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Ryan Finley Andy Dalton Brandon Allen Leonard Williams Marc Colombo Evan Engram Joe Mixon Zac Taylor Samaje Perine Graham Gano Joe Judge Giovani Bernard Joe Burrow Sports Athlete injuries Athlete health NFL football Professional football Football
New York Giants Cincinnati Bengals Dallas Cowboys Miami Dolphins
Still hunting playoffs, 3-7 Giants visit Burrow-less Bengals
By MITCH STACY - Nov. 27, 2020 05:49 PM EST
Cincinnati Bengals' Tyler Boyd (83) celebrates a touchdown reception during the second half of an NFL football game against the Tennessee Titans, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Gary Landers)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Despite losing their first five games and starting 3-7, the New York Giants find themselves in a surprising playoff derby in the NFC East.
The Giants are in the thick of it and have already beaten divisional rivals Washington (4-7) twice, and split games with Philadelphia (3-6-1).
Now they go on the road to face Cincinnati (2-7-1) on Sunday and are in position to take advantage of the Bengals' recent misfortune. Rookie quarterback Joe Burrow suffered a season-ending knee injury in last week's loss to Washington, and the Bengals are expected to start either practice-squad QB Brandon Allen or Ryan Finley, who seemed overwhelmed when he had to enter the game suddenly after the team's franchise QB was carted off.
Before a bye week, the Giants beat the Eagles 27-7 after they squeaked by Washington 23-20. With six games to play, they're trying not to think about the possibility of the playoffs — yet.
“It’s kind of hard for us to look that far ahead,” defensive end Leonard Williams acknowledged “If we do something like that, we might mess around and overlook a team.”
The Giants realize it's unusual for a team to start the way they did and not be dwelling in the divisional basement, playing out the games with eye on next season — like the Bengals.
“It's a unique opportunity for us,” New York tight end Evan Engram said. “Yeah, it’s a lot of meaningful football for us. We’re heading into it with the right mindset, getting ready for it.”
The renewed energy and hope generated by Burrow's exciting play in Cincinnati was extinguished when he was sandwiched between two Washington defenders after throwing a pass Sunday. His left knee was bent in an unnatural direction. It's not an overstatement to say the team was in shock.
“We don’t have any time to hang our heads and feel sorry for ourselves,” Bengals second-year coach Zac Taylor said.
CHANGING IT UP
This will be the Giants’ first game with Dave DeGuglielmo in charge of the offensive line. Before the bye week, coach Joe Judge fired O-line assistant Marc Colombo. Judge wanted to hire DeGuglielmo as a consultant, and Colombo objected a little too much.
After a slow start, the young line has been performing well, particularly in establishing the running game. New York has gained at least 100 yards rushing in six of the last seven games.
GROUND DOWN
Cincinnati’s offense was forced to become even more one-dimensional after featured back Joe Mixon went out with a foot injury suffered in Week 6 against the Colts. His backup is the sturdy Giovani Bernard, known more for his reliable blocking and pass catching. He is questionable after dealing with a concussion.
Between Bernard and Samaje Perine, the Bengals managed just 37 yards on 14 carries last week.
KICKING COVID-19
Giants kicker Graham Gano tested positive for COVID-19 after the Philadelphia game on Nov. 15. There is a chance he will be back Sunday. Gano, who has made 20 straight field goal attempts, has been isolating in a hotel room. He recently released a video showing him kicking into a net in his room.
If Gano cannot play, the Giants probably will use Ryan Santoso. He was added to roster recently from the practice squad.
QB QUANDARY
Neither Finley nor Allen has distinguished himself thus far in the NFL. Allen started three games for Denver last year and has been the Bengals' practice squad quarterback this season. Finley, who has been Burrow's backup, was unremarkable in three games last year when Andy Dalton was benched. Coming in after Burrow was injured last week, Finley was 3 for 10 for 30 yards and tossed an interception.
AP Sports Writer Tom Canavan contributed.
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What is Social Media?
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The definition of social media is so broad that people can hardly understand what it covers. The easiest way to describe this term is to split its meaning into two parts:
“Social” – refers to various interactions among people presuming sharing and consuming of information between them
“Media”– refers to communication tools (Internet, magazines, newspapers, TV, etc.) applied in interactions among people
Using these two terms we can define social media as an online communication tool used for interactions between people involving sharing and consuming of information.
To make this explanation more specific we have to determine the main goals and features of social media.
What Is Social Media Used For and Its Main Features
Defining social media we have to understand its functions and key characteristics. A good start is to determine what refers to social media and what does not. For example, traditional media like TV or newspapers should not be considered as social media. The reason for that is fairly simple – they do not presume interaction between people. The information delivers one way and no feedback comes back from the target audience. On the contrary, blogs are part of social media as they serve as a communication hub between people. They have a comments section and certain network where blog members interact.
Social media is different from social networking because the meanings of media and networking are not the same. The media deals with shared information, whereas networking, refers to interaction with people in different forms including social media. These two forms of interaction overlap, but do not coincide.
If you have a question whether a certain site, app or network can be defined as social media, investigate how these features represent on it:
Personal accounts and pages – social media means easy communication and collaboration. To achieve this, people set up individual accounts for interaction with other people and profile pages to develop their own brands
Easy navigation and connectivity – users have to easily get in touch with each other. The site or app has to allow the following, subscription, hashtags, group building and other features simplifying user interaction
Profiles customization – social media allows people to organize their profiles in the way they like, including certain features and managing the information they are interested in
Notification and news feed – social media has to keep the user updated about the main changes in his accounts and about the life of other people with whom he interacts. People have to receive various forms of content relevant for their social needs and stimulating them to discuss it with other users through shares and comments
Privacy and security – people prefer to protect their personal information from others and social media has to provide the desired security level to guarantee the users trust.
Main Keys to Social Media Success
While using social media for business needs, you have to provide value to your target customers, do this regularly following a certain schedule and interact on an ongoing basis. You have to become really social.
Frequently businesses fail to provide customers with content they want. Investigate your target audience, determine the goals of your interaction and bring value to your customers. You have to analyze the competitors, their social media strategies and content types to develop your own approach.
Most small enterprises fail to perform consistently on social media. It is not enough to make one post and disappear for a month. You have to prepare the posting schedule and stick to it. Your audience has to become accustomed to communication with your brand. Use smart posting tools to automate your social media publishing.
Finally, do not forget to be really social. Your business operates in social media to bring value to your customers and communicate with them. When people ask you questions answer immediately. It is crucial to build long-term effective collaboration with customers and raise their trust. Let them know that you really care about them and try to help in any situation. Engage with customers and ask their opinion on different issues related to your brand. Such an approach stimulates interaction and brings you loyal clients in the future.
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Joyce Clark is a 51 year resident of Glendale. She graduated from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland with a dual BA in U.S. History and Education. Her past careers include teacher of high school history, small business ownership of a book store, a professional ceramist and founder of a retail craft gallery. Joyce and her husband have three children and seven grandchildren.
Joyce was elected as the first Yucca District Councilmember in 1992 and served Glendale and the Yucca District from 1992 to 1996. Joyce took a four year break from public service when her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s to personally care for her. In 2000 she successfully ran again for Yucca District Councilmember as a write in candidate against the incumbent. She remained the voice of the Yucca District for 16 years. Joyce retired as Councilmember in 2012. During her four year retirement and as a private citizen, she devoted her time to blog writing on issues in Glendale and to a new Koi pond now home to over 30 Koi.
In 2016, Joyce won re-election as the Yucca District Councilmember. She is the only elected official in the State of Arizona to have defeated an incumbent as a write-in candidate and to have subsequently defeated a second incumbent.
In January 2019, Clark was elected Vice Mayor. She currently serves on the Arizona League of Cities and Towns Budget and Finance Committee; is Chairperson of the Council Business Committee; and serves on the Council Code Review Committee and the Council Government Affairs Committee.
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Council Office: 623-930-2249
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Vice President and CIO, Office of Information Technology
Chief Information Security Officer, Office of Information Technology
Brian Dahlin
University information is a valuable asset to the University of Minnesota and requires appropriate protection. Unauthorized use or disclosure of data protected by laws, regulations, or contractual obligations could cause severe harm to the University or members of the University community, and could subject the University to fines or government sanctions.
In order to manage these risks:
Units and University community members must ensure that their electronic devices, including personally owned devices used for University business, and other resources which store, transmit, or process University information, or can impact the security of the data, meet the information security processes and standards contained in the appendices of this policy, and all pertinent laws, regulations, or contractual obligations. Examples of standards include controls related to data storage, access, security protection software, and awareness.
Authorized individuals will be provided access to data they need to carry out work responsibilities.
Data custodians must limit access to University data classified as private data to those individuals whose work responsibilities require it.
Employees and departments must follow the appropriate approval processes to request access to non-public information and request removal of access when no longer needed.
Individuals authorized by their job responsibilities to share University data with internal audiences must follow the procedures related to sharing University data, including instructions on aggregating data where appropriate.
Employees must report known non-compliance with any requirement of this policy to University Information Security (security@umn.edu).
Individual University community members who do not comply with this policy or the University's information security standards may be denied access to University IT resources and may be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination.
Units may specify additional more stringent requirements within their physical or administrative areas of responsibility.
Units unable to meet a requirement defined by the information security standards must obtain an exception through the exception request procedure.
The University Chief Information Officer or delegate may allow exceptions to this policy after consultation with the unit and the appropriate compliance officer.
This policy will help to:
comply with legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements to protect data;
safeguard University data and IT resources from accidental or intentional damage and the data stored or accessed by these IT resources from alteration or theft of data;
designate the appropriate level of security requirements for securing IT resources;
increase the value of University information resources through widespread and appropriate use;
prevent the inappropriate and unauthorized disclosure of information and thereby avoid adverse legal consequences.
Requesting an Exception to the Information Security Policy
Using the Information Security Standards
Managing Access to University Information
Sharing Data with University Educational and Administrative Audiences
Sharing Data with University Faculty and Researchers
UM 1893 - Memorandum of Understanding (MOU): Sharing Private Data with University of Minnesota Faculty and Researchers – Example um1893.docx
Authentication, Access, and Account Management Standard
Change Management Standard
Data Center Security Standard
Data Storage and Backup & Recovery Standard
Encryption Standard
Information Security Awareness, Education and Training Standard
Log Management Standard
Media Sanitization Standard
Network Firewall Standard
Network Management Standard
Security Patch Management Standard
Software Development Standard
Systems and Device Management Standard
Technical Vulnerability Management Standard
Vendor/Supplier Management Standard
Virus/Malware Protection Management Standard
If my smartphone or other electronic device only supports the use of numbers, not alphabetical and special characters, is that acceptable authentication?
For electronic devices that do not support the use of complex passwords for authentication, use biometric (e.g., finger print), or a complex swipe pattern, or a non-obvious number sequence. For example, do not use your employee ID or part of your phone number. See Authentication, Access, and Account Management Standard related information for complex password features.
Why do I need to use a password after the screensaver is activated and why is the time so short?
The password helps protect you from malicious use of your device or others viewing your display when your device is not attended. The screensaver prevents anyone who steals or finds your device (e.g., laptop) from using the device, acting as you, stealing data, etc. See Authentication, Access, and Account Management Standard for other settings that help protect data and your device.
How does the Information Security policy relate to personal devices?
Personal devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops) used for University business need to comply with the Information Security Policy and the information security standards contained in the policy.
How does the Information Security policy relate to vendor solutions?
Vendor solutions also need to comply with the Information Security Policy and the information security standards contained in the policy.
Brian Dahlin 612-625-1505 bdahlin@umn.edu
HIPAA Compliance Medical Records, PHI Medical Records, PHI
Lori Ketola 612-626-5844 ljketola@umn.edu
FERPA Compliance Student Records
Stacey Tidball 612-626-0075 tidball@umn.edu
PCI Compliance Credit Card Data
Accounts Receivable Services 612-625-2392 pmtcard@umn.edu
Director, EFS Customer Support, Controller’s Office (Data Custodian) 612-624-1617 controller@umn.edu
Human Resources/Payroll
Director, Office of Human Resources (Data Custodian) 612-624-8647 or 800-756-2363 ohr@umn.edu
University Registrar 612-625-2803 srhelp@umn.edu
Coordinator, Records and Information Management Office; or Office of the General Counsel 612-625-3497
612-624-4100 mckin018@umn.edu
Institutional Analysis of University Data, University Data Custodian
Director of Institutional Analysis 612-626-9518 kalls001@umn.edu
The ability to view information and, when applicable, change, delete, duplicate, or transfer it.
Data that the University generates or collects for operational purposes. It does not include data collected during faculty research.
Application Custodian
The University designated individual responsible for serving as a steward of the application or system, or for provisioning access.
Authorized Individual
An employee, consultant, volunteer or other individual who needs access to University information to perform an activity on behalf of the University.
A verification that substantiates a person's identity.
Compensating Control
An alternate but effective means of meeting a security requirement.
The University designated individual responsible for a broad type of data (e.g., HIPAA, PCI DSS, FERPA), or data set (e.g., research data) across the University, consistent with University policy and all applicable state and federal laws, and contractual agreements.
A control is any administrative, management, technical, or legal method that is used to prevent, detect or correct risks. Controls are also known as safeguards or countermeasures. Controls include practices, policies, procedures, programs, and technologies.
A level assigned to a control at each security level.
Required- Must apply the control.
Recommended- Should apply the control. It is not required due to limitations in available technology or because the control could potentially place an undue burden on a unit to implement. Units should evaluate the implications of not implementing the control and determine whether or not a compensating control has or can be implemented.
Optional- Evaluate and apply the control as appropriate.
Information collected, stored, transferred, or reported for any purpose, whether electronically or on hard copy.
Data Custodian
The University designated individual responsible for serving as a steward of University data in a particular area (e.g., principal investigator (PI)).
Data Owner
The individual with primary authority and accountability for specified information (e.g., a specific business function) or type of data (e.g., research). Where there is a designated University compliance officer, the compliance officer is the data owner.
Enterprise System or Application
System or application that is designated by the Vice President for Information Technology or designee as Enterprise. Enterprise Systems or Applications are typically used across one or more campuses.
Health Care Component
Unit(s) of the University that provide health care or are part of the health plan or are designated by the University as health care components covered under HIPAA. These covered health care components include units that provide health care ("Provider Components") and the Health Plan of the University.
Information Technology Resource (IT resource)
Facilities, technologies, and information resources used for University information processing, transfer, storage, and communications. Included in this definition are computer labs, classroom technologies, computing and electronic communications devices and services, e-mail, networks, telephones (including cellular), voice mail, fax transmissions, video, multimedia, and instructional materials. This definition is not all inclusive but rather reflects examples of equipment, supplies and services. This also includes services that are University owned, leased, operated or provided by the University or otherwise connected to University resources, such as cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), or any other connected/hosted service.
Internal Audiences
For the purpose of sharing administrative data, internal audiences are current employees with a business need to know, requiring access to the data to perform their job duties.
Multi-user System
Any system used by multiple people. Examples include: workstation (e.g., Windows, Mac computer) used by multiple individuals, server (e.g., application, database, web, print, authentication, virtual), medical device, storage area network (SAN), network attached storage (NAS), software application, database. When appropriate, a system used by multiple individuals sequentially may use the single-user designation.
Private Data
For the purposes of this policy, private-highly restricted and private-restricted are defined in Administrative Policy: Data Security Classification.
Individuals or units who provide data in any form to those audiences requesting either aggregated data or detail unit record data.
Public data is defined by Minnesota Statutes as “data collected, created, received, maintained or disseminated by a government entity” unless classified as private by statute or federal law. For purposes of the Sharing Data with University Educational and Administrative Audiences procedure and the Sharing Data with University Faculty and Researchers procedure, public data are those administrative data elements that are non-FERPA suppressed. All other data are considered private. For a list of public and private data elements see the list of examples provided through Administrative Policy Public Access to University Information.
A level (high, medium, or low) assigned to data or IT resource following the process in Administrative Policy: Data Security Classification.
Security Violation
Any action that does not comply with system security concepts, policies, processes, or procedures.
A computer which provides services for other computers connected to it via a network. Common examples are file servers, web servers, mail servers, and database servers.
Single-user System
Any system primarily used by a single person at a time. Examples include: workstation (e.g., Windows, Mac computer), laptop, tablet/pad, mobile device (e.g., smart phone), software application, and database. When appropriate, a system used by multiple individuals sequentially may use the multi-user designation.
Defines information security controls by which an individual or IT resource within the scope must adhere to.
The person to whom an individual directly reports. For those seeking access to information not published publicly, or access to centrally supported systems, it is the person designated by the Dean, Director or Department Head to function in that role for information/data access purposes.
Unauthorized Disclosure
The act of providing information to any person or entity not specifically authorized to receive such information, whether inside or outside of the University community.
Any organizational entity within the University. Includes, but is not limited to colleges, departments, centers, institutes, offices and programs.
Unit Record Data
Data that is considered non-aggregated data at the lowest level of detail (e.g., individual student or employee level data).
University Community Member
A University community member is a student, faculty or staff member, University guest, volunteer, contractor, or employee of an affiliated entity.
University Data Custodian
The University designated individual responsible for serving as steward of University data when data crosses organizational and system boundaries.
University Data Network
The University data network includes University telecommunications facilities such as the UM data network with all wired or wireless links including departmental networks, ResNet, UM Wireless, academic and administrative network facilities, network facilities serving affiliates or tenants, and system campus networks.
Information collected, manipulated, stored, reported or presented in any format, on any medium, by any unit of the University, unless contractually identified as owned by another entity.
University-Owned Computers
All computers purchased using University related funds, irrespective of whether the source of those funds is the legislature, research grants, sponsored, foundation or departmental budgets.
User Level Account
An account on a system that is authorized to run programs and applications, and use the system, but does not have the ability to directly install programs and applications, or change the system configuration. Examples of accounts that are not user level accounts include the root account on Unix-like systems, and user level account with administrative privileges or Administrator account on Windows systems.
Review and comply with this policy, the information security standards, and related procedures, as well as pertinent laws or contractual obligations.
Inform administrative and technical staff of private-highly restricted or private-restricted data that is stored on computers and other electronic devices.
Work with their IT Director, IT Service Owner, or Department Head through the exception request process if needed.
Report non-compliance with this policy to University Information Security (email security@umn.edu).
Authorized Individual or Employee
Review access needs with Supervisor.
Submit access request to Supervisor.
Maintain the integrity and confidentiality of information.
Report security violations to Supervisor and/or University Information Security (email security@umn.edu).
Review access needs with staff.
Review and submit access requests.
Request access changes for those they have authorized.
Change in job responsibilities.
Transfer within the University.
Termination from the University.
Report security violations to Data Custodians, Application Custodians and/or the group that manages access to the system or application, and University Information Security (email security@umn.edu).
Provide legal advice, including information classification to Data Custodians and other University personnel, to ensure compliance with state and federal laws.
Records and Information Management Office
Serve as the responsible authority and data practices compliance official under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act and fulfills requests for public information that cannot be met through existing reports and other materials.
Assist General Counsel in advising University staff and other decision-makers regarding access to and disclosure ofUniversity Information.
Provide policy direction and oversight regarding access to University data.
Ensure appropriate and consistent procedures related to accessing data.
Decide how University data will be treated (e.g., any restrictions for viewing, printing, copies).
Assemble appropriate constituent groups to examine specific data issues crossing organizational and system boundaries, while balancing the needs and desires of the constituent groups, within legal and data security policy constraints.
When needed, resolve problems that arise at the Data Custodian and Application Custodian levels.
Participate with the University Data Custodian, other Data Custodians, University Information Security, Compliance Officers and legal representatives, in the development of University data access policy and procedures.
Advise the Application Custodians, Supervisors and Data Owners on data access as it relates to their areas of responsibility.
Establish appropriate processes and procedures for access to data stored within the systems for which they are responsible, in cooperation with others responsible within the organization.
Advise Supervisors, Data Owners and others on access and procedures as it relates to their applications.
May authorize data access, or grant system access based on the authorization of others, in accordance with University policy and access processes. When performing this function, system administration responsibilities must be performed by another individual or area.
Monitor access based on University policy.
Monitor data security compliance.
Investigate allegations and incidents of non-compliance.
Recommend appropriate corrective and disciplinary actions.
Develop and maintain policies related to the compliance requirements.
Participate with the University Data Custodian, other Data Custodians, University Information Security and legal representatives, in the development of University data access policy and procedures.
Secure IT resources in accordance with this policy, information security standards and related procedures, as well as pertinent laws or contractual obligations.
Establish, develop, implement and manage the organization's access processes, systems and procedures in coordination with the Data Custodians, Application Custodians and other security and system administrators.
Participate in campus and University-wide technical and security groups or forums.
Respond to technical questions from users related to securing IT resources.
Complete gap analysis for the IT resources the unit manages.
Participate in exception to policy or information security standards request process, if needed.
Campus, College, and Department Administrators
Assign the responsibility of managing the risk and identifying specific security requirements associated within the collegiate or departmental unit.
Create, disseminate, and enforce local security requirements to comply with University-wide policies for IT resources under their control.
Provide oversight and assure the security of legally or contractually private data created, stored, or accessed by employees.
Assign the responsibility of maintaining documentation of information security controls in operational procedures and ensuring that they are used and known by all affected individuals.
Manage the security gap analysis for data and IT resources for security control requirements.
Request exceptions to policy or information security standards, if needed.
Provide data to those audiences requesting either aggregate data or detail unit record data following the administrative procedures for sharing data with University educational and administrative audiences, University faculty, or University Researchers.
University VP of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Delegated authority and responsibility for Information Technology security.
Designate individuals who have the responsibility and authority for information technology resources.
Designate individuals who have the responsibility for information technology policies.
Review and approve information security standards.
Approve the list of systemsand applications designated as an enterprise system or application.
University Chief Information Security Officer or Designate
Delegated authority and responsibility for Information Technology security from the CIO.
Establish and maintain an Information Security Advisory Committee to provide guidance on information security policy, standards, and procedures, requested exceptions to policies and information security standards, information security risk, information security incidents, and other information security related matters.
Establish information security policies and standards to protect University data, other private data, and University IT resources. Review and approve final information security standards following the CIO approved process.
Establish a process to review exception requests to information security policies and standards.
Provide security policy advice to Supervisors and other offices.
Office of Information Technology (OIT) - University Information Security
Manage the information security policies and standards exception process.
Provide guidance on information technology security issues.
Monitor and notify regarding potential system intrusions
Review reported and discovered security incidents.
Provide oversight for the vulnerability scan process.
Operational responsibility and authority to remove non-compliant electronic devices from the network and, as appropriate, retrieve equipment and data as part of an investigation.
Coordinate with the unit administrative and technical/security staff to assure that actions are taken as necessary to protect University resources.
Coordinate with law enforcement, compliance offices, and the Office of the General Counsel.
Security Advisory Committee
Advise on information security issues.
Advise on information security policies and standards for high-level risks to the University.
Board of Regents Policy:Student Education Records
Administrative Policy: Acceptable Use of Information Technology Resources
Administrative Policy: Accepting Revenue Via Payment Cards(Credit Cards PCI)
Administrative Policy: Access to and Use of Physical Security Data
Administrative Policy: Data Security Breach
Administrative Policy: Data Security Classification
Administrative Policy: Entering Into Contracts
Administrative Policy: Information Security Risk Management
Administrative Policy: Managing Student Records(FERPA)
Administrative Policy: Managing University Records and Information
Administrative Policy: Protected Health Information
Administrative Policy: Public Access to University Information
Administrative Policy: Purchasing Goods and Services
Related Laws and Regulations
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
Gramm-Leach Bliley (GLBA)
Minnesota Data Practices Act
Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986
Electronic Communications and Privacy Act of 1986
USA PATRIOT Act of 2001
Related Instructions
Enterprise Access Requests
University of Minnesota Foundation Donor Management System
Electronic Grants Management System (EGMS)
Practice Safe Computing- General Information on Available Security Controls
June 2019 - Comprehensive Review.
Merges the Internal Access to and Sharing University Information policy with the Information Security policy
Updates the Managing Access to University Information to include procedure for provisioning and access review
Updates the security controls in the information security standards (in appendices) to provide more clarification and identify which are required at each security level
Combines security standards and controls for multi-user and single-user systems into a new information security standard and add new standards for software development, virus/malware protection management and encryption
Updates the policy statement, reason for the policy, contacts, definitions, responsibilities, related information, procedures and appendices (standards)
April 2015 - Comprehensive Review, Major Revision. Title of the policy changed from Securing Private Data, Computers and Other Electronic Devices to Information Security. The content updated to reflect information security controls and Data Security Classification. Basic and Enhanced Security for Computers and Other Electronic Devices procedure removed.
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Mathematical Finance pp 595-615 | Cite as
Mean-Variance Hedging
Ernst Eberlein
Jan Kallsen
First Online: 04 December 2019
Part of the Springer Finance book series (FINANCE)
In Sect. 11.3 we discussed pricing and hedging of OTC derivatives from the option writer’s point of view. The approach was based on arbitrage arguments.
Appendix 1: Problems
The exercises correspond to the section with the same number.
12.1 (Basis Risk)
Suppose that a claim is written on an asset \(\widetilde S\) which cannot be traded. Instead, only a closely correlated security S1 is liquid enough to be used for hedging purposes. Specifically, we consider discounted price processes
$$\displaystyle \begin{aligned} dS_1(t)&=S_1(t)(\mu dt+\sigma dW(t)),\\ d\widetilde S(t)&=\widetilde S(t)(\widetilde\mu dt+\widetilde\sigma d\widetilde W(t)), \end{aligned} $$
where \(\mu ,\widetilde \mu ,\sigma ,\widetilde \sigma \) are constants and \((W,\widetilde W)\) is a two-dimensional Brownian motion with \(E(W(1))=0=E(\widetilde W(1))\), \(\mathrm {Var}(W(1))=1=\mathrm {Var}(\widetilde W(1))\), and \(\mathrm {Cov}(W(1),\widetilde W(1))=\varrho \). Only S1 is assumed to be tradable. For simplicity we assume S1 to be a martingale, i.e. μ = 0.
The claim under consideration is of the form \(H=f(\widetilde S(T))\) for some function \(f:\mathbb R _+\to \mathbb R\). Derive expressions for the variance-optimal hedging strategy φ⋆ of H and for the minimal quadratic risk ε2(φ⋆). How do these quantities depend on ϱ?
12.2 (Reduction to the Martingale Case)
We consider the setup and the notation of Sect. 12.2. Suppose that \(\mathscr {E}(-a\bullet S)\) is positive. We denote by
$$\displaystyle \begin{aligned}\widetilde S:=(\widetilde S_0,\dots,\widetilde S_d):={(S_0,\dots,S_d)\over\mathscr{E}(-a\bullet S)}\end{aligned}$$
the original price process, but discounted relative to the value process of the self-financing strategy φ with \(\varphi _i:=a_i\mathscr {E}(-a\bullet S)_-\), i = 1, …, d and initial value 1. Accordingly, we write \(\widetilde H:=H/\mathscr {E}(-a\bullet S)(T)\) for the payoff H, discounted relative to the same numeraire. Finally, we need the probability measure Q ∼ P with density
$$\displaystyle \begin{aligned}{dQ\over dP}:={\mathscr{E}(-a\bullet S)(T)^2\over E(\mathscr{E}(-a\bullet S)(T)^2) }.\end{aligned}$$
Show that
\(\widetilde S\) is a Q-martingale, i.e. Q is an EMM for S relative to the tradable numeraire \(\mathscr {E}(-a\bullet S)\);
the variance-optimal hedging strategy of \(\widetilde H\) relative to \(\widetilde S\) and measure Q coincides with the variance-optimal hedging strategy φ⋆ of H relative to S and the original measure P;
the minimal quadratic risks are related via
$$\displaystyle \begin{aligned}\widetilde\varepsilon^2(\varphi^\star)L(0)=\varepsilon^2(\varphi^\star)\end{aligned}$$
where we write \(\widetilde V_\varphi =\varphi ^\top \widetilde S\) for the discounted value of any self-financing strategy φ and \(\widetilde \varepsilon ^2(\varphi ):=E_Q((\widetilde V_\varphi (T)-\widetilde H)^2)\) for its quadratic risk.
Note that the hedging problem for \(\widetilde H\) relative to \(\widetilde S\) and Q is of the simpler structure of Sect. 12.1.
Appendix 2: Notes and Comments
A hands-on introduction to regression in finance can be found in the textbook [54]. Quadratic hedging started with [118] in the martingale case and [79] for securities with drift. We refer to [233, 270] for an overview over the extensive literature in the field and to [55] for more recent publications.
As far as rigorous statements are concerned, Rule 12.1 is a special case of the general setup in Sect. 12.2. The operator formulation of the solution can be found in [37]. In particular, we refer to [37, Theorems 3 and 5] for rigorous versions of Rules 12.3, 12.4. Section 12.1.3 is based on the results of [178, 179, 231], but the idea to apply Laplace transforms to quadratic hedging goes back to [148]. The latter covers Example 12.9 as a special case. Section 12.2 closely follows the reasoning in [55], where rigorous statements and proofs can be found. Example 12.13 can be found in [148]. For extensions to the affine case see [56, 184]. Problem 12.1 is taken from [147]. The numeraire change approach of Problem 12.2 has been put forward by [128] in the continuous case and extended by [3] in the presence of jumps.
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2.Department of MathematicsKiel UniversityKielGermany
Eberlein E., Kallsen J. (2019) Mean-Variance Hedging. In: Mathematical Finance. Springer Finance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26106-1_12
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Fr. Maciel Poet & Plagiarist
This article was written many years ago to undermine the blind devotion that Legion, and especially Regnum Christi, members had for this sample of much admired Fr. Maciel’s Lyrical Mysticism. A few years ago Legion/Regnum Christi leadership fessed up that he had plagiarized it from a Spanish patriot. It could still be of some interest; hopefully as a little warning sign to those who blindly believe what their LC/RC superiors and spiritual directors tell them is Gospel truth.
The following article has not been updated and stands as it was written and published about 15 years ago: a tribute to the writer’s prophetic gifts (as recognized for all Christians in the Vatican II’s dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium).
FR. MACIEL’S PSALTER OF MY DAYS
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By 1961 LC Co-founder
<There are blows in life so violent –I don’t understand!
Blows as if from the hatred of God; as if before them
The silt of all sufferings
Backs up into the soul… I don’t understand!
Not many; but they exist…they open dark furrows
In the most ferocious face and in the most bull-like back.
Perhaps they are the horses of that heathen Attila,
Or the black heralds sent to us by Death.>
(B.V.)
With great expectations did I approach my mailbox to pick up the copy of El Salterio de Mis Días furtively sent by a friend. I had not seen this text, attributed to Father Maciel, for over twenty years. I opened it reverently on the plane on my way to Mexico: “this edition January 3, 1991, 50th anniversary of the Foundation of the Legion; Ediciones CES [LC Center for Higher Studies, Rome]”, printed in Italy; a slim, cream hardcover enclosing 145 pages of expensive paper. The Psalter itself is shorter, as the book contains some ‘padding’ before and after the actual text. I approach it with an open, respectful and questioning mind:
I have a relationship with this small book. The Psalter of Father Maciel, El Salterio de Mis Días, has been venerated in Legionary communities since at least the early 60s, being considered a special text, for the exclusive use of Legionaries, and later, RC members. Mine were perhaps the first non-Hispanic eyes privileged to read and meditate these personal prayers of Nuestro Padre. Originally, they circulated as a collection of stapled Xeroxed type-written or offset pages, without any introduction or biblical references. As a Legionary Theology Student at the Collegio Massimo 1968-9 on Via Aurelia 677, the writer was also a devout biblical student. In the Psalter he treasured, the content layout was not as tidy or as clear as the present edition, divided now into psalms I to XIV, and each psalm subdivided into sections with Arabic numerals. What better way to familiarize myself with the Bible and show my devotion for Nuestro Padre than to research the biblical references present in the Psalter. With great enthusiasm I set about the task.
The present edition contains a prologue, Latin numerals lower-case vii-xiv, attributed to B.S., who, I assume is Fr. Bernardo Skertchly. I can only imagine what an honor it must have been for him to craft this presentation and thus be so closely associated with The Founder, and having his words in the same publication. The prologue is written in a simple, evocative, and devout style, with ample citations from the Psalter itself, referred to as Smd, an acronym that would seem to confer official status to the Psalter alongside the CLC [Constitutions of the Legion of Christ] and the CNP [Cartas de Nuestro Padre, Letters of Father Maciel]. It is sprinkled with quotations from the New Testament, the Letters of Father Maciel, and contains one citation from Pope Paul VI. Fr. BS tells us that the Smd is a window into the soul of Father Maciel: a landscape of tears, fatigue, suffering and Calvary.
THE PSALTER’S LYRICISM
Fr. Maciel’s Psalter starts off sprightly with:
“I know, Lord, that without You I can do nothing,
But I also know that with You I can do all.
I know, Lord, that having elected me
You will always be my strength,
Because you are the One who comforts me.”
Let us pause for a note on the Psalter’s ‘poetic’ style which may very favorably impress the English-speaking first-time-reader, especially the RC Consecrated female, who delves into the Spanish text. The literary poetic value of the Smd cannot be calibrated from the perspective of Spanish 101, i.e. from a rudimentary knowledge of the language of Cervantes. The reader must be mindful of the innate lyricism of the Spanish language in and of itself, which can even overcome a poor English translation. Just think of
“Last night as I lay a-sleeping,
I dreamed –oh blessed hope!–
There was a fountain flowing;
Deep down in my soul.
From what hidden source,
Tell me, water, you come to me?
I never drank before
From a spring as sweet as thee.”
So speaks Antonio Machado, the great modern Spanish poet; with the same powerful metaphors and pathos speaks the Peruvian, César Vallejo, quoted as a preface to this essay [excerpt from Los Heraldos Negros, 1918]. And we all are familiar with the passion and simplicity of Pablo Neruda’s “Twenty love poems and a sad song.” All this without mentioning the Spanish Golden Age of poetry with the likes of Lope De Vega, St. John of the Cross, Luis de León and others who excelled in religious, Christ-centered poetry. So the Psalter needs to be examined against that impressive backdrop.
Remember also that the Psalter, as a collection of poetic prayers, is by its very genre lyrical, emotional, evocative, and metaphorical. Everyday Spanish, with its idioms and saying, can easily conjure a certain poetic, even exotic, feeling. When reading these common metaphors for the first time the non-native Spanish reader may be struck by their force. But one has to distinguish the common from the uncommon. For these reasons readers should not gullibly admire the surface lyricism of the Fr. Maciel’s Psalter. Rather should they ask themselves to what extent does Fr. Maciel rise above common Spanish language clichés when describing his experiences and his relationship with the Lord. And, what would be left of the content and style if the already powerful Biblical images were also stripped away? As an example of the latter let us examine a brief passage in an English that does the original more than justice.
Psalter of My Days, pages 19-20
” II- Psalm of Faith
2. I believe, like Job, when Your light goes out
I believe in Thee, Lord.
I wear my faith like armor to protect me
Against the loud clash of the world
Throughout my sleepless days and
My anxiety ridden nights.
I believe in Your word ineffable and serene,
For nothing will happen to me without your permission.
I believe, like Job, in richess and in poverty,
When Your light grows dim and I grope in the dark,
Looking for the old paths to guide me.
When this black river of doubt
Tries to break my dyke of hope…”
As the reader continues through this psalm he encounters one biblical reference after another in the following two paragraphs:
[…] When I cast my nets over and over again [reference to the miraculous draft of fishes, Luke, chapter 5, used repeatedly throughout this poem]
I believe you test your chosen ones [literally, Book of Wisdom. and how God purifies them like gold in a crucible, 8, 5-6]
Because when the seed falls in to the earth [literally, John, 12, 24]
I would like to surrender to You,
That You put me close to You,
Like a seal on Your heart [literally, Song of Songs, 8, 6]
Notice the plethora of literal biblical references above in two short paragraphs. So abundant are they that footnotes cannot keep up with them. The present version of the Psalter notes only the Song of Songs, 8, 6, omitting the other three which are –to use a cliché- as clear as daylight.
COMPARISON OF DAVID’S AND MARCIAL’S PSALTERS
By utilizing the psalm genre Fr. Maciel invites comparisons with the original Davidic Psalter. Exegetes have traditionally attributed the Psalter to King David, a deeply religious, passionate and sinful man living in the 10th century. David’s psalms number 150; Father Maciel’s are 15, a neat tenth of David’s number. The attentive reader might discover some artifice in Smd’s number of 15. Further scrutiny shows how only 14 psalms can really be attributed to Father Maciel. The #15 is not a psalm but an adaptation of the Divine Praises litany traditionally recited before the Blessed Sacrament. Despite this, such an ordinary text is given the title ‘Psalm of Blessing in My Exile’. Thus the last ‘psalm’ would intentionally make 15 and simultaneously, through its title, artificially tie the whole Smd to that painful period in The Founder’s life originally called ‘The War’ and later re-named ‘The Great Blessing’. The title of the last psalm would appear as an attempt to demonstrate how Fr. Maciel had overcome any bitterness he might have initially experienced during those harrowing times.
Another inevitable comparison is between the spirituality of David and Marcial. David committed murderous adultery in possessing Bathsheba, and after his conversion he openly admits his sinfulness and shortcomings and does public penance. Father Maciel’s confession of personal sin is very muted. Though he does ask God to forgive him, it is not clear of what concrete wrongs Fr. Maciel is conscious. Other readers can examine this aspect in further depth. The Psalter of My Days’ lacks David’s full orchestra of feelings returning often to a single note of lament. Moreover, at second glance its spirituality appears less like David’s ardent passion and more like that of the [Innocent] Suffering Servant of Yahweh described in the 2nd Book of the Prophet Isaiah. Fr. Maciel is more intent on expressing his forgiveness of those who gratuitously persecute him than in begging forgiveness of others and focusing on his own shortcomings.
Fr. Maciel’s psalms, nevertheless, do reflect the essential nature of this genre which is a direct and spontaneous crying out to the Lord. Whereas David cries out in his own words, influenced naturally by the Torah and his tradition, Father Maciel frequently resorts to the words of Jesus and St. Paul and to such an extent that often he would seem to simply paraphrase them. This writer was one of the privileged co-founders of the early 60s with access to the original version of the Fr. Maciel’s Psalter. As previously stated, the layout was not as clear. That XV psalm was certainly not present. The opus contained few if any biblical citations. Spurred by his devotion for Nuestro Padre and by his approaching priestly ordination, this writer devoted many hours to finding the Psalter’s biblical underpinnings. Some months before ordination he proudly presented his labor of love to his spiritual father.
I am personally convinced that Father Maciel, or the Psalter writer did not research the biblical references originally but quoted freely from the Scripture as was the custom in the 50’ and 60’ among Spanish speaking preachers. This consideration would not lead us to necessarily conclude that Fr. Maciel read the Bible or the New Testament during his exile. He could have written spontaneously, or dictated his thoughts to someone familiar with the New Testament and endowed with a poetic pen.
HISTORICAL QUESTIONS AND CONCLUSION
Historical testimonies confirm that Fr. Maciel has rarely been absolutely alone to fend for himself since the 50s. He has always had at least one religious or priest to accompany him and assist with his practical needs when leaving the community house, which is often. The companion’s duties include taking dictation, running errands, preparing meals, procuring medications, setting up appointments, traveling with him…Thus a series of historical questions arises at this stage. Who were the religious brothers or priests close to Fr. Maciel when the ‘Great Blessing’ broke out? Who was with Nuestro Padre during his exile, or when the Psalter of My Days started to come together? Did Fr. Maciel have any assistance with the writing or the research? How was this document conceived, originally written, and how did it develop? What are we to make of its authorship attributed to Fr. Maciel, and of its literary and spiritual value? The answers to these questions I will leave to my betters.
When in 1968-9 the devout Legionary biblical student had finished his labor of love, he awaited an opportunity to meet Fr. Maciel in the corridors of the college in Rome. When the big moment came, he shyly accosted The Founder and showed him the results of his efforts. The writer cannot remember whether he had found more citations than the present edition contains. Fr. Maciel took the work—painstakingly hand annotated—glimpsed at it, briefly thanked the young seminarian, and walked away. The seminarian never knew whether his ‘tireless efforts’ had pleased his father, spiritual director, superior, and mentor. He did not keep a copy of his annotations as Xerox was not readily available to him. Perhaps he was hoping it would be reviewed by those wiser and higher up, that a reaction or feedback would be forthcoming. There was none. Humility told him not to lend too much importance to his personal creations or wishes. He soon became busy preparing for his ordination to the deaconate and for his final S.T.L. exams. He did not dwell on his gift, for it was graciously given. Nevertheless, perhaps he secretly desired his efforts would lead others to the vibrant and mysterious Word of God lying under the Psalter of My Days.
Let us close our foray into Spanish religious poetry by returning to Antonio Machado [1875-1938], a member of Spain’s literary Generation of ’98. The apparently naive verses of Anoche cuando dormía, introduced earlier, continue and conclude:
Last night as I lay a sleeping,
There was a beehive growing,
And inside, the golden bees
Were making with a flurry,
From bits of old bitterness,
Soft wax and sweetening honey.
I dreamt, –oh blessed hope!–
A burning sun was glowing
It was burning because it produced
Warmth of fireside bright,
And it was sun because it flared
Bringing tears, blinding my sight.
I dreamed-oh blessed hope!—
It was God whom I was keeping
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Quotes tagged “Guns”
“Crazy crackers with guns. Its time I get my black ass out of here.”
— Chaka, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Tagged: black ass, crackers, anti-white racism, Guns
“A man has to be what he is. Joey. Can't break the mold. There's no living with the killing. There's no going back. Right or wrong. It's a brand. A brand that sticks. Now you run on home to your mother. You tell her everything's alright. There are no more guns in the valley.”
— Laura Kinney / X-23, Logan
Tagged: Man, Brand, Guns, mother
“Tank: So what do you need? Besides a miracle.
Neo: Guns. Lots of guns.”
— Tank, The Matrix
Tagged: Miracle, Guns
“Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.”
— Don Licio Lucchesi, The Godfather: Part III
Tagged: Finance, Guns, Politics
“[Clemenza prepares Michael for his meeting with Sollozzo]
Clemenza: [holding up a .22] It's as cold as they come, impossible to trace. So you don't have to worry about prints, Mike. I put a special tape on the trigger and the butt. Here, try it... [Michael takes the gun, but can't seem to fire it] What's the matter, trigger too tight? [With a loud bang, Michael finally discharges the gun]
Michael: Ow! My ears.
Clemenza: Yeah, I left it noisy. That way it scares any pain-in-the-ass innocent bystanders away. All right, you shot them both, now what do you do?
Michael: Sit down and finish my dinner.
Clemenza: Come on, kid, don't fool around. Just let your hand drop to your side and the gun slip out. Everyone will still think you've got it. They're gonna be staring at your face, Mike. So walk out of the place real fast, but you don't run. Don't look nobody directly in the eye, hut don't look away either. They're gonna be scared of you, believe me, so don't worry about nothing. [while talking, Clemenza takes the gun and begins working on it to fix the trigger] You know, Mike, you're gonna turn out all right. You take a long vacation, nobody knows where, and we'll catch the hell.
Michael: How bad do you think it's gonna be?
Clemenza: Pretty goddamned bad. Probably all the other Families will line up against us. That's all right. These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood. Been ten years since the last one. You know, you gotta stop them at the beginning. Like they should have stopped Hitler at Munich, they should never let him get away with that, they was just asking for trouble. [Clemenza now finishes working on the gun] You know, Mike, we was all proud of you being a hero and all. Your father too. [Clemenza hands the gun back to Michael]”
— Pete Clemenza, The Godfather
Tagged: Pride, Heroes, Guns, Murder, Hitler, Munich
“Say hello to my little friend!”
— Tony Montana, Scarface
Tagged: Threats, Guns
“Inadequate people have to try and feel worthy, and one way to feel worthy is to find someone else unworthy or inferior.”
— John Douglas, The Anatomy of Motive
Tagged: Violence, Mass Shootings, Serial Killers, killers, Guns, Men, toxic masculinity
“You will undoubtedly notice that I am confining myself here to characterizations of men. By definition, this is sexist, but by definition, men are the problem.”
Tagged: Violence, Mass Shootings, Serial Killers, Suicide by cop, killers, Guns, Men, toxic masculinity
“Mass murderers are different from serial ones. Those around him thought of him as weird or strange.”
Tagged: Violence, Mass Shootings, Serial Killers, Suicide by cop, killers, Guns
“They reach a point in their lives where they feel no one is paying attention to them. So they take it upon themselves to perpetrate this kind of crime.”
“These killers are such inadequate people, such losers, that they know they cannot get away and won't give others the satisfaction of controlling them or bringing them to justice.”
“If some of those wonderful people had guns strapped right to their waist, right to their ankle, and this son-of-a-bitch comes out and starts shooting, and one of the people in the room goes BOOM [points fingers like guns], BOOM [points to head], you know what? That would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight, folks. That would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight.”
— Donald Trump, Woodlands, Texas, Rally Speech
Tagged: Guns, rally, shooting
“It’s better to have ten guns and only need one than the other way around.”
— Kurt Weller, Blindspot, Season 1: Of Whose Uneasy Route
Tagged: Guns, Prepared, Ready
“We have to harden the schools, not soften them up. A gun-free zone to a killer or somebody that wants to be a killer—that’s like going in for the ice cream.”
— Donald Trump, ‘We Have to Harden Our Schools,’ Trump Says
Tagged: Guns, Education, schools, Shooters
“If anyone thinks those crimes could have been prevented if the victims themselves had been carrying guns, I'd only remind you that the president of the United States was shot last night while surrounded by the best-trained armed guards in the history of the world.”
— C.J. Cregg, The West Wing, Season 2: In the Shadow of Two Gunmen
Tagged: crimes, Victims, Guns, armed guards, History, World
“Eve Baxter: Little girl? You're lucky this rifle was chained down or you'd be limping out of here carrying a concealed weapon.
Kyle Anderson: I don't understand.
Mandy Baxter: She's gonna put it up your butt.”
— Eve Baxter, Last Man Standing, Season 4: Big Shots
Tagged: Guns, concealed weapon, butt
“The gun doesn’t care how you feel about it.”
— Daniel Salazar, Fear the Walking Dead, Season 1: The Dog
Tagged: Guns, Feelings
“I can do anything I want. I got guns.”
— Moyers, Fear the Walking Dead, Season 1: Cobalt
Tagged: Guns, Arrogance
“Guns don't kill people, the government does.”
— Dale Gribble, King of the Hill, Season 2: How to Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying
Tagged: Guns, Government, Second Amendment
“I don't wanna talk. I wanna shoot.”
— Mayor Milford, Twin Peaks, Season 2: Double Play
Tagged: talking, shooting, Guns
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Apparel Training design centre be set up soon in Agra
In a major boost to the textile industry here, an Apparel Training and Design Centre (ATDC) will become functional in the city by January next year
AGRA: In a major boost to the textile industry here, an Apparel Training and Design Centre (ATDC) will become functional in the city by January next year, in which a team of 25 people will be given training for 45 days in clothes designing.
Kishan Chand Jain of Agra Development Foundation, a delegation member, gave a ringing endorsement to the move. “The new centre would go a long way in the growth of the apparel-making industry in Agra. Moreover, the city has a large population of artisans who are engaged in hand embroidery, zardozi and other handmade products (like carpets, rugs etc). So the talent pool is here to take advantage of the centre. The tailors in Agra need to be upgraded to work on modern machines to manufacture clothes for both international and domestic markets,” he said.
A team from textile ministry is expected to visit the city to finalize the location of the centre. The Centre has also planned to develop 13 apparel parks across the country. The government has decided to provide 40% subsidy to private developers for setting up a Rs 100 crore textile cluster in 15 acres of land.
A delegation of Agra-based industrialists had met the textile minister Santosh Gangwar in October this year, and had requested him to accelerate the process in this direction.
The delegation had also submitted a representation for setting up of apparel training and design centre (ATDC) in Agra. They sought the minister’s intervention in issuing necessary instructions to the authority concerned and the apparel export promotion council (AEPC) for the setting up an ATDC in Agra.
Susequently, Gangwar had announced that an apparel manufacturing park as well as an ATDC would be set up in Agra.
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Apparel Training and Design Centre
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Women’s Park, Al Guarsha National Park, Benghazi, Libya
Date: October 18, 2009 Author: OnlyOnePlanet Category: Benghazi, cultural-arts, education, large projects, LCE Architects, library, Libya, master planning, mixed-use, recreation, retail
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Project Summary The Urban National Park will set new standards for city park design and sustainability locally and beyond. The design will create a new park on the southern edge of the city, bringing together communities and people from all walks of life, to enjoy a myriad of different active and passive leisure pursuits whilst fostering an appreciation of the natural environment. A key intention is to create a unique contemporary local design character to the park, enhancing a deeper understanding of local traditions and culture, the region’s vernacular and use of materials along with the cultural and social use of the external environment.
The new park, occupying a site of 600 hectares will transform the local landscape to accommodate traditional, recreational and relaxation pastimes with a range of new and challenging activities and themes provided for the benefit of the wider community. These will excite, inspire and heighten awareness of the natural world, sustainability, habitat and conservation. The masterplan was undertaken in collaboration with HED.
Roles and Responsibilities An important project in the development of several areas of experience for Richard personally, he enjoyed his role as Senior Associate / project lead, taking responsibility for the majority of this project.
Richard was specifically chosen to design the Women’s park due to his sensitive and considered approach to design. He was very closely involved with leading the masterplan design from site analysis and initial concept to detail design delivery, as well as taking overall design responsibility for all building design aspects related to appearance and materials (with the plans developed along a strictly functional brief by a separate team associated with the client).
Detail designs and construction drawings were developed for several selected exemplar buildings, which were drawn to a significant level of detail to allow the contract to be let to a single main contractor through an invited tender process administered by colleagues locally.
Al Guarsha National Park Masterplan
Al Guarsha National Park, Key Plan
Project Description In addition to a Local Centre for the park, providing amenity to all members of the public, there are dedicated parks for: Women, Retirees, Camping, Zoo and Theme Park which makes up a total of 600 hectares of Park on the edge of Benghazi.
Each park, substantial in itself, has a distinctive architectural theme. The Theme Park and Zoo have very specific technical requirements which require their own specific response. The zoo in particular has an innovative approach to the design where the wild animals can be seen displaying their natural behaviour.
The Retired People’s Park has a unique character, aiming to provide a relaxing and more traditional environment for older generations. The avenues and squares with their formal gardens aim to provide a more contemplative environment, with scope for social interaction around cafes, library and other buildings facing onto the main piazza in the local centre.
The Women’s Park has been designed to create an embracing, secure and nurturing family environment for women and children. The buildings have been designed as rammed earth structures, which ‘grow’ from the ground with subtle curving geometry, allowing the landscape to merge with the building. A sinuous bougainvillea planted pergola, inspired by an Arabic motif, threads its way through the park, acting as the main pedestrian circulation, providing shade, linking all the key character areas of the Women’s Park.
Roles and Responsibilities As Senior Associate responsible for the Women’s Park, Richard jointly designed it’s masterplan alongside HED and was responsible for the design of all built facilities in the park. This included client and consultant liaison, client presentations, and detail design of exemplar buildings.
Women’s Park Masterplan, Landscape Plan
Women’s Park Wayfinding Plan
Park Entrance with Administration Building beyond
Park Entrance Administration Building
Central Park footpath entrance with signage and Bougainvillea trellis in foreground
Park footpath showing Bougainvillea trellis
Park Facilities: Cafe in foreground, Children’s Centre in Background
Park Facilities: Health and Leisure Centre
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Kevin L. Clayton
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remaking moby-dick
an international multimodal storytelling performance
Remaking Moby in Print
Charter Chapter Contributors
We are Remaking Moby-Dick, again, and you are invited to be a contributor to this International multimodal experimental storytelling project. The project engages artists, writers, painters, photographers, musicians, sailors, schoolchildren and all manner of others, who are outside and in-between these designations, to contribute to our on-going narrative inspired by Melville’s materially eccentric and unwieldy text. For information and inspiration about our first remaking, please look through our site (and, if you are interested in seeing the print translation of the project, please see it at Scribd and/or order from Amazon).
In this second remaking, contributors are asked to choose an expressive means most natural, or not, to their own creative practice, and like Melville, test the boundaries of story-making outside modes of conventional, narrative telling. You may write poems and fiction-pieces, perform dances, discuss passages, play music, and tell stories across media and genre forms, all based on inspiration from Melville’s original text. You may even remake your remaking contribution in multiple forms (in print and on video, for example), and you may work individually or collaboratively. (We might even be able to assist you to find a teammate.) However, in this iteration of the project, unlike the first one that worked to cover the entire text, chapter-by-chapter, from epigraph to epilogue, we have a more selective approach. This time our focus is thematic, and we ask you instead to consider “women and other whitenesses” in the text and to build from there. We ask you to be inspired by the silences, pregnant pauses, compelling blankness, and powerful unvoiced presence(s) of those whom we know are there in the text, but whom we can’t see, hear or touch directly. Who are the women, the other sea creatures, the elements, the agents, the materials, the objects, the forces, the environments, and beings (in/organic, non/human) in Melville’s base text, and how can we voice and activate an eco-system that entangles and vitalizes them through your contributions? From poetry to painting, music to dance, sculpture to scripture, all means and modes of expression are possible for you as a remaking participant, as long as your contributions may be captured digitally (in print, video, audio, for example), so they may be published and circulated as part of our network of remaking. Our goal is create both a print version of curated selections (published as a special edition of the Pea River Journal and available for purchase) but also to develop companion texts on social media platforms and in a digital application that offers linkages, alternate readings and access to the remade materials. We strongly encourage multimedia/multimodal submissions, but are happy to accept text-based and literary submissions appropriate to print. (Project curators and co-editors, Trish Harris and Lissa Holloway-Attaway, can assist you with questions and assistance about formats for your contribution. See the “more about publishing and remaking” section below.)
We are open for contributions through June 2017. Print and digital texts will be available in late 2017. Documentation of the process and updates on contributions and other developments will be available here at the Remaking Moby-Dick blog and via our twitter feed and social media channels. Please follow us. (We mean obsessively, like Ahab after his whale. Bring a harpoon.)
More about the theme…
In our second experiment, Remaking Moby-Dick: women and other whitenessess, we invite you to consider a submission inspired by presence and absence, by the largeness of what is left unsaid, lurking at the margins of representation, calling us outwards and inwards, a mute and pregnant incantation for creation inspired by whiteness, and inspired, of course, by the white whale at the core of the text. We ask you to explore the depths and surfaces of Melville’s Moby-Dick to help re-member (piece together) and recover the women and the others who remain outside the narrative proper, but who call us to bear witness (bear whiteness) to their untold stories. In “Chapter 42: The Whiteness of the Whale,” Ishmael ponders the fearful “supernaturalism of this hue,” the dreaded whiteness embodied by the whale himself, Moby-Dick. He then takes us with him on a journey of imagination, where “subtlety appeals to subtlety” as he works to recall “the peculiar apparition to the soul” the dreaded white whale brings to mind. Where is your journey of recovery, and how can it take you to dread, or away and beyond? Who or what do you want to re-member, animate, and how will it materialize?
Women have long been a discussion point for readers of the text: for some they are wholly present in the imagery of the sea and the natural world; for some they are recast as revolutionaries, in the otherly-gendered beings who resist masculine or feminine identities and co-mingle without apology for propriety or for respecting boundaries. But for others still, their presence is not so certain, or acceptable, if found only in the gaps or wounds of loss–in the bleeding breasts of the nursing whales in Chapter 87: The Grand Armada, or the once-removed memories of sailors who recall their wives and mothers set far away from the butchery and firmly held in a distant, and silent, domestic sphere. Or they are displaced and disempowered, as in the (mother) ship the Rachel who meets the Pequod in Chapter 128, begging for assistance to rescue her drowned boys lost at sea, but who is cruelly sent away by Captain Ahab, an unrepentant father. Weeping for her children, she returns again in the Epilogue, just in time to rescue another orphan, Ishmael. Small comfort for aching loss. And who are these others we have yet to see, or have only glimpsed? A master of shifting narrative perspective, Melville activates stories in objects and in the artifacts of the hunt and the voyage: the chart, the line, the dart, the monkey-rope. But do they have more to say, and would they rather speak for themselves? And what might they tell us? And what of that crew, that ethnically and racially diverse set of whalers impossibly bonded together in the maniacal pursuit of immense whiteness–and of slaughter. In Chapter 42, Ishmael claims that “whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color, and at the same time the concrete of all colors.” Color is but a mental construct, an illusion. All earthly hue found in nature, besides white, is a deceit, an add-on, a cover-up for the pale emptiness really at its core. What might Queequeg, the tattooed South Sea island cannibal, with the dark, purplish yellow colored-face, punctuated by black squares, have to say of this philosophical reduction? In what colored hues might he respond?
Since Melville, many artists have recaptured and remade the women in alternate materials, for example, in quilt form (Ann Wilson, 1955), and in painting (Abby Schlachter Langdon, Queequeg in Her Coffin, 1997; Aileen Callahan, The Birth of Moby-Dick, 2000-2001). Still others have given voice to the text in song and music (Laurie Anderson, 1999) and in Opera (Jake Hegge, 2010) and in the many retellings, from plays (Orson Welles, Moby-Dick Rehearsed, 1965; Patty Lynch, The Wreck of the Hesperus, 1987) to staged reading marathons, live and online (annually at the New Bedford Whaling Museum and Mystic Seaport Museum, and in 2013 at the Mixing Realities Digital Performance Festival in Karlskrona, Sweden, a part of our first Remaking Moby-Dick project). Each of these opens new possibilities for rendering and materializing absence, bringing forth new presences, new voices for the choir. We hope you will join them.
More about the publishing and remaking…
During the submission and curation process, we will document progress here on the Remaking Moby-Dick blog. We will update and maintain a Youtube and podcast channel and a Twitter feed to document works in progress and offer teasers for the final issue. Our final publication will be available in print as a special issue of the Pea River Journal and available at peariverjournal.com. Additionally we will post video and audio works on interlinked social media channels, through references and access in the print text, and via a digital application designed to provide yet another alternative for experiencing the stories.
How to submit your work
We are looking for essays, fiction, poetry, still images, video, music, performance, games, and whatever the concept conjures or inspires. All work must be submitted through our online submission manager.
And: talk with us
If you have questions, please contact the curators, Trish Harris and Lissa Holloway-Attaway, at remakingmoby@gmail.com.
Where we started, way back in January 2013: the first phase of Remaking Moby-Dick
The Re-Making Moby-Dick project is an international multimodal storytelling performance instigated and enacted during 2013 to 2018. Poets, writers, artists, schoolchildren, scholars, dancers, curators, and sailors are invited to engage the project and participate via the means most natural to their expressive practice. The 135 chapters, along with the extracts, inscription, epigraph, and epilogue, of Herman Melville’s 1851 novel serve as prompts for responsive work created in multiple forms, recorded in digital video and exhibited online. Your creative expressions will contribute to Melville’s already unwieldy and materially eccentric text, supplying new means by which to capture and release the essence of the “white whale” at the core of the text. We invite poets to respond with poetry, storytellers with stories, photographers with images of the sea, painters and printmakers with new work, museum curators with commentary, graffiti artists with whales on walls, school-children with their own stories and reactions, dancers with movement and gesture, scholars with interpretation and analysis, and sailors with their own complementary narratives. Each response will be aligned with single chapters and core elements of the work so that as much of the original novel as possible is addressed.
TWO STAGES TO THE FIRST PHASE OF THE PROJECT
The first phase of the project resulted in a participatory video that was screened at the Blekinge Museum in Karlskrona, Sweden during the Mixing Realities Digital Performance Festival in May 2013. The festival foregrounded mixed reality works presented by scholars, curators, and International artists working across media (in sound, video, augmented reality, digital and live performance, dance). The YouTube channel for the videos is still available.
We repurposed and re-contextualized the project artifacts, offering yet another “text” published online and in print form that can be shared with a wider audience, along with the original work from the festival, as a further extension of the project. The print version of Remaking Moby-Dick went to press in late November 2013. The document is also available online at Scribd.
Phase 2 of the project started in Spring 2016.
2013 RESPONSE GUIDELINES
We hoped responses would either engage ideas specific to separate chapters or passages in Moby-Dick or critically interpret some aspect of the novel, extending the meaning and significance of Moby-Dick and reflecting on its continued relevance. The full text of Moby-Dick is available at Project Gutenberg. Chapter synopses are available at Novel Guide.
Re-Making Moby-Dick and the Mixing Realities Digital Performance Festival were funded in part by Art Line, a South Baltic Programme EU Project exploring art innovation in public, physical, and digital space.
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Teresa McNeil MacLean says:
I heard about this fascinating project much too late to consider asking to participate…but it sounds fascinating! I think the idea of providing “portals” into “Moby Dick” is a terrific idea. I finally read this difficult but wonderfully creative novel several years ago, but had just read the novel, “Ahab’s Wife,” which provided me with a necessary portal into a complex book I might not have read otherwise, but am very grateful I did. I hope I will be able to view “Remaking Moby” when it has been completed!
pea river journal says:
Hi Teresa —
It is actually not too late to engage the project. If you are interested, email me at remakingmoby@gmail.com or trish@peariverjournal.com and we can discuss some options for engagement.
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Rachealgrace Adams says:
This sounds really interesting. Don’t know if I would have anything? A while back I was doing research on Moby Dick and Captain Ahab for a novel I have going at that time titled ‘Pequod.’ My main character called himself this. However I changed it. The psychology behind Captain Ahab is fascinating.
Amy K. Marshall says:
In my novel “The Fishing Widow,” the action in 1835 on the whaling ship was directly inspired by “Moby Dick” (although, I’ll also give a nod to “The Sea Wolf” as well). Priam Hartt (the captain of THE COVENANT) starts with Ahab and goes a few shades darker … making Ahab the kind of guy you wouldn’t mind dating your daughter. Sort of. I’d LOVE to join this project. Thanks.
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Student Admissions, Outcomes & Other Data
As one of the first PsyD programs in the nation, the Graduate School of Professional Psychology has offered a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (PsyD) since 1976. The mission of the PsyD program is to train doctoral-level practitioner/scholars who have foundational interpersonal and scientific skills, a functional mastery of psychological assessment and intervention, and can apply this knowledge and skill in a range of settings.
We aim to train psychologists who contribute to the common good through their interpersonal awareness and skill. Students graduate from GSPP as psychologists with a solid grounding in psychology's scientific, ethical and professional foundations, with skills in assessment and intervention that can be applied to many contexts and communities.
Specialty Coursework
We offer training in a variety specialty areas including Latinx Psychology, Military Psychology, Oncology Psychology, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, and Substance Use Disorder Psychology.
Foundations of Diversity
Our required multicultural sequence ensures students are prepared to work with diverse populations.
Clinical Experience from Day One
Clinical practice begins in the first quarter of the program at DU's community-based psychological center. Additional fieldwork opportunities are available through our partnerships at 130 different practicum sites.
Exemplary Breadth
We offer extensive hands-on and experiential opportunities to complement our students' broad base of knowledge along with their analytical and research skills.
We connect our students with internships, mentorships and professional development opportunities to help ensure professional success.
PsyD Faculty Statement in Support of Black Lives
As a PsyD faculty with a wide range of opinions, we recognize that it is not often possible for us to speak with one voice. Yet, we are uniformly dismayed by the loss of George Floyd,Elijah McClain, Breonna Taylor, and so many others, and we are united in strongly believing that the lives, safety, and mental and physical wellbeing of Black people matter. We strive to understand the role that people and institutions, including ourselves, have played in creating and perpetrating injustice directed against Black individuals and communities. Furthermore, we are committed to continuing and actively deepening our understanding of our actions on Black students, faculty, and staff, and being strong advocates for our Black student body and community; we are dedicated to working on this together in full transparency and imperfection. We also share resources below organized by GSPP faculty Apryl Alexander and Lavita Nadkarni.
Katy Barrs, Peter Buirski, Terri Davis, Jenny Erickson Cornish, Kim Gorgens, Laurie Ivey, Michael Karson, Fernand Lubuguin, Hale Martin, John McNeill, Laura Meyer, Lavita Nadkarni, Henrietta Pazos, Shelly Smith-Acuna, Nicole Taylor, Jennifer Tippett, and Tracy Vozar
Resources to Address Racism and Racial Violence (National Council on Family Relations)
For Our White Friends Desiring To Be Allies
“Ally” is a verb: White Privilege & Fragility Resource List
Beyond the Hashtag: How to Take Anti-Racist Action in Your Life
26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets
5 Things White People Can Do Right Now to Combat White and State-Sanctioned Violence
After Arbery shooting, black parents are rethinking ‘the talk’ with sons to explain white vigilantes
Affirming Black Lives Without Inducing Trauma
Why Teaching Black Lives Matter Matters Part I
Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They're Okay--Chances Are They're Not
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
If you are considering purchasing books or other materials, please consider supporting local Black-owned bookstores; here is one such list, and there are many others:
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism
The PsyD Program at GSPP is committed to providing broad-based training that provides students the basis for general practice, with an adequate foundation to pursue specialty training. As such, we cover the following broad and general areas of psychological study through our 135-credit program. The curriculum includes required and elective coursework in the following areas:
Theoretical & Scientific Bases
We provide a four-course theory sequence that is supplemented with a fifth elective. These courses address both the history and scientific foundation of each area of psychology.
