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Our Corona Crusade: Sailing Home While the World Locked Down In Our Wake!
Posted on April 9, 2020 by anniedike
It never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to take the privileges and good fortune we have for granted. While the fact that travel, dining out, attending concerts, plays, or other fun events, even meeting up with friends, old and new, for happy hour are no longer options for the foreseeable future, never have I craved and cherished so deeply simply my health and home while Phillip and I were on our wild impromptu passage from the Bahamas to Pensacola.
It was an unintended passage. Certainly not one we had planned to undertake on such short notice. But, with the world seemingly shutting down port after port, door after door, in our wake, it felt like we were running on a bridge that was crumbling behind us. Phillip and I simply wanted to get back to Pensacola, secure the boat, and go home. That’s it. Each day of the passage, however, definitely offered up its own set of challenges that put the possibility of that happening in question. While there are dozens of smaller stories to share from this passage—some frightening, some fun—to give you all a broad strokes update on what just turned mine and Phillip’s world upside down, I believe a timeline will be the most telling. Looking back on this, it frightens me a little still to see how lucky we were to have made it. But, the point is, we made it! Phillip and I are healthy and home now, with our baby girl safely in our fold for hurricane season. But, that was nowhere near the case three weeks ago when we were over 700 miles away on an island in the Atlantic.
US: In light of growing coronavirus fears, the NCAA cancels “March Madness.” New York issues a statewide ban on gatherings of 500+ people. In the weeks prior, Trump has issued a ban on incoming travel from certain countries in Europe to the U.S. We learn after we land in Eleuthera in the Bahamas that Trump had declared a national emergency over the coronavirus pandemic, freeing up nearly $50 billion in disaster aid.
Bahamas (BH): The Bahamas records their first case of COVID-19, a 61-year-old Bahamian woman with no recent travel history.
Plaintiff’s Rest (PR): With the status of travel changing day by day it was a tough decision for us whether to go at all. The purpose of this two-week trip to the Bahamas—when we booked it back in Pensacola in January—had been to put our boat back together by replacing the fresh water pump on our Westerbeke that failed when we attempted to sail to the BVIs back in November. (We are now incredibly grateful for that failure as it kept our boat within safe sailing distance from home so she could rescue us from this pandemic.) Once operational, we planned to sail the boat from Spanish Wells where she was secured at a nice, but highly-exposed dock back to Great Harbour Cay in the Berry Islands, Bahamas, where she safely rode out Hurricane Dorian in 2019, button her up there for the season, then fly home from Great Harbour Cay to Pensacola on March 26th. With increasing travel restrictions, we saw two options:
1) cancel the trip, stay home, and try to fly over sometime in May or early June to secure the boat (an option we all know now was never going to happen), or not secure her at all and risk losing Plaintiff’s Rest if a hurricane swept over Spanish Wells; or
2) risk the trip in hopes we would be able to move and secure the boat and fly home just fine on the 26th (that also was not going to happen but we didn’t know it at the time) or—this was considered only in jest in the beginning—if all travel restrictions continued to mount, sail the darn boat home.
With those options, we chose to go. Despite the frightening news we received upon landing, we were happy to find the boat was floating happily waiting for us, ready to be put back together.
US: The Trump administration bans travel from the United Kingdom and Ireland.
BH: A Braemar cruise ship carrying five persons who tested positive for COVID-19 arrives in Bahamians waters but is not allowed to dock.
PR: Phillip and I set to work on the engine and spend a sweaty day holed up in the engine room putting the new fresh water pump on. Unfortunately, even with the new pump, the engine continued to overheat every time we let her rise up to 180 degrees. We turned in that night feeling defeated and worried about our prospects for moving the boat at all.
US: The CDC advises no events of 50+ people for the next eight weeks. New York, which is seen as the epicenter for the coronavirus at the time with near 1,000 cases announces it will close schools the following day and all bars and restaurants in New York must close by 8 p.m. the following night. Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders hold theirfirst one-on-one debate in the Democratic primary to a crowd of zero.
BH: Prince George Dock closes as cruise lines world-wide suspended their operations amid the pandemic. The US Embassy cancels immigrant and nonimmigrant visa appointments indefinitely. Officials also announce the closure of all schools. The Office of the Prime Minister announces as of Thursday, March 19, all foreign, non-Bahamian nationals who have traveled in the United Kingdom, Ireland or Europe in the last 20 days will be prohibited entry to the Bahamas at any point of entry.
PR: After successfully figuring out how to effectively prime the fresh water pump (a story for another day) we finally got the engine running to temp. After scrubbing the boat thoroughly, and replacing a transducer that was giving us trouble back in November, Phillip and I shower up and watch the debate at Wreckers, a fantastic little restaurant and bar in Spanish Wells that was, thankfully, still open and serving.
US: The White House issues guidelines for social distancing, urging Americans to avoid restaurants and bars, limit gatherings to 10 or fewer people, and work and engage in schooling from home when possible. Airlines say they will need a $50 billion bailout as signs of how serious an economic crisis is resulting from the coronavirus become more apparent.
BH: The Bahamas Department of Corrections suspends visitations, commissary and all public activities. The Braemar cruise ship, with over 600 passengers who have been stranded at sea for weeks with infected passengers aboard, is redirected to Cuba where passengers will be flown home through a Cuban airport.
PR: Phillip and I start to seriously consider sailing as the most reliable option for us to get home without being quarantined or otherwise locked down or exposed to great numbers of potentially infected people at the airport. Ironically, as soon as we start to truly embrace the idea and start testing all systems for an offshore passage, we find the batteries are showing their age (seven years) and not holding a sufficient voltage (12.3 or lower) soon after being removed from shore power. We set our goal the following day on determining whether we can acquire new batteries and replace the battery bank ourselves in Spanish Wells in time to take advantage of a favorable window the day after.
US: With thousands in the hospitality and food industry filing for unemployment, the White House begins discussing direct payments to Americans to lessen the economic impact of the virus and tells GOP senators in a private meeting that unemployment could reach 20 percent without serious steps taken. The number of cases reported in Florida is 166, and the U.S. death toll from the virus hits 100. Florida’s Governor orders all bars and nightclubs be shut down state-wide.
BH: Governor General CA Smith signs a proclamation declaring a public state of emergency.
PR: I receive a text from my niece, who is in her first year of college at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, telling me she and her fellow students will not return to class until at least mid-April. The Plaintiff’s Rest crew is now fully committed to sailing home in light of the rapidly-changing pandemic situation. Thankfully, we find a marine service center in Spanish Wells that promises to be able to have four new 6-volt golf-cart batteries sent over by boat the following morning (March 18th) so we can install them on the boat and leave the next day (March 19th) under a good weather window of light east winds. With the shut-down of all bars back home, we hit up Wreckers again and again, knowing it may be the last restaurant we eat at for months.
US: The Trump administration closes the U.S.-Canada border to nonessential traffic. Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of medical equipment in a worst-case scenario. The Department of Housing and Urban Development and Federal Housing Finance Agency suspend foreclosures and evictions. By mid-afternoon the Dow has erased all of the gains since Trump took office.
BH: Governor General C.A. Smith declares a state of public emergency in the Bahamas due to the presence of COVID-19 in the country. Two more cases are confirmed in the Bahamas.
PR: Phillip and I squeal when we see a golf cart pull up to our slip that morning to drop off four new batteries for the boat. We tackle the install and squeal, again, to see the new batteries holding better than the old bank already with their off-the-shelf only charge. We make one last provision run to the store. In Spanish Wells, people (tourists mostly) are starting to buy and hoard toilet paper and paper towels. We buy one extra pack of each just to be safe, along with a slew of non-perishable provisions for our passage.
US: The Department of State advises U.S. citizens to avoid all international travel due to the global impact of COVID-19. Cases in the U.S. top 10,000 as the virus quickly spreads. Trump says the FDA is accelerating testing of treatments for the coronavirus. The State Department urges American citizens to avoid traveling internationally. California directs residents to stay in their homes. Weekly jobless claims jump by 70,000 in the wake of thousands of restaurant, bar, gym and other business closings.
BH: U.S. citizens who are abroad are advised to arrange for immediate return to the U.S., unless they are prepared to remain abroad for an indefinite period. Many airlines cancel international flights. Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis announces emergency orders activating partial nationwide shutdown and nightly curfew.
PR: Plaintiff’s Rest gets the heck out of dodge! Our first day under sail from Spanish Wells to the Great Bahamas Bank is, thankfully, a fantastic, easy downwind run.
US: The Trump administration closes the U.S.-Mexico border to nonessential travel. Governors in New York and Illinois urge residents to stay home. The Treasury Department pushes back the tax deadline from April 15 to July 15. There are now 563 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Florida. Florida’s Governor orders all restaurants to switch to take-out and delivery only.
BH: The Prime Minister announces a 9pm to 5am curfew, restrictions on private gatherings, and closure of most in-person businesses, with limited hours for food stores and farmers’ markets, pharmacies, gas stations, laundromats, banks, construction, and restaurants (limited to take-out only).
PR: Phillip and I sail beautifully across the Bahamas Bank and enter the Gulf Stream around sunset with plans to cross the Stream overnight and drop the hook somewhere in/near the Keys the following day.
US: The FDA approves the first “point of care” test for the coronavirus that can generate results in about 45 minutes. The news tells us 706 cases have been confirmed in Florida, with twelve deaths reported statewide.
BH: I hear from a fellow cruiser via Facebook Messenger that they are in the Exuma islands staying distant from other cruisers but they are grateful to be able to go ashore on the uninhabited islands just to be able to walk around and get some exercise.
PR: As soon as we gain signal after the Gulf Stream, Phillip receives an email from Delta advising our flights from Nassau to Atlanta and home have been cancelled. A friend texts us and tells us the Florida Keys have banned all incoming travel and that the marinas are shut down to transients. I find I’ve never felt more grateful to have a capable boat and ground tackle that enabled us to continue moving safely toward home, even while distancing.
We text a friend (shout-out to Russell and Lynn!) who sends us directions for a little anchorage just after the Channel 5 Bridge near Marathon called “Jew Fish Hole.” After a two and a half-day voyage from the Bahamas, Phillip and I are thrilled to be stopped and secure for the night. So thrilled it doesn’t bother us, too much, that the auto-pilot gave us trouble all day, frequently letting go and crying out “rudder response failure.” With no visible issues or bad connections, we feared the computer was simply going out and faced the reality that we would likely have to hand-steer the boat home. Knowing that, our plans then changed from a five or three-day passage mostly offshore, we decided to do day-hops as much as possible to avoid exhaustion from hand-steering. Phillip set his alarm to rise early the following day so we could motor our way up to Shark River.
US: Trump mobilizes the National Guard and says makeshift medical facilities will be built in New York, California and Washington, the three states hit hardest at the time by the outbreak. We learn all state parks in Florida, including many beaches, have been closed.
BH: Health officials announce they have tested 117 people in the Bahamas for the virus.
PR: Phillip and I set a schedule for hand-steering shifts and spend the day dodging crab pods and making our way through Yacht Channel and up the ICW. Shark River was another new anchorage we had heard good things about but had never tried, although we had also been warned the bugs there come in alien-like swarms. “They are huge, angry, and hunt in packs. You will not survive without screens,” one friend told us. While we do have screens, when the bugs started to mount in the cockpit as we simply approachedthe mouth of the river, Phillip and I decided to stay further out, to avoid the swarms and to keep us closer to our track the following morning. Thankfully, no bugs or cruisers were harmed during our visit.
US: Total confirmed cases in the U.S. reach 82,404—the highest in the world—surpassing China’s 81,782 and Italy’s 80,589. Trump announces FEMA was providing aid to the states, saying 73 pallets of personal protective equipment had been shipped to New York City.
BH: Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis announced a 24-hour curfew and border shutdown among additional measures that expand the emergency powers regulations.
PR: Phillip and I weigh anchor at dawn and motor-sail our way up to Naples. We say several times during this trip how grateful we have been for calm, sunny weather. Although we are having to motor a good bit, it at least allows us to make way everyday and inch closer to home without being pinned up anywhere (that would likely be shut down for isolation) waiting on the weather. Phillip and I also love this little anchorage nook in Naples because it is a very easy in-and-out via a well-marked channel. It is also nice to nestle in among the rich and wealthy, without having to be one! The height and scale of some of the yachts here, as well as their pool statues never ceases to surprise me.
US: Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the International Olympic Committee agree to postpone the Olympics until 2021 in light of the outbreak. Worldwide cases of COVID-19 surpass 400,000. Confirmed cases in the U.S. rise to 25,665. Miami-Dade, Alachua, and Orange Counties in Florida issue stay-at-home orders.
BH: All ports of entry are closed to pleasure yachts. A fifth COVID-19 case is confirmed on Grand Bahama. The patient has no relevant travel history.
US: We weigh anchor under a dazzling pink sunrise in Naples. Captain Annie has the brilliant idea to leave early (4:00 a.m.) to ensure we make it all the way to Cayo Costa before sunset, but I forgot about the damn crab pods in south Florida. It was a horrendous shift for me 4:00 to 6:00 a.m. hand-steering in the dark while trying to spot those stupid floating bombs in the water. I have never been happier for sunlight and my shift to be over that morning. I hate crab pods!
US: The White House and Senate leaders reach an agreement on a $2 trillion stimulus deal to offset the economic damage of coronavirus, one of the most expensive and far-reaching measures in the history of Congress. The UN launches a $2 billion global humanitarian response plan to assist vulnerable countries in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The first case of COVID-19 is reported in the British Virgin Islands.
BH: Traveler health questionnaires and a screening protocol is implemented at ports, hotels, and rental properties to identify guests who may require surveillance or treatment.
PR: The sun is a blazing pink ball rising as we lift the anchor and begin our leg from Cayo Costa up to Venice, Florida. We are grateful to speak to the harbor master on the phone and learn they are open for business and accepting transients. While we definitely could have continued hopping along toward home, without sufficient wind to sail, we would not have had enough gas to motor the rest of the way, and we wanted to change the engine oil. “Westie,” what we call our Westerbeke engine, was running up on 60 hours at that point, and we did not want to set off on another potential 30-40 hours of motoring home without giving him fresh oil. So, knowing Venice would afford us safe dockage, hot showers, laundry, and a complete top-off of all supplies was very comforting.
We were also able to successfully check back into the U.S. via the Small Vessel Reporting App while underway, which was a huge comfort getting that last step behind us without having to set foot in an airport or a crowd. The trip that day was also a nice run up the ICW. The occasional ill-timed bridge opening was the only annoyance, but on the bright side, it allowed me some exceptional opportunities to work on my boat maneuvering skills in tight places. We (I!) docked in the early afternoon, allowing us time to wash the boat before calling in some Carrabba’s via Uber Eats for dinner!
US: Italy reports the highest single-day death toll for any country of 919. Confirmed cases in New York rise to 37,258. Cases in the U.S. surpass those in China and Italy—making it the new epicenter of the pandemic. Anguilla reports its first cases of COVID-19.
BH: Four additional cases are confirmed on New Providence, bringing the total number of cases to nine. Health officials say country experiencing a “surge.”
PR: It is a full day for us in Venice, changing Westie’s oil, dumping the fuel jerries into the tank and walking them to the dock for a re-fill, washing everything possible on the boat, and getting an Uber around town to provision up on food, oil, and antifreeze. The grocery store is a bit haunting seeing folks in masks and gloves, wiping down all of the carts before handing them to you, and so much white empty space on the shelves, particularly the you-know-what aisle. We crash back at the boat as the sun sets and order up another Uber Eats from Papa John’s.
US: The news tells us more than one-third of humanity is under some form of lockdown. The World Health Organization (“WHO”) announces that the first patients will shortly be enrolled in Norway and Spain in a trial called the Solidarity Trial, comparing the effectiveness of four different drugs or drug combinations against COVID-19. Across Florida, we learn 3,198 people have contracted the virus, 46 of whom died.
BH: The Bahamas go into “lockdown.” Any cruiser on a boat in the Bahamas is allowed to stay until their visa expires, however, they are only permitted to go ashore for essentials like fuel, medical, or food. Any cruiser ashore after 9:00 p.m. can be arrested by the Bahamian Police. Bars, liquor stores, some marinas and restaurants are closed; cruisers must call ahead. There are now nine cases in New Providence and one in Grand Bahama.
PR: We’re off the dock early headed up the ICW to DeSoto Point, an anchorage we had never been to before but had always wanted to try. Phillip and I find ourselves uncovering many little silver linings like this along the way. Hand-steering is tiring, but it proves very do-able for short day hops. After navigating some frighteningly intense fog in the morning while trying to time the bridges, we make it to DeSoto in the early afternoon and drop the hook. Phillip and I give our baby girl a quick bottom job to speed us up for our anticipated 30-hour passage offshore to Apalachicola.
US: The Zaandamn cruise ship, which had over 130 passengers with flu-like symptoms aboard and two reported COVID-19 deaths, had been out to sea for two weeks and denied access to various ports is permitted to cross the Panama Canal and proceed to Florida for dockage and quarantine. We learn New York is now being considered the epicenter of the pandemic with over 700 cases and 12% of the workforce sick. Trump recommends a strong travel ban on New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
BH: A 35-year-old woman with no recent travel history tested positive for COVID-19 on Grand Bahama.
PR: Phillip and I rise early and head off at sunset to make our way up to Clearwater to stage up for our offshore crossing. Motor-sailing into Clearwater proves anything but boring as scores of boaters of all shapes and sizes zip and whizz around us in the channel, while thirteen knots of breeze tries to push us out of it. It was very telling, though, that many people were using boating as an escape from being cooped up in their houses. There were scores of people out! But, the traffic finally settled out around sunset and the rolling ceased, allowing Phillip and I to fall fast asleep on the hook, eager to get our longest, likely most arduous offshore passage started and behind us. While the trip definitely offered us a fair amount of fun and enjoyable moments, it also felt like a marathon as we pushed each day to go as far as we safely could. Typically when we are cruising we stay longer at certain places. We rest, and explore, and don’t wear ourselves out as much, but this trip was definitely different in that we had to, every day possible, keep going, keep working, keep the boat moving toward home.
US: Trump extends the federal guidelines on social distancing for another 30 days after a top public health expert warned deaths from the coronavirus could reach as many as 200,000 in the U.S. We learn the virus count in Florida is 4,950, with a current death toll of 60. Friends from home send us reports of continued closures of restaurants and businesses. They gripe about having the kids home 24/7 and tell us downtown Pensacola looks eerily desolate, but that the anchorages are full and cheery.
BH: Three more cases are confirmed in New Providence. We hear from fellow cruisers in Eleuthera that they made it safely to Cape Eleuthera Marina and have been able to get provisions, but they advise us Great Harbour Cay is not permitting any cruisers to leave their vessels.
PR: Phillip and I weigh anchor around 6:00 a.m. and start our first offshore leg of this voyage without an auto-pilot. With very little wind, we are reliant primarily upon our engine, which makes me nervous as I always fear something can easily go wrong there, just as it did when we were trying to make it to the BVIs. Any slight beep or knock or odd sound makes me jump in fear that the engine is breaking. But, Westie holds strong and motors an impressive 34 hours all the way across. Other than navigating a few Behemoth ships during our night shifts, we have a nice run but find ourselves sore throughout our backs, arms, and shoulders from the steering.
US: Florida’s Governor asks retired first responders and health-care workers to return to the workforce as hospitals are anticipating becoming overwhelmed with virus victims. The Department of Education announces that in-person classes will not resume in Florida schools until at least May 1st.
BH: Returning Bahamian residents must undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine upon re-entry if they have traveled to other countries. The islands are closed to all tourists.
PR: We watch the sun rise over Dog Island as we make the East Pass the following morning and listen to a bit on NPR about how many thousands of people are watching the movie Contagion right now and spend the day motoring from the East Pass into Apalachicola, thankful that Westie is still running so strong and steady, and tie up at the City Dock around 5:00 p.m. We look for signs to see if dockage is prohibited but see none and we receive friendly greetings from residents, further than six feet away, who are walking about. Feeling as though we will be able to stay, Phillip and I further secure the lines knowing a hard north wind will be coming through in the following days. We’re grateful, however, that it will be blowing us off the dock, rather than onto it. However, our good luck proves short-lived when we get a knock on the hull later that evening telling us we have to leave the dock due to isolation orders. While we completely understood the reason, being banished to the river with storm-winds of potentially 40+ coming the next day was not a happy moment for this crew. We dropped 175 feet of chain with our Mantus snubber and hoped for the best.
US: We learn there has been another jump in Florida cases, which now total 6,741 with 85 deaths. Sumter County issues a stay-at-home advisory. We hear hospitals are running out of sedation drugs needed to intubate COVID-19 patients. Over 80% of the U.S., more than 262 million citizens, are under stay-at-home orders.
BH: A new case of COVID-19 brings the total number of cases on Grand Bahama to three.
PR: A different kind of storm is brewing over our heads where we wait on anchor in the Apalachicola River for the winds to build. I spend the afternoon in the cockpit watching the wind gage, the anchor, and the snubber, as the boat heels, groans, and careens on anchor. It is not a pleasant afternoon on the boat. However, the highest wind speed we see is 36 knots, and our ground tackle proves up to the task. We are still very pleased with our decision to purchase the Sarca Excelanchor. The storm finally passes around 5:00 p.m. and we immediately begin happy hour celebrations. We spend a cozy evening on the hook and set the alarm for an early rise and motor up “the ditch” the following day over to Port St. Joe. We are surprised to find a tiny little marina, Captain’s Cove Marina in the ditch, is still open for business, so we set our sights there. Sadly, we heard Port St. Joe Marina, which used to be one of our favorites, was wiped out by Hurricane Michael and has not yet been rebuilt.
US: Florida’s Governor, although reluctant to do so, issues a statewide stay-at-home order that is set to go into effect on midnight of the evening of April 2nd, the night we expect to arrive in Pensacola.
BH: Six new cases are confirmed in New Providence. A report from Staniel Cay advises no travel is permitted between the islands except for emergencies.
PR: I think Sleepy River would be a better name than “the ditch” for this part of the river. It makes you feel like you’re floating along like Huckleberry Finn would have done on his little raft. It really is a beautiful river. Unfortunately, the winds are still blowing 18-25 most of the morning and sometimes, working against both the current and the wind, our boat can only make 2-2.5 knots, a slightly scary speed when you’re motoring a tight channel. But, the current finally loosened its grip when we turned a bend in the river, and we were able to then make good speed of 4-5 knots. We tied up at Captain’s Cove Marina around 4:00 p.m. and were happy to find fuel, simple but operational hot showers, even ice. It’s the little things, you know? We set our alarms for another early rise anticipating an 18-24 hour offshore run from St. Joseph Bay home.
US: Ironically, the U.S. is now getting large shipments of masks and other personal protective equipment from China as the Chinese were thankfully able to beat the curve and are beginning to recover. Total COVID-19 cases in the world surpasses one million. Dr. Sanjay Gupta is telling us on NPR how to sanitize our groceries, which only tells us just how really weird things are going to be back home.
BH: All boaters are to remain on board their vessels. If provisions are required, they are instructed to contact local grocery stores for delivery to the nearest dock. We hear reports locals in Spanish Wells have been instructed to watch for cruisers leaving their boats and going ashore and to report them to the Bahamian Police. No domestic travel by plane or boat is permitted within the Bahamas. Three more cases of COVID-19 are confirmed in the Bahamas, the youngest is nine years old.
PR: Phillip and have a very real fear we could be stopped in Pensacola Bay while coming in and sent away or sent to a quarantine, or forced to endure some other outcome we couldn’t even predict at that point. We are hopeful, however, that the “worst” thing that could happen is they tell us to dock and go straight home to quarantine. That’s exactly what we’ve been trying to do for weeks, so we considered that to be a potentially great outcome.
We shove off the teensy dock at Captain’s Cove Marina around 6:00 a.m. and begin motoring out into the St. Joseph Bay. Thankfully, the wind allows us to motor-sail and make 6.5 knots average throughout the morning. It dies off in the afternoon and into the evening as we hand-steer and continue under motor. Phillip whips up a chorizo jumbalaya dinner that we eat under red head lamps and settle into hour-long steering shifts expecting to get to the Pensacola Pass around midnight or 2:00 a.m. Although the news reports continue to make home seem like a new frontier, Phillip and I cannot wait to get there after a long day offshore with still a long night ahead.
US: We learn Florida’s case-rate is 10,268 total cases with 170 deaths. The global economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is now estimated to be between $2 and $4 trillion, that is if the pandemic is contained by the end of September. The United States now has the highest number of cases in the world, over 245,000.
BH: The Prime Minister’s Order is interpreted by cruisers to mean once your visa expires, you are to leave Bahamian waters. There will be no extensions. In the coming days we hear cruisers trying to go ashore for provisions are being stopped by un-uniformed “Bahamian Police” and sent back to their vessels. We also learn that of the few grocery stores that remain open, many have implemented a schedule where you can only enter during certain hours according to your last name and ID must be shown and checked at the door.
PR: Phillip and I see the masts of our friends who are anchored up at Ft. McRee as we come in and, while it feels good to be in familiar waters, we both know we are actually in probably the most unfamiliar waters we’ve ever been in before with the current state of things. However, we are thrilled to see our marina on the horizon and find no other boats, no Coast Guard vessels, no Fish and Wildlife, no one out there to stop us. We motor in and dock in our designated slip under the black of night. Phillip and I walk home in our foul weather gear probably looking like we’ve donned haz-mat suits in light of the epidemic, which may not be a bad idea. We see no one, and we’re grateful for it. With that arduous journey behind us, we sleep the sleep of Gods even as the sun rises over a new day. While we have no idea what lies in store for the remainder of this year, particularly with respect to travel, I have never felt more grateful to simply have the boat safely in our fold, with the two of us healthy and back home.
The entire state of Florida goes under a complete lockdown the night we arrive.
We hope you all are staying safe and well out there.
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20 Responses to Our Corona Crusade: Sailing Home While the World Locked Down In Our Wake!
John Adams says:
anniedike says:
Glad to hear it.
Thom says:
Thanks Annie. I like the way you’ve told this story with the parallel story lines for each day. I also really like the metaphor about the bridge crumbling behind you. That’s exactly how we felt too.
Your story has many parallels to our own. We also escaped from Eleuthera, leaving from Rock Sound on March 17. The fresh water pump on our westie 27 had also gave out during our crossing to the Bahamas. (We sailed into through the Great Harbour Cut!) And, although there was nothing wrong with our autopilot, we couldn’t really use much on our crossing because we were being quartered by higher-than-forecasted waves through much of the crossing. Glad to hear your back and safe. Sorry we came so close to crossing paths without the chance to meet. Stay safe!
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Wow! What an eerily-similar path we were on. Can’t believe we both left Eleuthera at virtually the same time. Wild to hear your fresh water pump went out, too. That was such a head-stumper for us. Never saw that one coming! But, I was so grateful “Westie” (we call our engine) ran hard and true the entire time bringing us back home, and we motored a LOT. I’m so glad to hear you guys made it back safely across and are now home in Canada. Congrats! Stay safe and thanks for the comment.
Robert Wolfe says:
Welcome Home Annie and Phillip and PR! Enjoyed your escapades! s/v Great Adventure, safely docked at NAS Pensacola
Thank you! Thank you! We’re thrilled to be back, even with an arduous journey behind us. So glad you and your boat are docked safely as well. Crazy times we’re navigating now! Stay safe!
lesshustlemorecoffee says:
Wow, what a story. You will be so grateful later on in life to have documented this. Great job! I can see those lawyer skills coming out with that timeline! ;-). Glad you guys are home. Hopefully all this will blow over soon.
Thank you! I’m so glad I did, too. It was fascinating going back in time (once we were safely back in Pensacola) to truly track it day-by-day. It’s going to make quite the tale years to come. Appreciate you following. Love your blog name BTW “less hustle more coffee” – that’s clever!
Thanks for the update, I’ve been looking forward to it!
CILCIA, also safely docked at NAS Pensacola.
Oh so glad to hear it. I’m thrilled you are here and safe, too. Take care Steve!
Norm on Averisera says:
Welcome home and thanks for the details. You sure are fortunate not to be in the BVI. My friends there say things are very “inconvenient!” I hear many other islands are having it rough, too.
So… got any projects planned? I have projects and certainly the time to complete them on my sweet baboo…
Keep well,
Yes, that was a primary reason we decided to sail back home, to ensure we would be in a place where we would have freedom and access to plentiful provisions. We’re thrilled to be home. I’m glad you guys are safe too. We’ve got oodles of time for projects. We just polished the stainless yesterday, got rid of Plaintiff’s Rest’s “beard” at the base of the bow and replaced the auto-pilot computer. Plenty more to do, though. It’s actually a good time to be a boat-owner! ; )
No argument, it is always a good time to be a boat owner.
This winter was very mild on the Cape and more mold grew than I have ever before seen. So, first things first and then a whole lot of stuff I have put off while I went sailing.
You too Norm! Fair winds!
Julian Smith says:
Hi Annie,
Great post. Good to hear you’re home, safe and sound.
We’re still hunkered down here in Palm Harbor. Fortunately we’re able to walk every day, and ride our bikes to keep the cabin fever at bay. If we manage to make it to our summer place in Vermont this year it will be a lot later than usual, so we may or may not get Leda, our sweet Nonsuch 26, afloat on Lake Champlain. We’re hoping for a good outcome.
So glad to hear you are in a safe place and able to get out and get some sunshine and exercise. That’s so critical right now. Thanks for the update. Nonsuch boats are so unique and very cool cruising vessels. We hope you make it to Vermont. Such weird times we’re living in right now … Take care and stay safe!
sabre23t says:
Good to hear you managed to get back safely in Pensacola. Found your channel and blog site via Sailing Soulianis Ep.45. After viewing other YouTube channels reports of cruisers under lockdown I wondered where you are, and found this exciting & happy story. 😉
Thanks Sabri. Ahhh Kirk-Hates-Work! We love Sailing Soulianis. It was so fun to meet them randomly in Cayo Costa (a place we stopped at again while running away from the Coronavirus). Yes, we were glad to make it back safely to Pensacola, too. Thanks for the kind words. Hope you and yours are staying safe!
warren149 says:
Annie, quite the tale, I don’t think you said how you finally got Westie working at full temp , bad/sticky thermostat maybe? From when you left to arriving in Pensacola the Florida count went from 166 cases to 10268 and 170 deaths , that puts it in perspective!
Good job dealing with no autopilot! Old school! Cheers Warren
Hi Warren! I wish it had just been the thermostat, but it was the fresh water pump. Not a part we expected to fail. When we left Spanish Wells back in November of last year (I’m about to start this story on the blog), the fresh water pump seized and spilled all of the antifreeze into the bilge. When we pulled it off, we found several bearings were missing and it was shot and we do not carry that as a spare. Well … we didn’t then anyway. We will now. So, we ordered a new fresh water pump and put it on in Spanish Wells and that fixed the problem. This trip was definitely a hustle-and-go, but we were so glad we made it! Thank you!
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HOWELL, JAMES (c. –), British author, who came of an old Welsh family, was born probably at Abernant, in Carmarthenshire, where his father was rector. From the free grammar school at Hereford he went to Jesus College, Oxford, and took his degree of B.A.
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Eleanor has worked across the corporate and not for profit sector and started off her career recruiting for many different charities and government bodies ranging from Cancer Research UK to Department of Health. Following an internship at Jeans for Genes she then moved to look after Business Services at the membership charity Association for Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO). Her most recent role was with Rightmove Plc where she looked after a wide variety of projects in the pricing team.
Eleanor has since taken time out to look after her 2 young girls. During this time she has volunteered for Silsoe Pre School as a joint Secretary for the committee.
In 2009 she also helped set up ‘the dandy trust’ in memory of her father who passed away due to having a brain tumour. ‘The dandy trust’ is a fundraising group underneath Brain Tumour Research and works together to lobby government for more awareness and funding for brain tumours, as well as key fundraising for support and research.
Debbie Hull
Debbie is the Digital Communications Officer
Debbie has over 10 years’ experience in marketing and communications within the mental healthcare sector. She has a passion for creative design and was the lead designer at Partnerships in Care, an independent mental healthcare provider, for a 20 strong in-house marketing and sales team with 70+ hospitals requiring rapid turnaround of designs for both external and internal communications.
As Relationship Manager and Marketing & Communications Manager at Nouvita Healthcare, Debbie was responsible for the communication to NHS Commissioners and Case Managers to announce the opening of a new Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). This resulted in the service running at 90% occupancy within 6 weeks of opening.
Debbie’s empathy and caring nature now leads her to Healthwatch Central Bedfordshire, where she wants to encourage customer engagement on health and social care provision. As a carer for her husband, who has mental and physical health needs, she is passionate about helping to influence change and improve the quality of health and social care within our community.
Alison Newnham
Alison is the Database and Office Administrator
Alison has many years’ experience being an administrator. During her varied career she has worked in banks, schools both primary and secondary, interactive games and most recently for a charity working with students and graduates, developing internal processes to ensure a smooth run office.
She has knowledge of planning and implementing large scale events which will be additionally utilised to support the team.
Alison is an active volunteer with the Good Neighbourhood Scheme run in her village, as well as a member of GirlGuiding for over 40 years.
She looks forward to promoting Healthwatch in her local area and more widely throughout Central Bedfordshire, engaging with the general public to ensure that everyone has the best access to health and social care they both need and want.
Dave Simpson
Dave is the Chair and a Director of Healthwatch Central Bedfordshire
Dave was diagnosed with Oesophageal cancer in 2009 and following successful treatment is now a local champion for cancer patients and their families to ensure the patient voice is heard.
Dave previously enjoyed a varied career which included serving in the Royal Air Force as an Assistant Air Traffic Controller, landlord of a pub, an IT trainer and a Fleet and Facilities Manager.
As well as being a Director of Healthwatch Central Bedfordshire, Dave is the former Chair of Bedford Cancer Action Partnership and is Deputy Chair of Flitwick Surgery Patient Partnership Group. Dave was a member of both the South East London Consumer Research Panel for Cancer at Guys Hospital and Bedford Cancer Awareness Champions. Dave is a patient representative on several groups at the East of England Strategic Clinical Network and is also a patient representative and reviewer on the National Cancer Peer Review.
More recently Dave is an independent representative on the Public Engagement Forum and West Mid Beds Patient Participation Group of the Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group. Dave also works with Macmillan Cancer Support as a reviewer and volunteer speaker.
Gill Hiscox
Gill is Vice Chair and a Director of Healthwatch Central Bedfordshire
Gill has a wealth of experience and local knowledge about health care systems and providers. Gill has worked within the NHS in Bedfordshire for over 40 years, initially in Human Resources with the local Health Authority, and more recently as a Practice Manager in a local GP practice for over 15 years.
Gill was elected South Bedfordshire Trust Board member of the Luton and Dunstable Hospital and has been a member for four years. Gill is also a local Parish Councillor in Central Bedfordshire.
Gill was responsible for setting up the first Patient Participation Group (PPG) in Bedfordshire which won a National Award for its patient involvement. As part of her current role Gill is currently involved in discussions around GP Federations and all the potential changes that will hopefully drive the NHS forward.
Gill is passionate about hearing and listening to the patient voice and recently took on the role of Chair of the West Mid Beds Locality Patient Participation Group. Gill has also found time to manage a local Girl Guide Unit for the past 30 years in her local community.
Linda is a Director of Healthwatch Central Bedfordshire
Linda has enjoyed a varied career in both the health care sector and the corporate sector. Previously Linda was branch secretary of the Independent Cabin Staff Union for 13 years using her negotiation skills in relation to pay and conditions of employment for the independent airlines. Linda was also Chair of the Air Safety Conference and represented cabin staff at employment tribunals.
Linda has over ten years of personal knowledge and experience of mental health service provision, particularly Dementia, Alzheimer’s and Bi-polar, having previously cared for elderly relatives and family members, navigating through specialist care services. Working within the Pharmaceutical Industry, involved in establishing Norplant in the UK, Linda organised the clinical training of GP’s, Consultants, Midwifes and Nurses for Norplant insertion. Linda was also instrumental in establishing ‘Teen Screen’ in the local community.
More recently Linda has been working as a debt advisor having trained and worked with Advice UK. Linda uses her financial knowledge to support families in financial difficulties, offering advice and information to avoid litigation. Linda also represents Lenders in court as their advocate.
Linda is also a Healthwatch Central Bedfordshire (HWCB) Volunteer and Champion. Linda has completed training to be an authorised Enter and View Representative and also represents HWCB at various stakeholder meetings and Carers Cafés. Linda uses her vast knowledge and experience to encourage people to contact HWCB with issues and concerns and to ‘tell their story’.
Paul Downing
Paul is a Director of Healthwatch Central Bedfordshire
Paul joins us after serving four years as a Central Bedfordshire Councillor 2015-19 where he worked on the Social Care, Health and Housing Overview and Scrutiny Committee and Joint Health Committee alongside Councillors from Bedford, Luton and Milton Keynes.
Paul was part of the CBC review team that wrote a paper on Integrated Care in Central Bedfordshire in 2018. He is involved with a number of local charities as a volunteer and in 2013 retired from Policing where at his last posting he headed up the College of Policing’s Investigative Crime Training Unit. His hobbies include weeding a semi-abandoned allotment and looking for his lost golf balls!
