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Scottish Ferries Procurement Review & Teckal exemption
TO ALL BRANCHES & REGIONAL COUNCILS.
Scottish Government review of ferries procurement and the ‘Teckal’ exemption
Further to circular No.0147/16 of 19th May 2016, the Transport Minister, Humza Yousaf MSP announced in the Scottish Parliament yesterday a “review of the legal, policy and financial implications” of the future procurement of Scotland’s publicly contracted ferry services.
The immediate impact of this decision is a pause in the re-tendering of the Gourock-Dunoon contract which was due to be awarded in the spring, with incumbent public sector operator Argyll Ferries in the running to retain the contract. The Scottish Government is planning to issue a nine-month extension to Argyll Ferries’ existing contract which was due to expire in June. Your union is seeking urgent confirmation from the Scottish Government of the exact duration of the contract extension and continuity of existing contractual terms and conditions of Argyll Ferries staff.
On the Northern Isles, Serco NorthLink’s current contract expires in April 2018. The Minister told MSPs yesterday that the review would look at any extension required to the existing NIFS contract and that “Discussions have already begun with Serco for a possible extension of the contract.” Your union is seeking urgent confirmation from the Scottish Government and Serco NorthLink of the exact duration of any contract extension and continuity of existing contractual terms and conditions of NorthLink staff.
CalMac’s contract with the Scottish Government for the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Service started in October 2016 and runs for a maximum of eight years until September 2024. Any changes to procurement policy will not affect existing contractual terms and conditions on CalMac but the review will cover governance structures at CalMac and parent public sector company David MacBrayne Ltd, as well as Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd. The Minister has committed to providing the union with further reassurances over any possible implications for CalMac staff on the CHFS network but, again, members’ existing contractual terms and conditions will not be covered by the review.
The Minister also announced yesterday that the European Commission has accepted the union’s legal advice that public contracts for Scottish ferry services do not have to be subject to regular re-tendering requirements in EU Maritime Cabotage Regulation 3577/92. This follows the joint approach the RMT and Scottish Government made to the European Commission in light of the legal advice your union had received on the possibility of applying an exemption for Scottish ferry contracts under ‘Teckal’ case law.
In essence, a Teckal exemption removes the legal obligation on a public authority to tender public contracts when it can be proved that the public authority can provide the services itself, subject to certain ‘control’ and ‘function’ tests. The union’s legal advice, provided by European procurement law specialist Gordon Nardell QC in November 2015 is that this exemption could be applied to Scottish ferry contracts tendered by the Scottish Government. I would also point out that the union’s current legal advice is clear that successfully applying a Teckal exemption would not contravene European rules on state aid.
The Scottish Government review will specifically look at the case for the Teckal exemption. RMT will be involved in the review and will continue to press for an exemption for lifeline Scottish ferry services from damaging interpretations of EU competition and state aid regulations. The Minister confirmed that the RMT, along with RMT Scottish Parliamentary Group member David Stewart MSP would be invited to talks as part of the review in the very near future. The STUC and the other Scottish ferry trade unions, Nautilus, TSSA and Unite will also be involved in the review.
The union is under no illusions over the complexity of the task ahead but we are ready for this review and will make the case for a Teckal exemption to be applied at the earliest opportunity. As such, yesterday’s announcement is a welcome development and bodes well for workers and passengers on Scotland’s lifeline public ferry services.
I would be grateful if you could bring the content of this circular to all members in your Branch and you will be updated with further developments.
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Keeping Track - Dateline June 2010
Written by Super User. Posted in Reviews from issues of Journal Into Melody during 2010
The KT Editor’s CD Choice
CAROL JARVIS Smile What are you doing on New Year’s Eve; When you wish upon a star; Carol’s Tune; How high the moon; Polka dots and moonbeams; But beautiful; Caravan; Sång till lotta; Night and day; Alfie; For absent friends; Tico-Tico; Principal uncertainty; Spain; In the wee small hours of the morning; Smile Divine Art Diversions DV 24150 [62:47] This is something special. Acclaimed trombonist Carol, who our 12-year-old granddaughter describes as "well pretty", graduated from the Royal Northern College with the highest qualification possible and is now a member of the faculty at Trinity College in London. Since 2004, when she was in her mid-20s, she has been fighting ? and how ? the disease of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma involving pioneering treatment. Yet she has maintained her position as one the UK’s leading instrumentalists. She recently learnt that a school in London has a class named after her due to her story. Carol herself says "that a cancer diagnosis doesn’t have to be a death sentence. It can be a very dark and lonely place but it also opens your eyes to the world. If anything my life is so much better since that diagnosis as I don’t take anything for granted anymore and treasure even the smallest things." Miss Jarvis’s rich as molasses timbre is well suited to a choice selection of tunes, some jazz tinged. The languorous opening track is a Frank Loesser number new to me. Sång till lotta was written by Jan Sandstrom for a friend’s young trombone playing daughter on her birthday. [I understand she now works for the United Nations sanstrombone!] Jimmy Van Heusen’s But beautiful is arranged by Miss Jarvis. She is accompanied throughout by 34 hand-picked musicians, including her pianist brother James, led by Cynthia Fleming. The conductor is Roderick Dunk, who also wrote Carol’s Tune and arranged a number of the tracks: my favourite being the Ellington classic with its clever quotation from Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia used as an intro. I like, too, the staccato start to Tico-Tico. The front of the CD booklet has a Rolf Harris painting of Carol called "Golden Girl" donated by the artist. At least £1.50 + VAT of each CD sold will go towards Macmillan Cancer Support. On grounds of both musicality and contributing to such a worthwhile cause, I hope that JIM readers will not think twice about adding this admirable mid-price album to their collection.
BRITISH CINEMA AND THEATRE ORCHESTRAS – Volume 3 For full tracklisting please see pagexx of this issue GLCD 5168 [79:23] In this latest of the Guild Light Music Series to come my way, prepare yourself for a feast of "get-up-and-go" light music that was an every day "listen to" once ? but sadly has gone the way of the dinosaur as far as the BBC is concerned. The London Palladium Orchestra conducted by Clifford Greenwood gets the show on the road with a bright and breezy selection of music from productions that have graced the Palladium stage up to when the original recording was made in 1939. It was issued as Palladium Memories but compiler David puts forward the theory that the two sides of the 12" HMV 78 were accidentally reversed in the pressing stage. His full notes in the booklet make interesting reading. After this energetic ‘overture’ the Commodore Grand Orchestra conducted by Joseph Muscant on an Edison Bell Winner recording of 1932 (yes, really) play Leon Jessell’s well known Wedding of the Rose, followed by Arthur Anton conducting the Paramount Theatre Orchestra of London in Waldteufel’s valse militaire, The Grenadier, with Al Bollington at the organ. Another selection, Vincent Youmans’ Hit the Deck is next, played in a spirited performance by the London Hippodrome Orchestra conducted by Joseph Tunbridge and recorded, would you believe, in 1927? It ran for 277 performances. Walter Collins was a composer/conductor I’d love to know more about as he composed and conducted a varied selection of attractive and catchy pieces for the Paxton Library in the 1940s, and I believe he was the musical director of the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea earlier in his career. This digressing is caused by track five which has Richard Crean and The London Palladium Orchestra playing what must be Walter Collins’s most popular light composition, Moontime. I’ve got two or three different recordings of it. Now here’s one to take note of on track six: Perfection by J H White, (unknown to me) and played by the Commodore Grand Orchestra, again conducted by Joseph Muscant ? but it’s the brilliant solo trumpet playing of Albert Coupe, coupled with Alan Bunting’s restoration of this 1933 Edison Bell Winner disc that really makes one sit up. Quite stunning! Another bright and breezy selection played by the Adelphi Theatre Orchestra conducted by Francis Collinson, Home and Beauty by Nicholas Brodszky, is next and it ran for 128 performances, although I think most people would associate Brodszky with the film world. A novelty number by Theo Bendix, The Busy Bee, (nothing to do with Arthur Askey) and played by The Plaza Theatre Orchestra conducted by Frank Tours is a catchy piece as is Les Sylphides by Oliver Cussans and played by The London Palladium Orchestra, Richard Crean conducting. This piece is also in the Boosey and Hawkes Mood Music catalogue. Eduard Kunneke’sThe Song of the Sea selection is played by His Majesty’s Theatre Orchestra, the composer conducting, and regular purchasers of Guild Light Music discs will already have three movements from his Dance Suite. The music from this show is, I think, most impressive and the production ran for 158 performances in 1928. Herman Finck was a prolific composer of highly tuneful light music and the Plaza Theatre Orchestra conducted by Frank Tours recorded his A la Gavotte on a Columbia disc in 1929. It’s one of Two Little Dances, the other being A La Minuet. Really delightful! The Commodore Grand Orchestra with regular conductor Joseph Muscant, but this time from a Regal Zonophone recording of 1934, gently waltz onto the stage with Carl Zimmer’s What the Forest Whispers; then the London Palladium Orchestra play The Valley of the Poppies ? a catchy number by Charles Ancliffe, usually known for his marches and waltzes although, as noted previously, he has a number of "mood" pieces in the Bosworth Archive catalogue. Frantisek Drola’s Serenade played by The Paramount Theatre Orchestra and Chanson (In Love) by Rudolf Friml from Frank Tours and the Plaza Theatre Orchestra lead up to the penultimate track which is Paul Lincke’s Beautiful Spring, played by the Regal Virtuosi conducted by Emmanuel Starkey with Sidney Torch at the organ. David’s booklet notes tells us that the Virtuosi is actually the second orchestra used by the Regal Cinema and half the size of the original ? and doesn’t seem to have lasted long. Finally, the curtain comes down on a selection of Emmerich Kalman’s score to Countess Maritza, played in fine style by the New Coventry Hippodrome Orchestra conducted by William (Bill) Pethers. But, unlike the Regal Virtuosi, this theatre orchestra lasted much longer ? after which the Hippodrome became a Bingo Hall, finally being demolished in 2002. Rather a sad note to end on but a super selection of tunes all the same! Ken Wilkins
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THETTOMMY DORSEY ORCHESTRA starring WARREN COVINGTON Tea For Two Cha Chas Tea for two cha cha; Por favor [Please]; Patricia; I still get jealous – Cha cha; Corazon de melon; Dardanella – Cha cha; Rico Vacilon; I want to be happy cha cha; Together 1-2-3; Trumpet cha cha cha; Dinah- Cha cha; Cha cha for Gia/ More Tea For Two Cha Chas Tea for two cha cha No.2; An occasional man; Santa Isabel De Las Lajas; Dream; Everybody’s cha cha; Santiago de Cuba; Sweet and gentle [Me lo dijo adela]; Nunca; Don’t worry ‘bout me; Silencio; The Sheik of Araby – Cha cha; Esto es Felicidad Sepia 1142 [63:05] I think this is the first orchestral CD I have encountered from this source and it’s a good ’un. Tommy Dorsey died in 1956 and a couple of years later the brilliant trombonist Warren Covington was invited to succeed him. The first album on this 2-on-1 was their first LP recording and the second came in 1959. The orchestra comprises four trumpets [including Covington], three trombones, four saxophones, clarinet, piano, bass and drums. They make a fine sound, brilliantly re-mastered by Robin Cherry. Some might think that just over an hour of cha cha rhythm is too much of a good thing but you don’t have to play all the tracks straight off. I enjoyed every minute of it and if I did not have two right feet [I’m a "leftie"] would probably appreciate it even more for being eminently danceable to. Peter Burt
DENNIS FARNON AND HIS ORCHESTRA Caution! Men Swinging & The Enchanted WoodsCaution! Men Swinging; Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year; Lover Come Back To Me; Shoo-Shoo Baby; Just You, Just Me; Isle Of Capri; South Of The Border; It Don't Mean A Thing (If it..); Why Don't You Do Right; Three Little Words; Resume Speed / Among My Souvenirs; Moonlove; Cecilia; Right as Rain; Fools Rush In; The Lady Is a Tramp; Snowfall; Winter Wonderland; If You Are But a Dream; I Hear a Rhapsody; Day by Day Vocalion CDNJT 5312 [77:44] Dennis Farnon recordings have always been scarce, and vinyl copies of the these two albums have been notching up some fair prices on Internet dealer sites, so this new 2-on-1 reissue from Dutton is particularly welcome. ‘The Enchanted Woods’ is an intriguing collection because Dennis uses only woodwinds and rhythm on a fine collection of standards featuring on one track, Right as Rain, a sax solo from brother Brian Farnon. There is humour to be found on Cecilia and The Lady is a Tramp. In contrast ‘Caution! Men Swinging’ is pure jazz and features two original numbers from Dennis [Caution! and Resume] plus great standards all played immaculately by some of the best West Coast musicians of the time, many of whom featured on so many recordings of the day. Faultless re-mastering by Mike Dutton brings out all the detail. It's sad that Dennis never returned to big band recordings of this nature, because this is an example of just how good it can get. This CD deserves a place in your Farnon collection.Albert Killman
ANDRE KOSTELANETZ & HIS ORCHESTRA Gershwin, Kreisler, Rachmaninov Love walked in; A foggy day; S’wonderful; Fascinatin’ rhythm; The man I love; Someone to watch over me; Medley: I got rhythm, But not for me, Embraceable you, Wintergreen for President, Promenade; Porgy and Bess Medley; Strike up the band; Tambourin Chinois; Caprice Viennois; The old refrain; Stars in my eyes; Melodie in E; Piano Concerto No.2; 18th Variation on a Theme of Paganini Sounds of Yesteryear DSOY 798 [67:44] Listening to this lush recording brought back happy memories of playing my father’s 78s back in the early fifties. All memorable tunes with one in particular, Fritz Kreisler’s Stars in my eyes, played many times with steel needles becoming almost transparent. Michael Highton’s informative notes worth the price of the CD alone! As I said when reviewing Kosty’s‘Richard Rodgers’ CD, Dick O’Connor’s article on Kostelanatz arrangers in JIM December ‘07 is a mine of information. Paul Clatworthy
STRINGS IN RHYTHM For full tracklisting please see page xx of this issue Guild GLCD 5167[77:57] I thought this sounded a good collective title for this Guild release and it certainly begins with a fiery opening courtesy of Percy Faith and his Orchestra and Victor Herbert’s Habanera from ‘Natoma’ ? a cracking start. Frank Chacksfield and his Orchestra follow with a fine arrangement by Roland Shaw of Swinging on a Star. If you only remember Victor Silvester’s strict tempo dance style, his Silver Strings make a really super job of Cole Porter’s You do Something to Me on track three, followed by Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra with his own composition In the Heat of the Day. There are names that crop up on these Guild Light Music releases that I’m afraid I’ve never heard of and the next two are prime examples of my ignorance: J. George Johnson whose composition Greenwich Village is played by the New World Theatre Orchestra, and Eros Sciorilli. His (?) lively tuneful piece,La Colpa Fu, is played by the Orchestra of the 6th San Remo Festival conducted by George Melachrino. Brass and piano vie with the strings of the Philip Green Orchestra in a relaxing version ofIn a Sentimental Mood; however, the mood changes abruptly with Georges Boulanger’s Da Capo, in a spirited performance by Hans-George Arlt and his Orchestra ? it really sets the pulses racing. Paul Weston and his Orchestra play In Love in Vain by Jerome Kern from the 1946 Technicolor filmCentennial Summe, starring Jeanne Crain and Cornel Wilde, "a pleasing family comedy with music" according to Halliwell. Noel Coward’s well known Poor Little Rich Girl, in an arrangement by Peter Yorke and played by his Orchestra, is next; but this is followed by a not so well known piece, Sunset on the Tiber, by Dave Dexter (and here’s another example of my ignorance) neither of which I’ve heard of, but the music is a nice catchy piece played in a very smooth manner by Norrie Paramor and his Orchestra, from 1959. While listening to Carmen Dragon and the Capitol Symphony Orchestra playing La Cumparsita, I noticed in the play list Neapolitan Nights Mambo, played by Monty Kelly and his Orchestra, one of the composers being Zamecnik, a name that crops up frequently in early recorded mood music. So I was rather interested to read more about him and to discover John Stepan Zamecnik had written over 2,000 compositions, mainly for the Sam Fox Co. during his lifetime, 1872 to 1953. This particular number was used as the theme music for a silent film, "Fazil" (1925). Pepe Gonzalez and his Orchestra set the feet a-tapping with a spirited performance of La Cucaracha on a Brunswick disc of 1957 as does Otto Cesana with his own piece Let’s Beguine on a Columbia recording of two years earlier. Wonderful sound recording from that era, enhanced by Alan Bunting’s magical touch. Dolf van der Linden and his Orchestra (as Van Lynn) with a delicate piece by Joseph Francois Heyne La Petite Gavotte, is on track twenty two. Would they be the same players who formed the Metropole Orchestra and also recorded for the Paxton Library? Werner Muller and his Orchestra (as Ricardo Santos and his Tango Orchestra) bring this fine collection of light music almost to a close with Jacob Gade’s Glamour-Tango, a worthy successor to his Jealousy. Lastly, theFireworks Polka by Johann Strauss arranged by Robert Farnon (on the label, Jack Saunders) and played by his Orchestra. As the orchestra struck up I thought we were in for The Loveliest Night of the Year, then the fireworks really began. It wouldn’t have been out of place in a New Year’s Day Concert from Vienna. Great stuff! Ken Wilkins
WERNER TWARDY The Fantastic Sound of Werner Twardy 26 tracks incl. Merry Go Round; Ramona; Blueberry Hill; Siberia; Lovely Lady; It’s a lonesome old town; On a Persian market; I’m in the mood for love; Avant de mourir; The more I see you; Always; Old Man Moses … Polydor 06007 5324561 [77:01] Most of the CDs I review have to be bought [a fact reflected in my bank balance!] but sometimes a "freebie" comes my way and this is one of them. The liner notes are nearly all in German but I have discovered that Herr Twardy [1926-77] worked with the Kurt Edelhagen Band as arranger and composer before leading his own orchestra. It seems that only two tracks are by Orchester Werner Twardy [my German not being up to finding out whether they accompany on the others] but the maestro is responsible for all the arrangements, which are mainly tracks taken from Polydor’s ‘In Gold’ series with Hammond organist T.W.Ardy (sic), trumpeters Horst Fischer, Heinz Schachtner and Leif Ulvemark, trombonists Otto Bredl and Jiggs Whigham, clarinetist Henry Arland, and pianists Fritz Schulz-Reichel and Werner himself, with the Gunter-Kallman Choir on nine tracks. The spine of the jewel-box spine refers to "Jazzclub/Easy" and the fact that the album found a degree of favour with two visiting pre-teen grandchildren for dancing to will give you some idea of what to expect. It’s sorta-James Last and at budget price I’ll be surprised if the album does not make you feel happy, too. Peter Burt
JOSHUA BELL At Home With Friends I loves you Porgy; Come again; Oblivion; Cinema Paradiso; Para Ti; My Funny Valentine; Maybe so; Grieg: Violin Sonata No.3, Movement II; Eleanor Rigby; Rachmaninoff: O, cease thy singing, maiden fair, Op.4, No.4; Il Postino; Left Hand Song; Chovendo Na Roseira; Look away; Variant moods: duet for sitar and violin; I’ll take Manhattan; White Christmas Sony Classical 88697554362 [77:37] Chosen by David Mellor on Classic FM as his "Crossover CD of the Year" for 2009, you get what it says on the tin. Classical violinist Joshua Bell joins with some friends on 17 eclectic tracks including Sting [singing Dowland], vocalist Josh Groban, sitar player Anoushka Shankar, trumpeter Chris Botti and pianist/arranger Marlin Hamlisch. Oblivionby Astor Piazzola and Il Postino both feature Carel Kraayenhof playing the bandoneon [a type of concertina popular in South America]. The most fascinating track is the Grieg piece which, by the wonders of modern technology, Bell recorded in July last year with accompaniment at the piano by one Sergei Rachmaninoff, recorded in September 1928! Altogether a disc that is a bit "different" but musically rewarding. Peter Burt
A TOUCH OF CLASS [Four Hands At One And Two Pianos] Rachel & Vanessa FuidgeMilhaud: Scaramouche; Gershwin arr. H Levine: Rhapsody in Blue; Saint-Saens arr. composer: The Carnival of Animals; Philip Lane: Badinages 1 - Mouvement Perpetual; Grieg: Norwegian Dance No.2; Anitra’s Dance; Casella: Puppets; Camilleri: Paganiana; Paola di Biase: Duo Tango; Leroy Anderson:Fiddle Faddle Divine Art DDV 24146 [70:40] Whether to play or hear, piano duets are fun. These players, identical twins born in Glossop in 1988, clearly find them so and the freshness and bloom of their work ensure that we do, too. The Milhaud, unique here in being a two piano work, Gershwin and Saint-Saens are the most recent recordings [2009]. By themselves they would have offered short measure, so the other tracks are taken from an earlier CD, now deleted, made by Dunelm Records in 2005 when the twins were still at school. These latter tracks offer less well-known but equally tuneful items from the duet repertoire. Fine recording; the sense of musical enjoyment is something to treasure. Philip L Scowcroft
PHIL KELSALL Welcome To My World Imperial Echoes; Second Waltz [Shostakovitch]; The Cactus Polka; Vera Lynn Medley [Part 1]; George Gershswin Medley; You raise me up; I’ve got the world on a string/Welcome to my world/What a wonderful world; La Danza; That’s amore/My resistance is low/Que sera sera; Limehouse Blues/Vera Lynn Medley [Part 2]; Wurlitzer March; Jerome Kern Medley; Russian Rag; Jerry Herman Medley; Noel Coward Medley; Twelfth Street Rag Grasmere GRCD 132 [70:08] This album, only recorded in January, celebrates 75 years of the distinctive sounding Blackpool Tower Wurlitzer organ from the current ? and for the past 35 years ? king of its keyboard. Available at mid-price, it is a very pleasant selection of nicely varied items. What a potent tune You raise me up is. Based on the Londonderry Air, it has been recorded more than 125 times and become popular at funerals and memorial services, and is well-suited to the Wurlitzer. Peter Burt
A BREEZY BALLAD Songs and Ballads of Haydn Wood Shae Apland [bass-baritone], Sharon Wishart [piano], Marissa Famiglietti [soprano], Marjorie Cullerne [violin] A Breezy Ballad; The Little Ships [Dunkirk 1940]; The Stars Looked down; Khaki and Gold; Casey the Fiddler; Think on these Things; I Bless the Dawn; I Love Your Eyes; Roses of Picardy; Memories of Yesterday; Bird of Love Divine; Three Sea songs: The Call, Ship o’ Mine, The Sea Road; Fairy Water; This is My Dream; Prayer in the Desert [A Soldier – His Prayer]; A Rose Still Blooms in Picardy; Somebody’s in Love With You; Love’s Garden of Roses; The Foray; The End of the World [A Manx Spiritual]; Your Prayers Are Asked; This is the Song of Life [67:39] Haydn Wood wrote many ballads and some more serious songs [his wife Dorothy Court was a popular soprano]. His 50th anniversary last year brought forth two song CDs, by Peter Dempsey and Guy Rowland and this one, from Canada, which luckily overlaps relatively little ? even Roses, present on both, appears here in its otherwise unavailable duet version. The principal singer, Shae Apland, a virile-sounding bass-baritone clear and fresh in delivery, is positively accompanied by Sharon Wishart. I could have done with hearing more of Miss Famiglietti ? perhaps in songs written for Dorothy Court ? as she is only heard in the Roses duet, but the CD is pleasantly varied: many "outdoor" songs like the grimly portentous The End of the World and others [Khaki, Ships and Prayer] which between them recall two World Wars; the disc spans the period 1910-50. We hear Bird with Wood’s violin obbligato played by his great-niece Marjorie Cullerne, who has devised obbligati for Casey and Love’s Garden. Recommended heartily. Philip L Scowcroft
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GRACIE FIELDS Our Gracie : The Best Of Gracie Fields Gracie’s Requests: Sally – My Blue Heaven – Looking on the bright side; When I grow too old to dream; Wish me luck [as you wave me goodbye]; Walter, Walter lead me to the alter; Red sails in the sunset; Danny boy; A nice cup of tea; Indian Love Call; Little old lady; Love walked in; Sing as we go*; That old feeling*; Irving Berlin Medley*: This year’s kisses – The song is ended – How deep is the ocean; Lancashire Blues*; Smile when you say goodbye*; The biggest aspidistra in the world; Pedro the Fisherman; Bless this house; Oklahoma! Part 1: Oh, what a beautiful mornin’! – The surrey with the fringe on top – People will say we’re in love; Oklahoma! Part 2: I cain’t say no – Out of my dreams – Oklahoma!; How are things in Glocca Morra?; He wooed her and wooed her and wooed her; Take me to your heart again [La vie en rose]; Now in the hour; Gracie Fields featuring Jane Horrocks "Now is the hour" Decca 5324560[79’43"] Following the very successful showing last autumn of the BBC4 drama ‘Gracie’, starring Jane Horrocks, and no doubt hoping to emulate their 2009 best-selling collection from Vera Lynn, Decca bring us a selection of Miss Fields’ best known recordings, plus five [see * above] which have never been released before. These new tracks were taken from Fairy Soap radio programmes made in 1938 that were discovered in a storage facility and saved from destruction. The last track is also fascinating: a duet of Gracie’s biggest chart success, her voice combining with that of Jane Horrocks. Nine of the first ten pre-war tracks were originally on the old Rex label with MDs Jay Wilbur or Fred Hartley. Wish me luck is from a film soundtrack issued by Regal-Zonophone. On the majority of the original Decca tracks the MD is Phil Green although Victor Young wields the baton for Aspidistra, and on La vie en rose Gracie is accompanied by our own Bob Farnon and his Orchestra. Where this new collection scores over previous releases is in the first-rate final restoration and remastering by RFS member Alan Bunting. He was most pleased to be able to do something about an extremely bad edit on the 78 of Wish me luck. Ray Crick is responsible for the compilation and very good booklet notes, although it’s a pity that among other listing errors The Lord’s Prayer track referred to seems to have got lost somewhere along the way! Surprisingly there is not a lot of duplication with the two albums featured in Back Tracks in our March issue. Most enjoyable. Peter Burt
JUDY GARLAND Over The Rainbow : The Very Best Of Judy Garland Over The Rainbow, Stompin’ At The Savoy, You Made Me Love You, Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart, I’m Just Wild About Harry, Embraceable You, Swanee, I’m Nobody’s Baby, I’m Always Chasing Rainbows, How About You, Blues In The Night, On The Sunny Side Of The Street, For Me And My Gal, When You Wore A Tulip, That Old Black Magic, But Not For Me, I Got Rhythm, The Boy Next Door, The Trolley Song, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Love, You’ll Never Walk Alone, On The Atchison Topeka And The Santa Fe, Look For The Silver Lining, A Couple Of Swells, Get Happy, Can This be The End Of The Rainbow? Decca 75326184 [77:58] Ray Crick, former manager of ASV’s Living Era label, has already compiled two big sellers for Universal/Decca with his Vera Lynn and Gracie Fields collections. Now it is the turn of Judy Garland, and if Universal fund a similar amount of TV advertising this could well prove to be the most successful of the three. Once again the sound restoration is in the safe hands of Alan Bunting, so I hardly need comment upon the fine quality of the recordings ? some now incredibly 70 years old (the second track is actually her very first release from 1936 when she was just 14). As for the music, it is a delightful mix of studio recordings and film soundtracks, and many of your own favourites must surely be included. Along the way Judy sings with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, and the forthcoming West End production of "The Wizard Of Oz" will certainly rekindle the public’s interest in the original Dorothy. My promotional copy did not include the CD booklet, but I am confident in predicting that it will be full of useful information about her recording career. Top marks to Ray Crick for a delightful collection. I wonder who he will choose next time? David Ades
MARIO LANZA Serenade: A Mario Lanza Songbook 22 tracks incl. Tosti: Marechiare; Toselli:Serenade; Tosti: A vucchella; Di Capua: O sole mio; Fusco: Dicitencello vuie; Padilla: Valencia;Cottrau: Fenesta che lucive … RCA Red Seal 88697573892 [66:34] This is rather a splendid new collection at budget price [I paid under £6 online] of reissues with seven previously unreleased recordings by the celebrated romantic tenor prematurely lost to us at age 38 in 1959. As well as the lovely melodies with titles we may not recognize, included are songs such as Siboney, Granada,Besame mucho, Mattinata, Ay-ay-ay, Because and Arriverderci Roma. A number of the tracks were originally recorded for ‘The Mario Lanza Show’ on radio; three of these being introduced by Lanza himself in a voice as mellifluous speaking as it is singing. Conducting duties are shared by Constantine Callinicos and Ray Sinatra. The remastering brings the sound up as fresh as the proverbial paint, and the excellent booklet notes by album compiler Derek Mannering help make a most desirable package. Peter Burt
VERA LYNN Songs From ‘The Vera Lynn Show’ 27 tracks incl. I love to sing; In the middle of an island; When I fall in love; Hey there; Mr Wonderful; No, not much; With all my heart; In the wee small hours of the morning; Witchcraft; Put your arms around me, honey; The last time I saw Paris; Sometimes I’m happy; Only you, I’ll be seeing you … Sepia 1143 [77:15] On 13th September last year, Dame Vera became the oldest living artist to top the UK album chart, at the age of 92. This album of transcribed radio show numbers, the majority of titles never having been recorded commercially, date from 52 years ago ? although you would never think so from Robin Cherry’s re-mastering. She did, however, record How green was my valley no less than three times: with Mantovani [1941], Robert Farnon [1947], and Geoff Love [1961]. These are tiptop interpretations from one of the finest vocalists this country has ever produced. It is interesting to hear Vera’s "take" on songs associated with other singers, such as True love, Mangos, Tammy, and Love letters. No standout tracks ? they’re all good! Vera receives stellar support throughout from the well-remembered Eric Robinson and his Orchestra. If you, like me, are a Lynn fan you will need no encouragement to buy this disc. If you have nothing of hers in your collection, then note Tony Middleton’s reference in his detailed booklet notes to Vera’s "perfect diction, attention to lyrics and overall sincerity" and give this disc a spin. You’ll not regret it. Peter Burt
RUNAWAY LOVE Billy Mayerl’s 1930s Show Songs Alex Hassan [piano], Rachel Barrell [soprano], Colin [baritone] 24 tracks incl. Hand in glove; I feel so safe with you; I’ve got a sweetie on the radio; It’s not fair; I know something that you know; Song of the fir tree; Just a little love; A house on a hill-top; Over she goes, Why not, Madame?; Your sunny disposition and mine; Miss Up-To-Date … Shellwood SWCD39 [70:27] Another new release that has come my way, I’m afraid that there is not a track here that I recognize and the shows they come from ? ‘Charlotte’s Revue’, ‘Love Lies’, ‘Darling I Love You’, ‘Silver Wings’, ‘Nippy’, ‘Over She Goes’, ‘Runaway Love’, etc. ? are all equally unknown. But I enjoyed it quite a bit with the performers sounding eminently matched to the material. Alex Hassan in his liner notes writes: "There are some soaring melodies here, mixed with a healthy dollop of toe-tapping syncopation." Agreed! It is for the latter, of course, that most of us will know the name of Billy Mayerl. I understand that this album is a follow-up to an earlier release ‘Honeymoon For Three’ [SWCD28]. So if you liked that, you’ll want this. And if Billy Mayerl the songwriter is new to you, then this is another disc to try. Peter Burt
A SONG FOR YOU Favourite Ballads, Songs of Cabaret and Screen and Piano Solos Peter Dempsey [tenor], Guy Rowland [piano] Trotère: I Did Not Know; E. Purcell: Passing By; Bartlett: A Dream; Lohr: Where My Caravan Has Rested; Silesu: A Little Love; Gartner: Trusting Eyes; Brahe: I Passed By Your Window; Penn: Smilin’ Through; Openshaw: Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses; Kennedy Russell: Just Because the Violets; "Lozanne": Dark-Haveh Marie; Schonberger:Whispering; Strickland: Mah Lindy Lou; Grofe: Wonderful One; Donaldson: My Blue Heaven; C. Gibbons: A Garden in the Rain; Lenoir: Speak To Me of Love; Cole Porter: In the Still of the Night; R. Noble: By the Fireside; Spoliansky: My song For You; Piano solos: Coates: Bird Songs At Eventide; F. Hartley: Starry Night; Mayerl: The Song of the Fir Tree ASFY1 [66:30] Fresh from their success with the CDs of Coates, Haydn Wood and Ketèlby songs, Messrs Dempsey and Rowland enjoyably turn their attention to a miscellaneous disc of ballads, etc. by English composers ? I like particularly those by Trotère, really Trotter [!], Kennedy Russell and Ray Noble ? and, even more so, American ones, not to mention Italian [Silesu] and French [Lenoir]. Several were written for or incorporated in films; the time scale of the vocal items is 1890-1937. Mr Dempsey’s passionate, incisive tone and clarity of diction [the French in the popular Lenoir song is not quite idiomatic] do well for this repertoire and he is well supported by Mr Rowland, who extends the CD’s scope with three solo tracks, all by British composers. "Lozanne", incidentally, was Canadian-born Alma Rattenbury, accused in 1934 of murdering her husband but acquitted, ‘though she later committed suicide. Philip L Scowcroft[Available from Mr P Dempsey, 44 Victoria Road, Bedford-on-Avon, Warwicks. B50 4AR [e-mail Demsini @ aol.com] at £9.95 incl. p&p]
THE BEST OF THE COLLIERY BANDS The Music Lives On : Now The Mines Have Gone The Champions – Desford Colliery Band; Gallop from William Tell – Grimethorpe C B; Russian Dance – Point of Ayr C B; Concierto de Aranjuez – Betteshanger Brass Band; Songs of the Tyne – Bearpark & Esh C B; He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother – Hatfield Powerfuel C B; New World Symphony – Grimethorpe C B; The Day Thou Gavest – Newbridge Celynen B B; La Danza – Northumbrian Water Ellington C B; Bayview – Buckhaven & Methil B B; Jerusalem – Grimethorpe C B; You Needed Me – Thorseby C B; Lightwalk - Carlton Main Frickly C B; Songs of the Quay – Thorseby C B; MacArthur Park – Grimethorpe C B Island 2732604 [63:25] This would be a good representative album of the genre to have in your CD collection. It comes to mark the 25th anniversary of the end of one this country’s bitterest and most decisive industrial disputes. Subsequently Margaret Thatcher’s government decimated the pits and the only ones named above still operational are Thoresby and Hatfield, the latter closing in 1994 but re-opening in 2006. Here is quite a varied mix of music with the best pieces being those, like the opening track, written specifically for bands to perform. Most of the items are upbeat with little of the longueurs non-aficionados sometimes associate with brass band music. Barrie Gott’s Lightwalk really swings. New World Symphony is a felicitious rendering of theGoin’ Home theme from that work. The day after this disc arrived I read in The Times that "The British brass band tradition is under threat from all sides." By buying this mid-priced album we could be helping the struggle to keep it alive. Peter Burt
DINNIGTON COLLIERY BAND A Band For Britain Largo; Death Or Glory; Abide With Me; Floral Dance; Annie’s Song; Pirates Of The Caribbean; Jerusalem; Great Escape; Danny Boy; Slaidburn; Conquest Of Paradise; Born Free Decca 2732796 [41:30] 35 years ago there were 35,000 registered brass bands playing in the UK, today there are only 700. The South Yorkshire based aggregation playing here has only survived the demise of the local pit in 1992 thanks to a 3-part BBC television documentary leading to a £1M record deal with Universal. However, they do the band no favours by providing only 41½ minutes of playing time for a tenner. What we do have, conducted by MD Jonathan Beatty, are spirited versions of standard band fare including the ubiquitous ‘Hovis’ theme, the hymn tune beloved by the FA Cup Final crowd, echoes of another band of years past and a Terry Wogan singalong, the John Denver song adopted by Sheffield United ["The Blades"] football team as their signature tune, a quartet of toothsome film themes ? Conquest by Vangelis stands out for me ? and a couple of items written to be performed by brass bands. From a revitalized group of musicians, this is an album with soul and a good listen. Ashley Studdal
BAND OF THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS Music From Trooping The Colour 1952?2008 Ketèlby:With Honour Crowned; Bidgood: St Patrick’s March; Wright: Whitehall; Jansea: The Ambassador;Wagner: Rienzi; Siebert: Marching Sergeants; Jaeger: Freedom of Windsor; Double X; Howe: Scottish Colours; Bellini: Grand March from ‘Norma’; Renton: Guards Independent Parachute Company; Eley:Royal Heritage; Machin: Advance to Glory; etc. … Bandleader BNA 5199 [75:00] This recording brings to an end a series of releases featuring marches played at various Trooping the Colour Ceremonies since 1864, and all have been judiciously selected by the Director of Music, Lieutenant Colonel Graham Jones, to minimize duplication for even the most avid collector of military music ? so there’s not an Alford or Sousa march in sight on this collection. Instead we have contributions from such luminaries as "Jigg" Jaeger, long-term and celebrated DOM of the Irish Guards, Jimmy Howe, long-associated DOM of the Scots Guards, Frank Renton, still happily presenting ‘Listen to The Band’ on BBC Radio 2, and to bring as right up-to-date a march by Greg Machin: Advance to Glory played for the first time in 2008. Also of particular interest is the inclusion of an example, Royal Heritage,composed by the Coldstream Band’s first Music Major, Christopher Eley [1785-1794], in an effective rescoring for modern military band by Graham Jones. Particularly welcome is the first track from a composer usually associated with penning romanticized musical postcards depicting exotic places such as Persian markets and Chinese temple gardens. With Honour was written to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V in 1935 and featured in the Birthday Parade that year. The only other recording I possess of this piece is in an orchestral version by the London Promenade Orchestra under Alexander Faris on a Philips CD. In sum this is a magnificent cornucopia of military marches, uplifting and stirring, and played by a band at the top of their very considerable form. The album is a superb testimony to the skill and talent of young military musicians who do not always receive the recognition they deserve. With vivid recording and generous playing time this disc is self-recommending. Roger Hyslop
HOLST IN CHICHESTER The Band of HM Royal Marines Portsmouth [The Royal Band] directed by Principal Director of Music, Lt Col Nick Grace RM; Chichester Cathedral Choir directed by Sarah Baldock; Mark Wardell [organ] Holst: First Suite in E flat for military band Op.28 No.1; Second Suite in F for military band Op.28 No.2; Hammersmith Op.52; Turn Back O Man, Planets Suite – Jupiter Op.32; Parry: I Was Glad; Stanford: Te Deum in B flat; Vaughan Williams:English Folk Song Suite Chevron CHVCD30 [71:00] Having acquired some three years ago Gordon Jacobs’ orchestration of the two suites by Gustav Holst ? available on Lyrita SRCD210 [LPO/Nicholas Braithwaite] ? I was particularly delighted by this latest and imaginative release from the "in house" label of the Royal Marines Band Service that includes the original military band versions, especially in such outstanding performances as these. Both are delivered with incisive, crisp and stylish playing, as are Vaughan Williams’ attractive and jaunty Suite, a 1923 commission from the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, and Jupiter; whilst the sombre strains of the brooding atmospheric and rarely performed Hammersmith are vividly conveyed by a band that possesses a rich tonal palette. Some slight reservations creep in with regard to the purely choral items. The modest-sized choir seems a little backwardly balanced and thus rather lacking in impact and presence, whilst the organist rarely makes his presence felt. But getting everything into perfect balance within the difficult cathedral acoustic is a well nigh impossible task and I’m sure the Royal Marines engineering team in charge of this production made valiant efforts to obtain the best possible results in attempting to blend together band, choir and organ. So the highlights on this disc are undoubtably the purely wind band items, vividly recorded and reflecting good inner details, and it’s difficult to imagine they could easily be bettered for some considerable time ? if at all. One final small quibble: it would have been helpful to have included individual track timings. Otherwise strongly recommended. Roger Hyslop[Available from The Blue Band Magazine HQBSRM, HMS Nelson, Queen Street, Portsmoth, Hants PO1 3HH, enclosing a £10 cheque made payable to "The Blue Band", or order online at www.royalmarinesbands.co.uk]
RED NICHOLS AND HIS FIVE PENNIES featuring MARION MORGAN The Navy Swings Dixie; A foggy day in London Town; Corky; Marry a rich woman; Fidgety feet; Come rain or come shine; Buglers Lament; I’m shooting high, Lassus Trombone; Stardust; Blues at midnight; Almost like being in love; Parade of the Pennies; My funny valentine; Maple Leaf Rag; I’ve got a crush on you Sounds of Yesteryear DSOY 797 [59‘51"] Featuring jazz veterans of the 1920s who made thousands of records, sometimes under different names. It is complete with all the usual recruitment announcements of the 1950s. Paul Clatworthy
THE OSCAR PETERSON TRIO The Complete World Transcriptions 24 tracks incl. Fine and dandy; Someone to watch over me; Heatwave; Makin’ Whoopee; Just you, just me; Sweet Georgia Brown; A fine romance; Should I?; How about you; Zing went the strings of my heart, September in the rain; Imagination; Don’t blame me … Sounds of Yesteryear DSOY 800 [58’06"] Three fine musicians working steadily through a good collection of standards. Of not a single track could I honestly say, "I’ve got to hear that again." One for Peterson completists only. If you have your arm twisted into helping wash-up, good background sound but still conveyer-belt music. Sounds of Yesteryear discs are available from The Woods and other good retailers. Paul Clatworthy
CHOPIN 14 Waltzes, etc. Dinu Lipatti 17 tracks EMI 9659302 [64:48] This year marks the 200thbirth anniversary of the Polish composer Frederic Chopin, who is described in Classic fM’s ‘Classic Ephemera’ miscellany [Elliott & Thompson ISBN 1904027814] as "sort of a Henry Ford of composers, whose catchphrase might have been ‘you can have any instrument as long as it’s the piano.’" The waltzes recorded in 1950, the year the brilliant 33-year-old Romanian-born pianist tragically died, have never been out of the catalogue and here they are re-mastered in EMI’s new low-priced Masters series. Included are the best-known waltzes Minute [as in tiny] and Brilliant. Delightful!Edward Trub
TCHAIKOVSKY Sleeping Beauty Ballet Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden, conducted by Mark Ermler Sony 88697575302 [172:01] Tchaikovsky’s ballets are surely in a class of their own in possessing a symphonic breadth and sweep unrivalled or surpassed, in my view, either before or since. The Sleeping Beauty received mixed reviews on its first appearance in Russia and its popularity didn’t really begin to take off until Diaghilev staged it with his Ballet Russe in London in 1921. These CDs are a new reissue of an account recorded in 1989 at St-Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb [a church designed by the famous architect Sir Edwin Lutyens]. It straddles three discs simply because it is commendably played absolutely complete whereas most rival accounts are contained on two CDs, making some cuts unavoidable. This is a magnificent and compelling score, made the more so with melodies pouring from the composer’s pen in a veritable flood and, with sumptuous recording quality and a price tag of around £15 [less online], is treasure trove indeed. Roger Hyslop
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN Ivanhoe BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by David Lloyd-Jones Chandos CHAN 10578 Sullivan always wanted to break free of his less serious mode and succeeded with Ivanhoe, one of the very few patriotic English grand operas, neatly shown in the packaging which represents the Cross of St. George. Dedicated to and therefore possibly commissioned by Queen Victoria, it deserves a listing because of its epic story and three hour duration, not to mention its links with the Royal Opera House built specially by Richard D’Oyly Carte but ultimately turning into the Palace Theatre. If you like grand opera then this is for you. Mid-price for a 3-CD boxed set. Edmund Whitehouse
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TONY BENNETT For Once In My Life ; I’ve Gotta Be Me Something in your smile; Out of this world; Baby, dream your dream; How do you say Auf Wiedersehen; Keep smiling at trouble … and 4 more Arranged/conducted by Marion Evans, David Rose, Torrie Zito & Ralph Burns / Play it again, Sam; Alfie; What the world needs now is love; They all laughed; A lonely place; Theme from ‘Valley of the Dolls’ … and 5 more Arranged/conducted by Terrie Zito. Original Columbia [CBS] recordings from 1967 and 1969. Beat Goes On Records BGOCD 886 [64:11]
CLASSIC WESTERN SCORES FROM M-G-M, Vol.2 Original Motion Picture Soundtracks Disc 1:Northwest Passage [1940] Herbert Stothart 31 tracks; Disc 2: Many Rivers To Cross [1955] Cyril J Mockridge [cond. Miklos Rozsa] 30 tracks; Escape From Fort Bravo [1953] Jeff Alexander; Disc 3: A Thunder Of Drums [1961] Harry Sukman 25 tracks; The Godchild [1974] David Shire 14 tracksF.S.M. Vol.12 No.18 [217:16] Limited to 2,000 copies.
JOHNNY DANKWORTH Let’s Slip Away Film & TV 1960-1973 [2-CD set] Disc 1 – Big Screen 20 tracks incl. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; The Servant; Darling; Sands of the Kalihari; Accident; Modesty Blaise … Disc 2 – Home Entertainment 19 tracks incl. The Avengers; Little Nell; Pickwick Club; Aquarius; The Frost Report; Off Duty; Night Owl; Tomorrow’s World; Bitter Lemons …Universal – Eclipse 531761 [107:29] The majority of tracks appeared originally on Fontana between 1960 and 1973; Cleo Laine is on nine of them.
KEN GRIFFIN [Organ] Drifting & Dreaming [2-CD set] 52 tracks incl. Ebb Tide; Green Eyes; Until Tomorrow; Marie; Jealous; Isle of Capri; Always; Valencia, Whispering; All Alone; Now is the Hour; I’m Lost in the Clouds; When Irish Eyes are Smiling; April in Portugal; In the Chapel in the Moonlight … Rex REXX 334 [132:52]
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SHIP MARTIN’S ALL STAR JAZZ BAND Symphonies In Jazz Scheherajazz – adapted from Rimskky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade [4 movements]; Swingin’ with Prince Igor - adapted from Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances [4 dances]; Tannhäuser – adapted from Wagner’s overture. Flare ROYCD302 [62:13] The big band alternates with a concert orchestra on all nine tracks, recorded in stereo in 1959.
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If you've been wanting to tackle a wood veneering project, but haven't been sure how to get started, you've come to the right place. We put together this article where we'll give you a glimpse of the history of wood veneering, describe a few of veneering's most outstanding benefits, and describe the most common types of veneer and methods for applying veneer to a substrate.
Wood Veneering Misunderstood
What do you think of when you hear the word "veneer?" If the term calls to mind furniture masterpieces with complicated marquetry designs or criss-crossing patterns of inlay, then you may think of wood veneering as an exalted technique reserved for only the most skilled woodworkers. On the other hand, if you were educated in the solid wood construction school of woodworking, you might think of veneering as low grade substitute for the "real thing." The truth is, neither view gives a very accurate picture of the craft.
Veneering is simply a method for decorating the surface of one material with another more attractive material. In the hands of an expert, it can produce some of the most remarkable effects in woodworking, but there's also plenty of room for beginners. Most veneering techniques, in fact, aren't all that complicated, and with just a few hand tools and with a little know-how you can have perfect results right from the beginning. The idea that no self-respecting woodworker would stoop to the "deceptive" practice of veneering is another unfortunate misconception.
Veneered surfaces made with modern techniques and materials are every bit as durable and attractive as solid wood, and in many situations veneering offers considerable advantages over solid wood construction. Substrates for veneer, for example, can be chosen for their dimensional stability and other construction properties rather than their appearance. And once they actually know a little about veneering, most woodworkers come to see it as a respectable and extremely useful technique.
A Brief History of Veneer
Techniques for decorating wood with veneer have been around for a while. Veneers of African ebony with inlays of ivory and other exotic materials were commonly used to decorate artifacts the Pharaohs planned to take with them into the afterlife beginning with the earliest dynasties - fragments of inlaid wood roughly 5,000 years old were found in King Semerkhet's tomb. An extravagantly inlaid table presented to Julius Cesar by Cleopatra, and a citron table purchased by the Roman orator Cicero, which featured "veins arranged in waving lines to form spirals like small whirlpools," are two examples of the highly developed veneering techniques in practice over 2000 years ago.
In the seventeenth century, veneering took a major step forward with the development of better woodworking tools. And by the beginning of the eighteenth century, veneering began to take center stage when a shift in furniture making style replaced frame and panel construction with case and drawer construction, and surfaces of figured veneer were favored over shaped panels and carved surfaces. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, veneering reached a high point in the meticulously inlaid neoclassical furniture of designers like George Hepplewhite and Thomas Sheraton. It was in the nineteenth century that veneering started to develop a bad reputation when some furniture manufacturers were using veneer mainly as a method of covering badly constructed furniture. By the middle of the 1800s, commercial furniture producers in America had grown into factory-type operations that weren't reliant on skilled cabinetmakers, and veneer was seen as a way to save on material costs more than as unique decorative technique.
To compound the problem, methods for producing the large amounts of veneer necessary for the level of furniture production that was going on were crude compared to the current state of the art. The result was thousands of pieces of cheaply constructed furniture with low quality veneered surfaces. Over the past few decades, wood veneering has been on the upswing. Veneering techniques and equipment have been perfected to the point where veneer is an extremely reliable choice for producing natural wood surfaces for furniture and cabinets. Veneering also offers a method for using exotic wood species that's much less demanding on hardwood resources than solid wood construction. Veneer cutting equipment that produces near perfect results, along with the reliable adhesives and stable man-made substrates like MDF (medium density fiberboard) make veneering an exceptionally viable alternative to solid wood construction in a number of woodworking applications.
Types of Wood Veneer
There are several types of wood veneer, from exotic, highly figured veneers cut from Macassar ebony, crotch mahogany, or walnut burl to low-cost veneers used as a backer to balance the non-visible side of a veneered panel. In ancient times, wood veneers could range from 1/4' to 1/4' thick, but today wood veneers are usually sliced to a thickness of 1/90' to 1/40' and a veneer of 1/16' would be considered very thick. Most veneer is either rotary cut or or cut in single sheets from a flat surface of a log. In rotary cutting, a log is mounted on a lathe and rotated so that long sheets of veneer can be peeled off with a veneer cutting knife. The rotary cutting method allows large amounts of veneer to be cut in a short time, but because the grain pattern is usually considered less desirable than flat cut veneer, and also varies considerably and is difficult to match, it is not often used in one-off furniture making, where the finished look of the piece is a primary consideration.
"Plain sliced" veneer is an example of a veneer produced by moving a flat piece of wood called a flitch along its length or crosswise against a stationary veneer cutting blade. The resulting veneer is packaged in piles of eight sheets (also called a flitch). Since a flitch of veneer represents only a very small section of the original piece of wood, and since no wood is lost in the cutting process, the grain pattern of the individual sheets usually stays pretty consistent throughout. This consistency of color and grain pattern make matching the individual sheets of veneer easy, and the results are often striking. In plain slicing, the blade is positioned parallel to the center of the log, producing the characteristic "cathedrals" in the center of the sheet, with a narrower grain pattern toward the outside edges of the sheet.
Variations of the plain slicing method include rift slicing, half-round slicing, and quarter slicing. All of these methods differ in how the blade is oriented to the grain of the wood. In quarter slicing, for example, the flat surface of the flitch is cut perpendicular to the annual growth rings of the tree. The method produces unique patterns, like the characteristic medullary ray flecks of quartered oak and the striped effect in quarter sliced African "ribbon stripe" mahogany.
The veneers produced by these methods can be arranged (or matched) in different ways to get the desired appearance. "Bookmatching" is one of the most popular arrangements for highly figured veneer, such as burl or crotch mahogany. In bookmatching, alternating sheets of veneer from a single flitch are flipped over to produce a mirror image between adjacent sheets of veneer.
Once they are cut, veneers are prepared in a variety of ways to serve different applications. Plain sliced veneer with no paper or adhesive backing is the most straightforward example, and is most useful for veneering flat surfaces.
Paper-backed veneer is a good choice for working with curved surfaces, since it will flex readily without the risk of breaking.
Other types of specialty veneers include pressure sensitive or "sticky-backed" veneer that has a pressure sensitive adhesive applied to its back surface.
This < a href="/wood/veneer">peel and stick veneer is a good choice if speed and convenience are what you're after. Two-ply veneer is a special grade of veneer made up of two sheets of veneer applied to one another so that their grain orientation is at 90 degrees, adding strength and stability to the veneer.
Methods for Applying Wood Veneer
There are a number of acceptable methods for applying veneer. From the time-honored craft of hammer veneering to modern vacuum press veneering, each method has its advocates and applications where it works best. Although many woodworkers have their favorites, there is probably no one method that is the best choice for all situations.
The method to choose depends on the type of project you are doing and the amount of time and expense you want to devote to your veneering project.
Hammer Veneering
Hammer veneering is the oldest method of applying wood veneer to a substrate. A veneer hammer, which is really more of a stiff, blunt metal scraper attached to a long handle, is used to smooth out the veneer on the substrate, and to squeegee out excess amounts of the heat-activated glue used in the process. Traditionally, hide glue in the pearl form is used for hammer veneering because of its consistency and long open time. Hammer veneering with pearl glue has a few advantages. Because the glue is thermo-activated, it can be revived with a hot iron after it has set to fix mistakes and work out any bubbles found between the veneer and the substrate. In addition, it is a relatively simple process and requires only a few tools. And with examples of hammer veneered pieces applied in 1500 B.C. still holding on, it's safe to say that veneer applied with this method can stand the test of time.
Veneering with Mechanical or Hydraulic Press
Veneering with a mechanical press is a straightforward process - veneer is positioned on an adhesive coated substrate, a caul (a flat piece of wood used to help distribute the pressure evenly) is placed on top of the veneer, and the three are clamped together with hydraulic or mechanical veneer press clamps. Using a mechanical or hydraulic pressure for applying veneer is a reliable method, but the presses - especially large scale ones - can be time-consuming and unwieldy to use. In addition, a good sized mechanical press is heavy and takes up a lot of shop-room. Using a small-scale homemade mechanical press is a good choice if you don't plan to do a lot of large or curved pieces and you're looking for an inexpensive solution. A serviceable press can be made using nothing more than a few 2' X 2' hardwood crossbearers, a couple pieces of 3/4' sheet material, lengths of 3/8' threaded rod, wingnuts and washers. If you're sold on mechanical press veneering, you can build your own full-scale press using construction lumber and handscrew clamps.
Veneering with Contact Cement
As the name implies, contact cement bonds the veneer to the surface of the substrate on contact.Applying veneer with contact cement is a fast, inexpensive method that will yield good results if it's done right. The contact cement method is actually one of the easiest veneering methods, and is very reliable provided you use a high quality adhesive and understand how to use the adhesive correctly. If you're new to veneering and want to get your feet wet with a simple method, try our step by step instructions in Veneering with Contact Cement for your first project.
Veneering with a Vacuum Press
A vacuum press consists of a vinyl bag with a pump attached to evacuate the air from the bag. The press relies on atmospheric pressure to press the veneer against the substrate while it is being glued.
Vacuum presses produce a surprising amount of clamping pressure - at 25 Hg (inches of mercury) a vacuum press will exert 1872 lbs. of pressure on a 1 square foot piece of wood. But besides producing ample force, a vacuum press has features that make it just about the perfect method for applying veneer.
Unlike mechanical clamping systems, a vacuum press applies even, consistent pressure over the entire surface of the workpiece, creating "intimate contact" between the veneer and the substrate. Additionally, a vacuum press actually draws air out of the cells of the wood, which is replaced by adhesive. According to adhesive manufacturers, intimate contact and cellular penetration are the two most important features in creating an optimum bond. For all of the advantages that a vacuum press offers, it's a relatively inexpensive system to set up.
For a few hundred dollars, you can put together a vacuum press system that allows you to veneer not only large surfaces, but also allows you to veneer curved surfaces with a fraction of the set-up time it would take using a mechanical press. And for woodworkers who want an especially economical entry point into vacuum veneering, there's a hand operated system that makes all the benefits of vacuum press veneering available for smaller projects for less than the price of a few good c-clamps.
If you want to try vacuum press veneering with a system that'll put a lot of pressure on your projects, but not much on your bank account, check out Rockler's Veneering with the Thin Air Vacuum Press Kit. It's got all of the information you'll need to get started using a vacuum press that'll give you the perfect introduction to one of the best veneering techniques available. Ready to get started? Check out Rockler's supply of quality face grade veneer and veneering supplies and equipment. As always, happy woodworking!
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INTERVIEW: Royal Sugar deal to revive Greek beet industry, develop cane refining business: CEO
Royal Sugar's deal to take over the management and operation of Hellenic Sugar's production plants at Platy Imathia and Serre for the next 28 months, with an exclusive right to buy them out for Eur15.2 million ($16.8 million) and Eur10.8 million, respectively, at the expiration of the lease, will "change the sugar landscape in Greece," CEO Christos Karathanasis told S&P Global Platts in an interview Monday.
Royal Sugar is already one of the largest players in the Greek sugar market, with a current market share of 35% and is the exclusive representative of Dutch sugar producer Suiker Unie and British sugar producer British Sugar in Greece, Cyprus and the Balkans, however this deal "vertically integrates Royal Sugar SA further up the value chain, adding sugar production to its current focus on distribution," said Managing Director Elli Limpou.
Limpou also said that for the 2019 sugar beet campaign, Royal Sugar has taken on the liability for all sown beets and payment to farmers. This promise is likely to be well received by Greek sugar beet farmers, and welcomed by the Greek Government, as until this point, the farmers had no confirmation they would be paid for this year's crop.
With a nod to the future and Royal Sugar's search for business partners, the company said in a when announcing the deal it will seek talks with all Greek producers, with the aim of "seeking cooperation and signing contracts for the immediate sowing of beet for sale and sugar production by Royal Sugar during the forthcoming 2020 campaign." In the longer term, the company said it plans a "gradual increase in arable land," whilst also committing to modern farming practices in order to improve sugar yields.
Royal Sugar said in the statement it aimed to fulfill the country's production capacity by exploring all potential by-products. Limpou said Monday "the potential for the production of both molasses and animal feed has to be investigated", in order to "to modernize the Greek sugar industry," bringing it up to the same speed with factories in the traditional beet growing belt of France and Germany, who already utilize all their by-products.
COMPANY TO INVEST IN REFINING IN 2020
The company said in the statement it "foresees a large investment in refining sugar cane starting in 2020", with the aim of providing feedstock to its operations all year round, maintaining the ability to produce sugar all year, and bringing in the benefits from economies of scale.
Karathanasis said there was a natural balance to be found between domestically produced sugar beet and imported raw sugar for refining, but noted the attractiveness of refining raw sugar in a deficit country, and confirmed plans to ship in sugar from developing nations where imports to the EU are duty free.
In the longer term, domestic production and refined sugar can build up the potential for Royal Sugar to export sugar, Karathanasis said, with neighboring countries in the Balkans as targets. However, he said there needed to be "sustainable growth and relationship building in Greece", before the company looked too far afield.
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Study reveals patterns in STEM grades of girls versus boys
School NewsWednesday, October 10, 2018
A new study, led by UNSW Sydney PhD student Rose O’Dea, has explored patterns in academic grades of 1.6 million students, showing that girls and boys perform very similarly in STEM – including at the top of the class.
The analysis, published in prestigious journal Nature Communications, casts doubt on the view that there are fewer women in STEM-related jobs because they aren’t as capable in those subjects as men – a notion that has been supported by the concept that gender differences in variability lead to gender gaps in associated fields.
In their meta-analysis, the UNSW researchers compared gender differences in variation of academic grades from over 1.6 million students aged six through to university from all over the world, across 268 different schools and classrooms.
“We combined data from hundreds of studies, and used a method developed by my supervisor to comprehensively test for greater male variability in academic performance,” lead author Rose O’Dea says.
A classroom with more variable grades indicates a bigger gap between high and low performing students, and greater male variability could result in boys outnumbering girls at the top and bottom of the class.
“Greater male variability is an old idea that people have used to claim that there will always be more male geniuses – and fools – in society,” O’Dea says.
The team found that on average, girls’ grades were higher than boys’, and girls’ grades were less variable than boys’.
“We already knew that girls routinely outperform boys at school, and we also expected female grades to be less variable than those of males, so that wasn’t surprising. In fact, our study suggests that these two factors haven’t changed in 80 years,” O’Dea says.
In other words, the researchers demonstrated that academic STEM achievements of boys and girls are very similar – in fact, the analysis suggests that the top 10% of a class contained equal numbers of girls and boys.
O’Dea says that there are multiple reasons that these figures don’t translate into equivalent participation in STEM jobs later in life.
“Even if men and women have equal abilities, STEM isn’t an equal playing field for women – and so women often go down paths with less male competition.
“For example, we found that the ability overlap between girls and boys is much greater in STEM, and smaller in non-STEM subjects, meaning that there are fewer boys competing with girls in non-STEM subjects.
“So say you’re a girl in a class and you’re a straight A student. In your math class, you’re surrounded by top-achieving boys, and then in English there’s fewer boys that you’re competing with, so it can look like non-STEM is an easier option or a safer path.”
Stereotypical societal beliefs about what fields girls are seen to be successful in also play a role.
“Girls are susceptible to conforming to stereotypes in the traditionally male-dominated fields of STEM. Girls who try to succeed in these fields are often hindered by backlash effects,” O’Dea says.
“For example, the stereotype that girls aren’t good at maths actually makes it harder for girls to be good at maths, both because of the way we perceive ourselves and the way other people perceive us. We all have subconscious biases, and there’s a strange phenomenon called stereotype threat, where being reminded of the stereotype connected to your identity can make it harder to defy that stereotype.”
O’Dea says that there’s no simple fix to work on the underrepresentation of women in STEM.
“Science and academia have a lot of structural issues that will take time to fix. However, there’s a lot we can do to encourage girls to perform better at maths – for example, girls tend to do better when they’re taught by a woman with a strong maths background, so they can see they can do maths, too.”
Professor Emma Johnston, Dean of Science at UNSW, says a lot needs to be done to encourage girls to choose a STEM path.
“This powerful, evidence-based research has revealed that girls and boys are equally good at STEM subjects. Differential participation in STEM training and STEM careers must therefore be explained by other factors.
“Australia really needs more women to enter, stay, and succeed in STEM areas. We absolutely need to change the structural barriers to gender equality in science, but we must also change the strong negative stereotypes and unconscious biases as well. We must give our girls and women more successful science role models – something grand to aspire to.
“We all need to actively work to close this gap – for example, UNSW’s Women in Maths and Science Champions Program is a unique opportunity to support women who are completing their PhD in UNSW Science. The program focuses on strengthening the cohort’s communication and leadership skills to support their professional careers and their lifelong role of advocacy to inspire women to pursue a career in maths and science.
“The author of this landmark study is a great example – Rose is an incredible role model and her leadership in traditionally male-dominated fields like science and the AFL is inspiring to many girls,” Professor Johnston concludes.
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Patient Shoots Doctor Before Killing Himself At A Clinic In Berlin
A patient shot at a doctor in a university clinic in southwest Berlin at around 1100 GMT on Tuesday before shooting himself dead, German police said, adding that there were "no signs at all" of a link with terrorism.
Police said the doctor was seriously injured in the attack.
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A spokeswoman for the Benjamin Franklin campus of the Charite university hospital had no immediate comment.
The incident follows four other attacks in Germany since July 18 that have left 10 people dead and dozens injured.
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LLamasoft Partners with Zipline to Deliver Global Medicine via Drone
The supply chain leaders are working together to offer modeling services, which will drive public health supply chain efficiencies using drone delivery.
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LLamasoft, a global leader in supply chain optimization technology, will partner with Zipline, a tech innovator that operates the world’s only drone delivery system of national scale, to send urgent medical supplies to patients, no matter where they live. Zipline has been working with LLamasoft to simulate their operations and quantify the cost and performance benefits their technology can bring to existing public health supply chains.
Zipline has been operating in Rwanda since October 2016, and is now expanding its services into Tanzania. Over the course of the collaboration, Zipline has engaged LLamasoft to analyze its operations in both Rwanda and in Tanzania. In Tanzania, Zipline plans to operate four distribution centers, the first of which will be in Dodoma, the country’s capital. LLamasoft currently is working with Zipline to help design their Dodoma operations.
“As Zipline builds the agile supply chain of the future, LLamasoft’s expertise in supply chain modeling and optimization has been extremely valuable,” said Will Hetzler, co-founder of Zipline. “LLamasoft is widely respected in the global health community, and they already worked to optimize portions of the public health supply chains in many of the countries where Zipline plans to operate. LLamasoft’s familiarity and credibility with these health systems has helped Zipline communicate the value of our services.”
LLamasoft’s global impact team has worked with the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Medical Stores Department on other supply chain projects in recent years, including a transportation optimization project and a strategic review of their supply chain. LLamasoft will draw on this experience to help Zipline maximize the benefit of their integration into the Tanzanian public health supply chain.
“Zipline is one of the most innovative companies out there, not only in the world of public health supply chains, but supply chains more broadly,” said Sid Rupani, regional director for LLamasoft IMEA. “We at LLamasoft’s Global Impact Team are excited to be working with Zipline to quantify the expected value they can bring to public health supply chains and to help design their operations. This collaboration fits squarely into our mission as a prime example of a fascinating supply chain design problem and one that could potentially deliver great positive social impact.”
LLamasoft and Zipline plan to continue this collaboration as the adoption of this technology continues to grow.
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Principal Dancer Angelia Wang as Chang'e, the Lady of the Moon, 2016.
Star Survey — Most Memorable Character
Who are those smiling faces? What are the stories behind those leaps and aerials? Where does their inspiration come from, and what are their hopes and dreams?
Let’s get to know your favorite Shen Yun artists! We asked some of our principal performers what was the most memorable character they’ve portrayed and why. Here’s what they said…
Principal Dancer, Shen Yun New York Company
AW: The Lady of the Moon in 2016. Earlier in my career I played the female warrior Mu Guiying. At the time, I researched and studied this historical figure a lot, but when I danced her I didn’t feel like I really was her. I was able to portray all the emotions and moves with precision, but it remained at the level of technique. After an entire season of dancing that part, I learned a lesson: if you want to play a character well, you have to become the character yourself.
Acting doesn’t come naturally to me, and the Lady of the Moon I played last season required a lot of acting! As I again spent many hours practicing and researching, I searched for a thorough impression of her, including her emotional world, so I could base my acting on that kind of connection. And then, when I finally got to perform the role on stage and see how the audience reacted, I was truly delighted.
For me this is the most memorable character I portrayed because I finally became the character myself. After all the hard work, I could experience this woman inside my heart. Through this dance, I also learned a new way of expressing myself, my own emotions and feelings, and I learned how to connect with the audience at a whole new level.
Danny Li
DL: In Monks and the Red Guards (2016), I was one of the Red Guards who tries to destroy a temple during China’s Cultural Revolution. This was my first time performing an antagonist, and my first time acting all crazy and foolish on stage. Our story dances have showcased bandits, evil dragons—all types of villains. I was never given any of those roles… maybe it’s because I look too innocent. Anyway, I was chosen to be a Red Guard who kicks and punches Buddhist monks while trying to take down the temple.
This character is memorable not because of his brutality, but because of the reminder he serves. He reminds me of the importance of reviving traditional culture. China today, still under a communist regime, is completely counter traditional culture. So every time I performed as a Red Guard, I thought about people in China today who are belittling their own traditional culture just like they were during the Cultural Revolution. This motivates me to do my very best every show, because I think it’s so important for us today to respect and know about this 5,000-year-old culture.
MQ: The most memorable character for me would be the Skeleton Demon in 2015’s Journey to the West-inspired story dance. When I was first assigned the role, I was very excited, but also very hesitant. I was excited because besides all the acting and dance techniques, there was a special technique known as “face-changing” that I needed to learn. This really sparked my interest, because “face-changing” is the most famous and difficult technique in Sichuan Opera. It’s also a trade secret only passed down from master to disciple, and never revealed to the public, or even to other performers.
At the same time, I was afraid I couldn’t act out her evilness properly. But through the process of preparing this character and working with the choreographer, I came to see how a good performer should be able to take on any kind of role. If you can portray the antagonist well and create a huge contrast with the protagonist, you’ll help accentuate that character’s goodness even more. Ironically, playing this demon also helped me improve my own portrayal of positive characters, too.
Xinghao Che
Principal Dancer, Shen Yun Touring Company
XC: The elderly gentleman from The Steadfast Heart (2016). Dancing that role gave me the inspiration to not give up for what is right, and strive forward despite any hardships along the way.
Jaling Chen
JC: It would have to be Lady Lin from Forced onto Mount Liang (2015). It was my first duet and also my first main character. When learning this role, I learned many new things, like how to travel across the stage in large graceful strides and how to not crush your partner’s foot during a dismount. There were three lifts throughout the dance. Everyday, I practiced by pushing myself onto the barre to find the feeling of being lifted into the air. I also had to strengthen my back to better maintain the posture.
I remember clearly that my best performance was the second-to-last show of that season. It really felt like I had become that person in that scene. As the old Chinese saying goes: “Life is like a play, and plays are like life” (人生如戲，戲如人生, rén shēng rú xì, xì rú rén shēng).
Alvin Song
Principal Dancer, Shen Yun International Company
AS: I’ve performed 908 shows with Shen Yun since my debut in 2008. The most memorable character I portrayed would have to be the Falun Dafa practitioner in The Power of Compassion (2015). During the rehearsal season, I also had the privilege of helping Mr. Yung-Chia Chen with choreographing this piece.
This dance was inspired by true events. It tells the story of a young man on the run from religious persecution. He manages to escape his pursuers, but when he looks back and sees one of them falling and breaking his leg, he turns back to help. This was my most memorable character because no matter where we performed, people were so touched. It really showed me how dance and music are universal languages with no borders.
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Off-the-beaten-track islands in India for beaches, luxury and nature
Paradise lies in the satin-sheeted opulence of a brand new Taj facing the Bay of Bengal, or a tropical jungle rustling with birdlife. Behold India’s iridescent Andaman and Nicobar Islands
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Published on January 15, 2018, Updated on January 15, 2018
Few destinations in India remain as pristine as the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, an archipelago of 572 islands sprinkled around the glittering Bay of Bengal. Of these, only 36 are inhabited, with one of the most popular being Havelock Island.
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While the island is devoid of nightlife – a plus point for some – it will soon shine with sumptuousness, courtesy of the luxurious Taj Exotica Resort & Spa, Andamans, set to open any time. As far as five-star accommodation goes, it’s the first of its kind on the archipelago. Its 75 luxury villas — including a roughly 743 sq m presidential villa – are modelled after the low-rise traditional huts of the Jarawas, an indigenous people of the Andaman Islands, and look out towards a private beach.
Over at the island’s tangle of tropical rainforest, boutique hideaway Jalakara (above) offers a more intimate atmosphere, with three guest rooms, three suites, and a private villa with polished plaster surfaces and wooden beams. With the absence of in-room digital distractions such as televisions, you may be more inclined to spend your time spotting the avian life twittering around the property, playing board games (provided by the hotel) or taking a dip in the infinity pool.
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Dense forest covers more than 85 per cent of the land on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, making the archipelago arguably the greenest destination in India. Not surprisingly, the different islands offer diverse trekking experiences. One of the most popular is the 45-minute trek to Elephant Beach on Havelock Island, which takes you through a thicket of dramatic mangroves.
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If you’re not afraid of heights, take on the rocky cliffs of the 85 sq km Saddle Peak National Park on North Andaman Island, and ascend the highest peak in the archipelago, which stands at 732m tall.
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Birdwatchers, too, won’t be disappointed, especially with a visit to the 4,662ha Mount Harriet National Park on South Andaman Island. Undulating with forest-blanketed hills, the park is home to 90 species of birds (above), some of which are endemic, such as the black-naped oriole with its striking black-and-yellow coat. Try to spot the orange-bellied Andaman treepie, the green imperial pigeon and the Asian fairy-bluebird too. The park is accessible from Port Blair by ferry via Bombooflot.
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And if you prefer exploring more secluded spots, there are the limestone caves (above) of Baratang Island. The journey to and from the caves takes about 10 hours, and starts at Port Blair, where a boat will take you to the village of Jirkatang. There, you’ll travel by car along Andaman Trunk Road, which cuts through the Jarawa reserve, until you reach Middle Strait Jetty. A ferry will then take you to Baratang Island, where you’ll have to trek through 3km of slippery terrain to reach the caves, which are aglow with stalactite and stalagmite formations in intricate ridges and furrows.
Beaches for miles
Some of the most isolated beaches are found on Neil Island, which is accessible from Port Blair via ferry. Here, the beaches are named after characters of the Hindu epic Ramayana. For sunsets of the most remarkable colours, head to Laxmanpur Beach (below), where you’ll find powdery white sand, and an abundance of corals and shells on the seafront.
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Also worth checking out: Kakana beach on Car Nicobar – one of the few in the Nicobar group of islands currently accessible to tourists, via a 16-hour boat ride from Port Blair. The idyllic strip of clean sand fringed with palm trees is perfect for honeymooners and those who want to just sunbathe by the surf.
And since commercial fishing is banned in the archipelago, there’s a wealth of marine life (above) – think sea slugs and snails, species of ghost pipefish, jawfish, a variety of crustaceans and even dugongs – that makes scuba diving, seabed walking and snorkelling quite an adventure. Dive India runs diving classes from Havelock Island and Neil Island, with expert divers to teach you the ropes.
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SILVERSTONE LIGHTS UP RED FOR EVENTS INDUSTRY GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION
Silverstone’s Wing conference facility and British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) headquarters lit in red, supporting #LightItInRed campaign to raise awareness for the plight of the live events industry
A grid of empty flight cases on the start/finish line below red start lights on the Grand Prix circuit highlighted the urgent support needed for the live events sector
A powerful shaft of light beamed into the night sky represented the industry’s workforce
Silverstone has been significantly impacted by the pandemic with no spectators allowed to race meetings and the cancellation of all conference and events
Silverstone Circuit glowed vibrant red last night, supporting the #WeMakeEvents global day of action, Stand As One and the #LightItInRed campaign which co-ordinates light projections that create visual statements, to build awareness for the plight of the live events industry.
The Wing, Silverstone’s impressive conference facility, hosting events for up to 4000 guests, illuminated red from the inside and outside, with a striking light projection that lit up the evening sky. A grid of empty flight cases on the start/finish line of the famed Silverstone race track and the track lights around the circuit all displayed red, with a backdrop of Silverstone Drive experience cars and circuit fire tender added to the spectacle. The stunning British Racing Drivers Club (BRDC) headquarters was also lit red, and a dramatic shaft of light, one of 60 across the UK, beamed into the night sky to represent the workforce affected by the halt of the industry.
As one of the UK’s iconic sports venues, Silverstone has been significantly impacted by the pandemic, with many motor racing meetings cancelled and all others held behind closed doors without spectators. Conferences, exhibitions and corporate events bookings for 2020 have all been cancelled and the Wing facility remains closed for large scale events for the foreseeable future.
Hayley Smith, Head of Corporate Sales, Silverstone, says, “We’re proud to be supporting the #LightItInRed campaign and We Make Event’s global day of action. While we’ve been able to run some motor racing events, these have all been without spectators, and that’s really hurt us commercially. Our conference and events business has ground to a halt, so that’s hit us hard too.
“As the venue for the largest sporting event in the UK, the Formula 1 British Grand Prix, we need the infrastructure of suppliers that the UK events industry has, from portable toilets to crowd barriers, staging to temporary structures, as well as its skilled workforce that helps us to deliver this event and many others. Our flagship venue, the Wing, usually hosts a packed schedule of events, many using the services of a range of suppliers who are being affected by the continued closure of conference facilities. We hope that our participation today will help to raise awareness for the live events industry that is not currently able to return to work.”
The #LightItInRed initiative has co-ordinated impressive art installations and lighting projections, creating a powerful visual statement to build awareness for the plight of the events industry. The #WeMakeEvents global day of action, Stand As One, on 30 September, is a series of unforgettable events across the globe, with 27 countries taking part.
Lighting Silverstone red has drawn together leading industry specialists, all committed to showcasing their industry and highlighting its plight. Clearsound Productions provided all the fixtures, crew and main equipment for the various Silverstone illuminations. Robe UK supplied a range of high powered Robe LED luminaires, AE Hire assisted with generators and ancillary equipment, ARB provided LED screens and On-Point Logistics arranged transport for the equipment.
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Three Fashion Sellers Share How Their Online Business Grew with Shopee Live
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As e-commerce continues to grow in the Philippines, more sellers are exploring new ways to reach out and engage with potential customers online. In particular, Shopee online fashion sellers like Licel Manese, Alpha Joy Sto. Domingo and Nikka Solomon have leveraged live streaming as a unique and interactive way to showcase their products and engage with their consumers.
From Brick and Mortar to Online Store
Before onboarding on Shopee, Licel Manese had difficulties getting sufficient sales from her physical store. With the encouragement of her supplier, she decided to set up an online store on Shopee. To her surprise, her online store grew in just less than a year. Licel was looking for a way on how she can acquire more buyers when she found out about Shopee Live while browsing through the Shopee app.
Through Shopee Live, Licel is able to offer an immersive shopping experience for her consumers while showcasing her products and engaging with her buyers in real-time.
“I wish I had joined Shopee earlier. They are very accommodating and helpful during the entire process - and Shopee Live is a key feature in my business’ growth because it allows me to go live anytime, and I will always have an audience. I can give my buyers the ‘in-store experience’ as I can answer their queries about the product, just like when they’re in an actual shop,” she says. Licel adds, “When I started, I had a limited number of viewers, but now, I get about 100 to 200 comments on Shopee Live, mostly consisting of bulk orders from my resellers from Visayas and Mindanao.”
From Youtube Vlogger to Shopee Live Star
Alpha Joy Sto. Domingo has a full-time job in a BPO company and also sells on Shopee for additional income. As her online business grew, she quit her job and focused on building a career around online selling. Since then, she has dedicated all her time and efforts in promoting her products on Shopee. She tried video blogging on Youtube, but when Shopee offered a live streaming feature, she decided to switch to Shopee Live and focused there.
Shopee Live has become an effective marketing tool for Alpha Joy to promote her products and connect with her buyers. What started as a part-time gig grew bigger each month, and she now receives bulk orders.
“I was on my maternity leave and was very curious about the live stream feature. I tried it for my shop once, and it was effective. After doing it a few times, I realized that it’s an excellent platform to sell my fashion items and is the most effective way to connect with my buyers. With Shopee Live, viewers can easily place their orders,” she said. “Shopee Live helps me manage my inventory, and I get a lot of orders via Shopee Live since I get more than 200 viewers every time I go live. I highly recommend joining Shopee Live because it’s very easy and offers a seamless and convenient shopping experience for the viewers,” she adds.
From Banker to Live Streamer
Nikka recently left her work at a bank to focus on her shop on Shopee. As a new seller, she got inspired by other Shopee sellers who live stream their products on the app. Following their footsteps, she decided to use Shopee Live to connect and build a long-term relationship with her buyers and viewers. At the start of her Shopee Live experience, she streamed for four hours, but now, she takes up to six to eight hours due to the high demand of her viewers.
“I enjoy doing live streams. When I started, I only had 30 to 40 viewers, but the more I did it, the more viewers I gained. Now I constantly have more than 100 viewers per stream. With Shopee Live, I’m building an online community and connecting with potential friends. It’s not just about selling your items but rather building a bond with your buyers.”
As she utilizes Shopee Live, Nikka’s orders have grown and she receives more than 100 orders per live streaming. Recently, she and her family celebrated a milestone as she reached 10,000 followers on Shopee.
Ruoshan Tao, Head of Marketing at Shopee Philippines, said, “With more sellers venturing online to grow their businesses, Shopee is redoubling its efforts to allow sellers to connect and engage with their consumers better. We are happy to hear uplifting stories from our sellers on how Shopee Live has benefited them. We will continue to innovate our platform and build on existing in-app features to help sellers accelerate their business growth online. ”
Shopee 8.8 Fashion Sale
From July 23 to August 8, shoppers can look forward to these three sellers’ live stream sessions at the upcoming Shopee 8.8 Fashion Sale. Users can enjoy free shipping for selected stores, deals as low as ₱8, mix-and-match bundle deals, and ShopeePay fashion vouchers. Users can also enjoy exclusive offers from leading brands such as Silver Kingdom, Hanford, Maybelline, Primer Group, Penshoppe, and iTrends.
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Japan Is (Was) Sinking! Right?
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On Friday, March 11, 2011, an “undersea megathrust earthquake,” one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded, hit off the coast of Japan. The earthquake and tsunami that followed caused unimaginable damage, not the least of which being several nuclear accidents, including the Fukushima Daiichi plant meltdown, the effects of which are still being felt today.
The earthquake was powerful enough, in fact, to shift the Earth’s axis “by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in).”
There were, however, other more curious results of the Tohoku earthquake. Footage, shot by people in Japan, showed the ground beneath their feet moving like waves.