Psychoanalytic Models
Behavioral/Contextual Models
Cognitive Bases of Behavior Models
Systems Models
History and Systems of Psychology
Humanistic-Existential Theory and Therapy (elective)
Research Methodology & Data Analysis
The research and data analysis area begins with two statistics courses that review the fundamentals of descriptive and inferential statistics for evaluating clinically relevant questions. The quantitative research design course focuses on how to critique and integrate the empirical psychology literature with critical concern for issues such as design plans, artifacts and applicability to clinical work. This reviews theory and techniques for assessing both ongoing processes and outcome effectiveness of psychological programs. A second methodology course deals with understanding, evaluating and conducting qualitative research. Finally, the third methodology provides theories and techniques of program evaluation.
Statistics for the Clinician I & II
Qualitative Research Methods
Program Evaluation Techniques
Assessment begins with a theory course that lays the foundation for the assessment courses. It focuses on validity, reliability and standardization issues in psychological testing and the statistical properties of commonly used tests as well as clinical inference. This is followed by an assessment sequence providing students the background and skill necessary to administer, score, interpret and integrate results from cognitive and personality measures into insightful, helpful and even therapeutic effects.
Issues in Measurement
Cognitive Assessment
Introduction to the Rorschach
Self-Report Assessment
Integrated Personality Assessment
Electives include: Advanced Personality Assessment, Advanced Rorschach Analysis, Therapeutic Assessment and Pediatric Neuropsychological Assessment
Developmental Foundations
The developmental sequence consists of three courses that consider the phases of human development from infancy through adulthood, including the relevance of personality theories and research. Attention is given to issues of culture and gender. Guest panels, community resources, videotapes and small discussion groups are incorporated. Child observations are included in the early phases, and a life review interview is required in the final course.
Infancy and Early Childhood
Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Late Adulthood
Social Bases
Social Bases is a two-quarter sequence. The first course reviews both theories and techniques of understanding and utilizing group dynamics. The second focuses on the implications of social psychology/social cognition for the practicing clinician.
Group Interventions and Dynamics
Biological Bases of Behavior
The Biological Bases of Behavior area is covered with a two course required sequence, and two electives are provided. These courses are designed to familiarize students with the principles, terminology and research findings in this area.
Electives: Psychopharmacology, Health Psychology
Ethical Issues in Psychology
The Ethical Issues in Psychology course offers in-depth consideration of ethical standards applicable to the science and practice of psychology. Ethical issues are also covered in each of our professional seminar courses.
Individual & Cultural Diversity
Individual and cultural diversity are addressed throughout the curriculum, as well as in our four-quarter multicultural sequence.
Racial/Ethnic Identity Development
Social Psychology of Racism and Oppression
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues
Culturally Competent Psychotherapy
Diagnosis & Psychopathology
Most of the intervention electives address issues of diagnosis and psychopathology. We also offer a specific diagnosis class and an elective in adult psychopathology.
Diagnosis and Classification
Adult Psychopathology I, II, & III
Supervision & Consultation
Students are expected to address issues of supervision and consultation in advanced seminars, and the foundations for consultation theory are addressed in the Systems Models class. Advanced students can also elect to do a supervision practicum.
Business Issues in Psychology
Supervision Practicum
Effective Therapeutic Interventions
Students can take clinical courses that build on the scientific foundations presented in the required courses, and allow students to explore intervention techniques and means of tracking and assessing their effectiveness. These courses are taught from a variety of theoretical perspectives and focus on several different clinical populations and problems.
Assessment and Treatment of Children
Assessment and Treatment of Adolescents
Behavioral analytic principles I & II
Behavioral Analytic Case Formulations
Intersubjective Theory and Practice
All professional seminars also address effective therapeutic interventions.
Specialty Focus Tool
The program provides a broad and general education. Each student also has the opportunity to choose a specialty area to increase depth of theoretical knowledge and skills. Examples include adult or child assessment and therapy, behavior therapy, family therapy, forensic psychology, behavioral medicine, treatment of women, Latinx psychology, or military psychology.
Clinical Competency Exam
This exam is generally taken in the second year to ensure students demonstrate minimum standards for clinical skill and scholarship. It is comprised of three sections: clinical vignettes, clinical case conceptualization and clinical intervention strategies.
Doctoral Paper
The doctoral paper requires students to make an original contribution to psychological scholarship. They may choose to do a qualitative or quantitative research project or select another form of scholarship such as developing a case study or treatment protocol.
Check out the most recent Graduate Bulletin for a full list of course descriptions.
Professional Psychology Clinic (PPC)
Students become staff members of the PPC and work with clients in the clinic each year prior to their internship. PPC client cases are supervised by faculty members, seminar co-leaders and individual community professionals.
Explore Clinics
Community Field Placements
In the years prior to their internship, students serve in field placements for a minimum of eight hours per week. Sites may include mental health centers, schools, hospitals, rehabilitation centers and residential treatment homes.
Doctoral Internship
During their clinical internship, a vital part of our program, students gain valuable experience interning at sites around the U.S. and Canada and are able to pursue placements in a variety of settings. Our program has a 100% match rate to accredited sites.
Past Placements
Dr. Pia Khandekar
Pia Khandekar, PsyD is a licensed clinical psychologist practicing in San Diego, California with the Department of Defense. She is currently the supervising psychologist and Clinical Program Director for the inpatient unit at Naval Medical Center San Diego. During the past 4 years, Dr. Khandekar has developed and implemented a comprehensive, interdisciplinary program focusing on crisis prevention planning and evidence-based interventions for depression/anxiety, trauma, substance use, and serious mental illness. She is a core faculty member for the Navy psychology internship program, supervising interns on the emergency psychiatry and inpatient mental health rotations. She also serves as teaching faculty for the psychiatry residency program, facilitating the PGY-1 and 2 Cognitive Behavioral and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy courses. She was awarded Faculty of the Year for the psychology internship program 2018, and received an Associate Master Clinician designation from the command in August 2019. She also maintains an outpatient panel, working with service members from Navy/Marine Aviation and Naval Special Warfare.
Dr. Khandekar graduated in 2011 from the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology, and completed her internship and postdoctoral training at Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital. Dr. Khandekar began working with active duty personnel when she took a position as a clinician working with military families in Germany at U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart. Upon returning to the states in 2015, Dr. Khandekar was employed as a psychologist with Naval Air Station North Island, providing therapy to the naval aviation community and consultation to squadrons on human factors and performance.
“The longer I practice, the more I am able to appreciate the exceptional caliber of the faculty and supervisors I encountered during my time at GSPP. Throughout my career I have regularly felt grateful for the training I received as a student, but now as a supervisor, I find myself reflecting on my own supervision almost daily. I feel a personal responsibility to pay forward the skills and guidance I was so lucky to receive myself. There is no substitute for exposure to excellent as a trainee, and I believe that the faculty and field placements at GSPP are what makes this program so exemplary.”
Our Internship Consortium
At the Graduate School of Professional Psychology, our innovative Internship Consortium is a nationally recognized program and serves as a model for other similar programs around the country.
"I am delighted that you are exploring this program, one of the first PsyD programs in clinical psychology to be created and APA-accredited. Take your time learning about the program and deciding how it might help you fulfill your academic, life and professional goals. The knowledgeable faculty, committed students and dedicated staff can help you reach and surpass your potential. Developing and challenging doctoral students to becoming ethical, multicultural-oriented, competent psychologists is the purpose of this program. I welcome your phone calls, emails and visits."
- Terri M. Davis, Ph.D., Director
Learn more about our admissions process and tap into our available resources.
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GPA & Degree Requirements
Bachelor's degree: All graduate applicants must hold an earned baccalaureate from a regionally accredited college or university or the recognized equivalent from an international institution.
Grade point average: The minimum undergraduate GPA for admission consideration for graduate study at the University of Denver is a cumulative 2.5 on a 4.0 scale or a 2.5 on a 4.0 scale for the last 60 semester credits or 90 quarter credits (approximately two years of work) for the baccalaureate degree. An earned master’s degree or higher from a regionally accredited institution supersedes the minimum standards for the baccalaureate. For applicants with graduate coursework but who have not earned a master’s degree or higher, the GPA from the graduate work may be used to meet the requirement. The minimum GPA is a cumulative 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for all graduate coursework undertaken.
Program GPA requirement: The minimum undergraduate GPA for admission consideration for this program is a cumulative 2.5 on a 4.0 scale.
Applicants without a psychology background (major or minor) must meet the department's psychology prerequisite prior to matriculation. The psychology prerequisite can be met either through psychology coursework or by obtaining a score of at least 660 or higher on the psychology subject GRE exam. Applicants should state how they plan to meet the psychology prerequisite in their application. For the psychology coursework prerequisite, applicants must complete four (4) psychology courses earning a 'B' or better in these classes from a regionally accredited institution. Applicants offered admission should be aware that all psychology classes must be completed before registration in September.
Standardized Test Scores
The Graduate School of Professional Psychology's PsyD and MA programs will NOT require or accept general GRE scores for the Fall 2021 admission cycle. We will not review scores submitted as an addition to one's application; thus, please do not submit general GRE scores with your application. If you sent in GRE scores, that is okay, but please know that we will not be reviewing these score reports as part of our admissions review process.
English Language Proficiency Test Score Requirements
The minimum TOEFL/IELTS/CAE test score requirements for this degree program are:
Minimum TOEFL Score (Internet-based test): 80
Minimum TOEFL Score (Paper-based test): 550
Minimum IELTS Score: 6.5
Minimum CAE Score: 169
English Conditional Admission: This program does not offer English Conditional Admission.
APA Accreditation & Contact Information
The program is Accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association (APA). Questions related to the program’s accreditation status should be directed to the Commission on Accreditation:
Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
750 1st Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002
Phone: 202-336-5979 / E-mail: apaaccred@apa.org
Web: www.apa.org/ed/accreditation
Learn About Our Alumni Network
At the Graduate School of Professional Psychology, our alumni base becomes your community for life.
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Gut Microbiota, Probiotics and Physical Performance in Athletes and Physically Active Individuals
Nutrients. 2020 Sep 25;12(10):2936. doi: 10.3390/nu12102936.
Maija Marttinen 1 , Reeta Ala-Jaakkola 1 , Arja Laitila 1 , Markus J Lehtinen 1
1 DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences, Danisco Sweeteners Oy, Sokeritehtaantie 20, 02460 Kantvik, Finland.
DOI: 10.3390/nu12102936
Among athletes, nutrition plays a key role, supporting training, performance, and post-exercise recovery. Research has primarily focused on the effects of diet in support of an athletic physique; however, the role played by intestinal microbiota has been much neglected. Emerging evidence has shown an association between the intestinal microbiota composition and physical activity, suggesting that modifications in the gut microbiota composition may contribute to physical performance of the host. Probiotics represent a potential means for beneficially influencing the gut microbiota composition/function but can also impact the overall health of the host. In this review, we provide an overview of the existing studies that have examined the reciprocal interactions between physical activity and gut microbiota. We further evaluate the clinical evidence that supports the effects of probiotics on physical performance, post-exercise recovery, and cognitive outcomes among athletes. In addition, we discuss the mechanisms of action through which probiotics affect exercise outcomes. In summary, beneficial microbes, including probiotics, may promote health in athletes and enhance physical performance and exercise capacity. Furthermore, high-quality clinical studies, with adequate power, remain necessary to uncover the roles that are played by gut microbiota populations and probiotics in physical performance and the modes of action behind their potential benefits.
Keywords: athletes; cognitive performance; exercise; gut microbiota; physical activity; physical performance; probiotics; recovery.
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The reactivity of sera from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus to seven different species of single and double stranded deoxyribonucleic acids
Clin Exp Rheumatol. Mar-Apr 1996;14(2):137-44.
C L Yu 1 , M H Huang, C Y Tsai, K H Sun, S C Hsieh, Y Y Tsai, S T Tsai, H S Yu, S H Han
1 Department of Medicine, Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
Objective: Anti-DNA antibodies are frequently found in the serum of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). To understand whether the avidity of SLE sera to different species of single-stranded (ss) and double-stranded (ds) DNA is different or not, the reactivity of active SLE sera to seven species of DNA from viral, bacterial, piscine, and mammalian sources was compared.
Methods: Nineteen sera from patients with active SLE were studied for their reactivity to different ssDNA and dsDNA from Escherichia coli (EC), Micrococcus lysodeikticus (ML), Clostridium perfringens (CP), calf thymus (CT), salmon testis (ST), human placenta (HP) and lambda phage by ELISA. The dsDNA was purified by treating it with S1 nuclease and proteinase K, followed by Sephacryl S-300 gel filtration. The ssDNA was purified by absorption on a hydroxyapatite column after heat-cleavage of the dsDNA.
Results: The reactivity of SLE sera to 7 species of dsDNA was not significantly different and they recognized a more widely shared epitope. In contrast, the reactivity of these sera to 7 species of ssDNA was erratic and the antigens could be grouped into high (CP and HP), medium (EC, ML, CT, and ST) and low (lambda-phage) antigenicities.
Conclusion: The anti-ssDNA and anti-dsDNA antibodies of SLE patients recognize more widely shared determinants on the DNA of seven different species. Lambda-phage DNA shows the poorest immunogenicity among them.
Antibodies, Antinuclear / immunology
Cattle / genetics
DNA / immunology*
DNA, Bacterial / immunology
DNA, Single-Stranded / immunology*
DNA, Viral / immunology
Epitopes
Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / blood
Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / immunology*
Salmon / genetics
Antibodies, Antinuclear
DNA, Bacterial
DNA, Single-Stranded
DNA, Viral
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Summer of construction heating up for Victoria’s rail infrastructure projects
Connor Pearce December 16, 2020, 4:09 pm December 16, 2020
An artist's impression of the future Hallam Station.
Summer will see many rail infrastructure projects pick up the pace. In January, major construction on the Hallam level crossing removal project will begin.
A consortium of Metro Trains Melbourne, Level Crossing Removal Project, Laing O’Rouke and Jacobs will deliver the $248 million project in Melbourne’s south east.
The work will involve replacing the level crossing with a rail bridge and a new elevated station at Hallam. An extra entrance has been added as a result of community feedback.
The level crossing is expected to be gone by 2022 and 900 jobs will be created over the life of the project.
Minister for Transport Infrastructure Jacinta Allan said that the project dovetailed with similar works in the area.
“The Hallam Road Upgrade, and level crossing removals at Evans Road and Hallam Road are great examples of how we are getting on with the job and unlocking congestion in Melbourne’s booming south eastern suburbs,” she said.
Construction on the Ferguson Street level crossing removal project in Williamstown will begin in February.
A finalised contract for the crossing has been awarded to an alliance of Metro Trains, the Level Crossing Removal Project, McConnell Dowell, Arup, and Mott McDonald.
The rail line will be lowered beneath the road and a new North Williamstown station will be constructed.
Works will commence with excavating the 750-metre trench. Following those works, Ferguson Street will be rebuilt, tracks laid, and the new station constructed. The rail line will be closed for three months in late 2021 to enable the works to take place.
The $192m contract is expected to create 600 full-time jobs at the height of construction activity.
“Months and months of careful work and planning has gone into fine-tuning this design and we’ll continue to work with the local community as we remove this level crossing for good,” said Allan.
The location of a train stabling area for the Suburban Rail Loop has also been confirmed. The stabling area will be at Heatherton, between Old Dandenong and Kingston Roads, on the site of a former landfill.
Designs for future stations at Lilydale and Moorolbark have also been released. Both elevated stations on the Lilydale Line are part of a construction program that will begin ramping up for summer in December, with buses replacing trains.
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Tabletop Meditations #1: Treading Common Ground
While participating in roleplaying games many times over I’ve found myself sitting with people I’d not otherwise associate with, individuals with whom I could easily creep through dripping sewers infested with giant mutated leeches or fight the ravening hordes of either zombies or orcs side-by-side but with whom I simply could not get along with away from the tabletop. Our only common ground being the table between us.
This may have been such because of either a collision of personalities or by accident of disposition which occasionally, of course, would erupt during the game but not often. Outside of the game we would have very little if anything, besides the game itself, in common our personal interests laying in completely unrelated areas and even in those that were related, mostly mutual interest in fantasy especially in the Lord of the Rings movies (at the time of the longest lived gaming group that I’ve been a part of), our attentions and emphases would be on different areas or our foci would be in completely different places. Over the tabletop however, we were knit together, granted occasionally our characters at each other’s throats but it was as they would do in-game, by table culture and interest in the current campaign even over outside influences such as the overall tabletop roleplaying culture as can be tangentially experienced and engaged for the most part through the tubing of the internet.
The only common ground between us besides fantasy and sci-fi genera was the tabletop and the activity of roleplaying. Even the subject that should have united each member with the others in our group (at the time), heroic fantasy, a subject on which we differed drastically each person with their own particularly strong opinions and preferences on the subject.
A particular sore spot in one incarnation of that gaming group when it came to outside but related interests were Drizzt & the Icewind Dale Trilogy. I hated these finding them particularly pedantic and frankly boring with major scenes ripped off from the Lord of the Rings books (Icewind Dale Trilogy) as the action set-pieces, found in reverse order in these novels from what I remember, blech! When it came to THE dark elf, Drizzt seemed to me a pale copy of Elric of Melniboné and the Dark Elf Trilogy (sensing a pattern here?) was just as lame as the previously mentioned Icewind Dale books and treated characters as devices rather than towards any genuine attempt at using characterization to drive the narrative such as Clacker – the Hook Horror which seemed to just be there to pluck at a heart string or two before he’s done away with.
Another memorable bit from the Dark Elf novels concerns a very out-of-place graphic orgy/demon-rape scene which again is just there to titillate and/or shock especially the incestuous interaction between Drizzt and his priestess sister. Basically all six novels seemed to rely on lazy and cheap hack-writer tactics but one guy at the table, let’s call him Big-H, LOVED these things, in fact in an effort to try to get a better footing on some shared earth between the two of us I read all six of the damned things, needless to say I think our concepts of what constitutes GOOD fantasy fiction differed quite a lot. My suggestions to him, none of which he read, were the “Original Saga” of Elric (consisting of Elric of Melniboné, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, and the Weird of the White Wolf), bet you didn’t see THAT coming, and the dell editions of Robert E. Howards work, namely The Conquering Sword of Conan specifically due to one of my favorite of the pantherish barbarian’s adventures, Beyond the Black River.
The real trouble would begin when Big-H would insert things he read in an R.A. Salvatore novel (then his favorite novelist, I have no idea if that’s still the case) into the game when he would referee/game-master, a particular incident which nearly ended a campaign was when we openly decided to and successfully took Drizzt out. Taking both mine and Big-H’s fiction preferences as combined examples into account even though both are fantasy and arguably of the sword & sorcery genre they couldn’t be farther apart in style, content, and might I say, originality. At the table though our differences colored our in-game conduct and altered how we constructed our game-worlds & structured our campaigns when we would Game-Master.
In fact another friend, let’s call him Red, that had played for a while had similar but still very different preferences for fiction from either Big-H or myself. He was a devotee for a brief period of the Discworld books; I enjoyed the first four novels (compiled in an SFBC edition called Rincewind the Wizzard which I still own) but had no interest outside of those.
He seemed to more enjoy the humorous, light-hearted side of things as well as the weird monsters, I tend to enjoy the more atmospheric and action-oriented type stories not that I don’t enjoy the humorous side of fantasy; I like the Xanth books as an example, my favorite among those being Castle Roogna, and again my penchant for Sword & Sorcery becomes apparent. Red often described scenes, characters, and incidents that had recently amused him found in the pages of whichever novel in the series he had recently read sometime before the game. Typically prefaced with the statement “I was just reading something really awesome on the toilet”. He was a self-confessed bathroom reader; information I could have done without by the way especially when he would go into graphic detail about an especially memorable poo, yech!
I, again, recommended Moorcock’s Elric books the first of which I loaned him but he didn’t like it due to the anti-heroic nature of the perpetually morose and somewhat unlucky albinic protagonist and the torture scenes, too dark for him apparently. He did express a passing interest in the Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser books when yet another player and I would talk about mutually enjoyed exploits of the daring duo. Unfortunately, to my knowledge Red never got around to reading those. Basically, everyone at the table at any given time seems to have had very distinct tastes in the fantasy that on the surface had brought us all to the table but that vague and general interest by itself certainly didn’t provide much tack to keep us all together in the real world as friends though it did contribute to the overall table-culture as it applied directly to game-play at least allowing us to be “table-friends”.
Table-friends being those individuals that really don’t have a close association outside of the game basically only seeing and interacting with each other in context to game-night. This might result from things as simple as scheduling conflicts or as complex as personal incompatibility. As I’ve been reading both in books and on various message boards/aggregators this is not an uncommon occurrence when it comes to gaming groups.
“Typically, those who participate in fantasy gaming groups develop a social network consisting of other group members; overtime …members of these groups become acquaintances and then friends. However, it appears that these social ties often do not transcend the gaming settings; gaming friends need not be, and frequently are not, friends outside the gaming group.” [Shared Fantasy, Gary Alan Fine, The University of Chicago Press, 1983, pg.237 – emphasis mine]
Experience has demonstrated to me that the incongruity of personalities and disparity of attitude within a group and the consistent minor conflicts that that entails sometimes resulting from gameplay itself is definitely a contributing factor to the disintegration of roleplaying groups. What kept all of us at the table was interest in participating in the shared fantasy and our interest in the game and its elements and of course the desire for fun. A major factor that helped to keep us together so we could engage in fantasy gaming and find our common ground there was the group culture that formed around the table, the table-culture of our group .
This involved the habits and rules governing behavior while at the table and what we found acceptable within the game and at play, behavior and traditions unique to every group around every table gathering members under a single uniting umbrella that shelters only their own table. The roleplaying community as whole consists of common references and special portions of knowledge, its own form of pop-culture, basically a subculture in and of itself but the community overall is composed of smaller cells, each cell a separate and self-identifying roleplaying group and its table culture that contributes to group cohesion as its this sub-subculture that exists at the table among each individual group distinguishing them from the rest of the roleplaying rabble.
“Every group develops a culture…termed its idioculture (Fine 1979). An idioculture is a system of knowledge, beliefs, behaviors, and customs peculiar to an interacting group [.]” [Gary Alan Fine, 1983, pg.136; author’s citation]
Idiocultures transcend certain aspects that appear to be central to gaming groups, especially to those outside since these are the most evident, such as genre and even system preference. Its idioculture that serves as a glue just outside of gameplay (or on the meta-side as it were) to keep a group at a table so that they can enter the game as a unit and form an adventuring party, regardless of the in-game dysfunction or efficiency (or lack thereof) of such a unit. Within this social structure disparate individuals come together for some fun.
This allows individual players to gather and begin to take an interest as they roll-up characters, explore the mysteries and horrors of the fantasy world, seek out and enter into conflicts that test their intellect and composure as well as that of their in-game personas. If it is a general interest in fantasy that can bring individuals together, it is the idioculture that can keep them together long enough to allow them to build a mutual interest, lay the groundwork for an imaginative construct upon which they can produce their own very personalized entertainment.
Of course if the members of a group cannot focus on the game taking interest in its elements in some manner the table-culture will only serve as a bandage holding the group together until something of interest can be found (or happens) or until there’s a clash of wills which can cause a group to self-destruct or simply dissipate without so much as a whimper.
The two major factors in the dissolution of gaming groups, at least in my experience, are the differences between individuals meaning those that are only assuaged by the common ground of gaming and real life occurrences. One cannot do much about life other than to go with the flow so that’s a moot point and definitely should be excused if not wholly understood at the time of departure.
A game IS just a game after all. Conflicting attitudes kept in check by a mutual interest in the game can cause the group to completely disintegrate in the blink of an eye when player interest wanes. When the players are no longer interested in the setting, in exploring the GM’s world, and building a mutual fantasy the framework of the group begins to tumble down, sometimes all at once, like a Jenga-Tower stacked too haphazardly but even this collapse can be somewhat stalled by interest in one’s own character but part of that is of course, testing them against the GM’s world; after all interest in the fantasy world does feed directly into the players’ interest in their own characters.
When interest in the game-world is lost the group will inevitably begin to fall apart as normally incompatible personalities which when interest is high can actually be a contributing force to the mutual fantasy become absolutely destructive causing games to suddenly explode into argument and creating the circumstances ripe for in-game back-stabbing and bad character deaths which can murder the fun that brought everyone to the table in the first place. When it gets particularly bad some may leave the realm of tabletop forever over very REAL feelings of betrayal by those they may have considered friends (the latter statement being based on an actual non-anecdotal incident).
Not to say backstabbing in-game is always a bad thing it is just a very risky endeavor though it can contribute when conducted correctly (and very carefully) to mutual interest (as well as in-game vengeance justified or otherwise). Group interest in the game is key in keeping groups together and at the table rolling dice. Interest is the deepest bedrock of a fantasy roleplaying group on top of which they build their mutual fantasy and sediment new imaginative layers over the old through play to create rich, deep imaginative worlds.
Groups are held, often loosely, together by mutual interest in the game that they are playing, to a lesser extent by group idioculture, and by a general interest in the subject matter shared by its members. These help individuals with disparate tastes, differing opinions & backgrounds, and discordant dispositions to find a foothold on mutual ground in a shared imaginative world, at least in my opinion. But interest and the investment in the fantasy itself and its components is what is absolutely central to any successful roleplaying group even over mutual outside interests, table-culture, and maybe even friendship away from the tabletop.
Ultimately Red and Big-H among others simply drifted away a few had stormed from the table in a huff never to return. All of the groups that they, and I, participated in over a period of about 10-years all fell apart in the end sometimes to come back in a new incarnation but ultimately the last to have at least two of us as members fell apart from a combination of life and personal friction never to reform.
That’s just my rambling meditation on the clash between personalities at the table, the double-edge of fantasy gaming I suppose.
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16th July by Ranjr Leave a comment
The Dragonslayers III Pt. 22: Howl of the Night-Trolls
A bit from the GM’s notebook
Magiia held a ready stance her shield on one arm and her battle-axe in hand, Vorwulf stood unarmored with his two-handed astral-drift-metal great axe in his, and Grom readied waiting to unleash his magic on the onrushing troll-flesh. The battle howl of the night-trolls became deafening as they charged in. The raging black-skinned trolls were wearing Scale-mail vests the medallions on their chests bearing the unmistakable arms of Trollguard. They were brandishing their serpent-bladed great swords menacingly and carelessly in the air.
Cris (Vorwulf’s Player): “Makes sense. These guys loose out here like the Black Soldiery.”
Gil (Grom’s Player): “What?”
Cris: “We killed their leaders. The lich. Remember, Vorwulf and Bers killed their [the trolls] God-King. Of Trollguard. While you fought with the army.” Trollguard is immediately adjacent to, in the North-East of, Norusk.
Gil: “Oh yeah. Well. Let’s do this guys!”
A pair of trolls charged Magiia but their clumsy blows proved ineffective. Maggi whacked the first troll to reach her of that pair with a powerful swing of her battle-axe dropping the creature immediately, foul black ichor spattered everywhere. Two more trolls charged at the amazon leveling powerful blows with their own twisted weapons; both blows whistling by missing her by inches. The ground shook as a giant with slate-grey skin, 14 ft. tall, and with single eye on the side of its malformed head an enormous hunch rising up above its pointed skull, thumped onto the scene and swung a massively powerful blow with its two-handed iron-spiked great club at Maggi, but missed. Another pair of night-troll warriors entered the battle attacking Grom forcing him to simul-attack with an Animal Form spell (via the Battle Magic feat) instantly transforming one of the savages into a chicken which in a fluster of greasy black feathers leapt clumsily away into the darkness. The other gashed him deep opening a nasty wound. Yet another pair of trolls appeared and went at Vorwulf with a pair of mighty blows narrowly missing the ranger/dragon-slayer. Vor replied hacking a vicious wound into one of the duo of monsters that had charged him. A small group of about six trolls were engaging their guide, dancing around the giant seemingly only serving to distract him and were pushing him away as he held them at bay with his enormous boar spear separating him from the slayers. Soon the boar hunter was pushed into the dark outside of the firelight. The slayers lost sight of him. That was when they heard the baying of a pack of hounds running towards the fight, they could easily see them they were following the trolls and the Formorian (that is what the giant on the trolls’ side was). All the snarling dogs were wearing spiked collars and what amounted to studded leather armor over their backs.
Gil (Grom’s Player): “War-Dogs?”
Cris (Vorwulf’s Player): “They have War-Dogs with them!?”
One of the trolls on Maggi swung its sword at her but missed, she responded with a power attack dropping it in a blinding splatter of blood. The other two surrounding her swung clumsily at her as well each missing in turn as did the Formorian with its tree of a club. The single troll left on Grom took a swing but was parried, barely, by the shaman. The blow deflected from one of his bracers. Vorwulf parried the blows levied at him by the pair attacking him.
Grom: “Man! I need to get some room!”
Grom stepped back and unleashed a Wind Rush spell at his foe blasting it 100 ft. away from him. Vor hacked away at the troll he had previously hit, gore flowed over his axe up to his wrists though the monster still stood fast. One of the three remaining trolls on Maggi swung and missed, she dropped him in a single blow. Another of them swung at Maggi and the blow rang off of her axe and she turned her blade in counter and drove it through the monsters scale-mail crunching into ribs. The other threw its sword losing the weapon as it whizzed over Maggi’s head. She grinned murder at the monster. The Formorian took its chance and bashed the Ferenoi with a crushing blow, had she not been helmed the giant would’ve knocked her out. She was no longer smiling. The pair on Vor attacked again but missed badly as their impatient swings became more furious as well as clumsier. One of them also lost its grip on its heavy blade and wound up flinging it away. It was Vor’s turn to smile. With a single blow of his heavy axe Vorwulf whacked the swordless troll into two messy halves. The pack of war-hounds began to run into the battle and Grom quickened a Turn Beasts spell, every single war-dog turned tail and ran away the yelping quickly melted away into the distance.
One of the pair on Maggi swung and missed the other desperately clawed at her missing both times. The Formorian stomped on her smashing her to the ground like bug almost squashing her as it tried to pin her with its foot so it could grind the life out of her. She was badly injured. Vorwulf, after kicking the troll bisection at his feet into the campfire, chopped down the last troll within his reach. Grom tossed an alchemical grenade, an Alchemists’ Fire, onto an obviously regenerating troll body. It began to spasmodically twitch as it burned. The boar hunter was still out of sight though they could still here the clash of his boar spear against the night-trolls’ weapons.
Cris (to Gil): “Man! You know this all because of that troll book!”
Gil: “What troll book?”
Cris: “The Tome of Dragonslaying! Look! Hand me that.” Gil handed Cris the info-sheet, he got to keep it since Grom had ‘mastered’ it, for the troll-king copy of the Tome of Dragonslaying and pointed to a bit of information on it.
Cris: “Right here. ‘Troll Sense – ALL trolls within 1 square-mile will be attracted to the book’!”
Gil: “Oh. I forgot about that.”
Magiia was barely able to squeeze out and roll from under the Formorian’s club foot leaping to feet shield at the ready. Grom tossed another Alchemist’s Fire on another troll body as he neared Maggi’s position. The troll that Grom had blown a hundred feet away stood up and took its chance to flee. Vor kicked another half-troll into the fire, the air filled with the fetid stench of roasting troll-flesh and heavy, oily smoke began to fog the battlefield. The Formorian made a mighty sweep attack with its club catching Grom, Maggi, and a night-troll in the swing. The troll’s broken body took flight. Grom got hit and horribly injured. Maggi made a simultaneous attack in an attempt to drop the giant before his swing could reach her. She hacked his belly open but still took the blow which nearly killed her but the giant was hurt so she saw no reason to retreat. Vor chopped into a troll that tried to sit up. Grom ran back to try to heal himself. Maggi stepped in towards the Formorian and chopped him down with a final single blow and was able to sidestep the massive bleeding, eviscerated corpse as it came crashing down. The howl of the night-trolls was silenced. The battle was ended. Jez the Boar Hunter came bounding back into the view of the slayers; the trolls that had been keeping him busy had broken away as soon as their giant was felled jaunting off into the cover of the dark.
A downed troll near Maggi suddenly sat up. She immediately buried her axe in its skull putting it back down. They wasted no time in dousing all of the corpses, and the various severed bits, in the naphtha from the barrel of the stuff that Grom had purchased on their way out of town just a few days prior. Among the ever brightening yellow flames Maggi chopped through the log-thick neck of the Formorian severing its head after a couple of whacks ‘just in case’.
Jenn (Magiia’s Player)[Pointing at me, the GM, and with the annoying gusto of a late 90’s Gangsta Rapper]: “Ha! You tried to KILL me and I BEAT you! I killed that sucker like NOTHING! Ha! Just CUT HIM DOWN! Yeah!”
Grrr.
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The Dragonslayers III Pt. 21: It’s What We Do!
Dawn in the town of Aáhké in the land of Norusk, in their bungalow Maggia had just finished restocking her Dragon-Blood Potion supply and Vorwulf was just beginning to nurse a hang-over with plans on fetching “some hair o’ the dog” with breakfast when Grom burst in wild-eyed and full of new info. He had easily bested the corrupted trapper and sang all he knew about those who had paid him with gold minted in the far north. The shaman went on to tell the slayers about the group of adventurers that had bribed the trapper since they had desired to stay out of town and keep a low profile having him among others that trapped and hunted the far eastern parts of Norusk to purchase wagon-loads of supplies for them and deliver those to a staging area near the White Heath. The assumed enemy group consisted of the “sons of the red dragon”, led by a half-dragon human with a double-ended bipennis axe and a steel helm marked by a pair of antlers, a dragon-shaman human, a red draconian with a cloak of black feathers and strangely feathers on his leathery wings and lastly another half-dragon human, a hunter and bowman whom was the spokesman to the trappers for the whole scary lot. They were all marked with a specific scarification on their chests and foreheads but the trapper couldn’t reproduce it for the shaman.
Gil (Grom’s Player): “And that’s all he would tell me. So after the gates reopened I came back here.”
Cris (Vorwulf’s Player): “Let me get this straight you spent all night OUTSIDE?”
Gil: “Oh yeah. I guess I could’ve transformed into an eagle or grew some wings and flew over the wall huh?”
Cris laughed and Jenn (Magiia’s Player) face-palmed.
Grom (Played by Gil): “Y’know he wouldn’t guide us there even after I threatened to kill him. Then he ran away WEST.”
Vorwulf (Played by Cris): “That’s because they’re scarier people than you.”
Grom settled in to catch some sleep while Maggi and Vor went to the Red-Bull tavern for breakfast and beer where the Ferenoi (an Amazon from the Icefere and Feren civilization there) put a platinum piece on the counter and wanted change since all she had was platinum. After Vorwulf helped to break up her currency so she could spend it at the bar they turned and noticed the place was rapidly filling up with two groups each of a fair number. The milder group appeared to be fighting men each with an Acton quartered with white and light blue but with the lower white quarter obviously and hastily painted with red. The central charge lying at the center of each of their chests which was a pair of crossed black maces with one being spiked. Hanging from each of their belts were maces of varying quality. Maggi asked Ole’ Twist about them and he told her they were a local “security outfit” called the Black Maces which hired themselves out to guard the merchant caravans that traveled through town and those moving north and south. He pointed out their offices just down the street though she couldn’t spot the placard bearing the very same heraldry. It was then that the other group filtered in.
These were definitely a large group of former Black Soldiery, rough looking and somewhat in a general state of agitation. A couple of them bumped into the pair of Black Maces that were pitching blades and tomahawks at the toss board, the defaced wood carving of the Achaánal clan heraldry. The captain of these ruffians rudely tossed a small sack of coin on the board and ordered drinks all around for “his men” and slopped himself down at a random long-table smelling to Maggi’s nose a bit road weary. The men at the toss board were beginning to argue loudly until the brigand captain gaveled his large wood mug which he had just pulled from his pack on the table. His men relented and sat down though still mad-dogging the mercs. The tension in the place settled and the uncomfortable silence slowly retreated as all of the men began to drink. After breakfast Maggi ordered herself a second jack of whiskey. Vor settled in at a table next the bar so he could sit with his back to the wall determined to wait for the boar hunter in order to hire him as a guide to the White Heath.
Jenn [to Cris]: “Dude, aren’t you a tracker or something?”
Cris: “A ranger and we’re not in familiar territory and it’s not small.”
That was when one of the Black Maces, a little tipsy, bumped into a brigand and the brigand roaring with drunken rage lunged up and drew his sword and swung, but missed, at the Black Mace. Almost instantly the place erupted. Strangely enough nobody paid any mind to Vorwulf but Maggi stood up and used the butt of axe to assist the locals.
Vorwulf: “Man o’ man. This is going to be good.” And so he watched.
It lasted less than a minute Maggi had battered down virtually all of the brigands including their leader without even breaking a sweat. Only two from each side were actually severely wounded and were quickly dragged away by their compatriots.
Gil [to Cris]: “Wait. You were just sitting there? Drinking while they fought all around you?”
Cris [a toothy self-satisfied smile on his hairy face]: “Yup.”
Having gotten into the good graces of the Black Maces and receiving and turning down an invite to join the company consisting of the ever-inticing “we could make a lot of money together” eliciting a derisive laugh from Vorwulf, Maggi went to the market later followed by Vor to gather up various sundries the most noteworthy being a 1 gallon clay jar and some black paint. Maggi and Vor went back to the room where Vorwulf painted 6 wooden shields with the black icon of the Blackwings guild (with a Natural 20 untrained art-check btw) later he went back to his spot to wait “all day” if necessary. That night Grom stood watch at the tavern as the other two slept talking with trapper after trapper all night long finding the same answer from each when he inquired as to their services as guides and probably giving them too much information. “The White Heath is cursed and what fool would go’o dere when a dragon’s tak’n oop dere.”
It wasn’t until the next morning that the titular boar hunter had appeared, a Hill-giant dressed in a patchwork of bristly boars’ hides and a sledge full of dressed quarry. Vorwulf introduced himself in a long-winded manner titles and all then the group and the giant sat next to the tavern drinking and eating from the barrel of pickled eel Maggi had bought from a gaggle of fishermen from the shores of the freshwater Norusk sea to the northwest. They talked awhile and when the giant, named Jez, found out where they were going…
Jez the giant: “What? You want to find dragon? There!? You fools or somethin’?”
Vorwulf: “Hell Yeah! We’re dragonslayers! It’s What We Do!”
So Jez the boar hunter agreed (after the shaman paid him a large Lapis Lazuli and charmed him then Vor paid him a silver talon “for expenses”). They would meet up at high noon at the south gate; the boar hunter had some trading to do. They shortly met back up at the prescribed time and place and departed with the giant in the lead.
It was a day or so later while traveling straight east they had stumbled upon an old campsite which they assumed to be that of the Wasp and his companion The Outrider which was 5 days old according to Vorwulf’s tracking instinct just before they stopped for the night. They were in what appeared to be a wide open glade but in reality it was an area of rolling hills which rose somewhat and flattened gradually to the south, a deep hidden ridge lay to the immediate north. They set up camp in a flat area which the giant called the East Meadow. It was on first that Maggi spotted the night trolls moving rapidly towards their camp with something much larger following them and in the distance what appeared to be a large pack of hounds. It was the howls of the trolls when they realized that they had been spotted that alerted the party. The slayers sprang up and armed themselves though with not enough time to don their armor before the monsters were upon them.
3rd July by Ranjr Leave a comment
The Dragonslayers III Pt. 20: Dragon-Blood
Our intrepid heroes, the Blackwing Dragonslayers (Hirok-Nor branch), had finally found their way to the town that they were seeking which they had been given directions to TWICE after having made a wrong turn. The slayers’ strange craft floated by the ancient stone idol that stood a far way outside of the city palisade, it was chiseled into the crude shape of a grinning Satyr but the horns had been recently hammered away. The pennant flying above the open gates of the town of Aáhké bore a split field of white and red and a golden chalice with a longsword and golden mace crossing behind it. The guard loitering before the gate bore shortspears and freshly scraped round shields where the old heraldry could still be made out. The shields had borne a quartered field of white and light green with a red ram’s head being the central charge, the banner of the Achaánal clan but had been scraped and probably sanded. The presumed captain of the guard stepped forward to greet the incoming strangers his shield did have a fresh coat of red and white paint on its face. Vorwulf using his magic helmet halted the magic hovercraft. The guards were a homogenous mix of human, faun, and hill giant common to the Hill-Lands and were puzzled by the adventurers’ weird vehicle but not disturbed.
Vorwulf [Played by Cris]: “Is there a healer or a White Star Guild in this town?”
The Captain of the Guard [pointing at Magiia]: “If ya need help for your friend see the priest, Norwe, he might be able to help. What’s wrong with her? Doesn’t look like Marsh Fire.”
Grom [Played by Gil]: “She got bit by a Lindwurm.”
Vorwulf: “Dragon-venom.”
The captain shook his head knowingly and directed them to the Wayman’s Camp and the Travelers’ Inn not far inside the gates. Vorwulf caught sight of a prison-wagon, as this town apparently lacked a proper jail, across from the inn and a familiarly colored cloak from between its iron bars. He approached to get a better look at the person bundled underneath the black and yellow striped cloak. To his disappointment it wasn’t Xanto the wasp but rather an old faun vagrant. The pathetic old drunk told them that a young wizard gave him his cloak as he left town about two days ago along with someone he called “the outrider”. Soon after that the adventurers had already paid for a room (4 gp per night) and leaving Maggi in the room both Grom and Vor had made their way into the market place where all of the early season merchants were set up.
In the small market place they found that there were no permanent storefronts but a collection of wagons most of which opened up to show-off the goods for sale. They found the usual collection of snake-oil salesmen, weapons dealers, and local produce especially fish and eels. They quickly found they couldn’t understand anyone there so the shaman “chugged down” a potion of Comprehend Languages. He instantly realized that they were speaking Westlander, the native language of our heroes, but with an extremely heavy Hill-Lander accent. They quickly find a trader in alchemical gear and potions. Vorwulf picks up 2 potions of fire protection and 3 alchemist kits paying with 75 gold pieces and a pair of large emeralds. Grom the shaman got 1 potion of Purification and 3 alchemist kits but then charmed the salesman getting a discount putting down 4 aquamarines and 160 gold pieces.
Cris: “Man! You wanted a DISCOUNT! You know rich we are! Like when I was trying to get that info from the wasp CHEAP and you threw down those diamonds!” (see the Dragonslayers II Pt. 2)
So Vorwulf tossed 4 rubies into the merchant’s eager hand as “f*@# you money”.
They returned shortly to their room, more a bungalow really, and gave Maggi the 6 alchemist kits. The shaman gave her the Purification potion which after she drank it seemed to have an effect as her shaking immediately stopped but in retrospect the shaman realized later that it couldn’t have done anything for her. The Ferenoi immediately leapt to her feet and snatched up a kit and began brewing Dragon-Blood Potion. The other two left her to her labors as they departed tot eh tavern which was almost directly across the street adjacent to the town cistern. A red bull on a white field adorned the pennant that hung from a post that faced the muddy winding street.
The Red Bull tavern was under a semi-permanent canopy of oiled-leather that extended from an open counter of a longhouse which served as the kitchen and bar for the place as well as the proprietor’s home. The tented portion of the tavern was held by a perimeter of evenly spaced poles set into a floor of flat stones held by packed earth and clay and the sides were roll-up panels or flaps. The flaps were all currently rolled up leaving the place practically open-air. The place already had a few rough-looking fur-clad dirty faced trappers drinking their breakfasts. Several others, obviously fighters, well-equipped were doing the same the heraldry on their actons was a pair of crossed black maces one spiked against a quartered field of light blue with one white and one red quarter. By himself near the bar sat another trapper with a full meal in front of him and counting a copious number of gold coins. Vorwulf immediately approached him asking him if he would hire on with them as a guide. He replied with a backwater accent in bad Westlander saying he would but the shaman sensing something not quite right with him said he would “like a second opinion” about the direction the shifty looking woodsman would take. Grom pulled his friend from the table to the counter.
Next to the counter mounted to the wood-log wall of the house was a painted carving of the arms of the Achaánal Highlander clan on a round shield. It was badly defaced and studded with various throwing implements, throwing daggers, darts, and tomahawks. The barkeep was a bulky and tall old faun nicknamed ‘Ole Twist’ due to his badly deformed and twisted horns gained form a childhood bout of Twist Horn, a disease which is often lethal to young fauns of the Hill-Lands. Over the hearth which could be seen from the bar-counter in the corner of the kitchen area hung a Satyr Blade, a double ended sword with each of the blades curved like a scimitar, which was notched up and down both of the wicked looking blades. They found the man friendly enough, an old adventurer, especially since the first thing that Vor did was slap down a platinum piece on the soggy bar.
Ole Twist told them about a more reliable guide known only to him as “the Boar Hunter”, a Hill-Giant that spends all of his time in the wilderness “somewhere abouts” Black Boar’s Heath just south of the White Heath they were asking after. The wasp had been in town for a short while and looking for a guide the one he found was hardly reputable, a traitor who had been a sell-sword for the Achaánal clan during the rebellion against their rule but he was tolerated due to the amount of gold and silver he spent around town. He was a ratling known as “the Outrider” who rode a war-goat.
Ole Twist: “The lil’ turd don’t fight fair with his feet o’ the ground but from o’ back o’ da goat wid’a spear, canna ya believe dat?”
After a few jacks of ale and a few more of some decent Hill-Lander whiskey Vor bought “something special” from the old goat, a bottle of carved glass with a ruby stopper. The contents of which seemed to whirl and surge of their own accord though Ole Twist said that it was whiskey of a “pow’ful vintage”. He described to Vorwulf the bottle contained a Whiskey Elemental, he had taken it as a share of some loot from an adventure a long time ago and it was only now that someone happened by with the wealth to buy it. He packed it away and sat down to finish the remainder of the booze he purchased prior. The shaman took off to the market again to buy some more potions buying out the alchemist of his Alchemist Fires. As dusk came both Vorwulf and Grom stumbled into the bungalow at the inn and found Maggi back to her full capacities. Vorwulf slopped into his bed. The shaman got Maggi to pry herself away from her work, she was brewing the rest of the Lindwurm-blood into Dragon-Blood Potions, long enough for her to buy a carved glass bottle of some “good stuff” from Ole Twist and while she went back to the room to continue her alchemical task which she did until dawn, the shaman decided to follow the shiesty woodsman that he and Vor had talked to earlier who was now thoroughly drunk.
Gil: “Don’t worry guys this’ll be easy.”
The shaman’s quarry immediately noticed he was being followed and shot off towards the West Gate with Grom in hot pursuit. Just as the town gates were being closed they both dashed out into the dark and that’s when the trapper turned and pulled out his dagger in one hand and his battleax in the other.
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Dallas Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) – Transit Vehicle Real-Time Data Demonstration, Final Report
Plesko, Todd ; Gorman, Alan ;
Plesko, Todd ; Gorman, Alan Less ▲
Dallas Area Rapid Transit
United States. Federal Transit Administration. Office of Research, Demonstration, and Innovation
Automatic Vehicle Location
Integrated Corridor Management
Passenger Counting
FTA Report No. 0082
Dallas (Texas)
This project demonstrated and evaluated the ability to collect and transmit transit location and passenger loading data to a transit management center(s) and/or Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) system in real time. It also demonstrated and evaluated the ability to use the data in real time in a decision support subsystem, for example, to make informed operational decisions. Included in the project were the development, installation, testing, and demonstration of on-board automatic vehicle location (AVL) and automated passenger counter (APC) equipment and communications technologies to support real-time connectivity between transit vehicles and central facilities to support potential applications such as vehicle location, speed monitoring, and passenger load monitoring. The utility of real-time transit vehicle data was explored and assessed, and the issues, challenges, and feasibility of use were examined.
DTFH61-06-H-00040
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Forces to Flyers Pilot Training Demonstration Evaluation and Research on Pilot Career Pathways
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BP and Shell fight over African oil find
Italian search for partner to drill massive field off Mozambique attracts biggest energy players
Mark Leftly: SUNDAY 18 MARCH 2012
BP and Royal Dutch Shell are looking at a $4bn (£2.5bn) stake in a gas field in Mozambique, a sale that would confirm East Africa as the hottest growth area in world energy.
Eni, the Italian oil and gas giant, has claimed that the Area-4 gas find is the biggest in its history, but is looking to sell down its 70 per cent stake to find a partner who can help shoulder the capital expenditure.
There has been a huge surge in interest in the region, and several parties are understood to have flown to Milan to discuss buying a 20 per cent share of the field. Even taking the lower estimates of similar deals in the region, and ignoring the probable premium to work with an established player like Eni, that stake should be worth more than $4bn.
Most of the major players have been late to get into East Africa, and will now have to take over or form joint ventures with smaller explorers who gambled that there were big finds to be had in the region.
Shell’s chief executive, Peter Voser, right, has already shown his interest in the region with a near-£1bn bid for London-listed Cove Energy, which is significant for holding a 8.5 per cent stake in another field off the coast of Mozambique.
However, Thailand’s PTT has made a higher bid, while two Indian companies are also interested. It is thought that this sale process should be concluded in the next month, though there could still be a surprise winner as 25 companies, including BP, went into the “data room” where firms show sensitive financial and operational information to potential bidders. It is understood that at least 45 companies applied to enter the process.
BP has been linked to a potential tie-up with Ophir Energy, a well-regarded Ftse-250 group that has potentially substantial discoveries off both the west and east coasts of Africa. It is understood that BP did talk to the company about taking a stake in a Tanzanian offshore field, but that Ophir wants to wait until it has more detailed information on its find, in the hope that the results will force a higher price later in the year.
Even then, BP cannot be guaranteed a stake, as Ophir will likely take note of the competitive tension taking place in other sales processes and run an auction.
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Family Injured in Line-Jumping Attack
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by Philmon on September 27th, 2017, 3:09 pm
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/l ... story.html
People just have to line jump so badly, don't they...
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by CoasterNick3157 on September 27th, 2017, 7:56 pm
They need a zero tollerance policy for any linejumping automatic ejection but if they do they don't enforce it at all instead they just tell the people to get out of line to the end of the line.
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by UnclePolarBear on September 28th, 2017, 8:15 am
The attack is really messed up, but thankfully is a rare occurrence.
A couple months ago, there were some line jumpers that were caught at the station for X-Flight. They made a huge scene and refused to leave. The ride operators shut down the ride until security and Gurnee police came to escort them out.
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by CoasterRiderSC on September 28th, 2017, 9:53 am
(double post - copied from Fright Fest thread)
Based on the 2 articles I read, it sounds like the husband didn't touch them. The group started attacking the 12 yo boy and the husband tried to save his kid. The articles also say they were using vulgar language so maybe the husband told them to stop doing that?? I know this is an isolated incident and something like this could happen anywhere (ie. movie theater, cubs game, Sox game, etc).
I'm really saddened that nobody stepped in to help the family. Last year there was a teen girl who was very angry because a boy supposedly cut in line and messed up the grouping/order with others. She challenged the kid to a fight and started swearing. I told her "it's not that serious " and that her behavior was out of line. So then she gave me an earful. I guess I just don't tolerate people "acting up" at our park because it's like my 2nd home. It's supposed to be a family place!
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by CoasterRiderSC on September 28th, 2017, 2:49 pm
Here's another article with new information about the attack. They're also asking anyone with video footage of the attack to contact Gurnee police
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/New-Details-Released-After-Family-Attacked-by-Teens-at-Six-Flags-Fright-Fest-448495423.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_CHBrand
by n9yty on September 28th, 2017, 3:47 pm
I've reported a few instances to workers and they most often just ignore me and don't do anything. ONE TIME they told the offenders to leave. But by and large, it seems to happen now and then, not terribly often, but most people don't seem to care. It bothers me not becuase it means maybe one extra ride wait as much as I just think you should follow the rules and respect people around you.
I also have to say that while I haven't seen a lot of totally disrespectful people at the park, you don't have to look far in the news reports to know that a larger and larger part of the population is going that way, which is quite sad. So, I guess it was only a matter of time, and I wouldn't write it off from happening again.
Last year a younger guy actually picked my kid 13yo up, physically, in the Go Kart line, spun him around and sort of "tossed" him to get ahead of him in the line. Suffice it to say I made SURE the workers knew, and they asked him to leave the Go Karts, but I should have pushed to have him removed from the park and/or had charges pressed. But that is in the past, it just is an illustration that it can and will happen, as unfortunate as it is. We have come to really enjoy the park, driving in 90min each way but coming as often as we can.
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by Dan The Coaster Man on September 28th, 2017, 6:01 pm
Somewhat sidetone but I actually almost had a run in with park security last year at SFNE...
Me and my 11 yo sister were in line for Catwomen's Whip and the operator opened the gate and we all made a mad scramble to find a seat (no airgates). So turns out and he let 2 more people in than the coaster can seat, and it was me and my sister so he had us go back in line. Well, he opened the gate and there was this little girl, say 7 yo, practically holding on to the gate and gave me and my sister no room to come back in. So we brushed our way back into the line and waited behind the gate. But the little girl was crawling closer and closer the the gate, where me and my sister were. The coaster did its thing and then he opened the gate, and the girl ran out the gate before us. she was lost though, went to the left, and me and my sister were beginning to sit down in the first row and the girl came back to the first row, implying she wanted to sit there but I was already sitting there and my sister was about to sit down. So she chose another row.
After the ride me and my sister were walking through the exit and then this women comes behind me saying "did you touch this girl?" but I didn't hear her so I asked "what" and saw that same little girl. she said "did. you. touch. this. girl." and I was so confused I was like "uh no... if I did it certainly wasn't intentional" and then she went to the little girl and pointing at me she said "did this man touch you?" and the girl thought for 5-10 seconds and then slowly nodded her head. so the women ripped into me, not screaming but saying very loudly "dude how dare you touch her? she's literally 7 years old. You're old enough. All for a stupid seat. come on. grow up." and I was like "what?? I never touched her. like we probably brushed up against each other but it wasn't intentional. Im sorry but I didn't mean to" and she's like "do we need to get park security? this is outrageous." I'm like "park security?? Im from Chicago just trying to enjoy myself, I didn't do anything intentionally you're insane" she said "we are trying to have a fun time too, this is six flags, touching little girls has no room here" by this time we walked through the exit into the midway and she asked "wheres security?" and took her daughter by the hand and stormed off towards superman/bizzaro so I took my sister the opposite way away from the scene ASAP. Really dampened my day. Park security never tackled me and put me in cuffs, so not sure if she ever went to security or not. Didn't see them the rest of the day.
That was kinda off topic but I have been wanted to rant about it on the forums but never got to it. If there is a take away from this is that some people in line can be extremely passionate. I guess the women was under the impression I held back her daughter for the first row, effectively line cutting. She was absolutely livid, and I did absolutely nothing on purpose. So it just shows some people can be through the roof when in lines for coasters. but I didn't do anything intentionally, while the larger group at SFGAm did, so I'm sure that was why it was much uglier.
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by CoasterRiderSC on September 29th, 2017, 11:30 am
n9yty wrote: Last year a younger guy actually picked my kid 13yo up, physically, in the Go Kart line, spun him around and sort of "tossed" him to get ahead of him in the line. Suffice it to say I made SURE the workers knew, and they asked him to leave the Go Karts, but I should have pushed to have him removed from the park and/or had charges pressed. But that is in the past, it just is an illustration that it can and will happen, as unfortunate as it is. We have come to really enjoy the park, driving in 90min each way but coming as often as we can.
This is absolutely inappropriate and crazy! As a parent, I can totally relate to someone messing with my kids. The kid's lucky you didn't pick him up and toss him!
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Dan The Coaster Man wrote: That was kinda off topic but I have been wanted to rant about it on the forums but never got to it. If there is a take away from this is that some people in line can be extremely passionate. .
Dan - I totally agree with you about people being extremely passionate while in line. This woman also sounds like a parent who believes her kid can do no wrong. Good thing you got away from the scene. Also her yelling "did you touch this girl" super loud can definitely be misconstrued the wrong way and then you could end up in jail......
by momlovescoasters on September 30th, 2017, 9:55 am
I visited the park last night. At the entrance of Bull, my friend and I were given a blue ticket with a number on it. I asked the attendant what it was for and he said "just hold on to it". Seemed kinda pointless.....no one asked to see it again. I wonder if this had anything to do with the attack? I've never been given a ticket for any ride in the past. Does anyone know what it was for?
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by Guy_With_A_Stick on September 30th, 2017, 11:44 am
^Its to prevent line jumping in a way. If anyone line jumps, then the tickets would be out of order, thus revealing that they jumped the line.
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by tribar on October 5th, 2017, 12:28 pm
Guy_With_A_Stick wrote: ^Its to prevent line jumping in a way. If anyone line jumps, then the tickets would be out of order, thus revealing that they jumped the line.
I don't think they even check them when they collect them though.
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by momlovescoasters on October 5th, 2017, 1:05 pm
They didn't even collect mine.
by CoasterCale on October 5th, 2017, 1:45 pm
They're supposed to, but often times there's miscommunication between whoever's giving them out (Usually Guest Services, Security, or Photos. For all I know Photos isn't a separate department.) or Flash Pass. Lately there isn't enough staffing for a grouper, so ride ops often have no clue whether tickets are even being distributed.
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by Tardis1972 on November 20th, 2017, 11:57 pm
So the family has decided to sue the park. Honestly I'm not surprised by this at all.
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by Necropolis on May 16th, 2018, 8:33 pm
"Man charged in Great America attack skips court hearing, arrest warrant issued"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/news/ct-lns-great-america-battery-warrant-st-0425-story.html
So apparently, Gregory Battle, the teen who attacked that poor family last year, missed his court hearing a few weeks ago from this incident and a warrant was issued with no bail bond status. Here are the main points of the article and for those who want some peace of mind hopefully...
Battle, who was released from the Lake County jail last year after posting bond, was in court Friday morning after Lake County Circuit Judge Mark Levitt was informed by pretrial services that Battle had missed school — which he was required to attend as part of his release from custody prior to trial — on several occasions.
According to authorities, Battle was also drug-tested Friday, and Levitt was told Tuesday morning he had tested positive for marijuana. When informed Battle was not in court Tuesday, Levitt issued a “no bond” warrant for Battle, specifying that he must be brought directly before Levitt in court if he is taken into custody.
The family has claimed a 12-year-old family member suffered “permanent and disabling” injuries from the attack.
Battle was alone in court as his case was called, but on Tuesday, family members were present but Battle was not. Levitt was told Battle was not seen by his family Monday or Monday night, and they were unsure where he has gone.
Assistant State’s Attorney John Brown said the state will oppose continued pretrial bond for Battle if and when he returns to court.
Battle was released from jail [the first time] after posting a $2,000 cash bond, the customary 10 percent of his $20,000 bail. His bail status now is set at no bond, and Brown said the state will object to any reduction in that prior to trial.
According to the civil suit, three family members and a friend were attending the Halloween-themed promotion at the park when the brawl broke out. It claims about 20 young people gathered in a group began taunting a female member of the family, and then, without provocation, one member of the group began punching the woman's son in the face and jaw, and another hit him in the head and neck, the suit states.
The boy's father tried to intervene but was “viciously” attacked, and the mother and son watched “in horror” while the group “appeared to be beating and kicking (him) to death,” the suit states.
The suit asserts that the operators of the park were negligent for allowing the attack to occur and because security personnel “did nothing to intervene” to stop it. The suit claims that the son suffered permanent and disabling injuries, and seeks more than $50,000 to pay for past and future surgical care and rehabilitation for the victims.
Feel free to click on the link at the top to read the article in its entirety. Wonder what will be next for this delinquent and the victims.
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Aaaannnd he's back again. Missing his second court hearing lmfao
"Man charged in Great America attack is a fugitive for second time in less than a month"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/news/ct-lns-great-america-fugitive-st-0511-story.html
For the second time in less than a month, a Waukegan man charged with aggravated battery involving an alleged attack at Great America has become a fugitive while out on pretrial bond.
In a terse hearing Thursday called to address an “emergency motion” by the state, Judge Mark Levitt issued an arrest warrant for Gregory Battle, 18.
“No bond. Returnable only to me,” Levitt said in outlining terms of the warrant should Battle be apprehended.
Battle was supposed to be heading to a month-long drug treatment inpatient stay at a facility in Carbondale.
Assistant State’s Attorney John Brown told Levitt Thursday morning that bond services personnel said Battle told them he was going to his home to collect belongings for his rehabilitation stay, and then disappeared.
That occurred after Levitt had lowered Battle’s bond Monday from $500,000 to $20,000 to allow him to leave the Lake County jail to attend the treatment program.
His bond had been raised from $20,000 to $500,000 when Battle was arrested on a previous no-bond warrant in Waukegan on May 2, after he did not appear in court the week prior after allegedly failing a drug test.
Levitt then reduced the bail back to $20,000 on Monday so Battle could be free from custody on a $2,000 bond to attend the treatment program.
Neither Brown nor defense attorney Joe Zeit had any comment on the issue after the hearing Thursday.
In lowering Battle’s bond after his arrest last week and giving him the opportunity to attend the treatment program, which Levitt said he was doing primarily for Battle’s parents, the judge warned Battle the consequences would be “extremely serious” if Battle violated his bond conditions again.
“Let’s see what you do with it,” Levitt had told Battle Monday with regard to the opportunity to attend treatment.
Related: 911 caller says man was punched 'five times in the face' in Great America attack »
Battle was missing for about a week on the first arrest warrant, before he was spotted May 2 by officers in the area of Jackson and Washington streets and apprehended, according to Waukegan Police Cmdr. Joe Florip.
Defense attorneys had sought permission for the treatment program following his return to custody to allow Battle the opportunity to address drug issues and any other problems before continuing the pretrial process.
Battle was charged with aggravated battery causing great bodily harm and aggravated battery in a public place, felonies carrying a possible prison term of two to five years in prison upon conviction, following a Sept. 23, 2017 incident at Great America in Gurnee.
Gurnee police described the incident as an attack by a group of nine people against a family of three, and a civil suit filed by the family against the park claims a 12-year-old family member suffered "permanent and disabling" injuries from the attack.
In addition to Battle, a Waukegan resident, eight juveniles ranging in age from 15 to 17 were charged in juvenile petitions for mob action. Officials have said that seven of the juvenile suspects were from Waukegan and one was from Beach Park.
Police said injured family members were all taken to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville for treatment after the alleged attack.
The suit claims operators of the park were negligent for allowing the attack to occur, and because security personnel did nothing to intervene and stop it, and seeks monetary damages to pay for past and future surgical care and rehabilitation for the victims.
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Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever. page 15
Scylla and Charybdis, or Communism and Fascism
Communism is not democratic. What it calls the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ is in fact the dictatorship of a small minority, who become an oligarchic governing class. All history shows that government is always conducted in the interests of the governing class, except in so far as it is influenced by fear of losing its power. page 73
There is so much hate in Marx and in Communism that Communists can hardly be expected, when victorious, to establish a regime affording no outlet for malevolence. page 74
There are some objections – and these, to my mind, the most conclusive – which apply to Communism and Fascism equally. Both are the attempts by a minority to mould a population forcibly in accordance with a preconceived pattern. They regard a population as a man regards the materials out of which he intends to construct a machine: the materials undergo much alteration, but in accordance with his purposes, not with any law of development inherent in them. page 78
The Case for Socialism
Let us begin by a definition of Socialism. The definition must consist of two parts, economic and political. The economic part consists in State ownership of ultimate economic power, which involves, as a minimum, land and minerals, capital, banking, credit and foreign trade. The political part requires that the ultimate political power should be democratic. page 82
Economic security would do more to increase the happiness of civilised communities than any other change that can be imagined, except the prevention of war. Work – to the extent that may be socially necessary –should be legally obligatory for all healthy adults, but their income should depend only upon their willingness to work, and should not cease when, for some reason, their services are temporarily unnecessary. page 91
The world is in the condition of a drunkard anxious to reform, but surrounded by kind friends offering him drinks, and therefore perpetually relapsing. In this case, the kind friends are men who make money out of his unfortunate propensity, and the first step in his reformation must be to remove them. It is only in this sense that modern capitalism can be regarded as a cause of war: it is not the whole cause, but it provides an essential stimulus to the other causes. If it were no longer in existence, the absence of this stimulus would quickly cause men to see the absurdity of war, and to enter upon such equitable agreements as would its future occurrence improbable. page 101
On Youthful Cynicism
Causation in the modern world is more complex and remote in its ramifications than it ever was before, owing to the increase of large corporations; but those who control these large organisations are ignorant men who do not know the hundredth part of the consequences of their actions. page 128
The rulers of the world have always been stupid, but have not in the past been so powerful as they are now. page 128 f
☞ Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays, Routledge, London (2004)
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First Ever Large Survey of Distant Galaxies Yields Surprises for Astrophysicists
TOPICS:ALMAAstronomyAstrophysicsCNRS
By CNRS November 4, 2020
Artist’s illustration of a galaxy in the early universe that is very dusty and shows the first signs of a rotationally supported disk. In this image, the red color represents gas, and blue/brown represents dust as seen in radio waves with ALMA. Many other galaxies are visible in the background, based on optical data from VLT and Subaru.
Credit: B. Saxton NRAO/AUI/NSF, ESO, NASA/STScI; NAOJ/Subaru
When the Universe was only a tenth of its current age its galaxies experienced a growth spurt. It was this period that the scientists in the ALPINE (ALMA Large Program to INvestigate C+ at Early times) project focused on when they used ESO’s ALMA telescope to carry out the first ever large survey of distant galaxies. To their surprise, these galaxies observed in the early stages of their life were far more mature than expected.