Karen Proctor
Karen is a Director of Healthwatch Central Bedfordshire
Karen has academic qualifications in both health related studies and management and has worked in the NHS for nearly forty years initially as a nurse and midwife delivering front line care, progressing to Board level as Director of Nursing and Chief Operating Officer.
Karen recently retired as Director of Quality from Guys & St Thomas NHS Trust which involved working with partners and patient groups. More recently Karen has been a Vice Chair for the Quality & Audit Group at Keech Hospice for nine years and is also a Trustee for Heritage Care which looks after elderly patients with learning disabilities and mental health problems. Karen is passionate about improving patient experience and safety and is also a specialist advisor to the CQC.
Hayley Leeson
Haylee is a Youth Director of Healthwatch Central Bedfordshire
“Hello I’m Haylee Leeson, I’m 13 years old. I am a member of Central Bedfordshire Youth Parliament.”
“I have been elected to sit on Healthwatch as a young person’s representative. I like to help people and the community young to old, I’m responsible and organised.”
Valentina Kalanyos
Valentina is a Youth Director of Healthwatch Central Bedfordshire
“My name is Valentina, I’m one of the Youth Directors for Healthwatch Central Beds and I’m also the chair of the Central Bedfordshire Youth Parliament.”
“I absolutely love working with people and helping the community. I’m very passionate about my work with Young Healthwatch and all my social and activism work.
My goal as a Youth Director will be to collaborate with Healthwatch on an even bigger level than before and keep making as much positive change.”
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Debra Shaw Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics
Debra Shaw Quick Info
Date of Birth November 14, 1977
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Eye Color Dark Brown
Debra Shaw is an American top model, actress, and singer who took the modeling industry by storm in the 90s. She has walked for many high-end brands such as Christian Dior, Gianni Versace, Givenchy, and Valentino. She has also walked the ramps for some of the most well-distinguished designers like Alexander McQueen and Karl Lagerfeld. Debra has also been featured on the cover of several magazines including Vogue Portugal and L’Officiel Spain. She is also a talented singer who goes on performing in concerts throughout Europe.
Debra Shaw
Debra Shaw in an Instagram post as seen in January 2019 (Debra Shaw / Instagram)
Debra studied design before pursuing her career in modeling.
Model, Actress, Singer
Debra Shaw is represented by –
Red Model Management – New York
Metropolitan / M Management – Paris
Gospel, Jazz, and Neo-soul
Debra Shaw and Douglas Says as seen in September 2018 (Debra Shaw / Twitter)
10.5 (US) or 41 (EU) or 8 (UK)
Debra has done endorsement work for several brands such as –
Felipe Varela
Ixus by Canon
Patty Shelabarger
Debra Shaw (Right) and Dominique Jackson as seen in September 2018 (Debra Shaw / Twitter)
Modeling for several top designers such as Gianni Versace, Alexander McQueen, Karl Lagerfeld, and Pierre Balmain
Starring in Martine Dugowson’s comedy-romance film Portraits chinois in 1996
Being featured on the cover of several magazines including Vogue and L’Officiel
She debuted at the Ready to Wear – Spring/Summer 1993 fashion week. Debra walked the ramp for French designer Martine Sitbon.
She released her first album titled Debra’s Dream in June 2015.
Debra made her theatrical film debut as a model in Robert Altman’s Prêt-à-Porter in 1994.
Debra made her first TV show appearance in The Bill Cosby Show.
She practices yoga as a hobby which is a good way to find inner-peace and remain calm even during stressful days.
Debra Shaw in an Instagram post in January 2018 (Debra Shaw / Instagram)
Debra Shaw Facts
She was born in Philadelphia but brought up in New Jersey.
In 1996, she was featured in the music video of George Michael‘s Fast Love.
Prior to starting a career in modeling, Debra wanted to work as a fashion designer.
She wore one of the last dresses designed by Gianni Versace prior to his assassination on July 15, 1997.
In January 2019, Debra was listed on models.com’s “Industry Icons” list.
For her inspiration in modeling, she looked up to people who had a unique style. Some of the models were Ziggy, Debbie Cobb, Yvette Prescott, and Tammy Echols.
Before becoming a model, she worked as a saleswoman in a mall. A model spotted her and suggested that she should go to Paris and become a model.
One of her unspoken talents is singing. She enjoys listening to music genres such as gospel, jazz, and neo-soul and found her musical inspiration from artists such as Sandra St. Victor, Carleen Anderson, N’dambi, Mica Paris, Maysa, and Soul singer Ledisi.
She has often been compared to singer-songwriter Jill Scott for the talents that she shares with Jill.
Debra once threw up on designer Gianfranco Ferrè’s shoes while trying to make to a trash can across the room.
Her hobbies are doing yoga, going bike riding, and playing tennis.
Debra supports causes Life Ball AIDS charity in Vienna, Austria and Orange Babies AIDS charity Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Follow her on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
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Merging Parties
If you have duplicate parties, you can merge them via the Parties page. Watch the video in this article or follow the step-by-step instructions to learn how to merge duplicate parties in Landboss.
1. Click on Parties from the menu bar
2. Search for one of the parties to be merged
Oftentimes, searching for only part of a party's name is helpful. For example, searching by a party's last name will pull up all results, as opposed to adding a first name, which might limit your results.
3. Click on that party's name
Clicking on either party's name will work, as we'll be given the option of which party we'd like to keep in Step 6.
4. Click on the Merge link in the upper right corner
5. Enter the other party to merge
6. Select which party you want to keep
Click on the radio button to the right of the name of the party you would like to keep.
7. Tell Landboss how to handle addresses and phone numbers
There are three options; replace the merged party's items, append the old items on to the merged party, or do nothing. Choosing the Append option will add all the addresses and phone numbers together; for example, if each party had an address, there would be two addresses for the merged party.
8. Click Preview Changes button
9. If satisfied, click Save Changes button
If not, click Cancel.
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by Anders Christian Madsen
04 November 2015, 2:40pm
hillier bartley is redefining what it means to be sexy
Once a rebel, always a rebel. Challenging the unwritten rules of the industry, Hillier Bartley is the defiant new label fronted by two of fashion’s most influential contemporary designers.
Luella Bartley recently bought her first pair of heels. "Oh they're so slutty. Proper slutty Saint Laurent heels," she says, chuffed. "It's more of an empowered slut," Katie Hillier adds, "because you do feel very bossy in that stuff." Giving into the stiletto's sex appeal was something of an epiphany for Bartley, a lifer in the flats department. "I feel like I've changed loads in the last year. It was that dress," she admits, referring to a floor-length crepe gown with a tuxedo scarf attached to it, the showstopper in the debut Hillier Bartley collection the two designers are launching this season. "As you get older you become so much more in tune with your own sexuality. This collection, I feel, is the sexiest thing I've ever done. And I know it's completely covered up and it's mainly menswear, but it's so elegant and sexy. And it was kind of redefining what sexy can be," Bartley says. "For me that menswear-y loucheness is very sexy." Hillier: "A satin blouse with no bra!" Bartley: "That reminded me immediately of Madonna in a blue Gucci silk…"—"Oh yeah, you could see her nips. That's what I like," Hillier smirks.
Perched on a sofa in the foyer of their studio building, the Rochelle School of Arts in Shoreditch, the BFF designers are like a non-stop ping-pong machine of wry mischief, even at 10 AM. Just on the other side of 40, they've spent the past 20 years influencing the fashion landscape -- Bartley with womenswear, Hillier with accessories. Most recently, they reinvented Marc by Marc Jacobs together, until the line folded into the brand's main collection. They were already planning the new label before that happened, and what Bartley calls the "grown-up, woman-friendly" spirit of Hillier Bartley isn't a reaction against the hyper-young aesthetic the pair perfected at MBMJ. It's an answer to what they felt fashion was missing for women like themselves—wrapped in a label run by themselves, on their own terms. (Hillier continues to work for Marc Jacobs). You could say they're building a new empire, but you'd be wise not to. "We're building a semi-detached, made out of sandstone," Bartley quips. "It could be Georgian," offers Hillier.
It's the independent core of Hillier Bartley, and part of an ethos that's really quite rebellious in an industry where megalomania is heaven and youth worship is the reverence that'll get you there. "It's a different kind of rebellion when you're older. Young rebellion is full of angst and energy, and older rebellion is a real kind of personal don't-give-a-shit-about-what's-going-on and you become so comfortable in your skin that you just do what you want," Bartley says. Their first collection, shown only to buyers in the spring and shot for its public unveiling on these pages, is a handsome and somewhat princely line of pristine tailoring: the perfect camel coat, silky pussy bow blouses, and that grand de-formalized gown that defines the sophisticated sex appeal of the collection. "I'm still wearing jeans and T-shirts but I feel like I have more presence in those things now," Bartley explains. "And those are the clothes we're making, that give a woman presence. It harmoniously fits with an experienced personality."
"We're not trying to make catwalk clothes, we're trying to make clothes that have a design quality to it but also a real quality to it. It hasn't got bells and whistles," she says. A pause. "That jacket with the tassels is pretty bells and whistles," Hillier laughs. They were first introduced by mutual friend Katie Grand in 1999. Soon, Hillier -- Greenford-bred and educated at the University of Westminster -- began designing accessories for Luella, the eponymous label Bartley -- a Central Saint Martins alum from Stratford Upon Avon -- had founded that same year and would front until its closure in 2008. They both spent their twenties in the golden age of London's underground scenes, in a time before social media would gentrify subculture. "We never felt like we were in it," Bartley says. "Oh I did," Hillier ponders. Bartley: "Hindsight creates a lot of underground. Actually, being at a rave you felt like you were." Hillier: "You really did." Bartley: "It just felt like youth. You were an army of youth and very different. That was a good feeling."
In the 2000s, Bartley played a huge part in the rise of the indie Brit girl movement and put Mulberry back on the map when she created the brand's Gisele bag. Hillier has been behind some of fashion's most famous accessories through her work for designers from Stella McCartney to Marc Jacobs and Victoria Beckham. If the accomplishments that shot them to fashion fame sprung from the environment surrounding their youth, however, they haven't allowed it to define them. Quite the opposite. Hillier Bartley is the embodiment of the cool indie girl, who has now grown up and is feeling sexy in a different way. (Not that it in any way excludes women under thirty, as proved by early customer Florence Welch.) "I still wear sequinned leopard print dresses with thigh high suede boots," Hillier says. "But they're flat boots, they're not high boots. And the dress is a certain—you know, it's decent."
You could say the collection -- much like Bartley and Hillier themselves -- is youth in a grown-up shell. But with their aged, authoritarian femininity there's a certain sort of eccentricity to the garments. "Vanity with a touch of vagrant," Bartley says, echoing a quote used about Lucian Freud. "It's that kind of eccentricity: an aged eccentricity, a subtle eccentricity." It's certainly reflected in the characters that inspired it: Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen, Withnail from Withnail and I, Edward VIII, David Bowie, Virginia Woolf, Princess Anne, and Katharine Hepburn. But, as Bartley says, "You've put the years in so you're allowed to use the references. They feel personal as opposed to going, 'That's cool. I'll have that.' Which, admittedly, is what I used to do. I'd go, 'Ooh, Kathleen Hanna, I'll have a bit of that!' And I hadn't even listened to the music."
Above all, it's about taking charge and the independence that comes with it, creatively as well as commercially. "It's about not taking dictats from anywhere else. We're doing what we can cope with and what we can control and what we feel comfortable with. We're not gonna make a north-south tote just because everyone else is." Bartley says. "And that might mean we don't make as much money, but we're kind of okay with that," Hillier adds. "Obviously we want to make money, that's why we're doing it -- it's our vanity project -- and we believe in our product, but we're not going for world domination. We're going for cottage industry." In other words: no shows, no presentations, and no pre-collections—anytime soon, anyway. "These sweeping statements you always regret," Bartley laughs, "but at the moment I feel like I could happily not do another show. I don't think it fits with what we're trying to do. I would much prefer to show someone, and talk about it myself and have them trying things on and feeling it."
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Text Anders Christian Madsen
All imagery courtesy of Hillier Bartley
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News, Pakistan, Sindh
Karachi Rangers should be sent back to protect the borders: Supreme Court of Pakistan
Karachi Rangers should be sent back to borders: SC
By Asghar Azad
KARACHI: The Supreme Court has said Pakistan Rangers were deployed in Karachi 18 years ago to maintain law and order but the situation was becoming critical by the day, adding the force should be sent back to safeguard borders and the funds being spent on Rangers should be spent on the Sindh Police instead so they could yield better results.
A five-member larger bench of the SC in its Karachi registry comprising Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmani, Justice Amir Hani Muslim and Justice Gulzar Ahmed was hearing a report on the implementation of the court’s order in the Karachi unrest case on Thursday.
Sindh Advocate General Abdul Fattah Malik, Additional IG Iqbal Mehmood, AIG (Legal) Ali Sher Jakhrani, Sindh Prosecutor General Shahadat Awan, Additional Chief Secretary Wasim Ahmad and other officials were also present in the court.
Justice Khilji Arif Hussain asked Wasim Ahmad, “Which year were the Pakistan Rangers deployed in Karachi and what were its purposes?” Ahmad said, “It was deployed in Karachi in 1995 to maintain law and order situation in the city.”
A report was produced before the bench that stated “there were a total of 2,381 important cases, including murder, and out of them only 661 suspects had been arrested while more than 3,500 remained at large”.
Another report was produced before the bench by the traffic DIG about unregistered and non-custom paid vehicles. He submitted, “There are more than 15,000 public transport and 2.3 million other vehicles on the roads of the metropolis, while only 3,000 traffic personnel are available for to control the traffic.” The court then ordered action against vehicles that were unregistered, non-duty paid, internationally registered or in poor condition.
Justice Khilji remarked there was no alternate system of public transport available and that not even 10 percent of public transport drivers had licences. A report about the culprits released on parole was presented in the court during the course of the hearing. As per the report, Prisons IG Zafar Bokhari said 226 persons had been released on parole. The court observed as per the list 193 among the accused released on parole had been convicted and sentenced and one was facing charges of murder, illegal arms and kidnapping for ransom.
Additional Home Secretary Wasim Ahmad informed the bench there were a large number of prisoners released on parole but they had been “missing” for the last seven years. Justice Hani remarked, “There is no legal provision or law for release of prisoners on parole, who were involved in case regarding diyat and qisas.” Justice Khilji said, “Relevant judicial magistrate is the only authority who can release any under trial prisons on parole.”
The IG replied the accused were set free on parole under the directives of the Home Department. Justice Osmani remarked, “We are fighting against the terrorists and the government is releasing them.”
Justice Hani observed if this was the situation then the prisons’ gates could be opened and whosoever wills may stay in jail and whosoever wills may leave. The court also observed that the Sindh Home Department was running a parallel judicial system in the province. Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmani inquired from the prisons IG the court be told on next hearing on what basis the accused involved in heinous crimes had been released on parole. The hearing of the case was adjourned sine dine.
Courtesy: Daily Times
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URGENT ALERT: RMP Lit-Num school red-tagged, host community attacked by paramilitaries
The paramilitary group, Wild Dogs, attacked a Higaonon community in Esperanza, Agusan del Sur after staff of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) asked permission for the reopening of their Literacy and Numeracy (Lit-Num) School in the the municipality.
On June 10, 2011, Melissa Amado-Comiso, the coordinator of the Lit-Num program, accompanied by Datu Man-altuwan, Datu Mantapaos Man-atibay, Benhul Hagonoy, Negosyon Lagaolao, Carolina Namatidong and Kelly Sendatol, talked to Nida Manpatilan, the mayor of Esperanza. During their visit, Nida’s husband, Deo S. Manpatilan who is also the immediate former mayor of Esperanza, was there and accused the Lit-Num school to have taught children the ideas and songs of the Communist New Peoples Army. He further insisted that should the community want development, they should accept mining companies which could provide them with schools and other services.
Manpatilan went as far as to say that the community of Simontanan, where the Lit-Num school is to be reopened, will cause the destruction of their entire barangay. Manpatilan is the head of Wild Dogs, its members trained under the National Internal Security Program (NISP) of Gloria Arroyo’s administration, and had been using the group to force communities in Esperanza to acknowledge his Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title and recognize him as the head of the Higaonon communities in the municipality. Communities, including Sitio Simontanan, however, refused to concede their Ancestral Domains to Manpatilan as they continue to resist the entry of mining companies and logging concessions into their lands.
These communities have, for years, been targets of military operations, having been branded as supporters of the New Peoples Army. The RMP had previously initiated a Literacy and Numeracy school to capacitate the locals in knowing and defending their rights, to enable them to participate in peace-building processes, and to protect them from being taken advantage. However, due to the red-baiting and out of fear of being subjected to military interrogations, volunteer teachers were not able to sustain their work. The other Lit-Num schools sponsored by the RMP throughout the region experienced similar situations – some schools even used as camps by the military during operations. Only recently, the RMP decided to reopen its Lit-Num schools in the provinces of Agusan del Sur and Bukidnon hoping that the change of government allows space for such community-based initiatives.
However, the subsequent events in Sitio Simontanan closes these possibilities. On June 30, at around 5 in the morning, members of the Wild Dogs, some of whom community members have identified as Laging Binsalan, Tala Mansinugdan, Edik Bat-ongan and a certain ‘Ihag’, massacred the family of Arpe Belayong otherwise known as Datu Lapugotan. Datu Lapugotan, 40 years old, and Sulte ‘Amang’ San-ogan, a 21 year old deaf-mute, were instantly killed. Two of Datu Lapugotan’s children, Michelle, 14 years old and Longlong, 6 were hit on the legs. With their mother, they ran to the nearby forest and hid there for days.
Datu Lapugotan is the younger brother of Datu Mampaagi who was similarly killed by members of Task Force Gantangan, a Lumad armed group created by the Armed Forces of the Philippines in 2008. Datu Mampaagi was among the founding members of the Higaonon community organization Linundigan, which means ‘the source of all the good traditions, laws and customs’ and which actively campaigned against extractive operations in their Ancestral Domain.
These incidents clearly show what the government means by ‘development’. What happened was no different from the killings, massacres, tortures and harassments experienced by the Lumads in the previous administration. We condemn the continuing repression of the Indigenous Peoples! We condemn the attack on the community which has been trying to capacitate themselves through peace-building efforts such as reopening their Literacy and Numeracy school!
For more information, you may contact the urgent alert sources below:
RURAL MISSIONARIES OF THE PHILIPPINES
Northern Mindanao Sub-Region (RMP-NMR)
P.O. Box 41324, 9200 Iligan City, PHILIPPINES
Telefax. No: +63-223-5179
E-mail address: rmp_nmr@yahoo.com.ph or rmp.nmr@gmail.com
KALUMBAY Regional Lumad Organization
c/o Ethnic Groups Development Resource Center (EGDRC)
Ilocos St., Aluba Phase II, Macasandig
9000 Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines
Tel Nos: +63 (88) 310 8253
E-mail Address: kalumbay@gmail.com
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Characteristics of opioid prescriptions for discharged pediatric emergency department patients with acute injuries
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6378-8761Lauren Krystine Kahl1,
Martha W Stevens1,
Andrea C Gielen2,
Eileen M McDonald2,
Leticia Ryan1
1 Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
2 Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Correspondence to Dr. Lauren Krystine Kahl, Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA; lkahl4{at}jhmi.edu
This study describes the characteristics of opioid prescriptions for pediatric patients discharged from the emergency department (ED) with acute injuries, including type, formulation, quantity dispensed, and associations with patient age group and prescriber level of training. This retrospective cohort study enrolled all acutely injured patients receiving opioid prescriptions at discharge from an urban academic pediatric ED in a 1-year period. Electronic medical records were reviewed to abstract clinical and prescription data and prescriber level of training. Descriptive statistics were used for analysis. We identified 254 patients with injuries who received opioid prescriptions at ED discharge during the study period (mean age 9.5 years, 65% male). The most common injury was fracture (71%). Oxycodone was the opioid most frequently prescribed (96.1%). Liquid formulations were prescribed in 51.6% of cases. The median number of doses prescribed per prescription was 12 (SD±9.1), with a range of 1–50. Residents wrote 72.9% of prescriptions and prescribed more doses than non-residents (15.5 vs 12.2, p=0.01). Post-graduate year 2 (PGY2) residents prescribed more doses than PGY1 or PGY3+ residents. Our data show wide variation in the number of opioid doses prescribed to acutely injured pediatric patients at ED discharge and frequent use of liquid formulation; both factors may place this population at risk for accidental ingestion. These findings also support the development of pediatric clinical guidelines to define appropriate quantities of opioids to prescribe, promote poisoning prevention strategies, and design post-graduate education for medical trainees about safe prescribing practices.
Contributors LR and LKK conceived and designed the study. LR supervised the conduct of the study and data collection. LKK collected and managed the data. LR, MWS, ACG, ESM, and LKK provided advice on study design. LR and LKK analyzed the data. LKK drafted the manuscript, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. LR and LKK take responsibility for the paper as a whole.
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Investigate predictive capacity of in-hospital mortality of four severity score systems on critically ill patients with acute kidney injury
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9285-3753Yu Gong1,
Feng Ding2,
Fen Zhang3,
Yong Gu2
1 Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Shanghai Municipal Eighth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China
2 Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
3 School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Correspondence to Dr Yu Gong, Department of Internal medicine, Divisionof Nephrology, Shanghai MunicipalEighth People’s Hospital, , Shanghai, China; gyfd66{at}sina.com
Although significant improvements have been achieved in the renal replacement therapy of acute kidney injury (AKI), the mortality of patients with AKI remains high. The aim of this study is to prospectively investigate the capacity of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation version II (APACHE II), Simplified Acute Physiology Score version II (SAPS II), Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) and Acute Tubular Necrosis Individual Severity Index (ATN-ISI) to predict in-hospital mortality of critically ill patients with AKI. A prospective observational study was conducted in a university teaching hospital. 189 consecutive critically ill patients with AKI were selected according Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss, or End-stage kidney disease criteria. APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI counts were obtained within the first 24 hours following admission. Receiver operating characteristic analyses (ROCs) were applied. Area under the ROC curve (AUC) was calculated. Sensitivity and specificity of in-hospital mortality prediction were calculated. In this study, the in-hospital mortality of critically ill patients with AKI was 37.04% (70/189). AUC of APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI was 0.903 (95% CI 0.856 to 0.950), 0.893 (95% CI 0.847 to 0.940), 0.908 (95% CI 0.866 to 0.950) and 0.889 (95% CI 0.841 to 0.937) and sensitivity was 90.76%, 89.92%, 90.76% and 89.08% and specificity was 77.14%, 70.00%, 71.43% and 71.43%, respectively. In this study, it was found APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI are reliable in-hospital mortality predictors of critically ill patients with AKI. Trial registration number: NCT00953992.
Acute kidney injury (AKI)
acute tubular necrosis individual severity index (ATN-ISI)
Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA)
severity score system
Significance of this study
Although significant improvements have been achieved in the renal replacement therapy of acute kidney injury (AKI), the mortality of patients with AKI remains high.
What are the new findings?
Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation version II (APACHE II), Simplified Acute Physiology Score version II (SAPS II), Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) and Acute Tubular Necrosis Individual Severity Index (ATN-ISI) are reliable in-hospital mortality predictors of critically ill patients with AKI.
Outcome prediction is of great importance in clinical practice. APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI severity score systems are useful tools for the prediction of patients’ outcome.
Although significant improvements in renal replacement therapy of critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) have achieved, the mortality remains high. AKI is frequent and is associated with poor outcomes.1 AKI elevates the risk of cardiovascular mortality and major cardiovascular events including heart failure and acute myocardial infarction.2 It increases the risk of other severe life-threatening complications.
Recently, several new urine and serum biomarkers for the early diagnosis of AKI such as cystatin C, kidney injury molecule-1, neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin3 4 and interleukin-18 have been found. These new biomarkers have shown promising abilities to predict the occurrence of AKI. However, they cannot predict the in-hospital mortality of patients with AKI. Biomarker alone-based strategies are costly and prone to failure because of the clinical heterogeneity displayed by individual patients.5 Prediction of in-hospital mortality of critically ill patients with AKI has become an important issue facing clinicians. We have evaluated predictive capacity of two kinds of severity scoring systems including Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation version II (APACHE II) and Acute Tubular Necrosis Individual Severity Index (ATN-ISI) to predict hospital mortality of the elderly patients with AKI.6 Simplified Acute Physiology Score version II (SAPS II) and Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) were important severity score systems in clinical practice. The aim of the study is to prospectively evaluate the predictive capacity of in-hospital mortality of APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI in critically ill patients with AKI.
In a university teaching hospital, 189 consecutive critically ill patients with AKI in an emerging country were enrolled into this prospective study. One hundred and thirty-nine were male and 50 were female. The mean age was 63.33±18.29 years old. Clinical features and laboratory tests of 189 critically ill patients with AKI were shown in table 1. The inclusion criteria were on the basis of Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss, or End-stage kidney disease (RIFLE) criteria.7 8 R stage of the RIFLE criteria were inclusion criteria for the study. Patients with chronic kidney disease before AKI, critically ill patients with AKI with hospital stay of <24 hours, critically ill patients with AKI who were caused by postrenal obstruction and kidney transplantation were excluded in this study. APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI counts were obtained within the first 24 hours following admission. APACHE II scores were assessed according to the method presented by Knaus et al.9 SOFA scores were assessed according to the method of Vincentet al.10 SAPS II scores were assessed according to the method of Le Gall et al.11 ATN-ISI scores were assessed according to the method presented by Liaño et al.12 Patients with severe AKI were treated with continuous renal replacement therapy and intermittent hemodialysis. The primary outcome was identified as survived and non-survived before the study began. According to their final clinical outcomes, all patients were divided into survived group (n=119) and non-survived group (n=70). Clinical features and laboratory test results of the critically ill patients with AKI were collected at admitting to the hospital or within the next 24 hours.
Clinical features and laboratory test results of 189 consecutive critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI)
In this study, receiver operating characteristic analyses (ROC), McNemar test and Kappa test were used. By applying the software of Statistical Product and Service Solutions V.16.0, the statistical analysis was performed. By means of summary measurements (mean±SD) or median (interquartile) of quantitative variables, the results were expressed. Comparison of parameters of the four groups was conducted by using Student’s t-test, and the comparison of non-parametric data of the four groups was conducted by using Mann-Whitney test. We considered p value <0.05 as statistically significant. We calculated adjusted ORs and 95% CIs. After ROC analyses, area under the ROC curve (AUC) of these four scoring systems was calculated. Sensitivity and specificity of in-hospital mortality prediction of the four scoring systems were also calculated and compared.
It conforms to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki in 1975 (as revised in Edinburgh 1983). Informed, written consent was obtained from every patient.
In this study, the in-hospital mortality of critically ill patients with AKI was 37.04% (70/189). There were gender differences in the in-hospital mortality of patients. The mortality of male patients was 36.7% and the mortality of female was 38.0%, which was a little higher than that of male patients. ROC curves of APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI were drawn up to assess the effectiveness of the in-hospital mortality prediction on critically ill patients with AKI, as shown in figure 1. The AUC of APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI was 0.903 (95% CI 0.856 to 0. 950), 0.893 (95% CI 0.847 to 0.940), 0.908 (95% CI 0.866 to 0.950) and 0.889 (95% CI 0.841 to 0.937). The AUC of SOFA was the largest among the four scoring systems (as shown in table 2).
Receiver operating characteristic analyses curves of APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI severity score system on the in-hospital mortality prediction of critically ill patients with acute kidney injury. apache2ae, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation version II (APACHE II); lianoae, Acute Tubular Necrosis Individual Severity Index (ATN-ISI); saps, Simplified Acute Physiology Score version II (SAPS II); sofaae, Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA).
Area under the receiver operating characteristic analyses curves of APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI severity score systems on in-hospital mortality prediction of critically ill patients with acute kidney injury
In this study, it was found that mean value of APACHE II, ATN-ISI, SAPS II, SOFA scores of the non-survival group was higher than that of the survival group, p<0.001, as shown in table 3. Sensitivity of hospital mortality prediction of APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI scoring systems was 90.76%, 89.92%, 90.76% and 89.08%, respectively. Specificity of hospital mortality prediction of APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI systems was 77.14%, 70.00%, 71.43% and 71.43%, respectively. The sensitivity of in-hospital mortality prediction of APACHE II and SOFA were the highest. Specificity of in-hospital mortality prediction of APACHE II was the highest (as shown in table 4). The predicted mortality rate of APACHE II, ATN-ISI, SAPS, and SOFA was shown in table 5.
Mean value of APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI severity score systems scores of survival group and non-survival group of critically ill patients with acute kidney injury
Sensitivity and specificity of in-hospital mortality prediction of APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI severity score systems on critically ill patients with acute kidney injury
Predicted in-hospital mortality rate and real in-hospital mortality rate of APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI severity score systems on critically ill patients with acute kidney injury
In this study, capacity of in-hospital mortality prediction on critically ill patients with AKI of APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI was compared. AUC of the four systems were all larger than 0.88, which suggested that the four systems have the capacity of prediction of in-hospital mortality on critically ill patients with AKI.
Critically ill patients with AKI are associated with significantly extends hospitalizations and increased mortality despite prevention efforts and improvements in therapeutics. Previous research found that in patients of intensive care unit (ICU), the in-hospital mortality of AKI was averaging 36.4%.13 In Italy, it was reported that the in-hospital mortality of critically ill patients with AKI was 39.1% in an intermediate nephrology care unit,14 which was a little higher than that of our study.
Renal function of patients on admission seems to be a significant independent prognostic factor for long-term mortality and new cardiovascular morbidity over a 10-year period.15 In a study on the performance of SAPS II, APACHE II, Logistic Organ Dysfunction, Organ Dysfunctions and/or Infection, ATN-ISI (Liano) and Mehta in predicting in-hospital mortality of critically ill patients with AKI, in-hospital mortality rate was found to be 75%,16 which was much higher than that of our research (37.04%). This is because the data in their study come from a developing country that owned less advanced technologies and equipment. In their study, mean APACHE II scores were 27.4±6.3 points and mean SAPS II scores were 48.5±11.2 points, which were much higher than that of our research, which was 16.00 (12.0, 26.0), 43.0 (31.0, 60.5), respectively. This confirmed that renal function on admission and the severity of critically ill patients with AKI in their study were more serious than that of our study.
The ROC is a comprehensive index that reflects the sensitivity and specificity of continuous variables. It reveals the relationship between sensitivity and specificity by mapping method. The greater the area under the curve, the higher diagnostic accuracy is. In the study of Maccariello et al,16 AUC of SAPS II was 0.72, and they concluded that general severity score system and AKI special severity score system were inaccurate in predicting outcomes of critically ill patients with AKI in ICU who needed renal replacement therapy (RRT). This result is quite different from our research that demonstrated that APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI are useful for evaluating the prognosis of critically ill patients with AKI. Perhaps this is because the data of their study came from the critically ill patients with AKI and need for RRT in ICU. The clinical conditions of these patients were more serious.
ATN-ISI belongs to AKI special severity score system that mainly focus on scoring the severity of AKI and evaluates the risk of death of AKI itself completely. ATN-ISI is a linear model for analysis of hospital mortality of AKI, and the score is derived from the physical signs and laboratory test results of the disease. ATN-ISI was originally derived from the statistics of acute tubular necrosis and the parameters of AKI. ATN-ISI was easy to obtain and had good versatility.12 These score indices (gender, exposure to renal toxicity and oliguria) of ATN-ISI focus on the evaluation of the severity of AKI. Time points for parameter collection will lead to large differences in scores of ATN-ISI. For example, when patients use sedatives, analgesics and anesthetics, it will affect the evaluation of scores of coma and will also leads to the differences of final evaluation scores of ATN-ISI. A lot of factors affected the prognosis of critically ill patients with AKI. In addition to the main parameters in ATN-ISI system, serum urea, creatinine concentration, heart rate, serum albumin level, central venous pressure, coagulation time, immune system failure and hemodialysis model were the important influence factors. In fact, there are fewer parameters to evaluate these important influence factors in ATN-ISI that lead to the lack of comprehensiveness of ATN-ISI.
APACHE II system assigned little index scores to renal failure (AKI)9 and inclined to evaluation of the score indices such as blood coagulation, infection, anemia, blood concentration, arrhythmia, electrolyte, acid-base metabolism and so on. APACHE II takes into account the influence on prognosis of surgery, circulatory failure, nervous system disease, gastrointestinal bleeding, chronic liver disease, chronic kidney disease and tumor. SAPS II system was proposed by Le Gall et al on the basis of SAPS I in 1984.17 SAPS II was built on the foundation of a large sample of patients that included data from consecutive admissions to 13 152 patients in 137 ICUs in 12 countries. It includes 12 physiology variables and three underlying disease variables (AIDS, metastatic cancer and hematologic malignancy).11 SOFA is a relatively independent severity score system compared with the APACHE II and SAPS II, and the correlations among them were not significant. SOFA score was based on the degree of organ dysfunction of patients and was used in clinical practices to assess disease’s severity and predict mortality and in clinical research. It includes serum creatinine and assigns more points to higher creatinine values, and as such, the scoring system and stages of AKI are directly connected. For this reason, previous authors have used scoring systems like SOFA. In the study of Carbonell et al,18 SOFA score was found to be a useful tool to categorize critically ill patients with AKI and to describe a sequence of complications of critically ill patients with AKI in ICU. In our study, it was found that the AUC of SOFA system was 0.908 (95% CI 0.866 to 0.950), which was the largest among the four scoring systems. AUC of SOFA system was bigger than that of SAPS II system, and the capacity to predict hospital mortality of critically ill patients with AKI was better than that of SAPS II. These results were similar to that of the study of Janssens et al,19 which concluded that SOFA and delta SOFA scores (total maximum SOFA score minus admission total SOFA) can assess the degree and progression of organ dysfunction and SOFA score was more important in the prediction of prognosis of critically ill patients with AKI than SAPS II scores. In a prospective study of 949 ICU patients, SOFA was found to be a reliable outcome predictors.20 Ferreira et al found that the mean and highest SOFA scores are particularly useful in prediction of prognosis in critically ill patients.21 In a prospective, multicenter study in ICU, it was found that SOFA score system had a good ability to evaluate organ dysfunction of patients.22 The accuracy of SOFA score system among clinical physicians was found good.23
Severity score systems such as APACHE Ⅱ, SAPS Ⅱ and SOFA belong tosystems that were usually derived from unselected ICU critically ill patients, it mainly focused on the general severity of diseases of patients and it was based on several organ failure sub-scores. In our study, AUC of APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI was 0.903 (95% CI 0.856 to 0.950), 0.893 (95% CI 0.847 to 0.940), 0.908 (95% CI 0.866 to 0.950) and 0.889 (95% CI 0.841 to 0.937). AUC of APACHE II, SAPS II and SOFA were larger than that of ATN-ISI.
There are also some opposite results from other study. For example, Fiaccadori et al 14 compared three general scoring system including APACHE II, SAPS II and Mortality Probability Model 24 II (MPM 24 II) and found APACHE II model was a slightly better calibrated predictor of group outcome in patients with AKI, as compared with SAPS II and MPM 24 II outcome prediction models and concluded that none of the models provided sufficient confidence for the prediction of outcome in individual patient. The result was different from that of ours since their study was conducted in an intermediate nephrology care unit and did not enroll the critically ill patients with AKI in other clinical departments such as department of cardiology, department of surgery and so on. So the results of their study were limited. The comparison of the main studies mentioned above can be seen in table 6.
Comparison of main results of studies on AKI mentioned in the discussion
In clinical practice, it is ideal to diagnose by using the gold standard, but restricted by the objective conditions of patients, clinicians sometimes cannot use the gold standard to diagnose and to make outcome prediction of patients. These severity score systems are useful tools for the prediction of patients’ outcome.
APACHE II, SAPS II, SOFA and ATN-ISI are reliable in-hospital mortality predictors of critically ill patients with AKI.
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20 Years of Survivor
The 20 Most Iconic Survivor Challenges
The biggest battles…
By Garrett Stanley
Features 25 May 2020
Photo: CBS
In celebration of Survivor’s 20th anniversary, over the next couple of months, Inside Survivor is publishing a series of articles looking back at the show’s history, best moments, and most memorable characters.
Since the very first episode of Survivor, the challenges have been one of the core aspects of the show. Whether they are for a reward “worth playing for” or the always important immunity, the challenges test the physical and mental capabilities of each season’s castaways.
What makes an iconic Survivor challenge, though? Sometimes it’s from the comedy they provide, other times the heart-wrenching drama they offer. It doesn’t hurt for the audience to have a rooting interest in the outcome. Whittling down over 1000 challenges to just 20 was nearly impossible, but these are the challenges that I have deemed the most iconic for their own reasons. I have decided to only include challenges where the castaways compete for either immunity or reward, which means no auctions or fire-making challenges (sorry Lacina and Tony).
20. You Shook Me (Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers)
This final immunity challenge had heavy stakes going in. Ben had avoided the votes for three tribals in a row, but immunity idols couldn’t save him any longer; he needed to win to make the final three (or… so we thought). At one point, it looks like Ben is leagues ahead and is going to snatch the final immunity until infamously, he places the “U” in “Hustlers” upside down. When he attempts to fix his mistake, he drops most of the blocks. The rest of the challenge is a tense back and forth between all of the castaways until Chrissy is able to pull out her fourth immunity win, tying the record for women. We all thought this was Ben’s fallen angel moment, boy, were we wrong.