Many wondered if Japan was, in fact, sinking.
Fortunately, there was a simple answer to this phenomenon, and no one (as far as I know) died because of it: Liquefaction can occur after an earthquake when water-saturated soil becomes dislodged. Most of the land these videos were shot on was reclaimed, meaning it was most likely looser or more prone to liquefaction than more solid ground.
The over-saturated soil and sand underneath, broken loose by the powerful earthquake, began to rise with the water, and everything above began to sink. However, it wasn’t an end-of-days scenario; while it certainly caused damage to infrastructure and building foundations, the liquefaction reportedly stopped within a few days.
But it was certainly interesting to watch.
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06/03/2019: E-mail from Brian of Creativo (History Curriculum) after visiting the school
30/01/2019: Thanks from Liverpool City Mission - Feast Day Dignity Bags donated by the pupils
29/01/2019: Thanks from the 'Peace Proms"
23/01/2019: Thank you from St Andrew's Community Network for Foodbank Donations
29/11/2018: Julia and Annmarie - ex pupils visit the school
25/06/2018: From Alaster Burman, Chairman of the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation
21/06/2018: From Michael Chapman, Managing Director of Spanish Star School Tours
19/06/2018: From Cabin Crew Manager at Easyjet
20/01/2018: From "Crucial Crew' Trainer about Y6
19/01/2018: From a Ski Instructor at the Chillfactore in Manchester
10/01/2018: Thank You letter from Alder Hey
05/12/2017: Year 3 at the World Museum
30/06/2017: Sir Lenny Henry thanks St. Francis de Sales for amazing fundraising effort!
25/01/2017 Liverpool City Mission - Feast Day Dignity Gift Bags
25/01/2017: Email form the Welsh Bird of Prey Centre
14/12/2016: An email from Spanish Star after their first visit to our school
10/10/2016: Letter from Mrs Cruickshank
15/11/2016: Letter from Liverpool Foodbank
04/11/2016: Letter from Steve Rotherham MP praising Year 5
14/07/2016: Email from Mrs Newton - a parent whose children have gone through the school
24/06/2016: Letter from Michael and Estrella Chapman praising Year 6 on the residential trip to Barcelona
05/02/2016: Sam Gyimah MP, Primary Under Secretary for Childcare and Education: Congratulations on Pupil Premium Award
20/01/2016: Received from the Grosvenor Museum, Chester after a Year 4 visit
24/12/2015: Thank you letter from Guide Dogs
30/06/2015: From a fellow passenger on Year 6's flight back from Barcelona
26/01/2015: David Laws MP: Congratulations on results
Click here for all the latest news and events in the Catholic life of St. Francis de Sales Junior School
03/11/2020 - Holy Communion - An Update from Father Ged
02/10/20 - North Liverpool Foodbank
09/09/20 - Wednesday Word - Now Online
09/04/20 - Easter Egg Competition
26/02/20 - Marking the start of Lent
24/01/20 - Feast Day
19/12/19 - Christmas Celebrations!
21/11/19 - Food Bank Donations
06/10/19 - Exploring other faiths - Judaism
09/10/19 - Section 48 Catholic School Inspection
01/10/19 - Exploring our God given talents with Father Ged
28/06/19 - Forgotten Heroes: Friends of Anfield Cemetery
28/06/2019 - Faith school link - 1001 Inventions at The Manchester Muslim Prep School
04/04/2019 - Bishop Tom Visits SFDS
14/12/2018 - Donating to the North Liverpool Foodbank
29/11/2018 - Operation Christmas Child
16/11/2018 - Judaism Week
05/11/2018 - Fr Ged's Ordination
18/05/2018 - Class 7 and 8 First Holy Communion
10/03/2018 - Year 4 First Confession
24/01/2018 - St Francis de Sales Feast Day
21/01/2018 - Cathedral Visit
17/10/2017 - North Liverpool Foodbank
22/12/2017 - Alder Hey Visit
24/03/2017 - Red Nose Day 2017
YEAR 4: Red Nose Day 2017
08/03/2017 - International Women's Day
17/02/2017 - Worship Garden Opens!
27/01/2017 - Holocaust Memorial Day
26/01/2017 - City Mission
St Francis de Sales Feast Day in Year 6 - A Message from Milly
Milly's Story Recognised by LFC
24/01/2017 - St. Francis de Sales Feast Day 2017
St. Francis de Sales Feast Day
YEAR 4: St Francis de Sales Feast Day
YEAR 5: St. Francis de Sales Feast Day
20/01/2017 - Thank you from Nugent Care
13/01/2017 - Q&A with Father Ged
20/12/2016 - SFDS Christmas Carol Service
07/12/2016 - Schools Advent Service at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
Schools Advent Service
Full Concert Video
Year 3 Shoebox Appeal
24/11/2016 - Year 3 Visit to Princes Road Synagogue
17/10/2016 - Foodbank Appeal
Worship Garden Opens! 17/02/2017
Click here to see the charitable work of our school
Click here to learn more about The Word on Wednesday / W.O.W. Kids Club
Wisdom from our Parish Priest, Fr. Ged Callacher
02/02/2018 - An interview with Father Ged
21/02/2017 - Father Ged's Induction
St. Francis de Sales Church Newsletters
Governors' Details
SFDS: Behaviours and Attitudes
Buddy Base: Our friendship zone for play times and dinner times that promotes responsibility and co-operative play
School Council: Democracy in action - pupil led initiatives that empower pupils to believe in the power of change
Attendance Matters: Initiatives and strategies that continually improve attendance and punctuality
Investors Group: Empowering pupils to believe in themselves and see a bright and aspirational future
Learning Outside the Classroom: Activities and projects that promote learning in a variety of environments
Scholars: An initiative that raises expectations for High School, smashing glass ceilings and cultivating self belief
Positive Footprints: Daily behavioural intervention that promotes discussion, reflection and the use of SMART targets in order to promote positive change
International School & Global Citizens: Initiatives and Awards that celebrate our role as a global school
Manchester Muslim Prep: Partner School: A partnership that celebrates mutual understanding, harmony and friendship
Shaping Our Futures - Career Aspirations
Safeguarding/CP
Talking to your children about their online behaviours
YouTube - Blocking and Reporting Inappropriate Content
PlayStation Parental Controls
XBOX Parental Controls
What can you do? Who can you talk to?
Y6 SATS - Key Information
SEND documents and policies
Parent / carer workshops, training sessions and family events.
Autism coffee morning - 12/11/2019
ASD training team drop in for parents/carers - 06/02/2020
*CANCELLED* Addvanced Solutions coffee morning - Wed 18th March 2020
Autism information day - Wed 1st April 2020
Thrive parenting programme - Starting 5th June 2020
ADHD and ASC training for parents/carers 2019/20
Information for parents and carers.
Feedback on SEND provision at SFDS
ASC / ADHD support
Behaviour / calming down
Speech & language and OT resources
Support for each area of Special Educational Need
Y2 transition
Get to know your new teacher
Catch Up Premium Funding 2020/2021
2020/21 Remote Learning Curriculum
The New National Primary Curriculum
English - Reading
National Curriculum Programme of Study
Long Term Sequencing Planning
Y3 - 6 Skills Progression in Reading
Acquisition of Knowledge and Skills
Enriching Experiences
Reading Star Moments!
Boost your reading: Cinema Trip!
Learning Outside the Classroom - Spellow Library
The Narnia Experience
Reading Star Moments
Creating Our Own Book
Taffy Thomas
Extra Provision for Talented Pupils
Paws & Read
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Reading Ambassadors
Whole School Library
School Librarians
Librarian Application
Win a Kindle - Parent Power
English - Writing
Genre-Specific Skills Progression and Knowledge Organisers
Year 3 - Grammar and Punctuation
Writing Ambassadors
We Are Writers!
National Writing Competitions
Letters written by children
Response from Everton
Assembly and ticket giveaway
Everton vs Man City
Tour of Goodison Park
Impact: Performance Skills
Impact: Oxford University Links
Impact: Voice 21 Recognition
Impact: Oracy APPG Involvement
Purpose of Mathematics
Mathematics National Curriculum
Long-Term Sequencing Plan
Year 3-6 Skills Progression
Parent Guide: SFDS Maths
Parent Planners
Digital Passports
Times Tables Competition
TTR Advert
Extra Provision & Talented Pupils
Maths Dog
Maths Ambassadors
National Young Mathematicians' Awards - Regional Finals
National Young Mathematicians' Award - Explore Learning
Notre Dame Maths Challenge
Acquistion of knowledge and skills
22/10/2019 - Talent ID trip to Blue Coat School Science Ceilidh
11/12/2019 - Imagine That!
Impact Presentation
Acquiring skills and knowledge
Digital Leaders - Using clips to create a presentation with effects
Digital Leaders - Coding and Sphero workshop at the Apple store
Aquisition of knowledge and skills
Healthy Pasta Salads
Fantasty Torches
Curriculum related trips
Year Group Knowledge Based Curriculum
Extra Provision for Gifted and Talented: Humanities Leaders
Music National Curriculum
Long Term Sequencing Plan
Peace Proms 2019
A - Acquisition of Knowledge and Skills
E- Enriching Experiences
I - Independence
O - Oracy
U - Understanding
PE Term 1
Annual Sports Events
Mutual respect for and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs and for those without faith.
RSE - A Journey In Love
'Journey' Picture Book
'Small Things Picture Book
Wordless Picture Book: The Arrival
Crucial Crew
'Drugs and Alcohol' Awareness Week Activities
Teacher Voice
Wider Development
Whole School Approach
Mental Health Awareness Week: 18th - 24th May 2020
Relationship, Sex and Health Education (RSHE)
06/11/19- Inside a Synagogue!
Lessons and Workshops
School Partnership Leaders
International School Award Projects
Scholars Group
11+ Practice Papers
Scholars Practice Tests
CGP 11+ Online
Idioms and Proverbs
Career Visits
Positive Footprints
Manchester Muslim Preparatory School
Global Scholars 2019-2020
Unit 1 - Welcome to Global Scholars
Unit 2 - Nature in Our Lives
Unit 3 - Building Sustainable Cities
Year 4/5/6 Ski Trip 2020 - information for parents and children
Year 3/4/5/6 PGL 2019/20 - information for parents and children
Year 6 Barcelona Trip 2020 - Information for Parents and Children
Latest School News and Events
13/03/2020 - British Science Week 2020
15/01/2020 - Birds of Prey Visit
Lord Mayor Visit
SFDS Christmas Carol Service 2019
Latest School News And Events Archive: 2018-2019
09/07/2019 - Year 6 Eureka! Mersey Escape Room Trip
Liverpool's Forgotten Heroes at Anfield Cemetery
04/07/2019 - St. Francis de Sales Summer Concert at the Epstein Theatre
03/07/2019- International School Award 2019 – 2022
19/06/2019 - Zoolab Visit
15/05/2019 - Comic Book Workshop
14/05/2019 - LitFilmFest
14/05/2019 - Angry Birds Egg Cup at Goodison Park
13/05/2019 - ADHD workshop
11/04/2019 - Easter raffle
11/04/2019 - Birds of Prey
26/03/2019 Autism Q&A parents session
Click to watch the video from our 2019 skiing trip to France!
15/02/2019 - Talent ID Trip to Broken Symmetries Exhibition
21st - 25th Jan: Mental Health Awareness week
22/01/2019 - Thank you from St Andrew's
Multiplication Tests Information
17/12/2018 - Upcoming School Christmas Service Booklet
07/12/2019 Liverpool Football Club Christmas Special
20/12/2018 - Headteacher's Statement
07/12/2018 - Choir at Walton Manor
12/11/2018 - YEAR 5: Judaism Week
12/11/2018 - 16/11/2018 - YEAR 4: RE: Judaism Week
09/11/2018 - The BODMASTER
09/11/2018 - YEAR 3: Times Tables Rock Stars
09/11/2018 - YEAR 3: Hieroglyphics
09/11/2018 - YEAR 3: Analysing a range of persuasive leaflets
07/11/2018 - National Young Mathematicians' Award
07/11/2018 - YEAR 4: Watch our Roman Chester video here!
06/11/2018 - YEAR 4: Science: Electrical Hazards!
05/11/2018 - YEAR 6: Fr Ged's Ordination
02/11/2018 - YEAR 6: Times Tables Rockstars
02/11/2018 - YEAR 4: Oracy Presentations
30/10/2018 - YEAR 5: Art Skills Week
19/10/2018 - YEAR 5: Science: Day and Night
18/10/2018 - YEAR 3: UKMS
17/10/2018 - YEAR 4: Planet Protectors - Plastic Pollution
17/10/2018 - YEAR 3: Fabulous Pharaohs
16/10/2018 - YEAR 6: Divisibility Rules (& Tricks!)
12/10/2018 - YEAR 6: The Perfect Number!
12/10/2018 - YEAR 5: Famous Women in History
12/10/2018 - YEAR 4: HOME LEARNING TASK: ORACY PRESENTATIONS!
11/10/2018 - YEAR 5: School Elections
11/10/2018 - YEAR 4: Art day
10/10/2018 - YEAR 6: Exploring WWI with Author, Bill Sergeant
10/10/2018 - YEAR 6: Bringing History to Life - WW1 Workshop
09/10/2018 - YEAR 3: Hold on tight, we're going back 5000 years!
08/10/2018 - YEAR 6: Father Ged visit!
05/10/2018 - YEAR 6: SFDS visit the giants!
05/10/2018 - YEAR 3: School Councilor Speeches
05/10/2018 - YEAR 3: Plants
03/10/2018 - YEAR 6: Viva Brazil!
02/10/2018 - YEAR 4: Chronology: Ordering historical events in an accurate timeline
01/10/2018 - YEAR 6: The Spark That Ignited the War
01/10/2018 -YEAR 5: Ourselves : Respond and Rejoice
01/10/2018 - YEAR 5: HOME LEARNING TASK: Significant Women Throughout History Presentations
Check out our video from our visit to Another Place!
28/09/2018 - YEAR 4: Another Place Visit: Preparing for our big debate!
27/09/2018 - YEAR 6: 'Terriers' at the Royal Court Theatre
27/09/2018 - YEAR 4: Latin Work: Where did the English language come from?
27/09/2018 - Talent I.D visit Jodrell Bank
26/09/2018 - YEAR 5: Star Dome
25/09/2018 - YEAR 5: What can we learn from Ancient Greek artefacts?
25/09/2018 - YEAR 4: Roman Numerals Reasoning
21/09/2018 - YEAR 4: Roman Radio!
20/09/2018 - YEAR 4: Vertebrates Kahoot Quiz
20/09/2018 - YEAR 3: Homes
19/09/2018 - YEAR 6: Electricity Workshop
19/09/2018 - YEAR 5: Where does the Ancient Greek period fit in with world history?
18/09/2018 - YEAR 4: Rounding Numbers: Reasoning Challenge!
17/09/2018 - YEAR5: What evidence is there that the Earth is spherical?
14/09/2018 - YEAR 6: Maths: Practical place value
14/09/2018 - YEAR 5: Building a Greek Myth Toolkit
13/09/2018 - YEAR 6: Art skills
12/09/2018 - YEAR 6: Science: Starting our Electricity Topic
12/09/2018 - YEAR 5: Recommending a Greek Myth
10/09/2018 - YEAR 5: How did the Ancient Greek landscape impact its people?
07/09/2018 - YEAR 6: Team building - start of a new school year.
06/09/2018 - YEAR 5: What is the meaning behind our school badge?
06/09/2018 - YEAR 4: Ukulele begins!
04/09/2018 - YEAR 5: Prefects: Applications Open!
18/07/2018: World Cup 2018
06/07/2018 - YEAR 4: Design and Technology - Water wheels as renewable energy sources
06/07/2018 - Investors make the Educate Magazine!
03/07/2018 - YEAR 6: Watersports
03/07/2018 - YEAR 5: World Cup Day
03/07/2018 - YEAR 4: Zoolab
02/07/2018 - YEAR 5: Peppermint Creams
29/06/2018 - YEAR 6: Blue Planet II Exhibition with Professor Steve Simpson
29/06/2018 - YEAR 5: Main Course- Tagliatelle with Tomato and Pesto Sauce
29/06/2018 - YEAR 5: Home Economics - Italian Cuisine Starter
29/06/2018 - YEAR 3: D&T Week - Pizza Making
YEAR 6: 2018 Leavers' Assembly Songs
28/06/2018 - YEAR 6: Military School - Leadership & Collaboration
27/06/2018 - YEAR 6: DT day at Alsop High School
25/06/2018-26/06/2018 - YEAR 6: DT in action in class 15!
25/06/2018 - Reading Stories at Spellow Library
25/06/2018 - YEAR 6: Anti-hate crime campaign
25/06/2018 - YEAR 4: Science - Creating a model of the digestive system
25/06/2018 - YEAR 3: Legoland Discovery Centre
22/06/2018 - YEAR 5: Visit to the Manchester Muslim Prep School
22/06/2018 - YEAR 5: Performance Poetry Class 11
22/06/2018 - YEAR 4: Science - Dental hygiene
22/06/2018 - Promoting a Library Event to the Community!
21/06/2018 - 22/06/2018 - YEAR 6: D&T Theme Parks
21/06/2018 - YEAR 6: Military School UK
19/06/2018 - 21/06/2018 - City Athletic Championships
18/06/2018 - 19/06/2018 - YEAR 6: DT in Action!
15/06/2018 - YEAR 6: Martial Arts
15/06/2018 - YEAR 6: International Focus Week: China
15/06/2018 - YEAR 5: Performance Poetry
14/06/2018 - YEAR 6: HMRC Junior Tax Facts Workshop
13/06/2018 - YEAR 6: Circusology
13/06/2018 - YEAR 5: HMRC Workshop
11/06/2018 - YEAR 6: Locating China and exploring its geographical features
11/06/2018 - YEAR 6: China Week - Chinese Maths
11/06/2018 - YEAR 6: Chinese Week - Chinese Bamboo Paintings
11/6/2018 - YEAR 5: Military School
11/06/2018 - YEAR 4: HMRC Tax Workshops
08/06/2018 - YEAR 6: Human Bar Charts!
08/06/2018 - YEAR 6: Design and Technology - Building Funfair Rides With Motors
08/06/2018 - YEAR 5: Drug and Alcohol Awareness Week
08/06/2018 - YEAR 4: Drugs and Alcohol Awareness Week
07/06/2018 - 'We Are Writers' Books Available at Spellow Lane Library!
06/06/18 - YEAR 6: Sports Day
06/06/2018 - YEAR 4: Multiplication - Scaling
05/06/2018 and 06/06/2018 - Sports Day
05/06/2018 -YEAR 4: Sports Day
06/06/2018 - YEAR 3: Sports Day
18/05/2018 - YEAR 6: Visit Crosby Plaza - Sherlock Gnomes
18/05/2018 - YEAR 4: First Holy Communion: C7 and C8
16/05/2018 - YEAR 4: Visit to Spellow Lane Library
16/05/2018 - YEAR 4: Ukulele concert performances
14/05/2018 - YEAR 3: Digital Art
11/05/2018- 18/05/2018 - YEAR 5: Delamere Forest
09/05/18 -11/05/18 - YEAR 3: PGL Residential
10/05/2018 - YEAR 4: Our PGL Highlights
09/05/2018 - YEAR 5: Butterflies fly off!
04/05/2018 - YEAR 5: Caterpillar Update: Our Beautiful Butterflies are Emerging!
02/05/2018 - 04/05/2018 - YEAR 4: Residential - PGL
02/05/2018 - YEAR 3: Spellow Lane Library Visit
01/05/2018 - YEAR 5: Science: Life Cycle of Mammals
30/04/2018 - YEAR 5: Caterpillar Update
27/04/2018 - YEAR 5: Pointillism Butterfly
26/04/2018 - YEAR 4: Military School for Class 7 & 8
24/04/2018 - YEAR 5: Say hello to our new friends!
24/04/2018 - YEAR 5: Reproduction of Plants
24/04/2018 - YEAR 3: Forces Workshop
20/04/2018 - YEAR 5: Science- Researching Butterflies
20/04/2018 - YEAR 3: Swimming
19/04/2018 - YEAR 4: Solving practical Maths problems
17/04/2018 - YEAR 4: Ghana- Fairtrade Letters
11/04/2018 - YEAR 6: Budgeting Using Real Life Maths
11/04/2018 - YEAR 5: Science - Dissecting Flowers
11/04/2018 - YEAR 5: Art: Self-Portraits
10/04/2018 - idot art competition - We need your help!
09/04/2018 - YEAR 5: Liverpool University Roadshow
09/04/2018 - YEAR 4: Place Value Reasoning
29/03/2018 - Easter Egg Competition 2018 - video
29/03/2018 - YEAR 6: Our Eggcellent Egg Competition - What SMASHING year!
29/03/2018 - YEAR 6: Easter Celebrations
29/03/2018 - YEAR 5: Eggtastic Easter Competition
29/03/2018 - YEAR 4: Y4 Eggcellent Easter Egg Competition!
29/03/2018 - Year 3 Geography Day
28/03/2018 - YEAR 5: Geography Day
26/03/2018 - YEAR 4: Ghana: Venn Diagrams
23/03/2018 - YEAR 6: Map Skills and Globe Work
23/03/2018 - YEAR 4: Science: Solids, liquids and gases.
20/03/2018 - YEAR 4: First Confession
15/03/2018 - YEAR 6: Western Approaches
14/03/2018 - YEAR 6: Terracotta Army Exhibition
13/03/2018 - Liverpool Cross Country Championships
09/03/2018 - YEAR 5: Museum of Science & Industry
09/03/2018 - LFC Premier League Tournament
05/03/2018 - 'Come to Your Senses' at Liverpool Philharmonic
02/03/2018 - YEAR 3: Fractions
01/03/2018 - World Book Day
01/03/2018 - Year 3 World Book Day 2018
01/03/2018 - We Are Writers!
01/03/2018 - YEAR 6: World Book Day 2018
01/03/2018 - YEAR 5: World Book Day: Small Things by Mel Tregonning
01/03/2018 - YEAR 5: World Book Day Emoji Quiz
01/03/2018 - YEAR 4: World Book Day in Year 4!
01/03/2018 - YEAR3: Art Workshops
28/02/2018 - YEAR 3: Comparing Barcelona and Liverpool
27/02/2018 - YEAR 5: Rio Carnival Hits SFDS
21/02/2018 - Digital Leaders Page Launched
08/02/2018 - YEAR 6: Imperial War Museum
Play Pod Video - see how we play at lunch time.
07/02/2018 - St Francis de Sales v Knotty Ash
06/02/2018 - YEAR 5: R.E: Memories
06/02/2018 - YEAR 3: Graffiti Maths
05/02/2018 - YEAR 5: Superb Samba Drumming
02/02/2018 - YEAR 6: Birds of Prey
02/02/2018 - YEAR 4: An interview with Father Ged
01/02/2018 - Year 5 and 6: St Francis de Sales V St John's
31/01/2018 - YEAR 4: Antony Gormley Art Days
30/01/2018 - YEAR 5: Talent ID: Spanish Stars
30/01/2018 - YEAR 4: 'Another Place' Xeransis Poetry
29/01/2018 - YEAR 4: Crosby Beach Video
26/01/2018 - YEAR 4: Maths Escape Rooms
24/01/2018 - YEAR 5: St Francis de Sales Feast Day
24/01/2018 - YEAR 3: Digital Maths Art
23/01/2018 - YEAR 6: Spanish Stars - Writing Pen Pal Letters
22/01/2018 - YEAR 4: Another Place visit
19/01/2018 - YEAR 6: Crucial Crew Event
19/01/2018 - YEAR 5: Samba workshop
19/01/2018 - YEAR 3: Mandarin
18/01/2018- YEAR 5 & 6: Chillfactore Practice
18/01/2018 - YEAR 3: We Are Writers!
18/01/2018 - YEAR 3 - Google Earth
18/01/2018 - YEAR 3: Geography - Digital Mapping
16/01/2018 - YEAR 5: Brazilian Geography Computing Workshop
13/01/2018 - YEAR 5: Escape Rooms!
12/01/2018 - Visit by Manchester Muslim Prep School
12/01/2018 - YEAR 4: Metropolitan Cathedral Trip
11/01/2018 - YEAR 4: Science workshop - Sound
09/01/2018 - Y5 & 6 practice skiing at the Chillfactore
20/12/2017 - YEAR 6: Now Showing @ St Francis Cinema...
20/12/2017 - YEAR 5: Friction Investigation
20/12/2017 - Choir perform at Goodison Park
20/12/2017 - A huge thank you from Alder Hey!
20/12/2017 - Christmas Carols Service
19/12/2017 - LFC Christmas Carol Service
18/12/2017 - Aladdin at the Echo Arena
18/12/2017 - YEAR 6: Mandarin - Animal Song
15/12/2017 - Christmas Concert
15/12/2017 - YEAR 6: Christmas Jumper Day
15/12/2017 - YEAR 4: Spelling Competition
12/12/2017 - YEAR 6: Maths - 'The Christmas Sale!'
12/12/2017 - Choir perform at Walton Manor
11/12/2017 - Water Polo
07/12/2017 - YEAR 4: Storytelling Session
06/12/2017 - YEAR 3: Advent Service at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
04/12/2017 - YEAR 3: Trip to Liverpool World Museum - Ancient Egypt
01/12/2017 - Frank Cottrell Boyce Visit
01/12/2017 - YEAR 6: Ice Skating 2017
30/11/2017 - YEAR 4: Science Workshop: Electrical circuits
29/11/2017 - YEAR 6: St Francis de Sales v Our Lady Immaculate
29/11/2017 - YEAR 6: Light workshop with Mr. B
24/11/2017 - YEAR 4: Roman Dancing
23/11/2017 - YEAR 5: Ice Skating
23/11/2017 - LFC turns 125!
22/11/2017 - St Francis de Sales v Prescot Primary
21/11/2017 - YEAR 5: Forces Science Workshop with Mr B!
21/11/2017 - YEAR 4: Boudicca's Rebellion
20/11/2017 - YEAR 5: Judaism Week: Mezuzah
17/11/2017 - YEAR 5: Year 5 Storm the Playground for Womens' Votes
16/11/2017 - X Factor Winners
14/11/2017 - YEAR 3: Princes Road Synagogue
13/11/2017 - YEAR 6: WWI Poetry Multimedia Presentations
10/11/2017 - YEAR3: Science Workshop
08/11/2017 -YEAR 6: Great British People - Presentations
08/11/2017- YEAR 4: The Dangers of Electricity
03/11/2017 - YEAR 5: SFDS News - The Olympic Games
01/11/2017 - YEAR 4/5: Football - St Francis de Sales V Knotty Ash Primary
01/11/2017 - YEAR 4: History - The Roman invasions of Britain
31/10/2017 - YEAR 5: Greek Pottery
20/10/2017 - YEAR 3: Class 3 Military School
20/10/2017 - YEAR 3: Class 1 Egyptian Dance
19/10/2017 - YEAR 6: The ' X- Factor' final
19/10/2017 - YEAR 4: Writing Eyewitness Recounts
19/10/2017 - Year 3: The X-Factor Final
19/10/2017 MultiplIcation Tables X Factor Grand Final
18/10/2017 - YEAR 6: Trip to World War I Trenches
18/10/2017 - YEAR 4: X Factor Times Table Competition Semi Finals
18/10/2017 - YEAR 4: School Council Elections
17/10/2017 - WHOLE SCHOOL: North Liverpool Foodbank
17/10/2017 - YEAR 6: Geography
16/10/2017 - St Francis de Sales V Rice Lane
14/10/2017 - Liverpool V Manchester United
13/10/2017 - YEAR 4: Planet Protectors in Science
13/10/2017 - YEAR 3: The X-Factor
13/10/2017 - YEAR 3: Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs
12/10/2017 - Cross Country
12/10/2017 - YEAR 4: CHECK OUT OUR ROMAN CHESTER VIDEO HERE!
11/10/2017 - LFC Tournament
10/10/2017 - YEAR 5: What does it take to make friendship thrive?
09/10/2017 -YEAR 6: SC1 Investigation
09/10/2017 - YEAR 5: Stop-Motion - Night and Day
06/10/2017 - YEAR 5: Geocentric vs. Heliocentric Model
06/10/2017 - YEAR 3: Researching the River Nile
06/10/2017 - YEAR 3: Place Value reasoning mystery concluded.
06/10/2017 - YEAR 3: 3-D Shapes
04/10/2017 - YEAR 6: RE Topic: Loving
04/10/2017 - YEAR 5: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat @ The Liverpool Empire Theatre
04/10/2017 - YEAR 4: 'The Iron Man' Drama
02/10/2017 - YEAR 6: Comprehension Skills
02/10/2017 - YEAR 4: Roman Chester Visit
02/10/2017 - YEAR 3: Report Writing
29/09/2017 - YEAR 6: X Factor Multiplication Competition
29/09/2017 - YEAR 6: The School Mission Statement
29/09/2017 - YEAR 6: Our School Badge
29/09/2017 - YEAR 6: British Values: Diversity Rap
29/09/2017 - YEAR 4: Exploring our Church
29/09/2017 - YEAR 3: UK Military School
29/09//2017 - YEAR 3: Reasoning with Place Value
29/09/2017 - YEAR 3: A Trip back in time
28/09/2017 - YEAR 4: Roman Radio
28/09/2017 - Our Mission Statement
28/09/2017 - Cross Country - Newsham
26/09/2017 - YEAR 6: Analysing WWI Poetry
22/09/2017 - YEAR 6: The Parable of the Prodigal Son
22/09/2017 - YEAR 5: Space Dome
22/09/2017 - YEAR 5: Ancient Greek Day
21/09/2017 - YEAR 5: Prefects
21/09/2017 - YEAR 4: Ukelele begins!
19/07/2017 - Cross Country - Wavertree
18/09/2017 - YEAR 6: Electricity Workshop with Mr. B
12/09/2017 - YEAR 4: R.E and Computing (Family Trees)
07/09/2017 - Simon Mignolet Launches the LFC Ticket Scheme at St Francis de Sales
02/10/17: Year 4 Visit Roman Chester
28/09/2017: Cross Country - Newsham
19/09/2017: Cross Country - Wavertree
07/09/2017: Simon Mignolet Launches the LFC Ticket Scheme at St Francis de Sales
17/07/2017: 146th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale
14/07/2017: St Francis de Sales World Cup
12/07/2017: City and Catholic Athletics
06/07/2017: Year 5, ZooLab!
05/07/2017: Year 3 Stone Age Art and Computing Project
03/07/2017: St Francis de Sales Open
28/06/17 LFC Ian Frodsham Tournament
22/06/2017: Year 5 at Delamere Forest
16/6/17: Y6 Mini Olympics
Barcelona Educational Visit 2017
12/6/2017 PGL Video
08/06/2017 Watersports
Science Garden
12/06/17: Class 12 in the Science Garden
17/5/2017 St Francis de Sales v Woodlands
11/5/2017: Year 4 Ukulele Concert
3-5/5/2017: Year 4 PGL Trip
23/04/17 100% Attendance Reward Liverpool v Crystal Palace
Saint George's Day 2017
20/04/2017: Skiing Trip Video
07/04/2017: Easter Egg Competition
06/04/17: Easter Egg Raffle
05/04/14: Cross Country
29/3/17: Y5 World Museum Visit
28/3/17: Y5 Art Week
28/3/17: Cross Country Finals
27/3/17: Y6 Escape Rooms
27/3/17: Swimming Gala
27/3/17: Concert at Archbishop Beck and Wirral Music Festival
24/3/17: Red Nose Day
21/03/2017: Cross County at Wavetree Park
18/3/17: Y5 Ski Trip to Montgenevre
14/03/17: Cross Country at Wavertree Park
13/03/17: Whole School at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
12/03/17: 100% Attendance reward - Liverpool v Burnely match
09/03/17: Cross Country at Sefton Park
02/03/17: World Book Day
02/03/17: We Are Writers!
17/02/17: The Narnia Experience
14-16th February 2017: N.S.P.C.C. Visit
15/02/2017: Chill Factore Part 2
10/02/2017: 100% Attendance Reward - Cirusology
08/02/2017: Chill Factore Ski Lessons (Year 5)
07/02/2017: Safer Internet Day 2017
07/02/17: Maths Escape Room (Year 4)
02/02/2017: St Francis de Sales V Gwladys Street
02/02/2017: ZOOLAB visits Year 3
01/02/2017: Choir at the Young Voices Concert
28/01/2017: Charity initiative reward trip to Liverpool vs Wolves FA Cup match
27/01/2017: Chinese Spring Festival
24/01/17: St. Francis de Sales Feast Day
20/1/2017: "Thank You" letter from Nugent Care
18/01/17: Fazakerley Primary V St Francis de Sales
16/01/17: Barlows Primary V St Francis de Sales
16/01/2017: Balloon Launch with Hi-Impact
13/01/2017: Year 3 Egyptian Dance Workshop
12/01/2017: Birds of Prey
09/01/2017: Crucial Crew Year 6
09/01/2017 X Factor Winners visit Spring City
05/01/2017: Year 3 Science Workshop - Rocks
21/12/16: It's Christmas
20/12/16 Multiplication X-Factor Grand Final
20/12/16: School Christmas Carols Service 2016
New school badge
19/12/16: Upcoming School Christmas Service Booklet
15/12/2016 Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs at Liverpool Empire Theatre
14/12/16: Water Polo Team
12/12/16Visit from Yi Fu Primary School,China
09/12/16 Year 3 videos added!
07/12/16 LFC Mini League
07/12/16 Bikeability
02/12/16 St. Francis de Sales vs Rice Lane
29/11/16 School Council go to Liverpool v Leeds game
25/11/16 Year 6 Visit Imperial War Museum
24/11/16 Year 5 Debating Champions
23/11/16 Ice Skating comes to St Francis de Sales
14-17/11/16 Year 6 World War I Workshops
11/11/16 Year 4’s trip to Chester
3/11/16 Steve Rotherham MP speaks to Year 5 (and gets more than he bargained for!)
21/10/16 Bluecoat Entrance Success
7/10/16 The Epic Trojan Horse
North Liverpool Foodbank
17/10/16 Eight children go to the Liverpool v Manchester United game as guests of LFC
13/10/16 Cross Country at Clarke’s Gardens
St Francis de Sales 2 Croxteth 3
11/10/2016 Year 6 Science Workshop: Investigating Electricity
St Francis de Sales 4 All Saints 1
Year 5 Football Festival
Year 3 Trip to Croxteth Park
BELOW ARE EVENTS FROM SCHOOL YEAR 2015/16
Euros 2016
YEAR 6 BARCELONA TRIP!
SFDS COMPUTING WEEK
Healthy Eating Week
Year 3 are smooth(ies)
Year 4 Visits Colomendy
Miss King Finishes the London Marathon
Year 5 Book Club
St Francis Girls Finish First and Progress to the Final
Chinese New Year Performance - Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool
"Curiouser and curiouser!" Year 5's Adventures in Wonderland
Eve and Albert from Class 9 tell us all about our experience in their own words…
Year 4 - Reconciliation
YEAR 4 - SOUND WORKSHOP
(20/1/16) Year 4 set the standard for everyone!!
Year 4 - Trip to Chester
Year 3 - Light Workshop
Year 5 - A Marvellous Martial Arts Performance
Year 5 - The Space Dome
Year 3 - Carol singing in Iceland
Year 4 - Another Place
Year 3 - Croxteth Park
Nou Camp - FC Barcelona
Barcelona Science Museum Visit
Year 3 trip to Legoland!!
Public Speaking Competition Success
Teaching the Teachers! MGL IT Conference
Football Update
Chinese New Year Visit
Year 4’s trip to Chester
Christmas Shoebox Spectacular!
What a success!
Macbeth Cast Workshop at the Epstein Theatre
A Thought Provoking Speaker
Year 3 Science Trip
Visit to the Grosvenor Theatre
Leavers' Mass 2014
Prize Giving 2014
Year 6 Debating - Champions of Liverpool!!
VISIT TO LONDON - JULY 2014
LONDON VISIT July 7/8th
BARCELONA - June 2014
Year 5 and 6 Barcelona Trip
Debating Champions
St. George’s Day Special!
London Visit - March 2014
Year 5 Visit Liverpool Central Library! By Jessica H, Class 9
Class 4 visit the Stone Age!
BONFIRE SAFETY
PE Days
P.E Days
Termly Planners
Links to Knowledge Organisers
Year Group Pages 2018 - 2019
14/06/2019 - Islam Week
13/06/2019 - Poetry Performance
17/05/2019 - Mandarin!
01/05/2019- PGL!
09/04/2019- Virtual Volcanoes
05/04/2019 - D&T Week - Making Pizza
15/03/2019- Red Nose Day 2019
26/02/2019- Venomous Volcanoes
05/02/2019- Internet Safety
25/01/2019- Human Landmarks in Barcelona
24/01/2019- Year 3 Feast Day
22/01/2019 Science- Types of nutrients
10/01/2019- Place Value Challenge!
09/01/2019- Mapping skills
04/12/2018 Art- Creating Felt
30/11/2018- Art Skills
28/11/2018- World Museum
16/11/2018 - Visiting Princes Road Synagogue
09/11/2018- Times Tables Rock Stars
09/11/2018- Hieroglyphics
09/11/2018 - Analysing a range of persuasive leaflets
26/10/2018- Year 3 Home Learning Task
18/10/2018 - UKMS
17/10/2018 - Fabulous Pharaohs
09/10/2018 - Hold on tight, we're going back 5000 years!
05/10/2018 - School Councilor Speeches
20/09/2018 - Homes
08/07/2019 - Digestion Workshop
19/06/2019 - Zoolab
14/06/19- Class 7 & 8 Art Day
05/06/2019 - Class 5 & 6 Art Day
03/06/19 - Digital Mapping
17/05/19 - D&T: Healthy Pasta Boxes - Making and Presenting
16/05/19 - D&T: Healthy Pasta Boxes - Planning and Designing
16/05/2019 - Poetry Performances
13/05/19 - D&T: Healthy Pasta Boxes - Taste Testing
Year 4 PGL - May 2019
03/05/2019 - First Holy Communion
12/04/2019 - Easter Egg Competition
04/04/2019 - Ferry, 'cross the Mersey!
11/03/19- Writing in Mandarin
14/03/2019 - Melting Chocolate Investigation
05/02/2019 - Online Safety Week
29/01/2019 - English: Interpreting a wordless picture book
16/01/2019 - Science: Good Vibrations!
14/01/2019- British Values: Showing self and mutual respect
20/12/2018 - Debating
06/12/2018 - Panto: Dick Whittington
29/11/2018 - Making Electrical Circuits
12/11/18-16/11/18 - RE: Judaism Week
06/11/2018 - Science: Electrical Hazards!
Watch our Roman Chester video here!
02/11/2018 - Oracy Presentations
HOME LEARNING TASK: ORACY PRESENTATIONS!
18/10/18 Roman Chester Visit
17/10/2018 - Planet Protectors - Plastic Pollution
11/10/2018 - Art day
02/10/2018 - Chronology: Ordering historical events on an accurate timeline
28/09/2018- Another Place Visit: Preparing for our big debate!
27/09/2018 - Latin Work: Where did the English language come from?
25/09/2018 - Roman Numerals Reasoning
21/09/2018 - Roman Radio!
20/09/2018 - Vertebrates Kahoot Quiz
18/09/2018 - Rounding Numbers: Reasoning Challenge!
06/09/2018 - Ukulele begins!
25/06/19 - Drugs and Alcohol Awareness - Merseyside Maritime Museum Visit
19/06/19- Islam week
14/05/19 - Art Workshop with Becky: Viking Long Ships
13/05/19 - Delamere Forest: Mountain Biking
08/05/19 Art Workshop with Becky: Viking Shields
01/05/19- Human Body Workshop
11/04/19- Birds of Prey
15/03/19- Red Nose Day
04/03/19 - Taffy Thomas
04/02/19- Online Safety Workshop with Catch 22
21/01/19 - Mental Health Awareness Week
24/01/19 - Happy Feast Day!
15/01/19- 'We Are Writers' Analysing Short Stories
07/01/19- Exploring the Viking and Anglo-Saxon Time Periods within World History
12/12/2018 - Christmas Jumper Day
05/02/2018 - Ice Skating
26/11/18 - Air Resistance
30/10/2018 - Art Skills Week
19/10/2018 - Science: Day and Night
12/10/2018 - Famous Women in History
11/10/2018 - School Elections
01/10/2018 - Ourselves : Respond and Rejoice
HOME LEARNING TASK: Significant Women Throughout History Presentations
26/09/2018- Star Dome
25/09/2018 - What can we learn from Ancient Greek artefacts?
19/09/2018 - Where does the Ancient Greek period fit in with world history?
17/09/2018 - What evidence is there that the Earth is spherical?
14/09/2018 - Building a Greek Myth Toolkit
12/09/2018 - Recommending a Greek Myth
10/09/2018 - How did the Ancient Greek landscape impact its people?
06/09/2018 - What is the meaning behind our school badge?
04/09/2018 - Prefects: Applications Open!
12/06/2019 - 13/06/2019: Preparing and Cooking our Scouse pie
12/06/2019: Transition to secondary school
11/06/2019 - 12/06/2019 - Evaluating an existing product and designing their own pies
10/06/2019 - Mandarin
7/6/2019: Design and Technology - Memory Cushions
13/5/2019: Anthony Walker Foundation
28/03/2019 - How do we classify things?
20/03/2019 : Dissection In Science
04/03/2019: Taffy Thomas the Storyteller
27/02/2019: Virtual Visit to Beijing
11/02/2019: Online Safety Workshop
01/02/2019 - Writing Skills - Effective 5W Paragraphs
31/01/2019 - Visual Comprehension - Shaun Tan's 'The Arrival'
30/01/2019 - Year 6 Cartographers
14/01/2019 - CCE Awareness Training with Catch 22
05/06/2018: National Young Mathematicians' Awards - Regional Finals!
29/11/2018: 'Chinese Labour Corps' Seminar
03/12/2018 - Writing Letters to Liverpool City Council
27/11/2018: Alumni Visit
21/11/2018 - Oracy in Action!
16/11/18: Science - Light: Crime Scene Investigation
09/11/2018: The BODMASTER
02/11/2018: Times Tables Rockstars
02/11/18: Great British Women Presentations
16/10/2018: Divisibility Rules (& Tricks!)
12/10/2018 - The Perfect Number!
10/10/2018 - Exploring WWI with Author, Bill Sergeant
10/10/2018 - Bringing History to Life - WW1 Workshop
08/10/2018 - Father Ged visit!
05/10/2018: SFDS visit the giants!
03/10/2018 - Viva Brazil!
02/10/2018 - School Council: Round One
01/10/2018 - The Spark That Ignited the War
28/09/2018 - Electricity Investigation
27/09/2018 - 'Terriers' at the Royal Court Theatre
25/09/2018 - Unconditional love: guilty or not guilty
19/09/2018 - Electricity Workshop
14/09/2018 - Maths: Practical place value
13/09/2018 - Art skills
12/09/2018 - Science: Starting our Electricity Topic
07/09/2018 - Team building - start of a new school year.
29/06/2018: D&T Week - Pizza Making
25/06/2018: Legoland Discovery Centre
15/06/2018: HMRC Workshop
06/06/2018: Sports Day
14/05/2018: Digital Art
09/05/2018 - 11/05/2018: PGL Residential
02/05/2018: Spellow Lane Library Visit
24/04/2018: Forces Workshop
20/04/2018: Swimming
29/03/2018: Geography Day
02/03/2018: Fractions
01/03/18: World Book Day 2018
01/03/2018: Art Workshops
28/02/2018: Geography - Comparing Barcelona and Liverpool
06/02/2018: Graffiti Maths
24/01/2018: Digital Maths Art
19/01/2018: Mandarin
18/01/2018: We Are Writers!
18/01/2018: Geography - Digital Mapping
20/12/2017: Christmas Carols Service
15/12/2017: Christmas Jumper Day
06/12/2017: Advent Service at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
04/12/2017: Trip to Liverpool World Museum - Ancient Egypt
14/11/2017: Princes Road Synagogue
10/11/2017: Science Workshop
20/10/2017: Class 3 Military School
20/10/2017: Class 1 Egyptian Dance
19/10/2017: The X-Factor Final
13/10/2017: The X-Factor
13/10/2017: Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs
06/10/2017: Researching the River Nile
06/10/2017: Place Value reasoning mystery concluded.
06/10/2017: 3-D Shapes
29/09/2017: Reasoning with Place Value
29/09/2017: Year 3 Report Writing
29/09/2017: A Trip Back In Time
29/09/2017: UK Military School
16/07/2018 - Mersey Ferry trip
06/07/2018 - Design and Technology - Water wheels as renewable energy sources
02/07/2018- World Cup Day
25/06/2018 - Science - Creating a model of the digestive system
22/06/2018 - Science - Dental hygiene
11/06/2018 - HMRC Tax Workshops
08/06/2018 - Drugs and Alcohol Awareness Week
06/06/2018 - Multiplication - Scaling
05/06/2018 - Sports Day
18/05/2018 - First Holy Communion: C7 and C8
16/05/2018 - Visit to Spellow Lane Library
16/05/2018 - Ukulele concert performances
10/05/2018 - Our PGL Highlights
02/05/2018 - 04/05/2018 - Year 4 Residential - PGL
Group 1 - Mr. Highton & Miss McComish
Group 2 - Miss Ormrod
Group 3 - Miss Ready
Group 4 - Miss Seddon
Group 5 - Miss Moriarty
Group 6 - Mr. Platt
Group 7 - Miss Scholes
Group 8 - Mr. Harrison
Watch us having fun!
26/04/2018 - Military School for C7 and C8
19/04/2018 - Solving practical maths problems
17/04/2018- Ghana- Fairtrade Letters
09/04/2018 - Place Value Reasoning
29/03/2018 - Y4 Eggcellent Easter Egg Competition!
26/03/2018 - Ghana: Venn Diagrams
23/03/2018 - Science: Solids, liquids and gases.
01/03/2018 - World Book Day in Year 4!
31/01/2018 - Antony Gormley Art Days
30/01/2018 - 'Another Place' Xeransis Poetry
CHECK OUT OUR CROSBY BEACH VIDEO HERE!
26/01/2018 - Maths Escape Rooms
24/01/2018 - Feast Day
22/01/2018 - Another Place Visit
12/01/2018 - Metropolitan Cathedral Trip
11/01/2018 - Science workshop - Sound
15/12/2017 - Year 4 Spelling Competition
15/12/2017 - Christmas Jumper Day!
07/12/2017 - Storytelling Session
30/11/2017 - Science Workshop: Electrical circuits
24/11/2017 - Roman Dancing
21/11/2017 - Boudicca's Rebellion
08/11/2017- The Dangers of Electricity
01/11/2017 - The Roman invasions of Britain
19/10/2017 - Ukulele performances
19/10/2017 - Writing Eyewitness Recounts
18/10/2017 - School Council Elections
18/10/2017 - X Factor Times Table Competition - Year 4 Semi Finals
13/10/2017 - Planet Protectors in Science
CHECK OUT OUR ROMAN CHESTER VIDEO HERE!
04/10/2017 - 'The Iron Man' Drama
03/10/2017 - Respond and Rejoice: People
02/10/2017 - Roman Chester Visit
29/09/2017- Exploring our church
12/09/2017 - R.E and Computing (Family Trees)
16/7/18 - Science - Human Life - What will you look like in 50 years?
12/07/18 - Notre Dame Maths Challenge
03/07/18 - World Cup Day
02/07/18- Peppermint Creams
29/06/18- Main Course- Tagliatelle with Tomato and Pesto Sauce
29/06/2018 - Home Economics - Italian Cuisine Starter
22/06/18- Year 5 visit the Manchester Muslim Prep School
22/06/2018 - Performance Poetry Class 11
15/06/2018 - Performance Poetry
13/06/2018 - HMRC Workshop
11/06/2018 - Military School
12/06/2018 - Year 5 ZooLab
08/06/2018 - Drug and Alcohol Awareness Week
11/05/2018- 18/05/2018- Delamere Forest
09/05/2018 - Butterflies fly off!
04/05/2018 - Caterpillar Update: Our Beautiful Butterflies are Emerging!
01/05/2018 - Science: Life Cycle of Mammals
30/04/2018 - Caterpillar Update
27/04/2018 - Pointillism Butterfly
24/04/2018 - Reproduction of Plants
24/04/2018 - Say hello to our new friends!
20/04/2018 - Science- Researching Butterflies
11/04/2018 - Year 5 Art: Self-Portraits
11/04/2018 Science - Dissecting Flowers
09/04/2018 - Liverpool University Roadshow
29/03/2018 - Eggtastic Easter Competition
28/03/2018 - Geography Day
09/03/2018 - Museum of Science and Industry Trip
01/03/2018 World Book Day 2018 - Small Things by Mel Tregonning
01/03/2018 - World Book Day Emoji Quiz
27/02/2018 - Rio Carnival HIts SFDS
06/02/2018 - R.E: Memories
05/02/2018 - Superb Samba Drumming
30/01/2018 - Talent ID: Spanish Stars
19/01/2018 - Samba workshop
16/01/2018 - Brazilian Geography Computing Workshop
13/01/2018 - Year 5 Escape Rooms
20/12/2017 - Friction Investigation
15/12/2017 Christmas Jumper Day - Alder Hey
21/11/2017 - Forces Science Workshop with Mr B!
20/11/2017 - Judaism Week: Mezuzah
17/11/2017 - Year 5 Storm the Playground for Womens' Votes
03/11/2017 - SFDS News: The Olympic Games
31/10/2017 - Greek Pottery
10/10/2017 - What does it take to make friendship thrive?
09/10/2017 - Stop-Motion: Night and Day
06/10/2017 - Geocentric vs. Heliocentric Model
04/10/2017 - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat @ The Liverpool Empire Theatre
22/09/2017 - Year 5 Space Dome
21/09/2017 - Year 5 Prefects
06/09/2017 - Job Advert: Prefect Positions!
05/09/2017 - New Beginnings...
02/11/2017 - Ancient Greece Home Learning Projects
13/07/2018: Leavers' Assembly
12/07/2018: Military School Day
03/07/2018: Watersports
29/06/2018: Blue Planet II Exhibition with Professor Steve Simpson
2018 Leavers' Assembly Songs
28/06/2018: Military School - Leadership & Collaboration
27/06/2018: DT day at Alsop High School
25/06/2018-26/06/2018: DT in action in class 15!
25/06/2018: Ant-hate crime campaign
21/06/2018 - 22/06/2018: D&T Theme Parks
21/06/2018: Military School UK
18/06/2018 - 19/06/2018: DT in Action!
15/06/2018: Martial Arts
15/06/2018: International Focus Week: Year 6 China
14/06/2018: HMRC Junior Tax Facts Workshop
13/06/2018: Circusology
12/06/2018: International Case Study of China - Chinese Bamboo Paintings
11/06/2018 : International Case Study of China - Locating China and exploring its geographical features
11/06/2018: International Case Study of China - Chinese Maths
08/06/2018: Human Bar Charts!
08/06/2018: Design and Technology - Building Funfair Rides With Motors
07/06/18 : Art Skills
06/06/18: Sports Day
18/05/2018: Y6 Visit Crosby Plaza - Sherlock Gnomes
11/04/2018: Budgeting Using Real Life Maths
29/03/2018: Our Eggcellent Egg Competition - What a SMASHING year!
29/03/2018: Easter Celebrations
23/03/2018: Map Skills and Globe Work
15/03/2018: Western Approaches
14/03/2018: Terracotta Army Exhibition
01/03/2018: World Book Day 2018
08/02/2018: Imperial War Museum
23/01/2018 - Spanish Stars - Writing Pen Pal Letters
19/01/2018 - Crucial Crew Event
11/01/2018 - Escape Rooms!
20/12/2017 - Now Showing @ St Francis Cinema...
18/12/17 - Mandarin Song
12/12/2017: Maths - 'The Christmas Sale!'
05/12/2017 - Bringing History to Life - WWI Workshop with Mr B.
01/12/2017 - Ice Skating 2017
29/11/2017 - Light workshop with Mr. B
13/11/2017 - WWI Poetry Multimedia Presentations
Great British People - Presentations
10/11/2017 - WWI Poetry Performances
19/10/2017 - The ' X- Factor' final
18/10/2017 - Trip to World War I Trenches
17/10/2017 - Geography
09/10/2017 - SC1 Investigation
06/10/2017 - Multiplication Hacks
04/10/2017 - RE Topic: Loving
02/10/2017 - Comprehension Skills
29/09/2017 - British Values: Diversity Rap
29/09/2017 - The School Mission Statement
29/09/2017 - X Factor Multiplication Competition
29/09/2017 - Our School Badge
26/09/2017 - Analysing WWI poetry
22/09/2017 - The Parable of the Prodigal Son
18/09/2017 - Electricity Workshop with Mr. B
15/09/2017 - Class Prefects Announced
12/09/2017 - Class Prefect Applications
05/07/2017 - Stop Motion Artwork
05/06/2017 - LEGO programming and coding
24/04/2017 - Saint George's Day celebrations
06/04/2017 - Year 3 at the Easter Egg Competition
06/04/2017 - Year 3 at the Easter Egg Raffle
02/03/2017 - World Book Day 2017
02/02/2017 - ZOOLAB visits Year 3
24/01/2017 - St. Francis de Sales Feast Day
19/01/2017 - Art Week - Drawing Skills
16/01/2017 - Hi-Impact Balloon Launch
13/01/2017 - Egyptian Dance Workshop
10/01/2017 - Military School Begins
05/01/17 - Science- Rocks Workshop
15/12/2016 - Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs
07/12/2016 - Religious Education - Metropolitan Cathedral - Schools Advent Service
30/11/2016 - Year 3 Shoebox Appeal
24/11/2016 - Religious Education - Trip to the Princes Road Synagogue
23/11/16 - Ice Skating
7/11/2016 - Art Week - Canopic Jars
5/10/2016 - Religious Education - Homes
30/09/2016 - Science - Croxteth Country Park Trip -
12/09/17 - R.E and Computing (Family Trees)
30/06/17 - C7 and C8 First Holy Communion
23/06/17 - Class 5 and 6 First Holy Communion
Class 7 Military School
11.05.17 Ukulele Performance
3.5.17 - 5.5.17 Year 4 PGL
Group 2 - Mrs Budworth
Group 3 - Mr Harrison
Group 4 - Miss Moore
Group 7 - Mr Kennedy
Group 8 - Mr Jones
26.04.17 - First Confession
15.4.17 - Military Schools Class 8
07.04.17 - Decorated Egg Competition
24.03.17 - Red Nose Day 2017
17.03.17 - Art Week: Antony Gormley Inspired Sculpting!
02.03.17 - World Book Day
17.02.17 - The Narnia Experience
07.02.17 - Safer Internet Day
07.02.17 - Maths Escape Rooms
03.02.17 - Roman Dance Workshop
31.01.17 Sound Workshop with Mr. B
27.1.17 Chinese New Year
27.1.17 Art Week - Shading
24.1.17 Feast Day
'Another Place' Xeransis Poetry
13.01.17 - Question and Answer with Father Ged
12.1.17 - Birds of Prey
5.1.17 - Another Place Visit
4.1.17 - Insulators and Conductors
12.12.16 Programming Challenge
30.11.16 - Operation Christmas Child
28.11.16 - Science with Mr B.
23.11.16 Ice Magic
11/11/16 Roman Chester
The Iron Man - Eyewitness Reports
British Values: Mutual Respect and Tolerance
People - The Prodigal Son
RE - People
22/09/17: Ancient Greek Day
22/09/17: Year 5 Space Dome
21/09/17: Year 5 Prefects
Ongoing: Class 12 - Star of the Week
05/09/17-/08/09/17: The First Winners...
19/06/17: It's back...
08/05/17 - 12/05/17: Intense!! Split or Steal?!
01/05/17 - 05/05/17: Guest Stars!
24/04/17-28/04/17: SoTW & Link to PowerPoint
18/04/17 - 21/04/17: Summer Term!
03/04/17 - 07/04/17: It's Easter!
20/03/17 - 24/03/17: Vamos, campeon!
13/03/17-17/03/17: Friends, Romans, countrymen! Lend me your ears! The winners are...
27/02/17 - 03/03/17: Welcome back...
13/02/17-17/02/17: The Half-Term Champs are...
06/02/17 - 10/02/17: Drum roll please...
30/01/17-03/02/17: The winners are...
06/09/17: Job Advert - Prefect Positions!
05/09/17: New Beginnings...
19/07/17: Farewell, Class 12!
07/07/17: Geography: Class 9 use Thinglink
07/07/17: Science Garden II (Featuring QR Codes!)
06/07/17: Zoolab!
04/07/17: Euro Qualifiers
Ongoing: Year 5 Collective Worship
23/06/17: 'Gifts from God' by Lillie and Isabella, C9
12/05/17: 'Friends and sisters' by Rhiannon and Maggie, C9
05/05/17: 'Love and Light of Life' by Sophie and Hollie-May, C9
28/04/17: 'Remember the good times' by Isabella and Lillie May, C9
22/06/17: Delamere Forest
21/06/17: It's competition time!
19/06/17: Mountain Biking at Delamere Forest
19/06/17: Bikeability (C11&12)
12/06/17: Science Fieldwork!
07/06/17: Back by popular demand.... Graffiti English!
26/04/17: Irreversible Changes! (Featuring explosions!)
19/04/17: Separating Mixtures
0704/17: Year 5 Easter Eggs!
03/04/17: The Stations of the Cross
29/03/17: Year 5 World Museum Trip
28/03/17: Year 5 Art Week
24/03/17: Red Nose Day!
15/03/17: PE - Hanging in the Balance!
15/03/17: British Science Week
13/03/17: Royal Philharmonic Hall
08/03/17: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! Graffiti English!
08/03/17: International Women's Day
06/03/17: Science Experiments!
02/03/17: World Book Day - Liverpool Central Library
17/02/17: Class 11 - Home Learning Project
10/02/17: South American Dance Workshop!
07/02/17: Safer Internet Day
03/02/17: Museum of Science & Industry Trip!
30/01/17-03/02/17: Art Week!
27/01/17: Holocaust Memorial Day
12/01/17: Birds of Prey
19/12/16: Military School: Passing Out Parade (Classes 10 & 12)
13/12/16: Class 9 & 11 Military school 'Passing Out' Parade
08/12/16: Forces Workshop
06/12/16: World Class Drumming Workshop
The Tremendous Trojan Horse!
School Council Elections
Military School at SFDS
The Phases of the Moon
Ice Magic!
18/09/2017 - Electricity workshop with Mr B.
15/09/2017 - Prefects Announced
12/09/2017 - Prefect Applications
06/07/2017 - Gaudi Inspired Mosaics
23/06/17: Street Dance Workshop
16/06/2017 Year 6 Mini Olympics
14.06.2017 - Climbing Wall Exprience
08-09 June Watersports at the Albert Dock!
Mary Shelley ( a Study of and Biography by C13) April 2017
06/06/2017 - Antoni Gaudi and his influence on Barcelona (including the Sagrada Familia)
05/06/2017 - General Election Percentage Change
19.05.2017 Y6 Barcelona Geography Project
07/04/2017: Easter Egg-stravaganza: Easter Egg Competition
06/04/2017: Easter Raffle
27/03/2017: Escape Rooms
WBD - Class 16
07/02/2017 - Safer Internet Day
06/02/2017 - 10/02/2017 - Year 6 Art Week
30/01/2017 - Milly's Story Recognised by LFC
27/01/2017 - Spanish Dancing
26/01/2017 - Year 6 Morning Energisers Club
24/01/2017 - St Francis de Sales Feast Day in Year 6 - a Message from Milly
12/12/2016 - A visit from our International Link School: Yi Fu Primary School
Science: Light Workshop
14/11/2016 - 17/11/2016 - WWI Workshop
11/10/2016 - Science Workshop: Investigating Electricity.
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Week 1: 20/07/20 - Looking back at Year 3 (Project 17)
Week 2: 27/07/20 - Monarchs of the United Kingdom (Project 18)
Week 3: 03/08/20 - MFL (Spanish - Project 19)
Week 4: 10/08/20 - PSHE (Project 20)
Week 5: 17/08/20 - Computing (Project 22)
Week 6: 24/08/20 - A letter to my new teacher (Project 23)
Year 3: Project 16 - The Mayans
Year 3: Project - Computing (Updated Weekly)
Year 3: Project 15 - WWII
Year 3: Project 14 - PE Olympic Games
Year 3: Project 13 - RE Reconciliation
Year 3: Project 12 - Famous/Inspirational Women
Year 3: Project 11 - Ancient Wonders of the World
Year 3: Project 10 - The Wonders of the World
Year 3: Project 9 - Music
Year 3: Project 8 - Egyptian Art
Year 3: Project 7 - Maths
Year 3: Project 6 - Light (Science)
Year 3: Project 5 - PSHE (Relationships)
Year 3: Project 4 - Stone Age
Year 3: Project 3 - RE Easter
Year 3: Project 2 - The Human Body
Year 3: Project 1 - Volcanoes
Whole school sketching challenge!
Year 3: Spelling Frame
Year 3: IXL Grammar
Year 3: IXL Digital Passports
Year 3: TT Rockstars
Year 3: White Rose Maths (paper-based puzzle and problem solving)
Year 3: Reading Challange
Year 4: Computing - Updated Weekly
Year 4: Project 16 - Science -Teeth and Digestion
Year 4: Project 15 - British Authors
Year 4: Project 14 - Story Writing - Dragon Adventures
Year 4: Project 13 - Computing - Debate
Year 4: Project 12 - Art - SuperLamBanana
Year 4: Project 11 - Spanish
Year 4: Project 10 - Wonders of the World
Year 4: Project 8 - The Romans
Year 4: Project 6 - VE Day
Year 4: Project 5 - PSHE Relationships
Year 4: Project 4 - Geography - Rivers
Year 4: Project 3 - Science - The Water Cycle
Year 4: Project 2 - RE - Lent
Year 4: Project 1 - History - Martin Luther King
Year 4: TT Rock Stars
Year 4: Reading Challenge
Week 1: Reflecting on our time in Year 4 (W/C 20/7/20)
Week 2: R.E Reconciliation (W/C 20/7/20)
Week 3: Geography / D&T - General Knowledge Games (W/C 3/8/20)
Week 4: R.E - Other Faiths - Islam (W/C 17/8/20)
Week 5: History / D&T - Roman Entertainment (W/C 17/8/20)
Week 6: Transition to Year 5: Letter to your new teacher (W/C 24/8/20)
Year 5: Project 16 - Science: Earth and Space
Year 5: Project 15 - Geography: Grid References
Year 5: Project 14 - Art: Amazon Art - John Dyer
Year 5: Project 13 - Religious Education - Islam
Year 5: Project 12 - Science - Human Development
Year 5: Project 11 - English: Narrative Poetry
Year 5: Project 10 - History: The Vikings
Year 5: Project 8 - Religious Education: Pentecost
Year 5: Project 6 - Geography: Biomes and Vegetation Belts; Layers of the Rainforest
Year 5: Project 5 - PSHE: Relationships and Technology
Year 5: Project 4 - History: Significant Women Throughout History
Year 5: Project 3 - Religious Education: Easter
Year 5: Project 2 - Science: Life Cycles
Year 5: Project 1 - Geography: Amazon Rainforest
Year 5: IXL Maths
Year 5: White Rose Maths (Paper-based problem solving and mastery)
Week 1 : Reflecting on our Time in Year 5 (w/c 20.07.2020)
Week 2: Geography General Knowledge (w/c 27.07.2020)
Week 3: R.E - Stewardship: Caring for God's Creation (w/c 03.08.2020)
Week 4: PSHE - Relationships (w/c 10.08.2020)
Week 5: Science - Forces (w/c 17.08.2020)
Week 6: Transition to Year 6 - Letter to your new teacher (w/c 24.08.2020)
Suggested Timetable (14 days of isolation)
Week 1: History: Transatlantic Slave Trade
Week 2: Music: Composing a Song
Week 1: Reflecting on our Time in Year 6 (w/c 20.07.2020)
Week 2: Transition RE - Working for the Common Good (w/c 27.07.2020)
Week 3: Transition Science - Introduction to the Periodic Table (w/c 03.08.2020)
Week 4: Transition History - Richard III: Villain or Victim? (w/c 10.08.2020)
Week 5: Transition Geography - Pompeii (w/c 17.08.2020)
Year 6: Project 16 - English: Transition Poetry
Year 6: Project 15 - Art: Art Appreciation
Year 6: Project 14 - Religious Education: Belongings and Values in Islam
Year 6: Project 13 - Spanish: En mi pueblo
Year 6: Project 12 - History: Local History Study of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Year 6: Project 11 - Science: Evolution and Inheritance
Year 6: Project 10 - Poetry: William Wordsworth
Year 6: Project 8- History: Shang Dynasty
Year 6: Project 6 - Art and Design: Primate Portraits
Year 6: Project 5 - Design and Technology (Cooking and Nutrition): Recipe Redesign
Year 6: Project 4 - Computing / PSHE: Online Safety
Year 6: Project 3 - RE: Easter
Year 6: Project 2 - Science: Healthy Lifestyles
Year 6: Project 1 - Geography: North America
Whole School Sketching Challenge
Year 6: White Rose Maths - paper based learning and problem solving
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Ridiculous Writers - 100 word story writing competition!
Reading Plus - Home Learning
Spelling Frame - Spelling Practice
IXL Maths - Online Maths Curriculum
TT Rockstars - Online Multiplication Work - With Great Challenges and Teacher Set Targets
TTRS X-Factor Competition 2020
Reading Wise - Online phonics, decoding and comprehension reading programme
IDL - Online literacy and numeracy programme
IXL Grammar - Online Grammar Curriculum
Activity Passport - Challenge Yourself to Learn New Skills Outside The Classroom
Links to other educational apps and websites.
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Parents' Questionnaire December 2018 Responses
Parent Guide: Listening to Children Read
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Tip 2 - Make reading fun
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Tip 6 – Listen to your child read
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Pupil Voice 2020
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Humanities Leaders
Religion and Beliefs of Society during the Slave Trade
In order to further develop our understanding of how politics impacted the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Britain, we explored how each sector of our nation changed and grew as a result of this period in history.
The Liverpool Slave Trade- Perspectives of Slaves
This afternoon, we explored and analysed the various testimonies from Ottabah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano, documenting the horrific conditions they endured on the slave ships and thereafter in order to broaden our understanding of this tragic time. In addition to this, we also read the case study of The Zong, a slave ship owned by two Liverpool merchants, both of whom were previously mayor of Liverpool. This shocking case study revealed how 131 African slaves lost their lives when thrown overboard by the merciless crew and captain due to overcrowding on the ship. We were aghast to discover that the captain and crew of the ship were never prosecuted for this senseless act.
Exploring case studies
Understanding various perspectives
Analysing Sources
As part of our lesson in exploring the Liverpool slave traders, we were able to apply our understanding of the topic so far in order to analyse the source below. This source was taken from a book in the archives of Central Library in the city centre and it shows the shocking numbers of slave being transported to the key ports in Britain (Liverpool, London and Bristol).
Understanding sources
The source below is a quote made by Mr.William Pitt- prime minister of Great Britain, 1792. We believe that this is a very powerful message and it is also similar in sentiment to the words of William Roscoe's poem, The Wrongs of Africa. It is clear to see that Mr.Pitt desired the abolition of slavery and he acknowledges the major part that Britain played in this movement.
Liverpool Slave Trade- The Abolition of the Slave Trade
Today, we independently researched the abolition of the slave trade in Great Britain and developed our understanding of how this impacted the wider world. Additionally, we also analysed a quote from Mr. William Pitt, Prime Minister in 1792, as he spoke passionately about the abolition and how Britain ought to lead the way in this as we were "plunged so deeply into guilt" by our actions regarding the slave trade. We then explored various underground rail road codes (and had a go at drawing them ourselves) that were used in America in order to help slaves escape to freedom.
Exploring the abolition of the slave trade
The Liverpool Slave Trade- William Roscoe
Today, we explored the life of the Liverpool-born solicitor, poet, botanist and activist: William Roscoe. Roscoe was a keen supporter of the abolition of the slave trade and during his time as an MP, he published many pamphlets, poems and he even petitioned in parliament for the dissolution of the trade. In order to truly appreciate the passion of his words and thoughts on this matter, we analysed an excerpt from his 1787 poem; The Wrongs of Africa and we used our acquired knowledge of the slave trade to understand the powerful messages behind his words. Within this poem, Roscoe calls upon the 'wrath of God' to lay severe penalties upon those involved in the trade and he also berates the slave trade merchants and MPs for their arrogance in claiming that Britain was a just and fair nation- powerful words indeed!
Through our research, we also discovered that Roscoe Primary School in Liverpool was named after this famous abolitionist.
Analysing Literature from the Time
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Volunteers for the National Eagle Center in southeastern Minnesota counted more golden eagles than ever before during its 11th annual survey.
The volunteers covered southeastern Minnesota, western Wisconsin and eastern Iowa on Jan. 17 to tally a preliminary total of 136 golden eagles in the area. Last year, volunteers counted 112.
The increased number of sightings could be because there were more observers than usual, according to a news release from the center. The center’s volunteer base has grown since its first year from 24 to more than 180 this year, said the center’s education director, Scott Mehus.
But Mehus said it also has to do with the experience of the observers. Golden eagles tend to migrate to the same area every winter, Mehus said, so he asks volunteers to search for them at the same location each year.
The previous record count for golden eagles was 132 in 2013. In general, the number has been trending up; there were 70 spotted in 2009.
Golden eagles that migrate to Minnesota for the winter spend the summer about 2,000 miles north in Canada, where they raise their families, Mehus said.
National Eagle Center/Steve Fischer
A golden eagle soars.
Volunteers counted other raptors as well and recorded more than 1,700 bald eagles.
Mehus said the survey is important in raising awareness about the golden eagles because the open habitat they prefer is being overtaken by trees in the state.
Anne Millerbernd is a student reporter on assignment for the Star Tribune.
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A Minneapolis day care center that was raided last week by federal and state investigators had billed the state for hundreds of hours of care that were never provided — even billing for days when it was closed, according to an FBI search warrant request.
Federal authorities determined that the Salama Child Care Center billed Minnesota’s state-funded child care assistance program for more children than were actually observed entering the building.
State regulators revoked the center’s license last week for numerous safety violations.
The findings result from a 16-month physical surveillance of the center, located at 1411 Nicollet Av. S. Local law enforcement officers and civilian investigators monitored Salama’s entrances and found wide discrepancies between the number of children entering the building and the number billed to the state.
On a single day last January, for instance, Salama billed the state for 132 children, even though investigators observed a total of only 24 children entering the building. On at least two occasions, Salama billed the child-care assistance program for services even though the facility was actually closed, according to the FBI search warrant filed with the U.S. District Court in Minneapolis.
Though Salama was licensed to provide care for just 60 children at any time, the facility had nearly four times that many — 229 children — enrolled in the state-funded Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), which provides monthly financial assistance to more than 30,000 children of low-income families. Last year, state and federal payments to Minnesota providers under the CCAP program totaled $216 million.
ELIZABETH FLORES • eflores@startribune.com
Investigators spent 16 months watching the entrances to the Salama Child Care Center, at 1411 Nicollet Av. S. in Minneapolis.
“The investigation has revealed that a large discrepancy exists between the number of children actually attending and receiving care at Salama and the number of children for which Salama seeks and receives reimbursement …” wrote FBI special agent Kathryn Morrissey in an affidavit included with the search warrant application.
No formal charges have been filed against Salama, its owners or any of its employees. Ardo Y. Diriye is identified as the chief executive and license holder of Salama; Fozia Sheik Ali is listed as director in state licensing documents.
Telephone calls to the center were not returned Friday and it appeared closed, with black tarp covering most of the windows.
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Nationwide, federal and local prosecutors have been cracking down on fraud in taxpayer-supported child care programs. In some states, lax regulation has led to pervasive billing abuse by child care providers and parents, who often collude in billing state programs for services never rendered.
In December, a husband and wife from Fridley and two accomplices allegedly bilked the state of $4 million by falsifying work records at their child and home care businesses. The owners of Deqo Family Centers allegedly recruited mothers eligible for state-funded child care to enroll their children, and then disguised payments to the mothers by asking them to work as employees. They then allegedly filed false time records of the mothers’ employment. It was the largest case of alleged fraud in the history of the CCAP program, state officials said.
Investigators from the FBI and the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) searched the Salama facility near downtown Minneapolis last week. Some families were turned away as investigators carried away computers and boxes full of documents. The Internal Revenue Service and the Hennepin County fraud investigation unit also have participated in the investigation.
The Salama Child Care Center, which was licensed in 2009, has a long history of child safety violations. In its license revocation order, the DHS cited more than 20 violations of state rules, including inadequate staff-to-child ratios; exposing children to hazards, such as unshielded electrical outlets, and operating without basic classroom materials, such as small blocks and crafts supplies.
The Salama Child Care Center in St. Cloud, an affiliate of the Minneapolis facility, had its license revoked in 2013 after a 4-year-old wandered away from the facility to a nearby parking lot, where a customer almost hit the child with a car.
Federal and state authorities declined to comment on the Salama case, citing the ongoing investigation.
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Conservative Party Members' opinion of David Cameron's leadership by referendum vote
This statistic shows the opinions of Conservative Party Members concerning the leadership of Prime Minister David Cameron, the results are sorted by the respondents' voting choice in the EU referendum from June 23, 2016. 92 percent of respondents who voted in favor of the "Brexit" regard David Cameron as having done well as PM.
Looking back, do you think that David Cameron did well or badly as leader of the Conservative party?
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YouGov. (June 29, 2016). Looking back, do you think that David Cameron did well or badly as leader of the Conservative party? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 17, 2021, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/569327/tory-party-members-opinion-of-david-cameron-s-leadership-uk/
YouGov. "Looking back, do you think that David Cameron did well or badly as leader of the Conservative party?." Chart. June 29, 2016. Statista. Accessed January 17, 2021. https://www.statista.com/statistics/569327/tory-party-members-opinion-of-david-cameron-s-leadership-uk/
YouGov. (2016). Looking back, do you think that David Cameron did well or badly as leader of the Conservative party?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 17, 2021. https://www.statista.com/statistics/569327/tory-party-members-opinion-of-david-cameron-s-leadership-uk/
YouGov. "Looking Back, Do You Think That David Cameron Did Well or Badly as Leader of The Conservative Party?." Statista, Statista Inc., 29 Jun 2016, https://www.statista.com/statistics/569327/tory-party-members-opinion-of-david-cameron-s-leadership-uk/
YouGov, Looking back, do you think that David Cameron did well or badly as leader of the Conservative party? Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/569327/tory-party-members-opinion-of-david-cameron-s-leadership-uk/ (last visited January 17, 2021)
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Damodar Mangalji Group - Goa, India.
Steel Industry Directory - Iron Ore Supply.
Company name: Damodar Mangalji Group
Company name: Damodar Mangalji
Category: Iron Ore Mining
Business location: Panaji, Goa, India
Expertise: Mining
Keywords: Iron Ore
Telephone number: +91-832-222 3381
Fax: +91-832-222 3198
Website: www.damodar-mangalji-group.com
Email address: dam.goa@damodar-mangalji-group.com
Other information: Damodar Mangalji e Companhia Limitada was founded in 1944 by the late Shri Damodar Juthalal. The business was set up in Goa under the Portuguese regime and thereby a modest beginning was made. Prior to this period, the business of trading was done in Mozambique, in what was then Portuguese East Africa. The principal business that was carried on by the company at that time was trading in commodities such as tea, textiles and general merchandise.
The company thus ventured into mining business for extraction and export of mineral ores, lumps and fines in the 1940s. An agency business dealing in shipping and forwarding was also established around that time.
After the liberation of Goa from the Portuguese, the Company was incorporated as a private limited company in 1965 under the provisions of the Indian Companies Act. The firm is now known as Damodar Mangalji & Company Limited and popularly known as 'DMC'. Mr Dhirajlal Damodar, elder son of late Shri Damodar Juthalal, is now Chairman of the Company.
Pissurlem Mine is a Cluster of four leases with a lease area of approximately 250 Hectares or 2.5 million sq.metres and is the main working area of the Group of Companies. Exploration has been carried out on about 60% of this cluster area. The ore bodies have a low phosphorous content of ~0.04% and low sulphur content of ~0.015%.
Damodar Mangalji mostly exports iron ore fines with 53% or 54% Fe content.
To list your ore mining business in our steel industry directory, please post a link to www.steelonthenet.com on your website, then submit a supplier listing application form. Thank you.
For inclusion in our steel directory please email info@steelonthenet.com.
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Much A-Stew About NothingMuch-a-Stew About Nothing, Bournemouth Pavilion
By Sarah Cartlidge in Bournemouth Echo Posted on Wednesday, February 12th, 2014
Tonight is the last date of an 111-show run for Stewart Lee, during which he’s been showcasing ‘work in progress’ material for the forthcoming third series of his BAFTA-winning BBC Two show, Comedy Vehicle.
This of course means two things. Firstly, that the esoteric trails of comic thoughts that feature throughout have been finely honed (and indeed, already recorded for TV) by this point. And secondly, that you’d be forgiven for thinking that you haven’t missed out through non-attendance, given the material’s imminent airing on the small screen.
But you’d be dead wrong on that second point, because tonight is a brilliant chance to revel in Lee’s expert comic timing, surreal storytelling and sardonic wit. There’s also plenty of his carefully planned faux-contempt for the audience, which endures as a smart (rather than tired) way to engage with the crowd.
That said, you do get the impression that an early dressing down of an interjecting audience member is entirely real and spontaneous. In fact, Lee’s reaction to the American-style ‘whoops’ that follow is even better, gleaning an early highlight that’s peppered with belly laughs from around the Pavilion.
As he explains, he hasn’t spent 25 years doing this to be whooped at; you can leave that for the panel show comics that inspire his (seemingly sincere) disdain.
Written by Sarah Cartlidge in Bournemouth Echo on 12th February 2014. Filed Under: Much A Stew About Nothing, Reviews, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
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"Lee is supposed to be a ground-breaking comedian and writer, but I found little entertainment value in his material.? It was not funny. It was a sad and deliberate attempt to see how far he could go. This was ultimate sick humour, and if anyone thought it funny, they must be sick as well."
Brighton Argus
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/brighton-argus/
"Stewart lee just says something. Explains why you should laugh. Then accuses you of not having a sense of humour. The cunt."
World Without End, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/world-without-end-twitter/
"Liberals like this guy would just love to live in totalitarian state where only their views could be expressed and opposition views crushed. They are childish hypocrites. They should stop reading the guardian and get in the real world."
12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/12dgdgdgdgdgdg-youtube/
"Stewart Lee is not funny and has nothing to say"
James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/james-dellingpole-daily-telegraph/
"I tried to watch Stewart Lee but had to stop due to him being shit. He addressed an insular cadre of socially challenged, prematurely middle-aged, pseudo-intellectual men, I thought."
Z-factor, Twitter.
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/z-factor-twitter/
"Lee spastic cunt."
Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/anon-dontstartmeoff-com/
"Who is this sumg gimp?"
Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/cojones2-guardian-co-uk/
"WHAT THE HELL! If i ever find you, lee, i promise i will, I WILL, kick the crap out of you."
Carcrazychica, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/carcrazychica-youtube/
"Stewart Lee is on. I forgot how funny & clever he thinks he is & how stupid everyone else is in his eyes. Wanker."
Zombie Hamster, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/zombie-hamster-twitter/
"I hate Stewart Lee he is a prick. Clarkson's views are all spot on. Top gear is class and laughing at gipos and the Mexicans is hilarious."
Sam Rooney, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/sam-rooney-youtube/
"Intellectual pretensions aside for a moment Stewart Lee is a bit of a knob sometimes., isn't he?"
Contrapuntal, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/contrapuntal-twitter/
"Stupid. Unfunny. Hypocritical. Nonsensical. Fits in with his fanboys' worldview, basically."
Guest1001, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/guest1001-youtube/
"A mollycoddled uber-middleclass mummysboy without a funny bone in his body. Verbal diahorria for stuffed shirts without a sense of humour."
Pnethor, pne-online.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/pnethor-pne-online-com/
"Russell Brand plays stadiums, Stewart Lee has a tin pot show on BBC that no-one watches."
Borathigh5, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/borathigh5-youtube/
"If this is supposed to be a "Comedy Vehicle," someone had better call the RAC to get it started."
Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/gmanthedemon-bbc-co-uk/
"Stewart Lee is a greasy cunt in a cheap suit. Look out, look out, gammon-headed bastard about. Pathetic and childish. This cunt can't even rally a paying audience. Ham-headed, ham-fisted spastic."
