound frequencies, that Castle’s mad-libbing, freestyling narrative voice is at its most unfettered, most sublime and is most at home; I’ve certainly never read anything that comes so close to capturing the euphoria, intensity and illogic of dancing to techno on acid. In the harsh light of 2019, some of the characters of Castle’s novel do come across at times as entitled Westerners throwing tantrums when they can’t have a party on an Indian beach that had only relatively recently been decolonised, but Moon Juice Stomper is not intended as an unpacking of problematic postcolonialisms, or of the sometimes dubious gender politics of the time; it is written as a document of a subcultural moment, and as such it is finely observed, highly entertaining and extremely successful.
Ayur Sagar
It is the continuation of what Leary, Ram Dass, Ken Kesey, Grace Slick, Steve Hillage, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Osho and others had started.
When I had thought in 1985, that’s it with the music, I landed in Goa at the Spaghetti Beach, and Doc Silver taught me that it had just begun!
Ray is writing about a historical event, the rebirth of the Hippie Movement, the evolution of music into something our ears had never heard before.
So it is his writing, the master art of the “Poet of the Beyond”.
Reading Moon Juice Stomper is like taking Acid, doing Dynamic Meditation, and experiencing a Tantric Supernova all at the same time, while interacting with Nataraja, the Lord of the Dance, to reach new and never before experienced levels of consciousness.
Why you must read this novel
Whether you’ve “been there” or “been one of them” doesn’t matter, this is about the unexpected, the unplanned, the life changing experiences, the hedonistic Don Quixote hiding inside each one of us and Ray Castle knows how to put that all in perspectives and visions. Far Out.
© 2017 Ray Castle. All rights reserved.
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All in the family EDITORIAL 07/21/2010
It’s all in the Abad family, and President Aquino staunchly defends his pick of the Abad family members stationed within his administration.
As for Budget Secretary Butch Abad’s spouse, Rep. Henedina Abad, who is slated to head the House of Representatives’ appropriations committee — and will likely get this House post since it has already been bared by the incoming Speaker, Sonny Belmonte, that major House committee chairmanships would be Aquino’s decision — she says candidly that there is no such thing as delicadeza, claiming that her daughter and son, Julia, who is Presidential Management Staff (PMS) head, with Cabinet status who will be handling Aquino’s huge pork barrel; and Luis Abad, who is chief of staff of Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima, as well as her husband, the Budget secretary, are all qualified to take their positions in the Aquino administration.
“What is delicadeza?” Henedina Abad asked House reporters doing the story on the presence of too many Abads in the Aquino government, adding that there is no such thing as delicadeza.... MORE
Trapos all
Glimmer of hope in China’s ‘brain drain’ battle
C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S
Bob Sobrepeña’s ‘luck’
‘Good people’
Bad vibes?
Trapos all FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 07/21/2010 President Aquin
President Aquino and his aides either don’t get it, or they refuse to get it, mostly to cover up Aquino’s embarrassing blooper that moreover showed him up as an out and out trapo.
The issue is not whether Aquino gave a personal opinion on the coup d’etat charges against detained Sen. Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes as being “unjust” or that the review of the case he has directed his Department of Justice to do is an “internal matter.”
The issue is that with his public pronouncement of there having been no coup d’etat crime committed owing to this rebel soldiers’ mutiny having been mounted in a hotel, which is not one of the sites enumerated in the revised penal code, carries with it the weight of the presidential influence and can be taken as policy, a pronouncement which then could be translated by the courts, that moreover have been known to toe the Malacañang line, which is now Aquino’s line. That definitely goes by the name of judicial interference.
The fact is, after Noynoy came up with that claim of Trillanes being a victim of injustice, his appointed Armed Forces of the Philippines chief of staff, quickly talked about the early release of Trillanes, who is detained under the AFP custody..... MORE
Glimmer of hope in China’s ‘brain drain’ battle FEATURE 07/21/2010
BEIJING — Two years ago, molecular biologist Shi Yigong was a prize-winning Princeton University professor with annual research funding of more than $2 million and a seemingly limitless US academic career.
But Shi did exactly what China’s leadership hopes to see more of — he turned his back on all that to return to his homeland after two decades abroad.
The recent return of people like Shi, who now heads the life sciences department at Tsinghua University in Beijing, has provided a ray of hope for China in its uphill battle to reverse a long-term “brain drain” of top experts.
“China has contributed disproportionately to the advancement of science and technology in the United States, for example,” Shi said of the steady stream of China’s best and brightest who left for greener pastures in decades past.
“Behind China’s shiny glass skyscrapers, it has an extreme shortage of top talents and that is really regrettable.”
With aspirations of becoming a science and technology power, China has tried for years to halt an exodus of top minds, a lingering legacy of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution when campus upheavals closed universities for years.
The chaos severely set back Chinese science and academia. Afterwards, many of China’s best and brightest — with official encouragement — opted for study abroad, where most have stayed. Many took foreign citizenship.... MORE
Bob Sobrepeña’s ‘luck’ C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 07/21/2010
Jonathan De la Cruz
Robert John “Bob” Sobrepeña, ertswhile wonder boy of business during the Ramos years, must really be a very lucky guy. Back then, with a little help from his friends within the Ramos circle, he managed to snap such highly profitable businesses as the SouthWoods and Camp John Hay Development Projects and, of course, the highly coveted Edsa MRT3 Project, among others. All three were allegedly worked out under highly questionable terms and conditions using every bit of influence (to include concessional loans and sovereign guarantees) which Sobrepena and his associates were said to have managed to wangle from FVR all the way to GMA. Of course, all the original workouts were consummated under the watchful eyes of the Ramos people.
In the case of SouthWoods, for example, Sobrepeña and company were given hundreds of hectares of lands (mostly sequestered properties) to develop at giveaway terms, using trust funds from the then number one pre-need company in town, College Assurance Plan (CAP), matched a number of times over by concessional loans from government banks. That was a deadly, by any business model, combination of money and influence, courtesy of a sitting administration which translated into one of the fastest growing conglomerates in town. The same formula was used to acquire and hold on to the Camp John Hay complex. To this day, despite repeated demands for payment of long overdue accounts to government in the billions of pesos (P3 billion and counting by the latest reckoning) the Sobrepeña led group has managed to escape largely unscathed. But the biggest enchilada of all is the Edsa MRT3 Project which to this day remains essentially under Sobrepeña’s control. Imagine, after government decided to “buy out” the highly onerous contract just over a year ago to avoid subsidizing Sobrepeña’s folly he is said to continue holding sway in the operating company, MRT DevCo, leveraging his remaining 20 percent or so holdings to the hilt. .... MORE
‘Good people’ HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 07/21/2010
Aldrin Cardon
It would have been an unnoticeable television crawler had it not been news from the Palace. The crawler, or those words that crawl below your TV screens which are similar to newspaper headlines, claimed President Noynoy is finding it hard to scout good people to fill the many appointive positions still vacant in government.
I guess the emphasis of that news was on the “good people” whom Noynoy, or his so-called search committee, has to find if he is intent on fulfilling his campaign promise to lead us all toward his “matuwid na landas,” or the righteous path.
It also put Noynoy in contrast with the past administration whose much-maligned leader, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, whose propensity to appoint her and husband’s cronies was beyond question.
But just how big was the difference between them was put under the spotlight at almost the same time when the Palace spun that angle about finding “good people” to be named in Noynoy’s government.
Juana Change, the sosyalerang overweight character of Mae Paner who was a hit in so many anti-Gloria rallies then, and later a big attraction in Noynoy’s campaign sorties, was first to expose the new Kamag-anak Inc. that has taken over government very soon after the exit of the Arroyos.
The Cojuangcos and the Aquinos, however, have to give way to the Abads, this time. And Mae (or Juana), just could not accept that government positions, very important and powerful ones at that, seemed to have been reserved for members of just one family.... MORE
Bad vibes? SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 07/21/2010
Dinah S. Ventura
Less than a month after his inauguration, President Noynoy Aquino, whose platform stood for upright leadership, remains hard put to fill positions in government with people who are not only qualified, but are also credible and trustworthy.
These are the unspoken qualifications Filipinos are looking for in these appointed officials. The search, however, is not that easy. Perhaps President Aquino’s search committee imagines itself looking for that needle in a haystack — or just a handful out of 90 million people.
A president would look, naturally, toward individuals whom he knows or knows about for important responsibilities. But now that people are wary about kamag-anaks (relatives) in power (and perhaps kapamilyas, kapusos and kapatids, too!), the search is made doubly difficult. And, of course, there is that call for transparency in government that the Aquino administration promised to heed.
Just look at how much reaction the Abads in government are getting. With Butch Abad (Aquino’s campaign manager) now the Budget secretary, his wife the vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee (which scrutinizes the budget), their daughter Julia the head of the president’s management staff (which handles the spending of the President’s Social Fund, otherwise known as the president’s pork barrel), and their son Luis the chief of staff to the Finance Secretary, critics are in a bit of an uproar over what some deem as a question of delicadeza..... MORE
LP bloc far from gaining top Senate post—Drilon By Angie M. Rosales 07/21/2010
LP bloc far from gaining top Senate post—Drilon
By Angie M. Rosales
Using the difficulty being experienced by the Liberal Party camp led by Sen. Francis Pangilinan to gather 13 votes from the senators and clinch the Senate presidency, Sen. Franklin Drilon, an LP official and ally of President Aquino, used this situation as proof that Malacañang has no control over the Senate.
President Aquino and his allies do not have any control over the Senate, Drilon said yesterday, virtually admitting the difficulties that the LP bloc is going through as the Pangilinan led group is far from mustering the needed 13 votes in installing the LP bet as the Senate leader.
“Nobody controls the Senate. If Malacañang controls the Senate, then the endorsement (of Aquino) should do everything (in securing the required number of votes). Yet, until now, there is still a deadlock,” he said in a phone-patched interview with reporters.
He failed to comment, however, on the many moves of the Malacañang tenant to raid the ranks of the other blocs, including Sen. Lito Lapid, who was claimed by Pangilinan to have committed to vote for him.
In exchange for Lapid’s vote, it was reported that his son, Mark Lapid, would be retained as head of the Philippine Tourism Authority (PTA).
This was however, denied by the staff of Senator Lapid, saying that he has not committed his vote to the LP bet.
Lapid is said to belong to Sen. Edgardo Angara bloc, which supposedly counts for seven members.... MORE
Concerns raised vs big business links in gov’t regulatory bodies
2010 budget depleted to 38%; deficit soars
2 Comelec execs reject Mikey as party-list rep
Retired colonel in bribe try surfaces
SC orders oral arguments on Hacienda Luisita case
Concerns raised vs big business links in gov’t regulatory bodies By Gerry Baldo 07/21/2010
By Gerry Baldo
Following the issue of too many Abads in the Aquino government’s budgetary and appropriations posts, serious concerns are being raised on President Aquino’s appointee in the water sector and the impending round of water rate increases.
Rep. Neri Colmenares of Bayan Muna stressed that the presence of big businessmen in government regulatory bodies, such as the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System, should be a cause of concern for the consuming public.
“I am extremely worried that this time the Lopezes, Ayalas, Pangilinans and other oligarchs will use their closeness with the Aquino camp to push even bigger price hikes and other concessions,” Colmenares said yesterday as he underscored the need to strengthen Congress’ oversight functions.
“In this light, it is doubly important to have independent regulators for such utilities. In the absence of such regulators, Congress will have to be more aggressive in exercising its oversight powers and will have to pass measures stopping or reversing the ongoing deregulation and privatization of the utilities sector.
Colmenares added that it is important to have someone in the MWSS, the Department of Public Works and Manila Electric Company who are independent and not linked to big business interests.... MORE
2010 budget depleted to 38%; deficit soars By Aytch de la Cruz 07/21/2010
By Aytch de la Cruz
The economic team of President Aquino appears intimidated by the sorry fiscal numbers the new administration inherited from President Arroyo with the fiscal deficit breaching all known previous levels while only 38.6 percent is left of the P1.5-trillion budget earmarked for the whole year.
Budget Secretary Florencio Abad told reporters after a meeting among economic officials in the Cabinet that “surprises” in expenses up to the end of June when former President Arroyo stepped down, including what he called “congressional initiatives,” resulted in the fiscal shortfall to reach nearly P200 billion in the first half.
Abad did not quote an exact figure on the first half deficit but when asked if it was near the P178 billion original limit set, Abad said it would be higher.
“There were still surprises in the expenses, expenditures made up to the last month, up to the end of June 30 like for example in congressional initiatives which was in the billions,” Abad said.
Abad said the Cabinet meeting held yesterday touched mostly on the tight fiscal situation that the government is in.
He said that additional borrowings to plug the budget shortfall were also discussed.
If the collection targets are not achieved, that (borrowings) is the most likely step that we have to take and I think (Finance) Secretary (Cesar) Purisima is looking at that, Abad added..... MORE
2 Comelec execs reject Mikey as party-list rep By Marie Surbano 07/21/2010
By Marie Surbano
The son of former President Arroyo has officially gained a seat in Congress as a party-list nominee but for two commissioners of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Ang Galing Pilipino (AGP) nominee Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo is not qualified to represent the marginalized.
In their respective dissenting opinions in the consolidated resolution of Arroyo’s case, Commissioners Rene Sarmiento and Gregorio Larrazabal said Arroyo does not belong to the group which he wanted to represent at the House of Representatives.
AGP supposedly seeks to represent the sectors of security guards, unorganized groups of taxi, FX taxi, jeepney and bus drivers, vendors, small-scale businessmen and jobless individuals.
Sarmiento cited the Supreme Court decision on the case of Ang Bagong Bayani which stated that “ it is not enough for the candidate to claim representation of the marginalized and underrepresented because representation is easy to claim and to feign. The party-list organi-zation or party must factually and truly represent the margin-alized and under-represented constituencies mentioned in Section 5. Concur-rently, the persons nominated by the party-list candidate-organization must be “Filipino citizens belonging to marginalized and underrepresented sectors, organizations and parties.”
Likewise, he pointed out the SC’s decision on the Barangay Association for National Advancement and Transparency (Banat) case..... MORE
Retired colonel in bribe try surfaces By Pat C. Santos 07/21/2010
By Pat C. Santos
With a lawyer in tow, retired Philippine Air Force Lt. Col. Antonio Mariano, who has been accused by a National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) officer of having tried to bribe him into getting a government witness in the Maguindanao massacre case, yesterday surfaced and faced the media to deny allegations of a P10-million bribe try.
Mariano met newsmen to deny reports he was the bagman in the multimillion-peso bribery attempt on witnesses in the murder case filed against Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan.
In 2003, Mariano said he held three positions in the ARMM during Zaldy’s term: as executive director for housing; as DoTC undersecretary and as deputy regional governor of DoLE – positions that he held until his courtesy resignation last January.
Mariano also did not deny that he is a friend of former NBI Director Nestor Mantaring whom he visits once in a while.
He said that he could not think of any reason or motivation on the part of NBI counter-terrorism unit chief Ricardo Diaz in implicating him in the bribery scandal when he has always been a frequent visitor at the NBI even though he has long retired from the bureau.
Oscar Embido, chief of the NBI-Internal Affairs Division, earlier said they had contacted Mariano over the phone and that he vehemently denied all the allegations against him.
Officials of the NBI have also already sent a subpoena for Mariano to formally appear before the NBI to answer allegations that he attempted to bribe witness Kenny Dalagdag, through Diaz, with P10 million, for his recantation.
Both Mantaring and former Justice chief Alberto Agra denied that they were ever informed by Diaz of the alleged bribe try.... MORE
SC orders oral arguments on Hacienda Luisita case By Benjamin B. Pulta 07/21/2010
By Benjamin B. Pulta
Oral arguments have been ordered by the Supreme Court (SC) on the land reform case of Hacienda Luisita, which is owned and managed by the Cojuangco-Aquino families, and where President Aquino is also a co-owner.
Court Administrator and SC Spokesman Jose Midas Marquez informed newsmen yesterday that the Hacienda Luisita case has been transferred from the court’s First Division to the en banc and is scheduled for oral arguments on Aug. 3.
“Considering the importance of the case and the parties involved, the justices thought it best that the entire court be involved to thresh out all the issues in that particular case,” Marquez told a press conference.
Marquez added that the oral arguments will give the magistrates the chance to ask the parties “clarificatory questions which answers are not found in the pleadings.”
He said the transfer of the case to the en banc as well as setting it for oral arguments was a “majority decision” among incumbent SC justices, based on an “informal survey” conducted by Chief Justice Renato Corona.
Marquez said it was the Chief Justice who had scheduled the oral arguments for Aug. 3 “so that we can hear all the parties and all issues will be threshed out.”
The court spokesman, however, clarified that this new development in the Hacienda Luisita case was not out of the ordinary.
“This is not the first time it happens. We’ve had a few cases transferred to the en banc,” he pointed out.
Marquez also denied pressure being applied from either of the parties in the case. “No pressure at all. It is one of those usual cases filed before the court.”.... MORE
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Power, Control, and Marriage: The Catholic Utilization of Indigenous Wives in Early Colonial Philippines
Steven James Fluckiger
University of Hawai’i, Manoa, USA
steven.fluckiger@gmail.com
Catholic missionaries encountered indigenous systems of marriage and sexuality that conflicted with Iberian marital and sexual practices during initial colonization. Consequently, missionaries demanded that indigenous Philippine men and women submit to these Iberian practices and encouraged them to be baptized. Enforcing these Iberian practices of morality had become especially difficult with men in polygynous marriages and men who refused to accept the Catholic faith. To combat this, Catholic missionaries went to the wives of these men. These wives wielded feminine power that enabled them to control certain aspects of their marriages. When these women converted to Christianity, they were able to convince their husbands to accept Catholic practices of morality. The opposite was true as well: women could convince their husbands to not adopt Christianity or its practices because of the influence they had. Accordingly, this paper argues that Catholic missionaries appropriated indigenous women’s influence in marriage to convince men to accept Catholicism.
Keywords: Christianization, Dowry, Penis Pins, Polygyny, Women and Property.