19. Pilfering Pirates (Thailand)
The Attack Zone! A beloved Survivor moment that’s hidden in a not so beloved season. While Chuay Gahn and Sook Jai are tasked with maneuvering across beams to a boat to retrieve baskets, they are also encouraged to throw each other in the water. However, only in the Attack Zone or they will be removed from the challenge. Sook Jai seems to have missed that key phrase, despite Probst reminding them again and again… and again. They lose four of their members and four of their baskets, handing Chuay Gahn the win.
Robb Zbacnik is really the star of the challenge—letting Ted head-butt him out of the Attack Zone, flipping off Probst after Sook Jai loses their first member, and then choking out Clay (not in the Attack Zone), getting himself removed from the challenge in hilarious fashion. Bonus points for Shii-Ann getting continuously tossed like a rag doll out of the Attack Zone by the guys on Chuay Gahn.
18. 11-Mile Hike (Guatemala)
Starting off the season with a marooning is commonplace in modern Survivor, but how about an eleven-mile hike? This grueling task was presented to Yaxha and Nakum just minutes after they started the game. The two tribes trekked through the jungle as they raced towards the finish line, the reward of living at the Mayan ruins and flint driving them to win.
Stephenie and Bobby Jon, the final two members of the tragic Ulong tribe in Palau, pushed their respective groups to win their first challenge. Many of the new contestants are given a reality check for just how difficult Survivor can be. Despite the race going through the night and into the next day, the challenge ended in a close finish. Nakum came out victorious, but the physicality of the challenge took a big toll on the men. Stephenie describes it as the most difficult challenge the game has ever had—that might still hold true.
17. Survivor Smorgasbord (China)
Food eating challenges have been a staple of Survivor since the first season when Gervase didn’t want to eat the grub. While Courtney spitting up her eel onto the plate after she loses (in the most Courtney way possible) is certainly a plus for this challenge, the real reason it is notorious is for the showdown between gravedigger James and lunch lady Denise. They each have to eat two baluts, a developing duck embryo. James is trying to throw the challenge, Denise is just trying to get the balut into her mouth. Denise’s screams and pleas for the duck to get in her mouth are phenomenally funny, and James’s eventual biting of the bullet and finishing first after being so deliberately slow is unfortunate. Peih-Gee asking James if he wants to lose to Denise (not realizing he actually does), in an attempt to motivate him, is just the cherry on top.
16. Quest for Fire (Cambodia)
Quest for Fire was the very first challenge on Survivor. It also kicked off the advantage era of Survivor in season 31. Kelly Wiglesworth lost both times, there’s something oddly poetic about that. In this iteration of the challenge, Wiglesworth is not the Kelly to focus on. Kelley Wentworth, the pre-merge boot from San Juan del Sur, has her breakout moment on the show when she finds an idol during the challenge. It was the first time anything like this had been done on Survivor, and I have to say, it was thrilling. I was on the edge of my seat, screaming at my TV, pulling at my hair as I watched Wentworth wait for her moment to pounce and snatch the idol. Now, this type of thing may be more common for the show, but the first time became an iconic moment instantly.
15. Uncomfortably Numb (David vs. Goliath)
This challenge has everything a Survivor fan loves. A battle of endurance, moments of hilarity and villainy, and a heap of nachos! The battle of Alec versus Christian is intense, as they both know that Alec has to win to stay in the game. Alec casts his Tony-like spell, seemingly willing Gabby to drop from the challenge. Christian casts a spell of his own—filibuster. The robotics scientist begins talking… and talking… and talking for over two hours. My personal favorite moment of that montage is when Christian asks Probst if he knows what a Reuben sandwich is.
Alec pleads to Christian that he needs the immunity more, and Christian delivers the iconic line, “I know.” When Alec finally drops after five and a half hours out of pure exhaustion, the look of shock on Christian’s face is too pure when he realizes he won. To top it all off, we are gifted the hilarious moment of Angelina and Carl toasting margaritas “to the future” as they watch from the sidelines.
14. Match Game (All-Stars)
The Match Game is great because it offers the castaways an opportunity to talk and interact. The banter amongst the returning players and Probst is classic. Whether it’s Ethan turning when Boston Rob calls out “pretty boy”, Ethan making fun of Jenna Lewis for opening her box too much, or Lex walking away from the challenge with his box to shield off any prying eyes, this challenge is chock full of hilarious interactions. Plus, the all-stars seem to have a psychic ability to find matches to their items.
13. Depth Charge/A Stone’s Throw (Cook Islands/Micronesia)
It’s hard to talk about one of these challenges without thinking of the other, so I’m lumping them together as one. These challenges are iconic for one reason, and that’s Jonathan Penner and his friendly rivalry with Probst. In the Cook Islands, the tribes are tasked with dropping cannonballs into the water to release buoys. Despite Raro’s early lead, the Aitu Four are able to catch up, and Penner is getting flustered. When Probst notes that Raro “wasted one of their cannonballs,” Penner retorts with “Oh please, Jeff.” This leads to one of my favorite Jeff Probst moments, “Jonathan, getting frustrated with me!”
In Micronesia, it’s a similar story. The Malakal tribe has no trouble breaking their ceramic tiles, Penner’s tribe Airai doesn’t have the same success. The tiles are breaking, but the puzzle pieces aren’t falling, and Penner is upset. When he lands another hit on the tile, and the pieces don’t drop, he exclaims the always funny “I mean, my ass!” to which Probst responds, “The Airai tribe needs to stop bitchin’ and start throwing.” The back and forth between Penner and Probst is always a joy to watch.
12. Parang Swing (Marquesas)
An important moment in Survivor history, no doubt, the “coconut chop” challenge marked a shift in the way people thought about the game. When Sean, Vecepia, and Kathy are taken out first, with Paschal not far behind, the Rotu Four show their hand about who they want to take to the end. Sean recognizes this, the game flips on its head, and John Carroll is taken out. This challenge gave way to the first major power flip in Survivor and claims its rightful spot on this list. In addition, Sean’s quips about calling Johnnie Cochran after him and Vecepia are eliminated first (the lawyer, not the future castaway), deserve recognition for the biting commentary and his willingness to talk about real issues on Survivor, while still being humorous.
11. Perch (The Amazon)
At first glance, this challenge might seem iconic for one reason only, Jenna and Heidi volunteering to strip for peanut butter and chocolate. Certainly, that is a big reason for this challenge making this list. It is a classic moment in Survivor history that most longtime fans would remember. Cesternino telling Probst to hurry and get the girls what they want, and the men deciding whether or not to look, make the moment even funnier. Some other little gems make this challenge great, such as everyone’s exchanges of thumbs up when Roger jumps off early or Christy’s disappointment that Probst’s spaghetti temptation doesn’t have garlic bread. And of course, the challenge ends in a way only old school Survivor would, rock, paper, scissors (and somehow Deena gets immunity and half of the spaghetti?).
10. Uncomfortably Numb (San Juan del Sur)
This is the only direct repeat challenge on this list, and it’s here for a good reason. This version has some fantastic character moments and some of the funniest. Where do I even begin? Jon being tempted down by candy after Probst eats it right in front of him and then screaming “SUGAR!” louder than Ace, Randy, and Colby combined. There’s Baylor’s well-known line “shut your mouth, Homey G!” she says as her mom brags. We can’t forget Wes telling Probst about his “eating nuggets contest” and reminding him of Jeff’s semi-nude cameo on Two and a Half Men. When it’s just Natalie and Reed left, Natalie tries to mimic Reed spitting but accidentally ends up with it all over her shirt. Then, after three hours, Natalie is somehow able to place her order with Probst and get exactly the food she wants, what an icon. In the end, Reed is crowned the winner as he does the splits on the ground. Need I say more?
9. Dig It (Kaoh Rong)
While most of the entries on this list have a comical upside to them, this one certainly does not. This challenge is most well known for giving three castaways heat exhaustion, with Caleb needing to be evacuated from the game. As Caleb’s tribe gathered around him, their tears were felt by the audience at home. It was painful to see on screen, I can’t imagine how terrifying it was to be there. Seeing Cydney break down emotionally and physically was gut-wrenching. Even Debbie, a normally comedic character, being affected in such a serious way was a reminder of how real this game is and the very real toll it takes on the castaways’ bodies and minds. There are very few times in Survivor history where the audience gets to see what’s behind the fourth wall, and this was a moment that hopefully, we will never have to witness again.
8. Sumo at Sea (Blood vs. Water)
Sumo at Sea is a challenge that is perfect for the Blood vs. Water format. Pitting family members against each other in a physical battle is always going to be prime television, even if the first iteration is more compelling. The Vytas versus Aras battle is fabulous to watch because you don’t know who to root for. Their dynamic is fascinating to see play out, especially when Aras lets Vytas get back up and Vytas tries to take a cheap shot. When Laura has to defeat her daughter in order to win the challenge, Probst must’ve been salivating. Let’s not forget the injury of Tyson’s shoulder, which he will milk all season and may have helped him avoid being targeted in the early merge and eventually go on to win.
7. Vertigo (Cagayan)
“The greatest comeback in Survivor history” is a phrase we often hear uttered on the show by Probst. This challenge, I believe, is actually the greatest comeback. Tony, Spencer, and Woo have very little trouble balancing on the pole, pouring water, and retrieving their key. The story is not the same for Chaos Kass, who is shaking on her pole, barely getting any water in the tube, and tangling the rope attached to her bucket. By all means, she should’ve been out of this challenge.
But Kass perseveres, and finally, she retrieves her key. Kass is able to quickly catch up on the puzzle and zooms past her competitors, securing her spot in the final three. All of this, she accomplishes in front of her husband. Her win here is one of the greatest moments on the show, even if you were rooting for Spencer. The hilarious Tony moments of him climbing down the ladder because he can’t swim and then accidentally trying to unlock the wrong set of puzzle pieces are just gravy.
6. Bob-Bob Buoy (Palau)
The longest challenge in Survivor history, at just under twelve hours, is a brutal battle of endurance between Tom and Ian. While Katie stays in for a while, the willpower of Tom and Ian is unmatched. As they sit there, grasping onto the buoys, the challenge eventually goes beyond the game as Ian offers Tom a deal. He would step down and let Tom take Katie to the end if he could win back their friendship. In what is certainly one of the most human moments on the show, Ian puts his relationships and his integrity over the money. Was it the right game move? Certainly not. Was it the right decision for Ian? I think that’s something only he can answer.
5. Touchy Subjects (Panama)
While this challenge has the same pecking order quality as the Marquesas version, the reason it’s so high on this list is because of the pure comedy gold that comes out of it. Having the tribe members guess what everyone else thinks and forcing them to eliminate each other is a perfect formula for drama. Terry getting eliminated in the first round despite getting the question right is par for the course. Who never shuts up? Courtney. Who’s the biggest poser? Courtney. Who is the most annoying person out here? Courtney. It’s amazing.
Meanwhile, Shane is antagonizing Courtney while Aras reminds everyone this game is meant to splinter them (Terry in the background, “Yeah! Splinter!”). And then there’s Cirie, who is giggling endearingly throughout the entire challenge. She ends up winning the challenge on the question, “Who would never survive on their own?”. The answer, herself. Haunting foreshadowing, right?
4. Battle Dig (Heroes vs. Villains)
An epic start to an epic season, the players came out strong here. There are so many memorable moments from this challenge; it would be hard to list them all. Let’s see, in the first round, Probst compares Cirie to a linebacker, and Courtney tells Parvati to break Stephenie’s shoulder, which she does. Later we get to see Coach drag Colby to the Villains’ mat, while Russell looks like he’s trying to twist Tom’s leg out of its socket. Sandra undoes and rips off Sugar’s bra, which prompts her to give the double middle finger when she scores (Sandra throwing the bra afterward is hilarious as well). And then, of course, Rupert breaks his toe. This challenge set the tone for an amazing season and raised the bar for what a Survivor challenge can be.
3. When it Rains, It Pours (Micronesia)
This challenge is fantastic across the board. As each castaway has their hand raised above their heads, Probst is going to try and tempt them to come down. Cirie and Erik drop together for a bowl of candy, prompting an underrated James line, “What in the Nickelodeon is going on ‘round here?” When Probst brings out his next temptation, Alexis, unfortunately, falls before he reveals what it is and doesn’t get the cookies and milk. Probst reminds them they must let him know before they fall if they want the food in order to get it, then Natalie immediately falls. James follows with, “Damn, that would suck… Oh, bitch!” as his water rains down on him, leaving him without the cookies as well.
Amanda drops out of the challenge because she has to pee, which is rarely mentioned on the show (looking at you, Fabio). Then Probst brings out his final temptation that would be split by the entire tribe if either Parvati or Jason steps down. When Jason asks for a guarantee that they won’t vote him out, the tribe complies (although Cirie and Alexis have their fingers crossed). Jason agrees to step down, but right before he does, what does he do? He crosses his fingers. This series of events is absolutely hysterical, poetic, and an iconic moment.
2. Loved Ones Overboard (Pearl Islands)
The lie heard around the world. When Jonny Fairplay’s loved one, Thunder D, stepped out to greet him, I don’t think anyone expected it to become one of the most well-known scenes in Survivor history. Fairplay tells everyone that the reason Thunder D is here is because his grandmother had died, his whole tribe (minus Sandra) felt his pain. Burton wants to allow Fairplay the opportunity to hear more about his grandmother and eventually helps him win the challenge. I think the best part about this scene is that the audience has no idea it’s a lie until after the challenge when we hear that Fairplay’s grandmother is “sitting home, watching Jerry Springer right now.” Jaws were dropped everywhere.
1. Hand on Hard Idol (Borneo)
Was there ever any question about the number one slot? Hand on Hard Idol is classic Survivor, and the original version is still the best. The challenge is simple, it’s all about who wants it the most. Richard’s decision to step down, seemingly for some slices of oranges, remains as one of the best strategic moves the game has ever seen. Richard knew that if he voted out Rudy, he would lose his vote. He needed Kelly to do his dirty work, and he knew that she realized Rudy was the biggest threat to win the game. It was a calculated risk that paid off in spades when he became the first winner of a show with a now twenty-year legacy. This challenge goes down as the most iconic Survivor challenge to date, and I doubt it will be toppled.
Honorable Mentions: Gimme Three Steps/Slide On (Kaoh Rong/Winners at War: Michele kicks the puzzle, twice!), By the Numbers (One World: Kat keeps jumping in the water), So You Think You Can Meke? (Fiji: Earl can dance!), Super Golf (Gabon: Hilarious Randy and Matty antics).
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Garrett Stanley
Garrett is a Seattle local, hopeful comedian, and journalist for Arizona State University’s State Press Magazine. Besides keeping up with all of his reality TV, Garrett likes to cook, backpack, and act. Garrett is a lifelong Survivor fan from a family of casuals.
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Elvira Spoofs Carole Baskin and We’re Dying
April 30, 2020 by Mickey Keating
Image via Facebook | Elvira, Mistress of the Dark | Big Bat Rescue
Emerging From Her Coffin, Elvira Does Her Spooky Impression Of Tiger King’s Evil Queen
Whether it was genius filmmaking or a shelter in place rule is yet to be determined, Netflix’s Tiger King Documentary has taken the world by storm as it has become the streaming service’s most popular documentary ever. Everyone now knows the very complicated and extremely gay story of Joe Maldonado-Passage AKA The Joe Exotic. In the middle of a love(?) story with Exotic swooning two heterosexual men into marriage, there’s also the transgender man’s arm being bitten off by a tiger, and a lot of methamphetamine, there was also a more-than-likely murder plot that involved Exotic’s rival, Carole Baskin. Baskin will live forever in memes, we know they’re running through your head. And now, the Mistress of the Dark, Cassandra Peterson AKA Elvira is getting in on the fun.
As you may be aware, Baskin, the owner of Big Cat Rescue is featured often in the Tiger King documentary. What she didn’t know at the time was that she’d be globally known for being a likely suspect in the disappearance of her incredibly wealthy husband, Don Lewis. In the documentary, Baskin’s comment of putting sardine oil all over someone to have tigers eat them has been the smoking gun everyone is basing their accusatory meme exploits. It’s turned her cozy, bohemian nature into a bit of a sinister sociopath. Looking past Exotic’s own villainous ways and maybe because of his music video proclaiming Baskin murdered Lewis (oh yeah, that’s playing in your head, too), Baskin emerged from the documentary as arguably the world’s most criticized woman of 2020. Her cutesy videos where she would address her fans as “cool cats and kittens” as she dons some hippie attire are the fuel that feeds Elvira’s parody of Baskin.
In the video, Elvira, who is a frequent RuPaul’s Drag Race judge and superfan, adorns her own drag for her one-lady Snatch Game performing as Carole Baskin. With Exotic’s music playing in the background, Elvira’s parody, Big BAT Rescue, finds her proclaiming she didn’t kill her husband – Don Lewis. To prove it, she decides to interact and speak with him, but you know, it’s Elvira, so this husband is a skeleton. It’s a hilarious take on the subject matter and proves Tiger King is the gift that keeps on giving. Thanks for the humor Elvira! And it’s good to see you using your quarantine time to entertain your fans. Check out her performance below.
Writer’s Note: This is the opinion of one Instinct Magazine contributor and does not reflect the views of Instinct Magazine itself or fellow contributors.
Tags #CaroleBaskin, #elvira, #MistressOfTheDark, #tigerking, Parody
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Croatia: With Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic “Berlin Wall” To Finally Tumble Down
January 4, 2015 by inavukic 55 Comments
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic
Candidate for President of Croatia
In one week, on January 11, Croatian presidential candidates Ivo Josipovic and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic face their final battle for the Office of the President. One of the more significant platforms pursued by Grabar-Kitarovic in her election campaign is “the return to where Franjo Tudjman stopped”.
“He (Tudjman) is a man who gathered us all around the idea of freedom and independent Croatia and, led by him, the Croatian people and all the citizens who fought for Croatia, our state was created and it’s now our duty to complete the work he started and take Croatia into prosperity,” she said in December 2014 at the 15th anniversary of Tudjman’s death.
When Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia in 1991 the communist Yugoslav Secret Police (KOS, UDBA) controlled a great deal and Croatia was faced with a brutal war of Serb/Yugoslav People’s Army aggression. This was the time just after the “Berlin Wall” came down, promising freedom and democracy to Eastern European countries that had been suffocated by Soviet-led or Soviet associated communist regime for decades, since WWII.
Franjo Tudjman, announcing paths to freedom from the Yugoslav communist regime and democracy for Croatia started the tearing down of the “Berlin Wall” that had existed within former Yugoslavia since WWII. In the early 1990s Croatians, led by Tudjman, along with Slovenians and eventually Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia, turned towards West (while Serbia and Montenegro, along with those organised individuals in the other aforementioned Yugoslav states wanted communism to flourish, dug their vicious pro-communist heels in) and broke their ties with Yugoslavia, which was dominated by the Serbs. Most, but not all, from the Serbian minority in Croatia tried, with the help of the Yugoslav Army, to stop Croatia’s secession from Yugoslavia. After several years of bloody armed struggle, Croatians managed to militarily defeat the Yugoslav Army and the Serbian rebel forces.
But this success of Croatian Homeland War veterans and their leadership was not to see uninterrupted the next phase that would entail putting into place all the necessary political, ideological, administrative and legislative actions within Croatia that would see Tudjman’s path for a truly democratic and prosperous Croatia in action. The viciously ardent communists, led by Stjepan Mesic, staged and aided an all-out war of vilification against Tudjman and Croatian Homeland War Generals, setting their sights on criminalising the war and equating the victim with the aggressor. As the new Croatian state was formed during the Homeland War, the former Yugoslav communist Secret Police was not dissolved, allegedly because the new Croatian leadership could not risk an ‘internal war’ with the remains of the totalitarian regime. At the time Tudjman was to support lustration – removing from higher office those who were operatives of the Yugoslav Secret Police – the chase to vilify him as an ultra-nationalist who participated in joint criminal enterprise against Serbs in Croatia picked up and constantly threw dust into the eyes of those who wanted to work on further and more profound democratic changes in Croatia. (It took 18 years for the International Criminal Tribunal of Former Yugoslavia to peel off this vilifying coat when in 2012 Croatian Generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac were acquitted of crimes they were charge with as Generals of Tudjman’s army…)
By the year 2000 “reformed“ communists came to power in Croatia, both in Government led by Ivica Racan and in Presidency of Stjepan Mesic. Ivica Racan’s former Communist Party changed its name to “Social Democratic Party,” yet everything else remained the same. They kept their close relationships with the Serbian minority in Croatia and the Serbs in former Yugoslavia – with the same old communists in their respective positions of leadership. Stjepan Mesic, having been ousted as parliamentary speaker in 1994 by Tudjman on account of his vicious and vilifying attempts to oust Tudjman from power, had meandered through creating new political parties to acting as independent to stay in power and continue his work on burying the democracy Tudjman had set as Croatia’s goal.
Social Democrats and Mesic had pushed on with “drowning” Tudjman and Croatia’s Homeland War and resurrecting communist Yugoslavia’s Josip Broz Tito along with suffocating the efforts to bring communist crimes perpetrated during the times of communist Yugoslavia to justice. Croatia’s current president Ivo Josipovic had picked up where his predecessor Mesic stopped and Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic where Racan’s government had stopped. Croatia had become a battleground where values of communist Yugoslavia were elevated above those of Tudjman, Homeland War and democracy and, hence, widespread corruption that has its roots in communist Yugoslavia continued to flourish no matter which political party was in government after year 2000.
“Instead of reforming the economy and cutting the government costs, Croatia continues to borrow and sell off national treasures, while increasing taxes. As of today Croatia is the EU member with the GST/VAT at 25%, and with the highest unemployment rate, especially among young professionals who increasingly seek relief from poverty and existential hopelessness abroad.
The Croatian media scene is dominated by the same people who used to glorify former dictator Tito. The current head of the national television, the “HRT,” is Goran Radman, himself the last president of Tito’s communist youth organization. This well-rehearsed team sends to jail or fires someone every week because of “corruption,” in order to distract people’s attention from the real problems. The vast majority of cases involve political opposition leaders.
The media is served a steady stream of “secret” witness depositions, demonstrating how the country is being robbed. At the same time the attention is drawn away from the real problems, concealing the fact that the fleecing of the country is carried out by the government itself.
Increased taxes, no investments, no encouragement for private investment projects, halting the funds earmarked by the EU – all this seems to be the hallmark of the Josipovic’ regime” writes Dan Rados of The Daily Caller in his thought-provoking article titled “Is Serbia controlling Croatia by blackmailing its president”.
All that and much more seems the hallmark of the politics of those who do not want a democratic and prosperous Croatia and they are those who remain loyal to the values of communist former-Yugoslavia. One wonders how much of this pro-communist Yugoslavia outlook has stopped Ivo Josipovic visiting again the protest-camp site outside Veterans’ Affairs ministry building in Zagreb where 100% war-invalids have been rallying for changes and rights since October 2014! I.e., aloof faced, Josipovic has visited the protesting veterans on 24 October and has done not a thing then or since then in attempting to truly listen to the suffering veterans, to create or help create a constructive dialogue and seems unperturbed by and deaf at the veterans’ plights. His excuse for failing to speak to the protesting veterans since late October is that he has invited them to visit him in his office! And this is the man who tries to tell the people that he too holds that independent Croatia of today is based on the values of Croatia’s Homeland War (as well as antifascist)! The communists of today, such as Josipovic, seem brazenly and spitefully determined not to let Croatian Homeland War veterans achieve fully an upper hand they deserve.
Throughout the campaigning for the presidency of Croatia it has been so refreshing to come across a candidate like Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic who, unlike Josipovic, emanates with democratic justice, providing for citizens’ and human rights for everyone based on the law of the country, due process and fairness. She is adamant in unifying the Croatian nation into working towards the goals set by Tudjman and, unlike Josipovic and the Social Democrat led government, appears to place Homeland War veterans above any former communist or antifascist crusader. With her victory on Sunday 11 January Croatia is surely to start breathing fairness and justice once again and the “Berlin Wall” will finally tumble down for Croatia just as it has many years ago for the other European countries adversely affected in the past by it. Ina Vukic, Prof. (Zgb); B.A., M.A.Ps. (Syd)
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HRVAT iz Like says:
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Spread the truth and help keep Croatia safe from those who seek to extinguish her freedom.
TRUTH will always set us free and give hope to the preservation of LIBERTY.
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inavukic says:
Thank you Hrvat iz Like – all who I know are doing just that – voting for Kolinda
President Josipovic’s Bloody Totalitarian Pedigree which was hidden from the majority of the Croatian electorate both at home and in the diaspora as well as the world’s mainstream media until recently exposed:
http://narod.hr/hrvatska/boze-vukusic-josipoviceva-oca-povezuje-se-s-likvidacijama-hrvatskih-politickih-emigranata-diljem-europe/
There are things coming out about Josipovic’s father’s role in the communist regime,Hrvat iz Like, including Goli Otok/Island where innocent people who were against communism were tortured, died etc – and while Josipovic is not his father Josipovic, and while one should not believe as true everything that is written without proof, Josipovic is guilty of obstructing justice and doing everything in his power to stop prosecutions of communist crimes.
I pray she and her Light win through.. xxx
Me too, sue – thank you
An I forgot to add Ina.. Happy New Year to you… 🙂 May it be filled with abundance of Health and Happiness.. x
Happy and a wonderful New Year, Sue
therealamericro says:
Ina, please forward Ms. Grabar-Kitarovic and HDZ these questions for clarification before election day, I believe I speak for more than a few Croats after watching the debate against current President Josipovic.
1. In terms of Presidential decorations to individuals and organizations, why did she not mention Josipovic’s praise for, and authoring of the charter of, Documenta, an organization that worked closely with Savo Strbac (http://www.hic.hr/english/index_Strbac.htm) and his sham Milosevic-initiated NGO “Veritas” – who recently stated that “It is lawful to kill civilians in war” (http://www.sense-agency.com/icty/shepherds-exchanged-for-prisoners-sheep-buried-in-ovcara.29.html?cat_id=1&news_id=16209)?
2. What, at all, can be considered positive about Stipe Mesic’s Presidency which skyrocketed the budget of the Office of the President, with the obscene expenditures for personal interest including a lavish Mongolia vacation at the expense of taxpayers, not to mention the slashing of the budget for funerals for veterans, getting rid of the reserve forces as well as mandatory draft, and the office of the presidency and bureaucracies under it’s control, actively operating against Croatia’s national interests, namely media agitprop against Gotovina and the Homeland War? Would a Grabar-Kitarovic presidency push for the a) Investigation into Mesic’s monstrous and false claims – debunked by the initial UN study into Bljesak – to the US Embassy regarding both Operations Bljesak and Storm, as well as the non-chalant throwing around of Top Secret documents, and opening the Tudman Presidency archives to foreign journalists, many of whom were known to Croatian intelligence agencies to be spies? Will Mesic’s perjury at the ICTY against Blaskic, Kordic, and the HVO, be investigated, in addition to Manolic’s perjury against the aforementioned?
3. Will Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic push for, as President, legislation that would free Croatians from abroad and returnees from being double income taxed – with the nation of their pension or pay origin being the only tax they have to pay – so as not to waste time signing dual-taxation agreements (which are entire bureaucratic processes) to make Croatian political and economic emigre returns and retirements move smoothly and potentially be immediate for those who have the resources and desire?
4. Is the Visegrad Group a top political-economic-military priority, and will it be the number one agenda item in addition to closing all open questions with Serbia and RS in regards to missing persons, war damages, etc.?
5. Will being a member of both the German and V4 battlegroups be both strategic and tactical top priorities?
6. Does she support the creation of a Croatian Entity in B&H, or at least a confederalization of the Federation following the Swiss model – or at least at a minimum, respecting the pre-2000 Dayton agreement on-the-ground reality that existed?
7. If Serbia does not meet all Croatian requests for information and action regarding the war, will she as president do everything possible to prevent their entry into the EU?
8. Will Croatia with Grabar-Kitarovic as President, allow US, UK and Five Eyes intelligence services to violate Croatians’ privacy at a 100 percent rate (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/04/nsa-auroragold-hack-cellphones/), as they have since 2012 with very unfriendly and invasive Auroragold spyware program?
9. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see the US, UK and Five Eyes sat down and told they hand over all information gathered on innocent Croatian citizens to Croatian authorities and destroy their copies, otherwise face an Embassy recall?
10. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency consider the creation of an autonomous internet platform, something that can be replicated and exported for profit, with proper encryption procedures to protect citizens identities and freedom of speech, to lessen the invasive and criminal, out of control Five Eyes Orwellian surveillance practices which is nothing short of creating a file on every citizen and their social network for social control and future blackmail?
11. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see a very public stance, and demand signed agreements for non-spying by EU and NATO allies on Croatia, and visa versa, nor spying on Croatian citizens outside of permission from both Croatian parliament and the respective national security committees and intelligence and law enforcement bureaucracies, limited solely to organized crime and *actual* (not thought crime) terrorist threats – namely human trafficking, hard drug transportation, and *credible* terrorist threats, specifically Islamist militancy, Croatia’s only real threat outside of renewed Serbian aggression which for now seems unlikely.
12. Under a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency, will Croatian intelligence services begin to investigate and prosecute paid and unpaid foreign government’s local agents of influence, such as those Croatian citizens who work at the State Department online English language strategic propaganda front Balkan Insight (www.balkaninsight.com) – including Drago Zvonimir Carlos Pilsel who was Josipovic’s first choice for Press Secretary – which until March 2012 was run by a middle aged Serbian American management employee of the State Department, almost certainly a Media Information Operations Officer, from Chicago, who was replaced by a younger Serbian American State Department employee from Chicago that same month?
13. Will a Kolinda Presidency see a full and thorough Croatian Parliamentary investigation into, and push for an EU investigation into the Hercegovacka Bank armed assault and literal OHR running into the ground under the control of Toby Robinson, which was nothing short than an attack on economic freedom of Croats in B&H, who have frozen accounts and or have to pay up to 50 percent of their accounts to withdraw the balance?
14. Will the return of the draft and a military reserve forces follow the Swiss or Nordic model, and will ranks at the time of discharge from other NATO military’s be recognized for Croatian citizens who were born, lived or served outside of Croatia be potentially held for those Croats from abroad that would like to serve in Croatia’s reserve forces?
15. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see the total transparency of ALL non-governmental institutions’ finances with no exceptions, to and include generously SDP government subsidized Documenta?
16. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see an independent study on to the war on drugs on a cost-and-effect basis, and would the decriminalization of hemp, marijuana and hashish, as well as special tax for them (to finance health prevention programs, including heavy drug use, intravenous drugs, etc.), be an item of consideration?
17. Would a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency consider a push for non-GMO agronomy for Croatian farmers and farming companies, and, along with industry, see a zero corporate tax for five years with a to be determined incremented increase in tax for corporations or individuals that invest into both green, natural agronomy and the industrial sector? Will her presidency resist the Monstanto and similar lobbies dictats, usually backed by strong Western governments, and prevent the destruction of one of Croatia’s many strategic resources, its soil?
18. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see the closing of the office of the former President Mesic, and will she prevent such for Josipovic if she wins, and for herself upon serving her term?
19. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see a focus on strengthening Croatia’s gold reserves and ensuring Croatia’s currency is gold and not a fiat currency-based?
20. Will Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic publicly call out President Josipovic for his hiring of national security threat Dejan Jovic, a pseudo-academic who made his career engaging in an endless apologia for Tito’s Yugoslavia and greater Serbian aggression, whose work at and for the Royal Institute of Economic Affairs, a known MI6 media front was removed from the web conveniently prior to his hire, to the most important security position in the office of the presidency?
21. Would a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency consider to be the start of a graduated decrease in taxes with a flat tax of 15 percent for both individuals and corporations an end goal?
22. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency push for legislation, such as two years’ without taxes, to stimulate permanent, or partial out-of-the-year, Diaspora returns, especially in formerly occupied and post-war areas?
23. Will Croatia’s military under a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency be spared from certain powers’ foreign policy neo-imperialist blunder-adventures, such as the lie-based Iraq war, or a military intervention into Syria which would only boost the power of ISIS?
24. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency lobby at all levels for the findings of Lt. Col. Dr. Charles Schrader and his seminal work, “The Muslim-Croat Civil War in Central Bosnia, 1992-1994,” to be submitted into evidence and Lt. Col. Dr. Schrader be a witness as it seems it was politics, not law, that prevented both his work and him from appearing at the Plic et. al. trial?
Thank you, therealamericro – the questions will be forwarded indeed.
Sunman says:
therealamerico for President!! Seriously.
Thanks bro, but I’d say Kolinda is a better diplomat than I so I think she is a much better choice.
Brankec says:
Therealamericro – quit showing off! 😉
; – )
I meant to say Drago Zvonimir Carlos Pilsel – though Hedl as well writes for the State Department’s strategic propaganda site, along with the entirely discredited Boris Pavelic, and the very whiny Josip Ivanovic and teary eyed Sven Mikelic.
BI is engaged in false advertising and client and reader deception, part of a larger agitprop program that is self-evident, but well hidden.
Name change noted in original comment, therealamericro, thanks
Mrs. Grabar-Kitarovic, my apologies to her.
Ina, I just want to wish you a belated happy New Year. Again, thank you for your continued dedication towards Croatia. How I wish a light would finally shine on our long-suffering country & Croats worldwide.
I have a request, from yourself or anyone from this blog willing to take it on – could you translate the article by Dan Rados to Croatian? I would attempt it myself, but I don’t think I could accurately convey everything and it is a very important article to read. Lots of hateful opposition to the article is already seen (because truth hurts), but funnily enough, hardly any strong, factual argument presented against the points brought up, only accusations of Croatian racism and the very unique no-one-ever-thought-of-it-before Ustasha insult.
Kat, Happy New Year too – re Dan Rados article I notice it has travelled the world many times over, picked up by many media outlets etc – re translation – if time permits I will try indeed. Cheers
Kat the replies are hilarious. Any objective reader can see that Rados hit the nail on the head – hence the fallaciously “reasoned” venom.
This sensitive topic is something the Croatian media are not touching on of course, outside of small outlets.
This would be a great rhetorical question for Grabar-Kitarovic to repeat up to the elections, along with how it was possible that Dejan Jovic was ever considered, let alone almost served Josipovic’s entire term, as his Chief Analyst, in addition to paid State Department propagandist Drago Zvonimir Carlos Pilsel, who was writing for Serbian American State Department managed strategic propaganda front engaged in false advertising, Balkan Insight, at the time of Josipovic’s offer, the first choice for his Press Secretary.
The truth hurts and the truth dismantles the Yugotopia reality right before the eyes of its cultists. That is why any brutally honest questioning of Croatia’s current reality is met with such hostility, and frantic anti-Croatia spin, but with little factually based arguments to disprove the writings of people such as Rados.
Of course the Croatian media doesn’t speak – why would they turn on themselves when they can enjoy their ill-gotten power?
There are certainly many questions I would love to see Grabar-Kitarovic answer with the most honest, brutal of truths (questions you post much better than I could), but in the political climate we find ourselves in today, it will take a more diplomatic approach. Starting to dismantle the leftover Yugoslav power structures which hold Croatia hostage will come with resistance, hostility and venom; it’s a process that will take a strong will, a Croatia-first mindset and absolute lustration.
Even just thinking about what it’ll take to improve Croatia leaves me feeling overwhelmed. I dread to think about what another five years of Josipovic will do. Political struggle is nothing new for Croatia, but it would be delightful to see some positivity.
Check out Pages 12 to 13 Boka CroPress translation of Dan Rados article already published plus analysis & comments added after sub-title “Predsjednikov reizbor”
https://inavukic.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/boka070115_no116_web.pdf
Could a paid placement of the translated article in a leading Croatian daily have an impact on the elections; any strong and well documented article that serves to better Croatia during the elections is a good thing. Count me in for a donation to help pay for the placement.
I hope the people return Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic with a huge majority as a sign they want a real Democracy to start in their homeland. I hope she then goes on to show other Countries in the West what a true Democratic country can be like.
Hear, hear – David. She certainly seems to have the know-how and stamina for what you’re referring to. Cheers
Ace News Group says:
Great post and shared here: http://wp.me/p4NkMr-7g
You really are so welcome you write such great posts and l have learned so much personally about Croatia. So we both gain by me reposting you brilliant articles. 🙂 Ian
Thank you, Ian and cheers
Ace News Room now embedded in sidebar of this blog with link, Best regards and thank you!
I feel honoured and thank you.
Outstanding post.Tudjman laid the foundation for greater future for Croatia,hope 2015 will unite the country to achieve the message.Warm regards.
Thank you Jalal and cheers
Happy New Year! Wonderful text as always. I am at a new address Ina, https://aheartafire.wordpress.com/.
Thank you, Hollie – Happy New Year!