Their work is the subject of a series of articles published on October 27, 2020, in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, signed among others by members of the CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université.
Galaxies began to form very early in the history of the Universe. To study their infancy, it is therefore necessary to go back to the dawn of time, by observing very distant galaxies. The ALPINE project focused on a period between 1 and 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, when the first galaxies experienced a phase of rapid growth. Although such distant galaxies have already been observed, this is the first time that so many of them have been studied systematically.
Images of 118 massive galaxies, obtained with the Hubble (visible light) and Spitzer (near infrared) space telescopes, as well as spectra acquired using the ground-based VLT and Keck telescopes, were supplemented by 70 hours of observation with ALMA at submillimeter wavelengths (between the infrared and radio waves).
Mosaic showing some of the galaxies observed by ALMA. The bright yellow regions are those where the most stars are forming (the ionised carbon (C+) line makes it possible to see the formation of stars obscured by dust). The second image from the left in the top row shows a triple merger. Credit: © Michele Ginolfi / ALPINE
ALMA can quantify dust, a sign of maturity in galaxies, and cold gas, which provides information about their rate of growth and the number of stars they can form, as well as the motion of this gas, thus revealing the dynamics of galaxies. And this turned up some surprising data.
For a start, the observed galaxies proved to be very rich not only in cold gas, which fuels star formation, but also in dust, which is thought to be a by-product of stars at the end of their lives. So despite their young age, these galaxies had apparently seen the formation and death of a first generation of stars!
The galaxies surveyed also exhibit an astonishing diversity of shapes: some are disordered, others already have a rotating disc that may end up as a spiral structure like the Milky Way, while yet others have been spotted in the process of merging.
Another surprising observation is that certain galaxies appear to be ejecting gas, forming mysterious haloes around them.
The survey thus raises a number of new questions about the early evolution of galaxies.
For more on this research, read “Growth Spurt” in the Early Universe: Galaxies in the Infant Universe Were Surprisingly Mature.
Reference: “The ALPINE-ALMA [CII] survey – Survey strategy, observations, and sample properties of 118 star-forming galaxies at 4 < z < 6” by O. Le Fèvre, M. Béthermin, A. Faisst, G. C. Jones, P. Capak, P. Cassata, J. D. Silverman, D. Schaerer, L. Yan, R. Amorin, S. Bardelli, M. Boquien, A. Cimatti, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, M. Giavalisco, N. P. Hathi, Y. Fudamoto, S. Fujimoto, M. Ginolfi, C. Gruppioni, S. Hemmati, E. Ibar, A. Koekemoer, Y. Khusanova, G. Lagache, B. C. Lemaux, F. Loiacono, R. Maiolino, C. Mancini, D. Narayanan, L. Morselli, Hugo Méndez-Hernàndez, P. A. Oesch, F. Pozzi, M. Romano, D. Riechers, N. Scoville, M. Talia, L. A. M. Tasca, R. Thomas, S. Toft, L. Vallini, D. Vergani, F. Walter, G. Zamorani and E. Zucca, 27 October 2020, Astronomy & Astrophysics.
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936965
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6 Comments on "First Ever Large Survey of Distant Galaxies Yields Surprises for Astrophysicists"
Nicole Henry | November 4, 2020 at 11:13 pm | Reply
One thing I don’t comprehend, and maybe someone can answer it adequately for me. Assuming the universe is expanding at the speed of light, which in turn has us moving through space at insane speeds. And if everything started out of a single point (The Big Bang), how is it when looking out into space we’re gazing into the past since light from the early universe would have travelled at the same speed or faster than us, we could not possibly get ahead of the early universe timewise. The early universe would age at the same rate as us. Therefore, unless the big bang is an ongoing process, it’s impossible for us to be looking back into the past. Can somebody help me with this
Stephen Bauer | November 6, 2020 at 9:51 am | Reply
The short explanation in response to Nicole Henry: First off there was no singular point from which the universe started from the Big Bang. This representation is clearly misleading. Think of it as a singular point in Time, but covering the entirety of Space, In other words, the universe started in everywhere at the same time in one Big Bang [say as the convergence of Time and Space for spacetime].
As for the expanding rate of the universe, the light or radiation [while not current] of earliest cosmological objects has been traveling upon its inception and does not disappear with expansion. Rather it has been hypothesized that the expansion rate reflects an complementary mechanism of Time dilation. However, where traveling into a black hole provides for a Temporal dilation via gravitational acceleration, Temporal contraction via gravitational deceleration.
I hope this answers your confusion.
Ton van der Heijden | November 5, 2020 at 4:53 am | Reply
Wetenschappers zoeken nog steeds naar het punt waar de oerknal begon. Pas dan kan een antwoord op de vraag worden gegeven.
Fred Helms | November 5, 2020 at 12:47 pm | Reply
With the new space telescopes we will soon start seeing universes that existed before the Big Bag!
william wesley | November 6, 2020 at 2:11 pm | Reply
this evidence tends to falsify the big bang, but we get a dark response as to the implications which are taboo to mention, the universe may be steady state after all
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.58.4475&rep=rep1&type=pdf
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Oh, Texas has like a pretty bad track record with this and because of so much of Texas is growth in the past few years and decades has been overwhelmingly because of growth among communities of color groups say they're looking to make sure that those political lines draw like retain that political power and population growth that has accumulated over the past few years. All right, let's turn from Texas to Oregon because Republicans next year are going to have total control of 20 state. Legislatures, with Matt making power and Democrats are only going to have total control of seven, but Oregon is one of those seven. So Dirk Vander Hart, What does that mean for redistricting in your state? Well, that's right. Democrats here have super majorities in the House and Senate along with the governor's office, and as of January, they're going to hold the secretary of state's office as well. That's really notable here because in Oregon if the Legislature and governor can't agree on how to reach our legislative maps, the secretary of state takes over the process, and actually, in the past half century, the Legislature has failed to pass. They planned much of the time. So that is one reason Republicans were really adamant about hanging on to the secretary of state's office. In this year's election, there would have been at least some path for them to have meaningful influence in redistricting. Instead, though, a progressive Democrat named Show me a Fagan won the seat. So does that mean Republicans are totally frozen out in Oregon? As the Democrats are in Texas? You know for 2021 that absolutely looks like the case Earlier this year, there was an effort to try to establish a nonpartisan redistricting commission that would take control of the process from lawmakers. That's something Republicans were pretty supportive of, but it failed to even get enough signatures to make the ballot. So show me a fake in the new secretary of State has said she would appoint an independent commission to help advise her. We have not seen a lot of what that looks like. All right, let's head east to North Carolina, which has been the site of many high profile gerrymandering cases over the last few years. What things look like now in Charlotte, Steve Harrison. Yes. So I think it's safe to say North Carolina has been one of those bitterly contested states over political Jerry Mannering after Republicans took control here in 2010. It was a North Carolina case. It was heard by the Supreme Court in the summer of 2019, in which the justices said that Jerry Mandarin based on political party was not unconstitutional. And that was a decision that Democrats across the country said was bad for democracy. In North Carolina. There was also litigation and state court that was successful enforced Republicans to redraw legislative and congressional maps before the 2020 election. And with these new maps, Democrats were really hopeful they could win at least one chamber and have a say and drawing the new maps next year. But they had to win in rural and suburban areas. And like what happened in Texas and other places those hopes really fizzled out. The GOP kept control of both the House and Senate. And so what does that mean for redrawing the maps next year? Has the GOP indicated what they plan to do so they aren't giving any clues, But first they're doing a little bit of gloating. They're saying, Look, we want in 2010 on maps the Democrats drew and we want in 2020 on maps that Democrats said you were pretty fair, so they're taking a victory lap. The question is, are they going to take a hard line approach next year and draw the maps themselves and lock Democrats out? Democrats here are pretty worried. Here's Natasha Marcus, a state senator from Mecklenburg County, home to Charlotte. What I do think is that Republicans who run the General Assembly are smart, and they're gonna certainly Take steps to make things look transparent and one more thing. There's an assumption here that Democrats are going to benefit from new maps just because so much of the population growth is in cities like rally in Charlotte, which you're very blue. But the state's top Republican Senate leader, Phil Berger, is saying not so fast. He's making this kind of interesting argument that Republican voters in these cities are disenfranchised because the GOP doesn't have any representation there. So he's saying, Look, we have 30% of the vote and no members in the Legislature. So he's saying, Hey, maybe we should draw a safe Republican seat in Charlotte. So take a step back. These votes in November have implications for political power in the U. S over the next decade. What is this likely to mean? 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"In a decade opportunity for all 50 states to redraw the lines of state and congressional voting District's In most places. State lawmakers are in charge of drawing those maps. So both parties poured money into state legislative races this year, and the result was a major disappointment to Democrats. Republicans won in almost all the states that will be key to redistricting. We've got three reporters with us to talk about what these fights will look like in different parts of the country. Ashley Lopez from member Station Kut in Austin, Texas, Dirk Vander Hart from Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland and Steve Harrison of member station W F A in Charlotte, North Carolina. Good to have you all here? Hey, Ari. Hi. Actually, let's start with you in Texas. The state's getting more diverse, and it's one of many places where Democrats had hoped to take over the house and didn't what happened there. Yes, so those hopes were totally dashed. Democrats were hoping to gain a majority in the Texas house. You know, at least one chamber so they could have a seat at the table this time around because they've been completely shut out for decades, but much like every other state that Democrats were hoping to flip a chamber in they were unsuccessful. In Texas, they had their sights set on flipping nine seats. That were quite frankly, just out of reach for them, largely because those districts were drawn to favor Republicans by Republicans 10 years ago. So in case you wondered if, like redistricting was important. This is a good example. Why So Republican lawmakers are again completely in charge of the process. You know, from top to bottom and because of the U. S Supreme Court decision recently that said that states can gerrymander for partisan bases than they really don't have any reason to hold back. That makes it sound like Democrats in Texas have no tools at all. Is there any kind of check or balance on Republican power in the state? Yeah, well, like the last time the courts are really the only check they have right so Even though partisan gerrymandering his legal, which is drawing districts that favor of party over the other, drawing maps that discriminate against people of color is definitely not. That's illegal. And because race and partisanship sometimes go hand in hand, it might be kind of impossible for Republicans. Jerry Mander, based on partisanship without running afoul of racial discrimination laws. So and in fact, Stephanie Swanson with the League of Women voters of Texas, she said that this is actually been a persistent issue in Texas. So in the past 50 years, Texas has been found to have racially discriminated or violated the Voting Rights Act and every redistricting cycle. They could very much still do the same thing on Texas Toe Oregon because Republicans next year are going to have total control of 20 state legislatures, with Matt making power, and Democrats are only going to have total control of seven. But Oregon is one of those seven. So Dirk Vander Hart, What does that mean for redistricting in your state? Well, that's right. Democrats here have super majorities in the House and Senate along with the governor's office, and as of January, they're going to hold the secretary of state's office as well. That's really notable here because in Oregon if the Legislature and governor can't agree and how to reach our legislative maps, the secretary of state takes over the process. And actually, in the past half century, the Legislature has failed to pass. They plan much of the time. So that is one reason Republicans were really adamant about hanging on to the secretary of state's office. In this year's election, there would have been at least some path for them to have meaningful influence in redistricting. Instead, though, a progressive Democrat named Show me a Fagan won the seat. So does that mean Republicans are totally frozen out in Oregon? As the Democrats are in Texas? You know for 2021 that absolutely looks like the case Earlier this year, there was an effort to try to establish a nonpartisan redistricting commission that would take control of the process from lawmakers. That's something Republicans were pretty supportive of, but it failed to even get enough signatures to make the ballot. So show me a fake in the new secretary of State has said she would appoint an independent commission to help advise her. We have not seen a lot of what that looks like. All right, let's head east to North Carolina, which has been the site of many high profile gerrymandering cases over the last few years. What things look like now in Charlotte, Steve Harrison. Yes. So I think it's safe to say North Carolina has been one of those bitterly contested states over political Jerry Mannering after Republicans took control here in 2010. It was a North Carolina case. It was heard by the Supreme Court in the summer of 2019, in which the justices said that Jerry Mandarin based on political party was not unconstitutional, and that was a decision that Democrats across the country said was bad for democracy. In North Carolina. There was also litigation and state court that was successful enforced Republicans to redraw legislative and congressional maps before the 2020 election. And with these new maps, Democrats were really hopeful they could win at least one chamber and have a say and drawing the new maps next year. But they had to win in rural and suburban areas. And like what happened in Texas and other places those hopes really fizzled out. The GOP kept control of both the House and Senate. And so what does that mean for redrawing the maps next year? Has the GOP indicated what they plan to do so they aren't giving any clues, But first they're doing a little bit of gloating. They're saying, Look, we want in 2010 on maps that Democrats drew and we want in 2020 on maps that Democrats said We're pretty fair, so they're taking a victory lap. The question is, are they going to take a hard line approach next year and draw the maps themselves and lock Democrats out? Democrats here are pretty worried. Here's Natasha Marcus, a state senator from Mecklenburg County, home to Charlotte. What I do think is that Republicans who run the General Assembly are smart, and they're gonna certainly Take steps to make things look transparent and one more thing. There's an assumption here that Democrats are going to benefit from new maps just because so much of the population growth is in cities like rally in Charlotte, which you're very blue. The state's top Republican Senate leader, Phil Berger, is saying not so fast. He's making this kind of interesting argument that Republican voters in these cities are disenfranchised because the GOP doesn't have any representation there. So he's saying, Look, we have 30% of the vote and no members in the Legislature. So he's saying, Hey, maybe we should draw a safe Republican seat in Charlotte. So take a step back. These votes in November have implications for political power in the U. S over the next decade. What is this likely to mean? So, Yeah, one thing going forward in North Carolina, there was hope to have an independent commission to draw maps. That's what Democrats wanted. That's not gonna happen, and I think that's been a push in a lot of places around the country. And Republicans just aren't interested in doing that. So one thing I think you can have. The possibility to continue nationwide is a situation where one party may get more votes for their state House chamber or state Senate chamber. But still have fewer seats overall.
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UN vital for peace and cooperation says Economic and Social Council head
"This is matt wells at un news. In a world facing famine major migration and conflict exacerbated by covid nineteen the un including its foundational body the economic and social council nanak is vital to promote global peace and cooperation. That's according to mugniyah cram pakistan's ambassador to the un who was elected ecosoc president in july. He said that urgent action needs to be taken out to meet the needs of developing countries. Otherwise we'll have a humanitarian disaster. On our hands he told you and uses lists graffiti but began the interview by explaining kazakhs overall role. The economic and social council is one of the three Principal organs are mentioned in the un charter. The general assembly the security council and the economic and social council. These are three made charter bodies and the concept of creating the economic and social council at the time of the birth of the united nations. Was that on the one side. The security council was conceived as an organ. Which would promote collective security and enforce peace in the world the economic and social council on the other hand was designed to promote peace through international economic cooperation. One of the framers of t. Un charter was the president of the united states. Mr roosevelt and his conception which voiced at the time was that economic instability was a disease and that if one country had it than others would be affected and that was the concept behind the creation of economic and social council to promote peace through international development cooperation so the charter says very clearly that the objective of the economic and social council is to promote better standards of living in larger freedoms. That is a quote from the un charter. And it's supposed to do that personally by addressing policy issues and secondly by promoting international cooperation and coordination among all international economic organizations that's the mandate and it's a mandate. Which is i believe. Just as important as the mandate of the un security comes. Can you share some examples. Cossacks work in new york that has had a global impact. Yes over the years. The economic and social council has been a place where the whole concept of development cooperation of helping developing countries to make progress and grow was conceived. So it was at the economic and social council that the first report which is called the pearson report on development cooperation was discussed and the whole idea of promoting economic and social development through mutual support between rich and poor countries was born here. Kazakh was the place where we conceive of what was then called the international development strategy. It is the place where the concept of official development assistance amounting to zero point. Seven percent of the gdp of developed countries to be provided to developing countries was born. It was an echo saw the concept of linking the creation of special drawing rights in the imf the quotas to link those quotas with development. Assistance these were all major ideas that were born india-kazakh and are now activist in major financial in international economic institutions. So it has been a central body for forward thinking and these are just some examples of what has been achieved in kazakh in the post.
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Trump's trip to join Giuliani at Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers' baseless voter fraud event is cancelled
"President Trump calls off a meeting with his election legal team in Pennsylvania President Trump canceling a planned trip to Gettysburg this afternoon for what the campaign is calling a hearing on allegations of fraud in the 2020 election. The president was set to join Trump Campaign Attorney Rudy Giuliani in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, certified its results and it's 20 elect wars for Joe Biden on Tuesday morning, Pennsylvania's Senate majority leader and the state's House majority leader, both Republicans, wrote in a joint op ed In October that the Pennsylvania General Assembly does not and will not have a hand and choosing the state's presidential electors or in deciding the outcome of the presidential election. In Washington. John Decker Fox News,
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Chicago city council to vote on Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s 2021 spending plan
"This week, the Chicago City Council will vote on Mayor Lightfoot's pandemic budgets for 2021. Lawrence. It's got a $94 million property tax. I can it. What do you think of this? Been spending plan? Well, they were. I mean, you have to put it in the context of what the mayor faces and what the city of Chicago faces right because of the economic uncertainty and disruption that is Um the pandemic has caused. There are very little options that are easy for the city to implement. The property tax increase was not something that, um, the Civic Federation initially was, you know, thrilled about but it is a relatively modest increase. Um, that is the city had indicated was necessary in order to prop up their ongoing Financial position and to show that they could that there was new revenue coming in concerned now that the property texts increases being targeted toward a capital plan that has been not been fully vetted or articulated. The city doesn't need capital improvements, but it needs a comprehensive plan in this very Tough economic time before it spends any money or prioritized prioritizes capital spending. The mayor had has a reasonable approach to this budget. She's trying to maintain the city's both its financial position. She's not getting any help from Springfield, which is not even operational in terms of the General Assembly hasn't met since May. Hope is that the federal government will be providing some revenue support in the form to not just the city in the state of Illinois. But all states once the a Biden administration comes into office, or the U. S. Senate decides to go forward with some local government assistance. Now, if Washington does come through, Is there any piece of the pandemic budget from the mayor that can be reduced cutback? Maybe from definitely the mayor's people are saying that if they get significant revenue support from Washington, they will not be borrowing us much money. They will be not trying to use his what's locally called scoop and toss, which is where we're restructuring our debt by pushing it out. In order to provide budgetary relief to the to this year's and last year's budget and the clothes last year's deficit, So the Civic Federation is strongly supported the need to provide temporary relief to states and local governments during the pandemic so that they can continue to operate so that they can support the businesses and residents that need this support so we can get through the economic disruption, but it's unlikely that that level Support from any administration is going to be enough to avoid the real crisis in terms of Chicago's finances, which are it's overwhelming pension liability and tied to its high level of debt. Do
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Atlanta City Council Adopts Legislation Urging State Law Change to Curb Street Racing
"Council members asked the General Assembly to change the state law so that police officers can seize cars called street racing. The city hopes by stiffening the penalties. It'll discourage the racing that takes over Atlanta City streets and keeps neighborhoods up at night. The council's already enacted ordinances to jail street racers until a judge sets bond The General Assembly convenes in January. The
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Atlanta asks state to allow police to seize cars involved in street racing
"The General Assembly to change Georgia State laws of that police officers can seize cars caught street racing. The city hopes by stiffening penalties that will discourage the racing that takes over Atlanta City streets and keep neighborhoods up at night. The council's already enacted ordinances to jail street racers until the judge sets bond. The General Assembly convenes in January. 7 astronauts are now
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North Carolina House, Senate remain under Republican control
"From Tuesday's election show state Republicans holding onto the majority of seats in both the North Carolina House and Senate. Richard Stelling. Reports on official return show the GOP 13 additional seats in the House for a total of 68. Although Republicans lost two seats in the state Senate, they still end up with a 27 2 23 majority. As of Wednesday, three House races and won Senate race were still on determined with the majority or Republicans will be in control of the General Assembly next year, when state and congressional District Lines are re John
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Trump's Pennsylvania lead dwindles as legal fights heat up
"The vote count in Pennsylvania is now the subject of atleast five legal challenges filed by the Trump campaign or other Republicans. Congressman Guy Russian Dollars, says one of the main ones is over mail in ballots arriving after election day that was never drafted into law by the General Assembly here in Pennsylvania that was just written into law by that Supreme Court. Susanna Almeida, with the group Common Cause says it's an issue because of postal delays in our democracy. Every vote has to be counted. Other challenges are over canvassing watchers, voter deadlines, ballot errors and provisional ballots.
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UN: Nuclear weapons ban treaty to enter into force
"On international treaty banning nuclear weapons will come into force in three months time after it was ratified by the required 50 countries. The U. N treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons was adopted by the General Assembly in 2017 and has been approved by countries ranging from South Africa on Nigeria to Cuba and Kazakhstan, Ali McConnell reports. The international treaty bans the use developments, production or stockpiling of nuclear weapons as well as the threat of their use. But crucially, the major nuclear powers of the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia have not signed it. They've argued that the weapon's service a deterrent and say they remain committed to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, which seeks to prevent their spread. Campaigners have nevertheless hailed the development is a historic milestone and say the new treaty will stigmatized nuclear arms, making them comparable to chemical and biological
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Macron wants France to have a seat at the top table
"President Emmanuel Macron is not unique among French leaders in entertaining grandiose notions about his country's singular place in the world charles-de-gaulle believed that France cannot be France without greatness and wrote of its exalted and exceptional destiny for Napoleon. The word impossible is not French. Emmanuel macron is a banker by background rather than a warrior, but he seems to share with his swashbuckling predescessors. The conviction that France is a great power and should behave like one in recent months alone macron has met with the Democratic opposition leaders of Belarus dispatched warships and fighter jets to Greece as it butts heads with Turkey and perhaps most startlingly invited himself to Lebanon within forty eight hours of the warehouse explosion which devastated. Beirut. In August, all of which is to say nothing Francis outreach economic and military to its former colonies in West Africa. Last month macron. told the UN General Assembly that the world as it is today cannot come down to a rivalry between China and the United States macron appears to have a firm idea of at least one of the nation deserving of a seat at the top table.
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Virginia voter registration extended after website crash
"Election. 2020 Virginia voters got an extra day this year to register to vote. Sabrina Marino of the Richmond Times. Dispatch joins us on this story, Sabrina Marino explained what happened yesterday that led to today's extension. Yeah. So you know, yesterday with the whirlwind, as with everything nowadays, it kind of started with the tweets. And so yesterday morning, the Virginia Department of Elections posted that Horizon Cable was cut near the headquarters of an agency that you know, provided technical support for various states. Entities, you know, including the Virginia Department of Health and Virginia Employment Commission and, of course, the Virginia Department of Elections. So, basically the elections website crashed, which meant that on the last day for Jenny residents coded register to vote, they couldn't online for several hours and then also impacted. Early in person voting with Freddie Starr's offices statewide, you know, fighting that they couldn't access the full books or verify voter eligibility, and even though it was prepared by 3 30 called it already mounted to extended registration deadline, which is something that the governor did not have the authority to do and said So in his briefing, and then hours later, a lawsuit was filed. How is that cable cut? So there was a roadside utilities project in Chesterfield County, and, you know, they released a statement kind of thing that it was quote. Inadvertently struck and there's not more information other than not, and they're saying it was an accident. And that roadside utilities project is a super installation. And that happened in the early morning yesterday and that part of you been in the works since May. And it was right next to the headquarters of the major agency. That kind of is the you know, the technical support for for a lot of state agencies. So their website crashed. You mentioned the governor's involvement here. How hard is it to change a voter registration deadline in the Old Dominion? So from what I've done will be gathered. It's pretty difficult and you know, they're the governor's legal counsel, said yesterday in the briefing that they don't have the authority to just change the registration deadline that is in, you know in the state coat and that on DH You know they were talking about how that is kind of litigation. It takes the courts and they couldn't violet themselves. They sighted legal procedures for that, and So it takes litigation where it takes the General Assembly and so happened back in 2016. There was a computer glitch right before the 2016 election also occurred. You know, in October and there was There's a lawsuit filed again and back then Virginians were given a 36 hour extension to register. But back then it was, you know, a plaintiff has to file the lost two and both times the lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under law was the person who filed it on behalf of you know, advocacy groups and people who kind of register to vote. Is there any way of finding out who tried to register yesterday and couldn't and to reach out to them or what's being done to let them know about the extension through tomorrow? Yeah, so right now we do not have You know specific numbers of how many people weren't able to vote. But the lawsuit was filed with the intent to explain how this is out of voters of control and that the website crashing impacted thousands of voters with a disproportionate impact on black, indigenous and Latino people. And so part of the lawsuit Also included that Register's office. State officials had to issue press releases by 11:38 A.m. this morning, you know, kind of for local writer Sharp to be notified of this order. And so that was also a part of what the federal judge ruled today was, you know? Yes, we're extending the deadline and Virginia 11 59 on Thursday, but You also have to issue project leases. And so that was a way to kind of push the state butt and make sure that you know registrars were aware that this extension was granted and that people could be registering to vote, You know, passed yesterday deadline. Was there Anybody arguing against the extension? So we haven't seen it yet? Of course. We were seeing new kind of change by the hour. But, you know, even Republicans were plotting decision and they weren't at the Sarah. We You know, having pushed back against the decision, but against Northern administration, they said that it was a failure of the states for letting this happen. And even the defendant, Virginia Department of Elections Commissioner this morning said that you know this kid eligible Virginia's additional time to register or update their current voter registration record, and in a statement, the Republican Party You know, kind of made a joke that was like, you know, make sure next time you call Miss Utility and so and then I've been different than other states. You know, in Florida, there was pushback when lost me. Their registration deadline was pushed and challenged in the courts. And but we're not really seeing that right now with Virginia, with the exception that the Republican Party Did say that it was Northern Administration's fault. And besides that I have not seen pushback otherwise is their efforts to ensure that the voter registration system isn't tied to one cable in the future. Or is that something we're expecting in the coming days and weeks? Yeah. So in the briefing yesterday, Some of the Northern administration was talking about how you know this cable would put on a 10 gigabyte circuit and it was placed in the spring due to Corbett because of the increased workload because of You know a lot of traffic, a lot of people working from home, so they needed a backup, but the back of To that was not strong enough. And with the innovation of people going to register online, you know the backup wasn't enough. And so that's what they were kind of explaining, And they said, you know that they're working on pushing. So in the event that something like this were to happen, the backup would be able T sustain it and so That's kind of where we're at right now. And and yeah, and that's why that's why they were thinking. All right. Next time. You need a better backup. Um, but us for next step. We haven't heard much on that. Sabrina Marino
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Washington, DC - Maryland lawmakers back recommendations on police reforms
"A group of Maryland State lawmakers has approved several police reform recommendations that once the Maryland General Assembly to consider including requiring regular mental and physical health assessments of officers and mandating that every police department in the state use body cameras by 2025. But it will also consider more controversial recommendations next week. Those proposals would ban choke holds and the use of military grade equipment. The panel will also consider criminal penalties for officers who used excessive force, and it would abolish protections for officers accused of
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"To use a shovel and pickaxe and he says how to sweat. That outdoor work can sometimes be a rude awakening for eighteen year old East gone outside he's got all dirt. Wiser dirt. On. Sidewalk. And he's like Oh yes for us. I mean. It took us hours these trips the. Little disturbed. All joking. Aside, these moments in the garden are also an opportunity for father and son to bond. It's a bomb that's rooted in East Gun Steep Admiration for his dad who faced a number of challenges like not knowing English, when he arrived in the US he was sixteen just a couple of years younger than he, Scott. Undesired right coming to a new country I don't know English. Do. That it was just always so hard for me to national. For Myself East gone as part of a new generation of voters who were born in the US. But whose parents or grandparents came from other countries, their immigration stories and experiences are passed down. ESCON says here in his dad's story is humbling and sometimes shapes his views. It was always something to keep me. In check. To give me back to the books if I'll fight self slipping out per. Going on my phone than out have think back in it was something that would motivate me. Give me a better and I want to get McCain doesn't matter. No look what you did east gone stat was part of a wave of economic migrants who came to the US in the early nineties growing up in Mexico, the elder or the says his biggest dream was to study and become a working professional, but he couldn't afford to pay for college so or does decided to move to the US so my dad coming from humble. Beginnings or whatever he was a very smart person wasn't able to. Find out of opportunities because he did not have an education or thus worked as a busboy in restaurants and bars. In the Chicago area he'd finished his shift at one or two am than wake up at six to catch a bus to go to highschool my shift where you know fourteen sixteen hours a day. and. So. Or does takes a long pause before finishing the Senate's it was hardy says in his first apartment, he lived with more than a dozen other men all single and also for Mexico. Eventually or does made it to college and studied electrical engineering. East got heard these stories growing up sitting across the kitchen table from his dad escon reflects a picture the I remember like seeing when When I was little we had out in the. At the old house and it was like a credit to tell the series but it was like he took me the zoo and your eyes roll rank. and. I didn't. I didn't realize it went on young but in that league older. Realize like you. Like you did. US..
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"Carrying regulations. That includes rules that would have limited greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, increased auto emission standards, and required oil and gas companies to limit methane leaks. But on the global stage, the US represents more than just the world's second biggest carbon footprint. The US plays a critical role in the global economy. It's also a key source of technological innovation and diplomatically the US stays out of the global efforts to ramp up action than I. Think a lot of countries will hide behind the US hair points to coal reliant Poland or Bolsonaro pro-development. Brazil, and a so-called gas-powered economic recovery in his native Australia as examples of where action on climate change may Wayne without US pressure. President. Trump's list of second-term priorities does not include anything about climate change just last week in an exchange with California secretary. For Natural. Resources Wade Crow foot president trump again expressed skepticism about established climate science. It'll start getting cooler. Just you just watch I wish science look. I don't think science knows actually Biden on the other hand is framing of vote for him as a vote to reestablish the US as a global leader on climate change. He says push for an end to global fossil fuel subsidies and pressure. China to lower the carbon footprint of its development initiatives. Progressive activists want bite into more aggressive, for example, by banning fracking, but they largely see him as a moderate. They can work with a yellow Wayne Trout is a youth climate organizer in Argentina I think that Abidin election plus a huge mass movement which forces. Him To take action I think that could be significant than really starting to make faster the transition to green energy Wayne trump is part of generation of activists inspired by Swedish Teen Greta. Tune. Berg who see themselves as part of a climate movement that crosses borders. So even though Wayne Trump can't vote in the US he says, he'll be watching on election night climate activist. You need to have your eyes on television that night I'm going to be watching it for sure. Probably, he says with a few beers and some friends for the world I'm caroline dealer. And a note to add here today in his address to the United. Nations President Xi Jinping announced a new climate target. For China, here he is speaking through an interpreter we will rich debating of CO two emission before thirty and reached carbon neutrality. Before Twenty Sixty Carbon Neutrality by twenty sixty for the world's biggest amidror is big news and it sends a signal. China's moving forward with its international commitments. Even as a USA said, it won't we've been hearing how there's a lot at stake for the global environment in the US election..
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"Feeling the impact of the pollutants we've pumped into the air since the industrial revolution worse heatwaves and wildfire seasons more intense hurricanes rising sea levels that makes storm surges more damaging. Rwanda hanes the Trinidadian diplomat who's also an advisor to the Alliance of small. Island states says these impacts pose an existential threat to the world's most vulnerable people the impacts in the Caribbean region specifically already quite extreme. She points as an example to Hurricane Dorian. It was a category five hurricane that intensified repeatedly last year and pounded the Bahamas for Dan a half on that hurricane was actually completely unprecedented and Unpredictable and that's the type of increased activity that we're seeing on. The outlook is of very, very challenging one. The next election of course dictates who controls US environmental policy for just for years but bill hare climate scientist, and CEO of climate analytics says those four years could actually make a real difference. In the next decade, we have two more than how of prison emissions to be on a climate safe pathway. So that can tell you try to why the next decade of action a critical and if we don't achieve significant reductions in the next four or five years, it's going to make the task extremely expensive. If not, technologically prohibitive president trump has spent the last four years rolling back what he calls job carrying regulations. That includes rules that would have limited greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, increased auto emission standards, and required oil and gas companies to limit.
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"What do you make of this response? We are used to. So called independent observers dollars. Sizing Saudi Arabia no matter what it does win the original. Verdicts will issue that sentence is issued and they included the death sentence to five of the. Of the defendants. There was an uproar why why would you resort to death sentence and so forth when the sentence was commuted to twenty years of jail again we have. Different sets of criticisms. So widowed not run our legal system on the basis of trying to satisfy anybody or trying to get the endorsement of the support from from anybody whether it is Presenting or anybody else for that matter, we conduct our legal system on the basis of trying to pursue justice trying to. Conduct on affairs in an objective and independent banner right. But the accusation Yam Bassett's is that people at the highest levels in Saudi Arabia orchestrated this killing and that's not coming from independent observers that's coming from your allies from the CIA and other Western intelligence agencies who say that Prince. Mohammad. Bin Salman directly ordered Mr Control. Jesus assignation. I have not seen any such report that implicates the crown prince or anybody else for that matter. All of this is. John Tolkien speculation and. INNUENDO. Prince Mohammad bin Salman has. Of course stood up courageously and said the buck stops. and. Hit. I want stability since this thing happened under his watch and possibly that responsibility is to make sure that those who? Aren't involved in this process justice, and this is what happened and when you present people to justice, some people would be quizzed. Some people would be convicted again. That's exactly what happened. I WANNA tend not to the war in. Yemen Reuters. News. Agency reports that coalition forces fighting in Yemen intercepted and destroyed a drone which was reportedly fired at an airport in the south of the country What do you make of these developments in Yemen right now now? We have. Become used to these repeated attacks from the WHO is in total disregard for the possibility of causing civilian casualties. This is a bustling international airport in the south of Saudi Arabia and it has been subject to attacks by. Throws and buy equipment and weapons that are supplied to them by the team. we have been coding the. To task on that, we have been asking be international community to take the necessary measures to prevent that from happening. Got I we have been. Trying to take the appropriate action militarily guest is in Yemen and we will continue to do. So we will continue to defend our borders will continue to defend our cities apples. population will we will continue to support the legitimate government of Yemen. As. For the United Nations resolutions? Let's turn to relations with. Iran. Saudi Arabia has joined Bahrain Kuwait Oman Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in a letter urging the United Nations to reimpose a renewed alms embargo against Iran. That was dismissed at the United Nations What next? Well. What's next is up to the international communities up to the F. Five plus one countries that wedding involved in the In the Jesse Peo- ain't and we hope that they would love abandoned the pursuit of efforts towards denying Iran. The Lug City and the opportunity to import weapons and to supply them to Lucy's Hezbollah and diminishes in Iraq. To. CNN forces, and so forth. This is responsible behaviour on the possibly on and. If the situation with regards to the few way and the Imbaba bobble doesn't change. Not, if the embargo is lifted, we can expect more of this. Out of into responsible behaviour. I think it is up to the Security Council to the. Hours of the JCP away to take appropriate action. We have been talking to many of them. They emphasizing the technicality of whether the state's come out. Cold for the snap back provision to be applied as it is uncle. Withdrawal from the JCP away but many of them. Supportive of the Saudi Arabia position and the Gulf position that Iran's behavior has been outrageous and that the behavior. And should not be tolerated right? You say runs behaviors outrageous and responsible but all sides agree that Iran was complete compliance with the JCP. At the time when the United States unilaterally decided to pull out of that agreement in fact violating the agreement unilaterally. I'm not sure that for compliance is accurate description for eras behavior but I'm not going to get involved in the discussion about the way. This is something that we not involved in. We would not consulted about it. We would not profit with anywhere she issues or the discussions. This is up to the parties to the JCP to. Explain, that positions on on that I'm talking about the fact that you're not has been supplying weapons. This has been confirmed by the United Nations has been confirmed by many of the countries that are party to the Jesse PA. I'm talking about Iran's. Conduct with regard to elect acts against oil facilities ankle in Saudi Arabia against the oil tankers in down in govender Gulf these are documented and supported events. That have nothing to do with whether Iran is complying with the nuclear agreement. Now, that's something. That says the world what concerns me is, what attacks on has been conducting against Saudi Arabia. Who These Ambassador, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you. That was Saudi ambassador to the United Nations of data elmore speaking with me earlier. The heat is produced by CGT in America I executive uses tear at issue now senior producer. John Gilmore this episode was produced by vish no marriage Affari. What's get on ninety thanks for listening..
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"General Assembly including a proposed multi billion dollar education reform plan as well as the revenue bills to fund it Hogan cited economic challenges brought on by covert nineteen after months of coronavirus closures courts across Maryland are tentatively set to begin re opening June eighth although that date is not set in stone even if the courts do begin to re open them judicial leaders say it'll be well into the summer before jury trials resume a member of the military serving as one of the president's valets has tested positive for the corona virus White House says president trump and vice president pence cents in tests since tested negative for the virus and they are both still in good health there are more than one point two million reported cases of the virus across the U. S. now including more than fifty six thousand confirmed cases in DC Maryland and Virginia the justice department is dropping the case against president trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn the stunning reversal and it's drawing criticism from Democrats and criminal justice experts we go deeper now with Chuck Todd moderator of NBC's meet the press joining us live on Skype Chuck twice Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U. S. what exactly is going on here well this is what bill Barr has ruled here essentially is that he he basically says the premise with which the FBI I was going to interview F. B. F. land books that's essentially what bars arguing and obviously what you're saying is a lot of people are disagreeing in the professional ranks the justice department check it out here they were investigating what Russia was doing you're somebody that had known Russian ties it very much it's sort of probable cause if you will to borrow a phrase to to interview a minute just five interview and he pled guilty himself so it is you know I was thinking about this this morning it goes back to nobody seems to have learned a lesson from from to to block all of the original gymkhana call me send right going back to July sixteenth when when sort of he inserted himself any of these justice department officials or FBI directors that insert themselves in this situation all it does is because political distrust in the system any sensually what bill bars doing is continuing I think what call me ended up doing a separate set of angering career people and folks on you know on one side of the allies angry career people and folks on the other side is there a week recourse for critics here or is this gonna be the final evolution all this well bar seems to be on a systemic king you know sort of a systematic campaign here to sort of delegitimize the entire Muller investigation you are seeing there is a the trump administration filed a motion to springboard to try to prevent Congress from even getting a look at some of the unredacted material Muller reports so I think we're continuing to see it and obviously there are some skeptics who think bar is taking advantage of the pandemic essentially to jam some of the stuff there while people are paying attention this on the agenda for Sunday targets I'll be honest with you hard to see work that yeah I mean we got a big you you and I both know what's coming in about in about thirty minutes probably the worst that can jobs report in history this country right since we've been keeping those numbers so and this is a reminder in the grand scheme of things as much as this Michael Flynn stuff it's an important story as such we know what's happening with the pandemic is is is from center for I think most Americans good point thank you Jack appreciated Chuck Todd moderator of NBC's meet the press joining us on Skype it's seven fifty four now yeah I go presents.
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"General Assembly this year's just interesting what these people get motivated to I introduce a big thumbs up big big important issue there senator thank you so much five fifty four on this Friday morning let's get a check on sports and Paul mana Bosch's in for Gary Hart Paul John Antonio brown has surrendered to police in Hollywood Florida after authorities issued a warrant for his arrest on battery burglary charges brown allegedly threw a rock at the driver of a moving truck before taking part in a battery against him NBA all star teams announced last night in the east the starters will be Kemba Walker tray young Pascal C. occam's well and beat and team captain Jana said in a combo and in the west will be Kawhi Leonard looking down church James harden Anthony Davis and team captain lebron James in game action on the floor last night the wizards gravel when taking down the Cavaliers one twenty four to one twelve in the Lakers top the nets one twenty to one thirteen in college hoops liberty suffers its first conference loss falling to north Florida seventy one seventy Old Dominion loses to forty international eighty three eighty and William and Mary tops chain you eighty eight to seventy five round one is in the books of the farmers insurance open at Torrey pines Sebastian Kaplan Keegan Bradley are tied for the lead at six under way McElroy and Bubba Watson tied for third at five under and Tiger Woods sits back in twenty first but did finish the evening strong he says just three strokes off the lead and the Mets officially name Louise roe losses their new manager that your sports I'm Paul then Ammash news radio W. R. V. A. Hey thank you Paul appreciated it is five fifty five on this Friday morning we're broadcasting live today from Washington DC as the impeachment trial the president switches to the defense today and the major March for life takes place with president trump addressing that crowd in person we'll talk about all of that and the other events that are taking place around Richman as we continue this morning and will share the interview of a husband who's pushing back against gun free zones after his own wife was disarmed and then left to fend for herself and killed during that shooting down a Virginia beach is another side of the store that you probably haven't heard yet will share with you in a moment on newsradio WRVA listen I am really excited and come and a bunch of people already signed up for this so that's kind of cool this trip to England that I will be leading in September so we're going to go to London will be in Edinburgh Scotland if you've never been to Scotland a lot of people can on business trips maybe have stopped in London but have you made it to Scotland this is your chance to see the beautiful landscapes of Scotland the lake country it is it is pretty remarkable it's been years since I've been Scott on some very excited about that never been to Wales so this will be something new for me too it's a ten day trip it's being organized by Colette travel which is a great travel company and has been they've been around for over a hundred years white glove service so you don't have to drag your bags everywhere we're gonna see all the great sites from the the the the houses of parliament and Big Ben and if you want to go see the crown jewels if you've never had the chance to see the crown that the queen where is at the start of parliament this is your chance to do that we'll go to Stonehenge Stratford upon Avon all the great sites that you've read about if you've never seen them in person and you've never had a chance to kind of relax and enjoy a visit to Europe this is the chance to do that and up it's a it's a great trip I think you'll find it really interesting to check out the details and you can sign up right now and you know at least check it out online at W. R. V. A. dot com I hope you'll join me in September for the John reed W. R. V. a war of Great Britain.
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"Broadcast live for the General Assembly newsradio WRVA there has none then Dan Blumenthal yesterday saying Hey we need to get on one is present the articles today is singing a different tune what I've heard from my democratic colleagues is not only a sense of urgency about engaging but I trust in the judgment to speak and I think she will make the right decisions at the right time all right so he last night since we got a little bomb went this what are we doing send those articles over today a trusts in my judgment of the speaker saying that you'll make the right to so what the hell happened here she call up she have her own **** lock box like Hillary hands it has to be some I mean these people are even scared over in the Senate back to the phone San Diego this is Tony great to have you Sir glad you waited you're up next the EIB network I've by running thanks so much is happy new year you may listen to you for a long time this morning you commented about process verses results as to the reason why president trump so successful and manager rang a bell with me in terms of everything that he's fighting against in Washington DC and really I called my brother in Atlanta and always listen and that the constant Belber mentality is what's going to be able to deal with the process because it goes on in Washington DC because when your developer in your sign in the front of the check you get stuck in these projects I got a friend that years ago all you had ten years fifteen I have a friend that tried to break ground next next month twenty years in the making to put bulldozers in the craft in so what it was just a great great short sweet statement that you made that says describes why this president is going to be so successful so I appreciate that where you're more than welcome I'm glad for that observation and it's it's it's even more than that it's not only the reason why he is going to succeed right if you're the only guy interested in results in progress achievement not moving the ball and everybody around you is interested in the process you can't help but when when you have the power trump has but in addition to that the process there's another word for it the establishment there's another term for it the deep state believe me this system that they have that's been in place for well literally since World War two that has slowly been adopted and believe in the American people it just takes a long time to get anything done when governments involved and they've told us that and they've conditioned us to accept it because it's so bearing and it's so intricate and we have partisanship here and partisanship over there the longer the process goes on the yeah that that does a lot of power for people involved in the process and having no solutions allows for never ending studies which cost money which are paid to people to conduct I mean it's a racket in a sense the illusion areas that the process is advancing things that the process is moving the ball but it doesn't I bet if you stop and think and I can't I can't unfortunately think of a specific off the top of my head let me think back over your in recent years as you have watched government and you've seen proposals for tax cuts and nothing happens for years or you've seen a proposal for whatever policy issue that you support and it doesn't really ever happen it might get close you've just become accustomed to the fact that this is how it works and so here comes this giant wrecking ball thrown into the midst of this that wrecking ball is named Donald Trump and he doesn't live this way he doesn't conduct business this way and he's not at all comfortable with the war successful because of process he's a results oriented guy so he's pushing for results pushing pushing pushing and look at what has happened in just three years things.
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"Chambers of the General Assembly for the first time in a generation there's bound to be gun legislation that will come out of this session on the day before the session starts governor north them and Democrat leaders held a news conference to discuss the legislation north I'm stressing that this will not violate the second amendment we have no intention of calling out the National Guard we're not going to cut off people's electricity we're not going to go door to door and confiscate individuals weapons at the same time the sea was come out with a poll asking people's opinions about increased gun legislation in the General Assembly session the reactions about split on whether that was necessary more from W. R. V. A.'s met him one general idea of a stricter gun laws gets fifty three percent support in BC was Paul which falls within the margin of error interestingly some specific gun control measures gets much stronger support seventy four percent strongly backed the idea of universal background checks political experts and even some Republicans expect that measure to pass eighty two percent also support red flag loss the issue is expected to be debated early on in the General Assembly session that damn lying newsradio W. R. yeah president trump's is we had tremendous information that led to the decision to kill rand's top general A. B. C.'s handy field as more resident from says is ordered to kill the Iranian military leader prevented an American tragedy we saved a lot of lives by terminating his life a lot of lives of say they were planning something and you're going to be hearing about it select members of Congress will get briefings on Wednesday Andy field ABC news Washington in the meantime secretary defense mark asper told the press that quick action had to be taken to prevent American casualties in a manner that was satisfactory to president trump and that's considered classified esper described the intelligence that contributed to that decision the exquisite intelligence that we're talking about that led to the decision to that was I should say one of the factors that led to the decision to strike it's all the money is it is only shared with a handful of members the so called gang of eight and the gang of eight refers to for Democrats and for Republicans within the United States Congress were briefed on classified intelligence matter by the executive branch senator Tim Kaine pushing for passage in Washington for his war powers resolution with the possibility of war with Iran Kane says that every member of Congress should vote on the question of whether another war in the Middle East is a good idea the explains more about the resolution is structured as a resolution to remove US forces from hostilities with Iran and last Congress independently passes a declaration or authorization for such war Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says that he's secure the Republican votes needed to start president trump's impeachment trial and postpone a decision on witnesses or documents that Democrats want McConnell is expected to launch the trial as soon as house speaker Nancy Nancy Pelosi sends the articles of impeachment to the Senate she is said to meet later today with her leadership team to the Confederate monuments on monument Avenue were tagged overnight the Jefferson Davis monument and the Stonewall Jackson monument both hit with graffiti it comes just hours after Richmond city council took a vote.
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"The UN General Assembly about the dangers of uncontrolled migration today I have a message for those open border activist. control of themselves in the rhetoric of social justice. your policies are not chest. Alicia keys are cruel and evil he went on to say that open migration undermines human rights and dignity the president also defended top US border policies acting homeland security secretary Kevin mac lean and says the new policy of having migrants wait in Mexico while their asylum claims are heard is showing positive results I'm pleased to report the daily arrivals are down sixty four percent from our peak in may and total enforcement actions for central Americans arrive at the border have been reduced by over seventy percent. and by the way we are hearing today from mac lean and on the council of foreign relations he told them his department is added five thousand beds at the border to provide a more comfortable setting for those migrants president trump says United States is insisting on balance trade he defended the trade war with China during his speech earlier to the UN General Assembly saying China has been acting unfairly for far too long already as a result of these terrorists supply chains are relocating back to America and to other nations and millions of dollars are being paid. to our treasury he says what China has done with international trade use the word stealing is a grave economic injustice a damper on hopes of a new trade deal with Japan president trump meets one on one with your pension so Ave on Wednesday and it was thought that the meeting might be used to have the two leaders signed a new trade deal between the US and Japan there is now word that that may be delayed representatives of the two countries have been meeting this week one sticking point may be over Japan's request that Washington remove tariffs on Japanese cars Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz asked a judge a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit by a woman who claims she was a victim of Jeffrey abstain sex ring Virginia Roberts accuses the noted attorney and others of sexually exploiting our Dershowitz is a tort tourney's yes he's an attorney you as an attorney tells The New York federal court that she waited too long to file and that he's denied her claims since two thousand fifteen Roberts allegations drew fresh attention after everything was charged in New York with sexually abusing dozens of girls he committed suicide last month in a Manhattan jail cell. three oh eight and let's see what is going on over Bloomberg business news with Tracy jockey it looks like wall street's rattled by what's going on politically most definitely Lori and what a change from this morning when no Wall Street seems a pretty optimistic about the China trade deal but to this afternoon we've had some major losses The Washington Post says house speaker Nancy Pelosi will announce a formal impeachment inquiry of president trump the Dow's down a hundred fifty six points nasdaq down a hundred thirteen S. and P. down twenty four points Best Buy Amazon one a piece of the three and a half trillion dollar healthcare business high and work out the quick meant another health gadgets will be a focus of best buy's.
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"Nations General Assembly today around ten o'clock this morning and there are reports he has been threatening to cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Ukraine just days before telling us president to investigate Joe Biden and Biden's son hunter CBS news correspondent Nicole Killian with the latest on that on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly president trump insisted he did nothing wrong during a call with Ukraine's president this now at the heart of a whistle blower complaint. phone call with the president of users everybody knows it the president denied accusations that he threatened to withhold two hundred and fifty million dollars in aid that the Ukrainians did not investigate the former vice president and his son no I did not president trump claims by then abused his position to help his son hunter who work for you craning gas company at the time there is no evidence of wrongdoing. my last night in a Washington post op ed piece seven freshman democratic members of Congress including Mikey Cheryl of New Jersey say if the allegations are true it would be impeachable now to the speech the president will be giving today at the U. M. Stephen Portnoy the president has used his speeches at the U. N.'s green marbled rostrum to issue threats against U. S. adversaries and to espouse his America first world view it's very once called Kim Jong moon rocket man and threaten to totally destroy North Korea last year here he condemns the ideology of globalism and was laughed at by diplomats when he claimed his administration had accomplished more than almost any other hits expect the president will deliver a message of America first on foreign policy and may talk about Iran and North Korea we heard from Great Britain about forty five minutes ago rolling a void and no effect on British prime minister Boris Johnson suspension of the parliament there the British Supreme Court just now ruling the prime minister was trying to squash debate over a brexit policy would have decided to shut down the government to mid October the judge said shutting down parliament prevented it from carrying out constitutional functions without any reasonable justification so lawmakers could decide now when to reconvene it's six thirty three and twins were left to die by their father in a hot car in the Bronx over the summer and now that father is facing a judge today to learn whether or not he's gonna be charged in this case let's go live to Bronx criminal court for the look ahead of the story this morning W. CBS reporter Marla diamond. well one Rodriguez spend July twenty sixth at the VA hospital in the Bronx where he works believing he dropped his twins Luna in Phoenix off at daycare when he returned eight hours later they were dead his wife has expressed support his attorney Jerry Jackson called it a tragic mistake he's asked the district attorney to drop all of the charges Jackson says the family wants to turn their heart break into something good.
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"Maybe you are I'm Robin Young. I'm Jeremy Hobson. It's here now. President trump is in New York today for the United Nations General Assembly meeting with leaders from all over the world as a phone uncall- he made with another world leader looms over everything a whistleblower complaint alleges that the president tried to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate president trump's political rival. Oh former vice president Joe Biden. The allegation is leading to increasing calls from Democrats for impeachment. NPR senior Washington editor and correspondent Ron elving joins US Iran good to me with Jeremy and let's back up for a second. Give us the brief version. If that's possible of what is a very complicated story. What does the president say needed to be looked into and what do Democrats say. Is Inappropriate behavior by the president. The president has given several different accounts of this telephone conversation them from back in July but he says sometimes it was just a nice call other times. He says well I was talking about corruption and then also he says you know and they really ought to look into Joe Biden and Joe Biden's son and it it has become quite clear clear from the reporting that's been done by a number of news organizations and from piecing together the president's own statements that he was on the telephone to the president of Ukraine suggesting to him apparently repeatedly that they needed to look into unspecified corruption on the part of the son of Joe Biden and efforts made by Joe Biden to a protect his son this is rather extraordinary because it happened at a moment when Ukraine was waiting for two hundred and fifty million dollars military military assistance from the United States already approved by the Pentagon and the House and the Senate and the Republicans and the Democrats and the only thing holding up at that point was the White House and so here they we are on the phone the president's congratulating president of Ukraine and laying out his concern about corruption so that's what the Democrats say is improper of the the president says it's just fine and rudy. Giuliani says well sure we've been there. I'd been there as the president's lawyer telling me to really look into Joe Biden. What of course many many observers see here is the president at a moment of crisis for Ukraine holding something over their head while he makes a very special request for some assistance in his reelection campaign right after all that we just went through with the investigation into Russia's meddling in the election on behalf of the trump campaign last time around the idea give the president seemingly asking Ukraine to meddle in the election this time around now. Democrats are calling for impeachment in a bit of a louder voice than they had been before. I Even House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff who opposed it in the past had this to say about it on CNN yesterday. If the president is essentially withholding ending military aid at the same time that he is trying to browbeat a foreign leader into doing something illicit that is providing dirt on his opponent during a presidential campaign then that may be the only remedy that is coequal to the the evil that that conduct represents run is the house any closer to impeachment it is closer. shift would represent the fourth of six major committee heads to call for impeachment had had been three two three. He seems to be tipping the balance at this point. The big question is Nancy Pelosi's view. She's been trying to protect some of her. Incumbents who were elected in swing districts last year. GonNa have avid tough race in two thousand twenty. Many of the people in those districts don't understand what this impeachment talk is about so the Democrats are wary. They know what happened with the impeachment. Impeachment of Bill Clinton was never popular in the end it blew up in the face of the Republicans for going after him so the Democrats don't want to repeat that history and yet one thing after another yet another law that the president seems to be flouting in this case the intelligence com communities Whistle Blower Protection Act and what are they going going to do. They don't have any other tools in the shed. They don't have any other weapons in the arsenal. Impeachment is all they've got. That's what we learned from the Muller. Okay and we'll watch to see what happens with that but meanwhile a world leaders and president trump gathering in New York this week for the UN General Assembly the president skipped out of much of the UN climate change event today today he arrived after teen activist Greta tune. Berg gave an impassioned address to the assembly. What are you watching for at the UN this week with climate and also the tensions with Iran. We're watching for the reaction that the president gets his has he addresses the world leaders tomorrow he has not had a particularly respectful reception from them in the past he is likely to say that the United States is a bulwark against authoritarianism and that's probably going to get some smiles so we're also watching to see what he does has with respect to religious persecution that was a big item on his agenda particularly the persecution of Jews and Christians around the world and we're watching to see if he says anything about climate change at all he basically just gave a light pass to that issue today and that has been his pattern in the past that is NPR senior Washington editor and correspondent Ron Elving elving run. Thank you thank you Jeremy. Meanwhile president trump says he has no intention of meeting with President Hassan Ruhani. WHO's also at the UN this week and last week trump level more sanctions and approved sending more troops to Saudi Arabia after that attack on major Saudi oil facilities which the US says came from Iran Iran and Iran denies. Let's get the view from Iran with Abbas Lonnie Editor in chief of Iran front page. He's Theron and Obas Ron denies it but are there Iranians who believe that would be justified in taking such an action in response to those crippling sanctions. It's been under since the US left the twenty fifteen nuclear deal well. I think it will be very risky for Iran to engage in such kind of strikes against Saudi Arabia directly but you know we have been hearing bring remarks from Western officials to blame Iran but we have not seen any documents or evidence to prove that the other side. Yes Iran wants is to let's say make the other side to pay the costs of their hostile policies toward the country. and let's not forget that these are as a result of the policies this and the Vista of the United States from the nuclear deal and business Let's say that pushing you want toward more tension in the region rather than to change its behavior in a way that the trump administration favors will you mentioned the trump administration wants. Iran to change its behaviors. I'm wondering if Iranians aren't all angry with their government or maybe not the elected government but the ruling clerics a two prong of leadership in the country are Iranians angry that in fact Iran is backing the Hutu rebels in Yemen and Hezbollah and is fomenting problems in the region region as opposed to you know pay more attention to its people and not risking sanctions. Is there some anger there well as the Yemen conflict is portrayed in far media that it's a conflict between Iran and the Saudi Arabia using a proxy for spending the Unser Line Yemen but but it's not the way that is seen from Iran and the Iranian people's viewpoints they see that as a war by Saudi Arabia against the Yemeni people and the the sanctions by the United States they have brought economic hardship for Iranian people and they have had problems problems at their own daily lives they have become sometimes unhappy about the policies of the system in the country by the doesn't mean that they are happy with the policies of the United States and thanks to the policies of the trump administration to exit from the deal and impose the sanctions the popularity of the nuclear deal has significantly decreased and they have lost any hope or trust toward the American Administration the strength to be able to bring a solution or resolution to the problems and the challenges so when the Iranian nation of the people well as the most moderate elements in the society. We're hoping that through the engagement or interaction the Rohani Administration could pave the way for resolving economic problems and challenges as well as the political ones now. They're finding that into action with the American Administration might not be that useful that they thought you're you're saying that by imposing these crippling sanctions the trump administration may have lost the support from the many many moderate Iranians that they might have otherwise had here's Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif who spoke to NPR Steve Inskeep yesterday ahead of todays UN General Assembly. Here's a bit of what he said. I can assure you that the United States will not be able to bring a straw knees through pressure. United States can can have a much better deal with Iran if they started talking to US based on respect based on mutual respect and based on moving forward Abbass. Do Iranians believe that's possible or are they resigned to. Maybe even a worse ending. Here are some some sort of war. The president used phrases like locked and loaded but president trump has pulled back that language and many analysts here say the there's no no way he wants war with Iran. He wants troops out. What do people in Iran think well you know the downing of the American drawn in Persian Gulf because of its entry to Iranian airspace was a turning point to prove that the Donald Trump administration is not after war in the region and now they have again shifted toward negotiations with Iran because they see that the other options didn't work against the country and I thank when Iran is confronted with pressure they will move in a different and opposite direction by force like the George which Bush administration wanted to bring zero enrichment for Iran at that time Iran have coupla hundreds of centrifuges but as a result of the pressure from the American side Iran's centrifuges increased by as much as thousands of the country and I think that's Iranian foreign minister it is referring to of us as Lonnie editor in chief of the Iran front page. He was speaking to us from Tehran in Iran Abbass..
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"This is list Kapiti at UN news that can June Nigeria's permanent representative to the United Nations Tijani Mohammed Bandai was elected by acclamation to preside over the seventy fourth session of the General Assembly which begins on Tuesday in his first major interview with UN news. Mr Mohammed Bandai told Christina Silvio that poverty eradication inclusion and quality education would be his top priorities office calling education it complex matter matter he spelled out that whoever is denied an education is denied almost everything aside the normal quality of corporate dental some blitz visas gratuitous fundamental the three other ones politician quality education you had mentioned in your election speech that you would work for the world's most vulnerable and you mentioned poverty career education and education. Can you give us an idea of how you intend to go about these priorities any concrete initiatives of initiatives over a long period of time concerning methods enormous concern occasional poverty and the connections between poverty and many other afflictions and I think trying to get member states to look at those things and see what within those parameters that will to work with others to achieve the whole idea. All members are able to help others times by sure what they have done which is what has not worked and why or what support the will to give to others on a short term basis so it is a whole range of things that can happen if we're able to listen to each other in terms of our needs and our ability to walk together for me to get some problems you will become president of the General Assembly during a time of great distrust between nations. How will you bring them together on the world stage. I want to remind ourselves why this was in the plus plus. This is battling important because I don't know if things go wrong by not getting us to reflect what might be the case. Should we not have relation in south of chaos in terms of ability for example to say pandemics in terms of ability to lose issue even migration and if you issues so when you remind people what might happen and this not not just theoretical constructs this reality that we can draw people to look up and look what might happen if we we do not listen a bit more if cooperate a bit more when we quibble over some of these things are dependent. I remind other in terms of the whole notion that after presented to those members we should shut us to others because could their hair because they also members and they have avoid their things to say we too must listen to it is only through this approach that we're able to achievable do those you've spoken about improving how things are done at the UN what are some of the ideas that you would like to implement some of the discussion which which is all over the place concern how Bettas Oguz able to coordinate their luck to reduce overlap to also learn from what others are doing under reduce noble of Cook. Let us see that in the five years is a different kind of competition we should should be having constantly synergy an ability to doing efforts to accuse you mandate coincides with a historic stork moment the UN's seventy fifth anniversary what are your thoughts on the UN's work and and its future a very good basis from the beginning we have had a few areas in which we didn't do as well concerning for example genocide in Rwanda there are many other areas in which for example concerning health issues and issues relating took it a culture issue too late into countering terrorism there is an imagined view and some consensus concerning they need not only to the but also action underground on this matter this little excitement around this system an outside the United Nations itself concern is the need to mark doc this seventy fifth anniversary US important in history of the Organization of the world of politics in general it should remind us to depositos organization is limitation and its promise and this promise is what we should all keep in mind. Do you think it's an occasion to celebrate break multi-lateralism and what it has accomplished or it. It is liberation to celebrate mantra on also to to look at forces that hinder are full achievement of multiple approaches to solving some of the problems do you have any plans for improving gender parody the UN. I think the improvement is really in implementing what we have agreed to that is to Chris Tapes and to also act in a concerted manner to see that no one left behind regardless of gender always order login all elements of representation important agenda subtly given the equality of men and women in south of numbers so this is really crucial and Missions House Sean lead in this it has its this issue but we have seen efforts that are very determined led by the end to make this a very important event and of course Jordan the presidency of three to four we have the opportunity also of dealing with Beijing defy gives us another platform to reflect a club and see whether where would find even more effectiveness of French shortened into equity. I'm going to go back to your second priority. You mentioned education. Can you tell us why it is that it's important for you and how it translates on the ground. Its impact because it's it's really a complex matter. Whoever denied an indication almost everything look at the connection between education and prominent in the kitchen on equality education and I sense of your rights and around the globe we start with more access to education better curricula. We are likely to have less hit. Luckily to better understand luckily but luckily tough quality people are born into second position. It's only education the equalize everything April it is important. What would you like your legacy to be in September twenty twenty. I I think I would not want to give a broad view of what it is other than to say that would want to know that as a team part of team we have pushed those matters of importance importance to the world in a fair and transparent manner and whoever comes after US would find it easier Augustine. Some of these issues going forward. That's what we want to..
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"General Assembly average weekday speeds in the mid town for slow to miles an hour and ten car with the D. O. T. says they're still urging drivers to leave the car home that weekend avoid the area it's not expected to be any better unless you're on a bike and why PT transportation chief Thomas chance as they are including bike lanes this year for the first time on first and second avenues cyclists on both routes however should be aware that they will be subject to security checkpoints and occasionally on an ounce traffic freezes same as vehicles and pedestrians everyone is encouraged to give themselves extra time so on your ring Conn ten ten wins on First Avenue by the U. N. wins news time ten thirty one ram truck traffic center now his Rebecca Massaro sitting west on the Bruxner it's a stop and go ride starting by White Plains road heading towards a shared and that is all due to construction and south on FDR there is a crash approaching thirty fourth taking out the right lane those delays are back towards at seventy nine here's what we see a long island's big three ally in northern states southern state parkway all nice and clear the Grand Central heading east when you've got a construction approaching the van a wig one lane is blocked those leads all the way back towards the L. E. and west bend he can we stop and go from the L. I. E. heading towards a metropolitan that is all in due to construction here's what you need to know over the bridges and tunnels you've got bridge work on the Throggs neck and the white stone both going Bronx been causing a slight slow downs the R. F. K. that's moving fine the George inbound now though you've got construction the lower level is completely close it's going until four AM seeing a ten to fifteen minutes away on the upper level outbound George doing fine Lincoln tunnel no problems just like you're right at the Holland tunnel alt.
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"Again we have watched members at the federal level and now here in the state of maryland infringe on our second amendment rights and it's happening again man it's just mind boggling to me as maryland lawmakers from both parties advancing compare of gun grabbing bills governor hogan called them commonsense measures to tighten restrictions on guns well a restriction on gun is an infringement now you can talk about regulating but this would general assembly yesterday legislation advancing what outlaw the bump stocks which convert some some semi automatic weapons not to fully automatic they just are have more firepower and they're still semi automatics the red flag role for seizing weapons from people who judges deem dangerous and again here in maryland we already have some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country and still they find it again they won't be happy the far left and even some republicans i mean i gotta be honest here's house minority leader nick kip key here's an a plus rating from the nra he's been on this program before he says you know you're gonna see a lot of republican support for these bills bills are being discussed right now are generally not that controversial but they should be they should be because again it is an infringement it is against the constitution if you don't like it there's a method to amend the constitution maybe you want to have that debate in the country again the assault socalled assault weapons ban passed in two thousand thirteen after sandy hook this was again included the sale on possession of bump stocks and other rapid fire triggered celebrators aftermarket accessory blah blah blah and of course the semi automatic firearms you know i think over forty some kinds of different firearms that were banned by the maryland general assembly back in two thousand thirteen that was found to be unconstitutional of course it's snaking its way through the courts eventually one of these days the supreme court is going to rule on this frank once and for all so we can get some clarity on this but you know it's pretty clear pretty clear reading of the second amendment the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed any restriction undermining of that is an infringement well i think the maryland lawmakers on maybe you on.