Author’s Bionote
Steven James Fluckiger is a historian of early colonial Philippines history emphasizing in the Christianization of women and gender-crossing indigenous peoples. He served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Pangasinan in 2011, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History from Brigham Young University in 2016, and completed his master’s degree in Southeast Asian History at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa in 2018. Currently, he works in the educational and legal fields while continuing private research of the sixteenth and seventeenth-century Philippines.
How to cite:
Steven James Fluckiger (2020), TALA: An Online Journal of History (July 26, 2020) Power, Control, and Marriage: The Catholic Utilization of Indigenous Wives in Early Colonial Philippines.,1-18 Retrieved from http://talakasaysayan.org/Tala_Archives/Third_Volume/1/vol3-no1-art1_Power-Control-and-Marriage.pdf
Steven James Fluckiger, TALA: An Online Journal of History Power, Control, and Marriage: The Catholic Utilization of Indigenous Wives in Early Colonial Philippines., June 2020, pp. 1-18, Retrieved from http://talakasaysayan.org/Tala_Archives/Third_Volume/1/vol3-no1-art1_Power-Control-and-Marriage.pdf
Steven James Fluckiger (2020), TALA: An Online Journal of History Power, Control, and Marriage: The Catholic Utilization of Indigenous Wives in Early Colonial Philippines., pp. 1-18. Available at: http://talakasaysayan.org/Tala_Archives/Third_Volume/1/vol3-no1-art1_Power-Control-and-Marriage.pdf
Steven James Fluckiger. 2020. TALA: An Online Journal of History (July 26, 2020) Power, Control, and Marriage: The Catholic Utilization of Indigenous Wives in Early Colonial Philippines., 1-18. Retrieved from http://talakasaysayan.org/Tala_Archives/Third_Volume/1/vol3-no1-art1_Power-Control-and-Marriage.pdf
"Power, Control, and Marriage: The Catholic Utilization of Indigenous Wives in Early Colonial Philippines." TALA: An Online Journal of History [Online], vol. 3 no. 1, pp. 1-18, Jun. 2020
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Social Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern Left
Menger on the Origin of Money
Carl Menger (1840-1921), the founder of Austrian economics, wrote this classic paper:
Menger, C. 1892. “On the Origin of Money,” Economic Journal 2: 238–255.
Menger imagines a world without money. In this world, people exchange goods for goods in spot transactions (barter). What happens when person A wants a good from person B, but the latter does not want the goods the former has to trade? This is the famous problem of the double coincidence of wants.
Menger notes that commodities have “different degrees of saleableness,” and that money has a virtually unlimited saleableness (Menger 1892: 242–243). Yet the differences of degrees of saleableness apply to many other commodities. Many goods once bought cannot be sold again except at a loss (Menger 1892: 244).
What do you do with your excess goods once you have obtained what you immediately want in a barter exchange? What do you do if you are unable to obtain what you want through a direct barter spot transaction? It makes sense for you to obtain goods with a high degree of saleableness, and then exchange these in the wider community at present or in the future. By this process, the most saleable good (or goods) becomes the medium of exchange (Menger 1892: 249).
I find it curious that even Menger makes this concession at the beginning of the following important paragraph:
“It is not impossible for media of exchange, serving as they do the commonweal in the most emphatic sense of the word, to be instituted also by way of legislation, like other social institutions. But this is neither the only, nor the primary mode in which money has taken its origin. This is much more to be traced in the process depicted above, notwithstanding the nature of that process would be but very incompletely explained if we were to call it ‘organic,’ or denote money as something ‘primordial,’ of ‘primaeval growth,’ and so forth. Putting aside assumptions which are historically unsound, we can only come fully to understand the origin of money by learning to view the establishment of the social procedure, with which we are dealing, as the spontaneous outcome, the unpremeditated resultant, of particular, individual efforts of the members of a society, who have little by little worked their way to a discrimination of the different degrees of saleableness in commodities.” (Menger 1892: 250).
Menger concludes that precious metals have arisen as a medium of exchange among many peoples because “their saleableness is far and away superior to that of all other commodities” (Menger 1892: 252). Yet Menger also recognises the “important functions of state administration” in creating coinage and creating public confidence in the “genuineness, weight, and fineness” of coined money (Menger 1892: 255). Another important point is that Menger held that the government reduces the uncertainty associated with “several commodities serving as currency” by legal recognition of some commodities as money, or where more than one commodity money exists by fixing a definite exchange ratio between them (Menger 1892: 255). In this way, governments have perfected precious metals in their function as money (Menger 1892: 255).
There are a number of problems with Menger’s paper, as follows:
(1) The flawed assumption running through the paper is that a money-less human society would be one where goods are obtained to a significant extent by barter spot transactions. This is clear in the hypothetical scenario Menger (1892: 241–243) envisages early in his paper.
It is perfectly possible that money might have arisen this way, but it is quite another thing to say that it can only ever have arisen in this way, and in no other way. The Austrians have a militant position on the origin of money that appears to me to go well beyond what Menger said in this 1892 article. For modern Austrians,
“[sc. Mises’s] Regression Theorem also shows that money, in any society, can only become established by a market process emerging from barter. Money cannot be established by a social contract, by government imposition, or by artificial schemes proposed by economists.” (Rothbard 2009: 61).
Yet it appears to me that Menger explicitly rejects this idea here:
“It is not impossible for media of exchange, serving as they do the commonweal in the most emphatic sense of the word, to be instituted also by way of legislation, like other social institutions. But this is neither the only, nor the primary mode in which money has taken its origin.” (Menger 1892: 250).
That seems to leave some room in Menger’s view for government law to establish money.
It is obvious that the historical origin of money cannot be traced to one moment of invention in the past: for there have undoubtedly been multiple independent instances in history where things have emerged as a unit of account and medium of exchange in different societies in different times. It is far more likely that the origins of money are complex. Here history and anthropology matter: the idea that you can sit in an armchair and use deduction to obtain apodictic certainty about how some complex social practice arose in the past is nonsensical. Empirical evidence and inductive reasoning are clearly important.
The obsession with barter spot transactions seen in Menger ignores another fundamental relation: the existence of debt/credit transactions (which might even be construed as reciprocal gift giving). As David Graeber argues,
“[the] great flaw of the economic model is that it assumed spot transactions. I have arrowheads, you have beaver pelts, if you don’t need arrowheads right now, no deal. But even if we presume that neighbors in a small community are exchanging items in some way, why on earth would they limit themselves to spot transactions? If your neighbor doesn’t need your arrowheads right now, he probably will at some point in the future, and even if he won’t, you’re his neighbor—you will undoubtedly have something he wants, or be able to do some sort of favor for him, eventually. But without assuming the spot trade, there’s no double coincidence of wants problem, and therefore, no need to invent money.
... What anthropologists have in fact observed where money is not used is not a system of explicit lending and borrowing, but a very broad system of non-enumerated credits and debts. In most such societies, if a neighbor wants some possession of yours, it usually suffices simply to praise it (‘what a magnificent pig!’); the response is to immediately hand it over, accompanied by much insistence that this is a gift and the donor certainly would never want anything in return. In fact, the recipient now owes him a favor. Now, he might well just sit on the favor, since it’s nice to have others beholden to you, or he might demand something of an explicitly non-material kind (‘you know, my son is in love with your daughter...’) He might ask for another pig, or something he considers roughly equivalent in kind. But it’s almost impossible to see how any of this would lead to a system whereby it’s possible to measure proportional values.”
David Graeber, “On the Invention of Money – Notes on Sex, Adventure, Monomaniacal Sociopathy and the True Function of Economics. A Reply to Robert Murphy’s ‘Have Anthropologists Overturned Menger?,’” September 13, 2011.
In theory, one could even transfer debts/IOUs and obtain commodities in this way.
Most probably, money has emerged in complex ways:
(1) from debt/credit transactions and transfers of IOUs;
(2) from wergild-like social practices (e.g., some Medieval societies),
(3) from government-based designation of a unit of account and the demand for taxes measured in that unit of account (e.g., ancient Mesopotamia; see below), and
(4) barter between strangers and in international trade. The cacao money of Mesoamerica and the salt money of Ethiopia may well be instances of money emerging through barter (Graeber 2011: 75). However, in long distance trade, barter transactions might have led to the origin of money in the sense of a money of account (to measure the value of other commodities), but even here may not have widely functioned as a medium of exchange.
As Graeber notes, money in the sense of a money of account (as a measure of value of commodities) can very probably emerge before the medium of exchange role.
And in actual human societies (whether small hunter gatherer or agricultural communities, or larger tribe/group communities with more complex economic organisation with greater division of labour), the way goods are obtained and distributed may be by open-ended sharing, centralized allocation (e.g., Iroquoi allocation of goods by women’s councils), “gift exchange,” where a present good is exchanged for the social obligation of a future “gift,” even though there does not need to be exact value equivalence. Social relations complicate even this “gift exchange” economy: some people may not even bother to call in the gifts owed to them, they might accept something of lesser value in the end. Such money-less societies can persist for centuries, with barter spot transactions remaining insignificant or confined to external transactions with strangers.
The emergence of money from such arrangements appears to have much to do with the legal or social systems of penalties and fines for crimes, injuries or slights. It was here that things – prized things – were used to measure value, in the sense of compensation for injury.
The origin of money in ancient Mesopotamia appears to be in the development of an abstract money of account in the temple and palace institutions: these temples and palaces represented state institutions with large internal centrally planned economies, with complex weights and measurements for internal accounting of the products produced, received and distributed, and rent and interest owed. Many prices were set and administered in the money of account which developed from weight units. The two units of account were (1) the shekel of silver (which was equal to the monthly grain ration) and (2) barley. In the private economy, exchange involved a high degree of credit/debt transactions or “gift exchange,” not simply barter in spot transactions (Hudson 2004: 102). Silver money of account spread to the private economy mostly notably as a means of paying debts to temples and palaces (Hudson 2004: 115). But many ordinary people could pay in commodities, and the administered pricing system in terms of silver/grain developed in the temples was to assist in calculation of payments in kind.
(2) Menger holds that precious metals emerged as the medium of exchange for their “special saleableness.” He thinks that no “accident, nor the consequence of state compulsion, nor voluntary convention of traders effected this” (Menger 1892: 254). This seems to contradict his statement on p. 250 (cited above).
In fact, Menger’s view is highly questionable, since metals were not especially divisible or used in uniform divisible units until the invention of coinage. Most bullion and metal would have been of too high a value for ordinary transactions. The historical origin of coinage in Western civilization lies with the state:
“the state’s role in the development of coinage is undisputed … Coinage was not an endogenous development of the economic sphere, as Menger held, nor was it created merely in order to facilitate trade which had existed thousands of years before money and was in no need of facilitation” (Peacock 2006: 642).
To be fair to Menger, he did not assert that coinage “was an endogenous development of the economic sphere.” What Menger believed is that precious metal as commodity money (not necessarily coined) emerged because of its “special saleableness.” But this is not necessarily true, because precious metal was unlikely to have been used in daily, ordinary transactions by common people before small unit coins. Coins were the creation of the state, and even the early coins were minted in denominations far too high for small transactions (Kraay 1964). The reason that coinage eventually became a widely-accepted medium of exchange and unit of account was that the state demanded its issued coin back for payment of taxes and other payments to the state, such as harbour dues and fines. This process is what monetized the economy and encouraged the use of coinage as a medium of exchange. This is essentially the Chartalist explanation of monetised economies.
We can end by noting that, in contrast to the cultish, dogmatic assertions of Rothbard (2009: 61), Menger recognised that the state improved the effectiveness of money through issuing coinage, and in fixing exchange ratios between commodity money. He also allowed that a medium of exchange might be instituted by way of government legislation (Menger 1892: 250).
I will also look at Menger’s Principles of Economics (1st edn. 1871) in the section on money, but I think most of the criticisms above will also apply to it.
DAVID GRAEBER LINKS
Graeber, David, 2009. “Debt: The First Five Thousand Years,” Eurozine.com, 20th August.
“What is Debt? – An Interview with Economic Anthropologist David Graeber,” August 26, 2011.
Robert Murphy, “Murphy Replies to David Graeber on Menger and Money,” Mises.org, September 8, 2011.
Graeber, David. 2011. Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Melville House, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Hudson, M. 2004. “The Archaeology of Money: Debt Versus Barter Theories of Money’s Origins,” in L. R. Wray (ed.), Credit and State Theories of Money: the Contributions of A. Mitchell Innes, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. 99–127.
Kraay, C. M. 1964. “Hoards, Small Change and the Origin of Coinage,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 84: 76–91.
Menger, Carl, 2007. Principles of Economics (trans. Grundsätze der Volkwirthschaftslehre [1st edn. 1871] by J. Dingwall and B. F. Hoselitz), Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama.
Murphy, Robert P. 2003. “The Origin of Money and Its Value,” Mises Daily, September 29, 2003
http://mises.org/daily/1333
Peacock, M. S. 2006. “The Origins of Money in Ancient Greece: The Political Economy of Coinage and Exchange,” Cambridge Journal of Economics 30: 637–650.
Rothbard, M. N., 2009, The Essential von Mises, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama.
Posted by LK at 6:37 AM
Labels: barter, debt origin of money, Menger, money
Bob Roddis January 5, 2012 at 7:24 AM
Graeber’s amorphous and individualized debt-based exchanges are entirely consistent with basic Austrian concepts and describe subjective values that cannot be and are not expressed until the transaction ultimately occurs. If Austrian-influenced historians have missed that chapter of history, it says nothing about basic Austrian concepts.
LK January 5, 2012 at 8:40 AM
What "basic concepts" would these be?
The idea that all (non-mentally ill) human voluntary action is purposeful? That is a concept so trivial that it can be accepted by all economic schools, even Marxists.
The Austrian definitions of "barter," "credit," "subjective value," or "debt" are not fundamentally different from the neoclassical/Keynesian definitions, so all you're really saying is that what I have said above is consistent with basic economic concepts held by all economists.
JP Koning January 5, 2012 at 9:31 AM
You should read Menger's Principles. Far more complete than the essay.
"What Menger believed is that precious metal as commodity money (not necessarily coined) emerged because of its “special saleableness.” But this is not necessarily true, because precious metal was unlikely to have been used in daily, ordinary transactions by common people before small unit coins."
To be fair, Menger is not overly focused on precious metals. Copper is the metal he points out would be used by common people and in small denomination transactions.
"He also allowed that a medium of exchange might be instituted by way of government legislation"
No, Menger was always a thoroughgoing metallist. Read the last paragraph:
"Money has not been generated by law. In its origin it is a social, and not a state institution. Sanction by the authority of the state is a notion alien to it. On the other hand, however, by state recognition and state regulation, this social institution of money has been perfected and adjusted to the manifold and varying needs of an evolving commerce, just as customary rights have been perfected and adjusted by statute law."
Read the last paragraph of the last appendix of his Principles:
"I refer to the observation that the character of money as an industrial metal often completely disappears from the consciousness of economizing men because of the smoothness of operation of our trading mechanism, and that men therefore only notice its character as a means of exchange. The force of custom is so strong that the ability of a metal used as money to continue in this role is assured even when men are not directly aware of its character as an industrial metal. This observation is entirely correct. But it is also quite evident that the ability of a material to serve as money, as well as the custom on which this ability is founded, would disappear immediately, if the character of money as a material applicable to industrial purposes were destroyed by some accident. I am ready to admit that, under highly developed conditions of trade, money is regarded by many economizing men only as a token. But it is quite certain that this illusion would immediately be dispelled if the character of coins as quantities of industrial raw materials were lost."
So while Menger believed that the state might adopt metals as money, it could not legislate into existence a worthless item as money. The state could construct a system of coinage and thereby perfect an existing metallic monetary system, but not create a system based on intrinsically worthless materials.
Which edition?
There are two. I assuming you are using this:
This is a transation of the 1st edn. from 1871. So this book was written before C. Menger, 1892. “On the Origin of Money,” Economic Journal 2: 238–255.
The 2nd revised and (apparently) expanded edn. of Menger's Principles of Economics was published in 1923, but this does not appear to be available in English.
LK January 5, 2012 at 10:23 AM
"The state could construct a system of coinage and thereby perfect an existing metallic monetary system, but not create a system based on intrinsically worthless materials."
This is also contradicted by the empirical evidence from history:
"Typically, the money-thing issued by the authorities was not gold-money nor was there any promise to convert the money-thing to gold. Indeed, as Innes insisted, throughout most of Europe’s history, the money-thing issued by the state was the hazelwood tally stick: “This is well seen in medieval England, where the regular method used by the government for paying a creditor was by ‘raising a tally’ on the Customs or on some other revenue getting department, that is to say by giving to the creditor as an acknowlegement of indebtedness a wooden tally.” (1913, p. 398) Other money-things included clay tablets, leather and base metal coins, and paper certificates. Why would the population accept otherwise “worthless” sticks, clay, base metal, leather, or paper? Because the state agreed to accept the same 'worthless' items in payment of obligations to the state.
'The government by law obliges certain selected persons to become its debtors…. This procedure is called levying a tax, and the persons thus forced into the position of debtors to the government must in theory seek out the holders of the tallies or other instrument acknowledging a debt due by the government , and acquire from them the tallies by selling to them some commodity or in doing them some service, in exchange for which they may be induced to part with their tallies. When these are returned to the government treasury, the taxes are paid. How literally true this is can be seen by examining the accounts of the sheriffs in England in the olden days. They were the collectors of inland taxes, and had to bring their revenues to London periodically. The bulk of their collections always consisted of exchequer tallies, and though, of course, there was often a certain quantity of coin, just as often there was, one at all, the whole consisting of tallies.' (1913 p. 398)"
L. Randall Wray, Credit and state theories of money: the contributions of A. Mitchell Innes, p. 245.
JP Koning January 5, 2012 at 11:11 AM
I use the Mises edition.
"This is also contradicted by the empirical evidence from history."
That may be the case, but Menger is a pure metallist, he doesn't have a drop of chartalism in his blood.