I think a good start for exposing the infowar / psyop against Croatia that SDP did and still supports, with the endless financing and complicity of the Anglo-American propaganda empire, who framed Lustration as “discrimination” in the 90s and since, would be to submit FOIA requests on all government and nor known government NGO front financing to Balkan Insight – who, while demanding transparency are untransparent about their financing sources – as well as any US government personnel being employed there, and their names and job positions.
Maybe that would be something Mr. Kuzmanovic and or Mr. Misetic would be interested in. RFERL, SETimes (wholly a EUCOM project) and above all, Balkan Insight, are part of a parallel reality projection and perception management campaign. As well as surveillance (of commentators).
Yep 🙂
I would also add that FOIA requests on the total number of those – specifically Five Eyes member states citizens’ – surveilled or investigated for commenting on RFERL, SETimes or Balkan Insight, as well as their identities, and ethnic origin, might be quite useful in exposing certain illegalities of the IC, specifically DARPA, Dept. of State, and other out of control Orwellian government bureaucracies.
Indeed, very worth pursuing, therealamericro
When one looks at the financial backers of Balkan Dimsight, I mean Insight, some very interesting organizations and names come up.
Very interesting groups (http://www.blacklistednews.com/CIA%E2%80%99s_Hidden_Hand_in_%E2%80%98Democracy%E2%80%99_Groups/40721/0/38/38/Y/M.html).
Interesting read, indeed, therealamericro – the twisted part of “public democracy” sweeps doesn’t occur all of its own bat indeed…
Ina, Happy New Year. Zivjela.
Did you see this article re. the recent election results and those coming from Bosnia-Herzegovina ?
http://glasbrotnja.net/kolumne/kolumne-tihomir-dujmovic/tihomir-dujmovic-kakva-prevara-milanovic-josipovic-ukrali-sto-tisuca-glasova-kolindi-grabar-kitarovic
Thank you Erica, I did see it briefly but didn’t read it all which means yet to read 🙂
Hi Ina, I am an Australian citizen living in Sydney. I do also have Croatian citizenship…. am I able to vote on these elections from Australia?
Unless you had pre-registered by 17 December you cannot vote this time, Ivan. The buggers have changed the system this time undoubtedly to reduce the number of voters against Josipovic, so they introduced pre-registration for all voters in diaspora while in previous elections one who had no registration of abode in Croatia could simply turn up on election day, not this time. So yes you are eligible to vote but if you did not register by 17 Dec you cannot this time.
Connor Vlakancic, HR/SAD U.S.President candidate, Nov.2016 says:
Dober dan, Lijepi pozdravi iz SAD.
Review http://www.bbc.com/news/world-30614291
This 11 January runoff election follows the 28 December 2014 election. That Croatians must vote in government elections during the Christmas / New Years holiday is a travesty legacy of communist era anti Christian propaganda. All Yugoslav era laws are communist laws and now finally naša domovino Croatians and Croatian diaspora must elect, NOW, democracy government leadership to challenge these Yugoslav era communist laws!
I lived in Croatia most of 2009-12 and I personally know both 11 Sijecznj President candidates and have carefully considered that, in 2015, five years since previous election, Croatia is a significantly different nation. Thus, I have concluded that Kolinda’s election is now critically appropriate to advance international awareness and interest in Croatia as a best choice destination for tourist travel, business investment and political support.
I am currently preparing a 2015-16 Croatia promotion project so heartfelt that it will mobilize all US Croatian diaspora (and worldwide) also with HR national media boosting enthusiasm & proactive events. It will enhance US recognition of Croatia as a world-class destination with attaining new demand for Croatian export products (also halved HR VAT taxes). Also, by 2017, to achieve Croatia is included in the USA Visa Waiver Program (VWP)! I invite your interest with follow my progress.
http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/4721/1/E-A-Search-For-Roots—Stivan-Cres-Croatia.html
http://hr.connorvlakancic.com/iz-medija
For other info: Google search my name.
And twitter.com/connorvlakancic
Also FYI, my company imports Osječko pivo to USA.
Sve najbolje tebi i tvojima,
Connor Vlakancic – Coalitions Director
cv@connorvlakancic.com
Thank you on the comment, Connor! Totally agree, Kolinda is placed best for the reasons you say and much more! Cheers and let’s vote in or support change and progress for Croatia 😀
Just put this post on and add link back to your post here: It is here: http://acenewsservices.com/2015/01/12/belgrade-kolinda-grabar-kitarovic-wins-croatian-election-with-landslide-victory/
Thank you Ace New Group – as always, much appreciated
Welcome as always 🙂 Ian
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Theresa May meets Irish PM Leo Varadkar in September (Hannah Mckay/Reuters)
How to solve Irish question? Stay in the EU
by Hugo Dixon | 28.11.2017
Theresa May has been guilty of obfuscation on Northern Ireland and Brexit. Now’s the time for straight talk. Far too much is at stake.
The starting point should be to admit we cannot avoid the return of a hard border in Ireland if the government sticks to its plan to pull the whole UK out of the EU’s single market and customs union. The government used to pretend technology would magic the problem away – something David Davis, the Brexit secretary, eventually admitted was “blue sky” thinking – but it has still not come clean.
Some government sympathisers are finally admitting that there is a problem. For example, William Hague, the former Tory leader, wrote in today’s Telegraph:
“We have to admit that our decision to leave the EU does create serious problems for Ireland. Brexit will deprive Ireland of her biggest ally in Europe on liberal trade policies and respect for national sovereignty on taxation. It is bound to throw up barriers to trading with and through us, their main trading partner and physical route to the Continent.
“Worryingly, it also complicates immensely the relationship between the Republic and Northern Ireland. Their being in the EU together has helped with sharing public services, cross-border reconciliation projects, and boosting trade. So it is perfectly reasonable for the government and people of the Irish Republic to feel pretty cross about the situation they are landed in by Brexit, and that far too little attention was given to this during our referendum campaign.”
If the prime minister had been honest and suitably apologetic a year ago, we wouldn’t be in the current impasse – with the Irish government threatening to block progress in the overall Brexit talks. Many people on both sides of the border would have been unhappy but we could have got on with the business of mitigating the damage.
May’s terrible diplomacy means she now has no good solution. Even Hague’s best attempt at a solution was to say that “what is required is a granular matching of problem with solution, in the light of what matters in practice on the island of Ireland.” Not much there then.
The prime minister’s failure to grip the problem could even bring the whole Brexit process crashing down on her head. This is because the only way of avoiding a border is for Northern Ireland to stay in the single market and customs union. But if the rest of Great Britain quits the single market and customs union, this will create a sea border between Northern Ireland and Britain – unless the government can produce some magical technology to solve that.
Imposing such a sea border wouldn’t just madden the DUP, which is propping up the government. It could undermine the peace process as Northern Ireland’s protestant community could feel they had been sold out.
The only way of avoiding either border is for the whole of the UK to stay in the single market and customs union. But if we do that and press ahead with Brexit, we will become a rule-taker. The only sensible solution therefore is to stay in the EU after all. It’s not too late to change our minds.
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Indeed the only solution is for the UK to stay in the EU. But is this a decision the present government can possibly make and retain any credibility? It would have to be a decision by a different government……..following a new general election.
Pete M says:
“retain any credibility?” Nothing to lose then!
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Seedlings from 13 open-pollinated families of Taxodium distichum (L.) L.C. Richard from the gulf coast, central and south Texas, and Mexico were grown in a nursery in College Station, Texas. Forty seedlings per family were measured on three dates during the production cycle; 99, 109, and 133 days after sowing in Spring and Summer 2004. A two-step cluster analysis based on height and trunk diameter created 3 clusters of families. Cluster 1 had a mean height of 32 cm and a mean trunk diameter of 3.3 mm. Cluster 2 had a mean height of 33 cm and a mean trunk diameter of 3.4 mm. Cluster 3 had a mean height of 43 cm and a mean trunk diameter of 4.1 mm. Although clusters 1 and 2 are statistically significantly different, practically there is little difference between the two. The families from Mexico and central Texas were all in cluster 1 or 2 and the families collected from the gulf coast were all placed in cluster 3, with the exception of a single family from Biloxi, Miss., which was placed in cluster 1. Analysis of covariance revealed that family membership and days after sowing were both highly significant, as well as an interaction between family and days, for height. Families from Mexico and central and south Texas were 10 to 15 cm shorter than the families from the gulf coast, with the exception of the single family from Biloxi, Miss. Only days and the interaction between family and days were significant for trunk diameter. A pattern similar to the cluster analysis means was seen among the families for trunk diameter in the analysis of covariance.
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423 Tensiometer-controlled Irrigation in Large Container-grown Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum)
Virginia Thaxton, Ed Bush, Ann Gray, and Paul Wilson
Proper irrigation practices are important in the production of container-grown woody ornamentals. When choosing irrigation methods, nurserymen must attempt to maximize production and comply with public policies mandating decreased water usage and runoff. One of these methods schedules irrigation based on plant demand, using tensiometers to measure matric potential of the substrate. While tensiometers have been used successfully with agronomic crops in the field, their effectiveness in irrigation management of large container-grown woody ornamentals has not been extensively tested. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of four irrigation treatments (7 cb tensiometer setting, 14 cb tensiometer setting, 1 time a day application, 4 times a day application) on the production of the ornamental tree Bald Cypress over a 9-month period. Growth differed significantly among treatments. The highest growth index was observed in the 4 times a day and the 7 cb tensiometer treatments, followed by the 1 time a day and 14 cb treatments, respectively. Effluent and leachate (pH, EC, N, P, K) were also measured. Percent effluent volume was highly variable, with maximum volume occurring in June for the 7 cb setting (82%) and in October for the 1 time a day treatment (47%). Higher pH values (7.0 to 8.0) initially occurred in the timed irrigation treatments and higher EC values (2.0–6.0 mmhos) were found in tensiometer treatments; over time, differences among treatments decreased for both variables. Substrate concentrations of N, P and K varied significantly among treatments, while no significant differences were found in the leaf tissue analysis.
In HortScience Volume 35 (2000): Issue 3 (Jun 2000)
Taxonomy and Nomenclature of Baldcypress, Pondcypress, and Montezuma Cypress: One, Two, or Three Species?
Geoffrey C. Denny and Michael A. Arnold
varieties of T. distichum . Table 1. Key to botanical varieties of Taxodium distichum. Nomenclature After the taxonomic questions are answered, the question of appropriate nomenclature arises. Baldcypress was originally described by Linnaeus (1753) as
In HortTechnology Volume 17 (2007): Issue 1 (Jan 2007)
Comparative Canopy Damage among Provenances of Baldcypress Associated with the Presence of Cercosporidium sequoiae (Ellis and Everth.) W.A. Baker and Partridge
Garry Vernon McDonald, Geoffrey C. Denny, Michael A. Arnold, Donita L. Bryan, and Larry Barnes
Baldcypress ( Taxodium distichum ) is a medium to large deciduous tree with demonstrated adaptability to many difficult landscape sites, including urban locations with compacted or depleted soils, and exposure to poor air and water quality
In HortScience Volume 43 (2008): Issue 6 (Oct 2008)
Can We Improve the Salinity Tolerance of Genotypes of Taxodium by Using Varietal and Hybrid Crosses?
Lijing Zhou, David L. Creech, Ken W. Krauss, Yin Yunlong, and David L. Kulhavy
; Templet and Meyer-Arendt, 1988 ; Wicker et al., 1981 ). Of all native swamp forest tree species in the southern United States, Taxodium distichum has been recognized as being among the most tolerant to flooding ( Hook, 1984 ) and salinity ( Krauss et al
In HortScience Volume 45 (2010): Issue 12 (Dec 2010)
Alkalinity Tolerance of Selected Provenances of Taxodium Rich
Geoffrey C. Denny, Michael A. Arnold, and Wayne A. Mackay
of these problems necessitates the selection and use of more adapted tree species and genotypes in urban areas. Taxodium distichum is a widely adaptable tree species for landscape use, tolerating both wet and dry soils and air pollution ( Cox and
In HortScience Volume 43 (2008): Issue 7 (Dec 2008)
Lateral Root Traits of Taxodium Hybrid ‘Zhongshanshan 406’ in Response to Drought Stress
Qin Shi, Yunlong Yin, Zhiquan Wang, Wencai Fan, Jinbo Guo, and Jianfeng Hua
response of plant root to reduced soil water availability is necessary to be examined. The genus Taxodium is valuable for restoring degraded coastal areas, urban landscapes, and other greening projects ( Creech et al., 2011 ). In China, Taxodium hybrid
In HortScience Volume 53 (2018): Issue 4 (Apr 2018)
Developmental Stage and Growth Regulator Concentration Differentially Affect Vegetative Propagation of Select Clones of Taxodium Rich.
Andrew R. King, Michael A. Arnold, Douglas F. Welsh, and W. Todd Watson
Baldcypress, Taxodium distichum (L.) Rich., is a species of ecological significance in the southeastern United States ( Arnold, 2008 ; Pezeshki and DeLaune, 1994 ). It is highly valued for its ornamental characteristics and site adaptability
In HortScience Volume 47 (2012): Issue 2 (Feb 2012)
Substrates, Wounding, and Growth Regulator Concentrations Alter Adventitious Rooting of Baldcypress Cuttings
Baldcypress, Taxodium distichum (L.) Rich., is a highly adaptable tree of significant ecological importance in the southeastern United States ( Arnold, 2008 ; Pezeshki and DeLaune, 1994 ). Baldcypress is typically propagated commercially from
In HortScience Volume 46 (2011): Issue 10 (Oct 2011)
Implications of Genotypic Selection and Production Practices on Root Regeneration Potential and Field Establishment of Container-grown Trees
Michael A. Arnold, Larry J. Shoemake, and Mitchell W. Goyne
Transplant studies were conducted on Taxodium distichum L., Platanus occidentalis L., Quercus shumardii Buckl., Fraxinus velutina Torr., and Chilopsis linearis (Cav.) Sweet seedlings grown in 2.2- to 9.1-L black plastic containers. Effects of half-sib family selection on post-transplant root regeneration potential (RRP) and field establishment were investigated with P. occidentalis. Taxodium distichum, Q. shumardii, and P. occidentalis were used to determine seasonal variation in relationships among RRP characteristics and measures of successful transplant establishment. Post-transplant effects of avoidance of circling root development vs. remediation practices were investigated with Q. shumardii. Effects of container media composition on field establishment and RRP of container-grown plants were studied using F. velutina and C. linearis. Impacts of rotation time on RRP and field establishment were investigated with T. distichum. Rates of RRP were the measure most consistently linked to improved post-transplant shoot growth of P. occidentalis. Utilization of locally adapted genotypes and avoidance of summer transplant were important in establishment of P. occidentalis and T. distichum. Increased small diameter root regeneration was linked to reduced water stress during transplanting of Q. shumardii. Physical characteristics of the container media impacted initial post-transplant growth of F. velutina and C. linearis.
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Home > August 2003 - Volume 24 - Issue 4
August 2003 - Volume 24 - Issue 4
Svirsky, Mario A.
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Ear and Hearing. 24(4):259, August 2003.
Glossary for Hereditary Hearing Impairment
Pfister, Markus H. F.; Rehm, Heidi L.
Pfister, Markus H. F.; Rehm, Heidi L. Less
Ear and Hearing. 24(4):260-265, August 2003.
Using Genetics to Understand Auditory Function and Improve Diagnosis
Battey, James F. Jr.
Battey, James F. Jr. Less
This introduction explains the importance of genetic research to help uncover fundamental information about the molecular and cellular machinery that underlies hearing and balance. The usefulness of mouse models and the potential clinical implications of new developments in the genetics of hearing impairment are discussed.
Genetics and the Genome Project
Rehm, Heidi L.
Rehm, Heidi L. Less
This article explains some basic concepts of Mendelian and non-Mendelian genetics, provides a conceptual overview of the process by which deafness-causing genes are discovered, and briefly discusses some benefits and drawbacks of genetic testing.
Nonsyndromic Hearing Loss
Van Laer, Lut; Cryns, Kim; Smith, Richard J. H.; More
Van Laer, Lut; Cryns, Kim; Smith, Richard J. H.; Van Camp, Guy Less
A broad review of genes responsible for nonsyndromic hearing loss, their expression and function in the cochlea. Also discusses the genetic tests currently offered for different types of nonsyndromic hearing loss.
Recent Advances in the Understanding of Syndromic Forms of Hearing Loss
Friedman, Thomas B.; Schultz, Julie M.; Ben-Yosef, Tamar; More
Friedman, Thomas B.; Schultz, Julie M.; Ben-Yosef, Tamar; Pryor, Shannon P.; Lagziel, Ayala; Fisher, Rachel A.; Wilcox, Edward R.; Riazuddin, Saima; Ahmed, Zubair M.; Belyantseva, Inna A.; Griffith, Andrew J. Less
There are several hundred syndromes of genetic origin that include hearing loss, but this review focuses on the advances in our understanding of syndromic forms of deafness that have been made in the past few years. Additionally, a table provides summary information about the main syndromic forms of hearing loss and some of their distinguishing clinical features.
Mitochondrial Deafness
Fischel-Ghodsian, Nathan
Fischel-Ghodsian, Nathan Less
The huge majority of human genes are contained in the chromosomes. Although genes in mitochondria represent a tiny fraction of the human genome, both syndromic and non-syndromic hearing loss can be due to inherited mutations of mitochondrial genes. This article provides a brief review of mitochondrial genetics, the different mitochondrial mutations associated with hearing loss, their audiological features, and the clinical relevance of diagnosing these mutations.
The Role of Connexins in Human Disease
Chang, Eugene H.; Van Camp, Guy; Smith, Richard J. H.
Chang, Eugene H.; Van Camp, Guy; Smith, Richard J. H. Less
Connexins are proteins that form the building blocks for intercellular channels. These channels play many roles in normal physiology. Importantly, mutations in genes encoding connexins (in particular the GJB2 gene, which encodes connexin 26) are a major cause of nonsyndromic deafness. This article reviews the role of connexins in human disease, with a particular focus on deafness.
The Implications of Genetic Testing for Deafness
Arnos, Kathleen S.
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A review of some implications of genetic testing, evaluation, and counseling, both in general and for deafness in particular. This article also discusses the added concerns brought about by the existence of the linguistic and cultural differences of the Deaf community.
Mouse Models for Deafness: Lessons for the Human Inner Ear and Hearing Loss
Avraham, Karen B.
Avraham, Karen B. Less
The mouse genome and ear are quite similar to their human counterparts. Because of these and other reasons, mouse models represent a remarkable resource to investigate how the human ear works. This article reviews mouse genetics, mouse models for deafness, and how they have contributed to our understanding of human deafness and cochlear physiology.
Cochlear Gene Therapy
Lalwani, Anil K.; Mhatre, Anand N.
Lalwani, Anil K.; Mhatre, Anand N. Less
Gene therapy offers the hope of arresting, reversing, or curing hearing impairment, but extensive studies are still necessary to establish its clinical viability in humans. This paper presents a review of mechanisms used to deliver genes to the body in general and to the cochlea in particular. It also discusses potential pitfalls and risks of the gene therapy approach.
Selected Resources for Hereditary Hearing Impairment on the World Wide Web
Pfister, Markus
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Jakarta opens drive-through coronavirus diagnostic testing site in Cilandak. (Beritasatu Photo/Joanito de Saojoao)
Indonesia Adds 8,300 New Covid Cases, 33 pct Higher than Previous Record
BY :HERU ANDRIYANTO
Jakarta. Indonesia set a new record in daily number of coronavirus cases on Thursday amid a dramatic single-day surge in West Java and Papua.
The country has recorded 8,369 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, 33.54 percent higher than the previous high of 6,267 cases reported just four days ago. The new one-day high brings the total number of confirmed cases to 557,877.
West Java saw a dramatic rise of 1,648 cases, way above its previous record of around 900 cases back on July 9.
The province of 50 million people now has a total 55,807 cases, the fourth-largest nationwide.
Papua, home to 4 million people, registered 1,755 cases to take its total to 11,879. The country’s easternmost province has never reported more than 300 cases in a single day before.
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It has gone through 14 days without reporting a new case throughout last month.
Jakarta, the hardest hit by the outbreak, added 1,153 cases for a total of 140,238.
East Java, which has the second-highest number of confirmed cases since the outbreak, saw another 564 infections, the province’s highest since August 29. It has accumulated a total of 63,337 cases.
Fourteen-Day Trend:
Statistical Issue
The National Covid-19 Task Force blamed today’s record-breaking number on poor coordination between central and provincial governments in real time statistical updates.
Task force spokesman Wiku Adisasmito said that in some cases, the latest updates were actually an accumulation of previous numbers not recorded earlier.
“For example, Papua reported 1,755 cases today, which actually are the accumulation of its daily counts since November 17,” Wiku said in a video conference.
The similar problem has occurred in Central and West Java, he added.
However, the explanation couldn’t overturn the fact that new infections are trending up in the archipelago in line with improved testing capacity at the provincial level.
Bali saw a new high of 230 cases to bring the province’s total to 14,420.
The surge is slowing in Central Java after it recorded a provincial record of 2,036 cases four days ago. But daily number in the province remains significant, with another 767 cases on Thursday to take its total to 58,337, smaller only than that of Jakarta and East Java.
Other hotspots like East Kalimantan, South Sulawesi, Riau and West Sumatra continue to report three-digit daily numbers.
South Sulawesi is ranked fifth among worst-hit provinces with a total of 21,057 cases, 136 more from yesterday. It’s the fifth day in a row the province reported more than 100 cases.
East Kalimantan registered 313 cases, the province’s highest since Oct. 18, to bring its total to 20,365.
The recent surge in newly cases has led the total number of active cases to a new high, amounting to 77,969 as of Thursday.
The seven-day average of coronavirus-related deaths hit a new record, standing at 143.
Indonesia has recorded 156 Covid deaths in the 24-hour period, bringing the total death toll to 17,355. The daily death toll has been in three digits for the last 12 days, equaling the previous record of a three-digit run on Sept. 14-25.
East Java has the biggest casualty toll in the Indonesian outbreak, with a total of 4,493 Covid deaths.
Jakarta comes next with a total of 2,732 deaths, 26 more from a day earlier, followed by Central Java (2,409).
West Java was at a distant fourth with a total of 947 deaths.
Indonesia Coronavirus
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The Price Of Making Your RTS “E-Sports Friendly”
Recently Technomancer from Light Speed Gaming contacted me about replying to my eSports opinion. I’m really excited to have his follow up post about design options lost when deciding between making a classic RTS and an eSport. His interest in the topic is very timely as Joseph Burchett and Devin Becker tackle the same topic on Game Developers Radio. Technomancer adds some interesting points to the eSport discussion below the cut.
A few weeks ago, I read a post here on ”A Gamer’s Life” about E-Sports and it’s impact on gaming communities. It was an interesting post that made me think of the RTS scene and the increasing attention that developers of RTS games seem to focus on making their games “E-Sports viable”.
This made me think about how such a move can impact the games that we get, and not always for the better. If we look at Starcraft 2, which is undoubtedly sitting at the top of the competitive RTS E-Sports hill, then we find a game that has really been designed from the ground up with the intention of making it a good game for E-Sports.
Starcraft 2 is designed to reward the skilled players. One of the most significant ways it does this is by minimizing the amount of randomness in the game. Units do damage within a predictable range, you know exactly how many resources will come in from X amount of workers and you can plan various builds down to seconds, optimizing the timing of your army. Units respond immediately to player commands, which means that the better your micro skills the more you’re going to get out of your units.
Obviously, you can say this makes Starcraft 2 a great game. And I will certainly not argue that it is an incredibly polished game and that Blizzard is doing an incredible job with their continual balance tweaks.
But to me it also makes Starcraft 2 a bit of a bland experience in my opinion. My favorite RTS of choice is Dawn of War 2, which is a game with very little base management and lots of focus on tactical decisions and microing of your units. It is a much less polished game than Starcraft 2, with some bugs still present today that were in at the time of release over two years ago. But for my money it is also a much more entertaining game.
A lot of mechanics are in effect in Dawn of War 2 that make the game more random and interesting.
The biggest random factors are probably the “special attacks” and “sync kills” that units will sometime perform. In Dawn of War 2 you have an implementation of melee combat, which means that units can get tied up in hand to hand combat, where they will be punching and kicking each other, unable to bring their ranged weapons to bear. Depending partly on the unit, but also partly on random chance, a unit can perform a special attack, which will knock the enemy unit to the ground, where they’ll get pounced on without being able to fight back. An unlucky special attack on your unit can mean the loss of an engagement that you would otherwise have won. This makes combat more tense and entertaining to watch compared to a simpler “rock always beats scissors” setup.
The “sync kills” are also tied to the melee combat. These are special animations that randomly play, where one unit will pick out one enemy unit and an elaborate kill animation plays. This can be anything from an Ork chopping up an unfortunate human scout, to an epic fight to the death between two giant robots. While these sync kills are going on, your unit will take almost no damage, meaning that an unfortunately timed grenade or volley of shots can end up doing no damage to your enemy, because they are stuck in a sync kill animation. It can also work against the player that is performing the sync kill, as the unit cannot be controlled while the animation plays, so you may find your brave warrior finishing off an enemy with much flashiness, only to find himself surrounded by enemies that used the time of the animation to move into place.
This of course leaves plenty of chance for players to rage about being unlucky and losing because of chance, but for my money it makes for a much more vibrant and entertaining match, than the sterile games of Starcraft 2. You never know, when an insignificant engagement suddenly flips on its head and can end up significantly impacting the outcome of the match. Also, the animations simply look incredibly cool, and really adds a sense of visceral warfare into the game, which I think is also something that Starcraft 2 lacks.
Dawn of War 2 is never going to be a big E-Sports sensation, but there is actually a small active tournament community, which is also supported by a few active casters, of which Shaleseyis no doubt the most active.
I think that game designers should consider, if the price of making your game potentially less fun for the average gamer is really worth it for the chance that you may be able to grow an E-Sports scene around your game. If your game is not going to be the next Starcraft 2 (and let’s face it, it is most likely not), is it not better to make the game the most fun it can be, rather than sacrifice entertainment and interesting gameplay on the altar of E-Sports?
If you haven’t already listened to Exploring Design #07 on Gamedevradio.net, then head over. It will point out mechanics you really need to consider when your game crosses the boundary between classic RTS and RTS eSport. Don’t assume that just because Blizzard is doing it that you have to as well. Make sure you preserve the verisimilitude of your game by choosing the right level of competition in your game.
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Ellie Goldstein's Allure Cover Is Fashion Brilliance
Joan Summers
Image: Allure
Ellie Goldstein is Allure’s December cover star, and the photoshoot for the affair, shot by Vicki King and styled by Camilla Pole, is pure fashion brilliance.
“Ellie Goldstein Always Wanted to Be Famous. Now She Is,” the cover story boldly proclaims. Having appeared in a recent campaign for Gucci Beauty and Vogue Italia, the 18-year-old, British-born model told the magazine, in the accompanying interview, “I love to be seen.”
For the shoot, Goldstein was styled in some lovely pieces from Molly Goddard, most famous for her voluminous chiffon dresses, which spawned copycats across the industry. There’s also a particularly notable Marques Almeida dress, past winner of the 300,000 euro LVMH prize. It’s from the Fall/Winter 2020 collection, seen here, and features billowing cuffs and a ruffled hem in matching black satin. It’s a popular look in the current fashion age, but Almeida’s dress shines in its form-fitting cotton—at least I believe it’s cotton—bust, which adds a contemporary edge to a motif that tends to date itself.
There’s also a wonderful Molly Goddard bow, true to the designer’s whimsical aesthetic, that’s paired with Christopher Kane dress and Woldorf bodysuit, which all work in tandem to create the physicality of a ballerina, even with the black color-blocking. And, in a year where social media saw a massive influx of Euphoria-esque makeup techniques, it’s nice to see that makeup artist Siddhartha Simone adopted current trends into a fantastically whimsical pearl embellishment across the bridge of Goldstein’s nose.
Done poorly, they might look like a pox. But here, on Goldstein, I suddenly have the urge to glue pearls across my face.
The shining star of the shoot, besides Goldstein herself, is the powder blue used as eyeshadow throughout, seen most prominently on the cover. I only barely remember my babysitter in the early 2000's excessively layering her baby blue eyeshadow, but something about the lightness of the shade used by Simone, coupled with the bare, almost-overplucked eyebrows, is delightful.
I’m most likely not the only one who has found myself looking less at fashion magazines this year, as there isn’t any money for clothes to spare, and I’m not particularly in the mood for glamour and excess. But as this Allure shoot demonstrates, fashion is at its best when it inspires something in the viewer—like any good art, I suppose. Later in the interview, Goldstein told Allure that “Ten years from now, I want to be all over the world.” Personally, I don’t doubt dream that in the slightest, and the fashion world shouldn’t either.
PenguinLust2:ElectricBoogigloo
Her hair is so shiny, smooth and just all around beautiful. I wonder what her secrets are.
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COVID-19 Case Tracker
Gamecock Guide 2020
January 14, 2021 | JSU implements revised COVID-19 restrictions for spring as Alabama distributes vaccine
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OVC cancels all intercollegiate sports amid COVID-19 pandemic
The Jacksonville State women's basketball team faced off with Morehead State in the first round action of the 2018 Ohio Valley Conference Tournament. (Matt Reynolds/JSU)
Josie Howell, Sports Editor
On March 16, 2020, the Ohio Valley Conference Board of Presidents announced that all intercollegiate sports will be cancelled effective immediately until the end of the 2019-2020 academic year due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The OVC has also announced that all team practices will be suspended until April 3, 2020. The OVC board will then reevaluate the COVID-19 situation to determine whether or not the suspension should continue or not. However, all student athletes will still be allowed to utilize training rooms for strength and conditioning.
The OVC emphasized that the main priority of the OVC is to ensure the health and safety of everyone involved, including staff, fans and student-athletes. They will continue to monitor all relevant information on COVID-19 on a daily basis.
After the OVC released their official statement, OVC commissioner Beth DeBauche came out with a statement of her own for athletes and fans.
“As we issued the official release on Monday that the Ohio Valley Conference was cancelling all intercollegiate competitions, including OVC Championships, through the end of the 2019-20 academic year due to the COVID-19 public health threat,” said DeBauche. “I was overwhelmed by the sense of loss for our student-athletes who are not going to be able to experience the sense of joy and accomplishment by competing in the OVC this spring.”
“I know whether you are a student-athlete, coach or an administrator we all share a collective sense of loss right now, but we must take solace in the fact our OVC community did exactly what we needed to do to help protect the health and safety of our student-athletes and the broader communities in which our institutions play such a large role,” said DeBauche
As for JSU specifically, distance learning has been implemented for all classes as of Friday, March 14 after a student was placed under investigation for COVID-19. While the student eventually tested negative for the virus, JSU has continued to take precautions to prevent anyone from contracting the virus.
JSU has continued to keep faculty and students updated on how they have been dealing with the situation. JSU Acting President Don Killingsworth has given his most recent update as of March 17, 2020.
“Most JSU offices are now closed until after Spring Break, but staff is still monitoring voicemail,” said Killingsworth.” If you need to reach someone, please leave a message. The department will return your call as soon as possible. Search the directory online for contact info.”
“The Technology Support Center will be providing technology and user account support via email on Thursday and Friday, March 19-20,” said Killingsworth. “Please contact the TSC by emailing techcenter@jsu.edu. Staff will review the requests and respond accordingly.”
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Forward to the Past: Russia, Turkey, and Armenia’s Fate
By Keghart
By Raffi Hovannisian, Former Foreign Minister of Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, 17 October 2008
The recent race of strategic realignments reflects a real crisis in the world order and risks a dangerous recurrence of history. Suffice the testimony of nearly all global and regional actors, which have quickly shifted their gears and ushered in a new cycle of reassessment of interests and, to that end, a diversification of policy priorities and political partnerships.
It matters little whether this geopolitical scramble was directly triggered by the Russian-Georgian conflagration and the derivative collapse of standing paradigms for the Caucasus, or whether it crowned latently simmering scenarios in the halls of international power. The fact is that the great game–for strategic resources, control over communications and routes of transit, and long-term leverage–is on again with renewed vigor, self-serving partisanship, and duplicitous entanglement.
One of the signals of this unbrave new world is the apparent reciprocal rediscovery of Russia and Turkey. Whatever its motivations and manifestations, Turkey's play behind the back of its transatlantic bulwark and Russia's dealings at the expense of its "strategic ally" raise the specter of history's return, recalling the days more than 85 years ago when Bolshevik Russia and Nationalist Turkey, not contenting themselves with the legacy of the great Genocide and National Dispossession of 1915, partitioned the Armenian homeland in Molotov-Ribbentrop fashion and to its fatal future detriment.
Mountainous Karabagh, or Artsakh in Armenian, was one of the territorial victims of this 1921 plot of the pariahs, as it was placed under Soviet Azerbaijani suzerainty together with Nakhichevan. The latter province of the historical Armenian patrimony was subsequently cleansed of its Armenian plurality and even of its Armenian cultural heritage, the most contemporary evidence of which was the Azerbaijani Republic's (a Council of Europe member-state) total, Taliban-style annihilation in December 2005 of the medieval cemetery and thousands of Armenian cross-stones at Jugha.
Mountainous Karabagh, by way of exception, was able to turn the tide on a past of genocide, dispossession, occupation and partition, as it defended its identity, integrity, and territory against foreign aggression and in 1991 declared its liberty, decolonization, and sovereignty–long before Kosovo, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia became current–in compliance with the Montevideo standards of conventional international law and with the controlling domestic legislation of the Soviet Union.
Subsequent international practice on the recognition of Kosovo, and later of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, demonstrates that in this world there exists no real rule of law–applied evenly across the board–but rather the rule of vital interests that are conveniently couched under the selectively-interpreted guise of international legal principles of choice and of exclusivist distinctions of fact which, in fact, make no difference.
It's time to face the farce.
That goes for Moscow and Ankara too. Judging from the contemporary pronouncements of their high-level officials, they still don't get it.
And if they are driven by need for a strategic new compact, then at least their partners on the world stage should reshift their gears and calculate their policy alternatives accordingly. Iran, the United States and its European allies might find here an objective intersection of their concerns.
Russia and Turkey must never again find unity of purpose at the expense of Armenia and the Armenian people. The track record of genocide, exile, death camps and gulags is enough for all of history.
These two important countries, as partners both real and potential, must respect the Armenian nation's tragic history, its sovereign integrity and modern regional role, and Mountainous Karabagh's lawfully-gained freedom and independence.
Football diplomacy is fine, but Turkey can assume the desired new level of global leadership and local legitimacy only by dealing with Armenia from a "platform" of good faith and reconciliation through truth; lifting its illegal blockade of the Republic and opening the frontier which it unilaterally closed, instead of using it as a bargaining tool; establishing diplomatic relations without preconditions and working through that relationship to build mutual confidence and give resolution to the many watershed issues dividing the two neighbors; accepting and atoning, in the brilliant example of postwar Germany, for the first genocide of the 20th century and the national dispossession that attended it; committing to rebuild, restore, and then celebrate the Armenian national heritage from Mt. Ararat and the medieval capital city of Ani to the vast array of churches, monasteries, schools, academies, fortresses, and other cultural treasures of the ancestral Armenian homelands; initiating and bringing to fruition a comprehensive program to guarantee the right of secure voluntary return for the progeny and descendants of the dispossessed to their places and properties of provenance; providing full civil, human, and religious rights to the Armenian community of Turkey, including completely doing away with the infamous Article 301 which has served for so long as an instrument of fear, suppression, and even death with regard to those courageous citizens of good conscience who dare to proclaim the historical fact of genocide; and finally exercising greater circumspection in voicing incongruous and unfounded allegations of "occupation" in the context of Mountainous Karabagh's
David-and-Goliath struggle for life and justice, lest someone remind it about more appropriate and more proximate applications of that term.
As for Russia, true strategic allies consult honestly with each other and coordinate their policies pursuant to their common interests; they do not address one another by negotiating adverse protocols with third parties at each other's back, they do not posture against each other in public or in private, and they do not try to intimidate, arm-twist, or otherwise pressure each other via the press clubs and newspapers of the world. Russia as well must deal with Armenia in good faith, recognizing the full depth and breadth of its national sovereignty and the horizontal nature of their post-Soviet rapport, its right to seek and realize a balanced, robust, and integral foreign policy, as well as the non-negotiability–for any reason, including the sourcing and supervision of Azerbaijani oil–of Mountainous Karabagh's liberty, security, and self-determination.
Official Yerevan, of course, must also step up to undertake its share of responsibility for creating a region of peace and shared stability, mutual respect and open borders, domestic democracy and international cooperation.
An ancient civilization with a new state, Armenia's national interests in the new era can best be served by achieving in short order a republic run by the rule of law and due process, an abiding respect for fundamental freedoms, good governance, and fair election s. These, sadly, have not been the case to date.
Armenia requires the real deal, and forthwith. But history as witness, it can and will no longer play the fool…or the victim.
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Lexaria Bioscience Expands Pharmaceutical Division to Include Lipophilic Antiviral Active Molecules for COVID-19 Treatment
March 23 | 2020
Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (CSE:LXX, OTC:LXRP) (the “Company” or “Lexaria”), a global innovator in drug delivery platforms, has expanded the scope and activities of its 100%-owned subsidiary Lexaria Pharmaceutical Corp., to investigate how Lexaria’s patented DehydraTECHTM drug delivery technology could enhance delivery and effectiveness of certain antiviral drugs in the fight against coronavirus disease COVID-19. Lexaria intends to expand collaboration with leading laboratories in North America and internationally as soon as possible.