Spanner, dontstartmeoff.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/spanner-dontstartmeoff-com/
"Genuinely can't stand him, he comes across as the sort that thinks that live comedy should just be kept to smoky art student union clubs and that any comedian that plays in arenas is destroying the so called "artistic integrity" of stand up when we all know stand-up comedy is not an art form it's a form of live entertainment. P.S. Just because your TV show is terrible doesn't mean you have to rip into Russell Howard and 'that Roadshow''."
Someoneyoudon'tknow, Chortle.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/someoneyoudontknow-chortle-com/
"I continue to watch out of amazement at how unfunny this man is... he has made me snigger but once when talking about getting your willy stuck in a zipper. Anyone could get a laugh with that! It amazes me how he likes to repeat the same thing several times, likes to repeat things several times, repeat things several times, several times, times."
Stuart, Chortle
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/stuart-chortle/
"I'd never punch Stewart Lee in the face. His smugness would wrap itself round my fist and slowly consume it, infecting me in the process. Stewart Lee once told a joke that I found desperately unfunny. Then he done a poo on stage. Stewart Lee once used my cheesegrater to remove smegma from his Willy. Then he made me cheese-on-toast without cleaning it."
Pudabaya, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/pudabaya-twitter/
"I hate Stewart Lee with a passion. He's like Ian Huntley to me."
Wharto15, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/wharto15-twitter/
"Hands up if you think that Stewart Lee is the worst 'comedian' ever. My hand is firmly in the air!"
Leach Juice, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/leach-juice-twitter/
"Finally watched Stewart Lee from last week. Hated it. Shouting at TV "scots don't lay eggs" etc."
A D Ward, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/a-d-ward-twitter/
"Stewart Lee is a twat. That is all."
Fairy Pingu, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/fairy-pingu-twitter/
"All this man seems to be able to do is dance about going "ah ha ha ha ha ha!' So incredibly unfunny."
Emilyistrendy, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/emilyistrendy-youtube/
"No part of this routine was funny enough to even bother delivering it. I'm not offended, more bemused by his total lack of talent and why the audience are laughing at his dull and obvious "jokes"."
Whoiscuriousgeorge, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/whoiscuriousgeorge-youtube/
"Stewart Lee. Boring as hell and unfunny."
Peter Ould, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/peter-ould-twitter/
"Big surprise, guardianistas love comic who went to a posh school and oxbridge. Dave Chappelle's could show him how it's done."
Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/neolab-guardian-co-uk/
"The concept that Stewart Lee is funny is tenuous at best."
Meninblack, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/meninblack-twitter/
"Lee is not just unfunny but tiresome, his non-joke act isn't even original! He just rips off Ted Chippington. Ooooh look at me! I'm Stewart Lee! I'm deconstructing the form!! Come back Richard Herring!! Please!"
General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/general-lurko-36-guardian-co-uk/
"I must protest most feverently at the prospect of further wanton waste of the licence fee on this pile of wank."
Aaron, comedy.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/aaron-comedy-co-uk/
"He's another of those smug incompetents who are said by the 'in-crowd' to be cool. He appears to have serious life issues and he seems to think that foisting his emotional turmoil onto audiences is somehow 'art'. Bollocks."
Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/dahoum-guardian-co-uk/
"Stewart Lee should jump in his 'comedy vehicle' and drive it off a very high cliff. Whoever this youth is, he sounds about as funny as three weeks of really bad weather!"
Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/shane-beverley-dailymail-co-uk/
"All he did was talk about crisps and stand there."
DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/dvdhths-grandparents-twitter/
"See that stupid look on his face....you just know he would have that exact same facial expression if he was getting the kicking of his life. He's a total dick cheesecake."
Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/neva2busy-dontstartmeoff-com/
"Watching Stewart Lee in action these days is like standing on the edge of a frozen lake and seeing a man half-submerged in the perishing ice. You throw him a rope - but he hurls it back. You didn't throw it correctly, he advises. And anyway, he was fine as he was, until you ruined it all. Didn't you know that sub-zero was his natural habitat?"
Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/dominic-cavendish-daily-telegraph/
"I hate comedy that presumes to 'defend' minorities like me. Sod off, you don't know what offends me, so you can't protect me from it. But most of the things you think offend me don't."
Sweeping Curves, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/sweeping-curves-twitter/
"Stewart Lee is a massive asshole."
Secretdeveloper, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/secretdeveloper-youtube/
"Stewart Lee has lost his glasses somewhere in stoke newington. Have you seen them? Please ReTweet."
Stokeylitfest, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/stokeylitfest-twitter/
"Amongst the least talented comedians ever invented."
Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/pirate-crocodile-twitter/
"He stank. I've never seen a moronic idiot trying to tell jokes in my life. What a fuck. The man could barely stand up never mind tell a decent story. Everyone was laughing at him, and I hated his guts."
Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/alex-quarmby-edfringe-com/
"Is Stewart Lee deliberately trying to be unfunny?"
Horatio Melvin, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/horatio-melvin-twitter/
"What a waste of a comedian. Eat my penis."
Lancethrustworthy, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/lancethrustworthy-youtube/
"I have more light and shade and humanity than Stewart Lee."
Richard Herring, Comedian
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/richard-herring-comedian/
"He talks only about commonplace things, with a really slow pace. He made me smile. That's it! A disappointment."
Etienne, Chortle.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/etienne-chortle-com/
"Comedy vehicle? more of a comedy 'right off!'"
Guest, Dontstartmeoff.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/guest-dontstartmeoff-com/
"Stewart Lee is an embarrassment to comedy."
Jackmumf, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/jackmumf-twitter/
"Smug bastard."
Peter Fears, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/peter-fears-twitter/
"I really cannot *bear* the bumptious prick that is Stewart Lee. And anyone who sees Stewart Lee for the pompous self important tit that he is, is a friend of mine. The greatest trick Stewart Lee ever pulled was convincing the world he's funny and not just a ridiculously supercilious prat who just repeats himself. Stewart Lee you are a prize cock. At least get your facts straight before you launch into your pious Guardian wank fodder."
Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/lucinda-locketts-twitter/
"Stewart Lee's comedy is designed to be 'appreciated' but not actually 'laughed' at or 'enjoyed'. Here's a fun game you can play while watching Stewart Lee: With a pen and paper, jot down how often you actually laugh. You may be surpsied!"
Dick Socrates, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/dick-socrates-twitter/
"This guy is a douche bag who probably drank to much before going on stage to prove what a complete and utter asshole he is."
GRTak, finalgear.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/grtak-finalgear-com/
"Stewart Lee isn't funny."
Slothy Matt, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/slothy-matt-twitter/
"Stewart Lee : 20 years of 'sneer = career'."
Clampdown59, Twitter.
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/clampdown59-twitter/
"He's a c*nt, people lap it up like they do Charlie Brooker yet both are prejudiced middle class tosspots. Brooker is a weetabix haired trendy tosspiece trying to cling on to anything remotely cool these days and Stewart Lee is a hypocrite."
Lents, redandwhitekop.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/lents-redandwhitekop-com/
"Stewart Lee is like that uni lecturer who thinks he's unbelievably cool but is really the tit the students all laugh at."
Lenny Darksphere, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/lenny-darksphere-twitter/
"I had to walk out of Stewart Lee's gig tonight when my wife started projectile vomiting!"
Cyberbloke, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/cyberbloke-twitter/
"A cultural bully from the Oxbridge Mafia who wants to appear morally superior but couldn't cut the mustard on a panel game."
Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/lee-mack-mack-the-life/
"A small, sad man."
FBC, finalgear.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/fbc-finalgear-com/
"Saw Stewart Lee 1981 show last night. Loads of brilliant comedians in audience. Only 2 on stage in nearly 4 hours. Dire."
Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/esme-folley-actress-cellist-twitter/
"I fell asleep during Stewart Lee. I don't get him really."
Tres Ryan, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/tres-ryan-twitter/
"3rd rate comedian and politically correct maggot."
Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/anonymous-the-northfield-patriot/
"Fuck this Stewart Lee twat, fuck anyone that agrees with him, and FUCK PC."
Mearecate, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/mearecate-youtube/
"Stewart Lee spends so much effort wittering about comedy, why doesn't he ever do any of it?"
Joe, Independent.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/joe-independent-co-uk/
"An abysmal 'comedian'. He's unable to pick up Brownie points for being funny and so instead flaunts his politically correct views to try to get audiences' and critics' sympathy. While this works to keep him a cult following of der brains who enjoy playing the game of 'I'm holier than thou', it's the reason while he'll never be mainstream (you have to be funny to do that) and why critics who like him always have to apologise for his contributions to high profile charity gigs in venues when the punters don't laugh. Garbage."
Chez, Chortle.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/chez-chortle-com/
"A fraud and a total unfunny tit."
Bosco239, youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/bosco239-youtube/
"The Krankies are funnier than this waste of air. So unfunny it's laughable."
Visualiser1, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/visualiser1-twitter/
"Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle seems to be driving itself up his backside."
Jamespearse, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/jamespearse-twitter/
"Stewart Lee is a cynical man, who has been able to build an entire carrer out of his own smugness. I hope the fucking chrones disease kills him."
Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/maninabananasuit-guardian-co-uk/
"Stewart Lee - is he not just another mouthpiece for Politically Correct liberal "fascism" ?"
Len Firewood, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/len-firewood-twitter/
"Quite possibly the most boring stand-up I've ever heard. I fail to see what on earth is funny about him rambling on....and on...and on..."
Kozzy06, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/kozzy06-youtube/
"Self consciousness in comedy doesn't make it better, or more intelligent. It makes it much worse. Give me Michael McIntyre any day."
Shit Crit, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/shit-crit-twitter/
"Without warning I was drawn from watching the ?excelllent Jeremy Paxman to a loathsome comedian gratuitously using the "c" word. I found this extremely unacceptable, as did my recently widowed mother."
Anon, BBC Complaints Log
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/anon-bbc-complaints-log/
"If I could bring one extinct thing back to life it would be Stewart Lee’s sense of humour."
Frankie Boyle, Comedian
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/frankie-boyle/
"Stewart Lee's just as smug as Clarkson and co in my opinion. Has a very punchable tone of voice."
Aiden Hearn, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/aiden-hearn-twitter/
"I saw him at a gig once, and even offstage he was exuding an aura of creepy molesty smugness."
Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/yukio-mishima-dontstartmeoff-com/
"I hate that Stewart Lee fella, totally unfunny and as much charisma as Pol Pot!!"
Fowkes81, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/fowkes81-twitter/
"Not one joke delivered. Absolutely the worst comedian I have ever had the misfortune to encounter. Don't waste your money or time. Only comedian that I have ever thought of walking out on."
Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/dave-wilson-chortle-com/
"I think describing himself as a comedian is the only funny thing the man has ever said. Don't bother telling me that I don't get it; I don't want it. It's only possible to like right-on, lefty comedians like Stuart Lee if you're a right-on lefty yourself. Like all right-on lefties he feigns contempt of intolerance and ridicules people for the predictably, allegedly right wing intolerances ascribed to stereotypically right wing people. To me, morally or comedically this is no better than Bernard Manning or Jim Davidson both of whom were genuinely funny even if you now think their jokes were racist but neither of them were genuinely bigoted, IMHO of course, like Stewart Lee and his fans. In attempting to send up intolerance by being blatantly intolerant and bigoted, Lee falls flat on his face making any genuinely tolerant, left-of-centre, liberals so horrified that they simply could not laugh. In short, if you're a bigoted, socialist worker, civil servant, teacher, social worker or NHS employee then Stuart Lee is the comedian for you. If you actually care about tolerance for all, even those who have different political opinons from you, he's about as funny as the credit crunch."
Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/genghis-mckahn-guardian-co-uk/
"The ludicrously coiffered fat-of-face fuck"
Mini-x2, readytogo.net
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/mini-x2-readytogo-net/
"The Grand Poobah of stand-up"
Al Murray, Comedian
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/al-murray-comedian/
"Now that I've wasted an hour listening to the absolute garbage that is Stewart Lee, I'm moving on to a more pleasurable activity. Sleeping."
Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/ishamayura-byrd-twitter/
"Smug elitist liberalism. Who is this cunt?"
Tokyofist, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/tokyofist-youtube/
"Is there anyone more condescending, self-satisfied and up their own arse than Stewart Lee?"
Liam Travitt, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/liam-travitt-twitter/
"The most overrated smug twat ever."
Syhr, breakbeat.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/syhr-breakbeat-co-uk/
"If this is supposed to be a "Comedy Vehicle," someone had better call the RAC to get it started. Or push it down hill. Stewart Lee should have 'cunt' stamped onto his forehead with a branding iron."'
Coxy, Dontstartmeoff.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/coxy-dontstartmeoff-com/
"Stuart Lee = Cock."
Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/brendon-vauxhallownersnetwork-co-uk/
"Why does anyone sully the name of comedians by so very incorrectly applying the term to Stewart Lee."
Microcuts 22, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/microcuts-22-twitter/
"Absolutely the saddest so called comedian I have ever heard. Trash is the only word I can think of this person. Disgusting!!!"
Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/carla-st-albans-dailymail-co-uk/
"I want to run Stewart Lee over in his own comedy vehicle."
Robert Gavin, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/robert-gavin-twitter/
"The dullness of his jokes is only matched by his bitterness towards other comedians and half the world around him. He seems to spend hours on stage pretending that he 'gets something' nobody else has. I just wish he'd get a sense of humour. Tripe."
Gabrielle, Chortle.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/gabrielle-chortle-com/
"Stewart Lee- every pseudo-intellectual's favourite comedian! "If you don't find him funny it's because you can't comprehend his comedic style" or "You're just not clever enough" are usually responses to people who consider him unfunny..."
Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/cabluigi-guardian-co-uk/
"After careful deliberation, I can now say I have finally gone off Stewart Lee. Give it two years and so will you."
Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/tweeterkiryakou-twitter/
"Jealous that your comedy career didn't go anywhere Lee?"
Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/anonymous-dontstartmeoff-com/
"Sorry, Something has gone wrong (Error 500). Unfortunately this part of iPlayer has temporarily stopped working. This will be because there has been an unforeseen technical error."
BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/bbc-iplayer-edition-of-discussion-of-stewart-lee-on-a-good-read/
"Stewart Lee is a pedantic, overrated, mundane little shit of a comedian. And yes, I do 'get' him, it's just ... wank."
Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/meanstreetelite-peoplesrepublicofcork/
"Stewart Lee used to one of my favorite funnymen, but I think he's lost it now. I just don't find him funny anymore. He hasn't made me laugh since 1999. I always preferred Richard Herring anyway."
Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/joskins-leeds-music-forum/
"Lee seems to think he's more clever than he really is. His material is delivered in a "If you don't find this funny, you can't be very intelligent" manner, which is an attitude perpetuated by the pseudo-intellectual Guardian reading arsebiscuits who like him."
Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/johnny-kitkat-dontstartmeoff-com/
"Stewart Lee is a pompous, condescending bore, and he isn't remotely funny. He claims to have read the entire works of William Blake - he obviously completely missed one of the great themes of Blake: a love and respect for all humanity. If smugness could be harnessed as a form of energy this man could help reduce our reliance on fossil fuels."
Danazawa, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/danazawa-youtube/
"Just seen a very haggard looking Stewart Lee near Carnaby St. He was carrying laundry."
98rosjon, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/98rosjon-twitter/
"I am starting to detest Stewart Lee."
Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/tweeter-kyriakou-twitter/
"I don't get the point of this thing with Johnny vegas and lee, it's neither funny nor informative. It's like watching 2 heavily drunk people having a conversation at a bus stop."
Sidsings000, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/sidsings000-youtube/
"Stewart Lee isn't funny. In fact he's the opposite. And totally unfunny."
Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/henry-howard-fun-twitter/
"I spent the entire time thinking of how much I want to punch Stewart Lee in the face instead of laughing. He does have an incredibly punchable face, doesn't he? (I could just close my eyes, but fantasizing about punching Stewart Lee is still more fun than sitting in complete, stony silence.) Fucking smug-faced cunt."
Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/pudabaya-beexcellenttoeachother-com/
"Alleged comedian Stewart Lee is cheap and mean spirited."
Iain, eatenbymissionaries
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/iain-eatenbymissionaries/
"The thinking woman's potato farl."
Rubyshoes, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/rubyshoes-twitter/
"Stewart Lee has created his own very profitable narrative that Stewart Lee = cool and Anything Else = shit."
John Robins, Comedian
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/john-robins-comedian/
"Only a Sun reader could mistake this dross for intelligent comedy. Probably laughs at farting noises too. Here's to hoping this particular vehicle runs off the road. Under a train."
NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/nevw47479-uktv-co-uk/
"I hope stewart lee dies."
Idrie, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/idrie-youtube/
"If this is supposed to be a "Comedy Vehicle," maybe someone should call the RAC to get it started."
Gwaites, Digitalspy
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/gwaites-digitalspy/
"Prime example of a well educated looooooser."
Rudeness, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/rudeness-youtube/
"Christ what a monotoned smug nobhead, don't you people get tired of his student aimed so called humour, god he's crap."
Anamatronix, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/anamatronix-youtube/
"I was Stage Manager for Stewart Lee. It wasn't performance art, stand up comedy or satire. It was a fucking train-wreck. That man could not read an audience 3 feet away. And yes, I got to know his act well during the rehearsals and Tech rehearsal. I also got to know the fact that the man is a functioning alcoholic, finishing nearly 12 cans to himself before going onstage, and that he is banned from the entire chain of theatres I used to work at for being rude, dismissive of staff and responding terribly to bad audience feedback. I don't hate this man in the slightest, I pity him. Where he tries to wear the "never hitting mainstream" as a cloak (Even naming a tour after it) the cracks appear when you're one on one with him. He is angry, and I don't think he know who he's angry at."
Funday’schild, youtube.
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/fundayschild-youtube/
"Lee makes Kim Jong II look comparatively relaxed. Maybe it's time to lighten up a little?"
Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/dominic-cavendish-telegraph/
"Is Stewart Lee supposed to be funny? Because he's really not."
Keilloh, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/keilloh-twitter/
"Stewart Lee is not funny. He comes from the smug - if you don't laugh at my material then you aren't smart enough - school of comedy. No Stewart, if we don't laugh at your material then it's just not good enough."
Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/patrick-kavanagh-guardian-co-uk/
"One man I would love to beat with a shit covered cricket bat."
Joycey, readytogo.net
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/joycey-readytogo-net/
"The boringly infantile Stewart Lee."
Peter Ould, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/peter-ould-youtube/
"This has to be the most unfunny stand up I've ever seen. I've not laughed, smirked or grinned once at Lee's quips. What an absolute waste of time. 0/10."
Alwyn, Digiguide.tv
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/alwyn-digiguide-tv/
"Five minutes of Stewart Lee makes me want to kill myself . Completely unfunny, dated, painful SHIT."
Anon, westhamonline.com
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/anon-westhamonline-com/
"It is a bit like listening to a sixth form NUS president who was brought up an only child by his sycophantic grandparents."
Deepbass, Guardian.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/deepbass-guardian-co-uk/
"Stewart Lee is boring."
Tin Frog, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/tin-frog-twitter/
"Lee was a good comic. Unfortunately now he comes across as a chaotic drunk."
Foxfoxton, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/foxfoxton-youtube/
"Great, the next big thing has materialised. Surprisingly for the Guardian, they are recommending a man who hates the Top Gear presenters and co wrote a hit show that offended Christians. This is like being 15 and reading the NME."
Nicetime, Guardian.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/nicetime-guardian-co-uk/
"His whole tone is one of complete, smug condescension."
Birmingham Sunday Mercury
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/birmingham-sunday-mercury/
"Stuart 'man of the people' Lee is nothing but a fringe alternative comedy act who wouldn't stand a chance at a real comedy club like Jongleurs."
Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/karen-laidlaw-edfringe-com/
"Stewart lee is a shit comedian doing a shit impression of a shit comedian. If he was burned alive it could raise serious cash."
Mrdavisn01, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/mrdavisn01-twitter/
"Stewart Lee, I will shove my thick cock in your throat you gay lord."
Hiewy, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/hiewy-youtube/
"A sneering tosser."
Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/rowing-rob-guardian-co-uk/
"I used to think stewart lee was quite good, then i spoke to him at edinburgh festival. Arse doesn't cover it. Ah well."
Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/bobby-bhoy-twitter/
"This guy sure knows how to run a joke into the ground."
Mpf1947, Youtube
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/testimonials/mpf1947-youtube/
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Rashford, Martial And VAR Keep Man United In Top Four Race
17th July 2020 - by Louis Kalinga
United rarely hit the heights of recent weeks in beating Crystal Palace 2-0 on Thursday as goals from Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial, allied to a helping hand from VAR, kept a top-four finish in their own hands
Manchester United's French striker Anthony Martial (L) celebrates with teammates after scoring their second goal during the English Premier League football match between Crystal Palace and Manchester United at Selhurst Park in south London on July 16, 2020. PHOTO | AFP
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told Manchester United to enjoy the pressure of fighting for a place in the top four after needing a 19-game unbeaten run just to give themselves a chance of a return to the Champions League next season
Solskjaer's men remain in fifth, but moved back level on points with Leicester, who they face on the final day of the season, and to within one point of third-placed Chelsea
Solskjaer bemoaned having 48 hours' less preparation time than Chelsea for Sunday's FA Cup semi-final, but that made little difference to the Norwegian's team selection with only two changes from the side that started Monday's 2-2 draw with Southampton
LONDON, United Kingdom- Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told Manchester United to enjoy the pressure of fighting for a place in the top four after needing a 19-game unbeaten run just to give themselves a chance of a return to the Champions League next season.
United rarely hit the heights of recent weeks in beating Crystal Palace 2-0 on Thursday as goals from Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial, allied to a helping hand from VAR, kept a top-four finish in their own hands.
Solskjaer's men remain in fifth, but moved back level on points with Leicester, who they face on the final day of the season, and to within one point of third-placed Chelsea.
"We need to smile, we have earned this right. No-one thought in January that we would be in with a shout for top four," said Solskjaer.
"These are the games that matter. That is the thing at Manchester United, you have to step up and show your personality."
Solskjaer bemoaned having 48 hours' less preparation time than Chelsea for Sunday's FA Cup semi-final, but that made little difference to the Norwegian's team selection with only two changes from the side that started Monday's 2-2 draw with Southampton.
Fatigue seemed to play a factor in a slow start from the visitors and Solskjaer warned his side they cannot afford a repeat in a big 10 days ahead.
"Of course it's tight scheduling but we can't afford starts like that," he added. "We didn't get the rhythm in our passing but two fantastic goals won it for us."
- VAR controversy -
Palace have now lost six games on the spin, but Roy Hodgson believed his side did not get what they deserved, particularly with two controversial VAR reviews.
The game turned in the minutes before the break when Wilfried Zaha went down in the penalty area claiming to have been tripped by Victor Lindelof.
Neither referee Graham Scott nor a review awarded a penalty and moments later United led.
Bruno Fernandes fed Rashford inside the area who sold Patrick van Aanholt a dummy and cut onto his right foot before finding the bottom corner for his 22nd goal of the season.
"Is the VAR broken?" tweeted Palace chairman Steve Parish.
Unfortunately for Parish and Palace, VAR was fully in operation 10 minutes into the second half when Jordan Ayew converted Zaha's low cross but was denied an equaliser by a millimetric offside decision on review.
"If there was ever a game I should be sat here congratulating the team on the performance and result tonight is the night," said Hodgson.
"Having to come to terms with something you don't deserve is very difficult."
At the other end Rashford did not get enough power on his shot to beat Vicente Guaita and Fernandes smashed against the post.
Rashford is to become the youngest person to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester for his work campaigning against child poverty and he rounded off another fine week for the 22-year-old on and off the field with a major role in Martial's second to clinch a vital three points.
The England international burst through three Palace players before feeding Fernandes. The Portuguese's pass through the legs of Luka Milivojevic found Rashford again on the edge of the area and he cushioned a pass into Martial to slide home.
Palace's misfortune was rounded off as Van Aanholt had to be stretchered off after dislocating his shoulder in a collision with Martial, which Hodgson confirmed could see the Dutch international miss the start of next season.
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The Justice League Snyder Cut Will Arrive in Early To Mid-2021
Jake Abbate Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Last week, fans were treated to the first glimpse at footage from the upcoming Snyder Cut of Justice League. Now, we have a clearer idea of when Snyder’s original vision for the DC team-up film will hit HBO Max. Sandra Dewey, the president of productions and business operations for WarnerMedia Entertainment, announced a release window for the film while delivering a keynote address at the virtual Cannes market earlier today. Via Variety, Dewey said that the platform is targeting an “early to mid-2021” debut for the movie. Unfortunately, she didn’t offer a more specific release date than this.
A summer release for the Snyder Cut would be typical of most comic book blockbusters. If the Snyder Cut hits HBO Max around June, Warner Bros. could fill the void left by Matt Reeves’ The Batman. That film was recently forced to vacate its original summer 2021 premiere date in light of the coronavirus pandemic. However, it’s also possible that the studio wants to get Snyder’s movie on HBO Max as soon as it’s ready.
RELATED: First Justice League Snyder Cut Teaser Features Darkseid
DC fans have been very enthusiastic about the Snyder Cut’s impending reveal ever since its existence was confirmed last month. The movie will feature several additional characters not seen in the theatrical version, most notably Ray Porter’s Darkseid. Viewers will also see Orion Lee as Ryan Choi/Atom, Kiersey Clemons as Iris West, and possibly even Harry Lennix as Martian Manhunter. WB is reportedly shelling out at least $30 million to allow Snyder to complete the film. The studio is also debating whether to release the finished product as a four-hour movie or six-chapter miniseries.
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We compared ERPs elicited by supraliminally and subliminally presented conditioned fearful faces (CS ), unconditioned fearful faces (CS-) and surprised faces. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World Luke Hayes Christien Meindertsma presents Fibre Market Luke Hayes Madeline Gannon presents Mimus Luke Hayes Ma Ke presents The Earth Luke Hayes Neri Oxman and Stratasys present Vespers Luke Hayes What they are [designmuseum.org]
‘Darren didn't say anything as he shivered from the cold and from his fear of what would happen to him now.’ ‘Because of the history, there is a lot of fear of what may happen.’ [en.oxforddictionaries.com]
We describe a 64 year-old male with classic signs and symptoms of pertussis and documented Bordetella pertussis infection that were overlooked because he presented with a chief complaint of cough and fear of falling asleep. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
The symptoms typically include extreme anxiety, dread and anything associated with panic such as shortness of breath, rapid breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating, excessive sweating, nausea, dry mouth, nausea, inability to articulate words or sentences [common-phobias.com]
Other phobia symptoms include shortness of breath, irregular heartbeat, sweating, nausea, and an overall feeling of dread. Phobias are the most common form of anxiety disorders. Do you suffer from Ankylophobia? Please share your story. [constantfear.blogspot.com]
Symptoms of Ankylophobia The symptoms typically include shortness of the breathing, of the fast breathing, the beat of the irregular heart, to sweat, of nausea, and total sensations of the pavor, although each one experiences ankylophobia of its own way [depression-guide.com]
For example, a person who possesses Arachnophobia, or a fear of spiders, would experience a physical response such as, nausea, dizziness, or even shaking when approached by a spider. [en.wikipedia.org]
Axillary Sweating
A fourth study found that the orbitofrontal and the fusiform cortex are activated during the perception of axillary sweat, sampled during a sexually arousing situation [25]. [doi.org]
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: We hypothesized that fear-conditioning may increase motor cortical excitability in preparation for response to fear. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
“Masaya and excited kasi natutulungan ko na ulit sila ate sa loob ng court kasi last year hindi ko natapos yung UAAP,” Ebon said. [spin.ph]
I used to be excited about facing my own fears, now, I'm excited to help others start their own journey. When we share our experiences we have the power to inspire the world, so let's do this together. [100dayswithoutfear.com]
It’s just hormones in our bodies, just an energy of excitement. Being in the moment, we can take action: write a book, have a conversation, go to a social event, get on stage. [zenhabits.net]
‘I will give him the chance to prove that my worst fears are unfounded.’ terror, fright, fearfulness, horror, alarm, panic, agitation, trepidation, dread, consternation, dismay, distress phobia, aversion, antipathy, dread, bugbear, bogey, nightmare, horror [en.oxforddictionaries.com]
This is a novel use of a treatment approach with established efficacy in the treatment of anxiety disorders. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
While fear of abandonment may differ in its clinical presentation, it has a significant impact on therapeutic engagement, suicidal behaviour and non-suicidal self-injury, clinical management and prognosis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Prognosis Despite recent advances in therapy, the prognosis of PG remains unpredictable. The documents contained in this web site are presented for information purposes only. [orpha.net]
The prognosis for pyoderma gangrenosum is unpredictable. About half of treated patients achieve wound healing on treatment with prednisone or ciclosporin within a year [4,7]. [dermnetnz.org]
A major point for further investigations is the calculation of prognosis. [ojrd.biomedcentral.com]
This report provides insight into pathways of propagation of epileptic activity, illustrates different etiologies of pathologic fear and underlines the importance of ictal EEG recordings. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Etiology of childhood phobias: current status of Rachman's three pathways theory. Behav. Res. Ther. 36, 297–309 (1998). 90. Field, A.P., Argyris, N.G. & Knowles, K.A. [doi.org]
Etiology The etiology has not yet been clearly determined. [orpha.net]
Australia. 5 Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. 6 NHMRC Early Career Fellow at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. 7 Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
We discuss our results in terms of their potential implications both for the epidemiology of toxoplasmosis and the neurological basis of anxiety and cognitive processes in humans and other mammals. [doi.org]
Summary Epidemiology The exact prevalence of PG is unknown. The incidence has been estimated to range between 1 and 3.3 in 330,000. The incidence peak occurs between the ages of 20 to 50 years, with women being more often affected than men. [orpha.net]
A research agenda for the DSM-V advocated the "development of a pathophysiologically based classification system". [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Pyoderma Gangrenosum: An Update on Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment. Am J Clin Dermatol. 2017 Feb 21. doi: 10.1007/s40257-017-0251-7. [Epub ahead of print] Review. PubMed PMID: 28224502. PubMed. [dermnetnz.org]
Early dental care and dental caries prevention are important factors to prevent dental fear. [Indexed for MEDLINE] Free full text [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
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Harmony Ranch would set a "dangerous precedent and create a domino effect" of increased development, Jupiter Island Commissioner Peter Conze said during public comment, adding that the "fiscal impact is potentially enormous."
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Applicant Hobe Sound Ranch in September asked the county to change the property's land-use designation from agricultural — which allows one unit per 20 acres — to a mix of residential estate, which allows two units per acre; rural, which allows one unit per 2 acres; and agricultural ranchette, which allows one unit per 5 acres.
Hobe Sound Ranch also wanted changes to the Comprehensive Plan — which governs growth and development regulations — to expand the primary and secondary urban-service districts, which would allow the extension of services such as water and sewer.
Harmony Ranch — west of Florida's Turnpike between Southwest Bridge Road and Southwest Pratt-Whitney Road — for decades has been used for cattle ranching and currently consists of 20-acre ranches, according to the county.
North of the property are the Florida Club and Foxwood subdivisions, to the east is South Fork High School and to the south and west is agricultural land.
The County Commission's decision on Tuesday followed a staff recommendation to deny the change, in part because it would not discourage proliferation of urban sprawl, according to a staff report.
The Local Planning Agency on March 14 also recommended denial, emphasizing concerns about expanding water and sewer service to the proposed project.
The project also faced opposition from numerous Martin County residents, including many who live near Harmony Ranch.
Residents on 86 of the 109 properties that make up the Foxwood subdivision, for example, filed letters of opposition to the project, according to the Foxwood Homeowners Association.
In a letter to the county Growth Management Department, developer Thomas Kenny III, who represented Hobe Sound Ranch, defended the requested change as "logical, financially feasible and efficient," and emphasized that Harmony Ranch would provid "critically needed workforce housing" as well as housing for the elderly and for Martin County's expanding population.
The commission over the last 15 years has denied multiple projects proposed for the area, including one in 2012 by Extreme Sports for a new land-use designation called Extreme Sports Water Ski Park and Hotel.
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Spotify rises at the top by acquiring two podcast producers Gimlet Media and Anchor
Moupiya Dutta Entertainment Feb 6, 2019, 6:03 pm
Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek have announced that the company has just bought two of the largest podcasting producers in the world, Gimlet Media and Anchor. A declaration that their specialty is the next big area of growth for the world’s largest paid music service.
Podcasting allows Spotify to increase the amount of time its users spend on the app and reduce its payments to music companies. It also opens up another front of the competition with Apple Inc., the market leader in podcasting. Apple Music is the second-most-popular paid music service, after Spotify.
Last year, during the same period, Spotify reported an operating loss of EUR 87 million. The result was even better than the average estimate from 18 analysts’ forecasts, which Infront Data compiled for the report, which was on an operating profit of EUR – 16.4 million. However, for the full year 2018, Spotify reports an operating loss of EUR 43 million.
According to Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, the podcasts will become shortly 20% of the total listeners of the platform. “Our podcast users spend twice as much time and even more listening to music.” It also considers that betting on original content will be a critical differentiated element with the competition. The operating profit, corresponding to just under SEK 1 billion, is the first to date for the music company.
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Amazon’s reveals new Alexa devices at the annual Hardware event
Tania Halder Gadget Sep 27, 2019, 12:40 pm
Amazon Reveals New Alexa Devices At Its Hardware 2019 Event
Amazon unveiled more than a dozen new Alexa-enabled products at the annual Amazon Hardware event in Seattle on September 26. The list of products include a wide range of Alexa featured products, from Echo Loop to an oven.
A large number of home products and hardware devices are sold on Amazon at a daily basis. However, they did not disclosed the amount of total company revenue. Amazon hardware chief, Dave Limp said in a CNBC report:
“We try to price our products effectively at about what they cost to make. We think that’s very aligned with customers, we don’t make a lot of money on them, we don’t lose a lot of money on them, but what we try to do is then make money both for us and developers when customers use the products, not just when they buy them”.
Here’s a list of everything Amazon has announced at the event:
Amazon Echo Studio with s5 speakers:
Amazon announced a whole new update to the company Echo line with its Alexa powered home products.
The Echo Studio features s5 speakers with Dolby Atmos technology for 3D audio. It also has three 2-inches mid-range speakers (up, left and right), one 1-inch tweeter and a 5.25-inch woofer with bass aperture. The device also supports the new Amazon Music HD service and Zigbee for more advanced home automation.
This Echo Studio is priced at $200 and will be released on November 7.
Echo Loop, the smart ring
Echo Loop is a smart ring that has a built-in microphone, speaker and an all-day battery life. This ring is also Alexa powered and the users can use the ring to make calls, control your smart home and do everything they desire to do. The ring also includes a wireless charging stand.
The Day 1 edition of the smart ring comes at $130 and is available with invitation only. Users can order a kit with dummy rings of different sizes and pick the right one for themselves.
Echo Frames to add up
Have you ever wished to have the specs that Tony Stark left for Spiderman? Well now you can have them. Though the new Echo Frames don’t have AR like Google Glass, but they certainly can make calls, set reminders, add things to your to-do list and more.
It has a longer battery life and also support podcasts. The Day 1 Edition of the frame costs $180 where as it has a regular price of $250.
Echo Buds for a better music experience
Echo Buds are truly wireless earbuds from Amazon with Alexa built in. They claim to have 5 hours of playback on their own, where as the charging case brings the total up to 20 hours. Furthermore, if you charge it for 15 minutes, it is enough for 2 hours of music.
They come with audio cred and feature dual drivers and a 3 microphone array with Bose Active Noise Cancellation. They will retail at a price of $130 and will be released on October 30.
In addition to these, the ring, glasses and earbuds can also work with the Google Assistant or Apple Siri.
The Echo Show 8
This features an 8-inch HD screen that can display the daily itinerary, show who’s at the door with a Ring camera, and even play TV shows and movies. There is a 1MP front camera and two 2 inch speakers for video calling and music. There is also a hardware slider that can cover the camera and disable the microphones for privacy.
The Echo Show 8 is reportedly on pre-order now and will be available on November 21.
Echo Dot for your daily convenience
The 3rd generation Echo Dot normally acts as a small speaker, but the sandstone version has a digital clock visible through the cloth. It shows time and also switches to a temperature display when you ask about the weather.
The device will be released on October 16 at $60, and without the clock it will cost $50.
Echo Flex, the smart speaker
Echo Flex is an amazing new speaker that also works as a charger. It is reportedly designed for small paces with no room where you can put a speaker, plug it in and it will stay on the wall.
Additionally, the speaker has a USB port on the bottom, which can be used to charge your phone (7.5W output).
Amazon smart oven
Amazon came up with an Alexa equipped smart oven to make your kitchen smart. The oven will cost $249 and will be equipped with convection cooking and an air fryer. The most noteworthy feature is that users can also scan packaged food items from the Alexa app. This will trigger the oven to start cooking.
The company also promised the buyers an Echo Dot with every purchase of Amazon smart oven.
WiFi products
The new Wi-Fi router Eero is updated with new technology and reportedly give users whole-home WiFi coverage. The single device will cost $99 and the 3 pack one will cost $249.99. They will be available for preorder from September 26.
Amazon has also announced its new wireless technology called Sidewalk. This will have a 900mHz wireless band to let users control their home devices at a longer range than Wi-Fi or Bluetooth allows.
Amazon also announced a new device called Fetch that will attach to a dog’s collar, allowing the owner to track it. Along with these, the company unveiled a “doorbell concierge”, which adds the voice assistant to Ring smart doorbells, making it more convenient while answering the door. Amazon has a new trick up on their sleeves as they introduced an Alexa feature that uses AI to mimic celebrity voices and this will be available from later this year.
The company also announced two more Alexa Hunches updates. One of them will allow Alexa to remind users if a battery needs to be replaced or if printer cartridges are running low on ink. The other one brings Hunches to Alexa routines, so that it suggests alarms, weather alerts and other information based on its user’s habits.
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An Ambitious Plan to Build a Self-Driving Borg
Mobileye wants competing carmakers to contribute on-the-road data to help teach automated cars how to drive safely.
Will Knight archive page
Self-driving cars might fill the roads a lot sooner if carmakers can put aside their rivalries and share the data that would teach computers how to drive safely.
Mobileye, an Israeli company that supplies advanced computer hardware and software to many carmakers to enable cars to spot objects on the road, is now developing ways to train cars to drive themselves. The effort involves feeding computers huge quantities of driving behavior into a vast, highly realistic simulation, so that they can learn how to drive for themselves. And Mobileye aims to have different customers contribute the data that their vehicles collect.
“If you want to leverage many, many cars, you need to leverage as many carmakers as possible,” says Amnon Shashua, cofounder and CTO of Mobileye. Shashua says his company has devised a solution that will let carmakers contribute while retaining control over their data.
Mobileye’s technology is at the heart of many systems currently being developed by carmakers, so its plans will affect how self-driving systems emerge. It is also a critical time for the technology, as carmakers struggle to move from experimental systems to highly reliable commercial ones. Many experimental self-driving vehicles follow rules that have been programmed manually, and it can be difficult to account for every possible eventuality. Mobileye’s approach represents a new direction. Shashua says Mobileye will announce several deals before the end of the year, the first with Volkswagen.
Mobileye has been at the center of a controversy over the limits of vehicle automation in recent months. Its vision technology is used in Tesla’s Autopilot system, which was involved in a fatal accident in Florida currently being investigated by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (see “Tesla Crash Will Shape the Future of Automated Cars”). Tesla apparently programmed automated driving behavior into its vehicles using a picture of the road captured from the Mobileye system. Tesla and Mobileye parted ways after the carmaker implied that the vision system was at fault when its vehicle, operating in Autopilot mode, crashed into a truck turning across the highway. Mobileye fought back, saying that it had raised concerns about using the vision system to enable semi-automated driving.
Many of Mobileye’s existing products make use of deep learning networks trained to recognize visual information accurately. These networks are fed images that have been annotated by hand, and have been used to build vehicle systems capable of recognizing road signs or tracking the vehicle in front in order to maintain a safe distance. To enable full automation, the company plans to train networks using driving behavior with an approach called reinforcement learning, which involves network experimentation and reinforcing positive results (in this case, driving safely). Reinforcement learning can be used to train a computer to do something that would be difficult to program, and it promises to make it easier to account for all the different scenarios a car might encounter on the road.
The biggest issue will be persuading car companies to work together. “It makes a ton of sense for car companies to share data, particularly for a problem like this where a vast amount of diverse data is required.” says Karl Iagnaema, CEO of a startup called nuTonomy, which is testing automated taxis in Singapore. “Typically, however, leaders are unwilling to pool resources, for fear of diluting their advantage. It makes sharing of resources difficult.”
Since it isn’t practical to have cars learn on the real road, Mobileye has developed realistic simulations using real-world data it has collected. Inside these simulations, computer algorithms can experiment with different ways to navigate traffic situations. The plan is for different carmakers to feed driving behavior data from sensors into this shared learning network.
The idea of using computer simulations for vehicle training is certainly gaining popularity among researchers (see “Self-Driving Cars Can Learn a Lot by Playing Grand Theft Auto”). Shashua says he hopes that the simulation platform his company is developing could serve as the gold standard for testing and verifying self-driving algorithms.
Will Knight
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OUTDOORS: State’s hunters took more than 224,000 deer last season
John Pitarresi @OD_Pitarresi
We had a decent opening weekend at our deer camp last fall.
Really, we put only five deer in the shed over four days, but they had been running all over the place the last couple of days of bow season.
They were not so much in evidence Saturday and Sunday. You had to go root them out with drives.
Still, they were there. According to the Department of Environmental Conservation’s 2019 deer take report, a total of 680 deer were taken in our township, Canisteo, 418 of them bucks. Several nearby towns showed totals of 600 or more. Steuben County is great deer country, and produced 13,240 deer, including 7,508 bucks. Both those numbers are up a couple of thousand from 2018.
The overall state deer take, however, was less than a year ago. The estimated total was 224,190 - 103,787 antlerless deer and 120,403 antlered bucks. The total was down from 227,787 in 2018, but higher than the average of the previous five years of 217,184.
For the most part, the take in local counties was down. Oneida County had 2,890 bucks and 4,7488 total deer taken, with the buck take up slightly and the total take down a couple of hundred from 2018. Otsego County had 3,445 bucks and 6,083 total deer taken. In Herkimer County, the numbers were 1,757 and 2,655. In Madison County it was 2,118 (up slightly) and 4,495 (down several hundred). Lewis County had 2,406 bucks and 3,590 total deer taken, both increases of close to 300.
The town of New Hartford produced 66 bucks and 103 total deer. There were days ― before and after the season, of course ― I saw more deer in the village and along Sauquoit Creek than I saw in a week down to camp, a three-hour, 162-mile trip away.
I mentioned in a previous column that 62.6 percent of the bucks killed last season were 2.5 years old or older. This is a highest percentage ever, up from 40 percent a decade ago. The DEC has been promoting the idea of letting young bucks walk for a while now. The increased percentage seems to show that hunters are willing to do that, but I do not blame anyone for shooting anything that shows. Many hunters have only a limited time to be out in the woods. Me? I killed way too many button bucks early in my career, and I don’t want to shoot spikes and fork horns. I have done so, usually when posted on a drive, but I’d rather put a flattop on the ground early and then be selective the rest of the way.
Not that it has worked all that well for me. I’ve killed plenty of deer, but the big guys seem to always get past me.
Among the highlights of the report:
The western Finger Lakes and western Southern Tier have the highest deer takes and buck takes. It’s been that way for a long time.
A total of 6,260 junior hunters (14- and 15-year-olds), 65 percent of those eligible, participated in the Youth Big Game Hunt, and took 1,148 deer.
Shotgun and rifle hunters accounted for 144,418 deer, while 49,686 were taken by bowhunters, 18,698 by muzzleloaders, and 10,569 by crossbow hunters. The crossbow take was down 280 from last season.
The DEC tested 2,658 deer for Chronic Wasting Disease. None tested positive.
All successful big game hunters are required by law to report their take within seven days. Only 52.3 percent did so, but that’s an increase over average of 46.4 for the last five years.
The DEC’s 2019-20 Deer Harvest Estimates press release is available at https://www.dec.ny.gov/press/119982.html. It contains links to the entire report. There is plenty of information there, with enough statistics to make your head spin.
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Commonwealth Expanding Menu of VIP Options in 2021
By Jeff Berman | November 20, 2020 at 03:07 PM
Commonwealth Connect and Brand Studio are two areas of focus for the firm in 2021 and beyond.
Commonwealth Brand Studio is launching this month for early-access advisors, CMO Brian Sullivan says.
Commonwealth plans to expand on several of its VIP, technology and other initiatives for financial advisors in 2021 and beyond, executives from the company told reporters Thursday during a “State of Commonwealth: Connecting through Change” virtual briefing.
Over the next two years, the firm is focusing its investments on five themes: Client engagement, financial planning, advisors’ growth, ease and efficiency, and advisors’ ability to work from anywhere, according to Kol Chu Birke, managing principal of technology and corporate strategy.
Work from anywhere initiatives will include the continued use of Zoom, virtual private networks, Microsoft Office 365 options including Teams, and Shield 2.0, the latest iteration of its cybersecurity tool that he said will be a “lighter, more convenient, easier to use version” to keep advisors protected.
Client engagement enhancements, meanwhile, will include more capabilities for its Investor360 client portal for the web and mobile devices. “We are completely overhauling it” with a “new look and feel,” Birke said, adding: “We’re embedding all of our planning tools into that” and adding “true digital onboarding,” real-time functionality and additional multifactor authentication for protection.
Ease and efficiency initiatives will include a beta rollout for an enhanced version of its Client360 tool that unifies advisors’ tech tools, he said, noting the firm is “about halfway through” with that project.
Commonwealth is looking to step up its recruiting of breakaway financial advisors in 2021, especially those leaving wirehouse firms Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and UBS, Andrew Daniels, managing principal of business development, recently told ThinkAdvisor.
As part of that push, the firm is stepping up its outsourcing efforts, Daniels said Thursday. “We believe that there are absolutely cultural, positive advisors in the wirehouse world breaking away today who would value our outsourcing model because they are in fact today almost 100% outsourcing,” he told reporters.
“We think we have a fantastic platform for them in the independent space to continue as an outsourcer but grow in an environment where they can flex their creativity, they can have a voice, they can be part of a community that has a value system that they identify with,” he explained.
So “with that in mind, we’ve made a very concerted effort starting right now and flowing into 2021 and beyond to modify some of our economics so that they have a less complicated, sort of independent matrix in which to infuse themselves to make the transition here both economically and operationally easier to do,” he said.
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The initiative includes an investment by Commonwealth in “soft-landing resources to facilitate them in their transition,” as well as real estate, enhanced legal and tax guidance, and human resources services to help them establish independent practices, he said.
“Certainly, connecting in 2020 has been harder” for advisors as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and most people working remotely, Trap Kloman, president and chief operating officer, noted. But the firm “gave every advisor a secure Zoom license so they can work with their clients,” he said.
Commonwealth also recently launched Commonwealth Connect, so advisors “can stay in touch with each other, which is a critical part of an advisor’s learning and growth and value when they choose who [they] work with,” Kloman pointed out.
Commonwealth Connect, part of the firm’s advisor growth initiatives, is its “first digital platform focused exclusively on fostering connections among advisors affiliated with the firm,” it said when announcing the platform Tuesday.
The new platform “builds on the firm’s strong community foundation by allowing its network of more than 2,000 advisors to find each other based on location, niche clientele, interests and hobbies,” it said.
Commonwealth Brand Studio
The company, meanwhile, is “going to start to take” its Commonwealth Brand Studio marketing initiative “to scale in 2021,” Kloman said, adding the firm has received “great feedback” on it from advisors so far.
Commonwealth has been providing “extensive marketing services to our advisors for quite some time, particularly in the area of website development, content creation and sharing, and collateral creation,” Brian Sullivan, chief marketing officer of Commonwealth Financial Network, told ThinkAdvisor after the briefing.
“What Brand Studio is doing is consolidating our existing services into a centralized, easy-to-find portal, while also offering a location for advisors to access new and expanded services we are rolling out now and in the future,” Sullivan explained.
Brand Studio also “gives advisors the opportunity to gain more in-depth access to marketing strategy and consulting services to aid them in crafting the best marketing plan for their needs,” he said.
Brand Studio is “launching this month for early access advisors,” he noted, explaining: “We use early access to onboard advisors most interested in this resource first and get feedback quickly, rather than waiting for everything to be done and rolling it out to our entire community at once.”
The initial early access advisors are “a group of roughly 150 advisors who communicated an interest in working with us early on as we piloted several of our new and expanded services,” Sullivan said.
Looking ahead, “once we have properly extended the Brand Studio to these initial advisors, we will begin expanding the service to take on new advisors,” he said, explaining: “We will be scaling deliberately to ensure we maintain a high level of service and support our advisors have come to expect from Commonwealth before growing too rapidly. … We want to begin onboarding all advisors by the end of the first quarter 2021.”
Also on Tap
“To compete in today’s marketplace, our advisors need to think strategically and have a strong brand,” Sullivan also said. “To help them establish that solid foundation, we are rolling out several value-added services starting in January 2021 to our early access advisors.”
A Strategy Builder tool to think through target market, value proposition and marketing resource needs.
A Learning Center to understand key marketing concepts and how to best identify outsourcing resources or to do it yourself.
Expanded services for advisor brand development, including:
Logo development
Brand positioning and messaging
Expanded website development
After spinning off its Advisor360° fintech platform as an independent company that has grown to more than 500 employees, Commonwealth now also has aggressive plans to expand its technology initiatives over the next five years, according to Birke. Deeper investments will include machine learning, data science, business intelligence and automation, he said.
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Question on CNC and human sexuality
on Monday, 13 July 2015 at 4.35 pm by Simon Sarmiento
categorised as Church of England, General Synod
Three questions were asked about the workings of the Crown Nominations Commission, two of which were answered by the Archbishop of York. The Archbishop of Canterbury answered only this one (copied from the booklet):
Mr John Ward (London) to ask the Chair of the Crown Nominations Commission:
Q44. In the light of the answer the Archbishop of Canterbury gave to question 15 at the February group of sessions, and in particular his statement that when candidates are being considered for a particular See their teaching on a range of issues, including (by implication) human sexuality, is among the many considerations that may properly be taken into account when considering their relative merits for that appointment, can it be confirmed whether any guidance to that effect has been provided to the CNC and, if it has, will that guidance be published?
The Archbishop of Canterbury to reply as Chair of the Crown Nominations Commission:
A The current version of the guidance material provided to CNC members is something which accurately reflects what I said to the Synod in February. Like previous versions of the guidance it has been shared with the Crown Nominations Commission and Bishops who are making appointments to suffragan sees. I shall want to consult the House of Bishops on whether it should be made more widely available.
Two supplementary questions were put, and the following has been transcribed from the audio recording.
Mr John Ward:
I think what the chairman is saying is, that simply saying that the church’s teaching on human sexuality is wrong, is enough to prevent you from being appointed as a bishop. Given this is rather shocking doctrinal discrimination, and given that bishops who won’t ordain women cannot always be a focus for unity for everyone, but are very properly given a special place in the church, will you give a special place in the church for a bishop who thinks that the Church’s teaching on homosexuality is double speak?
Archbishop of Canterbury:
I don’t accept your presupposition.
Mrs April Alexander:
If the effective requirement to be heterosexual is not in the person spec., what is the mechanism by which it can fairly emerge later in the process?
I’m sorry, could you… I don’t understand the question.
[Question repeated with addition of three words “for the post” after “spec.”]
Yes Mrs Alexander, I heard the words, I don’t understand the question.
The following day, during another debate, the Archbishop of Canterbury said this (also transcribed from the audio recording, and not fully included in the version of his intervention published on his website):
…Let me just say, given a couple of the questions that came up last night, which I handled badly, for which I apologise to the questioners and also to the synod, that we are committed to nurturing the vocation across the whole of God’s people, regardless of sexuality, and regardless of lay or ordained…
Iain McLean
Justin Welby’s reply to April Alexander seems disingenuous, given that she is a central member of the CNC, and has presumably seen the guidance to which Justin refers in the written answer to Q44.
Kelvin Holdsworth
But not apparently regardless of marital status.
Excellent questions.
If General Synod want to stop this, clergy and laity can pass a measure to ban discrimination in episcopal appointments on grounds of theology, then dare the bishops to veto it. This should be done anyway, to safeguard theological diversity in the church.
Even a day later, Cantuar still mishandles the question.
“[C]ommitted to nurturing the vocation across the whole of God’s people, regardless of sexuality, and regardless of lay or ordained….”
This is the most obfuscatory doubletalk.
Candidates for bishop are not nominated “regardless of lay or ordained.” Quite the opposite!
Some good work keeping the pressure constantly on. We must keep reminding the Powers that none of this is acceptable practice.
Well done, well done. And the attack quite rightly continues and the disingenuousness of our archbishops is laid bare to public scrutiny. Perhaps Bishop Pete would care to explain why we’ve all got it wrong.
“The current version of the guidance material provided to CNC members… I shall want to consult the House of Bishops on whether it should be made more widely available.” I think we should just walk in the light of truth and be open with one another. Transparency of process is really important. In the age of FOI requests it seems strange if criteria for important church positions remains hidden. Complete openness is particularly apposite when it comes to contested issues like human sexuality. It should all be above board and open for anyone to read. It would also seem strange… Read more »
Going back to Q15 from the February sessions I see that this is the second Synod in a row at which questions have been asked about the CNC and nominees’ views on human sexuality.
More power to the questioners. The Archbishop cannot dodge this question much longer.
April Alexander’s question does not seem to be a difficult one, on the face of it. I suspect that why the ABC does not understand it is that he simply cannot allow himself to believe that the de facto requirement exists, and, on having it exposed in front of him, cannot reply, because to do so would end the game that he and others have been playing for too long.
All strength to AA and JW – this needs pursuing relentlessly.
James A
One of the central findings of the Pilling Report is that the current policies towards gay clergy encourage a culture of dishonesty – and a tacit acceptance of that culture by the hierarchy. The Archbishop of Canterbury has clearly demonstrated that this propensity for dishonesty goes right to the very top. It is absolutely unacceptable and Welby’s credibility cannot be sustained on this basis – except among his supporters from the Global South and the hard-line Evangelicals.
I do hope we are going to get a new thread on the questions as a whole – although this one gets us off to a very good start. @Will Richards has already commented on Tim Thornton’s abysmal performance on the Green Report and its associated projects on last Friday’s thread about the questions. Yes, I agree, the pressure does need to be kept up on the CNCs shenanigans; but we mustn’t lose sight of the car crash in slow motion which is happening at heart of the Reform and Renewal programme, either.
Joseph Golightly
John Ward’s comment ‘given that bishops who won’t ordain women cannot always be a focus for unity for everyone” is what the Synod legislated and works both ways. It’s just not good ecclesiology and it is difficult to see how it can possibly work. Those opposed to women as priests and bishops actually don’t think they are so how does that create one church?
Tom Marshall, we will have more threads on Reform and Renewal soon.
Paul Edelin
The culture of dishonesty is endemic in the Church of England and starts in my opinion in the ongoing expectation that church attenders should forever pronounce the Nicene Creed ceremoniously, warts and all.
As a disbeliever in a physical resurrection and as a renouncer of the Virgin Birth because the biological form of generational genetic reassembly is so much more interesting and amazing, I find that the only way to express honesty in the current Church of England is by silence, which presumably precedes banishment and cumulative steps towards the inferno.
Jean Mayland (Revd)
Well then,when will we have a lesbian or gay bishop? The Dean of St Alban’s would be much better than anyone recently appointed.We really do need some bishops with theological knowledge and more catholic outlook.
Martin Seeley?
… as in catholic with theological knowledge.
But of course we were told at GS that all bishops are theologians.
Mr John Ward: “simply saying that the church’s teaching on human sexuality is wrong, is enough to prevent you from being appointed as a bishop. Given this is rather shocking doctrinal discrimination”
ABC Welby: “I don’t accept your presupposition.”
OK then. So HOW is Ward’s presupposition mistaken?
What Jean Mayland says.
As for all bishops being theologians, let the record show that this passes no judgement on the quality of their theologising.
Michael Mulhern
I have to say @Charles Read, that I found that claim about theologians by the Bishop of Truro during the questions about the Green Report quite extraordinary – and highly unsatisfactory. At first I thought it was a joke (an extremely unfunny one in the current climate) and then realised it was brazen arrogance. Meanwhile the theological imbalance among the C of E’s bishops continues. I find any attempt (especially by Pete Broadbent) to suggest this is merely coincidence quite unconvincing. We now know, courtesy of Jo Spreadbury’s courage at last February’s Synod, that St Edmundsbury got Martin Seeley because… Read more »
I hope that somebody, e.g., Susannah, will put in an FOI request to see the guidance mentioned in the answer to Q44.
Iain, the Church of England is exempt from FOI’s.
We should just be able to see it, because there should be nothing to hide.
The fact that the ABC does not accept a proposition put to him by a questioner at General Synod does not necessarily mean that the proposition is invalid. It may just mean that the proposition is too embarrassing for the ABC to address adequately for the satisfaction of the Synod. It would seem that the ABC is reluctant to address some real questions of concern about the treatment of Gay candidates for episcopal ministry; e.g., what about the obvious contender in the field – the Dean of St. Albans?
David Beadle
“…Let me just say, given a couple of the questions that came up last night, which I handled badly, for which I apologise to the questioners and also to the synod, that we are committed to nurturing the vocation across the whole of God’s people, regardless of sexuality, and regardless of lay or ordained…” In context, the Archbishop appears to be talking about the vocation of “leadership.” This is manifest nonsense. Leadership abilities are assessed as part of the discernment for ordination process. Those of us who are/have been candidates for ordination are, in many dioceses, standardly asked questions that… Read more »
With at least one eye on the Global South, Justin Welby remains bound and determined to forestall the ordination of an LGBT person as a bishop in the Church of England.
The question is whether Synod and the CNC will be complicit in this discrimination.
David Beadle, that was just my point about “regardless of lay or ordained,” but you have expressed it better, and of course with real evidence.
In both cases–sexuality and ordination status–it’s quite clear that for the Archbishop, “regardless” actually means “having very careful regard to.”
I may have got this wrong, but the current guidance (which we are not allowed to see until ++Cantuar has consulted the HoB) must be based on the legal advice received and which is contained in GS Misc 1044 Choosing Bishops – The Equality Act 2010 (revised). This was issed in June 2013. Not much has changed since in this particular area. The reality is that the CNC (re nominations to diocesan sees) and diocesan bishops (re nominations to suffragan sees) have considerable freedom as to how they consider candidates who may identify as LGBT, or indeed any candidate with… Read more »
Anthony Archer says, “The net result is that they can in effect discriminate and not be challenged.” That is not necessarily true even per GS Misc 1044 Choosing Bishops. That guidance also states: “A person’s sexual orientation is, in itself, irrelevant to their suitability for episcopal office or indeed ordained ministry more generally. It would, therefore, be wrong if, during the consideration of a nomination to a diocesan see by the CNC or the selection process for a suffragan see, account were taken of the fact that a candidate had identified himself as of homosexual orientation.” So even “permissible” discrimination… Read more »
I am grateful to Anthony for these interesting insights into process, and the ambiguities/leeway it allows for discreet decision-making. What I do feel, though, is that it is appropriate for process to be transparent and accessible to all church members, and I should be interested in the exact and specific wording of all advisories sent to CNC (and indeed to bishops), both in the past and in the present. If we are ‘walking in the light’ there should be no place for obfuscation or any kind of implicit deception of contending groups within the Anglican Communion on the subject of… Read more »
What will change if the Church of England appoints an (openly) gay bishop? They’ll be a conformist, committed to the church’s teaching that homosexuality is a sin, and to lifelong celibacy. They won’t be an agent for change, and certainly won’t be called Jeffrey John. If anything, they’ll be, to coin a phrase, more English than the English. Even if, by some miracle, a CNC appointed an outspoken gay candidate, as shown by John’s coerced resignation, their position would be untenable. No one should be asked to endure that. All focus should instead be on repealing the Higton motion, then… Read more »
Lorenzo Fernandez-Vicente
I don’t wish it to sound like a mutual appreciation society but: yes, what James Byron says. Not that I even remotely want it to become true.
And, James, he (or she?) will not only merely be a conformist but an advocate for the cause, the talent pool for this is brimming over.
Remember Higton is now irrelevant. The Gilbert motion from February 2007 (where lesbian and gay people were at last unreservedly accepted as full members of the Church) and the Perkins motion from later that day (when GS refused to endorse the HoB illogical, so called ‘pastoral guidance’ on CPs) were the last policy debates in GS on human sexuality. Those debates were miles apart from Higton. And we did change the CP survivor pension rules to achieve parity with married people in 2010. Someone else will have to take up the GS fight from November as I am not standing… Read more »
John, the Gilbert motion, a vaguely-worded affirmation, doesn’t repeal Higton’s ban on “homosexual genital acts,” as shown by compulsory celibacy still being demanded of English clergy.
What’s needed is a short, unambiguous motion explicitly repealing Higton, disregarding ‘Issues…,’ and banning any discrimination in the ordination or consecration processes on grounds of sexuality, taken to include sexual relationships (with means of enforcement, say by appeal to an ombudsman).
Laurence Cunnington
“And we did change the CP survivor pension rules to achieve parity with married people in 2010.” John Ward
Interesting that there was no delay in the implementation of equal pension rights after the introduction of equal marriage. I received a letter of congratulation from the CofE Pensions Board shortly after my marriage, which went on to outline my surviving spouse’s pension benefits.
Michael Jameson
As a NHS GP principal for 37 years I had many patients in permanent, faithful relationships in which race, age and gender were irrelevant to their wellbeing. There therefore seems to be no theological objection to such unions being enjoyed by any couple whether they include clergy or not. RC celibacy is also seen more in the breach than the observance among clergy and even religious and needs review if not repeal as part of Canon Law.
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With the devil on your back
on Friday, 14 April 2017 at 6.00 am by David Thomson
categorised as just thinking
“It’s hard to dance with the devil on your back.” So wrote Sydney Carter, in a song which will be sung across the country today. (It’s also the fifth most popular copyrighted song in school assemblies according to CCLI.)
Carter himself called it “pretty far flown, probably heretical and anyway dubiously Christian,” and expected opposition. There’s some truth in his comments — it could be variously labelled as syncretist, universalist, Platonist and several other -ist’s as well — but the numbers tell their own story.
A lot of that is down to the catchy Shaker tune, but the gentle cynicism about the establishment and expansive cosmic vista catch the mood of the times too. What it nearly misses is the agony. “No real people were hurt during the writing of this song.” Nearly — if it wasn’t for the line I began with, where the real struggle shudders through.
And on Good Friday, it must. We’ll sing “Lift High the Cross”, but be careful to balance it with “it causes me to tremble.” We cannot sustain the pretence that Easter has not already happened that the liturgy properly invites; but we dare not pretend that Easter was and is without cost.
For me this Easter some of that cost and contradiction is personal — my father died just a few weeks ago. But it is also ecclesiastical. Strong feelings are swirling around us. Ten bishops out of ten would like to tidy them up. But the lesson of a certain un-noted report was that feelings like these are not to be tidied or managed but lived alongside. We will find God’s good future for us with them, through them, not by burying them and thinking they’re gone. The bench too will have to learn new ways of modelling and leading unity which do not bury its own diversity: something I’ve seen beginning in my days in the House and College, but something we still have to explore further and very tenderly together.
What this mustn’t be, though, is a surrender to the short-cuts of post-truth politics or populist power. If the dance of God is to go on, the choreography of the Kingdom requires all of us to be on the floor, sharing in the exacting task of listening, looking, learning, following, leading — in a pattern that will look very broken if part of it is missing. We will actually need each other to make it work.
As well as doing plenty of personal processing today, then, I’ll also be bringing some very different sorts of friends with me in my mind to the Cross, each of whom has a piece of my heart, acknowledging their hopes and their hurts, sensing the limb-breaking tensions, feeling the weight of the devil on all our backs that would seek to pull us apart: but feeling too the unstoppable rhythm of the dance that will go on.
David Thomson is Bishop of Huntingdon in the diocese of Ely.
Fr John E Harris-White
Thank you Bishop David for your thoughtful and positive words. Especially your comments on the House and College of Bishop being honest with the diversity amongst themselves. Something that has been lost under the present Primates.
Your words give us hope in a true body of Bishops wording together, each contributing their own thoughts and views with honesty, and without fear of Big Brother acting like a CEO.
Fr John Emlyn
This was a really helpful piece, reminding us that managerial solutions will not ‘magic away’ the deep differences we have within our Church. “The bench too will have to learn new ways of modelling and leading unity which do not bury its own diversity.” Absolutely. We need greater transparency and honesty about the fact that in the Church of England a wide diversity of views are held in good conscience. It is not enough for ‘spokespeople’ to tell the media ‘The Church of England believes this…’ when half the Church doesn’t. It is not enough for an episcopal collegiality to… Read more »
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Britain's market watchdog examines whether to block Google from rolling out new privacy features on Chrome internet browser
Swiss arm of Coutts faces tax investigation as owner RBS unveils another huge loss of £3.5BILLION for 2014
RBS said losses stem from a £4bn write-down on the value of its US arm
Ross McEwan said he did not intend to take his £1m 2015 ‘allowance’
RBS bonus pool was cut by 21% to £421m for 2014
By Camilla Canocchi for Thisismoney.co.uk
Published: 05:29 EST, 26 February 2015 | Updated: 11:20 EST, 26 February 2015
Royal Bank of Scotland said today the Swiss arm of its private bank Coutts is being investigated by German authorities for allegedly helping wealthy clients evade tax.
The news, announced along RBS results showing another huge £3.5billion loss for last year, follow similar allegations against HSBC, whose Swiss private banking subsidiary is being investigated for allegedly helping thousands of customers avoiding tax.
‘A prosecuting authority in Germany is undertaking an investigation into Coutts & Co Ltd in Switzerland, and current and former employees, for alleged aiding and abetting of tax evasion by certain Coutts & Co Ltd clients,’ RBS said in its annual report.
The Queen's bank: RBS said the Swiss arm of its private bank Coutts is being investigated for allegedly helping its clients evade tax
Coutts, which has a cash machine inside Buckingham Palace and counts the Queen among its clients, is already under investigation by US authorities for allegedly helping American clients evade tax.
Last year Coutts was forced to set aside £110million to compensate thousands of well-heeled customers after giving them unsuitable investment advice.
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RBS, which is trying to sell Coutts' international operations to focus on its UK network, said the investigation involved current and former staff as well as the Coutts bank itself.
RBS chief executive Ross McEwan told ITV News that the bank will take ‘severe action’ if any wrongdoing is found in the business.
The announcement comes as RBS unveiled another huge loss today after taking a £4billion hit by a write-down on the value of its US business Citizens and following recent charges for rigging the foreign exchange market and compensation for PPI mis-selling.
The lender, which is still 81 per cent-owned by the taxpayer, posted a deficit of £3.5billion for 2014, which is down on the £9billion reported a year earlier but is the seventh consecutive annual loss.
The results come as chief executive Ross McEwan said he did not intend to take his £1million 2015 ‘role-based allowance’, which most banks introduced to avoid the EU bonus cap, as he did not want it to become a ‘distraction’.
Loss: Royal Bank of Scotland said it posted a £3.5bn loss for 2014
RBS also announced it will shrink its investment banking operations and confirmed the appointment of Sir Howard Davies, the former head of the now defunct Financial Services Authority, as its new chairman.
It said it would pull out of 25 countries across Europe, Asia and the Middle East as it continues to refocus on retail and commercial banking in Britain.
RBS bonus pool was cut by 21 per cent to £421million for 2014 and McEwan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme people were ‘quite right’ to regard the bonuses that the bank was handing out as ‘outrageous’.
‘Yes, and to be quite honest they are right,’ he said.
‘It's not something I am going to change or can change today. What I can do is focus on this business and you are starting to see the progress we have made after one year.
‘The underlying profits of this business are up. The capital is up, the costs are down. We are focusing on rebuilding the trust of customers.’
Operating profits were £3.5billion - the highest since 2010 - as RBS said it had made significant progress towards building a bank that is ‘stronger, simpler and better for both customers and shareholders’.
'Outrageous': RBS chief executive Ross McEwan on the bonuses handed out by his bank
RBS reduced its stake in Citizens last year and it is now expected to write down the value of its US arm to the tune of £4.3billion.
The £4billion hit reflects the fact that Citizens paid over the odds for a string of lenders after it was bought by RBS in 1988.
Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers, said the results contained signs of progress along with penalties for past failings.
‘The gargantuan task which RBS faced after the financial crisis is still showing its effects, but the bank continues to reshape and reform,’ he said.
Hunter said there was ‘little doubt’ that RBS was making progress, but added: ‘Even so, with the finished product still some way off and no dividend to encourage investment in the meantime, the general consensus of the shares as a sell is likely to remain intact for now.’
Shares in RBS, which rose 11 per cent over the last year, were down 1.95p at 401.35p in morning trading.
The bank also announced today it had sold a $36.5billion North American loan portfolio to Japan's Mizuho Financial Group.
RBS figures come a day ahead of Lloyds’ results.
Lloyds is expected to announce its first dividend payment since February 2008 tomorrow following the Government's stake sale on Monday.
The Government sold 1 per cent of shares and reduced its stake from 24.9 per cent to 23.9 per cent.
Lloyds is also set for a fresh row over fat-cat pay tomorrow as it is expected to announce that its chief executive Antonio Horta Osorio is in line for a bumper £7million bonus.
The state-backed lender is forecast to post a profit of around £2billion for last year.
Shares in Lloyds Banking Group were 0.37p higher at 79.61p in morning trading.
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Podcasts to Listen To: The PFF NFL Show and the best NFL podcasts to listen to
With just two weeks remaining in the regular season, plenty is still up for grabs as the NFL prepares to enter its "second season." The 2019 NFL Playoffs will begin on Jan. 4, culminating with Super Bowl LIV on Feb. 2 in Miami. In the AFC, the New England Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Ravens and Kansas City Chiefs have clinched postseason berths, while the Green Bay Packers, New Orleans Saints, Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers have clinched in the NFC. To get you ready for the postseason, here are a few NFL podcasts to listen to.
The PFF NFL Show
Using the data insights of Pro Football Focus, hosts Steve Palazzolo and Sam Monson give football fans an inside look behind the statistics. Palazzolo and Monson uncover secret superstars and discuss which teams are best positioned for a Super Bowl run. Recent episodes include "Week 15 NFL Review," "Week NFL Preview" and "Week 14 Review."
Find it: https://www.podcastone.com/the-pff-nfl-show
Pick Six NFL Podcast
Produced by CBS Sports, senior NFL writer Will Brinson gets fans up to speed about what’s trending in the world of the NFL on a daily basis. Brinson also welcomes other reporters, players and coaches to discuss the latest on and off the field news in the league. Recent episodes include "The Legend of Drew Brees, Browns still a mess, How the bowl season impacts the NFL Draft," "Drew Brees breaks Peyton Manning’s all-time pass TD record, Saints-Colt MNF Recap" and "Week 15 NFL Recap, Analysis; Cowboys cruise, Evidence against the Patriots?"
Find it: https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/pick-six/
The MMQB NFL Podcast
With insight and immediate analysis, the MMQB staff offer up their unique takes on the NFL. From discussing the headlines to taking deep dives into the game film, the show features a cast of hosts, including Andy Benoit, Albert Breer, Jenny Vrentas, Conor Orr and Gary Gramling. Recent episodes include "From Robert Saleh to Urban Meyer, 24 Head Coaching Candidates," "Drew Brees sets another record, the art of ‘come get me,’ trouble in Jacksonville" and "Brees Breaking Records, Josh Gordon Suspended & The Mailbag."
Find it: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/sports-illustrated/the-mmqb-podcast-with-andy-benoit
Gregg Rosenthal, Dan Hanzus, Marc Sessler and Chris Wesseling give fans the latest previews and predictions of every upcoming game. Along with what’s coming, the Around the NFL podcast also features weekly recaps, news, updates of your favorite players and the hottest debates going on in the league. Recent episodes include "MNF Recap Brees Record; Epic All-Decade Team," "Week15 Recap" and "TNF Recap Ravens Jets."
Find it: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/nfl-around-the-league-podcast
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Update: Kids, mom ask drivers to help pay for funeral
KEVIN CORVO THISWEEKNEWS.COM @ThisWeekCorvo
Aug 20, 2018 at 5:35 PM Aug 20, 2018 at 7:36 PM
The four children's handmade signs evoked curious and cursory glances and the occasional response from motorists lined up Aug. 14 at a red light on South Hamilton Road in Whitehall.
"Please help with my granpa's (sic) funeral" read the sign held by 10-year-old Terrelle Harvey.
His two sisters and a cousin held similar signs along with Brandy Prysock, 29, of East Whittier Street in Columbus.
Prysock's father, 46-year-old David McClain, died unexpectedly Aug. 3 when he fell from a bicycle and struck his head in the parking lot of an apartment complex near Clime Road in West Columbus.
McClain struck a pallet in the parking lot and flipped over the handlebars, Prysock said.
He was transported to Doctors West Hospital, where he died, she said.
Without the means to pay for funeral expenses, Prysock and her children, through Aug. 19, had raised about $2,000 of the $3,700 needed for a cremation and funeral.
Prysock's mother, who works at a bank near South Hamilton Road and East Main Street in Whitehall, suggested Prysock try to raise the money needed at the busy intersection.
"We start in the morning before it gets too hot," Prysock said Aug. 14.
She and the four children collected about $150 between about 8 and 10 a.m. Aug. 14 -- a little less than average, Prysock said.
"We try to get $200 each day," she said.
Aug. 14 was the fifth or sixth day she and some of her children have been at the intersection, she said.
Prysock has eight children.
The oldest, a 13-year-old boy, is taking her father's death the hardest, she said.
"He was close to his grandpa," said Prysock, adding McClain often came to visit the children or vice versa.
Last week, a passing motorist arranged a $700 grant through a state program called JOIN, Prysock said, payable to the funeral home when she has enough money to proceed.
Affinity Memorial Chapel, 1166 Parsons Ave. in Columbus, is keeping McClain's body until the family can arrange the cremation and funeral.
Prysock said this week the effort has slowed as she gets her children registered and ready for school.
She said after her story was posted to the ThisWeek Whitehall News website last week, several people called the funeral home to see how they could help, but the chapel will not accept donations.
Those interested in helping with the effort may email Prysock at bstarks56@gmail.com.
kcorvo@thisweeknews.com
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Today in Tech History – September 24, 2015
Today in Tech History / September 24th, 2015
1979 – CompuServe began offering a consumer version of its dial-up online information service called MicroNET. The name would later be changed to CompuServe and offer public email among other online services.
In 1993 – Broderbund Software released the game Myst, for the Macintosh computer. It became a record-setting bestseller and helped popularize CD-ROM drives.
In 1997 – Ultima Online launched, revolutionizing online gaming by supporting thousands of simultaneous players in a persistent shared world.
In 2013 – Valve announced their new Steam OS, a free version of Linux built around the Steam video game service.
In 2014 – The shellshock vulnerability was made public. The way bash handled variables could allow malicious code to be run on computers running Linux and OS X. This meant routers, webcams and other connected devices were also vulnerable.
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POSTED 7th June 2017 Formula 1
Robert Kubica – F1 Test Shows What I Have Lost
Robert Kubica says his first run in a Formula 1 car in six years left him with mixed feelings, as he could see what he last lost.
The Pole drove a 2012 Lotus E20 painted in Renault colours – at the Valencia circuit on Tuesday, completing 115 laps as he conducted several evaluations with different fuel loads.
Kubica had not driven F1 machinery since his career was interrupted by a rallying crash that caused severe damage to his right hand in 2011, before what would have been his second season with Lotus-Renault.
The 32-year-old admitted the test was an emotional moment for him and, although he was proud of his work, he conceded the run showed what he had lost during his time away from the sport.
“For me, it has been an important day from an emotional point of view,” said Kubica.
“It has been a long time away from the paddock and I have been through difficult periods, I kept working hard and a few years ago I felt it was impossible.
“I have mixed feelings, I am proud with what I achieved today, but also it shows what I have lost.
“I don’t know what the future will bring, but I know one thing, after working for more than one year to prepare for this, I ran with good pace and consistent in difficult conditions.
“It is not easy after six years, but I knew I could do the job and I can be satisfied.
“I appreciate the opportunity. Renault gave me my first F1 test in 2005, so I appreciate another test this time around.”
Renault’s sporting director Alan Permane said that Kubica’s character had changed since he raced for the team in 2010, but said the feedback from the Pole was like “turning back the clock”.
“It was good to see Robert back in a Formula 1 car. It was a smooth day,” Permane said.
“We tried to condense a grand prix weekend into one day, which was interesting for him.
“Robert has changed a little, he is more mellow and he wasn’t as pushy when asking for every detail about the set-up of the car!
“His comments and feedback, however, were like turning the clock back for all of us.
“It is a tricky thing to jump into an F1 car after six years and it was a great performance from him.”
Permane insisted, however, that the outing was just a one-off for Kubica.
“This was a one-off event for Robert. His time with Renault was cut short so abruptly and we perceived such a nice future with him,” he said.
“The team was in Valencia testing with Sergey Sirotkin, so it was the perfect opportunity to offer Robert a day in the car and contribute in our way to his recovery.”
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One more Myanmar's domestic airline announces flight suspension
22nd Jul, 2018 | Tourism Mail Crew
YANGON, July 22: One more Myanmar's domestic airline, the FMI Air, has announced temporary suspension of both its scheduled and chartered flight services to pave way for reorganization, the official Global New Light of Myanmar reported Sunday.
The FMI Air's announcement has brought the total number of private airlines to a standstill to three.
The airline's move will affect 134 employees but it pledged to give them option to transfer to another business operation under the group with severance pay in line with the country's existing labor law, the report said.
According to the airline, it will also refund fares to its passengers with their reservation for scheduled flight after July 20 but there remains one chartered flight operation on July 23 after which all chartered flights will also be temporarily suspended.
Chairman of FMI Air U Thein Wai said the flight suspension will make way for carrying out a thorough restructuring of the airline as well as to create an operational model capable of delivering future success in light of increasingly challenges in the aviation sector in the country, adding that the airline may resume operation at a future date, subject to reorganization and market condition.
FMI Air was established as FMI Air Charter in 2012 to offer the first flight service between Yangon and Nay Pyi Taw.
In 2015, the airline added scheduled flight serving other domestic destinations such as Dawei, Myeik, Kawthoung and Thandwe.
Earlier this month, Myanmar's two other domestic airlines, Air Bagan and Apex, had also announced halt of their services, surrendering their air operator's certificates (AOC) to the authorities, local media reported, adding that shortage of aircrafts and economic loss forced the domestic airlines to stop their operations.
In accordance with Myanmar Aviation Act, the airlines will be allowed to apply the AOCs when they have enough aircraft to resume flight.
The Air Bagan started their services for 20 domestic routes in 2012 and the Apex Airlines started running for five domestic trips in 2015.
There are a total of 10 domestic airlines running with about 40 aircrafts in the country.
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Home/News/Trade News/Get revved up for another spectacular Cape Town Motor Show
Get revved up for another spectacular Cape Town Motor Show
MaryannShawCommunicationsDecember 17, 2018
The Cape Town Motor Show (CTMS) is set to wow the crowds again at GrandWest Casino and Entertainment World from 2-3 March 2019. The show promises two days of fun and excitement with a broad appeal to all car and bike buffs, petrol heads and the whole family, providing loads of entertainment for everyone.
Now in its third year, the CTMS has grown to become a motor show that rivals some of the best in the world, and this year’s show promises to yet again deliver an even bigger and better spectacle.
The show spans the length and breadth of GrandWest and features a complete range of domestic and imported passenger cars, bikes and trucks, as well as sport utility vehicles and experimental or concept cars. Visitors will have the opportunity to see numerous accessories and auto-related exhibits, competition vehicles, antique and collector cars, engine modifications (pimped-up rides), a Sound Off competition, virtual simulations, car wrapping, drifting, a large 4X4 outside area, live music and much more!
Soundmatch, the leading audio experts, will deliver a world-class Show & Shine, with a wide range of the finest cars showcasing custom builds, with a few being premiered on the day. The entertainment will include an internationally recognised Sound Off competition in association with IASCA (the standard by which mobile electronics performance is measured). For the passionate entrants of the Sound Off, the louder the sound the greater the chance to win!
After their successful debut at CTMS last year, Dusty Rebels and the Bombshells will be back, offering visitors an experience of the good old days of Rock n Roll.
Be trackside for some wheel spinning, tyre smoking and sideways action brought to you by XS Promotions
The popular drift car displays will run all weekend and spectators are welcome to either watch from the sidelines or, for those brave enough, join the experts as a passenger as they take you for the spin of your life.