Did you know that Menger published a 110 page article on money for the Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaften (Dictionary of the Social Sciences), in 1892? There is no english translation out there. The short article "On the Origins of Money" you have commented on is derived from this larger article. There is definitely a lack of good translations of Menger.
Bob Roddis January 5, 2012 at 11:20 AM
The central Austrian concept is the pervasive IGNORANCE of individual human beings. Nobody knows what anyone else is thinking and the only way to get some grip on what they are thinking and “demanding” is through unadulterated free market prices. Socialism abolishes those prices and Keynesian policies DISTORT them. How that distortion plays out is a question of fact. Government officials are just dumb humans like everyone else and operate almost as blindly under Keynesianism as under a Soviet system of price abolition. The job of the Keynesian in this debate is to provide evidence that government officials a priori have some type of special knowledge that allows them to plan the lives of the mundanes that the Austrians insist such officials do not and can never have. THAT IS THE CENTRAL AUSTRIAN CONCEPT.
Further, all that is meant by a natural rate of interest or equilibrium pricing are those interest rates and prices that would obtain in the unadulterated market. Nothing more, nothing less. As Hayek said in 1975*:
The primary cause of the appearance of extensive unemployment, however, is a deviation of the actual structure of prices and wages from its equilibrium structure. Remember, please: that is the crucial concept. The point I want to make is that this equilibrium structure of prices is something which we cannot know beforehand because the only way to discover it is to give the market free play; by definition, therefore, the divergence of actual prices from the equilibrium structure is something that can never be statistically measured.
Those are the simple basic concepts that you and all the other anti-Austrians refuse to comprehend.
*A Discussion With FRIEDRICH A. VON HAYEK
Held at the American Enterprise Institute on April 9, 1975
LK January 5, 2012 at 8:56 PM
"The primary cause of the appearance of extensive unemployment, however, is a deviation of the actual structure of prices and wages from its equilibrium structure. ...."
Then the old fool Hayek is still invoking non-existent neoclassical equilibrium ideas even in 1975.
Yet Hayek stated quite clearly that equilibrium states do not exist in the real world, and even abandoned the concept completely:
“It is tempting to describe as an “equilibrium” as ideal state of affairs in which the intentions of all participants precisely match and each will find a partner willing to enter into the intended transaction. But because for all capitalist production there must exist a considerable interval of time between the beginning of a process and its various later stages, the achievement of an equilibrium is strictly impossible. Indeed, in a literal sense, a stream can never be in equilibrium, because it is disequilibrium which keeps it flowing and determining its directions.
Hayek quoted in Caldwell, B. 2004. Hayek’s Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London. pp. 226–227.
In Nobel Prize-Winning Economist: Friedrich A. von Hayek (1983, pp. 187-188):
“HIGH: To what extent do you think that general-equilibrium analysis has contributed to the belief that national economic planning is possible?
HAYEK: It certainly has. To what extent is very difficult to say. Of the direct significance of equilibrium analysis to the explanation of the events we observe, I never had any doubt, I thought it was a very useful concept to explain a type of order towards which the process of economics tends without ever reaching it. I’m now trying to formulate some concept of economics as a stream instead of an equilibrating force, as we ought, quite literally, to think in terms of the factors that determine the movement of the flow of water in a very irregular bed.”
And there is no "actual structure of prices and wages from its equilibrium structure" to full employment - that is a myth.
"Those are the simple basic concepts that you and all the other anti-Austrians refuse to comprehend.
You utter idiot: equilibrium and equilibrating markets - where a fully flexible system of prices and wages can create full employment - are Walrasian neoclassical ideas.
This kind of gross ignorance doesn't do much for your argument.
"The central Austrian concept is the pervasive IGNORANCE of individual human beings. .... etc etc.
And these comments are red herrings, with respect to this post.
(1) the point of this post to refute Menger's view of the barter origin of money.
(2) the truth of ABCT or the Mises/Hayek socialist calculation critique is NOT relevant to the question of the barter origin of money.
Hank January 5, 2012 at 10:18 PM
Why should the public believe an economist who says his subject can't even be measured? That sounds like mere market apologetics -- not that you'd expect much more from an 'Austrian' economist.
Isaac "Izzy" Marmolejo January 6, 2012 at 8:41 AM
Why should the public believe an economist who says his subject can't even be measured? That sounds like mere market apologetics
Well Hank, I ask, how are prices measured then?
In a world of changing disequilibrium, that is the reality of this world, and therefore, in a world where prices of goods are never in equilibrium, how does it make sense to aggregate these up? This is the basic point of Lachmann's book Capital and It's Structure and these questions have to be taken into consideration.
"In a world of changing disequilibrium, that is the reality of this world, and therefore, in a world where prices of goods are never in equilibrium, how does it make sense to aggregate these up?
You don't simply "aggregate" prices: you select a basket of goods that many people DO in fact consume, then calculate an average comparing the averages over time. No one asserts that this is a perfect measure of the price level - the question is: does it convey meaningful information on how much people have to spend on a given basket of goods from their income over time.
But if we are talking about Capital goods, isn't what you just said irrelevant?
We are talking at crossed purposes - I read your comment and thought you are talking of a CPI. Apologies.
Yes - there are problems with aggregating capital goods. This was one of points of the Cambridge capital controveries.
I do not get why it is inaccurate to use aggregated capital but ok to use aggregate consumer goods. Why doesnt the same apply to consumer goods ?
The problem was the neoclassical aggregate production function using homogeneous capital as an assumption. In essence, it is the aggregation of capital goods as though they are homogeneous that was the issue.
The aggregation of the sale price of consumer goods in money terms in one year is a different thing: we know such goods are heterogeneous.
If you couldn't, say, meaningfully aggregate the value of sales of heterogeneous goods in one year for a firm, how could a firm calculate its total income from sales?
Ok but what about the disequilibrium issue that Issac brings up? At least how I understood it, one cannot aggregate the price of a good in disequilibrium.
"The central Austrian concept is the pervasive IGNORANCE of individual human beings. Nobody knows what anyone else is thinking and the only way to get some grip on what they are thinking and “demanding” is through unadulterated free market prices."
So although people in an 'Austrian' world cannot talk to one another to ask such questions they understand the concept of price. What a strange set of ideas.
LK January 6, 2012 at 10:19 PM
"Ok but what about the disequilibrium issue that Issac brings up? "
This is about the expected future yield/value of a capital good being difficult to calculate ex ante, because that expected future value is subjective.
The value, in monetary terms, of the actually sold items - say, consumer goods - in a time period x is not subejctive, is it.
It is quite clearly an objective figure, which you can aggregate, say in aggregate consumption spending as in GDP.
Isaac "Izzy" Marmolejo January 11, 2012 at 9:05 AM
I have a response:
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The Texas Flying Legends Museum had the honor to perform the Hat Toss Flyover for the 2013 graduating class of the U.S. Air Force Academy. The National Museum of WWII Aviation graciously hosted our planes and pilots during that week. We give thanks to all the members and volunteers for the Museum and a special “Thank You” to all the visitors and veterans who came out to see us, you are the reason we do what we do!
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In the meantime, the word of the spontaneous “airshow” was getting around. Our new friends were unanimous in their appreciation for the work to restore and fly the legendary warbirds, and they were all so touched that we unexpectedly landed in their town. For a small population in Nebraska, we had at least 10 WWII veterans as well as other veterans of war visiting with us under the dark skies of weather and memories.
The most amazing coincidence was that the very next morning, the Chadron American Legion was hosting a presentation to send area WWII veterans on the Honor Flight to Washington. Before they left town, along a row a flags, escorted by the Legion Riders, the Texas Flying Legends made it their mission to honor these veterans and we were able to fly our two P-51D Mustangs overhead in a short demonstration.
After the demonstration and back at the small airport, cars filled the parking lot and along the road as hundreds of people came to see the planes and send everyone off. Most took pictures; some just saw and watched silently. Most memories of war are not peaceful, but one thing is for certain, while the veterans were honored beyond belief that we were able to spend time with them, the honor was all ours.
We met a B-24 gunner, a P-51 pilot, a B-25 flight engineer, a Navy pilot, and more. We filmed several veterans to document their stories to preserve those that served and gave us the freedoms we have today.
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Masterchef Retro-Christine Ha’s Apple Pie
Season three of Masterchef had perhaps the most unique contestant ever-Christina Ha. Christine is legally blind and during the show needed an assistant to tell her where things were. She ultimately won the title and to this day it is remarkable to go back and see some of the things she pulled off. Like this apple pie. She was flustered and thought she was doomed (in fact it was the guy who decided to put cheddar cheese on top of his pie).
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MasterChef Junior Season 3 Wrap Up
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Masterchef Junior season three has come to an end with Nathan taking the prize over Andrew. It was a well matched finale as both exhibited tremendous skills that excited the judges. It was likely Andrew not trusting his pressure cooker that made the difference. He opened it up too soon resulting in his meat being slightly underdone. As Gordon said aptly watching it happen, he did not trust the pressure cooker. So with this season now at an end, how did this season stack up with seasons one and two?
Well we had the same batch of adorable kids in the kitchen. None of them were nasty, mean, or rude refreshing since on the normal Masterchef you get some interesting personalities. The challenges were more or less like the full show with some kid twists thrown in. The problem this season is that it came too soon on the heels of the last one. We had just gotten over season two when the new season started up. Jarring and it made this season a little hard to get into. And it was on Tuesday night meaning it went up against NCIS, the dominant show in the 8pm time slot. So while the show got decent numbers it did not hurt the king in any way.
The show though is becoming predictable. You see the same fresh batch of wide-eyed kids wanting to cook for the judges. And some of the same types of challenges as well. We know that when they have the kids line up to do a challenge that will result in the judges being pied, dunked, or having liquid dumped on them that all the judges will get splattered. Relying on gimmicks like having a banana lowered by an extraterrestrial hurts as well. Masterchef Junior needs to think about what they are trying to do: are they having kids compete with kids or having kids cooking as adults to impress the judges. My concern is that wobbly line between them being kids and being treated as adults has been crossed once too often. We have to remember they are kids many of whom have not yet finished eighth grade!
Some suggestions for the shows producers:
1. Do Not Show Seasons So Close To Each Other
There is a reason a series will have a break, to allow the new season some distance. This is especially important for reality shows because if you show seasons back-to-back people may be less inclined to watch so quickly. Also you run the risk of running the clock out-literally. People like reality shows but if you compact the seasons they may get tired, bored, or exasperated. Not a good thing. Having season three start so soon after season two was a mistake. I am sure the programmers had a strategy but the middle part of the season saw a drop off of viewers. It came back at the end but the viewers seem to be between 4.8-5.5 million.
2. Move To Another Night
Tuesday night is not a good fit for Masterchef (either version) unless summer and reruns are all that is on. CBS dominates the 8pm hour with NCIS. ABC usually comes in second. In third place is Fox with Masterchef. Not bad but you are not going to be taking away significant viewers from CBS. Fox only dominates that hour when the other networks are running re-runs. NBC has not been doing well in that hour (usually fourth)but do not expect that to last. They are seething that a bunch of precocious kids are beating them.
3. Stop The Slapstick
Okay we get it, you want to make fun of yourselves. Do it once in a while but not every season. It gets old and predictable. How many times will we see the judges get dunked, pied, or have syrup dumped on them? You know this is heading to a very funny skit on Saturday Night Live.
4. Make the Challenges More Kid Friendly
I think the problem in a nutshell is that they see the kids are young adults in chef’s aprons. Wrong. They are still kids so do not blur that line as Gordon seems to do. Treat them as kids always and craft challenges more kid friendly. It may please the judges to see the kids prepare sushi boats but really how many times are kids doing that at home? Focus on learning essentials, testing them on it, and seeing who really understands what cooking can be.
Farewell, Joe
This season ends with the departure of Joe Bastianich. He is moving on to other things and another show (a restaurant show if I heard correctly). He may be tough and at times scolding (when you serve up a dogs dinner he is not happy about that!)but shows a lot of soul at the same time. I remember what he said to Christine Ha when she perfectly recreated Graham Elliot’s masterful dish. He said that like him, she visualizes what she eats (in his case drinks when it is wine). It was a wonderful moment and astonishing what she pulled off considering her limitation. Farewell Joe, you will be missed. Hopefully your mother will still stop by the kitchen as a guest judge.
TV By The Numbers
The numbers for Tuesday are quite telling. Only in the world of television can a show with less total viewers win a slot if it gets the highest share of the target audience. NBC’s The Voice had 14 million viewers (less than NCIS at 17 million)but had a 11 point share of the 18-49 target audience. So they get first place. CBS came in second since NCIS got 8 points in the target audience. Coming in third is ABC’s Fresh Off The Boat with a 6 point share and 5.75 million viewers. Masterchef Junior dropped to fourth place with a 5 point share and 4.83 million viewers. It lost viewers (last week 5.5 million) but at least came ahead of CW’s TV’s Hottest Commercials with 1 point share and 1.25 million viewers. When Masterchef (regular and junior)is up against tough competition like this, it almost always comes behind the big three. It does show that by the time the finale aired, the target audience was looking elsewhere.
Till the next season of Masterchef Junior: arrivederci!
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Masterchef Junior, Season 3, Episode 7: Raspberry Dessert
The final four–Andrew, Nathan, Jimmy, and Jenna–enter the kitchen stadium to do culinary battle for a place in the finale. Two will enter and move on; two will depart. Tonight there is no mystery box as Gordon presents what they will cook: crème brulee. A wonderful dish but tricky to pull off. Jenna tells us she goes to a French restaurant on her birthday and has one for dessert. Nathan has never made one before nor been to a fancy restaurant. Fortunately Gordon demonstrates how to caramelize one. It looks so easy when he does it but then he has had many years of experience (and some Michelin stars as he likes to remind us). Andrew is not much of a desert guy but likes being able to use a blow torch.
In a deviation from regular Masterchef, the kids do not have to make it from scratch. They each have 20 unfinished brulees at their station. They only have to add the sugar and caramelize it properly. And they have ten minutes to properly prepare as many as they can. So it will be both quantity and quality that will decide who wins. Jenna’s mouth opens wide in surprise in learning the time limitation. And they are off to make the perfect finishing touch to the crème brulee.
The judges look at the results to determine who got the most done correctly. Nathan finished 13 but only 1 was correct. Ouch. You have to watch that blowtorch! Jenna completed 15 but total perfect was 4. Graham said she was too timid in using the flame which is why most of them were pretty pale. Jimmy delivered 8 perfect ones. Andrew used two blowtorches and did all 20 but only 4 were done right. So usually at this point Jimmy would head back to the pantry and make a decision. But once again the comedy jester decides to use a gimmick again. Instead of revealing the fruit that will be part of the next upscale desert they will prepare, a whole lot of raspberries are dumped on them. You can just hear that circus music playing and a barker crying:
“Ladies and gentleman! Inside this tent are kids that will cook the most amazing dishes. They will astound and delight you by cooking dishes only found in the highest class places that princes, kings, and captains of industry attend. For only a mere 50¢ you will see dishes rarely seen out of those places. But we have tricks for these kids to pass through! Step inside now to see what will fall out of the sky or the cupboard or even the oven as they attempt the most difficult of dishes!”
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The judges laugh, Jimmy cleans his glasses, Andrew is not thrilled with having raspberries dumped on him and Jenna has raspberries in her hair. And you have a whole lot of wasted fruit on the floor that are going to have to tossed out that could have gone to a food bank or homeless shelter. Four dishes will have this fruit as its main ingredient and Jimmy gets to decide who makes what. He has to choose from a Raspberry Napoleon, Raspberry Trifle, Raspberry Mousse, and the most difficult of all–Raspberry Tarte. Yikes! Jimmy hands the tarte to Nathan. A smart move. The mousse goes to Andrew and another smart decision. Jenna gets the napoleon because Jimmy thinks it is the easiest and can defeat her in the finale.
As time winds down, Jenna is way behind time wise. Her plating has not even been done at the 2 minute mark. She is racing about to get everything on her plate while the others do finishing touches. Sadly Jenna’s dish looks like a mess. Jimmy’s trifle looks a little uneven and taste wise it is rustic but too acidic and not enough sweetness. But overall okay. Andrew has a lot of raspberry on his apron. And he had to redo his mousse when the first one failed (too sweet). He may be a mess but the dish turns out perfectly. And Gordon is quite pleased with the result though it could have used more time to set. Overall, a good dessert.
Ah Jenna. The dish looks like it was plated in a hurry but actually tastes pretty good says Gordon. Joe refused to say anything about his tasting of the dish. They are all disappointed that she did not plate it well though tastes good. Nathan had the hardest of all, the tarte. Graham liked the visual and loved its flavor. Nathan really pulled it off on this dessert. Jimmy gave him the hardest dish of all and he aced it. This kid really has earned a place in the finale against Andrew. Which means sadly Jimmy and Jenna end up going home. It will be quite a battle royal in the final because Andrew and Nathan are well matched.
It was sad to see Jimmy and Jenna go. Both are very talented young chefs with a bright future in professional cooking if they go that route. They came very far beating out a lot of people to get into the top four. And now it is between Andrew and Nathan. While I like Andrew, I think Nathan has the edge needed to win.
One of the reasons I wait a few days to do the write-up is for the final adjusted ratings. The fast ratings sometimes can be off. Masterchef saw a spike this week that pushed it up quite a bit but still came in third place for the 8pm hour. The final numbers are NCIS (CBS)at 2.6 rating in the 18-49 age group and 18 million viewers. ABC’s Fresh Off The Boat came in second with 1.9/6 million viewers. Masterchef came in a respectable third place with 1.8 and just under 5.5 million viewers. Th uptick is not surprising as it usually happens at the primiere and the two end shows of the season.