Lexaria Pharmaceutical Business Unit
Within the Lexaria Pharmaceutical Corp. business unit resides Intellectual Property for enhanced delivery of drugs such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (“NSAIDs”), vitamins, hormone treatments utilizing estrogen or testosterone and phosphodiesterase (“PDE5”) inhibitors; with expansion now underway to include antiviral drugs as well. Lexaria’s patented DehydraTECH drug delivery technology enhances the way Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (“APIs”) enter the bloodstream, promoting lower overall dosing and higher effectiveness for lipophilic active molecules, including the lipophilic antiviral drugs under investigation. Lexaria operates a licensed in-house research laboratory and holds a robust intellectual property portfolio with 16 patents granted and over 60 patents pending worldwide.
Lipophilic Antiviral Drug Delivery – Rationale
Researchers around the world are currently investigating various antiviral drugs as potential candidates to treat persons infected with coronavirus. Many of these drugs are fat soluble and known to present significant bioavailability challenges in successfully reaching the human bloodstream when administered in oral form. Lexaria has established itself as a scientific leader in oral delivery of fat soluble drugs.
DehydraTECH has been proven to reduce time of onset and increase bioavailability in every fat soluble drug with which it has been tested to date. When quantified, the increase in bioavailability can significantly reduce the drug dose required to treat a condition, thereby reducing treatment costs. In the case of COVID-19 where many millions of drug doses may be required worldwide, this has the potential to save billions of dollars and improve accessibility to positively effect healthcare on a global scale. Furthermore, DehydraTECH’s bioavailability enhancing effects are believed to be enabled in part by influencing a decrease in first pass liver metabolism for orally administered drugs. This, in turn, is thought to enable improved safety and tolerability for patients by maximizing the quantity of the ingested drug that traverses the GI tract and reaches the bloodstream without being degraded by or placing stress upon organs that process waste elimination.
Lexaria Pharmaceutical Corp. intends to investigate its leading-edge drug delivery technology throughout 2020 and 2021 to improve drug delivery efficiency for potential application for a number of virus-related diseases such as AIDS, Influenza and COVID-19.
Data-Driven R&D Program
Lexaria has completed the design phase and intends to conduct a pilot human pharmacokinetic (“PK”) exploratory study in healthy volunteers with three or more antiviral drugs that have previously been studied against other coronavirus strains, comparing DehydraTECH formulations to controls. Lexaria intends to conduct this first study at a leading Canadian university where a study design and plan has already been submitted for ethics board approval. Lexaria will provide further details upon successful conclusion of the review process, as well as study outcomes when available.
If the PK data are successful in demonstrating antiviral drug delivery efficiencies, Lexaria will provide that data to researchers around the world to enable additional practical research in utilization of similar antiviral drugs in combating COVID-19. Additional publicly reported data may include expanded PK and pharmacodynamic screening in appropriate disease models in animals to predict human effectiveness.
Pending positive outcomes from its planned research activities, Lexaria will aggressively engage with prospective strategic partners to improve drug development where applicable, in alignment with its business model as a drug delivery technology licensor and provider.
Stock Option Cancellation
Separately, Lexaria also announces that on March 23, 2020 it has cancelled, with the approval of the optionees, an aggregate of 3,268,000 stock options (the “Options”) having exercise prices ranging from US$0.37 to US$1.53. The Options were issued pursuant to the Company’s registered stock option plans and, as a result of such option cancellations, the Company will be terminating its 2007 Stock Option Plan as there are no longer any options issued pursuant to that plan, though other options remain granted from Lexaria’s other option plans.
About Lexaria
Lexaria Bioscience Corp. is a global innovator in drug delivery platforms. Its patented DehydraTECH(TM) drug delivery technology changes the way API’s enter the bloodstream, promoting healthier ingestion methods, lower overall dosing and higher effectiveness for lipophilic active molecules. DehydraTECH increases bio-absorption; reduces time of onset; and can reduce drug costs for orally administered bioactive molecules including nicotine, vitamins, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and other molecules. Lexaria has licensed DehydraTECH to multiple companies for use in various oral application formats, including to a world-leading tobacco producer for the development of smokeless, oral-based nicotine products. Lexaria operates a licensed in-house research laboratory and holds a robust intellectual property portfolio with 16 patents granted and over 60 patents pending worldwide.
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Mountaineers sweep ‘Cats,
host Hunter Huss, Ashbrook
Kings Mountain’s Lady Mountaineers got their basketball season underway Monday with a 52-34 win over North Gaston in Dallas.
The Mountaineers made it two in a row with an 83-53 win in the nightcap.
The Lady Mountaineers had their scheduled opener with Stuart Cramer postponed because of COVID in the Cramer program, and KM’s head coach Nicholas Inman missed the North Gaston game due to COVID protocols for exposure.
Assistant coach Darrel Wilson took charge of the team and with the help of his daughter, Saniya, and all of her teammates saw the ladies get off to a great start.
Saniya Wilson, a junior standout, led all scorers with 22 points and also contributed 10 rebounds, seven steals and four assists.
Khalia King added 17 points and three boards. Kennedy Barnes had six points and five boards, Austyn Dixon four points and two rebounds, Tyasya Bell two points and Brooke Ferree one point, five steals and three rebounds.
Kings Mountain jumped out to a 10-6 first quarter lead and was on top 23-16 at the half. They began breaking the game open in the third period with a 16-8 advantage to take a 39-24 led into the final chapter.
Whitney Brown led the Lady Wildcats with 14 points.
The boys game was close for a while with the Mountaineers leading by just 19-18 at the first quarter break and 36-32 at the half. But they began breaking the game open in the third period and carried a 61-43 lead into the final eight minutes.
Junior star Isaiah Tate again led the offense with 31 points and six assists. He also contributed four steals on defense.
Matt Toms also had a good night with 19 points, and Zeke Cannedy contributed 13.
Kings Mountain will host Hunter Huss Wednesday in a Big South game that was originally set for last night but rescheduled because of KM’s opening round state tournament volleyball match.
The KM teams will face two good Ashbrook teams Friday night at home. They will host county rival Burns in a non-conference game January 21.
Nash Buchanan
KM boys win opening meet
(January 13, 2021 Issue)
Kings Mountain’s boys defeated Forestview and Crest and the girls finished second to Forestview in their opening swim meet last week at Neisler Natatorium. The Crest girls were third.
The Lady Mountaineers were led by Madison Ayscue, who won both the 50 and 500 free.
Trinity Price won the 200 free and was second in the 100 backstroke.
Freshman Callie Simpson finished second in the 100 fly and 100 breaststroke.
All other Lady Mountaineers set new personal records, including Mallory Camp in the 50 free and 100 free.
Vanyah Roberts finished fourth in the 200 free and set her new personal record, and Hallie Towery competed in the 100 breaststroke and 50 free where she set a new personal record.
The boys were led by Alex Barr who won both of his events, the 50 free and 100 backstroke.
Dalton Messenger won both of his events, the 200 free and 100 breaststroke.
Carson Buchanan was second in the 500 free and 100 backstroke.
Alex Hayes finished second in the 100 free and freshman Turner Brown was third in the 500 free.
Nash Bachman set a new personal record in the 200 free and 100 backstroke.
Andrew Dangelo set a new personal record in the 100 free.
The KM guys team – Alex Barr, Turner Brown, Carson Buchanan and Dalton Messenger - won the 400 free relay.
Aaliyah Byers serves the ball in last week’s victory over Forestview at Donald L. Parker Gymnasium.
Lady Mountaineers sweep BSC volleyball title, were to open state 3A playoffs Tuesday night
Kings Mountain High’s women’s volleyball team finished off the Big South 3A Conference championship run last week with victories over Forestview and Crest, and were scheduled to open the state 3A championship playoffs last night at home against Marvin Ridge.
The KM ladies not only went undefeated through the conference season, but won all of their matches in straight sets. Their only loss this was to 4A power Ardrey Kell in a non-conference game.
But, those accomplishments didn’t help their seeding for the state playoffs as they went into the post-season as the sixth seed among 16 Western 3A qualifiers. Marvin Ridge is seeded 11th. A KM victory would move the Lady Mountaineers into a Thursday meeting against the winner of #3 North Iredell and #14 Weddington.
Crest, which finished second in the BSC to the Lady Mountaineers, drew the 10th seed and was to face #7 TC Roberson last night.
The Lady Mountaineers closed out the regular season with a 25-14, 25-11, 25-14 win over Forestview on Tuesday and a 25-19, 25-12, 25-17 sweep of the defending BSC champion Crest ladies on the road Friday.
In the win over Forestview, freshman Meile Songaila continued to make her mark on KMHS sports with nine kills, 16 service points, two blocks and eight serve receptions.
Junior Aaliyah Byers, who leads the Big South in kills with 193, continued her outstanding play with 15 kills, nine service points and two blocks.
Emma Goff supplied 11 service points, three kills and three digs.
Kyann Crocker had seven service points, 11 digs and 14 serve receptions and Paige Bagwell provided 19 assists.
At Crest, Byers continued her excellent play which should lead to a host of post-season honors. She had an incredible 25 kills to go with 12 digs, 10 serve receptions, two blocks and seven service points.
Songaila contributed 10 kills, 15 digs, 11 serve receptions and 13 service points.
Goff had eight kills and nine service points.
Bagwell had an excellent game with 44 assists, eight digs and four blocks.
Crocker contributed two assists, 12 digs, 17 serve receptions and six service points.
Coach Heather Paysour said she was extremely pleased with her team’s effort at Crest.
“That’s the best I’ve seen us play,” she said. “I would say it’s been a while since we went an entire conference season without having a match go more than three sets. This is my 18th year in coaching and I’ve never heard of anyone doing that. We’re really excited.”
Kings Mountain’s JVs also ran the table in the BSC. In their final two matches they defeated Forestview 25-18, 25-14 and Crest 25-9, 25-16.
Against Forestview, Mary Grace Hogue had five kills and Mary Quay Moss three. Jessie Ozmore dished out 11 assists and Alayna Patrick did a great job serving and on defense.
At Crest, Moss had six kills and two blocks and Ozmore had 18 service points and eight assists.
KM volleyball team
sweeps Green Wave
(December 30, 2020 Issue)
Kings Mountain High’s volleyball team closed out its pre-holiday schedule last week with a 25-5, 25-7, 25-8 sweep of the Ashbrook Green Wave.
The Lady Mountaineers went into the break with perfect 9-0 Big South Conference record. They resume play Tuesday, Jan. 5 at home against Forestview.
Aaliyah Byers led the Lady Mountaineers with 13 kills and also added seven service points and six serve receptions
Meile Songaila had four kills, seven service points, two digs and three serve receptions.
Paige Bagwell also had an outstanding all-around effort with two kills, six service points, four digs and 27 assists.
Kyann Crocker added seven service points, four digs and four serve receptions.
Emma Goff had four kills and 20 service points.
In JV action, the KM ladies improved to 7-0 in the Big south with a 25-8, 25-8 win.
Mary Grace Hogue and Mary Quay Moss stood out on offense. Jessie Ozmore had numerous assists and did a good job serving.
Lady Mountaineers much improved, hope to be contender in Big South 3A
Kings Mountain High’s men’s basketball team is used to fighting for conference championships and going deep in the state playoffs but slipped to a 12-15 record last year and fourth place in the Big South Conference.
With some young players and a few transfers things just didn’t jell right, but veteran coach Grayson Pierce feels he has the athletes with the talent and desire to turn things around in 2021.
Kings Mountain opens its regular season Tues., Jan. 5 at Stuart Cramer. The Mountaineers go to North Gaston on January 8 and play their first home game against always-powerful Hunter Huss on January 12.
Pierce predicts that Hunter Huss and Crest will again be the powerful foes they always are, but he feels like the Mountaineers have the kind of talent that could put them in a good position to greatly improve their standing in the Big South.
The veteran mentor says he will likely have a nine-man rotation with everyone getting a lot of playing time.
“We are bigger, stronger, faster and more experienced than we were last year,” he says of a current squad that should be strong on offense and defense. “We have a chance to be very good.”
Pierce has a veteran team that he thinks can make a run in the BSC and state playoffs.
“We haven’t been practicing in about two weeks,” he noted. “We had some Covid contact tracing and they shut us down. We had four total practices before stopping.
“But we have faith that those guys can catch on quickly and we’ll have a good year. We have faith that we can make a run. Last year we relied heavily on sophomores and juniors to get the job done, plus we had two transfers come in. That’s tough when you don’t have leaders.
“But our chemistry looks good this year. The players are in a different mindset and I think we will make a run in the conference and playoffs.”
Heading the list of returning starters is Isaiah Tate, who is one of the best shooting guards around. But, he’s not the only one that can put points on the board.
“Zeke Cannedy also returns and he scores in bunches,” Pierce noted. He’s a very good shooter.”
Another returner is 6-4 Orlando Odums. “He can hold down the paint and rebound for us,” Pierce said.
Matt Toms, who played a lot last year, will probably crack the starting five. “When he’s on he can shoot with the best of them,” Pierce said. “And he’s a good defensive player.”
Weston Hughes is another returner that could crack the starting five. Pierce said. “He can get down the court very well and get into the paint.”
Senior Titus Phillips, who is also a good football player, will be joining the team soon after having surgery.
“We hope to get him back in about a week,” Pierce said. “He will help us on the boards. He’s a tremendous athlete.”
Some younger players should also make their mark on KM basketball.
Maddox James, who is 6-4, is a good rebounder and is very strong, Pierce said. “He can do a little bit of everything.”
Pierce said Curtis Simpson, a 6-5 freshman, will be a welcomed addition to the varsity. “He has a chance to be as good as anybody we’ve had here,” Pierce said. “He’s a shot blocker and gets rebounds. He could be 6-8 before he’s finished.”
Although KM should be the team to challenge Huss and Crest at the top of the standings, Pierce says the Mountaineers have to play at their highest level every night.
“The thing about this conference is that if you have a bad night, anyone can beat you,” he noted.
Pierce will again be assisted by Randy Drennan, Matt Bradley and Matt Carpenter. New to the staff is former KM player DJ Byrd, who is working with the post players.
“DJ will really help us,” said Pierce. “He was as good a rebounder as we’ve had and he will get them where they need to be.”
Mountaineers plan to return
to their winning ways in BSC
Aaliyah Byers, left, and Myracle Davis go up to block a shot in last week’s KM victory over Crest at Parker Gym.
KM spikers sweep Lady Chargers,
take sole possession of BSC lead
No Big South teams have been able to take Kings Mountain’s volleyball team past the required three sets this season, but the Lady Mountaineers’ chief rival and defending conference champion Crest came close in Wednesday’s match at Donald L. Parker Gymnasium that closed out the first round of conference play.
The Lady Mountaineers prevailed 28-26, 25-10, 28-26, leaving them as the only undefeated team in the Big South Conference and the favorite to end the season as conference champions.
The Lady Mountaineers got a good all-around game from all of their players.
Senior star Aaliyah Byers, the leading candidate for Big South Player of the Year, had her typical great game with 16 kills, 15 service points, 10 serve receptions and 11 digs.
Freshman Meile Songaila continued her outstanding play with 15 kills, 12 service points, 19 serve receptions and 12 digs.
Paige Bagwell did her usual good job of setting up her teammates and recorded 16 assists and six digs.
Ashlyn Wood provided 18 assists and 11 digs.
Emma Goff showed great leadership on the court to go with her three kills and seven assists.
Kyann Crocker provided five service points, 13 digs and 13 serve receptions.
Kings Mountain’s JVs continued their unbeaten ways as well with a 25-12, 25-17 victory over a good Charger squad.
Austyn Dixon’s offense was one of the key factors in the KM win.
Jessie Ozmore had eight service points and did a good job running the offense, and Addi Peeler had 10 service points.
The Lady Mountaineers began second round BSC play Friday with a 25-13, 25-11, 25-12 victory over Stuart Cramer in Belmont.
Byers had 17 kills, 13 service aces and 11 digs. Songaila had 16 aces and five kills, Gold and Goff four kills each, Crocker seven digs, and Bagwell and Wood 13 and 10 aces, respectively.
Kings Mountain will host North Gaston Thursday and travel to Hunter Huss Friday. The Lady Mountaineers will host Ashbrook Monday, Dec. 21 for their final pre-Christmas game.
Their final two regular season games will be against BSC teams Forestview at KM on January 5 and Crest away on January 7. NCHSAA playoffs begin on January 12.
Realignment first draft has KM in BS 3A
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association released its first draft of the 2021-25 realignment plan Thursday and Kings Mountain will remain in Conference 50 (which should still be called the Big South 3A).
The league will be the same as it is currently, with the exception of Hunter Huss which will be moving to the 2A level, and South Point which is coming back to 3A after a four-year stay in 2A.
Other teams in the Big South are Crest, Ashbrook, North Gaston, Forestview and Stuart Cramer.
Hunter Huss will move to a split 1A/2A Conference 40 which also includes 2A teams Burns, East Gaston and Shelby and 1A teams Bessemer City, Cherryville and Highland Tech. That league will probably be called the Southwestern Conference.
Schools will be given several opportunities to oppose their placement before it becomes official, but Kings Mountain athletic director Matt Bridges said he is confident that the proposed Big South will not change.
“It worked out pretty good for us,” he said of the first draft. “The Big South is a good conference and it’s good travel-wise. Community support is very important and Big South Conference teams bring a lot of fans.”
Beginning in the fall schools will only play 10 regular season games. Kings Mountain will definitely keep county rivals Shelby and Burns on their schedule giving them two other non-conference games, one of which will be an endowment game. Bridges said he has already contacted some schools about possible playing dates and hopes to at least get a rough draft of a schedule in the next couple of weeks. But nothing can be set in stone until the realignment is official.
“We feel really good about our situation,” he said. “I would be shocked if it changes. Some of the split conferences are concerning, and they might change some.”
He said there are still some questions to be answered, one of which is the length of a JV season since the varsity season will be reduced to 10 games as well as the start date for JVs since varsity can’t begin until August 28. He said the season-ending date must be addressed because, as it appears right now the state championship game would be on the same date as the Shrine Bowl.
“But, as far as the Big South schedule, we hope that we can put South Point on the date that we have Hunter Huss now and just move on,” Bridges said. “Kings Mountain and South Point had a long rivalry (before the Raiders dropped to 2A) and we look forward to renewing it.”
The Big South athletic directors were meeting Monday to discuss realignment and their possibilities.
While short travel distances are good for the Big South, other teams in the area face a lot of long trips. The proposed 1A/2A conference that includes Cleveland and Gaston teams isn’t expected to change any, but several schools in other split conferences will have miles to go on Thursday and Friday nights. Rutherford County 2A teams Chase, East Rutherford, RS Central and Thomas Jefferson will be playing in a split 1A/2A conference that includes mountain teams Brevard, Hendersonville, Polk County, and Rosman.
*(A side-note: Many former KM opponents will be moving to 4A in the fall, including AC Reynolds, TC Roberson, AL Brown, Weddington and Charlotte Catholic).
Kings Mountain High runners making the All-Big South Conference team were, front row, left to right, Nicole Poston, Ashley Gural, Parker Wilson, Thalia Kushman and Divinity Ervin. Back row, left to right, Parker Key, Marty Lovingood, Hunter Cruise and Kohen Johnson.
KMHS women’s cross country
comes within point of BSC title
Kings Mountain High’s young men’s and women’s cross country teams fared very well in last week’s Big South Conference championship meet at Gastonia Ashbrook.
The heavily-favored Forestview women’s team got a big scare from the Lady Mountaineers as the Lady Jaguars won by just one point, 34-35.
And, the perennial champion Forestview men surprisingly came in second to the Stuart Cramer Purple Storm. It was Cramer’s first cross country championship in its history. Kings Mountain came in third.
Kings Mountain placed five women and four men on the All-Big South Conference team.
KM women gaining the honor were Thalia Kushman, Divinity Ervin, Nicole Poston, Ashley Gural and Parker Wilson.
KM men selected were Parker Key, Marty Lovingood, Hunter Cruise and Kohen Johnson.
Kushman, a freshman, put up an amazing 2.5 mile fight going stride for stride with Forestview senior Emma Hughlett. The Forestview runner finally put some distance on Kushman to pull off the victory.
Kushman’s time was 23:05.
Ervin finished fifth, Wilson seventh, Gural 10th and Poston 11th.
Rounding out the KM lineup were Emma Herndon and Emily Phelps, who finished 21st and 22nd respectively.
Parker Key led the Kings Mountain men with a seventh place finish at 18:42. Stuart Cramer’s Nick Willer finished first in 16:16.94.
KM’s Hunter Cruise came in 11th, Marty Lovingood 13th and Kohen Johnson 14th.
Other KM finishers were Nicholas Horn 21st, Nathan Inthavong 23rd and Wyatt Wilson 26th.
Both Kings Mountain teams qualified for the Western Regional meet on January 16. The site has yet to be determined.
Kings Mountain will host Burns, Crest and Shelby in its final home meet on Wednesday, Dec. 16 at 3:45. The Mountaineers will then break for the holidays and will resume action against the same four teams in the annual Cleveland County championship meet at Shelby High at 3:45 on Wed., Jan. 6. If that meet should be cancelled because of bad weather, today’s meet at KMHS will decide the Cleveland County champions.
KM, Crest to stay
in Big South 3A
(December 2, 2020 Issue)
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association released its first draft of the 2021-25 realignment plan today and Kings Mountain will remain in Conference 50 (which should still be called the Big South 3A).
Other teams projected for the Big South are Crest, Ashbrook, North Gaston, Forestview and Stuart Cramer.
Hunter Huss will move to a split 1A/2A Conference 40 which also includes 2A teams Burns, East Gaston and Shelby and 1A teams Bessemer City, Cherryville and Highland Tech.
Mountaineer runners sweep
Crest to go 2-0
Perfect weather led to another perfect run for the Kings Mountain High School cross country teams in a sweep of Crest and Hunter Huss last week.
Both teams had five of the top seven runners.
The men were led by Parker Key in 17:52.20, followed closely by Hunter Cruise in 18:50.05. It was their second straight 1-2 finish of the season.
Kohen Johnson and Nicholas Horn finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in 19:42.50 and 20:30.12. Wyatt Wilson came in seventh in 21:09.51 and Elliott Habel was ninth in 21:19.03. Nathan Inthavong of the Mountaineers rounded out the top 10 in 21:25.33.
Marty Lovingood finished 12th in 21:56.70 and Marcus Williams 13th in 24:30.16.
Ben Kimmell of Huss, who ran third, and Rex Hoard and Colt Goodrum of Crest, who finished sixth and eighth respectively, were the only other top ten finishers.
Kings Mountain’s women claimed the top three spots, led by Thalia Kushman in 21:47.87. Like Key, it was her second straight #1 finish of the young season.
Lady Mountaineers Divinity Ervin and Ashley Gural were second and third, respectively, in 22:48.92 and 24:25.18.
Jillian Hux and Emma Harrill, both of Crest, crossed the finish line in fourth and fifth, respectively. The final five top ten finishes belonged to the Lady Mountaineers with Nicole Poston sixth, Parker Wilson seventh, Emily Phelps eighth, Emma Herndon ninth and Hannah Crawford 10th.
Both KM teams will face their toughest test of the season December 1 when they travel to Forestview. The Forestview men are the defending Big South 3A Conference champions. They will follow that up in the conference championship meet on Tuesday, Dec. 8 at Gastonia Ashbrook.
Kings Mountain will not have another home run until Wednesday, Dec. 16 when they host county rivals Burns, Crest and Shelby at 3:45 p.m.
SPORTS THIS WEEK
Thur., Dec. 3
4:30 – High school volleyball, Kings Mountain at Forestview (JV/V DH).
Fri., Dec. 4
4:30 – High school volleyball, Kings Mountain at Ardrey Kell (JV/V DH).
Tues., Dec. 8
3:45 – High school cross country, Big South Conference championship meet at Gastonia Ashbrook. Teams KM, Ashbrook, Forestview, Stuart Cramer. Hunter Huss, North Gaston and Crest.
4:30 – High school volleyball, Crest at Kings Mountain (JV/V DH)
Lady Mountaineers take a timeout in sweep of Hunter Huss.
Lady Mountaineer volleyball
dominates Huss and Ashbrook
Kings Mountain High’s women’s volleyball team entered the Thanksgiving break last week with a pair of victories that ran their Big South Conference record to 4-0.
The Lady Mountaineers and Crest are tied for first place at the break. Those two teams will meet on December 8 at KMHS.
Before then, though, the Lady Mountaineers will travel to Forestview for a BSC game on December 3 and Ardrey Kell for a non-conference contest on December 4.
The Lady Mountaineers haven’t lost a game yet, sweeping all of their opponents 3-0. Against Ashbrook they rolled to a 25-8 win in the first set before Ashbrook made it interestingw and fell by 25-15 and 25-22 in the final two.
Aaliyah Byers had another spectacular outing with 19 kills, five service points and eight digs.
Lily Gold provided seven kills and five service points.
Paige Bagwell dished out 19 assists and had eight service points.
Ashlyn Wood added 13 assists and 11 service points.
Kyann Crocker had nine digs, 16 serve receptions and nine service points.
The Lady Mountaineers rolled over Hunter Huss Monday at Parker Gym 25-11, 25-5, 25-7.
Byers had her usual strong outing with eight kills and 16 service points.
Wood provided 17 assists and five service points.
Bagwell contributed nine assists and 13 service points.
Freshman Meile Songaila was again strong on the nets with seven kills.
(October 21, 2020 Issue)
Coach Ron Massey talks with his Mountaineers after the 1998 state 3-A championship football game at UNC’s Kenan Stadium. The Mountaineers fell to a strong Winston-Salem Carver team 33-28 to finish with a 14-2 overall record. This was the first time in KM football history that the team won over 12 games in a season.
1993 NCHSAA CHAMPIONS – The Kings Mountain High men’s swim team won the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state championship in 1993. First row, left to right, O’Brian Wilson, Jay Speight and Bergen Hall. Second row Chuck Kaylor, Antonio Budia, Israel Angeles and Nathan Mayse. Back row Dan Messenger, Rick Clary, Lindsay Suber and Dave Messenger.
The 1973 Kings Mountain Babe Ruth all-star team won the North Carolina state championship over Greenville at St. Stephens High School in Hickory and competed in the Southeast Regionals in Clearwater, Florida. Front row, left to right, are Steve Southwell, Kenny Baliles, Frank Hovis, Mark Thornburg and Jeff Reynolds. Second row Mike Sisk, Monte Falls, Jimmy Parker, Gary Proctor and Chris Johnson. Back row coach Tommy Pruett, Kevin Ford, Joel Burgess, Andy Bridges, Jeff Carroll and coach Tony Leigh.
See more photos in October 21, 2020 issue) Page 1B & 2B
George Adams was KM’s first
All-American basketball player
(Third in a series on some of the best athletes and teams in Kings Mountain sports history).
When Kings Mountain schools integrated – partly in the 1965-66 school year and fully in 1966-67 – the Mountaineers hadn’t won a handful of basketball championships dating back to their beginning in the early 1900s.
But the young people of that day – now ‘old-timers’ - will never forget the 1966-67 and 1967-68 teams that featured some of the best players to ever come through Kings Mountain.
The best then, and probably now as most old-timers will tell you, were young men like George Adams and Otis Cole who excelled not just on the high school level but in college. And, it Adams’ case, the pros.
Total desegregation of schools began in the fall of 1966. But the year before, local Black students were given the option to stay at Compact for one more year or come on to KMHS.
A lot did come on to KMHS, among them Ken Mitchem who was a Mountaineer basketball star and went on to play four years at Pan American University in Texas before becoming a slow-pitch softball superstar with the Pharr Yarns Reds and helping them win a number of national championships.
After full integration, the Mountaineers under veteran coach Don Parker in 1966-67 and Bob Hussey the next three seasons, had their best four-year run in school history. They won back-to-back titles the first two years. In Parker’s last year they went 20-0 in the regular season before being upset by Marion (now McDowell County) in the bi-conference tournament in Hickory.
The 25-0 run came in Hussey’s first year and Adams’ senior year of 1967-68 when they fell to Kannapolis in the WNCHSAA championship game.
With Adams graduated, the Mountaineers had a much smaller lineup but a very good one in 1968-69, led by Cole and guard Charlie Barnes, the latter a very good guard for the Appalachian State Mountaineers, but they finished second in the SWC to a very good Cherryville team. Most of those players were seniors the following year when the Mountaineers won the SWC and built a 23-0 record before falling to Avery County and its 7-4 giant Tommy Burleson in the association playoffs.
Adams enjoyed his days at Compact and Kings Mountain. He literally lived just a stone’s throw from Compact High School and stayed there the first year of integration. He played as a freshman and sophomore at Compact under the late Coach John Blalock, who produced numerous championship teams at Compact in the 1960s and at KMHS in the 1980s.
While Adams’ success at KMHS was what caught the eye of college recruiters, he had a good reason for staying at Compact. His mother had died when he was four years old and his father later moved up north and Adams was living with his elderly grandmother.
“I talked to people like Ken Mitchem and he was telling me what an opportunity I missed out on by not going to Kings Mountain,” Adams recalled recently. “But in those days I had been accustomed to Compact for so long I was hesitant about stepping out. The next year it would be mandatory.
“I lived directly across the road from the little church near the school. I could just walk a few steps and be there. That affected my decision. I also wanted to play at Compact because my older sister and my four brothers had played there.
“My grandmother (Mary Thompson) raised me. My father moved to New York sometime after my mother died. He always remained in contact with me and supplied my needs. He was always in my life and very understanding, but I was the youngest one in the family and I didn’t want to leave her.”
Adams played JV basketball as a freshman at Compact, but started as a sophomore on a very good and exciting Compact team. He went on to become one of the top players in the state his junior and senior years at Kings Mountain.
“My JV year at Compact we had an amazing varsity team with guys like Jimmy Curry, Miles Boyd, Billy McCathen, James Hood and my brother Thomas Adams,” he noted. “They won a championship. I remember when we had a pep rally and they came out of the dressing room wearing blue Compact Cobras jackets. That inspired me to try to be like them.”
If not for integration, Adams most likely would have remained at Compact but he also enjoyed his two years at KMHS. He became the Mountaineers’ first-ever All-American basketball player his senior year and was the school’s second-ever All-American, joining quarterback George Harris from the championship 1955 football team.
In Adams’ two years at KMHS the team posted an overall record of 45-2. In addition to All-American, he was also All-State and played in the East-West All-Star game in Greensboro.
He received college offers from all over the United States, including national champion Houston. He chose Gardner-Webb where he was a three-time All-American and held the school records for scoring and rebounding for many years. For Adams, that was his only choice because his family always came first and he would be close enough to get home when needed.
His freshman year at GWU, he averaged 18 points per game on a team that included All-Americans Artis Gilmore and Ernie Fleming. They were sophomores. GW was beginning a senior college program the next season and they decided to complete their career at Jacksonville University. Jacksonville offered Adams, also, but he wanted to stay at GWU. He left there after his senior year with 15 school records including most points (2,404) and most rebounds (1,113). The Bulldogs played in the National JUCO tournament his freshman year and the national tournament his sophomore, junior and senior years.
Although he never sought special attention, Adams said “I really began getting exposure at Gardner-Webb. It was a great opportunity. I hadn’t had a chance to gain exposure before that and a new page opened up in my life. I go back to Gardner-Webb a lot. I still see and talk to a lot of my teammates. One of my teammates, Billy Ellis, is now the mayor of Boiling Springs.”
Throughout his career at KMHS and GWU, Adams was the leading scorer and rebounder, but he never wanted attention. “I have always been the kind of person that ‘we won’ and ‘the team won.’ It never really was about me and how many rebounds and points I had. I try to apply basketball to my life – work hard and achieve.”
Adams went on to play four years in the American Basketball Association. He was the first inductee in the GWU Sports Hall of Fame and joined Cleveland Browns football star Kevin Mack, the late Western Carolina League president and KM mayor John Moss, and the late Washington Senators baseball great Jake Early in the first induction class of the Kings Mountain Sports Hall of Fame.
“My father (Coleman Adams) only saw me play one time,” Adams recalled. “That was when I was with the Virginia Squires and we played in the Nassau Coliseum in New Jersey. He was at the game and it was one of the proudest moments of my life.”
Adams has always been grateful for the opportunities he had on all levels of basketball – he even served as an assistant coach at Hunter Huss High School for several years. But, he always wished that other great players from Compact had had the same opportunities.
“Believe me,” he said in a 1988 interview in The Herald, “there were a lot of outstanding players at Compact who never got a chance to prove themselves because of the timing. I was lucky.”
Adams averaged over 23 points and 20 rebounds per game during his two-year career at KMHS, and it could have been much more had he been a selfish player or if the Mountaineers hadn’t been as good as they were. In many games, the Mountaineers would build a big halftime lead and reserves would play most of the second half. In one memorable game at Lincolnton, the Mountaineers built a 42-0 lead and in one game at Shelby he pulled down a school record 29 rebounds.
The only time he was held under double figures was in a non-conference game when York, SC went into a deep freeze and Coach Parker ordered his Mountaineers not to try to steal the ball because York’s game plan was to try to get them in foul trouble. The halftime score was 4-2. KM ended up winning 22-13 and Adams scored nine points.
At GWU, Adams once scored 57 points in a single game and had a 26-rebound game. He averaged hitting 64.2 percent of his shots over a four-year period. Although he’s proud of his accomplishments there, he said the greatest thing was playing for a man like Eddie Holbrook.
Adams was drafted in the second round by the world champion Milwaukee Bucks (the 43rd draft choice overall) and played played four seasons with San Diego under NBA legends K.C. Jones (three years) and Wilt Chamberlain (one year). Just like the timing for integration had been off when he was in high school, his time in the pros was off because the multi-million dollar salaries players draw now were not the case then.
Now retired and living in Gastonia, he returns home from time to time to catch a game at Donald L. Parker Gymnasium and cheer on the Mountaineers and perhaps even recall some of those great moments from the sixties.
“I am thankful for all of the wonderful memories from Compact, Kings Mountain and Gardner-Webb,” he said. “I will take in a game now and then. I’ll go to local high school games and Gardner-Webb when I can stay up long enough to see it from start to finish.”
He maintains contact with most of his former teammates, especially KMHS teammate Rick Finger who is a neurologist in Charlotte and helped George get the help he needed for a health problem a while back. He sees teammate Otis Cole from time to time and has a great appreciation for him.
“Otis Cole was one of the best athletes I’ve ever been around,” he said. “He was not only a great basketball player but also a great softball, baseball and football player. And, now I think he’s gotten into golf and I’d say he’s great at that too.”
Looking at his beginning at Compact, Adams recalled three people that really inspired him to be a good player.
“I was around some very good players who were older than me,” he said. “I tried to pattern myself after them. There was a player named Billy Smith who was a great player and inspired me. And there was an athlete named Alex Smith – I don’t think the two Smiths were related – but he was 6-5 and one of the players that really inspired me.
“I started out as John Blalock’s ball boy and trainer. Just sitting on the bench with him inspired me. John Blalock was a good coach and a good human being. He knew how to place people in the places where they would be more effective. He was a father figure for the kids, including myself, who needed motivation and guidance.”
And, he said, he is grateful for the two years he spent at KMHS. In the beginning of integration, a lot of schools had problems.
“But I do not recall a single problem the two years I was at Kings Mountain,” he said. “The people were always supportive of the students and athletes. In the transition of integration I don’t remember any problems whatsoever. That made it great for me.”
1966 TEENER ALL-STARS – Front row, left to right, Johnny Reynolds, Joe Cornwell, Eddie Black, Glenn Perkins and Jack Bell. Second row, Larry Carroll, Mike Smith, Geeper Howard, Rocky Goforth and Corky Fulton. Back row, Darrell Whetstine, Ken Mitchem, Wayne Mullinax, Clarence Ash and Gene Putnam.
1966 Teener League baseball all-stars first
KM team to play in national tournament
(Second in a series of great moments in KM sports)
Throughout its storied baseball history Kings Mountain High School has fielded numerous championship teams and has sent players as far as the major leagues.
The late Jake Early, who was an all-star catcher for the Washington Senators, and Dick Gold, who was a first team All-American second baseman at Florida State, gained national fame.
But the first Kings Mountain team to make it to a national tournament was the 1966 Teener League baseball all-stars who won the North Carolina and Southeast Regional championships and finished third in the Teener World Series in Hershey, PA.
Most of the players were also on the 1969 Kings Mountain High School team that defeated Statesville 2-0 for the Western North Carolina High School Activities Association state championship.
Kings Mountain got into Teener baseball in 1965. Kings Mountain qualified for the state tournament that year but lost to Gastonia in the championship game.
In ’66, KM won the district title in two straight games over Cherryville, 7-2 and 3-2. Rocky Goforth and Darrell Whetstine turned in complete game pitching performances. Clarence Ash, went 2-for-3 in the first game and Mike Smith went 2-for-3 in the second.