The Wildebeest 4×4 Challenge Club will again host 4×4 tracks built for all classes of vehicles to challenge technical skills as well as the different vehicle capabilities. Off-the-showroom floor 4X4s as well as extreme 4X4s will be showcased, and visitors can purchase tickets to try this out for themselves.
The impressive Grand Arena will host the best of the best of the top manufacturers and dealers, showcasing new cars and concepts in South Africa, including some past brands like Shelby, Road to Race, Audi, BMW, VW, Ford, Jaguar, Kia, Land Rover, Peugeot, Subaru, JEEP, Alfa Romeo to name a few. The Grand Arena will also once again have interactive test driving, following on from the success of this area in the 2018 show.
The Nostalgia Zone will take you back in time to the “Good Ol’ Days’ with vehicles dating as far back as the 1920s. These are among the most rare and unique in the world. Check out the beautifully restored vehicles and the products that make it possible for these classics to be modified back to their original manufactured or showroom conditions. Due to popular demand these fine cars will be found in their own dedicated area and there will be up to 80 cars on display.
Exciting news is that CTMS will be giving away a custom MG at the 2019 show.This special project will boast a complete rebuild, some unique Cape Kustoms elements and a 3.9L Rover V8 motor. A lucky winner will walk away with the keys of this beauty at the show.
These are some of the many displays and activities available on 2 and 3 March 2019, and CTMS will be revealing further plans in the next couple of months for activations, partnerships and motor vehicle surprises that will take place at the show.
For more information, visit to www.capetownmotorshow.co.za
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Domino Recording Co.
Represented by: Théo Quiblier
Centred around Asha Lorenz and Louis O'Bryen, two 22-year-old childhood best friends, Sorry were signed by Domino after developing a reputation as the most thrilling new band on London’s underground circuit. Sorry’s lineup is completed by Lincoln Barrett on drums and bassist Campbell Baum alongside a new addition in Marco Pini on synths.
Having spent the past couple of years releasing a string of singles and a pair of video mixtapes that won the band praise from the likes of Pitchfork, The Fader, Vice, Dazed and more, the band are preparing to announce their biggest project to date with new music right around the corner.
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The Word for Today
The Conditional Covenant
God greatly desires to heap good things on His people, yet is wise enough to know how unwise it would be to do so unconditionally. Such as . . . This edition of "the Word for Today" with Chuck Smith completes the answer.
The Law of Divorce
If God's original design for marriage was perfect, why would He come up with the law of divorce? Pastor Chuck Smith gives the answer in this edition of "The Word for Today".
The Law of Marriage
How big a deal is it in God's eyes for you to make a vow and not keep it? Chuck Smith's answer may surprise you in this edition of "the Word for Today".
Declaring Innocence
Why would the Bible say that any man who hangs upon a tree is cursed? Chuck Smith's answer should suffice in this edition of "The Word for Today".
A Warning Against False Prophets
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The Portion for the Tribe of Levi
How did the priests abuse their portion of the sacrifices? Chuck Smith shares how in this episode of "The Word for Today".
Sacrifices without Blemish
What should someone give to God? Pastor Chuck Smith answers this question and more in this edition of "The Word for Today".
Every Abomination
Human sacrifice was very common, including child sacrifice, done in the name of seeking peace. How does God feel about that? Chuck Smith answers that and more in this edition of "The Word for Today".
Reminders of the Word
Do you remember the last time you forgot something? Seems like that is more common than we would like. How did Moses handle that with the children of Israel? Chuck Smith continues the study in Deuteronomy in this edition of "The Word for Today".
The Fruit of Rebellion
Problems, illnesses, pain and suffering, death will one day no longer be an issue for us to contend with, but why are they here now? Chuck Smith shares the answer in this edition of "The Word for Today".
The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
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Framing America A Social History of American Art: Volume 2
Frances K. Pohl
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Edition: Fourth Edition
Artwork: 716, 404 in color
Size: 8.6 in x 10.9 in x 0.8 in
Published: September 5th, 2017
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An authoritative social history of American art, thoroughly revised to meet classroom needs
Unique in its inclusive treatment, Framing America embraces the full scope of American art from the sixteenth century to the present. In addition to offering comprehensive coverage of the canon, Frances K. Pohl’s narrative goes beyond the traditional, and sometimes derogatory, treatment of certain populations in American society and addresses the domestic arts and the social and political contexts of art.
The fourth edition is presented for the first time in two volumes. It will be sold as individual volumes as well as a packaged set containing both. The book is split in order to offer greater portability to students and to appeal to a greater number of courses. For example, instructors teaching a course on American art since 1900 or American art since 1945 can now assign the single, briefer volume that relates most directly to their course. New pedagogy also makes the book more accessible: artfully designed timelines open each part, situating important events in American history more accurately and while showing how they relate to art. Many images have increased in size and color throughout to help students identify small but important details in each work.
Frances K. Pohl is the Dr. Mary Ann Vanderzyl Reynolds Professor of Humanities and Professor of Art History at Pomona College in Claremont, California. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Since moving to Pomona in 1985, she has taught a wide variety of courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century North American art. Her work has focused on the art of the United States, in particular the work of Ben Shahn, about whom she has written two books, and the relationship between the visual arts and working-class culture. Professor Pohl has taught in the United States for many years, but her Canadian origins give her a unique continental perspective on American art.
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Home News Societe Generale Cuts Deal With Blockchain Behemoth ConsenSys To Back Its Central...
Societe Generale Cuts Deal With Blockchain Behemoth ConsenSys To Back Its Central Bank Digital Currency Experiments With Technology, Expertise and Strategy
By Richard Kastelein
Societe Generale – Forge, the digital capital markets platform of the Societe Generale Group, has chosen one of Blockchain leading companies ConsenSys to provide technology and services as part of its ongoing Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot activities.
Jean-Marc Stenger, CEO of Societe Generale – Forge, noted:
“We are pleased to partner with ConsenSys, a company who is a key player in the development of distributed ledger technology globally and offers many of the infrastructure and development tools used by the blockchain community.”
ConsenSys will provide technology and expertise to Societe Generale – Forge, focusing in particular on CBDC issuance and management, delivery versus payment, and cross-ledger interoperability.
“We have high regard for the accomplishments of Societe Generale – Forge and are proud to be working with them. ConsenSys is committed to advances in the CBDC space and has assisted six central banks around the world on CBDC projects,” added Ken Timsit, Global Head of Enterprise Solutions at ConsenSys.
With this new deal, Societe Generale – Forge will continue to add on previous achievements such as the issuance of a 100 million Euro covered bond on blockchain in 2019, along with the issuance of a 40 million Euro bond that was settled with a CBDC in 2020, a joint project with the Banque de France, the French central bank.
ConsenSys is the leading Ethereum software company that enable developers, enterprises, and people worldwide to build next-generation applications, launch modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. The company product suite, composed of Infura, Quorum, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, serves millions of users, supports billions of blockchain-based queries for its clients, and has handled billions of dollars in digital assets. Ethereum is the largest programmable blockchain in the world, leading in business adoption, developer community, and DeFi activity. On this trusted, open-source foundation, Consensys are a key participant in building the digital economy of tomorrow.
Societe Generale – Forge, is a fully integrated subsidiary of Societe Generale Group that provide issuers and investors, either Corporates or Financial Institutions, with end-to-end services to issue and manage digital-native financial products registered on the blockchain (Security Token). For market infrastructure operators, they architect and build open, simple, secure and institutional-grade frameworks and models for Security Token operations, underpinned by banking class security and full regulatory compliance. Committed to launching with real use cases, Societe Generale – Forge states they are progressively building towards it’s ‘compliant by design’ platform capabilities.
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Legalising betting
Legal Betting in Cricket Soon Be a Reality in India? Law Commission Says Yes
According to the All India Gaming Federation, India loses almost 2 lakh crore every year, due to illegal betting on cricket.
Post author:Vidya Raja
Post category:cricket / India / Law / Sports
It’s the penultimate over of the match between India and New Zealand. Emotions are running high, and it’s one of those events that is bound to keep you on the edge of your seat.
Rakesh Mehra is watching this match in his room in Delhi and continuously monitoring a popular cricket website on his laptop. He has made at least a dozen phone calls in the last 15 minutes.
Rakesh has been calling his bookie to increase his stakes in India’s victory. The match ends with India winning thus making Rakesh richer by a few lakh rupees.
According to the All India Gaming Federation, India loses almost 2 lakh crore every year, due to illegal betting on cricket. If you watch cricket or have even a faint interest in it, you might know that bets are placed on almost every aspect of the game and not just the ultimate result of the match. From the toss, to how a particular player will fare, to the outcome of a specific delivery, there’s a wide range of options to bet on.
Gone are the days when bookies were shady operatives operating from dingy hideouts. Betting is now a sophisticated and globalised operation. One thing that has not changed is the kind of people who are the principals of the business. The nexus between the underworld and betting is no secret.
After the 2013 IPL match-fixing scandal, a three-member panel appointed by the Supreme Court headed by chairperson RM Lodha recommended legalising cricket betting in India.
Following this recommendation, the Law Commission solicited the views of citizens on betting as well as gambling.
Law Commission chairman Justice B S Chauhan also said, “Various media reports time and again point out that betting and gambling, though not legal in India, is practised across the country clandestinely. These reports argue that many families are rendered bankrupt, and many people are behind bars owing to these practices.” By seeking to bring this “industry” from outside the purview of the law, into the legal system, the aim is two-fold—by making it legal, the “industry” attracts the right kind of sponsors, thereby taking it out of the clutches of the current controllers, i.e. the underworld. The second objective is that it can be better controlled and regulated to put in place measures that protect citizens from financial ruin.
We, at The Better India, spoke to Jay Sayta, the founder of GLaws.in which is a first of its kind website in India monitoring law developments on gambling.
He says, “In my opinion it would be premature to celebrate this yet. It is merely a law commission recommendation, which may or may not be taken into consideration. Even if it does, I do not see any movement happening for atleast another 5 years.”
What is the current status on betting in India?
While countries like South Africa and the United Kingdom have a legal system which allows people to participate in betting, it is considered to be illegal in India. Bookies use foreign betting websites to place their bets and make some money.
There are a few who believe that betting through the legal websites is legal as the websites receive their payments via digital wallet and technically no laws are broken.
However, even if the sites are legitimate, gambling in India is still considered to be a crime.
A paper published by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) for its conference titled ‘Regulating Sports Betting in India: A Vice To Be Tamed’ showed that an overwhelming 74 percent of respondents believed that legalising sports betting would help curb match-fixing.
The FICCI report also lays down solid recommendations in favour of legalising betting in cricket in India:
1. Protection for the young and vulnerable against the dangers of unwise betting behaviour.
2. Employment generation (more than 8000 people are employed in casinos in Goa).
3. A fair and more trusted betting experience for consumers with entertainment in a controlled and responsible way which they can trust.
4. Strike against organised crime like match-fixing which threaten to damage public trust both in sports and in the legitimate betting industry.
5. Taxation revenues for sports development and preventing sport betting from being linked to criminality or used to launder the proceeds of crime.
6. Protecting players, coaches and all involved with the sport from unscrupulous approaches.
7. Generating substantial revenues.
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This Organisation Provides Free Stay for Cancer Patients in Navi Mumbai
Post author:Aishhwariya Subramanian
Post category:Cancer / Health Care / Quick Bytes
C ancer treatment is expensive, and living in a city while getting that treatment is, more often than not, exorbitant.
A philanthropic organisation in Navi Mumbai is doing everything it can to help cancer patients and their families by providing free accommodation to those undergoing treatment in the city.
Mangalam Foundation has leased out 17 apartments near the Tata Memorial Hospital & Research Centre in order to provide respite and shelter for patients. It also provides meals for just ₹10.
The team behind the foundation realised that many who come to the hospital from out of town struggle with finding a place to stay, adding to their stress during what’s likely one of the most harrowing periods of their lives.
Image for representation. Photo source: Wikimedia
Naresh Gupta, who is one of the trustees of Mangalam Foundation, spoke to the Times of India noting, “We wanted to find accommodation close to Tata Hospital in Kharghar, and once we zeroed-in on a premise, we spoke to the developer who willingly leased the rooms.”
Given how in demand these rooms have become with patients, the foundation is now scouting for more flats that can be leased out in order to help more people. The team has also spoken to the authorities in the hospital to set up daily bus services free of cost that cart patients back and forth from the hospital premises and the apartments.
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The Magalam Foundation was formed 10 years ago and has 40 members and volunteers who work towards various social causes such as providing food for the underprivileged, organising free computer classes for the poor and more.
The foundation can be contacted here
Tata Memorial Centre can be contacted here.
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Yamaha updates raft of 2019 models
Among the big news of the new Yamaha models for 2019 already announced were a host of smaller, but still important, updates for next year.
Yamah Niken GT
The leaning, three-wheeled Yamaha Niken was only revealed in full-production trim earlier this year and was a little bit of a shock to some of the more traditional elements of motorcycling.
For 2019, Yamaha is adding a Niken GT to the range which is based on exactly the same mechanicals but adds some more touring focus to the three-wheel, three-cylinder bike that uses the engine from the Yamaha MT-09 range.
That 847cc, water-cooled engine remains the same in terms of power output as the one used in the MT-09 which means 115bhp.
Adding a GT model to the Niken range is exactly what Yamaha has already done with more traditional two-wheel motorcycles like the Tracer 700 and 900 along with the MT-10 range.
The changes to the bike include the fitment of a tall windscreen, a new design of comfort seat along with a pair of 25-litre side-mounted panniers as well as changes to the rear luggage carrier to make it easier for a pillion to hold on securely.
Additionally, the Niken GT gets standard heated grips, a main centre stand, a second 12v power outlet and dedicated GT body colours and front fork finish.
Yamaha Iron Max Scooter special editions
The Yamaha Iron Max scooters are special editions that stretch from the 125cc to the 300cc and 400cc scooters.
The new scooters will be added as additional models to the existing Yamaha XMAX scooter range with Yamaha positioning them as ‘sport scooters’.
The key features across the Iron Max range are a new metallic grey colour, a new dual seat with leather pads, new aluminium footrests and chrome speedo surrounds.
There are no mechanical changes over the existing scooter range; all of which were refreshed very recently and come with a wide array of accessories.
The retro motorcycle surge that began a few years ago may have slowed down a little in terms of new models but Yamaha has now added an homage to the 1970s Yamaha XT500 with this new XSR700 XTribute.
Based on the huge-selling and very successful Yamaha MT-07, the XSR700 XTribute uses the same 689cc parallel-twin motor and chassis but adds a retro look with ‘off-road’ tyres, a tribute paint scheme and a scrambler style.
The XT500 is one of the most famous of all Yamahas ever made; it was a scrambler bike of the 1970s that remains one of the most sought-after of older Yamaha models even today.
The XSR700 XTribute is slotting into the Yamaha Sport Heritage range alongside the existing XSR700, XSR900 and XV950 models.
The difference between the XTribute and XSR700 models can be seen in the off-road handlebars and most robust forests along with the block-pattern Pirelli MT60RS tyres. There’s also a flat seat and fork leg protection gaiters.
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The Celtic section was launched in October 2013. Section members who sail in our waters come from all over the UK and Ireland and also continental Europe.
The Celtic Section Area
This section stretches from Land’s End to Cape Wrath. With the new century, there has been an large growth in facilities for the cruising yacht. Many new pontoon berth have been provided, particularly in N Ireland and the W Highlands, and accessibility to many of the tidal harbours has been greatly improved.
In addition to rounding Land’s End you can access the northern end by going through the Caledonian Canal. This is a holiday in itself, made easier by the helpfulness of the lock and bridge keepers - a real joy to experience. As a result, there are many boats from Norway, Germany, The Netherlands and France, so there’s no excuse for Southerners not to make the trip.
Although the weather comes from the Atlantic, there is sunshine nearly every day and you can also watch the rain dumping on the mountains to the east. Watch the climbers on Snowdon getting wet from the sunny shore at Abersoch. And then there is Ireland, which has its own Cruising Association, a close associate, and a whole new world of wonderful destinations. Visit Dingle, and you will be smitten, visit Dublin and you will want to go back.
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Joining the Blue Water section will give you contact with others who have ‘been there-done that’ giving you access to first-hand experiences. Sail in company with other members in your area (if you want to), use our worldwide discounts and get local help from our representatives abroad.
Celtic Seminar 1 - An Introduction to Cruising the South and West Coasts of Ireland - Norman Kean
Norman Kean, Editor of the Irish Cruising Club Sailing Directions and frequent contributor to YM will take you on a journey along the coast line he knows and loves - ...
Celtic Seminar 2 - An Introduction to Cruising the East and North Coasts of Ireland - Norman Kean
Norman Kean, Editor of the Irish Cruising Club Sailing Directions and frequent contributor to YM will take you on a journey along the coast line he knows and loves - from Tuskar...
Celtic Seminar 3 - An Introduction to Cruising the West Coast of Scotland from the Mullof Kintyre to Ardnamurchan Point - Derek Lumb
Derek Lumb, Celtic Section Secretary and long term west coast sailor will explore the southern most cruising area of Scotland's West Coast. Whether you venture from the Clyde or from the South...
Celtic Seminar 4 - An introduction to cruising the West Coast of Scotland from Ardnamurchan to Cape Wrath - Bob Bradfield MBE
Bob Bradfield MBE, a self-taught surveyor and chart maker, has spent over a decade surveying the anchorages and passages on the West Coast of Scotland. His latest edition of the resultant...
Celtic Seminar 5 – An Introduction to the Outer Hebrides – Alan Kohler
Alan Kohler takes us to the Outer Hebrides, the UK’s most westerly inhabited chain of Islands running approximately 120 miles NNE from Barra Head.to the Butt of Lewis. This will take place...
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Tullow finds more oil in northern Kenya
Tuesday January 17 2017
British explorer Tullow Oil has announced new crude find in Turkana in northern Kenya.
Tullow said Tuesday it hit 25 metres of oil after drilling 25 metres of rock reservoir at Erut-1 well in the South Lokichar basin. The wildcat well (virgin exploration field) has no previous record of oil reserves.
“Overall oil column for the field is considered to be 100 to 125 metres,” Tullow’s exploration director Mr Angus McCoss said.
“This extends known hydrocarbon limits of the basin,” said Mr McCoss, adding more drilling will be carried out in “the underexplored northern part of the basin where we have several undrilled prospects.”
The latest find is set to increase the country’s recoverable reserves from the current 750 million barrels.
Kenya, whose first oil discovery was made in 2012, hopes to hit one billion barrels of recoverable crude.
In its Early Oil Pilot Scheme, the country targets to start exportation in June with Tullow and its partners Africa Oil and Maersk intending to produce 2,000 barrels of oil per day.
Tullow, however, did not disclose how many barrels of oil it struck at the Erut-1 well.
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Look of the Day: Keri Russell Brings Some Edge to the Red Carpet in The Row
Morgan C. Schimminger March 29th, 2013
Who: Keri Russell
Where: 2013 FX Upfront Presentation New York City, New York
Why we like it: This sleek leather dress by The Row helped The Americans actress make a simultaneously simple and dynamic statement at the presentation. Keri rounded out the look with a pair of black Jimmy Choo pumps.
Image: Ivan Nikolov/WENN.com
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As passionate about feminism as she is about fashion, Morgan C. Schimminger spends much of her time writing and editing pieces on everything from celebrity style to the fight to keep funding for Planned Parenthood. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree in publishing from Rosemont College. Morgan has contributed to a variety of publications, including StyleBakery, Uptown, metro.pop and Sister 2 Sister. Every week for theFashionSpot, she profiles the Top 10 Best Dressed Celebs and provides a daily dose of stylish stars via Look of the Day.
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Environmental campaigners say Storm Desmond is a sign of things to come
Met Office says north England and parts of Scotland should remain vigilant as figures show up to 100mm more rain has fallen than is expected for December
Environmental campaigners accused negotiators at the UN’s climate change conference in Paris of “fiddling while Britain floods.”. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Sun 6 Dec 2015 16.41 EST
Last modified on Wed 14 Feb 2018 12.22 EST
Six years after an unnamed storm wreaked havoc across Cumbria, Storm Desmond struck the county with fearsome impact once again.
Those who had their homes flooded or were forced to wade waist-deep to seek drier ground will not have had time to make immediate comparisons, nor consider deeply whether it is all down to climate change.
The Met Office and the Environment Agency were busy ensuring people were safe and prepared for more rain over the coming days . They said communities in the north of England and southern and central Scotland must remain vigilant.
Environmental campaigners suggested it was a sign of a bleak future for Britain and the rest of the world, accusing negotiators at the UN’s climate change conference in Paris of “fiddling while Britain floods”.
Ground already saturated by rain could not cope with the downpour of Friday and Saturday. The Environment Agency’s rain gauge in Honister showed 341mm (13.4in) of rain fell in 24 hours from Friday evening at 6.30pm to the same time on Saturday.
The Met Office’s confirmed 48-hour figures between 9am on Friday morning to 9am on Sunday were more modest. Those for the weather station at Shap, Cumbria, showed 262.6mm of rain, while one in Keswick, also in Cumbria, recorded more than 178mm and at Blencathra it was nearly 175mm.
But the weather service said the indications were that some parts of the county might have experienced 300mm of rainfall, well over the normal 200-250mm expected in the average December.
More bad weather is on its way to the same areas that suffered over the weekend – parts of Northern Ireland, north-west England, the Scottish borders and south and central Scotland.
It is not likely to be the only rainfall in the UK, either on Monday or in subsequent days. The Met Office is concerned that rain, accompanied by more high winds, will bring more floods to add to the already swollen rivers and water courses.
Madlen Burgessat the Met Office said: “It is not really possible to attribute one individual storm or event like we are having right now to climate change. It needs a bit more investigation.
“The weather we are seeing is all due to a slow-moving frontal system and that is just bringing more prolonged spells or heavy rain and strong winds and that is not necessarily unusual for this time of year ... You are expecting unsettled weather,”she said.
The Environment Agency said at least 8,600 homes had been protected over the weekend and even though water had come over the top of some flood defences , they had provided vital extra time for emergency services to evacuate homes.
Asked specifically if the weekend’s chaos could be directly related to climate change, a spokesmanfor the agency said: “Climate change is happening now and we must build resilience and adapt to the changes that are unavoidable. Climate change adaptation has been going on- for some time: sea level rise has been factored into coastal decisions since 1998.”
Guy Shrubsole, a Friends of the Earth climate campaigner,said: “As climate negotiators fiddle in Paris, Britain floods. Climate change is increasing the frequency of extreme rainfall and floods in the UK and around the world.
“Yet the UK government is failing to protect us by not investing enough in flood defences and cutting support for the clean energy needed to tackle climate change.”
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Behind self-immolations, a mosaic of despair
Ananth Krishnan
Updated: July 11, 2016 14:15 IST
China suspects a political plot, overseas Tibetan groups see in them growing support for independence.
TENSIONS BENEATH THE CALM: A pilgrim offering prayers at the Kumbum monastery in Qinghai, China, amid tight security. Photo: Ananth Krishnan | Photo Credit: mail pic
Jetsun Dolma, a Bodhisattva and female deity known for her compassion, is said to watch over the square that sits at the entrance of the sprawling 700-year-old Rongwo monastery in Tongren. A golden statue of Dolma stands at the square's centre, drawing the gaze of pilgrims and passers-by who mill around the edges of the plaza, which looks out over a quiet valley surrounded by the snow-capped peaks of the Tibetan plateau.
A small crowd of worshippers offered prayers to Dolma on a recent afternoon, prostrating themselves in front of her golden feet. Nearby, elderly pilgrims walked unsteadily towards the monastery's gates, turning prayer wheels as they chanted hymns.
At Tongren
Just weeks before, on a cold March morning, Jamyang Palden, a 38-year-old Tibetan monk, had walked out of the monastery's old wooden gates, past the pilgrims, and stood at Dolma's feet. There, witnesses said, he doused himself in kerosene and then set himself on fire. An old man who sat counting prayer beads on one of the two wooden benches that line the square's far side leapt towards the monk, hugging him in a tight embrace and trying to douse the flames that covered his body.
Jamyang was the 28th Tibetan to set himself on fire this past year. Three days later, his friend Sonam Dargye, a poor farmer employed at the monastery, followed in his footsteps to become the 29th. Their two acts shook Tongren — or Rebkong, in Tibetan — a quiet monastery town nestled among the mountain ranges of the Tibetan plateau in China's southwestern Qinghai province. The two protests have brought a tight security clampdown: today, there is a permanent police presence in front of the Rongwo monastery. Black vehicles, marked SWAT, stand parked near its gates while paramilitary policemen, guns in hand, patrol the town's crowded streets, walking among monks and pilgrims.
More than 30 self-immolation protests have taken place in the past year in monasteries and towns across the vast spread of the Tibetan plateau. The immolations show no signs of abating. On April 19, two Tibetans set themselves on fire in Aba, a prefecture in Sichuan that lies a short drive from across the provincial border and has witnessed most of the protests.
Much of the recent unrest has taken place in the regions known to Tibetans as Amdo and Kham — stretching across the provinces of Sichuan, Qinghai and Gansu. Around half of China's six million Tibetans live here. There have been fewer reports of protests in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), whose monasteries have been under tighter control following riots in 2008.
The string of self-immolations has worried Chinese authorities. Officials have hit out at the monks and nuns as “criminals” and “bad elements,” blaming a “political plot” orchestrated by the exiled Dalai Lama. Overseas groups, on the other hand, have seen the incidents as reflecting resentment against the Chinese government and as calls for independence which they say have widespread support. In interviews with monks, local residents and the acquaintances and relatives of three Tibetans who have set themselves on fire in Qinghai and nearby Gansu — a monk, a farmer and a 20-year-old student — a more complicated picture of the immolation protests emerged, one that defied easy description. The three stories, however, had one common thread: they were stories of ordinary people being driven to an extraordinary act by different despairs.
Ground zero at Rongwo
Rongwo is a 14th century monastery that is among the most influential for the Gelugpa or Yellow Hat sect, for whom the most important figure is the Dalai Lama. Tibetans, old and young, prayer-beads in hand and prayers on their lips, travel from far and wide to come to Rongwo.
The monastery lies a few hours' drive from Qinghai's provincial capital, Xining. Police and paramilitary vehicles can be sighted regularly on the narrow mountain road that runs to the town, through deep valleys and along the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Checkpoints have been set up outside the town and the monastery, inspecting cars for Tibetan passengers and journalists.
This correspondent managed to enter Rongwo on one April afternoon. The monastery was deserted, with many of its 600 monks back at home during the Lunar New Year break. Those present were at first reluctant to talk about Jamyang Palden's protest. “We have been warned not to speak,” said one monk in his early twenties. “There is a lot of tension here,” he said, speaking in hushed tones and staring at his feet.
A video shot on a mobile phone by one monk showed dozens gathering to protest at Dolma Square a day after Jamyang's self-immolation, some calling for the return of the Dalai Lama. In another grainy video, the body of 44-year-old farmer, Sonam Dargye, is seen lying on a street outside Rongwo, covered in flames, as passersby look on in horror. Little is known about what drove Sonam to his death. Those at the monastery said he was in financial distress, and left behind four children and an ailing wife.
While there was wide sympathy for Jamyang and Sonam, their actions did not, however, appear to have the support of many monks. Several monks even expressed strong concerns as to whether the self-immolations would be counterproductive by bringing a harsh response from the government.
“After 2008 [when there were protests and riots across many Tibetan areas, including Tongren], things were improving,” said one monk, pointing to a portrait of the Dalai Lama, whose image is banned in many Tibetan monasteries, adorning a main hall of the monastery.
In Rongwo, the Dalai Lama's images are displayed prominently at the centre of every hall – a rare sight, monks said, in many monasteries in TAR. Authorities acquiesced to their demands to restore his images as part of a general easing of restrictions aimed to win the backing of monks and restore stability after the unrest in 2008.
Other measures included moves to release some detained monks and to improve facilities in Rongwo, where a new living quarters has recently been opened. But new security restrictions imposed after the self-immolations began last year in Aba, including a greater deployment of police, new management rules for monasteries and enforced “patriotic education,” have appeared to once again stoke tensions, monks said.
Rongwo's monks also appeared to be divided on the questions of whether the self-immolations were the right way to express grievances and whether they would improve the situation.
“If the situation is bad, we must do something to change it,” said one monk, who like others declined to be named. “But our teachings,” he added, “tell us to respect life. We must not give it away.”
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Deciding how to manage your business’ operations and resources can be daunting. You want systems you can rely on for the foreseeable future — that empower growth, instead of holding your business back.
For many companies, accounting software is the first port of call. Among the numerous options in the UK it often boils down to a choice between Sage, Xero and QuickBooks.
Picking between these accounting systems can be tricky — especially if your business makes, manages or moves products. Why? Because you’ll also have to consider how to track and control inventory with each.
Here’s a straight comparison between Sage verses Xero, with Unleashed handling the inventory. Including the difference between all-in-one and best-of-breed systems, plus how they stack up on features, flexibility, price, onboarding and ease of use.
All-in-one vs best-of-breed
The first thing to note when comparing Sage to Xero and Unleashed is that they operate in different ways.
Sage is an ‘all-in-one’ solution. You’re investing in a single system that aims to cover several aspects of your business: accounting, inventory and more. The aim is that you’ll use this solution first and foremost, with very few other applications.
Xero and Unleashed are ‘best-of-breed’ solutions. Xero’s features, for example, aim to help you achieve one thing: better accounting. You then integrate it with more best-of-breed apps for the other tasks you need.
Xero isn’t intended to handle complex inventory management on its own. It doesn’t support functionality such as multiple warehouses, pricing strategies or bills of materials. Instead, you can integrate it with a solution that matches your needs. Combine Xero with Unleashed, and you get a feature-complete solution that can handle any inventory complexity — and as we’ll see below, comes with more inventory features than Sage.
Is managing multiple apps harder than a single solution?
At first, choosing several apps instead of a single system may seem counter-intuitive. Will integrating, maintaining and learning multiple solutions prove more of a hassle than buying Sage outright?
Best-of-breed software is built to work as part of an ecosystem. Syncing up solutions is usually straightforward, and many apps will guide you through setting up integrations as part of the onboarding process.
Because of this, best-of-breed implementations are often less disruptive than installing an all-in-one.
Best-of-breed software usually comes with ‘managed’ integrations to other apps. The apps themselves are responsible for maintaining these connections, so you won’t have to handle anything inhouse.
The only added complexity is contacting the right support team if you need any help.
You will have to learn more than one system. But again, this won’t necessarily be any harder than learning an all-in-one.
All-in-one systems tend to be complicated because they have to cater to so many bases. With a best-of-breed approach, you can choose simpler systems when you don’t need added functionality.
We’re Unleashed, so naturally we’re going to support best of breed. But in truth, there are much more important things to base your decision on than hesitance over combining apps — such as features, price and flexibility.
If you’re still concerned about a best-of-breed approach, though, it’s worth doing some more research:
Read case studies from businesses who have used both. Start with Seven Bro7hers’ story
Trial each option. Unleashed’s free 14-day trial includes all our integrations — so you can put them to the test
Take a look at a few independent resources for unbiased advice
Inventory management features
If you choose Xero and Unleashed, you won’t need any of Xero’s inventory management features. So here, we can compare Sage’s inventory functionality directly with Unleashed’s.
Sage offers several products, each with a different suite of features. Here’s how Sage 50 Standard, Sage 50 Professional, Sage 200cloud and Sage 200cloud Professional stack up against Unleashed’s Medium plan.
Track and manage stock
Create sales and purchase orders
Multiple currencies
Price tiers
Bills of materials
Multiple stock locations
Landed cost tracking
Serial & Batch Tracking
Document designer
Flexible reporting
Advanced shipping
Sales app
200cloud Standard
>Manufacturing
200cloud Professional
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eCommerce and POS integrations
One significant benefit of Xero and Unleashed is their managed integrations with leading eCommerce and POS channels. These eliminate the task of manually entering details — instead, every new order syncs straight into your inventory system, ready to be fulfilled. Then, Unleashed sends the relevant information on to Xero.
You can connect Unleashed with Shopify, Vend, Magento, Amazon and more. These are managed integrations, meaning they come as standard: there are no extra costs, and no need to work with third parties.
Sage doesn’t have managed integrations with any external eCommerce channels. It is possible to connect it up with Shopify, Vend and more, but these connections are made and maintained by third parties — who will charge a fee.
Comparing Sage with any other solution on cost is complicated, chiefly because it doesn’t have fixed prices.
At the time of writing, the listed base price for 50cloud Professional is $165 per month. Prices for 200cloud Standard start at $330 per month, with no cost listed for Professional.* These costs are variable, however, and probably won’t match what you end up paying each month. Sage will tend to build a specific package — with a specific price — for every new customer.
Choosing a package requires evaluating your requirements today and in the future. Any product business will probably need to raise sales and purchase orders at a minimum, for example. As you grow, you’ll soon see the benefit in multiple warehouses, landed cost tracking and stock alerts too.
Xero costs $22.50 per month for a growing plan or $45 for established. Unleashed costs from $259 per month for a Medium plan or $499 for Large. That means you can get an accounting + inventory solution with complete features and more flexibility for less than $285 per month.* Both subscriptions come with all of Unleashed’s core functionality. Visit our pricing page.
Sage, Xero and Unleashed all regularly update their software. Unleashed, for example, releases updates and enhancements weekly. Sage gets a new version on a yearly cycle.
If you sign up for one of the Sage plans listed above, you’ll get unlimited access to updates and improvements. If you have a perpetual licence, though, you’ll have to pay again to use the latest version — currently v27.
All Xero and Unleashed users get access to standard releases for free. Plus, there’s never any need to install anything to update the software.
Inventory management software requires careful implementation — so most providers will provide an assisted onboarding service to help you get started. If you aren’t using expert help, then these services are indispensable, but the cost of onboarding is something any business should take into account when considering a new system.
Sage doesn’t publish any indication of how much implementation might cost. But cloud experts predict roughly £4000 to get 200cloud Standard up and running. Add inventory functionality into the mix, and that might go up to £8,000 – £10,000.
Unleashed’s onboarding service costs £417. You’re allocated a dedicated Unleashed consultant to guide you through setup and help you get going.
The fundamental question here is whether you want to tailor your software to your processes or change your processes to match your software.
You can choose from over 800 integrations on Xero’s App Marketplace. Sage, meanwhile, lists 18 for 50cloud and 15 for 200cloud. The desktop versions of Sage don’t have an API so comes with very few integrations.
That isn’t necessarily an issue — it reflects the company’s all-in-one philosophy. The software comes with in-built functionality for core tasks such as CRM, HR and inventory management, instead of integrating with external apps for them. So their API approach is less open than that of Xero and Unleashed.
It does, however, result in two significant downsides:
You may end up paying for features you don’t use
Your systems won’t be as customisable
Upgrading to 200 Professional to access the manufacturing module, for example, might mean paying for a package that includes features you’ll never use.
If you do want a CRM that integrates with your other tools, you’ll have to choose Sage’s offering, which might not match your business’s specific requirements. With Xero and Unleashed, you can choose one that does.
It isn’t just lack of choice over essential business tools, either. There are hundreds of add-ons on Xero’s Marketplace that bring new functionality or remove manual tasks. These enable you to create a system that is personalised to your business goals. With an all-in-one, that opportunity disappears.
You’ll need to install a launcher on any device that you’re planning on using to access Sage. So while it hosts your data in the cloud, you won’t be able to access it from any computer. That makes it much harder to run your business from outside the office or enable staff to work from home.
Xero, Unleashed and other best-of-breed applications are 100% cloud based. All you’ll need is to access them is an internet connection, a browser and your login details.
Giving access to accountants is also more difficult with Sage, usually requiring a manual transfer via USB, Dropbox or Sage Drive. This creates a separate set of data, which can cause headaches for your accountant. With Unleashed, your accountant can get free access to your live data (with your approval). Xero HQ also makes sharing access straightforward.
Assessing the usability of a solution is always difficult, as different users have different tastes and are used to things being laid out or set up in a certain way. But here are how a few Unleashed customers compare the ease of use between Unleashed and Sage:
“The main difference between our old setup and using Unleashed is the speed of order processing. Before, we had a 3-4 part process to send order documents to our customers. Now, this can all be done from one screen with three clicks of a button!” Caremed Healthcare, moved from Sage 50 Professional
“Using Sage, we had a lot of stock-related issues. Now, we have so much more control and insight.” Seven Bro7hers Brewery, moved from Sage 50 Professional
“We tried using Sage but were limited by its inability to track stock and we found that it wasn’t accurately reflecting our costs. We had an idea of what kind of inventory management software we wanted: it had to be easy for everyone at work to use, integrate with Xero and Vend, and provide accuracy and transparency across the business. Unleashed was the solution that best fitted our requirements.” Enterprise Ethanol, moved from Sage 50 Pastel
Sage, Xero and Unleashed all offer free trials: 30 days for Sage and Xero, and 14 days for Unleashed. To see which solution will work best for your business, it’s a good idea to sign up and get as many people using the software as possible.
As well as trialling each solution, you can set up a discovery call with a consultant at each provider. They’ll be able to guide you through which features you need and point you in the direction of another option if it suits your requirements better.
Start your Unleashed trial here — you’ll get 14 days to test out our software (including the integration with Xero), with no credit card needed. Sign up now
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[Complication related factors in patients undergoing open simple prostatectomy due to Benign Prostate Hyperplasia in a Colombian hospital.]
Open prostatectomy is an efficacious treatment for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH), but its complication rates and risk factors for these might vary due to the characteristics of populations and health systems.
[Improving renal cancer care].
The article reviews the rates of incidence, late diagnosis and mortality from kidney cancer in Primorsky Krai. The authors address the issues of improving primary and specialized medical care by introducing a three-level health care system and restructuring of hospital beds.
[Localized intermediate- to high-risk prostate cancer].
BACKGROUND - National and international guidelines recommend radical prostatectomy (RP) and radiotherapy (EBRT) as standard treatment for intermediate- and high-risk prostate cancer. Survival benefit of RP in prostate cancer has been proven in prospectively randomized trials.
A comparison of laparoendoscopic single-site surgery versus conventional procedures for laparoscopic donor nephrectomy: a Japanese multi-institutional retrospective study.
Laparoendoscopic single-site donor nephrectomy (LESSDN) is a feasible and effective procedure because of its non-invasiveness and better cosmetic outcomes. However, there have been few multi-institutional studies conducted by multiple surgeons on LESSDN.
A practical approach to the management of nocturia.
To raise awareness on nocturia disease burden and to provide simplified aetiologic evaluation and related treatment pathways.
A multidisciplinary group of nocturia experts developed practical advice and recommendations based on the best available evidence supplemented by their own experiences.
Additional surgical procedures and perioperative morbidity in post-chemotherapy retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for metastatic testicular cancer in two intermediate volume hospitals.
To evaluate the perioperative morbidity of PC-RPLND in two intermediate volume centers and to identify predictors of high morbidity.
Retrospective analysis of 124 patients treated with open PC-RPLND at two tertiary referral centers between 2001 and 2018.
Association of Distance to Treatment Facility With Survival and Quality Outcomes After Radical Cystectomy: A Multi-Institutional Study.
We sought to determine the effect of the travel distance on mortality and quality outcomes after radical cystectomy in a large multi-institutional cohort.
A total of 3957 patients who had undergone radical cystectomy for urothelial carcinoma at 6 North American tertiary care institutions were included.
Association of Partial versus Radical Nephrectomy with Subsequent Hypertension Risk Following Renal Tumor Resection.
We investigated the risks of new onset and worsened hypertension after radical vs partial nephrectomy.
Using a national administrative database of privately and Medicare insured patients we performed a retrospective cohort study of 9,207 and 4,686 patients who underwent radical and partial nephrectomy, respectively, for a renal mass between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2016.
Can We Predict Morbidity and Mortality of Patients Aged 75 Years and Older Undergoing Cystectomy?
Radical cystectomy is associated with a high postoperative mortality and morbidity in older patients. We aimed to define the predictive value of comorbidity scores and determine the prognostic factors of postoperative complications.
Childhood Body Weight in Relation to Morbidity From Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer in Older Adulthood: 67-Year Follow-up of Participants in the 1947 Scottish Mental Survey.
Although it has been well documented that elevated body weight in middle- and older-aged populations is associated with multiple morbidities, the influence of childhood body weight on health endpoints other than coronary heart disease is not well understood.
Clinical markers of morbidity, mortality and survival in bladder cancer patients treated with radical cystectomy. A systematic review.
Context: Radical cystectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection (RC and PLND) are an essential part of the treatment paradigm in high risk bladder cancer. However, these patients have high rates of morbidity and mortality related both to the treatment and to the disease.
Comparison of Major Complications at 30 and 90 days Following Radical Cystectomy.
To better understand the time-course in which major complications occur after radical cystectomy and to describe associations with complications at 30 and 90 days.
A database of radical cystectomy cases was queried for pre-operative, perioperative, and post-operative data.
Comparison of the morbidity and mortality of cystectomy and ileal conduit urinary diversion for neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction according to the approach: Laparotomy, laparoscopy or robotic.
To evaluate and compare the morbidity and mortality of cystectomy-ileal conduit urinary diversion in patients with neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction according to the surgical approach, and to evaluate predictive factors of early and late morbidity.
Elucidating Trainee Effect on Outcomes for General, Gynecologic, and Urologic Oncology Procedures.
Surgical complications delay adjuvant therapy in oncology patients. Current literature remains unclear regarding resident effect on postoperative outcomes, with inappropriate coverage possibly endangering patients in spite of attending oversight.
Estimation of mortality and morbidity risk of radical cystectomy using POSSUM and the Portsmouth predictor equation.
INTRODUCTION - The Physiological and Operative Severity Score for the enumeration of Mortality and Morbidity (POSSUM) and the Portsmouth predictor equation (P-POSSUM) are simple scoring systems used to estimate the risk of complications and death postoperatively.
Extended Duration of Active Surveillance of Small Renal Masses: A Prospective Cohort Study.
We report the natural history of small renal masses in patients undergoing active surveillance with extended followup.
We performed a prospective cohort study in patients undergoing active surveillance of small renal masses diagnosed between 2001 and 2011 at a single institution.
Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy versus ureteroscopy for management of pediatric nephrolithiasis in upper urinary tract stones: multi-institutional outcomes of efficacy and morbidity.
As the incidence of pediatric nephrolithiasis rises, understanding the efficacy and morbidity of surgical treatment options is critical. Currently, there are limited comparative data assessing shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) and ureteroscopy (URS) outcomes in children.
Hospital volume and perioperative outcomes for radical cystectomy: a population study.
To evaluate the association between hospital volume and perioperative outcomes of radical cystectomy (RC) using state population data for a contemporary Australian cohort.
Patients undergoing RC for urothelial malignancy in the state of Victoria, Australia between July 2003 and June 2014 were identified using the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED).
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Does Not Increase the Morbidity of Radical Cystectomy: A 10-year Retrospective Nationwide Study.
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is underutilized in the treatment of bladder cancer (BC).
To investigate the effect of NAC on the risk of surgical complications for radical cystectomy (RC) in a population-based setting.
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Is Not Associated with Adverse Perioperative Outcomes after Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy: A Case for Increased Utilization from the IRCC.
We sought to determine the trend of neoadjuvant chemotherapy use for nonmetastatic muscle invasive urothelial bladder cancer and whether it is associated with adverse perioperative morbidity after robot-assisted radical cystectomy.
Patient-centered risk stratification of disposition outcomes following radical cystectomy.
PURPOSE - Patient-centered care involves providing understandable information to facilitate individualized health decisions among patients. We sought to determine the effect of age and comorbidity status on clinically meaningful outcomes following radical cystectomy (RC), in an effort the help optimize patient selection and enhance discussions among those considering surgery.
Prevention and treatment of symptoms associated with indwelling ureteral stents: A systematic review.
Temporary drainage of the upper urinary tract by internal ureteral stents is a routine procedure in endourology. However, it is associated with a clear side-effect profile. Our aim was to evaluate prevention and treatment options of stent-related symptoms.
Prostate cancer, comorbidity, and the risk of venous thromboembolism: A cohort study of 44,035 Danish prostate cancer patients, 1995-2011.
BACKGROUND - Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a serious complication of cancer. It is unknown whether comorbidity interacts clinically with prostate cancer (PC) to increase the VTE rate beyond that explained by PC and comorbidity alone, for example, by delaying diagnosis or precluding treatment.
Recurrent Dystrophic Calcification of the Prostatic Resection Cavity After Transurethral Resection of the Prostate: Clinical Presentation and Endoscopic Management.
Background: Dystrophic calcification (DC) can occur as a reaction to tissue damage and necrosis. So far, this has never been described as a complication after conventional transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP).
Risk of hospitalization and death following prostate biopsy in Scotland.
To investigate the risk of hospitalization and death following prostate biopsy.
Retrospective cohort study.
Our study population comprised 10,285 patients with a record of first ever prostate biopsy between 2009 and 2013 on computerized acute hospital discharge or outpatient records covering Scotland.
Robot-assisted laparoscopic artificial urinary sphincter insertion in women with stress urinary incontinence: a pilot single-center study.
To report the functional outcomes of robot-assisted laparoscopic artificial urinary sphincter (AUS, AMS 800TM ) implantation and revision in women with stress urinary incontinence.
A pilot prospective monocentric study included all consecutive female patients suffering from stress urinary incontinence and undergoing an AUS surgery (implantation or revision) using a robotic approach between 2012 and 2018.
Sentinel-lymph node biopsy in renal tumours- surgical technique and safety.
To understand uncertainties and knowledge gaps regarding lymphatic drainage in renal tumours, we performed two prospective studies to demonstrate regional lymph node (LN) drainage with sentinel lymph node (SN) imaging and biopsy.
The association of age with perioperative morbidity and mortality among men undergoing radical prostatectomy.
Older age is considered a relative contraindication to radical prostatectomy (RP). However, data are limited regarding the impact of age on perioperative outcomes following RP. We examined the association of age with perioperative outcomes following RP to inform risk-stratification and management.
The Feasibility and Safety of Surgery in Patients Receiving Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Retrospective Study.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) are revolutionizing care for cancer patients. The list of malignancies for which the Food and Drug Administration is granting approval is rapidly increasing. Furthermore, there is a concomitant increase in clinical trials incorporating ICI.
The Perioperative Morbidity of Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumor: Implications for Quality Improvement.
To characterize the perioperative morbidity of transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) in order to identify important determinants of both quality and cost in the delivery bladder cancer care.
The PT2D-Score: a novel tool to predict complications and economic outcome after radical cystectomy.
Radical cystectomy (RC) has a high morbidity and leads to a significant socio-economic burden. We aimed to investigate pre-, intra-, and post-operative variables to create a novel score predicting both post-operative clinical (complications) and economic (length of hospital stay) outcome after RC.
Thulium laser enucleation of the prostate is a safe and a highly effective modality for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia - Our experience of 236 patients.
Thulium LASER is fast emerging as a safe and effective modality for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Still, compared to holmium laser transurethral enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) the number of institutes all over the world using Thulium LASER are limited.
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After the Chinese government’s suppression of the 1989 student-led demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Jin elected to remain in the United States; he later became a U.S. citizen.
When Chinese schools reopened in the late 1970s, he attended Heilongjiang University in Harbin, from which he graduated with a degree (1981) in English. Her previous credits include the series The Killing and The Whispers.
His volume of army stories, Ocean of Words (1996), received the PEN/Hemingway Award in 1997, and his second book of stories, Under the Red Flag (1997), which told of life during the Cultural Revolution, won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Kaho Minami (Angel Dust, Household X) plays Etsuko, a vibrant, independent woman who longs to be reunited with her estranged daughter. He began his acting career in a musical theater production called ‘Footloose’ where he performed by singing as well as dancing. However, both Yin Ji Han and Ha Ji Won denied the rumors, and claimed that they were only good friends because they were the same age, and they often shared their thoughts, which eventually led to them becoming really close to one another. At age 14 he joined the army, and he served for some five years. Written and executive produced by Soo Hugh (The Terror), who also serves as showrunner and created the vision for the series, Pachinko chronicles the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean immigrant family. Dong-wook Kim was born on July 29, 1983 in South Korea.
In 2015, Jin was reportedly dating comedian Lee Guk-joo. One of them is like BTS Jin, he is always rumored to have a girfriend.
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In addition, with Chinese composer Tan Dun, he cowrote the libretto for Tan’s opera The First Emperor (2006), about Qin dynasty ruler Shihuangdi. Minami is repped by Sheer Talent Management LLC. Check this out! Soji Arai (Cobra Kai, Legacies) is Mosazu, a dedicated father and successful businessman, concerned for his son’s future. Media Res acquired the rights to the novel for Hugh.
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UW-Superior designated a Military Friendly® School for 11th consecutive year
The University of Wisconsin-Superior has been designated a Military Friendly® Silver School.
UW-Superior is highest ranked school in the Twin Ports
The University of Wisconsin-Superior has been designated a Military Friendly® Silver School, which is awarded to schools who meet the requirements and score within 20 percent of the tenth ranking in their school category. This honor recognizes the university’s efforts to assist military personnel, veterans and their family members in completing a college education.
“This is an exciting recognition for the university,” said Kat Werchouski, director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and senior diversity officer at UW-Superior. “Not only because UW-Superior has been designated a Military Friendly® school for 11 consecutive years, but in just a year, UW-Superior has improved its status from a designated school to a Silver School. This is a testament to everything we do to focus on the success of our student veterans.”
As the highest-ranking school in the Twin Ports, G.I. Jobs® found that, “UW-Superior is dedicated to assisting military members in their college success and provides services that meet their needs in transitioning to higher education. A dedicated staff is here to assist students with securing their GI Bill benefits and navigating the admissions process. Based on academic policies, veteran students may receive transfer credit (maximum 32 semester credits) for education and some certain specialized training programs completed while in military. With a veteran center located on campus, veterans will find a relaxing atmosphere, a comfortable place to study, and resources that can help answer questions about campus and community support.”
UW-Superior received high marks for its academic policies and compliance, admissions and orientation and culture and commitment. It is the only university in the UW System to receive a Silver School ranking. UW-Superior features a Veteran and Nontraditional Student Center that provides a wide range of support programming for veterans of all ages.
“This Military Friendly® Silver School recognition is a testament to our fantastic staff and the Veteran and Nontraditional Student Center and the commitment we have as a university to the success of our student veterans,” said Werchouski. “Our campus initiatives continue to focus on the success of our veterans – many of whom have recently returned from active duty to begin their academics. It’s our goal to ensure the transition from the military to not only college but also civilian life is as natural as possible.”
UW-Superior also provides a veteran’s benefits coordinator and office to help veterans navigate their government education benefits and to assist with financial arrangements. The university also tries to maximize the number of military training-related credits that veterans can transfer to UW-Superior to apply toward their degrees.
Now in its 10th year, the Military Friendly® Schools list has come to set the standard for higher education institutions to provide the best opportunities for veterans and their spouses. This prestigious list provides a comprehensive guide for veterans and their families using data sources from federal agencies and proprietary survey information from participating organizations.
Institutions earning the Military Friendly® School designation were evaluated using both public data sources and responses from a proprietary survey completed by the school. More than 1,000 schools participated in the 2020-2021 survey, with 625 schools earning the designation from every state in the country.
The 2020-2021 Military Friendly® Schools list will be published in the May issue of G.I. Jobs magazine.
Methodology, criteria, and weightings were determined by VIQTORY with input from the Military Friendly® Advisory Council of independent leaders in the higher education and military recruitment community. Final ratings were determined by combining the institution’s survey scores with the assessment of the institution’s ability to meet thresholds for student retention, graduation, job placement, loan repayment, persistence (degree advancement or transfer) and loan default rates for all students and, specifically, for student veterans. For the first time, the methodology included a new measure – the 90/10 Rule and Loophole. Military Friendly® has closed the loophole on our survey and is eager for Congress to follow as it deliberates closing the loophole legislatively.
Department of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Kat Werchouski
About Military Friendly® Schools
The Military Friendly® Schools list is created each year based on extensive research using public data sources for more than 8,800 schools nationwide and responses to the proprietary, data-driven Military Friendly® Schools survey from participating institutions. The survey questions, methodology, criteria and weighting were developed with the assistance of an independent research firm and an advisory council of educators and employers. Ernst & Young (EY), a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, independently evaluated the scoring methodology used for the Military Friendly® Schools list using the criteria set forth by VIQTORY. The services performed by EY are were limited to advisory procedures and do not provide assurance over the scoring methodology. The survey is administered for free and is open to all post-secondary schools that wish to participate. Criteria for consideration can be found at www.militaryfriendly.com.
About VIQTORY
Founded in 2001, VIQTORY is a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) that connects the military community to civilian employment, educational and entrepreneurial opportunities through its G.I. Jobs®, Military Spouse, Military Friendly® brands. VIQTORY and its brands are not a part of or endorsed by the U.S. Dept of Defense or any federal government entity. Learn more about VIQTORY at www.viqtory.com.
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BMW’s First AVs Will Feature Innoviz’s Solid-State Lidar
Say goodbye to funny-looking autonomous vehicles topped with big, spinning cylinders: BMW’s first series-production autonomous vehicle, scheduled to ship in 2021, will use solid-state Lidar sensors for a more normal — even sleek — design.
Innoviz, the Israeli startup that will produce the sensors and accompanying software, announced that this is the first deal to supply any kind of Lidar for a series production AV. Series production cars are mass-produced for the general market, as distinct from specialized vehicles like the modified SUVs and minivans being used in current self-driving trials.
Lidar systems bounce lasers off of all nearby objects many times per second to build a 3D map of their surroundings in real time. They’re part of the standard suite of sensors on almost all AVs, along with radar and cameras.
Most of the self-driving cars on the road for testing and development today have mechanical Lidar units that take in a 360-degree view around the vehicle by rapidly spinning as they shoot out lasers.
Newer, solid-state systems from companies like Innoviz and LeddarTech have no moving parts, so they’re smaller, more efficient and ultimately much less expensive. Instead of one large sensor on top, they use four or five smaller ones around the car. Innoviz says its current InnovizOne sensor measures 60mm high by 120mm wide by 105mm deep.
Lower cost will help to make Lidar, and AVs, affordable for consumers instead of just companies that use them for businesses like ride-hailing, ABI Research said in a report last week.
Innoviz’s deal with BMW, through global automotive integrator Magna, was reached after a year of proving the technology to the famously demanding luxury automaker, Innoviz CEO Omer David Keilaf told The Connected Car. It should help to convince other manufacturers to adopt solid-state Lidar, he said.
“Since we have a design win with BMW today, it’s a big endorsement,” Keilaf said. “They manage you in a way to make sure that you will not screw up.”
Innoviz is currently on its first generation of Lidar. It designs and manufactures the hardware and also makes its own computer vision software for identifying objects and generating 3D maps. BMW will get the second generation, which Innoviz plans to ship in late 2019. It will support up to Level 5 autonomy, he said. Magna will integrate the Lidar sensors and software into a complete AV system that will include the computing platform to run the software.
BMW has disclosed plans for two AVs in 2021. It’s also shown two different AV design concepts, the i Vision Future Interaction and the Vision Next 100, that make no apparent compromises for self-driving technology.
One of the cars coming in 2021 will be for consumers and will offer Level 3 autonomous driving, which works in specific circumstances with the driver always ready to take over. BMW says the Level 3 system will work at speeds up to about 80mph and owners will be able to turn it off and drive on their own.
The other BMW will be designed for trials by ride-hailing companies and will be equipped for Level 4 and Level 5. While Level 4 offers fully driverless operation in certain areas, Level 5 supports full autonomy under all conditions with no need for a steering wheel or pedals.
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Lesley Manville Joins Sky Atlantic’s ‘Save Me’ For Season 2
By Patrick Munn | August 8, 2019 - 1:37 pm | No Comments
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Lesley Manville (Mum, Harlots) has joined the cast of Lennie James’ Sky Atlantic series Save Me for its second season. “I couldn’t be more delighted to be joining this phenomenal series”, Manville said. “Save Me was a major highlight of 2018, a testament to Lennie James’ writing and acting and the exceptional cast and creative team.”
Manville will play Jennifer Charles, the wife of Gideon Charles. Jennifer is forced to make an almost impossible choice that will place her in direct conflict with Nelly, following the return of the vulnerable girl, Grace (Olive Gray), who Nelly rescued whilst searching for his own daughter Jody.
Created by Lennie James, Save Me tells the story of Nelson Nelly Rowe and his search for Jody, his missing daughter. The drama series is produced by World Productions and stars Lennie James, Suranne Jones, Stephen Graham, Thomas Coombes, Kerry Godliman, Nadine Marshall, Susan Lynch and Jason Flemyng. Lizzie Rusbridger is the series producer, while Jim Loach and Coky Giedroyc are directing. The executive producers are Lennie James, Simon Heath, Jessica Sykes and Kara Manly. Filming gets underway this month ahead of a 2020 premiere.
The show’s second season picks up fourteen months after the events of season one, which saw Nelly left devastated after his desperate search for Jody was unsuccessful. He had been dragged into a dangerous underworld, taken risks that had proved precarious for himself and those closest to him and challenged Nelly to re-evaluate many of the decisions he had made about his life, all to find Jody. Now, fourteen months down the road, is he still looking? What hope is there of finding Jody? And if new evidence were to emerge, what would it force Nelly and those close to him to do next?
“The first series of Save Me was an absolute must-see, showcasing bold, British drama at its finest. The show really has been part of a step change for Sky drama, alongside Patrick Melrose and Chernobyl, achieving widespread critical acclaim as well as an army of fans”, said Sky’s Director of Drama Cameron Roach, who commissioned the show’s second season alongside Sky’s Managing Director of Content for the UK and Ireland Zai Bennett. “We’re thrilled to now bring our viewers the second series of this unique story, to see the return of our much loved characters alongside new cast members including Lesley Manville”.
While Simon Heath, Executive Producer for World Productions, added: “We’re delighted to welcome the brilliant Lesley Manville for the second instalment of Nelly Rowe’s gripping quest. A huge thanks to the Sky audience, who made Save Me the fastest binged Sky box set ever and to the Sky team, who have given Lennie’s unique vision such brilliant support from day one”
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MICHAEL Caruso will join Charlie Schwerkolt’s Team 18 as a co-driver for October’s Repco Bathurst 1000.
The team has confirmed the recruitment of Caruso on a two-year deal and the retention of James Golding, who co-drove with Mark Winterbottom at Bathurst last year.
Caruso moves to Team 18 following a two-year stint co-driving at Tickford Racing, driving with Cameron Waters in 2019 and Lee Holdsworth in 2020.
The signing of Caruso means the end of Dean Fiore’s time at Team 18 having co-driven in 2020 with Scott Pye.
Although Team 18 has not confirmed its pairings, it’s expected that Caruso will partner Winterbottom and Golding will move to Pye’s entry.
Caruso’s deal comes after his former home Tickford trimmed back from four to three cars for 2021. It already has co-drivers James Moffat and Thomas Randle under contract.
Sponsor Boost Mobile is expected to play a role in deciding the co-driver for James Courtney’s car, while ousted full-timer Holdsworth is understood to have signed to co-drive at Walkinshaw Andretti United.
James Golding and Charlie Schwerkolt. Pic: Supplied
Said Team 18 owner Schwerkolt: “It’s really exciting to bring Michael Caruso onboard for Bathurst this year, he’s a seriously talented driver and a valuable addition to our co-driver line-up.
“It’s a two-year deal which is great to have that continuity within the team, and he fits the mould as a fantastic team player.
“He’s going to be a busy man between his TCR racing and completing our ride days and test days throughout the year, so his speed and race-craft will be sharp by the time we get to Bathurst.
“James Golding showed strong speed last year with us and we immediately looked to retain his services in 2021.
“I’d like to thank Dean Fiore for his outstanding efforts last year, he fit in so well with our team and performed extremely well with Scott [Pye] at Bathurst.”
Caruso pointed to the strength of the team’s staff as a major asset ahead of its second season as a two-car team, running Triple Eight-built Holden Commodores.
Holden’s racing heritage is celebrated in ‘Racing the Lion’, a 400-page illustrated book now available through the V8 Sleuth store.
“When you come here and see how the team operates and the progress being made behind the scenes, it was an opportunity I couldn’t refuse,” said Caruso.
“Charlie’s very motivated about his motor racing, he’s been very successful in the past, he understands what it takes to achieve that success and you can see what he’s building with the guys and girls here in the team that they’re heading in the right direction.
“When you look at the names that are here, you’ve got Phil Keed and now with Richard Hollway joining, it’s an amazing leadership group with Steve Henderson as team manager as well, you can see everyone in the core group gets along and I think that’s a crucial part to it all.”
Golding meanwhile stays at Team 18 after failing to find a full-time seat on the 2021 grid.
“I have the ultimate focus of getting back in a full-time seat, unfortunately nothing lined up for 2021 but that remains my focus and I think Team 18 is a great platform to show what I can do as well as racing the S5000 to keep my name out there,” he said.
“It’s all about being in the right place at the right time, and I think Team 18 is the right place to show what I can do as a driver and I hope to make the most of this opportunity.”
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Discovery's reality-heavy streaming service launches in Jan.
Discovery is joining the increasingly crowded streaming fray with its own reality-focused service Discovery Plus that will include shows from the Food Network, HGTV, TLC and its other networks. It launches Jan 4.
Dec 2, 2020 12:53 PM By: Canadian Press
The service will cost $5 a month with ads and $7 a month without ads. By comparison, the ad-free Disney Plus costs $7 a month and Netflix' most popular plan costs $14 a month.
Each account will include up to five user profiles and support four concurrent streams. Discovery said the service will be available on “major platforms," connected TVs, web, mobile and tablets, but it didn't specify which services would carry it.
Discovery CEO David Zaslav first announced the streaming service in late 2019, but did not provide details until now.
Discovery has built a reality-TV empire with popular channels that feature reality programming, including the Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery and others. Hit shows have included TLC's “90-Day Fiance," HGTV's “Fixer-Upper" and Guy Fieri's “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" on the Food Network.
The service will offer some originals like “90-Day Fiance” spinoff “90-Day Diaries” and “Long Island Medium” spinoff “Long Island Medium: There in Spirit.”
Verizon customers will get a year free of the service, similar to the deal that Verizon did when Disney Plus launched in late 2019.
Discovery Plus joins a slew of new streaming services started to challenge traditional TV providers and dominant streaming services like Hulu and Netflix over the past year, including Disney Plus, Apple TV Plus, HBO Max and Comcast’s Peacock service. CBS recently rebranded its CBS All Access service as Paramount Plus, relaunching in 2021.
The service will role out in 25 countries in 2021 including Italy, Spain, U.K. and Ireland as well as India.
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International students interested in enrolling in the Bachelor of Music Education (BMEd) program and Master of Music Education (MMEd) need both musical and academic competence to attain the degrees. The strengths and background of each applicant are weighed on an individual basis to determine the candidate's potential for success. In general, however, preference is given to applicants who fulfill the following requirements:
Graduate from an accredited secondary school or its equivalent with a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better
Complete the following coursework at the secondary level:
3 years of English
2 years of mathematics
2 years of science
3 years of social science
2 years of electives in foreign language or art
3 years of electives in music, or evidence of successful participation in music ensembles and classes
Take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). The internet-based (ITB) TOEFL test measures the areas of reading, listening, writing and speaking. The EIKEN test, an English-language competency exam of Japanese origin, can be considered in lieu of the TOEFL. VanderCook requires a minimum grade of 2A, but admission is contigent on an interview.
The minimum acceptable subscore for each section is 22.
Complete the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) with a recommended combined score of 1100 (reading plus math), or the American College Test (ACT) with a recommended composite score of 22 (writing component strongly suggested).*
* Note: Completion of the SAT and/or ACT is not a condition of acceptance; however, the minimum scores listed above would exempt a student from the standardized test typically taken during the second year of study.
All international applicants must submit proof of total financial support before an I-20 will be issued.
International students considering enrolling in VanderCook College of Music should contact the Admissions Office. Our admissions personnel are trained to assist you in completing your application and answering your questions about the college. Applicants for the BMEd program should follow this process:
1. Complete the online Undergraduate Application, which includes:
$35 non-refundable application fee
Essay describing your desire to pursue a degree in music education. How has music affected your life? Why is becoming a music teacher important to you? How could you, as a music educator, impact the lives of your students?
Names and email address for three references. References could include teachers, administrators, private instructors, clergy or employers. They will receive an online reference questionnaire to complete.
Copies of the biographical pages of your passport
Recorded audition. Guidelines and audition criteria are available here. If you are traveling to Chicago, you may audition in person, but a recorded audition is accepted if travel is not an option.
2. Submit high school transcripts indicating all coursework completed to date. (A final transcript indicating graduation and a copy of the high school diploma will be required prior to final admission and enrollment in the college.)
3. Submit TOEFL scores.
4. (Optional) Submit SAT and/or ACT scores, where applicable. This is not required, but could be used to waive the Test of Academic Proficiency.
Applicants are notified of admissions decisions after application files are complete as listed above. In general, this decision is made within two weeks of receipt of all materials, although delays may occur during semester breaks.
If you prefer, you may download a printable version of the application to mail.
All mailed materials should be sent to:
VanderCook College of Music
3140 S. Federal St.
All required materials must be received by the Admissions Office at least 30 days prior to the start of each semester.
Once you are accepted, VanderCook College of Music will issue your I-20, which you will need to apply for your F-1 Visa and to enter the United States. Once you receive your I-20 and decide to attend VanderCook, please follow these next steps:
Send the following items to VanderCook College of Music:
Signed copy of your Offer of Admissions
$100 non-refundable deposit
Proof of financial support showing ability to cover tuition and fees for one year at VanderCook
Pay your I-901 SEVIS fee. More information at: https://studyinthestates.dhs.gov/paying-your-i-901-sevis-fee
Apply for your F-1 Visa at your U.S. Embassy or Consulate
Getting Involved/Student Organizations
The Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) has several student organizations and events designed to assist international students in getting involved and transitioning to Chicago. More information can be found on IIT's International Center webpage.
VanderCook College of Music is located on the campus of the IIT and is just three miles south of downtown Chicago. There are many opportunities to explore the attractions and experience the culture of Chicago!
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New Video Reveals: New York Times Reporter Natasha Lennard Is #OccupyWallStreet Activist, Supporter
Crossposted from Big Government:
Lee Stranahan
By Lee Stranahan
A newly-discovered video–filmed by Occupy Wall Street supporters themselves–reveals that New York Times reporter Natasha Lennard is not merely covering the protests, but is also apparently taking part in planning and executing them.
In the video, Lennard is seen participating as a featured speaker in a discussion among anarchists, communists, and other radicals as they examine the theory, strategy and tactics of the Occupy protests.
The discussion was held at the left-wing Bluestockings book store in New York on Friday, Oct. 14, and filmed and promoted by the radical magazine Jacobin. The audience included participants in, and apparent organizers of, the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in lower Manhattan.
Lennard, who has also written for Politico and Salon, is identified in the video by the panel’s moderator as a freelancer for the Times, and also as the Times reporter who was arrested along with seven hundred activists on the Brooklyn Bridge on Oct. 1.
When Lennard reported on her arrest at the time, she appears to have concealed her own apparent role in the Occupy protests, implying that her arrest was an abuse of press freedom. She used her affiliation with the Times to win her early release.
Sympathetic media expressed shock that a reporter had been taken into custody by allegedly overzealous police. Only sources like Newsbusters questioned that narrative at the time. The video suggests that the skeptics were correct in their suspicions.
In the video of the panel discussion, Lennard reveals herself to be a passionate Occupy supporter, and appears to have personal knowledge of its planned future activities, including illegal occupations of banks in New York City.
We have decided to post the entire video of the panel discussion–below, in full, as first posted by Jacobin magazine. We have made no edits; the jump cuts are apparently caused by the videographer.
Lennard, the woman at far-left (coincidentally), speaks as a “comrade” of the panelists and the audience–one actively part of the far-left intellectual theorizing and organizing behind Occupy, and also as someone with deep knowledge of its plans.
For example, at roughly 1:15:15, an audience member asks a question about how to manage the growing ideological divisions among anarchists and communists as they form “a new society” through the Occupy movement.
Lennard’s answer suggests that she identifies with the anarchist faction holed up at Zuccotti Park–and that she identifies with efforts by Occupy activists to conceal their true beliefs and goals:
Well, that’s what I don’t know. Let’s experiment. But I do think there are a few conditions that disallow for that that are at play now. So if we can address those, maybe it can be a more open possibility. The state of the square now…[people] would not speak at the park. Because being an outright anti-authoritarian or an anarchist is not really something that people like to be live streamed around the world with a fucking police pen around you. So there is a silencing that’s sort of gone on without much addressing, because to address it would be to out oneself. So if you’re talking–and this also addresses the question of escalation; it’s like–yes, there are a lot of people talking about many different ideas. Do they all want all of those ideas live streamed to the entire world on the assumption that everything is permitted and legal, when it quite clearly isn’t? So there is already a tendency in the park that means backing away from anti-authoritarian tendencies that don’t fall into pre-existing permitted institutional structures, or that can’t be coded by them. So I think there’s a problem with the way the park operates now that doesn’t allow for this kind of coming together.
Lennard’s “outing” of herself at the panel discussion demands an immediate response from the New York Times.
Recently, National Public Radio canceled the national distribution of the “World of Opera,” because the show’s host, Lisa Simeone, had become a spokesperson for the Occupy organization. Simeone was also fired as the host of “Soundprint,” an independent public radio show, for the same reason.
Following that precedent, the Times should take appropriate disciplinary action against Lennard regarding both her active involvement with the Occupy Wall Street protests, and also her attempt to hide that involvement. She cannot function as an objective reporter if she is actively participating in, and promoting, Occupy Wall Street.
Additionally, the Times should urge Lennard to contact the New York City Police Department, as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to reveal her knowledge of any potential planned criminal activity by Occupy activists.
The Times should not allow Lennard to use her purported credentials as a reporter to shield her from revealing intimate knowledge of any apparent crimes being formulated against people and businesses in New York.
Nor should the Times allow Lennard to abuse her status as a reporter to avoid the legal consequences of her actions as an active participant in illegal Occupy actions.
a debate on #occupyws from Jacobin on Vimeo.
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Al Sheber says:
The N Y Times is one yellow piece of garbage. In November 1942, they found out that 2 million Jews were wiped out in Europe, they decided to place a short take on page 10. It is an apologetic tool of the braindead left. It is known in Moscow as the daily of “Useful Idiots” more about it with videos from former KGB operative Bezmenov, explaining it all during interviews (available on youtube) during the Reagan era. There is nothing in this paper worth reading. All their reporters are ideologically tied to the Left. It is a suffocating medium for exchangin ideas. Those not too radical are simply common idiots, like David Brooks, who is known as “conservative” who cheered for Obama until he realized lately that he was a sap. I call it “a useful idiot”.
sodacrackers2 says:
I could barely get past her biting her nails. The whole thing makes me shudder. Grass roots — oh yeah! What a joke.
Obama Nation says:
2012 Pres. Candidate Rick Perry: I Don’t Know If Obama’s Birth Certificate Is Real
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/10/presidential-candidate-rick-perry-i.html
The fact is NOBODY knows if Obama’s Birth Certificate is real since Obama has done EVERYTHING humanly possible to keep the alleged Birth Certificate from being FORENSICALLY EXAMINED.
As many twenty computer and document experts have examined the PDF Copy of Obama’s alleged Birth Certificate and they have all declared it a likely forgery.
The Birth Certificate and Obama’s eligibility is EXTREMEMLY IMPORTANT. Any one who would try to minimise the significance of this is issue is an absolute MORON and a TRAITOR.
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Video: Armed Forces Bowl in Ft. Worth ends with massive brawl
It went on for several minutes, and one Tulsa player had to be helped from the field.
Mississippi State linebacker Aaron Brule (3) hits Tulsa safety TieNeal Martin (7) on the facemask during a postgame fight after Mississippi State's win in the Armed Forces Bowl NCAA college football game in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
Author: KHOU 11 Staff
FORT WORTH, Texas — Mississippi State beat No. 24 Tulsa 28-26 in the Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth Thursday, but the game may be remembered for the brawl after the game was over.
The game was on ESPN and after the final whistle blew, the sports network cut to their studio show, but quickly went back to the Amon G. Carter Stadium as tensions boiled over with pushing and shoving that led to punching and kicking.
While there had been high tensions between the teams before and during the game, it boiled over after it ended with the cameras capturing the melee for several minutes.
At one point during the brawl, Mississippi State wide receiver Malik Heath could be seen kicking a Tulsa player who was on the ground.
A massive brawl broke out at the end of the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl between Tulsa and Mississippi State. pic.twitter.com/zfaq912SWU
— ESPN (@espn) December 31, 2020
Tulsa’s Kendarin Ray had to be helped off the field. CBS Sports reports that Tulsa coach Phillip Montgomery says he believes Ray suffered a concussion.
Tulsa trainers and players help safety Kendarin Ray (1) to the locker room after a postgame fight after Mississippi State's win in the Armed Forces Bowl NCAA college football game in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
At this point, there's no word on disciplinary action and neither school has issued a statement.
The Armed Forces Bowl between Mississippi State and Tulsa ended in a sidelines-clearing brawl, because of course it did. Just end already, 2020. pic.twitter.com/L61BOllkgu
— Tyler Horka (@tbhorka) December 31, 2020
There were some serious punches thrown in this Miss St - Tulsa brawl, not to mention the kick! Couple more looks pic.twitter.com/GKkZfgueAp
— CJ Fogler (@cjzer0) December 31, 2020
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Argonne scientists to give 20 presentations at 234th American Chemical Society national meeting
WEBWIRE – Thursday, August 16, 2007
Eighteen scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne national Laboratory will give 20 presentations of their research at the 234th national meeting and exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), to be held in Boston from Aug. 19-23. The ACS maintains a membership of more than 158,000 scientists, making it the world’s largest scientific society devoted to a single discipline. More than 13,500 people are expected to attend the fall meeting.
Some of the planned presentations describe research that attempt to find solutions to America’s energy problems by looking at the behaviors of coal, ethanol or propane. Others describe methods of hydrogen production, including reforming. Many of the papers describe Argonne’s basic science research.
“The papers that are presented at the American Chemical Society meetings represent some of the most cutting-edge work in all of chemistry,” said Al Sattelberger, Argonne associate laboratory director for physical sciences and interim associate laboratory director for applied science and technology. “ Argonne’s large and diverse delegation to the conference shows that the laboratory continues to play a leadership role in chemistry research.”
The papers that will be presented at the conference and their Argonne authors are:
“67 Cu separation from zinc by sublimation and ion exchange,” by Delbert L. Bowers.
“Approach to provide samples for basic research: Argonne premium coals,” by Randall E. Winans.
“Challenges in hydrocarbon reforming for fuel cell applications,” by Michael Krumpelt.
“Chemical storage – cathodes,” by Michael M. Thackeray.
“Coal structure and reactivity: a physical organic chemistry approach,” by Randall E. Winans.
“Computational models of ion hydration,” by Troy W. Whitfield.
“Development of dense membranes for hydrogen production from coal,” by U. Balachandran.
“Hydrogen production by steam reforming of ethanol at elevated pressure,” by Sheldon H.D. Lee.
“Ionization mechanisms and pathways in liquid water,” by Christopher G. Elles.
“Nanoscale investigations of electrocatalysts from first principles,” by Jeffrey P. Greeley.
“Oxidative dehydrogenation of propane over nanostructured membrane catalyst,” by Christopher L. Marshall.
“Quantitative Raman analysis based on hole-enhanced Raman scattering,” by Hao Chen.
“Solvated electron and solvated atom,” by Ilya Shkrob.
“Summary of nuclear operations at the Radioactive Scrap and Waste Facility (RSWF),” by M.A. Lehto.
“Superheavy shell gaps from nobelium 2-quasiparticle energies,” by T.L. Khoo.
“Synchrotron studies of actinide speciation in solution,” by L. Soderholm.
“Tetraalkylphosphonium polyoxometalate ionic liquids: synthesis and characterization,” by M.R. Antonio.
“The foundation of the approach of Active Thermochemical Tables: the analysis and manipulation of the Thermochemical Network Graph,” by Abel Fernandez.
“Transient X-ray absorption spectroscopy of the aqueous BR atom and Br 2 - anion: solvation and reactivity,” by Christopher G. Elles.
“Transparent conducting oxides at high aspect ratios,” by Jeffrey W. Elam.
With employees from more than 60 nations, Argonne National Laboratory brings the world’s brightest scientists and engineers together to find exciting and creative new solutions to pressing national problems in science and technology. The nation’s first national laboratory, Argonne conducts leading-edge basic and applied scientific research in virtually every scientific discipline. Argonne researchers work closely with researchers from hundreds of companies, universities, and federal, state and municipal agencies to help them solve their specific problems, advance America ’s scientific leadership and prepare the nation for a better future. Argonne is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
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OK Google, How’s YouTube Doing?
It’s almost impossible to get financial specifics about the video-streaming service that helps power Alphabet’s ad business. For investors, that’s a problem.
Illustration: Robert Neubecker
John D. Stoll
May 3, 2019 11:07 am ET
YouTube is where we go to view a step-by-step tutorial on fixing a pesky plumbing problem and end up watching hours of cats waging war on the toilet-paper dispenser. Humans stream more than 1 billion hours of its videos per day, making it as ubiquitous in today’s culture as VCRs, cassette decks and the Nightly News were when I was a kid.
And yet, we probably know more about the finances of online pet store Chewy Inc., which filed IPO paperwork this week, than we do about those of YouTube. Owned by Alphabet Inc., the holding company behind Google, YouTube is what Journal reporter Rob Copeland characterized as a “financial black box” because statistics like revenue or profit are swept into a larger collection of business units that includes search, the Android operating system, the Chrome web browser and maps.
Alphabet’s strategy regarding YouTube has largely been a non-issue in the 13 years since Google acquired it for $1.6 billion. There are, after all, several multibillion-dollar companies hiding in plain sight at some of the best-known tech firms.
Facebook Inc., for instance, has owned the Instagram photo-sharing app since 2012. Amazon.com Inc. gobbled up Whole Foods in 2017. German software giant SAP SE in November bought Qualtrics just days before the market-analytics startup planned to sell shares to the public.
Investors accept that with acquisition comes a bit of a cloister. When Intel Corp. purchases the autonomous-car developer Mobileye or Microsoft Corp. swallows the LinkedIn social network, we know it will lead to less public information on those companies.
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House panel chair seeks "El Chapo's" extradition
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman
Michael Mccaul
WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security is encouraging Mexico’s authorities to extradite drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman (wah-KEEN’ el chah-poh gooz-MAHN’) to the United States to ensure he remains behind bars.
Guzman was arrested Saturday morning in the resort city of Mazatlan, Mexico.
Republican Michael McCaul calls Guzman the world’s most notorious drug lord and says on ABC’s “This Week” that his arrest is a significant victory for Mexico and the United States.
Guzman faces at least seven federal indictments.
McCaul said it’s Mexico’s call on where Guzman faces prosecution, but he noted that Guzman escaped from prison in 2001 and corruption continues to plague Mexico.
McCaul says Guzman would end up “in a super-max prison” in the U.S. from which he could not escape.
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Invasive Knotweed
Common Name: Japanese Knotweed
Scientific Name: Fallopia japonica
Common Name: Giant Knotweed
Scientific Name: Fallopia sachalinensi
Two non-native invasive plants that have been gaining a foothold in recent years in Northern Michigan are Japanese Knotweed (Fallopia japonica) and Giant Knotweed(Fallopia sachalinensi). Both invasive species were introduced from Asia as ornamental plants. Several characteristics make these two perennial, herbaceous shrubs easy to identify including height and their hollow stalks, which persist through winter and resemble bamboo.
Knotweeds are semi-shade tolerant but grow best in full sun and can be found along roadsides, stream and river banks, wetlands, wet depressions and woodland edges. The species’ deep taproot and extensive network of rhizomes (they can extend laterally 23-65 ft.!) enable them to form dense monocultures and crowd out native plant species. Knotweeds can also sprout from fragments of root and stem material, which are oftentimes dispersed by water and equipment. They are most aggressive on sites with natural or human disturbance, such as roadsides and construction sites, as well as stream and riverbanks. It isn’t unusual for the rhizomes and shoots to penetrate asphalt and cracks in concrete!
Key Identifiers for Japanese Knotweed and Giant Knotweed
Japanese Knotweed Leaves
Large, broad leaves
Up to 6 inches long
Approx. 5 inches wide
Abruptly pointed tips
Flat or tapered base
Stalks (Both types)
Upright, resemble bamboo
Round and hollow
Often mottled, with a fine whitish
coating that rubs off easily
Giant Knotweed Leaves
Larger, heart-shaped leaves
6-12 inches in length
Taper towards their tips
Underside has long, wavy hairs
Knotweed Flowers
Both species have clustered spikes
of creamy white flowers that bloom
mid-to-late summer.