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"About the un and i was a stunned is you were if you heard what i repeated in the last hour i don't know if you heard this did you know that on fridays the general assembly hall building of the un there was a call to muslim prayers you say well that's no big deal they do the same at harvard did you know that no other religion as appropriate at the un building as a place of worship well that's no big deal they do that at berkeley only muslims need apply you see there may be a separation of church and state when it comes to jewish christian buddhist or any other religion but not when it comes to islam why is that why is that because that's the way it is it's a religion of conquest it's been that way from the time it was filed that it's not a religion of peace at its core doesn't mean there are peaceful muslims of course there are peaceful muslims who have evolved yes of course there are but unfortunately time is running out the clock is running down and we keep having these wooden heads who put their heads in the sand and attack donald trump is though he's worse than kim jongun and isis put together no mention of radical islamic terrorism is allowed except by donald trump listen to what he said a clip three today in front of this crowd of gangsters call the united nations general assembly listen to this one we will stop radical islamic terrorism because we cannot allow going to tear up our nation and indeed to tear up the entire world we must denied the terrorists safehaven transit funding and any form of support for their vile and sinister ideology we must strive them out of our nations now you understand why he's hated so much by those in the media because this is anathema to their big lie the general assembly as an audience against america did you know that less than half of the one hundred ninety three un member states are free democracies less than half and the you know the all share a common goal which is tied down american destroy israel did you know that the only people will get applause are those who apologize for america like president barry hussein obama in his first un speech barriers saint obama said america has acted unilaterally without regard for the interests of others only a few days after.
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"About the un and i was a stunned is you are a few hard what i repeated in the last hour i don't know if you heard this did you know that on fridays in the general assembly hall building of the un there was a call to moslem prayers you say well that's no big deal they do the same at harvard did you know that no other religion as appropriate at the un building as a place of worship well that's no big deal they do that at berkeley only muslims need apply you see there may be a separation of church and state when it comes to jewish christian buddhist or any other religion but not when it comes to islam why is that why is that because that's the way it is it's a religion of conquest it's been that way from the time it was filed that it's not a religion of peace at its core doesn't mean there are peaceful muslims of course they're a peaceful muslims who have evolved yes of course there are but unfortunately time is running out the clock is running down and we keep having the these wooden heads who put their heads in the sand that attack donald trump is though he's worse than kim jongun and isis put together no mention of radical islamic terrorism is allowed except by donald trump listen to what he said a clip three today in front of this crowd of gangsters called the united nations general assembly listen to this one we will stop radical islamic terrorism because we cannot allow i went to tear up our nation and indeed to tear up the entire world we must denied the terrorists safehaven transit funding and any form of support for their vile and sinister ideology we must drive them out of our nation's now you understand why he is hated so much by those in the media because this is anathema to their big lie the general assembly as an audience against america digital get less than half of the one hundred ninety three un member states are free democracies less than half and you know the all share a common goal which is tied down american destroy israel did you know that the only people get applause are those who apologize for america like president barry hussein obama in his first un speech barriers saint obama said america has acted unilaterally without regard for the interests of others only a few days after.
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Posted on May 27, 2020 by Olivier in Uncategorized // 0 Comments
Swedish rockers Sister consisting of lead vocalist Jamie Anderson, drummer Cari Crow and guitarist Phil Armfelt are now joined by former Dust Bowl Jokies bassist Freddan Hiitomaa who replaces Martin Sweet (who is best known as the guitarist for Crashdïet).
Back in mid-July 2019, Dust Bowl Jokies announced that they were disbanding with their last show at the Hard Rock Hell Sleaze Festival in Sheffield, UK on August 31, 2019.
Photo by Max Sjödin
The following message was posted on Sister‘s Facebook page earlier today (with slight edits):
“Swedish hard rock/metal act Sister announces new collaboration with multi-layered PR, media and music company Flick Agency.
The Swedish hard rock/metal act Sister have during the last ten years released critically acclaimed albums and played multiple headlining shows all over Europe. While touring with other renowned bands within the metal & hard rock scene, such as U.D.O., Skid Row, Wednesday 13 and Hardcore Superstar, Sister have earned the reputation of being one of the best live acts throughout the genre.
Guided by the desire to constantly move forward and reach new dimensions, Sister‘s fourth full-length studio album will be released together with Stockholm based PR/Media/Music company Flick Agency, an innovative and modern partner that knows how to take on the 2020s music industry.
“After three studio albums on Metal Blade Records and some changes in the Sister lineup, we felt it was time to try something new”, the band explains.
Sister are greatly looking forward to getting the new release out there and will once again work together with producer Jona Tee (Stand Up, Forward, March! in 2016) who is excited to take on the upcoming album:
“I’m extremely happy to work with my friends in Sister again. This album will be heavy of, keeping the Sister-legacy intact.”
Regarding the band lineup.
Martin Sweet is no longer a part of Sister.
Band explains:
”We want to thank Martin for his years in the band, we made a great album and had a good run together. There are no hard feelings between us and the decision was mutual, simply because of lack of time.
For the next chapter we welcome Mr. Freddan Hiitomaa (ex-Dust Bowl Jokies) as a full member of the band. Since Freddan joined us on stage for the last gig of 2019, we have been working together on this upcoming release.
Freddan has quickly become a member of the family and his injection to this band has added fuel to the fire. The hunger and energy that’s now in the band is boiling and we’ve got a feeling that this new album will be the best one so far.
Stay tuned for upcoming release dates in a near future. Make sure to follow Sister on Instagram and Facebook for the latest news.
See you back on the road when the world is back to “normal”.. again.””
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Through 3 Quarters
The point spread is against the Atlanta Falcons, but thus far the points are on their side. After three quarters it’s looking more and more like their high-powered offense is just too much for the Las Vegas Raiders as Atlanta lead 30-6.
The Falcons have been relying on WR Calvin Ridley, who has caught six passes for one TD and 50 yards, and QB Matt Ryan, who has passed for two TDs and 188 yards on 37 attempts.
Atlanta’s lead is the biggest they have had this year going into the fourth quarter.
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Las Vegas @ Atlanta
Current Records: Las Vegas 6-4; Atlanta 3-7
The Las Vegas Raiders have enjoyed the comforts of home their last two games, but now they must head out on the road. They will square off against the Atlanta Falcons at 1 p.m. ET Sunday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they’ll have plenty of motivation to get the ‘W.’
The Raiders didn’t finish too far behind, but the team still lost 35-31 to the Kansas City Chiefs last week. Las Vegas’ loss came about despite a quality game from QB Derek Carr, who passed for three TDs and 275 yards on 31 attempts.
Meanwhile, Atlanta might have drawn first blood against the New Orleans Saints last week, but it was New Orleans who got the last laugh. The contest between them was not particularly close, with the Falcons falling 24-9. One thing working slightly against Atlanta was the run-of-the-mill game of their most targeted running back, RB Todd Gurley, who rushed for 26 yards on eight carries.
Special teams was responsible for all of the team’s points. K Younghoe Koo delivered a perfect 3-for-3 game.
Las Vegas is the favorite in this one, with an expected 3.5-point margin of victory. They are currently four-for-four against the spread in their most recent games, a trend bettors might want to take into account.
Las Vegas is now 6-4 while the Falcons sit at 3-7. Two defensive stats to keep in the back of your head while watching: The Raiders are second worst in the league in rushing touchdowns allowed, with 16 on the season. Atlanta has experienced some struggles of their own as they are stumbling into the matchup with the second most passing yards allowed per game in the NFL, having given up 313.6 on average. It’s possible one of these Achilles’ heels will wind up tripping the losing team up.
When: Sunday at 1 p.m. ET
Where: Mercedes-Benz Stadium — Atlanta, Georgia
Follow: CBS Sports App
Ticket Cost: $79.88
The Raiders are a 3.5-point favorite against the Falcons, according to the latest NFL odds.
The oddsmakers had a good feel for the line for this one, as the game opened with the Raiders as a 3-point favorite.
Over/Under: -110
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Atlanta won the only game these two teams have played in the last six years.
Sep 18, 2016 – Atlanta 35 vs. Las Vegas 28
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On the floor to her right, Allison Taylor was on her knees looking up at Lisa’s rear end. Allison’s right hand was on Lisa’s right butt cheek, though it was unclear whether she was keeping Lisa still or keeping herself from falling forward. In her left hand was a red Sharpie “permanent” marker, with which she was putting the finishing touches on Lisa’s left cheek:
“Do you really think Nelson will like it?” Lisa asked nervously.
“Oh, he’ll be speechless,” Allison responded without hesitation, “Of course, that is if you ever show it to him.” Allison laughed as she capped the marker and admired her work. “The bad-boy types love tattoos, even if it won’t last more than a week or two.”
“Is it done?” Lisa asked, moving her left hand back to pull the cheek into view, but Allison blocked her hand.
“Don’t touch. You should let it dry for a minute,” the brunette instructed. “Hold on.” Allison got up off the floor and grabbed a hand mirror off the dresser. “Here,” she said while handing it to the blonde girl. Without moving her feet, Lisa turned to face the large mirror while aligning the small one in her hand so she could see Allison’s handiwork.
It was much bigger than Lisa had expected. She turned her body back towards the bed but looked behind again, trying to get a closer look with the hand mirror. She reached across her stomach with her right arm to pull up the cheek, but Allison tapped it away firmly.
“You have to make sure it’s dry first!” she reminded Lisa. “Here!” Allison said while getting on her knees behind Lisa again. Without warning, Allison began blowing long hard breaths on the ink. Lisa tensed up a bit at first, suddenly arching her back and quickly putting her right arm back on the bed to keep from falling forward. Allison giggled at Lisa’s reaction but quickly resumed. It only took a moment for Lisa to realize that her friend was trying to blow the ink dry, so she stood up again, putting the hand mirror on the nightstand.
When Allison was satisfied, she stopped blowing and started to get up. Suddenly, the absurdity of the situation hit her and she paused, feeling rather silly as she fought to hold back her laughter.
“Done yet?” Lisa asked impatiently.
“Not quite!” Allison chirped as she lunged forward, sticking her pursed lips onto the lower part of Lisa’s left cheek and blowing hard, like an adult would playfully do to a baby’s belly. She made a light ripping noise that tickled Lisa’s bottom.
Thoroughly shocked, Lisa fell forward on the bed and landed on her stomach. She tried to scramble up on all fours and escape across her bed, but her panties bound her legs such that she could only claw at the covers while laughing uncontrollably. Allison sprung up and, while resting her hands on Lisa’s back, leaned forward with one knee on the bed next to the trapped blonde. Lisa stopped trying to escape and just lied there, still laughing.
“I’m sorry. I just couldn’t help it,” Allison apologized with a few giggles before going quiet. Lisa was just starting to contain herself and began to get up, so Allison removed her hands, sat back, and turned to sit on the bed, facing Lisa.
Lisa turned over on her left and then sat up facing Allison, one leg bent up on the bed. Since her panties had slid up on one side, her left foot was next to her right knee. She ended up sitting with her left leg bent and her right leg on the floor, leaving her thighs spread wide apart. “Man, you’ve definitely been practicing your sax if you can blow that hard!” Lisa noticed with a smile.
Allison stared at her smiling friend for a moment, but then her eyes wandered down between Lisa’s legs. Lisa stopped laughing and just looked curiously at her. Allison suddenly looked back up at Lisa. “Have you ever, you know…” Allison asked with some embarrassment as her eyes darted back to Lisa’s nether region, “touched yourself… there?”
“Uh…” was all that Lisa could respond.
There was an awkward silence for a moment until Allison continued, “I mean, it’s not weird, is it?” She started to blush.
Lisa recovered a bit. “Well, I think it’s kind’a normal… uhm, from what I’ve read and stuff,” she offered, unsure of where this was leading.
“Yeah, I thought so,” Allison said with a little relief. “I get curious about stuff down there, but I can’t really get a good look at myself. So, I was wondering…” She was too embarrassed to continue.
Lisa didn’t want to leave her friend out on a limb. “Well, I must admit that I’ve been curious, too. Hmm, maybe we should…”
“Experiment!” Allison blurted out before Lisa could finish. Her eyes wide, she immediately brought her fingertips over her mouth, only partially covering her embarrassed smile.
Lisa didn’t quite know how to respond. She thought quietly for a moment, just staring at Allison, but then she suddenly gasped and looked shocked. Without a word, Lisa got up, pulling her panties up as she did. Allison was frozen with fear, and her heart sank into her stomach as Lisa quietly went towards the door. Then Lisa reached the doorknob, but instead of the door opening, Allison heard a little “click!”
“I can’t believe I forgot to lock the door before,” Lisa said with an embarrassed smile. “And we definitely don’t want Bart barging in now.” She practically tiptoed back to the bed and then stood there, facing Allison and still looking a bit embarrassed. She hesitated for a moment before continuing shyly. “Well, I’ve read a few books at the library about…” Lisa stopped and whispered, “sex..” Then she continued normally, “But I think they left a lot out.”
Allison looked down. “I don’t know,” she answered. “Actually, I wasn’t sure you knew about this kind of stuff yet.” She paused and looked up at Lisa, seeming almost apologetic, “But I guess you know lot.”
“Heheh,” Lisa laughed nervously. “Maybe not a lot. There’s still a lot of stuff I haven’t asked my mom about yet.”
“Still, talking about it doesn’t bother you as much,” Allison said. “There’s so much I don’t understand, but I can’t talk to my parents about it ’cause I don’t know what they’d think.” Allison looked at Lisa hopefully. “But you always know what to do.”
Lisa found Allison’s vulnerability so touching that she nearly forgot what they were talking about. “Well, I’ll do anything to help,” she offered with a smile.
“Really?” Allison bit her lower lip for a moment and then continued, “Because I was thinking that, maybe, if we got a good look around each other’s… I mean, only if you want to. I’m just really curious, and I can trust you, so…”
With Allison’s words stroking her ego, Lisa was feeling more determined than ever. She felt like taking charge and helping her friend. She smiled and asked, “Okay, you or me first?”
Allison was shocked at Lisa’s sudden boldness, and she had to think a moment before she could answer. “Well, you’ve got goose bumps all over,” she said while gently running her right hand down Lisa’s left arm, feeling the bumps on her skin. Lisa shivered a little at her warm touch. “You must be cold, uh, there… and I’m actually feeling kind’a flushed, so…”
Before Allison could finish, Lisa said, “Okay,” and grabbed her friend’s hands. She started to help Allison stand up but then surprised her by pushing her back, hard. “On the bed!” Lisa playfully commanded. The brunette barely missed the headboard and was just able to sit up when Lisa grabbed her feet, pushing them sideways and spinning Allison so she was lying straight. Leaning over, Lisa quickly ran her hands up Allison’s legs and under her skirt, flipping it over on her stomach. Lisa then deftly wrapped her fingers under the waistband of her friend’s panties and started pulling them down. While raising her skirt even more, Allison arched her back and raised her legs so Lisa had no problem slipping her underwear down until it reached her feet. However, the panties got caught on Allison’s shoes, frustrating Lisa for a few seconds until she simply left them tangled around her friend’s ankles.
“Now, let’s get started,” Lisa said while hopping on the end of the bed, just to Allison’s left. Lisa got up and kneeled forward while gently putting her hands on Allison’s knees. Slowly and gently, she began to glide her hands up Allison’s thighs. “I do this to myself sometimes and it feels nice. How about you?”
Allison spread her legs enough to accommodate Lisa’s hands and watched with fascination. “Mmmm, yeah.”
“Wow, you really are warm here!” Lisa noticed out loud as her hands rubbed up against her friend’s private area. Lisa drew her hands back to mid-thigh and gently parted Allison’s smooth legs even more. She then leaned forward and moved in between them, her face very close to Allison’s hairless folds, and studied everything closely.
“Oh, you get wet there, too?” Lisa said in surprise. Without any hesitation, she ran her finger along the outside of the fold, getting some of the glistening juice on it. She brought it up to her face, looked at it carefully for a moment, and then sniffed it. “It smells about the same as mine, I think, but it’s very subtle,” she observed. Wanting to be thorough, she then leaned in, gently parted Allison’s lower lips with one hand, and sniffed slowly a few times. Between sniffs, her warm breath made the brunette’s insides tingle.
Remembering how sensitive she herself could be there, Lisa used both hands to gently stretch Allison’s vagina open, just a little bit. Her friend sighed and spread her legs farther, opening them up a little more to invite further exploration. “Wow, it looks a lot different than in the health books,” Lisa observed.
Allison repressed a giggle and teased, “You can’t rely on books for everything.” Lisa tentatively probed a finger into the warm, moist mound, and then felt up and down. “Ahhhh,” Allison sighed. “It feels more exciting when you do it to me.”
Without warning, Lisa suddenly felt compelled to get revenge for Allison’s earlier trick. She quickly pursed her lips, as if about to blow into her saxophone, pressed them into the warmth of Allison’s mound, and blew hard. Allison immediately burst out laughing, her legs shooting up in the air. Lisa stopped quickly, scared that someone in the house might hear them.
Allison stopped herself, too, and tried to catch her breath. “That actually felt really good at first,” she admitted.
“It felt good to me, too. It was so warm and soft on my lips… It reminded me of kissing Nelson,” Lisa said.
“Can you show me how you kiss him?” Allison asked.
Lisa started to pull herself up, but Allison put a hand on her shoulder to stop her. “No, I mean… Down there, too.”
“Oh,” Lisa hesitated. Then, after thinking for a moment, she decided to go for it. She inhaled a bit, closed her eyes, and again pressed her lips into Allison’s warm, wet opening. Lisa made the kiss last about five or six seconds, rubbing her lips back up and down the inside of the girl’s exposed slit. Allison let out a loud gasp, distracting Lisa — even scaring her a little.
After listening for a minute to make sure no one was coming to see what was going on, Lisa wondered what to do next. “You know, there’s one place on me that always feels really weird, but I can’t always find it… I don’t know how to explain it.”
“Oh, I know what you mean,” Allison said excitedly while raising her head again. “I think mine is ‘there’ now, if you can find it.”
With renewed interest, Lisa started probing around with her finger, running it up and down between the two openings and along the creases and folds around them. Allison let out a sharp breath as Lisa concentrated in the middle again, but Lisa decided not to stop this time. After a minute, she moved in for a closer look. Again, she was inadvertently breathing on Allison’s love zone.
“Ah! I think you touched it when you were kissing…” Allison gasped.
“Okay…” Lisa said while trying to remember if she felt anything unusual with her lips, despite all of this being brand new to her.
Allison got up her courage and meekly suggested, “Maybe you should do that again… I mean, if you want.”
Lisa started feeling a bit flushed, as the thought of Allison performing the same kind of ‘examination’ on her made her excited. So, she decided to go for it. She leaned in for another kiss, but this time she let her tongue out and probed for that little nub she enjoyed so much in herself.
Allison instinctively put her hands on Lisa’s head, petting and stroking the blonde as she started writhing under Lisa’s special attention. Her gasps became sharper, almost pained, as Lisa dug in more with her tongue and lips, as if she were playing Allison like her musical instrument. “Oh, Lisa, you’re so good at this,” Allison cooed.
Lisa went on, relishing the compliment. After a minute with no obvious change in Allison’s reaction, Lisa stopped and looked up. Allison continued to breathe heavily, her eyes still closed. She looked so exposed, so helpless in a way, that Lisa was in awe of the power she had over her friend.
“Don’t stop,” Allison seemed to beg. “I think you almost made me… you know…”
“Orgasm?” Lisa answered, unsure if she was pronouncing it properly.
Allison blushed and pulled her legs a bit together, but they were pretty much blocked by Lisa’s body. “Yeah, I’ve never been able to by myself, but you….” she admitted.
Lisa felt a little pride rushing through her. Without another word, she put her face down on Allison’s pelvis, opening her mouth and giving a warm slippery kiss as she worked her way back to “the target.” Again, she tried to imagine someone doing the same for her. She knew that rubbing in the same place too long would make it numb, so she moved her tongue around Allison’s box a bit more, making sure to leave saliva and juices around to heighten the feeling all over her friend’s hidden places. Then, Lisa rested her left hand on Allison’s hip and used her right one to open her friend up a bit more, giving her deeper access.
Allison gasped, trying not to be too loud, “Oh, there! Yes!”
Lisa swished her tongue over the two openings, back and forth for a few seconds, before she could feel the swollen bit above the lower place. She gently tapped it with her tongue a couple of times before making slow lazy circles around it. For the most part, she made sure each stroke would pass over Allison’s clitoris, but sometimes she intentionally went off to one side, heightening the anticipation. The added effort paid off. Allison started moaning more and rubbing Lisa’s head with greater urgency whenever she returned to the sweet spot.
To mix it up a little, Lisa made sure to massage Allison’s outer lips with her hand and then occasionally run her mouth up and down them. She pulled Allison’s box open a little wider and then opened her mouth to match, enveloping as much of her friends exposed pussy as possible.
Allison let out several short gasps and her fingers went rigid. She pulled her hands away from Lisa’s head in fear of pushing or poking her involuntarily, possibly interrupting her own pleasure. “Oh, you know so much about this stuff!” she moaned.
Lisa began to realize that she was rubbing her own thighs together: It seemed that her own fantasies, which she was using to please Allison, were catching up with her as well. She paused to lift herself briefly, moving her knees forward and raising her rear end up. She quickly resumed working her mouth and tongue on the panting, shaking girl while fumbling to pull her own panties down with her right hand. It was difficult for Lisa to keep her balance with just her left hand on Allison’s hip, so she drew her forearm against her friend’s torso, palming the top of her pelvis, and started to massage Allison’s mons with her fingers. This position also caused her face to press harder into its destination. Lisa worried briefly that she wouldn’t be as effective like that, but she just couldn’t resist her own needs any longer.
Despite her efforts, she was only able to take down the right side of her own panties, leaving the band stuck near the bottom of her butt cheek. She reached in and started rubbing her own slit. Finding it already wet, Lisa excitedly “caught up” by doing to herself with her fingers what she was doing to Allison with her tongue. The excitement of it made her a little shaky, and every move was almost a spasm unto itself. She almost didn’t care how it affected Allison, but the increased breathing and moans from her friend told her she was too close to give up now. She felt a renewed need to achieve her goal of giving Allison her first orgasm. After all, she knew that she wouldn’t have any problem getting herself off.
Allison suddenly struggled to open her legs even more, easily raising her knees into the air. Her feet were still bound by her panties, but fortunately they slid up easily under Lisa’s raised position. Though concerned about messing up Lisa’s efforts, Allison couldn’t help but fondle Lisa’s head again — she had to do something. She wasn’t sure whether it was simply to show her appreciation or some urgent need to be actively involved with what Lisa was doing to her. “Oh, Lisa, you’re making me feel all crazy inside!”
Lisa was so engrossed in what she was doing, both to Allison and herself, that she barely remembered to breathe. However, those words of encouragement, plus Allison’s renewed stroking of her hair and cheeks, sent Lisa into a frenzy. She sucked and licked at Allison, almost trying to devour her insides. She even forgot about rubbing herself, leaving her fingers in the waistband of her panties while sticking her mouth, nose, and even her chin deep into the girl. She flicked her tongue and thrashed it around in response to Allison’s bucking. Finally, Lisa pulled her hand from her panties and wrapped her newly-freed arm under and around Allison’s left leg, which helped to hold herself in place on the writhing brunette.
Tears were forming in Allison’s eyes and she spread her legs even farther apart, overcompensating for the compulsion to clamp her thighs over this angel of pleasure’s head. She started moving her butt up and down, as if responding to unseen thrusts, and Lisa adjusted her timing to match hers. Suddenly, Allison grabbed her own knees and pulled them sideways, as if to expose her most-private area for the entire world to see and love. She struggled to stay still, barely able to control herself as Lisa rolled her head and darted her tongue all around the little girl’s tingling pussy. Lisa suddenly wrapped her left arm under Allison’s right leg, making separation all but impossible as she fought to finish the job.
“Aiiiihhh….!” Allison caught her scream as her insides started pulsing, squeezing and contracting on their own. Lisa felt the change and dove straight for the clitoris, tickling it with her lips and tongue, sucking it gently with her puckered lips, and then licking her slit up and down between the holes. Allison relished the involuntary dance going on inside herself. After several seconds, she remembered to breathe again, inhaling deeply and then letting it out slowly. Her legs relaxed and she opened her hands, letting her knees fall back down, so she could resume stroking Lisa’s hair.
Sensing that she’d accomplished her mission, Lisa’s heart swelled with pride. She looked at her friend with satisfaction but was interrupted when Allison leaned forward and took hold of her upper arms. “Come here,” Allison said dreamily while guiding Lisa up on top of her. Allison slid her hands around Lisa’s back and kissed her deeply, much to the blonde’s surprise. “I couldn’t have done it without you,” Allison whispered. “You can ‘experiment’ on me anytime.” Allison used her left hand to gently wipe away the excess juices and saliva from Lisa’s face. Then she briefly rubbed the mixture off on the blanket before putting her hand on the back of Lisa’s.
“I learned a lot, too,” was all Lisa could think to respond. She immediately regretted not saying something smarter, but then she was afraid to spoil her little victory by babbling on and sounding stupid.
Sensing Lisa’s awkwardness, Allison simply smiled and said, “Well, I don’t know… I think you’d understand better if you actually experienced it from my point of view as well.” Allison lifted her left knee and turned to her right, rolling Lisa over on her back and then landing on top of her. Lisa gasped in surprise but quickly felt at ease when Allison put her face right over hers and whispered heavily. “Don’t worry, I was paying close attention.” Allison slid down, kissing Lisa’s neck, stomach, and torso before starting to pull off her panties.
Lisa closed her eyes and sighed, “Ahh, I love learning new things.”
As she gently slid Lisa’s panties down with both hands, Allison looked into Lisa’s eyes and smiled devilishly. “Now pay attention: there will be a test on this later.”
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Das Boot is a successful German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann. The film received highly positive reviews and was nominated for six Academy Awards, two of these nominations (for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay) went to Petersen himself; he was also nominated for a BAFTA Award and DGA Award. The soundtrack for the movie was composed and produced by Klaus Doldinger, known for his work in jazz and as a film music composer. The characteristic lead melody of the soundtrack, took on a life of its own after German rave group U96 created a remixed "techno version" in 1991. The title theme "Das Boot" later became an international hit.
1. ANFANG
2. DAS BOOT
3. APPELL
4. U 96
5. AUSLAUFEN
6. ERINNERUNG
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8. ANGRIFF
9. HEIMKEHR
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9. ENDE
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Cavaliers vs. Warriors Game 3 Predictions: NBA Finals
June 8th, 2015 Team S.U
(Cleveland Cavaliers)
In a surprising turn of events the Cleveland Cavaliers have stunned the Golden State Warriors in a record setting second straight overtime in an NBA Finals series. With the injury to Cavs guard Kyrie Irving during game 1, many predicted the Warriors to sail thru the rest of the series, however, the Cavs proved to be resilient thanks in part to ‘next man up’ Matthew Dellavedova and James Jones, while LeBron James carried the offensive load for the team with 39 points, 16 rebounds, and 11 assists. The Cavs shot a team low 32.2 percent from the field, however, two key free-throws from Dellavedova helped seal the deal for the Cavs who shocked a capacity crowd in Oracle Arena as they evened the series 1-1.
On the Warriors side, Stephen Curry was the big news as the defensive efforts from Dellavedova helped limit him to shooting just 2-15 from the three-point line and 5-23 overall from the field. Clay Thompson torched the Cavs early and ended the game with 34 points, unfortunately, it wasn’t enough as the Warriors suffered a turnover in the closing seconds of overtime which ruined their chance at either winning or tying the game.
The Warriors will face a hostile environment at Quicken Loans Arena where they hope to regain control of the series. Team S.U. predicts which team will win game 3 of the 2015 NBA Finals?
Keith Rivas (Editor) – So we now know that LeBron James is capable of single-handedly giving Cleveland hope in the NBA Finals. Winning in Oracle Arena in Oakland is NOT easy, the Warriors have shown us that so far in 2015.
But then they hit the wall of LeBron — big time.
After escaping in Game 1 thanks in large part to an overtime explosion, Golden State couldn’t hold on in Game 2 as King James was just too much — but the question now is, will it last? Obviously, LeBron James is human — well, sort of, but you catch my drift. Basketball is a games of runs, so heading back to Cleveland the big challenge for LeBron & Co. will be consistency.
The emotions coming into Game 2 were well on the side of the Cavaliers, but we’ve seen James-lead teams crack before — more specifically during his last tenure in the state of Ohio. A while back, the Cavs played the San Antonio Spurs for the title of NBA champion and fell well short, wallowing in an 0-4 destruction and finding themselves on the empty side of a celebration.
But maybe this year is different.
Cavaliers vs. Warriors Game 3 Predictions – Golden State needs to be sure to not underestimate Cleveland’s offensive efficiency, as their many defensive woes and inconsistencies cost them dearly in the series sequel. But I see Golden State redeeming themselves — they didn’t get the top seed in the West for nothing.
Game 3 Prediction: Warriors 119, Cavs 115 (2 OT)
Steve Turner (NBA Contributor) – The 2015 NBA Finals is turning out to be something truly spectacular. Despite a valiant effort from the Golden State Warriors, the Cleveland Cavaliers managed to snag a win on the Warriors home court. With that loss, the Warriors have only lost on their home floor four times this season.
It was an unbelievably rough shooting night for the league MVP Stephen Curry. Matthew Dellavedova came up extremely clutch, nailing some free throws and a few floaters. Delly also did an outstanding job on guarding Stephen Curry. Curry was 0-8 shooting while Delly was guarding him — a very strange night for the baby-faced assassin (Curry).
I believe Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors are going to bounce back from this defeat though. This Golden State Warriors’s bench is very impressive. If Cleveland is going to get this next win, other players on the team are going to have to show up big time.
Cavaliers vs. Warriors Game 3 Predictions – I expect JR Smith, Timofey Mozgov, and the dark-horse of Cleveland (Matthew Dellavedova) to play huge roles in game 3. I’m cheering for Golden State in game 3 though and I think they’re going to redeem themselves in Cleveland.
Jr. Williams (NBA Editor) – Not the most offensively glamorous game from either team, but the Cavs grinded their way out of Golden State with the win just as I predicted. LeBron James continues to solidify his position as one of the top-3 players of all-time after yet another epic offensive performance in which he did everything from scoring, passing, to rebounding in ferocious fashion. Lets be honest, the Cavaliers controlled the tempo the entire game and if it we’rent for the bone-headed foul choices by J.R. Smith, this game would have not gone into overtime.
Matthew Delevadova was the defensive player of the game, he physically and psychologically harassed Stephen Curry into shooting one of the worst percentages of his career, and I think the Cavs are a more balance team with him on the floor. Despite the offensive struggles from Iman Shumpert and J.R. Smith, the Cavs still managed to force the Warriors to slow down their offense. All-in-all it was a great game, but the better team won despite three blatant no-calls in which the refs failed to call fouls committed on LeBron James.
Cavaliers vs. Warriors Game 3 Predictions – If you think I’m drinking the Warriors Kool-Aid then you are sadly mistaken — this team has been over-hyped by ESPN all season, and now we are finally seeing what they are truly made of. The Cavs had a chance to win two games in Oracle arena, and I expect several players on their roster to explode offensively in game 3.
Cavs win game 3, final score 103 – 99
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Church of England · Churches Together in Britain · Felixstowe · Franciscan · Growing in God · Lent · poem · Prayer · Walking in the Footsteps of Christ
Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 10
April 25, 2020 suffolkvicar
Saturday after 1st Sunday of Lent
A Lenten Journey with the Rule of the Third Order of the Society of St Francis
These Reflections which take the Rule of the Third Order as their springboard, were originally published in Lent 2012 are being republished during Easter 2020 as a way of deepening our faith during the Covid19 pandemic which is affecting the whole world
From the Principles:
The Second Aim:
To spread the spirit of love and harmony (continued)
We are prepared not only to speak out for social justice and international peace, but to put these principles into practice in our own lives, cheerfully facing any scorn or persecution to which this may lead.
From St Francis:
St Francis Addresses Political Leaders
Pause and reflect, for the day of death draws near. Accordingly I beg you as respectfully as possible, do not let your cares and preoccupations with the world make you forget the Lord or turn aside from his commandments. For all those who forget him and turn away from his commands are cursed; they will be completely forgotten by him. And when the day of death does come, what you think you possess will be taken from you. And the more clever and powerful you have been in the world, so much greater will be the punishments of hell that you will have to endure. (Letter to the Rulers of the People)
‘…cheerfully facing any scorn or persecution to which this may lead.’
The theory sounds good but being cheerful when persecuted for standing up for others tends to be only with the camaraderie of being once again found to be a member of the Awkward Squad.
I remember in Johannesburg arriving late for a meeting of the End Conscription Campaign to find a group of strangers running around with guns in the home where we were meeting shouting at everyone present. My first naïve response was ‘Great it’s a role play, I love role plays….’ Then I realised no one was smiling and our meeting had been raided by the Security Police. By the end of the evening each of us had been questioned closely about our perceived treason of the South African State and had had our mugshots taken whilst holding a piece of paper with our name and Identity Number on it – as if we were criminals in an identity parade. I spent a month living in fear of being deported and the upset that would cause my family and friends.
There were other times when I was arrested but thankfully never overnight. I remember one particularly chilling occasion when a nervous conscripted soldier pointed a loaded rifle at my head (I felt physically sick when I heard him cock the weapon to fire) whilst I was questioned as to why I, a priest, was attending a funeral in one of the local Black townships. Apartheid was determined to separate people even in death
Cheerfulness is definitely not the emotion that surfaces most readily in my breast when facing persecution for the sake of others! When we stand for the Truth it is mostly about feeling isolated and frightened, that is how prejudiced powerful people ply their trade. Facing persecution is an intensely lonely place and perhaps begins to give us some insight to how Christ felt on the cross – left alone and abandoned by those for whom he was suffering.
But if we can be brave enough to step into this realm of fear and uncertainty miracles may happen.
At the End Conscription Campaign meeting the young Security Police man who was ‘processing’ me was perplexed that I a ‘dominee[i]’ would involve myself supporting a bunch of communists. We were able to share a few words which brought some salve to my soul and, I think, hope to him that the faith we shared was meant to bring life and care for all and not just those with whom we agreed. Revealing to him that the young Conscientious Objector whom we were supporting was not a communist but in fact a sacristan in the Chapel at St Martin’s School where I was Chaplain, called the powerful gun carrying police officer to think of an authority greater than his own.
I have not been arrested (yet) this century, but that is mostly because I live in rural Suffolk and not in the environs of St Paul’s Cathedral! But there remains much truth to stand for and speak about. And doing this will still mean facing scorn and rejection. It is difficult to be excluded from a precious clergy fellowship meeting because you support the care and inclusion of LGBT people in the life of the Church. It is awkward to find Catholic and Evangelical leaning friends alike becoming distant as you become more vocal in the support for an open episcopacy of men and women.
These issues and others will continue, please Lord, to challenge me and call me to always stand for the Truth.
I am not a hero in doing this; each one of us faces situations of our own where the voiceless need a prophet, the neglected a pastor, and the lost a shepherd. Scorn and persecution is nobody’s preferred diet, but they are meat and drink for Him who Loves us Best. After all there is not much else on the menu for the followers of the crucified One… ‘the cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptised, you will be baptized’ (Mark 10.39).
It is as we learn to sup with him that we will find the joy that comes from truly knowing him. For me, the writer of Philippians says it best of all:
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, 11if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 12Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3.10-14)
O God of earth an altar,
Bow down and hear our cry;
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our people drift and die;
The walls of gold entomb us,
The swords of scorn divide;
Take not thy thunder from us,
But take away our pride.
From all that terror teaches,
From lies of tongue and pen,
From all the easy speeches
That comforts cruel men,
From sale and profanation
Of honour and the sword,
From sleep and from damnation,
Deliver us, good Lord!
(G.K. Chesterton – 1874-1936)
If it were a crime to be a Christian would there be enough evidence to convict you?
This is an old challenge made by many a preacher in the past. Is there any injustice or prejudice in your local community, in the wider church, in the world for which you should be standing to speak about more?
How will you do this?
99 Words to Breathe:
If I look back I see that fear lies to me.
‘You’ll fail,’ it said to me when I started out on the path.
‘Here’s how,’ painting detailed pictures of pain.
When I was on the way fear scared me again and again
‘Too weak, too old, turn back.’
I did walk on, encumbered by this load
It wasn’t easy,
but it wasn’t what I’d been told.
I didn’t fail.
Without the load I might have stumbled less.
The trick is to hear
when it is fear speaking
and hear it fast enough to let it drop.
Scilla Elworthy
peace and human rights activist, founder Oxford Research Group and Peace Direct
‘The Principles’ are from the Rule of the Third Order of the Society of St Francis – this version amended for corporate reading by Andrew Dotchin
‘The Words of Francis’ are from ‘Through the Year with Francis of Assisi’ selected and translated by Murray Bodo – copyright © Collins Fount 1988
Prayers are from ‘The Book of a Thousand Prayers’ compiled by Angela Ashwin – copyright © Zondervan 1996
‘You have breath for no more than 99 Words. What would they be?’ were collected by Liz Gray – copyright © DLT 2011
These Reflections, ‘Walking in the Footsteps of Christ’ are copyright © Andrew Dotchin 2020 and may be reproduced without charge on condition that the source is acknowledged
[i] Literally means ‘Lord’ it is the Afrikaans title for a minister of religion.
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Road Ghosts
Psychic Art
Prediction Divination
Out of body
The Average Medium Does Not Have an Average Day Out
When I go somewhere, I don’t always recognise what is going to happen right away but my thoughts will be triggered by something specific, and I suddenly think to myself, I have seen this before haven’t I? It tends to be key items that really stood out in my precognitive dream or an event of some significance, and sometimes it is actually someone.
Trips out, and holidays are never dull, especially a place with a past. Many of these places have great history and its walls have born witness to many emotional events. Do buildings hold on to energy, and souls?
The dream that I had, I was in a very old room where stood a very wooden cradle on the floor in the corner of the room, there was an original old wooden sashed window nearby. I went up some old stone stairs and entered a derelict room where a cradle was rocking side to side all by itself. It was rocking quite violently, and it was empty. A man came into the room and he was wearing a long blue coat, tails at the back and a tall top hat. He was gazing out of the window at the water and boat in the harbour, he was not very happy, I felt that he had money worries.
Two little girls then entered my dream, they came into the room, one I connected with more than the other, she had long orangey red hair. I could see myself on a small boat, a rowing boat with them both and we rowed with the older man and a well-dressed older lady out to Plymouths breakwater. We were going there because there was a large wooden vessel moored not far from it and we wanted to go and see it.
When we reached the breakwater, we set a picnic out on a blanket on the concrete structure. The girl with the red hair, aged between 8 to 12 years old was walking about looking down at the giant black boulders that protected the area. We looked out at the large vessel that was the main point of our visit. It was a nice picnic, the last nice thing the girls experienced, I believe. We went back to the house in the rowing boat, nothing unusual about that but why was I dreaming about a ship sail in one of the rooms?
The feel of the dream started to change, I felt it, I shiver and felt cold as I recall, two little girls were really sick, I knew that they were dying. They had excruciating pains in their stomachs; I was experiencing them in my sleep and they were both being sick, the well-dressed woman, she had passed over already.
I was so angry with the man; he was ordering the girls around to do things for him. They should have been resting, they were seriously ill, not running around being shouted at by him. The other girl, died first, leaving the red head alone, laying in pain. I tried to comfort her, I held a cup of water to her lips, tried to get her to sip, the man, I could hear him shouting out orders.
She died alone, no one looking after her, but I was glad for her when she went, the pain had been horrific. I was also glad she didn’t have to run around after him anymore. He was selfish and unkind and all he cared about was his money, he had suffered a financial downfall and cared about nothing else.
When he contracted the illness afterwards, he was then alone, the last one to go. He had no one to shout and scream at. Towards the end, I could not feel sorry for him, I was very angry with him for allowing two young girls to die like that way.
The letter M, that’s what they had died of M, a condition that would give you pains in the tummy, what was it?
The time period of the dream then changed, it was all still very dark and cold, but there was a ghost in the fireplace of one of the upstairs rooms. Some lady was looking up the chimney and I was thinking, oh my goodness, she has no idea what is up there. I could tell it wasn’t nice.
The time period changed again, model people and information boards were then in the room, and there was a picture of a historic ship called The Mayflower. I was wondering what it was all about, but I got the full picture a few months later.
My husband booked us onto on to a guided tour of The Elizabethan House, a derelict house that had once upon a time been a museum. It is a listed building and will be reopened soon as part of the Mayflower 400 celebration activities. The Pilgrim Fathers left Plymouth via the Barbican Steps and rowed out to meet the waiting Mayflower Ship to take them to America.
Our visit got off to a dodgy start, we went to The Merchants House at first on the other end of the Barbican and had to run back the way we had just come as we didn’t want to miss the start of the tour.
Not only was the tour about the historical past of the house, the tour guide also told our group about the ghosts that haunted the house. About the cradle that they used to have on the upstairs floor, that used to rock all by itself, and about the gentleman who wears a top hat, who had been seen wondering about. A medium visited and told our guide that the man had money troubles. I was even more astonished about the mummified rat, he told us about that they had found in the window wall. I stopped in my tracks. The little girls, they had lived here, the rat in the wall told me exactly who was here.
The house had been owned at one point by a Shipping Merchant, the wooden pole in the centre of the stairs, on the winding staircase was actually the mast from a ship. Though when it was a slum building, the rooms were just filled with people.
“This next room is the most haunted one in the house “our guide informed us. I walked through the doorway; the temperature dropped.
“There are no such things as ghosts” some woman was saying rather obnoxiously, bending her head and looking up the chimney. I had a flash back, you have no idea what is up that Chimney, do you? I thought to myself.
We took some photos, reminders of what the house looked like before it opens restored for the Mayflower Festivities. I then discovered that there are some past residents can be clearly seen hiding in the walls. As well as in the room corner and the fireplace. This room was definitely the most haunted room in the house.
I am looking forward to its re opening, the Council were thinking about organising ghost tours.
Bev looked at the photos, I said to her “M they died from M, what is M?”
“Malaria off the ship” she told me, Of course, now the plight of the two little girls made sense.
“They said thank you” Bev messaged me
“Who did?” I asked confused
“All of them” she replied
Lisa Snopek
I am a 38-year-old Cardiac Arrest survivor. My name is Lisa Marie Snopek. Back in April 2017 I dropped dead, and had to be given CPR, defibrillated and resuscitated. People tell me that I am stubborn, because that is what annoys them about me, but I think it is the best thing about me.
I was born with gifts that I didn’t understand, there were secrets about who I really was.
My life is lived twice over, once in my dreams and then in reality. And if I don’t like what I see, I then have to change it. I am a Reiki Healer and writer and I am working on finding a publisher for my first children’s novel.
I write very differently, because I am very different
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Facebook Live: Helping COVID’s Secondary Victims: Grieving Families and Friends
By Sandra R. Nicholson 2 months ago
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The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 246,000 people in the U.S., but it also has left hundreds of thousands of others grieving, and often feeling as if they have been robbed of the usual methods for dealing with the loss. For every person who dies of the virus, nine close family members are affected, researchers estimate. In addition to deep sadness, the ripple effects may linger for years as survivors deal with traumatic stress, anxiety, guilt and regret.
As the holidays approach, millions of people will be experiencing these losses afresh, as well as disruptions to comforting routines and beloved traditions.
Judith Graham, author of KHN’s Navigating Aging column, hosted a discussion on these unprecedented losses and dealing with the bereavement on Facebook Live on Monday. She was joined by Holly Prigerson, co-director of the Center for Research on End-of-Life Care at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, and Diane Snyder-Cowan, leader of the bereavement professionals steering committee of the National Council of Hospice and Palliative Professionals.
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Winkler County Library
The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 99, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 4, 1971
One of 2,268 issues in the title: The Winkler County News available on this site.
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Semi-weekly newspaper from Kermit, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
sixteen pages : ill. ; page 23 x 17 in. Scanned from physical pages.
Maikell, Elgin L. March 4, 1971.
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Winkler County Area Newspapers and was provided by the Winkler County Library to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. More information about this issue can be viewed below.
Maikell, Elgin L. Managing Editor
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Place of Publication: Kermit, Texas
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Ship Safety Bulletins
Interim measure for holders of a Canadian fishing master Certificate of Competency who seeks recognition under the STCW-F - SSB No.: 10/2018
RDIMS No .: 13946164
Date (Y-M-D) : 2018-07-24
We issue Ship Safety Bulletins for the marine community. Visit our Website at www.tc.gc.ca/ssb-bsn to view existing bulletins and to sign up to receive e-mail notices of new ones.
This bulletin aims to inform fishing vessel personnel of an interim measure available to holders of a Canadian Fishing Master Certificate of Competency (CoC) wishing to have their certificate recognized as valid for service under the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Fishing Vessel Personnel, 1995 (STCW-F) .
This bulletin applies to masters who:
navigate a Canadian fishing vessel of 24 metres in length and over,
engage on international voyages, and
hold a valid Canadian Fishing Master Certificate of Competency.
Canadian fishing masters who wish to be in full compliance of the STCW-F in the event of vessel inspections during an international voyage, are encouraged to follow the measure outlined in this ship safety bulletin. Such masters, however, have no legal obligation to fully meet the STCW-F requirements until Canadian regulations are made to fully implement the Convention.
The STCW-F came into force on September 29, 2012. The Convention sets out the certification and training requirements for the master and deck officers of a fishing vessel of 24 metres in length and over. Since September 29, 2017, Canada – as a party to the STCW-F – is expected to issue CoCs which are in full compliance with the requirements of the STCW-F.
Interim measure
Transport Canada Marine Safety and Security (TCMSS) is developing regulations to ensure full compliance with the STCW-F.
Until these regulations come into force, TCMSS encourages holders of fishing vessel certificate of competency described in the following Annex to carry documentation indicating the appropriate validity of their CoC under STCW-F.
How to follow the measure
Holders of Canadian Fishing Master CoCs who are engaged on international voyages should:
Consult the table in this bulletin to verify that their certificate is included in the interim measure.
Request a letter by using any of the contact methods given in this bulletin, or visit a TCMSS Examination Centre to make the request.
Prairie and Northern Region
Ontario Region
Quebec Region
Atlantic Region
Annex - Certificates of Competency and their validity under the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Fishing Vessel Personnel, 1995 (STCW-F)
Certificate of Competency
Validity under the Convention
Regulation under the Convention
Fishing Master, First Class (CFV1) first issued from March 21, 1980 and before July 1, 2007 Skipper, Unlimited Waters Chapter II, Regulation 1
Fishing Master, First Class (FM1) issued as from July 1, 2007 Skipper, Unlimited Waters Chapter II, Regulation 1
Fishing Master, Second Class (CFV2) first issued from March 21, 1980 and before July 1, 2007 Skipper, fishing vessel of any gross tonnage engaged on a voyage anywhere within the area around North America bounded by the meridians of longitude 30 degrees West and 180 degrees West and north of the parallel of latitude 6 degrees North Chapter I, Regulation 8, paragraph 1
Skipper, Limited Waters Chapter II, Regulation 3
Officer, Unlimited Waters Chapter I, Regulation 8, paragraph 1
Fishing Master, Second Class (FM2) first issued from July 1, 2007 to September 29, 2017 Skipper, Limited Waters Chapter II, Regulation 3
Officer, Unlimited Waters Chapter I, Regulation 8, paragraph 1 & 2
Fishing Master, Second Class (FM 2) issued after September 29, 2017 Skipper, Limited Waters Chapter II, Regulation 3
Fishing Master, Third Class (CFV3) first issued from March 21, 1980 and before July 1, 2007 Skipper, Limited Waters Chapter II, Regulation 3
Fishing Master, Third Class (FM3) first issued from July 1, 2007 to September 29, 2017 Skipper, Limited Waters Chapter II, Regulation 3
Fishing Master, Third Class (FM3) issued after September 29, 2017 Skipper, Limited Waters Chapter II, Regulation 3
Fishing Master, Fourth Class (CFV 4) first issued from March 21, 1980 and before July 1, 2007 Officer, Unlimited Waters Chapter I, Regulation 8, paragraph 1
Fishing Master, Fourth Class (FM4) first issued from July 1, 2007 to September 29, 2017 Officer, Limited Waters Chapter I, Regulation 8, paragraph 1 & 2
Fishing Master, Fourth Class (FM4) issued after September 29, 2017 Officer, Fishing vessel of less than 45 m, Limited waters Chapter II, Regulation 4
“Limited waters” means waters within 200 nautical miles from shore or above the continental shelf, limited to the waters contiguous to Canada, United States (except Hawaii) and St-Pierre and Miquelon including on the west coast of Canada the waters up to Cobb-Eickelberg seamount chain at not more than 260 nautical miles from shore. (eaux limitées)
“Unlimited waters” means waters that extend beyond “Limited waters”. (eaux illimitées).
1. STCW-F
2. Marine Personnel Regulations
3. Certificate of Competency
4. Transitional period
5. International voyages
Questions concerning this Bulletin should be addressed to:
AMSP
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Marine Safety and Security
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Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0N8
Contact us at: Email: marinesafety-securitemaritime@tc.gc.ca or Telephone: 1-855-859-3123 (Toll Free).
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The term White Tea is often used to refer to tea that is merely dried with no additional processing, some to tea made from the buds and immature tea leaves picked shortly before the buds have fully opened and allowed to wither and dry in natural sun, while others include tea buds and very young leaves which have been steamed or fired before drying. Most definitions agree, that white tea is not rolled or oxidized, resulting in a flavour characterized as "lighter" than green or traditional black teas. In spite of its name, brewed white tea is pale yellow. Its name derives from the fine silvery-white hairs on the unopened buds of the tea plant, which give the plant a whitish appearance. The unopened buds are used for some types of white tea. The selection of raw material in white tea manufacture is extremely stringent; only the plucking of young tea leaves with much fine hair can produce good-quality white tea of a high pekoe (grading) value.
White Tea Pai Mu Tan
China, Fujian
Non fermented, traditional process,naturally withered and dried, small batch crafted and hand sorted. Only the top 2 leaves and the bud are selected. Clear slightly pale cup with a fresh aroma and smooth velvety flavour. Antioxidant level is very high. The caffeine level is low.
Bring water to 160 to 180 F. 2 tsp per 6 oz. cup. Infuse 5 - 7 minutes. Adding milk and sugar is not recommended, Multiple infusions possible. Contains caffeine
White Tea Silver Moonlight Wild White
China, Yunnan Provence
Moonlight White tea is a stunning white tea composed of delicate silver needles and white tea leaves. Non fermented, tradtional process, naturally withered and dried, small batch crafted and hand sorted. Light notes of baked almond on a full flavoured white tea. A slightly wild finish.
Bring water to 180 F. 1 tsp per 6 oz. cup. Infuse for 3 - 7 minutes. Adding milk and sugar is not recommended, Multiple infusions possible. Contains caffeine.
White Tea Nandi Safari
Africa, Kenya, Nandi Highlands
Non fermented orthodox, naturally withered and dried, small batch crafted and hand sorted. This handmade orthodox style leaf, from the Tinderet Tea Estate in the Nandi Hills, produces a fresh, flavour floral cup. Antioxidant level high. Caffeine level low.
Bring water to 180 F. 1 to 1 1/2 tsp. per 6 oz. cup. Infuse for 3 minutes. Adding milk & sugar is not recommended. Multiple infusions possible. Contains caffeine.
White Tea Silver Needle
25 gm 50 gm 100 gm
25 gm - $20.00 50 gm - $40.00 100 gm - $80.00
Non fermented, traditional process, Naturally withered and dried, small batch crafted, and hand sorted. A premium tea that has exquisite haunting hints of peach with a fresh lingering finish. This is one of China‟s best white teas. Shimmering with light yellow notes. Antioxidant level high. Caffeine level low.
Bring water to 180 F. 1 tsp per 6 oz. cup. Infuse for 3 - 7 minutes. Contains caffeine.
White Tea Jun Shan Silver Needle (Yellow) Tea
25 gm - $35.00 50 gm - $70.00 100 gm - $140.00
China, Hunan Provence
Jun Shan Silver Needle is one of China's most famous teas composed of perfectly formed, tender buds. Only produced on Jun Shan Island on Dong Ting Lake, Hunan Province and only for a couple of weeks a year. Yellow teas are processed in a similar way to green teas: picking, withering, firing and one extra step, in which the tea is wrapped in paper and gently warmed (40-60 degrees). this softens the flavour of the tea and removes the vegetal flavour present in green tea.
Mellow and refreshing, a shade darker than a robust Green, developing a light amber to Bristol Cream colour in the cup. Scents of nectar and a hint of remaining vegetation with a touch of smoke to the nose. A mellow, liquor like, sweet taste. Antioxidant level high. Caffeine level low.
Bring water to 180 F. 1 tsp per 6 oz. cup. Infuse for 3 - 7 minutes. Multiple infusions. Contains caffeine.
White Tea Rhino Powder
50 gm 100 gm 25 gm
50 gm - $22.00 100 gm - $44.00 25 gm - $11.00
Kenya, Nandi Highlands
The tea used to make this is grown at high altitude under bright sun and as such is packed full of antioxidants, polyphenols and exceptionally crisp flavor. Only the youngest leaves are plucked, processed and carefully ground using a traditional stone mill to an exceptionally smooth consistency. The resulting cup is thick and rich with wonderfully warm mossy notes of grass and slight floral undertones of oolong. A fabulous tea for those looking for an interesting brew with exceptional health benefits.
Bring water to 180F. 1/2 tsp per 6 oz cup. Whisk briskly to produce froth before drinking. Antioxidant level vey high. Caffeine level low.
Contains Caffeine.
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Michelle Obama calls on Silicon Valley to permanently ban Trump and prevent platform abuse by future leaders
Darrell Etherington @etherington / 1 week
In a new statement issued by former First Lady Michelle Obama, she calls on Silicon Valley specifically to address its role in the violent insurrection attempt by pro-Trump rioters at the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday. Obama’s statement also calls out the obviously biased treatment that the primarily white pro-Trump fanatics faced by law enforcement relative to that received by mostly peaceful BLM supporters during their lawful demonstrations (as opposed to Wednesday’s criminal activity), but it includes a specific redress for the tech industry’s leaders and platform operators.
“Now is the time for companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior — and go even further than they have already by permanently banning this man from their platforms and putting in place policies to prevent their technology from being used by the nation’s leaders to fuel insurrection,” Obama wrote in her statement, which she shared on Twitter and on Facebook.
Like all of you, I’ve been feeling so many emotions since yesterday. I tried to put my thoughts down here: pic.twitter.com/9xzRvrpk7y
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) January 7, 2021
The call for action goes beyond what most social platforms have done already. Facebook has banned Trump, though it describes the term of the suspension as “indefinite” and left open the possibility for a restoration of his accounts in as little as two weeks’ time once Joe Biden has officially assumed the presidency. Twitter, meanwhile, initially removed three tweets it found offended its rules by inciting violence and then locked Trump’s account pending his deletion of the same. Earlier on Thursday, Twitter confirmed that Trump had removed these and that his account would subsequently be restored 12 hours after their deletion. Twitch has also disabled Trump’s channel at least until the end of his term, while Shopify has removed Trump’s official merchandise stores from its platform.
Twitch disables Trump’s channel until the end of his term to ‘minimize harm’ during transition
No social platform thus far has permanently banned Trump, so far as TechCrunch is aware, which is what Obama is calling for in her statement. While both Twitter and Facebook have discussed how Trump’s recent behavior has violated their policies regarding use of their platform, neither have yet provided any detailed information regarding how they’ll address any potential similar behavior from other world leaders going forward. In other words, we don’t yet know what would be different (if anything) should another Trump-styled megalomaniac take office and use available social channels in a similar manner.
Obama is hardly the only political figure to call for action from social media platforms around “sustained misuse of their platforms to sow discord and violence,” as Senator Mark Warner put it in a statement on Wednesday. Likely once the dust clears from this week’s events, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, et al. will face renewed scrutiny from lawmakers and public interest groups around any corrective action they’re taking.
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OPPO confirms online launch for Find X2 series on 6 March 2020
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OPPO VP Brian Shen recently revealed hands-on images of an upcoming OPPO smartphone with a “Waterfall Screen”. Unlike current curved edge displays, this still unnamed device has an almost edge-to-edge display that goes down the sides at a sharp angle, much like a waterfall. Images seem to indicate that it could be the next OPPO Find X device and looks to be fully functional.
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OPPO’s Vice President, Shen Yiren, has always shared a lot when it came to the OPPO Reno. This time, he shared that the OPPO Reno may come with OPPO’s brand new VOOC 3.0 charging which is 23.8% faster than its predecessor in contrary to rumours of it having 50W fast charging.
OPPO Reno may come with extremely thin bezels and 93.1% screen to body ratio
Everyone’s been obsessing over completely bezel-less devices and OPPO definitely feels that as well. OPPO’s Vice President, Shen Yiren shared on Weibo that the OPPO Reno may feature an impressive 93.1% screen to body ratio with bezels as thin as the OPPO Find X.
Reno is OPPO's new smartphone line which will be launched April 10
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NewsBytes 2019 #2 - GrabExpress rolls out, new Lazada CEO, Yellow Heart initiative by Digi and more
How's is it going, my homies! It's been a while since we did our #NewsBytes but due to the recent Chinese New Year break, there wasn't so much news. So what's in the loop? Aside from the casual news below, there are a couple of interesting tech stuff to talk about - the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S10 series livestream has been announced, Energizer came out of nowhere with a 18000mAh + dual pop-up front camera smartphone, Xiaomi Mi 9 has been teased and might be revealed in MWC 2019, we got our first look at the vivo V15 Pro in Malaysia, and other minor stuff that isn't that important.
OPPO unveils the OPPO Find X 5G edition prototype and plans for 5G in the year 2019
OPPO has unveiled the OPPO Find X 5G Prototype during the China Mobile Global Partners Conference held in Guangzhou from 6 December 2018 to 8 December 2018. The original OPPO Find X, which was first introduced in July 2018 featured a motorized retractable camera at the top of the display which will pop out when in use.
The Nubia X has an interesting way of getting rid of the notch
The notch on smartphones has been the bane of our existence for some ever since last year. Unfortunately, that seems to be the only solution for the ever growing screen ratios on smartphones. Or so we thought, until Arstechnica.com reported about the Nubia X, that decided the only way to remove the notch is to remove the front selfie camera altogether. While this would illicit many gasps of surprise to many selfie enthusiasts all over the world, rest assured that you will still be able to take endless selfies with this smartphone still.
OPPO to release an OPPO Find X equipped with a whopping 10GB of RAM
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The City of South Pasadena swore in Joe Ortiz as its new police chief during a public ceremony held in the City Council chambers Monday, Apr. 29. Ortiz will be replacing former South Pasadena Police Department (SPPD) chief Art Miller, who left the force in August 2018.
Ortiz delivered a brief message to attending citizens prior to his swearing in. The new arrival, who has been on the job since Apr. 1, expressed his gratefulness to the community for its warm reception of him as chief and indicated his eagerness to begin work with his fellow SPPD officers.
“Every day we look for a better way to do what we do,” Ortiz said, “It is that exact attitude that will move [us] to provide a higher level of service and better serve our community.”
City Manager Stephanie DeWolfe and Mayor Marina Khubesrian each offered their own words to congratulate and welcome Ortiz to SPPD and the South Pasadena community. DeWolfe also informed the audience of the thorough process that eventually led to Ortiz’s selection as Chief.
City officials began searching for a new police chief in November 2018, eventually selecting Ortiz and six other candidates for interviews in December. This narrowed down the list to four finalists whom DeWolfe interviewed personally. During the selection process, South Pas citizens were able to voice their expectations for the new chief at community forums and submitted documents with their requests to city council for review. Ortiz has since collected these papers and framed them in his office.
“I am confident that he is the right man for the job,” DeWolfe said, “I think you will all agree as you get to know him a little bit better and see him on the job.”
Ortiz brings 26 years of law enforcement experience to his new position, having acted as sergeant, captain, and police chief of the Sierra Madre Police Department for nine years before his arrival in South Pas. He also served in the United States Air Force and National Guard.
“This is an extremely exciting time for me both personally and professionally,” Ortiz said, “I am truly honored and privileged and humbled to be appointed as the fourteenth chief of the South Pasadena Police Department.”
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This branch of chemistry deals with the chemistry of carbon and living things.
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photochemistry
is the branch of chemistry concerned with interactions between light and matter.
solid state chermistry
polymer chemistry
is the branch of chemistry that applies physics to the study of chemistry. Quantum mechanics and thermodynamics are examples of physical chemistry disciplines.
or macromolecular chemistry is the branch of chemistry the examines the structure and properties of macromolecules and polymers and finds new ways to synthesize these molecules.
is the branch of chemistry that is focused on the structure, properties, and chemical processes that occur in the solid phase. Much of solid state chemistry deals with the synthesis and characterization of new solid state materials.
examines the interactions between matter and electromagnetic radiation as a function of wavelength. Spectroscopy commonly is used to detect and identify chemicals based on their spectroscopic signatures.
spectroscopy chemistry
theoritical chemistry
may be considered a type of Physical Chemistry. Thermochemistry involves the study of thermal effects of chemical reactions and the thermal energy exchange between processes.
theoritical chemictry
applies chemistry and physics calculations to explain or make predictions about chemical phenomena.
It is referred to as the chemistry beyond the molecule, which means that it includes the study of non-covalent bonds. This branch of chemistry deals with the non-covalent intermolecular interactions that are relatively weak and reversible. Van der Waals forces, hydrogen bonds, and electrostatic effects are some of the forces studied in this branch.
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sonochemistry
It studies the growth and collapse of microbubbles in liquids to which an ultrasonic field is applied. This branch of chemistry tries to find how ultrasonic fields affect the chemical activity in liquids.
combines astronomy with chemistry and studies the reactions of chemical elements in the universe and their interactions with radiation. It also studies the chemical substances in stars and the interstellar space
cosmochemistry
This branch of chemistry may also be called agricultural chemistry. It deals with the application of chemistry for agricultural
Agrochemistry
Analytical chemistry is the branch of chemistry involved with studying the properties of materials or developing tools to analyze materials.
is the study of the composition and reactions of the chemical elements and molecules found in the stars and in space and of the interactions between this matter and radiation.
is the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical reactions that occur inside living organisms.
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GILCHRIST BACKS DHONI:
AUSTRALIAN dashing opener Adam Gilchrist said that he didn’t agree to the statement made by Ian Chappel on M.S.Dhoni as he said the Indian skipper is the most important player in the middle order for India. He also added that the cool and composure of Dhoni is totally laudable.
“I have been totally impressed with DHONI from the moment he led the side in 2007.His calmness is quite extraordinary. Although the recent results have not gone his way he is definitely a strong leader.” he told the reporters.
GILCHRIST HAILS DHONI WILL COME GOOD:
Dhoni is the captain who led India to attain all the ICC events and even led the side to be number 1 in all the three formats. He says with his calmness Dhoni can be a strong leader who is needed to guide India to retain WORLD CUP.
Gilchrist said it would be a tough series for India down under but he also suggests Aussies not to take Indian’s lightly. Indians are down on confidence but he also feels that many youngsters in the team would have done their home work and will be ready to show their class and DHONI is the correct one to lead them.
India, Australia, England are struggling to make any impact abroad because of some unknown reasons although having a strong batting line up, He feels that India is very much capable of giving a tough fight.
Talking about the approaching World cup he said Australia also with the hosting nation will definitely have an upper hand. But, all the teams have equal opportunity to win the title of World champion.
Talking about the ICC attack on suspected actions, He said that there was a time when legends retired this didn’t effect the game in the same way WORLD CUP is the most interesting tournament no matter who will feature in the game and game will move on.
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Updated: Allegations aired in soccer coach child-molest case
by M. Dilworth • September 21, 2012
Renoir Valenti aka Raynard Haylock
LANCASTER – Graphic testimony dominated day one of the preliminary hearing for a longtime Antelope Valley soccer coach accused of molesting more than a dozen young boys.
Renoir Valenti has pleaded not guilty to several felony counts of continuous sexual abuse and child molesting involving 13 boys, who were between the ages of 5 and 15 when the alleged molestations occurred. Read more here.
One of the alleged victims took the witness stand in an Antelope Valley courtroom Thursday.
“I know him to be a child molester,” the witness said, when questioned by prosecutor Jon Hatami on how he knew Valenti.
The witness testified he was nine-years-old when he met Valenti in 1998 through mutual friends at the east Palmdale apartment complex where they all lived.
Valenti’s apartment was a popular hang out with young boys in the neighborhood because Valenti had video games, BB guns and candy, the witness, who is now 23, testified. (The AV Times is withholding his name because of the nature of the case).
Valenti took him and his friends on field trips, took them to dinner, and gave them gifts, the witness testified. But after several “awkward” encounters with Valenti, their relationship soured, the witness testified.
“I dubbed him Chester the child molester,” he said.
Asked to describe the awkward encounters, the witness testified Valenti would ask him to sit on his lap when they were riding in Valenti’s car. He could feel Valenti’s erection while sitting on the man’s lap, the witness testified. He said Valenti also changed clothes in front him and his friends while they were playing video games in Valenti’s bedroom, and Valenti was “very touchy feely” and constantly kissing him on numerous occasions.