In the state tournament, KM knocked off host Greenville 4-3 in eight innings and then defeated Gastonia 7-4 in the second game. Goforth pitched seven sound innings, but because of a Teener rule that limited pitchers to seven innings a day he had to depart and Whetstine came on to get the win. Whetstine went the distance the next day against Gastonia and Ken Mitchem hit a three-run homer.
Gastonia battled back through the loser’s bracket to eliminate Greenville and challenge Kings Mountain for the state crown. In the first championship battle, Gastonia won a 4-3 decision despite a two-run homer by Wayne Mullinax, thus forcing a second title game. This time, KM jumped out front 2-0 on a two-run homer by Mike Smith but they eventually needed a two-run homer by Mullinax in the eighth inning to win the championship.
A week later, they defeated Greenville, TN in a best of three series at Belmont Abbey for the Regional championship. Tennessee won the first game 5-4 but in the long run KM’s pitching was too good to touch and the hitting was sensational in the final two games with wins of 10-0 and 14-2 clinching the championship.
Whetstine threw a two-hitter in the first win and Goforth tossed a three-hitter for the championship. Smith went 3-for-4 and Eddie Black, Clarence Ash and Geeper Howard added two hits each.
KM didn’t play up to its potential in the first game at Hershey and lost to Bellfonte, PA 5-4. KM out-hit its opponent 8-4 but committed four errors, which was rare for its rock solid defense.
KM battled back to stay alive with its first of three straight victories, defeating Pitman, NJ behind Goforth’s one hitter. KM won with four runs in the sixth on singles by Mullinax and Howard and a three-run double by Mitchem.
Whetstine pitched a complete game and KM ousted Pierre, SD 6-4, scoring three runs in the fourth to break a 3-3 tie.
KM’s most impressive victory was an 8-1 win over River Rouge, Michigan, which was regarded as the team to win the Series. But Goforth was masterful on the mound with a two-hitter and 10 strikeouts.
Meanwhile, KM collected eight hits and put the game away early. Goforth and Joe Cornwell led the way with 2-for-3 each.
That afternoon, KM went against Lebanon Valley, PA with Whetstine pitching with only a day’s rest. KM fell behind early and couldn’t catch up. The next day Elgin, Illinois defeated Lebanon Valley for the championship.
Mullinax, a third baseman, recalled that the Teeners defeated Cherryville to get to the state tournament. That was not an easy task.
“Alan Lindsay was their pitcher,” he recalled. “He was tough. I wish we could have taken him with us.”
In that great comeback in the championship game in Greenville, Mullinax hit a game-winning home run to erase the huge Gastonia lead.
“Joe Cornwell got on base and stole second,” Mullinax recalled. “Bo Goforth wanted me to bunt him over but Uncle Bob Moore told me to hit the ball. Not bragging, but I knocked it over the fence and the fence behind it.
“The year before Gastonia had put us out,” he recalled. “Tommy Goforth, Paul Gaffney and a lot of those guys that were a year older than us were on the team. So the next year we had a lot of the same guys with another year experience. I remember Jonas Bridges (owner of WKMT Radio) broadcast all of our games – the ones at Greenville and Belmont Abbey, and then in Hershey. When I hit that home run that won the state championship game Rocky Goforth’s daddy (Eugene) came out of the stands and met me at third base.”
The team was strong in all areas – good hitting, a great defense and an outstanding 1-2 pitching punch of Goforth and Whetstine.
“Rocky had some great games up there in Hershey,” Mullinax said. “Whetstine always pitched well, too. He started a lot of games and came in to save a lot of games. I think the day I hit that home run he came in and saved the game.”
Whetstine and Goforth were two of the ace pitchers on Bob Hussey’s 1967 and 1968 KMHS teams. In ’69, Whetstine had graduated and the tough pitching duties fell on Goforth. A lefty with great control, he was the son of a former pro pitcher (the above-mentioned Gene Goforth) and had such great control that he could keep the ball low and stay ahead of the hitters.
Goforth remembered well the big comeback that beat Gastonia in the state championship game in Greenville.
“They just folded,” he said. “Their shortstop, who was very good, started making errors and that’s how we won. I remember Wayne Mullinax hitting that long home run over the left field fence and Daddy was the first one out there to meet him when he rounded third.”
When the locals actually lost the first game of a best of three series with Tennessee at Belmont Abbey, some of the Gastonia players who had lost to KM the week before were razzing them. But KM blew them out in the second and third games. In fact, if the 10-run mercy rule would have been in effect back then the games would have ended early.
“Tennessee wasn’t that good, really,” Goforth noted.
The KM stars then went to Hershey, and lost the first game.
“We put ourselves in a hole by losing the first game,” Goforth said. The KM team won the next three games before being eliminated. Goforth won his two games with a one-hitter and two-hitter.
Looking back on the state championship win over Statesville in ’69, Goforth said Kings Mountain was the underdog. Six of the nine men in the Statesville lineup had batting averages over .300.
“The key to us winning the Association championship was (Coach) Bob Hussey,” Goforth said. “No doubt about it. He was the best coach I ever had. He could get the best out of everybody.”
Except for the two regular season conference games with a strong Cherryville team and its ace lefthander, Alan Lindsay, Goforth said it was mostly a blowout season. Goforth was the winning pitcher in a 1-0 KM win at Cherryville and Lindsay was the winner in a 1-0 Cherryville win at KM’s City Stadium. For both pitchers, it was their only loss of the season.
“Cherryville was very good,” Goforth noted. “Belmont had a good team but we beat them with no problem.”
Statesville, though, was another matter entirely.
“We went up there and beat them 2-0,” Goforth recalled. “I pitched a one-hitter and Mike Smith drove in both runs. Smith wasn’t all that big and they didn’t know what a great hitter he was. They played him way too close in and he hit the ball to the left field fence to drive in the runs.”
Goforth said he had one anxious inning.
“I believe it was the fifth,” he noted. “I hit a guy and walked one and they got their one hit to load the bases. I went 3-2 on the next batter and threw him a curve. He just stood there and watched it go by for the final out.
“It was nerve racking,” he added. ”Statesville was loaded with guys hitting over. 300. We just caught them on a bad day.”
YMCA Golf Tournament –First place team of the YMCA Golf Tournament.
YMCA golf tournament a success
The 10th annual Kings Mountain Family YMCA Golf Tournament was held Friday at Kings Mountain Country Club. The tournament raised over $18,000.
Erin Jolly, Jean Walker, Kenny Walker and Spud Wells took first place with a score of 19-under-par 53.
Second place at 17-under were Thomas Spicer, Will Spicer, Ty Withers and Tyler Withers.
Third place at 17 under were Derrick Braun, KG Etters, William Mabry and Eric Moore.
Closest to the pin winners were Steve Hoyle on #5, Steve Bostwick on 8, Brian Brentzel on 12, David Pless on 16 and Tyler Withers on 17.
Longest drive winners on hole 11 were William Mabry (seniors), Brian Bretzel (men) and Abby Brooks (women).
Winners on hole 2 were Jimmy Jolly (seniors), Chris Jolly (men) and Jean Walker (women).
“We thank our sponsors, participants and volunteers for a very successful tournament,” said Kevin Osborne, VP/Senior Executive Director of the YMCA.
Alex Goff brings home individual championship trophy in Blessings Collegiate Golf Tournament.
KM and Kentucky’s Goff goes 6-under
to win Blessings Collegiate Invitational
Although it’s spelled differently, Kings Mountain’s Alex Goff has the perfect last name.
Goff, a former golf star for the Kings Mountain Mountaineers, is now turning out to be the #1 golfer for the University of Kentucky Wildcats.
Goff won his second major championship in less than month last week when he won the prestigious Blessing Collegiate Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He shot a three-day total of minus six 210 to win by two strokes over Hunter Walcott of Tennessee and Dan Erickson of Texas A&M who finished at 206. He previously won the Kentucky Amateur with a 12-under score of 204.
Goff shot a Blessings record 7-under par 65 in the semi-finals round last Tuesday en route to the individual championship over the top golfers from other 13 Southeastern Conference schools. He carried a four shot lead into the final round, highlighted by four straight birdies on holes two through five. He added back-to-back birdies on the seventh and eighth holes to go 7-under.
Goff struggled toward the end of the final round Wednesday but held on after a double-bogey on the 17th hole.
Goff was Academic All-SEC last season with the Wildcats as a red-shirt freshman. He carried a 73 stroke average, which was second on the team. He had a team high four top 20 finishes and two top 10 finishes.
While at KMHS, Goff was a four-time Conference Player of the Year and All-State. As a freshman, he won the 3A Western Regional championship and finished fifth at the state championship as a sophomore. He was runner-up for the state championship in 2018.
He had a 68.5 stroke average his senior season and was the North Carolina junior stroke play medalist with a 7-under 64.
He tied the course record at Cleveland Country Club with a 9-under 63 and shot a 7-under 65 in the second round of the Henry Transou Memorial Classic. He was a semifinalist at the 2016 North Carolina Junior Tournament and finished 10th in the 2017 Joe Cheves Junior Invitational.
Along with his outstanding accomplishments on the golf course, Goff was also a member of the National Honor Society and participated in the BETA Club at KMHS.
Goff is the son of Brian and Miriam Goff. He has a sister, Emma. His father played baseball at James Madison University and two of his uncles played collegiate football.
Kings Mountain High School’s first football team in 1922. Front row, left to right, Joe Lee Woodward, Herman Hayes, Hoyt Matthews, Tom Fulton and Jake Hord. Second row Forrest Houser (standing), Howard Pursley, Lloyd Ormand, Tom Saunders, Hoyle McGinnis and Charlie Saunders (standing). Back row Clemonsee Boone, J.M. McGinnis, Plato Goforth, Odell McGinnis, Fred Plonk, Royce Green and Lawrence Lovell. Standing in back is Supt. J.Y. Irvin. See 1922 Mountaineer basketball team photo on Page 7 of the KM Herald October 7 issue.
KMHS basketball over 100 years old, football should turn 100 in year ‘22
(October 7, 2020 Issue)
Had the pandemic not come along, Kings Mountain High School would be playing its 98th season of football right now.
Hopefully, the season will be played in early 2021 with an abbreviated seven-game regular season and a four-round state playoff. It is assumed, if that happens, the players would hit the field again in the fall of ’21 but that, too, could depend on the pandemic and/or decision from the North Carolina High School Athletic Association.
The first Mountaineer football team in 1922 did not even have a coach. Uniforms were hand-me-downs from Trinity College (now Duke) and their shoes were Boy Scout shoes to which a local cobbler attached rubber cleats for 50 cents a pair.
Of course, none of the original Mountaineers are still with us but in earlier years players recalled the beginning in stories in The Herald.
It all began when a few players from Davidson College came to Central School to talk to the high school boys about organizing a football team.
Eighteen youngsters agreed to play. They didn’t have a coach. Two local doctors, Dr. Hood and Dr. Norman, agreed to coach and others around town helped out.
Later in the year, Fred Ormand took over as coach.
Although none of the original Mountaineers, when interviewed by The Herald later in life, remembered the team’s record it is believed to have been 3-2-1. Of the information recalled by players and reported in The Herald, the Mountaineers lost to Lincolnton 12-0 in their first-ever contest, tied Gastonia 0-0, beat Cowpens on a forfeit, shutout Mt. Holly 19-0, lost to Charlotte 25-0 and defeated the KM All-Stars 35-0.
Some of the game results were reported to The Herald, and others were not with a small blurb saying “The Kings Mountain boys played football Friday.”
In a Herald story in 1949, it was reported that Charlie Saunders ran a 60-yard touchdown against Mount Holly, Forrest Houser caught a touchdown pass from Hoyt Mathews, and Lawrence Lovell scored on a “double pass” from J.M. McGinnis.
The forfeit win over Cowpens came as a result of the Cowpens team getting upset with an official’s call and walking off the field. The Mountaineers - you never heard or read about them referred to as Mounties during that time - were leading 7-0.
The late Joe Lee Woodward, in a 1974 feature story in the Kings Mountain Mirror-Herald, told editor Gary Stewart that the first football game he ever saw, he played in against Lincolnton.
“They beat us on two end-around runs,” he noted.
Woodward said the Mountaineers ran a “box formation” and the center snapped the ball directly to the player that was going to run it.
Passing was almost non-existent at the time because footballs were almost round, Woodward noted. “The ball was big and bulky and we always played with one ball until it wore out.”
Teams traveled to games in cars.
One of the original Mountaineers, Plato Goforth, was in the eighth grade. In his final year, 1926, the Mountaineers finished undefeated but did have four ties.
The teams played their home games near Deal Street on a field at the current site of Bridges Auto Parts. He remembered that some fans would give a player that scored a quarter, and he caught five touchdown passes in a game against Mt. Holly.
Members of the original team included Joe Lee Woodward, Herman Hayes, Hoyt Matthews, Tom Fulton, Jake Hord, Forrest Houser, Howard Pursley, Lloyd Ormand, Tom Saunders, Hoyle McDaniel, Charlie Saunders, Clemonsee Boone, J.M. McGinnis, Plato Goforth, Odell McGinnis, Fred Plonk, Royce Green and Lawrence Lovell.
Pursley, who played baseball at KMHS beginning in 1918, said he thought the Mountaineers were playing baseball as early as 1912 when he moved to town from South Carolina.
Pursley was playing baseball in KM when the rivalry with Shelby began around 1921. He said it came about during a baseball series between Neisler Mills and a mill from Shelby.
He recalled that just about every textile mill and many communities in all the area towns had baseball teams and they’d play about three games a week. It was a highly competitive league that drew a lot of fans.
Pursley was a highly-recruited pitcher but chose not to go to college or the pros. Some other outstanding players here during those years included Coman Falls, Red Layton, Arthur Hord, Ormand and catcher Jake Early. Early spent 10 seasons in the major leagues and caught the entire 1943 All-Star game for the American League.
Grover also produced some great baseball players during that time including John Gold, Jim Blalock, Bub Keeter, Al Crisp, Buck Shuford, George Royster and Wayne Conner.
Kings Mountain chose an all-star team which fell to Grover in the post-season. Players included Red Layton, Humphries and Carl Moss of the Margrace, Cornwell, Coman Falls and Skimp Stowe of the Stags, Morrison of the Bonnie, Cole of Pauline and Hunter and Hayes of Mauney.
Pursley recalled that the Mountaineers played basketball on an old dirt court near St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church. In the thirties basketball was played on the stage at Central School.
Woodward was a 6-3 eighth grader in 1922 and was the tallest player on the team. Of course, he was a forward. He played tackle and quarterback in football and first base in baseball.
All games, especially basketball, has changed tremendously since then both in style of play and rules.
“Back then,” Woodward recalled in a 1974 article in The Herald, “after a basket the ball was taken back to center court for a jump. No players except the centers were allowed at center court. The other players went to the four corners of the court and the center would give a signal to let us know who he was going to tip the ball to.
“The guards were called chewing gum guards,” he said. “They stayed with their forwards all the time. Because of that Ed Lovell coached his forwards to run in circles so we’d have a step on the guard when the ball was tipped.”
As for fouls, he said, one could put his hands up in front of their man to keep him from getting a shot at the basket but you couldn’t hack him.
“Play was rough,” he noted, “but I don’t remember ever fouling out.
“Uniforms were usually cut off pants. Goals were home made and didn’t have baskets on them. Goals were made at a machine shop.”
KMHS Basketball players get in shap
Kings Mountain High basketball players are getting into shape by running the track at John Gamble Stadium. The Mountaineers are looking forward to another good season in 2020-21.
KM Cheerleaders practice
The basketball and football seasons are still several months away but the Kings Mountain High cheerleaders were busy at John Gamble Stadium Monday afternoon getting their cheers down pat.
YMCA Board Members Josh Shelton, Jeff Johnson, Mike Weisman, Kenneth Robbs, Jason Burgess, Russ Putnam, Erin Jolly and Y Director Kevin Osborne.
KM Family YMCA
Golf Tournament Oct. 9
The 10th Annual Kings Mountain Family YMCA Golf Tournament is Friday, October 9 at Kings Mountain Country Club.
Registration is at 11:30 am with a shotgun start at 12:30 pm. Registration is $70.00 per person / $280.00 a team.
Sponsorships opportunities remain for Title, Corporate, and Hole Sponsors. For more information contact the YMCA at 704-669-3686 or emailkosborne@clevecoymca.org
Corporate support and participation helps assist YMCA childcare, Community Enrichment Academy, summer camp, swimming lessons, Senior programs, YMCA LiveStrong programs, youth sports – basketball, soccer, baseball, volleyball, and flag football.
Front row, left to right, Kinser Hudson, Coach Steve McCachren, Lindy Jenkins, Madison McCabe. Back row, left to right, Dylan Williams, Noah Lesser, William Fuzie, Jonas Guffey and Drake Ballard. Williams and Fuzie ran cross country and Kings Mountain High School.
Yetis XC nationally ranked
After its first meet of the 2020 season, the Cleveland County men’s cross country team was ranked 24th in the nation. The poll was released on September 23.
This is CCC’s first-ever national ranking.
The ranking follows the Yetis’ first meet of the season at Montreat College. According to Coach Steve McCachren, meet results are submitted to the USTFCCCA for review by a panel of coaches who monitor results and create the poll. The panel considers the final results, distance, weather, type of course and course conditions.
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KMHS wins Wells Fargo Cup with best mark in Big South
Kings Mountain High won the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) 2019-2020 Wells Fargo Conference Cup Championship in the Big South 3A Conference.
The Wells Fargo Conference Cup is a companion to the Wells Fargo Cup and recognizes schools with the best overall interscholastic athletic performances within individual conferences. Wachovia, and now Wells Fargo, has sponsored the conference awards program since 1980. In most conferences, points are awarded based on participation and standings in conference play.
Each conference determines its own method of awarding points.
Kings Mountain finished with 122 points in overall Big South Conference play. The Mountaineers won only one conference championship, in women’s cross country, but placed near the top in almost every other sport.
Forestview was second with 115 points, followed by Stuart Cramer 114.5, Crest 111.5, Ashbrook 101, Hunter Huss 84.5 and North Gaston 82.5.
Football starts Friday in SC
North Carolina high school football teams will be waiting until winter 2021 to play their 2020 schedule, but area fans chomping at the bits to see some action can drive a short distance to Gaffney and Clover Friday night for their season openers.
According to their schedules on MaxPreps Gaffney, with former Kings Mountain High’s Kobe Paysour at wide receiver, will be hosting Boiling Springs at 7:30 p.m. At the same time Clover will be hosting Wren.
The other two nearby South Carolina teams, York and Blacksburg, will be on the road. York takes on Indian Land and Blacksburg battles St. Joseph’s Catholic.
Any local fans attending the games should be prepared for social distancing, masks and other COVID restrictions that may be required by the South Carolina schools.
Touchdown Club launches 2020 membership drive
The Kings Mountain Touchdown Club is kicking off its annual membership drive and is urging all fans of Mountaineer sports to join as soon as possible.
The club began its 14th year in July but delayed its membership drive while waiting for direction regarding athletic events at Kings Mountain High.
Currently, the NCHSAA plan is to postpone and abbreviate the athletic seasons with some sports beginning in November and others in 2021.
The club supports 26 athletic programs at the high school. Money from club membership is used for meals, travel, uniforms and other necessities.
President David Brinkley urges club members – and others who would like to become members – to give generously as the pandemic could make the athletic department needs greater than ever.
“Currently, there will be limited attendance, no concessions and limited parking,” he noted. “This is a substantial amount of revenue that our high school depends on to support the athletic programs. For those who have joined in the past, please consider moving up a level in membership. If you have never joined, we would love to have you.”
Over the past 14 years, the club has tried to make a difference in athletes and facilities, Brinkley noted.
“We need everyone’s help to accomplish the needs of our athletes,” he said. “It is our plan to continue to host four meals and review the football game films at no cost for members and guests (no children). All meetings will be held in the field house community room. This will be determined by our governor when we are allowed to meet in larger groups.”
When and if attendance is allowed by the governor, Brinkley said parking passes will be available.
The club offers the following memberships:
First down club - $100.
Second down club - $200.
Third down club - $300.
Fourth down club - $500.
Coaches club - $1,000 and up.
Brinkley asks that membership dues be in by October 31. Make your tax-deductible donation payable to Kings Mountain Touchdown Club and mail to PO Box 2017, Kings Mountain, NC 28086. Provide an email address to help the club with mailing costs.
Kings Mountain’s Alex Goff, now a Kentucky Wildcat golfer, won last week’s Kentucky Amateur at Lexington, KY Country Club.
Former KMHS star Alex Goff Kentucky Amateur champion
Kings Mountain’s Alex Goff shot a 12-under-par 204 to win the 106th Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Kentucky Amateur championship Friday in Lexington, KY.
Goff, a scholarship golfer at the University of Kentucky, shot a two-under 70 in the final round to win the title by four strokes over former champion Andy Roberts. They were the only players to shoot under par.
Goff was a four-year standout at Kings Mountain High School, finishing among the top players in the state 3A championship each spring.
After a 67 on Thursday, Goff took a three-stroke lead into Friday’s final 18-hole round.
He basically wrapped up the championship on the front nine, making four birdies that put him seven shots up at the turn.
Roberts, who was Kentucky’s Amateur champion four years ago, finished with an 8-under 208.
Due to NCAA regulations, Goff could not accept the first place prize of $750.
Goff and his teammates will begin Southeastern Conference play in the coming weeks.
Day Day Wilson, Kobe Paysour and Javari Wilson, left to right, at last year’s KMHS football banquet.
Paysour to Gaffney; Wilsons staying in KM
With COVID 19 delaying the start of North Carolina high school football until February, three Kings Mountain High senior standouts who had already committed to major colleges with intentions of leaving KMHS at the Christmas break had some tough decisions to make.
Kobe Paysour, the Mountaineers’ all-time leading pass receiver who will be enrolling at the University of North Carolina for the spring semester, announced last week that he would play his final prep season with the Gaffney Indians.
Defensive end Javari Wilson and linebacker Day Day Wilson, who have committed to Fordham and Missouri, respectively, have decided to stay at KMHS and help the Mountaineers in their quest for a conference and state championship.
Paysour enrolled at Gaffney last week. The Indians are preparing for a slightly-delayed South Carolina football season that begins at home on Friday, Sept. 25 against Boiling Springs.
Paysour will make the defending state champions and longtime South Carolina power even more powerful as he will help form one of the top 1-2 pass receiver duos in the state, just as he did with Quintin Davidson last season in KM. Gaffney also returns its top pass catcher from last year’s championship team, Natron Johnson, who caught 69 passes for 802 yards.
Over his three-year career at KM, Paysour hauled in 171 passes for 3,696 yards, both career records. His 79 receptions for 26 touchdowns his junior year are also school records along with his 103-yard pass interception return for a TD in a state playoff game at Statesville in 2018.
Of course, head coach Greg Lloyd and every KM fan hates to see Paysour go. But, with the ruling by the NCHSAA not to play fall football and with him due to enroll early at Carolina, Paysour wanted to play his senior year and Lloyd supports his decision.
The Mountaineers have some talented pass receivers returning and Lloyd plans to move defensive back Titus Phillips, who was the leading receiver on the JV team as a freshman and sophomore, to Paysour’s spot. DeAndre Hoyle, who is up from the JVs, transfer Jaylen Mims and others, will also be receiving threats.
“We support Kobe’s decision,” Coach Lloyd said. “He wanted to play his senior year and if he’d stayed here he would not have been able to since he’s going to Carolina early.
“I think we’ll still be able to score a lot of points,” he said. “The offensive and defensive lines may be the best ones we’ve had since I’ve been here. I think we’ll be fine.”
Kings Mountain fans interested in attending Gaffney games should make themselves aware of South Carolina High School League’s COVID-19 restrictions. Last week the SCHSL was granted exceptions to the governor’s current restrictions to no more than 250 people or 50 percent (whichever is less) of a sports venue’s capacity. That means the Cherokee County School System will have control of its schools’ capacities. Whatever school systems decide, the SCHSL is recommending precautions such as electronic ticketing, cashless transactions, social distancing and for all spectators to wear masks at all times.
Kings Mountain’s Carl Champion, who died last week, had the perfect last name. He was a real champion to his family and friends, to Kings Mountain High and many other high schools and colleges, the City of Kings Mountain, countless charities, and to many other people and organizations he was involved with.
Carl was Kings Mountain’s Champion!
Growing up in the Bethware area, Champion had an early love for sports that would continue for the rest of his life. In sports and other endeavors, he gave his full support.
He made his mark on Kings Mountain sports not just on game days, but also by his generosity of money and providing free grading for most of the athletic fields at the high school and other places.
His generosity reached far and wide, as did his friends.
Shortly after he met Champion in the late 1960s at a softball game, Belmont’s Art Shoemaker became one of his closest friends.
“He always made me feel like I was part of his family,” Shoemaker said. “We immediately hit it off.”
In the late sixties Shoemaker was coaching a slowpitch softball team in Gaston County, and needed a sponsor.
“I knew of Carl,” Shoemaker recalled. “We had played him when I was coaching Groves Thread. I went to him and introduced myself. Groves was no longer going to sponsor a team. He told me he was starting a team and wanted me to help him get it off the ground. Looking back, he’s done so much for people in Kings Mountain and all over. He was generous to a fault. It’s been a great honor to know him.”
Shoemaker recalled that Champion’s team won three straight NC state championships, and one year finished third in the national tournament in York, PA.
“There won’t be another Carl Champion,” Shoemaker said. “When we started the team he wanted to play. I had gotten some top notch players in the area and I told him his name was on the jerseys as owner, but he couldn’t play. He said, ‘Well, if that’s the way you feel that’s the way it’s going to be.’ ”
In 1973, Shoemaker recalled, Champion’s team finished third in the nation behind two teams that had all paid players.
“We both decided we couldn’t compete at that level,” he said. “The best thing about coaching Carl’s team is that we became great friends. He was like a brother to me.
“It just broke my heart to see him struggling to breathe near the end,” he said. “We’d had a surprise 80th birthday for him recently and I could tell then he wasn’t feeling well.”
Champion loved his friends and loved Kings Mountain, Shoemaker said.
“If there was anything he could do for you he’d do it,” he said. “I loved him and he loved me, and I know I will see him again.”
Shoemaker agrees that Champion had the perfect last name.
“He was a champion in every sense of the word,” he said. “When he said something he meant it. He was one of the most generous men I’ve ever known.”
Champion was serious about his businesses doing things the right way. But he could have less-serious moments.
“He was the best prankster I’ve ever known,” Shoemaker said. “I will never forget one time I was officiating a middle school football game in Kings Mountain and Carl was in the stands. At halftime he called me down the sideline and pulled out a bunch of money like he was paying me off. I said ‘You put that money back.’ I knew there were a lot of people watching.”
Shoemaker said coming to KM and coaching Carl’s softball teams was one of the best things he ever did.
“He always tried to do it the right way,” he said. “We had the best amateurs in Cleveland and Gaston County. But the two teams that finished ahead of us in the national tournament were pro teams.
“Carl was a great friend of Kings Mountain athletics. I never will forget when Kings Mountain went to Chapel Hill for the state football championship in ’98. He called me and said ‘Get me four or five charter buses.’ He filled them with fans and they didn’t have to pay one penny. He was so generous. If he knew somebody needed something he would take care of it. There will never be another Carl Champion.”
Bruce Clark, who coached at KMHS in the 1980s and 1990s, echoed Shoemaker’s remarks.
“I have never had a better experience in coaching,” he said. “I coached his daughter Ashley in softball and his son Kevin in football. He’s just one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. He cared so much about Kings Mountain and wanted everyone to do well.
“It was not just what he did for sports, but the things he did for me personally. I was at a coach’s clinic when we were building a house. He came out and looked at the yard and said there was going to be a drainage problem. My wife called me and said he had some equipment out there. When I got home he had landscaped the yard and sowed it, and it was perfectly manicured.”
After Clark’s 1989 baseball team won the state 3A championship, Champion took the players, coaches and their wives, and others to the beach and paid the entire bill.
“He was such a great supporter of all athletes,” Clark said. “When we kept winning during the playoffs he would shoot fireworks. He came to me one day and said he wanted to take the team to the beach. He gave us a big RV so we could all ride together. We stayed for a week – the players, coaches and their wives and their parents and family.
“Carl and Dub Blalock were two of our biggest supporters,” he added. “They would take everybody to the Riverview Fish Camp in Belmont. Carl was just a fine man. He just wanted to see you have a good time and enjoy the moment.
“What he did for the Kings Mountain Hall of Fame was just amazing. He will always be a special person in my heart.
“When I was coaching in Greensboro, North Gaston and Boiling Springs Carl would just all of a sudden show up. He’d just sit with me and talk and see how things were going.
“He was an amazing man. We have lost a good one.”
As great of a supporter as he was in sports, that’s only a drop in the bucket of the good he did while on Earth. Whenever there was a need – someone was hurt in an accident, a child born with numerous health problems, supporting the Shriners Hospitals and numerous other causes, Carl Champion was there for them.
He was a true Champion!
The late Henry “Slow” Robinson was the catcher for Satchel Paige.
The late ‘Slow’ Robinson was Satchel Paige’s catcher
This is the 100th year since the formation of the Negro Major League baseball league.
A man who lived the latter years of his life in Kings Mountain, Henry Frazier “Slow” Robinson, spent several seasons in the league before it merged with the Major League.
Robinson moved to Kings Mountain from California in 1989. He and his wife lived across from Ebenezer Baptist Church on Cherryville Road.
Robinson began his professional career in 1939 with the Satchel Paige All-Stars. He was Paige’s catcher. His career was interrupted in 1944-45 by World War II when he joined the U.S. Navy.
He played for the Kansas City Monarchs, New York Black Yankees, Baltimore Elite Giants and the Baltimore Greys and retired from the game in 1950.
Robinson was born in Alabama, and moved to Oklahoma at a young age. His brother Norman Robinson also played major league ball and they played together with the Elites in 1946.
Prior to moving to Kings Mountain, Robinson ran his own business, Sweep It Right Parking Lot Maintenance, in Los Angeles.
Otis Cole, right, and 7’4” Tommy Burleson of Avery County get pre-game instructions from a referee prior to the start of the 1970 WNCHSAA playoff game at the KMHS gym.
BLAST FROM THE PAST: 1970 Mountaineers undefeated until they faced a 7-foot-4 giant
Fifty years ago Kings Mountain High School put one of its best teams ever on the basketball floor.
The first full five-year period after school integration proved to be one of, if not the best, in Mountaineer basketball history.
The 1966-67 and 1967-68 teams that featured All-American George Adams posted back-to-back seasons of 20-1 and 25-1, the first being upset by Marion in the first round of the WNCHSAA playoffs and the latter losing only to A.L. Brown of Kannapolis in the Western North Carolina High School Activities Association championship game.
Coached by the late Bob Hussey, the 1968-69 team featured a mostly young group of players but still managed to finish 18-5 overall and second place in the Southwestern 3A Conference behind Cherryville.
But players like Otis Cole, Charles Barnes and Phillip Francis polished their skills during that season, and in 1969-70 they and their teammates reeled off 23 straight victories before facing a giant in the WNCHSAA semi-finals.
That giant was 7-foot-4 Tommy Burleson and Avery County, who came into the KMHS gym and scored the last seven points of the game to stun the Mountaineers 63-61.
Kings Mountain led 61-56 with 1:59 remaining in the game before Burleson, who finished with 38 points, scored the last seven on an old-fashioned three-point play (a field goal and free throw, there were no three-point goals back then), a tipped-in missed shot and a 23-foot jumper at the buzzer for the game winner.
Otis Cole, who finished his senior season with 550 points and a 23.4 points per game average, went on to a great career with the Florida State Seminoles. Cole was on the FSU team that lost the NCAA national championship to John Wooden’s UCLA powerhouse in 1973.
Cole still lives in Kings Mountain and is seen regularly at Donald L. Parker Gymnasium, cheering on the Mountaineers. Barnes, who went on to become a starting guard at Appalachian State and later coached basketball in Georgia and North Carolina, averaged 18.2 points per game and had a season’s total of 436 points.
Francis, who was the #3 scorer with 238 points, joined Cole and Barnes on the All-Southwestern Conference team. Cole played in the East-West All-Star game and also made the All-American team.
The 1970 team’s toughest games in the SWC were against the Crest Chargers and their superstar, David Thompson, who would later join Burleson to lead NC State to the national championship. Both of those games went down to the wire.
Other members of the ’70 team were Steve Gladden, Roger Smith, Jewel Watson, Geeper Howard, Ben Brown, Bobby Ethridge, M. White, Chuck Carpenter, Randolph Ross, Wilson Ledford, Chuck Easley and Andy Neisler.
— KM Herald
Javari Wilson
KM’s Javari Wilson to play football for Fordham Rams
A third Kings Mountain High School football player has announced his college choice as well as the probability of leaving school at the semester break.
Javari Wilson, the Mountaineers’ all-star defensive end, will be attending Fordham University in New York City.
Last year’s Big South 3A Conference Defensive Lineman of the Year received numerous other offers from schools like Appalachian State, Coastal Carolina, Campbell, Western Carolina, The Citadel, College of Charleston, Akron and Gardner-Webb.
“I really like the atmosphere up there and being in the Big Apple, and the relationship with my position coach, Kenny Anunkie,” Wilson gave as the reason for choosing the Rams. “He was previously at Ohio State and was one of the better players in the NFL.”
Anunkie was a two-time All-ACC defensive lineman at Duke and the Blue Devils’ all-time sack leader. He is also the associate head coach at Fordham.
Wilson said he is undecided on his major. “But I feel like I am good enough to compete as a true freshman and I trust my defensive line coach to help me do well.”
The Rams run a 4-3 defense and a spread offense, both very familiar to the Kings Mountain product.
“They had a 4-8 record last year but I plan to help them improve that,” he said. “With electrifying talent we hope to change the mentality of their game in the Patriot League.”
Wilson was a three-year starter in high school, playing running back and fullback at Gastonia Forestview his freshman year and defensive end the last two seasons at Kings Mountain.
“I am expecting Kings Mountain to have a good year,” he said. “We have good coaches and good players. I don’t want that to end. Since my freshman year we’ve had great teams. I think the transition to college will be smooth with everything good.
“I feel like Kings Mountain will be a great team even if a couple of us leave,” he added. “I think they can still make it to the state championship.”
Other KM standouts who have already made college commitments are UNC-bound wide receiver Kobe Paysour, and Wilson’s cousin linebacker Dameon “Day Day” Wilson, who is going to the University of Missouri.
“Day-Day and I are cousins, but we’re more like brothers,” Javari said. “We’ve been together since we were little.”
Javari is the son of Nataya and Brenton Wilson. They live between Kings Mountain and Grover.
“I am really looking forward to Fordham,” he said. “I have to mainly get stronger and faster. The next level is fast. I want to adapt as quickly as I can and be knowledgeable of the game and film study.”
Wilson had 62 solo tackles and a team-high 11 sacks for the Mountaineers last year. He led the Big South in sacks.
He begins his in-school classes at KMHS on Thursday.
“I want to truly thank the coaches and the whole community for their support while I was in Kings Mountain,” Wilson said. “I will always carry that throughout my career.”
NCHSAA announces dates for sports; football season is February 8-April 9
Sports fans anxious to get out and support their favorite high school teams will have a wait a little longer.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association last week announced that no sports will begin until November; and football will not be played until early next year.
Que Tucker, executive director of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, announced the following schedule for sports:
Governor’s reopening plan may result in football being played in early 2021
North Carolina high school sports will be further delayed after Governor Roy Cooper’s announcement last week that Phase 2 of the state’s reopening plan will now be delayed until at least September 11.
Kings Mountain, which has been holding fall sports workouts for several weeks, will be off this week and next and will resume workouts the week after the first full week of school.
But, that doesn’t mean the Mountaineers will be playing anytime soon.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association has announced that the start of school sports practice will be delayed beyond the previously announced date of September 1.
Que Tucker, Executive Director of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, issued the following statement:
“The NCHSAA Staff and Board of Directors will review all available options, seek input from SMAC, DPI, a sports Ad Hoc Committee, and announce a calendar for playing sports during the upcoming school year. It is hoped that we can make this announcement prior to August 17, 2020.
“We want to play sports during the upcoming school year and are making plans to do so; however, the health and safety of all participants, including coaches and other essential staff, will be a priority as decisions and plans are made.”
KM athletic director Matt Bridges and head football coach Greg Lloyd are confident that all sports will be played, but some fall sports such as football could be played after the first of the year. If football is played in the fall, there is speculation that it would be a seven-game regular season schedule and four playoff rounds.
“We’ll keep doing workouts,” Lloyd said. “I do think we’re going to play football whether it’s in the fall or the spring. Right now we’re just kind of waiting.”
There has been some talk that basketball could begin in November and go through January, and football begin in February and end in early April.
“Whenever we play we’ll have to look at it positively,” Lloyd said. “We’re going to have a good team. We want to play whenever we can play.”
There has also been speculation that if football is played in the fall there would be no spectators, and no one wants to see that since football provides about 75 percent of the funds needed to fund a total athletic program.
“We still hope to be playing low risk sports in the fall, things like cross country, tennis and golf,” Bridges noted. “And then play everything else in the second semester. Things like volleyball, soccer and football are a higher risk.