Knotweed Roots
Both species’ deep taproot and extensive network of rhizomes that can extend laterally 23-65 feet and can penetrate asphalt and cracks in concrete.
Knotweed Height
Japanese knotweed grows 3-10 feet tall.
Giant knotweed can grow up to 13 feet.
Controlling Invasive Knotweed
Unfortunately, controlling knotweed is no small task even with herbicides. Following the recommended treatment protocol for the species is strongly advised because improper treatment may lead to the further spread of the plant. According to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) and the Michigan Natural Features Inventory (MNFI), certain herbicides have been found to be more effective than others, whereas hand pulling, digging, mowing, and burning are considered ineffective and may even be counterproductive. Taking action to control the plant sooner rather than later is key.
Mechanical methods alone will not effectively control large Japanese knotweed populations and may make them worse. Control efforts must target knotweed’s massive underground system of rhizomes. This network allows it to spread to new areas even as it is being attacked mechanically. To date, a combination of chemical and mechanical techniques, in conjunction with on-going monitoring, provides the most effective control of this species. Knotweed rhizomes that have not been completely killed off may send up new shoots as many as three years later. In all cases, monitoring and follow-up treatment will be required for four to ten years, depending on the size and age of the population being treated.
Remember that anyone using herbicides in the course of their employment is required to be a certified pesticide applicator.Treatment in wetlands or over open water requires a permit from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
Invasive Species:
Michigan Department of Natural Resources Michigan Natural Features Inventory, February 2012
This fact sheet is an excellent resources for anyone that has a stand of knotweed on their property. It offers information for identifying plants and control and treatment options.
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The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality—Aquatic Nuisance Control
http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,4561,7-135-3313_3681_3710---,00.html
The Nature Conservancy’s Weed Control Methods Handbook: Tools and Techniques for Use in Natural Areas
http://www.invasive.org/gist/handbook.html
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Brett Bowden brings World War II to life in his book Direct Hit: The Bombing of Darwin Post Office.
Archibald Halls (left) and Hurtle Bald (right).
Around 10am on February 19, 1942, in the Darwin Post Office, telegraph supervisor, Archibald Halls, was testing a connection to Adelaide when he interrupted himself: “The Japs have found us and their bombs are falling like hailstones,” he tapped out in Morse code. “I’m getting out of here. See you
Halls sheltered with eight others, including the Postmaster Hurtle Bald and his family, in an air-raid trench dug into the backyard of the post office. They took a direct hit from a 500-pound bomb, smashing a crater the size of a bus. No-one survived.
It was the first of almost 100 raids by Japanese bombers on mainland Australia. The combined death
toll on that day was more than 240 people, perhaps as many as 300.
Australia’s communications link with the world, an overland telegraph that met an undersea cable, had run through the post office and was severed in the strike. With Japanese planes still buzzing in the sky, three men emerged from their shelters to reconnect the line. The rest of Australia needed to know the threat. In less than an hour, they had jury-rigged a connection and tapped out a message that the first ever wartime attack had occurred on Australian soil.
Brett Bowden, Professor of History and Politics in the School of Humanities & Communication Arts at Western Sydney University, detailed the bombing and the heroic acts that saw Australia’s communications restored, in his book, Direct Hit: The Bombing of Darwin Post Office.
The Darwin Post Office was bombed in 1942
It was the first ever wartime attack on Australian soil
Brett Bowden is the first to examine aspects of the incident
The Darwin Post Office before the bombing
The Darwin Post Office after the bombing.
It was the first time the story of the post office had been told. Bowden dug out never-seen archives, comprising thousands of pages of first-hand accounts to piece the details together.
Bowden was inspired when he stumbled across a personal connection with Postmaster Hurtle Bald. He hailed from the same town as Bald and he couldn’t put aside the thought that this important part of Australian history was missing the recognition it deserved.
“People will go and walk the Kokoda Trail in remembrance and they’ll visit the Gallipoli Peninsula
on Anzac Day, but very few bother to go to the north of Australia to see what happened in 1942,” Bowden says. The popular history book was a change of pace from his usual, more academic work. Bowden says he found a great deal of satisfaction in telling the story. “I am still getting emails or letters, old-fashioned handwritten letters, from people who are grateful to me for telling this story.”
He says that it’s important, particularly with the recent rise of the far-right, that Australia knows its own history, “Having a good understanding of history means that hopefully we don’t make the same mistakes again.”
Meet the Academic | Professor Brett Bowden
Brett Bowden is Professor of History and Politics in the School of Humanities & Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. He is a multi-award-winning author and has previously held appointments at the University of Queensland, the Australian National University, and the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He has held visiting positions in the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London, and in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University in Germany. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales. He is a recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award from Flinders University.
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MAC makes Marge Simpson line of cosmetics
20th Century Fox Televison, MAC Cosmetics
The Simpsons' 25th anniversary continues with possibly the strangest collaboration yet.
Fancy dolling yourself up like that glamourous icon of modern beauty, Marge Simspon? MAC has your back come September, with the launch of a make-up line based on Springfield's femme domestique.
Springfield, Springfield! We're launching a collection to celebrate 25 years of @TheSimpsons this fall. #MACandMARGE pic.twitter.com/p2ZsDzAPdf
— maccosmetics (@MACcosmetics) May 6, 2014
MAC announced the new line on Twitter, complete with the hashtag
#MACandMARGE. There's no confirmation of what will be included in the range as yet, though perhaps a strong sunshine yellow foundation or a royal blue lip gloss will make appearances. Marge is famed for her elegant yet minimalistic style, so we'd presume her first fashion collaboration will naturally echo these traits.
Also unconfirmed is whether the products will be applied via make-up shotgun, as in the classic episode 'Homer the Inventor'. We kind of hope they will be.
Marge's fashion spotlight isn't the first time the New York-based cosmetics house has dabbled with pop culture icons. In 2011, it launched a range based on DC Comics' Wonder Woman, and has also tied in with Hello Kitty, Archie & Friends, and Barbie.
The limited edition run will launch as part of the ongoing 25th anniversary celebrations of The Simpsons. Created by Matt Groening, Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie first appeared in crudely animated shorts on The Tracy Ullman Show in 1987, before graduating to their own show in December 1989. Now a pop-culture behemoth, The Simpsons quarter-century mark has already seen the launch of a long-rumoured Lego toy line and Lego-centric episode, Brick Like Me, and will include a weekend of orchestral performances of the show's music at the Hollywood Bowl.
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Goyke
Inmates at Columbia Correctional Institution sleep on the floor because there are not enough beds, according to a Department of Corrections budget request.
Others are released from prison directly from a solitary confinement unit where they "are single celled, have no movement, eat in cell, recreate alone or segregated, and have very limited property."
The released inmates "not only haven’t functioned in society in some time, but they haven’t functioned in general population of the institution in some time, if ever," DOC said in its request for $25,354,000.
The State Legislature and Gov. Scott Walker said no and established a study committee to discuss the state's prison needs.
This is part 4 in our series on Wisconsin prisons, how crowded they are, and what the Department of Corrections said is needed to improve, repair, and maintain them.
Here is Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
And here is a link to a video of State Rep. Evan Goyke's presentation, titled "Inmate 501: Converging Problems in Wisconsin's Prison System," on the choices for Wisconsin's prison future. As he says in his accompanying publication, "Inmate 501 will be the first Wisconsin inmate sent out of state because of overcrowding in nearly 20 years. Recent prison population growth is set to exceed all available options in state. We face challenging decisions. Do we send people out of state? Do we build a new prison? Do we reform?"
Goyke votes for reform. So do we.
This primer does not really address the consequences of the crowding and physical shortcomings of the institutions – the impacts on inmates and staff. But we sure hope you will keep them in mind as you consider the price of mass incarceration.
Institution: Columbia Correctional Institution, Portage
Classification: Maximum security
Capital budget request: $25,354,000
Status: Rejected
From the request: This project would construct a new 100-cell Transitional Housing Unit next to the current housing Unit 9 building for inmates with special program needs, including inmates needing to integrate back into general population after long periods in segregation. ...
The Transitional Housing Unit will be ADA compliant and able to accommodate inmates with special physical needs, such as being confined to a wheelchair. It would be preferable that at least 50% of the cells are on ground level, and would not require the use of a lift. At a minimum, in order for CCI to be ADA compliant, 16% of the cells must be built on ground level.
The Transitional Housing Unit will have single and double cells (approximately 20% of the total cells will be double cells). It will also have programming space for group and individual programming, a dayroom for eating meals and for recreation, a food servery for preparing meal trays, an officer’s control bubble, an officer’s workstation in the dayroom, storage space for supplies/equipment, storage space to house medications, a unit laundry for inmate clothing, and office space for staff such as clinicians, social workers, and housing unit management staff.
Expansion to the RH2 building will include program/treatment areas, staff offices, no-contact visiting space, and storage. In addition, the recreation pens will be covered to allow for outdoor recreation in all seasons.
The RH2 currently does not have any programming space, or adequate treatment space. Inmates are evaluated by health services staff and psychological services staff in the dayroom providing for no means of confidentiality. There is inadequate storage space requiring supplies to be stored in the open of the dayroom. There is no office space for staff in RH2, and staff currently uses limited office space in other buildings in the institution.
Source: DOC Offenders Under Control on Dec. 1, 2017
The new Transitional Housing Unit will be built to allow for flexibility in programming to meet the needs of the dynamic inmate population at CCI. This includes inmates needing to integrate back into general population after long stays in restrictive housing (greater than 120 days), inmates prone to self-harm, and inmates that struggle to function in general population. This might include inmates with temporary physical limitations (possibly after surgery), inmates with serious mental health issues, or inmates with gender identity disorders.
This type of flexibility in a housing unit is a critical need at CCI for the following reasons:
Transitional Step Down – Currently, CCI has a Restrictive Housing Unit 1 (RH1) and a Restrictive Housing Unit 2 (RH2). Inmates typically transition from RH1 to RH2 before going back to general population. Inmates in RH1 are single celled, have no movement, eat in cell, recreate alone or segregated, and have very limited property. Inmates in RH2 are typically double or triple celled (with the third inmate sleeping on the floor with a mattress), have very limited movement with escort, eat in cell, recreate alone or segregated, and have additional property, but still far less than general population.
The new Transitional Housing Unit will be an additional step between RH2 and general population that will allow the inmate to still be in a restrictive status, yet live as they would in general population. Inmates will have an opportunity to have a roommate, eat in the dayroom with others, recreate in the dayroom with others, order all available canteen, have more property, and possibly have more movement. It will allow the inmate to reintegrate into the general population lifestyle, while allowing staff to monitor the inmate in a more controlled environment than general population.
Inmates are evaluated by health services staff and psychological services staff in the dayroom providing for no means of confidentiality.
Restrictive Housing Release – There are currently inmates that, due to mandatory release dates, are releasing back into society from RH1. These inmates not only haven’t functioned in society in some time, but they haven’t functioned in general population of the institution in some time, if ever. With the new unit, these inmates will be moved to the transitional unit several months before release so they can begin to reintegrate and function outside of the restrictions in restrictive housing. This will allow inmates a better opportunity to receive needed programming before release, and a better chance at re-entry.
Observation – Currently inmates having thoughts of, or exhibiting acts, of self-harm are placed in a controlled or observation status in RH1. They are given no property or very limited property. Some of these placements are a result of legitimate self-harm situations, and some are inmates manipulating the system.
Inmates who are genuinely struggling in general population are placed in control or observation on a restrictive housing unit, although they are not in a disciplinary status. The environment in RH1 can be very loud and disruptive and not conducive to overcoming thoughts or behaviors of self-harm. A wing on this new transitional unit would be dedicated for observing inmates needing a controlled environment away from general population, and out of a restrictive unit.
Inmates who are manipulating the system may feign thoughts of self-harm to avoid situations in general population, such as conflicts with other inmates, or conduct reports/sanctions. Still others feign thoughts of self-harm because they are aware of CCI’s bed constraints, and know a fellow inmate may be released from RH1 if observation beds are full. Inmates suspected of feigning thoughts of self-harm to get fellow inmates out of RH1 would no longer have that motivation, as the number of observation beds available would not be dependent on the number of segregation beds filled. ...
The environment in RH1 can be very loud and disruptive and not conducive to overcoming thoughts or behaviors of self-harm.
Institution Bed Management - Since the expectation is that some inmates currently living in general population housing units and RH2 will move into the new transitional unit, more bed space will become available in the existing housing units. This will allow for better bed management of the other general population and restrictive housing units at CCI.
Inmates are often forced to sleep on the floor because bunk space is not available due to the “do not double” (DND) requirements of other inmates. This is most prevalent in RH2. Bed space is also limited because of the sheer number of inmates needing certain programming, and therefore needing placement on a particular unit. As of July 18, 2016, 15 inmates were without a bunk and sleeping on the floor. All of those inmates were in RH2. With the new transitional unit, it would be expected that CCI would have sufficient bed space and no inmates would need to sleep on the floor.
CCI also often makes decisions to release inmates from RH1 to RH2, and from RH2 to general population, based on the lack of bed space in the restrictive housing units. Having the new transitional unit step down unit will provide the additional restrictive housing unit beds needed to allow staff to make decisions for restrictive housing placement based on the inmate’s needs and institution security, not based on bed availability.
Restrictive Housing Unit 2 does not offer any space for inmates to obtain programming or treatment on the unit. Providing programming to these inmates while in RH2 will allow for shorter stays in RH2 and a better transition to the new transitional step down unit. It will also improve conditions of confinement for inmates in restrictive status housing.
Institution: New Lisbon Correctional Institution, New Lisbon
Classification: Medium security
Capital budget request: $0
Institution: Oakhill Correctional Institution, Sturtevant
Classification: Minimum security
Capital budget request: $5,042,000
From the request: This project would install high efficiency boilers in various buildings at Oakhill Correctional Institution (OCI), designed to replace the existing central boiler steam system and underground steam piping, underground condensate piping, steam traps, and condensate tanks. ... A fourth boiler was added in 2006 and is primarily used is for low pressure summer loads. Upon completion of this project, the fourth boiler will be transferred to another DOC facility that is in need of a summer boiler.
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GENERAL’S CROWN KING NAMED AMONG TOP 100 BEST PRODUCTS OF 2014
August 14, 2014 | 1:07 pm EDT
NEW YORK - Readers of Professional Remodeler magazine have chosen the Crown King crown molding jig from General Tools & Instruments (General®) as one of the Top 100 Best New Products of 2014. General’s Crown King is one of just seven products to receive this recognition in the Construction Tools & Equipment category.
According to Professional Remodeler, “The Top 100 Best New Products of 2014 represent the leading products that have been introduced or improved in the past 12 months as chosen by our readers.” Editors regarded the products as most relative based on responses from the Reader Service Card as well as the magazine’s own data analysis of the product’s popularity on its website.
“It’s particularly rewarding to receive this recognition because it comes straight from professional remodelers and remodeling enthusiasts,” says General’s VP of Strategic Marketing Peter Harper. “It means we’re reaching our target audience of end users and that they believe the Crown King is not only innovative in design, but also a valuable and practical product that provides real advantages when doing crown molding work.”
The complete Top 100 list appears in the August issue of the magazine and on the website. General’s Crown King write-up appears online here. Professional Remodeler is distributed to more than 63,000 remodelers every month.
General’s Crown King (880) streamlines the production of crown molding, saving time and money by eliminating trial and error as well as complex processes and calculations. Unlike other crown molding jigs, the Crown King requires no assembly. In combination with a miter saw, users can produce seamless, precise interior and exterior corner joints with the three most common crown molding spring angles (38, 45 and 52 degrees.) The Crown King comprises two pieces: the jig itself and a versatile insert/adapter. Without the insert, the jig is positioned for cutting 45-degree spring angle moldings. With the insert, it is quickly reconfigured to accommodate 38- or 52-degree spring angles. Whether dressing up adjoining ceilings and walls, adding decorative elements to cabinetry and furniture, or enhancing door and window hoods, crown molding lends artistic flair that now can be accomplished easily and affordably.
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Headquartered in New York City since 1922, General Tools & Instruments remains the market leader in precision specialty hand tools. Recent product advancements and corporate acquisitions have expanded General’s line to include over 1,500 precision tools and hand-held instruments. This vast array of products is widely used by contractors, professionals, technicians, DIYers and hobbyists in a broad range of industries. To learn more about General Tools & Instruments and its products, visit www.generaltools.com or call Customer Support at 1-800-697-8665.
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Adorable Animals (Set 4)
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Adams sends strong message to Frank Lampard ahead of FA Cup clash
Morecambe manager Derek Adams has sent a strong message to Frank Lampard ahead of third-round Emirate FA Cup clash against Chelsea at Samford Bridge on Sunday.
The League Two club is gearing to take on Chelsea after reaching the tournament third-round for the first time in 18 years.
However, Lampard hopes to overturned Chelsea four defeats in six Premier League encounters which put club legend job under threat.
Morecambe coach Adams has revealed that he was to put Lampard under more pressure as he targets to beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.
Shrimps boss told the PA news agency: “I think Chelsea’s form makes it more difficult for us, there’s no doubt about that,”
“Because there’s obviously pressure on Chelsea to get through to the next round, we know that, and they were FA Cup finalists last season.
“So we know that the game for us is going to be difficult.
“But I think it will be harder than it probably could have been, because if they were winning games then it might have been a wee bit easier for us.
“We’re back in training, we came back into training late on Tuesday night.
“And we are preparing for the game on Sunday, along with all the other teams in the FA Cup we get tested again 72 hours before the game, and we’ll see from there.
“To be fair the players have come back in and they’ve trained well.
“They’ve had 10 days off, isolating in their own homes, and they are obviously looking forward to getting back training and getting going again.
“They are looking forward to the game on Sunday, and they are in good spirits. We’re fine, and we have no injuries going into the game.”
“I think the players actually have to be more concentrated without the fans, because of the lack of atmosphere, they have to just switch on very quickly.
“And going into this game we know that Chelsea will start at a pace, because they are at home and they want to progress to the next round.
“So we have to analyse that very quickly in the game, that they are going to come out of the blocks as quickly as possible.
“I think going into the game against Chelsea’s obviously going to be difficult because of the outfit they are. But what we can do is go and give it a good shot.
“To get into the FA Cup third round for the first time in 18 years is very good for the football club.
“We’re all disappointed that supporters can’t be there, because I’m sure there would have been thousands travelling down for the game.
“But it’s live on the television, which is obviously very useful as well.
“We’ll not benefit as much as we would have done if supporters were there.
“We’ve done quite well out of television revenue in the previous rounds, and we’ll do well out of this one as well.
“Any money that you haven’t budgeted for is welcome, and at this football club anything that comes in, they’re delighted.”
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Ford recalls 2020-21 Explorer and Lincoln Aviator, 2021 E-Series
Byron Hurd
Ford announced safety recalls for the 2020-2021 Explorer and Lincoln Aviator along with the 2021 E-Series early Monday. The recalls address entirely different issues.
In the case of the 2020-2021 Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator, that issue is motor mount hardware. Specifically, the fasteners that secure the passenger-side motor mount may back out. In Ford's words, this can result in a "loss of power," which is the entirely predictable result of an engine parting ways with the vehicle it powers.
As alarming as that may sound, owners should not have to worry about anything extreme, as the passenger side mount is only one of multiple, and Ford says it is not aware of any incidents that have occurred with vehicles in customer hands. Ford says it impacts only about 1400 examples of the Explorer and Aviator in the States (plus two in Mexico and 65 in Canada) that were built at Chicago Assembly Plant between July 28 and 30, 2020.
Ford is in the process of alerting its owners to the recall, and those with affected models will have their mount hardware replaced by their local Ford dealerships free of charge.
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This is the larger of the two recalls, as Ford says it covers nearly 33,000 examples sold in the United States and Canada. Fortunately, as with the above issue, Ford says it has not been made aware of any customer incidents. Ford says the remedy is a set of insulation patches for the exposed areas.
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Kate And William Will Visit Meghan And Harry In California This Year
January 7, 2021, 12:14 PM ·1 min read
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From Women's Health
The Cambridges are planning to visit the Sussexes at their home in California in 2021.
The families intend to reunite as soon as it's safe to travel.
Prince William and Prince Harry's "royal feud" is officially over after, like, 84 million incredibly dramatic years—and now the brothers are making plans to reunite. While travel is currently restricted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a source tells Us Weekly that the brothers are "looking forward to spending time together in person the moment it’s safe to travel."
And get this: while their initial reunion will likely take place in England, the source notes that Prince William and Kate Middleton are planning to visit Meghan and Harry in California—with the source saying, "At some point in 2021, the Cambridges will travel to Santa Barbara and see the Sussexes on their new home turf."
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Shopify Deactivates Trump Stores After D.C. Riot
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Merchandise in support of outgoing President Donald Trump is going to be harder to come by.
Shopify, the e-commerce platform used by thousands of brands and companies to sell goods online, has deactivated at least two e-commerce sites offering merchandise in support of Trump, a day after he publicly egged on and supported thousands of his supporters breaking into the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
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The deactivated Shopify sites include Trumpstore.com, directly operated by the Trump Organization, and his official campaign merchandise site, Shopdonaldjtrump.com. Other sites associated with Trump or selling supportive merchandise seem to be closed as well, but Shopify would not provide the exact number of stores closed down.
“Shopify does not tolerate actions that incite violence,” a company representative said. Recent events were determined to violate its “acceptable use policy.”
“As a result, we have terminated stores affiliated with President Trump,” the representative added.
Under normal circumstances, this would likely prompt a swift and angry response from Trump on his social media channels, but as of last night, he is blocked from Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat.
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Students bring teachers to tears with 'moving' messages of gratitude during online classes
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Education in America has taken a hit since the coronavirus pandemic took many students and educators out of the classroom and placed them in front of computers for a semester of online learning. While teachers have done their best to keep students motivated during this difficult time, students are now returning the favor by surprising teachers with messages of gratitude.
“I wanted to make sure my professors knew they were appreciated for all the hard work they do,” Faith Williams, a student at San Diego State University, tells Yahoo Life. “This teacher appreciation trend kept showing up on my For You page on TikTok, and each video was so moving to see teachers and professors break down in front of their students. It really showed me how much teachers need to be shown appreciation during this time.”
Williams’s own video surprising her communication professor Michael Rapp gained viral attention on the short-form video app from viewers who commented to share that it made them cry. The student says that the moment was well deserved.
“[Rapp] really touches his students’ lives and he is loved across campus. As you can tell by the comments on my TikTok, so many students shared their love and appreciation for Master Rapp [as students call him],” Williams says, referring to a number of users who mentioned their own experiences at SDSU in Rapp’s class. “His reaction was so sweet and heartfelt. You could tell he really needed it.”
Williams explains that she organized the surprise via a mass email to her classmates, encouraging them to make their own signs and instructing them on when to show them off. As seen in the video, it was perfectly timed with the professor bidding farewell to the class as the semester wrapped up.
“You’ll always be able to find me. So good luck with your final, good luck with everything going on in your life,” Rapp says in the video, before going speechless at the sight of the signs reading, “Thank you,” and sniffling through tears. “Sorry if I got a little emotional right there, but thank you, thank you, thank you. I hope I had as much of an influence on you as you just did right there for me... That’s something that I will definitely recall forever and will be lasting and I will be bragging about that to as many people as I can.”
Rapp didn’t respond to Yahoo Life’s request for comment.
Numerous other educators on the receiving end of these teacher appreciation videos on TikTok displayed the same reaction.
“Oh my gosh. Oh you guys are gonna make me cry,” Denise Hopper, a precalculus teacher at Long Reach High School in Columbia, Md. said in a video posted by Jessica Ortiz. The 16-year-old tells Yahoo Life that it was an important gesture after a difficult semester.
“Mrs. Hopper is absolutely the kindest teacher and we all sort of felt bad since nobody really turned their cameras on in class and a lot of us barely spoke,” Ortiz admits. “Online school has been hard for everyone on both ends and we wanted to make sure that Mrs. Hopper knew that we all appreciated everything she was doing in order for us to learn.” Hopper didn’t immediately respond to Yahoo Life’s request for comment.
Williams echoes that sentiment acknowledging that “Zoom is just not the same. Many times, teachers are left to teach to blank screens when students don’t turn on their cameras.”
And although these surprises have a special impact on the teachers, Williams says that she’ll also remember the sentimental moment forever.
“It was so moving to know that students could change a professor’s life with just one gesture and one sign showing our appreciation,” she says. “I will never forget this. It was so wholesome and I was so happy to see our professor know he is appreciated.”
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On the first official day of winter, 1,963 people died in the U.S. Now, in January, the number of deaths per day have roughly doubled. Although I tried to focus on the positive vaccine rollout news and distract myself by rewatching Home Alone, my stress has only grown — and post-holidays, has turned into something like despair. “The sense of loss for people is more apparent in winter,” says Steven Meyers, PhD, a clinical psychologist and professor at Roosevelt University in Chicago. “The pivot to winter is going to be more difficult, because even though the stress is going to stay relatively consistent, the outlets for coping that many people have used are going to be increasingly hard to come by.” He gives this analogy: “Imagine you’re walking around in your daily life carrying a backpack that has 40 or 50 pounds of weight,” he says. At times, you forget you’re even wearing it. But it’s always there, and if you’re handed any additional weight (a violent, racist, and anti-Semitic attack on the nation’s Capitol, for instance), and not given any chances to set it down (no more opportunities for safe outdoor meet-ups as the weather gets colder), it can grow to become unbearable. While our routines do have to change during the winter, there are things you can do to lighten your stress load and make your first pandemic winter more bearable. Start with these expert-backed strategies. Aim for “mental moderation” “Some people are imagining this to be the worst time of their lives, creating anticipatory anxiety that may add burden on top of what they’re already experiencing now,” Dr. Meyers says. Others may be leaning too far in the other direction, and in their determination to stay upbeat are actually falling into a “toxic positivity” mindset. “The middle is the best,” Dr. Meyers says. “Have the mindset that there will be challenges, but you can be resourceful and you can get through this.” Setting mindful intentions for yourself can keep you from tipping too low or too high. Intentions can become a kind of goal or mantra, and creating one that embodies “mental moderation” will help you stay on middle ground. “You can pick something simple, such as: my goal for this winter is peace,” suggests Alfiee Breland-Noble, PhD, MHSc, a psychologist and founder of the mental health nonprofit, the AAKOMA Project. Write it down on a sticky note and place it somewhere you’ll see it often, make your intention a recurring calendar event so you see reminders for it on your phone, or simply repeat it to yourself before you go to bed at night. Find chances to move Moving more has been shown to improve mood and lessen anxiety, but as the weather gets colder, we tend to get outside less. If you can, it may be worth layering up and keeping up with your daily walks or jogs. Or get creative about building some movement into your indoor life. If you like to workout, stream a fun new class. Or dance around to music you like, try to learn a TikTok dance, or just pace around while talking on the phone with friends instead of sitting down. Treat isolation seriously If there’s anything we learned from the last year, it’s that physical isolation is very, very difficult — and not good for us mentally, either. Winter will make it harder to see people in real life, and it’s worth going the extra mile to stay connected. “Coming into winter, don’t be too proud to ask for help,” Breland-Noble says. “Text your friend and say, ‘Can I call you?’ If they don’t respond, text someone else. Don’t sit and assume that people don’t care because they’re not reaching out. They’re probably dealing with their own stuff, too.” Phone calls, FaceTime sessions, email gratitude chains, and layering up and going on a socially distanced walk (or snowshoe, if need be) will all be lifesavers over the next few months. If you’re FaceTimed out, consider adding some structure to your get togethers — start a virtual book club, look for interesting classes you can join via MasterClass or even LinkedIn Learning, or try game nights. Give “future you” a gift Put something (or better, some things) on your calendar that you can look forward to — the first day of spring, the last day of January, inauguration day, or a fun Zoom PowerPoint party you’ve planned with your friends. “This is a strategy used by people who run marathons,” Dr. Meyers says. “They set short-term goals to get through the long race. “Even though time feels like time moves slowly, it still moves. Winter will come to an end. 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Lululemon's high-performing, best-kept secret tights are only $79 right now — plus 10 other We Made Too Much deals
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She doesn’t care.How Melania Took the Fantasy Out of First Lady FashionMelania’s tenure as first lady ends on Jan. 20. But any hope that she would rise above her husband’s vicious policies ended that July 2018 afternoon at Andrews Air Force Base.There once was a liberal fantasy that Melania was part of some mythical Trump resistance. It took just one $39 Zara jacket to squash that theory and prove something more sinister than mere complicity. She was entirely apathetic, yawning in the face of the nation’s shame. Melania Trump climbs back into her motorcade after traveling to Texas to visit facilities that house and care for children taken from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, June 21, 2018, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Melania responded to the bad press in what would become a hallmark of her media strategy: actually, you’re being mean to me. Stephanie Grisham, Melania’s spokesperson at the time, issued a statement. “It’s a jacket. There was no hidden message. After today’s important visit to Texas, I hope this isn’t what the media is going to choose to focus on.”Donald Trump weighed in, via Twitter: “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?’ written on the back of Melania’s jacket, refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares!”Many, like Whoopi Goldberg on The View, speculated there might be a mole on Melania’s team, prodding her to wear the offensive jacket as an act of sabotage. “She doesn’t have any friends,” who might tell her to take it off, Sunny Hostin offered.Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former White House aide (and notorious Apprentice alum), wrote in her book Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House, “I believe Melania uses style to punish her husband.” If she’s to be believed, “[Melania] wore that jacket to hurt Trump, setting off a controversy that he would have to fix, prolonging the conversation about the administration’s insensitivity, ruining the trip itself, and trying to make sure that no one asked her to do something like that again.”These theories did not take into account that Melania is perfectly capable of dressing herself, and has for most of the past four years. Sure, the French designer Hervé Pierre, who designed Melania’s silk crepe inauguration ball gown, sometimes shopped anonymously for her at New York designer flagships and department stores, he told The New York Times. But Pierre told WWD he “hadn’t ever seen the jacket.”While promoting her memoir last year, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former friend and adviser to Melania, told Anderson Cooper, “The jacket was… a publicity stunt, and it was to garner the attention of the press, to make sure that everyone was aware that Melania was going to the border.”Melania would later offer her own motivation in an interview a few months later with ABC. “It’s obvious that I didn’t wear the jacket for the children. I wore the jacket to go on the plane and off the plane. And it was for the people and the left-wing media who are criticizing me. And I want to show them that I don’t care. You could criticize, whatever you want to say, it will not stop me to do what I feel is right,” she said.It was an attack straight out of her husband’s warped playbook. Melania deflected, and made herself the victim. So that Resistance Melania meme, the one so many people wanted to come true, was never really there to begin with. If she was upset with her position, it was only because it inconvenienced her. She said as much in interviews, and she blazed it on her back. During that ABC interview, a pith helmet sat on a table next to her, as the interview took place during her much-discussed trip to Africa. She donned the accessory on a safari of Kenya, endorsing a style irrevocably tied to the colonial era. Melania Trump waves as she travels in a vehicle while on a safari at The Nairobi National Park in Nairobi on Oct. 5, 2018. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images “It’s tired and it’s old and it’s inaccurate,” Kim Yi Dionne, a politics professor at the University of California, Riverside, put it to The New York Times. The choice conjured memories of the abuse inflicted on Kenyans by British imperial forces and spoke to the most watered-down image an American might have of Africa.It echoed Trump’s preferred descriptor for African nations: “shithole.”Washington Post senior critic-at-large Robin Givhan would write that “nothing else Melania Trump wears will ever matter again.”“Her credibility as a moderating force, a gracious presence swathed in silk and lace, has been significantly undermined by her own hand,” Givhan added.That proved true. There were times The Daily Beast covered her outfits since then—notably, the Disney villain meets Dynasty wardrobe she brought to a London trip in 2019. Her outfits looked like costumes, as if she was cosplaying Nancy Reagan in Art of the Deal-era power dressing. President Trump and Melania take tea with Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (R) at Clarence House on June 3, 2019 in London, England. Victoria Jones - WPA Pool/Getty Images Her clothing, as always, was a visual manifestation of her husband’s brash, hulking personality. Though Melania often refused to play the traditional first lady for the “fake news” press, she was more than happy to dress the part of trophy wife. She would beg Americans to “focus on what I do, not what I wear,” and then do… not much at all. So we were left with her clothes to dissect.She wore an olive green, militaristic Alexander McQueen suit for her speech at last year’s Republican National Convention. The wartime look was swiftly dubbed “fascion” by the Instagram account @DietPrada, comparing it to uniforms worn by Hitler, Mussolini, and the North Korean military. 1228204416 Melania addresses the Republican Convention during its second day from the Rose Garden of the White House August 25, 2020, in Washington, DC. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images With her words, she tried to calm the “many people [who] are anxious,” their lives upended by the pandemic. But her outfit was a rallying cry, a call to action. There was nothing soft about this kind of diplomacy. It was as sharp as her Louboutin stilettos.When it came time to vote for her husband on Nov. 3, Melania dressed for the job she wants, and will soon have: a Palm Beach housewife. She did not wear a mask (of course), but a $4,500 Gucci chain-link dress. There were, again, jokes about her in handcuffs—another secret meaning, perhaps, that she feels constricted by her life. Or not. The frock projected a leisurely indifference, so out of touch with most Americans on that day. She looked like she wanted the whole thing to be over with, and quick. Once again, Melania was saying: I really don’t care. Melania leaves after casting her vote at the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center polling place on Nov. 3, 2020 in Palm Beach, Florida. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
The Secrets of Tiger Woods’ Many Sordid Affairs Revealed
Mike Ehrmann/GettyDo you ever get the feeling that everyone is talking behind your back? Imagine how Tiger Woods is going to feel after part two of the HBO documentary Tiger airs Sunday night.The installment parses the all-time golf great’s extreme philandering and jaw-dropping infidelity—there’s a rumor that the New York Post ran more covers on the salacious details than on 9/11—the crumbling of his marriage, the shattering of his reputation, his humiliating DUI arrest, and his unraveling as injury and public shame torpedoed his career.Then again, that’s also why Tiger, and its quick-moving three hours over the course of two weekends, is so good—and so refreshing.It’s been a boom time for biographical documentaries of living legends, with Tiger joining the likes of Hillary Clinton’s Hillary, Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana, Michelle Obama’s Becoming, and the most direct comparison, Michael Jordan’s The Last Dance.The glaring difference between those projects and Tiger is the subjects’ participation, going so far as to be a part of the conception and produce the documentaries in addition to being interviewed for them. They’re all fascinating, but even the most forgiving critics would scoff at the extent to which they’re all hagiographies, allowing a halo’s glow to lighten even the darkest times of their subjects’ lives.It’s the trade-off in things like this: Obviously you want the person’s participation, but what is the cost to the storytelling?And therein lies the juicy hook wrangling curious viewers to this dramatic recounting of the historic rise of one of the most significant athletes the U.S. has ever seen, and his turbulent fall amid tawdry scandal. It’s not afraid of getting into the dirt.Tiger is missing the three most authoritative voices when it comes to telling the story of Tiger Woods: his late father, Earl, whose domineering pressure and intimate friendship shaped every bit of the man and athlete Woods would become; Elin Nordegren, Woods’ ex-wife whose life was torn apart when the affairs made global headlines; and Woods himself.What it does have, however, is the VIP host who would recruit girls for Woods, Charles Barkley, and Michael Jordan at clubs; the Vegas madam alleging that he would sometimes request from her 10 women at a time; and the woman who, through no fault of her own, became the catalyst for the fall of Woods’ empire: Rachel Uchitel, the former New York club hostess who says that, 10 years later, “My name hasn’t lost the stigma at all. It’s always been ‘Rachel Uchitel, Tiger Woods’ Mistress.’”Ex-girlfriends who were ghosted and childhood friends who were cut out of his life talk about the Tiger they knew, and their concern over who he became and his changing priorities. His former caddie, who had Woods as his best man at his wedding, speaks about being dropped to the curb after years of service and never contacted again. Everyone reacts with horror and pity to the upsetting footage of Woods’ fateful 2017 traffic stop and DUI arrest.But Tiger is ultimately a story about triumph, because that’s what Tiger Woods’ greater story is.Last weekend’s Part One chronicled not just the energy it took on young Tiger’s part, but also his father’s relentless—and sometimes overly aggressive—dedication to helping his son succeed as a Black person in elite golf, and Tiger’s transformation into a cultural phenomenon.It talked about how he broke age and color barriers, how he rewrote the book on sports marketing, how brands would use racial discord for corporate activism, and the complicated position he was put in as a multi-racial athlete with the expectations of the world on his shoulders.But Part Two tunnels its way to rock bottom in order to lend context to his incredible return to glory: In 2019, following four back surgeries and an avalanche of distracting personal controversy, Woods claimed his fifth Masters title, dubbed “the greatest comeback in sports history.”The most addicting part of Tiger is its mischievous edge, an implicit contract with the audience that it’s going to “go there.”For all the rightful talk about his accomplishments, it’s these elements that are likely going to garner the most attention. Former National Enquirer editor Neal Boulton is one of the installment’s pivotal narrators. He proclaims Woods as the ultimate cautionary tale: “Be careful of the image you create of yourself.”The most sordid details surface, as is their wont, in Las Vegas.Las Vegas became Woods’ escape from the pressure of being Tiger Woods. Tiffany Masters, who used to work as a host for his trips to Sin City with Jordan and Barkley, remembered, “In that entourage, Tiger was a bit of a geek. It wasn’t like he was mack daddy, like Casanova.” Woods would ask Jordan what he was supposed to say to the girls that Masters and the other hosts would choose to party with them, and Jordan told him, “Tell them you’re Tiger Woods.”According to Masters, Woods’ sexual encounters didn’t slow down when he married Nordegren in 2004. Biographer Armen Keteyian said, “His ability to live a double life began in Vegas.”Before Woods’ affair with Uchitel heated up the watercooler, he almost got caught with another woman. The National Enquirer got a tip about his torrid sexual relationship with Mindy Lawton, a hostess at the Perkins restaurant near his home with Nordegren. When they were together, he made a careless mistake, unaware that reporters from the Enquirer were tailing him.One night they followed him to a church parking lot where he and Lawton had sex. The reporters took photos and even collected the used tampon that Lawton had discarded to keep as proof.When the photos were too blurry to use, the tabloid bargained them as collateral: If Woods agreed to appear on the cover of Men’s Fitness magazine, which shared an owner with the Enquirer, they’d kill the Lawton affair story.But it wouldn’t take long for Woods to get caught again.Rachel Uchitel worked at the exclusive Griffin nightclub in New York, which was frequented by the likes of Drake, Rihanna, Beyoncé, and Jay Z. One night she was working and saw Woods sitting and sipping his drink alone. She made small talk with him, since it was her job to make sure VIPs were enjoying themselves. At the end of the night, he asked for her number. By the time his car reached the next block, he began texting her.He offered to fly her to Orlando, where he would then meet her. “That was the first night I had sex with him,” Uchitel says. “I remember thinking with him, how am I ever going to be with a mere mortal ever again?” He would refer to his time with her as “plugging in,” his time to get recharged away from the madness of his professional life.The Enquirer had been tracking him since the Lawton story. “Tiger Woods, like so many powerful, wealthy celebrities, felt that he could get away with anything, and unfortunately that wasn’t the case,” Boulton says.Woods had invited Uchitel to join him at the Australian Masters. An Enquirer stringer trailed her arrival to his hotel room. No matter what his team did, they couldn’t kill the story.When Woods got back to Florida, he warned Nordegren that the story was coming, but swore it was false. He put Uchitel on the phone with her for 30 minutes in an attempt to convince her. Days later, Uchitel and Woods texted each other, relieved. That night Uchitel got a call from Woods’ phone. She answered, “Hey babe, I thought you went to sleep.” It was Nordegren: “I knew it was you.”The affair was the perfect opportunity for those who didn’t like Woods to bring him down. Other women came out of the woodwork. It seemed like one every day. People started to delight in his tabloid comeuppance. But the thing that took him down wasn’t sex. These weren’t one-night stands. He had relationships with the women. They all loved him. They were heartbroken.What’s so well done about Tiger is that it recognizes that this chapter of his life is not just part of his story. It’s part of their stories.You see the hordes of paparazzi hurling slurs at Uchitel as she walks down the street. You watch Nordegren hunted by them. The amount of people in his life who were cut off completely from him at this crisis moment is astounding. Uchitel says she only heard from him once, when he told her that she was being offered a confidentiality statement and she should ask for as much as she can: “I think, to him, that was the only way to love me at the time.”The climax of all of this is the 2017 DUI tape. It’s excruciating to watch.The dashboard camera footage from the police officers’ cruiser reveals that Woods didn’t even know where he was when he got pulled over. They administer a sobriety test, asking him to recite the alphabet backwards. He thinks they've asked him to sing the national anthem. He had five different prescription drugs in his system, and you watch as he sits in his holding cell, hands shackled behind his back, as they all kick in and an incoherent man behind the wheel becomes a pathetic, passed-out one in police custody.This is all necessary information and crucial footage. It would be so insightful to hear what Woods, who has, for all of his fame, always been a public enigma and rarely candid or deep with the press, has to say about it all. But if he had been involved, the footage may not ever have been included.It’s refreshing to be reminded that an icon’s painful history is a part of their legacy, and that ignoring that does a disservice not only to what they endured and who they are, but to what they accomplished. It’s a delicate, tricky shot to take, but Tiger sinks the putt.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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The Sophtware Slump.....On A Wooden Piano
Artist: Grandaddy
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1. He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot (Piano Version)
2. Hewlett's Daughter (Piano Version)
3. Jed the Humanoid (Piano Version)
4. The Crystal Lake (Piano Version)
5. Chartsengrafs (Piano Version)
6. Underneath the Weeping Willow (Piano Version)
7. Broken Household Appliance National Forest (Piano Version)
8. Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) (Piano Version)
9. E. Knievel Interlude (The Perils of Keeping It Real) (Piano Version)
10. Miner at the Dial-a-View (Piano Version)
11. So You'll Aim Toward the Sky (Piano Version)
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The Luxury Box
Kristin was just an average nineteen year old college girl trying to work her way through school. Well, OK. Maybe she wasn’t so average. Her tall, slender frame, beautifully full and rounded breasts and small, shapely ass turned many a man’s…and woman’s…head. Neatly styled blonde hair hung to her shoulders and blue eyes shyly shined towards anyone who stood near her.
All of these attributes contributed to her being hired as one of the members of the scantily clad promotional squad working for the city’s professional hockey team. Kristin and her mates moved about the arena before, during and after the game handing out prizes, cheering goals and just generally arousing any man under the age of eighty.
It was a job. Not well-paying, but fun and lucrative enough to keep Kristin in school. The day came, however, when she thought she needed, and deserved, a little more money. Kristin was not, by nature, a forceful person. So the idea of confronting her supervisor didn’t comfort her.
It took days for her to build up the courage to approach him. Finally, one Saturday evening about two hours before game time, Kristin rapped lightly on the supervisor’s office door.
“Come in,” she heard.
Kristin opened the door and timidly poked her head in.
“Hi, Ken. Do you have a second?” she asked.
“Of course, Kristin. Come on in.”
She closed the door behind her. Kristin had already put on her outfit—a tight fitting, low cut top that clung to her form and showed a large portion of her ample breasts and equally tight pants that rode low on her hips. Her entire midriff was visible from just under her breasts to a few inches above the small patch of blonde hair near her clit. She figured it couldn’t hurt to show a little skin when asking a man for more money.
“Have a seat. What’s up?” Ken asked.
Kristin sat in a chair opposite his desk and crossed her legs. She smiled nervously at the forty-something manager of arena operations. He was a decent looking man, in good shape, with a pleasant manner. When necessary, he let everybody know who the boss was, but otherwise treated people with respect.
“Well, uh, I just wanted to talk for a second.” Kristin took another deep breath. “This is my second full year working for you and, uh, I wondered, uh, if it was possible…if maybe I could ask for just a little bit more money.”
She felt a strange mix of relief, from finally saying what had been bugging her, and anxiety, from wondering how Ken would react.
Ken smiled, looking over the gorgeous young girl sitting in front of him. She had no way of realizing the relief he, too, was feeling.
“Kristin, I think we can work something out. I have a particular need and you may be the one to help me. If you do, it would be well worth the effort,” he said.
“Oh? What is it?” Kristin inquired. She wasn’t sure whether to be happy, yet, or not.
Ken leaned forward in his chair, resting his arms on the top of his desk.
“We have a very important client who is thinking about advertising heavily with us…to the point of becoming a major corporate sponsor. It means a lot to the financial health of the organization, Kristin.”
He paused and waited for a response from the girl. She looked back at him with awareness and nodded.
“The president of the company and some of his top executives are coming to a game next weekend,” Ken continued. “They will be using one of the luxury boxes.”
When he paused again, Kristin jumped at the chance to ask the main question she had.
Ken’s expression was a little more serious now. He fidgeted in his seat.
“Well, we need to entertain them as much as possible. Make sure they’re happy,” he said.
“Do you want the girls to be up there with them when we’re not on the ice?” Kristin volunteered.
“Uh…yes and no,” Ken replied. “I want YOU to be with them. The whole time they’re here.”
The idea sounded kind of good to Kristin. It would take her away from the sometimes mundane tasks she performed during a game. Besides, she’d always wanted to see the inside of one of the luxury boxes with its fancy seats and dining area and private lounge.
“Kristin, I need these people to be satisfied in every way.” Ken hesitated. “EVERY way.”
Kristin froze. His intention was clear.
“Oh,” she said softly, looking down at the floor.
“You might be asked to do some things…” Ken didn’t finish the sentence. “In fact, I would be encouraging you to promote it.”
His experience as a manager made it only somewhat easier to be so direct with the young girl.
She looked up at him. “For how long? And how much?”
“As long as they’re at the game. We’ll pay you double…and whatever tips you make. These guys are usually very generous,” Ken tried to assure her, having nothing to back up his claim.
“I’ll have to think about it,” Kristin admitted. “Can I tell you tomorrow?”
“Absolutely,” her boss said. “I’m very glad you’re considering it.” He was going to say he thought she’d be perfect for the job, but wasn’t sure how’d she take it.
She got up to leave, then turned to him again. “How about the long term? Can I get a raise, or will this opportunity be there often?”
“Trust me, Kristin. If you help us with this one, we’ll up your usual pay and talk about other…uh…opportunities in the future.”
“Good.” Kristin walked out of the office, with Ken following every movement of her luscious, young ass.
Kristin lie in her bed that night unable to fall asleep. She questioned her own decision-making methods. Was her need for money so important that she needed to put herself in a potentially degrading situation that was pretty much out of her control? Would anybody from the team be there if this thing got crazy?
Then she wondered how many guys would be there. What would they look like? Could she really perform in front of a group if she had to?
What if she liked it? What would THAT say about her?
The longer she thought about it the more it became a life-defining moment and not just a chance for more money.
After she got up the next morning, took a shower and ate breakfast, she called Ken and informed him she would do the job. They made arrangements to meet the day before the game of discuss “strategies”, as Ken phrased it.
The week dragged on for Kristin, but finally the meeting was held. Ken told Kristin when and where to be the next evening and made sure she knew to wear her outfit. Both were confident, with some reservations, that the night would go well. Kristin was happy to have a clear plan in front of her. She was to be there before the guests arrived, show them around the suite when they showed up and offer food and drinks. Ken specified who to look for in particular and how, at some point during the evening when Kristin thought it was appropriate, to persuade them to enter the lounge with her. After that, Ken was leaving it up to Kristin. But he left no doubt in her mind how important it was to make this client happy.
Kristin arrived at the arena at the designated time, having spent considerable time on her hair, nails and makeup. She looked more stunning than usual as Ken walked her up to the luxury box.
He gave her a tour—the seating area in front overlooking the rink, the bar and dining area behind that and, finally, the private lounge. Kristin nearly gasped out loud at the beautiful setting. Dark wood highlights accompanied the many large chairs, loveseats and couches in the room. Flat screen TVs were built into the walls and another bar took up one corner.
“Wow,” Kristin exclaimed. “This is very cool.”
“This is where I want them to feel most comfortable,” Ken said. “Let them get settled in, then bring them back here. And just so you know, there’s a microphone built into the chandelier.” Ken pointed up to the light over their head. “Security is hooked in to that if you need them.”
“Good,” Kristin said.
Ken decided she didn’t need to know about the security cameras hidden in three upper corners of the room, taking in every inch of the lounge.
He told her there would be a separate staff taking care of replenishing the food and drinks. All Kristin had to do was play hostess, get whatever they wanted, and look cute. He didn’t have to say that for Kristin to get the idea.
When he was sure the refreshments were in place and Kristin was comfortable, he left her alone. She spent the next few minutes chatting with the food staff and checking out the lounge again. Twice she hit the ladies room to kill time and check how she looked.
Luckily, she was back in the lounge when the first of the guests arrived. She heard people talking in the bar so she took a deep breath and walked that way. The young man and woman looking over the refreshments looked up at Kristin and smiled.
“Hi,” the man said.
“Hi. I’m Kristin. I’ll be your hostess tonight. Let me know if there’s anything I can get you,” she said, having practiced the line in her head for days.
The man heard, but wasn’t paying attention to, what Kristin was saying. He was busy taking in the dazzling body that appeared before him. In the few seconds it took Kristin to speak, he had covered every inch of her body…twice.
“Thank you,” he said robotically when she finished. His eyes finally met hers. “I’m Jim and this is my wife Karen.”
They were a striking couple. Kristin estimated they were in their late thirties. Both had sculptured bodies that had seen plenty of gym time. While not drop dead gorgeous, they were attractive, professional people. Kristin liked them already. She also knew he was not the boss she was looking out for in particular.
They shook hands politely and Kristin mentioned where everything could be found. By the time she was done, another couple had arrived.
Kevin and Sandy were about ten years older than Jim and Karen. Kristin learned from Kevin that he and Jim were vice presidents of the company. She also noticed Karen and Sandy instantly migrate to each other and begin friendly chatter. Kevin and Sandy weren’t quite as attractive as Jim and Karen, but they still didn’t make Kristin dread that she had decided to do this.
Kevin was the most talkative of the four guests who had arrived and Kristin found herself with him more than the others. He told her that the president, Richard, and his wife Susan would be the only other ones attending. That made Kristin a little apprehensive, knowing that the people she would be “entertaining” were almost all present.
Within half an hour, Kristin was introduced to Richard and Susan. They were pretty much what she expected—about fifty, professional, attractive and a little snobby. But not the least bit repulsive. Maybe this would work after all. In fact, Kristin was drawn towards Richard in some odd, fatherly way. She found his confidence appealing. Even sexy.
The evening progressed swimmingly. Kristin fetched drinks for whoever needed one, not realizing that her bending to pick up and drop off glasses was slowly driving the men wild. Her top barely covered her breasts to begin with, let alone when she bent over. And her pants, while overly tight at the top, tended to travel down another inch each time she grabbed a glass. She had learned the year before to constantly pull them higher, but that only caused them to all but show the outline of her pussy. It was a given that her ass was perfectly delineated in the tight material, but she was actually proud of that.
As drinks flowed, the discussions, and laughter, grew progressively louder. Kristin hadn’t even begun to flirt, yet, but figured it was about time. She made a habit of “bumping” against Richard when she passed near him. This was fairly easy to do and went unnoticed by the others in the somewhat crowded bar area.
She talked to the men as often as possible, laughing at their jokes or listening attentively when it was appropriate. At one point she was able to glance out at the rink and noticed that the game was about half over. She needed to make her move soon.
When she had the three men and herself alone at the bar, she said, “Should we move into the lounge?”
No regular guy could possibly refuse after hearing the tone in which Kristin asked the question.
“Sure,” Richard said. And while the three women sat in chairs at the front of the suite, Kristin and the three men entered the lounge.
The lighting inside was purposely dim. Compared to the bright, loud arena, it was a comfortable refuge. It gave you the feeling that you had the freedom to do anything without the crowd around you knowing.
Kristin’s job was to take advantage of this.
“Have a seat,” she said. Then she went to the bar in the corner and got a refill for each of her guests. She delivered Richard’s last.
She put the glass on a table next to the chair he sat in and moved directly in front of him. His legs were close together, so she straddled them and gently sat on his knees. Before he had time to react, she began to slide her body towards him.
She stopped when her breasts were within a foot of his face. Kristin’s pussy was even closer to his ever-hardening cock.
“Hello, Richard. Welcome to the lounge.” Kristin nearly whispered the words. Yet, Kevin and Jim heard everything in the quiet room. “Is there anything you’d like?”
Perhaps coincidentally, Richard’s eyes focused in on the incredible breasts in front of him. Kristin took his hands and placed them on her bare skin, just below her top. Richard let his fingers roam her sides for a second before moving them onto the sides of Kristin’s tits. He watched the breasts come together as he squeezed.
Then he allowed them to fall back into place and slid one side of her top off Kristin’s shoulder. He placed his palm on top of her nearly exposed breast. Moving his hand down forced the shirt entirely off the breast. Now he could place his palm over the erect nipple and knead the soft skin.
Kristin leaned forward. Richard leaned forward. The nipple disappeared into the man’s mouth, followed by a good portion of Kristin’s tit. Everyone in the room watched as Richard licked and sucked with pleasure. Kristin moaned softly each time the man took the nipple between his lips and bit gently.
Richard lowered the top off Kristin’s other shoulder and quickly worked his tongue magic on that breast. Kevin and Jim twisted in their seats to get a better view. It also allowed them to reposition their ever-hardening cocks. Neither of them expected the action to proceed much beyond what had already taken place.
Kristin and Richard had other ideas. As soon as Richard removed his mouth from her breast, Kristin pulled her top up over her head and tossed it onto the floor. She put her hand in the man’s crotch, clutching at his thick cock, while Richard continued to play with her breasts.
He never flinched when she opened his belt, unbuttoned his pants and pulled down the zipper. Still seated on his legs, Kristin reached inside the opening to his boxers and gripped Richard’s penis. It throbbed in her little, soft hand. She pulled on it and felt the head continue to grow.
Gracefully, Kristin slid between the man’s legs, which opened wide for her. She pulled the pants down a little, then the boxers. The now huge cock sprung free and awaited her ministrations.
Kristin ran her fingers up and down the length of the shaft before tilting her head down towards the man’s lap. Hidden by her dangling blonde hair, Kristin opened her mouth and ran her tongue over the tip of Richard’s cock. He leaned back in his chair and waited for the ecstasy to begin.
The girl soon had her lips firmly planted around the top of the penis. Slowly…slowly, she pushed her head down and took the entire thing in her mouth. She let her tongue work its magic for a second before gradually pulling back. Kristin let the cock come completely out of her mouth before looking up at Richard.
Their eyes met and they both smiled. The next thing Richard saw was the top of Kristin’s shiny hair and his cock was once again engulfed between her luscious lips. Kristin couldn’t remember ever having such a long, thick cock previous to this. She wondered what it would feel like in her pussy…and if she’d be able to take it all. Would he make her do it?
A moment later she got her answer.
“Stand up, Kristin,” Richard ordered her.
Everybody in the room heard the plop as his cock escaped her mouth. Kristin put her hands on his legs and pushed herself up. All three men stared longingly at the beautiful breasts that once again hung in plain view.
“Take off your pants.”
Kristin was torn by the growing need to fuck this man and her fright—fright that the wives might show up and fright that he would hurt her. When she looked down at the twitching cock pointing up at her, her need to fuck won out.
She put her thumbs inside the tight pants and began to lower them. Her tiny thong struggled to stay in place as she pushed the pants down and over her feet. Kevin and Jim had a fine view of her tight ass, while Richard had those tits hanging near his face again. When she stood back up, Richard said, “And the thong.”
Kristin did not hesitate. A second later all her clothes were on the floor next to her. Now the men could marvel at Kristin’s incredible beauty in all its glory. From her shoulders, to her breasts, to her back, to her hips and flat stomach, to her pussy and thighs, this girl was perfect. Richard was openly hard. Kevin’s and Jim’s erections were still concealed.
Richard reached out towards Kristin. She moved forward and let him put his hands on her ass. He pulled her ahead some more.
She was directly over his cock. It was obvious what he wanted. Kristin straddled the man with her knees and placed the entrance to her pussy above the tip of his cock. She tried to hide the fact her body was shaking.
Thankfully, Richard put one hand on top of her clit. He only stroked it for a few seconds before Kristin felt her pussy respond. When he placed a finger inside her, she knew it would come out wet.
Apparently Richard felt what he wanted because he next put his hand around his cock and positioned it just inside Kristin’s pussy. She lowered herself gently. The head entering her scared the girl. She could feel the lips of her pussy spreading wider, knowing she had a considerable length of cock to go yet.
But her desire had lubricated her just enough to allow the cock to slowly but surely fill her. Kristin closed her eyes and moaned as she felt the shaft extend far up into her body. The pain was quickly replaced with unbelievable pleasure.
As the pair began to fuck, Richard moved his hands up to the girl’s breasts. He pushed them higher on her chest, then enclosed them in his big hands and squeezed tightly. Kristin approved with lustful sounds she had never made before. He pinched her nipples and Kristin felt it clear down to her pussy. She compressed her muscles around his cock and this time Richard let out the groan.
The only sound in the room was that of their skin slapping together with each thrust. Kristin’s ass shook like jello as it bounced off Richard’s thighs. Amazingly, she found herself wishing he could plunge into her even deeper than he already was. The various sensations coming from her nipples and clit and pussy were beginning to overwhelm her.
Did he want her to cum? Stop thinking and just fuck him, she told herself. Just keep fucking this massive cock, you may never get another chance like this.
Richard’s thunderous groans brought her back to reality. He was about to cum. She could feel it in his throbbing cock. She could sense it in the hands that clutched at her tiny ass.
“Oh, yes. Kristin. Yes. Yes,” the man said more softly.
Then his body stiffened, his cock stuck all the way inside her pussy. He froze momentarily, then let out a piercing grunt and began ramming her with his cock in slow, long thrusts. Each one was accompanied by a stream of warm fluid. Kristin urged him on and she felt a huge pool of cum building up inside her pussy. It drained down onto his cock and Kristin’s thighs. Yet, he continued to orgasm.
She squeezed him harder, forcing every drop out of his balls. Her desire to please him held back her own orgasm. Kristin just listened to him, felt him inside her and accepted as much warm cum as he could give her.
Finally, she knew he was done and she leaned forward until her body rested on his. He grabbed her ass and simply held on while he recovered. His cock slowly shrunk until she loosened her grip on it and lifted herself off him by sliding backwards on his legs.
The girl was so close to cumming. But she had done everything in her power to please Richard first. Now her pussy was ready to explode at the first touch. She stood in front of Richard and looked over at the other two men.
“Who’s next?” she asked.
“I don’t think you should make anybody wait,” Richard answered. “Do them both.”
“That works,” Kristin said.
She walked over to Kevin, who was seated in the love chair by himself. He watched as she stopped just in front of his knees. The moisture between her legs shined even in the faint light of the lounge.
Kristin reached down and pulled Kevin’s legs apart. As she leaned forward to begin working on his belt and zipper, she looked back at Jim, who had a marvelous view of her ass. She spread her legs a little wider and allowed him to inspect her pussy even better. Her intention was obvious.
At about the same time she was exposing Kevin’s erect cock, Jim was pulling his out from under his briefs, within easy reach of the girl’s ass. By the time she had Kevin in her mouth, Jim had his cock on top of Kristin’s crack.
Then she felt the head of Jim’s cock touch her pussy. She knew it would take no effort at all on his part to enter her. Sure enough, he was inside her up to the hilt almost instantly.
Kristin sighed with glee the more she sucked Kevin and the more Jim fucked her from behind. She was about to erupt.
That was when the door to the lounge slowly opened. It was Sandy and Karen. All Kristin could think about was being fired for “blowing” the deal.
Instead, the women smiled and Sandy said, “Don’t stop. We’ll watch.”
Unbelievably to Kristin, the women moved to a nearby couch and the men continued to have sex with her, perhaps even harder than before their wives arrived. Once again Kristin could feel her urge to cum returning.
She reached between her legs and touched her clit with one hand while pumping Kevin with the other. Her hand had the bottom half of his cock and her mouth occupied the upper half. She could feel him throbbing stronger than ever, nearing his own orgasm.
Then she couldn’t wait any longer. She cried out that she was about to cum, which only caused Jim to fuck her with more urgency. Kristin clamped her mouth firmly around Kevin’s cock and burst into an orgasm. She rubbed her clit while Kevin rolled her nipples between his fingers. Over and over she felt her pussy contract. Deep inside her body she felt the orgasm continue.
Her mind wandered until she heard Kevin groan loudly and precum hit her tongue. Then, without much warning, he was spurting stream after stream of cum into the back of her throat. She tried to swallow, allowing just a trickle to escape onto her chin. The cock never seemed to soften as loads of cum landed on her tongue.
As she struggled to keep Kevin’s fluid from covering her face, Jim nearly drove her off her feet with his orgasm. He ground his cock into the girl, loudly smacking against her ass and thighs. As with Richard, Kristin felt the wonderful sensation of cum building up inside her. She held onto Kevin’s legs while Jim’s hard cock pushed into her deeper.
He pressed against her ass, letting his balls empty one last time. Then they were done.
Kristin didn’t know how long it had taken, so she was surprised to look over at the wives and find Sandy eagerly sucking on Karen’s tit. Sandy had lifted up Karen’s shirt and was fondling the other breast with her hand. None of the men in the room seemed overly shocked.
In fact, they all sat back in their chairs, totally spent, and watched. Kristin didn’t know what to do.
Sandy resolved that issue by motioning to Kristin. “Come on. There’s one for each of us.”
She was referring to Karen’s breasts and Kristin timidly moved over to the couch. By the time she arrived, Sandy had pushed the shirt up, moved to the side, and had taken one breast deep into her mouth. Kristin sat on the edge of the couch and nervously leaned down beside Sandy.
Karen’s chest was more magnificent the closer she got. Despite being her first time with a woman, Kristin found it very easy to put her tongue on the other woman’s nipple. She loved the hardness of it. She flicked it with her tongue then wrapped her lips around it. Soon, more tit was in her mouth.
Then Kristin was pushing it up with her hand and trying to get as much as she could. She really, really like this and felt the familiar tingle coming back to her pussy.
“Get her undressed,” Sandy said.
Kristin didn’t hesitate. Soon, Karen lay completely naked on the couch, Sandy at her breasts and Kristin beside her. Karen spread her legs apart and Kristin didn’t need to be told what to do next.
She positioned herself over Karen’s pussy, hardly believing what she was about to do. Her tongue flicked at the bright pink clit one time, barely making contact. But when Kristin tasted the sweet juices that were freely flowing she quickly put her mouth closer. Almost immediately Kristin had the clit in her mouth, attacking it even harder than she had the breast.
Karen writhed around at the attention her body was getting. It would not take her long to cum.
To none of the women’s knowledge, Susan had entered the lounge and was in a corner of the room with her husband. Richard had his hand on her pussy and she, too, would be cumming soon.
But Kristin and Sandy were only concerned with the beautiful, naked Karen.
“That’s it, babe,” Sandy urged. “Come for us. Come hard.”
Kristin felt Karen respond to the words, hardening her muscles in advance of her orgasm. She arched her back and raised her ass off the couch. Then she began to cum with shrieks of delight. Kristin did her best to stay in contact with the clit. But she didn’t mind having her tongue slide down over Karen’s pussy and take in some of the marvelous juices. She even got her tongue inside Karen for a second while the woman bucked on the couch.
All the men were getting hard again watching the scene and listening to Karen. It wouldn’t be long before they were paired off in various combinations of oral and straight sex.
Meanwhile, Ken sat in the security office holding his own hard cock in his hand while watching the video screens. He smiled, knowing another major deal was about to be closed.
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UPDATE: EMMY Nomination for Children of Internment
By Mads Black ·
UPDATE: The EMMY for Historical Documentary was awarded on July 18th and unfortunately Children of Interment did not take home the statue. Regardless, Joe Crump (co-director and -producer along with his sister, Kristina Wagner) wanted to pass along a sincere thanks to Bill Perry at OETA PBS for submitting the film for consideration, as well as to Tom Parris, the cast, interviewees, scholars and families involved, Rich Bair for composite work, the production team – and friends and families for love and support.
PBS has been – and continues to be – a great supporter of the documentary, and even to be nominated has been a huge honor and lots of fun.
Sometimes you’re allowed to toot your own horn, and well, here at 20 Questions Film we’re mighty proud to say that Children of Internment – the historical documentary by our very own Joe Crump and his sister Kristina Wagner – has been nominated for a regional EMMY.
30B Documentary – Historical #HeartlandNom pic.twitter.com/Ef9ZDt3Opx
— Heartland Emmy NATAS (@HeartlandEmmy) May 29, 2015
Thousands of German and Japanese families were interned by the United States during WWII, taken from their homes and schools, denied “due process” and imprisoned in over 200 detention and internment camps throughout the United States and Latin America. The documentary, Children of Internment, tells the heartbreaking stories of former internees and their families.
The documentary is nominated in the ‘Best Historical Documentary’ category for the Heartland Region. Winners are announced July 18th. We’ll cross our fingers for Joe and Kristina until then.
A special thank you to Bill Perry and OETA out of Oklahoma for leading the way in getting our film nominated for the Emmy.
Check out the trailer here and read the filmmaker bios below:
Kristina Wagner is a daytime TV veteran with 25 years on General Hospital. She also majored in history and wrote her thesis paper on the detainment of Americans during WWII. With Children of Internment these two worlds collide most beautifully, as Kristina not only approached the material with academical precision, but also with a journalistic accuracy she picked up during her 25 years as a soap star doing countless interviews. She knew that sometimes the things that are said in an interview aren’t always conveyed accurately with the final outcome, so she made it a priority to be as accurate with her documentary storytelling as possible.
Joe Crump is the founder of 20 Questions Film. He graduated film school in 1981 and worked in the industry for a decade, but got sidetracked when one of his scripts were picked up by Fox, then rewritten, then dropped, ultimately giving Joe a desire to finance his own film. Which led him to a career as an investor. With Children of Internment he is back in the business, having fun making movies and already have several new feature film scripts in development.
Children of Internment
Kristina Wagner
About Mads Black
Mads is a Scandinavian-born, Los Angeles-based actor and aspiring film maker. He's dabbled in stunt driving (no one got hurt) and once rescued a baby bunny from his garage.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 9: Is the Hype for Real?
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Samsung Note 9 is launched and we are having mixed emotions. Samsung promised to stick to a few changes but also made a few faux passes. Watching the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 launch was tough. After all these years of smartphone tech and innovation, the new Note launch felt like it was running on fumes a little bit.
We knew just about everything we needed to know about the upcoming handset, and virtually every leaked spec proved accurate. Sure, the company amazingly managed to through in a surprise or two, but the event was all about the Note.
Samsung says just at the very beginning of their website, “Galaxy Note has always put powerful technology in the hands of those who demand more. Now, the all-new Galaxy Note9 surpasses even these high expectations, focusing on what matters most in today’s always-on, mobile world.”
The Note line, which set the trend for large-screen phones and includes a stylus, has traditionally been one of Samsung’s most distinctive and has acted as a testing ground for new features. The stylus does have better features now that allows you to control your device seamlessly but still. And despite a disastrous spate of battery fires that prompted the recall of the Note 7, the Note line has proved to be the Samsung product with the most loyal following. It would be a fair assessment but misses the bigger picture. What I’m surprised to see is the 4000mAh battery which is a rare scene in North American phones. So this might pump up a bit of the sale.
Samsung made a big deal about how it ‘invented’ the big phone with the first Note, but it seems hell-bent on seeing how much bigger it can get away with. I personally do not find the not series built for the everyday man. Being too pricey and having features that not every man uses on a daily basis. Dave 2D says, “It is more of an iterative bump than a massive innovative tech update” and I do agree to that. Samsung is known to make quite great innovations when it comes to Phones and Tablets. This was indeed disappointing.
The Note 9 from Verge
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The Phone
Firstly, the 4,000mAh battery is a huge upgrade on what was there before (and validated by an independent body as very unlikely to catch on fire this time). The Note 8 has uninspiring battery life, but if the new Note 9 can last a little longer and make it comfortably through a day (and well into the next day) that’s a real win for buyers and is a genuine upgrade for Samsung. That is a good thing, indeed.
The Note 9, which has a 6.4-inch screen, comes in two colors: blue and lavender. The blue phone has a yellow pen, which slots into the bottom of the phone. The release date for Hong Kong is to be announced.
The S-Pen, the Note stylus, has got the most technological upgrades since the last model. It now has a Bluetooth connector, meaning it can function as a remote control for giving presentations or listening to music. Samsung said the pen’s battery will last for 200 clicks or a half-hour. It will charge in less than a minute. New chips in the smartphone give it a faster data connection, and Samsung is using that connection and improved processors to frame the Note 9 as an ideal mobile gaming device.
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I’m sure those sorts of crazy media-hoarding power users do, in fact, exist in the world, but they’re undoubtedly a rarity. Besides, as Samsung helpfully pointed out, 512GB SD cards already exist in the world. Sure, that’s another $350 tacked onto the bottom line, but it’s there if you need it. For most users, it’s hard to see Samsung’s claim of having “the world’s first 1TB-ready smartphone” (512GB+512GB) exists for little more reason than racking up yet another flashy claim for the 1960s Batman utility belt of smartphones.
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Sure, Samsung no doubt gets a deal on Samsung-built hard drives, but the component has to be a key part in what’s driving costs up. For a company as driven by choice as Samsung, I’m honestly surprised we’re not getting more options up front here in the States.
To put it all in perspective, check out the chart below, which compares the Galaxy Note 9, Note 8, S9 Plus and S9. Thanks to CNET for this build up here. This will allow having a greater perspective of how and what Samsung did yesterday at the Unpacked event.
An only comparison you need to see
So I’d say it looks like a solid refinement and evolution upon last year’s Note 8. I think people who like Note phones will be very happy with it. But they’re sure going to pay a lot of money to own it. And after Samsung faltered with the Galaxy S9, there’s more riding on this monstrous productivity machine than usual.
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HTC Exodus 1: Blockchain phone specs, price and release date
Smartphone manufacturer HTC is taking a major leap into the cryptocurrency ecosystem. They are stepping into the wider blockchain industry. With HTC U12 and U12+ about to be unveiled in a couple of days, HTC has a lot of surprises for its users in its pocket. On 15th of this month, HTC unveiled a website that showcases the HTC Exodus. And HTC unveiled the Exodus today at web3summit.
Furthermore, there is only one company that has completely succeeded in making a fully blockchain powered device. Swiss company Sirin-Labs unveiled there first phone Finney and HTC is joining the race with Exodus. Finney has a 12-megapixel rear camera with low-light f/1.8 aperture and an 8-megapixel 85-degree wide angle front facing the camera. It is powered by a 3,280mAh battery with fast charging support. Connectivity features include Bluetooth 5.0, NFC and LTE, among others. Specs wise the phone packs pretty much enough but what’s worth mentioning is what happens over the internet. The blockchain phone comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor. It has a 6-inch display at 18:9 aspect ratio, 402ppi and 1500:1 contrast ratio. The phone features 128GB built-in storage and 6GB RAM.
The HTC Exodus 1, aka the ‘blockchain phone’, is nearly ready to enter the wild, with the company has now confirmed the specs of its forthcoming cryptocurrency handset. Check out the TEASER.
Blockchain phones are the new Virtual Reality. Every smartphone manufacturer is going to add something or the other that gets their hands-on in this domain. Huawei is rumored to be working on a secret Blockchain powered device which will have layers of decentralized apps and much more. Samsung has also created a blockchain network but we have no sources claiming a blockchain phone in the making.
Remember this? Well besides https://t.co/0eRylMVMab, the company also recently registered https://t.co/H8gXaF7OZW and https://t.co/Js1O3gRVqO. The latter isn't live yet, but the former is, and right now it features a Vive logo… https://t.co/LCYZ0wOG6a
— Evan Blass (@evleaks) May 16, 2018
The Taiwanese firm unveiled the World’s first native blockchain phone. The tailor-made Android-powered phone will provide support for decentralized applications(DApps). Apps like CryptoKitties, and will feature a secure hardware enclave for users. Now the users will have access to a Universal Cryptocurrency wallet that is native to the device itself.
With over two decades of experience manufacturing the world’s leading smartphones and shipping over 100 million phones, they believe they can help reshape the internet with the HTC Exodus.
source: HTC
Working with multiple protocols with the intent of interoperability between blockchains. increasing DApp user base. Bringing a streamlined mobile user experience to the DApp community. Providing more nodes on the path to true decentralization. We want to double and triple the number of nodes of Ethereum and Bitcoin. To have your identity and data on the phone rather in a centralized cloud and open-mindedness towards the collective wisdom of the crowd.
This is what HTC claims the Exodus can stand up to. The performance will be incomparable with any device of any brand as there aren’t any competitors in this domain of phones.
Exodus will have Hardware support for Cryptocurrencies
Will support Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Etherum
Advanced security features and claims of virtually “tamper proof”
The phone will be compatible with multiple protocols and will exchange and make use of information vividly. Phil Chen who creates HTC’s virtual reality headset Vive is the leader of the Exodus project. HTC is rumored to be working on a VR specific device. HTC has a lot of gaming genre users and this will help them enhance their users’ experience. Still, it is good enough to witness a new and revolutionary phone.
The company wants customers to be able to pay for the phone with cryptocurrencies, but we haven’t received any distinctive details. “We think that the phone can be an agent in the future for decentralization,” said Chen. “We want you to hold your own key [through] a secure management method in our phones.” This is official early access release to the EXODUS 1. They are inviting a community of developers and enthusiasts to work with us to keep building security. Join them in rebuilding trust together, one phone at a time. Get your early access now! Go to www.htcexodus.com now!
Genesis Block. Exodus Phone.
This is official early access release to the EXODUS 1. We are inviting a community of developers and enthusiasts to work with us to keep building security. Join us in rebuilding trust together, one phone at a time. Get your early access now! pic.twitter.com/sPcNc7wnzj
— HTC EXODUS (@htcexodus) October 23, 2018
What exactly HTC wants Exodus to do
Chen, who now holds the title of CDO (Chief Decentralized Officers), is the head of the firm’s crypto and blockchain related initiatives. “Through the Exodus, we are also excited to be supporting underlying protocols such as Bitcoin, Etherum, Dfinity and more,” Chen wrote in a blog post accompanying the announcement. Still, a vast majority of HTC fans want something new and innovative from them in a long time.
He also wrote that “I want to see a world where the end consumers can truly own their data (browsing history, identity, assets, wallets, emails, messaging, etc) without the need for central authorities. There is a lot of work ahead of us, but I believe the mobile hardware layer can contribute significantly to our new decentralized world.” With Facebook’s Data Leak controversies, HTC might end up taking the lead in the smartphone race with this.
Phil Chen is on stage at Consensus 2018 announcing the HTC Exodus, be sure to tune in to the
Trianon Ballroom livestream https://t.co/4s62UCutzu pic.twitter.com/9dytbIaynV
— HTC EXODUS (@htcexodus) May 15, 2018
I suppose we have to wait for a month or two to get more info on these type of devices. This revolutionary product might change the way we use the internet today. I don’t know exactly if I wanna buy one. It’ll be fun to use DApps and to hover over the decentralized web tbh. If anything does happen to your device, you can breathe easy, as HTC has imbued the Exodus with a social-themed security protocol that sees users nominate several contacts to hold a piece of a unique security key – and only bringing all of these pieces together will unlock the device.
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Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 675 with new Kryo 460 CPU
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is continuing to bring together global manufacturers and operators, along with software and hardware technology vendors, to strategize and discuss industry trends and technology developments with their Snapdragon chipsets. Mark your calendars for this 3-day event highlighting 5G, connectivity, AI, IoT and so much more. This year’s summit promises to be one of the best ever, featuring wireless leader keynotes, breakout sessions, multiple exhibits and networking events, all showcasing the latest technology, and much more. Qualcomm made a lot of advancements in the last few months. And the tech giant made steady announcements at their 4G/5G Summit at Hong Kong.
In the Keynote, Qualcomm’s President Mr. Cristiano Amon talks about how 5G is nearing deployment, with global trials underway and deployments planned in the coming months. He continues about how the next generation of wireless will allow virtually every industry to deliver advanced connectivity and increased intelligence across the rapidly evolving wireless edge. It is essential that the broader ecosystem pursues the wireless and computing technologies that will provide the foundation for the coming transformation. To just have an overview read to it, focus on the key points as per Qualcomm:
Qualcomm optimized the Snapdragon 675 for mainstream use.
The first smartphones using the Snapdragon 675 will ship in Q1 2019.
The Snapdragon 675 is Qualcomm’s third mid-range processor announced within the past six months.
Qualcomm makes one of the finest processors in the industry and as it turns out they also focus on the mid-range consumers. It comes out on the top with the 710 followed by the 670 in the mid-range category. Now that it is history, Qualcomm announced a new processor in the 600 range. The Snapdragon 675 is a really interesting processor but not for all the reasons you are thinking. In terms of where it fits in the overall Qualcomm’s mid-range processor, is somewhat between the 670 and the 710. And for a little humor, the Snapdragon 675 has got a slightly worse Adreno 612 GPU in it compared to the 615. The Snapdragon 675 has got the same modem as the 670, the exact DSPs and the image processors, but with a bit of enhancement.
So, why is the Snapdragon 675 so interesting? Well, it is using the 4th Generation Kryo 460 CPU Design. And as per our research and Qualcomm’s announcement, no other processor in its lineup uses the 4th Gen CPU. Well, the Kryo core 1st Gen design is found in-house in the Snapdragon 820 and 821. Then the 2nd Gen Kryo which was built with the Cortex technology is found in the Snapdragon 835 and finally, the 3rd Gen is found in Snapdragon 845.
Snapdragon 675 + 4th Gen Kryo Core
Snapdragon 675 is basically a Cortex A76 coupled together with a Cortex A55. This new Architecture built on ARM Cortex offers a 20% overall performance improvement, optimized across 2 performance and 6 efficiency cores. So Qualcomm is using the 4th Gen with this 6+2 configuration. So it still is an Octa-core chipset but with 2 cores dedicated for higher stability and results and 6 for better power efficiency. So, more interestingly, what this tells us is that the next 800 series will be using the 4th Gen Kryo.
The 675 is not only filled with upgrades. For example, the 675 is constructed with an 11nm process whereas the Snapdragon 670 had a 10nm process. The GPU has been downgraded from an Adreno 615 to an Adreno 612, too. With that said, Qualcomm assured us that the Snapdragon 675 performs considerably better than the Snapdragon 670. With built-in game enhancements, for example, reduce “janks” or stutters by over 90 percent during gameplay.
The Comparison of Snapdragon(s)
So let’s look at the rest of the Snapdragon 675 and detail out how it differentiates from the 670 and the 710 chipsets. So as you can see all the 3 processors use the 6+2 setup. The performance core gets a boost with the A76 instead of the A75. When it comes to GPU the 675 lags behind and as it turns out the 710 has got the best GPU. But as per Qualcomm, they have been tweaking it for a better gaming performance. The differences which can only be pointed out when we will receive a device. It supports the LPDDR4X where the X stands for even more power efficient than the standard LPDDR4.
Now that they all showcase the same DSPs across is a good thing. With the 250L, it gets the 480fps HD Slo-Mo that will pump-up any camera. The modem is exactly the same as the rest. It’s like Qualcomm didn’t even bother making an upgrade to it. Focusing on the important part, the 675 uses Samsung’s fabrication process. So, this will be built by the looks of it exclusively on Samsung’s fabrication plans.
CPU 2x 2.0GHz Kryo 460 (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.7GHz Kryo 460 (Cortex-A55) 2x 2.0GHz Kryo 360 (Cortex-A75)
6x 1.7GHz Kryo 360 (Cortex-A55)
GPU Adreno 612 Adreno 615 Adreno 616
RAM LPDDR4X @ 1866MHz LPDDR4X @ 1866MHz LPDDR4X @ 1886MHz
DSP Hexagon 685 Hexagon 685 Hexagon 685
ISP Spectra 250L
25MP single or 16MP dual
48MP snapshots
480fps HD Slo-Mo Spectra 250
25MP single or 16MP dual Spectra 250
Modem X12 LTE
600Mbps down
150Mbps up X12 LTE
150Mbps up
Quick Charge 4+ 4+ 4+
Bluetooth 5.0 5.0 5.0
Process 11nm LPP FinFET 10nm LPP FinFET 10nm LPP FinFET
Qualcomm’s Worse is actually Better
So coming back to the GPU here, the 675 boasts an Adreno 612 instead of a 615 or a 616 on its brothers. Qualcomm is actually saying that they have heavily optimized the gaming performance. This does mean that the overall performance will be better as compared to the rest. Qualcomm also suggests that on a list of particular games that they tried, this performs much better. They get 90% less ‘JANKS’, whatever that means.