Food Network’s Kids Baking Championship
Thanks to Sling TV, I got a chance to take a look at this show that started this year on Food and Duff Goldman (Ace of Cakes) and Valerie Bertinelli (actress and cookbook author) are the hosts with kids aged 10-13. It is actually a very pleasant show to watch. They start out with eight kids (the season for this is just a few episodes) and as the title indicates everything they do is baking. I really loved the Desert Imposter episode where the kids had to come up with deserts that looked like regular main courses but were deserts. Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli make a good team for this show and I hope they bring it back. Like Masterchef, it lacks the high drama and sometimes bracing personalities as the kids are delightful to watch. Goldman is particularly good at giving the kids helpful suggestions as they cook. Goldman really enjoys what he is doing and while they will put some twists into the challenges (like telling them after they have started one batch of sweet baked goods they must now do a batch of savory as well)it lacks the gimmicks of Masterchef Junior. And it has its tough moments too when it sends kids home at then end.
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Masterchef Junior, Season 3, Episode 6:Going To The Kitchen
It is the pressure test of the series: the restaurant challenge. Contestants man the kitchen of a well known eatery and serve courses that are on the menu. And they must do so at the highest standards possible under the ever watchful eye of the master expediter Gordon Ramsay. Which can be quite terrifying according to one aspiring junior masterchef. Six kids will enter the restaurant but only four will move on. No pressure though. And thankfully no gimmicks in this episode.
They are the well regarded Comme Ça, a place that tries to transport you to Paris with its food. And this being a lunch service, it means things are going to be quick since a lunch crowd likes to get in and out in a reasonable amount of time. Since Andrew and Jimmy were the winners last week, they become team captains. Andrew (Team Blue) has Nathan and Jenna while Jimmy(Team red) has Ayla and Kayla. As the executive chef demonstrates the high quality dishes they will be replicating, it is pretty obvious that this is a very upscale lunch they will be serving. The guests do not know who is cooking the meal but they do know that it is being filmed. Joe as always is handling front of the house. Gordon does the expediting (terrifying as always) with Graham backing him up. Andrew tells his team what to cook while Jimmy talks to his team members as to what they want to cook.
Gordon says something quite telling about his role as expediter to the kids:
I’m not interested in how old you are. I’ll be treating you like professional chefs in my own kitchen. Got it?
Once again MCJ straddles that wobbly line between a kids reality show and treating them as adults. And points to something I noticed last season. There was a shift in the shows tenor as it went on as the judges stopped seeing them as kids but young adults in chefs aprons. And here it is again but this time but more direct. The only thing missing was the famous Ramsay profanity which is so common on Hell’s Kitchen and shows up now and then on MasterChef. Considering the fact they put kids in a real restaurant kitchen (free publicity for the restaurant)it is no small thing to say that. It meant in his eyes they were young adults in chefs aprons. Goodbye childhood, hello kitchen!
As was expected, the kids went through the usual problems of not cooking dishes right and having Gordon get angry at him. Jenna kept overcooking some cakes in the pan. Andrew lost control at one point and was sent outside to cool down because he became the terrible l’enfant in the kitchen barking out orders and not paying attention. Jimmy did not keep his station clean so plates had ugly stuff on the bottom. They ran out of chickpeas on Team Blue so some dishes (for the executive chefs no less)were not complete dishes. Ayla served raw steak and Kayla raw fish. Reviews were mixed out in the dining room. Some people liked their dishes, some found dishes salty, a little too rare, or underdone (like pasta). Except for Jenna getting burned with a hot pan, no serious incidents in the kitchen. The kids survived the ordeal and then faced the tough decision back in Masterchef kitchen as to who won and lost.
Since this task was in itself a pressure test, there was no final exam. All the judges had to do was declare a winner and send two home. And it was close because both teams did, despite inexperience and intense pressure, okay. Team Andrew won which means they go into the top four leaving Team Red to face the chop. And it was sad to see Ayla and Kayla sent home leaving Jimmy for the last spot on the final four. And the final four are Andrew, Jenna, Nathan, and Jimmy. The semifinals are next to determine who goes into the finals. I think Andrew is probably going to get into the final but I am torn as to the second spot. I think it might come down to Jimmy and Jenna but hey, anything can happen.
No surprise– CBS won the hour with 2.9 rating in the 18-49 with a total of 18 million viewers for NCIS. ABC’s Fresh Off The Boat was second with 2.9 and 6 million viewers. Third place went to Masterchef Junior with 1.4 and 4.5 million viewers. MCJ beat out CW’s The Flash and NBC’s Parks and Recreation. While MCJ got into third place, its average viewership (not counting the premiere) seems to be around 4.5 million give or take some points here or there.
Next week: the semifinals!
MasterChef Junior, Season 3, Episode 5: Bananas For All and Matilda’s Favorite Dish
With a nod to a Steven Speilberg movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a banana is majestically lowered to reveal it is the mystery ingredient. The gimmicks just keep on coming for MCJ and this was probably the episode they wisely decided not to show a primate in it. It looked cool with the steam billowing, the lights, and the judges looking up like this might be the first contact with a sentient species from outer space. Nope, just a banana being lowered by a wire but it looked impressive.
I love Bananas Foster but incorporating bananas into a dish can be tricky. Again the kids amaze us with their creativity and the top selected are Jenna for her well received Coconut Shrimp with banana puree, Nathan with his Banana Caramel Macarons that wowed the judges, and Ryan Kate’s well executed Caribbean Spiced Pork with spicy banana sauce. Wow! The judges were presented with three great dishes to decide who would win the challenge. And Nathan wins for his brilliantly executed macarons. For Ryan Kate though, it is her swan song because the next challenge will not go well for her.
Daughter in the House
Gordon’s daughter Matilda stops by to heckle her father. She says her father is a softie but does walk around the house naked (just joking she says-we hope!). She reveals her favorite dish their dad cooks is Salmon en croute. After she reveals the dish, the look on the kids faces shows they are facing quite a challenge. Jenna’s smile turns to a real concerned look. Ryan Kate has never heard of the dish. Fish in pastry is not a new concept, actually quite old and something many countries have. Salmon en croute though is an upscale and sophisticated dish that has garnered a certain amount of fame. Gordon Ramsay’s recipe can be read at RedOnline.
With this as the elimination challenge, our young cooks will be put to the test. Matilda has made sure all the necessary ingredients are at their stations. As she lists them, she pronounces one herb in the American way:bey-zuhl. Gordon always pronounces basil as baz-uhl getting him often mocked by Joe and Graham. That aside, this challenge requires a replication of the Ramsay dish. This will really tell us who really has got the chops to make it to the end. Gordon as always cannot help teasing someone, in particular Andrew. He asks if he would like to take his daughter to dinner. Matilida (called Tillie by Gordon) is not amused and tries to get him to stop. She then tells her father that she will not marry a chef because her father is a “nutter.” Amusing looks all around.
Riley looks like he is in trouble. And Ryan Kate is nervous as well. You have to watch that pastry to make sure it cooks right. You do not want it too thick or it might be underdone. Jenna runs into a major hurdle when her Hollandaise sauce breaks. Andrew, who has extra time, decides to help her out by telling her what to do. And it saves her Hollandaise. Andrew does a good thing here, something not often seen on the adult version of the show. With all the cooking done, the judging begins. Jenna’s dish turns out near perfect and Gordon reminds her she has the ability to go far. Andrew’s dish gets compliments as well and his helping Jenna gets high marks too. Sadly Kayla’s dish looks not so good. Way too much pastry with too little salmon but worse-underdone pastry. Oh dear, you can hear those sounds of doom here. Ayala, who does not get much screen time, has a delicious dish but the sauce is very spicy. Ryan Kate has a good looking dish except that she folded the pastry wrong over her salmon resulting it being overcooked. Death gong as well for her and for Riley. His dish has many technical flaws. The pastry is raw, potatoes needed color, and the Hollandaise more like scrambled eggs. Jimmy’s dish is near perfect (he has cooked the dish before). Gordon loves the dish and Jimmy is secure in the top six. Sadly though two must go.
The winners were Jimmy and Andrew(who gets the top honor). Ryan Kate, Riley, and Kayla are on the bottom tonight. It is sad to see Riley on the bottom. Such a talented kid but this challenge got the best of him. As it did for Ryan Kate. Riley thinks Andrew will take it while Ryan Kate calls it for Nathan. Now we are down to the top six. And next week they get literally thrown in the frying pan when they take over service at a restaurant, And Gordon is expediting. Yikes! And there is a fire thrown in for good measure.
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According to TV By The Numbers NCIS got a 2.6 rating with 18 million viewers, SharkTank got 1.9 for 7 million viewers. And MasterChef Junior came in third at 1.6 rating and just under 5 million viewers. I will have to go back and check the numbers, but it looks like MCJ lost viewers. Fox’s numbers for the night are not that great. MCJ gets the highest ratings while The Mindy Project got at 1.o rating with just over 2 million viewers.
MasterChef Junior Season 3, Episode 4:Knowledge and Confidence
Watching MasterChef Junior at times makes me think that Gordon, Graham, and Joe missed their calling to be kids birthday planner. They seem to work well with kids and come up with ways to entertain and challenge them. If this were a show on PBS, it would be a an extension of Sesame Street. But alas no, this is a competition in which young children (and we must remember that)are competing to win a coveted prize with real cash money attached to it. And sometimes I wonder if the challenges are really geared to kids or for the judges.
After the usual banter after entering the kitchen (and Graham showing us some dance moves), the three winners from last week (Cory, Jenna and Nathan) are given baskets and a list of ingredients. They have to fill them to win the coveted top honor for the next challenge. They have a huge pantry at MasterChef that is fully stocked with just about everything grown, raised, or farmed. The pantry appears large, almost like one of those supersize hardware stores. But remember that sets can be designed to look bigger than they actually appear. At any rate, our youngsters have to fill the carts with items on the cards given to them. Sounds easy until it is pointed out nothing is labeled. And they have only two minutes. Some things are easy to spot while others are more difficult if you have never seen them before.To add more pressure the other kids follow them into the kitchen if for nothing else to kind of cheer them on (which adds more pressure).
When all is counted up in the end, Jenna gets the win with the most correct number of items from the list. Jenna’s reward is not to head up to the balcony but to choose teams for as yet unspecified challenge. This is a time for strategy but she shied away from that except for Cory and Jack. Jack is concerned about working with Cory. Cory, as we used to say when I was a kid, is a spatz. Now that is not a bad word, it just means the kid has lots of energy. And when the task is revealed, it is a doozy: a sushi boat. Sushi is not just slicing and dicing up fish. It is a very technical and precise way of presenting raw fish and its accompaniments. It takes a lot of training to become an expert. I understand why they throw this at adults but why at kids? It makes me wonder if there is a dichotomy on this show. I noticed it last season. On one hand they want to treat these kids as kids yet they put demands on them same as the adults. In fact I believe they seem them as just little chefs waiting to grow up into the big outfits. They may outwardly treat them as children but many of the tasks say otherwise.
This challenge was a team challenge but tag-team. Which means one person cooks while the other stands watching the other cook. To pull this off you need confidence in each other. And you have to be careful not to talk down your partner so as to loose confidence. Replicating a sushi boat is difficult as it is without causing unnecessary friction. Teams that worked well together produced good to excellent dishes. Those that had problems either in working with each other or just not having the confidence to pull it off, ended up on the bottom. Jenna and Kayla bicker so their confidence was lost and their dish reflected it. Likewise Cory and Jack have problems as well so their dish is not great either. Andrew and Riley really worked well together and their dish reflected it. Ayla and Jimmy did it better. They simply and mostly quietly did their work and produced a dish that won the night. That left Jenna/Kayla and Cory/Jack on the bottom.
And the decision was Cory and Jack left the kitchen. Some out on the Internet are not happy with this decision. Jenna and Kayla’s dish looked worse but the judges decided Cory and Jack were worse. It may have been a close decision or two versus one. The judges tasted both dishes so obviously one was worse than the other. At any rate the group gets smaller and smaller, not unlike taking a trip through the Willy Wonka factory.
There was an interesting bit of side news for the show. At one point, a chimpanzee was used for an episode on the show. What exactly it was doing is unclear and MasterChef says it was all done under the guidance of the American Humane Association to make sure nothing was done wrong. PETA, the radical animals rights group that wants to ban all meat from our diets (along with dairy as well), got mad when the saw a Facebook post. So they let Masterchef know of their displeasure. Now the official word is that they decided to drop using the filmed scenes for “creative reasons.” Perhaps but it shows the almost charade this show is becoming relying on such gimmicks.
Masterchef Junior Episode 3: Aged Judges and Alligator Meat
American Alligator in captivity at the Columbus Zoo, Powell, Ohio
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Originally I was going to write your standard boiler plate up or down review of this episode. Here is what it all boils down to: gimmicks and alligator. Every reality show has a gimmick to get viewers to watch. Masterchef Junior (MCJ) has landed on the side of comedy. In this episode, the judges were made up to be 80 year old guys to match the theme of well aged foods. Fortunately most well aged foods are not kept for 80 years (unless it is a very rare wine or the legendary fruitcake of Hogwarts). One kid thought Graham’s eyebrows were scary and asked him to move away. Of course before the judging began, once again they did the Superman trick by walking out one door as old dudes and then magically reappearing seconds later back as their current selves.
Andrew won the aged foods challenge with his grilled New York Strip with fennel salad and smashed potatoes. It looked delicious. Back in the pantry he is shown three very dangerous animals that are eaten: snapping turtle, rattlesnake, and the American alligator. My mind raced back to images of certain well traveled chefs who ate such exotic things. Andrew has to decide which one to give his fellow contestants to cook. I would have picked rattlesnake. I would bet that not one of those kids had every cooked with one before. He choose alligator and while he enjoys a nice pizza pie on the balcony, the kids get to cooking. But before that they had to go into the pantry to see which creature he had chosen. Mind you that these animals are enclosed. They are not walking about but still you get the obligatory scream. The alligator looks bored and, according to what I have read, the American alligator generally likes to stay away from humans.
Andrew choose poorly because many of them did know enough about alligator to make passable dishes. The trick is to keep it moist! Three ended up in the bottom in the end:Kyler, Jimmy and Mia. Jimmy was there because although his dish was okay, it was nothing that screamed MasterChef. More like Wednesday night dinner at Old Pop’s down the road. Okay but nothing that screamed exceptional. Both Kyler and Mia way overcooked the alligator making it tough and jerky like. No real hard decision here: Jimmy is saved sending Kyler and Mia home.
Next week:the infamous tag-team challenge returns with sushi determining whose team reigns supreme.
*Joe trying yoga and failing-priceless!
*Gordon at age 80 still looks good but the bushy eyebrows they gave Graham made him look a creature from a 1930’s movie with Lon Chaney.
*Joe putting a sock he wore on a unused food device was also kind of scary. Now I do not want to eat at his restaurant!
Due to the State of the Union address, most broadcast networks used repeats to fill the evening. For the 8:00 p.m. hour that meant powerhouse NCIS was on repeat mode. According to TV By The Numbers , MasterChef Junior got a 1.8 rating in the 18-49 age group giving it a win over a repeat of NCIS. But remember those share numbers are funny things. MCJ won with less viewers (5.53 million) compared to NCIS with a share of 1.4/11.96 million eyeballs. Meaning even on a repeat night more people were actually watching a NCIS repeat than MCJ.
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MasterChef Junior Season 3 Episode 2: Teamwork Pays Off
In the last season of MasterChef Junior a team cupcake competition, where team members were literally connected to each other, produced no unified cupcake. Instead each member produced six cupcakes of their own resulting in two separate entries though being judged as a team challenge. This time around for the sausage competition, there was no wiggle room. Each team had to produce a stunning sausage and its accompaniments. And the only way to do this right was to work together. Most of the teams got it right but some did not resulting in another take your apron and leave the kitchen result.
Before we got to the sausage team competition, once again the producers decide we must have a comedy skit that involves the judges getting dunked, drenched, or covered in something unpleasant. Last season it was maple syrup and this season is the lemon meringue pie. Fortunately the three kids–Jimmy, Ryan Kate and Andrew–did not have to make the pies. There were twelve there and they had to make the meringue for the pie. I know many out there like to see the MasterChef judges get splattered but personally I think it is just filler for the show. And it is predictable that all of the judges will get splatted. So I would suggest they dump this skit and come up with something else for filler. After three seasons of seeing this, either call in professionals to do it or simply dump it.
Jimmy won the meringue challenge and gets to pick the teams. No exemption for him! He has to cook as well. Probably the one he was most clever about was pairing up Andrew with Cory. Andrew has one way of doing things and Cory another. And they cannot agree on much. Which means producing a unified sausage dish is going to be a challenge. Jenna hates sausage and it makes you wonder if pairing with Mia will work. But despite her dislike of sausage, their pork & chorizo with sauerkraut is delicious. Joe thinks it reminds him of a rustic German dish and even yodels when the girls ask. Gordon is pleased as well.
Jimmy and Kyler though have a split decision, which is rare to see on MasterChef. Joe likes their pork butt & kangaroo dish but Gordon has a totally different reaction. Not only did he disagree with Joe but said they ought to have left kangaroo to the Australians. Which means Graham would be tasting it to break the tie. But no, for some reason it is not shown. Huh? Here you have two judges with two completely different takes on a contestant’s food. Is it not worth it to put in what Graham thought as well?
On the other hand Ayla & Reilly got raves for their version of bangers and mash. Gordon’s only complaint was that the sausage was too small. But at least they got it right unlike Andrew & Cory and Alexis & Micah. Andrew & Cory was a sad dish to look at. The sausage was dry and bland which is not a good thing when it is supposed to be the star. Alexis & Micah had a promising dish with white bean and Swiss chard stew but both the sausage and stew were under seasoned. Meaning the sausage sat in a watery dish that gave it no help. Not good at all.
The winning team was Jenna and Micah, remarkable when you recall Jenna hated sausage. It was no surprise that Andrew & Cory and Alexis & Micah ended up on the bottom. After the usual drama, Alexis & Micah were sent home.
I liked the sausage challenge which took them out of their comfort zone. Most people do not make their own sausage. It is a lot of work to do but gives you control over the meat and spices being used.
*Andrew really has to learn that yelling at inanimate objects like stand mixers will do no good. Unless you are on The Muppet Show and only with the Swedish Chef.