“We may have to create a third season (for sports like baseball and softball) during the spring semester. A lot of spring coaches also coach other sports,” Bridges noted.
Bridges said he expects an announcement from the NCHSAA by the end of this week.
KM Touchdown Club Annual golf tournament
The Kings Mountain Touchdown Club held its annual golf tournament Friday at Kings Mountain Country Club with well over 100 golfers participating. All profits from the tourney will be used as a payment on the club's artificial turf and tennis projects at Kings Mountain High School.
KM Touchdown Club
golf tourney winners
Winners of last week’s Kings Mountain Touchdown Club golf tournament included:
First flight – Brad Moffitt, Steven Dellinger, Billy Crease and Zach Harris.
Second flight – DeWayne Clark, John Smith, Dexter Tate and Gerald Putnam.
Third flight – Chris Jolly, Jim Jolly, Erin Jolly and Michael Jolly.
Fourth flight – Josh Skibo, Trey Robinson, Tai Robinson and Cody Barrett.
Fifth flight – Louis Sabetti, Chris Bullock, Michael Sabetti and Allan McNamara.
Closest to the pin on #17 – Kenneth Barker.
Closest to the pin on #5 – Jason Bridges.
Closest to the pin on #12 – Austin Black.
Closest to the pin on #8 – Josh Skibo.
Senior longest drive – David “Big Mac” McDaniel.
Women’s longest drive – Sarah Drennan.
Men’s longest drive – Mark Ham.
KMHS football field today
KMTD auction begins Thursday on Facebook
The Kings Mountain Touchdown Club auction begins Thursday at 9 a.m. and runs through Saturday at 6 p.m. You can place bids 24 hours a day.
There are lots of great prizes to bid on. There are a big variety of prizes for both men and women.
Everyone must register in order to place a bid. Hit the big KM on Facebook and it will take you directly to the auction website or enter www.qtego.net/qlink/kingsmountain on your browser to access the website.
Mountaineer football “touch” practices begin
Kings Mountain was able to get its first “touch” practice underway Tuesday morning at John Gamble Stadium. The NCHSAA approved touching the football beginning Monday, but Monday’s workout was canceled because of the weather. Backs, receivers and kickers are shown in these photos working out on the new Gamble Stadium turf.
Tennis lessons, leagues to begin at new complex
Kings Mountain High tennis coach Rick Henderson invites tennis enthusiasts to enjoy the new six-court tennis facility at the high school and consider taking tennis lessons and get involved with a tennis league that is forming.
Henderson said he is looking for tennis enthusiasts of all ages for lessons and leagues that will start in the near future.
“We hope to draw a number of folks that haven’t played in a number of years,” he said. “Hopefully we will draw dozens of folks that are new to the game of tennis as well. We currently have approximately 20 people that have shown an interest in the adult league. I’m not quite sure what day or time the adult league will start but it will be soon.”
Henderson said he is looking to start in the latter part of August to begin the adult league along with group and private lessons on Saturday mornings. Former high school players will assist Henderson with the lessons.
“I’m excited about our new tennis complex and know there are hundreds of other folks in the community that are excited as well,” Henderson said. “We no longer have to dream about having tennis courts in our community. It’s now a reality.”
Anyone interested in participating in the tennis league and/or lessons, call Henderson at 704-460-8066 or email Rick.Henderson2@duke-energy.com
Seven Mountaineers pre-season All-State
Seven Kings Mountain High senior football players have been selected to the North Carolina High School Football Friday Nights in the Carolinas pre-season all-state team.
Selected to the first team were quarterback Ethan Reid, wide receiver Kobe Paysour, defensive lineman Javari Wilson and linebacker Dameon Wilson.
Making the second team were junior running back Rashaard Brooks, offensive lineman Blake Davis and defensive back Chance Cannon.
Reid, beginning his second season at KMHS, already holds the school record for most touchdown passes in a single season and was last year’s Big South Conference Offensive Player of the Year.
Paysour was the top pass receiver in the conference for the second straight year and is already the KMHS record holder for receiving yardage.
Dameon Wilson led the team in tackles and Javari Wilson was voted the Big South Defensive Player of the Year.
Running behind the blocking of Davis and others, Brooks rushed for over 1,400 yards last season.
From his defensive back position, Cannon was in the opponents’ backfield all night long pressuring the quarterback and tackling the runners.
Two of the KM stars – Dameon Wilson and Kobe Paysour – have already committed to Missouri and UNC, respectively, and all of the others except Brooks are getting college offers. After Brooks’ junior year, he should also be highly recruited.
How to register to bid on KMTD Club online auction
The Kings Mountain Touchdown Club auction is almost complete. A few more items will be added in the next few days, but there is already a variety of items for viewing at www.qtego.net/qlink/kings mountain
You will need to go to that site to register to view the items, and to bid. For more information on each item, click on the picture. When you provide your email address, you will be sent updates when new items are added. Check often to see the new items.
Browse and look at all items, but you cannot bid until August 6 when the auction opens. The auction will remain open from Thursday, Aug. 6 at 9 a.m. until Sat., Aug. 8 at 6 p.m. All bids are anonymous. Once the auction opens, watch your item closely so that you can bid again if someone raises the bid
All proceeds go to reduce the debt of $2.1 million for the improvements to the football, track and tennis facilities at KMHS. Auction items include:
• 2 footballs and a helmet signed by Clemson Head Coach Dabo Swinney
• A Danny Ford 1981 National Championship football signed by Danny Ford. This is the year KM’s Kevin Mack helped Clemson win the National Championship.
• 2018 Limited Edition Championship Football signed by Dabo Swinney Clemson vs Alabama.
• A signed basketball by Coach Rick Barnes of the University of Tennessee.
• A framed signed jersey of Jon Beason former Carolina Panthers linebacker.
• A signed football by Carolina Panthers wide receiver D. J. Moore.
• A framed signed photo of Ethan Brand Duke Basketball All American.
• A framed signed photo of Grant Hill Duke Player Rookie of the Year.
• A framed signed picture of Kelvin Benjamin defended by Richard Sherman.
• A signed baseball and bat by Will Wilson who recently signed with the San Francisco Giants
• Gardner Webb University football helmet
• Football cleats signed by Christian Wilkins 3 time All American Clemson University
• KMHS Football helmet signed by KM rising stars DayDay Wilson and Kobe Paysour
• 6 Charlotte Hornets 2021 season tickets 3 rows behind the Hornet’s bench
• 3 separate very nice vacation packages
• Belize Vacation
• Chetola Vacation
• Willow Valley Resort Vacation
• Dinner for 4 at the Capitol in Charlotte with limousine service included
• 3 separate golf bags
• Gardner Webb University golf bag
• A Stihl weed eater
• An Echo weed eater
• 3 separate coolers Yeti, Grizzly and a K-2
• An Outdoor Lighting System
• A 12x15 room of carpet installed by Flooring America
• A diamond necklace
• 8 separate pairs of Oakley Sunglasses $200 to $300 dollar value
• A child’s Nano Balance bicycle
• 2 rounds foursome of golf at Riverbend
• 2 rounds foursome of golf at the
• Dunes Club at Myrtle Beach
• One foursome of golf at Cramer Mountain
• A round of golf with Brad Jones Bring 3 Carmel Country Club
• A golf foursome Marion Lake Club Golf, Marion
• A golf foursome Red Bridge Golf Club, Locust
• A golf foursome Cowan Ford Golf Club
• Oil and filter change by Leigh’s Automotive
• Oil and filter change by Parker’s Amoco
• Nebo Flashlight
• 2 Copper Top Birdhouses with poles
• Ricky Stenhouse Jr Race Suit 2013 Sprint Cup Rookie Day of Year
• Western Carolina Ultimate Package
• J T Poston Vineyard Vine Shirt
• Men’s Nike Golf Shirt and Titleist hat plus golf balls
• Men’s Footjoy KMCC golf shirt, golf balls, hat and towel
• Lickety Lew’s gift package
• Lots of KMHS football jerseys with various colors and numbers will be up for bids.
Kings Mountain High varsity football workouts.
NCHSAA delays start of fall practice to September 1,
Kings Mountain High still hopes to get in full seasons
As of now, Kings Mountain and other high school football teams in North Carolina can begin pre-season practice on September 1, which is a month later than usual.
Que Tucker, executive director of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, announced the start for fall sports last week.
The first eight days have to be workouts only, KMHS athletic director Matt Bridges explains, meaning the first game would be around September 17.
At this point, Bridges said, he does not believe the NCHSAA would cancel the season or move it to the spring.
“I feel like the state association would adjust the schedule before they would do that,” he said. “I think they’d have a shorter season or playoff so we could finish up by Christmas. Some football coaches around the state have mentioned moving it to the spring, but I really don’t think that will happen.”
Bridges said he expects other sports’ seasons would also be adjusted.
“Basically, we’re just sitting and waiting,” he said. “I think they’re probably polling all the school boards in the state to see what they’re going to do.
“Because we’re still in Phase One for sports, there’s nothing we can do except conditioning,” he noted. “We do know the first week of school (August 17-23) will be a dead period. I think the state association is doing a survey on which schools will be open to students and which will be virtual or a combination of the two.
“I think they want to get a full season in, even though it might be adjusted by either shortening the regular season or the playoffs. They want to get it in safely. Hopefully we can go to stage 3 soon.”
Most KMHS fall sports have been working out for a couple of weeks. The football team works out Monday through Thursday mornings; soccer, cross country and volleyball are working out a couple days a week and tennis will begin soon.
“All of the teams have to have social distancing,” he noted. “They can’t hit or share equipment or anything. They can use balls but two people can’t touch the same ball. Getting to stage 3 is really important.”
Bridges said because of the uncertainty about the beginning of the sports year, the high school is not yet selling passes.
“Once we know for sure what the situation looks like, we will adjust the prices of all of our sports passes, reserved seating and parking and let the public know about it,” he said.
KM High Varsity Football Workouts Resume
Kings Mountain High varsity football workouts resumed Monday morning at several different practice fields. The Mountaineers and all other NCHSAA teams are limited to light outdoor workouts with social distancing as long as Phase 2 of the governor's COVID plan remains in effect but they and other schools hope to see their football season begin in August.
Women’s tennis workouts Tues., July 21 at KM High
Workouts for the Kings Mountain High women’s tennis team will begin Tuesday, July 21 at 6 p.m. at the KMHS tennis complex.
Each student athlete must take tennis gear and attire, have an updated physical on file or take the physical form to workouts. No one can participate in workouts without a current physical.
For more information contact Coach Rick Henderson via email (Rick.Henderson2@duke-energy.com) or text 704-460-8066.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, standards and guidelines, each student athlete will be required to complete the NCHSAA Initial Screening and Pre-participation Family History before the first day of workouts. Contact Coach Henderson to know the expectations and guidelines before you arrive at the courts, during workouts and following workouts.
Symptoms of Covid-19: Do not come to campus if you have any of these symptoms:
Cough, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, fever, chills, sore throat, shortness of breath, new loss of taste and smell.
The NCHSAA’s first day of tennis practice and tryouts is Monday, August 3. Starting time is 6 p.m.
Attendees gather for the first day of camp. Photos by YMCA
Y sports camps begin in July
The Kings Mountain Family YMCA announced they will provide sports camp this summer. Camps will be constructed and programmed to maintain social distancing, capacity regulations and best safety practices.
Each camp has a capacity of 18 participants, with the exception of Dance Camp that has a capacity of 9 participants. Camp is for ages 7 – 12 years old. Register online at CleveCoYMCA.org or contact Michael Peeler at MPeeler@CleveCoYMCA.org. for pricing.
July 13 – 17 : Multi-Sports Camp – Campers will learn and develop basic skills for a variety of different sports throughout this camp. 8:30 am – 12:00 pm at Kings Mountain Family YMCA.
July 20 -24 : Soccer Camp – Campers will learn basic soccer skills and performance training. 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm at Davidson Park.
July 27 – 30 : Golf Camp – Campers will learn basic golf skills and golf etiquette when taking care of the course. 8:30 am – 12:00 pm at Kings Mountain Country Club.
August 3 – 7 : Dance Camp – Campers will develop and learn the skills used in beginner – advanced dances. 8:30 am – 12:00 pm at Kings Mountain Family YMCA.
YMCA pool now open for members and non-members
The pool is now open at the YMCA. There are several safety measures in place to comply with the new state guidelines to keep everyone safe.
• Monday – Friday: 12 pm – 6 pm The pool is available for YMCA members beginning at 12 pm and for community members from 2 pm – 6 pm.
• Saturday: 10 am – 6 pm
• Sunday: 2 pm – 6 pm
• Cost: $3 per guest and free for YMCA members
The YMCA is offering swim lessons whether you prefer group or private lessons. We have both options available throughout July and August. There are swim lessons available in the evenings throughout the week for kids ages 3 – 14. Session times vary between 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm.
• Group Swim Lessons: $35 for members or $55 for non-members.
• Private Swim Lessons: $50 for members or $85 for non-members.
• Financial Assistance is available upon request.
The YMCA is also offering birthday parties at the pool with a maximum of 20 guests. For more information please contact Aquatics Director, Michael Peeler at 704.669.3687.
Be sure to social distance while at the pool. There will be a limited capacity of 60 people total at the pool and only 35 in the pool; so be sure to get a spot! We ask that families limit their pool visit to 2 hours to accommodate capacity guidelines.
Please note that we will not have any chairs or picnic tables available. Be sure to bring your own chair! Also, you will need to bring your own US Coast Guard approved life jackets and puddle jumpers. We have lifeguards on duty to ensure a fun and safe time.
Sponsors needed for KMTD golf, KMTD auction will be held online
The annual Kings Mountain Touchdown Club golf tournament will be played August 7 at Kings Mountain Country Club.
All proceeds will go toward the athletic facility upgrades at Kings Mountain High School, which included artificial turf and other improvements to John Gamble Stadium and new tennis courts and a locker room/rest room facility.
There is still a real need for tournament sponsors. Sponsorships are $100 for silver, $250 for gold, $500 for platinum and $1,000 for diamond.
All persons wishing to help the tournament should call 704-466-7214.
Because of social distancing regulations, president David Brinkley also reports the usual pre-tournament meal will be cancelled and the annual auction will be held online. The club will begin advertising the items shortly but they will include things such as vacations, golf trips a signed basketball from Coach Rick Barnes, a signed football and helmet from Coach Dabo Swinney and several foursomes for golf. In all there should be about 50 items to bid on.
The auction will begin on Thursday, August 6 from 9 a.m.-6 p.m., and continue all-day Friday and Saturday up to 6 p.m.
Persons will be able to bid and also post upset bids online.
For more information on the tournament and auction, contact Harold Farris.
Schools may begin conditioning July 6
As of now, Kings Mountain and other area high schools will be able to begin outside fall sports conditioning July 6.
Athletes were driving by the high school Monday through Wednesday of this week to pick up information from their coaches.
Next week is a dead week for all North Carolina High School Athletic Association members. During that time there can be no type of workouts or conditioning.
All athletic teams are required to obey safe distancing policies as well as having no more than 25 people in a single group, including coaches. That number probably won’t affect any sport except football but KMHS has enough practice and playing fields to safely obey the requirements.
All teams are limited to 90 minutes a day. Until further notice, fans are not allowed to attend
KMHS rising senior linebacker “Day Day” Wilson has committed to play football at the University of Missouri
Mountaineer football star Day Day Wilson commits to play collegiately at Missouri
Kings Mountain High football standout Dameon “Day Day” Wilson Sunday afternoon officially committed to continue his career at the University of Missouri.
Wilson, a rising senior and an all-star linebacker for the Mountaineers for the past three seasons, joins teammate Kobe Paysour at the next level. Paysour, a wide receiver, earlier committed to the University of North Carolina.
Wilson gave his fans, who watched live on Facebook, an anxious moment when he started taking off an outer sweatshirt to make his official announcement. He revealed a University of North Carolina shirt, but then took it off to show a Mizzou shirt.
Wilson was offered by some of the top football schools in the nation, including North and South Carolina, Kentucky and NC State. But, he said he just had a great feeling about playing in the SEC in general, and Missouri in particular.
“They’re just great people out there,” he said. “They have a great coaching staff. I just felt like it is the place for me.”
One of the coaches that recruited him to Mizzou was former Crest athlete Charlie Harbison, who is Missouri’s assistant head coach.
“A lot of their coaches were at Appalachian State last year when they beat both North Carolina and South Carolina,” Wilson noted.
In making his announcement, Wilson said “I just want to thank the Lord Jesus Christ for giving me the ability to play.”
Wilson is the son of James and Rachelle Wilson. His older brothers, Trevon and Javari, also played football at Kings Mountain.
Wilson, who had a team-high 123 tackles last year, has been a part of the winningest era in KMHS history the past three seasons. The Mountaineers barely missed going to the state championship game last fall when they fell in the Western championship to Charlotte Catholic, 56-49, in a state record seven overtimes.
With the uncertainty of the Covid 19 situation, Wilson hopes his high school football career isn’t over. The Mountaineers are expected to begin light preseason workouts July 6.
“We hope to get to play this season, and win the state championship,” he said.
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Booker, who infamously compared himself to Spartacus during the Brett Kavanaugh SCOTUS confirmation hearings last year, appeared on CNN Sunday to talk impeachment and Trump’s Ukraine allegations against Joe Biden.
Here’s what Booker said when asked about the Trump/Biden Ukraine issue:
“I’ve said time and time again that this is unacceptable, that if you come after Joe Biden, you’re going to have to deal with me in this case. There is no — as you said — these are baseless, unfounded, scurrilous lies, plain and simple, trying to undermine the character of one of the statesmen of our country, not our party, but our country. And so, yeah, you’ve got a problem with me,” Booker told CNN’s Ana Cabrera on “Newsroom.”
“I can’t speak for this in a political context,” the New Jersey senator added. “This is just me as an American to see these kinds of attacks and whether it’s the lies this President tells about Joe Biden, or lies that he tells about other American citizens, to demean and denigrate them.”
Watch Booker act in the role of Joe Biden’s bodyguard after months of insinuating he was out of touch and a racist over his stance on forced busing and working with segregationist senators back in the 1970s:
Booker is not the only lower tier presidential candidate who has flip flopped when it comes to attacking Joe Biden. President Obama’s HUD Secretary Julian Castro, who insinuated the former veep was senile and not carrying on the Obama legacy at the last debate, had this to say this week on the Ukraine attacks against him:
CASTRO: I believe that Trump is trying to do to Joe Biden what he did to Hillary Clinton, that he’s trying to take a public servant that has served honorably over the years and muddy their reputation with false accusations that, in this case, have been investigated.
To me, there are plenty of reasons for people to make a decision in this primary. I hope that in this Democratic primary, they’re going to do that about the issues. I disagree with Vice President Biden on immigration, on health care, as people saw at the last debate, and a number of other issues. But I believe that he’s fundamentally an honest and honorable man.
Sen. Kamala Harris had a breakout moment in the first presidential debate when she broadsided Biden over the busing and segregationist senators issue. But her campaign has been in a freefall since mid-July and she has struggled (and failed) to regain her footing in a crowded field. Like Booker and Castro, Harris was a relentless critic of Biden’s until recently. Here are two answers she’s given in the last week on the Biden/Ukraine allegations:
“I’m not going to get duped into having that conversation,” Kamala tells Fox News on question about Biden/Ukraine. “Let’s leave Joe Biden alone.” pic.twitter.com/X1fRJIbeCd
— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) October 7, 2019
Sen. Kamala Harris: "Leave Joe Biden alone." pic.twitter.com/snHF21dry3
I think in light of their about-face on Joe Biden, these three struggling candidates have made it very clear: The veepstakes are on.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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MrE | October 8, 2019 at 8:20 pm
“So with time running out before the primaries start and his campaign continuing to go nowhere, what’s a guy to do?”
Pucker up?
Er……. “Pucker Up”
told to Corey?
Very bad choice of words there MrE.
Bad bad Orange MrE.
Randolf99 | October 8, 2019 at 8:46 pm
WOW! Bookee be gettin tough!
I guess mayor of Newark probably is pretty tough fighting off all the competing druglords, cartels and dealers.
Paul | October 8, 2019 at 9:40 pm
LOL, watch out! Bookee and T-Bone might roll up and whip yo’ ass for talking bad about China Joe.
TheFineReport.com | October 8, 2019 at 10:16 pm
What a putz.
Now, it seems kinda clear that the likes of Spartapuss are probably on the take from china and other foreign governments.
The whole house of cards is about to come down.
Sanddog | October 8, 2019 at 11:22 pm
I’m pretty sure a 75 year old grandmother could take his candy ass down.
mrzee | October 9, 2019 at 2:24 pm
They seem to have beaten him.
texansamurai | October 8, 2019 at 8:47 pm
send shartacus a truck load of charmin
Julian Castro sounds a bit wishy washy?
Veep anyone? Biden/Castro is kinda katchy!
NotKennedy | October 8, 2019 at 8:55 pm
Cory could give Brad Manning a call and maybe arrange for some quality time
Recovering Lutheran | October 8, 2019 at 9:00 pm
If I had to bet money now, I think it will be a Warren/Buttigieg or Warren/Fill-In-Name-Of-Female ticket. Democrats are lusting to run another “first” ticket (first woman, first gay, first illegal alien, first Borg Wannabe, etc), and demonize and dehumanize anyone who criticizes their “first”. It worked magnificently with Obama – McCain, Romneycare and the rest of the GOPe went fetal with guilt at every media frown – and almost worked with Hillary! as #NeverTrump Republicans flocked to Her campaign.
So why do the hard work of debating the issues when you can simply label your critics as Hitler Reincarnated (TM) and bask in the holy light of Sacred Victimhood? Harris could have been a better figurehead wacko carrying the communist banner than Warren (Harris would have allowed Democrats to play the race AND gender cards), but so far she has flopped spectacularly.
UJ | October 8, 2019 at 9:42 pm
Whatever, Cory.
oldgoat36 | October 8, 2019 at 9:50 pm
Aww, such a cute little tough guy act. I’m guessing this is Spartacus returns…
I think T-Bone groaned with this latest Marty Feldman look me in the eye move.
Maybe it’s time he stage another heroic deed so he can yell “I am Dooficus”. That will be as effective in propping up his failed campaign for a few more weeks.
RedEchos | October 8, 2019 at 10:01 pm
Spartacus looking to be a heartbeat away…
txvet2 | October 8, 2019 at 10:04 pm
Giuliani was on fire tonight on Trish Reagan’s show. Spartacus better stay out from between Biden and him or he might get hurt.
healthguyfsu | October 8, 2019 at 11:20 pm
The Triumphant Return of the Tough Talking Turtle!
inspectorudy | October 8, 2019 at 11:45 pm
Isn’t this what the gingerbread man told the fox that taking him across the river?
tom_swift | October 9, 2019 at 12:43 am
This is actually interesting. If also-rans like Sparky and Kneepads think Quid Pro Joe is worth cultivating for a VP slot, that means they don’t yet have any insider info that the DNC is planning to abandon him in favor of one of the communists.
Sally MJ | October 9, 2019 at 1:50 am
It appears Spartacus has just volunteered to be Joe Biden‘s VP.
Evil Otto | October 9, 2019 at 5:24 am
That’s adorable. Like a kitten hissing.
Quiet, Cory… grownups are talking. Well, not in the Democrat primary.
Valerie | October 9, 2019 at 6:29 am
“…these are baseless, unfounded, scurrilous lies, plain and simple, trying to undermine the character of one of the statesmen of our country, not our party, but our country. ”
Meanwhile, the video of Joe Biden telling the story of how he used the threat of withholding 1B in aid to Ukraine to get a prosecutor fired, is all over the net. His son, Hunter, is a member of the Board of the company, which paid him astoundingly well.
Virginia42 | October 9, 2019 at 8:07 am
Spar-tookus….don’t quit your day job.
2smartforlibs | October 9, 2019 at 8:34 am
When you know you have nothing to offer it appears VP is good enough.
ScottTheEngineer | October 9, 2019 at 9:19 am
Can I get a 1 billion dollar aid package to pave my road?
Cogsys | October 9, 2019 at 12:14 pm
Corey knows any chance at Presidency is gone… except if he were VP, so he’s taking that route, which he will (in my humble opinion) be offered by either Warren or Clinton. They need to recapture the black vote, he’s black (kind of), therefore he’s a good candidate.
Supporting Biden sends the message that he’s a team player.
FortesFortunaJuvat | October 9, 2019 at 12:55 pm
This from an already hasbeen.
Yippy | October 9, 2019 at 4:10 pm
Spartacus Cornpop
TheFineReport.com | October 10, 2019 at 3:39 am
The dummy looks like he has a mohawk in that photo.
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"Gone Home" Review
Jeremy Gill
Jeremy enjoys gaming when not working as a manager at the same college he graduated from.
"Gone Home"
Gone Home Overview
Gone Home offers gamers a unique, first-person experience. Set back in 1995, players control Katie, a young woman who arrives home after a trip abroad. However, she finds her home empty and must explore to find hints about where her family has disappeared to.
Unlike most games, Gone Home has a very relaxed style. There's no combat, no enemies to escape from. You simply investigate Katie's residence at your own leisure, discovering clues along the way. So, how does Katie's adventure hold up? Let's examine the triumphs and failures of Gone Home!
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Your family's portrait (Katie is the top figure)
Gone Home succeeds in these areas:
Creepy, intriguing setting
Stellar character depth
Freedom of exploration lends realism
Impressive graphics
Gone Home hooked me at the start with its ominous atmosphere. You play as Katie, but because she's alone, she serves as more of a silent protagonist, allowing players to imagine themselves in her place. She returns to an empty home during a thunderstorm at night, creating a tense and foreboding feeling.
Without spoiling anything, Katie learns various truths about her kin as she browses the house, especially her younger sister, Sam. Sam left several journal entries that you'll hear her narrate, offering a detailed look into the joys and struggles of her life.
Finally, the game looks great, and the ability to explore the home as you choose helps players feel in control, and not like they're being pushed in one direction as some games do. Gone Home also features a reduced cost compared to most games, as it's a smaller-scale production. Shouldn't run you any more than twenty bucks.
One of several rooms to explore
Unfortunately, Gone Home hosts a set of issues:
Uneventful
No scares
Low replay value
Don't get me wrong. I love adventure, character-central games. Until Dawn and Heavy Rain stand as two of my favorite. But unlike those titles, Katie never actually encounters anyone, never has to make difficult choices, never really participates in anything. I won't spoil the ending for you, but I'm not really sure I could because not much "happens." You simply learn what became of the family, and that's that.
Faux horror
With such a creepy setup (family gone, dark house, Sam leaving a vague message saying not to follow her), I kept waiting for some giant reveal or scare. After I realized none were coming soon, I began to hope that the whole game was leading up to one titanic moment of revelation. It isn't. No killers, no monsters, no jump scares. This isn't a scary game, and I feel like with such an isolated and mysterious opening, it could have been a great one.
Instead, you just investigate notes (reading takes up half your time) and slowly piece together what's happened. And while the family was dynamic, each member having their likes, dislikes, and faults, I couldn't help but feel the game was lacking something. Games are interactive experiences, and while you do technically control Katie, she never does anything. Thus, the "game" feels more like a book, except you get to read the chapters in the order you want.
Rating Explained
One of the biggest issues I have with Gone Home is how it makes you think it'll be scary, but it isn't. In addition to a creepy setup, you find clues throughout the house of Sam's paranormal interests, including some alleged conversations with a ghost using a Ouija board. But again, you never encounter any paranormal activities.
Maybe I'm just disappointed because I thought there would be more sinister elements to the game, but two words come to mind for Gone Home: wasted potential. If you don't enjoy scares, and really just want to explore an old house in '95, deducing where its occupants are, Gone Home is the game for you.
But for most players, the tense setup conflicts drastically with the calm gameplay and lack of action. Gone Home has received surprisingly high reviews from many sites, citing its impressive graphics and multifaceted characters. While I can't argue with those aspects, for this reviewer, they don't outweigh the lackluster "events" of the game.
Is Gone Home for You?
Below I'll post a video playthrough of Gone Home. If you're still unsure whether this title is for you, watch a few minutes of the gameplay, and you can quickly see if you'd enjoy the way Gone Home operates. The video length also reveals just how quickly most players finish the game.
© 2017 Jeremy Gill
Protoman on June 02, 2017:
Same opinion bro. Never understood why Gone Home gathered stellar reviews. Reduced price still may not be worth it
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LAN Donates Trees to City of Richardson
By Jay Srinivasan
Civil engineering firm Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. (LAN) is donating trees to the City of Richardson and is hosting a volunteer tree planting event at Cottonwood Park. The event, held in partnership with the City of Richardson and the Texas Trees Foundation, will be held from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. on Nov. 19.
During the event, volunteers from LAN’s Dallas office will plant 30-gallon trees at Cottonwood Park. Volunteers for the event will also include Richardson Council Member Mark Solomon, Collin County Commissioner Cheryl Williams, Mayor Pro Tem Janet DePuy, who represents Place 3 on the Richardson City Council, Collin McLochlin who serves as regional director to U.S. Senator John Cornyn, and Sheacy Thompson, Deputy Chief of Staff to State Senator Angela Paxton.
“We are deeply appreciative of LAN’s generous donation and the Texas Trees Foundation’s continued support of our Richardson Plants program,” said Richardson Mayor Paul Voelker. “Part of what makes Richardson so desirable as a home to residents, businesses and employees alike is the significant appeal of our tree-filled green spaces and outstanding recreational amenities, as exemplified by Cottonwood Park and the signature events held at this regional destination. Especially in light of the recent storms, we sincerely thank LAN for being part of our Environmental Partnership Initiative (EPI) and for supporting the community’s ongoing recovery to further enhance Richardson’s outstanding quality of life!”
“As a firm with deep roots in North Texas for several decades, we wanted to give back to communities in need,” said Wayne Swafford, LAN’s president. “Also, after last month’s tornado that destroyed trees across many city parks, we wanted to play our part in supporting the city’s recovery.”
“The damage from the June storm was devastating to Cottonwood Park,” said Matt Grubisich, Director of Operations and Urban Forestry for the Texas Trees Foundation. “By replanting these trees, we will be helping to restore the tree canopy ensuring a greener, cleaner, cooler Richardson for future generations.”
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Senior Gameplay Programmer
Programming / Saint Petersburg / Full -time
With multiple awards to our name, Larian Studios has proven that we’re dedicated to delivering high-quality role-playing games. The team that created Divinity: Original Sin 2, PC Gamer’s Game of the Year 2017 and Metacritic’s top-rated PC game of 2017, is working on new projects and looking for new talents. We engage our players on every level with combat, exploration, puzzles and dialogue. To take our player engagement to new and greater heights, we need your help. We want to find passionate, skillful people to join us on our next adventure and are now looking for a Senior Gameplay Programmer for our Saint Petersburg studio.
Work on all aspects of gameplay systems of the RPG: design, development and support
Work closely together with the other departments to implement the needed game components
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Be an active participant in the design and production of the game — technical side of creative team!
Mentor team members and support the Lead
5+ years game development experience
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Mexico candidate, actress wife star in reality TV campaign videos
MEXICO CITY -- The campaign for the front-runner in Mexico's presidential election is producing reality TV-style documentary videos that show him kissing and flirting with his wife, eating ice cream and returning home after a day on the campaign trail to hug his daughters.
The videos constitute a new level in the blurring of lines between politics and pop media in Mexico, and appear to be energizing support among voters.
Enrique Peña Nieto, galloping toward the July 1 vote with a double-digit lead over his two main rivals, would be the first president from the former ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, in the 21st century. The PRI, often labeled through its history as quasi-authoritarian, was booted from power in 2000.
The videos primarily star Peña Nieto's wife, telenovela actress Angelica Rivera, and are narrated from her perspective under the title, "What My Eyes See, and What My Heart Feel" (links in Spanish). In them, she follows her husband to campaign events and chats with him between stops in clips that feel like journals or diary entries.
One ends with Peña, 45, and Rivera, 41, arriving home and letting the viewer in on plans for an evening of dinner, bathing and bedtime. In another, he samples local ice cream. Here's a new clip from a stop in Villahermosa, in the state of Tabasco:
The videos are meant to show an informal, intimate side of the couple, who married in 2010 after the sudden death in 2007 of Peña Nieto's first wife, Monica Pretelini, while he governed the central state of Mexico. The clips have garnered thousands of views on YouTube and "likes" on Facebook. There, Rivera's public page (links in Spanish) frequently posts casual snapshots of her and her family.
Political advertising in Mexico's two most recent presidential campaigns, won by Vicente Fox in 2000 and fellow conservative Felipe Calderon in 2006, has moved steadily toward a more U.S.-style media approach. The PRI's effort this year takes the current social-media orientation of Mexican politics to a new level.
Peña Nieto personifies the trend, making some political commentators bemoan the nature of the 2012 race. In a Jan. 27 column in the daily Reforma, author Juan Villoro called Peña Nieto a "political hologram" and a "tele-candidate."
"There is no election today that is not decided in the media," Villoro wrote. "Trusting in this precept, the PRI has chosen a telegenic candidate. The problem is that he appears to have little more than luminous wrapping."
U.S. officials in Mexico have been watching Peña Nieto's rise for years, noting his telegenic qualities since the start, according to leaked U.S. diplomatic cables. One of those cables from 2009 relays a description of Peña Nieto as "a pretty face with nationwide appeal, but lacking in substance and political savvy."
His strongest detractors early on were apparently concentrated within his own party, the leaked cables show. In another from 2009, contacts inside the PRI told U.S. officials that they believed Peña was "paying media outlets under the table for favorable news coverage, as well as potentially financing pollsters to sway survey results."
His campaign has carefully guarded his public appearances, and the videos in "What My Eyes See, and What My Heart Feels," although edited with an unscripted, chop-and-cut flair, are no different.
During his first campaign stop in the city of Oaxaca, for example, Rivera's video diary showed an upbeat Peña Nieto greeting supporters at the city's central plaza but no images of the crowds of demonstrators (link in Spanish) who had gathered to protest the PRI machine.
The party isn't alone in pumping funds into sleek documentary-style video spots.
The campaign for Josefina Vazquez Mota, candidate for the conservative National Action Party, released a video Wednesday documenting her visit (link in Spanish) that day to the prestigious Tecnologico de Monterrey university.
In it, she speaks to students in an auditorium, then responds to a protestor who yells at her from the audience. The nature of the protestor's complaint, however, is not specified, and neither is the candidate's response, for that matter. Instead, the video ends with a crescendo of music and the candidate calling over applause, "Do not tire of truth! Do not tire of liberty!"
Drug allegations may hamper PRI's return
On his stroll to presidency, Peña Nieto stumbles
Messy Mexican election reemerges in leaked cables
-- Daniel Hernandez
Photo: Institutional Revolutionary Party presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto, center, and his wife, actress Angelica Rivera, left, during a campaign stop in Papantla, Veracruz, on April 13. Credit: Peña Nieto campaign
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In "The Broken Heart of America," Missouri native Walter Johnson uses a deep racial and social justice lens to look at the history of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark’s 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation’s past.
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Philosophy Tuesday
March 22, 2016 April 23, 2018 Kannik
Zootopia’s story has a splendid philosophical core, including profound moments of transformation. I’m still floored by it. There’s no way this wouldn’t get the deep dive here on Philosophical Tuesday. The last third of the film is nonstop inspiring and moving. And it starts with a simple apology.
Right after Gideon apologies for his actions as a youngster, and Judy acknowledges that she too knows about being a jerk, the two of them share a moment and a smile. It’s an absolutely lovely little touch. It is only brief moment, and it’s a moment held in silence, but that silence and their look speaks volumes: “this is complete for us now.” Boom. And this moment of completion is equally liberating for the both of them. Yes, both. Completion removes the unknown and hidden constraints from our view of life, constraints that also work to keep our identities set in place. For Judy, what is released may be somewhat obvious. For Gideon, in that moment, what is wiped clean is whatever guilt he may have been carrying since then. His actions that have been limited by trying to “make up for” that incident, or to “disprove” to both to himself and others that he is not a terrible fox, and even the limitations on his sense and experience of himself that stem from that voice in his head that says “I am a bad fox (and I have the evidence to prove it)”, they all get set aside. From that moment onward, he is able to create freely from within that clearing.
We don’t hear from Gideon again in the movie (or was he in the ending credits?*), but he’s set free.
Completion creates a new realm of possibility – not just a single possibility, but a whole expanse of possibilities. And to what extent those possibilities can reach we’ll see that with Judy. But in a moment, because first, we also have Nick’s transformation, out of Judy’s apology.
I really love how Nick and Judy’s history is essentially the same. Both were bullied and attacked due to their species and their ambitions, but both made vastly different decisions based on that incident. And their lives then went in vastly different directions. When Nick fills out the application in the police station, he’s indicating a desire, a wish, a hope, for something new… but it’s still built on the shaky ground of the past. It’s a wish that gets quickly dashed by a few words from a new found friend, words that reaffirm all he knows about the world, and about his place in it. It’s not only “I’m a predator, sly fox,” it’s also, “I can never trust anyone. I’m not wanted.”