It might get a better user experience while gaming. Qualcomm is known to make certain tweaks for a better gaming performance and experience. The list of games does suggest that it focuses on a great diversity of games. This is actually good stuff from Qualcomm. Qualcomm also states that it works closely with both mobile game and game engine developers to improve the gaming UX on Android, though this isn’t unexpected given how they’ve collaborated with game studios such as NetMarble for Snapdragon flagship chip releases in recent years.
Although that the 600 range continues to be very strong with support for 6 cameras, 3 on the front and 3 on the back. So everything from super-res zoom to telephoto capture to specialized Bokeh mode is now available on the 675. So there’s a bunch of things that Qualcomm has put into their processors that make them very useful. They did a great deal of work for the mid-range smartphones. Expecting really strong developments from the manufacturers now. That’s it for now.
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Top Apps of 2018 you must have
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Google play store is full of useful as well as garbage apps. Every day tons of apps get uploaded on the play store. It is our duty to analyze and make the list of the Top 10 apps you must have in 2018.
Finding valuable apps on play store can be confusing sometimes. Below is the list of top 10 apps you must have in 2018 for a better utilization of your phone and user experience.
1.Castbox
Listening to podcasts in not only a trend these days but it also helps you to enhance yourself. This app enables you to listen to different podcasts from over 16 categories. It provides podcast in 70 different languages so no matter from which country you are it is going to be a lovely experience.
You can also download the episodes to your phone for listening later as per your convenience. It also has the audiobook library which I guess is very useful for every learning individual. You must have this app on your phone which represents your learning and classic mentality.
2.Headspace
It is an app which helps you with things like focus, relaxation, development of an ideal routine and some other stuff. As we get so busy and stressed in our daily life we lose our peace in mind. Well if you are also a person who feels like the life is getting worst and needs to be controlled and cheerful, Then this app is definitely for you.
This app has various programs and tips that will help you in developing a healthy routine without losing the essential components of life.
3.Telegram
The Popularity of Telegram is increasing very fast because of its lite and fast interface. With over 200 million active users this app is taking over the market by its quality. It is fast and even works on weak signals and has the potential to handle 100,000 members in a single group.
The data is secured by 256-bit symmetric AES encryption and also has good privacy terms. After using it for a while and getting good feedback from other users, we decided to include this one into our list of Top apps in 2018. It has some really cool and amazing features in it. For more details definitely check out our dedicated article on tips and tricks of Telegram.
Medium is always considered in Top apps from last few years. It is a free blogging platform where bloggers and writers share their experience and expertise. It is a great tool for enhancing your vocab and learn a variety of things and lessons.
If you love to write or want to learn the format of writing, then this app will help you out. It also enables to build an audience. A variety of categories and exposure to useful information. You must check out this app if you haven’t yet.
5. TED
I guess you already know about TED talks and its work. But, those of you who don’t know It is a platform where people from all over the world speak up their experiences, research and their vision towards making the world a better place.
They put new content daily on their app and you can access it easily. Learn and get inspired every day by listening to the speakers. Just put your earphones on and go on learning and enhancing your mindset for a better life.
6. Snapseed
Snapseed is a very powerful photo editing app. Most of the professional photographers use this app for editing their photos while they are on their phone. It has some really cool features which can turn any normal image into a classical and amazing image.
Manual adjustments are really awesome in this app which allows you to edit the photos like a pro. Even if you don’t have any prior knowledge. This is also a must checkout app that deserves to be downloaded from play store in your phone.
7. Nutrino+
If you are an Instagram lover who regularly posts and loves to see likes on your profile. Then this app will help you t become an Insta star. It enables you to gain followers and likes on your posts. If you have a page and want to boost your appearance then this is the tool which leads you to gain quick followers.
The most important thing this app is not fake and gives genuine followers.
8. Quora
Quora is one of the Top recommended apps that you must have in your phone. You can ask any question that arises in your mind and gets the answer from n number of people and different opinions as well. It is a great app to make you utilize your time.
You must invest your time in these types of apps to develop yourself and get attached to the reality of the world. If you haven’t downloaded it yet then go download it from play store now!
9. Curiosity
This also one of the great learning apps must-have apps. New information is given on regular basis on this app. If you want to stand out of the crowd with good knowledge then this is a good app to try. It updated you with information with different fields like astronomy, Psychology, research and much more.
10. Lybrate
Lybrate is a health app that connects you to doctors with different specializations. If you have any query regarding your health or want to clear any doubt then you can ask for free. the doctors will respond to your query within 24 hours.
There are always new and helpful posts related to health and fitness. if you are really concerned about your health then you must try this app. It can be very helpful for you. You can also take video consultations as well as telephonic on a paid basis if you want.
So, This was our list of Top 10 apps that you must have in your phone. These apps will make your user experience better and add value to your life.
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COVID-19 outbreaks reported at 2 schools, 1 long-term care facility in Alamance County
Rachel Berry | Times-News
The Alamance County Health Department is reporting coronavirus outbreaks or clusters at two schools and a long-term care facility.
At Southern Alamance High School in Graham, three students and three staff members tested positive. Eight cases have been confirmed at Positive Attitudes Youth Center in Burlington, including six children and two staff members.
Brookdale Senior Living-Memory Care in Burlington is reporting 13 cases among residents and two among staff members.
Superintendent Bruce Benson said staff and families have been notified about the cluster at Southern Alamance High School. The school is disinfecting the areas of the school where those who tested positive had been.
Heather Hunter, communications manager for Brookdale Senior Living, also said residents, family members and staff have been notified of the outbreak at their facility and that they're following the guidance of the health department and the CDC.
A total of 12,644 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Alamance County since March. Of those cases, 1,553 remain active and in isolation. The county has had 180 COVID-19 related deaths.
The number of active cases is at an all-time high, according to the health department.
As of Dec. 22, there were ongoing outbreaks at six nursing homes, five residential care facilities and one congregate living setting. There were also five outbreaks at childcare settings or schools being monitored by the health department.
More: Over 900 new cases in a week reported in Alamance as state sets new COVID-19 records
— Breaking news reporter Rachel Berry can be reached at rberry@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @racheldberry.
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RCTC Cabinet agrees amended option for future residential care provision
Cabinet has agreed to an amended option for future residential care provision – which will see nine Council-run care homes retained and modernised, including Garth Olwg (Church Village) and Ystradfechan (Treorchy).
At their virtual meeting on December 3, Cabinet Members considered an Officer report which outlined revised plans for the provision in Rhondda Cynon Taf, following an extensive consultation. The report proposed increasing the number of Council-run care homes to be retained to nine, and converting Dan y Mynydd Residential Care Home (Porth) into a 60-bed Extra Care facility.
The report also recommended securing an important future role for Bronllwyn Residential Care Home (Gelli), to meet modern accommodation needs – redeveloping the site to provide support for those with a learning disability.
Following consideration of the report and its recommendations on December 3, Cabinet Members have agreed to progress the following proposals:
To retain nine Council-run care homes including Garth Olwg and Ystradfechan Residential Care Homes in Church Village and Treorchy – to be refocussed for complex needs (including dementia), residential reablement and respite care.
To refocus Bronllwyn Residential Care Home in Gelli, developing the site to provide modern accommodation with care to support people with learning difficulties in adulthood and older age, to meet changes in need and demand.
To create a new 60-unit Extra Care housing scheme in line with the Council’s strategy to modernise options for older people and deliver Extra Care housing as part of the redevelopment of the Dan y Mynydd facility. There are currently no residents within Bronllwyn and Dan y Mynydd Residential Homes.
Developing further plans to comprehensively modernise the nine residential care homes proposed to be retained and to recommence permanent admissions to these homes immediately.
Following this decision, a series of further reports will be presented to future Cabinet meetings in the New Year. These will include setting out costed proposals for the Dan y Mynydd and Bronllwyn redevelopments, along with the modernisation of the nine Council-run care homes being retained.
Councillor Geraint Hopkins, Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s Cabinet Member with responsibility for Adult Community Services, said: “On Thursday, Cabinet considered amended proposals for the future of residential care provision in Rhondda Cynon Taf, as set out in the report – along with the feedback from the most recent public consultation and the comments of the Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee, which met on December 1.
“Twice in 2019, residents were invited to have their say on the Council’s plans to modernise provision for older people, responding to changing expectations for residential care and increased demand both now and into the future. It is clear that doing nothing isn’t a viable option, which is why an initial preferred option was brought forward and consulted upon at the end of 2019. However, the COVID-19 pandemic delayed consideration of the feedback we received and provided an opportunity for the proposal to be further developed.
“It was very clear from each consultation exercise the value place placed on the Council’s care homes by residents. This is testament to our dedicated and very hard-working staff, with new proposals brought forward by Officers also responding to this recognition. A key change in the proposals considered by Cabinet today includes the retention and future modernisation of nine care homes, retaining Garth Olwg in Church Village and Ystradfechan in Treorchy.
“The amended proposals also include utilising the Dan y Mynydd Care Home site as the location for a state-of-the-art Extra Care facility for Porth. This would add 60 Extra Care places towards the delivery of 300 places by 2025, which is at the heart of the Council’s plan to modernise its residential care provision – helping those residents who wish to live independently for longer.
“The final key change to the proposals is to redevelop Bronllwyn Care Home in Gelli, which will secure the site’s future as an important element of our residential care offer going forward. The provision will provide additional accommodation with specific care support for people with learning difficulties.
“Cabinet Members agreed to the recommendations of the Officer report presented to Thursday’s meeting, and therefore the amended proposals will be progressed by the Council. Specific elements of the proposals will be brought back before Cabinet for consideration in the New Year.”
Posted on Monday 7th December 2020
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Vela Supernova Remnant
The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy runs through this complex and beautiful skyscape. At the northwestern edge of the constellation Vela (the Sails) the telescopic frame is over 10 degrees wide, centered on the brightest glowing filaments of the Vela Supernova Remnant, an expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. Light from the supernova explosion that created the Vela remnant reached Earth about 11,000 years ago. In addition to the shocked filaments of glowing gas, the cosmic catastrophe also left behind an incredibly dense, rotating stellar core, the Vela Pulsar. Some 800 light-years distant, the Vela remnant is likely embedded in a larger and older supernova remnant, the Gum Nebula
At the Heart of Orion
Near the center of this sharp cosmic portrait, at the heart of the Orion Nebula, are four hot, massive stars known as the Trapezium. Tightly gathered within a region about 1.5 light-years in radius, they dominate the core of the dense Orion Nebula Star Cluster. Ultraviolet ionizing radiation from the Trapezium stars, mostly from the brightest star Theta-1 Orionis C powers the complex star forming region's entire visible glow. About three million years old, the Orion Nebula Cluster was even more compact in its younger years and a dynamical study indicates that runaway stellar collisions at an earlier age may have formed a black hole with more than 100 times the mass of the Sun. The presence of a black hole within the cluster could explain the observed high velocities of the Trapezium stars. The Orion Nebula's distance of some 1,500 light-years would make it the closest known black hole to planet Earth.
Apollo 17: A Stereo View from Lunar Orbit
Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this awesome stereo view of another world. The scene was recorded by Apollo 17 mission commander Eugene Cernan on December 11, 1972, one orbit before descending to land on the Moon. The stereo anaglyph was assembled from two photographs (AS17-147-22465, AS17-147-22466) captured from his vantage point on board the Lunar Module Challenger as he and Dr. Harrison Schmitt flew over Apollo 17's landing site in the Taurus-Littrow Valley. The broad, sunlit face of the mountain dubbed South Massif rises near the center of the frame, above the dark floor of Taurus-Littrow to its left. Beyond the mountains, toward the lunar limb, lies the Moon's Mare Serenitatis. Piloted by Ron Evans, the Command Module America is visible in orbit in the foreground against the South Massif's peak.
Crescent Rhea Occults Crescent Saturn
Soft hues, partially lit orbs, a thin trace of the ring, and slight shadows highlight this understated view of the majestic surroundings of the giant planet Saturn. Looking nearly back toward the Sun, the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn captured crescent phases of Saturn and its moon Rhea in color a few years ago. As striking as the above image is, it is but a single frame from a 60-frame silent movie where Rhea can be seen gliding in front of its parent world. Since Cassini was nearly in the plane of Saturn's rings, the normally impressive rings are visible here only as a thin line across the image center.
A Fox Fur, a Unicorn, and a Christmas Tree
What do the following things have in common: a cone, the fur of a fox, and a Christmas tree? Answer: they all occur in the constellation of the unicorn (Monoceros). Pictured as a star forming region and cataloged as NGC 2264, the complex jumble of cosmic gas and dust is about 2,700 light-years distant and mixes reddish emission nebulae excited by energetic light from newborn stars with dark interstellar dust clouds. Where the otherwise obscuring dust clouds lie close to the hot, young stars they also reflect starlight, forming blue reflection nebulae. The image spans about the diameter of a full moon, covering about 30 light-years at the distance of NGC 2264. Its cast of cosmic characters includes the Fox Fur Nebula, whose convoluted pelt lies on the lower right, bright variable star S Mon visible just above the Fox Fur, and the Cone Nebula on the image left. Given their distribution, the stars of NGC 2264 are also known as the Christmas Tree star cluster. The triangular tree shape traced by the stars appears here with its apex at the Cone Nebula on the left with its broader base near S Mon on the right.
100 Million Stars in the Andromeda Galaxy
What stars compose the Andromeda galaxy? To better understand, a group of researchers studied the nearby spiral by composing the largest image ever taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. The result, called the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT), involved thousands of observations, hundreds of fields, spanned about a third of the galaxy, and resolved over 100 million stars. In the featured composite image, the central part of the galaxy is seen on the far left, while a blue spiral arm is prominent on the right. The brightest stars, scattered over the frame, are actually Milky Way foreground stars. The PHAT data is being analyzed to better understand where and how stars have formed in M31 in contrast to our Milky Way Galaxy, and to identify and characterize Andromeda's stellar clusters and obscuring dust.
Hubble 25th Anniversary: Pillars of Creation
To celebrate 25 years (1990-2015) of exploring the Universe from low Earth orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope's cameras were used to revisit its most iconic image. The result is this sharper, wider view of the region dubbed the Pillars of Creation, first imaged by Hubble in 1995. Stars are forming deep inside the towering structures. The light-years long columns of cold gas and dust are some 6,500 light-years distant in M16, the Eagle Nebula, toward the constellation Serpens. Sculpted and eroded by the energetic ultraviolet light and powerful winds from M16's cluster of young, massive stars, the cosmic pillars themselves are destined for destruction. But the turbulent environment of star formation within M16, whose spectacular details are captured in this Hubble visible-light snapshot, is likely similar to the environment that formed our own Sun. APOD Talk: Friday, January 9 in New York City
Stars and Dust in Corona Australis
Cosmic dust clouds and young, energetic stars inhabit this telescopic vista, less than 500 light-years away toward the northern boundary of Corona Australis, the Southern Crown. The dust clouds effectively block light from more distant background stars in the Milky Way. But the striking complex of reflection nebulae cataloged as NGC 6726, 6727, and IC 4812 produce a characteristic blue color as light from the region's young hot stars is reflected by the cosmic dust. The dust also obscures from view stars still in the process of formation. At the left, smaller yellowish nebula NGC 6729 bends around young variable star R Coronae Australis. Just below it, glowing arcs and loops shocked by outflows from embedded newborn stars are identified as Herbig-Haro objects. On the sky this field of view spans about 1 degree. That corresponds to almost 9 light-years at the estimated distance of the nearby star forming region. APOD Talk: Friday, January 9 in New York City
In the Arms of NGC 1097
Spiral galaxy NGC 1097 shines in southern skies, about 45 million light-years away in the chemical constellation Fornax. Its blue spiral arms are mottled with pinkish star forming regions in this colorful galaxy portrait. They seem to have wrapped around a small companion galaxy below and left of center, about 40,000 light-years from the spiral's luminous core. That's not NGC 1097's only peculiar feature, though. The very deep exposure hints of faint, mysterious jets, most easily seen to extend well beyond the bluish arms toward the left. In fact, four faint jets are ultimately recognized in optical images of NGC 1097. The jets trace an X centered on the galaxy's nucleus, but probably don't originate there. Instead, they could be fossil star streams, trails left over from the capture and disruption of a much smaller galaxy in the large spiral's ancient past. A Seyfert galaxy, NGC 1097's nucleus also harbors a supermassive black hole. Tonight: APOD Talk in New York City
The Windmill's Moon
Seen from the Canary Island of Fuerteventura, this bright Full Moon rose at sunset. Reaching its full phase on the night of January 4/5, it was the first Full Moon of the new year and the first to follow December's solstice. Of course, in North America the first Full Moon of January has been known as the Wolf's Moon. But this Full Moon, posed in the twilight above an island of strong winds and traditional windmills, suggests another name. The telephoto image, taken at a distance from the foreground windmill, creates the dramatic comparison in apparent size for windmill and Full Moon.
Cataclysmic Dawn
Will this dawn bring another nova? Such dilemmas might be pondered one day by future humans living on a planet orbiting a cataclysmic variable binary star system. Cataclysmic variables involve gas falling from a large star onto an accretion disk surrounding a massive but compact white dwarf star. Explosive cataclysmic events such as a dwarf nova can occur when a clump of gas in the interior of the accretion disk heats up past a certain temperature. At that point, the clump will fall more quickly onto the white dwarf and land with a bright flash. Such dwarf novas will not destroy either star, and may occur irregularly on time scales from a few days to tens of years. Although a nova is much less energetic than a supernova, if recurrent novas are not violent enough to expel more gas than is falling in, mass will accumulate onto the white dwarf star until it passes its Chandrasekhar limit. At that point, a foreground cave may provide little protection, as the entire white dwarf star will explode in a tremendous supernova.
Can you create a planetary system that lasts for 500 years? Super Planet Crash, the featured game, allows you to try. To create up to ten planets, just click anywhere near the central star. Planet types can be selected on the left in order of increasing mass: Earth, Super-Earth, Ice giant, Giant planet, Brown dwarf, or Dwarf star. Each planet is gravitationally attracted not only to the central Sun-like star, but to other planets. Points are awarded, with bonus factors applied for increasingly crowded and habitable systems. The game ends after 500 years or when a planet is gravitationally expelled. Many exoplanetary systems are being discovered in recent years, and Super Planet Crash demonstrates why some remain stable. As you might suspect after playing Super Planet Crash a few times, there is reason to believe that our own Solar System has lost planets during its formation.
The Soap Bubble Nebula
Adrift in the rich star fields of the constellation Cygnus, this lovely, symmetric nebula was only recognized a few years ago and does not yet appear in some astronomical catalogs. In fact, amateur astronomer Dave Jurasevich identified it as a nebula on 2008 July 6 in his images of the complex Cygnus region that included the Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888). He subsequently notified the International Astronomical Union. Only eleven days later the same object was independently identified by Mel Helm at Sierra Remote Observatories, imaged by Keith Quattrocchi and Helm, and also submitted to the IAU as a potentially unknown nebula. The nebula, appearing on the left of the featured image, is now known as the Soap Bubble Nebula. What is the newly recognized nebula? Most probably it is a planetary nebula, a final phase in the life of a sun-like star.
The Hunter, the Bull, and Lovejoy
Heading north, Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) is putting on its best show for comet watchers now, with moonlight absent from mid-January's early evening skies. An easy binocular target and just visible to the unaided eye from dark sites, the comet sweeps across the constellation Taurus the Bull in this deep night skyscape. The starry scene was captured just two days ago on January 12, from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, planet Earth. In fact, the head of Taurus formed by the V-shaped Hyades star cluster points toward Lovejoy at the right. The comet's greenish coma and tail streaming in the anti-sunward direction also seem to have been shot from Orion's bow. You can spot the familiar stars of the nebula rich constellation of the Hunter on the left, and follow this link to highlight Comet Lovejoy in the wide field of view.
Venus and Mercury at Sunset
Inner planets Venus and Mercury can never wander far from the Sun in Earth's sky. This week you've probably seen them both gathered near the western horizon just after sunset, a close conjunction of bright celestial beacons in the fading twilight. The pair are framed in this early evening skyview captured on January 13 from the ruins of Szarvasko Castle in northwestern Hungary. Above the silhouette of the landscape's prominent volcanic hill Venus is much the brighter, separated from Mercury by little more than the width of two Full Moons. On Friday, planet Earth's early morning risers will also be treated to a close conjunction, when Saturn meets an old crescent Moon near the southeastern horizon at dawn.
Huygens Lands on Titan
Delivered by Saturn-bound Cassini, ESA's Huygens probe touched down on the ringed planet's largest moon Titan, ten years ago on January 14, 2005. These panels show fisheye images made during its slow descent by parachute through Titan's dense atmosphere. Taken by the probe's descent imager/spectral radiometer instrument they range in altitude from 6 kilometers (upper left) to 0.2 kilometers (lower right) above the moon's surprisingly Earth-like surface of dark channels, floodplains, and bright ridges. But at temperatures near -290 degrees F (-180 degrees C), the liquids flowing across Titan's surface are methane and ethane, hydrocarbons rather than water. After making the most distant landing for a spacecraft from Earth, Huygens transmitted data for more than an hour. The Huygens data and a decade of exploration by Cassini have shown Titan to be a tantalizing world hosting a complex chemistry of organic compounds, dynamic landforms, lakes, seas, and a possible subsurface ocean of liquid water.
Comet Lovejoy's Tail
Sweeping north in planet Earth's sky, Comet Lovejoy's greenish coma and blue tinted ion tail stretched across this field of stars in the constellation Taurus on January 13. The inset at the upper left shows the 1/2 degree angular size of the full moon for scale. So Lovejoy's coma appears only a little smaller (but much fainter) than a full moon on the sky, and its tail is visible for over 4 degrees across the frame. That corresponds to over 5 million kilometers at the comet's estimated distance of 75 million kilometers from Earth. Blown by the solar wind, the comet's tenuous, structured ion tail streams away from the Sun, growing as this Comet Lovejoy heads toward perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun, on January 30. While diatomic carbon (C2) gas fluorescing in sunlight produces the coma's green color, the fainter bluish tail is tinted by emission from ionized carbon monoxide (CO+).
The Galactic Core in Infrared
What's happening at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy? To help find out, the orbiting Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have combined their efforts to survey the region in unprecedented detail in infrared light. Infrared light is particularly useful for probing the Milky Way's center because visible light is more greatly obscured by dust. The above image encompasses more than 2,000 images from the Hubble Space Telescope's NICMOS taken in 2008. The image spans 300 by 115 light years with such high resolution that structures only 20 times the size of our own Solar System are discernable. Clouds of glowing gas and dark dust as well as three large star clusters are visible. Magnetic fields may be channeling plasma along the upper left near the Arches Cluster, while energetic stellar winds are carving pillars near the Quintuplet Cluster on the lower left. The massive Central Cluster of stars surrounding Sagittarius A* is visible on the lower right. Why several central, bright, massive stars appear to be unassociated with these star clusters is not yet understood. Follow APOD on: Facebook, Google Plus, or Twitter
Infrared Orion from WISE
The Great Nebula in Orion is an intriguing place. Visible to the unaided eye, it appears as a small fuzzy patch in the constellation of Orion. But this image, an illusory-color four-panel mosaic taken in different bands of infrared light with the Earth orbiting WISE observatory, shows the Orion Nebula to be a bustling neighborhood of recently formed stars, hot gas, and dark dust. The power behind much of the Orion Nebula (M42) is the stars of the Trapezium star cluster, seen near the center of the above wide field image. The orange glow surrounding the bright stars pictured here is their own starlight reflected by intricate dust filaments that cover much of the region. The current Orion Nebula cloud complex, which includes the Horsehead Nebula, will slowly disperse over the next 100,000 years. Now Available: APOD 2015 Wall Calendars
Approaching Asteroid Ceres
It is the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt -- what secrets does it hold? To find out, NASA has sent the robotic Dawn spacecraft to explore and map this cryptic 1,000-kilometer wide world: Ceres. Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, Ceres is officially categorized as a dwarf planet but has never been imaged in detail. Featured here is a 20-frame video taken a week ago of Dawn's approach that now rivals even the best images of Ceres ever taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The video shows enough surface definition to discern its 9-hour rotation period. On target to reach Ceres in early March, Dawn will match speeds and attempt to orbit this previously unexplored body, taking images and data that may help humanity better understand not only the nature and history of Ceres but also the early history of our entire Solar System.
The Complex Ion Tail of Comet Lovejoy
What causes the structure in Comet Lovejoy's tail? Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy), which is currently at naked-eye brightness and near its brightest, has been showing an exquisitely detailed ion tail. As the name implies, the ion tail is made of ionized gas -- gas energized by ultraviolet light from the Sun and pushed outward by the solar wind. The solar wind is quite structured and sculpted by the Sun's complex and ever changing magnetic field. The effect of the variable solar wind combined with different gas jets venting from the comet's nucleus accounts for the tail's complex structure. Following the wind, structure in Comet Lovejoy's tail can be seen to move outward from the Sun even alter its wavy appearance over time. The blue color of the ion tail is dominated by recombining carbon monoxide molecules, while the green color of the coma surrounding the head of the comet is created mostly by a slight amount of recombining diatomic carbon molecules. The featured three-panel mosaic image was taken nine days ago from the IRIDA Observatory in Bulgaria. Comet Lovejoy made it closest pass to the Earth two weeks ago and will be at its closest to the Sun in about ten days. After that, the comet will fade as it heads back into the outer Solar System, to return only in about 8,000 years. Astrophysicists: Browse 950+ codes in the Astrophysics Source Code Library
Launch to Lovejoy
Blasting skyward an Atlas V rocket carrying a U.S. Navy satellite pierces a cloud bank in this starry night scene captured on January 20. On its way to orbit from Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, planet Earth, the rocket streaks past brightest star Sirius, as seen from a dark beach at Canaveral National Seashore. Above the alpha star of Canis Major, Orion the Hunter strikes a pose familiar to northern winter skygazers. Above Orion is the V-shaped Hyades star cluster, head of Taurus the Bull, and farther still above Taurus it's easy to spot the compact Pleiades star cluster. Of course near the top of the frame you'll find the greenish coma and long tail of Comet Lovejoy, astronomical darling of these January nights.
Some prefer windows, and these are the best available on board the International Space Station. Taken on January 4, this snapshot from inside the station's large, seven-window Cupola module also shows off a workstation for controlling Canadarm2. Used to grapple visiting cargo vehicles and assist astronauts during spacewalks, the robotic arm is just outside the window at the right. The Cupola itself is attached to the Earth-facing or nadir port of the station's Tranquility module, offering dynamic panoramas of our fair planet. Seen from the station's 90 minute long, 400 kilometer high orbit, Earth's bright limb is in view above center.
Light from Cygnus A
Celebrating astronomy in this International Year of Light, the detailed image reveals spectacular active galaxy Cygnus A in light across the electromagnetic spectrum. Incorporating X-ray data ( blue) from the orbiting Chandra Observatory, Cygnus A is seen to be a prodigious source of high energy x-rays. But it is actually more famous at the low energy end of the electromagnetic spectrum. One of the brightest celestial sources visible to radio telescopes, at 600 million light-years distant Cygnus A is the closest powerful radio galaxy. Radio emission ( red) extends to either side along the same axis for nearly 300,000 light-years powered by jets of relativistic particles emanating from the galaxy's central supermassive black hole. Hot spots likely mark the ends of the jets impacting surrounding cool, dense material. Confined to yellow hues, optical wavelength data of the galaxy from Hubble and the surrounding field in the Digital Sky Survey complete a remarkable multiwavelength view.
A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence
Ten Earths could easily fit in the "claw" of this seemingly solar monster. The monster, actually a huge eruptive prominence, is seen moving out from our Sun in this condensed half-hour time-lapse sequence. This large prominence, though, is significant not only for its size, but its shape. The twisted figure eight shape indicates that a complex magnetic field threads through the emerging solar particles. Differential rotation of gas just inside the surface of the Sun might help account for the surface explosion. The five frame sequence was taken in early 2000 by the Sun-orbiting SOHO satellite. Although large prominences and energetic Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are relatively rare, they are again occurring more frequently now that we are near the Solar Maximum, a time of peak sunspot and solar activity in the eleven-year solar cycle.
The Milky Way over the Seven Strong Men Rock Formations
You may have heard of the Seven Sisters in the sky, but have you heard about the Seven Strong Men on the ground? Located just west of the Ural Mountains, the unusual Manpupuner rock formations are one of the Seven Wonders of Russia. How these ancient 40-meter high pillars formed is yet unknown. The persistent photographer of this featured image battled rough terrain and uncooperative weather to capture these rugged stone towers in winter at night, being finally successful in February of last year. Utilizing the camera's time delay feature, the photographer holds a flashlight in the foreground near one of the snow-covered pillars. High above, millions of stars shine down, while the band of our Milky Way Galaxy crosses diagonally down from the upper left. Follow APOD on: Facebook, Google Plus, or Twitter
Our Galaxy's Magnetic Field from Planck
What does the magnetic field of our Galaxy look like? It has long been known that a modest magnetic field pervades our Milky Way Galaxy because it is seen to align small dust grains that scatter background light. Only recently, however, has the Sun-orbiting Planck satellite made a high-resolution map of this field. Color coded, the 30-degree wide map confirms, among other things, that the Galaxy's interstellar magnetism is strongest in the central disk. The revolution of charged gas around the Galactic center creates this magnetism, and it is hypothesized that viewed from the top, the Milky Way's magnetic field would appear as a spiral swirling out from the center. What caused many of the details in this and similar Planck maps -- and how magnetism in general affected our Galaxy's evolution -- will likely remain topics of research for years to come.
Comet Lovejoy in a Winter Sky
Which of these night sky icons can you find in this beautiful and deep exposure of the northern winter sky? Skylights include the stars in Orion's belt, the Orion Nebula, the Pleiades star cluster, the bright stars Betelgeuse and Rigel, the California Nebula, Barnard's Loop, and Comet Lovejoy. The belt stars of Orion are nearly vertical in the central line between the horizon and the image center, with the lowest belt star obscured by the red glowing Flame Nebula. To the belt's left is the red arc of Barnard's Loop followed by the bright orange star Betelgeuse, while to the belt's right is the colorful Orion Nebula followed by the bright blue star Rigel. The blue cluster of bright stars near the top center is the Pleiades, and the red nebula to its left is the California nebula. The bright orange dot above the image center is the star Aldebaran, while the green object with the long tail to its right is Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy). The featured image was taken about two weeks ago near Palau village in Spain.
Close Encounter with M44
On Monday, January 26, well-tracked asteroid 2004 BL86 made its closest approach, a mere 1.2 million kilometers from our fair planet. That's about 3.1 times the Earth-Moon distance or 4 light-seconds away. Moving quickly through Earth's night sky, it left this streak in a 40 minute long exposure on January 27 made from Piemonte, Italy. The remarkably pretty telescopic field of view includes M44, also known as the Beehive or Praesepe star cluster in Cancer. Of course, its close encounter with M44 is only an apparent one, with the cluster nearly along the same line-of-sight to the near-earth asteroid. The actual distance between star cluster and asteroid is around 600 light-years. Still, the close approach to planet Earth allowed detailed radar imaging from NASA's Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California and revealed the asteroid to have its own moon.
A Night at Poker Flat
Four NASA suborbital sounding rockets leapt into the night on January 26, from the University of Alaska's Poker Flat Research Range. This time lapse composite image follows all four launches of the small, multi-stage rockets to explore winter's mesmerizing, aurora-filled skies. During the exposures, stars trailed around the North Celestial Pole, high above the horizon at the site 30 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska. Lidar, beams of pulsed green lasers, also left traces through the scene. Operating successfully, the payloads lofted were two Mesosphere-Lower Thermosphere Turbulence Experiments (M-TeX) and two Mesospheric Inversion-layer Stratified Turbulence (MIST) experiments, creating vapor trails at high altitudes to be tracked by ground-based observations.
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According to a report by Reuters, under the partnership agreement, Cainiao Smart Logistics Network Ltd., an Alibaba subsidiary would be leasing out a 220,000 sq. meter logistics port in the city of Liege, specifically the Liege airport. Moreover, the company would also be investing about €75 million ($85 million) in the project. Operations in the project are expected to begin by the year 2021.
Additionally, the company’s warehouse would be helping businesses across Europe to transport quality products to China.
The CEO of Alibaba, Daniel Zhang stated that under the eWTP initiative, the company would be opening up a huge potential for businesses across Europe to acquire huge benefits from a worldwide cross-border trade, especially inside Chinese markets where European goods are in high-demand.
The latest move reportedly also comes under the company’s pledge to help in the import of $200-billion worth of products into China from across the world over the upcoming five years.
Reportedly, Rwanda as well as Malaysia have also established Alibaba e-commerce hubs under the eWTP initiative.
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Tropico 5 – PC Game Review
By Jim H. Moreno
Tropico 5. PC game review. Published by Kalypso Media. Developed by Haemimont Games. $39.99 on Steam.
Passed Inspection: Gameplay advanced and improved over the previous Tropico editions; multiplayer; excellent new game features; military strategy!
Failed Basic: Lackluster humor; repetitive sandbox scenarios; no social media connection.
The land is mired in the woes of hunger brought on by overpopulation and not enough food. Constitutional corruption abounds, as the government manipulates its edicts to endorse more election fraud, embezzlement, and a nationwide surveillance state. Mass social unrest is on the rise, and implementing martial law and legal assassinations is just around the corner
No, it’s not America. Well, actually, maybe it is. But I’m describing much of the last 65 hours I’ve spent playing Tropico 5, the latest in the series from Haemimont Games and Kalypso Media. As bleak as the description sounds, it’s also been another mischievously entertaining RTS romp as El Presidente, and I hope it doesn’t end here.
When the Modern Times expansion was released for Tropico 4—to much adoration and praise—the devs and pubs realized they had created a gameplay mode worthy of something more. Tropico 5 is that something more. Unlike the previous Tropico editions, T5 is not locked into a single historical (Cold War) era. Instead, players are treated to a timeline that stretches from the 19th to the 21st century, and covers the Colonial, World Wars, Cold War, and Modern Times periods.
A few new features have been added, including new art, trade routes, research, a dynasty system, and, finally, multiplayer. Oh, and my personal favorite new feature: military strategy! Aside from the new features, Tropico 5 retains many of the old features that have been in play throughout the series but improved yet again to make this edition better than the last. Therein lies the heart and success of Tropico, and explains why I and many other gamers keep returning to lord over our very own tropical islands of misfit tyranny.
Tropico 5 gave me that warm glow of totalitarianism much more so than any of the previous editions. Multiple layers of information are available via the Almanac, which shows valuable charts and graphs on revenue and expenses, population growth rates, faction loyalty and threat rates, raw resources, tourism, the military, and much more. Even your trusted advisor Penultimo doesn’t have the level of knowledge to match what’s in the Almanac, so I made prolific use of it.
Balancing the broad array of information found in the Almanac are Tropico 5’s deep levels of control, which allow you to actually do something with all that info. For example, I needed a couple more percentage points added to my Popular Support rating in order to have a better chance of winning the next election. The Almanac showed my lowest Overall Happiness score in Entertainment. So, rather than plop down a couple more brand new entertainment buildings (which I didn’t have the funds to cover), I clicked into the Restaurants I had and appointed a Union Leader (worker job quality increased by 10) as manager of one, and a Landlord (increases housing quality of nearby residences by 5) as manager of the other. I then selected the Kids Meal upgrade for each, which added family tourists as the preferred tourist class. Sure enough, in the span of one game month those minute adjustments were enough to raise my Popular Support by the couple percentage points I wanted. Total cost: $1,000.
Managers and Upgrades are available for nearly every building, and provide players with an exacting level of control the previous Tropico versions don’t have. Buildings also have a Budget available, which may be raised or lowered as the economic situation dictates. A Predicted Effectiveness rating has also been added for some buildings, showing a gauge of how well they may or may not work where you plan on placing them. So, from planning stages to construction to long after a building is complete, Tropico 5 allows you a high level of supervision to establish and evolve your ultimate Tropican empire.
Way back in my Tropico 3 review for Armchair General, I lamented about the lack of actual combat actions in game. Political and military actions go hand-in-hand in our real world, and not having military units in such a highly political strategy game just didn’t feel complete to me. Tropico 5 has fixed that—much to my joy, as you probably guessed by my use of an exclamation point whenever I write “military strategy”! A number of military buildings may be built, and more importantly, those buildings provide military units that will automatically deploy, seek out, and attempt to destroy all rebels, pirates, and invading armies who happen onto Tropican territory. It doesn’t bring Tropico 5 up to bonafide wargame level, but it does add another element of dictatorship that works well.
Sometime between Tropico 4 and Tropico 5, it seems the humor writer for the series vanished. The humor in the latest game is disappointing, nowhere near the quality of the previous versions. The whimsical political caricatures in game and their voice actors match those of Tropico 4, and the tasks they present are written well enough to get their points across. But the jokes just aren’t funny.
Sandbox mode is also still off target, at least to me. On the plus side, there are a wide variety of pre-made maps to play on, along with an assortment of options to generate and configure a new map. Negatively, each pre-made map seems to offer the same tasks in the same order each time you play them. For example, each time I’ve played on the Puerto Coco map, it’s started off with the Pyromania tasks. Isla de Cortez starts with the Food Fight tasks. Maybe those initial tasks will be adjusted in future patches, or at least have some more added.
Starting off each sandbox map with a few buildings already established also doesn’t feel sandboxy to me. Draw me an island with the options I choose, but keep all starter buildings off of it, and instead allow me to place them where I want, beginning with the Palace and onward. That’s my idea of sandbox mode. Other than these couple of minor offenses, I don’t have any other problems with Tropico 5.
Bravo once again to the Haemimont and Kalypso teams for another excellent and improved addition to the Tropico series. Like any properly governed authoritarian state, Tropico 5 is easy to get into—since you are at the top of the authoritarian pyramid—and so enjoyably difficult to put down. Gamers, get this one added to your gaming library ASAP. Viva El Presidente!
Jim Moreno dropped a quarter into his first video game (Pong) back in 1977, and has been avidly gaming ever since. He joined Armchair General as its first official game reviewer just before the website went live in 2003, and remains a regular contributor of war, combat, and strategy articles. Jim often streams his gaming on TwitchTV, on his own channel (http://www.twitch.tv/gamer_jim) and on behalf of MMORPG.com (http://www.twitch.tv/mmorpgcom). When he’s not writing or gaming, he’s usually keeping physically and mentally fit, watching the latest sci fi shows and movies, or just being zen with his cat, Spritzer.
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Full Season Ahead for Houston’s Horse Head Theatre
Tarra Gaines June 15, 2017
Editor's PicksHoustonTheater7 min read
Horse Head company members Philip Hays, Tasha Gorel, Jacey Little, Laura Moreno and Leah Short pose in front of historic St. John Church, location for their summer production of CHURCH by Young Jean Lee.
Photo by Pin Lim at Forest Photography.
Horse Head Theatre artistic director Jacey Little. Photo by Mark Wozny.
Houston’s Horse Head Theatre company has a reputation for staging intriguing and occasional avant-garde contemporary plays in nontraditional and even bizarre venues, from the back porch of a bar to a geodesic event dome on the banks of Buffalo Bayou. With one or two productions a year, releasing theater out into the wild of everyday spaces and making those spaces extraordinary has been something of an integral ideal since Horse Head’s founding in 2009. But now for 2017, the company attempts a feat truly radical for them, a full season of four theatrical projects that they’ve announced in advance.
Horse Head fans can expect the same type of provocative works and performances the company is known for, just more of them. Their 2017 season includes two free, staged readings of plays in development: MJ Kaufman’s Sensitive Guys, which took place on June 5 at the Rec Room, and Neighbors by Bernardo Cubría scheduled for Sept. 18 at MECA. Along with these readings, the season brings two full productions: Young Jean Lee’s Church (Aug. 4-19) and The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise: Youth is Not the Only Thing That’s Sonic by Toshiki Okada, translated to English by Aya Ogawa (Nov. 3-18).
I recently talked with Horse Head artistic director Jacey Little about tackling a bigger lineup than the company has ever done in a season, while keeping that Horse Head style, a focus on engaging and challenging audiences. Little explained she felt now was the time in the company’s evolution to try this mixture of readings and full productions.
“These are staged readings of plays that kind of scare us. We’ve been calling them ballsy,” explained Little, with a bit of irony, especially when referencing Sensitive Guys. “They’re in tuned thematically with what we want to discuss this season which is concepts of self, self-knowledge and what happens when you act on that. Or if you do not, what the consequences are.”
Little described both Guys and Neighbors as “potentially problematic to produce,” but noted that both plays hold stories they were “really interested in telling.” Little calls the plays problematic, not in a pejorative sense, but both plays are political, to varying degrees, and perhaps confrontational. At the same time, the plays might be a casting or scenic challenge for any director and creative crew wanting to mount a full production.
Sensitive Guys called for women and gender nonconforming actors cast as male and female characters. Casting won’t be as much of an issue for Neighbors as there is a good possibility playwright Bernardo Cubría and Horse Head company member Philip Hays, who have been friends for many years, might play the antagonists in the reading. But a full production would call for a river in the middle of the stage that the characters wade and, at one point, piss into.
Team Horse Head
For both readings Horse Head partners with a local organization which can provide assistance in authentically telling these stories. For Sensitive Guys that was AFTER (American Foundation for Transgender Excellence and Recognition), and for Neighbors the Latina/o focused MECA (Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts) offers assistance and the venue.
“If we’re going to be engaging with subjects that are representative of subcultures or minority groups, then we need to make sure that there’s an actual community partnership there and that we’re not appropriating or telling a story to a group. We’re making sure we’re having a direct line and insight,” explained Little.
She also noted that they’ve been in talks with MECA Performance and Residency Director and Music Director, Estevan Azcona for some time, looking for a possible project to combine resources. While the Neighbors readings seemed like the perfect opportunity for a beginning that might lead to future collaborations, Little also thinks the play deserves “the best, most balanced audience possible,” and MECA can help deliver an audience that will hopefully “connect with this work.”
Another prominent partnership, this time with Houston’s Heritage Society, will also help in the creation of the first full production of the season, Church, as Horse Head gets back to their theater-in-unusual-spaces roots, while also exploring some Houston history. Little, who directs Church, plans to stage the play in an actual church, the 1891 St. John Church in Sam Houston Park. The Heritage Society oversees the historic buildings in the park.
Lee’s play takes the form of a series of sermons the actors deliver to the audience who play themselves attending a church serve.
“Lee uses the tropes, the devices, the storytelling methods of an Evangelical or Christian sect church but in order to have a secular conversation,” described Little. “Church is not interested in converting you to Christianity, but it is using the language of Christianity to have a conversation about humanity and being a citizen of the world versus an isolated millennial.”
In addition to the Church staged within St. John Church, Horse Head will present a pre-show, an interactive and original performance within the park to get the audience primed for Lee’s drama. Also in keeping with the real historical setting, the pre-show harkens back to when Christian revivals would come into a town, set up a temporary house of worship to preach and interact with the townspeople. A second cast of actors will only perform in the pre-Church production.
“In this universe, they’re traveling the country. They’ve set up shop at the Sam Houston Park, and they’ve got their fair ground with interactive things for you to do and meet them before you come into the sermon,” said Little.
From this glimpse into a past that might offer spiritual reflections on our present, Horse Head moves decidedly back into the ennui-filled 21st century with Sonic Life, directed by Philip Hays. While the story of a couple in a relationship questioning how to be happy, might feel both familiar and ordinary, the way of telling will not be.
“Sonic Life includes two characters, male and female; however, Sonic Life will be told by an ensemble of five actors taking turns portraying this male and female. You don’t get the opportunity or luxury of attaching an identity to any one actor,” describes Little.
Though this announced season depicts a wide spectrum of subject matter and ways of telling stories, Little does see struggles with identity in all the works. But for Little, especially in this political era, it’s not enough to find oneself. Whether we act on that self-knowledge becomes the real question.
“We don’t have any answers for you this year, but we do have questions,” she believes. “Nothing in our season is telling you how to live, but it is asking you to really evaluate if you’re living.”
Little admits that in her own life, she continues to ask herself “What is it going to take to make me take action?” and now with a season of drama likely to provoke both emotions and intellects, Horse Head is set to challenge Houston audiences with the same query.
—TARRA GAINES
Tarra Gaines is a writer and teacher in Houston.
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Title: The social future of labourers: a paper read before the Tokomairiro Mutual Improvement Association ... Friday, 30th June 1871
Author: Robert Stout
In: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 19
Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington Library, Wellington
Part of: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout
Keywords: New Zealand History
The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 19
The social future of labourers: a paper read before the Tokomairiro Mutual Improvement Association ... Friday, 30th June 1871
The Social Future of Labourers.
A Paper. Read Before the Tokomairiro Mutual Improvement Association, by Mr. Robert Stout.
Friday, 30th June, 1871.
Dunedin Printed By John Mackay, Princes Street North. 1872
Note.—The writer confesses his indebtedness to the works of the following writers:—Mr. Herbert Spencer, Mr. J. S. Mill, Mr. Thornton, Mr. W. R. Greg, and Professor Beesly.
In attempting to sketch the social future of labourers, I desire to state that I do not pretend to expound prophecy—which in these days often means prophesying afresh. All I can hope to do is to point out the present position of labourers, the various Utopias presented for their amelioration, and what the tendencies of the age are in regard to them. My desire is to take you as it were to an eminence from which we may both the more clearly scan the place from which we have made our ascent; and, if glimpse can be caught, perhaps discern the dim outlines of that Promised Land which our philosophers, our statesmen, and our poets have in all ages longed for and pictured. In scaning even cursorily the present social state, we have two things to do. We shall have to see the many anomalies, the many perplexing enigmas of the age, and also to try if we can get at the laws which guide us as human beings, one to another. That there is an inter-dependence amongst men, who can deny? And if an inter-dependence, what are the ligaments that bind us together. Let us then ascend Pisgah. Before we glance at the future, we must, as I have stated, first examine all those things that shed a light as it were on our future path. We must needs have some notion, however imperfect, of what the present condition of labourers is. Of course, you understand what I mean by the term "labourers;" I confine it at present to the toilers of the race—to those who have, by manual labour, to support themselves. What then is their present condition? Let us glance at the hives of manufacturing industry, and examine their condition in the United Kingdom. Canon Kingsley in one of his novels has given us a touching scene of the human wretchedness one meets with in England. Speaking of a family in London, he says:—
"There was no bed in the room; no table. It was bare of furniture, comfortless, and freezing cold; but, with the exception of the plaster dropping from the roof, and the broken windows patched with rags and paper, there was a scrupulous neatness about the whole which contrasted strangely with the filth and slovenliness outside. On a broken chair by the chimney sat a miserable old woman, fancying that she was warming her hands over embers that had long been cold, and muttering to herself, with palsied lips, about the Guardians and the Workhouse. While upon a few rags on the floor lay a girl, ugly, marked with the small-pox, hollow-eyed, emaciated; her only bedclothes the skirt of a large handsome new riding habit, at which the other girls, wan and tawdry, were stitching busily as they sat right and left of her on the floor. The old woman took no notice of us as we entered; but one of the girls looked up, and, with a pleasing gesture of recognition, put her fingers on her lips, and whispered, 'Ellen's asleep.'"
Another master Hand has given the following description of an artisan's dwelling in London:—
"I shall be as particular," he says, "as a valuer, and describe what I have seen. The family sleeping-room measured 13 feet 6 inches by 14 feet. Opening out of this, and again on the landing of the third floor, was their kitchen and sitting-room; it was not quite so large as the other. Not to be described are the dinginess of the walls, the smokiness of the ceilings the grimy windows, the heavy, ever murky atmosphere of these rooms. The other side of the street was I 4 feet distant. Behind, the backs of similar tenements came up black and cowering over the little yard of number Five. As rare in the well thus formed was the circulation of air, as that of cash in the pockets of the inhabitants. I have seen the yard: let me warn you if you are fastidious not to enter it. They poor people knew nothing of sanitary reform, sanitary precautions, endemics, epidemics, deodorisers or disinfectants; they regarded disease with the fatalism of despair."
Nor can these descriptions be considered as exaggerated, when the following facts are remembered. In Edinburgh, for example, it is said one common stair alone has 260 souls dwelling there; sometimes actually two families in one room. The pauperism in England is reckoned to be about one in every twenty. More than a million paupers in England! And these are relieved by the state; but what of those who are always on the confines of poverty? who are labourers earning small wages, oft out of work, often hungry, having emphatically no place in this earth of ours that they can call by hallowed name of home. Who, when in work, have hours of drudgery, enlivened by no hope but the preservation until an old age of their life, and who look to the Workhouse as their final asylum. Who, after their dull hours of weary toil are over, go to homes where there are nothing but squalor and wretchedness; afflicted with diseases; their natural affections blunted; their children dying around them, by all kinds of diseases. For them, how joyless is life? Not a gleam of sunshine; no sweetness, no light to cheer them in their earthly career. Even the words of Scripture might be applied to them—"They wait for death, but it cometh not; they rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave." How hard is their lot. Tell us not of "honest poverty;" chant not its praises. It seems to me one of the greatest of curses. This is not, however, the condition of all "labourers." The ranks of the poor are filled up from other sources; but, as a class, compared with the wealth and luxury which some enjoy, the dukes, and lords, and millionaires, with thousands a day, it is a terrible anomaly. Just think of one class having all that the most luxurious can desire; and of the other, children of the same father, toiling and moiling, and in their efforts to save their lives losing them. But some say this poverty and wretchedness are only known in old countries, surely we in the colonies have got rid of this want. Is there then no pauperism here? And is it not fact that what is, is on the increase? I fear we often overlook the fact that even in the colonies there is much real poverty and misery. It is a great mistake to suppose that we here have not this question of "pauperism" to face. We have not, alas, solved this problem of the age; nay, we have not come page 5 one whit nearer a solution. Glance at our Benevolent Asylum, peep into our Hospitals, see our Industrial and other schools; think of the numbers of unemployed often in our midst; see the agitations that are continually arising for the government to step in and do this thing and the other. And what does this cry of government work for the unemployed signify? Does it not mean that the government should perform the function of parish unions in England—find work for those out of work. The patent and distressing fact that every now and then, and especially in the winter season, government has to expend public money in keeping willing workers from want, is a glaring anomaly which no sophistry of ours can explain away. It may be, nay it is true, that the causes of the want of work are different from those in older communities; and it is often also true that the colonial towns are crowded with some lazy and discontented men who get up "unemployed agitations." But, granting these things, the fact is patent that we have the poor in our midst, that we have labourers often in want and often out of work.
There is then here as in European countries a question to solve; and can we wonder when we think of the wretchedness, and even of the crimes which are often caused by poverty, that philanthropists should get impatient and be ready with utopias to set before us to cure our social defects. It is not surprising that benevolent men should, after surveying our social state, get dissatisfied with our present social laws, and demand their abrogation. They and all wise men who have looked at our present state, and also thought on our probable future, have asked—Can it be, that this world of ours is ever to remain a Pandemonium? Is there no future time fast hastening in which we can imagine that the labourers' families, fortified by their own wisdom against all the chances of fortune, would not have any more need, under any circumstances, of imploring the compassion of either the state or of their fellow-citizens? Can it be, that the sad scene pictured by Carlyle in burning words, of "a white European man, standing on his two legs, with his five-fingered hands at his shackle-bones, and miraculous head on his shoulders," should be worth nothing, should never be false. "If," says Mr. Mill," the bulk of the human race are always to remain as at present, slaves to toil in which they have no interest, and therefore feel no interest, drudging from early morning till late at night for bare necessaries, and with all the intellectual and moral deficiencies which this implies. Without interests or sentiments as members of society, and with a sense of injustice rankling in their minds—equally for what they have not and for what others have, I know not what there is which should make a person with any capacity of reason concern himself about the destinies of the human race. There would be no wisdom for any one, but in extracting from life, with Epicurean indifference, as much personal satisfaction for himself and those with whom he sympathises as it can yield without injury to any one, and let the unmeaning bustle of so-called civilised existence roll by unheeded.'
There is then a problem, and that a vital one, to solve; all are agreed about that. It is only in the mode of solution that differences of opinion arise. Let us glance at the contending Utopias. Of course we shall only have time to take the main ones. They are—1st, Socialism; 2nd, Co-operation; 3rd, Positivism; 4th, Liberty. Regarding the solution offered to us in the colonies, namely "Protection," or as it is grandiloquently termed "Protection of Native Industry," allusion will be made under the head of Liberty.
I shall take Socialism first, because Socialism in one shape or another has been the remedy of most of the philanthropists of all ages. Traces of it are discerned amongst the ancient Hebrews, amongst the early Christians, amongst the Chinese, &c. But there is no agreement amongst the Socialists. "Some systems have been based on purely material principles, like Owens's; some have been profoundly religious, like the Moravians; some maintain the family arrangements, some altogether merge them; some recommend celibacy, some enforce it, like the Shakers;" some relax the marriage tie, some control it; some hold it sacred, and some even advocate doctrines regarding it which would destroy that pivot of English life—the family. Some would divide the property equally. But all have this maxim, that labour should be for the common good. Competition is to be unknown; the right to work and just wages is always asserted. The main agreement in the various socialistic Utopias consists in maintaining the equality of men, at least so far as right to support from each other is concerned. Another of the doctrines of most of the socialists is that external circumstances alone constitute the difference between man and man—circumstances are the basis of their morality. Their position may be asserted as this:—Society, they say, is out of joint; its anomalies, its inequalities, the sufferings of the mass, are monstrous and indefensible. Palliatives won't do, nor slow methods of evolution; we must remedy the evil at once. The society system that can permit such a state of things must be overthrown. Private property must be unknown, and grinding competition banished. The nexus that is to join man to his fellow is not competition, nor money, but "love"—hence we must labour for the common good. Such is very briefly the statement of the socialists. It would be a grave mistake to suppose that these opinions are held by only the revolutionary or the turbulent. Many able men, many philanthropically men, in all countries, are socialists. It would also be erroneous to suppose that they desire their system inaugurated by force. "What we have recently witnessed in France of the Communist rebellion has little to do with socialists; of course many of the communists were and are socialists. But the name "communist" is not from communion, or community of goods, but from the divisions of the city—the "commune" and their fight is for republicanism, and right of cities to certain functions without the control of the Government. So much for socialistic theories; let us glance at their defects. To me they seem to page 7 start on an entirely wrong basis. They assert, if their statements mean anything, an equality of men. So far as the right to labour, which means the right to enjoy the fruits of labour are concerned, they place all men on a level. But are all men equal? Can we say, as Carlyle has phrased it, that Quashee the nigger is equal to Socrates? and, if not equal, why should Quashee be told that he is equal? But a far greater difficulty meets us than this one of equality, for it is right in a sense, it is half a truth. Private property is to become unknown, competition to cease, and man to eat though he should not work. Once assert that private property is at an end, and what have we? We cannot have, in our present state, men united together content to surrender their property or their earnings for the benefit of all. Nor, were all the property once surrendered, could we hope that there would be an end of strife or of contention, nor that every one would fulfil his appointed share of work for the common weal. Unfortunately all men are not moral; some wish to live and enjoy the good things of this world without work. Here is the cardinal defect of socialism. Ir overlooks "human nature;" it is blind to the very patent fact that not only are all men not equal in any sense, but that they are not all unselfish, not all devoted to the common good. Nor does socialism present a remedy for this defect in our nature. Giving the idle, the ill-disposed, the selfish, all that they require—food, clothing, and lodging—and these for ever secured to them, can not rid them of their unselfishness, nor of their evil dispositions. And here I might dismiss socialism, did not there lie at its basis two doctrines erroneous, and found often coming form quarters not at all tinged with socialism. I mean the right of private property and competition. We are often told of usurers; we have it held up to us that money is the root of all evil; and it is pictured, by others than socialists in name, what a benefit it would be if all things were in common, and following this statement comes another, how wrong it is to claim interest. If we would only go to the root of the subject, and picture to ourselves the growth of private property, the beginning of usury, we would not call them by hard names. Go bank to man in the savage or semi-savage state, long after that time pictured by one of our scientific men, when our progenitors were of the monkey tribe. He is a hunter. He finds that by making certain implements he can the better catch his prey. Perhaps it is by the aid of a bow and an arrow, or by a polished stone whirled and thrown in a certain manner. He, to enable him to maintain himself, suddenly becomes possessed of his private property; he is a capitalist, for he has that wherewith he can obtain food easily. Through this means he has obtained more food than he needs for some time, and he can therefore rest for a season and apply himself to other pursuits. Getting rid of this continuous hunting, he begins to make other improvements. Once a capitalist, his capital increases. The other huntsmen come to him and examine his capital, and ask page 8 him for the loan of it. Now, he says, why should I give my capital for nothing; clearly if I give it to all I will have none for myself. If I give it to any, I enrich its possessor for the time being. But the borrower offers him interest, and promises him a share of the booty he may obtain. Getting usury, he is able to apply himself to other avocations, and in this way commences civilisation, for the arts arise; and competition, the socialists' bugbear, grows with it. "The vast disorganised mob scrambling each for what he can get," as the socialists phrase our social state, begins to be known. But this vast disorganised mob, however unlovely in appearance, has given us all our arts, all our inventions, all our discoveries. "Without competition, if that is thinkable, we would have been wonderfully equal, but the level would have been very low; we would have been all at one state of civilisation, and that a not very advanced one. All machinery would have been unknown. Wide through the woods we would have been roaming, noble, perhaps, but unrobed, and I fear not very intellectual in our pursuits. As to the right to labour, or the right to obtain work and be paid for it, which more than socialists assert, what is this but another way of destroying both private property and competition. For if some in a society have a right to demand labour, or work with pay as this phrase always signifies, from whom? Clearly from the capitalist. Of course from Government simply means from the capitalist, for who pay the taxes? But what is capital but past labour; and if past labour, if one cannot enjoy it, what is this but asserting in another shape that the capitalist, when he by abstinence or care or ability accumulated his labour—his capital—he did so to give it to those who perhaps had like opportunities, but neglected to do as he did.
Closely connected with socialism, in fact springing out of it, came Co-operation as a system. Many of its founders were tinged with socialism. Holding, however, theoretical views, they determined to become practical. Many of the socialists' Utopias had miserably failed, and they had not the means, if they had the inclination, to enter into any socialistic arrangements. The Rochdale Society, which is the pioneer society of co-operations, sprang from very small beginnings. The founders thought they were paying too dear for their groceries, and, besides, they said they did not get them of very excellent quality. They therefore met, and without any extraneous aid resolved to form a store for the supply of their necessaries. It was a very small beginning; 28 operatives of Rochdale started what is now a great movement. Most of them were flannel weavers, and provident men, who though having small wages had managed to keep out of debt. By payments of twopence or threepence per week they managed to obtain £28, and this was all their capital. With this sum they bought some sacks of flour, some oatmeal, sugar, and butter. They rented a shop at £10 per year. The opening of the shop was anxiously looked forward to by the Rochdale community, and when the weavers page 9 took the shutters down and exposed their small store, there was great laughter. But laughter would not dismay men like the Rochdale co-operators. They sold their goods, they gave no credit, and so much has the society increased—from this small beginning—that the business actually done now exceeds £300,000 a year. A great increase on the £28. This Rochdale Society is the parent society, and, emulating its noble example in many respects, thousands of co-operative stores have been opened all over the United Kingdom—I may say throughout Europe and America. Not content, however, with co-operative stores, the co-operators have gone further; they have attempted to solve the labour problem, by trying to get rid of an employer class. According to this section of them, all workmen are to form a partnership, or as they term it—to co-operate. They aim, after paying their foreman, at dividing the profits equally amongst the workmen. This attempt has been applied to many trades. One of the first attempts was in tailoring; but the most successful has been in farming. Time will not allow me to give you full details of the various schemes. While giving them every credit for their endeavours, for who would not give great praise to such efforts as those of the Rochdale and other co-operators? do not let us imagine, as some of them have vainly thought, that co-operation is that solution of the labour problem for which all were so anxiously awaiting the coming. There seems to be defects even in this however successful system: for what, after all, can co-operative stores do? Clearly the only way profit can be made is by the sale of groceries, and salesmen have to be employed. How the salesmen are paid is of little moment. If co-operators pay a little more to the co-operative store than to the grocer next door perhaps, there will of necessity, if the business is properly managed, be some profits to divide at the end of the year. If they obtain profits in any other way, it can only be in this way.—They may obtain a manager or shopmen at lower wage than the grocer, or shopkeeper charges for his care and toil and risk. Whatever they gain thus will also add to their profits; but in no other way can they make profits. Nor after all will it be found that their investment of their capital in co-operative stores will return them more interest or profit than if the investment had been made in another way. For competition is not banished, and there are capitalists with whom they have to come into contact. So far then we see co-operative stores give us nothing but this—a manner of investing capital in the business of grocers, and a probable obtaining at a cheaper rate shopmen to serve them, that the compeiting shopkeepers charge for their labour. This can hardly be called any solution at all of the labour problem. But co-operators have not been content, as I have stated, with the selling of groceries. They have aimed at something higher, and that is co-operative production as well as co-operative distribution of flour, butter, and sugar. Unfortunately the societies have generally resembled the socialistic Utopias—been miserable failures. page 10 And why? The question always to solve, who is to be head? who is to be foreman? who is to decide what work B shall do, and what A? has been left unanswered. All men are not equal, and all tailors share the same frailty. And what has happened? Nothing but perpetual wranglings. You see this was an attempt to get rid of the employer, or managing class, and such was the perversity of human nature, that, all being masters, all wanted to rule; and if a majority did fix on a suitable foreman, there were always some enemies in the camp, who considered they were shabbily treated. Had not one of the masters a right to say for what work he was the most suited? If not, was he not despotically ruled over? And on this rock have co-operative producing societies been wrecked. They alas, like the socialistic dreamers, did not recognise the fact that men are not all masters, but that to be fitted for their systems a long process of evolution is necessary.
Positivism aims to get rid of the evils of both these systems. It asserts with loud tongue that all men are not equal, that all are diverse; and that, as there are different functions to be fulfilled in the social organism, so there are amongst mankind individuals fitted to undertake them. But above this assertion there is a wider one, and one far more beautiful and as captivating as that of you're-as-good-as-another theory of the socialists, and it is that the highest worship is to worship humanity—the good of the mass is the highest duty of man,—and its divinity is man in the aggregate. With its religious views we have nothing to do, nor with its founders' classification of the sciences, etc. That these, and its principles of social reform, are believed in by some of the brightest intellects in England, should make us weigh carefully the solution offered by it. Its sanction is a religious one. It points to socialism, and says to the socialist:—"You have condemned the competition system because it was a disorganised mob, each of which was clambering and jostling his neighbor to obtain a living; but what are you? You are enthusiasts, who have presupposed what has never yet existed, and by a fatal sort of sleepwalking have proceeded to put into operation your system of unselfishness and love, while all the while men were selfish and at enmity. You have imagined men had reached a high standard of morality, when, alas! they had never approached to a low standard; and what are you but an organised mob waiting the auction of that which could alone unite you—an organised religion? The basis of positivism is therefore religious,"—but a religion of an ideal though earthly kind. It would organise society as an army; over all there would be a supreme pontiff, tinged with infallibility Under him there would be high priests and guilds—(I speak of it as modified and shadowed forth by some of its English disciples)—and under them labourers would be appointed and ruled. These rulers would be the wisest and best, and there would and could be no appeal from their decisions, should the less wise appeal against the decision of those more just than they. There must be no page 11 complaining, for those heirarchs are the wisest and best; and what right have the foolish and the bad to complain of the conduct of their superiors? Nor would the guilds and priests look after the labour problem alone. Believing as they do, and as many socialists do, that our marriage laws and customs have everything to do with our well-being, they would regulate marriage. Ruskin, who has in him something of the socialist and much of the positivist, although I believe he disclaims it, grapples with the marriage questionina way that would I have no doubt be pleasing to many in every community. He would have every one—and especially the bachelors—who had not married before twenty-five, looked upon by the community as persons who had committed a great wrong, in fact as social outcasts. Nor could everyone marry. Marriage is to be regulated and looked upon as a reward of merit. The young couple need not, however, be at all put out in money matters. Their honeymoon is to last for seven years—happy couples!—and during this time they are to be paid some two or three hundred a year; and all couples are to be placed upon the same footing. There is not to be one thing for the rich and another for the poor. If the rich have property, it is to be managed during their honeymoon by the Ruskinian bishops, the overseers as he terms them, and returned with accumulations when their sweet seven years of enjoyment are ended. Who would not support this social utopias? Nothing but happiness here! But, though kind to the newly married couples, the interference of the "overseers" and the priests would become perhaps irksome, for these "overseers" would come to the scientific men and say, you must spend your time only in those subjects which are beneficial to the community as a whole; and if he replied, but this will be beneficial, the overseers would reply, we think otherwise, and the heirarchy are supreme. Of the scientific aspects, however, of positivism, Professor Huxley in articles to the Fortnightly Review, republished in his Lay Sermons, has said perhaps all that can be said against its treatment of science and her votaries. With its social system I hardly think we will agree. It is at best a theocracy whose theus is humanity, and whose priests are all-powerful. To me it has two defects. First, it looks upon men, or the vast majority of men, in somewhat a similar way as Carlyle characterised his country- men—thirty-six millions, mostly fools. All men except the pontiff and his staff are in a state of pupilage, and they are ever to remain in this condition, for positivism is not a stepping-stone to something higher; there are always to be the rulers and the ruled, and the method of rule despotic. Its second defect is that it makes no provision, or does not show how the wisest are to be selected as the pontiff and rulers. All admit, and positivists continually affirm, that the men of gold will be always the few, and the men of iron the many. If it is to be a popular election, how can the men of iron select the men of gold; can iron detect gold? Here it fails, and will fail, or will become the purest despotism. Might page 12 there not be some of "iron" who imagined they were golden? There is nothing more difficult than to persuade some people that they are not Jacks-of-all-trades. To take an illustration. Tell a good comedian that he is good, praise him well. Ten to one he has a hankering after tragedy, and you cannot insult him more readily than by hinting that comedy is his sphere. Nor is this feeling confined to actors, we meet it cropping out amongst every class. Now positivists, leaving to a few the right to settle for the many their avocation, their wage, etc., what is this but a despotism pure and simple; and, asserting what perhaps is true, that the few mean it for the best, are they infallible? Infallibility is at all events, if it exists at all, a very rare thing. Before, however, dismissing positivism, let me state that to its great founder, M. Comte, we owe much. It is to him we are indebted for the founding of "sociology." It is perhaps not a science, yet but for the efforts of him and his disciples we would have been still far behind in discussing man's social relations in anything but a hap-hazard empirical manner. He has aimed at reducing social phenomena to a science, and if he has not succeeded, he has at all events pointed out the way for future philosophers to walk in. That the time may come when any political or social act will admit of no more discussion as to its effects than any act of the chemist or natural philosopher does at present, we may surely believe; and if so, to the positivists are we indebted for the attempt to found social science.
I now come to the last utopia, to that of Liberty. I have fixed on the name liberty for its brevity and comprehension. I might have termed it political economy, properly understood and, what is rarer, acted up to; or I might have termed it the system of justice. I have taken the term liberty as comprehending these. Unfortunately it has few disciples, for though there are men who pretend that they as citizens are guided by the dictates of political economy, their action belies their words. Few indeed will allow the liberty system to guide them in everything. Every now and then you find them taking their eye from it and casting about for expedients to rid them of some dilemma. Its followers, ignoring expediency, look to what is right, not to what is expedient. It is never expedient, say they, to do wrong. As a consequence of their action they are looked upon as vain theorists, not at all as practical men. But what is a practical man, and what a theorist? Is not the true difference between what is popularly termed a theorist and a practical man this? The theorist is not guided by his own experience, nor by the doings of the citizens of his own nation; he looks at the past, and scans carefully the present, and he, relying on his survey, gives utterance to his opinions. The practical man, again, takes a narrow range for his vision. He confines himself to his own experience, which is necessarily limited; to his own people and customs, necessarily contracted; and, glancing like the wayfarers of old at one side of the shield and presumes page 13 he has seen both, suddenly comes to a conclusion. Practical men are eminently unpractical. But the political economists have another and graver charge made against them than that of being theorists. When they proclaim as the cardinal doctrine of their system "equal liberty to all," and assert that it is not the duty of the Government—of society—to do aught but maintain "equal freedom," they have flung in their teeth, What right have you to speak? Have you not ruled us always. It is sickening to hear, so say some of the opponents of the equal freedom doctrine, this perpetual reference to equal freedom and political economy, as if these were not the causes of all our ills? Is this so—has political economy always guided us? An eminent writer thus retorts:—The assertion that "political economy has hitherto had it all its own way," and is therefore chargeable with the present state of things, we meet with the most indignant and peremptory denial. It is not only not true, but is precisely the reverse of true. Economists affirm, and with perfect justice, that the existing wretchedness of England is directly traceable to ignorance, neglect, and systematic violation of the principles of political economy. It is difficult to name a single precept of that science which has not been either lost sight of, or habitually contravened. Political economy says:—Industry ought to be as unshackled as the wind; restriction cripples it; protection misdirects it; the two together diminish its productiveness, and the number of mouths it can support. When has English industry been free and unimpeded? Political economy, reechoing christianity and common-sense, long since proclaimed "that if any man would not work neither should he eat;" our laws enact that a man shall eat whether he will work or not. Political economy, repeating the simple teachings of morality, pronounced that if a man married without means or prospects, and brought children into the world whom he was unable to support, he acted unjustly and selfishly, as well as imprudently, and that the correction of his fault should be left to its natural results;—the law stepped in between the cause and its consequence, between the folly and its cure, and declared that if he could not support his own children, the prudent, industrious, and the self- denying should do it for him. Political economy, reiterating the dictates of nature, proclaimed that the larger the family a man had to support by his labour, the scantier must be the allowance of each member of it. The common custom till 1834, in England, was to increase the peasant's wages or allowance with every additional child that was born to him. [And to the present day the clergy in some Churches are paid in proportion to the number of their family.] Political economy said to the labourer—If population increases faster than the field of employment enlarges or the demand for labour augments, your position will inevitably deteriorate;—even divines and county magistrates scouted such philosophy, and inculcated upon their hearers "increase and multiply—the strength of a country lies in its numbers—"dwell in the page 14 land and verily thou shalt be fed." Lastly, political economy said—Industry, frugality, forethought, and perseverance shall not fail of their reward; nor indolence, unthrift, and crime escape a bitter retribution. But no such thing. The English poor-laws, by enacting that all have a right to relief, allow the person who has wasted his time, his talents, and his earnings, to live in the workhouse; while the person who was prudent, careful, and abstemious, and perhaps earned less wages, is taxed to keep him there. Political economy has been neglected and wantonly thrown aside, and in these latter days its throwing aside is openly justified for the benefit of the labourer. There is no maxim that admits of more abundant proof than that "a country's wealth cannot be increased by taxing its inhabitants." Yes, this is what the protectionists say, if their statement means anything. The disciples of liberty say that as a society, social organism, or Government, all that should be done by the state is to maintain "equal freedom." What equal freedom is that which would assert the right to tax another to benefit his neighbour; yet what are poor laws, protection systems, etc., doing but this?—A species of robbery by the arm of the law. The liberty system would fail if it stopped at the assertion of the widest and fullest liberty, the doctrine of equal freedom. It goes much further. Like that system which, whether divine or not, has so enriched our world with its moral teachings and its religious enthusiasm, it comes to every soul of man and makes it a personal matter with him, this labour problem. It tells him, in tones of which there can be no mistaking their import, how he must labour, for whom, for what. It says to him that he must live justly, that he must not trample on the rights of any one, and that justice not expediency must be his rule in life; and it also points out clearly and unmistakeably a truth of which we are but slow to recognise the importance—that every infraction of law, of social law as well of other laws, is followed by punishment. If a labourer will be wasteful, will marry when he cannot afford to do so, will have a larger family than he can provide for, will spend his money in luxuries or in intoxicating beverages, that he will suffer for it. There is no getting rid of that. In terrible reality will he recognise this truth, that his sin will find him out. Nay, it also tells him that he has no right to demand from society when out of work, employment, nor when in want of food, temporary relief. To many it hence seems cruel and harsh. It is not so. It looks at society as an organism, and says that the members can only become strong by exercise. Of course its doctrine of individual sympathy is not left out, nor that of benevolence. But as a state it insists on this, that the individual who has erred in such way as to find himself reaping the reward of his conduct, should not be placed in peculiar circumstances, and freed from the punishment which should follow. Such are its aims. Though it also may lack something, it seems to me most rational, and at the same time most effective. It is not by forced processes page 15 that our social anomalies can be remedied; they can only be gradually and slowly got rid of.
But what then will our future be, I fancy you say. May we not state that all the states, though so diverse, may be blended? that the time may come when the "love" of socialism, the "self- help and union" of co-operation, a broad religious sanction like that of positivism, with the justice and liberty of the liberty system, may be united. Signs are not wanting of the tendency to equality in all political rights, and will not social rights soon follow? Before in our literary world how few were the stars; now how covered is the firmament with their radiance. A wealthy man was before a rare man, and even he had how few of the things we possess. A Plantaganet king had no glass in the windows of his house, no piper for its walls, no railways, no newspapers, nor could he were he over so anxious have borrowed immense sums of money to expend as he or his advisers thought fit. The past and present are not the same. We have made a great and a glorious advance, though, alas, the Promised Land is still far distant; and why should we despair, why should we say that a labour utopia is impossible. Impossible, says Carlyle in writing of this question, Impossible, brothers. I answer, if for you it be impossible, What is to Become of you? An ingenious calculator has shown that if ever one in a community did two hours' work every day, that would bo sufficient to maintain the race in comfort and happiness, and the rest of our time might be spent in recreation and study. A labour utopia is not then impossible, and I think I may assert that the future will show us this, for it is daily becoming more patent that the condition of labourers will be materially improved. Of course the classes above them will also share in that improvement; indeed it reaches them first, but we should not complain of this. From history we learn that material improvement has always begun, and it always will begin, not with those who need it most, but with those who need it least. And hence we see the higher classes of workmen making experiments, by trade unions, co-operative societies, mechanics' institutes, and clubs, which the lower will by and by repeat. Such is the law of progress. In the future, besides material improvement there will also be vast intellectual advance. It will then be no unusual sight to see the labourer, as he homeward wends his way when his alloted task is over, scanning the sky and the earth with appreciative looks. The beauty of the forest, or the play of light and shade in the wesrtern sky, will not bring to the artist alone a notion of the sublime and beautiful, nor will the herbs or minerals and their uses be only known to the scientific. The hours of labour will be lessened, and men become more like men,
"Through all the season of the golden year."
Do not imagine that this advance can be at once. Poverty will exist, nay, I may say must exist for a long time to come. As long as we find people selfish and ignorant, imprudent and waste- page 16 ful, poverty will exist as punishment for their selfishness, ignorance, wastefulness and imprudence. If we wish, however, to hasten the arrival of an utopia in which poverty will be reduced to a minimum, how should we act? It is worse than useless, it is mischievous, declaiming against out social state, and pourtraying in dark colours our terrible anomalies, and stopping there. We have duties to fulfil. It seems to me to be the highest duty in these days to assert and proclaim as loudly as possible, that we have no right to cripple those who come after us. That, on the contrary, it should be our highest aim and our constant desire so to act that those who have to succeed us may be benefited, not injured by our conduct. We must also show to the improvident, and let the self-indulgent know it, that we will not rid them of the penalty of their action. As they sow so must they reap. But, above all, we must regard ourselves not as accidents. We must believe that if there be a moral Governor of the Universe, He has in His wisdom designed us as agents for some purpose. "Not as adventitious, therefore, not as something which may be slighted and made subordinate to questions of policy, or the obtaining of a kind of popularity among our fellows, will we regard the faith that is in us." We may be wrong, as we are fallible, but we will never falter in uttering what we conceive to be the highest truth; nor will we stop until we can get, not by force, but by that which is greater than mere force, the enthusiasm of faith and hope and charity, our idealisms embodied in fact. Acting thus, we will discard all short and easy methods of social improvement, and recognise that it is only bit by bit that real advance is made. Nor will labourers be found competing merely for destructive purposes. They in that future to which we are now advancing will recognise that it is best to throw aside jealousies, rivalries, and everything ignoble. And amongst them the greatest will be those who are the noblest. As in one stage of our progress, the greatest man has been he who was the best warrior; as in another stage, the greatest was he who had most wealth; as in yet another, the greatest was he who had the highest intellect. So in the future, the greatest will be he who will manifest the greatest self-sacrifice, and who if need be "would be content to lay his body in the trench, that others might use it as a bridge to pass over to that emancipation from degradation, and to that victory which yet awaits our labourers."
My vision was of shadows thrown before
Coming events, things that shall surely be;
Nor now delayed, but until man, no more
Wholly on blinding lust intent, shall see—
That his own interest and his kind's are one,
Blended in individual destiny.
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Afra House
Afra House in Royan Mazandaran by DAAL Studio 1 Afra House in Royan Mazandaran by DAAL Studio 1
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First Floor of Afra House in Royan Mazandaran by DAAL Studio First Floor of Afra House in Royan Mazandaran by DAAL Studio
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Name: Afra House
Location: Royan, Mazandaran province, Iran/
Architecture firm: DAAL Studio/
Architects: Alireza Esfandiari, Hilda Tehrani/
Date: 2017 - 2019/
Built area: 262 sqm/
Type: Residential/
Structure: Hamidreza Nasersaiid/
Executive Manager: Alireza Esfandiari, Vahid Tahmasebi
Supervisor: Kambiz Eskandartabar
Photos: Deed Studio
Materials: Brick, Concrete, Cement block, Wood
Client: Karim Jamshidi
Award: Honorable mention in Memar award, in the single residential category, 2019
The site is in the Royan city in north of Iran, located in a quiet residential area, where there was a beautiful forest in the past. the design started with a conversation with the client who was a religious man and privacy was very important to him also he had a limited budget and wanted to build a very simple building. carry out a modern, practical and timeless design, sophisticated and cozy, representing the natural light and ventilation that also saves the client tight budget were our main challenges of the project.
The land is approximately 17 x 17 square meters with a total area of 300 square meters. The project was suggested as a rectangle drawn in the east-west direction. The elongation of the project reduces the western level, which is constantly exposed to the monsoon rains in the region. By designing two yards on the north and south sides of the project and placing openings on these two fronts, it was possible to use natural light and ventilation from the north and south for our spaces.
Due to the importance of separating the public and private areas for the client, the required spaces are divided into three categories: (public spaces) including living room and terrace (semi public) including kitchen and dining room and (private spaces) including bedrooms and services. All public spaces of the project were located in a white cube and private spaces in a black cube. The project form is the result of the combination of these two cubes, and in the intersection of these two forms are semi-public spaces of the project. Due to the importance of light in the project as well as the separation between the public and semi-public spaces, a void space is placed. it let us to have natural light in the centre of the project and provides a platform for creating a green interior. In this space a Maple tree which in the local accent is called Afra and is native to local forests have been planted.