*Always watch your flame on a gas burner. Once it goes out precious cooking time is lost.
*As always those who over salt their food will get zinged but those who under season their food will always end up on the bottom.
TV By The Numbers final results for Tuesday night are in. For the 8:00 p.m. hour, NCIS (CBS) won 1st place with 19.87 million, SharkTank(ABC) came in second at 7.48 million, and in third place MasterChef Junior with 4.93 million viewers. MasterChef was 5.26 million last week so it lost viewers, which is not unexpected, after the premiere. Fox has renewed it already for a fourth season and replacing Joe is Christina Tosi, the owner of New York’s dessert-based restaurant Momofuku Milk Bar.
Next week: We see aged versions of the judges and there are some scary reptiles and snakes in the house. (Note: The U.S. State of the Union address will be shown at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT on that day. So it is likely the east and central timezones will have their showing pre-empted for its coverage).
MasterChef Junior Season 3: The Kids Find Their Aprons
Here we go again with another season of MasterChef Junior season 3. Are you ready? Too bad because here we go!
*The kids arrive and told they are the best kid cooks around. But they need one thing to complete the image, an apron. Treasure hunt! They race into the pantry to search food bins, containers, refrigerators and even large objects shaped like chocolate eggs for aprons with their name on it. Fortunately the clock is not ticking. Trust me if they do this again they will give them 5 minutes and then they wear the apron of shame (one that has a picture of Gordon laughing).
*The mystery box is chocked full of ingredients including a nice piece of salmon. So many ways to cook this nice bit of fish or something else. Ultimately Kayla, Jack, and Jenna are called up for their dishes to be sampled. And in a first for Masterchef, a tie. Seems the judges could not make up their minds who would win. So they all do! They go back to the pantry to select one of three pastas for their fellow cheftestants to cook. Joe likes ravioli, Graham lasagna, and Gordon pappardelle. Pappardelle is a wide pasta not unlike fettucine and is served with a hearty sauce. Delicious but complicated to get the pasta just right.
*While the three head up to the balcony with ice cream sundaes, someone hopes they get brain freeze. Perhaps said in jest or perhaps not!
*It really comes down to who made not only the best pasta but a flavorful sauce as well. Underdone noodles, too little sauce, missing salt are all things that the judges notice when they taste the results. However there are enough delicious ones to pass muster and keep them in the competition. Ryan Kate, Jimmy, and Andrew are the winners but sadly AJ, Philly, Quincy, Jianna, and Parker are sent home at the end. Wow that is a big chop sending five home the first night. This season is starting off fast and will go by quickly if the usual pace of about two per episode dropped is kept from this point on.
*First ever major kitchen incident. Up till now most injuries are simple nicks but unfortunately Kayla Mitchell (age 11) sliced two fingers during the mystery box challenge. Yikes! Medics are quickly dispatched and make sure the wounds are not serious. They quickly bandage her and and put a glove on the hand to protect it. She then resumes the competition and of course was in the top three winners of the challenge. It was pretty bloody reports Radar Online
All I remember seeing was, like, part of my nail was gone and there was just blood everywhere. It was horrible. Honestly, I didn’t really know what to do. You want to keep pushing and you want to keep going to cook and finish. I was just really nervous that I wasn’t going to be able to finish the challenge.
*Needless to say MasterChef immediately alerted the media that the set is well staffed with medics and a safety class is held so the kids know kitchen safety basics. Accidents are going to happen and thankfully this was not something requiring a trip to the hospital and requiring stitches.
*One writer out there said it is really hard to know what makes these kids tick. We get hardly any background about their lives at home. Just some bits and pieces dropped here and there. It is a valid point. How do these kids get this good? Be nice to see them at home to add more to their backstory.
*So how did the show fare in the ratings? According to TV By The Numbers, MasterChef Junior earned a 1.8 rating for adults 18-49, even with fall season premiere and up 6 percent from the last season finale. But NCIS was 2.7 with a 17 percent gain from its most original episode. ABC’s Marvel’s Agent Carter got a respectable 1.9 putting MasterChef in third place for the 8:00 hour. It means 19. 49 people watched NCIS, 6.88 million for Agent Carter, and 5.26 million for MasterChef Junior.
Next week we go vaudeville or old school comedy with the old fashioned pie-in-your-face skit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISrBsDQaRmM
MasterChef Junior(US) Season 3 Begins Tonight
Time for another season of kids in the kitchen elevating food to a high standard. MasterChef Junior season 3 premiers tonight at 8pm on Fox. Looks like Gordon gets pie in the face!
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Public Health - and the difference fitness can make
Labels: Costs of the NHS, Dementia, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity, Public Health
Today is election day in the USA. These are the times that polls close in the various states - and special attention will be paid to the key Senate races. Exit polls should be available from the times below -
The times are GMT (UTC for those whose prefer not to refer to Greenwich in London - though personally Greenwich Park and the Royal Observatory there - where you can stand on the Meridian line - is one of my favourite places in London)
Midnight: Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia
00:30 am: North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia
01:00 am: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee
01:30 am: Arkansas
02:00 am: Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska,
New Mexico, New York, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin, Wyoming
03:00 am: Iowa, Montana, Nevada, Utah
04:00 am: California, Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington
05:00 am: Hawaii
06:00 am: Alaska
Labels: 2014 US Elections, Greenwich, US Senate Elections
Location: Furzton, Milton Keynes, UK
Campaign Contributions and Partisanship
Last week Don Wolfensberger published the following article in Roll Call. I have a great deal of respect for his column and his work. It's an article worth reading -
An interesting debate is swirling around next Tuesday’s midterm elections for Congress. It involves the extent to which the sources, amounts and uses of campaign contributions will affect not only the outcomes of various hotly contested races but the makeup, policy agenda and processes of the next Congress.
The 2010 midterms returned Republicans to power in the House after four years of Democratic rule. They also brought in a wave of hardline tea party conservatives who made any kind of cooperation between the House, Senate and White House nearly impossible. The re-election of President Barack Obama in 2012 did not alter that dynamic. If anything, it made governing even more problematic as the 2013 government shutdown amply demonstrated.
Two events this month helped highlight the nexus between campaign financing and polarization in Congress.
The Bipartisan Policy Center convened a roundtable Oct. 16 that brought together scholars, political practitioners, good government groups and journalists to discuss whether the current state of campaign financing is responsible for the increasing level of polarization and gridlock in Congress.
The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs hosted the second event Oct. 20 in Austin, “Mastering Congress: Political Reform 50 Years After the Great Society.” The program featured two former Texas congressmen who serve on the BPC Commission on Political Reform, and two political scientists who are coauthors of an award-winning book on the increasing role members of Congress play in raising money for their party campaign committees and other candidates.
Dueling duos of academic election experts kicked-off the former roundtable. Tom Mann and Anthony Corrado, governance studies fellows at the Brookings Institution, take issue with those who assert that campaign finance law restrictions have weakened the parties and strengthened outside groups that tend to support more extreme candidates. They maintain that parties are as strong as ever but that the Republican Party “has veered sharply right in recent decades” producing an “asymmetric polarization” characterized by an unwillingness to compromise and a set of “unusually confrontational tactics.”
University of Massachusetts political scientists Ray LaRaja and Brian Schaffner say their research at the state level suggests Mann and Corrado “could be wrong.” Their study indicates that, “states with party-centered campaign finance laws tend to be less polarized than states that constrain how the parties can support candidates.” This is because party organizations tend to fund more moderate, pragmatic candidates. Both sides of the debate concur that recent campaign financing developments are not the overriding cause of increased polarization but have certainly exacerbated it.
Eric Heberlig of the University of North Carolina and Bruce Larson of Gettysburg College, co-authors of “Congressional Parties, Institutional Ambition, and the Financing of Majority Control,” told the Austin conference about the explosive, coordinated growth since 1990 in campaign giving by members of Congress to their party committees and other candidates. Today, party leaders importune their members to give generously to their party campaign committees. The leadership establishes quotas for overall giving to the party depending on a member’s position in the leadership or on committees.
Consequently, members spend less time on their legislative work in Congress and more time raising campaign funds for their own re-election and their party. Former Reps. Henry Bonilla, R-Texas, and Charlie Gonzalez, D-Texas, agreed that members now spend at least one-fourth of their time attending fundraisers and dialing for dollars. Committees consequently are less involved in serious policymaking as party leaders increasingly shape the legislative agenda to satisfy party campaign contributors. The former congressmen say this shift was especially noticeable beginning in 2006 (Bonilla) or 2010 (Gonzalez).
The increasing role of Super PACs and wealthy, independent donors in recent election cycles poses more unanswered questions about the impact of campaign giving on the agenda and processes of Congress. If there is some correlation between the growth and sources of campaign spending, on the one hand, and legislative outcomes in Congress, then record-breaking campaign spending this cycle could either make the 114th Congress even more gridlocked than its predecessor or more unified and productive around a few select issues — all depending on which party wins the Senate.
Don Wolfensberger is a resident scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and former staff director of the House Rules Committee.
Labels: Campaign Finance, Don Wolfensberger, Partisanship, Roll Call, Tom Mann
Vulnerable Republican Seats
CA31 (Dem+5)
An “open seat” which is currently held by Gary Miller [GOP]. However latest polls suggest that the seat is leaning towards the Democrats. Chabot has not been able to raise as much funding as his opponent, or other GOP candidates in the area. See the LA Times article at http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-two-gop-fundraising-20141016-story.html
Paul Chabot [GOP] – Stresses that he is a “Military Officer - Small Business Owner - Law Enforcement Veteran”. http://paulchabot.com/
Pete Aguilar [Dem] - small business owner and Mayor of Redlands. http://www.peteaguilar.com/
NE02 (GOP+7)
Rep Lee Terry [GOP] – Member of the House since 1999, who has survived a number of close re-election contests. He had promised at his first election only to serve three terms – but is now seeking election to his ninth Congress. Currently the seat is rated as a "toss up" by Cook and a "toss up/tilt Democrat" by Rothenberg. http://leeterry.com/
Brad Ashford [Dem] – A member of the Nebraska State Legislature, where he has served as the chairman of the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee. http://bradashfordforcongress.com/
Labels: 2014 US Elections, CA31, House of Representatives, NE02
Some "Toss Up" Races for the House
AZ01 (GOP R+4)
Rep Ann Kirkpatrick [Dem] –In 1980, she became Coconino County's first female deputy county attorney. In 2004, she began teaching business law and ethics at Coconino Community College. Former Member, Arizona House of Representatives. Ranking member of the Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Vulnerable over Obamacare in a State in which even Democrat legislators are trying to change or dismantle the law.
http://www.kirkpatrickforarizona.com/
Andy Tobin [GOP] – AZ House Speaker.
http://www.andytobin.com/
AZ02 (GOP+3)
Contains the SE of the State including roughly 2/3rds of Tuscon
Rep Ron Barber [Dem] - vulnerable over Obamacare in a State in which even Democrat legislators are trying to change or dismantle the law. Owned & operated a small business called Toy Traders/Stork’s Nest, allowing families to trade and buy children’s toys. Worked at AZ Division of Developmental Disabilities for 30 yrs. Worked for Gabby Gifford as her District Director.
http://ronbarberforcongress.com/
Martha McSally [GOP} – Retired Air Force Colonel (first female fighter pilot to fly in combat). Was a national security advisor to Senator Jon Kyl on issues including terrorism, cyber security & missile defense. Served as a Professor of National Security Studies at the George C Marshall Center in Germany. Stood against Ron Barber in 2012.
https://mcsallyforcongress.com/
CA07 (Even)
The district includes suburban Sacramento and much of Sacramento County. This includes Folsom (see Johnny Cash’s ‘Folsom Prison Blues’), but now an important Intel Campus.
Rep Ami Bera [Dem] – physician, who became Sacramento County’s Chief Medical Officer. He went on to become a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Admissions and Outreach at University of California, Davis . Obamacare was a big issue in the 2010 election in which he lost.
http://www.beraforcongress.com/
Doug Ose [GOP] – a former Congressman for CA03 who served from 1999-2005, and who chaired a Government Reform sub-committee. He has focused on making Obamacare the centre of the election, though his website is currently stressing the water issue. http://www.dougose.com/
The district covers most of the city of San Diego, running along the coast, taking in many of the Naval installations, ports and beaches. Part of the town of La Jolla to the north is also in the district.
Rep Scott Peters [Dem] – freshman who won after re-districting removed some of the most heavily Republican areas. A lawyer and environmentalist. http://www.scottpeters.com/
Carl DeMaio [GOP] – A businessman with an interest in Government Reform. Like Peters he has served on San Diego Council. http://carldemaio.com/
Labels: 2014 US Elections, AZ01, AZ02, CA07, CA52, House of Representatives
Elections to the House of Representatives
It's Election Day in the USA on Tuesday. Already many people will have voted - in what is sometimes described as "early voting". Certain places in a State may be open for a period before election to allow people who might not be able to vote on Election Day to cast their vote. Postal voting is available in some places.
All seats are up for re-election, but most will be won by the current incumbent or their party. Rothenberg suggests that there are 170 Democrat "safe seats", whilst the Republicans have 223 "safe seats". The battle is over the fate of approximately 50 seats. The key number is 218, which would give a majority in the 435 seat House. The Democrats need a net gain of 17 to win such a majority - and Rothenberg rates only 14 Republican seats to be in play; whereas the more cautious Cook reckons that one Republic held seat "leans Democratic"; 6 Republican seats are a "toss up"; 5 seats "lean Republican"; 13 "marginal seats are "likely Republican" (but to make matters worse 3 "likely Republican" seats were Democrat held in the 113th Congress. 16 Democrat seats are regarded by Cook as "toss up").
Rothenberg reckons that 11 seats (9 Democrat and 2 Republican seats are "pure toss up" - these are AZ01; AZ02; CA07; CA52; FL02; IA01; IA03; IL10; MN08; NY01; WV03)
*Note - the shorthand used here gives the two letter code for each state - used by the US Postal Service (see here for the full list) with the number of the Congressional District - so CA52 means the 52nd Congressional District in California - the map at the top of this post shows the district)
Labels: 2014 US Elections, Cook Political Report, House of Representatives, Rothenberg Political Report, Toss Up
The last days of campaigning
"The Hill" produced this list of meetings & visits for the last days of the campaign -
President Obama to speak at Wayne State in Detroit on Saturday, Nov. 1; 7 p.m
Obama is campaigning on behalf of former Rep. Mark Schauer running against Gov. Rick Snyder and Rep. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Township.
Obama will travel to Philadelphia for a campaign event with Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf on Sunday, Nov. 2; and to Bridgeport, Conn., for an event with Gov. Dan Malloy and other Connecticut Democrats.
Hillary Clinton to rally for Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) on Saturday, Nov. 1
The possible 2016 presidential contender will headline a women's rally for Landrieu.
Ben Carson to campaign for Rep. Bill Cassidy at Tea Party rally Saturday, Nov. 1; 2pm
Cassidy is trying to unseat Sen. Mary Landrieu.
Bill Clinton returning to Iowa to stump for Rep. Bruce Braley on Saturday; 2pm
The former president will headline an "Iowa Votes" rally with Braley in downtown Des Moines on Saturday, and then appear at Braley's Blues and BBQ fundraiser that evening in Waterloo. Braley is locked in a tight battle with Republican state Sen. Joni Ernst.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to campaign for Dan Sullivan in final days of Alaska Senate race
Cruz, a Tea Party favorite, will join Sullivan on Saturday and Sunday for get-out-the-vote rallies in four of the state's main population areas -- Anchorage, the Mat-Su Valley, Fairbanks and the Kenai Peninsula. Dan Sullivan is looking to unseat Sen. Mark Begich (D).
Vice President Biden to stump in Las Vegas Saturday, Nov. 1
Biden hopes to boost Democratic voter turnout and counter a Republican early voting advantage that’s approaching 20,000 ballots cast so far. Democrats worry strong GOP voter turnout will threaten Rep. Steven Horsford, (D-Nev.), an incumbent few worried about early in this election cycle.
Michelle Obama to campaign for Democrats in western Illinois on Saturday, Nov. 1; 11 am
The first lady will make pitches for Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-East Moline and Sen. Dick Durbin just three days before Election Day. Event will take place at the Wharton Field House, a 6,000-seat indoor arena in in Moline, Ill.
Rick Santorum heads to Iowa Saturday night; 6:45 pm
Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, who is exploring a possible Republican bid for president in 2016, will appear in Waterloo and Cedar Falls in support of get-out-the-vote efforts for Iowa Republican Party candidates.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) rally for Iowa Senate candidate Bruce Braley
On national calls, Reid and Warren will join Progressive Change Campaign Committee by phone for a national Call Out The Vote shift for Braley.
11:40am Eastern - Reid / 5pm Eastern - Warren
Alaska GOP Welcomes Mitt Romney to Anchorage, Monday Nov. 3
2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney will be joined by U.S. Senate candidate Dan Sullivan, Governor Sean Parnell, and Senator Lisa Murkowski, among other distinguished guests.
RNC Chairman Priebus campaigns in Wisconsin on Governor Scott Walker’s Bus Tour on Saturday Nov. 1
Priebus will campaign with Governor Scott Walker on the “Continuing Wisconsin’s Comeback” Bus Tour, which is a get-out-the-vote effort for the governor’s reelection bid.
Democratic senators to join Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) in Virginia
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam and former U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher will speak at events across the Commonwealth in support of Sen. Mark Warner’s reelection campaign
Georgia Senate Debate on Sunday, Nov. 2; 11-12 pm
Former charity executive Michelle Nunn (D) and businessman David Perdue (R) will face off in the last debate before Election Day.
Labels: 2014 US Elections, The Hill
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Crude oil, which is down 9 percent year to date, is oversold, according to Piper Jaffray managing director and technical market strategist Craig Johnson. He also recommends taking bullish positions on energy stocks, which tend to move in tandem with crude oil.