He said he discussed Valenti’s behavior with his friends, and word eventually got back to his mother, who notified authorities. The witness testified that his mother reported Valenti’s behavior to authorities in 1998, but nothing was done.
“I felt like nobody believed me,” the witness testified.
About 14 years later, Valenti, again, was reported to authorities.
On July 12, 2012, a mother came to the Lancaster Station and reported that Valenti had touched her nine-year-old son in an inappropriate manner, testified Lancaster Sheriff’s deputy Jason McGinty.
McGinty said he interviewed the boy on a bench outside the station, and the boy was emotional, hesitant and scared. The boy said Valenti had kissed him, sucked on his neck, and rubbed and sucked on his “shifter”, over his underwear, on seven to 10 occasions, McGinty testified. The boy said Valenti used the word “shifter” to refer to his penis, and said Valenti had played with his “shifter” on numerous occasions while the two were alone in Valenti’s bedroom, McGinty testified. The boy said his most recent incident with Valenti had been four days prior (July 8).
Valenti’s 39-year-old ex-wife also testified at the preliminary hearing Thursday. His ex-wife testified that she was 10 years old when she met Valenti, while at the beach with her family.
Valenti, who was over 21 at the time, began hanging out with her eight-year-old brother and buying him gifts, Valenti’s ex-wife testified.
She said she soon began joining Valenti and her younger brother on play dates, and eventually, a relationship between her and Valenti blossomed. She was 14 when she began dating Valenti and 15 or 16 when they got married, Valenti’s ex-wife testified. She said the two were married in 1988 and divorced 10 years later because she felt ignored and jealous of Valenti’s young male friends.
“I wasn’t paid too much attention to,” his ex-wife testified. She also testified that Valenti would take her on trips with his young friends and she had to sit in the back seat while the boys rode up front.
She said she filed a domestic violence report against Valenti in 1996.
Though the two divorced in 1998, they still live under the same roof. His ex-wife testified she lives in a “loft” in the upstairs portion of Valenti’s current Quartz Hill home.
During Thursday’s preliminary hearing, prosecutors also presented proof that Valenti used multiple aliases, including Raynard Haylock and Raymond Haylock, and he was born in 1959, as opposed to 1962.
Hatami presented evidence that showed Valenti was first issued a social security number in 1973 when he went by the name of Raynard Haylock. He then applied for another separate social security number in 1986 as Renoir Valenti.
Additionally, Valenti was arrested by the Nevada Police Department in 1980 for passing fictitious checks, Hatami said. At the time of his Nevada arrest, Valenti was going by the name Raymond Haylock, Hatami said. This week, Valenti’s complaint was amended to include charges of procuring or offering false or forged instruments for record.
Valenti’s preliminary hearing is expected to continue Friday morning, when several more witnesses, including Valenti’s two sons, are expected to testify. At the conclusion of the hearing, a judge will decide if there is enough evidence to bring Valenti’s case to trial.
UPDATED 9/21/2012:
Day two of the preliminary hearing for Valenti lasted less than an hour Friday morning (Sept. 21), and then the judge recessed the hearing until September 27.
During Friday’s brief hearing, Valenti’s ex-wife continued her testimony from the day before.
She said many young boys stayed over at the home she shares with Valenti and their two sons. She also testified that Valenti met many of the boys through his role as a youth soccer coach.
“He befriends kids who are in need,” Valenti’s ex-wife testified. She said she was aware that Valenti was accused of child molestation and even arrested in 1998. Valenti’s ex-wife also testified that she was aware that her then 12-year-old son had reported Valenti to authorities for molesting him in 2003.
That son took the witness stand after his mother Friday. Now 20 years old, Valenti’s son testified that his father never molested him or displayed inappropriate behavior around young boys.
Valenti’s 20-year-old son also testified that he couldn’t recall speaking to detectives in 2003 about his father molesting him.
Valenti’s 18-year-old son also took the witness stand Friday. The teen testified that his father would have as many as three boys spending the night at their house on several occasions. He said three young boys were spending the night at their home when deputies came by to arrest Valenti on August 6, 2012.
Valenti’s teen son said he had never been molested by his father, and said he found nothing strange about Valenti’s numerous friendships with young boys.
Valenti’s preliminary hearing is expected to resume at 1:30 p.m. on September 27. At the conclusion of the hearing, a judge will decide whether there is enough evidence for Valenti’s case to go to trial.
Filed Under: Crime/ Safety, Lancaster
12 comments for "Updated: Allegations aired in soccer coach child-molest case"
Debra Russell says
I live around the corner from this thing not a person. I had words with him several times i have a 9 year old that knows a lot about this thing My son told us of his behavor and we told other parents but they seemed blinded . I knew he was a child molester and i told him so . He didnt like my child because he was aware of his actions i taught my son about people like him , Havent talked to police but before he gets off i will tell all i know and say .The guy is a strange person to watch his behavior around kids you should know something was wrong . But if the child keeps denying anything is going on and the parent seems to trust the guy i just steped back now i feel i should have called the police but my don wasnt a vitim hes a witness.
Gladdis says
The sons are probably afraid or too embarassed to speak out. Ex-wife sounds like she is lost in space. She must have finally realized her marriage was a front for his perversion. He wanted to marry her so people would think he was “normal”.
Why didn’t anyone follow up with the family in 1998? Why didn’t anyone do anythng about this guy when the son reported him in 2003? How could she stay there with her sons? Did he get his sons involved? Did his sons develope normal social skills or were there signs of abuse that people/teachers ignored?
How could her parents let her marry someone so much older than her when she was so young? What do her younger brothers have to say about this guy in the early days before he married her. He was obviously grooming them when he met her.
How could this Lancaster-Sandusky case happen in a community that screams from the mountain tops how much it hates sex offenders? I have so many questions.
Me to Gladdis. Me too. Not holding my breath for answers though. We seem to care a lot about sex offenders around election time, and that’s it. I’m starting to suspect our leaders need these sex offenders. What else will they run on?
Jobs? (sarcasm for those who need it explained to them)
This [removed] happens all the time. The reason others who know about it hide the truth and protect the abuser is because they have something to lose. Whether a wife or a employer. Just like they could have stopped this man in 1998. Just like they could of stopped this man in 2003.
Know of the same thing at LA County P & Rs. They got a supervisor who has a file an inch thick of sexual abuse complaints from female coworkers. Yet when approached and a complaint filed, they did everything they could do to beat down the woman who made the complaint, until she just gave up. Lost her job, lost her benefits. Why?
Because he had been fired once before for the same thing. If the victim had won the case, the county would of been 100% responsible, since they rehired him, and placed him in a position of power over women. So they just moved him again.
Forget the wife. Where the F**k are our authorities? Hiding because this shit gets messy. Shame on them!
So in another 10yrs, we’ll hear about a employed P & R worker raping women for years. And the story will talk about how the authorities were repeatedly told of the behavior. And we’ll get a big showcase trial, with them all acting like they care about the victims. Instead of stopping them from being victimized between now and then.
If you know this for sure, you and the other women need to talk to a lawyer as a group. Someone from out of the area. I’m sure there are people who blog here that can give you referrals. These accusations are unacceptable and frightening. Rape now could mean murder at some point.
D. Inquisitive says
Seems like she does not have a good relationship with her sons; and most knew she was having a relationship with a well-known person whom invited all to a trip oversea.
T-Bone says
Sounds like his Sons are too embarrassed and don’t want to admitt in public their Dad abused them! Sick MoFo!
J. Ripper says
The AV’s own version of Jerry Sandusky.
MR. PERPLEXED IN THE AV says
WOW! THE EX-WIFE WAS BARELY 10YRS OLD WHEN THEY MET! TALK ABOUT A RED FLAG!
The living situation with the ex-wife is creepy too!!!
I agree! She had to know something was going on!
Quigley says
She is just as guilty…no one is that stupid to not know what was going on….should have been arrested as well.
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The Candies 2014: The Very Best and Very Worst Perfumes of 2014
The Candies 2014: The Very Best and The Very Worst Perfumes of the Year
Wow, what a whirlwind of a year 2014 was. The perfume industry has, as always, been nothing short of prolific in its output, with new brands popping up all over the place and the same big names releasing perfume upon perfume, and flanker upon flanker. It has, once again been a very busy year, and the hive of activity within the industry has meant that a great number of wonderful new olfactory treats have been unleashed on the noses of perfume lovers and consumers.
For me, this year has been one of great personal significance. In March I won my first Jasmine Award for my Guide to Violet, and shortly after in May, my best buddy and I tied the knot, only a few days before I presented an award at the Fragrance Foundation Awards. Then in August I was promoted at work, and in September my new husband and I headed off to Tokyo for the honeymoon of a lifetime. In short, it has been a fantastic year and one that will always remain truly in my heart as one of the very best.
To celebrate 2014 from a fragrant perspective, I present to you ‘The Candies 2014’. Those of you who have followed The Candies before will know that they are my annual perfume awards, celebrating the very best, and the very worst perfumes of the year (out of the 147 scents I have reviewed in 2014). Under the jump you will find the winners, losers and honourable mentions filed under neat little categories. So please, don your tux or ball down, break open the Bolly and take your seats for The Candies 2014.
[Also, please don’t forget to head on over to my dear perfume pals, Persolaise and Perfume Shrine, who are both joining me in sharing their ‘best of’ lists today.]
December 29, 2014 The Candies
Gagging for Gaga – Lady Gaga Eau de Gaga Perfume Review
Gagging for Gaga
If there is any pop icon that has suffered badly from over exposure, it’s Lady Gaga. Bursting onto the scene, in a haze of wild couture, progressive synths and disco sticks, she has quickly gone from the wild child hailed as the new Madonna, to a spectacular fall from pop grace (let’s not talk about ARTPOP…) straight into the arms of a lacklustre jazz album. Now, I’m positive that Gaga will get back on her feet soon enough, after all she is a talented songwriter, singer and musician, not to mention a pop visionary that pushes the boundaries and champions the underdog. I have every faith in her continued success, she just needs to take some time out and reevaluate.
Anyway, on to perfume. As you will be aware, Lady Gaga released her first perfume, Fame in 2012. The fragrance launched with about as much fanfare as the singer’s career did, if not more, and it sold like hot cakes, despite the fact that, in my humble opinion it was all style over substance. A visual masterpiece but an olfactory dud, to say the least. This autumn, Gaga has launched her second fragrance, Eau de Gaga and it would be safe to say that the entire mood of the scent, and its launch has shifted somewhat. Gone are the lavish launch parties and ridiculously over the top tv campaigns, and in with a more paired back approach to vision and smell.
Eau de Gaga is billed as a unisex fragrance that has been created for “the adventurous woman and the man who loves her”, and that’s it, there appears to be absolutely no gimmicks associated with the scent – no special black liquid that sprays clear, no alleged semen note, nothing. So Eau de Gaga is just a unisex fragrance from a fresh-faced Lady Gaga who appears to be comfortable in her own skin, despite the failures or successes of her current standing as pop’s new darling.
December 15, 2014 Celebuscent, Citrus, Cologne, Lady Gaga, Perfume Reviews, Unisex
August 7, 2014 Celebuscent, Lady Gaga, Smelly News, Unisex
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Japanese 41st ODA fund use unsatisfactory
SYFUL ISLAM | Published: January 18, 2020 10:19:28 | Updated: January 20, 2020 13:37:34
The fund disbursement for 31 projects under the 41st Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme in nine months was only 42 per cent of the target which Japanese officials termed as unsatisfactory.
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Economic Relations Division (ERD) recently reviewed the progress on ODA-funded projects in Dhaka.
Some 177,705 million yen or $1.628 billion was set aside for the 31 projects from the 41st ODA programme for the Japanese fiscal year 2019 (April 2019-March 2020).
However, the reviewers found that until November 2019 only 75,150 million yen has been disbursed against the projects.
They also found that only eight, out of 31 projects, are on the track, while nineteen projects are lagging behind the target, and four others are yet to take off as they did not see any fund disbursements this fiscal.
JICA Bangladesh chief representative Hitoshi Hirata termed the current progress in the ODA-funded projects "not satisfactory".
Under the ODA programme the projects are supported from Japan's low-cost loans.
Economic Relations Division (ERD) secretary Monwar Ahmed, who presided over the meeting, asked the executing agencies concerned to quicken implementation.
"If we are to achieve our target, we need to expedite implementation of projects," he said.
The projects on track include Khulna water supply project, Jamuna railway bridge construction, national power transmission network development, Kanchpur-Meghna-Gumti second bridges and Dhaka MRT line-06, Dhaka-Chattogram main power grid strengthening project, and energy efficiency and conservation promotion project.
The projects that received no funds are disaster risk management enhancement, Dhaka underground substation, Matarbari port development and Dhaka MRT line-05.
Fund disbursements for three projects-Inclusive city government, haor flood management and livelihood investment, and urban building safety-have fallen far short of the target.
The target was set at 14,359 million yen for these projects, but only 556 million or 3.8 per cent of the target, was disbursed until November.
At the meeting, JICA-Bangladesh office senior representative Taro Katsurai talked about the delay in compensating the people affected due to the projects.
According to the JICA social and environmental guideline, paying compensation for land acquisition without any delay is very important, he said.
Mr Katsurai said the process of compensating the landowners is very slow for some important projects, especially the Kalna bridge construction scheme.
At a previous meeting, a senior JICA official cited three reasons -- slow start-up, less speed and quality, and annual development programme (ADP) budget allocation -- behind this delay in project implementation.
He said the delay in the approval of development project proposal and technical assistance project pro forma holds up a project by two to three years.
A senior finance ministry official said project execution is delayed for various reasons in Bangladesh, especially for the land acquisition problem.
Project directors should be more active in removing obstacles and expediting project implementation, he told the FE on Thursday.
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Gemini Symbol and Signs – 3 Things You Never Realised…
Imelda Green Last Updated October 26, 2018, 9:50 pm
Witty and wonderful, beautiful and appealing, Gemini people seem to have as many faces and personas as there are stars in the sky.
They can be sweet and giving one day, cool and rational the next, and wacky and outlandish again still – how does one keep up?
Much of the confusion can be fought off by getting a greater understanding of exactly what it is that makes a Gemini tick.
Like any other star sign, there’s complex mythology and symbolism at play here, so here is an overview of the Gemini symbol and signs – 3 things you never realised, and some further pointers to give you a solid foundation of understanding.
What is the Gemini symbol?
Every sign of the zodiac has developed its own quirks and characteristics, with a number of personality traits that anyone in the world studying this art can distinguish.
In the case of the Gemini, you’re dealing with a gregarious and clever individual, gifted at wordplay and thinking outside the box.
Yet the Gemini individual is also known for being remarkably multifaceted, at times almost incomprehensibly so.
To understand why, you need to understand the Gemini symbol, and why it plays such a vital role in the lives and mindsets of these remarkable people.
The signs of the zodiac were distinguished thousands of years ago by scholars who identified various constellations in the heavens of the night sky.
While many such constellations depicted animals or mythological creatures, in the case of Gemini, the constellation was discerned to be a pair of identical twins.
Therefore, the meaning of the Gemini symbol in all elements of life is one of an inbuilt duality. It is quite simply as though more than one spirit is inhabiting the same body for many Gemini people.
This can lead to tremendous harmony and the gift of multiple perspectives from the same pair of eyes, and can just as quickly become a source of often agonising inner conflict as these internal selves disagree.
The Gemini often doesn’t know they’re twins deep within
Have you ever had a Gemini seemingly go cold on you? Chances are, they don’t mean it. It goes back to the symbolism of The Twins, the Gemini symbol of duality and taking more than one stance on things.
One day, you could feel like you’ve had an intense connection with a Gemini individual, full of wordy discussions of life and the universe and flirty thoughts about how you’ll move forward in life together.
The next day, it’s like they act as though they barely know you.
In a strange sort of way, because of the Gemini zodiac symbol of the twins, it’s almost as if the other of those two people has taken the reins for a while.
A Gemini can quite markedly shift in tone and personality from one day to the next, and it’s not the same kind of mood swing or emotional shift alone that you’d expect of a water elemental star sign like Scorpio or Pisces.
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Instead, another aspect of the personality has quite literally taken over in these moments.
The Gemini never means any harm by these interactions, but it can be jarring for those around them, and they rarely realise that people without an understanding of the Gemini persona simply don’t have that same multifaceted perspective on life.
It’s also why Gemini people often change their minds about things – they could make plans in advance for a lunch date, and then cancel come the day because another side of themselves has decided they want something else.
Bringing these disparate selves into a focused whole is often a tricky game to play for Gemini people.
The Gemini glyph is more than just The Twins
The glyph of the Gemini star sign perfectly captures the dual nature of the sign.
It closely resembles the number two as seen in Roman numerals, with a curved top and bottom area to give a more curved and balanced look.
It’s the kind of image you’ll see in a Gemini symbol tattoo or in art depicting this sign.
Every star sign has a glyph that captures its essence, potential and inner conflicts in one simple piece of calligraphy, and they’re quite fascinating to learn about in their own right.
It’s this glyph, and the idea of these twins, that means that there is no real Gemini symbol animal or other more straightforward astrological association.
In essence, you have to think of Gemini as though they’re many parts of a whole.
The glyph of Gemini wonderfully represents the twins themselves as the two straight lines standing in the centre of the image, side by side.
None is taller than the other, or wider – they’re equals in all things, just as the Gemini individual would never consider one personality archetype within them more crucial, important or dominant over the other.
In fact, that love of equality and fairness is very typical of the Gemini individual. The use of intelligence and logic, again described by these straight and tidy lines, illustrates how their approach to life is one of the mind.
Gemini people think fast, their brains often racing rings around the rest of us without even trying. If anything, they are secretly frustrated that the rest of the world feels so slow compared to their electrically sharp cognisance.
However, the lines atop and beneath the Gemini symbol seen in this glyph show the outlying harmony and connectedness that every Gemini wants to feel, both with others and in themselves.
The twins, the many sides of the personality seen subjectively from one another, can be connected and allied in the same direction with conscious effort and forgiveness of the self.
The Gemini sign belongs to the air element
Every star sign in the zodiac is represented not just by the glyphs, symbols and mythology often discussed, but also a ruling element.
Earth, fire, air and water are all in play here, and it’s a way in which astrologers divide the twelve signs of the zodiac into four groups of three, each ruled by one such element.
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These elements tend to have common ways of viewing the world, engaging with it and philosophically understanding it.
So while a fire elemental star sign engages with the world through spontaneous curiosity and excitement, an earth elemental star sign is practical, patient and rational.
A water elemental star sign, meanwhile, will see the world through the lens of emotion, and find that intuition and creativity are their guiding lights.
However, the Gemini element is shared with Libra and Aquarius, and it is the element of air. Air elemental star signs react to the world through the mind, proactively think about how to tackle their challenges with rationality, and don’t get bogged down in emotion.
Air signs seldom keep still for long, and are energised by ideas and inspiration to better the world for themselves and those closest to them.
These are all very Gemini characteristics, but the way this star sign manifests this approach is unique to itself, as it should be.
For one thing, Gemini people are rather flighty, and the Gemini symbol of the twins is in this way seen as their constant need to keep moving, in mind and body.
Much like you could never hope to capture the wind, you’ll have a similarly difficult time encouraging a Gemini individual to sit still. With so much to see, do, experience and think about, why would they?
This counts for ideas and concepts too. The Gemini individual can be asked his or her opinion on a given issue one day, and then offer the exact opposite opinion the next day.
In both cases, the Gemini soul has a well argued and reasonable explanation as to why they think this way, but it’s not like Libra trying to see every angle to find the fairest approach.
In fact, because of the Gemini being more than one personality, these people often believe two conflicting ideas at the same time to be true, and see no reason why this makes no sense to the rest of us!
Learning patience, balance and the need to sometimes commit to ideas, beliefs and, of course, people… these are all lessons with which the Gemini spirit occasionally struggles.
How can anyone affix themselves to one idea or individual when the world contains so many? Overcoming this notion and seeing that it’s not a limitation or weakness to do so is a big part of Gemini soul growth.
The ruler of Gemini is planet Mercury
Every star sign in the zodiac features not just a constellation, a glyph and some deep mythology, but also a planetary ruler. It’s part of what makes astrology so deep and fascinating to learn about.
But of course, there are twelve star signs and only eight or nine (depending who you ask) planets. Therefore, sometimes certain star signs have to share planets that speak to their definitions and personality types.
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Such is the case here, because the cosmic Gemini ruler is Mercury, a planet it shares with intelligent and patient Virgo.
Mercury is so named for the messenger of the gods, a resourceful and witty individual whose intelligence showed how he could overcome anything inhibiting his vital work.
But of course, Gemini and Virgo people are very different, and as such, the qualities of Gemini that are taken from Mercury into its personality are very different from those identified in Virgo people.
While Virgo takes the rationale and the intellect of Mercury, Gemini inherits swiftness, clarity in communication and a lightning fast wit.
Wordplay and games of Scrabble are all very much Gemini pursuits, and the versatility of language is a fascinating topic for Gemini people.
You’ll find that these individuals always have something to talk about, and always have a rapid answer to any accusation if confronted.
In fact, Gemini people are fondly regarded by many astrologers and followers of astrology as the most delightful chatterboxes. Next time you’re with a Gemini friend, ask about their day – four simple words. “How was your day?”
Out of nowhere, your Gemini companion will happily regale you with every detail of the day, their reaction to it, what ideas it gave them for what to do next, how that affects how tomorrow and next week will pan out – all spiced with smart tangents and jokes that make this onslaught of speech far more pleasant to listen to than you might initially think.
In fact, a Gemini person forced into silence or unable to communicate has a sad spirit indeed.
That influence of Mercury is keenly felt in how Gemini people communicate, and the density of information they pack into everything they say and write shows how they think – far more intensely than most, with a deluge of facts to consider in every action.
No wonder they need multiple people inside themselves to handle it all!
Making the Gemini symbol work for you
Gemini people are best approached as several souls in one, encouraged to use that approach for harmony, but not forced into trapping or emotionally stifling situations that they will find entirely unbearable.
The clearness of communication and capacity to handle multiple conflicting ideas at once without any disadvantages make the Gemini star sign one of the most priceless in the zodiac.
Treat them with care, give them freedom to roam, but offer them plenty of dazzling ideas to wrestle with and digest in their minds, and the Gemini will be a firm friend – forever rapid, but also consistently surprising, inspiring and engaging, dancing through life like a petal on the wind.
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Peloton Responds After Losing $942 Million in Value Thanks to Controversial Holiday Commercial
Emily Puckering
With Christmas quickly approaching, it's time to start gathering presents for all your loved ones. If you're like me and you have no idea what to buy, then you're probably going to be looking for some inspiration from elsewhere.
That's where all the Christmas commercials come in. Just switch on the telly and watch brands carefully craft their ads in the hopes that you'll buy whatever they're offering.
One of this year's first commercials to cause a stir is Peloton's bike.
Keep scrolling to see the video as well as the internet's reaction to such garbage.
"The gift that gives back."
Peloton decided that an overly expensive exercise bike is the perfect gift for all of us this Christmas.
I say all of us, but what I really mean, is for women, wives, and moms. Well, that's according to the commercial they released recently.
Rather than a heartwarming story about love, hope, and forgiveness, we have 6 AM workouts.
I don't know about you, but if someone got me a two thousand dollar exercise bike, I would hope that they kept the receipt. Imagine what you could do with two grand!
But Peloton thinks otherwise...
They seem to think we're ready to splash out $2,245 on a bike that can't even take us anywhere and a further thirty-nine dollars to have video-lessons on how to use it! Let me know how us normal folk can afford to maintain a bike that that?
Imagine suggesting this idea at a board meeting...
The storyline starts with a slim mom and a young daughter coming down the stairs of their home. So far, so cute. I like it, let's keep going...
They're greeted by her husband, who presents her with a Peloton bike as a gift...
Despite there being lots of other Christmas presents under the tree in their home, he decided this one would be the best please his wife.
Don't get me wrong, lots of people would love a Peloton exercise bike...
But this woman, who is already slim and looks very healthy doesn't need one. She even questions it in the video, surprised at the gift, saying: "A Peloton?"
Nonetheless, she starts the journey to "better herself."
Instead of spending time with her daughter, she decides she wants to start dedicating herself to exercising constantly and video-blogging it for her husband to watch.
"I'm nervous but excited."
While using the bike for the first time, she is taking a selfie video in which she claims she is "nervous but excited." Sorry, but about what??? Your husband watching you cycle with an expensive virtual trainer?
The next part shows her rushing back home so she can complete another workout for the fifth day in a row.
And of course, she is still blogging it for her husband's pleasure. She also asks him: "Are you surprised?" like he had insinuated she could never keep up with it. It's a bike for crying out loud!
The next day, she decides she's going to wake up at 6 AM for a quick workout before work.
Stop it now. She looks tired and fed-up, yet she wakes up and hops on the bike, videoing the entire process, yet again. At one point, the computer in the machine says her name and it seems to excite the woman as she exclaims: "Oh my god! She said my name!" Wow? You typed your name into the setting and she repeated it? Great.
But the most disturbing part, for me personally, is the last part.
The couple is sat on the sofa watching the workout videos as some sort of bonding activity, I'm guessing? I mean, if that's what they like to do for fun, then who am I to judge?
She seems nervous as she watches her husband, watch her.
She's playing with her fingers and raising her eyebrows in anticipation. In the video she's talking to him, saying: "I didn't know how much this would change me!" And the child is nowhere to be seen. I think she was only in there for heartwarming purposes but it didn't work anyway.
When the vlog ends with a sincere "thank you", she turns to her man who is grinning.
She stares up at him like he is the light of her life while he continues staring ahead at the television set. Wow, true love at its peak...
The internet has been left disgusted by the commercial, claiming it's "sexist" and "classist."
That Peloton ad is STRAIGHT TRASH “You’re thin and fit af honey, here’s your Christmas gift which is an exercise b… https://t.co/ujR2RsLuUM
— Catherynne M. Valente (@Catherynne M. Valente)1575424044.0
Someone, please explain to me how a slim and gorgeous woman needs to be working out to that extent on an exercise bike? And then tell me how one is supposed to afford to maintain that bike if you're not already wealthy. The message is both damaging and patronizing to young women.
It seems as if the internet also agrees.
The Peloton ad could've been a work of art if it ended with the woman's daughter, now grown up, watching her mother… https://t.co/ySYEhEWhRo
— Brooks Otterlake (@Brooks Otterlake)1575325916.0
People have been left outraged and disgusted by such an advertisement. I bet Peloton is regretting putting it out. Keep scrolling to see it.
A better idea would have been something along the lines of this...
That Peloton commercial would be better if at the end you found out she used it to train hard everyday so that the… https://t.co/oBqAo16q1z
— Matt Fernandez (@Matt Fernandez)1575320684.0
It should have focused on the daughter. Maybe she loves riding bikes and wants to be a cyclist so when she gets to her 18th birthday, the dad buys her a Peloton so she can start training and in the end, she becomes an award-winning cyclist. I should have sorted out this advert.
Someone tweeted this:
Absolutely 100% chance that the husband in the Peloton ad is abusive
— Allahpundit (@Allahpundit)1575316055.0
And I didn't want to have to double yikes during this story but it's coming... Double yikes!
It got so bad that the company dropped in value instantly.
The fact the husband gives his super hot wife an exercise bike for Christmas isn't even the most insensitive thing… https://t.co/edcyhDvRO9
— TickTockManitowoc (@TickTockManitowoc)1575409031.0
Peloton lost $942 million in a matter of days after the video went viral. However, despite the numbers, Peleton have claimed that they have received enough support and have decided to stand behind it. The last to leave the sinking ship? I commend it.
Peloton finally spoke out about the ad...
After the severe backlash, a spokesperson for the exercise bike company said to The Independent, “While we’re disappointed in how some have misinterpreted this commercial, we are encouraged by – and grateful for – the outpouring of support we’ve received from those who understand what we were trying to communicate."
They claim to be passing on a motivational message...
But it's safe to say that the majority of the world begs to differ.
Here's the video:
And if you're in the mood to see an actual heartwarming Christmas commercial, then keep scrolling to see our favorite extra-terrestrial being reunite with his bestie...
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Final Fantasy VII Remake Gameplay Is Absolutely Fantastic; Tifa, Sephiroth, and Tactical Mode Revealed
Giuseppe Nelva
Published on June 10, 2019 Giuseppe Nelva
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Today, during Square Enix’s E3 2019 live presentation hosted in Los Angeles, the publisher revealed another trailer of the Final Fantasy VII Remake.
We get to see the very beginning of the game, and at long last, we see the reveal of the look of Tifa, alongside Sephiroth.
We hear from Producer Yoshinori Kitase mentioning that the game will have two Blu Ray discs worth of content. The first expands on the story of Midgar and includes the content that you’d find into a full game.
After Kitase-san’s announcement, we get to see a look at gameplay, including the newly-revealed Tactical Mode that can be used when the ATB bar is full. When that is active, time slows down to a crawl so that you can select commands in classic fashion.
You can switch between characters with the press of a button, or you can assign command to them when they have full ATB bars.
If you prefer action gameplay, you can assign shortcuts to various commands and use them on the fly.
The presentation ended with a spectacular boss fight against the Scorpion Sentinel.
If you want to see more of the Final Fantasy VII remake, you can check out yesterday’s trailer, another from a few weeks ago, and a beautiful piece of concept artwork showcased with yesterday’s reveal, showing off Sephiroth.
The first episode of the remake will launch on PS4 on March 3, 2020. Pre-orders should be going online today. No other platforms have been announced so far.
You can also check out the whole presentation for a full look at all the news revealed today for Square Enix fans.
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On War Footing, Kerala Releases Route Map Of Coronavirus Positive Cases
Thursday 12 March 2020 2:53 AM UTC
Thiruvananthapuram March 12: The spread of coronavirus is exponential across the world. In Kerala, in a span of six days, a family of three who did not disclose their travel history to Italy, have infected at least eight people — their loved ones.
Kerala, on a war footing, has begun making route maps, detailing places visited by patients who have tested positive, as well as, Geographic Information System or GIS maps to assess and evaluate various risk zones.
In Pathanamthitta, the family that returned without disclosing their travel to Italy, travelled to 17 locations in and around the district in Kerala since they landed at Kochi airport on February 29.
The flow chart shows the exact date, time and location of travel of the family – grouped as patient 1 cluster. Among the eight people they infected are 85 and 96 year old elderly parents they stayed with. The elderly are seen as among the most vulnerable groups, internationally.
“The elderly couple are stable but in high risk category. We are doing all that we can to see them safe,” KK Shailaja, the state health minister told the media.
Around 900 people had already been traced as the contacts in three days in Pathanamthitta. But the release of this flow chart showing the exact route of positive cases, took the tracking to another level in last 24 hours.
“Till 2 pm on Wednesday, we have received around 60 calls from people on the two dedicated numbers that we set aside for public who would be calling in response to our route maps.
Majority of them have called to say that we were on location during that time. Some have even called and informed of errors in our flow chart,” PB Nooh, the District Collector of Pathanamthitta told NDTV.
At the state and district level helplines, more trained staff are being regularly added, due to the heavy influx of calls, from across the world.
Working on a war footing, a team of health officials and Kerala State Disaster Management authorities have collated the entire surveillance data, into live geo-maps, with each of the primary and secondary contacts traced, marked and identified on the map and just one click – the details of the region would pop-up.
Another map that shows the classification of high risk, low risk zones, shows parts of Pathanamthitta and Kottyam under high risk. The focus is on identifying the spread and possible on ground clusters of coronavirus’ possible expanse.
“This is a heat map. We can see which are the high risk places, which are the places where high concentration of primary contacts are there. Where they are moving around,” Dr Divya from the state cell for coronavirus control says.
“We have a highly robust surveillance team. We are using the GS platform of Kerala State Disaster Management Authority and plotting these hotspots. These include primary contacts and secondary contacts.
So we will know exactly where the infection is spreading. We are adding more layers like our isolation ward layer, lab facility layers that help us in decision making.
This will help decision makers to analyse the course of the virus in the state and the kind of action required to be taken quickly,” Ratan Kelkar, the Director of National Health Mission told NDTV.
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An Open Letter to Damion Crawford, MP
Posted by keimiller August 16, 2014
Dear Damion Crawford
I write to you as a fellow Jamaican. I could show you my passport to prove my Jamaicanness, but I do not know if you would accept that as credential enough. Most people, however, accept me as a Jamaican writer and academic. My 9 books to date have consistently thought through the complicated question of what it means to be Jamaican.
It is by no means an easy question to answer. Most of my work tries to expand the dangerously limiting ideas that are out there. At the University of Glasgow where I taught until recently, my students were mostly white and from the UK. They sometimes came to my lectures on Caribbean Literature with very naive ideas about the region. Sometimes they thought that we all looked like you and me – dreadlocked men – and that we were always smiling and playing banjos and smoking ganja on the beach. On the streets of Glasgow, people sometimes stopped me to ask if I had any weed to sell.
At the university I forced my students to deconstruct and then expand these notions. I told them that Jamaica was made up of different races and classes and cultures and conflicts. I toldl them that everything wasn’t always ‘irie’ and that Jamaican culture has never been a singular thing. I’m pleased that several of these students, astounded by the largeness and complexity of it all, have since visited Jamaica, and at least one student now works as a publisher helping to produce Caribbean literature. In this small way maybe I even contributed to your ministerial portfolio of tourism.
But Damion, it isn’t only foreigners who think in limited ways about Jamaica. When I taught at UWI, I remember asking a class how they would describe our island. When a few students answered that they would describe it as ‘exotic’ I felt compelled to challenge this. I told them it’s important not to see their own home through foreign eyes. If Jamaica is ‘exotic’ to the tourist, surely it can’t be ‘exotic’ to the local.
As a writer and an academic researcher I’ve been particularly interested in the Caribbean’s spiritual landscapes. A recent chapter that I contributed to the Routledge Reader in Anglophone Caribbean Literature surveyed the vast spectrum of religions across the archipelago – from Vodoun to Santeria to Christianity to Orisha workship. My most recent novel, The Last Warner Woman, was about a Revivalist whose gift of prophecy is misunderstood in the unhospitably secular world of the UK. She is misdiagnosed as schizophrenic and sectioned off to a mental institution because of her Africanized version of Christianity.
As you well know, Jamaica didn’t start out as a Christian country. The Tainos who gave this island its name (and other words like ‘hurricane’ and ‘barbecue’) had a very different idea of spirituality. We retain little to nothing of the island’s indigenous religions. It is not unfair to point out that Christianity was quite literally whipped into us, and though I think we should celebrate and embrace our Christian heritage, it is worth remembering the brutality of its imposition. It is also understandable that some Jamaicans have taken an ethical position against the ‘white man’s religion’.
Indeed, such an ethical position has led to one of the most creative and exciting ways in which we can now be Jamaican. I’m talking specifically about Rastafari which was rejected by so many at first as un-Jamaican. Indeed, Rastafari itself tried to distance itself from Jamaican culture which it saw and still sees as ‘Babylon’. But now it is integrated and our culture is richer for it.
This is why many Jamaicans had a problem when you tweeted: “All of a sudden everybody a atheist and agnostic and undecided and non believer unuh need fi rhatid stop it… that a nuh Jamaica.” You have disingenuously represented the backlash that followed, proving yourself, if nothing else, to be a skillful politician, taking shelter in the very crowd that you pander to. You’ve pretended to be a victim and that it’s your expression of faith that is under attack. But no, Damion, it isn’t!
What’s problematic is not your ideas of what Jamaica is, but your insistence on what Jamaica is NOT. I have no problem with you telling the world that Jamaica is a Christian country, because it certainly is. More specifically, Jamaica is a Pentecostal country. And in some parts it is an Anglican country. In other parts still, it is a Baptist country, and an SDA country, and in other parts a Revival country. Jamaica is also a Rastafari country and a Muslim country and an Obeah country. Jamaica is a black country, but also a white country and a Chinese country and a mixed race country. It is a straight country, and in some corners and gullies it is a gay country. Jamaica is spiritual and it is also secular; it is a believing country and in some parts, it is an unbelieving country. And Jamaica manages to be all these things simultaneously. Some parts don’t agree with other parts, but that is alright. That’s how culture happens. No part should ever monopolize the whole.
In geographic terms, we are a small island, but our culture is a wide, wide space that can accommodate much more than you seem to think. It is my job as a writer to think through and write through that complexity. All of it! It is your job as an MP to represent your nation. All of us!
Your Sincerely,
Dr Kei Miller
Posted in: Jamaica, ReligionTagged: Damion CrawfordPermalink42 Comments
42 thoughts on “An Open Letter to Damion Crawford, MP”
petchary says:
Jamaica is also a Jewish country, although only a few hundred Jamaican Jews here now. Oh, and there are Jamaican Hindus, Buddhists and Baha’is too. I actually know some personally! I can prove it! And they are indeed Jamaican! Jamaica is many other things – including people who don’t care about organized religion at all! Why does this “pentecostal thinking” not seem to want to acknowledge the diversity of Jamaica – religion, race, ethnicity etc? As you know, many were offended by Minister Crawford’s careless tweets, incoherent as they were at times (a whole series of them chastising us for not fearing God). What do his dreads mean, then, or are they just to make him look cute? Rastafarians must be especially hurt.
Wray R. Anderson says:
Love your thoughts petchary…I wonder if Mr Crawford ever really look at our motto….OUT OF MANY ONE PEOPLE?
Rupert Lewis says:
Really like this approach to Jamaican culture and political representation. But Jamaica’s class colour contradictions too seamlessly treated
Nastassia says:
What do you mean by “But Jamaica’s class colour contradictions too seamlessly treated”?
I think there are always going to be contradictions and complexities in any country that is diverse (which is almost everywhere). But that doesn’t mean that diversity and respect for others’ differences is not desirable…
Desrae says:
Very much so, Rupert. Its not just about nice turns of phrases or glossy rhetoric. There are some brutal realities that cannot be glossed over. And, Jamaica is a black country. Let us not gloss over that and continuously try to relegate the black majority to the fringes so that the “others” can feel good.
Dr Teka-Ann Haynes says:
I could kiss you for this letter. I couldn’t have said it better.
Phillip Clayton says:
My apologies I can’t like this as I’m not on wordpress. However it was refreshing to read. it’s sad the limited views Jamaicans have of Jamaica…needless to say the world. Our own leaders suppress these views by keeping the “masses” ignorant to it all.
One should also realize that the black vs white and versi verso garbage in a country like Jamaica is as redundant.
I must apologies also as I don’t know who you are. This could be sad on my part. Either way Cheers!
– One drink of my whiskey goes to this article.
*viceversa…sorry i get typos a lot…I’m some what dyslexic and I have OCD, I had to correct that. Go figure.
stannyha says:
Well said bredren. I hope the politician bredda reads this letter & more importantly, I hope it connects with something in that little bird brain of his. Something that is far away from the section that controls arrogance.
Bless up.
With your comment you are no different from Mr. Crawford for what you are accusing. For me personally Mr. Crawford should stand by his comments.
estebanagostoreid777 says:
An extremely interesting and instructive letter delineating and explicating the intricacies, labyrinth and complexities of Jamaican culture and society. Hopefully, Damion will read it and glean something from its message…
Andrea Myrie Hill says:
I am a Jamaican born and bred and I am also an Atheist. Damion Crawford please don’t try and brainwash anyone!
Well written Sir. I really hope Mr Crawford read your piece.
Thank you, Kei Miller, for writing this. I hope Damion Crawford reads it. For the record, I am a Jamaican. I am white. I am a humanist and do not belong to any organised religion. To Mr Crawford I am nothing but a heathen!
If Jamaica is a Muslim, Chinese country, does that mean that Scotland is a poor, black nation?
Chris A. Grant says:
Very interesting approach in responding to this limited statement via the social media. As our motto states…”out of many one people” so Jamaica is definitely a diverse nation and we are living in a made society with different beliefs. Read more Damion.
Stacey-Ann says:
tear came to my eyes .. thank u for writing this … j’can politicians need to stop playing on ignorance
Burchell Whiteman says:
Fair enough. But be careful not to fall into the generalizations trap ….as in addressing “Jamaican politicians”. They all have differences and multiple identities too
Ouida says:
Bravo Dr. Miller . Many Thanks…Write one to Portia now nuh?? 🙂
Paul Tomlinson says:
Crawford is just being himself..apparently a conservative upcoming politician who represents himself, still learning how to be a politician with no intention of being a statesman. Like the whitened sepulchers here in Jamaica they speak not listening to themselves. Rather any utterance that comes from their mouth is enough to make anyone with any common sense understand that those utterances are meaningless and especially from a politician means absolutely nothing.
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Agitator says:
Well written,clearly presented letter. For someone representing a diverse people, this politician’s thought process needs more depth.
Where’ s the respect that Jamicans always keep using..”respect due”!
Walford Brown says:
I think everything in life is about how you interpret things. I understand what Damion is trying to say maybe using religion may not have been the ideal way to express what he wants to say. we have lost a lot of our core values as Jamaicans, especially our family values which for the majority is rooted in Christian principles. Rather than chastise the young MP let us try to work together to hep curb this moral decay before it gets worst. the little value placed on human life and scant regard for right and wrong is of major concern now. Understand the message don’t kill the messenger…
only10ja says:
This messenger is already dead, dead in thought, dead in tolerance and dead deeds.
Asneth Council Ph.D says:
Your letter was refreshing and such expressions can only elevate and transcend if we are open to hearing from others. The wish is that our nation’s people especially our leaders will not only read but digest this as well. Thanks for your educated response to our dear politician.
Rosemarie Harrison says:
Omar Spence says:
Jamaica is (supposed to be) a free country where you are fee to attend any church, mosque or temple of your chosing or opt not to go to any of them without being discriminated against. The idea of joining state and religious establishment has always had terrible results.
Colin Johnson says:
Jamaica is also a One Love country. A people with an uncompromising spirit who will let anyone know that our Jamaica culture is NOT FOR SALE.
ornellataylor says:
Reblogged this on Ornella's Two Cents and commented:
A beautiful Answer to a Careless Jamaican ‘Tweet’
patwillcoore says:
Thank you for this piece…
Dax Dunn says:
May I have your permission to use this is the constitution of my New Movement?
Sangela Savery says:
In response to an earlier writers comment – no Rastafarians are not especially hurt by Damion Crawford ‘ s ignorance as he doesn’t represent Rastafarians. It is the Christians who should be especially hurt as he spoke from the Christian podium and is now causing them embarrassment. Christianity by most influential Christian leaders (even Jesus) is preached as being all inclusive yet here in Jamaica a prominent political leader has found it necessary to arrogantly subject us to his limited views. I’m a Christian married to a true Rastafarian and if only from outward appearances we show the world, but more importantly, Jamaica that we can embrace our differences and coexist in love and harmony. Inwardly we are true to ourselves and hold fast to that which is good and don’t let misguided individuals derail the progress Jamaica had made and will continue to do with God’s help. Damion locks are pretty and stylish but without true Rastafarian meaning so rest assured no true Rastafarian was hurt.
Francis Grizzle says:
After reading that letter I must say that Dr. Miller’s letter has evoked a deeper sense of pride in me that makes me even prouder, and please note the use of the word “prouder”, to be a Jamaican. I read that letter and was immediately aware of the fact that Dr. Miller is a lecturer in a Glasgow university and most of what he has said in his letter speaks to a lot of what I had encountered in my five years studying at a UK university.
The limited mindset of how we as a culture, Jamaicans, are perceived by the first world presently is something that came to me as a shock when I had first gotten there to start my studies. I am in no way saying that the mindset is limited for all persons that have never been here to my lovely little island paradise, bit it is there. The way in which Dr. miller has challenged what was said recently by Mr. Crawford has surpassed the realm of the statements but is now somewhat of a challenge to us as Jamaicans to identify within ourselves what we think it is to be a true Jamaican and how we can let other people around us know what it is that we feel it is to be a Jamaican. Our motto is, “Out of many one people” and as it was listed in the letter all the different races that constitutes our society we must expect that there too will be a collage that represents our social, religious, ethnic, and personal beliefs.
I personally believe that as far as we as a nation are concerned right now with all our differences and issues that we have, cause I know I don’t smile all the while cause there isn’t always something to smile about, there is no place that I would rather live than here on my little rock that I call home, my Jamaica. I don’t know her as well as I should or even half as much as some of our visitors do, but i must admit that this letter has made me feel as though I have not been a true son or shown enough respect to my Jamaica.
Dr, Miller, in the event that you happen to come across this response I would like to give you a heartfelt thanks for speaking so eloquently on behalf of all of us and let you know that I will be deeply looking at what it really means for me to be a Proud Jamaica, not just a Jamaican.
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Clintjam says:
Well thought out analysis but unfortunately he errs in his very last thought- it is the PM who represents all Jamaica. Not the MP he asserts. As an MP the man represents his constituency which may very well be largely comprised of people who agree with the sentiments of his tweet. You see thus Po phenomenon not just in in Jamaica but in Scotland where the professor teaches and everywhere you have representative democracy.
C Lorna Nolan says:
True.We have come a long way from being told who and what we should be.Now we are all things and everything,the sky is the limit.Lets just be proud of who we are.Jamaicans.
Ed Johnson says:
May I ask a question – if our nation is of a hundred persons, all of these types that Dr Miller mentioned, but 80 of them are Christians with some fundamental morality, and lets us think of just one – bestiality is a no go ! – even if you find two of the Christians like that and one of the others – how would you identify such a place and how would one define their culture !
Gary R Hamilton says:
Very well and thoughtfully said. Diversity in all its forms is challenging to fully embrace. The chaos, death and destruction that we see around the world is testament to this reality. If peace and harmony were easy, surely we would see more of it and less wars, and probably less poverty. That is why the central theme of the Christian message is “love your brother as much as you love yourself”. Sounds simple, but incredibly hard to do because of selfishness. Selfishness in spirit, in thought and in action.
A. A. A. L. Clark Allwood, J. P. says:
Well written response. My concern is for the responses that seek to attack persons rather than focus on the issues. We ought to take the high road. I am a Roman Catholic and blessed to call Jamaica home.
Amma says:
Indeed many refuse to worship a white god or believe in the bible aka libel…all are systems of control by colonials.even Rastafari by using this book is a part of that system..we didnt have dat book before sla very membah mi tell u dat….the world is millions of yrs old not a mere 6000 like libel claims..rock formation is proof..also fact that Cane left the garden of eden after killing his only other sibling Abel yet found a .
wife in anotber land..this book is full of contradictions..both god n devil share a love for war n blood sacrifices..n will kill cos of jelosy both are tyrantz to be feared..worship them or die if u dont..its time black peep wake up n free u mind of religios mental slavery..get spiritual know who u really pray to..why Amen at end of prayer is the same as Amun yes Amun Ra..now do your research l challenge you..
michael a d edwards says:
The MP represents his imediate constituency FIRST, then all Jamaicans by virtue of holding public office. Secondly as a member of the Cabinet, Mr Crawford’s remit naturally goes beyond the geographical boundaries of his constituency
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Sometimes at night, this country will play a trick on you. Mind, it has to be this country (Scotland) and you have to be someone like me (from Jamaica). The trick is this: you look up and in a window you see your flag. Except it isn't.
Only two countries in the world have saltire flags - the diagonal cross on which Saint Andrew was crucified; I live between these countries. This blog is about that - Scotland and Jamaica - and also about the books I write - and, actually, about a whole lot of randomness - which is the best way to describe my life.
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Armed robber strikes twice Monday morning in Garden District
By Robert Morris | October 11, 2011
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Two people walking along Coliseum Street in the Garden District were confronted by an armed robber within minutes of one another early Monday, police said.
About 7:55 a.m., a 60-year-old woman was walking on Second Street near Coliseum when she was approached by a stranger pulled a long gun from his waistband and demanded her purse, police said. The woman began screaming and ran to a nearby home to call police, and the gunman took off back down Second, police said.
About 15 minutes later, a 25-year-old man was walking his dog near on Coliseum near Fourth when he was confronted by a man who unzipped his windbreaker to reveal a long gun in his front waistband, police said. The robber told the victim to empty his pockets, but the victim said he didn’t have any pockets in his gym shorts, so the gunman patted him down and then told him to turn around and walk away, police said.
Given the close proximity and time, the two robberies are likely the work of the same suspect, said NOPD Sixth District Commander Robert Bardy.
The first victim described the suspect as a 5-foot-tall, 150-pound black man in his early 20s with short hair under a black baseball cap, wearing a short-sleeve black shirt and blue jeans. The second victim estimated he was taller, possibly 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds, and in his late 20s, and said he was clean shaven with a mole under his right eye. He also said the robber was wearing a black Pirates baseball cap with a gold “P” stitched onto it.
UPDATE, 4 p.m. Oct. 3: Sgt. Sandra Contreras of the NOPD Sixth District persons crimes division said Thursday that investigators still believe the robberies were the work of the same man, in part because the description of a long-barreled gun is so unusual in robberies. The first victim, Contreras said, was so scared that she had very little confidence in her description of the man, and investigators believe the most salient aspect of the description is that of the mole or growth under the man’s eye.
Judy at The Rink to hold grand reopening under new ownership
By UptownMessenger.com | September 11, 2019
Judy at The Rink, a Garden District gift shop, has revamped over the summer under new ownership. The owners, Martha Claire and Quin Breland, have revised the product lines but will continue to feature works by local artisans.
Visit contemporary homes in Garden District and Irish Channel
By UptownMessenger.com | May 18, 2019
The New Orleans Architecture Foundation, in partnership with New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles, is holding a self-guided tour of contemporary homes Sunday in the Irish Channel and Lower Garden District. The tour is May 19 from 10 a.m. 4 p.m., beginning at the Modern Market, 1200 Annunciation Street.
Driver arrested after shooting spree in Touro neighborhood
By Robert Morris | October 1, 2010
A convicted felon who allegedly drove through the Touro neighborhood firing at residents from his pickup truck was arrested early Wednesday and may be tried on federal gun charges, police said. Two women were sitting on the porch of a home near the intersection of Marengo and Coliseum streets about 11:50 p.m. Tuesday when a yellow pickup driving down the road slowed down and the driver fired a gun out the window at them, said Lt. Mike Montalbano of the NOPD Second District investigative unit.
3 thoughts on “Armed robber strikes twice Monday morning in Garden District”
Uptowner on October 11, 2011 at 8:33 pm said:
One witness said he was “5 foot” and the other “5 foot 9 inches”?!?
Darrell on October 13, 2011 at 9:23 am said:
However tall he is, he needs to find a different line of work. He’s having no luck in this one.
NOLACHICK on October 13, 2011 at 9:50 am said:
This is crazy, so many people go out in the mornings to walk/jog/walk their dogs, etc. Do we need the police to patrol more in the uptown areas?
And a 60 year old woman? wow.
The second victim didn’t have pockets or valuables and he was told to walk away, what will happen if its another crazy robber who will get mad and shoot you for not having anything valuable?!
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Canadiens Must Consider Kotkaniemi
By Brett Slawson June 19th, 2018
The last time the Montreal Canadiens concluded a regular season with less than 75 points, the vast majority of prospects eligible for the 2018 NHL Draft had yet to be born.
The 2017-18 season was an abysmal one for the Canadiens, whose lack of scoring and general team depth ravaged the franchise over the course of their 82-game campaign. Not only did the storied franchise fail to generate crucial depth scoring but their defence was porous and goaltending inconsistent.
A variety of lingering injuries suffered by star netminder Carey Price compounded the Canadiens’ issues this past season. (David Kirouac/Icon Sportswire)
Although injuries to star goaltender Carey Price certainly deflated Montreal’s season, a number of glaring issues have arisen which require undivided attention before the Canadiens can legitimately compete. And, while adding greater depth will certainly be a task at the top of the list, no issue will be more important for General Manager Marc Bergevin to resolve than his team’s absence of a definitive first-line centre.
Fortunately, Montreal picked a great year to play poorly, as the franchise’s third-overall pick will serve them well and add a solid young player to the organization. However, although Filip Zadina will certainly garner the attention of the Canadiens’ faithful, there is a different young player which Montreal should highly consider selecting.
Wanted: A First Line Centre
Montreal’s lack of a quality and consistent first-line centreman arguably dates back to the 2008-09 season, when longtime team captain Saku Koivu last laced up his skates for the Canadiens.
As a 13-year veteran in Montreal, Koivu brought passion, leadership, and offensive ability to the ice on a nightly basis. Although he didn’t record immense scoring totals, Koivu unquestionably improved the play of those around him while standing as a strong pillar within a consistently successful Canadiens squad.
Long-time Canadiens captain Saku Koivu was — arguably — Montreal’s latest legitimate first line centre. (Image: French Kheldar)
However, since Koivu’s departure and subsequent retirement, Montreal has been devoid of a natural and capable first line centre. Sure, players such as Tomas Plekanec, David Desharnais, and Phillip Danault have filled in admirably in recent years, however, Montreal desperately needs to acquire a centre capable of leading the Canadiens at both ends of the ice.
Fortunately, the rapidly approaching 2018 NHL Draft could offer a solution to Montreal’s decade-old deficiency.
Montreal and the 2018 NHL Draft
The 2018 class of NHL prospects is not only incredibly talented but remarkably deep.
Although there is a clear separation between the top of the pack and those slated to be chosen later in the first round, each of this year’s top-31 prospects boast the potential to become impact players at the NHL-level. However, what makes the incoming crop of prospects especially unique is the wealth of defencemen and wingers available in comparison to the relatively low number of elite-level centres eligible.
RELATED: THW’s 2018 Draft Guide
In fact, according to NHL Central Scouting’s Final Ranking, no centre is projected to be chosen in the top-10 overall. The last time such a rarity occurred was in 2012 when the first centre selected in the NHL Draft was Mikhail Grigorenko — 12th overall by the Buffalo Sabres.
Bergevin must focus on addressing glaring organizational needs at the 2018 NHL Draft in Dallas, Texas. (Eric Bolte-USA TODAY Sports)
With this being said, it must be the goal of Bergevin and the Canadiens to ensure such a rare occurrence does not transpire in 2018.
Although there will be a bevy of highly promising youngsters available to Montreal at third-overall, the franchise must aim to address its glaring organizational needs rather than simply select the best player available. Yes, adding a player such as Zadina would be a tremendous addition, however, with no quality first-line centre to play alongside, the Canadiens would surely stifle the young Czech’s personal development.
So, when Bergevin takes to the draft stage in Dallas, he must legitimately consider drafting the top centre available in this year’s class: Jesperi Kotkaniemi.
Meet Jesperi Kotkaniemi
If Montreal wishes to contend in the near future, they must take a close look at Kotkaniemi — a product of Pori, Finland who rocketed-up draft rankings throughout the 2017-18 season.
Rated as the ninth-best European prospect in NHL Central Scouting’s Midterm Ranking, Kotkaniemi ascended to the sixth-best by the time this past season had come to a close. Further, despite being placed as the 22nd-best prospect overall in my personal January Top-31 Ranking, Kotkaniemi jumped to 12th overall by the time my Top-31 Prospects in June was published.
How was Kotkaniemi able to rise so significantly within a variety of rankings, you ask?
Kotkaniemi’s Scouting Report
What became increasingly evident as the 2017-18 season progressed was Kotkaniemi’s uncanny ability to face and dispose of any and all obstacles in his path.
Despite playing for Ässät in the Finnish Elite League as a 17-year-old, Kotkaniemi was not overcome by his older and more experienced competition. Already boasting great size at 6-foot-2 and 190-pounds, Kotkaniemi was able to handle himself with strength and poise — allowing the youngster to become an offensive catalyst for his team despite his young age.
In possession of a great shot, soft hands, and incredible on-ice vision, Kotkaniemi can shoot and pass the puck with authority and can do so with remarkable consistency. What’s more is that Kotkaniemi already plays a sound two-way game, allowing him to strip his opposition and secure possession in the defensive zone before blasting up the ice and into his opponents’.
Kotkaniemi’s excellent skating, size, and talented tool kit will combine to make him a lethal two-way threat at the NHL-level. (Dave Reginek/Getty Images)
In terms of a comparison to a current NHL player, perhaps no one is more similar than Aleksander Barkov of the Florida Panthers.
Like Barkov, Kotkaniemi owns great size, excellent skating, and the ability to move throughout the ice with ease while in possession of the puck. Further, Kotkaniemi also knows how to use his size to his advantage, using his legs to shield the puck and massive frame to operate below the goal line. Finally, like Barkov, Kotkaniemi combines his soft mitts and intelligence to devise and complete complicated offensive plays with relative ease — an ability which makes the youngster as dynamic as he is promising.
At the end of the day, it is abundantly clear that the Canadiens must consider drafting Kotkaniemi with their third-overall selection in the 2018 NHL Draft.
Desperate for a centre capable of logging major minutes in critical situations, Kotkaniemi’s sound two-way game and innate offensive instincts could provide Montreal with crucial stability down the middle of the ice for years to come. Sure, Jonathan Drouin could progress into an elite centre for the Canadiens, however, the recent departure of former third-overall choice Alex Galchenyuk has stripped Montreal of what little depth they once boasted at the position.
Although there will be a great deal of endlessly talented and arguably more appealing prospects within Bergevin’s grasp come draft day, the veteran Montreal manager must push impulse aside if he wishes to secure balanced future for his franchise.
2018 NHL Draft
Jesperi Kotkaniemi
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J&K receives Rs 3,325 cr investment proposals in health-care sector
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir has received investment proposals of Rs 3,325 crore in health-care and medical education sectors, even as much-hyped global investors summit to attract investment into health care setup came to grinding halt due to COVID-19 this year.
Despite the COVID situation, the Health and Medical Education department took a lead in Jammu and Kashmir to attract global investment into health-care setup, including health education post abrogation of Article 370 and reorganisation of state into two union territories.
“We have received investment proposals worth Rs 3,225-3,325 crore into the health-care setup and medical education sector in Jammu and Kashmir, despite Covid situation”, Financial Commissioner Health and Medical Education, J&K, Atal Dulloo told PTI in an interview here.
He said that as the much-hyped global investors summit came to a sudden halt due to COVID-19 pandemic, the Jammu and Kashmir Health and Medical Education department has been making fresh progress to attract global investment into health-care setup, including health and wellness tourism, in the union territory.
“It is due to these efforts that investment proposals have started coming to us in the health and medical education sectors,” Dulloo said.
The FC said that a screening committee was constituted in October this year to scrutinize the proposals received under health-care investment policy.
“To screen the proposals received from various investors for investment in the health & medical education sector in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir in light of health-care investment policy, the operational guidelines have been framed,” he said.
Of these investment proposals, the Virinchi Healthcare Private Limited has submitted a project proposal for setting up of 500 bedded multi-speciality hospital in J&K with an investment of Rs 200 crore.
The HP Kapital Limited has submitted a Rs 2,200 crore proposal with the department for setting up of a hi-tech medical university with 350-bedded hospital and 700-bedded student accommodation, one each at Kashmir and Jammu with an employment generation for 6,000 people.
Similarly, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited has submitted a proposal for setting up 200-250 bedded super-speciality hospital in Jammu with an investment of Rs 200-250 crore and employment opportunities to more than 1,200 persons.
Areesha’s Royal Hospital Private Limited has submitted a Rs 425-crore proposal for setting up of a multi-specialized 500-bedded teaching and referral hospital with a medical, nursing and paramedical college with employment opportunities to more than 1,000 youth.
“All the four proposals submitted by the probable investors along with their respective projects proposals are in active consideration of the government,” Dulloo said.
He said that the Divisional Commissioner of Jammu as well as Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir has identified the government land at various places in Jammu and Kashmir respectively which are being visited by the probable investors.
“Over the years, healthcare sector in Jammu and Kashmir has shown significant progress in terms of improvement in infrastructure, manpower and health system, which is now reflected in improved healthcare indicators of the UT that have become comparatively better than those in many other states and even better than the national average, as per NFHS indicators,” he said.
“In J&K, where the private sector is still in infancy and almost 80 percent of the healthcare facilities are being provided by the public sector, the overcrowding of the government health institutions has led to compromise in the quality of care,” FC said.
“Our aim is to establish Jammu & Kashmir as a destination of choice for health-care service providers in the private sector,” he said.
The Jammu and Kashmir State Administrative Council (SAC) on March 09, 2019, approved the ”State Health Care Investment Policy-2019” aimed at promoting private parties and entrepreneurs to set up healthcare infrastructure in the state.
This Healthcare Investment Policy aims to realize the UT’s obligation of providing quality and effective healthcare to its citizens and to take healthcare service to the door steps of the masses so as to ensure availability of the complete gamut of healthcare services in the primary, secondary and tertiary care sectors to the people of the UT, he said.
Jammu and Kashmir is the only state in the country, which has no major and middle level chain of hospitals operating in the rest of the country. Except Batra Hospital in the private sector, nearly 97 percent of healthcare needs are met by public health institutes, reveals a latest report on manpower audit in the Health department, underlying importance of the government healthcare system in the state.
“In 2018-19 at least 2.39 crore OPD visits of patients were recorded in J&K and out of them 99.2 percent (2.22 crore patients) were seen only in government hospitals. The private sector accounted for a minuscule 0.8 percent of all OPD visits,” as per the report.
Besides, 96.6 percent (8.36 lakh) patients who needed admission availed public health facilities while 91.3 percent of all deliveries took place in government hospitals, it added. Dulloo said that most of the dependence of people rests with public health institutes.
“We are in the fresh process to attract global investment into the healthcare setup in Jammu and Kashmir. The COVID-19 has badly hit the global investors summit to bring huge investment into J&K. We are back with the process now,” Dulloo said.
Dulloo, who is the architect of the ‘State Health Care Investment Policy-2019’, said that focus is not only creation of the best of the best private hospitals in Jammu and Srinagar but also smaller ones in districts and health resorts to boost health and wellness tourism as J&K is natural destination of the world.
The salient features of the health-care investment policy include 30 percent subsidy on capital investment to be provided for setting up of multi-speciality and super-speciality hospitals, medical, nursing and paramedical colleges.
Other salient features of the policy include interest subsidy at a rate of 5 percent per annum on term loan subject to a ceiling of Rs 15 lakh per year for a period of five years from the date of operationalisation of the project and subsidised power tariff rates as applicable to the industries sector.
“Single-window clearance mechanism would be adopted for processing the project proposals with final approval to be accorded by Apex Level Project Clearance Committee (ALPCC),” he said.
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Halloween 2020 Gaming Marathon Nominations Thread!
By Phil,
September 18, 2020 in General
CarltonJunior 2
CarltonJunior
12 hours ago, WingzPullinStringz said:
The new consoles come out in just over a month... He needs to start playing it within a week or he'll never play it. Like I said in my previous post, Divinity Original Sin 2 is sort of a prerequisite for Baldur's Gate 3. BG3 is supposed to be even more hardcore than DOS2, so he'll end up getting totally wrecked if he decides to only play BG3.
He said he wouldn't play it until he beats Fire Emblem and he's gonna beat Fire Emblem like this week or next week
babymngaming456 22 posts
MoraMoria 19 posts
Another_Derich 12 posts
Blackspawn89 8 posts
LastRambo341
Crysis Remastered Street Fighter V Marvel Vs Capcom Infinite RE3 Mastermind Blasphemous Ultra Street Fighter 2 EDIT: WWE 2K BATTLEGROUNDS
MoraMoria
I updated the tally, (click image to expand, or see: Text Format below): Criteria: The games with "⊕:" between parenthesis, means someone added a stipulation, but not everyone who n
There's several opinions across this thread, so who/what is Jack disgusted about, if I may ask? I think that having a conversation about it respectfully, and seeing his point of view would be mor
MoraMoria 547
Tally until now, (click image to expand, or see: Text Format below):
The games with "⊕:" between parenthesis, means someone added a stipulation, but not everyone who nominated it.
I counted as nominations when people answer to others with: "cool/nice one/I agree/would be amazing to see/similar".
Didn't add: "Online/MP" next to fighting games titles because it's assumed people want online.
"Amnesia" mentions were treated as "Amnesia: The Dark Descent".
It wasn't specified if "Evil Dead (PS2)" refers to: "Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick" or "Evil Dead: Regeneration".