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Interviews door Sinzo Aanza: #5 Chéri Benga
Tentoonstellingszicht ‘Een gesprek tussen collecties uit Kinshasa en Oostende’ (episode 1): Chéri Benga (c) Kristien Daem
# 5: Chéri Benga
00:06 My name is Chéri Benga, I’m a painter 00:10/
00:12 I’ve been in this profession a long time 00:15
00:16 It’s already been thirty-five years 00:20/
00:21 since I started doing this professionally 00:22/
00:23 I’m self-taught 00:25
00:26 The work that I make 00:27
00:27 isn’t something that I learned at school 00:28/
00:30 At school, I followed other subjects 00:34/
00:35 But to become a painter 00:36
00:37 I consulted the elders 00:39
00:40 in order to learn from them 00:41
00:42 how to make the paint solution 00:46
0046: and how to develop the drawing. 00:51/
00:54 I learnt everything from the elders in 1977. 01:01/
01:02 I went to study with someone who was more experienced. 01:03
01:03 His name was … 01:05
01:05 … on his panel he wrote Publi-Kubama 01:10
01:10 the ‘Publi’ stands for publicity. 01:12
01:13 He was an advertiser 01:14/
01:15 who didn’t make drawings 01:16
01:16 but publicity. 01:17
01:17 Advertising murals, stamps 01:20
01:21 portraits and silkscreens. 01:25/
01:26 Since then, 01:27
01:27 I’ve been developing 01:32
01:33 my own art 01:34
01:35 Even when I reached the same level, … 01:38
01:39 I still continued to work with these artists 01:41
01:42 but I was talented 01:42
01:43 and the best draughtman in the workshop. 01:51/
01:54 I then learned 01:57
01:57 the techniques of advertising murals, 01:58
01:59 silkscreen printing 02:02
02:04 and how to make stamps. 02: 06 /
02:07 That’s why, after three years, 02:11
02:12 I was able to set up my own studio. 02:13
02:14 This was in… 1979. 02:19
02:20 I started my own studio in 1979. 02:23
02:23 Back then, we were called naive painters. 02:28
02:29 Street painters, so not real painters. 02: 36 /
02:37 But around that time,
Badibanga Nemwina, 02:40
02:40 an art critic, 02:41
02:42 convinced us, 02:44
02:44 the popular painters, 02:46
02:46 to have an art exhibition. 02:48
02:49 So that we’d be recognised 02:50
02:50 as painters. 02: 52/
02:52 The exhibition was a great success 02:56
02:57 and the value of our work 02:58
02:58 and of us, as painters, became clear. 03: 01/
03:02 Now even the academics recognise 03:07
03:07 us as visual artists 03:09
03:10 We are all visual artists 03:12
03:12 and recognised as masters. 03:17
03:18 As artists, we work without problems 03:19
03:19 We can now assert ourselves 03: 21/
03:23 We quietly practice our profession 03:26
03:27 and thanks to God 03:29
03:29 we continue, to this very day, 03:31
03:31 to participate in exhibitions abroad. 03: 33/
03:37 We make our work here 03:39
03:40 but our clients are often foreigners 03:44
03:44 as are the collectors. 03:46
03:47 Only the whites appreciate 03:48
03:48 the value of our paintings. 03: 50/
03:51 Locally, it’s more difficult. 03: 53/
03:53 In the beginning, we sold to local clients 04:01
04:01 but at very low prices. 04:04
04:05 The white clients 04:06
04:06 have really valorised our works. 4:08
04:09 We now sell them at higher prices, 04: 11/
04:12 to the extent that 04:13
04:13 Congolese paintings are bought up 04:20
04:21 and resold to whites. 04:23/
04:24 This is why there are almost no paintings left 04:27
04:27 in the houses around here. 04:29
04:30 Intermediaries purchase them 04:36
04:36 to resell them to whites. 04:37/
04:38 This has helped to elevate our art. 04:41/
04:32 But we’ll sometimes 04:33
04:33 have problems 04:45
04:48 with certain customers. Some customers 04:52
04:55 will suggest working together. 04:57
04:57 But usually we have problems 04:58
04:58 with whites, and especially with collectors. 05:03
05:03 But we always solve these problems. 05:09
05:10 These are our biggest issues. 05:13/
05:14 We occasionally have problems with gallery owners in Europe 05:17
05:18 to whom we send paintings for sale. 05:19
05:20 The money transfer is sometimes a problem. 05:26
05:30 Yet this remains our profession. 05:32
05:32 We certainly can’t give up. 05:33
05:33 We must continue to practice 05:36
05:37 so as to guide and encourage our young people. 05:43
05:43 We must encourage the young people 05:47
05:47 to continue and make progress. 05:49/
05:50 There aren’t many of my colleagues left any more, 05:52
05:52 a lot have already died. 05:53
05:53 But there’s a handful still left. 05:55
05:55 We, the popular painters, 05:56/
05:56 have to persevere 05:58
05:58 so that young people will continue the profession 06:02
06:02 and so that popular art doesn’t disappear 06:06
06:06 and will continue to advance. 06:11
06:12 That’s what I had to say. 06:16
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Maya Karin Gets Best Actress Award In Britain
Posted on September 17, 2019 by jimmy
It’s all in their head, and of course those who are actresses are most likely liberal in order that they discover any gender pronouns offensive. I’ve seen newscasters consistently referring to women as “actors” too many instances to be errors so I googled a search to find out what was happening.
The streets of Covent Garden were also well-known for his or her ‘bagnios’ or brothels. This inspired an affiliation between the idea of the actress and that of prostitute, although many actresses sought respectability and skilled standing. The two actors were maybe slightly too good collectively — at least from the perspective of their spouses. The American public assumed Garner and Hartley have been married.
ACTRESS Maya Karin (pic) was awarded a commendation in one of the best actress category on the Ramsgate International Film and TV Festival in Britain, reported Sinar Harian. Her last acting position in early March stopped suddenly as he virus marched throughout the region. Now different opportunities for the summer and fall appear to be fading because it crops itself until a vaccine disables its menace. By the mid-eighteenth century the licensed theatres of Drury Lane and the Theatre Royal had been on the coronary heart of a growing tradition of public entertainment in London.
At the time of her disappearance stories indicated that it might take seven to 10 days earlier than her body rose and could be discovered by searchers. That level of unknown makes the ready sport even tougher, because the spokesperson additionally famous the timeline for locating the actress’ physique is constantly in flux.
There was additionally some enlargement of girls’s roles in the middle-ages after plagues. Where there had beforehand been no need for separate masculine and female versions of such nouns, the shortage of any constant rules that could be utilized made it troublesome to find passable solutions in many circumstances. Combined with social stress for equality between women and men, the result has been neutralisation of nouns so that they are used non-gender particularly. I’m certain there are some feminist considerations behind the change, I guess as a result of some girls felt that the old -OR/-ESS endings mirrored the segregation of women and men into totally different gender roles. The recognition was for her acting in the Olympic Dream movie, which was additionally listed because the Official Selection at the festival held in June.
Rivera is from the Santa Clarita neighborhood of Valencia, about 23 miles from the lake. She was married to actor Ryan Dorsey, the boy’s father, however the pair divorced after four years in 2018. @Tom Rose – I actually have to confess it at all times amuses me when the Guardian write something like – “such and such an actor has just won the Award for Best Actress”. Those who assume it’s sexist are just playing thoughts video games with themselves.
She can be thus far the one person born in the Nineties to have gained an acting Oscar.
Directors similar to Albert Capellani and Maurice Tourneur started to insist on naturalism in their films.
Lillian Gish has been known as film’s “first true actress” for her work in the interval, as she pioneered new movie performing methods, recognizing the crucial differences between stage and screen acting.
With her movies grossing over $5.5 billion worldwide, Jennifer Lawrence is usually cited as probably the most successful actor of her generation.
The actor’s interpretation of their position—the art of performing—pertains to the position performed, whether primarily based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an “actor’s function,” which was known as this as a result of scrolls being used within the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is “playing themselves”, as in some forms of experimental efficiency artwork. Remember actress Sonia Aggarwal who impressed viewers together with her efficiency within the films like Kaadhal Kondein, Koviland 7G Rainbow Colony.
Words that arrived in English from Latin and French often maintained the distinction with Actor/Actress being an instance from the french words Acteur/Actrice I belive. During the 2 world wars but notably throughout and after WWII, girls grew to become active in professions the place men had previously filled virtually all positions.
Our thoughts exit to Naya Rivera’s household and associates right now. To clarify that point, it’s been an enormous ready sport to seek out out where Naya Rivera’s physique is.
Previously, we heard that Lake Piru has a historical past of unintended drownings, with seven people perishing there between 1994 and 2000. Locals have signed a petition hoping for change after this excessive-profile missing persons incident.
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What's that you said?
Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2019 at 5:31 pm by BEG
Taken together, these stories are extremely disturbing. But they also point toward a potential means of taking these monsters down. Given that outrage is building up over the Acosta coverup of Epstein, one can hope that Kraft will not be similarly dealt with. For too long these billionaires have played with people’s lives simply because they could, perhaps because they derived sick satisfaction from the power imbalance. Who knows?
Opinion | Nothing about Jeffrey Epstein’s deal with prosecutors was remotely normal
Then-U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta violated the victim’s rights, Justice Department policy and every prosecutor’s instinct in this case.
Source: www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-s-deal-federal-prosectors-wasn-t-normal-men-ncna974911
Robert Kraft, Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and a day of reckoning for America’s billionaires | Will Bunch
Billionaires behaving badly are empowering everyday Americans to take back the country.
Source: www.philly.com/opinion/commentary/robert-kraft-prostitution-jeffrey-epstein-sex-slavery-trump-20190224.html
Now, given those above two articles, with the various links and such that they describe, consider this. It cannot be accidental.
Human Smugglers Are Thriving Under Trump
The president’s “zero tolerance” policy drains manpower and money from deeper probes that target criminal syndicates.
Source: www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/human-smugglers-thrive-under-trumps-zero-tolerance/583051/
Posted in The Global Picture | Tagged billionaires, human rights, MeToo, misogyny, wealth inequality, yesallwomen | Comments Off on connecting the dots
the high cost of subsidizing huge corporations
Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 6:46 am by BEG
There are so many ways we subsidize obscenely wealthy corporations that don’t actually need the money other than built-in greed in the corporate structure. For example:
Johnston explained how the process typically works: “You come in as Walmart or Home Depot or Lowes and say, ‘I want to build a store on that land, and the guy who owns it doesn’t want to sell it.’ ” In its eagerness to entice the company to build there, the local government might seize the land through eminent domain and then sell municipal bonds—essentially borrowing money—against the lease on the store. The chain then builds its store and parking lot and employs local people to work there. The bonds that the government issued, meanwhile, are repaid not by the company but through residents’ sales taxes. “When you check out of a Walmart that has this deal, and you pay eight dollars and change in sales tax, that money does not go to cops, library, schools, or parks,” Johnston told me. “That money goes to pay the bonds.” Approximately ninety per cent of Walmart distribution centers were built this way, according to Johnston. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that states, and even different municipalities within states, can compete with one another to offer the most generous subsidies and the lightest regulation, leading to an arms race of giveaways. “Often these things turn out to be complete frauds,” Johnston said. Multiple studies have shown that some short-term economic benefits may accrue to the community that has extended the tax breaks, but, over the long term, there is little positive benefit (and often none) because the practice saps money from public education and infrastructure, which is extremely harmful to a local economy.
While the article goes on to say how the Amazon deal might have been different, I don’t agree. The underlying premise, the leaching of local resources, still inflicts long term damage. Three billion dollars is an obscene amount of money to throw after a company that simply does not need it. Amazon could have just set up its offices there without the additional pay-off that would leach even more resources away from the community.
Does Amazon’s Retreat from New York Signal the End of Corporate Subsidies?
The company’s proposed headquarters in Queens was a more complicated case than most.
Source: www.newyorker.com/business/currency/does-amazons-retreat-from-new-york-signal-the-end-of-corporate-subsidies
Posted in U.S. Politics | Tagged corporatocracy, economy | Comments Off on the high cost of subsidizing huge corporations
Authoritarianism: Feb 10–16
Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2019 at 8:00 am by BEG
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
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Read the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944)
I’ve always admired people who can successfully navigate what I refer to as “Kafka’s Castle,” a term of dread for the many government and corporate agencies that have an inordinate amount of power over our permanent records, and that seem as inscrutable and chillingly absurd as the labyrinth the character K navigates in Kafka’s last allegorical novel.
Source: www.openculture.com/2015/12/simple-sabotage-field-manual.html
More below the fold:
Shutdown looms as border talks break down over immigration enforcement
The number of beds ICE can have for detention of unauthorized immigrants has created a new stalemate.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/border-talks-at-impasse-as-shutdown-looms-friday-officials-say/2019/02/10/aa8ef08c-2d36-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html
Though El Paso doesn’t seem pleased by that.
El Paso to Trump: Stop lying about us
The president is holding a rally in the city on Monday. El Paso leaders are not pleased.
Source: www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/02/el-paso-to-trump-stop-telling-lies-about-us/
Scoop: Nikki Haley honored at high-flying GOP donor dinner
Haley is being spotlighted as a key surrogate for the congressional races of 2020.
Source: www.axios.com/2020-presidential-election-nikki-haley-89987260-8dae-4a78-8679-09ad56bd872a.html
The ostensibly left/liberal NY Times ain’t listening. This should be a surprise to no one. In fact this may be one of the few points on which left and right base agree.
The only thing more startling than the flurry of tax proposals Democrats have unveiled in recent weeks is the full-throttle response they’ve gotten from the public.
The soak-the-rich plans — ones that were only recently considered ridiculously far-fetched or political poison — have received serious and sober treatment, even by critics, and remarkably broad encouragement from the electorate. Roughly three out of four registered voters surveyed in recent polls supported higher taxes on the wealthy. Even a majority of Republicans back higher rates on those earning more than $10 million, according to a Fox News poll conducted in mid-January.
For Democrats Aiming Taxes at the Superrich, ‘the Moment Belongs to the Bold’
Soak-the-rich plans that seemed politically far-fetched just months ago are getting a full-throttle response from voters.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/business/democratic-wealth-tax-warren-sanders-ocasio-cortez.html
Worth reading through. I don’t know how much of it is conspiracy stuff or not but there’s certainly food for thought. And definitely grounds for pushing way past the midterms to taking back the government.
Bezos, the National Enquirer, the Saudis, Trump, and the blackmailing of U.S. democracy | Will Bunch
What’s really sexy about the Bezos scandal is the Trump-Saudi-National Enquirer nexus behind it.
Source: www.philly.com/opinion/commentary/jeff-bezos-national-enquirer-donald-trump-blackmail-saudi-arabia-20190210.html
In new government shutdown, flight attendants won’t let passengers’ lives be put at risk
The shutdown put our lives and livelihoods in danger, risked the safety of everyone who flies, and threatened our entire economy.
Source: www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/02/11/government-shutdown-threatens-air-travel-safety-flight-attendants-risk-column/2829694002/
However, advocates are also warning that the Dem proposal contains some dangerous loopholes: Democrat’s Shutdown Proposal Could Make Immigration Detentions Under Trump Even Worse, Immigration Advocates Warn
To avert a partial shutdown set to begin Saturday, the House and Senate must pass identical spending bills that Trump would then need to sign into law.
Trump’s demands for funds to build a border wall, which prompted the 35-day government shutdown that ended late last month, are not the central sticking point in the current impasse. Instead, the two sides are at odds over Democrats’ attempt to impose a new cap on detentions of immigrants apprehended within the U.S. — as opposed to at the border.
Republicans want to exclude immigrants charged with or convicted of certain crimes from the cap, arguing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement might not otherwise have the ability to detain dangerous criminals. Democrats say excluding people from the cap would render it toothless, as they seek to rein in the Trump administration’s aggressive enforcement policies.
Top lawmakers to meet to revive stalled border talks with possible shutdown days away
A new barrier is built along the Texas-Mexico border near downtown El Paso. (Eric Gay/AP)
Trump’s wall is no longer the main issue. Instead, immigration enforcement rules are the sticking point.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/top-lawmakers-meet-to-revive-stalled-border-talks-with-shutdown-days-away/2019/02/11/3cd0fc1a-2dff-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html
Trump cannot allow the dispute to be perceived as one over whether to dial down the rounding up of nonviolent longtime residents — who are often sympathetic figures.
So Trump has hit on a new way around this problem. Over the weekend, Trump tweeted that Democrats “all of a sudden” have declared that they “don’t even want to take murderers into custody.”
Moments ago, Trump raged: “The Democrats don’t want us to detain, or send back, criminal aliens! This is a brand new demand. Crazy!”
The idea that this represents a “new” demand is a lie. The call for a 16,500 cap on detention beds was in the original Democratic offer made in these talks over 10 days ago. That Jan. 31st offer explicitly includes a provision that “statutorily limits” the daily population of people detained from the interior at 16,500 by the end of the next fiscal year, phasing it in over time.
So this isn’t “new” at all. If anything, what’s “new” is the Trump/GOP objection to this.
Opinion | Raging over a looming loss on his wall, Trump rolls out more lies
The latest sticking point in the border talks once again turns on Trump’s lies and bad faith.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/11/raging-over-looming-loss-his-wall-trump-rolls-out-more-lies/
I’ll tell you one thing though. A fucking gas-bag conservative pundit, whether Coulter or Hannity, should NOT have this kind of say over national questions and concerns. Fucking shut them the fuck up. They don’t get to dictate course for the rest of the fucking country just because they get such a hardon for nasty shit and a lackwit wannabe tinpot dictator drools over their every word.
The details of the deal itself appear to still be in flux. A source briefed on the deal told TPM that the rough agreement cuts the number of detention beds available to the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency for undocumented immigrants, a point demanded by Democrats, and adds some money for new physical barriers at the border to please Republicans. According to the Washington Post, the deal cuts the total number of detention beds from 49,000 to 40,500, and gives $1.375 billion for border barrier construction — short of the $5.7 billion Trump has previously demanded.
Trump didn’t signal whether he’d accept the deal.
“Maybe progress has been made, maybe not,” he said during a Monday night rally.
And conservative commentators including Fox News’s Sean Hannity attacked the agreement, an ominous sign for negotiators.
Negotiators Say They Have Tentative Agreement To Avoid Another Shutdown
The bipartisan group negotiating to avoid another shutdown announced on Monday night that it had the broad outlines of a…
Source: talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/negotiators-say-they-have-tentative-agreement-to-avoid-another-shutdown
Are they? I want to see this translate into votes. So far, Трамп says jump and the GOP says HOW HIGH MASTER SIR. Pissed at him? Show us, you Трамп lickspittle lackies.
GOP livid with Trump over ignored Khashoggi report
It’s the latest rift between Republicans and the president over foreign policy.
Source: www.politico.com/story/2019/02/11/gop-trump-ignored-khashoggi-report-1164487
It’s a gift…it truly is…
[Trump is] now getting slightly less than that $1.6 billion while also making a concession to Democrats on detention beds.
This is a big reason the deal was almost immediately rejected by Trump’s most conservative supporters. Sean Hannity called it “garbage,” Ann Coulter retweeted a bunch of people deriding the deal, and House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) texted to The Post, “This does not represent a fraction of what the president has promised the American people … I don’t speak for the president but I can’t imagine he will be applauding something so lacking.”
But even Meadows has conceded Trump has almost no leverage left in this shutdown debate. Republicans, including Meadows, have signaled they aren’t prepared to shut down the government again at the Friday deadline. Without that, Democrats have no real reason to make concessions. Meadows has said he would support a regular, clean government funding bill if no deal can be reached.
That’s a pretty attractive fallback if you’re a Democrat. Democrats have now put Trump in the unenviable position of accepting a deal that is worse than what he began with if he wants wall funding, or rejecting the deal and risking congressional Republicans signing off on something with no wall funding, possibly leading to a veto standoff with his own party. And Republicans have put this deal on the table knowing that can’t really do any better, given their leverage was sapped by the shutdown.
Analysis | Trump’s failed shutdown strategy produced an even worse deal than he started with
Trump would get some funding for border fencing. It wouldn’t even be what he was originally offered.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/12/trumps-failed-shutdown-strategy-produced-an-even-worse-deal-than-he-started-with/
Trump Just Stole Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Campaign Slogan, And People Have Noticed
Twitter users shred the president and GOP for swiping his former rival’s motto.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-stronger-together_us_5c626321e4b028d543175fde
New Proof the Trump Tax Cuts Are Doing the Exact Opposite of What They Promised
Overseas cash is not coming in, and cost of compliance is going up. Everything Paul Ryan said is happening in reverse.
Source: nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/trump-tax-cuts-doing-opposite-of-promised-corporate-cash-accountants.html
Unsurprising.
Trump Fan Launches ‘Incredibly Violent Attack’ On BBC Cameraman At El Paso Rally
“The crowd had been whipped up into a frenzy against the media by Trump and other speakers all night,” said one BBC journalist.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-supporter-attacks-bbc-cameraman_us_5c629078e4b0ffd8515dd234
To the surprise of precisely no one.
Rep. Paul Ryan, President Donald Trump and Rep. Kevin Brady displaying the alleged new tax postcard. Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images
If McConnell spends the next eternity screaming in hell, it won’t be long enough.
McConnell Plans To Bring Green New Deal To Senate Vote
The Senate majority leader wants to put the massive progressive climate change framework to a vote. Its Democratic sponsor is not pleased by the move from the top Senate Republican.
Source: www.npr.org/2019/02/12/694060405/mcconnell-plans-to-bring-green-new-deal-to-senate-vote
Move along, move along folks. Nothing to see. :-/
Peterson attributed the growing national debt to “a structural mismatch between spending and revenues.” The biggest drivers are the aging population, high healthcare costs, and growing interest payments, combined with a tax code that fails to generate sufficient revenue, he said.
And since GOP considers taxes untouchable, look at what they’ll put up on the chopping block. You already know they want to kill Social Security, Medicare and so on.
National debt tops $22 trillion for the first time as experts warn of ripple effects
Treasury Department reports that national debt hits $22.012 trillion, which experts say is a sign of the country’s “unsustainable” fiscal situation.
Source: news.yahoo.com/national-debt-tops-22-trillion-214033190.html
“Oh hey, they’re having trouble paying back student loans? LET’S STARVE THEM TO DEATH.” –xxoxoxo, GOP
Critics of the proposal say that payments should always be voluntary, and that people need the flexibility to default on their student loans. One in 5 borrowers are in default or delinquency on their student debt.
When a borrower defaults on their federal student loans, Kantrowitz said, the government currently can garnish up to 15 percent of their wages anyway, which is more than the 10 percent that would be taken out under Alexander’s proposal.
“Many borrowers who default have sufficient income to repay their debts, but just have difficulty managing their money,” Kantrowitz said. “There’s the potential for a lot of elegance in the design of student loan repayment via payroll withholding.”
However, Barmak Nassirian, director of federal relations at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, called the proposal a “detour from real reform.”
I mean I’m just spit-balling here, but maybe “for-profit colleges” deserve a much more baleful look from the gov’t?
The government could soon grab your student loan payments right out of your paycheck
Lawmakers are proposing a massive overhaul to the student debt system, in which borrowers’ monthly bills would be automatically deducted from their paychecks.
Source: www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/a-gop-proposal-would-snatch-your-student-loan-payment-right-from-your-paycheck.html
A few weeks before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, then-DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson determined that DHS was responsible for helping protect election infrastructure—meaning polling places, voting machines, voter databases, and all the other components that make elections happen. The new, complex undertaking involved scores of state and local governments. A few years in, the department is still getting its footing. So the changes detailed here have people close to the department deeply concerned.
“Because it’s a very difficult task and because DHS has never done it before, there’s a lot of catching up to do,” said the former DHS official. “Even with a fully resourced effort, that would be an extremely tall task. But having it be deprioritized and lacking access to senior leadership, it’s virtually impossible.”
That said, these changes appear to reflect the White House’s lack of interest in beefing up election security, according to Paul Rosenzweig, formerly deputy assistant secretary for policy at DHS.
Trump’s DHS Guts Task Forces Protecting Elections From Foreign Meddling
‘It’s very curious why the leadership has not committed resources to prepare for the 2020 election,’ one Homeland Security official tells The Daily Beast.
Source: www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-dhs-guts-task-forces-protecting-elections-from-foreign-meddling
Why Ocasio-Cortez’s lesson in dark money is the most-watched political video
Why Ocasio-Cortezâs lesson in dark money is the most-watched political video
A clip in which the congresswoman asks ethics experts about government corruption has been viewed 40 million times
Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/14/campaign-finance-but-make-it-viral-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-unlikely-video-hit
Rachel Maddow reports on ‘Trump selling the government for cash’ in a ‘jaw-dropping scandal’
MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow on Tuesday “followed the money” from Trump’s inauguration to a sweetheart deal that will make climate change worse. Maddow noted that federal prosecutors have subpoenaed Trump’s inauguration committee as part of their investigation into the White House. Maddow was gobsmacked that Trump spent so much more money than Barack Obama — for such a small inauguration. “It has been this puzzling thing about the Trump presidency from the very, very beginning,” …
Source: www.rawstory.com/2019/02/rachel-maddow-reports-trump-selling-government-cash-jaw-dropping-scandal/
Not every challenge in New York will be run on ideological grounds. Some will be powered by more local disputes, longstanding grudges or just timely ambition. But for many progressives, the goal is to police the Democratic Party ideologically, much in the way the Tea Party pushed Republicans to the right.
“We are trying to elect more Alexandrias,” said Alexandra Rojas, executive director of Justice Democrats, the insurgent group devoted to recruiting progressive primary challengers nationally. “She is an example of what one victory can do. Imagine what we can do with more primary wins across the country.”
After Mr. Crowley’s defeat almost no one is seen as untouchable.
“They should be afraid,” Maria L. Svart, the national director of the Democratic Socialists of America, which backed Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, said of incumbent House Democrats.
The Ocasio-Cortez Effect: Wave of Challenges Hits Entrenched N.Y. Democrats
As many as six House challenges are in the works, in a possible echo of the divisions roiling the 2020 presidential primary. Insurgents are inspired by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/nyregion/ny-congress-primaries-2020.html
The border security compromise, tucked into the $49 billion portion of the bill that funds the Department of Homeland Security, is perhaps the most stinging legislative defeat of Mr. Trump’s presidency. It provides $1.375 billion for 55 miles of steel-post fencing, essentially the same that Mr. Trump rejected in December, triggering the shutdown and far from the $5.7 billion he demanded for more than 200 miles of steel or concrete wall.
In opting to declare a national emergency, Mr. Trump would seek to access funds for the wall that Congress had not explicitly authorized for the purpose, a provocative move that would test the bounds of presidential authority in a time of divided government. Legal experts have said Mr. Trump has a plausible case that he can take such action under current law, but it would almost surely prompt a court challenge from critics arguing that he is usurping two centuries of congressional control over spending.
Trump Plans National Emergency to Build Border Wall as Senate Passes Spending Bill
President Trump would proceed with plans to construct barriers on the southwestern border without legislative approval but keep the government open.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/us/politics/trump-national-emergency-border.html
Chump.
Headed for another defeat on his signature promise to make either Mexico or U.S. taxpayers pay for a southern border wall, the president was frustrated after a briefing by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and others on details of the final deal to avoid a shutdown, according to officials involved in the discussions. Trump threatened not to sign the legislation, the officials said, putting the government on the brink of another damaging shutdown.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was on the phone with Trump at least three times during the course of the nerve-racking day, pleading with him to stay the course and asserting that Democrats had actually lost the spending fight, two people familiar with the conversations said.
“We thought he was good to go all morning, and then suddenly it’s like everything is off the rails,” said one senior Republican aide.
‘Off the rails’: Inside Trump’s attempt to claim victory in his border wall defeat
The president nearly blew up negotiations again on Thursday, frustrated by a bipartisan agreement that again failed to provide funding for his signature campaign promise.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/off-the-rails-inside-trumps-attempt-to-claim-victory-in-his-border-wall-defeat/2019/02/14/af772978-2fe5-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html
How congressional Democrats could fight a Trump wall national emergency declaration
Congress hasn’t voted to overturn a presidential emergency in 44 years. But in 2005, one congressman threatened to and the president blinked.
Source: www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/02/08/presidential-declaration-national-emergency-donald-trump-border-wall-congress-oversight/2784488002/
The president’s relationship with Deutsche Bank intrigues investigators for several reasons. Trump turned to the big German bank two decades ago, when U.S. banks wouldn’t extend him more large loans. The Post estimated in 2016 that Deutsche Bank had $360 million in outstanding loans to Trump’s companies. Deutsche Bank also lent $285 million to Jared Kushner’s family real estate company in October 2016.
Investigators have noted other points of interest: Deutsche Bank, unusually, managed its lending to Trump through its private-banking division rather than normal commercial lending. Finally, the bank has been implicated in Russian money laundering, paying $630 million in fines in 2017 to settle U.S. and British charges that it had improperly transferred $10 billion from Russia.
Trump last week tweeted his indignation at Schiff for “looking at every aspect of my life, both financial and personal,” and calling the House probe “Unlimited Presidential Harassment.”
Trump’s bizarre claim that the subject of an investigation has the right to circumscribe the inquiry into his conduct dates back to a July 19, 2017, interview Trump gave to the New York Times. Asked whether a Mueller probe of his finances would be a “red line,” Trump answered, “I would say yeah.” He then offered a rambling defense, saying at one point, “I don’t do business with Russia.”
Opinion | We’re entering a new phase of the Trump-Russia investigation
Despite constant insistence his Moscow Tower project was above board, the money trail says differently.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-entering-a-new-phase-of-the-trump-russia-investigation/2019/02/14/10f13b70-30a5-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html
Senator Burr and the Undermining of Democracy – Musing about law, books, and politics
[View here as a Twitter thread] DiDi wants to know if our democracy is strong enough to withstand Trump’s lawbreaking. It’s the lying (which is directly related to lawbreaking) which is the real problem. The answer is yes. I think Read more…
Source: terikanefield-blog.com/senator-burr-and-the-undermining-of-democracy/
Ocasio-Cortez, Castro plan to introduce bill to block national emergency
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) plan to introduce a bill to stop President Trump’s emergency declaration.
Source: thehill.com/homenews/house/430173-ocasio-cortez-castro-plan-to-introduce-bill-to-block-national-emergency
It’s really quite amazing to watch his sing-song delivery. I’m not kidding. I only wish captions could show this.
Trump Declares a National Emergency, and Provokes a Constitutional Clash
The president’s decision incited instant condemnation from Democrats, who called it an unconstitutional abuse of his authority and vowed to overturn it with Republican support.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/us/politics/national-emergency-trump.html
And so much for our international relations.
Watch: this is what happened when Mike Pence brought up Donald Trump in a speech to European leaders
“I bring greetings from the 45th President of the United States of America, President Donald Trump,” Pence told the crowd.
Source: www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-mentions-trump-met-silence-1333887
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Authoritarianism: Feb 3–9
“We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly.”
―John Pilger
I have long considered McConnell a traitor. Трамп is a venal, petty grifter, a half-assed mobster who simply started out with a big pile of money and an equally corrupt family and literally doesn’t know how to do anything else. McConnell, on the other hand, is well aware of how the country and the government works, and what he has done, from Garland to this, is traitorous.
Voter suppression is traitorous. Intentionally restricting access to the ballot is a violation of the ideals that we have been told are inherently American. The United States government is of, by and for the people. Yet we are barred from the fundamental democratic process by those in power merely because our skin color predicts our political persuasion.
Mitch McConnell, Enemy of the Vote
The Senate Majority Leader mocked a bill expanding ballot access while staying silent on foreign threats to our elections
Source: www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/mitch-mcconnell-enemy-of-the-vote-787596/
Someone’s looking for some illicit prescriptions?? Hey maybe he can OD in office.
Ronny Jackson, Trump’s former physician, appointed chief medical adviser
Jackson’s nomination for VA secretary was torpedoed by allegations of inappropriate work behavior
Source: www.cbsnews.com/news/ronny-jackson-trumps-former-physician-appointed-as-assistant-to-trump/
Heartbreaking. Utterly heartbreaking and unacceptable. We need to start some kind of civilian registry/effort to reunite these families. Imagine losing your own son or daughter. “Burden”?!
Trump Admin Says It’s Too Hard To Reunite Thousands Of Separated Families: Court Filing
It referred to the process of reuniting separated families as a “burden.”
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/report-trump-admin-does-not-plan-to-reunite-families-separated-before-zero-tolerance_us_5c55c3c4e4b087104753e468
I can’t make this stuff up. You REALLY have to wonder what kompromat Russia has on Paul.
Sen. Rand Paul goes to Moscow and invites Russians to Washington in unofficial bid to boost ties
Sen. Rand Paul attends a meeting with Russian lawmakers in Moscow on Monday. (Pavel Golovkin/AP)
Once a foe, Paul has become one of President Trump’s fiercest defenders on Russia.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/world/sen-rand-paul-goes-to-moscow-and-invites-russians-to-washingtonin-unofficial-bid-to-boost-ties/2018/08/06/0090975a-9945-11e8-8d5e-c6c594024954_story.html
Prosecutors are seeking documents and records related to the committee’s donors to the massive inauguration fund, according to sources familiar with the request. Prosecutors are also seeking attendees to the events surrounding the inauguration including benefits to top level donors such as photo opportunities with President Trump, sources said.
New York prosecutors seek records from Trump inauguration committee: Sources
Prosecutors in New York’s Southern District have reached out to President Donald Trump’s inauguration committee and plan to subpoena the organization for documents.
Source: abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Politics/york-prosecutors-seek-records-trump-inauguration-committee-sources/story?id=60841246
We are degrading all aspects of our government, by decimating the expertise of all the various civil servants we have built up over decades.
Just as in the military, the men and women of the CIA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Agency and other intelligence services are professionals focused first and foremost on their mission. They are more interested in facing the unique challenges of clandestinely collecting intelligence, and they view politics and those who practice it as largely irrelevant to their craft. Most intelligence officers I know are also inherently loyal to the consumers of intelligence. The holy grail of intelligence professionals is knowing the information they helped collect, analyze and disseminate went straight to the president, the commander — and intelligence consumer — in chief. This is not because they like or even voted for a specific president, but because that is the whole point of intelligence work: to provide the best information to the highest levels of government.
But there is a limit to everything. And despite the apolitical work ethic of intelligence professionals, being called passive, naive and uneducated will sting. It will sting officers serving abroad in war zones and other places where they and their families are at risk. It will sting those officers who have personally sacrificed to serve, but who know (or at least thought they knew) that at the end of the day, it was worth it because their work was important to protect our democracy and highly valued by policymakers and elected officials.
Perspective | I was in the CIA. Trump’s petty fights and insults will make us all less safe.
How long will it be before intelligence officers decide the insults and the ignorance aren’t worth it?
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/02/04/i-was-cia-trumps-petty-fights-insults-will-make-us-all-less-safe/
You know they’ll do some kind of tabling vote and then spin like mad but still.
The Post reports that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has privately told Trump that a national emergency is “viable,” and officials at the Army Corps of Engineers are searching for ways to build the wall. This would be challenged in the courts, which would have to decide whether the statute Trump invoked actually does authorize this type of spending.
But Pelosi has a much more immediate way to challenge Trump’s declaration. Under the National Emergencies Act, or NEA, both chambers of Congress can pass a resolution terminating any presidentially declared national emergency.
Elizabeth Goitein, who has researched this topic extensively for the Brennan Center for Justice, tells me that if Pelosi exercises this option, it will ultimately require the Senate to vote on it in some form as well. The NEA stipulates that if one chamber (Pelosi’s House) passes such a resolution, which it easily could do, the other (McConnell’s Senate) must act on it within a very short time period — forcing GOP senators to choose whether to support it.
Alternatively, Goitein notes, the Senate could vote not to consider that resolution or change its rules to avoid such a vote. But in those scenarios, the Senate would, in effect, be voting to greenlight Trump’s emergency declaration.
Opinion | If Trump declares a national emergency, Pelosi can jam Republicans. Here’s how.
The House speaker can initiate a process that forces the GOP-controlled Senate to vote on Trump’s emergency declaration.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/04/if-trump-declares-national-emergency-pelosi-can-jam-republicans-heres-how/
Oh, Congress.
90 Democrats, one lone Republican sign onto a bill giving back pay to federal contract workers
Sen. Tina Smith is still “hopeful and optimistic” of eventual GOP support for her bill to help those hardest hit by the government shutdown
Source: thinkprogress.org/90-democrats-one-lone-republican-sign-onto-a-bill-giving-back-pay-to-contract-workers-4ed1b943b79c/
Graham is a bona fide idiot. That is all.
Lindsey Graham encourages Trump to use his emergency powers even if it wreaks havoc on the GOP
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) thinks Donald Trump should use his emergency powers to build a border wall with Mexico — in spite of the prospect of “war” within the GOP over it. Charleston, SC’s Post and Courier newspaper reported Monday that Graham is “not at all” worried about the precedent it would set if Trump used his emergency powers. “To me, this is within the power of every commander in chief,” the South Carolina Republican said. …
Source: www.rawstory.com/2019/02/lindsey-graham-encourages-trump-use-emergency-powers-even-wreaks-havoc-gop/
I mean, contrast this with ANY other President’s daily schedule… o.O “Executive Time” sounds like the punchline to a bad joke.
Scoop: Leaked private schedules show Trump spent 60% of last 3 months in “Executive Time”
It’s unprecedented visibility into how the president spends his days.
Source: www.axios.com/donald-trump-private-schedules-leak-executive-time-34e67fbb-3af6-48df-aefb-52e02c334255.html
Effin’ A!
[Rep. Ayanna] Pressley, who said she initially worried that a decisive margin of victory for Democrats in 2018 would allow the party to be less introspective, pointed to picking Abrams as a sign the party was still moving forward.
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Donna Brazile speaks during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 26, 2016.
“The fact that Stacey Abrams will be delivering the State of the Union response is an early and encouraging indicator to me that we are taking stock of those lessons learned,” Pressley said.
And experts say choosing Abrams, despite her loss in 2018, sends a unique message that the party doesn’t intend to let that energy go.
“The Democrats aren’t going to leave that money on the table,” Michener said. “There are some real rewards at stake here. It’s crucial for the Democratic Party at this point to decide what sorts of voices they want to represent and what sorts of inroads they want to make as far as the party being optimally inclusive.”
Keneshia Grant, an assistant professor of political science at Howard University who studies race and the electoral system, pointed out the important timing of this speech, coming out of 2018 and heading into 2020.
“We can kind of see the Democratic Party — in the people, the candidates — are thinking about black voters,” said Grant, mentioning the early focus 2020 presidential candidates are placing on states like South Carolina, where a majority of those casting ballots will be African-American.
“Choosing Abrams is in line with that idea that black voters matter,” Grant said.
For Democrats, Stacey Abrams sends key message on gender and race in SOTU response
Abrams, from Georgia, lost the 2018 governor’s race in Georgia.
Source: abcnews.go.com/Politics/democrats-stacey-abrams-sends-key-message-gender-race/story?id=60785717
Mm, nasty little shitstain of a man. Good.
Mike Pence Likely Implicated In Trump’s SDNY Criminal Charges
Donald Trump’s inauguration committee has been accused of money laundering and making false statements in a subpoena from prosecutors with the Southern District of New York (SDNY). And it appears that both the president and the
Source: www.politicususa.com/2019/02/05/mike-pence-likely-implicated-in-trumps-sdny-criminal-charges.html
A petty, lying, idiot grifter. That’s our Трамп.
In fact, the way Trump interacts at Mar-a-Lago, which he still visits as a weekend escape from the White House, give us incredible insight into the type of guy Trump is in Washington, and what may be his ultimate undoing as president. Leamer explains how the famously insecure Trump bought Mar-A-Lago in a desperate effort to be accepted by the Palm Beach upper crust, hoping it would don him “the king of Palm Beach.” But in the same way that Queens-born Trump failed in his quest to be accepted by the Manhattan elite, the old money of Palm Beach looked down on tacky Trump.
“Here comes this flamboyant guy bringing in hundreds of models from Miami Beach, vulgar language, suing them if he doesn’t get his way. He brings in this new money, this new gilded age of America,” Leamer explained to me. “There are 40 billionaires in Palm Beach. These are the people he identifies with. You want to be a billionaire or you’re nobody.”
And Trump’s love of lying didn’t begin as president either. Back in the early days of owning Mar-a-Lago, Trump served up lies to appear more important, such as falsely telling people that the membership list at his swanky club included royalty like Prince Charles and Princess Diana, as well as celebrities like Steven Spielberg and Elizabeth Taylor.
Mar-a-Lago: Where Donald Trump learned to be a petty, self-promoting liar with ties to sketchy Russians
From lies to sketchy Russian deals and porn stars, Mar-a-Lago groomed Trump for his unique presidential leadership
Source: www.rawstory.com/2019/02/mar-lago-donald-trump-learned-petty-self-promoting-liar-ties-sketchy-russians/
Interesting chat here:
THIS is the argument over the “billionaire” taxing. COME ON PEOPLE! Let AOC and Warren sock it to these guys. WE have WAY more votes than the billionaires do (why do you think they work so hard to take it away from us??)
Source: https://www.facebook.com/791327391/posts/10157106600762392/
Refreshing to see.
Cummings acknowledged the disruptive nature of the new Congress; the freshman class will at times be at odds with other members of the Democratic caucus. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan launched a 24-hour news cycle when she declared she wanted to “impeach the motherfucker,” in reference to Trump. Tlaib and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota have also stoked controversy with their criticism of Israel—notably putting them at odds with some Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on which Omar sits. Just last week, Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Omar, and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, another freshman, signed a letter calling on the bipartisan conference committee negotiating a border security deal to cut, not increase, funding for the Department of Homeland Security and, specifically, the ICE and C.P.B. agencies—a move certain to complicate the negotiation effort.
But Cummings suggested that disagreement within the ranks is a considerable strength. “It is important that you have people like her—not only on my committee, but in the Congress—to remind folks of who we are, who we are as the Democratic Party, and who we have been for many years,” he explained. “And so, sure, when you do that like Ms. Cortez, you may ruffle a few feathers, but I think that, in the end, it will make us a better and stronger party.”
Last week, during a House Oversight Committee hearing on the cost of prescription drugs, the freshman congresswoman presented as measured and methodical as she probed the relationship between drug manufacturers and taxpayer-backed organizations like the National Institutes of Health. “She asked the best set of questions of anybody in her five minutes,” Cummings said, noting that the New York congresswoman stayed for the entire hearing, which stretched beyond the five-hour mark. “It was clear that she had done her homework.”
How A.O.C. Won Over Her New House Colleagues
AOC photographed outside the Capitol on January 4, 2019.
By Mark Peterson/Redux.
After unnerving Washington with her Omaha Beach-like landing in Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has emerged as an unlikely unifying force for Democrats—and a surprisingly egoless champion of a new, progressive politics.
Source: www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/aoc-house-democrats-nancy-pelosi
The inestimable Stacy Abrams.
Warning, not captioned (from live feed). I may replace this later.
As Pelosi Applauds Trump, the Internet Sees a Clapback
When Speaker Nancy Pelosi clapped as President Trump gave his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, many social media users declared her the queen of shade.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/us/politics/pelosi-trump-clap-state-of-the-union.html
They are closing the doors to the country and looting it.
Trump’s World Bank nominee ‘another sign of US retreat from the world’: MSNBC’s Ali Velshi
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on Wednesday distilled the significance of President Donald Trump’s decision to nominate David Malpass, a harsh critic of the World Bank as well as multilateralism, to lead the international financial institution, saying it represented another step backward for the United States. “The World Bank provides funding and financing for development projects in parts of the world” that most banks consider “too risky,” Velshi said. “The U.S. is the lead investor in that.” …
Source: www.rawstory.com/2019/02/trumps-world-bank-nominee-another-sign-of-us-retreat-from-the-world-msnbcs-ali-velshi/
“I reject the federal contention that there exists an overwhelming national security crisis at the Southern border,” Lujan Grisham said, adding that the area has “some of the safest communities in the country.”
The governor’s order covers most of New Mexico’s deployed troops, along with Guard members who have traveled from Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Wisconsin. In all, 118 National Guard troops have been deployed in New Mexico, the governor’s office said.
Lujan Grisham ordered the withdrawal just before Trump delivered his State of the Union address, in which he railed against illegal immigration and labeled a group of mainly Central American migrants as “illegal immigrants” — despite the fact that most of them are traveling with legal humanitarian visas.
N.M. Governor Pulls National Guard From Border, Citing A ‘Charade’ At Federal Level
“I reject the federal contention that there exists an overwhelming national security crisis at the Southern border,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said.
Source: www.npr.org/2019/02/06/691937342/n-m-governor-pulls-national-guard-from-border-citing-a-charade-at-federal-level
Next, we kill all the banks.
GOP gave banks $21 billion tax cut â and they used it to fire thousands
Banks benefited the most from the GOP’s tax scam.
Source: shareblue.com/republican-tax-bill-21-billion-tax-cut-bank-jobs/
Poor cranky moneygrubbing Donnie
Democrat Schiff draws Trump ire with House intel probes
The House Intelligence Committee is set to pursue a wide investigation into atte…
Source: www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-house/democrat-schiff-draws-trump-ire-with-house-intel-probes-idUSKCN1PV23B
Hang on, maybe MIKIE gets caught first? But Трамп can appoint the next VP. Hrm. This could turn out very Ford-esque for whoever might replace Pence.
Christie did not shut down the transition, and he was fired. To be clear, he was fired for not taking part in a scheme to allow Trump to keep all of that money. In fact, it can be inferred from the book that Trump actually admitted his intention to keep the money — and both Bannon and Christie could be called as witnesses to testify to that fact.
So along came a new transition leader, and lo and behold, the money is now in question. Did Mike Pence agree to Trump’s scheme?
There is absolutely no reason to doubt that the Southern District, having (for once) actually listed the crimes they intend to charge Trump and his family with, has proof that Pence was all in on the $107 million heist.
Mike Pence Gets Caught Up In Criminal Charges, Will Likely Be Implicated In Southern District Of NY · DC Tribune
Source: dctribune.org/mike-pence-gets-caught-up-in-criminal-charges-will-likely-be-implicated-in-southern-district-of-ny/
This is horrendous…but note also that the wire is…on the U.S. side??
‘Inhuman’ wall of razor wire on Arizona-Mexico border sparks outcry
Nogales city council considers officially condemning dangerous material spread across local structure
Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/06/arizona-razor-wire-border-wall-nogales
And Trevor Noah totally goes there.
Ever in the service of billionaires and corporations…
Financial watchdog to gut its payday lending rules
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is getting rid of a requirement that lenders make sure borrowers could afford to repay a payday loan without being stuck in a cycle of debt, a standard known as “ability to repay.”
Source: www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/financial-watchdog-to-gut-its-payday-lending-rules
Oh, brother.
Whitaker says he won’t testify unless Democrats drop their subpoena threat
Acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker and acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan sit behind Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin during President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday at the Capitol. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
The House Judiciary Committee voted earlier Thursday to give its chairman the authority to subpoena the acting attorney general’s testimony, should he fail to appear Friday or answer lawmakers’ questions.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/house-panel-authorizes-subpoena-for-acting-attorney-general-whitaker-just-in-case/2019/02/07/1e5ec47a-2af2-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html
Interesting! Prescription drugs and trade. Talk about healthcare and frame the soaring costs of drugs in that discussion (eg, INSULIN, etc). Point out stuff like this Republicans want to block Utah’s voter-approved Medicaid expansion and replace it with something worse. And pound on the gains Big Pharma stands to gain from kicking NAFTA around… I should also point out that it’s hardly only the working class whites outraged by what Big Pharma is doing on drug prices and so on.
Working-class whites in Greenberg’s focus groups apparently agreed. As his memo notes, these voters “hate” pharmaceutical companies and are deeply convinced that high drug prices are the result of their political influence.
In effect, Greenberg concluded, this debate links corporate power directly to soaring medical costs, providing a gateway to a larger argument about the ability of big corporations to rig market rules in their favor. These voters, Greenberg noted, “especially distrust the way that corporations bend the system to their will,” with lobbyists and big campaign donations, “so that they can earn more profits while hurting workers and consumers.” As one Macomb man put it: “They are buying their laws, basically.”
Greenberg was surprised by the depth of emotion about pharmaceutical companies and drug prices, noting that they “emerged as an extraordinary point of anger.” The result: Pointing to the Big Pharma provision constitutes the “single most powerful argument” against Trump’s NAFTA rewrite.
Opinion | Democratic focus groups may have identified a hidden vulnerability for Trump
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
Obama-Trump voters are angry about soaring drug prices, and this may undermine Trump on one of his biggest issues.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/07/democratic-focus-groups-may-have-identified-hidden-vulnerability-trump/
Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York served a sweeping subpoena on President Trump’s inaugural committee on Monday. Nothing could more clearly illustrate the breadth of the president’s legal exposure and the limits of his nearly two-year strategy to attack and undermine special counsel Robert S. Mueller III — because the special counsel’s work is merely the sturdy root of a veritable Mueller family tree. What began as an FBI counterintelligence investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has sprouted into multiple investigations in multiple jurisdictions examining multiple possible crimes. The case against the president’s personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is the direct line, the first child. The investigation of the inaugural committee, which sprang from the Cohen case, is the grandchild. And on it goes.
Perspective | The Mueller investigation has sprouted. Therein lies the jeopardy for Trump.
President Trump and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post; Win McNamee/Getty Images) (Jabin Botsford; Win McNamee/The Washington Post; Getty Images)
What started as an FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election has spawned multiple investigations of other possible crimes. And that increases the legal exposure for Trump.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/02/07/mueller-investigation-has-sprouted-therein-lies-jeopardy-trump/
/laughing Schiff really knows how to get under Трамп’s skin!
Trump furious after Schiff hires former NSC aides to help oversee his administration
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has hired officials with experience at the National Security Council to help with its oversight of President Donald Trump’s administration, according to a committee aide.
Source: amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/07/politics/adam-schiff-trump-white-house-staffers/index.html
And about those taxes (are we coming full circle?)
Trump Has Bigger Legal Problems Than Mueller
For Donald Trump, this elevator only goes down.
Source: truthout.org/articles/trump-has-bigger-legal-problems-than-mueller/
You’ll have to click through to watch the video. Do it. It’s completely devastating. She lays it out completely.
NowThis on Twitter
“‘We have a system that is fundamentally broken.’ — Rep. @AOC is explaining just how f*cked campaign finance laws really are https://t.co/7rRXf9pD6Z”
Source: twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1093601038622281728
While everyone has erupted into a frenzy of trying to decide if this does meet legal definitions of extortion or blackmail and so on, the real question in the whole “Bezos Exposes Pecker” (that would be Pecker owner of National Inquirer, etc) episode, this appears to be the real question to ask: Just exactly where did Pecker get the salacious pictures of Bezos from? I mean, it’s not like we have a President petty enough to use national security resources to get back at someone he dislikes, do we? (See also WaPo Reporter: Bezos’ Investigators Believe ‘Government Entity’ May Have Been Behind Obtaining His Sexts. And in an interesting addition: After Bezos Post, Ronan Farrow Says He’s Received Similar ‘Blackmail Efforts from AMI’. )
Jeff Bezos’ investigator suspects ‘a government agency’ intercepted Amazon CEO’s text messages
A Washington Post reporter said Thursday night that an investigator working for Jeff Bezos believes ‘a government agency’ accessed the Amazon CEO’s texts and intimate photos.
Source: boingboing.net/2019/02/07/bezos-hack-government-entity.html
That was welcome if unexpected. Do note the explicit dissent from Kavanaugh.
Supreme Court blocks restrictive Louisiana abortion law by 5-4 vote as Roberts joins liberals
The fate of the Louisiana abortion clinic law was seen as an early test of the Supreme Court’s view of abortion rights.
Source: www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-court-abortion-louisiana-20190207-story.html
Not sure what’s happening here. I would have thought any emergency would have been declared around SOTU but maybe Трамп is/was still recovering from the stinging claps? In any case, there still seems to be some worry in D.C. over possible emergency declarations. But it’s the GOP Senators who will likely get reamed over it.
Trump’s “National Emergency” Would Please His Base But Put GOP Senators On The Spot
WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 05: President Donald Trump greets Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) after the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol Building on February 5, 2019 in Washington, DC. President Trump’s second State of the Union address was postponed one week due to the partial government shutdown. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The Democratic-led House would be likely to pass a bill undoing an emergency declaration — and Mitch McConnell could not stop it from coming up for a Sen…
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-emergency-congress_us_5c5c9ecbe4b0e01e32aa9b4b
/hands Whitaker a very large shovel
Hearing erupts as Acting AG Whitaker calls time on Dem chairman: ‘Your 5 minutes is up’
Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker stunned onlookers and lawmakers during an already-contentious House hearing Friday, when he tried to call time on the Democratic chairman after yet another line of questioning regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
Source: www.foxnews.com/politics/hearing-for-acting-ag-whitaker-erupts-in-fireworks-as-top-republican-alleges-character-assassination
Wow. Just…. wow. For lots more context on this article, take a look at this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1093555871651635205
[Seth Abramson:] Skeptics reading this thread—who will be stunned by what they read—should understand that the interviewee [in this CBS news article], Republican Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, was on TRUMP’S NATIONAL SECURITY TEAM as of October 2016.
and, also Abramson’s point:
Equally significant is how the Senate team is operating: it’s a nine-person bipartisan team apparently so unified in their concern about what they’re finding that they’re able to agree on nearly everything. That’s right: Burr describes a team basically on the same page.
Richard Burr on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation, 2 years on
After two years, the committee’s chairman sees no collusion, but says some questions will linger for decades
Source: www.cbsnews.com/news/richard-burr-on-senate-intelligence-committees-russia-investigation-2-years-on/
…And another one. Damn, AMI is sleazeballs.
Terry Crews Claims AMI Tried to ‘Silence’ Him ‘By Fabricating Stories of Me With Prostitutes’
Terry Crews joined Jeff Bezos and others in accusing American Media Inc., the parent company of the National Enquirer, of extortion by threatening to publish
Source: www.mediaite.com/online/terry-crews-claims-ami-tried-to-silence-him-by-fabricating-stories-of-me-with-prostitutes/
The ACA repeal effort made a fool out of Susan Collins even if she ultimately voted against repeal. The Tax Bill made a fool out of Susan Collins (Sen. Susan Collins takes huge leap of faith with tax bill. Critics say she’s getting played.). And yes, this makes a fool out of her too. C’mon, Maine! You can do better than this sad sack charlatan.
Kavanaugh’s dissent in abortion case makes a fool out of Susan Collins
Collins said she thought Kavanaugh would respect Supreme Court precedent on abortion — but he just refused to enforce a decision the court made only two years ago.
Source: shareblue.com/kavanaugh-dissent-louisiana-abortion-case-makes-fool-susan-collins/
Wow. Just wow. But this is the best response to Трамп’s vituperous post.
(Link to Трамп’s tweet; I won’t dignify it with more than that: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1094368870415110145 ; see also Donald Trump Jr. calls father’s tweet about Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Native American heritage ‘savage’ in social media post)
Trump and Trump, Jr. blasted for joking about genocide in attacks on Democratic 2020 presidential candidate
President Donald Trump was highly criticized on Saturday for making an apparent joke about genocide during political attack on a 2020 campaign challenger. On Saturday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced she was running for the highest office in the land. Trump, who has nicknamed Warren “Pocohontas” over her claims of Native American heritage, blasted the Massachusetts Democrat on Twitter. Today Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to by me as Pocahontas, joined the race for President. Will …
Source: www.rawstory.com/2019/02/trump-trump-jr-blasted-joking-genocide-attacks-democratic-2020-presidential-candidate/
This is just weird.
Mr. Trump effectively bypassed a deadline set by law as his administration argued that Congress could not impose its will on the president. Critics charged that he was seeking to cover up Saudi complicity in the death of Mr. Khashoggi, an American resident and a columnist for The Washington Post.
“Consistent with the previous administration’s position and the constitutional separation of powers, the president maintains his discretion to decline to act on congressional committee requests when appropriate,” the Trump administration said in a statement. The statement said the administration had taken action against the killers and would consult with Congress.
But Democrats said Mr. Trump was violating a law known as the Magnitsky Act. It required him to respond 120 days after a request submitted in the fall by committee leaders — including Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee and then the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — a period that expired Friday.
Trump Defies Congressional Deadline on Khashoggi Report
President Trump refused to provide lawmakers with a report on the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, leading to complaints of a cover-up.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/us/politics/trump-khashoggi-congress.html
Interesting. I believe the 15th is when we find out what happens next after the CR from the last shutdown expires.
Now together, they have broken another: It is the first time two women have held the highest leadership positions on the Appropriations Committee, one of the most prestigious panels on Capitol Hill.
Ms. Lowey and Ms. Granger will be responsible for leading the negotiations to fund the next fiscal year and reaching a two-year agreement to avoid a reduction in spending levels. And they will continue to guide debate over funding for border security, especially given speculation that a final deal will involve a multiyear compromise.
Unlikely Partnership in House Gives Lawmakers Hope for Border Deal
Representatives Nita M. Lowey and Kay Granger are the first women to lead the House Appropriations Committee. Their bond gives lawmakers optimism for the work to come.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2019/02/09/us/politics/congress-border-wall.html
Whoa. We can’t have THAT, can we?
Federal law gives the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee the power to request tax information on any filer, and then to release it to the public, if a majority of the committee approves. The statute holds that the Treasury Department “shall” provide the information upon request (establishing that the “request” has the legal force of an order). Recent polls have found that upward of 60 percent of Americans want the Democratic Party to use its control over Ways and Means to release the tax returns that their president had promised to show them.
All this puts Republican lawmakers in an unenviable position: They must find a way to argue (with righteous indignation) that the president’s finances should be concealed, in defiance of popular opinion and his own campaign promises. At a Ways and Means committee hearing in D.C. Thursday, GOP lawmakers unveiled their case: If Congress gives voters insight into Donald Trump’s financial interests, what’s to stop it from giving voters insight into the financial interests of all who rule them?
Oddly enough, I have no problems with that.
GOP Warns That Releasing Trump’s Taxes Could Lead to Further Transparency
Republicans say exposing Trump’s conflicts of interest is a slippery slope that would lead to exposing all politicians’ conflicts of interest.
Source: nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/gop-warns-releasing-trumps-taxes-could-lead-to-transparency.html
T-Mobile executives seeking merger approval booked more than 52 nights at Trump’s D.C. hotel — more than previously known
Congressional Democrats are demanding information on the visits as political scrutiny of the deal intensifies.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/t-mobile-executives-seeking-merger-approval-booked-more-than-52-nights-at-trumps-hotel–more-than-previously-known/2019/02/06/cd6fa7e6-29ca-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html
Posted in Authoritarianism, U.S. Politics | Tagged 2019, authoritarianism, politics, usa | Comments Off on Authoritarianism: Feb 3–9
Brexiteers demand Theresa May ask Trump to solve Brexit talks
Posted on Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 1:55 pm by BEG
/spits out coffee. No! Seriously, no! WTF??
Conservative MPs, who oppose the prime minister’s European Union exit deal, want her to approach the US president and request that he lobby the Irish government to give ground in negotiations, Sky News reported on Tuesday.
Conservative MPs want the prime minister to request US President Donald Trump to intervene to persuade the Irish government to give ground in talks.
Source: www.businessinsider.com/brexiteers-demand-theresa-may-ask-trump-to-solve-brexit-talks-northern-ireland-backstop-2019-2
Posted in The Global Picture | Tagged brexit, britain | 1 Comment
stripping rights from women
Posted on Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 9:35 am by BEG
“Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can’t take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can’t take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.”
― Faye Wattleton
You know what they call a person without rights, or with reduced rights? A slave, a child. This is what a large percentage of particularly white, privileged, entitled people are working on in this country. While the effect will be felt by all women, its burden will fall disproportionately on those that the selfsame rich white entitled hate the most. And without an understanding of the underlying dynamics pinning it, it further fractures women who may all be women but are also either rich or poor, white or non-white, educated or non-educated and so on.
Abortion is a particularly nasty pretext for all of this. And it is instructive to see the fury anti-abortionists have brought to bear ever since Roe vs. Wade.
After such victories could no longer be achieved openly in the federal courts, the battle moved to the statehouses, where hundreds upon hundreds of TRAP laws—that stands for Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers—have been passed, often making debunked or unfounded claims about maternal health and exigent medical necessity. Only rarely and inadvertently is the desired endgame—to shutter clinics, all clinics, forever—acknowledged. Occasionally, someone will make this point out loud. The day after Texas approved its own TRAP law in 2013, then–Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst tweeted a photo of a map that showed all the abortion clinics that would close as a result of the bill, writing, “We fought to pass SB5 thru the Senate last night, & this is why!” But even though most elected officials aren’t as forthright as Dewhurst, shuttering clinics has always been the explicit plan, as Americans United For Life— the organization that designed most of these laws—has expressed openly. “As we’re moving forward at the state level, we end up hollowing out Roe, even without the Supreme Court,” said the former head of the group. “States can’t outlaw abortion. That does not mean there’s a constitutional right to abortion being convenient,” another AUL official said.
What the public wants and what the Constitution requires don’t matter to anti-abortion activists—what matters to them is that every clinic that’s shuttered is a win.
And yet the subterfuge persists. Even as groups targeting the right to choose demand nothing but perfect loyalty from state government officials, judicial nominees, and presidents, everyone still pretends this isn’t about closing down clinics. The impossibility of this public stance has become increasingly evident under Donald Trump, who promised to appoint only judges who would overturn Roe. Even so, the Supreme Court justices he’s seated insist they have no strong feelings on the matter, even as Neil Gorsuch has written, about employee contraception, that “all of us face the problem of complicity. All of us must answer for ourselves whether and to what degree we are willing to be involved in the wrongdoing of others,” and Brett Kavanaugh has written that “some disagree with cases that allow the Government to refuse to fund abortions … some disagree with cases holding that the U.S. Constitution provides a right to an abortion.”
Will five justices on the current Supreme Court vote to protect Roe? Maybe. Will five justices on the current Supreme Court happily stand back while that precedent is hollowed out by states and lower courts? Very likely. This is the maddening subterfuge women wait out, as men who have promised that they respect precedent decide this week whether they respect it enough to fight for it.
The Lies That Will Kill Roe v. Wade at the Supreme Court
Decades of falsehoods from conservative activists and judges are about to pay off.
Source: slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/02/roe-v-wade-overturned-abortion-june-medical-services-gee-roberts-court.html
Posted in Fighting Bigotry, Uncategorized | Tagged feminism, human rights, reproductive rights, WarOnWomen, yesallwomen | Comments Off on stripping rights from women
a shot across the bow for Puerto Rico
Posted on Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at 7:41 pm by BEG
Oh, this is sublime….
On Monday, however, U.S. District Judge Gustavo Gelpí—a George W. Bush appointee—issued a shot across the bow that throws the legality of this federal abuse into question. In a fiery ruling, Gelpí accused the federal government of unconstitutionally discriminating against Puerto Ricans, violating their equal protection rights by withholding disability benefits owed to mainland residents who are from the island. Gelpí concluded that the Supreme Court’s recent marriage equality decision eroded the old, racist precedents, guaranteeing Puerto Ricans the full privileges of citizenship. His decision could mark the beginning of an earthquake in federal law—one that could finally limit the federal government’s ability to abuse the territories.
Judge Blocks Discrimination Against Puerto Ricans, Says Federal Government Is Engaging in “Citizenship Apartheid”
Although residents of Puerto Rico are American citizens, Congress has refused to extend the full social safety net to the island.
Source: slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/02/puerto-rico-social-security-benefits-gelpi-ruling-citizenship-apartheid.html
Posted in U.S. Politics | Tagged citizenship, equality, privilege, puerto rico | Comments Off on a shot across the bow for Puerto Rico
the havoc that the wealthy wreak
Posted on Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at 10:30 am by BEG
Another must read on Brexit.
It’s embarrassing, trying to explain Brexit to Americans. It’s like trying to explain wildfires to people whose houses are underwater. Given that Americans have their own political horror show to watch through their fingers as their faith in humanity fizzles, they may well wonder why on Earth they ought to pay any attention to the crypto-nationalist omnishambles happening across the Atlantic. Isn’t it essentially just the same as the American omnishambles, except on a BBC budget, with more subdued special effects and a lot of squashed-looking posh people pretending to know what they’re talking about? Well, no, it’s not quite the same, and yes, it’s worth your attention. Here’s why.
Brexit Britain is an object lesson in how a modern nation fails. It’s the last act in a familiar unhappy marriage plot, with ruthless neoliberal economic orthodoxy wedded to the genteel thuggery of old-school conservative entitlement, combining to create something so much weirder, and so much worse, that the result can collapse an entire culture.
So let’s remind ourselves what’s at stake here. Let’s take a hard look at the worst-case, and right now most likely, outcome: a no-deal Brexit. In less than 60 days, Britain has to leave the E.U., and the difference between doing so with a deal and without one is the difference between being kicked out of a plane with and without a parachute. Here’s what no-deal Brexit means: it means an immediate and lasting recession. It means massive job losses. It means serious shortages of food and medicines. It means major businesses closing down. It means, ironically, the possible break-up of the United Kingdom, as the Scottish, who didn’t vote for Brexit, inevitably demand a second independence referendum. It means new violence along the Irish border. It means Britain losing its cherished place at the top table in the international community after we’ve definitively demonstrated that just because we once owned a lot of other countries doesn’t mean we can be trusted not to trash our own. It means that ordinary people, already reeling from nine years of brutal austerity, will find their lives collapsing, all in service of a rich man’s gamble.
And if you wonder, why not just back out?
We could stop this train if we wanted to. All it would take is for Parliament to turn around and admit that it got it wrong, and face the consequences at the polls. The E.U. will let us stay. The E.U. doesn’t want England to leave. Not because the rest of Europe likes us. They don’t. Why would they? We’ve been nothing but trouble, even before we pulled this tantrum. We never fully signed up to the spirit of the E.U., preferring to nurse our crabbed fantasies of the plucky little empire that could. But if Europe lets us leave, member states will feel the knock-on financial effects—and it will set a dangerous precedent that could lead to the break-up of the already fragile European bloc. At which point, the only person who goes home happy is Russian President Vladimir Putin.
That’s about the size of this seven-dimensional cock-up. Nobody can decide what to do, but just ignoring it and hoping it will go away is the worst idea of all. As E.U. president Donald Tusk wrote on Twitter in January: “Nobody wants no deal, and nobody can agree on a deal—who has the guts to state the obvious option?”
The obvious option, of course, is not doing Brexit. But any politician who says so risks losing their job at the next election. The few who had the fortitude to place the nation’s interests ahead of their own were condemned as “traitors,” which is Brexitese for “the only actual patriots in the room.”
How Austerity Caused Brexit
Brexit Britain is an object lesson in how a modern nation fails.
Source: psmag.com/ideas/brexit-how-austerity-and-a-cowardly-ruling-class-brought-down-england
Posted in The Global Picture | Tagged austerity, brexit, britain, wealth inequality | 2 Comments
Authoritarianism: Jan 27–Feb 2
Posted on Sunday, February 3, 2019 at 8:00 am by BEG
“People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
Oh, headlinitus >.<
Americans support investigating Trump, but many are skeptical that inquiries will be fair, new poll finds
A new Washington Post-ABC News survey finds that half of respondents express “just some” confidence or none at all that the forthcoming special counsel’s report will be evenhanded.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/americans-support-investigating-trump-but-many-are-skeptical-that-inquiries-will-be-fair-new-poll-finds/2019/01/26/12c30a9a-2129-11e9-8b59-0a28f2191131_story.html
Does this have to be either/or? I say we do BOTH.
Most proposals to tax the rich have focused on raising rates on income and capital gains, as well as increasing estate taxes. That’s what Ocasio-Cortez raised on CBS’ “60 Minutes” earlier this month, when she proposed setting rates as high as 70% on earnings above $10 million to help fund a climate change plan she describes as a “Green New Deal.”
Warren, on the other hand, wants to tap into different pool of money — the assets of the wealthy. A plan developed by her nascent presidential campaign would impose a 2% tax on Americans whose net worth exceeds $50 million, with an additional 1% levy on billionaires, according to documents provided by Warren’s presidential campaign.
How Warren’s plan to tax the rich is different from Ocasio-Cortez’s
Both Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and freshman New York Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez want to tax the rich — but the two progressive Democratic icons are proposing going about it in very different ways.
Source: www.cnn.com/2019/01/27/politics/ocasio-cortez-warren-rich-tax/index.html
Meanwhile, Putin’s getting his ROI.
Deripaska and Allies Could Benefit From Sanctions Deal, Document Shows
The Trump administration’s agreement to lift sanctions on the empire of the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska would allow him to pay off substantial debt.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/us/politics/oleg-deripaska-russian-sanctions.html
Ethics watchdog calls out Trump for threatening Starbucks to ‘keep putting money in his pocket’
An ethics watchdog flagged a tweet from President Donald Trump that appeared to threaten Starbucks over a possible political challenge from its former CEO. Trump responded in his customary form to media coverage of Howard Schultz considering a presidential campaign as an independent. “Howard Schultz doesn’t have the ‘guts’ to run for President!” Trump tweeted Monday morning. “Watched him on @60Minutes last night and I agree with him that he is not the ‘smartest person.’ …
Source: www.rawstory.com/2019/01/ethics-watchdog-calls-trump-threatening-starbucks-keep-putting-money-pocket/
Not that logic is this chump’s strong suit. It wouldn’t even slow him down. I’m legit unsure if he’d be smart enough to avoid another shutdown.
Trump Is Destroying His Own Case for a National Emergency
U.S. President Donald Trump pauses as he announces a deal to end the partial government shutdown as while speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., January 25, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque – RC12AAA15710
By waiting for Congress to act, the president is undermining the legal basis for any declaration.
Source: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/trump-has-no-case-national-emergency/581356/
The rent is too damned high because money-laundering oligarchs bought all the real-estate to clean their oil money
Source: boingboing.net/2019/01/27/cz-edwards.html
Opinion | Paths to Power: How Every Member Got to Congress
Most members of the House, even the new ones, made it to Washington by way of institutions and professions that are out of reach for most Americans.
Source: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/26/opinion/sunday/paths-to-congress.html
By the way, we paid dearly for Трамп’s posturing and temper tantrum.
The report, which was released Monday, estimated a hit of $3 billion, or 0.1 percent, to economic activity during the fourth quarter of 2018. The impact was projected to be greater during the first quarter of 2019: $8 billion, or 0.2 percent of GDP.
Although most of the damage to the economy will be reversed as federal workers return to their jobs, the CBO estimated $3 billion in economic activity is permanently lost after a quarter of the government was closed for nearly 35 days.
The shutdown cost the economy $11 billion – including a permanent $3 billion loss, government says
Overall, the CBO projected economic growth will slow this year to 2.3 percent, compared with the 3.1 percent rate last year, as the benefits of the new tax law begin to fade.
Source: www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/01/28/government-shutdown-cost-the-economy-11-billion-cbo.html
Waste of time & resources all most probably to keep from spending any time on anything actually useful to investigate. But in any case there is a reason this buffoon is on the committee:
While Graham, who also promised to use his spot on the committee to speed through Trump’s judicial nominees, is apparently eager to do Trump’s bidding on the panel, Democrats are calling for Graham to call Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to testify.
No matter how much Graham badmouths Трамп (most recently in declaring that Трамп’s presidency would be absolutely OVER if he caved on the shutdown) seems he stays busy on his knees before Трамп.
Lindsey Graham renews probe into Hillary’s emails; Democrats burst out laughing
New Judiciary Committee chair is eager for yet another go at Hillary and the FBI; Dems suggest Michael Cohen
Source: www.salon.com/2019/01/23/lindsey-graham-renews-probe-into-hillarys-emails-democrats-burst-out-laughing/
Oh, for fucks sake. This likely won’t pass because I can’t see House approving this (which the article fails to point out).
Top GOP senators propose repealing estate tax, which is expected to be paid by fewer than 2,000 Americans a year
The proposal, backed by three of the top Republicans in the Senate, comes as leading Democrats call for dramatically increasing taxes on the wealthy.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/01/28/top-gop-senators-propose-repealing-estate-tax-which-is-expected-be-paid-by-fewer-than-americans-year/
Setting aside for the moment that the LAST thing this country needs is yet another fatwit, egotistical billionaire who thinks he’s G-ds answer to the U.S.’s problems (or hell, just as a convenient way to line his own pockets further, the current mobbed up mobster in the W.H. isn’t having any of it.
They’re trying to kill us all, part 37653
The AP identified up to $11.6 billion in potential future savings for companies that extract, burn and transport fossil fuels. Industry windfalls of billions of dollars more could come from a freeze in vehicle efficiency standards that will yield an estimated 79 billion-gallon (300 million-liter) increase in fuel consumption.
On the opposite side of the government’s ledger, buried in thousands of pages of analyses, are the “social costs” of rolling back the regulations. Among them:
— Up to 1,400 additional premature deaths annually due to the pending repeal of a rule to cut coal plant pollution.
— An increase in greenhouse gas emissions by about 1 billion tons (907 million metric tons) from vehicles produced over the next decade — a figure equivalent to annual emissions of almost 200 million vehicles.
— Increased risk of water contamination from a drilling technique known as “fracking.”
— Fewer safety checks to prevent offshore oil spills.
For the Trump administration and its supporters, the rule changes examined by AP mark a much-needed pivot away from heavy regulations that threatened to hold back the Republican president’s goal of increasing U.S. energy production. But the AP’s findings also underscore the administration’s willingness to put company profits ahead of safety considerations and pollution effects.
Trump rollbacks for fossil fuel industries carry steep cost
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — As the Trump administration rolls back environmental and safety rules for the energy sector, government projections show billions of dollars in savings reaped by companies will come at a steep cost: more premature deaths and illnesses from air pollution, a jump in climate-warming emissions and more severe derailments of trains carrying explosive fuels. The Associated Press analyzed 11 major rules targeted for repeal or relaxation under Trump, using the administration’s own estimates to tally how its actions would boost businesses and harm society.
Source: apnews.com/e38e8c16b610439db2273b8b35b4bc58
“Quietly…” But they sure trumpeted the issue with fanfare first…so that is what will stand out in peoples’ minds…
Texas quietly informs counties that some of the 95,000 voters flagged for citizenship review don’t belong on the list
County officials said the number mistakenly flagged is “significant.”
Source: www.texastribune.org/2019/01/29/texas-voter-citizenship-list-problems-state-tells-counties/?utm_campaign=trib-social-buttons
It’s hard to see how Trump could be more out of touch with voters — or how Democrats, for now, could be better positioned. Going up against Trump has done wonders for the Democrats and for Pelosi personally, but there are several concerns Democrats would do well to address. First, Democrats need to pivot from opposing the wall to supporting smart, serious border security measures. Since no one in Congress these days seems to care much about spending, they shouldn’t be afraid of spending some real money. Second, they have leverage now to do something useful about the real, current problem: migrants. They should push for more immigration judges to reduce the backlog, and more aid and assistance to the countries from which migrants are fleeing.
Finally, protection for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is a winning issue for Democrats. They might try to throw it into this negotiation, but they shouldn’t let Republicans paint them as holding up border protection for “dreamers.” They will score points by passing and sending over to the Senate a realistic and humane bill to legalize dreamers and to protect those on temporary protected status. Let Republicans be the ogres — again.
Opinion | Pelosi should send the GOP roses
No question which party had the best leader.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/30/pelosi-should-send-gop-roses/
“Why don’t people ever tell billionaires who want to run for President that they need to ‘work their way up’ or that ‘maybe they should start with city council first’?” the 29-year-old congresswoman tweeted.
The freshman lawmaker was referencing criticism she received during her House campaign last year that she should have aspired to a more local position before running for federal office.
Ocasio-Cortez on Schultz: Why are billionaires who want to run for president never told to ‘work their way up’?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday ripped former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz over his possible independent presidential bid, suggesting his lack of political experience pointed to a double standard.
Source: thehill.com/homenews/house/427631-ocasio-cortez-on-schultz-why-are-billionaires-who-want-to-run-for-president
Billionaires need to be taxed out of existence.
A science journal funded by Peter Thiel is running articles dismissing climate change and evolution
Yet Inference also has contributions from well-known intellectuals and scientists.
Source: www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/01/a-science-journal-funded-by-peter-thiel-is-running-articles-dismissing-climate-change-and-evolution/
The White House quietly rolled back workplace safety rules during the shutdown
Public health groups are suing the Trump administration for blocking a rule requiring employers to report details of workplace injuries.
Source: www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/29/18197346/trump-labor-electronic-injury-reporting-rule
Pelosi and Trump harden positions on border wall
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday hardened their positions about a border wall, casting doubt on the prospects of Capitol Hill negotiations intended to reach a compromise and avoid a second government shutdown. “There’s not going to be any wall money in the legislation,” Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters. Her remarks came after Democrats had signaled at least some flexibility in the talks on border security funding that began only Wednesday.
Source: apnews.com/d2767ce335644e4c9d27386231b1edf3
WH Cancels Trump’s Daily Intelligence Briefing Amid His Anger At Intel Chiefs
The White House abruptly cancelled President Donald Trump’s daily intelligence briefing with his chiefs Wednesday, a day after CIA Director…
Source: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/white-house-cancels-trump-daily-intelligence-briefing-anger-at-chiefs
5 House freshmen get seats on panel probing Trump’s WH
WASHINGTON (AP) — IIt’s known as “the theater committee” for its high profile, high-drama role investigating President Donald Trump’s White House. And now, five of the fieriest Democratic freshmen in the House are players on that stage. By LAURIE KELLMAN and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press
Source: apnews.com/a035c41ff3bf4980b8e68bbfe2586ce8
So just what does faze these stupid GOP batshit politicians?
“Recently he seems to put his political position, things he wants to achieve as political objectives, far above any informed assessment that the intelligence community is providing to him,” said Carrie Cordero, a former counsel to the assistant attorney general for national security, on CNN on Wednesday.
Trump’s shot at the clandestine community even has some Republicans, who are often loath to criticize the President, worried.
“I prefer the President would stay off Twitter, particularly with regard to these important national security issues where you’ve got people who are experts and have the background and are professionals,” said Sen John Thune, a South Dakota Republican.
“I think in those cases when it comes to their judgment, take into consideration what they’re saying. … I think we need to trust their judgment.”
Even some Republicans balk as Trump targets US spy chiefs
Even after two years, President Donald Trump’s assaults on US spy chiefs are shocking coming from a commander in chief.
Source: www.cnn.com/2019/01/31/politics/donald-trump-russia-intelligence-cia/index.html
Twitter Users Erupt After Mitch McConnell Calls Election Day Holiday A Dem ‘Power Grab’
“Only Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans could manipulate something as benign and well intentioned as making Election Day a holiday into a vast left-…
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-power-grab-democrats-reaction_us_5c52aabee4b0ca92c6dd453b
Oh for fuck’s sake.
Trump: I’m ‘Entitled’ to Positive Coverage From The New York Times
Donald Trump has told The New York Times that he thinks he’s “entitled” to positive coverage from the newspaper because he’s from Queens.
Source: www.thedailybeast.com/trump-im-entitled-to-positive-coverage-from-the-new-york-times
Russia Is Attacking the U.S. System From Within
A new filing by Special Counsel Robert Mueller shows how Russia uses the federal courts to go after its adversaries.
Source: www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/new-mueller-filing-shows-how-russia-misuses-us-courts/581884/
‘Was it worth it?’ CNN host corners Louisiana Republican after GOP takes huge approval hit after shutdown
Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy found himself in the hot seat on Thursday as CNN’s Brooke Baldwin forced him to say whether President Donald Trump’s shutdown was “worth it”, after the president came away with nothing and the Republican party suffered a massive hit to its approval rating. Baldwin, noting the Republicans’ predicament, had one question for Kennedy: “was it worth it?” Kennedy, for his part, took a folksy tone, and tried to skirt the …
Source: www.rawstory.com/2019/01/worth-cnn-host-corners-louisiana-republican-gop-takes-huge-approval-hit-shutdown/
Revealed: FBI investigated civil rights group as ‘terrorism’ threat and viewed KKK as victims
Bureau spied on California activists, citing potential ‘conspiracy’ against the ‘rights’ of neo-Nazis
Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/01/sacramento-rally-fbi-kkk-domestic-terrorism-california
A Surprisingly Simple Solution to Fake News
Fake news is an old problem that has been given a fresh breath of air. Here are five things you should do to stop it affecting you.
Source: www.inc.com/david-amerland/a-surprisingly-simple-solution-to-fake-news.html
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a little bit of history in tax studies
Posted on Monday, January 28, 2019 at 12:00 pm by BEG
Man, those republicans REALLY don’t like anything that disagrees with them, do they?
If you are a Republican member of the United States Senate, you do everything in your power to suppress that report—particularly when it comes less than two months before a national election where your candidate is selling this very economic theory as the basis for his candidacy.
Initially released on September 14, 2012, the study—authored by Thomas Hungerford who is a specialist in public finance at the C.R.S.—correlated the historical fluctuations of the highest income tax rates and tax rates on capital gains dating back to World War II with the economic growth (or lack of the same) that followed.
The conclusion?
Lowering the tax rates on the wealthy and top earners in America do not appear to have any impact on the nation’s economic growth.
So, natch, THIS COULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO STAND!
Not surprisingly, the results of the study caught the attention of a great many conservatives—so much so that, according to a New York Times piece, Republican’s in the United States Senate successfully pressured the Congressional Research Service to withdraw the report shortly after it was released. The withdrawal came over the objection of the CRS economic team and the author of the study.
The Times further reports that, according to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s spokesperson, Senator McConnell—along with additional GOP senators— “raised concerns about the methodology and other flaws,” adding that additional people outside of Congress were also criticizing the study.
The nature of these alleged flaws?
That the report included terms such as “the Bush tax cuts” and references to “tax cuts for the rich.”
Democrats are pulling it back into the public arena.
On Thursday, Senate Democrats republished the study following a letter sent to the C.R.S. by the ranking Democratic tax expert in the House, Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI), which reads, in part—
“I was deeply disturbed to hear that Mr. Hungerford’s report was taken down in response to political pressure from Congressional Republicans who had ideological objections to the report’s factual findings and conclusion. It would be completely inappropriate for CRS to censor one of its analysts simply because participants in the political process found his or her conclusion in conflict with their partisan position. I would like your explanation as to why this report was removed from the CRS website, who made that decision and what considerations led to it.”