The commodity’s oversold condition can be found in charts of crude oil over the past year, according to Johnson. He zooms in on a few key technical indicators: moving averages, the relative-strength index, the money-flow index and its moving average convergence/divergence indicator.
“All these pieces, when you put them together, suggest that crude oil is oversold and due for, I think, a pretty healthy bounce,” Johnson said Friday on CNBC’s “Trading Nation.”
Crude oil has appeared to hold steady in the past year each time it’s gotten down to its 40-week moving average, then emerging with a meaningfully rally, Johnson said, examining a chart that shows an upward-sloping channel.
“Something similar looks like it’s unfolding right now that could take the oil price back above $50 and then maybe as high as $55. So definitely like what we’re seeing here, for at least a short- to intermediate-term trade and maybe a little longer,” he said.
Johnson sees promise in crude oil’s moving average convergence/divergence oscillator, which generally measures an asset’s momentum and strength.
Crude’s relative-strength index is yet another technical indicator that shows momentum. The indicator measures an asset’s price movement — and the speed at which it moves — as an indicator of its strength.
And finally, the money-flow index, which measures inflows and outflows into a security over a given period of time, indicates an oversold technical condition as it nears the 20 mark.
In the intermediate term, crude oil could see a rocky ride if the U.S. dollar rallies as expected, said Max Wolff, market strategist at 55 Capital. A stronger U.S. dollar is generally a negative for the dollar-denominated commodity.
“We’re going to see a stronger dollar and softening global growth, and those don’t tend to be great for oil prices in the longer term,” he said.
WTI crude, the U.S. benchmark, settled slightly higher on Friday, logging its best week since early February.
Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/20/four-charts-make-the-case-that-crude-oil-has-bottomed.html
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Download E-books Hollywood Madonna: Loretta Young (Hollywood Legends Series) PDF
By Bernard F. Dick
Loretta younger (1913–2000) was once an Academy Award–winning actress recognized for religious Catholicism and her performances in The Farmer’s Daughter, The Bishop’s Wife, and Come to the Stable, and for her long-running and greatly renowned tv sequence. yet that was once now not the complete story.
Hollywood Madonna explores the complete saga of Loretta Young’s expert and private lifestyles. She made her movie debut at age 4, turned a celebrity at fifteen, and plenty of awards and accolades later, made her ultimate tv motion picture at age seventy-six. This biography withholds not one of the info of her affair with Clark Gable and the daughter that strong love produced. Bernard F. Dick locations Young’s affair within the right context of the time and the alternatives on hand to ladies in 1935, specially a famous Catholic like younger, whose profession could were in ruins if the general public knew of her tryst. With the delivery of a daughter, who could were branded a love baby, Loretta younger reached the crossroads of disclosure and deception, making a choice on the latter direction. That selection ended in an illustrious occupation for her and a tortured formative years for her daughter.
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Harry Cohn in 1941 and supplied him with male heirs. Cohn knew all approximately Loretta, the religious Catholic, who suffered an ethical relapse at which Hollywood winked—as if to assert, “Yes, we all know, yet why may still the general public? ” And the general public didn’t. Cohn additionally exclusive among women and broads; Loretta belonged to the previous classification. He taken care of her with admire, as he did her shut pal and fellow Catholic, Rosalind Russell. either have been indebted to him—Russell, for giving her a few first-class comedic roles within the Nineteen Forties, particularly her Oscar-nominated My Sister Eileen (1942); and Loretta, for delivering her with a brief haven as she discovered to barter the slippery slope of unfastened lancing. Loretta used to be in greater photos than Columbia’s The physician Takes a spouse (1940), a romantic comedy with a touch of screwball, yet no longer sufficient of both style to make it unique. Director Alexander corridor was once the right fit for Rosalind Russell in the course of her decade at Columbia, eliciting performances from her during this factor known as Love (1941), My Sister Eileen (1942), and she or he Wouldn’t Say sure (1945) that proven her impressive reward for comedy. He couldn't do an analogous for Loretta. The medical professional Takes a spouse had capability: A feminist author (Loretta), whose espousal of the only lifestyles has made her the idol of spinsters, cadges a trip to manhattan with a neurology teacher (Ray Milland). an easy journey turns into a reason célèbre whilst the clicking assumes they're married. issues abound, affecting each one occasion. With Loretta in the back of the wheel of a souped-up plot, in basic terms the happiest of endings is feasible: Loretta sabotages Milland’s engagement to a ditzy socialite (Gail Patrick, out of her subtle element), but additionally will get him promoted. teachers, take into accout. as soon as the couple makes it felony, the dean, who basically doles out complete professorships to married school, promotes Milland from teacher to complete professor with out his even dealing with the assistant and affiliate professor ranks—not to say peer evaluation. In 1940 few moviegoers may query such largesse; if any lecturers stuck the movie, they might characteristic the untimely advertising to Hollywood’s lack of knowledge of upper education—unless possibly they have been single and questioned if there have been schools the place the only real qualification for a whole professorship was once a marriage band. even if The general practitioner Takes a spouse is much from classic Loretta, it illustrates the trouble studios had pairing her with a appropriate costar. In effortless residing (1937), Milland loved a real rapport with Jean Arthur, having a look as though he have been amused via her wackiness. however it was once now not an analogous with Loretta. as soon as it's time to press the affection button, Loretta’s eyes became limpid, as though they have been the home windows now not a lot of the soul as of the psyche. She started relocating sinuously, provocatively with an erotic rhythm that was once constantly genteel, but additionally sexy—as if she have been having certainly one of her fantasies, within which the one sighs have been her personal. you couldn't think Milland making any sound, other than possibly a groan simply because he used to be caught with a script that gave him no keep an eye on of the narrative.
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Electro Chemistry: Conductors , Insulators And Semi Conductors
All substances are classified into three types known as conductors, insulators and semi conductors based on their ability to allow the electrical current to pass through them.
CONDUCTORS , INSULATORS AND SEMI CONDUCTORS
Conductors : Those substances which allow electrical current to pass through them completely are known as conductors.
Examples are metals, alloys and fused electrovalent compounds.
Insulators : Those substances which do not allow electrical current to pass through them are known as insulators. Examples of insulators are wood, silk, cotton, glass, rubber, organic compounds like benzene and carbon tetra chloride.
Semiconductors : Those substances that allow the electrical current to pass through them partially (or) possess very low electrical conductivity are known as semi conductors. Examples of semi conductors are Silicon, Germanium, oxides of Manganese, Cobalt oxide, Titanium dioxide etc.
Conductors of electricity are further classified into two types depending on their mode of transport of electrical charges inside them. These are electronic conductors and electrolytic conductors.
Metallic conductors : Metals and alloys conduct electricitiy due to the movement (mobility) of delocalised outershell electrons present inside them and are known as electronic conductors (or) metallic conductor. Electrical conduction through metals do not bring about any chemical transformations.
Electrolytic conductor : Electrovalent (or) ionic compounds conduct electrical current in their dissolved state (in solutions) or in their fused state only. These compounds consists of ions of opposite charges and in aqueous solution they exist as ions. In the presence of applied electrical field, these ions migrate to respective electrodes exhibiting electrical conductivity. This mobility of ions is responsible for conduction of electricity through electrolytes and is referred as electrolytic conduction. Passage of current through electrolytes is accompanied by chemical changes also. The differences in the properties of electronic and electrolytic conductors are given below :
Electronic conduction
Pure metals and their solid solutions such as alloys are called as metallic conductors.
Free and mobile electrons of the metallic atoms or alloys are responsible for electrical conductance.
Positive holes in the metals move in the opposite direction to electrons.
There is no chemical change in the material when electricity is passed.
There is only flow of electrical energy but there is no transfer of matter.
Conductivity of metal decreases with increase in temperature due to the enhanced thermal vibration of metal atoms disrupting the movement of electrons passing through them.
Electrolytic conduction
Electrovalent (or) ionic compounds conduct electricity through their ions present in fused state or in dissolved state.
Ions with positive and negative charges conduct electricity and move towards cathode and anode respectively.
Electrolysis occurs when electrical current is passed through electrolytic solutions.
Chemical change occurs.
There is actual transfer of matter since ions move towards respective electrodes.
The conductivity of electrolytes increases with increase in temperature. This is due to increase with ionic mobility.
Semi conductors : Certain type of solids like pure silicon and germanium which are poor conductors of electricity at normal temperature become good conductors either at high temperatures or in the presence of impurities like Arsenic or Boron. There are two types of semi conductors known as intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors.
Intrinsic semi conductors : In the intrinsic type, these solids have very low conductivity at room temperature but at high temperatures one of the interatomic covalent bonds between Silicon (or) Germanium atoms are broken heterolytically such that free electrons and corresponding positive holes are created. When electrical field is applied these electrons migrate along the direction of the applied electricfield causing electrical conductivity in them. The positive holes move in opposite direction to that of the movement of electrons.
Extrinsic semi conductor : In the extrinsic type of semi conductors addition of impurities like Arsenic or Boron causes appreciable increase in the electrical conductivity. This effect can be obtained as follows :
N-type semi conductor : In silicon and germanium crystals, each atom is covalently bonded to four neighbours so that all its four valence electrons are tied down. Thus in the pure state these elements are poor conductors. Suppose an atom of arsenic is introduced in place of silicon or germanium in the crystal lattice. Arsenic has five valence electrons, four of which will be utilised in the formation of covalent bonds and the remaining electron is free to move through the lattice. This leads to enhanced conductivity.
p-type semi conductor : Now let a Boron atom be introduced in place of Silicon atom in the crystal lattice. A Boron atom has only three valence electrons. It can form only three of the four bonds required for a perfect lattice. Thus it is surrounded by seven electrons (one of Si) rather than eight. Thus electron vacancy or a 'positive hole' in the lattice is produced. Another electron from the bond of the adjacent Si atom moves into this hole, completing the four bonds on the B atom. This electron also leaves a hole at its original site. In this way electrons move from atom to atom through the crystal structure and the holes move in the opposite direction. Therefore the conductivity of the material improves.
Semi conductors which exhibit conductivitiy due to the flow of excess negative electrons, are called n-type semiconductors (n for negative).
Semiconductors which exhibit conductivity due to the positive holes, are called p-type semiconductors (p for positive).
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SONICS STUNNED BY SWINDON IN SEMI-FINAL
Bristol Sonics’ 2016 season came to an abrupt end on Saturday, as they lost 42-22 to Swindon St George in the West of England League semi-final.
The Sonics headed into the game in fine form, but were brushed aside by an inspired Swindon side who never took a backwards step. It was a rare victory for the men from Wiltshire over their M4 corridor rivals, and saw them deservedly book a place in next Saturday’s West of England Grand Final at Chippenham RFC.
Bristol were simply outplayed and outfought by the home side, who played with mostly controlled aggression and great skill to triumph in an absorbing, high intensity contest at Supermarine RFC in Swindon. The Sonics were lacking a little firepower up front, and with only one recognised forward on the interchange bench, found it tough going against a Swindon side who were able to roll fresh forwards on and off at will.
The Sonics had arrived in Swindon in confident mood, but began the game badly. An early error handed possession to the home side, who scored on their first set of six tackles. The ball was moved wide to speedy winger Ash Perry, who seared past his opposite number and dived over between the sticks, stand-off Tomley converting. Five minutes later, Swindon doubled their lead, veteran prop forward RIchard White – who could have later been sent-off for a head-butt on Sonics captain Alex Potts, which was unfortunately missed by the referee – barging through some weak tackles. Tomley again added the extras.
While Bristol began to get back into the game after this nightmare start, they fell further behind after 19 minutes when Sam Williams crossed the whitewash, Tomley’s third successful conversion making it 18-0.
The Sonics were struggling to make ground, and were guilty of dropping passes and missing key tackles. Away supporters finally got something to cheer on 25 minutes, when top try scorer George Burnie collected an offload from skipper Alex Potts and slid over. Player/coach Dom Swann nailed the conversion, and suddenly Bristol began playing with a little more confidence. A fine last tackle play from Dom Swann on 31 minutes opened up the space for winger Blake Knowlson to run back on the inside and dive over the try line. When Swann’s conversion attempt sailed over, it appeared Bristol were finally back in business.
Swindon, though, were in no mood to throw away their best chance yet of beating the Sonics to a Grand Final spot. Two tries in the closing five minutes of the half from Ash Perry and Liam Rowe – both converted by Tomley – restored their 18-point advantage and a daunting 30-12 half-time lead.
The Sonics improved defensively in the opening period of the second half, but were still struggling to consistently break down Swindon’s well organised defence. With 22 minutes remaining Bristol finally made the breakthrough, winger Joe Uren – brother of former Sonic Jack Uren, now starring for the University of Gloucestertshire All Golds in Kingstone Press Championship League One – sliding over in the corner for a try that Swann sadly couldn’t convert.
With 12 minutes remaining, the Sonics scored again, with George Burnie powering through to pick up his 12th try in five appearances for Bristol this season. Swann’s calm conversion reduced the arrears to 10 points.
Swindon were still working hard, but there was at least a glimmer of hope for Bristol to hold onto. They would require two scores – at least one converted – in the final 10 minutes to get out of jail and book their place in the Grand Final.
Bristol threw everything at the home side, but a combination of Sonics errors and superb Swindon defence thwarted their attempts. With just three minutes remaining, Sam Williams grabbed his second score of the afternoon, converted by Tomley, to seal victory. A converted try on the final whistle simply rubbed salt into the wounds of Bristol’s exhausted and shell shocked players.
Bristol Sonics captain Alex Potts said: “We’re all absolutely gutted by that result. We came into the game in decent form, and although we could have done with a few more forwards on the bench, the side we had out was pretty good. In the end, we were simply outplayed. We missed far too many tackles in the first half, and by the time we sorted that out in the second half, we’d given ourselves far too much to do. We never really clicked in attack, bar a few good moves that ended in tries, and made far too many errors. We’ve perhaps not done ourselves justice, but full credit should go to Swindon – they were by far and away the better side on the day and fully deserved their victory. Good luck to them in the final – it would be nice to see them win the title after the excellent season they’ve had.”
Bristol Sonics player/coach Dom Swann said: “In hindsight, I think some of our victories this season were a bit too easy, and papered over the cracks that were appearing. We paid the price for not having a settled side, not training together enough, and making far too many individual and collective errors. We were a little surprised at how much better Swindon were than when we last played them, 12 months ago, but that’s no excuse – we came here expecting a very tough game, and that’s what we got. On the day we were simply not good enough. It’s a disappointing way to end our season, but we should be proud of what we achieved. We beat everyone else in our half of the draw, bar Portsmouth, comfortably, played some good rugby and got decent team spirit going. Hopefully we can build on this next season and make amends for missing this great opportunity to compete for silverware. We can use that loss as motivation during the long off-season break.”
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SONICS BOOM ROMANS IN THE SECOND PERIOD
Bristol Sonics produced a dominant second half performance to pull away from Bath & Wiltshire Romans and secure a 22-56 win in an entertaining local derby at Corsham RFC.
The Romans were just four points behind at the interval following a closely-frought first 40 minutes, but the Sonics took control early in the second half and never looked back.
Bristol scored six tries without reply in the closing 25 minutes to cement their position in the top two of Pool A of the West of England League, and guarantee their participation in the end of season play-offs.
Both sides came in to the match understrength, with Bath taking the opportunity to blood a trio of new recruits.
They started brightly with some strong defence on their own line, then winger Mike Perry was the first to react to a bobbling, cross field kick from Sonics scrum half James Potts. He hacked the ball forwards, scooped it up, and ran clear of his opposite number to dive over in the corner.
Bath’s lead didn’t last long, though as three minutes later, Bristol hooker George Burnie scored a fine individual try, which was converted by prop forward Kieran Harvey.
It wasn’t long before Bristol extended their lead, scrum half James Potts beating a swathe of desperate defenders on a 45-metre run to the line. Harvey once again added the extras.
Byron Edwards, slipped a one-handed offload to James Potts. He broke clear, switched the direction of play and found second rower Joe Singleton with a perfect pass. Somehow, Singleton managed to get the ball to the supporting Burnie, who finished off. Kieran Harvey’s attempted conversion bounced off the post.
The home side had been starved of possession, but soon began to see more of the ball. A period of pressure close to the Bristol line ended in a much-needed score, with Mike Perry jumping highest to collect a superb high, cross-field kick and dive over. Andy Williamson added the conversion, to drag the Romans back to within six points.
Bristol were forced to shuffle their pack when Matt Blacker had to rush to hospital with a deep head cut following an accidental clash of heads. It took them a few minutes to readjust, but soon they’d extended their lead to ten points. There was little glamorous about George Burnie’s close-range effort, but it was a significant one; it was the utility forward’s hat-trick try.
Bath refused to give in and capitalised on a stray offload from the Sonics Byron Edwards, which was picked up by the evergreen Bruce Vuetanaotoka. The Fijian centre had enough pace to sprint 50 metres and touch down between the sticks. His conversion was the last action of the first half, with the Romans only trailing 16-20.
The Sonics quickly extended their lead in the second period and began to pull away from the Romans through a barnstorming run from centre Tom McIntosh, who also converted his own try. Bath hit back quickly through a try in the right corner from Bruce Vuetanaotoka, brilliantly converted by Andy Williamson.
As the second half wore on, Bristol began to overawe their tiring defence.
Six further scores followed – three converted by McIntosh. There was a close range effort from Byron Edwards, a brace from Morgan Lewis, a second of the afternoon for the impressive James Potts, and a typical prop forward’s try from Louis Mizen, who had played well since coming on for the injured Matt Blacker. The scoring was completed 90 seconds from time by McIntosh, who collected a cross field pass from Lawrence Roycroft and sprinted 40 metres to dive over in the left corner.