Text Format:
11 Street Fighter V
9 Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
8 Ultra Street Fighter II
7 Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls
7 Among Us (⊕: with fans)
5 Crysis (Remastered)
3 Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
3 Blasphemous
3 Super Meat Boy
3 Zombies Ate My Neighbors
3 Dino Crisis
3 Dead or Alive Xtreme 3
3 Resident Evil 3 (Multiplayer: Mastermind)
3 WWE 2K Battlegrounds (⊕: MP)
3 Manhunt
3 Condemned: Criminal Origins (Continuation)
2 Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
2 Classic DOOM 1 (⊕: Nightmare)
2 Risk of Rain
2 Mortal Kombat 11
2 Double Switch - 25th Anniversary Edition
2 Carrion
2 Dead Rising (1)
2 Sonic.exe
2 Luigi's Mansion 1 (⊕: GameCube)
2 Shadow Warrior (2013)
2 EA Sports UFC 3 (Multiplayer)
2 Costume Quest (1)
2 Amnesia: The Dark Descent*
2 Pony Island
2 Scream Fortress 2
2 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
2 NHL 20
2 Twisted Metal: Black
2 Manhunt 2
2 The Binding of Isaac
1 Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection
1 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019; MP)
1 Devil May Cry 2
1 The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
1 Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning
1 Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition
1 Doom 3 (PS4)
1 Silent Hill 2 (Hard)
1 Soma
1 Enter the Gungeon
1 Grabbed by the Ghoulies (Rare Replay)
1 Batman: Arkham City (Challenge maps)
1 DOOM Eternal (Multiplayer)
1 Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories
1 BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
1 BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend
1 BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend
1 Hollow Knight
1 Ninja Gaiden Black
1 Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Zombies Chronicles
1 Homefront: The Revolution
1 Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Pacifist)
1 Alan Wake
1 Tony Hawk's Underground
1 Corpse Killer - 25th Anniversary Edition
1 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
1 Lisa: The Painful
1 Night in the Woods
1 OneShot
1 Among the Sleep
1 Katana Zero
1 Anodyne
1 The Thing
1 Jak II
1 F.E.A.R.
1 Maximo: Ghosts to Glory
1 Skate 3
1 Chaos;Child
1 Fatal Frame II
1 Fatal Frame III
1 Ultimate Custom Night
1 Costume Quest 2
1 Paranormal HK
1 Overwatch
1 Super Mario Bros. 35
1 Star Wars Battlefront II (MP)
1 The Darkness (1)
1 Killer7
1 Far Cry (1)
1 Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
1 WWE 2K20
1 Left 4 Dead 2
1 Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy)
1 Evil Dead (PS2)*
1 Outlast
1 Mortal Shell
1 Condemned 2: Bloodshot
1 Onimusha: Warlords
1 Divinity: Original Sin II
Richie7 6
Richie7
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Doom Eternal nightmare mode
I didn’t know they made Evil Dead games so I’ll nominate either one
ShinraRecruit 24
ShinraRecruit
2 hours ago, MoraMoria said:
I dunno why you're doing all this work, Moria. Phil's just gonna end up picking whatever he wants.
2 hours ago, ShinraRecruit said:
In part because I want people to know which are the popular games, so that hopefully gives them a better overview & they choose their favourites amongst those that have a better chance.
As for him possibly skipping games, once this finishes, we'll all see what happens and if his reasoning makes sense according to his own rules, because otherwise there is little point in asking viewers to nominate.
This time, if that happens, I'll join the people who asked him what rules did the nomination break, (last time I wasn't really paying attention for other reasons, so I didn't get a chance to ask).
Phil 1939
The King Of Hate
For the rage-a-thon it was mostly cost. I wasn't going to drop $30-60 on a game to just play it once. I chose the games that were the most value for the cost, plus games that I had interest in and/or I thought would cause rage. Street Fighter V I only played bc people nominated it, I knew it wouldn't be rage-inducing at all bc I'd already played it before.
People nominating games like Danganronpa have got it wrong. This is supposed to be a Halloween-themed marathon. I'm not starting a 40 hour narrative game during a Halloween marathon. So those games aren't going to be played regardless of the number of nominations. Similarly, I JUST PLAYED STREET FIGHTER V and got nothing out of it, so I'm not playing that on Halloween either.
I COULD have just made this event all horror-themed nominations like usual, but I wanted to open it up for more variety. However, people seem to think this means it's open season to nominate games that won't work in a marathon like this. So I'll just ignore those nonsensical nominations and use what's left as a guideline of what people would want to see, and maybe add in something of my own as well. We still have a couple of weeks so let's see what else gets nominated.
My fave nominations so far:
FNAF Sister Location (only bc everyone knows it's not scary, we can tear it a new asshole)
Zombies Ate my Neighbors (tough as hell and perfect for Halloween)
RE3 MP but I bet I wouldn't even find enough people to matchmake with
Double Switch/Corpse Killer 25th Anniversary editions (They're weird as shit and funny to watch, plus short)
KGhaleon 1727
KGhaleon
Legendary Eagle Master Supreme Commander First Class
On 9/19/2020 at 12:36 PM, 100gecs said:
There's actually a new Amnesia game coming out on Halloween so that's not a bad idea.
Did Phil play Soma? That game scares the shit out of me.
FlowchartKen 2
FlowchartKen
1 hour ago, Phil said:
I understand the cost factor and all that stuff, but to be honest this seems very unfair to me.
"I JUST PLAYED STREET FIGHTER V and got nothing out of it"
We know you just played it. But you literally never play the game otherwise, hence why people vote for it. And I remember when you started playing Street Fighter V, the stream chat during the rage a thon was very happy (and relieved, because there was basically little rage in those other 2 games). I have no idea how anyone who was there for the Street Fighter V segment of the rage a thon could deny Phil was raging and salty, unless the word "rage" has gotten a new definition. Many people in the chat were laughing when Phil was claiming "I didn't rage at all!", because it was just BS.
So I don't get what you mean by "got nothing out of it". It seemed like it served it's purpose( ESPECIALLY compared to the other games besides Quiet Man ). Are your referring to tips and cheers? Well obviously, it was like the 3rd game. I guarantee you, if you played Street Fighter V first in the marathon, you would have gotten similar amounts of tips/cheers that you got during those 2 games you played at the beginning.
Also "Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls" is not a 40 hour game. Did you just make that up? It's much shorter than the other Danganronpa games. It's like a 15-25 hour game, depending on how much extra stuff you do . I've heard you say multiple times that games you play in a marathon have a potential of becoming full playthroughs, which is probably why people nominate these kind of games.
And just a side note, it kind of comes off as pretty bad when you refuse to drop $30 dollars on games for marathons. You already refused to play games that were top 6 in voting (I understand it's not based on total nominations, I am mentioning this as an indication for interest in these games) for the rageathon for your various "reasons", and I know a lot of people were annoyed by this. It doesn't help that you raged at the stream chat when they were voicing their disappointment over this. You really should do a better job of explaining what is okay and what's not. But then again, if you did that it would probably turn a lot of people off of the marathons, because it just feels like their nominations are meaningless because at the end of the day you just play whatever game you want ( which is fine, if that's what you want to do. But please, just make that clear to everyone at the beginning ).
Complaining about having to spend 30$ on 1 of the games when people are being very supportive to help your reach the sub goal makes you look really bad. And I don't mean in the eyes of haters, I mean in the eyes of regular viewers who look forward to these marathons.
Edited October 3, 2020 by FlowchartKen
babymngaming456 186
babymngaming456
In reality it's just going to be boring as dirt. Constantly shitting on a boring game just makes it even more boring, see The Quiet Man.
Street Fighter V I only played bc people nominated it
Like Blasphemous?
I knew it wouldn't be rage-inducing at all
Unlike Blasphemous.
plus games that I had interest in
The Quiet Man was such a great choice that no one asked for.
6 hours ago, FlowchartKen said:
because there was basically little rage in those other 2 games
Just be honest and say none.
Are your referring to tips and cheers?
Did you just make that up?
because it just feels like their nominations are meaningless
Edited October 3, 2020 by babymngaming456
kopitar123 4
kopitar123
2 hours ago, Phil said:
People nominating games like Danganronpa have got it wrong. This is supposed to be a Halloween-themed marathon. I'm not starting a 40 hour narrative game during a Halloween marathon. So those games aren't going to be played regardless of the number of nominations. Similarly, I JUST PLAYED STREET FIGHTER V and got nothing out of it, so I'm not playing that on Halloween
Of all the non-rage inducing games you played during the rageathon, why are singling out street fighter 5 lol? "NO REVERSAL" "MY COMBO DIDN'T COME OUT" "MASHING JAB" "THIS GAME SUCKS"
Not that it was some amazing rage or anything, but it sure was better than some of those other games. The mods even put up a poll asking if he should continue playing street fighter v or move on, and more people voted for street fighter. Im not hating on those other games btw, I'm just saying he didn't rage at all during some of them, the whole point of a rageathon. However, for the Halloween marathon, he explicitly stated that it wasn't mandatory for the game to be horror related, which is why I felt okay nominating fighting games.
Treeman46056 2
Treeman46056
So basically what you’re saying is you don’t give two hoots on what the polls say you just play what you want to play did it ever occur to you this is why you have only three digit followers watching you and of course it will be deleted and blocked whatever because you can’t take criticism so good luck to you dumb shit
alexdr32 6
alexdr32
So I'll just ignore those nonsensical nominations and use what's left as a guideline of what people would want to see, and maybe add in something of my own as well.
LMAO. Great attitude Phil, I'm sure people are happy to hear you're taking such a thoughtful approach! Your arbitrary reasons for not playing games make no sense anyways. Refusing to play Mortal Shell because it costs money, but has no problem blowing money on completely non-rage inducing games for the rageathon. Refusing to play Mortal Kombat 11, despite the fact that it costs nothing because he owns the game already, plus it's a completely different type of fighting game than Street Fighter. Now he is refusing to play Danganronpa games for the marathon while falsely claiming the games are 40 hours long, despite the fact that one of the games was not 40 hours long. Won't play Street Fighter, despite it being the most nominated game, and in general, people seemed to enjoy it last time?
Even though it was not intentional, "got nothing out of it" was an interesting choice of words, that's all I'm going to say xD. Go back and look at the YouTube videos for the rageathon, Street Fighter was one of the only games that actually had some rage, yet he keeps insisting he didn't rage for some reason. He will literally just invent any excuse possible to not play a game.
If you don't want people voting for certain games, then you need to spell that out clearly in the original post. Along with any other "conditions" that you require.
It would also be nice if, after you decide on the games for the marathon, you have a discussion with us on a prestream about specifically why you are not playing a game that received high amounts of nominations, and you chose to play XYZ game instead. Listen to our input and feedback, just to make sure you made the right choice. You know, instead of just calling everyone idiots? [See link below]
Also for full context, people weren't just spamming that certain games had more nominations than others, they were some who were bringing up legitimate complaints about how he decided which games were played.
Edited October 3, 2020 by alexdr32
56 minutes ago, alexdr32 said:
Listen to our input and feedback, just to make sure you made the right choice. You know, instead of just calling everyone idiots? [See link below]
This clip is interesting because the idiots spamming chat during Crysis and WWE Battlegrounds was seen as positive feedback.
1 hour ago, alexdr32 said:
Listen to our input and feedback, just to make sure you made the right choice.
But why should he listen to you? You aren't Derich or Cmfool.
meatboyman 2
meatboyman
ignore what people want and play whatever you want regardless of voting and nominating has been the norm for as long as these marathons have even been a thing so i kind of feel like theres no point in even participating anymore
edit: how is danganronpa not a good option?
its murder mystery with some pretty creepy themes going on...people have wanted phil to play this game for YEARS and he always finds an excuse to avoid it and eliminate it from poles just stop pretending the viewers have the power to chose games at all
Edited October 3, 2020 by meatboyman
i wanted to
WingzPullinStringz 5
WingzPullinStringz
9 minutes ago, meatboyman said:
There should be an accountability committee to keep DSP in check. It's obvious he doesn't have the willpower nor integrity to do it himself...
thesorrows 7
thesorrows
grabbed by the ghoulies
erica (ps4 fmv horror game) only an hour or two long
fall guys (dress in halloween colours)
dino crisis
lisa the painful
Edited October 3, 2020 by thesorrows
forgot a game
What is there to add? The fact is that the games Phil is dismissing in his comment, (and Prestream), are clearly valid & eligible, according to the rules he posted himself in this thread. I raised the objection on stream, but it was ignored.
Even if he wants to argue that he told in the past that he wouldn't play a "Danganronpa" game for a Marathon, that is not a condition in the OP, and it's not like everyone should know what he explained in a random Prestream.
It's very simple, someone comes in, reads the rules, then nominates, but that's not what's happening here because this is actually a "Suggestions-thread" at best.
Edited October 3, 2020 by MoraMoria
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retrojim
I usually complain about what's being played in the marathons, but I think I'm seeing what the problem is.
voorhees 1
I can understand not wanting to play Danganronpa V3 because of how long it is, but as people pointed out that doesn't apply to the other game. And it does have horror elements to it as well.
Did he mention the nominations on today's prestream Mora? I wasn't paying attention
23 minutes ago, voorhees said:
He mentioned some games, but he essentially said the same thing as his post above. The issue for me is that this is supposed to give the viewers what they want, and it's advertised as such:
But then in the middle of the process, he introduces new rules that were not in the OP. And this is coming from me, who agrees that Danganronpa would be better in a Viewer's Choice, rather than a Marathon.
But this time, he's doing it wrong.
19 hours ago, Phil said:
For the rage-a-thon it was mostly cost. I wasn't going to drop $30-60 on a game to just play it once.
People nominating games like Danganronpa have got it wrong. This is supposed to be a Halloween-themed marathon. I'm not starting a 40 hour narrative game during a Halloween marathon. So those games aren't going to be played regardless of the number of nominations.
If cost is an issue for the marathons then stop doing marathons and just do Viewers' Choice.
If length of games is an issue then tell people not to nominate longer games instead of having hidden rules.
If the nominations largely don't matter, why not just pick games yourself? It'd spare you the drama of things people really wanted not getting picked because of whatever reasons you may have.
You don't know anything about the FNAF series beyond the first game and god knows your audience doesn't play those games. Who knows, you might like it if you actually let yourself get immersed for once.
We all know your audience doesn't like retro games, so why would this even be an option?
Even if you get matches for RE: Resistance you'll just end up complaining that you can't win because the other players have had 6 months to play it.
These two are the only ones that would be good choices imo.
Edited October 4, 2020 by ShinraRecruit
Thanks for the reply. So I just watched the prestream. He once again claimed that Danganronpa Ultra Despair Girls is a " FORTY PLUS HOUR GAME" [it's not] and I quote, this is what he said verbatim:
"It's hilarious because you know what will happen. The people who voted for the dumbest shit like Danganronpa, on Halloween, [will say] WHY IS EVEN ASKING FOR NOMINATIONS? Well, because it's a good way to get ideas and a good way to sort out the nonsense from idiots. HAHA"
No Phil. The "idiot" is the one who can't even be fucking bothered to type into Google: "Danganronpa Ultra Despair Girls story playtime" and then insults people for nominating a game with horror themes for a "Halloween" marathon. And you literally will never play these games otherwise, special events/sub goals are the only way they can see them. Yeah, the viewers are the idiots! Or how about the guy who will say it's okay to nominate non-horror games and then whines when people don't nominate horror games like Street Fighter? Holy fuck.
I went through the thread again. A bunch of people who nominated Street Fighter V also nominated Ultra Street Fighter II. I'M SURE they're not expecting you to play both, so they were probably being thoughtful and nominated another Street Fighter in case you didn't want to play 5 again. The same is true for Danganronpa, except playtime is the factor here. A bunch of people voted for V3 and Ultra Despair Girls, one of which is much shorter than the other. Mora is correct, "Viewer's Choice" would be more fitting for Danganronpa. But Phil needs to be more specific in the OP. Not sure why he is so bewildered people would nominate these games, when they're technically horror themed, and his OP was so fucking vague anyways.
Edited October 4, 2020 by voorhees
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ohshoes
1 hour ago, voorhees said:
Wow. Even if we pretended danganronpa v3 and despair girls didn't have any horror in it, why would you call fans idiots for trying to help nominate games? I really hope he was just having a bad day or something, because if that's what he thinks I don't know what to say. He's really not willing to listen to any viewer feedback and paints everyone under a broad brushstroke as being idiots. Even when they were abiding by his own rules set out in his OP. (Ironically enough, some of the games in the top 10 for voting he already owns/ or are under $30, so you could argue they were being pretty considerate actually. No need to insult people)
For the sake of logistics I want to remove Danganronpa V3 from my nomination so Ultra Despair Girls can get a look. It fits the marathon better than V3.
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Friday 13th NES
Friday the 13th PS4
Nightmare on Elm Street NES
Castlevania 3 NES
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Home Attorney Orange-Osceola state lawyer releases checklist of officers who might have credibility points
Orange-Osceola state lawyer releases checklist of officers who might have credibility points
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala on Tuesday released her office’s Brady list that includes officers who may have credibility issues when it comes to testifying on behalf of the state.
Last year, Ayala announced that her office would develop an enhanced Brady policy to identify potentially problematic witnesses with the goal of making sure court testimony is as truthful and reliable as possible.
The list includes law enforcement officers from the Orlando Police Department, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and the Kissimmee Police Department, among others.
The school resource officer caught on video yanking a girl’s head is included in the document, as is an officer who was arrested on a DUI charge in 2018.
“Having confidence in the testimony upon which we build our cases is of utmost importance to my office and the justice we seek on a daily basis,” Ayala said in a news release. “We process hundreds of thousands of criminal cases annually and our prosecutors rely heavily on the truthful and reliable testimony by those in law enforcement and other personnel who either witness or investigate crimes.”
A Brady committee, made up of the director of conviction integrity, the chief investigator, two felony bureau chiefs and the chief assistant state attorney, has been meeting monthly since June 2019 to determine whose names should be on the list.
If someone is added, their place of employment is notified.
The Brady committee begins a review of an officer or expert when that person is relieved of duty, under investigation from criminal conduct or accused of any other misconduct. Those who are on the list are not forbidden from testifying but prosecutors should proceed with caution if they plan on calling upon someone on the list.
“We recognize that our office should be held to the highest ethical standards possible, which is why we are releasing our initial Brady list today,” Ayala said in a news release. “It is imperative that we are committed to prosecutorial accountability and as such seek to continue to build community trust. We will not minimize or make excuses when recurring witnesses engage in criminal behavior or other misconduct such as dishonesty, deceit, or improper bias that may jeopardize a prosecution.”
The Fraternal Order of Police suggested that the Brady committee should have members outside of the state attorney’s office publish criteria used to establish the list and provide due process for those who are placed on the list.
Below is the Brady list provided by Ayala’s office:
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The Magic Cafe Forum Index » » Nothing up my sleeve... » » Who does Miser's Dream? (26 Likes)
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Ferran Rizo
Perform missers dream in a hat, cup, bucket or what ever without sound it's not the same that made it with sound of the falling coins. Specially on stage, if it does not sound it is not so mistifying as do in it with sound. So, the sound is a important part of the routine. Of corse the routine should be good enough to fool and entertaining spectators. Different procedures, handling and methods but without sound the routine is not the same.
Michael Rubinstein
Ferran, no one said the routine should be done without sound. In my close up routine the co8ns clink when they are dropped into the hand. That's enough for me.
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Ray Haining
As has been pointed out many times before in many venues, how boring life would be if we all agreed!
I just feel that certain classics of magic have their own "gestalt," tricks like the linking rings, Miser's Dream, egg bag are more than the sum of their parts. These tricks are essentially the same trick over and over again--rings are linked and unlinked, coins are produced one after the other, an egg disappears and re-appears--and you either "get it" or you don't; you are either able to put it all together or not.
For instance, I've never done the egg bag. While I've worked with it and can do all the moves, something is missing. I'm just not able to grasp the trick as a whole.
Michael, I feel your version of Miser's Dream is not really the Miser's Dream any more than, say, Vernon's "Free and Unlimited Coinage of Silver" is the Miser's Dream. It is merely the production, one after another, of so many coins. It is missing that indefinable "something" that makes the Miser's Dream the Miser's Dream.
Since we are bragging a bit here, I got to know Al Flosso from going to his magic store in New York City in the late 1960s, early 1970s. At the time, I knew nothing about him. I could relate a couple of stories, but not here on an open forum.
Yes, at age 65, I'm a youngster to Dick Oslund, whose performance of the Miser's Dream I would love to see.
On Jul 22, 2015, Michael Rubinstein wrote:
Michael, I am not complying just giving my point of view about the importance of the sound in stage. I like that you made clink the coin when you drop in the hand.
Dick Oslund
Yes. To obtain the auditory illusion, the coin(s) must be heard when it falls into the pail, (hat, or whatever).
It's not only the audio illusion, however. There is, IMHO, a certain psychological effect, also. Mr. Kam, a month or so ago, suggested to a "newbie" that, he hold the bucket "sideways", so that the coins could fall and strike the sides of he pail, etc. I could not possibly do that in my routine! Often the coin is "milked" out of a kid's ear or elbow, and allowed to fall into the pail. Gravity doesn't work "laterally". At least nowhere in the U.S. where I've worked, and I've worked coast to coast and border to border.
I enjoyed Michael's presentation, (here comes the BUT!:::but, I must agree with Ray Haining's point that, it's not "really" a Misers Dream in the classical sense.
I wrote that lengthy post above to express to others in the thread, my experience with the Misers Dream. I forgot to mention that, over the years, I was privileged to meet and get to know, Faucett Ross. Ross KNEW T. Nelson Downs. Downs had told Ross that, "The "entertainment" is NOT producing coins from the air. The "entertainment" is in the production of coins from children's ears, ETC."
About 1971, I was touring Iowa, Montour Iowa was on my itinerary. (Montour was Downs' home town.) It's a village! I found the "city hall", and asked the clerk if there was anyone named Downs living in the village. She consulted her files, and said, "Yes!" She gave me the address. I knocked on the door, and T. NELSON DOWNS answered my knock!!!
Well, it wasn't Tommy Downs. It was his nephew! The resemblance was striking. He invited me in for coffee, and we had a DELIGHTFUL afternoon.
I shared my "history" above. I was not bragging. I was telling "my" story, and "my" experience with 'the pail'. At 18, I was trying hard to be "swayve & deboner". I wasn't. That agent "splained" things very simply. $how bu$ine$$!!! He pointed out very briefly, and clearly, that MAGIC IS NOT INHERENTLY ENTERTAINING. It's the PERFORMER, and his PRESENTATION that makes it entertaining! "If you can make 'em laugh, I'll book you."
I saw Buckingham at the 1950 IBM Convention. He worked in the classic, dignified,style. (upstage center, against the backdrop) He must have produced a dozen coins from the
backpalm. The magicians applauded wildly. The lay audience: MEH!
My first mentor, Stuart Ross, did the "straight" Tarbell routine,--and sold it well. I followed Stuart! Then, from an old carnie I learned the Downs palm! If that agent hadn't said, "Make 'em laugh!", I might still be doing that "sophisticated" MD, but, I would not likely have made a living with magic!
My presentation certainly won't win any trophies at magic conventions, but it entertains my audiences!
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I don't think I will be able to get all of you to agree with me, but hey, I am gonna try. Let's use Matrix as an analogy. Every magician alive does a version of Matrix. Al Schneider, who took a coin assembly to the next level by developing Matrix, will argue that the countless variations are not Matrix, but the community tends to be comfortable with their own definition of what constitutes Matrix, and are comfortable enough to call their own variations by the same name. Now let's look at Miser's Dream. I am going to create a few scenarios, let me know what you think about each one.
1. Two Hobos are sitting on a Park bench. Soft sad music plays in the backround. One picks up a small garbage pail and empties it looking for food, but finds none. He reaches into the air, and finds a coin, which he drops into the pail. The other Hobo looks into the pail, amazed. Hobo one pulls a coin out of the elbow of Hobo 2, then one from behind his knee, dropping them into the pail each time. Hobo one then plucks another coin out of the air, takes one out of the nose of Hobo two, plucks a couple more coins out of the air, dropping them into the pail each time. He finds another one under the arm of Hobo 2, a few more from the air, and the last one from Hobo 2's mouth. They jingle the pail, then walk off stage to get something to eat with all the money they made. Total production, 11 coins. I think based on what everyone said here, you all would agree that this is a very nice presentation of the classic Miser's Dream (And all rights reserved!).
2. One Hobo is on the bench. He empties the pail as before, and uses the same moves but instead of finding the coins on Hobo 2, he finds the coins on his own body, dropping them into the pail each time. Same trick, one person. Still Miser's Dream?
3. Two Hobos on the bench. Instead of using a pail, Hobo one takes off his shoe and uses it to drop in the coins. Otherwise same as version one, with coins plucked out of the air and off of Hobo two. Still Miser's Dream?
4. One Hobo on the bench. Instead of a pail, he uses his shoe. Same moves as in version one, but he is using his shoe instead of a pail, and producing the coins from the air and his own body. Still Miser's Dream?
Up till now we are showcasing the same moves. Only difference is that there are one or two people, and a pail or a shoe.
5. Two Hobos on the bench. Same moves as first version, but putting the coins into his hand instead of a pail. Still Miser's Dream?
6. One Hobo on a bench. Same moves as with version one, but no pail or shoe, just his hand. Still Miser's Dream?
7. One Hobo on a bench. Same moves as version one, but now he doesn't look like a Hobo. he looks like Michael Rubinstein, only not as good looking as the real deal, and sings a rap song while using the same moves as in version one, but the coins go into his hand. Still Miser's Dream?
So we have seven scenarios, where the exact same moves are used, and 11 coins are produced each time. The difference is that one or two people are used, and the receptacle is either a pail, a shoe, or a hand. Same moves. I submit that each version is a variation of the first, and is still the Miser's Dream, just as every variation of a four coin assembly using cards is a variation of Matrix (and I know Al Schneider disagrees with this, but I am using it to make a point).
OK, Ray, Dick, Funsway, Smile, Ferran, and anyone else, Let's see what you've got
SmileAndNod
I think any routine where the magician produces coins as "money" instead of as props constitutes a Miser's Dream. I don't even think it needs to be more than one. If in the middle of an act the magician stops, looks in front of him, grabs a coin and puts it in the pocket and makes a joke about how he needed bus fare for later I would consider it a "Miser's Dream"
I also think it's silly to argue about the semantics of what defines a "Miser's Dream Routine". One of my favorite stories Richard Feynman would tell is how his father taught him that you can know the name of a bird in a hundred different languages, and not know anything about the bird. You can argue that one style is more effect for this and that, but to draw an arbitrary line and say this is a Miser's Dream routine but that isn't just seems pointless to me.
funsway
old things in new ways - new things in old ways
Some interesting thoughts focusing on "message" rather than objects. Yet, some ability to classify magic effects would seem useful.
Any magician leafing though a new magic book and finding a heading "Misers Dream" would have some expectation of the effects described therein.
Certainly, any performer can take one of those effects and put their own spin on it, but what should fall under that heading in a book on magic?
One factor not explored here is the "dream" aspect. At the end there are no coins in the container -- it was just a dream. At least in the classic version.
But most performers now allow for other endings including a verification of count and surprise final load. Some prefer to display the coins produced before the ending, possibly transferring them to another location.
While the idea of "sound" to confirm the drop in the bucket seems common, how much of that importance is determined by the planned ending?
If you are going to end with nothing a lot of noise along the way can add to the surprise. Less so if you produce 11 coins and end up with 11 coins on the table.
Michael's scenarios had be remember watching street people pick up cigarette butts in a park for later stripping and assembly into a full cigarette.
Could be a good effect. 1-15 butts found in unlikely places and dropped into a paper cup. Later they all vanish or become a cigar. Might be entertaining and a dream sequence, but would it be Misers Dream?
Cigarettes are used as money, so "SmileandNod" might agree. Would it be be more of a "dream" is the character was a hippie type foraging the ground after a rock concert?
No -- just kidding. But would a spectator find it lass magical because you didn't use metal coins?
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Interesting point Michael. Misser dream is a production of coins, not cigars not cards, but coins. I think that it does not matter where you conceal produced coins. You can keep on hand, in a cap, hat, shoe... But if I produce one coin, it is a missers dream? I think it is not it is a single coin production. But if I produce two coins. Is missers dream? I think it is a two coin production instead of misser dream. And three? Or four? How many coins we need in order to be a missers dream?
You just need to produce enough coins to establish the effect in the minds of your audience. The routine you do will dictate that amount.
cheesewrestler
I don't think I will be able to get all of you to agree with me, but hey, I am gonna try.
Why am I gonna try, or why doesn't everyone agree with me. Don't know. What do you think?
fonda57
Getting a bucket is on your bucket list: Love that.
i had some comments a long time ago in this thread in which I liked your routine, and I still do, Mr. Rubinstein
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Thank you Fonda! Still waiting for someone to disprove my statement.
OK. I'll bite. You have no way to know when the idea is established in their mind. You can rely on experience. intuition, and a read of signals form the given audience and may still not be correct.
But, I see no way you can "design a routine" with this knowledge before hand. Your assumption cannot "dictate" anything.
I was told about 50 years ago when I was practicing a MD routine, "Prepare to produce 20 coins. Then cut it short when the amusement wears off and change to the surpise ending."
So, I agree with your first sentence and disagree to the second. Is that half objection or half concurrence? (I have only rarely produced all 20)
I think what he means, in part, is the that the audience is not familiar with Miser's Dream effects, and is therefore expecting a bucket or a hat or anything. So they see the routine for what it is.
Funsway, I was referring to my statement that the seven scenarios I listed were in fact all variations of the Miser's Dream routine, but what you say is technically true. There is no was for a performer to absolutely know if he has established the effect in the minds of the audience, unless he takes a poll or talks to each person who witnessed the routine. HOWEVER, I submit to you again that in fact, with experience in developing, performing and refining your routines, you can get a pretty good idea of what works and what doesn't. Most performers live with their routines and they get refined through repeat performance. That is good enough for me, and I would hazard to say the same for all performers.
Bairefoot
Here's my Miser's Dream for close-up. I produce 4 coin 4 different ways. I say I could do this all day but I have get to the others guest. I then do a coins across routine. I then product a glass of wine to finish the routine. If I don't have a glass of wine I put the coins back in the air. Sometimes I produce the 4 coins and say here let do this a little faster and produce a dollar bill then change it into a $100. Your Miser's Dream needs to be adaptable to real world situations. But this is just my thought.
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Good enough for me too, Michael. I just like to adapt to the audience rather than "have the routine dictate."
Bairefoot - I would agree that having a MS approach segue into another effect is valid and good routining. The 'dream component" can be satisfied
by the observer later telling the story, "this guy grabbed coins from nowhere and then showed us how magical they were."
The number of coins produced becomes minor compared with the memory of magic.
As a side-bar, the noisy production of coins can be an effective method of focusing attention away fro other distractions and establishing yourself as a magician --
as a lead-in to your signature effect. The number seen to be produced might vary from spectator to spectator but the idea of "endless supply" satisfied.
Is it really MD when uses a part of a larger, flowing routine? I don't know -- but will do it anyway.
Perhaps this validates Michael's point above in that your entire performance might dictate the actual number produced. What number will the audience remember? That is an illusion anyway.
I am sorry what does MS approach mean. Right now I am working on producing coins on stage with a wine glass. Then I want to go to my coin ladder (never used it once, had for 2 years now).
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Domino’s is now testing a drone delivery program that drops pizza from the heavens
by Bryan Clark — in Insider
Joining a growing list of companies that aspire to deliver consumer products by drone, Domino’s today launched its commercial drone delivery service in New Zealand.
The project is a partnership between Domino’s and Flirtey — a drone delivery startup — and it’s set to launch later this year in test markets. Not every pizza will be delivered by drone, however. Domino’s is committed to testing the service alongside traditional deliveries via car or scooter, at least for now.
Not all menu items will be eligible for drone delivery and those that are will only be delivered by sky if they’ll decrease the wait time over a traditional means of transportation.
According to Domino’s Group chief executive and managing director Don Meij:
With the increased number of deliveries we make each year, we were faced with the challenge of ensuring our delivery times continue to decrease and that we strive to offer our customers new and progressive ways of ordering from us.
According to Meij, the company had been looking into drone delivery for some time, saying it didn’t make sense to deliver a two kilogram order using a two ton machine.
If successful, the company wants to extend the service to six other markets — Australia, Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Japan and Germany.
Pizza drones are go! Domino's gets NZ drone delivery OK on New Zealand Herald
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If you’re not old enough to remember that one of the most internationally beloved figures of the early 1990s was an African-American teenager who invented groundbreaking technologies for the express purpose of pleasing his neighbor and unrequited love on the South Side of Chicago, then you’re probably young enough to have heard Jay-Z and Kanye West mocked in his name for the crime of wearing glasses while Black and male.
The unlikely cultural icon was a guy named Steve Urkel. And although he was widely considered to be responsible for the success of Family Matters – the TV series on which his character was originally written for a one-episode arc – he was reviled in his (fictionalized yet realistically violent) Chicago South Side universe for inventions that breached social etiquette and a general lack of discretion in his interpersonal communication. Some notable examples: He masterminded a duck call capable of attracting 500 ducks to a single location for the purpose of defecating on the neighbor’s car. He invented a robot version of himself which, in addition to policing local crime, was also capable of falling in love with the girl who rebuffed his own advances. He frequently called attention to people’s embarrassing mistakes by hovering over them and saying “LOOK what YOU did” or breaking into a fit of snorting laughter. He affirmed himself as hailing from a “fine, old family with a proud name” by explaining that “you know in Kenya, ‘Urkel’ means ‘a benign cyst on the foreleg of a wildebeest.'”
The tragedy of Urkel was that he could have been a social butterfly and a trillionaire in his teens. After all, he invented exploding vegetables, a cloning machine, an expansion machine, a time machine, a teleportation device, a high school dance craze, and a serum and transformation chamber for multiplying an individual’s cool genes. His habit of oversharing and going over the top with his inventions was simply too obnoxious for people to focus on his desirable traits. Instead, his income was derived from working the window of the fast food restaurant Mighty Weenie. He did that at minimum wage, with only one bathroom break granted every six hours, for years.
Urkel’s story could be a cautionary tale for people who try to gain admission to their academic program of choice or beat stiff competition for a job by letting admissions and hiring committees in on their darkest secrets, creating application packages high in shock value, and otherwise being too creative or sharing too much information. But how do you know when you’re oversharing or going over the top, especially when one committee’s idea of “too much” is another committee’s idea of “just right” or “not enough”? It’s a matter of fit – right time, right place – and The Precocious Urchin’s TMIC Test (for “Too Much Information and/or Creativity) takes that into account.
Before you submit your college application essay or your innovative resume, take the TMIC Test to determine whether you may have gone too far with it. The test shouldn’t inspire you to completely discard your materials. However, if the results indicate that you may be oversharing or going over the top, then perhaps it’s time to work with me or another consultant in tailoring your materials to their intended audience.
Take the TMIC test here.
Ramon Robinson
Writer/Consultant
Founder of The Precocious Urchin Co.
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Ten lessons from Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in speaking positively about failures and weaknesses
On the series premiere of HBO’s Game of Thrones, Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) ends the climbing career of young Bran Stark by pushing him out of a tower window.
No kidding: Earlier this week, I was also humbled by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The experience ultimately led me to reflect on how we discuss our failures and weaknesses.
Many of you will recognize the fantastic Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister from HBO’s Game of Thrones. The character is noted for an unlikely friendship with the Amazonian heroine Brienne of Tarth, formed while in captivity; a taboo-even-in-Quasi-Medieval-Fantasy romance with his twin sister Queen Cersei, with whom he secretly sired the malevolent boy king Joffrey; and ending the climbing career of a sweet little boy named Bran Stark by pushing him to paralysis from a tower window, an act for which karma later punished him with the loss of his swashbuckling hand.
Sir Jaime’s experiences in the Game of Thrones universe could easily be used to illustrate a few lessons in discussing our failures and weaknesses, whether we’re prompted into such discussions by job interviewers or essay questions on applications. However, if a somewhat-mortifying, somewhat-empowering conversation we had in front of 1,500 people this past Tuesday is any indication, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau may be an even better tool than his most famous character in illustrating a few more of those lessons.
This is merely a partial view of the site of my humbling by actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Many seats with many scornful people in them are out of view!
This is what happened: At the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of his Danish movie star vehicle A Second Chance, Nikolaj participated in a live Q&A along with the film’s Oscar-winning director, Susanne Bier, and its TIFF programmer, Steve Gravestock. Sitting in the front row of the Elgin Theatre’s VISA Screen Room orchestra section, in the immediate eye lines of the star, director and programmer, I was the first audience member invited to ask a question – which was inspired by the film’s implication that the beautiful and affluent are entitled to better treatment by the justice system than poor people who live in squalor. “I’m a little uncertain about the ending of the film,” I said. “What exactly would the ‘suspended sentence’ Nikolaj’s character received for assault, kidnapping and attempting to frame the poor couple for murder entail? Are we to assume that he’s working in the hardware shop on prisoner work release, or was the only consequence of his crimes that he lost his job as a police officer?” On his microphone, Gravestock recapped my question with a smirk and an eye roll: “He wants to know if Nikolaj’s character is still a cop.” The audience of 1,500 (imagine the number of people who went down with the Titanic) erupted in laughter and discernible murmurs – “Oh my god, is he serious?” “That is such a stupid question.” “Was he watching the movie at all?” Flabbergasted, Bier took the microphone from Gravestock and craned forward at me as she spoke into it: “Of course he’s not a cop anymore! What is there to be uncertain about? Did you see the film?” I attempted to clarify my question, but the audience only laughed more, and Nikolaj egged them on as he took over on the microphone: “Yeah – HE GOT FIRED.” “Well, I was just a little confused by…,” I started. Nikolaj then craned forward and looked into my eyes: “HE LOST HIS JOB! HE’S NOT A COP ANYMORE! Are you still confused?” (Insert here the sounds of 1,500 people laughing, chattering, boo’ing me and cheering Nikolaj, and me sighing in surrender) “Maybe we should all thank him for his question,” Nikolaj quipped. “The theatre could use some comic relief after that film.” (More jeering and snickering, more blushing and sinking)
At the end of the Q&A, several audience members swarmed to the stage for Nikolaj’s signature, and I started to join them with the intent of clarifying my question once and for all. Nikolaj frowned and buckled up, as if he thought he was about to become the Selena to my Yolanda, so I decided to leave for dinner right away instead. Outside the theatre, I E-mailed Gravestock a clarification of the so-called “stupid question.” He replied immediately from his Blackberry: “Sorry about that. I think they thought you were just referring to whether he was still a cop. Frankly, it was incredibly difficult to hear anything in that theatre. They probably misconstrued it and didn’t hear any of the nuances. The tight timeline and the audience members complaining loudly about not having simultaneous translation didn’t help either. (It made it nearly impossible for us to hear the questions past the first couple words.)” I wrote back: “No major worries! For cultural bridging purposes, I would love if someone were to clarify the question to the director and star. I think U.S. audiences will also have questions about the ending.”
Later that night, I was perusing my Facebook newsfeed when I discovered that my supposed question to Bier and Nikolaj was being ridiculed by screening attendees apparently more loathed to get over it than me. Into the next night, I explained the American and Danish concept of prisoner work release enough times to popularize the acronym PWR. Then, since I’ve long been in the habit of reconsidering my experiences in professional terms, I wondered aloud – Was it appropriate for me to try clarifying the question to everyone who admittedly misunderstood it? Did I sound crazy and oversensitive as I recapped the theatre episode to friends and family? What does my experience with “Jaime Lannister” say about how you can discuss your failures and weaknesses in ways that make people want to hire you, be friends with you and admit you to competitive programs? Since many of you will have to discuss your failures and weaknesses on job interviews, in personal relationships or in applications to colleges and graduate programs, I believe one win from that Q&A is inspiration for these twelve insights into speaking positively about your failures and weaknesses:
The Mountain:Oberyn the Red Viper::Nikolaj:Me. It has been ages, but we all still miss Game of Thrones’ Oberyn…
Be clear about scale in stories of your failures to avoid sounding like you just have a thin skin. If I had just reported that I’d had the exchange “following a screening of a Danish film,” readers might picture me arguing pettily with three people in a tiny village theatre outside Copenhagen and assume that I’m making a mountain out of a molehill. The visual of me beneath a spotlight at the largest film festival in the world, being lampooned by film executives, the press, the public, Oscar winners and international film & television stars, hopefully helps to explain why I made the extra effort to clarify the question!
Don’t try to present what’s obviously a strength as a weakness or what’s obviously a success as a failure. It’s too often true that when you answer employers’ and admissions committees’ questions about your failures and weaknesses, you give them information that they can use to claim either that you’re unable to acknowledge your true weaknesses, or that your stated failures demonstrate that you’re also likely to fail as their employee or student. However, you may not be as good of a liar as you think, so just don’t lie! The best course of action is to brainstorm, categorize and reflect upon your failures and weaknesses so that when you’re asked about them, you can confidently present the right ones to the right people. If nothing else, I know that public humiliation by a Game of Thrones star is one that many people would at least be able to visualize and understand as the result of a communication failure.
Most people in a position to help you will find pity parties repellant, so when you’re telling a story about a time you didn’t succeed, it’s best to demonstrate an understanding in the story’s beginning about the motives of those who prevailed. Maybe my voice didn’t carry well from floor to stage so that Gravestock could clearly hear the question? Could Bier have been in the habit of dismissing “stupid questions” due to the heat she’s been taking for Serena, her Depression-era epic starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence that has been languishing in distribution hell since 2012? Was Nikolaj trying to laugh with me rather than at me along with hundreds of tons of people? Whatever the explanation, a compelling one wouldn’t be that the talent on stage was evil while I was just a good guy with a good question.
Think twice about whether the story will appeal to your target audience. If you’re trying to get hired as an associate at a big law firm, will the lawyers interviewing you be alienated by the story of your tense interaction with a Game of Thrones star? Not if they watch the show, as many lawyers do, and not if they’re litigation attorneys likely to appreciate conflict in a theatrical space. Will the administration of a Doha school that always begins its fall semester in early September be as moved? Probably not. I suspect they’d wonder if you’d always try to miss the first week of classes in favor of attending TIFF, which always begins in early September.
Post-fall, Bran Stark has one of his visions on Game of Thrones.
Consider choosing a weakness that you’ve had for a long time or a failure from some years back so that you can show growth or otherwise talk about how you’ve addressed it. This is clearly a problem for my TIFF story for a general audience; since it transpired just over the last week, I’d have to interpret it relative to similar past experiences (my less embarrassing 2012 face time with Spike Lee?) or explain how I’ve grown to date from it. The experiences of Bran Stark, the boy Nikolaj’s GoT character pushed from a tower, provide better examples. Initially, Bran could only bemoan the fact that he’d likely never be able to climb or walk again, but through his lengthy period of repose, he discovered that he had even greater gifts than his athleticism – namely that he was a Warg with the ability to enter the minds of animals and that he possessed greensight, prophetic visions that come in dreams. In other words, his experiences over a long period of time demonstrate that after the loss of a physical talent that had absorbed his energy, he finally found the time to hone his cerebral talents – which were much more marketable than climbing aptitude.
Take responsibility. If you’re asked to discuss your failures and weaknesses, avoid the common approach of discussing other people’s failures and weaknesses instead (i.e., “I have a low tolerance for people who commit to meetings and don’t feel compelled to explain themselves when they flake out” or “I struggle to deal with people who don’t respond respectfully to harmless inquiries”). The people interviewing you or reading your application might count among their weaknesses the ones you attribute to people you find difficult, so it’s best not to risk pitting yourself against them. Doesn’t this sound better anyway?: “Sometimes my questions can be more challenging than ones people are prepared to answer immediately, so I occasionally have to deal with lag time between when I make an inquiry and when I get an appropriate response.”
Know that in assessing your everyday life, just as in making films and television programs, you often have a choice of genre. I would wager that when most people talk about their failures, they feel compelled to present them as horror stories like this one: “I asked a simple question about a film, and I was mercilessly teased and ripped apart for it by hundreds of tons of people. The animosity toward me in that theatre was so palpable that I almost needed security to escort me back to my accommodations for my own safety. I went to bed humiliated, miserable and reluctant to attend any more TIFF screenings.” Here’s how the same experience sounds as a comedy with dramatic elements, one that should leave audiences empathizing at least a little with all of the characters: “I tried to take an actor and director to task for their film’s awkward class politics with a labyrinthine question, but they got lost in the labyrinth and decided that the way out was my public excoriation. While they flashed their multimillion dollar smiles at adoring, autograph-seeking fans afterward, I began plotting my redemption in their eyes and the eyes of over a thousand other people who had probably forgotten about me by then, if they wouldn’t by the next morning. After clarifying my question to the sympathetic programmer, and a Canadian woman in her fifties who was simultaneously making fun of me on Facebook and attempting to get Susanne Bier to hire her as a PA, I went to bed and woke up the next morning to attend another movie premiere. Its director spotted me in a deliberately inconspicuous seat in the audience and said on his microphone to the approval of over 1,200 people: ‘Are you a Millennial? You look great.’”
What Bran Stark might as well say: “Getting pushed from the tower by Jaime/Nikolay was awful, but at least I kept my good looks, developed magical powers, and got piggyback rides through the forest from a big friendly giant and a bunch of other people.”
Complete your failure story’s cast. Have you been omitting key figures in your story in an effort to simplify it? Maybe there are more people on your side than the me vs. them version you’ve been relaying suggests, and maybe they can help you to understand yourself and the other people in your story? Several days after the TIFF premiere of A Second Chance, I told my friend Veronica the story over dinner and drinks in downtown Toronto. Although she was mortified on my behalf, she commented: “I’m surprised that Nikolaj would make fun of you in front of everyone. He seems like such a nice guy.” Her comment reminded me that when I first encountered Nikolaj in person three years ago, he was just a regular moviegoer in a t-shirt and jeans at a screening of an independent Danish film. After the screening, there was little fanfare for anyone involved in the production, so I watched the director, producer, male leads and Nikolaj bromantically give each other piggyback rides, throw playful punches at one another and slide down the escalator together as they exited the theatre. Observing them, I thought: “I never see Americans so happy after a lukewarm reception to their work, or so unabashedly fraternal with one another. Now I think I want to go to Scandinavia for my next big trip!” The following spring, I went to Denmark, Norway and Sweden, where I met Veronica – who has been one of my most reliable friends over the subsequent years. In other words, Nikolaj may have been trying to embarrass me this time one week ago, but this time three years ago, he helped to set in motion a chain of events that dramatically changed my life for the better.
Reconsider the story’s length. Does it end too early? (Inadequate: “I asked a question and was ridiculed for it. This was a communication failure that I will never forget.”) Does it begin too late? (This doesn’t work either: “One time I wasn’t successful was when I tried explaining to a Canadian woman on Facebook that a question she’d described as ‘dumb’ was not the question I’d asked at all. She ignored me. Some other time, I’ll tell you the circumstances under which I posed the question.”) Does it leave out too much plot in the middle? (These details might be helpful: “People were baffled by my question during the Q&A, but later that night, some audience members for whom I clarified the question called it a ‘great’ one. The next morning, director Susanne Bier also issued a thank you statement to Q&A participants for coming out to support her; her language echoed language in my Facebook post clarifying the question, and in that manner, she finally acknowledged my actual question.”)
Wait to tell the story. Share it with close but honest friends first. Let them be your test audience. If they agree that the story is worth telling, then gradually tell it to more people as though it’s a film making the rounds on a festival circuit. Once the story has won or proven competitive for the everyday version of the TIFF People’s Choice Award, make any frequently suggested edits, tell it to the right audiences, and tag it to kingdom come. (GoT pun unabashedly intended.) If you present stories of your failures and weaknesses with the care that producers approach the distribution of their films, you stand a good chance of a favorable return on your investment in them in the form of a job, an admissions letter or an improved relationship.
What are some other tips for talking or writing about your failures and weaknesses? Will you ever look at Game of Thrones and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau again the same way you did before reading this post? Let me know in the Comments section or by E-mailing precociousurchin@gmail.com.
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Your career, and your child’s career
In acknowledgment of who introduced me to education consulting – an HR consulting partner who wanted to ensure that his daughters received the best guidance possible through the college selection process – this post is addressed primarily to parents rather than young applicants.
In Mommie Dearest (1981), Faye Dunaway’s Joan Crawford thought the road to perfection for her Black Market-adopted daughter, Christina (Mara Hobel), began with raising the girl exactly in her own image.
That strategy didn’t make either person happy, healthy and successful later in life.
Bravo’s new series Extreme Guide to Parenting may have been conceived in the vein of ‘Real Housewives’ as a presumed hit of “hatewatch” – the phenomenon of masses tuning into a TV series exclusively to criticize and poke fun at its stars. However, the series facilitates very healthy discussions about the ways that working adults can best enable their children to become successful professionals.
The (linked above) ABC News segment alone immediately left me pondering these questions: Are parents like the Eisenbergs steering their children into college and career success by pressuring them to commit to a year-round schedule of activities without any room for revision? Can the Machenberg-Neys and other parents really hypnotize their children into making decisions that give them “a leg up” in their careers from high school to retirement? Should we take people committed to so-called “extreme parenting” seriously as we explore ways to help youth fight the lethargy-inducing prognosis that their generation will be less affluent than their parents’ generation?
Although most of those questions probably won’t be answered for years, I know many of the parents featured on the series get this much right: Leaving children to find themselves unaided is a bad idea. I say that because even as an adult who entered the workforce in the 1990s, well before the popularization of social media, I’m sometimes exhausted by the blogosphere’s surfeit of conflicting messages about career moves. A LinkedIn article entitled “Ten Mistakes You Probably Made in Your Last Interview” trending with one entitled “Why What You Say in Your Interviews Probably Doesn’t Matter” doesn’t leave me reconsidering plans for my next interview or client meeting; it inspires me to beeline for a 90-minute Swedish massage. Can you imagine, then, how youth growing up in the blogosphere must feel as they try navigating a labyrinth of messages about the ways in which progressive careers will be difficult to impossible for them, while also wondering when their voices will stop cracking or whether now’s a good time to invest in a training bra? A massage and meditation conglomerate could probably be built entirely in their service.
The fact that children often need their guidance to be successful is why it’s so critical for parents – engaged, extreme, and otherwise – to at least do this much:
Beware burnout. It’s possible for parents to obsess over their children’s development at the expense of the health they need to usher their children through high school and college. I fear that some of the parents on ‘Extreme’ aren’t being mindful of how their parenting rituals are impacting their own mental and physical health.
Build bridges for their children. Don’t burn them. The parents detailed in this blog’s inaugural post tend to burn bridges even as they’re competing in cutthroat preschool admissions processes. Twenty years ago, it might be easy for victims of that sort of behavior to forget it. Social media now leaves it on record for everyone thrown under the bus to consider throughout your life course, your child’s life course and your grandchild’s life course.
In lieu of parenting methods that promote conformity, parents should consider teaching their children to rebel with them in success-enabling ways. Parents who are innovators or business founders should have no problem doing this. For the rest, traditional storytime might well be succeeded by stories-of-$100-startups time. After all, one of the best ways for youth to discover their own brand and potential is to establish small, self-reflexive businesses before adulthood – when the stakes are low because (at least for the time being) employers expect teenagers to have wide resume gaps.
Talk through their children’s interests with them, or find someone who can. Children may be resistant to this discourse at first. But gradually, as the blogosphere’s messages about education and career become more overwhelming, they’ll be grateful that an experienced adult professional helped them to separate what they want to do for themselves from what millions of other people are telling them they should do.
If parents are going to maintain a year-round schedule of activities for their children, they should block “?” slots that the children can fill with activities of their own choosing. One big problem with some of the “extreme parenting” tactics displayed on the Bravo series is that the parents are so committed to keeping their children engaged in a set list of activities that as our fluid world introduces promising opportunities, the parents don’t have time to take note of them. They may be raising their children to be successful at activities that simply aren’t impressive by contemporary standards.
Be honest with their children about the highs and lows of their own careers. No kidding – I know the glut of miserable and unemployed or underemployed attorneys is at least partially a consequence of many of my peers aspiring to become independently wealthy as early as age 5 by pursuing legal careers as their parents did. When we were children, their parents would emphasize the income potential associated with the legal profession while circumventing any questions about the work itself. Now armed with JD’s, enormous debt and unsteady work records, those thirtysomething-year-old children are finally asking themselves “What do I really want to be when I grow up?”
Instead of looking forward to “Take My Child to Work Day” alone, they should arrange for their teenagers to job shadow others in their (the parents’) professional and social networks. And long before the grand office tour begins, they should prime their children on asking good questions about the companies. I’ve seen way too many children finish “Take My Child to Work Day” with the impression that the majority of working adults specialize in poker-faced mouse manipulation.
Teach their children to advocate for themselves. I read about parents dragging their children around career fairs, forcefully introducing them to prospective employers, and shoving their children’s resumes into said prospective employers’ hands. All this does is turn a young adult who could have been a company’s star employee by his/her own efforts into its long-running office joke.
Engage with alumni and career offices on college and graduate school campus tours. This could mean parents offering externships, internships or jobs at their own companies for their children’s current and future peers, which is a great way to build reciprocity for when their children need a leg or two up in a field where their connections are inadequate. It can also mean building a network of recent and distant past alumni at various schools so that as their children decide which schools to attend, they have the benefit of knowing trends in the professional lives of graduates who shared their goals and socioeconomic attributes.
Consider financial planning for their children not just for the first eighteen years of their lives, but for the first twenty-five to thirty years. Yes, it’s possible that in the 2020’s or the 2030’s, some currently unimaginable technology will become ubiquitous and change the landscape of the working world just as the Internet began to do twenty years ago. It’s also possible that in those decades, a large number of adults will still try to move back into their parents’ homes due to employment issues just as they are now. Let’s consider a return to farm values while there’s still time: Children should do their best to help their parents so that their parents have better chances of maintaining the health they’ll need to assist them with building financial and social capital into adulthood. Parents should try preparing to help their children well into their twenties so that those children have a heightened chance of an upward career trajectory, rather than one characterized by the constant ebbs and flows that guarantee their unreliability to their ailing parents. Those are just my two cents.
What do you think the relationship is between parenting and children’s professional success, or between your career and your child’s career? Please share your thoughts in the Comments section, or if you think I might be able to help you answer this question for you and your child specifically, query me at precociousurchin@gmail.com.
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SideChef Brings Guided Recipes to Haier Smart Fridge Lineup
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Today at IFA in Berlin, SideChef and Haier announced a new partnership which will put SideChef’s guided recipes on all new Haier smart fridges released in the European market. The new feature will offer step-by-step cooking instructions and recommend recipes to owners of Haier smart fridges based on the current content of their fridge.
From the release:
Guided recipes are now at users’ fingertips, ensuring successful meal preparation every time. SideChef’s rich recipe content is curated from chefs and culinary professionals, unlocking unlimited meal potential while taking into consideration cuisine cravings, dietary restrictions, and general preferences.
This deal marks another step in the SideChef-Haier relationship, which has been growing steadily for over a year now. The two companies worked closely on development of the GE Kitchen Hub smart display and this past April they expanded their relationship by building an integration that enabled users to send cooking instructions and parameters to different GE appliances from within the SideChef app.
SideChef has in the past done deals with GE in the U.S. and Electrolux is Asia. Now, with the addition of Haier in Europe, SideChef will continue to expand its geographic-specific relationships in the appliance space as it helps Haier build a strong offering in localized language content (such as French and German).
“As Haier China expands its product line out further geographically, we are working with them to have products that are localized through content,” SideChef CEO Kevin Yu told me over the phone. “Recipes are a huge driver for them and others.”
The SideChef content will make its way to all of Haier Europe’s new smart fridges with displays later this year. While the initial version of these guided recipes won’t have the ability to drive and interact with other Haier appliances (such as with the GE implementation in the U.S.), Yu didn’t rule it out from future versions.
And while today’s news is based on the company’s new partnership with a major appliance brand, Yu told me that it’s not just hardware companies he’s talking to nowadays. Meetings with big food and appliance brands are taking up as much or more of his calendar space as they all have gotten serious about digitization in the face of an ever-growing threat from Amazon. Yu said it started with the Amazon acquisition of Whole Foods and momentum has only grown since that time.
“We’re seeing a lot of urgency from the food guys,” he said.
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England Name Squad to tour South Africa
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Following a 1-0 series defeat in what was a small token revenge for the New Zealander’s after the dramatic World Cup Final in July – England now turn their attentions towards South Africa as they embark upon a four test series commencing on Boxing day.
The two test series in New Zealand had left England scratching their heads as much afterwards as before they’d departed almost a month ago.
The dead pitches, especially in the second test which finished a draw, left little for England to assess their bowlers upon, while there were positive glimmers in the form of captain Root’s outstanding double ton as well as runs for Rory Burns and Ollie Pope providing hints at the future of English cricket.
If anything was to summise this series, it was to be Joe Denly’s absolute howler in the field as he managed to spill wat may well prove to be one of the easiest catches in Test Cricket history.
To be completely fair to Joe Denly … the earth was spinning quite fast at the time. #dropped #Hamilton pic.twitter.com/O010ruOh2A
— PHILIP BROWN (@dudleyplatypus) December 2, 2019
Archer had confused Kane Williamson with an altered delivery not offering any front arm, Williamson chipped the delivery to Denly who was fielding at extra-cover and somehow managed to fumble the opportunity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/50638721
While laughter took over the commentary box and most of the English players, looking on in disbelief, it was not the same for Denly who spent the next hour and half in the field with a face like thunder – and with that came the rain and the end to the series.
James Anderson, Mark Wood and Jonny Bairstow have all been recalled to England’s side to travel to South Africa for the four match Test series – beginning on the 26th of December.
The trio have all been missing for England for different reasons.
Jonny Bairstow was dropped for the 1-0 series defeat to New Zealand, following a fairly poor run of form with the bat in the Ashes series this summer.
James Anderson has been missing from the England setup, and quite notably, since the first test match against Australia this summer where he was taken off due to a calf injury and not seen since.
Fellow pace bowler Mark Wood has had his own troubles with injuries, with various side and knee problems keeping him out of the England squad since the World Cup final in July.
Wood, who has not played a Test match since Febraury, is not expected to be featuring in the first test match, according to Ed Smith, England selector.
“It is not predicted that Mark will be available for selection for the earliest matches,” said Smith.
“There is no exact date given for his return, but the medical team is working towards him becoming fully available for selection during the tour.”
Moeen Ali, who took a break from Test cricket, remains unavailable.
Only Saqib Mahmood, currently uncapped, is to be missing from the pack who toured New Zealand and the 17-strong squad heading to South Africa.
The England Squad to tour South Africa is as follows:
Joe Root (capt), James Anderson, Jofra Archer, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Stuart Broad, Rory Burns, Jos Buttler (wk), Zak Crawley, Sam Curran, Joe Denly, Jack Leach, Matthew Parkinson, Ollie Pope (wk), Dom Sibley, Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood.
Tour Schedule:
First Test: 26th December-30th December, Centurion
Second Test: 3rd January – 7th January, Cape Town
Third Test: 16th January – 20th January, Port Elizabeth
Fourth Test: 24th January – 28th January, Johannesburg
One Day Internationals
4th February, Cape Town
7th February, Durban
9th February, Johannesburg
T-20 Internationals
12th February, East London
14th February, Durban
16th February, Centurion
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One Tuesday in January . . .
Posted by Keith Muchowski in Museums, Theodore Roosevelt Jr (President), Ulysses S. Grant (General and President)
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Yesterday morning I submitted a piece (to which I will link when the time comes) and then headed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for Holiday Monday. It was not as crowded as I thought it would be. I suppose the warmer weather had people outside. I saw this bust Grant that I had not previously seen before. I intentionally left a portion of the vase in the lower right hand corner for scale. In a sense he was an opponent of the Roosevelt family because Grant ally Roscoe Conkling vehemently opposed Theodore Roosevelt Senior’s 1877 nomination to lead the Port of New York. Perhaps that partially explaining the strained relationship between their sons, Theodore Roosevelt and Frederick Dent Grant, had a strained relationship when they were on the NYC Board of Police several decades later.
It is still the intersession and I am off this week to write. The original plan was to go to Washington and work but with the inaugural taking place it seemed wiser to stay away. They say it’s going to rain today and tomorrow, which makes for good writing weather.
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JUSTICE GINSBURG HINTS AT OUTCOME OF SUPREME COURT’S BIGGEST CASES
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested Friday that the Supreme Court is deeply divided over its most-watched cases, hinting that a series of 5-4 decisions are likely as the court approaches the end of its current term.
Ginsburg said to the Second Circuit Judicial Conference the court was unlikely to achieve consensus on several high-profile matters.
“Of the 43 argued cases resolved so far, only 11, or just over 25%, were decided by a vote of 5 to 4 or 5 to 3,” Ginsburg said. “Given the number of most watched cases still unannounced, I cannot predict that the relatively low sharp divisions ratio will hold.”
One case likely to produce such a split is the dispute over the Trump administration’s bid to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census form. A coalition of civil rights groups and Democratic state governments sued to stop the question’s inclusion, saying it will depress minority participation in the census. The administration says it needs granular citizenship data to improve enforcement of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), but the plaintiffs believe they have uncovered evidence of the government’s true partisan motive.
The census serves as the basis for apportioning seats in Congress among the states.
Ginsburg discussed the census dispute in connection with the 2018 travel ban decision, in which a 5-4 court said President Donald Trump’s entry sanctions were entitled to deference.
“Speculators about the outcome note that last year, in Trump v. Hawaii, the court upheld the so-called ‘travel ban,’ in an opinion granting great deference to the executive,” Ginsburg said. “Respondents in the census case have argued that a ruling in Secretary [Wilbur] Ross’s favor would stretch deference beyond the breaking point.” (RELATED: Judge Says Allegations Of Coverup In Census Citizenship Case Are ‘Serious’)
Demonstrators rally at the Supreme Court to protest a proposal to add a citizenship question in the census on April 23, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
Another closely followed case presents a direct challenge to a doctrine of agency lawthat requires courts to defer to an agency’s interpretation of its own regulation. In recent years, many conservatives have harshly criticized that doctrine, called Auer deference, arguing it places too much power in the hands of unaccountable federal agencies.
Late Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the 1997 Auer decision for a unanimous court. Ginsburg, perhaps alluding to internal divisions, said that overturning Auer would be contrary to “stare decisis,” the idea that judges should adhere to past decisions.
“What role, if any, will stare decisis play in the court’s decision? We shall soon know,” the justice said.
Elsewhere in her remarks, Ginsburg credited Justice Brett Kavanaugh for hiring an all-female staff of law clerks for the first time in the court’s history. Though women now constitute a majority of Supreme Court clerks, Ginsburg lamented that female attorneys made up a small percentage of the advocates who argue before the court.
“Justice Kavanaugh made history by bringing on board an all-female law clerk crew,” Ginsburg said. “Thanks to his selections, the court has this term, for the first time ever, more women than men serving as law clerks.”
“Women did not fare nearly as well as advocates,” she added. “Only about 21% of the attorneys presenting oral argument this term were female.”
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Sen Ted Cruz schools AOC after she attacks Mitch McConnell over lack of COVID aid
Terresa Monroe-Hamilton November 24, 2020
‘Squad’ member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) got into it with Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) on social media over the stalemate involving the coronavirus aid package after Congress left Washington for a weeklong Thanksgiving recess with no deal in place. AOC specifically targeted Mitch McConnell over it.
“People across the country are going hungry, COVID is set to explode, and Mitch McConnell dismissed the Senate last week,” AOC tweeted Monday. “I don’t know how these people can sleep at night. I really don’t.”
Cruz took issue with the attack and fired back at the young progressive lawmaker. He accused Democrats of repeatedly blocking a scaled-back stimulus proposal backed by the majority of Senate Republicans.
“Why is your party filibustering $500 billion in COVID relief?” the Texas Republican asked her. “And Joe Biden is cheering them on. Thinking that blocking relief somehow helps Dems win Georgia.”
People across the country are going hungry, COVID is set to explode, and Mitch McConnell dismissed the Senate last week.
I don’t know how these people can sleep at night. I really don’t.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 23, 2020
Why is your party filibustering $500 billion in COVID relief?
And Joe Biden is cheering them on. Thinking that blocking relief somehow helps Dems win Georgia. https://t.co/b8PvuUpSa3
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 23, 2020
House Democrats had previously voted to pass the $3.4 trillion HEROES Act in May, and the updated, scaled-backed $2.2 trillion legislation in October.
“The House doesn’t have filibusters, @tedcruz,” she shot back. “We also passed several COVID relief packages to the Senate that not only include >$500 billion, but also prioritize helping real people as opposed to Wall St bailouts the GOP tries to pass off as ‘relief.’ Nice try though.”
The House doesn’t have filibusters, @tedcruz.
We also passed several COVID relief packages to the Senate that not only include >$500 billion, but also prioritize helping real people as opposed to Wall St bailouts the GOP tries to pass off as “relief.”
Nice try though 👍🏽 https://t.co/X4YIdiXh5y
The faceoff allegedly has to do with the amount of money spent as proposed by the relief bill.
More than once Democrats have filibustered a vote on the scaled-back GOP proposal. Most recently they did it at the end of October. The bill, less than a third of the size of the $2.2 trillion figure backed by Democratic leaders, included boosted federal unemployment benefits, another round of funding for the Paycheck Protection Program, a key small business rescue program, money for schools, and liability protections for businesses.
Cruz clapped back: “AOC seems not to know there are Democrats in the Senate. Or that Joe Biden (also a Dem) is publicly calling on Senate Dems to continue filibustering COVID relief because he thinks it will help them win Georgia.”
.@AOC seems not to know there are Democrats in the Senate.
Or that Joe Biden (also a Dem) is publicly calling on Senate Dems to continue filibustering COVID relief because he thinks it will help them win Georgia. https://t.co/vy5HG3h2qr
This impasse has been going on for months now. Congress can’t seem to come to an agreed-upon compromise to pass another round of emergency relief for families and businesses still reeling from the pandemic after they passed the $2.2 trillion CARES Act in March. Ocasio-Cortez was one of the few lawmakers to vote against the bipartisan legislation, which she said left out key Democratic priorities. Cruz voted in favor of the bill.
Both parties are intent on passing a relief bill. But they disagree adamantly on the size and scope of it. With only eight legislative days left in their calendar, it’s increasingly unlikely that lawmakers will be able to strike a deal before the year ends. Mitch McConnell has said as much.
Differences in what is wanted here include funding for a virus testing plan, aid to state and local governments, and tax cuts for low- and middle-income families. The lack of compromise has befuddled lawmakers since May. The election chaos has not helped the matter either.
Approximately 12 million Americans will be left with no income the day after Christmas after two federal jobless aid programs created in March expire, according to a study published by the Century Foundation, a nonprofit think tank.
Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, a program created to provide jobless benefits to those not eligible for benefits, and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, which extends state unemployment benefits an extra 13 weeks, are both set to lapse at the end of the year. An additional program that provided $600 in extra unemployment benefits a week expired last July.
Job losses are rising and as COVID-19 cases experience a resurgence across the country, prompting state and local governments to implement new lockdown measures, economists are increasingly warning of a bleak winter. Foreclosures and evictions are also growing rapidly.
“There hasn’t been a bigger need for it in a long, long time here,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said last week in his latest appeal to Congress and the White House regarding another stimulus package.
The New York Times reported on Sunday that President-elect Joe Biden’s team was urging Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill to reach a deal with the GOP over COVID relief funding. The newspaper added that Biden’s advisers were also calling for the leaders to accept a smaller relief package than the one they had proposed, if necessary.
The Biden transition team later denied the report and told NBC News that the Democratic president-elect “fully supports” the negotiating positions of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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Coronavirus Has Revealed Just How Much Our Cities Exclude the Poor
At few other times in recent history have we been forced to confront a reality as starkly as the one facing us now. But where will we go from here?
A migrant worker holds her daughter's hand as she tries to board a crowded bus to return to her village, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, March 29, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi
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Only last month, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation constructed a wall to hide a cluster of slums from the sight of US President Donald Trump when he visited India.
The over-half-a-kilometre wall, hastily put up on the eve of Trump’s visit to the city, drew sharp criticism from various quarters. But invisibilising the poor and the spaces they live in – resettlement colonies, slums, city streets – has, for long, been familiar to India’s political and social culture. A culture sustained by structural exclusion and economic marginalisation.
It was finally left to a deadly, invisible contagion to temporarily reverse the process of enforcing such invisibility. The abrupt events of the past few days have pushed the middle classes out of the streets. In their place, thousands of migrant workers and daily-wage labourers have emerged from the shadows, taking over streets and occupying television in a way they never have before.
Also read: In Sketches, Migrant Labourers’ Long, Long Journey Home
The visual imagery of thousands of migrant workers walking hundreds of miles, trying to reach their homes across India’s villages and towns, put the lie to several myths about the state of the country. If the idea of removing poor people from the view of foreign VIPs was meant to project an image of a shining India, that image now lies in tatters.
Over the course of the last three decades, we have often heard politicians talk about transforming Delhi and other metropolitan centres into ‘world-class’ cities. After coming to power, the Narendra Modi government too advanced that idea. India is now ready to have ‘smart cities’, the prime minister boasted. Schemes were rolled out to empower a ‘digital India’ that would drag us from analog misery.
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A government of India website on smart cities says the project, aimed at “comprehensive development of physical, institutional, social and economic infrastructure,” will improve the quality of life and attract people and investment. Smart cities, were they even to materialise, would have made little difference to their lives lived on the margins of mainstream society. Meanwhile, the urban poor – those who built the malls, highways and high-rises the rest inhabit in comfort – have continued to live a life of exclusion and marginalisation.
The recent lockdown and pandemic have revealed the depth of that exclusion. Shunted from city to city, migrant workers are now quarantined wherever they managed to reach in their long march homewards.
Home is still a long way off. Why were workers so desperate to reach home even when it meant walking for several days? Human instinct, in a crisis, is to look towards home, considered to be a place of safety. “Staying home is typically what a person does to avoid danger, or more specifically, personal harm. This is the deep cognitive groove ‘home’ has carved into our brains, no matter how irrational, given what the reality of home, depending, might be,” Heidi Julavits wrote recently.
A labourer carries vegetable oil packets on a tricycle as a man stands in front of his shop selling food grains, at a wholesale market in Kolkata, India, January 4, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri/File photo
There is yet another layer to this tragedy. Even before they could stand once again on their feet, the victims of the communal violence that left 53 dead and several injured in northeast Delhi in February have been dealt another severe blow. Those whose homes were burnt down have been asked to leave the temporary camps they had taken shelter in. Journalist Amrit Dhillon, visiting the riot-hit areas, wrote about the stark situation staring survivors in the face. Their lives destroyed by the violence, the coronavirus pandemic has hit Muslims harder than the many others. “The pain of losing a home is still fresh. Now the coronavirus is battering them all over again,” Dhillon writes.
We don’t need to look far to find evidence of how the poor – workers in the informal sector who have given so much and reaped such little reward of globalisation – are everywhere and nowhere at the same time. In homes, educational institutions, workplaces, in banks, restaurants, airports and shopping malls. There is virtually no space that could function without the exploited labour of a population made redundant to the story of Indian success.
Well-heeled parents whose homes are swept, dusted clean, and whose meals are cooked by domestic workers who live in dire poverty, are reluctant to let their children sit next to their own in schools. In households, domestic workers are often not allowed to eat food out of the same plates or drink water from the same glass. They cannot sit on sofas and chairs they keep free from dust. How many people who watched award-winning films like Parasite in theatres spent even a minute thinking about the ways their actions perpetuate exactly the inequalities that film criticises?
Also read: A Poor Deal: What Alternative Are We Offering to Migrant Workers?
One is reminded of Mrinal Sen’s Kharij, where a middle-class Bengali family, on a cold December morning, wakes up to discover the dead body of Palan, their minor domestic help, sleeping on the kitchen floor. The film raises questions about middle-class apathy towards their domestic workers.
The erasure of the poor in a country riddled with poverty is an ironic fact of Indian life. We have learned to function like split personalities, turning away from scenes we don’t want to see while consuming voraciously everything we can. At few other times in recent history have we been forced to confront a reality as starkly as the one facing us now. But is there any reason to think confrontation will amount to anything significant? Or will we continue to stockpile and sanitise while watching the thousands who are left to fend for themselves however they can?
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Since the earliest evidence historians have of brewing, women have been doing the job. The first documentation of brewing beer or other fermented drink is thought to go back as far as 7,000 BCE, though we may still discover even older information one day. Many cultures have patron goddesses of brewing, like the Sumerian goddess Ninkasi. A song to her found on a 4,000 year old tablet contains the oldest known beer recipe.
In England in the Middle Ages, women, who were traditionally in charge of food preparation like baking, were basically in charge of everyone’s hydration. Not every area had a safe water source, and contaminated water could cause death, so ale was consumed by everyone, including children. Women called brewsters or alewives made this brew which had a fairly low alcohol content, enough to kill contaminants, but light enough to drink throughout the day.
These brewsters had much in common with the image we have in today’s society of a Halloween witch. Coincidence? Possibly not. Historians are tracing the connection between these alewives and propaganda from the Catholic Church depicting them as witches who cheat and charm their customers’ drinks. They aren’t entirely sure yet as to why this was done, though it is likely related to an increase in demand for ale, and the Church’s desire to control the money and the women doing the brewing. As demand for ale and beer grew, it began to be regulated as a larger business, one that women were kept out of by law. Women couldn’t join guilds, and these guilds had a monopoly on business, so those brewing outside of guild control may have been demonized to stop them from doing business. Historians are still researching the details, but check out some of the most common witches’ accessories and their corresponding uses in brewing. Your witchy Halloween costume may just be a brewster’s uniform!
Giving new (old?) meaning to the term “marketing”, brewsters wore tall, pointy hats while selling their beer on market days. This way, customers could spot them in a crowded market.
HERBS, POTIONS AND SPELLS
Early brewers had a deep understanding of herbs and spices, and could use them to transform unsanitary water into a low alcohol brew that could be safely consumed throughout the day. They could use them to change the flavor or tailor the brew with particular health benefits.
Beer brewing then as now requires a lot of grain, so a brewster’s best friend was a fierce pet cat to keep rodents away from the supply. Today you can still find many breweries that have cats with pest control jobs (check out @bonesanddomino, the Calusa Brewing cats, on IG).
Nowadays brewer’s have a fancier setup, but during the Middle Ages in England, there was nothing better than a huge metal cauldron to boil your wort for your brew.
If there’s one accessory witches always have, it’s a broom. Alewives need their broom as well, although it’s not for flying around. A broom also known as an alestake hung over your door indicated that a fresh batch of ale was ready for sale.
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MG Motors' electric vehicle sold out before launch, firm halts bookings
By Shally Seth Mohile | Mumbai | Last Updated at January 20 2020 21:42 IST
Topics Electric Vehicles | Electric vehicles in India | Electric Vehicle
MG Motor India president & MD Rajeev Chaba (left) unveiling the company’s electric car model ZS earlier this month. Photo: PTIMG Motors (Morris Garages) that sells the Hector brand of a premium SUV has received bookings for a little over 2,800 units in 27 days for MG ZS, its electric vehicle model that is set to go on sale from Wednesday.
This number is more than the total number (1,071) of electric cars sold in India in calendar year 2019. MG has stopped registrations for the ZS (expected to sell for Rs 20 lakh) and will cater to 2,409 of the total bookings. The ZS EV will initially launch in the Delhi region, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
This response to the ZS shows car buyers will pay a premium for an EV as long as it hits the sweet spot of price to value. The trend is prompting automobile makers to introduce models that address issues such as range anxiety and charging, while having the latest features; those in the mass and luxury segment of the passenger vehicle market are also preparing for offerings in the EV space.
The central government’s thrust on EVs is fuelling these plans. It has earmarked Rs 10,000 crore for three years till 2022 for its FAME-II scheme in this regard. Though this is an incentive scheme for only commercial vehicles, its focus on creating an enabling infrastructure has encouraged all. A reduction in the goods and services tax on EVs to 5 per cent, from 12 per cent, has helped.
Last week, luxury car market leader Mercedes-Benz announced its entry here, with the launch of its EQ brand. It plans to launch its first full electric vehicle, the EQC, in April.
"The EQ brand is a key pillar of our 'sustainable luxury' objective and is the first dedicated luxury electric brand in India," Martin Schwenk, chief executive, said at the launch.
In July 2019, Hyundai Motor India launched the Kona electric, a premium electric hatchback priced at Rs 25 lakh. Since the launch, the company has received bookings for 400 units and dispatched 300, a spokesperson said.
The ZS EV is a “globally-proven” offering that provides customers with the “practicality of an SUV” and “the performance of a sports car,” claimed MG. With a Five Star Euro NCAP rating.
The highest number of bookings for the model came from Bengaluru, followed by Hyderabad. Close to 40 per cent of the bookings were online. This underscores a significant shift in favour of digital media in consumer behavior within the automotive space, MG said.
“MG Motor India entered the EV space as a catalyst for the country’s nascent EV revolution by providing a complete end-to-end ecosystem,” said Rajeev Chaba, president and managing director at MG Motor India. The initial response shows consumers are ready for the “new-age EV proposition” when provided with a good product and infrastructure, he added.
In a 2020 Deloitte Global Automotive Study, close to 56 per cent of respondents from India cited lower emissions and operating cost as the main reason for preferring hybrid or battery electric vehicles. It also indicated that interest in battery EVs would rise if fossil fuel prices increase in a significant way. Around 82 per cent of Indian respondents said they'd opt for EVs if petrol exceeded Rs 152 a litre.
Read our full coverage on Electric Vehicles
First Published: Mon,January 20 2020 21:42 IST
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Protection of Aquatic Biodiversity in California: A Five-tiered Approach
Title Protection of Aquatic Biodiversity in California: A Five-tiered Approach
Authors Moyle, P. B., & Yoshiyama R. M.
Journal Fisheries
Pagination 6-18
Abstract Aquatic biodiversity is being lost at an even more rapid rate than terrestrial biodiversity, especially in arid regions such as California. In the United States, it is increasingly obvious that the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) cannot adequately deal with this loss. To help solve this problem, we have developed a five-tiered approach for aquatic conservation in California that should be applicable to other regions as well: (1) immediate ESA listing of species likely to be extirpated in the next 20 years; (2) implementation of restoration-oriented management strategies for clusters of declining species that inhabit the same habitats or drainages; (3) creation of a system of drainages and habitats called Aquatic Diversity Management Areas that provides systematic, statewide protection of aquatic biodiversity; (4) designation of a system of key watersheds, starting with seven pilot watershed projects that represent a diversity of challenges; and (5) development of schemes for bioregional landscape management. If this approach, or one like it, is not adopted soon, extinction rates of aquatic organisms in California most likely will accelerate. The hierarchical approach to conservation proposed here, with its focus on watersheds as the most practical unit of aquatic conservation, should have widespread applicability.
URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/1548-8446(1994)019<0006:POABIC>2.0.CO;2
DOI 10.1577/1548-8446(1994)019<0006:POABIC>2.0.CO;2
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e-Counselling & Admission by WBJEEB for 2014-15
Published in Higher Education. Tags: Admission.
Government of West Bengal
Higher Education Department
Technical Branch
Bikash Bhavan, 6th Floor, Salt Lake City, Kolkata – 700 091.
No. 268/Edn(T)/4E-10/12 Dated: 18th June, 2014
Whereas, the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board located at AQ-13/1, Sector-V, Salt Lake City, Kolkata-700001 has been entrusted, vide Govt. Order No. JS(T)-11-Edn(T), dated, 6th November, 2013, to conduct the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination for admission to Degree-level Engineering, Technology and Pharmacy courses as well as M.B.B.S./B.D.S. courses in the State of West Bengal in the academic session 2014-15;
And whereas the said Board has also been entrusted to conduct, counselling and admission process in respect of Degree-level Engineering, Technology, Pharmacy and Architecture courses in the academic session 2014-15:
And whereas for admission into the UG Courses in Engineering/ Technology/ Pharmacy/ Architecture, it is essential for the candidates to have appeared in the Slate Common Entrance Examination i.e. West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination for Engineering and Medical 2014 (WBJEEM-2014) or the National Level Common Entrance Examination i.e. Joint. Entrance Examination-2014 (JEE MAIN-2014) and secure a rank, as admission shall not be made on the basis of marks obtained in the 10+2 level of examination alone.
And whereas it has been decided by the State Govt. in the Higher Education Department to continue conduct of web-based online counselling (e-counselling) and admission process through WBJEEB for the academic session of 2014-15 also, for admission to undergraduate level Engineering, Technology, Pharmacy and Architecture courses in respect of all AICTE approved Engineering & Technology, Pharmacy Colleges as well as Universities/University Departments conducting such courses, including the Indian Institute of Engineering Science & Technology, Shibpur/ (erstwhile Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur) for its 5-year Dual-Degree Integrated B.Tech – M.Tech. Course;
The guidelines for e-counselling and admission process for academic session 2014-15 are provided hereunder:
THE GUIDELINES:
1.0 Scope of participation in e-Counselling and Admission Process:
1.1 For the 4-year Degree-level Engineering & Technology courses including the B. Pharm Course in respect of Jadavpur University as well as the 5-year dual degree integrated B.Tech – M.Tech. courses in respect of IEEST, Shibpur:
Candidates merit listed in the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination-2014 having General Merit Rank (GMR) and eligible for e-counselling as declared by the WBJEEB and/or candidates merit listed in the All India Joint Entrance Examination-2014 (i.e. JEE MAIN-2014), are eligible to participate
1.2 For the 4-year Degree-level Pharmacy Course in respect of all AICTE-approved Pharmacy Colleges (except Jadavpur University) of the State:
Candidates merit listed in the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination-2014 having Pharmacy Merit Rank (PMR) and eligible for e-counselling as declared by the WBJEEB and/or candidates merit Listed in the All India Joint Entrance Examination-2014 (i.e. JEE MAIN-2014) are eligible to participate.
1.3 For the 5-year Degree-level Architecture Course (B.Arch.) in respect of all AICTE approved institutions, including Jadavpur University and IIEST, Shibpur:
Candidates merit-listed in the West Bengal Joint. Entrance Examination-2014 having Engineering Merit Rank (EMR), and eligible for e-counselling as declared by WBJEEB with at least 50% marks in aggregate at 10+2 level (for Jadavpur University 60% in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics also) and having qualified in NATA or such other Aptitude Test as per the guidelines of the Council of Architecture (COA) and/or candidates merit-listed in the All India Joint Entrance Examination-2014, Paper-II i.e. JEE MAIN-2014 Paper-II (applicable only for Self financing B.Arch course) are disable to participate.
Note: For all the above courses, candidates must fulfil the eligibility criteria as mentioned in clause no. 5 (i.e. 5.1 to 5.4.4, Page No. 7 to Page No. 11) of the Information Brochure of the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination-2014.
2.0 Availability of seats for Admission through the e-Counselling Process-2014.
2.1 Govt. Engineering & Technology Colleges/ State-Aided Universities/ University Departments/ IIEST, Shibpur:
For Govt. Engineering and Technology Colleges, 100% seats shall be available for admission through the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination-2014 on the basis of General Merit Rank (GMR) in Engineering.
However, in case of University/ University Department/ IIEST Shibpur, seats available will be finally decided by the concerned University authorities and the same will be reflected in the seat matrix uploaded in the website of WBJEEB.
2.2 Self-Financing Engineering & Technology and Pharmacy Colleges:
10% of the affiliated seats in all such institutions shall be available for admission through All India Joint Entrance Examination-2014 (i.e. JEE-Main-2014) on the basis of General Merit Rank (GMR) for Engineering (also applicable for Pharmacy Courses).
For Institutions opting for 10% of seats for admission through Management Quota (where admission shall be made by the Management of the Institutions.), 80% of the approved and affiliated seals shall be available for admission through West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination-2014 on the basis of General Merit Rank (GMR) for Engineering Courses; and Pharmacy Merit Rank (PMR) for
Pharmacy Courses. For the Self-Financing: institutes not opting to admit students under the Management Quota, 90% of the seats shall be available for admission through the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination-2014:
2.3 Availability of 5% Seats on supernumerary basis under the Tuition Fee Waiver (TFW) Scheme of AICTE:
As per the TFW Scheme of AICTE, up to a maximum of 5% of the approved seats supernumerary in nature shall be available for admission through the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination-2014 on the basis of TFW Merit Rank (TMR) for all the participating Institutions including Universities/University Departments but excluding IIEST, Shibpur in respect of which the matter has been referred by the Institution to the competent authority.
The TFW Scheme is applicable only for candidates domiciled in the State of West Bengal.
Note: For the other information clause 16, page-22 of the Information Brochure of the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination – 2014 may be referred to.
3.0 Admission for Reserved Categories of Students :
3.1 Availability of seats for SC/ ST Category:
Reservation of seats for SC/ ST candidates shall be made as per the State Govt. Rides, in respect of all Govt. Engineering & Technology- Colleges us well as State-aided Universities/ University Departments following the Gazette Notification vide the West Bengal Act X of 2013, dated, 30th April, 2013 followed by the Rules vide Notification no. 07-Edn (U), dated, the 2nd January, 2014 published in the Kolkata Gazette vide Registered no. WB/S0247 dated 3rd January, 2014. For Self-Financing Engineering & Technology Colleges, reservation of seats for such students is not mandatory. However, seats may be made available by willing Institutions, and this would be reflected in the Seat Matrix provided in the website for e-counselling.
3.2 Availability of seats for PwD (Persons with Disabilities) Category Students:
Reservation of seats for PwD candidates shall be made as per the State Govt.
norms for all Govt. Engineering & Technology Colleges as well as State-aided Universities/University Departments following the Gazette Notification vide no. 65-Edn (U), dated 16.01.2014 i.e. persons with Disabilities will enjoy a 3% reservation in each of the categories i.e. SC. ST. OBC-A and OBC-B category of seats as well as in the Unreserved Category of seats. For Self-Financing Engineering & Technology Colleges, reservation of seats for such students is not mandatory. However, seats may be made available by willing Institutions, and this would be reflected in the Seat Matrix provided in the website for e-counselling.
3.3 Availability of seats for OBC-A and OBC-B Category students:
As per the Gazette Notification, vide the West Bengal Act X of 2013, dated, 30th April, 2013 followed by the Rules vide Notification no. 07-Edn(U), dated 2nd January, 2014 published in the Kolkata Gazette vide Registered no. WB/SC-247, dated, 3rd January, 2014, reservation of seats for such categories of students is applicable for Govt. Engineering & Technology Colleges and State-Aided Universities/University Departments subject to certain pre-conditions such as prior approval of regulatory authorities, creation/availability of infrastructure etc. In the academic session of 2014-15, availability of seats for OBC-A category and OBC-B category would be reflected in the Seat Matrix provided in the website for e-counselling.
For Self-Financing Engineering & Technology Colleges, reservation of seats for such students is not mandatory. However, seats may be made available by willing Institutions, which would be reflected in the Seat Matrix provided in the website for e-counselling.
Note: For the categories under 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3, marks of the qualifying examinations will be 5% less than the General Category of Students.
3.4 Availability of seats for students under Defence Quota:
Altogether 12 (twelve) seats in Engineering & Technology Colleges are available on supernumerary basis under this quota. Particulars of such seats, along with the procedure for availing such seats have been specified
in the Information Brochure of the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination-2014 vide Clause No. 7.6, page No. 16.
Allotment of seats under this category shall be made by the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board based on interse merit of applicants as per the procedure given in the said Information Brochure.
This category is outside the purview of the e-Counselling-2014.
3.5 Availability of seats for Minority Students:
For Minority Seats, admission shall be made in terms of G.O. No. 110-Edn (T) dated 07.03.2014. Five (05) AICTE approved Minority Professional/Technical Colleges (accorded Minority status by competent Authority) of this State under the Association of Minority Professional Academic Institutes (AMPAI) have conducted a separate common Entrance Examination (CEE-AMPAI-2014) for admission to 50% of approved seats in Engineering and Pharmacy course in the said 5 colleges.
The remaining 50% of the approved seats of the said five (05) colleges would be filled up by the WBJEEB through e-counselling in addition to any seat meant for admission by the Association that remain unfilled/ vacant, and which are surrendered for filling up through e-counselling by WBJEEB.
4.0 The Seat Matrix-2014:
The discipline-wise and Institution-wise seat matrix shall be prepared by the Directorate of Technical Education, Govt. of West Bengal based oft the status of approval and affiliation of seats for the academic session 2014-15 by the relevant authorities, with due concurrence from the State Govt. in the Higher Education Department.
The particulars of the availability of seats, discipline-wise as well as Institution-wise shall be available on the website of the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board for e-counselling process, including the unfilled/ vacant seats surrendered by the five (05) institutions under the Association of Minority
Professional Academic Institutes (AMPAI) after their separate counselling is over.
5.0 Procedure for admission of students in Degree-level Engineering, Technology, Architecture as well as Pharmacy courses in the academic session 2014-15 through e-counselling under WBJEEB:
5.1 On-Line Admission Process (e-counselling)
WBJEEB has been entrusted to conduct the entire e-counselling, allotment and admission (i.e. e-admission) process.
The Board will devise a schedule of dates accordingly, so as to complete the e-counselling process not later than 31st July, 2014.
5.1.1 There will be three rounds of counselling and allotment of seats. After physical reporting at the end of the third round, the e-counselling will be completed and a seat vacancy report will be generated.
5.1.2 Vacant Seals under any of the reserved categories i.e. SC. ST, OBC-A and OBC-B and PwD applicable for candidates merit-listed in the State Common Entrance Examination-2014 (i.e. WBJEEM-2014) as well as seats reserved for candidates for allotment through the merit list of the All India Entrance Examination-2014 (i.e. JEE-MAIN-2014) shall he accordingly converted to the unreserved category after the 2r-t!round of counselling and during the 3rd round of allotment. Those vacant seats shall be treated as unreserved category of seats and be accordingly offered for allotment in the third round of e-counselling.
5.1.3 Vacant Seats under the TFW category shall not be converted to general/unreserved category as per AICTE’s guidelines. Such vacant seats shall nor. lie offered for further allotment.
5.2 Steps for On-Line Admission Process (e-counselling)-2014:
5.2.1 Registration for e-counselling process:
For 4-year Degree-level Engineering and Technology courses including the B.Pharm course in respect of Jadavpur University as well as 5-year dual degree integrated B.Tech—M.Tech. courses in respect of IIEST, Shibpur, candidates merit listed in the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination-2014 having General Merit Rank (GMR) and eligible for e-counselling as declared by the WBJEEB and/ or candidates merit listed in the All India Joint Entrance Examination-2014 (i.e. JEE MAIN-2014) are eligible to participate in the registration process.
For the 4-year Degree-level Pharmacy Programme in respect of all AICTE approved Pharmacy Colleges (except Jadavpur University) of the State, candidates merit listed in the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination 2014 having Pharmacy Merit Rank (PMR) and eligible for e-counselling as may be declared by the WBJEEB and/ or candidates merit listed in the All India Joint Entrance Examination-2014 (i.e. JEE Main-2014) are eligible to participate in the registration process.
For the 5-year Degree-level Architecture course (B.Arch) in respect of all AICTE approved institutions, including Jadavpur University as well as IEEST, Shibpur, candidates merit-listed in the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination 2014 having Engineering Merit I lank (EMU) and eligible for e-counselling as may be declared by WBJEEB with at least 50% marks in aggregate at 10+2 level (for Jadavpur University 60% in Physics. Chemistry and Mathematics also) and having qualified in NATA or such other Aptitude Test as per the guide lines of the Council of Architecture (COA) and/ or candidates merit-listed in the JEE MAIN-2014 Paper-11 (applicable only for Self financing B.Arch course) are eligible to participate in the registration process.
5.2.2 Depositing Counselling Fees as specified in the guidelines. This fee is non-refundable.
5.2.3 Creation of Candidate’s Identity Code and Password.
5.2.4 Choice filling and choice locking.
5.2.5 Allotment of seats after the 1st round of iteration and e-communication to all the participating candidates.
5.2.6 Physical reporting at Reporting Centres – physical verification of the candidate’s documents with respect to the eligibility criteria, deposition of admission fees Rs. 4000/- for TFW Category of students, Rs. 5000/- for students allotted in University/University Departments/Govt. Engineering & Technology Colleges, Rs. 20,000/- for students allotted in self-financing engineering & technology colleges. Exercise option for further up-gradation. (Admission fees is adjustable and refundable only in respect of candidates withdrawing at Reporting Centre in any round of reporting).
5.2.7 2nd round of seat allotment, publication of result and e-communication to candidates.
5.2.8 Physical reporting at Reporting Centres for physical verification of the candidate’s documents with respect to the eligibility criteria and deposition of admission fees for fresh candidates and exercising option for up-gradation for fresh allottees. Candidates provisionally admitted in the 1st round of counselling may be allowed to exercise “no further up-gradation” option.
5.2.09 Generation of report on vacancy status under all reserved categories of seats. Conversion of unfilled/ vacant reserved category seats to unreserved category.
5.2.10 Third round of e-counselling and allotment. Publication of result and e; communication to all the candidates for physical reporting of fresh allottees and final admission of all candidates in the concerned Institutions.
5.2.11 Reporting by all the participating Institution on admission status to WBJEEB.
5.2.12 Generation of Report, on final admission status as well as vacancy status for all participating institution by WBJEEB.
5.2.13 Surrendering: of vacancy (discipline-wise and institution-wise), to the Directorate of Technical Education for de-centralised counselling and admission process.
The dates and detailed procedures related to centralized e-counselling will be announced by WBJEEB.
6.0 Procedure for admission of students in Degree-level Engineering, Technology, Architecture and Pharmacy courses in the academic session 2014-15 through the Decentralised Admission Process:
6.1 Vacant seats, if any. as per list generated by the Board after the entire e-counselling process is over (refer clause 5.2.13 above), may be considered for filling up by the concerned institutions from among the eligible candidates maintaining the following order of merit :
A. For Engineering & Technology
a) Candidates with WB-JEEB— 2014 rank (General Merit Rank)
b) Candidates with JEE-MAIN (Engineering & Technology) – 2014 rank (All India Rank).
c) Candidates with JELET-2014 rank and having passed Diploma Examination from an AICTE approved institution with at least 45% marks (40% in case of candidates belonging to reserved category) in the appropriate branch of Engg./Technology. This is applicable in case of those candidates who had sought Lateral Entry into 2nd year but could not get admission as Lateral Entry seats in 2nd year had got exhausted.
d) Candidates with Engineering Diploma from an AICTE approved institution with at least 45% marks (40% in case of candidates belonging to reserved Category) in appropriate branch of Engg./Tiechnology. This is applicable in case of those candidates who had sought Lateral Entry into year but could not get admission as Lateral Entry seats in 2nd year had got exhausted.
e) B.Sc passed candidates from a recognized University as defined by UGC, with at least 45 marks (40% in case of candidates belonging to reserved category) and passed XII standard with mathematics as a subject. This is applicable in case of those candidates who had sought Lateral Entry into 2nd year but could not get admission as Lateral Entry seats in 2nd year had got exhausted.
Note: Candidates under a) and b), have to fulfill the eligibility criteria as mentioned in clause no. 5 (i.e. 5.1 to 5.4.4, Page 7 to Page 11) of the Information Brochure of the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEEM) – 2014, which is available on the website wbjeeb.nic.in.
B. For Pharmacy
a) Candidates with WBJEEM – 2014 rank (Pharmacy Merit Rank)
b) Candidates with JEE MAIN-2014 rank.
c) Candidates with JELET-2014 (Pharmacy) rank with a Diploma from an AICTE approved institution with at least 45% marks (40% in case of candidates belonging to reserved category) in the appropriate branch. This is applicable in case of those candidates who had nought. lateral Entry into 2″‘1 year but could not get admission as Lateral Entry seats in 2nd year had got exhausted.
d) Candidates with Diploma and Post Diploma in Pharmacy from an AICTE-approved institution with at least 45% marks (40% in case of candidates belonging to reserved category) in Pharmacy. This is applicable in case of those candidates who had sought Lateral Entry into 2nd year but could not get admission as Lateral Entry seats in 2nd year had got exhausted.
Note: Candidates under a) and b) have to fulfil eligibility criteria as mentioned in clause no. 5 (i.e. 5.1 to 5.4.4, Page No. 7 to Page No. 11) of the Information Brochure of the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination-2014 (WBJEEM-2014) which is available on the website wbjeeb.nic.in.
C. For Architecture
a) Candidates with WBJEEM-2014 rank (General Merit Rank).
b) Candidates with JEE MAIN 2014 Paper II rank.
c) Diploma and Post-Diploma holders in Architectural Assistance ship and Town Planning from an AICTE approved institution.
Note : All the candidates seeking admission to 1st year B.Arch. have to secure 50% marks in the respective qualifying examination as per the guidelines of the Council of Architecture (COA). Candidates under a) and c) have to qualify NATA or such other Aptitude Test. All the remaining eligibility criteria shall be the same as Engineering and Technology as mentioned under category A above.
6.2 For decentralized counselling, the Institutions shall have to follow the procedures mentioned below:
i) After the completion of three rounds of e-counselling the institutions having vacancies in various streams and willing to admit students through Decentralized Counselling, shall declare the list of vacancies. The “Notice” seeking application from eligible candidates has to be posted on their respective Notice Board of the Institute.
ii) Individual institutions shall post the list of applicants with their rank/marks, as applicable, on their website and Not ice Board.
iii) Thereafter, the concerned institutions shall scrutinize all such applications and finalize suitable candidates based on their as per the order and criteria mentioned under clause 6.1 of these guidelines.
iv) Merit list of the students thus prepared for admission into individual institution has to be sent to the WBUT or the concerned University, as the case may be, within seven (07) days of its publication.
v) Thereafter, the respective institutions shall complete the admission process within the time stipulated by the affiliating University so that the candidates are registered with the affiliating University in a time bound manner.
7.0 Management Quota:
Self-financing colleges may admit a maximum of 10% of the affiliated seats under Management Quota from among the WBJEEM-2014 and JEE MAIN-2014 merit-listed/ranked candidates and JEE MAIN-2014 Paper-II (for Architecture) subject to fulfilment of the State eligibility criteria mentioned under clause 5 (i.e. 5.1 to 5.4.4, page 7 to page 11) of the Information Brochure of West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination-2014 (WBJEEM-2014), which is also available in the website: www.wbjeeb.nic.in.
Furthermore, the seats under the Management Quota which remain vacant, maintaining above procedure, may be filled up through decentralized counselling process enumerated under clause 6.1 and 6.2 of this guideline.
The said admission must be completed within the time lines stipulated by the affiliating University so that the candidates are registered with affiliating University in a timely manner.
Sd/- Vivek Kumar
No. 268/Edn(T) dated 18.06.2014
Guidelines for Admission to B.Ed Course, 2018
Online Admission into UG/PG without any Physical Presence
Eligibility and Procedure for Admission to D.El.Ed, 2018-20
Admission through De-Centralized Counseling, 2018-19
WBCHSE (Admission and Allied Matters) Regulations, 2006
Guidelines for Admission to Degree Level Engineering Courses, 2019-20
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Anna Hibiscus
Categories: Africa, West
Anna Hibiscus, who lives in Africa with her whole family, loves to splash in the sea and have parties for her aunties, but Anna would love to see snow.
The Matilda Effect
Author(s): Ellie Irving
Matilda loves science and inventing. Her heroes are Marie Curie, Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison, and one day she wants to be a famous inventor herself. So when she doesn’t win the school science fair, she’s devastated – especially as the judges didn’t believe she'd come up with her entry on her own. Because she's a girl. When Matilda shares her woes with her Grandma Joss, she's astonished to learn her grandma was once a scientist herself – an astrophysicist, who discovered her very own planet. Trouble is, Grandma Joss was also overlooked – her boss, Professor Smocks, stole her discovery for himself. And he's about to be presented with a Nobel Prize. Matilda concocts a plan. They'll crash the award ceremony and tell everyone the truth! So begins a race against time - and against Matilda's strict mum and dad! - on a journey through Paris, Hamburg and Stockholm, and on which they encounter a famous film star, a circus, and a wanted diamond thief...
Pop-Up Kings and Queens
Categories: Great Britain
A pop-up book of British kings and queens, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II. Why did Elizabeth I refused to get married? Why did Charles I wear two shirts to his execution? Find out all about the most famous British kings and queens in this fun-packed pop-up book, full of flaps and fascinating facts. A perfect gift or souvenir purchase. ; Every king and queen of Great Britain is included in the timeline that weaves through the book, so children can see who ruled when. ;Published in association with Historic Royal Palaces and illustrated by up-and-coming illustrator Rachael Saunders.
Mango and Bambang
Author(s): Polly Faber, Clara Vulliamy
Categories: Children's stories
Publisher: Mango and Bambang
Mango Allsorts is good at all sorts of things, not just karate and chess. Bambang is most definitely not-a-pig and is now lost in a very busy city. When the two unexpectedly meet, a friendship begins, filled with adventures, and of course, plenty of banana pancakes. Mango and the muddle -- Bambang's pool -- Bambang puts on a hat -- The song of the Tapir.
The No 1 Car Spotter
Author(s): Atinuke
Categories: Automobiles
Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers
Oluwalase Babatunde Benson is Number 1. He's the Number 1 car spotter in his village. The Number 1 car spotter in the world! The start of an exciting new series about the irresistible Number 1, whose hobby is car spotting, but who is good at solving all sorts of problems for his village.
Reflect And Relate An Introduction
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DEATH IN THE TERMINAL at the Doc10 Film Festival
A version of the following piece will appear at the Time Out Chicago website sometime before Friday.
The must-see doc Death in the Terminal will receive its U.S. premiere in Chicago this weekend
The second annual Doc10 Film Festival will take place at the Davis Theater from Thursday, March 30 through Sunday, April 2. As with last year’s impressive debut lineup, Doc10 will again highlight the best in contemporary nonfiction cinema by presenting the local premieres of 10 important documentaries curated by Anthony Kaufman (who also programmed the documentary slate at the Chicago International Film Festival for the past two years). While I was impressed with each of the four titles I have been able to preview so far (at least one of which, the much buzzed about Rat Film, will certainly return to Chicago screens at some point this year), my favorite of the bunch is the lower-profile Death in the Terminal, an Israeli movie still awaiting five user votes on the IMDb that will be receiving not just its Chicago premiere at Doc10 but its U.S. premiere as well. Although the running time clocks in at a lean 52 minutes, this incredibly complex and disturbing documentary by co-directors Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sudry does more to explain the culture of violence in the Middle East today than any other single work of art I know of. This is perhaps because it focuses on a single 18-minute incident (a terrorist attack at a bus station in Israel, and its immediate aftermath) in a way that feels like a microcosm of the conflict as a whole.
Death in the Terminal dramatically juxtaposes surveillance video footage from multiple security cameras — plus one eyewitness cell phone video — with interviews with six subjects (including police officers, a falafel vendor, an EMT and a couple of civilian bystanders) in order to piece together what happened in Beersheba in 2015 when an Israeli soldier was senselessly gunned down by a Bedouin terrorist and, equally senselessly, an innocent Eritrean refugee was mistakenly lynched in response. The film plays out like a negative version of Keith Maitland’s Tower, the superb animated doc from last year that focused on the heroism of civilians and police during the 1966 sniper shootings at the University of Texas in Austin; only where Maitland’s humanist movie showed people “doing the right thing” in the face of tragedy, Shemesh and Sudry’s darker and thornier work focuses on people who did the wrong thing, thereby perpetuating an insane cycle of violence and retribution. But Shemesh and Sudry also thankfully have no interest in pointing fingers or casting easy blame: their film explicitly challenges viewer assumptions about how we might react in similar circumstances, a provocation nowhere more apparent than in a haunting final shot where security-cam footage is run backwards. As soon as it’s over you may feel that you need to watch it again.
Death in the Terminal screens on Saturday, April 1 at 9:15pm followed by a Skype Q&A with the filmmakers. More information on DOC10, including the full lineup, can be found on the DOC10 website.
2 Comments | tags: Asaf Sudry, Death in the Terminal, Tali Shemesh | posted in Film Festivals, Film Reviews
1. Los Olvidados (Bunuel)
2. Tower (Maitland)
3. We Won’t Grow Old Together (Pialat)
4. The Sting (Hill)
5. Raw (Ducournau)
6. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
7. Contempt (Godard)
8. Germany Year Zero (Rossellini)
9. Rules Don’t Apply (Beatty)
10. The Babadook (Kent)
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AUSTERLITZ and THE SON OF JOSEPH at CEUFF
A version of the following piece should appear at Time Out Chicago sometime before Friday.
The Chicago European Union Film Festival kicked off at the Gene Siskel Film Center on March 3 and continues until the end of the month. Here are my “best bets” for the festival’s fourth and final week.
Austerlitz is a provocative and challenging German documentary on the subject of “Holocaust tourism” by the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa (Maidan). The film daringly eschews all of the usual contextualizing devices of non-fiction cinema (interviews, voice-over narration, onscreen texts, etc.) and merely presents viewers with static long-take shots of men and women filing into and out of museums on the grounds where the death camps at Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen once stood. Most of the subjects look as though they could be visiting an amusement park or any other major tourist attraction but Loznitsa’s refusal to provide any sort of commentary on the stark black-and-white images means that viewers are left to draw their own conclusions about why people visit these sites and whether or not it’s disrespectful to do so in a shirt emblazoned with the words “Cool Story, Bro.”
American-born French director Eugene Green (La Sapienza) returns to CEUFF with The Son of Joseph, a masterful comedy/drama about a teenage boy (Victor Ezenfis) searching for the identity of his birth father (Mathieu Amalric), a journey that ends up taking on parallels to the Biblical stories of the birth of Christ and Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac. The film’s extensive meditation on father/son relationships, which offers an optimistic view of how we may not choose the families we’re born into but that we can choose our own surrogate family members, makes it an unlikely companion piece to Warren Beatty’s criminally underrated Rules Don’t Apply. Green’s employment of Bressonian non-acting, direct-camera address and absurd humor (a digression involving a young man selling sperm on the internet is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in years) adds up to a vision as singular as it is satisfying.
Austerlitz screens on Sunday, March 26 and Wednesday, March 29. The Son of Joseph screens on Friday, March 24 and Wednesday, March 29. For more info, including ticket info and showtimes, visit the Siskel Center’s website.
3 Comments | tags: Austerlitz, Eugene Green, Sergei Loznitsa, The Son of Joseph | posted in Film Festivals, Film Reviews
1. Arrival (Villeneuve)
2. Naked Childhood (Pialat)
3. The Islands and the Whales (Day)
4. Death in the Terminal (Shemesh/Sudry)
5. The Cinema Travelers (Abraham/Madheshiya)
6. Rat Film (Anthony)
7. Detour (Ulmer)
8. The Swindle (Chabrol)
9. L’enfer (Chabrol)
10. Betty (Chabrol)
ETHEL & ERNEST and THE ORNITHOLOGIST at CEUFF
The Chicago European Union Film Festival kicked off at the Gene Siskel Film Center on March 3 and continues until the end of the month. My best bets for the festival’s third week are a beautiful, hand-drawn animated film from England and a surreal, dreamlike allegory from Portugal.
Based on a graphic novel by Raymond Briggs (best known for penning the animated holiday favorite The Snowman), Roger Mainwood’s Ethel & Ernest is a deceptively simple but deeply moving account of the lives of an ordinary married couple living in London from the late 1920s through the early 1970s. The title characters of Briggs’ book were explicitly based on his own parents and the way the film’s elliptical narrative quietly moves from one relatively uneventful vignette to another over the span of half a century has all the intimacy and emotion of flipping through a cherished family photo album. More than one critic has compared the film to the opening marriage montage of Pixar’s Up if that sequence had been sustained for the running time of an entire feature. The voice work of Jim Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn as the central couple is magnificent and cinephiles should especially appreciate that their first date involves taking in a screening of John Ford’s Hangman’s House.
João Pedro Rodrigues’ previous feature, the superb The Last Time I Saw Macao, received its local premiere at CEUFF in 2013 and this more ambitious follow-up is one of the highlights of the filmgoing year so far. Short on plot but long on spellbinding imagery, The Ornithologist concerns the misadventures of a young man named Fernando (Paul Hamy) who is kidnapped by Chinese tourists while on a bird-watching expedition in a dense forest near the Portuguese/Spanish border. After escaping, Fernando attempts to return to civilization but, like Ulysses and St. Anthony of Padua before him, finds himself continually sidelined by encounters with a menagerie of strange characters (including a deaf-mute shepherd named Jesus). The homoeroticism and mystical-jungle imagery may put one in the mind of Apichatpong Weerasethakul but the Catholic symbolism and meditation on solitude vs. companionship are distinctly Rodrigues’ own.
Ethel & Ernest screens on Friday, March 17 and Saturday, March 18. The Ornithologist screens on Saturday, March 18 and Thursday, March 23. For more info visit the Siskel Center’s website.
2 Comments | tags: Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Raymond Briggs, Roger Mainwood, The Ornithologist | posted in Film Festivals, Film Reviews
1. Failan (Song)
2. Inspector Bellamy (Chabrol)
3. Before Midnight (Linklater)
4. Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny (Black/Bernstein)
5. Before Sunset (Linklater)
6. Eyes Without a Face (Franju)
7. Citizen Kane (Welles)
8. Selling Stupid (Carrier)
9. Before Sunrise (Linklater)
10. Far from Heaven (Haynes)
SLACK BAY at the Chicago European Union Film Festival
I was very taken with Bruno Dumont’s batshit crazy Slack Bay, which screens twice at the Siskel Center’s Chicago European Union Film Fest over the next week. A version of this review should appear at Time Out Chicago sometime before Friday.
The Chicago European Union Film Festival kicked off at the Gene Siskel Film Center on March 3 and continues until the end of the month. My best bet for the festival’s second week is also my favorite of the 14 titles I’ve previewed so far: Bruno Dumont’s Slack Bay, an off-the-wall police procedural/slapstick farce that features a healthy dose of social criticism to boot. It’s a worthy follow up to Dumont’s acclaimed 2014 television mini-series Li’l Quinquin, which similarly combined a murder-mystery plot with slapstick comedy (surprising at the time given that Dumont’s previous work was noted for its marked lack of humor). While Quinquin was set in the present day and focused on a pair of incompetent police officers investigating a series of murders in a small town where racism and xenophobia are rampant, Slack Bay is set just before World War I and focuses on bumbling cops investigating a series of killings in a coastal town whose socio-economic gulf represents seemingly eternal French class divisions. As if the positive response to Quinquin has given him confidence, Dumont also successfully turns the wackiness here up to 11; Slack Bay is one of the funniest and craziest films in recent memory.
The plot concerns two families whose paths cross on France’s scenic Channel Coast: the savage, working-class Bruforts, permanent residents of “Slack Bay” who make their living from fishing and ferrying, and their opposite numbers, the Van Peteghems, aristocrats who vacation there only during the summertime. Each family is satirically shown through a grotesque, archetypal and deliberately exaggerated lens (as bloodthirsty cannibals and inbred blue-bloods, respectively) – the very lens, in other words, through which the families might subjectively view each other. Dumont’s conception of the Brufort children as all male and the Van Peteghem children as all female allows him to create a provocative dialectic between “barbarism” and “civilization.” This class divide between the families is only bridged when the sexually ambiguous Billie Van Peteghem (Raph), a girl who disguises herself as a boy, attracts the romantic interest of the brutish “Ma Loute” Brufort (Brandon Lavieville). Plus, there’s a police inspector so corpulent that he literally has trouble standing upright (Didier Despres) and French screen legend Juliette Binoche, as an eccentric Van Peteghem aunt, performing in a more cartoonish register than you’ve ever seen her.
Slack Bay screens on Saturday, March 11 and Thursday, March 16. For more info visit the Siskel Center’s website.
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1. Ethel & Ernest (Mainwood)
2. The Lady from Shanghai (Welles)
3. A Man Escaped (Bresson)
4. The Lady Eve (Sturges)
5. It’s Not the Time of My Life (Hajdu)
6. Two Nights Till Morning (Kuparinen)
7. Dancer in the Dark (Von Trier)
9. The Unknown Girl (Dardenne/Dardenne)
10. Jour de Fete (Tati)
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PERSONAL SHOPPER and THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV at the Chicago European Union Film Festival
My latest Time Out blog post concerns the first week of the 20th annual Chicago European Union Film Fest, the lineup of which is typically excellent. I present the uncut version of that article below.
What to see during the first week of the Chicago European Union Film Festival
Christmas for Chicago cinephiles comes every March when the Chicago European Union Film Festival, now in its impressive 20th year, descends on the Gene Siskel Film Center. The CEUFF is the film-lover’s film festival, the one that gets many Chicago critics and cinephiles the most excited because it always manages to host the local premieres of dozens of exciting European titles by major directors that other festivals, including the Chicago International Film Festival, have failed to land during the previous year. This year is no different, with the CEUFF premiering a whopping 62 new European films from “all 28 EU nations” (though, confusingly with regards to Brexit, this includes the United Kingdom). Below are my best bets for the festival’s first week.
The Kristen Stewart vehicle Personal Shopper, which reteams the American actress with her Clouds of Sils Maria director Olivier Assayas, gained instant notoriety upon its 2016 Cannes premiere when the first press screening was greeted with boos while the first public screening garnered a lengthy standing ovation. Both reactions are understandable: Stewart’s unique, sometimes controversial brand of “underplaying” has rarely been used to better effect than here—as a celebrity assistant living in Paris, haunted by the unexpected death (and perhaps literal ghost) of her beloved twin brother—though the mystery/drama hybrid film that surrounds her is not always as successful as her fine central performance. For better or worse, Assayas’ films often have a quickly written, rough-draft quality, as if he’s so excited to mash up disparate ideas and genres that jarring tonal shifts sometimes result. Still, I much prefer a movie as rich in ideas as this one, where the flaws arise from it being overly ambitious at times to the opposite case scenario.
Even better is The Death of Louis XIV, a masterful French film by the Spanish writer/director Albert Serra (The Story of My Death) that casts the legendary Jean-Pierre Leaud (The 400 Blows) in the titular role. Although the fabled “Sun King” is one of the most beloved figures in all of French culture (right up there with Joan of Arc and Napoleon), Serra perversely chooses to focus only on his agonizing final days as he lies dying of gangrene, with doctors and valets mincing about, after returning home from a hunting trip. The formal control of Serra’s precise compositions and exquisitely candle-lit interiors, which resemble 18th century paintings, is impressive but don’t let the somber veneer distract you from the movie’s most appealing aspect: its bizarre, poker-faced sense of humor. One unforgettable scene in which a quack doctor offers Louis a miracle cure for gangrene (in which bull sperm and frog fat are among the ingredients) plays like an arthouse version of Steve Martin’s old “Medieval Barber” sketches on Saturday Night Live.
Personal Shopper screens on Saturday, March 4 and Wednesday, March 8, and The Death of Louis XIV screens on Sunday, March 5. For showtimes and ticket information, visit the Siskel Center’s website.
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The White Pages
Random musings and thoughts on SharePoint, Business Intelligence, Microsoft technology, and occasionally even diving from John White
Category: SQL Server
SQL Server Reporting Services vs Power BI Report Server – What’s the Difference?
Power BI Report Server (PBIRS) was first introduced in May 2017. Based on SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), it brings the ability to work with Power BI reports completely on premises in addition to all the other capabilities of SSRS. Given this, it would be reasonable to conclude that PBIRS was the next version of, or a replacement for SSRS, but that is not the case. I have heard people state that SSRS is “going away”, but this is simply not the case. SSRS is still a core part of the Microsoft BI stack. So, what are the differences between the two platforms? The differences boil down to features, licensing, and update cadence.
Early builds of SSRS 2017 (V.Next at the time) contained the ability to render Power BI (Interactive) reports in addition to the “classic” RDL (Paginated) reports that SSRS is well known for and the recently added RSMOBILE (Mobile) report types. However, when PBIRS was introduced, SSRS lost that capability, and from a feature standpoint, it really was the only difference between the two. The recent introduction of the Excel report type (Analytical) to PBIRS has further differentiated the two products.
From a features standpoint, the differences between the two products are straightforward. PBIRS is a superset of SSRS. It contains everything that SSRS has, and it ads the ability to render both Interactive (PBIX) and Analytical (XLSX) reports.
Licensing is where things get a little more involved. SSRS was always included on the SQL Server installation media, but with SQL Server 2017, this is no longer the case, it’s a separate download (the RC version of SSRS 2017 is currently available for download here). However, the license for SSRS is still tied to your version of SQL Server. Therefore, if you have a license for Standard mode SQL Server, you will be able to use the Standard mode features of SSRS, Enterprise unlocks the Enterprise features, etc. As of the 2017 version, there is also no longer an Integrated mode of SSRS, it’s Native Mode only.
Power BI Report Server is licensed in one of two ways. Purchasing Power BI Premium capacity gives you a license to run the same number of cores as you have in the capacity. This ONLY applies to Premium P SKUs, not any others such as EM. The other way that it can be licensed is by purchasing SQL Server Enterprise Edition + Software Assurance.
Release cadence
Just as with licensing, the timing of releases of SSRS is also tied to that of SQL Server. Whenever a new version of SQL Server is released, a new version of SSRS will be as well. This is not the case for PBIRS. Since PBIRS is considered a standalone product this makes sense, and the constant pace of change in the Power BI service itself necessitates a more frequent update cadence.
As an example, PBIRS first came into General Availability (GA) in June 2017, and as of this writing (Sept 2017) is already in preview for its next release, whereas SSRS 2017 hasn’t yet gone to GA.
The choice between which platform to use will likely be straightforward and likely driven by requirements. If your organization only uses paginated reports on premises, you may find that SSRS is a more cost-effective option. If, on the other hand you have the need to render interactive or analytical reports on premises, or you already have SQL Server Enterprise Edition with Software Assurance, then PBIRS will likely be your best choice. There are no circumstances that I can think of where both products will be advisable, if you have PBIRS, you have everything that SSRS offers and more.
Power BI Report Server Completes the Vision for On-Premises Reporting
Microsoft today made available the August 2017 preview of Power BI ReportServer 2017. This preview includes the long awaited support of embedded data models, as well as the ability to render Excel reports natively. This is a major step forward, because with this release, Microsoft has completed its vision for its on-premises reporting platform that it first articulated in October of 2015.
Excel content being rendered in Power BI Reporting Server
The big news at the time was that the platform was stated to be SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). Not SharePoint, not PerformancePoint, but SSRS. SSRS was a mature product that quite competently provided a platform for operational reports. What it needed was some modernization and the addition of some analytical and self-service reporting capabilities. Several of these capabilities were subsequently included with the release of SSRS 2016.
Gone would be the days of configuring complex SharePoint farms just to be able to work with analytical reports (ie Power View, Excel). New Features were being added to SSRS to make it a complete platform for both analytical and operational reports.
The roadmap articulated four different report types, 3 of them analytical (by my definition) and one of them operational. These three types line up with reporting tools in the Microsoft BI stack:
Name Type Primary authoring tool ext
Paginated Operational SSRS Report Builder
SQL Server Data Tools .RDL
Interactive Analytical Power BI Desktop .PBIX
Mobile Analytical Mobile Report Designer .RDLX
Analytical Analytical Excel .XLSX
Therefore, reading between the lines, in order to be a complete reporting platform, SSRS needed to be able to render all of these report types. Paginated reports were of course always native to SSRS, and the roadmap announced that Mobile reports would be included in SSRS 2016 through the integration of Datazen. The roadmap further committed to SSRS being able to render Power BI files in the future.
SSRS 2016
SSRS shipped with some significant modernization improvements, including a much awaited HTML5 rendering engine, and it included Mobile Reports. Mobile reports are delivered through the Power BI mobile application, and SSRS visuals can be pinned to Power BI dashboards.
Significant plumbing was done to move the platform forward in 2016, but it still only rendered 2 of the 4 report types.
In November 2016, it was further announced that the 2016 version of SSRS running in SharePoint Integrated mode would be the last. Moving forward, Reporting Services will only run in Native Mode. In the same announcement. In the same announcement, as I noted in another post, for the first time, the SSRS team committed to providing Excel report rendering capability as well.
Power BI Reporting Server
We first saw the on premises rendering of Power BI reports in the first community preview of SSRS V.Next in the fall of 2016. Those previews required that the reports be directly connected to SSAS tabular models, but they were ground-breaking just the same. A user could be totally disconnected from the web, and still render Power BI reports.
In May of 2017, Power BI Report Server (PBIRS) was announced. A less confusing name could have potentially been SSRS Premium, because that is in essence what it is. PBIRS is everything that SSRS is, plus the ability to render Power BI reports. SSRS will continue forward as a product without Power BI rendering capabilities. It is just a licensing distinction.
The release today of the August 2017 preview of PBIRS allows for embedded data models, and therefore a much wider breadth of capabilities. These models cannot be automatically refreshed yet, but they will upon release. This is, after all, just a preview. If you need automatic refresh of these data models in the meantime, there is an excellent third party solution to do this: PowerPivot Pro’s Power Update.
The inclusion of Excel report rendering capabilities means that PBIRS is a complete report rendering platform, more complete even that the Power BI cloud service.
Now that the basic on-premises capability has been provided, SSRS/PBIRS needs to pay attention to paying back the debt that it incurred when SharePoint Integrated mode was deprecated. Chief among these features is the SSRS web part. The lack of a decent web part is a blocker for many organizations to move forward with this strategy. Some migration tools to move from Integrated to Native mode (like this one that migrates in the other direction) would be highly useful as well.
Now with on-premises covering all the bases, it’s easy to spot a glaring hole in the cloud Power BI offering. While it supports all three types of analytical reports, there is currently no way to render operational reports in the cloud. Until this capability is provided, it appears that on-premises will have the most complete solution.
Completing the Microsoft Reporting Roadmap
In the recent announcement outlining the SharePoint integration strategy on the SQL Server Reporting Services Team’s blog, there was a statement that was almost hidden that I think deserves more attention. The statement was:
“….in time, we aim to support web-based viewing of Excel workbooks in Native mode…”
This may not sound like a big deal – after all, we’ve been able to serve up Excel workbooks in a browser since Excel Services was initially introduced with SharePoint 2007. However, as per Microsoft’s Reporting Roadmap from October 2015, Reporting Services is their on-premises solution for BI report delivery. If an Excel workbook is to be considered a report, the SSRS absolutely should be able to do it. The roadmap defined four types of reports:
I tend to see there being two types of reports, Structured and Analytical. In the list above, Structured corresponds with Paginated, and the other 3 types are different subtypes of Analytical. They four categories do, however line up well with the different reporting technologies available.
Report Type File Type
Paginated RDL (Classic SSRS)
Interactive PBIX (Power BI)
Analytical XLSX (Excel)
Mobile RSMOBILE (SSRS Mobile aka Datazen)
The roadmap was primarily concerned with the future of SSRS, but SSRS is Microsoft’s stated report delivery platform for on-premises reporting. The platform for cloud reporting is of course Power BI. There is a third platform for the delivery of “Analytical”, or Excel based reports, and that’s Excel Online. On premises, it’s called Office Online Server, but it is the same technology. The three platforms and their capabilities are shown below.
Excel Online/OOS
The technical preview of Power BI reports in Reporting Services is available for testing, which covers Interactive reports in SSRS, and the above statement indicates that there is a solution to support Analytic reports in SSRS as well. The Power BI platform does this already, and it is done by leveraging the capabilities of Excel Online. Given the fact that Office Online server provides the same capabilities on premises, it makes sense that it would be used by SSRS when the Excel workbook support is added.
It should also be noted that the above comparison shows Mobile reports being supported by Power BI. To be clear, Power BI does not support RSMOBILE files, but regular Power BI reports are inherently mobile and available through the Power BI mobile client. which is also how RSMOBILE reports are delivered to end users.
The Reporting Services team is clearly very close to completing the vision laid out over a year ago, in the Reporting Roadmap for on-premises users. If the goal is to have parity between on-premises and cloud platforms, the only thing remaining (apart from possible support of the RSMOBILE format) is support for Paginated reports in Power BI. There have been no statements made regarding this capability, but its absence is certainly notable.
The Future of Report Integration with SharePoint
Yesterday, Microsoft made official what many, including myself had been suspecting ever since the release of SQL Server 2016 – that SQL Server Reporting Services Integrated mode would not exist in the future. With the announcement, we now know the timeline of when that will happen. SSRS Integrated Mode will not be included with the next version of SQL Server. Instead, SSRS Native mode will be more tightly integrated with SharePoint for those organizations that use both products. As someone that has always approached Business Intelligence from the SharePoint point of view, I see this is a good thing.
This change is another step in the process of de-cluttering and uncomplicating SharePoint. This process started arguably with the move away from fully trusted code running on SharePoint, to the newer app, add-in and now SPFx development models that run with SharePoint. When Excel Services was removed from SharePoint in SharePoint 2016, with its capabilities moved to Office Online Server this process became obvious. A decreased dependency on SharePoint allows for simpler, more streamlined architectures, better options for upgrade management, and better, more targeted performance management.
SSRS SharePoint Integrated mode has been with us in various forms since it was first introduced in SQL Server 2005 SP2. The original goal was to simplify the integration of the two products, and to take advantage of SharePoint’s storage and authorization capabilities. The integration has always worked well, but the very fact that these two products were delivered by two different product teams on different media, often on different release schedules has typically led to a great deal of confusion. The SharePoint prerequisite for Integrated Mode leads to far too many SQL servers having SharePoint installed on them.
Managing SSRS in SharePoint Integrated mode requires a combined skill set to some degree as well, with knowledge of both SSRS and SharePoint. SharePoint administrators tend to be intimidated by SSRS, and SharePoint simply mystifies SQL DBAs.
The fact that the two different modes did not always maintain feature parity is another problem. PowerView and several other features are only available through SharePoint integrated mode. This results in entire SharePoint farms being created for the sole purpose of providing reporting features. Since those performing these installations are typically not familiar with SharePoint best practices, these farms tend to be unreliable. The latest release of SSRS 2016 contains a massive number of new features, but many of them in Native mode only, leaving the SharePoint integrated folks with a decision whether to favour features or integration.
A strategy that reduces the dependency of one platform on the other is therefore to everyone’s advantage.
The two operating modes also represent two different code streams for Microsoft to maintain. Given the finite set of resources that is any development team, resources must be spent on maintaining both of these streams that could otherwise be applied to features. A single code stream is simply more efficient.
Preventing the wholesale move to Native mode are several SharePoint integration features that have been employed over the years that are only available in SharePoint Integrated mode.
There has been a SharePoint Report viewer web part for SSRS Native mode since SharePoint 2003. The trouble is that while it does work, it is deprecated, and hasn’t been updated since SQL Server 2008 R2. It also doesn’t allow for parameter binding, or interface control. For all intents and purposes, it is an iFrame embed of a report. The web part that is available through integrated mode allows for parameter interactivity, and significant control of the look and feel. It has been widely deployed. Integrated mode also allows for the reporting of SharePoint list data, and the ability to publish reports to a SharePoint library on a schedule. These features are well utilized in the market today.
Power View reports (RDLX) built on top of SSAS tabular models, or Excel Power Pivot models also require Integrated mode. Compounding this is the fact that Power View requires Silverlight, which does not work in either the Chrome nor the Microsoft Edge browsers.
These integration features will need to be added to Native mode before it will be possible to fully abandon Integrated mode. The good news is that the announcement commits to doing just that. Report embed, Report viewer web part, and SharePoint library destination capabilities will all be added. For Power View reports, a conversion tool will be provided to convert from RDLX into Power BI Desktop (PBIX). A technical preview is already availably that demonstrated PBIX rendering in SSRS.
This announcement signals the end of SSRS SharePoint Integrated mode, but it does not spell the end of SSRS SharePoint integration. The single mode architecture should be more approachable, simpler, and more efficient. It’s a win all the way around.
SQL Server 2016–Which Edition Do You Need for Business Intelligence?
For the past several releases, SQL Server has come in 6 possible editions. Developer, Express, Web, Standard, Business Intelligence, and Enterprise. Developer, Express and Web are for specific workloads, which leaves Standard, BI, and Enterprise. The choice of which edition to use would seem to be obvious – the one named Business Intelligence. However, Enterprise contained all of the features that the BI edition did, and in many cases, wound up being a better choice from a licensing perspective. Standard mode also provided many BI capabilities, but not all.
The biggest difference (but not the only one) from a BI standpoint between Standard, and either BI or Enterprise edition was the support of the Tabular Mode in SQL Server Analysis Services. For those unaware, Tabular Mode is the engine behind PowerPivot, and increasingly importantly, Power BI. From a price standpoint the difference between Standard and either BI or Enterprise is quite significant. This has put the Tabular model out of reach for some small and medium sized businesses which is unfortunate, given that tabular is at the center of Microsoft’s future BI efforts.
SQL Server 2016 removes the BI Edition as an option, leaving us with a choice between only Standard and Enterprise. The biggest news in my opinion from a licensing perspective with 2016 is that Tabular Mode will now be supported in Standard Edition. This puts the tabular model within the reach of all organizations, and closes the licensing gap in the BI stack. This is fantastic news.
There are of course limitations with Standard mode. Tabular in Standard Mode is restricted to 16 GB of RAM, which may seem like a lot, but keep in mind that tabular is an in-memory technology. It’s possible to bump into this limit fairly quickly, but it’s a limit that serves the small/medium business space rather well.
PowerPivot for SharePoint also remains an Enterprise only feature. However, given the capabilities available in Power BI, and the upcoming rendering capabilities of SSRS, this may be less important than it previously was.
Given that it’s relatively simple to move from Standard to Enterprise (from a technology perspective), this approach allows organizations to get up and running, and then scale up if necessary. It removes that up front Enterprise cost barrier. It’s much easier to get budget for and Enterprise license when its value has already been proven.
Another difference between Standard and Enterprise in SSAS is that Standard mode does not support partitioning, perspectives or DirectQuery. DirectQuery allows for real-time analytical reports, which removes the cached data storage from the picture. All queries go directly back to the source. An explanation of partitions and perspectives is beyond the scope of this post, but if you don’t know what they are, the chances are that you don’t need them.
From an SSRS standpoint, the traditional differences between Standard and Enterprise are still in place. These include data alerting, data driven subscriptions, PowerView support and scale out capability. All of the new features of SSRS 2016 are available in both Standard and Enterprise modes with one very notable exception. The new Mobile Reports are only available with Enterprise.
Mobile reports are the result of last year’s acquisition of Datazen, which has been fully integrated into SSRS. It allows on-premises SSRS servers to provide rich mobile reports on a variety of platforms. If your organization is using Power BI already, then you likely have a mobile solution, but if not, Mobile reports may fill that gap.
A complete summary of the differences between all of the different SQL Server editions can be found here. A quick PDF chart of what’s new in SQL Server can be found here.
In summary, both Standard and Enterprise editions of SQL Server 2016 are now suitable for use in business Intelligence solutions. The decision to move to Enterprise can now be based on scale and enterprise requirements, not on basic functionality. This, in my opinion, is all to the good.
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Ask The Expert — Private Investigator John Nardizzi
by Sherry HarrisPosted on September 12, 2014 September 10, 2014
We met John last year at Crime Bake. Thanks so much for joining us today, John.
Name: John Nardizzi
Area of Expertise: I’m a private investigator who handles criminal defense and civil cases. Interviewing witnesses and background research are the main tasks I undertake.
How did you become a private investigator?
I didn’t know the profession really existed. I was in law school and went to a seminar on different careers for law school graduates. There was a private investigator on the panel and he described a career that offered a mixture of investigative reporting and legal work. For a small group of us, the discussion was enthralling. He bashed the legal profession over and over, poking fun at the narrow intelligence of many lawyers. For a year, I called the agency every few weeks, talking to the receptionist, asking to meet with him. I never got a single response. But I just kept calling. One afternoon I got a call from the receptionist who told me the boss was talking about me: I was either too dumb or too stubborn to take a hint, but he liked my persistence. Eventually they needed an Italian guy to talk to another Italian guy. I fit the profile.