For almost 100 years, the Congressional Research Service has worked to assist Congress by providing well-researched and accurate data to be utilized in the creation of important public policy. It has done so when Congress was controlled by Democrats and when Congress has been under the control of Republicans. No matter what party was in charge, the C.R.S. has always endeavored to keep politics out of their work in the effort to provide data that would inform and advance our public policy.
Non-Partisan Congressional Tax Report Debunks Core Conservative Economic Theory-GOP Suppresses Study
What do you do when the Congressional Research Service, the completely non-partisan arm of the Library of Congress that has been advising Congress—and only Congress—on matters of policy and law for nearly a century, […]
Source: www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/11/02/non-partisan-congressional-tax-report-debunks-core-conservative-economic-theory-gop-suppresses-study/
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Authoritarianism: Jan 20–26
Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 8:00 am by BEG
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.–Issac Asimov
The third annual Women’s March was yesterday (1/19/2019). A snapshot…
Women’s March 2019: Live updates
Thousands of women are expected to rally in cities across the US for the third year of Women’s Marches. Follow here for the latest
Source: www.cnn.com/us/live-news/womens-march-2019/index.html
All the best signs from Women’s March events around the world
“I USED TO LIKE CHEETOS.”
Source: mashable.com/article/best-signs-womens-march-2019/
In pictures: Women march across the country
Women across the country are marching on Saturday, February 19.
Source: www.cnn.com/2019/01/19/us/gallery/womens-march-2019/index.html
Thousands turn out for Women’s March across the country
Thousands turn out for Women’s March in downtown Los Angeles
Source: www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-los-angeles-womens-march-20190120-story.html
Thousands flood San Diego streets for Women’s March
Waterfront Park in downtown San Diego played host to thousands of people demonstrating in the third annual Women’s March, which also took place in dozens of other cities across the country Saturday.
Source: fox5sandiego.com/2019/01/19/third-annual-womens-march-planned-in-san-diego-across-u-s/
This is the largest Democrat freshman class we have had in decades. Look to these people to see where the House will be heading. I find it fascinating and highly encouraging, especially given the diversity of these people.
But these freshmen are determined to deliver on campaign promises that broadly unite them in calling for improving the lives of working-class Americans by increasing access to affordable health care and good-paying jobs. Sworn in to the first Congress to convene amid a government shutdown, the members instead have encountered a capital where the dysfunction they campaigned against is deeper than many of them foresaw and where every other issue is secondary to resolving a crisis they had no role in creating.
The partial government shutdown that’s forced 800,000 federal workers to go without pay since Dec. 22 is impacting many of their constituents and impeding their desire to move forward on their campaign promises. Impatient, and in some cases nervous and uncertain about how to proceed, many of the freshmen concluded quickly that they could not stand by to wait and watch to see if Trump, Pelosi, McConnell and other leaders could find their way out of the impasse.
Instead they’ve acted, including with the impromptu visits to McConnell’s offices led by Neguse, Rep. Katie Hill (D-Calif.), Ocasio-Cortez and others, which have been broadcast widely on social media, heightening focus on the shutdown among the grass-root activists who sent these lawmakers to Congress.
“I think one thing that a lot of members, especially members like Majority Leader McConnell are not prepared for, is the fact that 70 percent of our class are non-career politicians. We’re activists. We’re front line community leaders. We’re small-business owners, nurses, teachers,” Ocasio-Cortez said as she, Hill and others stood outside one of McConnell’s offices this week. “And we’re not going to operate in Washington the way that they have been.”
As shutdown drags on, Democrats’ massive class of newcomers makes its mark
Democratic freshmen are turning to the activist tactics they used in their campaigns to make their mark amid the shutdown.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/as-shutdown-drags-on-democrats-massive-class-of-newcomers-makes-its-mark/2019/01/19/c34800d8-1a89-11e9-8813-cb9dec761e73_story.html
On Saturday, signs of movement appeared but the two sides remained far apart on the central issues.
Trump proposed that Congress fund a wall in exchange for a three-year reprieve from deportation for the so-called Dreamers, immigrants who entered the country illegally as children. Pelosi called that “a nonstarter.”
Instead, she plans to pass a package of House bills that would reopen shuttered government agencies and increase spending on border security — without a wall.
Both proposals appeared intended to allow each party to claim that it’s working toward a solution, another front in the battle for public sentiment.
Pelosi’s real goal is to establish a new balance of power for the next two years — reflecting her fourth precept: “Congress is a co-equal branch of government.”
Nancy Pelosi is winning in her battle with Trump. Here’s why
This is the showdown Nancy Pelosi has been planning for, preparing for, even yearning for since President Trump was inaugurated two years ago. Trump is learning a lesson many others have learned the hard way: Pelosi may be a San Francisco progressive but there’s nothing soft about her in a fight.
Source: www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-mcmanus-column-pelosi-20190120-story.html
This is quite true. That’s why the only resolution to this shutdown is for Congress to ovary up and pass a clean funding bill with a vetoproof majority.
The white Evangelicals’ name has been permanently shattered (let it rot in the lexicon alongside swastika, etc), but this is still good news if they abandon Трамп. Won’t save their black, rotten, hateful souls but we’d be rid of Трамп the faster.
Unperturbed by Trump’s history as a liar, serial philanderer and casino operator, the religious right has chosen instead to see in Trump the man who is going to deliver on their dreams, especially the anti-LGBTQ ones.
From Stormy Daniels through the Russian investigation, Trump could always count on his evangelicals supporters to give him, in hate group leader Tony Perkins’ words, a “mulligan” for his actions.
But if a recent poll is any indication, Trump may be running out of mulligans.
According to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll, Trump is beginning to see evangelicals start to turn against him. The survey results, based on more than 1,000 responses from voters earlier this month, shows a significant erosion of support from conservative Christians from just the month before. Trump’s positive/negative ratings shifted 13 points, from 73-to-17 percent approve to 66-to-23 percent approve.
It’s worth remembering we only have Трамп because of the way the GOP fucks around with the electorate.
The problem for Trump is that he doesn’t have any margin for error in his re-election effort. He won in 2016 thanks to 80,000 people in three swing states, even though he lost the popular vote by 3 million. With such tight margins, he can’t afford to lose any of his supporters, especially since Democrats are chomping at the bit to vote against him.
Trump is starting to lose his evangelical base when he needs them most
A new poll shows Trump is starting to lose support among conservative white evangelicals, jeopardizing his re-election chances.
Source: www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/01/trump-starting-lose-evangelical-base-needs/
Oh, yeah.
First, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III does his job methodically, secretly and effectively, wrapping up one witness after another.
Second, Trump’s play-to-the-base strategy was a blunder with enormous ramifications.
Third, in the midst of a scandal, most presidents can fall back on their role as commander in chief and architect of U.S. foreign policy to sustain their aura of power. Trump’s foreign policy, aside from the taint from his subservience to Russia, is characterized as chaotic, frightening and entirely ineffective.
Fourth, Trump’s narcissism, incompetence and rotten judgment have led him to force out any adviser with a modicum of common sense, experience and influence.
Finally, a primary challenge to Trump was once unthinkable. However strongly Republicans cling to Trump in the face of Democratic attacks and harsh media coverage, Republicans are increasingly open to a primary challenge.
Opinion | Five reasons Trump may be a one-termer
The shrinking possibility of a second Trump term.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/20/five-reasons-trump-may-be-one-termer/
I’m torn between “Thank God this lump of shit doesn’t destroy more by being on the ball,” and “What an utter piece of shit, he can’t even do the job he ran for.” Then I just return to head-desking.
“Low energy”: Trump works less than most Americans
In a Special Report, MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent, Ari Melber, examines Trump’s first two years in office and a scandal hiding in plain sight: mounting evidence that there are stretches of time when Trump avoids doing most of the work of the Presidency. Melber breaks down how Trump has demonstrated a “new low” in Presidential work ethic, coming into the office late, play golf frequently, spending “Executive Time” watching TV and making personal calls and failing to make many key Government appointments in the State, Defense and other departments.
Source: www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/-low-energy-trump-works-less-than-most-americans-1429581379748
LORDY THERE ARE TAPES
(Link to article quoted in above tweet: “Even If He Did Do It, It Wouldn’t Be a Crime”: Rudy Giuliani on President Trump)
Welcome to shutdown day 32…
Quick rundown on past shutdowns:
Here’s how previous government shutdowns ended under Trump, Clinton, Obama
How will the government shut down end? We don’t know yet, but here’s what happened with previous government shutdown under the Trump, Clinton and Obama administrations.
Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversation/sd-how-government-shutdown-could-end-20190110-htmlstory.html
This is deeply concerning.. Because, this is effectively how culture reinforces DV, coercion of women and children, and really, rape culture as a whole, through these lowkey attributes wherein the perp can throw up his hands and say “hey, I didn’t touch her” and in so doing, misses the entire point. You’d think this was chump change and yet… and yet it’s important enough for the WH to change this from the very top (which conversely, underscores how important it is).
The previous definition included critical components of the phenomenon that experts recognize as domestic abuse—a pattern of deliberate behavior, the dynamics of power and control, and behaviors that encompass physical or sexual violence as well as forms of emotional, economic, or psychological abuse. But in the Trump Justice Department, only harms that constitute a felony or misdemeanor crime may be called domestic violence. So, for example, a woman whose partner isolates her from her family and friends, monitors her every move, belittles and berates her, or denies her access to money to support herself and her children is not a victim of domestic violence in the eyes of Trump’s Department of Justice. This makes no sense for an office charged with funding and implementing solutions to the problem of domestic violence rather than merely prosecuting individual abusers.
The Trump Administration Quietly Changed the Definition of Domestic Violence and We Have No Idea What For
It is too early to assess the full impact of the change.
Source: slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/trump-domestic-violence-definition-change.html
“Art of the Deal,” eh?
Trump is offering a three-year extension for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as kids. The offer would also give a three-year extension to 300,000 people from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Honduras who are living in the U.S. under the temporary protected status program.
Democrats rejected the offer before Trump even announced it on Saturday, however, maintaining that it didn’t go nearly far enough and that the president ought to reopen the government before any negotiations over the border proceed.
But the GOP bill incorporating his offer would also gut existing asylum laws for children and trafficking victims from Central America, ban asylum for minors who present themselves at ports of entry, gut the concept of temporary protected status for future cases and expand immigration detention ― all measures making it more likely to be dead on arrival in the Senate.
“Given the poison pills stuffed into a proposal that was supposed to entice Democrats we can now say the Trump ‘offer’ isn’t about getting to a deal but about shifting blame. So obvious. So predictable. So pathetic,” Frank Sharry, the executive director of the immigration advocacy group America’s Voice, tweeted on Tuesday.
The bill would ban asylum for Central American minors, including those who arrive at the border with their parents, unless the minors apply for asylum in their home country. It would also cap the number of Central American minors who are allowed to apply for asylum each year at 50,000 and limit the number of asylum applications that could be granted per year to 15,000.
Trump’s ‘Compromise’ Immigration Offer To Democrats Includes Major Changes Restricting Asylum Law
The proposal would gut asylum laws for Central American minors — which critics are calling a poison pill.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/government-shutdown-trump-asylum-offer_us_5c472b5ce4b0bfa693c75e0e
Meanwhile in the House.
In a bipartisan 357-22 vote, the Democrat-led lower chamber sent the Senate the NATO Support Act, which would prohibit the use of federal funds to withdraw from the 70-year-old alliance.
Beyond asserting Congress’ power of the purse, it affirms support for NATO and its mutual defense clause, for the goal of each member nation to spend at least 2 percent of its gross domestic product on defense by 2024, for Montenegro’s accession and for “robust” U.S. funding for the European Deterrence Initiative, among other provisions
US House votes overwhelmingly to bar US exit from NATO
The US House passed legislation meant to bar President Donald Trump from pulling the US out of NATO.
Source: www.defensenews.com/congress/2019/01/23/us-house-votes-overwhelmingly-to-bar-us-exit-from-nato/
<grin> Looks like @AOC is also teaching a number of fellow Dems… look at who else participated in #WheresMitch…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Torches Trump For Shutdown In First House Floor Speech
“The truth is, this shutdown is about the erosion of American democracy and the subversion of our most basic governmental norms,” the freshman lawmaker s…
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wheres-mitch-twitter-shutdown_us_5c404e8be4b0a8dbe16dd3e1
Note: quote is unverified and I haven’t been able to locate where she might have said this. Her twitter feed, however, is completely consistent with such a sentiment. If you find a source for this, please feel free to comment! Rep Pramila Jayapal (D-WA): @RepJayapal
This is delightful. YouTube video is captioned
This is a pretty interesting read.
The Unbelievable Story Of The Plot Against George Soros
The glass tower that houses George Soros’s office in Manhattan is overflowing with numbers on screens, tracking and predicting the directions of markets around the world. But there’s one that’s particularly hard to figure out — a basic orange chart on a screen analyzing sentiment on social media.
Source: www.defensenews.com/congress/2019/01/23/us-house-votes-overwhelmingly-to-bar-us-exit-from-nato/ The Unbelievable Story Of The Plot Against George Soros
How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory
Witness tampering by POTUS o.O
More here:
Michael Cohen Postpones Congressional Testimony Due to ‘Threats’
Michael Cohen, the former attorney for President Donald Trump, now cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller, is postponing his planned February 7th testimony next month to Congress.The reason: threats from President Trump and attorney Rudy Giuliani, according to…
Source: www.newsmax.com/newsfront/michael-cohen-postpones-testimony-threats/2019/01/23/id/899475/
Text of Alyssa Milano’s @Alyssa_Milano tweet:
If Trump’s shutdown continues, SNAP, could run out of funding—leaving 42 million Americans without access to food. That’s like cutting off the food supply to the entire state of New York. And Ohio. And Michigan. /via @TalkPoverty
Text of reply tweet from Hamberder Helper @ChildPleez007
Y’all know this is what Kim Jong Un does to get his people to submit to him. He starves them.
Unsurprising. Also, GOP base, what the fuck is wrong with you? He’s not even doing what you wanted.
A strong majority of Americans blame President Donald Trump for the government shutdown and reject his primary rationale for a border wall. That’s according to a new poll that shows the turmoil in Washington is dragging his approval rating to its lowest level in more than a year.
The poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 34 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s job performance, down from 42 percent in December.
Trump’s approval among Republicans remains high, but his standing with independents is among its lowest points of his presidency.
AP-NORC poll: Shutdown drags Trump approval to yearlong low
AP-NORC poll: Shutdown drags Trump approval to lowest mark in year as Americans reject rationale for wall.
Source: www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article224974825.html
Round 1: Pelosi
Next step: END THE SHUT DOWN
not that I want to hear this 💩 for 🧠 speak…
I am curious about the next step. National strike by airline workers?
I’m guessing the Red Square was nixed?
Trump Bends to Pelosi’s Will, Accepts Postponement of SOTU
In the end to a dramatic day of symbolic assertions of power and mastery between President Donald Trump and Speaker…
Source: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-bends-to-pelosis-will-accepts-postponement-of-sotu
Shit president, shit GOP like shit.
In the two decades before President Trump took office, EPA civil fines averaged more than $500 million a year, when adjusted for inflation. Last year’s $72 million in fines was 85 percent below that amount, according to the agency’s Enforcement and Compliance History Online database.
Cynthia Giles, who headed EPA’s enforcement office in the Obama administration and conducted the analysis, said the inflation-adjusted figures represent the lowest since the agency’s enforcement office was established.
The decline in civil penalties could undermine EPA’s ability to deter wrongdoing, some former agency officials said, because they help ensure it is more expensive to violate the law than to comply with it. But Trump administration officials have said they are focusing much of their effort on working with companies ahead of time so that they don’t run afoul of the law, rather than punishing them after the fact. That approach, they say, will ensure business operations can thrive without harming the environment.
Giles, now a guest fellow at the Harvard Environmental and Energy Law Program, questioned whether the new approach can achieve what administration officials promise.
“The public expects EPA to protect them from the worst polluters,” she said. “The Trump EPA is not doing that. What worries me is how industry will respond to EPA’s abandonment of tough enforcement.”
Civil penalties for polluters dropped dramatically in Trump’s first two years, analysis shows
Top official says the more EPA can bring companies into compliance with laws, “the fewer enforcement actions we need to take.”
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/civil-penalties-for-polluters-dropped-dramatically-in-trumps-first-two-years-analysis-shows/2019/01/24/7384d168-1a82-11e9-88fe-f9f77a3bcb6c_story.html
History repeats itself. Does anyone hear metal edges being sharpened?
Exactly as Justice Ginsberg predicted.
No tradition,” Ginsburg noted, “and no prior decision under RFRA, allows a religion-based exemption when the accommodation would be harmful to others.” Through Hobby Lobby, the court had transformed RFRA from a shield into a sword, creating a license to discriminate with no clear limitations.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration proved Ginsburg right. In a decision of startling breadth, the Department of Health and Human Services declared that, under RFRA, a federally funded foster care agency in South Carolina has a right to discriminate against non-Christians, closing its doors to would-be parents of different faiths. As Ginsburg predicted, the administration’s interpretation of the law has no limiting principle: It all but announced that taxpayer-funded adoption and foster care agencies may now engage in flagrant discrimination without consequence, so long as they state a religious rationale for their actions. The grim future that Ginsburg foresaw in Hobby Lobby has arrived.
The Trump Administration Will Let Adoption Agencies Turn Away Jews and Same-Sex Couples. Thank SCOTUS.
The grim future that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg foresaw in the Hobby Lobby case has arrived.
Source: slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/trump-adoption-same-sex-couples-jews-miracle-mill.html
Dissension in the ranks? I’m frankly shocked the Senate has done NOTHING, no votes, nothing at all, all this time. Ugh. I’m hoping McConnell’s run for power blows up in his face. This looks to be lose-lose for him.
The argument was one of several heated moments in a lunch that came just before the Senate voted on the opposing plans to end the shutdown offered by President Trump and Democrats.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell leaves the Capitol Building for the day after two Senate bills to end the partial government shutdown failed. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
The outbursts highlighted the toll the shutdown has taken on Republican lawmakers, who are dealing with growing concerns from constituents and blame from Democrats, all while facing pressure from conservatives to stand with Trump in his demand for money to build a wall on the border with Mexico.
The votes the Senate cast on Thursday were the first on the shutdown since it began Dec. 22, with McConnell and other GOP lawmakers previously refusing to vote on anything this year unless it had Trump’s approval — a policy that has drawn widespread criticism.
The day ended with some limited signs of progress. After the votes, McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) engaged in a face-to-face negotiation that senators hoped would lead to a solution in the near future.
‘This is your fault’: GOP senators clash over shutdown inside private luncheon
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) walks out of the Senate chamber after holding two votes on the shutdown that failed to pass on Thursday. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post)
Sen. Ron Johnson lashed out at Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who snapped back, “Are you suggesting I’m enjoying this?”
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/this-is-your-fault-gop-senators-clash-over-shutdown-inside-private-luncheon/2019/01/24/cde0ca22-2045-11e9-8b59-0a28f2191131_story.html
Not captioned but I gather this speech is lit. C-SPAN usually has captions, maybe they will appear later. But the rest of you enjoy, since Cruz clearly didn’t 🙂
The gist of it can be found here:
Who is Michael Bennet? Colorado senator’s impassioned government shutdown speech goes viral
“These crocodile tears that the senator from Texas is crying over first responders is hard to take,” said Democratic Colorado Senator Michael Bennet.
Source: www.newsweek.com/michael-bennet-colorado-senator-speech-government-shutdown-ted-cruz-1304786
What a pack of greedy, incompetent criminals. Hm, “Individual 1 of Organization 1″… I like it.
The indictment unsealed Friday after Stone’s arrest makes clear he communicated with multiple people about what Assange knew, and they were providing him updates from Assange and what Stone wanted to communicate with him. Prosecutors cite text messages and emails he exchanged with the people about what Assange had, and one sent a photo of himself standing outside the Ecaudorian embassy in London, where Assange has stayed for years.
Mueller indicts Roger Stone, says he was coordinating with Trump officials about WikiLeaks’ stolen emails
Roger Stone has been indicted by a grand jury on charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller, who alleges that the longtime Donald Trump associate sought stolen emails from WikiLeaks that could damage Trump’s opponents while in coordination with senior Trump campaign officials.
Source: www.cnn.com/2019/01/25/politics/roger-stone-arrested/index.html
I want them to get their back pay plus interest, of course, but hell, I’d happily volunteer to do this one!
And now here comes the pressure. Personally I think the National Air Traffic Controllers Association should negotiate for guaranteed salaries, independent of any shutdown and other inducements to re-establish a thriving set of employees. Safe and smoothly running air travel is crucial to the U.S.
Significant flight delays were rippling across the Northeast on Friday because of a shortage of air traffic controllers as a result of the government shutdown, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The agency said it was slowing traffic in and out of the airports because of staffing problems at facilities in Washington and Jacksonville, Fla.
The delays were cascading along the Eastern Seaboard, reaching as far north as Boston. But La Guardia was the only airport closed off to arriving flights from other cities because it was so crowded with planes taking off and landing on a weekday morning.
Airport Delays Ripple Across Northeast Due to Air Traffic Controller Shortage
The stoppage of flights to a main airport serving the New York City area comes as federal workers miss a second paycheck as a result of the government shutdown.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/nyregion/lga-flights-government-shutdown.html
Here’s another pressure point though truth be told, it’s a balance between the government that does need this money, those that want to drown the government in a bathtub, and those (wealthy enough to bring big sticks to this) who don’t want to pay taxes.
At least 14,000 unpaid IRS workers did not show up for work as broad shutdown disruption hits tax agency, according to House aides
FILE PHOTO: A security camera hangs near a corner of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington May 27, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
The absences pose a challenge for the Trump administration hoping to get through tax filing season during the government shutdown.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/25/least-unpaid-irs-workers-did-not-show-up-work-broad-shutdown-disruption-hits-tax-agency-according-house-aides/
Here we go. You know I know that flight attendants are not all women, but it’s interesting the scope of pushback coming from women against the Трамп admin. And what do you think of when you see ‘flight attendant’?
Flight Attendants Are ‘Mobilizing Immediately’ Over Shutdown, Union Says
Sara Nelson speaks during a press conference on aviation safety at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on January 24, 2019. Photo: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images
Source: nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/flight-attendants-are-mobilizing-immediately-union-says.html
Interesting message from Christopher Wray, FBI director. (Captioned)
https://archives.fbi.gov/FBI-Director-Shutdown-Message-192418.mp4
[Raw mp4 file for download/view: https://archives.fbi.gov/FBI-Director-Shutdown-Message-192418.mp4]
I hope so. I have little love for Congress but in part that’s because of the craven way it’s ceded so much of its authority to the Executive Office over the last 25 years or so.
Perspective | The State of the Union shifts power to the president. Pelosi took it back.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks to reporters on Thursday about the State of the Union speech. (Leah Millis/Reuters)
The shutdown upended the “bully pulpit” that Trump’s predecessors have used.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-state-of-the-union-shifts-power-to-the-president-pelosi-took-it-back/2019/01/25/855415ae-2025-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html
Okay, the shutdown is apparently over (for now? trying to find out if this is the 3 week CR or what; Трамп’s batshit rambling isn’t helping here).
The stopgap funding measure that Trump endorsed on Friday would fund the government through February 15, but does not include any new funding for Trump’s promised border wall.
Will be interesting to see what happens. Трамп threatened another shutdown or invocation of “emergency powers” in February if he doesn’t get his way then. I do not think the public will react well if there’s another shutdown mid-Feb. I am also curious as to whether McConnell’s selfish and callous machinations pay off for him or not. That motherfucker better be run out of Kentucky in 2020. Also: Good god, is Coulter ever a hateful little gormless fuckwit: Coulter blasts Trump over shutdown deal: ‘Biggest wimp ever to serve as president’
Trump to temporarily end shutdown — without wall funding
President Donald Trump said Friday he’s reached a deal to temporarily reopen the federal government after a month-long shutdown, an agreement that won’t include new funding for a border wall despite weeks of the President’s once-ironclad demands.
Source: www.cnn.com/2019/01/25/politics/donald-trump-shutdown-border/index.html
For 35 days, President Trump has robbed hundreds of thousands of American families of their paychecks, forcing dedicated public servants to turn to foodbanks and unemployment benefits to feed and support their families. For 35 days, President Trump denied millions of taxpaying Americans access to public services. For 35 days, President Trump has inflicted pain on the American people and compromised our national security.
And for what? All of this pain and suffering to end where we began. On December 19, the Senate passed a bill by voice vote to fund the government to February 8 – nearly what the President has proposed today – only for President Trump to break his word and precipitate this national crisis.
The Trump Shutdown should have never happened, and it should have never dragged on for 35 days. I hope that the President has learned that Congress is a coequal branch of government, and the American people are not pawns to be played with in his political games.
I look forward to continuing my bipartisan work with Chairman Shelby to make responsible investments in the American people and border security, and I pray that President Trump does not repeat this national embarrassment again. Let us promptly vote to reopen the government and end this national nightmare.
Reaction To President Trump Proposing A Three-Week Continuing Resolution And Finally Agreeing To Demands To Reopen The Government | U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont
Senator Patrick Leahy D-VT
The official U.S. Senate website of Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont
Source: www.leahy.senate.gov/press/reaction-to-president-trump-proposing-a-three-week-continuing-resolution-and-finally-agreeing-to-demands-to-reopen-the-government
Post-ABC poll: Trump disapproval swells as president, Republicans face lopsided blame for shutdown
President Trump speaks about tariffs on Jan. 24 in the Cabinet Room of the White House. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
The findings in a new Washington Post-ABC News survey illustrate the political damage the president and his party have suffered in the fight for partial border wall funding.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-majority-of-americans-hold-trump-and-republicans-responsible-for-shutdown/2019/01/25/e7a2e7b8-20b0-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html
This. I’d quote the entire damn thing but copyright infringement. Just go read.
2 winners and 3 losers in the deal to end the government shutdown
Air traffic controllers’ role in American political history comes full circle.
Source: www.vox.com/2019/1/25/18197668/government-shutdown-deal-winners-losers
Trump Caves, Agrees to Re-Open Government Without Wall Funding
The House approves a Senate-passed three-week continuing resolution to re-open government through February 15 by unanimous consent. The bill now heads to White House. (transcript included)
House and Senate pass bill to reopen government, sending it to Trump for his signature they can move fast when they want to!
The Pelosi Method: As Trump prepared to cave on the shutdown, Pelosi revealed how she stands up to an obstinate president.
After weeks of chaos, the thousands of air traffic controllers and baggage screeners who have been working without pay for the last month will return to a normal pay schedule. But though an immediate crisis was averted — cascading flight delays appear to have forced Friday’s resolution — the shutdown could convince these federal employees to quit in numbers that would be difficult to replace quickly.
The impact could be particularly acute for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers whose credit took a hit while they were working without pay. They risk losing eligibility for security clearances; debt and poor credit can be disqualifying based on the belief workers with financial troubles are vulnerable to bribery.
With the tax filing season due to begin on Monday, tax preparers are hoping the IRS will quickly restore its online services, including access to taxpayer data, and ensure that workers are on the job to respond to taxpayer inquiries. Still, the effects of the shutdown are likely to ripple throughout the season, as the agency deals with backlogs.
Recovery from shutdown will be long and difficult
It won’t happen overnight.
Source: www.politico.com/story/2019/01/25/studown-recovery-long-back-pay-1117804
They did what, now? /laughs helplessly for several minutes
They wasted this time and effort on a chump who just blew most of what political capital he had that same day?
The Republican National Committee unanimously voted Friday to offer the GOP’s “undivided support for President Donald J. Trump and his effective Presidency.”
Members passed the largely symbolic resolution during the RNC’s regular winter meeting near Albuquerque, New Mexico, affirming their support for Mr. Trump two years into his administration.
OK, granted they killed a more binding proposal. But that it even existed, that they still endorsed this orange embarrassment, however symbolically…well.
RNC unanimously pledges ‘undivided support’ for Trump, stops short of explicit 2020 endorsement
Source: www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/26/rnc-vote-unanimous-support-trump-no-endorse-2020/
Trump and His Associates Had More Than 100 Contacts With Russians Before the Inauguration
Donald J. Trump and at least 17 of his associates repeatedly had interactions with Russian nationals and WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential campaign and transition.
Source: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/26/us/politics/trump-contacts-russians-wikileaks.html
Reopening the government for three weeks may seem like a temporary solution, but Republicans now know that they’ll be the ones in the barrel if they shut down the government again. Speaker Pelosi holds all the cards in the upcoming negotiation.
Sure, Trump began his statement in the White House on Friday by suggesting he could declare a state of emergency to fund his wall, but the legality of that option is, at best, dubious. And it is significant that he has not yet done so.
This is why Republicans were so desperate to keep Nancy Pelosi from becoming speaker again
Trump caves.
Source: thinkprogress.org/trump-caves-shutdown-reopens-government-speaker-nancy-pelosi-effective-5e247a05034a/
Former CIA director: Robert Mueller will indict a lot of “familiar” names in the next 60 days
The special counsel’s probe could hit the very top of the Trump campaign, said former CIA Director John Brennan.
Source: www.newsweek.com/roger-stone-robert-mueller-john-brennan-russia-probe-russia-investigation-1305134
Totally prescient: “Published 3:15 a.m. ET Aug. 29, 2017“
Why has Trump’s comfort for white supremacists provoked bipartisan recriminations while North Carolina’s GOP’s effort to deny black Americans the vote did not? Why are conservatives silent about reports that the Indiana GOP has limited early voting in urban areas while letting it flourish in suburban communities?
Perhaps Republicans know they get away with policies that enforce white supremacy through voting restrictions and mass incarceration, but to do this, they must reject public displays of bigotry. This unstated compromise is the heart of a strategy that has helped the party accumulate more political power than at any time since the Great Depression.
Trump could blow lid off GOP’s well-mannered white supremacy
Republicans know they can get away with voting and incarceration policies that enforce white supremacy, as long as they reject public bigotry.
Source: www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/08/29/trump-blow-lid-off-polite-gop-white-supremacy-jason-sattler-column/607732001/
There is no part of this that isn’t utterly reprehensible, and the Thomases should be run out of D.C. in disgrace and impeachment.
President Trump met last week with a delegation of hard-right activists led by Ginni Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, listening quietly as members of the group denounced transgender people and women serving in the military, according to three people with direct knowledge of the events.
For 60 minutes Mr. Trump sat, saying little but appearing taken aback, the three people said, as the group also accused White House aides of blocking Trump supporters from getting jobs in the administration.
It is unusual for the spouse of a sitting Supreme Court justice to have such a meeting with a president, and some close to Mr. Trump said it was inappropriate for Ms. Thomas to have asked to meet with the head of a different branch of government.
A vocal conservative, Ms. Thomas has long been close to what had been the Republican Party’s fringes, and extremely outspoken against Democrats. Her activism has raised concerns of conflicts of interest for her husband, who is perhaps the most conservative member of the Supreme Court.
Trump Meets With Hard-Right Group Led by Ginni Thomas
At the meeting, which was unusual for the spouse of a Supreme Court justice and a president, the activists denounced women serving in the military and questioned the administrationâs hiring.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/us/politics/trump-ginni-thomas-meeting.html
A Bruised Trump Faces Uncertain 2020 Prospects. His Team Fears a Primary Fight.
With his approval rating sinking, and foes within the party wooing potential Republican challengers, aides to the president are working to shore up his support.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/us/politics/trump-rnc-2020.html
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undermining our foundations
Posted on Friday, January 25, 2019 at 6:31 am by BEG
A predatory attitude has come to rule us, an exploitative and abusive way of life that’s normalized, celebrated, and pursued, thanks to the ascendance of neoliberalism and capitalism, in which as long as I profit, everything else can go, quite literally, to hell. Perhaps even by you and I — we are only human, after all. Yet if we understand all that, then the solution — such as there is — also becomes a little clearer.
Our challenge now, in this new century, is this. Nourishing, replenishing, nurturing, renewing, endowing. What? Everything that we can. Everything from basic incomes to to trees to insects to glaciers to hospitals to schools to retirement to mountains and forests. Do you see how the theme of nourishment and replenishment is what flows through all our challenges, like a great laughing river, renewing a parched, weeping ocean?
To do that, we will have to create whole new systems of thought — reinvent stale, dead, foolish disciplines like economics, slightly less dead ones, like psychology. We will have to reimagine the kind of organizations that we make — will “corporations” and “banks” as we know them be capable of replenishing and nourishing a depleted, ravaged world — or do we have to reinvent those, first? We will have to alter the nature of “work” — so far, it basically means “how good you are at exploiting something or someone” — but it must come to mean “how good you are at nourishing and renewing something or someone.” And then we will have to change our social norms and values — and the attitudes they reflect — so that we prize and celebrate and reward the act of nourishment, not just more ruthless, violent predation.
The Age of Collapse
and what to do about it
by umair haque
Why Everything’s Collapsing, and What to Do About It
Source: eand.co/the-age-of-collapse-e606bfc1b46d
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the face of white privilege starts here
Posted on Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 8:27 pm by BEG
(Updated to include interview of Phillips, the Native American being harassed.)
The strangest thing is that fotohgirl@twitter circulated this picture and I honest to god thought it was part of that 10/20 year challenge thing, having missed the context in which it was posted.
But in a larger sense that photo above is 100% true because this thing of entitled, privileged, arrogant white boys being taught that they will always win out, no matter what has been true in this country for many, many decades. From the article below:
The face is in this photo of a clutch of white young men crowding around a single black man at a lunch counter sit-in in Virginia in the 1960s, and in many other images of jeering white men from that era. The face is the rows of Wisconsin high school boys flashing Nazi salutes in a prom picture last year. The face is Brett Kavanaugh—then a student at an all-boys Catholic prep school—“drunkenly laughing” as he allegedly held down Christine Blasey Ford. Anyone who knew the popular white boys in high school recognized it: the confident gaze, the eyes twinkling with menace, the smirk. The face of a boy who is not as smart as he thinks he is, but is exactly as powerful. The face that sneers, “What? I’m just standing here,” if you flinch or cry or lash out. The face knows that no matter how you react, it wins.
The Face of the Teenager Who Harassed a Native American Veteran Is All Too Familiar
Source: slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/maga-teenager-native-american-veteran-harassment-smile.amp
An interview with Nathan Phillips on the #MAGAYouth incident – IndianCountryToday.com
Vincent Schilling: What were your thoughts regarding the disrespect being shown by the youth?
Nathan Phillips: We’re indigenous. We’re different than that. When we see our youth going the wrong way, we will go up and say, “You are doing the wrong thing there nephew, or grandson. This is just the wrong way. I tell them, “This is the way you have to behave. This wrong, this is right.”
You gotta do it a certain way. We have protocols.
Vincent Schilling: In Native culture, the things we’re taught more than anything else is being respectful to our elders and to see you disrespected in that way hurt my heart more than I could explain
Nathan Phillips: I’m angry with those instructors, the chaperones and tutors whose children’s lives were in their hands. That was their job, that wasn’t my job to do.
No, but then again, we are Indigenous and it is my job and from an Indigenous point of view.
But they were getting paid to take care of those children to act and for them to be allowed to behave that way. Is it in my mind, is a fireable offense. They’ve aligned those children to take the wrong path and they have a bright future to live. You know, if that was my child, I would not be happy with the school officials right now to allow my child to behave that way. I don’t care if my child is that way. When he’s out in public, he’d better behave.
“I see a bright, beautiful future if we want it … it’s there for us. It’s ours to pass on to the next generation.”
Source: newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/news/an-interview-with-nathan-phillips-on-the-magayouth-incident-7wUkJHLjtUa2-k2Fx14MvQ/
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best time travel fic…
You HAVE to read this…
Wikihistory
Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel
Source: www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/
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Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
By the way, I strongly encourage you to browse this site. Lots of good stuff here:
Recommended reading for understanding our current constitutional crisis and slide into oligarchy. – Russia Investigation Summary
These are my top recommendations, followed by links to my twitter threads highlighting key points from the books. Click on the book for the Amazon description. … Continue reading “Recommended reading for understanding our current constitutional crisis and slide into oligarchy.”
Source: russia-investigation-summary.com/recommended-reading-for-understanding-our-current-constitutional-crisis-and-slide-into-oligarchy/
Nails it. This is exactly what’s happening, what the GOP has done all along since the 2016 elections, really. Gut all the programs they hate. Look very carefully at which programs they are going to raid to fund the wall without Congressional purse strings.
Note that this article was written in April 28, 2017 and it is as true of this shutdown as of that one.
If the last “shutdown” is any guide, the military, Trump’s luxurious vacations, soft power, our bombing of seven Muslim-majority countries, NSA bulk surveillance, agencies that prop up the oil and gas industry, the CIA’s arming and funding of Syrian rebels, and the FBI’s entrapment regime will remain entirely untouched. The parts of government that serve the poor and working class, however, will be first on the chopping block: libraries, tax collection, national parks, labor and safety regulators, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (which oversees the derivatives market), environmental regulators, financial regulators, welfare, and WIC will all be axed. Indeed, the one time the government got remotely close to undermining, even briefly, a pillar of the right-wing state, the powers that be arbitrarily decided to leave the Defense Department virtually untouched.
So what’s happening on this round? Well Steve Miller keeps pushing for an emergency declaration (so you know that’s going to be bad). There’s a lot of talk of raiding other government programs such as the Army Corps civil service (which got shut down pretty quick), of potentially diverting aid to Puerto Rico (which would be criminal). GOP politicians finally seem to be somewhat nervous of these possibilities (mostly because they are afraid Democrats would use it to justify emergency action on climate change–can I roll my eyes any harder?).
Anyway, I think this is something to keep in mind:
As we build toward another choreographed, deliberate starvation of liberal government by the GOP, the media should think critically about finding other words for what’s taking place. A more precise term would be to call it a “soft right-wing coup” or simply a “right-wing coup.” If that seems too loaded, “Republican government starvation” or “attacks on liberal programs” would suffice. All of these terms are, by their very nature, fraught with subjective input, but so is “government shutdown”—a label that necessarily creates a tiered system of “essential” and “nonessential” functions based on the reactionary principle that “property” is an axiomatic good.
Other sources: Trump touts shutdown plan, but advisers say ‘no one knows what he will do’
It’s Not a Government Shutdown. It’s a Right-Wing Coup.
Programs designed to help the vulnerable are gutted, while institutions designed to serve the rich and powerful remain unscathed.
Source: www.thenation.com/article/its-not-a-government-shutdown-its-a-right-wing-coup/
Anyway, a quick roundup of shutdown links shows that Трамп isn’t fooling anyone by trying to blame the Dems, and shows whom the shutdown is affecting.
CNN Poll: Trump bears most blame for shutdown
Americans blame Trump and GOP much more than Democrats for shutdown, Post-ABC poll finds
Shutdown puts strain on hundreds of Native American tribes
Sen. Mark Warner Goes Off on Trump’s ‘Inept Negotiation’ on Wall: ‘He Boxed Himself in a Corner’
Is the Government Shutdown Already Impacting Drug Development?
‘In the White House waiting’: Inside Trump’s defiance on the longest shutdown ever
It shouldn’t surprise me that the GOP tolerates fucking nitwit airbreathers like this guy but they do it over and over again… So yeah. I would vote for a fucking potato before I ever voted for any GOP.
Social Security official: Married working moms hurt society, condoms rob women of semen’s “remarkable chemicals”
Robert W. Patterson also suggested that homosexuality is a mental disorder and sexual orientation can be forcibly changed
Source: www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/01/11/social-security-official-married-working-mothers-hurt-society-condoms-rob-women-remarkable-chemicals/222474
In the continuing grand tradition of placing people in positions where they can best destroy what they love to destroy, the Трамп admin has nominated a lawyer well known for representing families fighting the IRS to… run the IRS. What could possibly go wrong?
The Beverly Hills tax attorney tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the Internal Revenue Service has represented a number of high profile clients fighting that very agency, including one of Contra Costa County’s most high-profile families — the Seenos.
Charles Rettig has spent the last five years representing a number of Seeno family members after they sued the federal government, hoping to recoup some of the more than $159 million in delinquent federal income taxes paid by the family, and it appears he was successful in two of the cases.
Trump nominates Seeno family tax attorney to run IRS
Charles Rettig has spent the last five years representing various members of the family that runs one of the largest home building operations in the East Bay in an attempt to recoup $159 million in…
Source: www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/27/trump-nominates-seeno-family-tax-attorney-to-run-irs/
And yet, the GOP seem to be okay with this. But I bet we’re gonna have a lot of beltway therapists working overtime in the years to come.
Trump’s willingness to humiliate his top staffer in front of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi is another reminder — beyond Democratic unwillingness to fund a barrier — of why shutdown talks have made zero progress: Trump exhibits little regard for the credibility of his own deputies.
“You just f—ed it all up”: Trump dressed down Mulvaney in front of congressional leaders
The confrontation happened during the shutdown briefing in the Situation Room.
Source: www.axios.com/donald-trump-mick-mulvaney-government-shutdown-meeting-7d84ea72-5aaf-45e0-a707-5f955836070e.html?utm_source=twitter
Judge blocks Trump birth control rules in 13 states and D.C.
The new rules, allowing more employers to opt out of providing free birth control under Obamacare, are set to take effect elsewhere on Monday.
Source: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-blocks-trump-birth-control-rules-13-states-d-c-n958226
I think Kanefield nails it here.
14/ Back in the time of Trump’s father, it was hard to convict a white man of rape. Sexual harassment wasn’t illegal. Basically white men could do as they pleased. As Archie Bunker sang: Those were the days. For what I mean about rape laws, click here.
15/ It’s easy to imagine America without without the laws Trump wants to get rid of. Just carry yourself back to the 1920s, before the New Deal and before Civil Rights legislation. There was no income tax or minimum wage, so people (whites) with money lived like kings.
16/ There was no Social Security, no protection against injury in the workplace. Injured workers were left to starve. No overtime or 40 hour workweek. Income inequality meant that only 5% of families could afford college, which trapped laborers in a poverty cycle.
17/ Things were worse for blacks, who were segregated and lived in fear of lynching. There were no regulatory agencies. Insider trading was legal. Basically, white men of means could do as they pleased. They could cheat. They could grab. MAGA means take America back to 1920.
What’s up with all Trump’s lawbreaking? – Musing about law, books, and politics
[View here as a Twitter thread] 1/ What’s up with all Trump’s lawbreaking? Spoiler: When you understand how the Trump family became wealthy, the meaning of MAGA becomes clear. I’ll explain. Sources in links and these (well researched books): Read more…
Source: terikanefield-blog.com/whats-up-with-all-trumps-lawbreaking/
I’m starting to think all Republicans should lose their voting rights. What? Don’t look at me like that. They leave the GOP, their rights can be restored.
Opinion | Florida restored voting rights to former felons. Now the GOP wants to thwart reform.
Will GOP politicians reverse voters’ will by blocking ex-convicts from casting ballots?
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/florida-restored-voting-rights-to-former-felons-now-the-gop-wants-to-thwart-reform/2019/01/13/84e2dcdc-1520-11e9-803c-4ef28312c8b9_story.html?utm_term=.c97ec1b5c44f
“Compromised.”
There’s no ‘innocent explanation’ for Trump confiscating notes from Putin meeting: former White House attorney
A former White House attorney said Monday on MSNBC that there were no innocent explanations for President Donald Trump ordering the destruction of notes taken during his private meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Two stories broke over the weekend revealing the FBI had launched a counterintelligence investigation of Trump as a possible Russian agent and that he confiscated a translator’s notes following his one-on-one meeting with Putin in Helsinki. “I can’t imagine an innocent explanation …
Source: www.rawstory.com/2019/01/theres-no-innocent-explanation-trump-confiscating-notes-putin-meeting-former-white-house-attorney/
What terrifies me more than anything else is another four years of Трамп and GOP destruction. So admittedly, I will vote for a fucking potato if I have to. However, what I really don’t want is such a fractured in-fighting that T sails to victory in 2020. Or Pence. There are too many big issues that need to be addressed now to risk that. Climate change, health care, social security, energy policy… a daunting list and one at which the Republican party is an utter, complete, abject failure at addressing. The other thing that annoys me about this is that the president at the top is rarely the one moving the overton window. That office really can’t because it has to deal with the entire country (and other countries). However, down the line: senators, governors, representatives, state politicians: these people can be much more radical, push far more to the left, and get things done. You want radical left shift in politics? Elect your mayors, your state assembly, your governor, your representatives and your senators accordingly. Judges, too. The weight of these positions, collectively, will do it. That’s exactly what 2018.
Huh, I think I just talked myself into the “one who can defeat Трамп” camp. Except, again, I think a potato could defeat him, absent GOP election fraud.
Of Sanders, Biden, Warren, Harris, and O’Rourke, which ones are best passing “policy litmus tests” and which ones are “most capable of defeating” Трамп?
Because Sanders doesn’t pass any litmus test and I don’t see his as “most capable” of defeating Трамп. He’s old, sexist, and racist, and has not in his entire political history actually done anything of consequence. And running as a Democrat when he’s only just called himself one in order to run was such a joke last time and it’s even less funny this time around. I liked him when I first saw him, but the cracks became evident rather quickly.
Biden is old, has a tendency to put his foot in his mouth, is probably rather too centrist, but benefits from VP to Obama. He could defeat Трамп, though.
I like Warren a lot, but I wish she was about 20 years younger. She could defeat Трамп.
Harris and O’Rourke are both relative newcomers, especially the latter. Harris has been exemplary as California’s junior Senator and I think she would make a fantastic president. I don’t know O’Rourke as well, but everything I’ve seen of him I’ve also been impressed. I think these two also have a lot more charisma and ability to rally than the former two. But I don’t think they neatly fall into the two categories described in the article. Either of them could defeat Трамп.
After a 2018 midterm election that energized the left, perhaps the most consequential political question facing the Democratic Party is whether liberals will insist on imposing policy litmus tests on 2020 presidential hopefuls, or whether voters will rally behind the candidate most capable of defeating the president even if that Democrat is imperfect on some issues.
These dual priorities — and which one is emphasized more in the coming primary race — will help determine how the party approaches 2020. Will candidates sprint to the left on issues and risk hurting themselves with intraparty policy fights and in the general election? Or will they keep the focus squarely on Mr. Trump and possibly disappoint liberals by not being bolder on policy?
The two paths may help determine the electoral fortunes of potential left-wing candidates like Senator Bernie Sanders and more moderate ones like former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., as well as Democrats like Senator Kamala Harris and Beto O’Rourke who have a history of appealing to both liberals and moderates and drawing ire from some leftists for not being aggressive enough on policy.
Democrats Want to Run on Issues in 2020. But Does Beating Trump Matter Most?
A major question in the coming Democratic primary is which candidate will be the best antidote to Trump and Trumpism. Liberals may want to apply policy litmus tests. Moderates may just want a winner.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/democratic-candidates-issues-2020.html
I… honest to god I thought this was a parody. I’m not even going to say anything further about this.
I’m only surprised they haven’t nominated a convicted pedophile to run one of the children’s programs like SNAP or something.
Trump Officially Nominates Former Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler to Head EPA
In a long-expected move, President Donald Trump formally nominated acting U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head and former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler to officially run the agency Wednesday.
Source: www.ecowatch.com/andrew-wheeler-epa-2625606967.html
She called it. But apparently the media is only just now realizing this now that they don’t have emails to discuss.
More shutdown chatter. Also, you know who are the most frequent flyers? Rich people. If they start screaming at their Senators, they will sit up and take notice.
Unpaid TSA Screeners Just Might Be What Breaks the Government Shutdown
Without them, commercial air travel in the United States would grind to a halt.
Source: slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/tsa-screeners-call-out-shutdown.html
Took ’em waaaaaay too long. An interesting analysis on that here: The Steve King rebuke is proof that solid reporting still matters
The punishment came on a day when Mr. King was denounced by an array of Republican leaders, though not President Trump. The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, suggested Mr. King find “another line of work” and Senator Mitt Romney said he should quit. And the House Republicans, in an attempt to be proactive, stripped him of the committee seats in the face of multiple Democratic resolutions to censure Mr. King that are being introduced this week.
Those measures would force Republicans to take a stand on the House Democratic majority’s attempt to publicly reprimand one of their own.
Mr. King, who has been an ally of President Trump on the border wall and other issues, has a long history of making racist remarks and insults about immigrants, but has not drawn rebukes from Republican leaders until recently. In November, top Iowa Republicans like Senator Charles E. Grassley endorsed Mr. King for re-election even after one House Republican official came out and denounced him as a white supremacist.
But in an interview with The Times published last week, Mr. King said: “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?”
Steve King Removed from Committee Assignments Over White Supremacy Remark
Republicans voted Monday night to remove Mr. King from the House Judiciary and Agriculture committees after he made remarks questioning why white supremacy is considered offensive.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/steve-king-house-judiciary-committee.html
Grover Norquist and drowning in bathtubs comes to mind.
The shutdown is “a means to an end for something they have long pursued, which is limiting the size and scope and role of government,” former House GOP staffer Kurt Bardella said of the conservative Freedom Caucus. Bardella became a Democrat in 2017.
“These are small-government guys, not wall guys,” one former White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private exchanges, said of Meadows and Jordan.
Conservatives have for decades questioned the size and effectiveness of the federal bureaucracy. The shutdown has in some ways underscored their view that government can function with fewer employees.
How out of touch with reality are these morons? Right now, Federal employees are not not working. THEY ARE BEING FORCED TO WORK FOR FREE, which is the other thing they’ve long wanted to expand. Slave labor. See: IRS Recalls 46,000 Furloughed Workers for Tax Season
The shutdown is giving some Trump advisers what they’ve long wanted: A smaller government
They have shown a high tolerance for keeping large swaths of the government dark.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-shutdown-is-giving-some-trump-advisers-what-theyve-long-wanted-a-smaller-government/2019/01/14/70b22348-1427-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html
Hm. Why am I having flashbacks (well not literally, I’m not old enough to remember that) to “I am not a crook!” ??
The #ТрампMcConnell shutdown continues.
McConnell blocks House bill to reopen government for second time
Senate Republicans blocked a House-passed package to reopen the federal government for a second time in as many weeks on Tuesday.
Source: thehill.com/homenews/senate/425414-mcconnell-blocks-house-bill-to-reopen-government-for-second-time
Seriously, WTF.
Ajit Pai Refuses to Brief Congress About Why Bounty Hunters Can Buy Cell Phone Location Data
The Chairman’s staff said the selling of location data is not a ‘threat to the safety of human life or property that the FCC will address during the Trump shutdown.’
Source: motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbymqp/ajit-pai-refuses-to-brief-congress-about-why-bounty-hunters-can-buy-cell-phone-location-data
I can’t make this shit up.
Burger King mocks Trump over misspelled tweet: ‘We’re all out of hamberders’
The fast food chain Burger King took aim at President Trump on Tuesday over his mention of “hamberders” in a recent tweet.
Source: thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/425423-burger-king-mocks-trump-over-misspelled-tweet-were-all-out-of
A chilling overview of Barr. Session’s proposed replacement for AGUS. See also William Barr’s Slick Performance Shouldn’t Fool Anyone on why he must recuse himself from the Mueller investigation, same as Sessions.
William Barr May Be Worse on Immigration Than Jeff Sessions
William Barr, Trump’s nominee for attorney general, has a long record of immigration extremism.
Source: theintercept.com/2019/01/15/william-barr-confirmation-hearings-immigration/
Holy hell you guys, this is COMPLETELY unacceptable! It’s also UNCONSTITUTIONAL. WTF?
WATCH: William Barr says he could conceive of prosecuting journalists ‘as last resort’
President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general says he can’t rule out jailing reporters for doing their jobs.
Source: www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-william-barr-says-he-could-conceive-of-prosecuting-journalists-as-last-resort
White House tries to bypass Pelosi on shutdown talks, but moderate Democrats rebuff offer
Moderate Democrats decline an invitation to the White House as President Trump tries to undercut House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in shutdown talks.
Source: www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/15/government-shutdown-white-house-tries-bypass-nancy-pelosi/2580775002/
Ignore the rather overwrought click-bait title. This is still some good news. Not that this admin has ever hesitated to make public fools of themselves. However the most interesting bit is buried at the bottom:
Tuesday’s ruling will not be the last word on the census. In February, the Supreme Court will consider whether Furman was allowed to go beyond the official record to reach his decision—by, for instance, permitting the deposition of DOJ officials. But in his opinion, Furman explains that his conclusions do not rest on evidence beyond the official record. To the contrary, he notes that his findings are based on that record, and that all additional evidence only confirms those findings. Even if the Supreme Court decides that additional evidence was gathered improperly, the bulk of Furman’s ruling will stand.
Eventually, the Supreme Court will probably also rule on the case’s merits. And here, Furman lays out a challenge to the justices. In October, Justice Neil Gorsuch suggested that Ross was merely trying to cut through “red tape,” an astoundingly naïve view of his machinations. But the APA, Furman held on Tuesday, exists not to create “red tape” but “to protect core constitutional and democratic values.” This rebuke to Gorsuch lays out the stakes of the case: Will the courts defer to Ross and accept his screaming falsehoods? Or will they apply independent judgment and see the plain truth—that the Commerce Department violated the law?
In that sense, this case is a test of the Supreme Court’s consistency. The conservative justices, Gorsuch chief among them, routinely rail against federal agencies that exceed their statutory authority. They insist that courts scrutinize agency actions to confirm that they followed the text of the laws Congress passed. Here, Ross ignored those laws over and over again. If the Supreme Court’s conservative justices can’t recognize that fact, they will demonstrate a commitment to partisanship above law.
There are still major, troubling problems with the upcoming census, because the GOP and the Трамп admin have not been adequately funding or preparing for the census and the probability of marginal groups being undercounted or not at all is still very high. However this ruling is a bit of good news. See also:
Judge Strikes Down Controversial Citizenship Question on 2020 Census
Federal Judge Obliterates Trump’s Census Shenanigans and Dares the Supreme Court to Reverse Him
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross’ actions violated the law in several major ways.
Source: slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/federal-judge-census-ruling-wilbur-ross-trump.html
Stripping the country down for parts. It’s disgusting. WTF else are they doing?
Trump administration to bring back offshore drilling staff during shutdown
The Trump administration is bringing dozens of federal employees back to work to carry out the administration’s plan to expand offshore oil and natural gas drilling.
Source: thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/425501-trump-administration-to-bring-back-offshore-drilling-staff-during
Brutal. See also Stephen Miller was writing SOTU to blame Democrats for shutdown — until Nancy Pelosi pulled the rug out: report.
Pelosi asks Trump to move State of the Union address
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking to move the day of the State of the Union address or deliver it in writing, citing security concerns from the ongoing government shutdown.
Source: www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/politics/nancy-pelosi-asks-trump-move-state-of-the-union-address/index.html
Clearly, the speculation that the shutdown isn’t just about the wall but also to start drowning the government is starting to take hold. After all, if you force federal workers to work for free…
5 reasons Trump may want a shutdown that have nothing to do with a wall
Clearly, Trump must enjoy having a big chunk of our government closed. Besides a border wall fight, what else is he getting out of this mess? A lot.
Source: www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/01/16/border-wall-5-other-reasons-trump-may-want-government-shutdown-column/2583844002/
And there you go. Raise the top marginal tax already!
Poll: A majority of Americans support raising the top tax rate to 70 percent
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her Republican critics have both called her proposal to dramatically increase America’s highest tax rate “radical” but a new poll released Tuesday indicates that a majority of Americans agrees with the idea.
Source: thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/425422-a-majority-of-americans-support-raising-the-top-tax-rate-to-70
The real point here is not the stupid gloaty game-referee CAGE MATCH style headline but the fact that her explanations are quick, articulate, and understandable. She clearly knows her way around online and how to talk to her audience. These are extremely important abilities for any politician to have and it’s really refreshing to watch her break down concepts and issues to get at the heart of why her proposals are good and fair ideas. It’s a treat watching her grow & learn, as well, in the year I’ve been following her.
Explaining marginal taxes to a far-right former Governor:
Imagine if you did chores for abuela & she gave you $10. When you got home, you got to keep it, because it’s only $10.
Then we taxed the billionaire in town because he’s making tons of money underpaying the townspeople. https://t.co/Wcnn2sEgek
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 15, 2019
And if you step beyond Twitter, polls show her plan is popular. A survey conducted by The Hill/Harris Poll found that a sizable majority — 59 percent agreed with the idea of raising the highest tax bracket to 70 percent. Even a fair percentage (45 percent of Republicans) were on board with this.
Most notably, many economists, including Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman say Ocasio-Cortez’s tax policies are sound.
Note also that most Americans do support increasing the top marginal rate, as outlined in the Hill article I included above.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Embarrasses Scott Walker After He Tries To Insult Her On Twitter (TWEETS) – The United States Blues
Former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker tries to insult Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter, and she responds. We bet his ears are still burning
Source: theunitedstatesblues.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-embarrasses-scott-walker-after-he-tries-to-insult-her-on-twitter-tweets/
This is actually a pretty interesting article and maybe something to lead in with if you’re talking to a Трампista.
Using a 2017 University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll, we found that believing Trump was not born “very wealthy” leads to at least a 5-percentage-point boost in the president’s job approval, even after considering the many factors that can influence public approval ratings. This shift is rooted in the belief that his humble roots make Trump both more empathetic (he “feels my pain”), and more skilled at business (he is self-made and couldn’t have climbed to such heights without real business know-how).
What happens when Americans learn of the president’s privileged background? In a 2018 survey, we provided half the respondents the following question, which was intended to impart Trump’s biographical information: To what extent were you aware that Donald Trump grew up the son of wealthy real estate businessman Fred Trump, started his business with loans from his father, and received loans worth millions of dollars from his father in order to keep his businesses afloat?
Many Voters Think Trump’s a Self-Made Man. What Happens When You Tell Them Otherwise?
Who is Donald Trump? Ask Americans and many of them will describe a self-made billionaire.
Source: www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/17/many-voters-think-trumps-a-self-made-man-what-happens-when-you-tell-them-otherwise-224019
OK, one more:
On WSJ (paywall), they report outright bribery per Cohen.
In early 2015, a man who runs a small technology company showed up at Trump Tower to collect $50,000 for having helped Michael Cohen, then Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, try to rig online polls in his boss’s favor before the presidential campaign.
In his Trump Organization office, Mr. Cohen surprised the man, John Gauger, by giving him a blue Walmart bag containing between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash and, randomly, a boxing glove that Mr. Cohen said had been worn by a Brazilian mixed-martial arts fighter, Mr. Gauger said.
Mr. Cohen disputed that he handed over a bag of cash. “All monies paid to Mr. Gauger were by check,” he said, offering no further comment on his ties to the consultant.
(More here: Michael Cohen paid Jerry Falwell Jr’s tech officer to rig early polls for Trump: report)
Cohen Hired IT Firm to Rig Early CNBC, Drudge Polls to Favor Trump
Behind the scenes, Michael Cohen hired RedFinch Solutions, then allegedly stiffed it—and his boss
In early 2015, the owner of a small tech company showed up at Trump Tower to collect $50,000 for helping Michael Cohen try to rig online polls in Donald Trump’s favor before the presidential campaign. He says he never got what he was owed.
Source: www.wsj.com/articles/poll-rigging-for-trump-and-creating-womenforcohen-one-it-firms-work-order-11547722801
This is a point I’ve made repeatedly, that Трамп isn’t the problem; he is merely a symptom. Getting rid of him is NECESSARY but not SUFFICIENT. (But by the same token, I don’t want to see opposition to Трамп fall into disarray because our options “don’t go far enough”… you have to work with what you have…LOOKIN’ AT YOU, BERNIEBROS)
Here it’s crucially important to distinguish between a minority of committed anti-Trump actors who do not labor under the illusion that all will be well with Trump gone and the far greater number of liberal Democratic “resisters” whose resistance is only skin deep and who are drawn to apocalyptic framing because of the way it absolves them from having to confront the uglier realities of a system that can, after all, be very good to educated elites of all political persuasions.
We can see this distinction play out among possible candidates for the Democratic nomination. Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown are both avowed foes of the neoliberal project: free trade, deregulation, de-unionization, privatization. Both understand that concentrated wealth at the top is never innocent—that it’s extracted from workers and the poor. Both understand the scandalous reality of debt peonage in America. And although both could and should be much more explicit about the crucial role played by white supremacy in propping up this system, they do say that they want to attack the structures that underpin plantation capitalism. There’s no question that both want to break the hammerlock of corporate wealth in national politics.
These positions will clearly handicap Warren and Brown in the all-important money primary that’s already unfolding. I take no satisfaction from predicting that corporate power inside the Democratic tent will prevent either of these people from being nominated, let alone elected. I likewise do not rejoice to predict that the vast majority of white liberals within the Democratic fold will be pleased to accept a candidate who is fully approved and substantially funded by our corporate overlords, especially if the proceedings exhibit the requisite gloss of diversity.
The Antichrist Trap: Trump Isn’t the Whole Story
Peter Laarman: Far too many of our self-anointed progressive saviors speak as though Trump’s overthrow will make everything good again. A bargain-priced plastic surgeon might want to convince us that removing a large carbuncle will render our face entirely beautiful, but can that kind of pitch really be trusted?
Source: www.laprogressive.com/trump-satan/
This is of course not surprising. Because the office of POTUS does not formally forbid this, and we haven’t actually raised emoluments clause in courts before because previous presidents refrained from this (at least so visibly) because in the past the backlash would have finished those presidents. But since this one doesn’t care, and the GOP doesn’t care, this is what you get.
T-Mobile announced a merger needing Trump administration approval. The next day, 9 executives had reservations at Trump’s hotel.
Such visits raise questions about whether patronizing the president’s private business is viewed as a way to influence public policy, critics said.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-place-i-feel-very-comfortable-t-mobile-executives-seeking-government-approval-for-merger-stayed-at-trumps-hotel-repeatedly/2019/01/15/6a114d3e-142c-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html
Click through on link to see videoclip. AOC discusses the shutdown.
CSPAN on Twitter
“First House Floor speech from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC): “The truth of this shutdown is that it’s actually not about a wall…The truth is, this shutdown is about the erosion of American democracy and the subversion of our most basic governmental norms.” https://t.co/r8tmsGSNtT”
Source: twitter.com/cspan/status/1085737193564504066
But of course. Our border & immigration system is SO broken it needs to be scrapped and rebuilt from the ground up. Not with the GOP participating in any way shape or form >.< See also: Trump admin weighed targeting migrant families, speeding up deportation of children
The federal government has reported that nearly 3,000 children were forcibly separated from their parents under last year’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, under which nearly all adults entering the country illegally were prosecuted, and any children accompanying them were put into shelters or foster care.
But even before the administration officially unveiled the zero-tolerance policy in the spring of 2018, staff of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the agency that oversees the care of children in federal custody, had noted a “sharp increase” in the number of children separated from a parent or guardian, according to the report from the agency’s Office of Inspector General.
As of December, the department had identified 2,737 children who were separated from their parents under the policy and required to be reunified by a federal court order issued in June 2018.
But that number does not represent the full scope of family separations. Thousands of children may have been separated during an influx that began in 2017, before the accounting required by the court, the report said.
Thousands More Migrant Children Were Probably Taken From Families Than Reported
The government has reported about 2,700 migrant children separated from their families at the border last year. But the removals may have involved thousands more.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/us/family-separation-trump-administration-migrants.html
The GOP and idiot portions of the media are, of course, putting a different spin on this, but this report matches all the video coverage available.
The House was voting on another stopgap bill to reopen the government, this one until Feb. 28. Nearly all House Republicans routinely have voted against House Democratic spending bills over the last two weeks in an effort to stay in lockstep with President Trump’s demand for border wall funding. And it’s important to their messaging that they show unity against the Democratic bills.
When the bill came up, the Democrat presiding over the House, North Carolina Rep. G.K. Butterfield, called for a voice vote and declared the resolution passed. This is a standard majority move. What’s supposed to happen afterward, though, is for a member who wants a recorded vote to call for a recorded vote. The Republican at the lectern responsible for this task was Kentucky Rep. Brett Guthrie. Either he didn’t call for the recorded vote, or Butterfield didn’t hear him. (If Guthrie did say something, it’s certainly not audible on the C-SPAN replay.) Butterfield waited about 30 seconds and then moved on to the next item of business.
In other words, because no roll call vote was requested, the Democratic bill to reopen the government had just passed without Republicans recording their objection. On paper, that might look like House Republicans had sided with Democrats to defy President Trump and reopen the government without wall funding.
Some Republicans, realizing the messaging snafu that took place while they were tuned out, stayed in the chamber and tried to convince Butterfield, and Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, that Guthrie totally called for the recorded vote. Butterfield and Hoyer insisted that they didn’t hear it. When Republican Whip Steve Scalise offered a series of ideas for redoing the vote, Hoyer noted that most of his members were already at the airport so, eh, sorry.
Republicans Tuned Out During House Vote on Bill to End the Shutdown. Now They Want a Redo.
Being in the minority is hard.
Source: slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/house-republicans-forgot-roll-call-democrats-shutdown-bill.html
Meanwhile, regarding Puerto Rico:
Trump tried to illegally withhold disaster relief money from Puerto Rico
Trump’s handling of his one big external crisis remains terrifying.
Source: www.vox.com/2019/1/17/18186818/trump-puerto-rico-hurricane-funds
Encouraging news. I mean, you see why McConnell and GOP are trying so hard to pack and own the courts.
A federal court just blocked Wisconsin Republicans’ attacks on early voting
During the lame-duck session, the party passed controversial measures to make it harder to vote.
Source: www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/federal-court-blocked-wisconsin-republican-early-voting/
Well, when you get in bed with someone who only thinks of themselves…
Why the NRA is struggling
Legislative defeats, financial problems, and a surprisingly difficult ally in the White House.
Source: www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/17/18167430/nra-2018-midterms-trump-spending-trouble
Hmmm. I’d add to this Трамп’s penchant for declassification via careless tweeting, eg of a covert group in Iraq when he paid a surprise Christmas visit (Donald Trump Twitter Account Video Reveals U.S. Navy SEAL Deployment During Iraq Visit). He’s done that sort of thing several times now.
It’s not just Trump’s unpredictable decision making that has officials on edge, it’s also his penchant for politicizing the military— something that’s come into focus in recent months as he’s struggled to fulfill his campaign promise to crack down on immigration and build a border wall. His decision to draw down troops in Syria and his claims that ISIS is defeated have also rankled military commanders who felt it wasn’t well thought out.
Some of the highest-ranking officers say there is a new atmosphere of unease inside the Pentagon, particularly among some of the most senior ranks, over the President’s inclination to use the military to achieve certain partisan policy objectives. Behind the scenes officials are trying to keep it all at bay. “The amount of time we have to spend making sure our statements and what we say is apolitical is astronomically higher than ever before,” one senior military officer told CNN.
If commanders order the troops to perform a mission for reasons that are political — rather than based on national security grounds — the fundamental nature of the US military is changed, several officials worry. That line has already been crossed in the minds of some over the issue of sending troops to the border. It could become even more of a problem should the President decide to declare a national emergency to gain access to Defense Department funds to build the wall.
On top of that, there are also general concerns about the President’s foreign policy decisions, particularly his public announcement to pull US troops out of Syria. Wednesday’s suicide attack in Manbij in northern Syria that killed American service members raises the question of whether the President’s decision to withdraw troops might have resulted in ISIS or other groups seeing a vulnerability and attacking US forces.
Trump is fraying nerves inside the Pentagon
Two years into his presidency, Donald Trump is fueling unprecedented uncertainty and anxiety inside the Pentagon. In private conversations over the past month, many of them unsolicited, more than a dozen key military officers, enlisted personnel and senior civilians have expressed worry and concern to CNN. None of the officials have spoken publicly about this, as military law prohibits active-duty personnel from criticizing a sitting president. expressed worry and concern to CNN.
Source: www.cnn.com/2019/01/17/politics/trump-frays-nerves-at-pentagon/index.html
Chief among any Dem proposals should be restructuring of CBP and ICE to reduce the acts of genocide and such among the migrants reaching the border, to bring us back to international standards on amnesty, as well as reinforcing where drugs and such actually do come in: at points of entry, NOT along the border. Hey, throw in some stuff like guaranteeing the pay of folks like the TSA, IRS workers etc…
“There have been concerns by some members saying we need to tell our constituents what we’re for and what it would look like in terms of border security,” said Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard, Democrat of California and the chairwoman of the appropriations subcommittee that handles homeland security. “That is probably a way to respond to that, and a way that does not violate what we are saying: open up the government and then we will talk about border security.”
Representative Peter A. DeFazio, Democrat of Oregon and the chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who told a group of committee chairmen at a closed-door meeting on Wednesday that it was time for their party to go public with its own border security ideas, reiterated the idea in an interview.
Now here’s a more concerning piece of this incident. Congress IS equal to the POTUS (which is equal to the judiciary, etc — just check your copy of the Constitution). In particular, the Speaker is charged with requesting a state of the union from the POTUS. But in turn, T compromised the security of a trip to Afghanistan. The GOP Congress have given up a lot of congressional power. It remains to be seen whether the Democrats can bring that back in line.
“We’re not going to allow the president of the United States to tell the Congress it can’t fulfill its oversight responsibilities, it can’t ensure that our troops have what they need whether our government is open or closed,” said Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the chairman of the intelligence panel.
“We are a coequal branch of government,” Mr. Schiff said, suggesting that the president apparently did not understand the new reality in Washington. “It may not have been that way with the past two years when he had a Republican Congress willing to roll over anytime he asked, but that is no longer the case.”
Mr. Schiff was on the bus outside the Rayburn House Office Building near the Capitol when Mr. Trump fired off his letter, along with Representative Eliot L. Engel, Democrat of New York and the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and several other lawmakers in what made for an unusual tableau.
Instead of heading for Joint Base Andrews and boarding a military plane, the lawmakers sat stunned on their bus, unsure of what to do next, until it eventually drove slowly to the Capitol driveway — some journalists jogging or riding electric scooters to keep up — to disgorge its perplexed passengers. At one point, the House sergeant-at-arms, the chamber’s chief law enforcement officer, turned up to puzzle over the security arrangements for the lawmakers, whose secret travel plans were now public. And the speaker, holed up in her office with aides as reporters mixed near the Rotunda with tourists oblivious to the drama, calmly plotted her next steps.
Trump Hits Back at Pelosi, Threatening Her Trip to See Troops
The House speaker had threatened to cancel President Trump’s State of the Union address, citing security concerns because of the government shutdown.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/us/politics/trump-pelosi-letter-trip.html
Left unappreciated by the back and forth was just how impulsive the president’s swift response truly was.
White House officials told CNN that Trump had coordinated with the Department of Defense about the decision to prohibit the use of military aircraft for Pelosi. But as of the time of this publication, staffers in the Pentagon were furiously scrambling to gather information about the cancellation.
“We’re still gathering information just like you,” one Pentagon official told The Daily Beast. “We are trying to figure out what is going on.” One other source inside the Pentagon said that the White House had not coordinated with senior officials in Kabul about the cancellation, either.
The White House did not respond to The Daily Beast’s question on whether or not the president or his team directly contacted the Defense Department and the Air Force about restricting Pelosi or her team’s use of military aircraft, prior to issuing the White House announcement Thursday afternoon. But the president’s team appeared prepared for the moment in other ways.
Within an hour of the White House’s announcement, the Trump campaign was already fundraising off of the tit-for-tat.
What Trump Just Wrecked by Canceling Pelosi’s Trip to Afghanistan
For more than three weeks, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her staff had quietly planned an international trip to Brussels and Afghanistan to check in on America’s longest war.
Source: www.thedailybeast.com/what-trump-just-wrecked-by-canceling-pelosis-trip-to-afghanistan
Getting rid of GOP control is only a first step, but it sure does have generally good dividends. Now let’s just hope that California can increase it’s per student spending so that it isn’t ranked 41st…
Consider the experience of California, where Democrats took full control in 2011. Conservatives lambasted Jerry Brown’s increases in taxes, spending and the minimum wage, declaring that the state was committing “economic suicide.” In reality, the economy boomed, while California’s enthusiastic implementation of health reform brought the uninsured share of the population down from 18 percent in 2011 to just 7 percent in 2017 — almost twice the reduction in the U.S. as a whole.
Or consider New Jersey, where Democrats took control last year and used that control to implement a series of measures — including reimposing the requirement that individuals buy health insurance — that reversed many of the Trump administration’s efforts at health care sabotage. The result was a sharp drop in insurance premiums, which are now among the lowest in the nation.
Now that Democratic control has expanded, we can expect to see more of this kind of activism.
Opinion | The Real Governments of Blue America
In some states, politicians are actually trying to do their jobs.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opinion/shutdown-democrats.html
It is with no hyperbole that I say McConnell is one of U.S. biggest traitors. C’mon Kentucky, get rid of this MoFo already. Anyhow, Трамп needs to watch his ass: Polls agree: Americans don’t like shutdown and they blame Trump.
Hm, ya think McConnell is giving ol’ Трамп the finger on the down low? Doesn’t matter, still a traitor (starting with Garland, FFS.)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stands back as shutdown drags on
The Republican leader has been conspicuously deferential to Trump since the shutdown began.
Source: www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-majority-leader-mitch-mcconnell-stands-back-as-shutdown-drags-on
Christ on a pogo stick. When you can’t trust the WH to keep security on stuff like this…
That said, Pelosi is lethal. Click to play clip
That BuzzFeed report. I wasn’t going to go into much detail on it. But I do want to pull a couple of interesting pieces together.
First the report itself, published Thursday: President Trump Directed His Attorney Michael Cohen To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project. OK, that’s pretty whoa.
Then this morning it’s reported Cohen shows up returning from the hospital Thursday evening: Michael Cohen arrives home from hospital with arm in sling, fueling quite a bit of speculation, although Cohen has made no statement so far.
Then, the Mueller’s office actually weighed in: In a rare move, Mueller’s office denies BuzzFeed report that Trump told Cohen to lie about Moscow project. Definitely whoa.
My take: “The leak did not come from US.” I’m going to point this out. SDNY is a leaky faucet whereas Mueller’s office has not leaked once so far.
Note for example emptywheel’s twitter thread here: Folks, as I noted in my post form this morning, the BuzzFeed story conflicted with what SCO had Cohen allocute to under oath. That raised questions for me last night. She expounded on this further on Saturday: Peter Carr Speaks
Popehat on twitter:
FWIW my read of the Special Counsel statement is “Oh hell yes obviously we think Trump was in the loop but no we don’t have all the evidence they claim.” (The fact that someone in the White House was in the loop of Cohen lying was already clear from their sentencing brief.) and
By the way — any credible parse of the Special Counsel’s statement must involve SDNY being a leakfest and positively gouty with self-regard
In a rare move, Mueller’s office denies BuzzFeed report that Trump told Cohen to lie about Moscow project
The special counsel, which almost never speaks about its investigation, says explosive assertions are ‘not accurate.’
Source: www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/2019/01/18/b9c40d34-1b85-11e9-8813-cb9dec761e73_story.html?utm_term=.1c62ec65a431
Meanwhile in our Education dept…
DeVos Will Recommend the Removal of Civil Rights Protections for Students of Color
Any day now we’re going to hear the news that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and the Trump administration are removing guidance meant to reduce
Source: educationpost.org/devos-will-recommend-the-removal-of-civil-rights-protections-for-students-of-color/
And you know that Трамп doesn’t care.
The D.C. Metro is losing $400k in revenue for every weekday of the government shutdown
Now in its 28th day, the shutdown has become the longest in history.
Source: thinkprogress.org/dc-metro-shutdown-revenue-losses-6eb593b9c313/
Let’s return for a moment to a deeper look at what went on with Трамп’s cancellation of the top security trip to Afghanistan… I think that the fact that Pelosi is a woman makes Трамп madder than anything else.
Keep in mind also that other lawmakers went on similar trips after Pelosi’s was declassified and cancelled: Lindsey Graham Flew To Turkey On Official Trip After Trump Canceled Pelosi’s.
One of the most striking aspects of Donald Trump’s petty decision to cancel House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Afghanistan is the degree to which it was lacking in any sense of proportionality. The president and his team were bothered that the California Democrat had raised security concerns about the upcoming State of the Union address.
In response, Trump decided to scrap a long-planned secret trip in which congressional leaders – including the chairs of the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees – who were set to visit with American troops stationed abroad, while receiving briefings on the status of an ongoing war.
It’s hard to imagine any fair-minded observer making the case that these are two comparable.
Trump White House reportedly sought to put Pelosi ‘in her place’
It’s as if a group of far-right online trolls took control of the executive branch of a global superpower.
Source: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-white-house-reportedly-sought-put-pelosi-her-place
Word. Although I don’t think McConnell should just stand back as a result. He could, if he wanted to, pull together a veto proof vote on a clean funding bill as a way of giving Трамп the middle finger. That he doesn’t gives rise to two speculative theories (perhaps even both): he’s up for election in 2020 in a state where TТрамп is wildly popular (supposedly); and he’s likewise compromised by Russia (has several 100K from oligarchs). Hard to say.
Sen. Mitch McConnell was jolted with a fresh reminder of President Trump’s capriciousness last month: The majority leader persuaded Republican colleagues to take a politically difficult vote to temporarily fund the government, but not a border wall, only to see Trump withdraw support — initiating the longest shutdown in history.
House Republicans learned the same lesson early in Trump’s presidency when he rallied them to repeal Obamacare, then described their effort as “mean.”
As Trump reaches the halfway mark of his term on Sunday, he has left a trail of negotiating partners from both chambers of Congress, both political parties and countries around the world feeling double-crossed and even lied to.
The result is that the president who campaigned as the world’s best deal-maker, vowing that he alone could fix Washington’s dysfunction, has been stymied as he looks for achievements before facing the voters again. Two years in, the man who built a political reputation as a guy who tells it like it is has lost the essential ingredients to closing deals: credibility and trust.
“He just undermined the trust and confidence that some Republican members did want to have in him,” said Carlos Curbelo, a Florida Republican who lost his House seat in November, in part because of Trump’s unpopularity.
But what has worked for Трамп in the past doesn’t work here
Trump’s tactics were honed over decades. Throughout his business career, he moved from one project to the next — real estate development, sales, casinos and branding — often leaving scorned partners or creditors to deal with the fallout from bankruptcies or deals gone bad.
“This was all to stay ahead of his reputation,” said Michael D’Antonio, author of “The Truth About Trump.” But “in Washington,” he said, “you can’t escape who you are for very long. He’s proven that he can’t keep his word.”
The president has broken records for false statements, according to nonpartisan fact checkers. An increasing majority of voters — by 61% to 34% in one recent poll — say he is not honest. The same poll, from Quinnipiac University, found that voters also rated his leadership skills as poor, by 58% to 39%.
Complicating the problem, Trump has churned through staff faster than his predecessors. He has surrounded himself with a collection of temporary officials, family members and inexperienced advisors with little sway on Capitol Hill.
I don’t know what the fuck to say about these asshole idiots.
Republican lawmakers’ criticism is muted, however, because even as Trump has ranked among the least popular presidents in modern history, he has consistently commanded overwhelming support from Republican voters, according to polls.
However, GOP lawmakers might want to pay closer attention: Opposing Trump is making Nancy Pelosi more popular and How unpopular is Donald Trump?. (Although to be fair these are aggregate numbers: if you check Трамп’s popularity within GOP voters, it’s generally in the low to mid 80s, which is actually astonishing, even for a competent politician (eg Trump’s popularity remains high among Republican voters, despite pessimism over wall funding).
What’s instructive is to look at something like this: How Trump’s Popularity Is Holding Up, By State; look at Kentucky. It was at +34 and as of last summer still at +15 which is high relative to other states but is still a 19 point drop. McConnell might do better than look like a particularly incompetent Трамп lapdog, the way he does in this shutdown standoff by twiddling his thumbs.
Why can’t Trump make deals? No one trusts him anymore
At the halfway mark of his term, the self-professed deal-maker has left negotiating partners from both chambers of Congress, both parties and numerous countries feeling conned and lied to.
Source: www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-credibility-20190118-story.html
Mind you, I keep thinking about this sort of thing. It’s why I try not to post about Трамп outside of this compilation, otherwise it overwhelms the stream of posts I offer, wherever I am. At the same time, I think it’s instructive to gather them together and review from time to time. For example, this was my first in the Authoritarianism series.
Stop helping Donald Trump spread his lies. Don’t correct, don’t rage, just turn away.
Trump doesn’t lie to be believed, he lies to be repeated. Even fierce opponents can be unwitting viral marketers for his lies. Don’t fall into the trap.
Source: www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/09/10/donald-trump-liar-dont-help-his-lies-go-viral-column/1215197002/
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