BATH & WILTSHIRE ROMANS 22
T: Mike Perry 2, Bruce Vuetanaotoka 2
G: Bruce Vuetanaotoka 1, Andy Williamson 2
BRISTOL SONICS 56
T: George Burnie 3, James Potts 2, Tom McIntosh 2, Byron Edwards, Morgan Lewis 2, Louis Mizem
G: Kieran Harvey 2, Tom McIntosh 4
MAN OF THE MATCH AWARDS
Romans: Mike Perry (winger)
Sonics: George Burnie (hooker)
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SONICS BATTLE PAST CAVALIERS TO SECURE PLAY-OFF SPOT
Bristol Sonics dug deep to battle past Oxford Cavaliers 32-16 at Landseer Avenue on Saturday, in the process all but guaranteeing a place in the end of season West of England League play-offs.
The victory was enough to keep the Sonics on top of the West of England League Pool A table, ahead of South Coast rivals U.S Portsmouth Navy Seahawks on points difference. Both sides are four points ahead of Oxford with two games remaining. As the Cavaliers and Seahawks meet next week in Oxford, the Sonics are now guaranteed to finish in the top two, this securing a play-off semi-final against one of the top teams from Pool B of the West of England League (most likely Cheltenham, Swindon or Southampton).
Bristol were made to work hard for the win on Saturday, with Oxford – who fielded a trio of former Sonics players, including brothers Dan and Harry Brooker – showing the solid defence and great organisation that has made them one of the form teams in the division.
The Sonics started brightly and opened the scoring after four minutes, skipper Alex Potts sliding in under the posts. Player/coach Dom Swann made no mistake with the conversion, meaning the Sonics were 6-0 up. The lead lasted until the 17th minute, when Dan Brooker ghosted over to haunt his former club. He kicked the resultant conversion to rub salt into the wound.
10 minutes later the pendulum swung back towards the home side, with veteran Swann crossing the whitewash for a try he could not convert. Then, shortly before the interval, utility back James Potts joined his brother on the scoresheet after finishing off a fine move. At the interval, Bristol held an eight-point lead – meaning Oxford would have to score twice to overtake them – and would have been happy with the 14-6 scoreline.
Four minutes into the second period, Bristol extended their lead when substitute Mike Gaston dived over near the posts, Swann slotting over the conversion with ease. It triggered an impressive response from the visitors, who spent much of the next 15 minutes hammering away at the Sonics line. Bristol, whose defence has improved a lot since they famously lost 69-56 to Portsmouth on the opening day of the season, scrambled superbly to hold Oxford at bay.
Like all good sides, the Sonics were quickly able to turn defence into attack, and take the few chances that came their way. Home fans were relieved when Tom McIntosh scored a fine try, converted by Swann, to cap a fine first appearance for Bristol. Oxford quickly struck back though a try from Nick Arnell, but any hope of a famous comeback was snuffed out when speedy Sonics full-back Jonny Mawer sprinted away to score a try which Swann expertly converted.
Oxford grabbed some consolation with a well-worked try, finished by Josh Stanfield-Smith. Dan Brooker’s neat conversion was the last kick of the game.
Bristol Sonics player/coach Dom Swann said: “I’m immensely proud of the effort the lads put in today, and delighted with the result. We went into the game knowing that we’d have to defend well and take our chances, and we did just that. There are still areas of our game we need to work on, and having secured a play-off spot we can do just that in the two remaining league games. However, we’re determined to finish top of the table, so our first priority needs to be to beat Bath Romans at their place next Saturday. I’d also like to put on record our thanks to former Chairman and club founder Phil Cole, who stepped in to referee at the last minute when the League couldn’t provide any match officials. He did a superb job and both sides were happy with the way he handled the game.”
Bristol Sonics head to Corsham RFC next Saturday, where they face their closest geographic rivals, Bath & Wiltshire Romans, in a re-run of last year’s West of England League Grand Final.
** MATCH FACTS **
T: Alex Potts, Dom Swann, James Potts, Mike Gaston, Tom McIntosh, Jonny Mawer
G: Dom Swann 4 (from 6)
OXFORD CAVALIERS 16
T: Dan Brooker, Nick Arnell, Josh Stanfield-Smith
G: Dan Brooker 2 (from 3)
Half-time score: 14-6
SONICS BACK ON TOP AFTER WARRIORS ROUT
Bristol Sonics returned to the top of the West of England League Pool A table on Saturday, following a comfortable 14-58 away win over Gloucestershire Warriors.
The Sonics leapfrog Portsmouth Navy Seahawks at the summit of the table with three league games remaining, but are only ahead of their South Coast rivals due to a far superior points difference.
With both sides down to a bare 13 due to injury and holiday absences, most predicted a tighter game than the hosts may have feared. However, with Gloucestershire unable to field all 13 players at the start of the match, Bristol were handed an advantage that they ruthlessly made the most of.
The Sonics were brilliant in the first quarter of an hour, scoring five tries – four of which were converted by player/coach Dom Swann – to open up an almost unassailable 28-0 lead. The first try came within a minute of kick-off, with big Dutchman Mark Wokke – nicknamed “the Viking” by team-mates – collecting a brilliant Byron Edwards offload and sprinting 65 metres to touch down beneath the posts. A minute later, the Sonics were over again, skipper Alex Potts sidestepping his way past a clutch of Warriors defenders before turning on the after-burners.
There was little respite for the struggling home side. After eight minutes the impressive Byron Edwards charged through some weak attempted tackles to touch down, Swann adding his third simple conversion, before winger Blake Knowlson finished off a slick, right-to-left passing move by sliding in at the corner. Almost straight from the resulting re-start, opposite winger Ben Lee sidestepped inside his opposite number and ran 70 metres to dive over to the right of the sticks. Swann’s fourth conversion in five attempts made it 28-0 to the visitors with just 16 minutes on the clock.
A combination of Bristol errors and penalties for standing offside in defence finally allowed the home side a chance to play with the ball in hand. A more even contest began to develop, with standout player Ash Lewis getting the Warriors on the scoresheet after 28 minutes with a close range solo effort out wide. This setback only seem to inspire the Sonics, though, who grabbed two more tries before the interval. First full-back Jonny Mawer weaved his way over from close range, before centre Alun Roberts-Jones finished off a fine break. Swann converted both tries, to leave the Sonics 40-4 up at the interval.
Gloucestershire had the slope at their backs in the second half, and quickly re-doubled their attempts to get something from the game. After only two minutes of the half, Jake Thompson forced his way over from close range, Ash Lewis converting. Six minutes later Bristol stretched their lead again, prop Kieran Harvey powering over for a try that was converted by Dom Swann. Scrum half James Potts, brother of captain Alex Potts, grabbed a brace of tries for the Sonics – one of which was converted by Swann – before Conrad Jones slid over in the right corner for the Warriors, following a one-handed offload from Lewis. With time running out, centre Tom Curtis finished off the game for Bristol, sliding over out wide following another speedy passing move.
Bristol’s next game is likely to be a much closer contest. They face fellow play-off hopefuls Oxford Cavaliers at Dings on Saturday, with a win all but securing the Sonics position in the top two. Lose, and they face a fight to the last day of the regular season.
Bristol Sonics player/coach Dom Swann said: “Today I asked the players to be ruthless, and for the most part they were. I was disappointed that we gave away some silly penalties again, but for the vast majority of the game we were very disciplined in the face of a side who did everything they could to try and wind us up. We knew it was just frustration on their part, so kept our heads and just played. We played some good stuff throughout, and although our level dropped in the second half, we kept going right until the 80th minute. Next week’s game at Dings is massive. It’s the most important game of the season so far, and I’ll be looking for a huge effort from the boys for that one.”
GLOUCESTERSHIRE WARRIORS 14
T: Ash Lewis, Jake Thompson, Conrad Jones
G: Ash Lewis 1 (from 3)
T: Mark Wokke, Alex Potts, Byron Edwards, Blake Knowlson, Ben Lee, Jonny Mawer, Alun Roberts-Jones, Kieran Harvey, James Potts 2, Tom Curtis
G: Dom Swann 7 (from 10)
Half-time score: 4-40
Referee: Andy Brown
Warriors: Ash Lewis (full back)
Sonics: Byron Edwards (prop forward)
SONICS OVERCOME BULLDOGS’ SPIRIT
Bristol Sonics were made to work hard by Forest Bulldogs at Landseer Avenue on Wednesday night, but kept their composure to secure the 50-22 win that puts them four points clear at the top of the West of England League Pool A table.
The victory is free-scoring Bristol’s fourth straight win,and puts them in a strong position at the midway point of the season. It was far from easy, though, with the Sonics forced to dig deep defensively against a lively young Bulldogs side who are enjoying a promising first season in Rugby League.
While Bristol had the game under control throughout, a combination of poor discipline and needless errors meant that they had to do a lot of defending, particularly in the second half. The Bulldogs, who attacked with vigour and width, took advantage on a number of occasions, but could not do enough to stem the tide of tries at the other end.
As they have done on numerous occasions this season, the Sonics opened up a significant lead early on. The home side opened the scoring after nine minutes, with in-form centre Alun Roberts-Jones trotting away to score a try converted by player/coach Dom Swann. Four minutes later, Bristol doubled their lead when Mike Gaston ghosted through the Bulldogs defence and touched down close to the posts, Swann again converting.
Bristol were all over their opponents at this point, and had two tries correctly disallowed for forward passes in the following ten minutes. Then, on the back of a series of penalties, the Bulldogs finally had a chance to show their attacking prowess deep in Bristol territory. They made the most of it, full back Lewis Chard scooting over from close range on 25 minutes for a try converted by Rhys Evans.
With the visitors now within a converted try of levelling the scores, the Sonics needed a big finish to the half. They got that thanks to two quick tries in the five minutes before the interval. First, former University of Gloucestershire All Gilds and South Wales Scorpion forward Nathan Rainer was on hand to collect an offload at speed and sprint away to score, before scrum half Johan Schoeman somehow forced his way over from close range. Swann’s cool conversion put Bristol 22-6 up at the interval.
The Bulldogs needed a strong start to the second half, and got it when Bristol dozily allowed their kick-off to go dead in goal. Although the Sonics stoutly defended the resulting set of six tackles, the visitors crossed the whitewash moments later. Replacement centre Sam Smith read a Sonics attempted long cross field pass, intercepted it, and raced away to touch down unopposed. This time, Rhys Evans couldn’t add the extras.
It wasn’t long before Bristol extended their lead again, though. Two minutes later, following a scrum deep in Bulldogs territory, Johan Schoeman slipped a pass to winger Shervin Ghassemlou, who stepped back inside and dived over. An even period of play followed, before Bristol finally scored again on 58 minutes, full back Jack Farler scoring a trade-mark long-range try which was converted by Dom Swann. Three minutes later, the Sonics secured the points when Alun Roberts-Jones bounced off the post protectors and over the line to collect his second try of the evening, Swann again converting.
Referee Malcolm Holmes was unimpressed with Bristol’s efforts to get back onside, and their defence around the play-the-ball, and began penalising them heavily. With a greater weight of possession, the Bulldogs began to test the Sonics line. While the home side largely defended well, impressive hooker Dan Parry finally found his way through on 64 minutes, with Evans again converting the try.
Bristol began to get more frustrated, but still had the firepower to take chances that came their way. One of those came on 72 minutes, when Nathan Rainer was hauled down 10 metres from the Bulldogs line following an eye-catching break. Hooker Alex Potts scooped the ball up from the resulting play-the-ball, turned on the gas and dived over between the sticks, Swann again adding the easy conversion.
With time running out, the Bulldogs collected another deserved consolation score when Zak Hancock squeezed over in the right corner, despite the attentions of opposite wing man Joe Uren. Amazingly, Evans’ touch line conversion attempt bounced in off the left upright.There was just time for Bristol to have the final say, marauding prop forward Byron Edwards surging through the defence and sprinting away to score underneath the posts. Once Dom Swann’s conversion sailed through the sticks, referee Malcolm Holmes blew the whistle for full time.
Bristol Sonics player/coach Dom Swann said: “That was far from a perfect performance, but we played very well in patches. By and large our defence was excellent, we looked pretty sharp in attack, and we did enough to win the game comfortably. Credit must to Forest Bulldogs, who are playing their first season of Rugby League but showed a lot of promise. If they play like that for the rest of the season they will surprise a few sides. The win means that we’re where we wanted to be at the half way stage of the League season, but there’s still a lot of work to do to ensure that we get in the top two and make the play-offs. Our next game against Portsmouth, on July 9th, will be crucial.”
The Sonics are next in action on Saturday July 9th, when they host fellow title-chasers U.S Portsmouth Navy Seahawks at Landseer Avenue (kick-off 2.30pm).
BRISTOL SONICS 50
T: Alun Roberts-Jones 2, Mike Gaston, Nathan Rainer, Johan Schoeman, Shervin Ghassemlou, Jack Farler, Alex Potts, Byron Edwards
FOREST BULLDOGS 22
T: Lewis Chard, Sam Smith, Dan Parry, Zak Hancock
G: Rhys Evans 3 (from 4)
Referee: Malcolm Holmes
Sonics: Matt Blacker (second row)
Bulldogs: Dan Parry (hooker)
SONICS PUT WARRIORS TO THE SWORD
Bristol Sonics moved two points clear at the top of the West Of England League Pool A table with a dominant 78-26 victory over local rivals Gloucestershire Warriors.
The victory was the Sonics’ third straight win, and was built on a superb forward display, quick running out wide, and much-improved defence. While the Warriors rallied a little in the second half, it wasn’t nearly enough to stop Bristol’s charge to victory.
Free-scoring Bristol, who have now notched up more than 200 points over the course of four West of England League matches, went ahead after less than two minutes. Full back Jack Farler charged through some weak attempted tackles to crash over out wide for a try that player/coach Dom Swann could not convert. Bristol extended their lead six minutes later, with quick hands opening up the opportunity for Mike Gaston to force his way over in the right corner. This time, Swann slotted over the extras, with his conversion attempt bouncing in off the left upright.
The Sonics continued to defend well, and thanks to a string of needless penalties and poor kick options early in the tackle count from their opponents, were seeing a lot of the ball. It took them almost 15 minutes to cross the try line again, but once they did that the floodgates open. In the final 18 minutes of the half, Bristol added five tries, three converted by Swann, to open up a 36-0 lead.
Again, centre Mike Gaston was in the thick of the action. First, he broke clear and set up a try for Alex Potts, before grabbing his second of the afternoon after finishing off a quick passing move. There was no respite for the wounded Warriors, as minutes later Jack Farler showed great speed to race 40 metres down the right touchline to score. There were additional tries from centre Alun Roberts-Jones and young winger Jack Uren, before Gloucestershire veteran Kirk Lewis – who will soon become the first player to make 100 appearances for the club – forced his way over to open the Warriors account in the dying seconds of the half.
As the first half drew to a close, words were exchanged between players from both sides. This seemed to fire up the Warriors, who regained the ball straight from the kick-off and set about trying to claw their way back into the game. On the last tackle of the resulting set, Ash Lewis – son of first-half try-scorer Kirk – showed great footwork to pick his way past a gaggle of Bristol defenders and score under the posts. He added the conversion himself, reducing the arrears to 36-10.
With tempers fraying, Bristol began to lose their composure. Even so, they responded well to conceding, scoring three tries in six minutes to put the game well beyond the visitors. Will Tobin marked his first appearance of 2016 by bursting through 45 metres out and sprinting away to score, before Joe Uren sprinted away to collect his second try of the afternoon. Then, on 51 minutes, Alun Roberts-Jones showed some good footwork to grab his second try. All three scores were converted by the nerveless Swann, and the Sonics were out of sight at 54-10 with just under half an hour remaining.
The Warriors were determined to get something from the game, and continued to work hard to try and put the Sonics under pressure. After 57 minutes the excellent Ash Lewis once again weaved his way through some tired attempted tackles to touch down for a try converted by centre Kieran Cox. Five minutes later, Jack Farler scored another superb long-range try to complete his hat-trick, before loose forward Nathan Rainer crashed through a number of attempted tackles and sprinted 40 metres to touch down.
As the game entered its’ final stages, Bristol’s discipline wavered, offering Gloucestershire plenty of possession with which to attack with. They made the most of it, Hector Silva barging his way over for a try converted by Dean Cooper, before Ash Lewis completed a deserved hat-trick seven minutes from time.
There was still time for the Sonics to have the last word, though, with the tireless Wes Long getting reward for an afternoon of hard work with a try beneath the sticks. Finally, with seconds remaining, winger Jonny Mawer cut inside and sprinted away to touch down. Swann’s conversion – his eleventh of an action-packed afternoon – made the final score 78-26 to the home side.
Bristol Sonics player/coach Dom Swann said: “I was really pleased with the performance today. We dominated them in the forwards, made great use of the ball when we had it, and mostly defended excellently. There were a few defensive lapses in the second half, and we lost our shape and discipline a bit when things got heated, but these are minor concerns in the grand scheme of things. Overall, it was our best performance of the season so far. I still think there’s a lot of room for improvement, which bodes well for the tests to come over the rest of the season.”
The Sonics return to action on Wednesday 22nd June, when they host Forest Bulldogs at Landseer Avenue.
T: Jack Farler 3, Mike Gaston 2, Alex Potts, Alun Roberts-Jones 2, Joe Uren 2, Will Tobin, Nathan Rainer, Wes Long, Jonny Mawer
G: Dom Swann 11 (from 14)
GLOUCESTERSHIRE WARRIORS 26
T: Kirk Lewis, Ash Lewis 3, Hector Silva
G: Ash Lewis 1 (from 2), Kieran Cox 1 (from 1), Dean Cooper 1 (from 2)
Referee: Ian Waters
Sonics: Alex Potts (hooker)
Warriors: Ash Lewis (stand-off)
SONICS HOLD FIRM TO DENY CAVALIERS
Bristol Sonics put in an improved defensive display to grind out a 32-24 victory away at previously unbeaten Oxford Cavaliers at Harcourt Hill on Saturday.
The Sonics had conceded a staggering 117 points in their first two West of England League games of the season – including last week’s 56-48 comeback win over local rivals Bath & Wiltshire Romans – but improved dramatically to limited Oxford Cavaliers to a handful of clear chances.