What are 3 things we should know about your area of expertise?
When people hear you work as a private investigator, they always say, “I would be a great PI, I can talk to anyone!” They are mistaken: they would make a great witness. The PI in the room is the guy–or woman–who is quietly getting everyone else to talk.
Witness is a word with both religious and legal connotations, which gives you a sense of the importance of witness testimony in our legal system. This is true in criminal cases especially. Forensics impacts so many cases we handle now. But witnesses make the case.
PI work is a strange little corner of the legal world and attracts some very smart people—but also some of the wackiest. I know PIs who were investigative reporters, college professors. But the middle class is very small. One of the preeminent PIs on the West Coast, Hal Lipset, said, “In the detective business, you’re either a hero or a bum.” That’s why a creative amateur can do quite well. If you get results, no one asks where you went to college.
What do people usually get wrong when writing about private investigators?
At the Left Coast Crime conference, someone raised a topic: is the private detective novel being replaced by lawyers/legal thrillers? One writer said the detective novel is passe because because modern PIs just sit behind a desk doing research. Dead wrong. PIs are out there interviewing witnesses on major cases all over the world—fraud, civil rights cases, criminal defense. Many lawyers outside the courtroom come off as very stiff with witnesses, and they are not usually the most creative personalities. So all these bestsellers where the lawyer is doing the investigation? Might be a secret dream, but in real life, it doesn’t happen that way.
Is there a great idea you’d love to share?
A good investigator, whether professional or amateur, can watch and listen to you speak and get a sense about whether you are lying. But there is no one foolproof method to do this. So while the art of reading people is a real skill, most crime novels oversimplify the process.
My second crime novel is based on a case I worked on in Boston involving a man who spent decades in prison for a crime he did not commit. My detective, Ray Infantino lowers the boom on police informants and corrupt cops. He also roams into some cafes and restaurants too, of course. This is true of both real and fictional sleuths: we eat out a lot.
Do you use your expert knowledge in your writing?
Yes, I try to use insights gleaned from years of interviewing people to craft scenes that have some psychological layers. The PI and witness verbally jabbing and feinting. Things that are said, things that are left out. I’ve worked in 26 states and met people I would never have had a chance to meet otherwise—men who were wrongfully convicted, Native Americans on reservations, con men, women who fall in love with con men. During the interviews, you learn what you need for the case. But as a writer, you always see something–a phrase, a gesture, a little story–that is just for you.
Readers: John will be stopping in to answer questions as his schedule allows. What did you always want to know about being a private investigator?
John Nardizzi is an investigator, lawyer, and writer. His writings have appeared in numerous professional and literary journals, including San Diego Writers Monthly, Oxygen, Liberty Hill Poetry Review, Lawyers Weekly USA, and PI Magazine. His fictional detective, Ray Infantino, first appeared in print in the spring 2007 edition of Austin Layman’s Crimestalker Casebook. Telegraph Hill is the first crime novel featuring Infantino.
In May 2003, John founded Nardizzi & Associates, Inc., an investigations firm that has garnered a national reputation for excellence in investigating business fraud and trial work. His investigations on behalf of people wrongfully convicted of crimes led to several million dollar settlements for clients like Dennis Maher, Scott Hornoff and Kenneth Waters, whose story was featured in the 2010 film Conviction.
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Your profession must be very satisfying. Thanks for writing about it. 🙂 I love to read.
John Nardizzi (@AuthorPI) says:
All in all, quite enjoying it Gram, thanks.
I often hear that “real” investigating is boring? Do you think that’s true?
I hear that too Sherry. It’s almost become the new cliche in interviews with PIs where they tell how bored they are, but I really have no idea what these people are doing. Maybe they are talking about long surveillances. Maybe they chose the wrong profession. I mean, it’s not a 24 hour a day state of nirvana. But I enjoy seeing witnesses and discovering how the cases unfold. So it works for me.
Thanks, John! I’d been thinking if it’s so boring why would anyone want to do it.
Edith Maxwell says:
Welcome, John! Do you have to go through a licensing procedure? If so, is it different for every state? And how do you advertise your services? Seems like keeping yourself under the radar might be important, but maybe not.
Hi Edith, we do have to get licensed in the state where we have an office. And it does vary. One or two states had no licensing scheme–Colorado being one of those, until a recent change in the law.
As far as advertising, word of mouth among attorneys is the #1 source for me. Lawyers are kind of clubby like that. I do keep up a detailed website too. Being under the radar is not always a concern. I’m out knocking on doors on most cases so the other side is often quite aware of what we are doing. One lawyer said when he went on a view to a crime scene, he saw my business card on the table–I had been out that morning talking to the owner. The DA saw it too.
Cool! Thanks. Love getting the inside view.
I can’t think of any questions myself, but this is interesting stuff. I’ll check in later to see what else has been shared.
Jessie Crockett says:
It sounds like private investigators and writers have a lot in common, persistence in the face of rejection and the knack for listening and observing others. Thanks for joining us today and for giving us a glimpse behind the scenes!
There is a link Jessie, especially in firms that take on a certain kind of work (defense work, civil rights, civil cases with large interview component). A lot of the best PIs I’ve met were former reporters.
Thanks for coming by, John. And good luck with your second novel. It definitely sounds like something I would like to read.
J.A. Hennrikus/Julianne Holmes says:
John, what are some tools of the trade? What do you always have with you? Fascinated by the idea of a college professor also being a PI. Hhmmm…
Always armed–with a pen & reporters notebook. And usually a hat. People like to talk to guys in hats.
The college prof. wrote a pretty good book about his stint as a detective, I have it somewhere.
Liz Mugavero says:
John, I’m late to the party, but thanks so much for coming by. This is great stuff. Hope to see you at Crime Bake again?
Yes, see you there, thnx.
Kate Harrington says:
So glad to have discovered you here, John! The Scott Hornoff case was fascinating. I can’t imagine what it took to get his conviction overturned. I read that the real murderer confessed but understand that would not be enough on it’s own to do so. I see I’m very late in posting this question, but if you are able I would like to read anything you have to say about Scott Hornoff and the New England Innocence Project.
Hi Kate, Scott’s case was unique due to his profession: a police officer accused of murder and investigated by his own department (and later the state police). You can see the problems there… The investigative firm I worked for at the time wanted no part of the case–too hot, too controverisal. The Innocence Project was just getting into the case and after I left the firm, Scott’s case was one of the first cases I took on. Initially, we were focused on another man who had attacked and murdered women around the same time. Frankly, we were wrong about this guy; just a few months into our review, a man named Todd Barry confessed to the murder. Scott was released soon after from prison (the confession was enough to overturn the conviction). However, he was not reinstated to his job as a police officer, and RI law enforcement remained dead set against any settlement. So we resumed investigating the case, this time to get Scott his backpay, get his job back, and get damages for civil rights violations due to the faulty way the investigation was handled.
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Port Adelaide fan who threw banana at AFL star Eddie Betts agrees to cultural awareness program
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Posted MonMonday 22 AugAugust 2016 at 12:25amMonMonday 22 AugAugust 2016 at 12:25am , updated MonMonday 22 AugAugust 2016 at 7:27amMonMonday 22 AugAugust 2016 at 7:27am
Eddie Betts reacts to the crowd after kicking his fifth goal of the match, moments before the incident occurred. (AAP: Ben Macmahon)
The woman accused of racially abusing Indigenous Adelaide Crows footballer Eddie Betts has agreed to take part in a cultural awareness program run by Port Adelaide Football Club.
The Port Adelaide fan was filmed throwing a banana at Betts near the end of the Power's loss to the Crows on Saturday night at Adelaide Oval.
Port Adelaide said it was clear the woman's behaviour was racially motivated, which breached the club's values and spectator code of conduct.
The 24-year-old woman has been banned indefinitely from attending Port Adelaide football matches.
'We just want to hear her side of the story': Vandenbergh
Port Adelaide member services general manager Matthew Richardson told 891 ABC Adelaide the club had been in touch with the woman briefly and she would be meeting with representatives today.
"She quite clearly recognises that she's made a terrible mistake and we'll work with her on that," he said.
"We have got a very proud reputation, we've got industry leading Indigenous programs and cultural awareness programs so we will actually get her involved in those so that she can actually understand what she's done.
"We do quite extensive cultural awareness training with all our staff, so we'll involve her in that program, and that does include our Indigenous players."
Mr Richardson said the response from fellow Port Adelaide Football Club members since the incident had been encouraging.
"The way that people have responded to this incident, that it's totally unacceptable, in some ways is quite encouraging," he said.
Betts 'looking to move on from incident'
Adelaide Football Club chief executive officer Andrew Fagan said Betts was a resilient player who would be looking to move on from the incident quickly as the Crows prepare for finals.
Mr Fagan said the incident was completely offensive and unacceptable, and encouraged the woman involved to take part in Port's program.
"I have no doubt that he [Betts] considers these sorts of incidents deeply offensive to him and his people, but he's a resilient character and I think he'd be looking to move on quickly," Mr Fagan said.
"It has sadly occurred in sports around the world, the act of throwing a banana.
"It has absolutely significant connotations and slurs on targeted cultural groups, in this respect, Indigenous Australians, and so in my view it is absolutely deeply racist and offensive.
"It should not happen and it should be rejected by every individual who is a part of football."
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill, who is a Port Adelaide supporter, said the incident had overshadowed what was otherwise a terrific night.
He said Port Adelaide had a proud history of embracing Indigenous culture.
"One person trashes all of that with an act of stupidity, so instead of talking about all these great things, we're in fact talking about her and I'm just incredibly angry about that."
Risk of 'pack mentality' against woman
AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan this afternoon said Port Adelaide should assess the remorse of the supporter responsible before deciding whether she deserved a lifetime ban.
Banana throwing 'unambiguously racist': McLachlan
"We are very pleased that the behaviour was called out by so many in our community, even by Port Adelaide fans around where the incident occurred on Saturday night," he said.
"I'm very pleased with the swift response of the Port Adelaide Football Club and the actions they've taken and we continue to work towards a football environment where these incidents don't occur."
However, Mr McLachlan said there was a risk the woman could be demonised for her behaviour.
"We're in 2016 and I think ultimately people have to be accountable for their actions," he said.
"I think there's a responsibility for people, yes, to be cautious about that [demonising the woman], that's distinct from individuals being accountable for their behaviour.
"Ultimately there's a risk from the pack mentality as well, but ultimately I don't want to distract from people being accountable for what is clearly a racist act."
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Cincinnati Bengals being arguably the world’s most popular sport comes with a price.
That price being that the NFL is often the most criticized league ever. Heck in this day and age even the most hard-core fan of a team will criticize it when they feel it warranted, if you don’t believe me just check out my column on Cincinnati Bengals Andy Dalton’s contract extension. However every once in a while something will happen to totally make you feel guilty about any criticism you’ve ever given a sports league.
In recent years the NFL and its teams have chosen to hold preseason practices throughout their state in markets that might have a more difficult time going to an actual game to try to show them that the effort would be worth it. I’m happy to say that my first opportunity to experience this in person at last night’s visit to Dayton Ohio’s West Carrollton High School Football Stadium; gave me nearly 100% satisfaction and a feeling of pure joy!
My father and I arrived at West Carrollton Stadium around 3:15 PM EST with the gates scheduled to open at 4 PM EST for a scheduled practice start time of 5:30 PM Eastern. Our local news had estimated about 5,000 fans to attend and after speaking with the high school athletic director I learned that the stadium only had four wheelchair spots available.
As such I was a bit worried that if we had just gone down we would not be able to get one of those spots and be able to see the event; so I emailed one of our local television stations Fox 45\ABC 22 to ask for and was subsequently granted VIP wristbands for the event.
As it turns out whatever purposes that the Bengals/NFL, West Carrollton High School or the city of Dayton intended these wristbands to serve, they wound up not being needed; since the combined staff of the Cincinnati Bengals and West Carrollton High School made sure that all physically challenged patrons received the same equal amount of phenomenal treatment!
For those curious an NFL practice is basically the same experience as an MLB batting practice would be if you’ve ever experienced that; meaning that all you really saw was warm-ups, a few plays, and contact drills. In other words don’t ever attend one expecting to see the equivalent of game action.
The appeal of the event if the opportunity to see your favorite players on your favorite team in person and of course the chance to receive autographs and speak to them.
My chance was successful and by far the highlight of the evening! Defensive tackle Domata Peko called me stud. As you can imagine I burst out laughing at the idea compared to someone like him. Believe it or not that wasn’t the most unexpected autograph experience of the evening.
Starting linebackers Vontaze Burfict and Rey Maualuga both appeared to be absolutely shocked that I knew who they were by name immediately when they came up to me.
Rey Maualuga even gave me a facial expression of surprise and seemed to take a few steps back at first. It’s wonderful to see that at least in the case of these two players athletes don’t realize what kind of superstars they actually are in the eyes of us fans and remain humble and down-to-earth.
Starting running back Giovani Bernard was the nicest guy in the world and went out of his way to carry on the longest conversation of the night in the few minutes the players had leaving for their bus at the end of the evening. Not only did he talk to me for a while but he by far made the night of the truly nice girl I met standing next to me in line named Megan Blades as he signed her jersey of his number and took a picture with her!
The opportunity to make a new friend was the last thing I expected but I owe such a great deal to Megan Blades and her friend Whitney Osman because without them I would not have been able to get very many autographs. I made the mistake of thinking for some reason that the majority of the players would have their own sharpies.
As it turns out, only a few of them did so without Megan allowing me to borrow her spare I would have missed out for sure. She’s even extended her kindness by allowing me to have/post her photos from the night; as my father is what you would call “smart phone challenged.” As a result most of my photos on my phone did not turn out all that well. So thank you so much Megan and Who-Dey!
Overall the only really disappointing aspect of the evening other than missing out on the chance to get autographs from AJ Green and Andy Dalton; was what on the surface from my experience at least, appears to be the only mistake in preparation that West Carrollton High School made for the event.
At least in the section of the stadium where we were located. The concessions were horrible as far as choice and taste, leaving us unfortunately starving by the time we got home.
In closing a huge thank you to the Cincinnati Bengals/NFL, West Carrollton High School and the city of Dayton for allowing this event to happen! I truly hope that this is not the last time that the Bengals will come to our city, as the players I spoke to definitely expressed to me that they had fun doing so and want to return.
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From Authors to Authors: On Story Arcs or How Watching Too Much TV Helps Me Write
Hello all and happy Saturday! Our guest for today’s From Authors to Authors post is author Alex Jane who is talking about story arcs. Let’s read the post and see what we can learn from it.
On Story Arcs or How Watching Too Much TV Helps Me Write
I know nothing about writing (as some people who have read my books will attest), by which I mean, I’ve never studied writing. So, forgive me if this is a bit simplistic.
I was at school at a time when they didn’t teach grammar. No one ever told me what a gerund is or how to spot a complex-compound sentence. It’s taken me an age to be able to define the difference between a noun and adverb. What I’ve learnt about writing I’ve learned from reading—and lately from the people editing my work giving me the side-eye and shaking their heads a lot.
Mostly, I bumble along and write what sounds good to me. I notice things about other stories I enjoy reading—like how Kathy Reichs ends every chapter on a cliffhanger so you have to read “just one more” before going to sleep—and occasionally they find a function in something I’m putting together. I don’t do the cliffhanger chapter often but there is another device that I’m really, really fond of—the story arc.
I think most everyone is familiar with the three-act structure, five-act structure, inciting incidences, rising action, and whatnot, but something I actively think about when I’m writing is the way TV shows use the story arc.
Story Arcs, From TV to Novels
It helps me to think of a novel as being a series and each chapter as its own episode. The main story arc has to flow from the opening scene until I write The End, but I also treat each chapter as a story in and of itself. In TV terms, it’s like, for example, in Supernatural, the first season’s story is “John Winchester appears to be missing. His sons, Dean and Sam Winchester, try to find him.” That’s the story arc, but then in each episode, Dean and Sam have to solve a mystery in order to progress in their mission and each of those mysteries is a story of its own.
Now, it’s worth saying at this point that I am a plotter. An uber-plotter. I plot to the nth degree. So I don’t know how this works for pantsers, although I do think that this is something that happens naturally as a part of storytelling in general. But for me, I try to take the three act structure and apply that to each chapter.
Or at least that’s what I’m telling you so I sound vaguely competent. What I actually do is apply the rhythm of an arc to each chapter so by the end of it there is some kind of closure, even if the questions of the overall arc haven’t been answered. You know, in the same way a song follows a pattern of sorts—verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus—it just sounds right. It’s a familiar rhythm that brings comfort and pleasure. Of course, no rule is hard and fast when it comes to creativity and a song that steps outside that pattern can be refreshing and exciting when it’s done right. But for me, I like something I can dance to.
For example, in the first chapter of Home Is Where You Are, it goes thusly.
The sheriff turns up at Caleb’s door with a badly injured werewolf. Caleb is the only other one around so it’s the only place the werewolf, Jacob, can stay safely. Caleb really doesn’t want Jacob there but reluctantly takes him in on the proviso that it’s just a temporary measure. We find out that Caleb is alone and isolated from his family whom he misses, and that Jacob has left his family too. Caleb freaks out and thinks he’s made a horrible mistake by letting Jacob in, but by the end of the chapter, Caleb ends up climbing into Jacob’s bed (in wolf form, no funny business) to comfort him when he has a nightmare.
Now, given a bit of minor tweaking and adding a few dropped hints of what might happen later on between them, that first chapter could actually stand alone as a story by itself. We’ve got our inciting incident, rising action, character development, there’s a point of no return, a darkest hour, and a resolution, all the things to make it function as a unit. And that’s what I try to do for each chapter. Pretty much.
I do switch things up slightly. Sometimes, I think I fail altogether. Mostly, I try to end with a resolution of sorts but also with some question that is quietly nagging to be answered—not a cliffhanger, just a doubt or hint of something more. Why else would people keep reading otherwise?
Then there’s the midseason hiatus. In TV land that involves a massive cliffhanger to get you to tune back in after the holidays, but I think of it more in terms of giving the reader a break. I generally have a chapter about two-thirds of the way through that ends without having a pull to the next chapter. It comes from my own experience of becoming exhausted by books that drag you along with no chance to make a cup of tea or get some sleep and OMG it’s three in the morning, how did that happen! Like most things I don’t plan that exactly but I find the pause happens regardless.
Then usually the penultimate chapter does end on a massive cliffhanger, to help with momentum, and because who doesn’t love an end of season double episode.
The important thing, though, is that each chapter’s story pushes the overall story arc along. It’s the whole Chekov’s Gun principle, “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired.” Whatever story your chapter tells, no matter how beautifully crafted it might be, there’s no point in its existence if it doesn’t contribute to the story as a whole. I think structure—and other devices like narrative symmetry and the last line zinger, which also make me weak at knees—can become a burden if I focus too much on them. Ultimately what makes the story is the characters’ development and the unfolding drama.
Although having said that…if you take a show like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for example, every once in a while there’ll be a scene or something that doesn’t seem to fit or appear to have a purpose, But give it a season, or two, and the reason becomes clear. Because, yes, chapter arcs, story arcs, but also series arcs are a thing too. I know I’ve had some complaints about stuff not particularly working in a couple of my books. I sit there reading the comments, biting my nails, thinking, “They’re not wrong. But I hope they keep reading though as it’s going to take three more books in this series before anyone finds out what that means.” Like I said, uber-planner. Also, I do probably watch too much TV.
Anyway. Like I said, I don’t really have much technical know-how so I go with what feels right, to me at least.
About Alex Jane
After spending far too long creating stories in her head, Alex finally plucked up the courage to write them down and realized it was quite fun seeing them on the page after all.
Free from aspirations of literary greatness, Alex simply hopes to entertain by spinning a good yarn of love and life, wrapped up with a happy ending. Although, if her characters have to go through Hell to get there, she’s a-okay with that.
With only a dysfunctional taste in music and a one-eyed dog to otherwise fill her days, Alex writes and walks on the South Coast of England—even when her heart and spellcheck are in New York.
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December 16, 2008 at 3:53 PM (PT)
LOYAL EARS has inked a deal with YOURNEWS.COM for radio distribution in NORTH AMERICA. The companies will provide radio clusters in the U.S. and CANADA an online 24/7 news/sports/entertainment/classified platform with web and smart phone access, customizable for ad insertion by zip code and user-generated content.
LOYAL EARS COO JIMMY RISK said, "We are watching the steady demise of Newspaper dailies. YOUR NEWS helps a radio station grab money and mindshare in this changing landscape. Say hello to the new paper boy."
LOYAL EARS' GLEN GARDNER says, "The exclusive ZIPTARGET technology that has been developed for this project is specifically designed to scoop up the dollars that used to go to newspaper. Stations will be able to drill into zip codes to get results for clients and ratings for themselves."
YOURNEWS.COM CEO SAM ANTHONY said, "We are delighted to be working with the mavericks at LOYAL EARS. The exodus of daily newspapers will create mass consolidation and a unique opportunity for radio to fill the void. All great fortunes are made during paradigm shifts such as this."
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Top GOP donor floats ‘sacrificing’ Trump to ‘protect the Senate at all costs’ /
Top GOP donor floats ‘sacrificing’ Trump to ‘protect the Senate at all costs’
President Donald J. Trump, joined by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senator Roy Blunt, R-MO., speaks with reporters prior to attending a Senate Republican lunch Tuesday, March 26, 2019, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)
President Donald Trump keeps getting brutal polling numbers, and the latest polling averages at both FiveThirtyEight and Real Clear Politics show the president losing to Democratic rival Joe Biden by roughly 10 points.
While many Trump-backing Republicans haven't totally given up hope, they're starting to contemplate alternate electoral strategies that don't involve holding onto the White House and instead keeping the Senate as a way to obstruct anything Biden proposes should he win the White House.
"I hope the polls have it wrong," Dan Eberhart, a top GOP donor, tells the Associated Press. "But Republicans… need to develop a campaign strategy committed to protecting the Senate at all costs, even if it means sacrificing the Oval Office."
Former George W. Bush Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, who is a reliable defender of the president, tells the AP that he fears Trump is leading his party to a total wipeout where no clever strategy for maintaining the Senate will suffice.
"He's in trouble, there's no question," he said. "By every traditional measuring stick, this looks like a Biden landslide. It's hard to predict what will happen in Congress, but anytime there is a large-scale victory, it has the potential to create tides to sweep people out."
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Satelight's Sacks&Guns!! Sci-Fi Anime Reveals More Cast, Staff
posted on 2020-12-03 07:17 EST by Egan Loo
Newcomer Kanon Amane stars with Hiroki Touchi , Kana Hanazawa , Toshiyuki Toyonaga ,
The official Twitter account for Project Anima announced more cast and staff members for Sacks&Guns!! , Satelight's anime of Nekotarō Inui's Sakugan Labyrinth Marker (Drilling Labyrinth Marker) novel, on Thursday. The account also confirmed the character roles for several of the cast members:
Kanon Amane as the heroine Memenpu. 1,400 people applied in the auditions for the heroine role, including 300 professional applicants and 1,100 amateur applicants. 10 judges chose Amane, a college student, from among seven finalists.
Hiroki Touchi as Gagamba, a father who is no good at anything
Kana Hanazawa as Zackletu, a mysterious woman tracking Memenpu and Gaganbaa
Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Yuri, a cunning hacker in a youth gang
Hikaru Midorikawa (character role not yet announced)
Minami Tsuda (character role not yet announced)
Jun'ichi Wada ( WorldEnd , Caligula ) is directing and supervising the series scripting at Satelight. Yuji Iwahara ( King of Thorn , Darker than Black , Dimension W ) drafted the the original character designs, and Shunpei Mochizuki adapted them for animation.
Kazuma Kōda (Pokemon, NieR, NieR: Automata) is credited with conceptual designs, and Shoji Kawamori designed the kaijū concepts. Studio No Border's Stanislas Brunet ( Macross Delta ) is the mechanical designer. Yūri Shibamura ( Marginal Operation ) was previously credited for scenario cooperation. Eriko Kimura is the sound director at Tohokushinsha Film Corporation.
The visual below depicts the underground colony of Pinyin, where the father Gagamba and his daughter Memenpu — the story's protagonists — live.
The novel's description on the Everystar website reads:
The distant future, long after the Western calendar is no longer used.
Humans live shoulder-to-shoulder, cramped in the "Labyrinth," an underground world deep below the surface.
There are many colonies where people live in the underground Labyrinth. The place is known for extreme high temperatures, but also for lodes of gold, silver, and other riches.
In one of the colonies named Pin-in, a curious nine-year-old girl named Memenpu and her father Gagamba board a two-person work robot and mine for ore. They eke a living as the lowest of lowest "Worker" occupations.
One day, Memenpu begs her father Gagamba to set out as Markers — those who chart the innards of the Labyrinth as a spelunker — to search for her mother who left their home.
If they encounter a "mysterious giant creature" lurking in the caves, the survival rate is less than 5%. Since discovering an unknown world is dangerous work, "maps" hold great value in the world of Labyrinth and fetch high prices on the market.
A Marker is the most dangerous, but also the most lucrative, job.
Gagamba decides he cannot hold back the ever-curious Memenpu from going off on her own countless times, and finally gives in. The two embark on a journey together in the work robot.
However, the "cost" of curiosity …
The "truth" they finally uncovered …
This is a father and daughter's epic journey with the theme of family love.
The anime has been delayed to 2021, after being originally slated for a 2020 broadcast.
Project Anima accepted story submissions from the general public through DeNA's MangaBox, Everystar, and similar user-submitted content platforms. DeNA, Sotsu Co., Ltd., Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, and MBS hosted competitions in three categories. Inui's Sakugan Labyrinth Marker novel was the runner-up in the "Science-Fiction/Robot" category. (The judges did not award the novel a grand prize.) The contest also had an "Alternate World/Fantasy" and "Kids/Game" categories.
Sources: Project Anima's Twitter account, Comic Natalie
Update: Gagamba's credit corrected. Thanks, Somer-_-.
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Seismicity and earthquake risk in western Sicily
The seismicity and the earthquake risk in Western Sicily are here
evaluated on the basis of the experimental data referring to the historical
and instrumentally recorded earthquakes in this area (from 1248
up to 1968), which have been thoroughly collected, analyzed, tested and
normalized in order to assure the quasi-stationarity of the series of
The approximated magnitude values — obtained by means of a compared
analysis of the magnitude and epicentral intensity values of the
latest events — have allowed to study the parameters of the frequency-
magnitude relation with both the classical exponential model and
the truncated exponential one previously proposed by the author.
So, the basic parameters, including the maximum possible regional
magnitude, have been estimated by means of different procedures, and
their behaviours have been studied as functions of the threshold magnitude.
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From Traditional to Transitional In Newport Beach
January 30, 2017 byaplusnew
APlus was contracted by these Newport Beach homeowners to take their property and turn it from a home that was outdated and traditional into one that felt updated, fresh, with hints of modern design and a space more suited to the lifestyle needs of the family who lives there.
Before: The Main Level
While APlus worked on entirely reworking most of this Newport Beach home during this full-scale remodel, one of the biggest undertakings of the project centered around the lower level of the home. The Newport Beach home featured scenic views and natural light, but the floorplan was inefficient and felt cramped and blocked.
When you first walked into the main level of this home the layout was disjointed and lacked any kind of flow. The family room, while set against the backdrop of large sliding doors offering great views, was entirely traditional in its design, and separated from the dining room by a pony wall.
The walls in the family room featured ornate, traditional cabinetry and a fireplace was the focal point, while the television was tucked away in a corner that made it difficult to see. There were heavy moldings throughout that seemed to bring the ceiling downward in the family room as well.
While the space wasn’t necessarily small, it felt very cramped since it was disconnected from the rest of the main living areas of the home.
The original design before the APlus remodel in this Newport Beach home was anything but an open concept.
Looking toward the rest of the home from the family room, there was a small hallway and an attached dining room with only a doorway leading to the kitchen.
Each nook of the home seemed to stand on its own, rather than working together or offering functional flow.
The kitchen was similarly disjointed and as lacking in flow as the family room and dining room. A peninsula jutted out from the wall, and that wall served to obstruct the views to a connected sitting area. Another peninsula also separated areas of the kitchen, and the overall usable space in the kitchen was limited.
The cabinet layout and floorplan felt choppy, storage was limited, and there were no sight lines from the kitchen to the rest of the main level. Since there were no views to the much brighter family view, the kitchen felt dark and cumbersome.
White appliances and light wood cabinets were also part of the original kitchen design before this Newport Beach remodel.
Before: The Bathrooms
Along with a complete remodel of the main level of this Newport Beach home, APlus also took on the task of modernizing the bathrooms.
Each of the bathrooms felt outdated and lacking in a general design direction. For example, the in the bathroom belonging to the daughter, there was a standard-grade tub surrounded by yellow square tile, and on the floor was contrasting black tile. The vanity was also standard builder-grade, and there was nothing truly distinctive or modern about the bathroom.
Walking into the master bathroom, the space felt spacious but incredibly outdated. The area with the sinks and bathtub was carpeted, the cabinet style of the vanities and storage was again ornate and overly traditional, and above the corner-set tub, there was a stained glass-style window.
The tub location in the corner of the bathroom actually took up a lot of unneeded space because of the built-in surround, and that space could have been used more efficiently.
The shower was relatively small and closed-in, as was the shower in the other bathroom remodeled by APlus.
The goal with all of the bathrooms was to first and foremost update the spaces, but also to maximize their functionality and efficiency.
The Main Level Remodel
The most critical aspect of this Newport Beach remodel was opening up the main level and creating a usable open-concept floorplan. It was important to eliminate unnecessary walls, break down barriers to sight lines, and just make a flow on the main level that felt less restricted and broken up.
With that in mind, in the family room, APlus removed the walls dividing the space from the dining room, and also removed the hallway and walls separating the kitchen from the rest of the home.
The old cabinetry and built-ins were removed and replaced with stylish, custom espresso built-in shelving and cabinets for additional hidden storage.
The combination of custom built-in shelves and cabinets in and espresso finish flanked a newly redesigned fireplace with tile in a color called “Acid Wash White Oak.” Also becoming a hub of entertainment in the family room, the TV hangs above an inset modern gas fireplace.
In the corner of the family room is a designer wet bar, perfect for entertaining and enjoying the views of the space. The wet bar includes a Discovery Wine Dispensing System from Dacor and an under counter gourmet ice machine from Scotsman.
Post-remodel, the homeowners, can now see directly into their dining room and kitchen and vice versa, with no interruptions.
The kitchen was a significant undertaking in this Newport Beach home remodel project. The homeowners wanted a transitional design that felt modern, but at the same time warm and inviting.
An expansive island was added to the center of the kitchen in the new design and it is surrounded by an abundance of perimeter cabinets, both upper and lower, for plenty of storage. Between the living and family room is a dining area, but there’s also seating for at least four at the large island.
High-end appliances were used in the kitchen and include a stainless steel Wolf gas range and a 48-inch Sub-Zero stainless steel side-by-side refrigerator with a dual refrigeration system, three adjustable, spill-proof glass shelves, and a glass door.
A Wolf warming drawer was introduced in the kitchen design as was an incredible large-capacity wine storage unit. This Sub-Zero Wine Storage unit features pullout shelves capable of accommodating bottles, half bottles, and magnums.
The perimeter cabinets in this Newport Beach kitchen are single-panel Shaker-style cabinets in Straight White, which feels fresh and clean. Several of the cabinets also feature a glass inset for display purposes.
The island, which is really the focal point of the kitchen features a white waterfall-edge stone top and more built-in storage.
Oversized light-colored glass tile is used as a backsplash, while a bit of drama is added to the kitchen design in the form of the glass pendants hanging above the island.
Recessed lighting runs throughout the entire main level keeping the space feeling airy and the ceilings feeling high, and there is seamless wood plank flooring in a shade of rich brown that also runs throughout.
Also to the side of the kitchen, a cozy breakfast nook area was seamlessly added, set against a large picture window.
The Master Bathroom
Prior to this Newport Beach remodel, the master bathroom, while large, was overly outdated. The primary objectives in the redesign were to maximize available space, add storage and of course just breathe new life into the design.
This was accomplished in several ways. First, APlus designed and built custom cabinetry throughout. As in the kitchen, these cabinets are Shaker style in Straight White, and the countertop is an Absolute Black Honed Granite, for a dramatic juxtaposition. The countertop features a 1 ½-inch Mitered Square Edge, and the backsplash features Eleganza Tile in Liquid Latte with Custom Oyster Gray grout and the smallest possible grout lines.
The wall tile in the shower is Concrete Argentino, while the soap niche detailing matches the mirror backsplash. The walk-in shower was expanded and a seat was added as well.
Also in the master bath, a stunning standalone soaking tub was added against a large window, rather than being located in the corner as it was in the previous design.
In the daughter’s bathroom again cabinets are Straight White in color and feature a slab door style design, while the countertop is Pental Coastal Gray, with a 1 ½-inch Mitered Square Edge. The backsplash includes 4 inches of countertop, and the shower wall tile in this bathroom is 12×24 Bianco with a horizontal, straight install.
The home’s office bathroom features Eleganza tile in Fabrique-Silk and shower wall tile in Delorean Grey.
In addition to beautiful, chic and artistically-inspired tile work and simple color palettes consisting of a combination of light cabinetry with darker tile and countertops, each of the bathrooms in this home has unique features such as an Elixir wall-mounted electric makeup mirror with high-output LED lighting.
There were even items selected with the help of APlus to include in the laundry room, which was redesigned, including the Electrolux front load washer and dryer pair. APlus also added a quartz countertop with a square edge in the laundry room as part of the design.
The family who lives in this Newport Beach home will be able to maximize their time spent outdoors thanks to the addition of items such as a Wolf 36-inch outdoor grill with burners and infrared sear zone.
Overall, APlus worked to achieve a few big goals in this Newport Beach remodel. First, we wanted the homeowners to be able to enjoy the views their home affords them, as well as plenty of natural light. We wanted their home to feel like a modern oasis that still balanced elements of transitional design for livability and comfort. The home now reflects a space that’s perfect for entertaining and relaxing, where each and every detail has been carefully selected to reflect the personal style but also the lifestyle of the people who live there.
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One response to “From Traditional to Transitional In Newport Beach”
These home improvements are astonishing. We need to start doing before and after blogs as well. Thanks for this!
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A Scriptural Look at Economic Justice
By David Kowalski
The issue of economic justice is hotly debated in the church. Justice demands not just that society meet out retributive justice, which involves the punishment of lawbreakers; it also demands that society seeks to achieve distributive justice, which David Clark and Robert Rakestraw describe as “the fair apportioning of benefits…and burdens.”[1] Those who are concerned about social justice or the welfare of others are obliged to advocate and work for the economic system which most fairly distributes its resources throughout the populace, and to act in the most ethical way within that system.
While Scripture does not provide us with an economic system that all cultures of all times are required to implement, it does reveal many principles that will help us identify a just, economic system, as well as just, economic behavior by individuals. We find, for example, that God is zealous for the cause of the poor, and He expects His people to be as well. Proverbs 29:7 says “The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.”[2]
Through the prophet Amos, God strongly rebukes the Israelites for the economic injustice in their midst, saying that they oppressed the poor and crushed the needy (Amos 4:1). Jesus so identifies with the poor that He says whatever is done unto them is done unto Him (Mt 25:31-46). This zeal for the poor, however, must be kept in balance with a sense of fairness. Paul said that if a man would not work he shall not eat (2 Th 3:10). He did not think it right for the church to support a freeloader. These principles of compassion and fairness will be two of our most influential guides in determining what economic justice looks like in practice today.
Although most Christians at least use Scripture[3] in their efforts to identify what constitutes economic justice in our day, opinions as to the most just economic structure and the extent of individual obligation to the poor range from the extreme free-market capitalism of theonomists such as David Chilton and Gary North, to the extreme Marxism of liberation theologians such as Gustavo Gutierrez and Jose Miguez Bonino.
This article will examine Scripture as well as the major Christian schools of thought on economic justice in an effort to resolve the basic issues involved in this matter, that we might know what system to advocate as well as how to act within it. We shall see, however, that observance of Scripture’s call to wisdom will also require us to examine the viability of various economic theories in an effort to identify the system which is most just in actual practice.
1 Ownership
2 Wisdom
3 Societal Responsibility
4 Individual Responsibility
The most basic issue to resolve in determining a just structure is whether private ownership of property is itself ethical. Drawing on the tradition of utopian theorists, Marx and Engels asserted that the only way to a just society was to do away with private property.[4] Liberation theologians, who advocate Marxist economics and violent class struggle in the name of God, echo Marx and Engels’ assertion. In fact, liberation theologian, Jose Miguez Bonino acknowledges that liberation theology is essentially Marxist in philosophy and method.[5]
Though to a lesser extent, many other theologians and economists think that a scriptural and ethical system will involve at least some type of socialist redistribution of the wealth. Art Gish claims that “Capitalism, that is the system of private property and competition, is itself thievery.”[6] Conrad Boerma says, “The church should make a stand for the corporate use of possessions, the reintegration of society, and the redistribution of the means of production.”[7]
Still other Evangelicals, such as Rebecca Blank, seem to acknowledge private property rights, but believe scriptural ethics demand a call for some type of socialist intervention in the economy.[8] In his celebrated book, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, Ron Sider states that there are serious limitations to private ownership rights, and he advocates policies such as land reform, which take property from the wealthy to be given to the poor.[9] The right to private ownership has come under attack in the Evangelical church.
An honest exegesis of Scripture, however, makes it difficult to join in this attack in an unqualified way. The many prohibitions against theft in the Bible[10] clearly imply the legitimacy of private ownership. One could not be guilty of theft if no one owned the property one takes. Scripture commands that we respect our neighbor’s boundary (Dt 19:14) and it acknowledges the principle of inheritance (Nu 36:1-9). The Jubilee (Lev 25:8-55), which is often cited in a questionable way by Christians who tend toward more extreme socialism,[11] is itself a celebration of private ownership. God intended that land remain within the lineage of its original owners by causing possession of lands to revert to the original owners every fifty years. He declares, “In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to his own property” (Lev 25:13). Consequently, those who “sold” their land were in fact only leasing it out until the time of the next Jubilee.
Jesus recognized the right to own one’s food and clothing (Mt 6:32, Mk. 6:37), and we know that some of His followers maintained possession of their homes (Mk 1:29, Jn 20:10). The koinonia we observe in Acts includes a sharing of goods even to the extent of believers sometimes selling property in order that the proceeds be given for distribution to the saints as they might have need (Ac 4:34-35). This kind of giving was not required, however; nor was it done by everyone in the church.
Barnabas would almost certainly not be singled out for mention in this regard (Ac 4:37) if he had merely done what everyone else had. Peter’s rebuke of Ananias in chapter five of Acts is not for his holding back some of the money from the sale of his property, but for lying about it in claiming to have donated the full price. Peter recognizes that Ananias owned his property and was under no constraint to give it when he said to Ananias in Acts 5:3, “While it remained unsold did it not remain your own? And after it was sold was it not under your control?”
It seems clear from Scripture that God recognizes the right to private ownership of property. If someone takes this property from him or her without the owner’s consent, this is considered theft. Although we shall see that the issue of consent is more complex with respect to government taxation, any ethical, economic system must be constructed on the foundation of the right to private property.
Fairness will dictate that we also recognize some people actually deserve more property than others. Those who have worked harder and wiser should receive more than slothful fools. Those who have courageously risked their own capital and exhibited entrepreneurial skill should expect more in return for their efforts.[12] It is interesting to note what Paul does not say in his exhortation to the wealthy in 1 Timothy 6:17-18:
Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and be willing to share.
Although Paul reminds the rich that they should share their blessing with others, he does not say that it is wrong for them to have more than others. He does not rebuke them for being rich.
Not only is forced redistribution of the wealth unfair, it seems a perversion of God’s principle of love. Although he overgeneralizes, Gustavo Gutierrez is at least partly justified in declaring that “Poverty is the negation of love.”[13] It does not follow, however, that the remedy to this negation is for Gutierrez to tell his followers to take property for themselves from its current owners in a violent revolution. This is not a loving act on the part of the revolutionaries and what the revolutionaries receive is not love from those they overthrow. While the love God calls us to must be expressed in caring for the physical needs of others (1 Jn 3:17), this expression must be voluntary. It cannot be coerced; it must come from the heart. Love must freely give. Jesus did say “Give to the one who asks of you ” (Mt 5:42), but anything taken is not truly given.
One danger of this kind of system that allows for real love is that the lack of coercion leaves open the possibility that some individuals will horde money and goods for themselves while ignoring the needs of the poor. Nevertheless, any system that abolishes private property in an effort to forcibly redistribute wealth necessarily minimizes opportunities for genuine love to be expressed in compassionate giving. Marxist ideologies may then be excluded from our search for a just system, since they advocate the wholesale taking of properties from some to give to others without the owner’s consent and without concern for fairness. As David Chilton points out, “Socialism is theft.”[14] These ideologies may also be excluded from consideration because they negate the concept of love.
When considering an economic system that affects an entire society, we cannot completely divorce ethics from wisdom. If a system sounds good in theory, but does not work effectively, it cannot be said to be best for the people. Wisdom personified, says, in Proverbs 8:15-16, “By me kings reign and rulers make laws that are just; by me princes govern, and all nobles who rule on earth.”
Ronald Nash complains that many, well-meaning Christian theorists are foolishly advocating an unproductive and inefficient system that hurts everyone in the long run: “Unfortunately, many Christians act as though the only thing that counts is intention. But when good intentions are not wedded to sound theory, especially sound economic theory; good intentions can often result in actions that produce consequences directly opposite to those we planned.”[15]
The industrial revolution caused us to have increased specialization in production with an accompanying increase in the division of labor. As a result, producer A can make shovels more economically than producer B, and B can make tires more economically than A. Common sense dictates that if someone from A needs a tire, he will sell a shovel and buy the tire from B. Likewise, B will buy shovels from A. The result of this trend extrapolated throughout the entire population is that at the heart of our economic system there will be a market that allows for the free exchange of goods.
When the market is allowed to act freely, certain principles are engaged that act in the best interest of all concerned. Adam Smith first documented these in the eighteenth century with his publication of The Wealth of Nations. Smith observed that the drive of individual self-interest in an environment of similarly motivated individuals will result in competition, and this competition will result in the provision of those goods that society wants in the quantities that society desires, at the prices society is prepared to pay.[16] Smith marveled at the way this system worked, and spoke of an “unseen hand” that guided everyone in the system to behave in such a way as to produce the maximum, common good.
History has largely vindicated Adam Smith’s observations, as societies with a free-market economy have tended to prosper and the twentieth century experiment with socialist economies proved to be disastrous. Although socialism attempted to give the poor a larger piece of the pie, it so shrank the size of the pie that all suffered as a result. It is neither loving nor ethical for a government to impose a system that promotes universal misery, regardless of how well-meaning those involved may be.
Marx and Engels theories failed in one way utopian theories always have. Among their flaws, they fail to account realistically for human nature. They fail to accurately assess what motivates human behavior. Writing shortly after the Russian revolution, Joyce Hertzler’s comments on utopianism seem prophetic of the destiny of communism:
It was impossible for utopians to obtain a correct view of human nature. Hence frequently they went astray….They erred also in lightly doing away with private property, the greatest and most natural inducement to individual effort and achievement. Deny it, and your scheme fails. An ordinary man has to have a stake in his job; and no idealism we can inculcate holds out a more effective lure. Ownership appeals not only to the acquisitive instinct, but also to the parental and self-assertive instincts. Fostered and diffused, it makes for social contentment; repress it and disaster follows.[17]
Just as one who designs an engine will take into account those forces that act within and upon the engine, those who would design an economic structure must take into account the force of incentives in human conduct.
Adam Smith’s laissez-faire ideas have been refined over the years by economists such as John Stuart Mill and John Maynard Keynes. Most economists now recognize the need for some kinds of government intervention in the market, but some of these economists do not seem to have learned the lessons of socialism’s failure. As mixed economies (those that combine free-market and interventionist strategies) stray toward more socialist policies, they inevitably experience unintended negative consequences. Charles Colson notes that, especially in European countries, incentives are offered for being unproductive:
Many European nations are discovering that ample benefit programs can undermine the motivation to work…There’s virtually no penalty for dropping out of the work force. The penalty falls chiefly on those who stay in the work force and pay for all these benefits.[18]
Some American economists seem oblivious to the mistakes of the Europeans as they stray into the same kinds of folly. Milton Friedman said, “if you pay people to be poor they will be poor.”[19] In other words, if you provide financial incentives for people to either not work, or to at least earn under a stipulated amount, we should not be surprised if we continue to get the behavior we reward. What is intended as benevolence toward the poor becomes a disservice to them, as it tends to keep them from rising above poverty and achieving their potential. If such policies hurt rather than help the poor they cannot be considered ethical or just.
Seen on a door in Amsterdam: “Money in the mailbox. Thanks!”
The wrong kind of interference with market forces often hurts those the misguided policies intend to help. Efforts at rent control are sometimes pointed out as examples of this type of counterproductive policy. E Calvin Beisner explains:
For any good in a competitive market in which buyers compete freely against buyers and sellers against sellers, the market price will be that at which buyers with the least ability to pay can still afford to buy,and at which producers with the least efficient (most costly) can still afford to produce. What this means is that the buyers (renters) who will be shut out of the housing market under rent control will be the poor — the very people the legislators intended to protect from high rents — and the sellers (landlords) who will be shut out of the market will be those least able to afford to provide rental housing. Rent control laws, in other words, hurt the most vulnerable people on both sides of the rental exchange, and they do this necessarily because of the action of the economic laws of marginal utility and supply and demand.[20]
Additionally, since landlords have no incentives to renovate or build new housing, housing shortages result that are not rectified by normal market forces. Rent controls have been so harmful in their effect that Walter Williams commented,”Short of aerial bombardment, the best way to destroy a city is through rent controls.”[21] Since the actual result of the policy hurts the poor, it cannot be said to be a just or ethical policy regardless of the original intent of the policy makers. We cannot divorce ethics and wisdom when considering questions of economic justice.
Societal Responsibility
It is not just economists with socialist tendencies that err through naiveté regarding human nature. Free-market capitalists often speak as though the market automatically makes its participants honest, responsible, and caring. But just as there is no socialist utopia in which men and women are selfless in their motives, there is no capitalist utopia that insures that dishonest merchants will not take advantage of buyers, that uncaring producers will not harm society or the environment, and that the capitalist society will not ignore some of its needy. These matters cannot be left to chance or to the hope that individuals will adequately address each case of dishonesty, irresponsibility, and need.
The society as a whole, as a corporate entity, must act together if these problems are to be handled in the most effective way. The governing bodies which represent these societal entities have not only the right but the duty to pass and enforce laws which protect the environment, limit child labor, ensure safe work conditions, and which protect us from monopolies and dishonest merchants. These governing bodies also have a moral obligation to identify the truly needy and help them.
Gary North protests that charity should only be given on a person to person basis by family members and churches, and that government should have no role whatsoever in this task.[23] What North fails to consider is that the friends and family members of the poor tend to be poor themselves. The needy rarely socialize with the wealthy in such a way as to communicate their needs. Churches which become familiar with the needs of the poor are usually populated by low income members, and it would burden them unfairly to make them responsible for all of the needs they encounter while wealthy, suburbanite churches use their resources to build more elaborate and ornate facilities.
North also reveals an inconsistency in his position. As a theonomist, he believes in imposing biblical law on society, and biblical law includes what might be termed federal statutes for the protection of the poor, such as the laws which require Israelites to leave behind some of their harvest in the fields for the poor to gather (Lev 19:10, 23:2). Thus, the budget of a just economy will include expenditures for the needy. The funds involved will, of course, be raised by taxes.
Conservative, Christian economists sometimes insist that such taxes for the benefit of others is ethically the equivalent of the state enforced theft Marxist governments have been guilty of. We must not be too hasty in our comparison, however. Both Jesus and Paul acknowledged the rights of governments to tax (take from) its citizens (Mt 22:15-21, Ro 13:6-7). The taxes collected by the Romans were used to a great extent for the benefit of persons other than those they were collected from, yet both Jesus and Paul refrained from calling it theft. If we agree that help for the genuinely needy (as opposed to wholesale redistribution of the wealth) is a legitimate function of the governing body, we have no grounds for opposing the collection of taxes from the wealthier in order to help the less fortunate.
While these expenditures to help the needy must be done in the wisest possible way, we must recognize that in a just economy, the populace is not only protected from those who would deceive or harm them, the poor are cared for. In order for this care to be given, there must be at least some bureaucracy to administrate the funds, goods, and services involved. Though this bureaucracy should be run as efficiently as possible, it will have to be funded itself with tax revenues. Thus, while we may legitimately protest waste, fraud, and abuse within the welfare system, the system itself is legitimate. The system will be imperfect in this imperfect world, and we may need to reform it at times, but the system itself is a necessary expression of a compassionate society.
The precise extent to which government should tax wealthier citizens in order to help the poor is beyond the scope of this article. Still, the principles of private ownership and wisdom discussed above should be kept in mind. Taxation should not be a program of wealth redistribution and should never provide incentive for non-production. Government sponsored charity should only help those who cannot produce or at least who cannot produce enough to meet an emergency circumstance beyond their control. It must also be remembered that any system of taxation which provides disincentives for production will only hurt the entire populace, including the needy.
Compassionate capitalism is the system which best seems to harmonize with the biblical principles of compassion, fairness, and wisdom. The differences between compassionate capitalism and socialism are significant. Whereas socialism in its more extreme forms aims to abolish private property, compassionate capitalism seeks to use resources as needed to help the poor. Socialism seeks to gain a monolithic control over the market (which always proves disastrous), while compassionate capitalism allows the “unseen hand” of the free market to work for the common good (while at the same time providing some needed safeguards). Socialism takes away all choice from those it takes from. Compassionate capitalism works best in a democracy which allows all participants a say in the outcome.
Individual Responsibility
Having determined a basic structure to advocate and work for, we must determine if, as Christians, there are any further, personal obligations we have to help those in need, and we find Scripture makes it clear that living in a society with a welfare system does not void individual responsibility to show the love of God in tangible ways to those we encounter face-to-face. The Samaritan Jesus said we are to emulate (Lk 10:25-37) became personally involved in the misfortunes of the man he found on the road, while the priest and the Levite merely walked by. Jesus warned we would be judged for such sins of omission as we see in the priest and the Levite. He warned that some will be surprised on that day when Jesus evaluates not just what they did, but also what they failed to do:
Then He will say to those on his left, Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me. They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ He will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ (Lk 25:41-45)
While it is good to contribute to a community effort to help the poor, group benevolence is no substitute for personal love. Missionary Morris Williams, used to comment that benevolence programs “have no face to them.” The recipient of the goods or services only encounters people in the process as representatives of an impersonal organization. God’s best, Williams contended, was for individuals to lovingly care for other individuals in a personal way. We must recognize that God puts needy people in our path and it is our personal responsibility to help them.
Having discovered our personal responsibility to help others, we must also find out what kind of lifestyle God expects us to live. Is there a limit to how much money and property we may ethically keep in a world that is filled with needs? Many of the Church Fathers argued for simplicity of lifestyle, saying we should not keep what we do not need. Augustine voiced this opinion in the kind of strong terms the Church Fathers frequently used:
Seek sufficiency, seek what is enough, and more do not seek….For if we seek useless things, nothing suffices….Consider: not only do a few things suffice for you, but God himself does not seek many things from you. Seek as much as he has given you, and from that take what suffices; other things, superfluous things, are the necessities of others. The superfluous things of the wealthy are the necessities of the poor. When superfluous things are possessed, other’s property is possessed. [24]
John Wesley echoed this sentiment, saying Christians should give away all but “the plain necessaries of life.”[25] Ron Sider tries to apply this principle of simplicity to modern life, suggesting that Christians give away a graduated tithe of their income which incrementally keeps less and less as one’s income goes higher. His scheme, literally followed, would put a ceiling of a $14, 850 income on a family of four in 1977.[26]
These calls to simplicity do seem to reflect teaching found in the Bible. John the Baptist told his followers with two tunics to share with the man who had none, and he said food should be shared with the needy in a similar way (Lk 3:11). We encounter a difficulty, however, when we move from principle to specific regulation. Exactly where do we draw the line between necessities and luxuries?
Taken literally, luxuries would consist of anything not necessary for the perpetuation of life. I believe it is safe to assume that both Augustine and Wesley possessed at least a little more than what was absolutely necessary for survival. God allows for possessions beyond survival needs. In 1 Timothy 6:17, Paul speaks of how God richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. A thorough examination of Paul’s teaching reveals that he would not have been comfortable with the modern “prosperity gospel,” but neither would he have trumpeted a call to asceticism.
It is neither practical nor scriptural to forbid all superfluities. As difficult as an American family of four would find it to live comfortably in our cultural setting on $14,850 even in 1977, such an income would still allow for what could be literally called superfluities. I believe it is fair to say that a visit to the Sider home would find such unnecessary items as indoor plumbing, heating and cooling, separate bedrooms, carpeting, wall decorations, a refrigerator, and a stove. When Ron Sider tries to turn the principle of simplicity into specific regulations, his suggestions are arbitrary.
While the simplicity principle may legitimately be promoted within the church, attempts to put ceilings on income and to forbid the possession of certain kinds of items prove untenable. We simply cannot impose the simplicity principle in a legalistic way, even if we call our man-made laws “suggestions.” We must recognize that different life settings will call for different applications of the simplicity principle. Different occupations and social settings are among the many factors to be considered in determining the wisest and most responsible way to simplify one’s life. Perhaps the most important element in making such decisions is to examine one’s heart. The greatest question we must answer is not how much we have, but how much what we have has us.
Some principles that have guided us in our quest to determine a just economic structure are compassion, fairness, freedom, and wisdom. Economic schemes from the extreme left and the extreme right fail to embody all of these principles. A free-market system with built in safeguards and wise, public assistance to the needy seems to best express the biblical principles which define a just economy.
We must not limit our concern for economic justice to the kind of system we live in, though. We must individually model the principles involved with those we interact with on a daily basis. We must recognize that God has not designed for us to personally consume every material blessing He has given us. God provides us with resources and opportunities to materially express His love to those in need. While we must be careful not to be facilitators of, or accessories to the continual laziness or irresponsibility of those who would take advantage of our kind intentions, we must remember the poor, as a society and as individuals. I believe compassionate capitalism is the most just system, and personal acts of charity within that system are expected from each of us by God.
1) David K. Clark and Robert V. Rakestraw, Readings in Christian Ethics vol. 1 (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 1994), 213.
2) All Scripture quotations are taken from the NIV.
3) Hermeneutical approaches to Scripture do vary sharply in this regard, however. Liberation theologians, for example, abandon classical hermeneutics in favor of a hermeneutics which starts from the contemporary situation rather than the ancient text.
4) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, ed. Samuel H. Beer (New New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1955),24.
5) Jose Miguez Bonino, Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975), 35, 71.
6) Art Gish, “Decentralist Economics,” in Wealth and Poverty: Four Christian Views of Economics, ed. Robert G. Clouse (Downers Grove, Illinois: Inter Varsity Press, 1984), 76.
7) Conrad Boerma, Rich Man, Poor Man and the Bible, trans. John Bowden(London: SCM Press, 1979), 92.
8) Rebecca M. Blank, Do Justice: Linking Christian Faith and Modern Economic Life (Cleveland: United Church Press, 1992), 168.
9) Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger (Downers Grove, Illinois: Inter Varsity Press, 1977), 218.
10) Ex 20:15, 22:1 B15; Lev 6:2 B7, 19:11B13; Eph 4:28; 1 Pe 4:15; Rev 9:21.
11) Authors such as William Diehl, Conrad Boerma, Ron Sider, and many others, use poor hermeneutics and twisted logic to make this passage of Scripture say that God calls either for the forgiveness of all debts or abolition of private property.
12) See Proverbs 14:24 and 15:6.
13) Gustavo Gutierrez, A Theology of Liberation. trans. Caridad Inda and John Eagleson(Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1988), 168.
14) David Chilton, Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt Manipulators. (Tyler, Texas: Institute for Christian Economics, 1981), 9.
15) Ronald H. Nash, Poverty and Wealth: The Christian Debate Over Capitalism. (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway Books, 1986), 9.
16) Robert L. Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives and Times of the Great Economic Thinkers (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980) 51-72.
17) Joyce Oramel Hertzler, The History of Utopian Thought (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923), 302-303.
18) Charles Colson, A Dangerous Grace (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1994), 308.
19) Milton Friedman, quoted in Rus Walton, Biblical Solutions to Contemporary Problems: A Handbook (Brentwood, Tennessee: Wolgemuth and Hyatt Publishers, 1988), 213.
20) E. Calvin Beisner, Prosperity and Poverty: The Compassionate Use of Resources in a World of Scarcity (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway Books, 1988), 164.
21) Walter Williams, quoted in John Stossel, Give Me a Break (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2004), 183.
23) Gary North, “Free Market Capitalism” in Robert G. Clouse ed. Wealth and Poverty: Four Christian Views of Economics (Downers Grove, Illinois: Inter Varsity Press, 1984), 57.
24) Augustine, Enarratio in Psalmum LXXXXVIII, 2, PL 37:1134. quoted in Charles Avila, Ownership: Early Christian Teaching (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1983), 113.
25) John Wesley, The Works of John Wesley quoted in Ron Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger (Downers Grove, Illinois: Inter Varsity Press, 1977), 172.
26) Ibid. 175-178.
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The Church of Scientology is a commercial enterprise that masquerades as a religion, and that increasingly acts like a hate group. Scientology has a long history of hate and harassment activities, which - along with lying and deception - are condoned and encouraged in the cult's own ''scriptures.'' (See, for example, its ''dead agenting'' and ''fair game'' policies). This is why Apologetics Index classifies the organization as a hate group.
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The Church of Scientology is a controversial new religion developed by L. Ron Hubbard as an extension of his earlier psychological theories of Dianetics. Drawing on ideas from Buddhist and Hindu religious philosophy, science fiction, and Western concepts in psychology and science, L. Ron Hubbard produced a religion that sees all human beings as immortal spirits (thetans) who have forgotten their identity and become deceived by the very universe they mentally emanated in order to amuse themselves. Scientology claims it can free the thetan to realize his or her true nature and powers through certain controversial procedures that allegedly heal the mind and free the spirit.
Summary from ''Is Scientology Compatible With Christianity?'' By John Weldon
The German government considers the Scientology organization a commercial enterprise with a history of taking advantage of vulnerable individuals and an extreme dislike of any criticism. The government is also concerned that the organization's totalitarian structure and methods may pose a risk to Germany's democratic society. Several kinds of evidence have influenced this view of Scientology, including the organization's activities in the United States.
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It it said that Scientology may well be the first cult to be done in by the Internet. That remains to be seen. But as the information referred to in this Apologetics Index entry will demonstrate, this commercial business - masquerading as a religion - rightly has come under intense scrutiny from individuals, organizations, Christian ministries, and governments.
The Church of Scientology responds to its critics with attacks, harrassment, false complaints of "religious persecution," and etcetera - thus belying its claim that is promotes high, ethical standards.
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The basic tenets of Scientology result from an eclectic mixture of Eastern philosophy and the personal research of Hubbard into a variety of disciplines, as well as the ''data'' uncovered from ''auditing.'' Auditing is Scientology's ''counseling'' or extensive examination of the present life and ''past lives'' of the ''preclear,'' or initiate. In one of its many definitions, Hubbard has described Scientology as ''the Western Anglicized continuance of many earlier forms of wisdom.'' These include the Vedas, Taoism, Buddhism, Judaism, Gnosticism and early Greek civilization; and the teachings of Jesus, Nietzsche, and Freud. According to Hubbard, ''Scientology has accomplished the goal of religion expressed in all Man's written history, the freeing of the soul by wisdom.''
Scientology divides the mind into two components -- the analytic and the reactive, roughly parallel to the conscious or rational mind and unconscious or irrational mind. Experiences of extreme shock, pain, or unconsciousness cause ''engrams,'' or sensory impressions, to be recorded in the reactive mind. These mental pictures are, in turn, the cause of our emotional and even many physical problems today. They can be dislodged only through Scientology.
While these memory pictures are perfectly recorded, they lay dormant in the brain until restimulated by a similar incident. When restimulated, they cause conditioned, stimulus-response behavior which is counterproductive to one's well-being. Thus, when the brain sees a similar situation to a past threatening experience -- even though it is not now a threat to survival, it responds as if it were, producing a form of inappropriate and self-defeating behavior. For example, a boy falls out of a tree just as a red car passes by and is knocked unconscious. Later, even as a man, red cars (even red things) may restimulate the episode in various ways and cause irrational reactions. This man may thus refuse to ride in a red car and may even get ill or dizzy when confronted with the possibility.
In this sense, we are all more or less conditioned beings -- ''machines'' that simply respond to their operator (i.e., the reactive mind). Scientology believes this restimulation is fairly automatic. In other words, we are not free beings: we are slaves of an ''aberrated'' (reactive) mind. Scientology maintains that through Dianetic and/or Scientology therapy, we can be directly exposed to our engrams, ''erase'' them, and become ''clear,'' or in control of our behavior (''at cause'') rather than at the mercy of a damaged reactive mind (''at effect'').
Unfortunately, Scientology informs us, through reincarnation we have all been accumulating engrams for trillions of years. Thus, to resolve hidden engrams, not only must the initiate be mentally whisked back to reexperience the damaging events of this life, but of many past lives as well.
According to Scientology, each person is really a thetan, an immortal spirit who has been so damaged by engrams that he has forgotten he is immortal and even forgotten he is a thetan. Thetans have absolute control over their bodies, but, sadly, they think they are bodies (a terrible fate) and hence are bound by the MEST (matter, energy, space, time) universe. Each time a body dies, the thetan must enter another body, but this brings with it all its trillions of years' accumulation of engrams. Thetans thus are no longer free, but are in bondage to the material universe. Scientology claims it can free the thetan.
''Is Scientology Compatible With Christianity?'' (for references, see full article) By John Weldon
The process of freeing the thetan is a lengthy one. Costly, too. Scientologists pay fixed-price ''donations'' to work their way up to being completely ''clear'' (for information about Scientology's terminology, see these glossaries).
This is one reason why the Scientology organization closely guards its scriptures. After all, if people could see what Scientology's courses lead to, they'd likely not spend any money them.
Thus the Scientology organization uses censorship, spamming, and harassment tactics in its fight for control over, or access to, online information about its teachings and practices.
Nevertheless, a growing amount record of critical information regarding Scientology is available online.
For anything from a basic introduction to indepth information - from a secular perspective - visit Operation Clambake - easily the most extensive and best organized presentation of critical information. Additional sites are listed here. The Boston Herald's special report, ''Scientology Unmasked,'' also provides a good overview.
For information from a Christian perspective, addressing Scientology's theology - as well as its erroneous claims of being compatible with Christianity and other religions - see this overview by Dr. John Weldon, as well as the Scientology Comparative Religion Page.
Additional information from a Christian perspective includes this collection of articles published by Watchman Fellowship, and Margery Wakefield's What Christians Need to Know About Scientology.
It It A Religion?
A good number of religion academics - among whom some cult apologists - have, upon examining Scientology's religious trappings, declared the movement to be a ''religion.''
Merriam=Webster defines religion as:
1 a : the state of a religious <a nun in her 20th year of religion> b (1) : the service and worship of God or the supernatural (2) : commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance
2 : a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices
3 archaic : scrupulous conformity : CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
4 : a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith
Religion, Merriam-Webster
Some governments, notably that of the United States of America, for whatever reason agree that Scientology is a religion. Advantages for Scientology include tax exemption and the ability to conduct certain practices without government oversight or interference.
Other academics and governments see the movement in a different light - a business (fraudulent or not) cloaked in religious garb, a danger to society, an anti-constitutional movement, or simply a danger to consumers.
On the so-called ''religious nature'' of Scientology, former top Scientologist Robert Vaughn Young provides this insight:
To those who don't know me, I was in Scientology for about 21 years. Until Jesse Prince stepped forward, I was the highest-ranking Scientology executive to speak about the organization without its approval. I served in and saw virtually every echelon of the organization, from a franchise where I started in 1969 to working directly with David Miscavige. About 18 of those years was spent in or senior to Dept. 20 (now called the Office the Special Affairs or OSA), the section that deals with the ''enemies'' of the organization, which comes to mean anyone who disagrees with or criticizes any aspect of Scientology, Hubbard or ''management.'' Thus it is Dept. 20 (and now also RTC) that deals with the media, the courts, government agencies, critics and ARS itself.
... on the religiosity of Scientology, I testified about my own role in creating the ''religious image'' that ranged from the programs that Dept. 20 had back in the early 70s (during the FDA trial) to do everything possible to make Scientology appear to be a religion, e.g., get crosses up, find a room and create a chapel, start ''Sunday Services,'' get the org listed in the phone book under ''churches'' etc.
I also testified how I had obtained ''religious recognition'' for Scientology from the Labor and State Departments. (More on this in a moment.)
When it came to offering my opinion, I said that I don't consider Scientology to be a ''religion'' because it wasn't being conducted as such in good faith. [...more...]
The publisher of Apologetics Index considers Scientology to be a dangerous, destructive philosophy, promoted by a commercial business that masquerades as a religion. In addition, given the organization's documented harassment tactics and other hate practices, he considers it to be a hate group.
Examining The Church of Scientology
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First posted: Oct. 3, 1996
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