Bristol began the game brightly, opening up a 12-0 lead in the opening 15 minutes. Both tries came through the combination of skipper Alex Potts and scrum half Lawrence Roycroft. Twice Potts made great yards from dummy half, releasing Roycroft who weaved his way through the Oxford defence to touch down close to the posts. Potts, taking over kicking duties from absent player/coach Dom Swann, converted both scores.
Oxford, who had struggled to penetrate Bristol’s well organised defence, finally made a breakthrough after 20 minutes. Long serving half-back John Connaughton scooped up a loose ball 20 metres from his own line, rounded the man in front of him and raced away to touch down under the posts, Louis Richards converting.
Bristol wasted a number of opportunities to score as the first half wore on, but remained solid in defence as the home side began to throw the ball wide in a bid to break through. On the stroke of half time, one of these moves finally paid off, with Nick Arnell breaking through on half way and sprinting away to score. Again, Louis Richards added the extras.
Despite this set back, Bristol continued to look the most likely winners early in the second period, and edged ahead again after just five minutes of the half. After forcing an error from the hosts 20 metres from their line, the ball was worked to prop forward Byron Edwards, who forced his way over from close range. Alex Potts couldn’t add the extras, leaving the Sonics just 4 points ahead.
Bristol made a hash of the resulting kick off, and were forced to drop out from beneath their own sticks. They manfully defended the first set, but the pressure was on. The Cavaliers quickly regained the ball and set about battering the Bristol line. After holding firm for five tackles, the Sonics were caught out on the final play. With Bristol expecting a kick play, Dan Jameson picked his way through the Sonics’ suddenly ragged defensive live to dive over to the left of the posts. Louis Richards slotted over the conversion, putting Oxford two points ahead with half an hour remaining.
Following a closely fought period when defences were on top, Bristol scored three tries in less than 10 minutes to put them within sight of victory. On 60 minutes, Alex Potts dived over straight from dummy half for the unconverted score that edged the Sonics back in front. Four minutes later, a typically barnstorming run from interchange prop Curtis Asante set up the position for returning second-rower Jake Robertson to charge over. Once again, Alex Potts’ conversion attempt drifted wide. Then, with less than ten minutes of the game remaining, the Sonics brilliantly shifted the ball wide to centre Tom Curtis, who slipped a perfect pass to debutant winger Tom Hawkey. He dived over in the corner, leaving Potts a tricky touchline conversion. Amazingly, he made it, putting the Sonics 32-18 up and in sight of victory.
Oxford raised themselves for an all-out assault on the Bristol line in the closing stages, Louis Richards scoring – and converting – a try five minutes from time to give the hosts hope of a famous late comeback. But Bristol held firm in the final minutes to end Oxford’s unbeaten start to the season, and move themselves within one point of Portsmouth Navy Seahawks at the top of the West of England League Pool A table.
Bristol Sonics captain Alex Potts, who was named Man of the Match, said: “We have worked incredibly hard in training on our defence, and today that worked paid off. We limited Oxford to a handful of chances, and although we weren’t quite as sharp as normal in attack, we carved out enough chances to beat them by a wider margin. What really pleases me was that this was a real team performance. All 13 who started, plus the seven interchange players, all played their part in the win. The forwards in particular were excellent. It’s hard to pick out individuals in such a good team performance, but special praise should go to Wes Long, Matt Blacker, Byron Edwards, Simon Bannister, Jake Robertson, Sam Collins and Joe Singleton. I could easily name five or six others, though, as everyone played their part.”
The Sonics return to action on Saturday 18th June, when old rivals Gloucestershire Warriors visit Landseer Avenue.
OXFORD CAVALIERS 24
T: John Connaughton, Nick Arnell, Dan Jameson, Louis Richards
G: Louis Richards 4 (from 4)
T: Lawrence Roycroft 2, Byron Edwards, Alex Potts, Jake Robertson, Tom Hawkey
G: Alex Potts 3 (from 6)
Half-time score: 12-12
Referee: Stewart Orton
SONICS COMEBACK STUNS ROMANS
Bristol Sonics overturned a 20-point deficit to secure a remarkable 56-48 victory over 2015 West Of England Champions Bath & Wiltshire Romans at Landseer Avenue.
Bristol trailed for all bar 10 minutes, with debutant second-rower Jack Harbridge’s two late tries – both converted by player/coach Dom Swann – securing a last-gasp victory in a 19-try thriller.
Bath started quickly, with stand-off Paul Riley twice scything through Bristol’s shaky defence in the opening ten minutes to score dazzling long range tries, both of which were converted with ease by Fijian centre Bruce Vuetanaotoka.
Bristol hit back on the first significant attack of the game on 15 minutes, quick hands sending the ball wide to winger Jonny Mawer to crash over. Dom Swann slotted over a remarkable touchline conversion to reduce the arrears to six points, but with 10 minutes the visitors had extended their lead to 20 points.
First Riley completed his hat-trick with another mazy, long-range run, before Vuetanaotoka did the same. Fellow centre Ben Brierley was then put through a gap by Riley and raced away to score. Although Vuetanaotoka could only add one conversion, the Romans were 26-6 ahead and sitting pretty.
On the back of a series of penalties, the Sonics roared back into the game. Tries from Johan Schoeman – following a scintillating break and offload from replacement prop Curtis Asante – and Wes Long, the latter converted by Swann, brought the home side back within 10 points. When hooker Charlie Geary squeezed over for a try, again converted by Swann, the Sonics trailed by just 4 points. There was still time for a twist before half time, though, with the excellent Vuetanaotoka once again crossing the whitewash for a try he converted himself. At half time, the Romans remained ten points ahead at 32-22, but there was still all to play for.
After a quiet opening to the second half, Bath’s Paul Riley scored another trademark score, converted by Vuetanaotoka, and many thought the Sonics had too much to do.
Now 16 points in arrears, Bristol needed a big response. They got it when Kieran Harvey somehow managed to bulldoze his way over from 10 metres out, Swann adding the extras, and prop Simon Bannistern scooting over out wide. Bristol were only within a converted score for a matter of minutes, though, before Ben Brierley grabbed his second try of the afternoon. Joe Knight’s conversion put Bath 12 points ahead with 18 minutes remaining.
The Sonics surged forward looking to make amends, and worked the ball wide to Elliot Nightingale. He spun away from a high tackle, stepped back inside and crashed over, Swann making no mistake with the conversion. With 76 minutes on the clock, Bristol finally levelled the scores. Prop forward Byron Jerome was hauled down close to the line, bit stretched out his arm and somehow managed to ground the ball close to the posts. Swann slotted over the conversion, and suddenly it was anyone’s game.
The force was suddenly with the Sonics, who now looked like scoring on every attack. With 10 minutes remaining, the ball was thrown wide to second rower Jack Harbirdge, who marked his Bristol debut by racing clear of some tired defenders to touch down. Swann’s conversion put the Sonics six points ahead for the first time.
There were still further twists to come. The Romans showed champion form to get up on the canvas and reply, hooker Leigh Wheatley capping a fine game with a much-needed score. With Vuetanaotoka off the pitch, Paul Riley stepped up to attempt the conversion. His kick floated well wide, meaning that Bristol still held a slender two-point advantage.
With just over five minutes to go, Bristol once again worked the ball wide to Harbridge, who broke clear before getting as near as he could to the posts before touching down. Swann calmly converted, giving the Sonics a vital eight-point advantage.
The Romans threw everything at the Sonics line in the closing minutes, but for once the home side’s defence held firm. When referee Ian Waters whistled to mark full time, Bristol’s players jubilantly celebrated their first West of England League win of the season.
Bristol Sonics player/coach Dom Swann said: “That was another thrilling game and it’s great to get the win, but we didn’t make it easy for ourselves. We started poorly and make some very basic errors in defence, which allowed them to deservedly go 20 points ahead. The way we came back over the final 50 minutes of the game was excellent, and I think we just about deserved to edge it in the end. That said, Bath played some superb stuff, too, and we had to dig deep to keep them out at the end. Somehow we held on for victory, and that gives us something to build our season on.”
The Sonics return to action next Saturday with a trip to face old rivals Oxford Cavaliers, before returning to Landseer Avenue the following weekend for a date with Gloucestershire Warriors.
T: Jonny Mawer, Johan Schoeman, Wesley Long, Charlie Geary, Kieran Harvey, Simon Bannister, Elliot Nightingale, Byron Edwards, Jack Harbridge 2
BATH & WILTSHIRE ROMANS48
T: Paul Riley 4, Bruce Vuetanaotoka 2, Ben Brierley 2, Leigh Wheatley
G: Bruce Vuetanaotoka 5 (from 7), Joe Knight 1 (from 1)
Sonics: Mike Gaston (centre)
Romans: Paul Riley (stand off)
INEXPERIENCED SONICS LOSE OUT IN 125-POINT THRILLER
Loose forward George Burnie grabbed four tries, as a youthful and inexperienced Bristol Sonics side lost 69-56 to West of England League title hopefuls U.S Portsmouth Navy Seahawks.
Bristol were blown away in the latter stages of the first half, but produced a rousing second half display to get within 13 points of their vastly more experienced opponents.
The Sonics arrived at the United Services Recreation Ground in Portsmouth expecting a tough test. Bristol had to do without the services of a string of experienced players, instead relying on a mixture of debutants, talented graduates from the club’s youth academy, and club stalwarts. In comparison, their opponents – who won last season’s London & South East League before switching competitions over the winter – could call on a large number of Forces rugby players, including a very strong pack of forwards.
In the circumstances, Bristol’s inexperienced side performed admirably, scoring ten tries to come surprisingly close to causing a monumental upset. Bristol were put to the sword in the latter stages of the first half, but rallied to outscore their strongly fancied opponents. The Sonics were particularly strong in the closing stages, showing that there’s nothing wrong with the side’s desire or self-belief.
Loose forward George Burnie was the hero for Bristol, scoring four tries – including a hat-trick in the first half an hour of the game – while prop forward Sam Collins finished with a personal haul of 24 points, thanks to two tries and eight conversions from ten attempts.
Veteran full-back James Gross missed a large chunk of the game after picking up an injury in the opening 15 minutes, but returned in the second half to score a brace of tries. Debutants Louis Mizen and Nikola Strbac, the latter a Serbian Rugby League international, also crossed the whitewash for Bristol.
Sonics team manager Matt Anniss, who was filling in for absent player/coaches Dom Swann, Lawrence Rycroft and Alex Potts, said: “It’s rare that you walk away from a game where you’ve conceded 69 points with more positives than negatives, but we left Portsmouth believing that we could be onto something good this season. Many of our squad were playing their first games of League today, and others were 17 year-olds tasting adult rugby for the first time. Portsmouth will be amongst the strongest teams in this division, and certainly the most physical. To score 56 points against them, while lacking our regular half-backs and a number of experienced forwards, was actually a very good effort.
“There’s lots for us to work on, of course, but promising signs. Georgie Burnie, Sam Collins, Louis Mizen, Charlie Geary and Joe Uren are amongst the youngest members of our squad, but all played terrifically today. There were many other notable performances throughout the side, and no lack of effort. We dramatically improved as the game wore on, too, suggesting that there’s much better to come as the season unfolds”.
Bristol now have two weekends off, before playing their first home match of the season against local rivals Bath & Wiltshire Romans at Landseer Avenue, Lockleaze, on Saturday June 4.
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SONICS BEAT SOMERSET TO REACH GRAND FINAL
Hooker Jack Uren grabbed a quartet of tries for the second week running as Bristol Sonics swept aside Somerset Vikings 48-22 to reach next Sunday’s West of England League Grand Final.
Bristol’s victory sets up a Grand Final re-match against table-toppers Bath & Wiltshire Romans on Sunday 23rd August at Corsham RFC’s Leafy Lane ground (K.O 14.30). The Sonics are the only side to have beaten Bath this season, and will have high hopes of winning their first silverware since 2011 .
The Sonics tarted well against third-placed Somerset on Saturday, with forwards Olley Scholey, Matt Blacker, Ed Boxhall and Tom Verber punching holes in the visitors’ defence right from the start. It took just two minutes for Bristol to open the scoring, hooker Jack Uren wriggling over from close range for a try converted by full back Jack Farler.
On 14 minutes Bristol extended their lead, winger James Potts strolling over out wide after receiving an inch-perfect pass from stand-off and assistant coach Lawrence Roycroft. Two minutes later loose forward Tom Verber broke clear and dived over between the sticks, Farler again converting. When scrum half Simon Bannister stepped past a couple of players out wide for a try converted by Farler after 22 minutes, Bristol were 22-0 ahead and looking comfortable.
An error from Bannister from the resulting kick-off handed Somerset a great chance to attack from a scrum, five metres out from the Sonics line. Somerset captain and stand-out player Joe Bussell duly forced his way over direct from the scrum, with lively half-back Kelvin Zingyama adding the extras.
Bristol quickly refocused and extended their lead on the half-hour mark, Matt Blacker charging over for a try converted by Farler. With five minutes until half time, the visitors pulled another try back, Zingyama dancing through Bristol’s defence for a deserved score. His conversion made it 30-12. Somerset piled on the pressure in the closing minutes of the half, but Bristol’s defence held firm.
The Sonics effectively booked their final spot with two tries in the opening 12 minutes of the second half. First prop forward Sam Collins barged his way over from close range on 42 minutes, before Jack Uren scythed through Somerset’s defence from 35 metres out to pick up his second try of the afternoon. Farler converted both, putting Bristol 38-12 up and on course for the Grand Final.
To their credit, Somerset never gave up and fought until the final minute. They grabbed a deserved consolation score on 62 minutes, full back Dan Hinton crossing for a try converted by the impressive Zingyama.
Star of the afternoon Jack Uren then confirmed Bristol’s superiority with two more scores – one converted by Farler – before Somerset’s Connor Perkins dived over out wide four minutes from time to end the visitors’ season on a high note.
Bristol’s injured captain Alex Potts, who took charge of the team from the sidelines due to player/coach Dom Swann’s absence, said: “There are a few things to work on ahead of next week’s Grand Final, but that was another strong performance. We were generally very good in defence, and in attack we got the right balance between punching holes with the forwards and getting the ball out wide. We’ll need to improve again to beat Bath next week, but having emerged victorious in our last encounter with them we know what it takes to beat them. It feels great to be in a Grand Final again and to be competing for silverware. Things have been hard off the field for the Sonics over the last 12 months, so it’s good to reward our dedicated players, fans and volunteers with a big day out.”
T: Jack Uren 4, James Potts, Tom Verber, Simon Bannister, Matt Blacker, Sam Collins
G: Jack Farler 6 (from 9)
SOMERSET VIKINGS 22
T: Joe Bussell, Kelvin Zinyama, Dan Hinton, Connor Perkins
G: Kelvin Zinyama 3 (from 4)
H-T: 22-12
Referee: Melvin Betteridge
MOTM Awards:
Sonics: Ed Boxhall (prop forward)
Vikings: Joe Bussell (loose forward)
Game Star
Jack Uren (Bristol Sonics)
BRISTOL SONICS: Jack Farler, Phil Tanner, Dan Stuart-Cummins, Kieran Harvey, James Potts, Lawrence Roycroft (captain), Simon Bannister, Sam Collins, Jack Uren, Olley Scholey, Matt Blacker, Joe Singleton, Tom Verber. Interchange (all used): Ashton Pullin, Gerald Darley, Will Obree, Sam Phillips, Ed Boxhall
SOMERSET VIKINGS: Dan Hinton, Cam Wheeler, James Collings, Jordan Tucker, Adam Twine, Ozzy Flowers, Kelvin Zinyama, Connor Caddick, Doug Caddick, Bob Blainey, Bailey Jackson, Aaron Woods, Joe Bussell. Interchange (all used): Jason Senior, George Burkenshaw, James Brakes, Connor Perkin, Zeky Cheng, Josh Evans.
1 Bath 0 0 0 0 0
1 Somerset 0 0 0 0 0
1 Sonics 0 0 0 0 0
1 Swindon 0 0 0 0 0
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Victoria reports long gold intercepts from Raven target
Victoria Gold’s Eagle gold mine Credit: Victoria Gold
Victoria Gold has released assays for the final 13 drilholes from this year’s exploration program at the Raven target within its wholly owned Dublin Gulch property in the Yukon. These intercepts feature long intervals of gold mineralization, which, according to the release, are typical for Raven.
Drill highlights include 19 metres of 3.95 g/t gold from 90.4 metres, within a 174.2-metre section of 0.76 g/t gold; 10.5 metres of 2.13 g/t gold from 183.1 metres, within a 126-metre section of 0.68 g/t gold; and 50.8 metres of 1.63 g/t gold starting at 121.5 metres, in a 107.2-metre section of 0.92 g/t gold.
“Raven continues to deliver high-grade, near-surface gold intervals,” John McConnell, the company’s president and CEO, said in a release. “Raven is one of several targets identified through application of the Potato Hills Trend Mineralization Model. Results from this geological model highlight the extensive mineral potential of the Dublin Gulch gold camp.”
McConnell added that the Raven mineralization remains open, and the target will be a major focus of Victoria’s exploration work next year.
Overall, this year’s campaign tripled the strike extent of this zone, increasing it by over 750 metres.
Over the course of the field season, the company completed diamond drilling, surface trenching, mapping and soil geochemical surveys over the area. Victoria also collected oriented core, which, together with detailed core logging and surface mapping, will be used to vector in on controls to the mineralization.
In a note to investors, Andrew Mikitchook of BMO Capital Markets wrote that the “Exploration results from Raven continue to support the probability of a second mining centre 13 km to the east of Eagle.”
The mining analyst has a $21 price target and ‘outperform’ rating on the stock.
Victoria Gold wholly owns the 555-sq.-km Dublin Gulch property, which also includes the operating Eagle gold mine. On Friday, the company also reduced the production guidance for Eagle for the second half of this year. Based on its third-quarter output, the miner has revised its production guidance for the year down to 72,000 to 77,000 gold oz., at all-in sustaining costs of US$1,175 to US$1,275 per oz. This compares with its prior guidance for 85,000 to 100,000 oz. at all-in sustaining costs of US$950 to US$1,100 per oz.
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