Judy’s apology to Nick not only cleans up the mess she made between them at the press conference, but also allows Nick to complete for himself all the hangings on from the incident as a Junior Ranger. Judy was, of course, not there, those many years ago. But her apology creates the space for Nick to re-evaluate the decisions he made, to reconsider his world view and the identities he took on, and to, like Judy and Gideon, set them aside and create freely in that clearing. From the moment Judy begins apologizing, Nick has chosen. The very fact she’s returned and is willing to take that kind of responsibility is the catalyst. Nick begins to walk under the bridge (“Like water under the bridge”) and the further he goes, and the further Judy gets into her heartfelt apology, the bigger the clearing becomes. When he’s firmly on the other side, it’s complete. What he chose earlier in filling out that application comes rushing back in, and he chooses to not only be friends with Judy (and she joins him on the other side of the bridge), but chooses to create a new Nick from the world of possibilities that have opened up: to be caring, to be dedicated, to make a difference, to be a fully-grown Junior Ranger. All now created upon a solid foundation.
Every scene after that, he puts himself, without hesitation, in between danger and Judy.
We come now to that scene in the pit at the Natural History Museum… and wow.
Besides using the literal history of animal relations as a backdrop – a clever touch – the trust that Judy places in Nick, and more specifically, his muzzle, is remarkable. Even though it was ‘play acting’. Let’s be clear. From someone who, while talking big to her parents and only took the fox repellent to ‘make them be quiet’, then ensured she took it with her on the first day and never stopped carrying it with her, for that someone to let a fox take her by the neck like THAT – is huge. The clearing from Gideon’s apology (and in seeing her parent’s own growth in their working with Gideon), and from Nick’s generosity in forgiving her, has her be willing to put that level of trust in him. Amazing.
And, as before, it’s amazing for the both of them. The Junior Ranger kids had said “If you thought we’d ever trust a predator without a muzzle, you’re even dumber than you look.” They used the word trust specifically. For a prey species to be willing to give that level of trust to Nick intensifies and seals the completion.
What an insanely powerful moment in the story. It’s the crux of the caper coming to an end while also, and I’d say even more poignantly, being a huge moment for Judy and Nick, showing the depth of their transformations.
It should not be forgotten or omitted that these completions and transformations are also brought on by the other side of apology: forgiveness.
Judy goes from pretending everything is behind her and instead empathizes with Gideon. Nick could have held his grudge against Judy’s words, but he doesn’t. He too grants her the error, and forgives her. They both could have stayed right in their convictions, but they chose to take the plunge to see what’s possible. And through that generosity, miracles happen.
Given my recent musings about apologizing, and the amazing power therein, I am beyond tickled that along comes a movie with not just one, but these TWO amazing scenes of apology. I say again that these scenes are some of the most adult things I have seen in a movie in a long time. Period. Mr. Rogers would be proud (see 4:10 of this video). I give super kudos to the writers and directors for putting them in.
These scenes are amazing on so many levels. We have characters choosing to take responsibility and to apologize, and how they apologize are pretty darn good examples of how to. We have forgiveness and empathy. And we witness how the apologies alter the lives of the characters forever, as a good apology can.
It doesn’t always take apologies to cause transformation, but in those instances where an apology is appropriate, they can make a world of difference. And often we never know to what level our apology might provide a clearing for another, just as Judy’s did for Nick.
To all who worked on Zootopia and for the work that went behind it to craft a film with such an amazing intricate philosophical core, thank you.
In a film about anthropomorphic animals, you have taught us plenty about our humanity.
Continued in part 2 here!
* If he wasn’t in the credits, wow, imagine how incredible it could be if he was. Imagine Gideon dancing with Judy’s parents, or, even more powerfully, dancing with some of Judy’s siblings, all having a good time…
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The Front Runner (2018)
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Bishop: The Last X-Man (1999-2000)
The outlaw camp of refugees has been laid waste by the Chronomancer's army of time-warping automatons. Because Bishop didn't act, the blood of children has been spilled. But now the Last X- Man is going after his hated enemy -- but he's not going alone! The mutants known as Jinx, Link, Scorch and Nom will learn that there is more to life than just surviving...and that the "M" is only one of the symbols that mutants have to rally behind!
X-Men: Magneto War (1999)
Fabian Cortez has an army at his disposable...and he's far from afraid to use it.
Gambit (1999-2001)
Gambit plays his cards right and vaults into his own kinetically charged solo adventures! He's a lover and a thief, but what else does ragin' Cajun Remy LeBeau get up to when he isn't hangin' wit' de X-Men? Would you believe raiding lost temples of Doom? Clashing with the deadly X-Cutioner? Or teaming up with Sabretooth? Still, there's always time for the ladies- like old friend Storm and his favo
Magneto Rex (1999)
Heavy is The Head That Wears the Crown. Magneto, mutant radical and leader of a charged rebellion, emerges as the new sovereign of Genosha, an independent mutant state. But a civil war has erupted between the Magistrates and mutates…leaving Magneto in a diplomatic bind! Quicksilver and Rogue guest-star!
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Playing a record at the wrong speed
(idea) by break Fri Aug 25 2000 at 12:14:38
This mistake is very common when listening to vinyls. The error can provide a great deal of embarrassment depending on the time it takes you to notice it, and the amount of people present.
There are also lots of 12"s with different RPM on each side. With those, the screw-up is very easy to make.
But at least in minimal or experimental electronic music, a record can in some cases work just as well or even better at the wrong speed. Especially the works of Wolfgang Voigt can provide surprising results this way.
In some instances, the wrong RPM is deliberately printed on the label for this reason. (I recall this being done by Voigt on Profan.)
(idea) by mr.nick Fri Aug 25 2000 at 12:23:09
Playing a record at the wrong speed is absolutely vital for the art of beat matching. As not every track are the exact same BPM (Beats per minute), you need to adjust the pitch so that you can line them up correctly.
Most modern turntables, such as Technic's SL-1200s, have a variable pitch control that allow the adjustment of -8% to +8%.
See Beat Matching 101: A dj primer.
(idea) by Art Tatum Fri Aug 25 2000 at 13:25:49
The famous jazz pianist, Teddy Wilson, used this technique as a young boy to pick out fast runs by ear.
Although this kind of ear training is vital to the learning process, it is no longer this easy because music is mostly distributed on CD now.
However, with a little bit of tech savvy you can still accomplish something similar. Use CD ripper software to get a track or part of a track from the CD. Next, use a digital audio editing program to slow down the clip. Be sure to use an algorithm that preserves the pitch while changing the speed. Most modern editing software should have something like this (even Windows Sound Recorder has this capability).
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Right place, right time, wrong speed.
Last Christmas, Christmas 2003, John Peel ran a competition to have his listeners design a badge for his show. Some of the finalists were hilarious and played on John's most familiar catchphrases. For example: "Click on my face", my particular favourite, based on the phrase that John repeated every evening on his show when navigating listeners to his homepage on the BBC, Radio 1 website. The winning entry was a badge that said "Right place, right time, wrong speed", based on John's tendency to play at least one record at the wrong speed on every single show. Sometimes he would realise immediately that he was playing the record too fast/too slow, but would find that he actually preffered the speeded up/slowed down version and would leave it playing at the wrong speed for the duration of the song often playing it again, immediately afterwards at the correct speed!
John Peel died today, 26th October 2004, he will be sadly missed. Rest In Peace John.
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There were claps, cheers and tears in a courtroom after a judge found a paramedic not guilty of causing the death of a patient.
Court erupts over paramedic verdict
by Kathryn Bermingham
4th Dec 2020 2:58 PM
Claps and cheers erupted in an Adelaide courtroom after a paramedic was cleared of dangerous driving charges relating to a tragic crash that claimed the life of a patient.
Matthew James McLean, 42, was behind the wheel of a bariatric ambulance that rolled at Virgina, north of the CBD, in 2016, killing Karen Biddell, 48.
He pleaded not guilty to causing death by dangerous driving, arguing that he was suffering from undiagnosed sleep apnoea at the time of the crash.
Delivering her verdict on Friday, District Court judge Sophie Davidson said she could not exclude the reasonable possibility that the condition caused Mr McLean to veer off the road and onto an embankment.
But she said her not guilty finding in no way detracted from the tragedy of Ms Biddell's death.
As they had throughout the trial, a large group of paramedics in uniform packed the court to hear the verdict.
Mr McLean cried and hugged supporters after the decision was handed down.
He made no comment to reporters outside court; however, Phil Palmer of the Ambulance Employees Association of SA said justice had been served.
"This gives us faith in the justice system," he said.
"We said from day one it should never have got here, it did get here.
"Mr McLean can now get on with his life after four years for him and his young family."
Mr Palmer said the outcome was a relief for paramedics across Australia.
"Because of the nature of their job, and the lack of support from employers and governments, they constantly face the struggle of fatigue," he said.
Phil Palmer from the Ambulance Employees Association of SA says the verdict is a relief for paramedics across the country. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Brenton Edwards
Mr McLean's case was initially put before a jury but was decided by Judge Davidson after jurors were discharged during South Australia's coronavirus shutdown.
During the trial, the court heard Mr McLean was driving Ms Biddell from her home near Port Pirie, north of Adelaide, to the Royal Adelaide Hospital for non-urgent treatment for leg ulcers.
Prosecutors said the heater in the ambulance was set to 25 degrees, and Mr McLean had engaged the cruise control as he headed southbound towards Virginia.
The five-tonne vehicle first started to drift, and it struck a small tree on a grass median strip.
It partially straightened up, but the ambulance then veered on to an embankment.
"That caused the ambulance to roll," prosecutor Mark Norman SC said.
"It rolls over once and completely. It actually ends up upright."
Ms Biddell was killed and her daughter was injured, along with another paramedic travelling in the back.
Mr Norman said Mr McLean told people at the scene that he had fallen asleep behind the wheel, and he needed coffee to "keep himself going" that night.
He also said an examination of work records revealed Mr McLean had volunteered to work overtime and had done 11 shifts in the 12 days preceding.
That included four night shifts in the five days prior to the August 16 date of the crash, Mr Norman said.
However, Mr McLean's defence team said an expert had determined that his client was unknowingly suffering from sleep apnoea when the crash happened about 2.30am.
They argued that he would not have been driving that night if he had been aware of the risks.
Originally published as Court erupts over paramedic verdict
A group of paramedics were in the District Court on Friday to hear the verdict. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Brenton Edwards
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Plumber’s costly hit-and-run in front of multiple witnesses
The split second decision to speed away after ploughing into a parked car has cost a 26-year-old his job and a hefty $500 fine at the Pine Rivers Magistrates Court this week.
The court heard residents of Labyrinth Rd at Bray Park witnessed a man drive his white Ford ute into a parked Toyota sedan outside of one of their homes just before 6pm on Saturday, January 18.
The ute then reversed and drove away, leaving its number plate lodged into the back of the damaged vehicle.
The details of the registration plate led police to identify the defendant, Bray Park man Benjamin Anthony Cochrane.
Benjamin Cochrane pleaded guilty to damaging a parked car then leaving before providing his particulars.
Cochrane pleaded guilty to one charge of failing to provide his particulars.
The court heard Cochrane had taken his eyes off the road for a split second, and when he looked back it was too late to avoid the collision.
According to the lawyer for the defence, Cochrane "panicked" and drove off to meet his friend, whom he had planned to go out that evening with.
The court heard Cochrane, a former student at Bray Park State High School with no previous criminal history, planned to return to the vehicle the next day, but the police caught up with him first.
He had initially also been charged with drunk driving and failing to provide a specimen of his breath to police, but after months of investigations and case conferencing the police offered the court no evidence for those charges and they were dismissed.
In the meantime, however, Cochrane had been forced to go without his drivers license and consequently lost his job as a plumber.
He was fined $500 and no conviction was recorded.
Originally published as Plumber's costly hit-and-run in front of multiple witnesses
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Kirk Douglas in Spartacus, one of his most famous roles. Picture: Getty Images
The 10 Kirk Douglas movies you need to see
by Leigh Paatsch
7th Feb 2020 7:51 AM
Hollywood lost one of the few remaining links to its Golden Age this week with the death of Kirk Douglas at 103, but the iconic actor and producer leaves behind a legacy of memorable performances.
Here are 10 of his best.
1. CHAMPION (1949)
Martin Scorsese cites this bruising boxing flick as a major influence on his classic Raging Bull. Douglas scored his first Oscar nomination as a hard-hitting pug who goes from homeless nobody to belt-winning somebody.
Kirk Douglas in Champion the star scored his first Oscar nomination for his role as a down and out boxer. Picture: Getty Images
2. YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN (1950)
Douglas is utterly convincing as Rick Martin, a gifted star jazz trumpeter who has it all, then blows it all. One of Douglas' first 'method' performances, going hard on learning key horn techniques.
Kirk Douglas as the slave Spartacus. Picture: Getty Images
Kirk Douglas was one of the last links to Hollywood’s Golden Age. Picture: Getty Images
3. ACE IN THE HOLE (1951)
The all-consuming, non-caring antics of the American media machine are exposed by Douglas' witheringly cynical performance. Thematically, this finger-pointing drama could have been made today.
Kirk Douglas and Lauren Bacall in Young Man with a Horn. Picture: Supplied
4. BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1952)
Another movie where Douglas stoops as low as he can go to play an absolute heel. This time he is a merciless movie producer with a kink for making and breaking careers on a whim.
Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner in a scene from film The Bad and the Beautiful. Picture: Supplied
5. 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
A rare lighter work for Douglas during his heavy-hitting prime. Disney paid a hefty sum to get the star on board as Captain Nemo in this fun adaptation of the Jules Verne-penned adventure.
Kirk Douglas in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Picture: Supplied
6. LUST FOR LIFE (1956)
Douglas pushed himself harder than ever before to get inside the malfunctioning mind of trouble artist Vincent van Gogh. "It was frightening," he recalls, "because I could feel the character overtaking me."
Kirk Douglas (left) and Burt Lancaster (right) in the iconic western, Gunfight at the OK Corral. Picture: Supplied
7. PATHS OF GLORY (1957)
In the mind of many, this superb anti-war picture is the crowning achievement of Douglas' career. He played a conscientious military officer defending three of his soldiers against false accusations of cowardice in battle.
Kirk Douglas in Lonely Are The Brave. Picture: Supplied
8. GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL (1957)
Douglas could never resist a western of highfalutin' pedigree. He plays Doc Holliday, Burt Lancaster plays Wyatt Earp, and all dirty, dusty roads head towards a heck of a shootout at Tombstone.
9. SPARTACUS (1960)
Douglas also produced this hypnotically strange sword-and-sandals epic, fatefully bringing Stanley Kubrick aboard as director when his first choice wasn't cutting it. Some big scenes, and some bonkers ones, too.
Kirk Douglas in scene from Spartacus. Picture: Supplied
10. LONELY ARE THE BRAVE (1962)
One great western deserves another. This moody, broody one makes the cut because Douglas regularly referred to it as his fave movie, period. He plays a drifter trying to get by on a frontier fading fast.
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Elena Velikanova
(biography, photos, videos) Elena Velikanova
Name: Elena Velikanova ( Elena Velikanova )
Date of birth: 5 October 1984
Place of birth: Moscow
Activities: actress
Elena Velikanova: biography
Directors often offer Elena Velikanova role provincials, although she was born and raised in Moscow. Date of birth actress October 5, 1984.
Elena’s father finished the MAI, then worked as host, sound engineer, DJ at radio. Mother graduated from the faculty of engineering, but the specialty is not working. She is the Director of the restaurant. Elena lucky with my family, because grandmother and grandfather and parents have always been behind her in the mountain, supported any decision. The girl was fond of creativity: attended art and music school, piano class, sang in the choir. Together with the choir she has performed in many countries around the world.
Like any girl, Elena dreamed of becoming an actress. At school she took part in Amateur theatricals, her vanity was flattered a major role. After school Elena Velikanova decided to enter the theater Institute, so I applied once in five specialized universities. When she announced her decision to her parents, they said, «Come on, start!».
The girl took in schepkinskoe school. In 2005 she successfully graduated from it. After graduation Elena Sergeevna worked briefly in the theater «Hermitage» and «Sphere», played in the entreprise, but the state theatre was not included. The actress says that she loves the theater and definitely will return to her, and while her work is related to filmmaking.
Velikanova started acting in movies in 2005. Director Elena Nikolaeva invited her to play provincial Fame in the film «Pop». In the story the heroine goes to conquer Moscow, she is talented and proud, wants to gain popularity on their own. The actress admitted that if her character went to Hollywood, it is unlikely she would have been so realistic to play it: after all, the very Elena the girl home.
Two years later, the screens out the film «Vanechka» in which she played Nadia. For this role she received the prize of the Moscow festival of youth cinema. And again her character was a girl from the province who came to do the capital’s theatre Institute. Velikanova said that the kid who played Vanya, brought her to her maternal instinct, so screen feelings to squeeze out of myself was not necessary.
The year 2008 was fruitful, Elena starred in several films: «the best film», «long Awaited love» and «happiness». Following these surveys, it has been the role of provincial girls. But a year later Elena Velikanova tried to get away from that image. In the series «If our destiny» she suddenly stood up as a law enforcement officer that is conducting its own investigation.
In 2010, the actress played Mary Nechayev in «220 volt of love». The film tells about the daughter of a meteorologist who arrives in Moscow from the tundra below to enter into the inheritance of the apartment. In 2011-2013, Elena Velikanova played the surrogate mother in the film «the contract» and its sequel, and in a break between shootings appeared in a cameo role in a foreign film «Jack Ryan».
The actress says little about his personal life. In 2010, her life changes — Elena Velikanova was married to businessman Oleg (her husband’s name she keeps secret) and gave birth to son Michael. Pregnancy did not stop filming, the actress says that sometimes it was necessary to work on the site with a baby in her arms.
In addition to filming a movie, she participates in photo shoots, though the magazines do not read – prefer classical literature. Elena Velikanova well likes to snowboard, loves to travel.
And she wants to play Aglaia or Nastasya Filippovna in the film adaptation of the novel of F. Dostoevsky «the Idiot» and hopes that someday this dream will come true.
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STAKING AND GUYING LANDSCAPE TREES
Staking or guying landscape trees on exposed sites can be an important ingredient of successful tree planting in the Great Plains. While current research seems to suggest that such practices may be more harmful than good, or are unnecessary, such is not the case on exposed, windy sites typical of much of Kansas.
The root ball of a newly planted but unstaked tree will tend to roll or pivot in the ground, resulting in tree lean or blow-over. In addition, trunk movement from strong wind, at or below the soil line, will break the root ball, destroying roots and resulting in a wobbly tree. Such a plant will usually die because constant movement will prevent root establishment. These problems can be avoided by proper staking or guying of a newly planted tree.
Most deciduous trees 5 to 6 feet or larger are candidates for staking when planted on an exposed site. The larger the tree, the more important it is to provide extra support. Usually, a deciduous tree up to 1.5 to 1.75 inches in caliper (10 to 12 feet in height) can be staked using the method illustrated in Figure 1. A tree larger than this will need to be supported by a three-way guying system (Figure 3).
An upright evergreen 4 to 5 feet or larger should be staked or guyed on exposed sites. A tree less than 6 feet in height can be supported by staking, but you may find it easier to install the guying method because of low limbs and plant density. Evergreens more than 6 feet in height require guying.
Staking and guying of a tree must be done properly, and the system must be maintained. It is best to avoid using wire and cable around the trunk, but if support must be provided in this manner, be sure to protect the tree by running the wire through a length of rubber or vinyl hose to serve as padding. Commercial rubber, nylon, or vinyl ties are less likely to damage the tree and should be used whenever possible. The wooden stake should not rub against the trunk. A properly installed tie will separate the tree trunk from the stake, providing a cushion. Other staking systems or newer staking technologies may be appropriate for use in certain circumstances. Contact your district or community forester for additional information.
Support the tree low on the trunk. The purpose of staking or guying is to prevent movement of the lower trunk and root system. Movement of the top is desirable and will strengthen the tree.
Check a staked or guyed tree monthly during the growing season and after storms or strong wind. The system should be snug, but not to the point of making an impression on the stem or trunk. If that happens, loosen the tie or wire around the trunk. Do not stake or guy a tree any longer than necessary. Stakes should be removed after one growing season, but may remain in place for a second season only if addition support is required.
Fig. 1 - When staking, support the tree 18-to-24 inches above the ground.
Staking Specifications:
When working with a nursery, make sure to specify size and location of trees to be staked. On exposed sites, stake deciduous and upright evergreen trees immediately after planting with a 2 x 2-inch x 5-foot stake as follows:
(1) position the stake along the west side of the tree so the prevailing winds will move the tree away from the stake (Figure 2.);
(2) drive the stake (pointed on the downward end) 12 to 18 inches into undisturbed soil outside the planting pit at a 45-degree angle, crossing and supporting the trunk 18 to 24 inches above the soil surface (Figure 1);
(3) secure the trunk to the stake using commercial ties or a wire tie protected by a rubber/vinyl length of hose or pad in a loose figure eight shape so the bark will not be injured and the trunk will not rest against the stake
Fig. 2 When staking a tree, place the stake so the prevailing winds move away from the stake.
Guying Specifications:
Specify the size and location of trees to be guyed when working with a nursery. On exposed sites, deciduous and upright evergreen trees should be guyed immediately after planting with a three-way system (Figure 3). Drive three 2 x 2 x 18-inch support stakes 10 to 12 inches into the ground at approximately 120 degrees from each other, outside the planting pit. Position stakes so that guy wires will be located at 45- to 60-degree angles from the ground. Guy wires should be No. 9 wire or larger and attached to commercial ties or pass through a rubber or vinyl length of hose so the wire does not come into contact with tree bark. Generally, wire support should be located near the lowest main branches on the tree.
Fig. 3 The three-way guying system should be used on larger deciduous and upright evergreen trees.
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Curtains Without Borders Hangs a Unique Exhibit
by Amy Lilly
The women who were running the Canaan Historical Society in 2009 knew just whom to call when they rescued a 1935 painted theater curtain from a dilapidated dance hall in nearby Beecher Falls. Chris Hadsel, they knew from press reports, had been locating and restoring the hand-painted drapes in town halls, theaters and grange halls around New England since 1996. She founded the Vermont Painted Theater Curtain Project, now called Curtains Without Borders.
Hadsel has catalogued 185 specimens in Vermont alone; the Beecher Falls curtain was number 184. So one might think she’s seen every possible image on a vintage curtain: Byronic castles, Ben- Hur scenes, lake views either imagined or identifiable (such as Lake Willoughby), street scenes crammed with advertisements for local businesses. Painted during the half-century before 1940 — that is, before movies replaced traveling vaudeville acts as small-town entertainment — these muslin backdrops are now preserved as national treasures, thanks to the efforts of Hadsel and her conservation team.
But she’d never seen a curtain like the one from Beecher Falls. “It’s a ‘party’ curtain,” Hadsel says. “We call it that because there’s no other like it in Vermont.” The drape depicts a tuxedoed jazz band in black silhouette against a colorful background crowded with festive balloons, each bearing the name of a contributing local business. The musicians raise their instruments above a large, colorful rainbow. Hadsel guesses that’s a reference to the Rainbow Room in Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center — the snazzy nightclub had just opened in 1934.
Hadsel and her team have put the Beecher Falls party curtain at the center of Curtains Without Borders’ first traveling exhibition, on view at the Amy E. Tarrant Gallery in Burlington through July, with an opening reception this Friday. “Curtains Without Borders: An Exhibition of Photographs” features professional photos of many of Vermont’s more remarkable small-town drapes, taken by Burlington photographer Carolyn Bates and laminated by Silver Maple Editions. Hadsel won an unusually large National Endowment for the Arts grant — $20,000 — to fund the exhibit and an eventual book.
The Beecher Falls drape is the only actual curtain on display — as it was at the exhibit’s first stop, the Statehouse in Montpelier. But this will be its last showing away from home. Future exhibition stops will feature the restored drapes of hosting towns, which include Morrisville, Brattleboro, Jefferson, Rutland, Randolph, Derby Line and St. Johnsbury. The party curtain will be returned to the Canaan Historical Society, where it will be stored and unveiled, as are most restored curtains around the state, for some half-dozen special occasions per year.
The jazzy composition is remarkable for another reason. Like most advertising curtains, it’s unsigned; only so-called “grand drapes,” or scenes framed by painted-in curtains, were autographed. But Hadsel knows the artist was one Lucretia Rogers, who founded Granite State Scenic Studios in the basement of a Plymouth, N.H., theater in the mid-1930s. About eight years ago, Hadsel received an email from Rogers’ daughter, Barbara Dorey, now 83, of Cape Cod, asking if the director had ever heard of her mother’s company. Hadsel had not, but she kept the message, and the two eventually connected by phone. When Dorey mentioned a certain curtain her mother had made depicting jazz musicians, Hadsel realized which one she was talking about.
“That’s the one that stuck out in my mind,” Dorey recalls during a phone call. Her mother, she explains, was trying to complete the curtain while keeping her young daughter entertained, so Rogers made Dorey a sketch of it and told her to fill in the colors. “I remember the artwork, and her sketching it out to amuse me so I’d have something to do,” she says.
Hadsel arranged for Dorey to appear at the exhibit opening in Montpelier. “When I saw it, I just couldn’t believe it existed after all these years,” Dorey says of the curtain. “I don’t think my mother would have believed it, either.”
Hadsel describes the process of identifying the artist as “a kind of treasure hunt” — an equally apt description for her now 15-year-old project of rescuing the curtains themselves. “No two curtains are the same,” she notes, and even the smallest villages invested in one for their theater; Beecher Falls still has just a few hundred residents. “It does show the kind of pride and aspiration people had when they first built the places,” Hadsel reflects.
“Curtains Without Borders: An Exhibition of Photographs,” Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington. Through July 28. Opening reception on Friday, May 11, 5:30-8 p.m. curtainswithoutborders.org
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Trolls taunt online community
3rd Mar 2012 5:00 AM
IN folklore, trolls were ugly, small mythical creatures that usually frightened children.
Now internet trolls, although generally anonymous, are still just as ugly and scaring more than just children.
A troll has become the slang term used for someone who posts inflammatory or off-topic messages in an online community, such as Facebook, forums or blogs, with the primary intent of provoking readers.
Back in July 2010, The Chronicle reported on a Facebook tribute site for house fire victim Nikki Streek that was attacked by trolls.
The controversy created heartache for family members and loved ones.
Unfortunately, trolling continues to this day.
A self-confessed Toowoomba troll, who wished to remain anonymous, said he enjoyed the reaction he got from provoking people online.
An avid online gamer, he said he usually replied with fiery comments on game forums to see how upset he could make people.
"I do it to stir people up," he said.
"It's pretty easy to fire them up."
Although he said he enjoyed the "harmless" taunts, he condemned those who took it too far.
"There can be some very sick stuff go on though, which I'd never do, like the people that doctor images."
Recent severe trolling has gained worldwide exposure.
Last month in Scotland, Sean Duffy made headlines when he was sentenced to more than four months prison after he doctored an image of a young female shotgun victim and posted it on a tribute Facebook page set up for the girl.
Mr Duffy admitted to posting the image of the girl and also pleaded guilty to posting abusive comments online about a young girl who had committed suicide.
Will you take the pledge to stand up to cyber bullies?
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Learners take Motshekga to court over matric rewrite
On Friday, basic education minister, Angie Motshekga announced that the Council for Education Ministers (CEM) decided that the mathematics paper two and physical science paper two that was leaked a few hours before they were written must be rewritten. (Deaan Vivier/Beeld/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
Four matric learners want the high court in Pretoria to declare the decision to have a national rewrite of the two leaked matric exam papers unconstitutional and to be set aside.
The four learners from schools in Pretoria — assisted by lobby group AfriForum — want the matter to be heard on an urgent basis on Wednesday.
The department of basic education (DBE) has until today to file responding papers if it wishes to defend the rewrite. All teachers unions and numerous other education organisations have called the rewrite an overreaction.
On Friday, basic education minister, Angie Motshekga announced that the Council for Education Ministers (CEM) decided that the mathematics paper two and physical science paper two that was leaked a few hours before they were written must be rewritten. The CEM is a forum comprising the minister, the director general in the department of basic education and the MECs of education.
Motshekga said the decision to have a national rewrite was taken after a preliminary investigation report into the leaks had found that it would be impossible to determine how many learners had access to the papers because they were shared on WhatsApp.
She also said that the investigation had found that the original recipients of the leaked papers were 195 learners in the same matric WhatsApp group, but that it could not be established how many more learners that group had shared the question papers with.
The minister also said that quality assurer Umalusi indicated that it would not recognise the results of the two subjects (mathematics and physical science).
“For me as a minister, if Umalusi says they will not recognise the results, it closes the matter. We can’t risk, as a sector, any situation where Umalusi disowns the results. It is too risky,” Motshekga said on Friday.
The maths rewrite will take place on 15 December and the physical science paper will be written on 17 December.
However, in the court papers, the four learners say the 400 000 learners who wrote the two subjects cannot be prejudiced and be subjected to “collective punishment” for the sins of a select few.
Motshekga is the first respondent in the case; the National Examinations Irregularities Committee is the second; and Umalusi is the third respondent.
The four learners include Lienke Spies and Gerhard Burger from Gereformeerde Skool Dirk Postma, Izak Jacobus Arnold from Montana high school and Christiana Swanepoel from Afrikaans Hoër Seunskool. The law firm Hurter Spies is representing the learners, and AfriForum is the fifth applicant in the matter.
In an affidavit — filed on behalf of the four learners — Lienke said they had found out about the leak through media reports and an announcement by Motshekga after they had written the maths paper.
Lienke argues that the matric exam timetable is made available six weeks before the start of the exams and that it makes “perfect sense” to do so, to allow learners enough time to prepare.
He says that with the rewrite a “sudden announcement” was made that learners were expected to write the two subjects on “very short notice”.
For him, Lienke says this means that on the day of the maths rewrite he would have sat for a three-hour visual arts paper in the morning and again for maths paper two in the afternoon, which gives him little time to prepare.
The four learners have also taken issue with Motshekga announcing on Friday that she had consulted with all stakeholders in the sector before deciding to opt for a rewrite. However, Lienke says no learners were consulted on this decision, even though it directly affects them.
“Notably, the minister failed to consult any institution representing learners such as learner representative bodies, youth organisations or youth structures. In this regard, the minister decided on the most important examination of our lives without even consulting a single learner.”
The learners have asked that, through an answering affidavit, Motshekga discloses the contents of the preliminary report for the court to determine whether the minister and those who agreed on the decision for a rewrite, particularly Umalusi, “acted rationally, reasonably and lawfully in the circumstances at hand”.
“I submit that they did not, and the respondents in the process inflicted harm on the vast majority of the 400 000 learners who sat for either the mathematics or physics paper,” says Lienke in the affidavit.
He also says that the decision is prejudiced against the many learners who had not seen the leaked question papers.
Lienke says, personally, this week alone he has to write three subjects and still has to write visual arts next Tuesday.
“That leaves me with no time to prepare for the second maths paper that I am supposed to start writing two hours after completion of a very exhausting visual arts paper on Tuesday. It is not only me experiencing this prejudice, but every single matriculant who has maths as well as visual arts as a subject,” he says.
Lienke also flagged that the four learners, as per the regulations of their schools, had already handed back the textbooks of the subjects that they had written. They had also destroyed their study notes for the subjects that they had written, because they assumed they no longer had any use for them.
The four learners also say that dishonesty in the matric exams is a criminal offence and that, even if they were suspected of having committed the crime, they have not had the benefit of being presumed innocent until proven guilty.
“The broad-brush approach followed by the minister in punishing us all, even though we have played no part in the mistakes that led to the leakage of the paper, also infringes on our right in respect of the right to presumed innocent.”
The learners claim in the affidavit that the rewrite is a way to protect the 195 learners who are known to have had access to the leaked paper, and not to protect the integrity of the examination.
The department’s spokesperson, Elijah Mhlanga, told the Mail & Guardian that the department had received the court papers, and are studying them to make a defence of their decision.
In a statement, AfriForum adviser on education rights Natasha Venter says that the department should instead find those learners who had access to the leaked papers, instead of disadvantaged learners who had nothing with the leak.
“We cannot allow Motshekga and her department to disadvantage learners who have worked hard throughout their entire school career — and this because the department’s systems were inadequate in the first place to prevent question papers being leaked. There are other, better ways to ensure the integrity of the exam,” she says.
Also in a statement on Monday, advocacy groups Equal Education and the Equal Education Law Centre said they were not convinced that a national rewrite was justified.
“The leaking of exam papers is severe, but Umalusi and the DBE have not made a strong enough case for why insisting on a national rewrite is appropriate at this moment.
“The public deserves to know when papers were leaked, how far these papers were circulated and how many questions, from each paper, learners had access to. Decisions that drastically affect learners and teachers are being made in a way that is not transparent,” reads the statement.
The two groups said that very few learners that they had spoken to were optimistic about the rewrite.
“This is a terrible situation, and we understand that it is complicated. It does not seem that Umalusi or the DBE spoke to learners before coming to this decision, and we urge them to do that immediately.”
On Saturday, the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) has also said that it will be taking the department to court over its decision of a rewrite. The union said the decision was unfair and premature since the investigation into the leak had not been concluded. On Monday, Sadtu spokesperson Nomusa Cembi told the M&G that the union’s lawyers were still working on the court papers.
Another teachers union, the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa), has called the decision for a rewrite an “overreaction” and said that the department cannot act on the assumption that because the papers were shared on WhatsApp, they could have gone viral.
Naptosa said it would have been comfortable with a rewrite at the schools where there was evidence that learners had access to the leaked papers.
Already the Hawks have arrested one person for the leak of the Maths paper. Themba Daniel Shikwambana was arrested and released on bail last week, and the case has been postponed to January.
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On Writing for the Susurrus: Season of Tides Game
Posted: November 17, 2017 in horror fiction, Stuff from Mike's Life, Uncategorized, Writing
Tags: Evil Overlord Games, Michael Marano, Popular Fiction, Susurrus: Season of Tides, Writing
Hey, thought I’d drop a note and mention that I’ve done a project that I’m very enthusiastic about for the good folks at Evil Overlord Games for their fascinatingly complex Susurrus: Season of Tides game scenario. With the really splendid help and guidance of Evil Overlord’s Chief Writer Victoria Root and Game Writer Phoebe Roberts, I created a narrative set within the world of Susurrus that was as challenging to write as any work of long fiction I’ve published.
As a horror writer, I’ve been really eager to try my hand at a narrative form I’d not tried before. The Interactive Fiction format of Susurrus gave me that opportunity within an Urban Fantasy setting that is fully realized, layered and complex. I was given free reign to create characters and to use existing characters within the world of Susurrus while at the same time exploring the themes and motifs that define much of my fiction: alienation in the modern city; the enduring legacies of ancient magical practices; redemption; finding grace in the face of adversity.
Another real joy of working on the project was the chance to create story that dovetails with the incredible art that Sandman artist and comic book impresario and all-around brilliant visual artist Duncan Eagleson has created for the world of Susurrus.
My contribution to Susurrus: Season of Tides goes live on Monday, November 20, 2017. A lot of love and sweat went into the creation of this work that is nested within a vast and complex fantasy world that I’m very grateful I had the opportunity to work within. Please check it out, and take the opportunity to explore the world of Susurrus. It’s a dark and lovely place.
My New Class at Grub Street–Screen and Stage to the Page! What Drama, Movies & TV Can Teach Prose Writers
Posted: November 11, 2014 in Grub Street Boston, Screen & Stage to the Page, Screen and Stage to the Page, Smart Page-Turner, Teaching, Uncategorized, Writing
Tags: Drama, Michael Marano, Popular Fiction, Screenwriting, TV writing, Writing Class
Hey everybody! I’d like to announce my new class, Screen and Stage to the Page: What Drama, Movies & TV Can Teach Prose Writers. It’s a 10-week class that will meet Monday Mornings from 10:30 to 1:30 at Grub Street HQ in downtown Boston starting January 12, 2015. Here’s the official class description:
Some of today’s best writing in terms of theme, character, dialogue, and plot is being done by playwrights, screenwriters, and teleplay writers. In this class, a nationally syndicated film critic and multi-award-winning novelist will show students how to use the tools of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights and Oscar-winning screenwriters for their prose fiction stories and novels. Topics covered will include ways to rewrite real-life incidents into tight and compelling drama, how to streamline exposition so it doesn’t stop your narrative dead, how to crystallize character-defining moments into a scene, and how to use the context of specific settings to amp drama. Classes will consist of analysis of plays, teleplays, and scripts as well as some prose source materials, group watching of films and TV episodes, and in-class workshopping of students’ short fiction and novel excerpts with special emphasis on how the tools of screen and stage writers can be applied to these works. All genres and kinds of fiction writers are welcome.
So, how will that breakdown? Here’s a tentative syllabus of the topics I’ll be covering and the materials we’ll be looking at.
1. Tapping Real Life
So, there’s this thing that happened… and you really want to write about it in a dramatic way. How do you take a “slice of life” that everybody can relate to, and still make it interesting and compelling? How do you avoid the dreaded, “Yeah, so?”
Materials: Emmy winners Judd Apatow and Michael White’s teleplays for the high school comedy/drama Freaks and Geeks and parts of renowned theater director Peter Brook’s essay “The Open Door.”
2. Awesome Exposition and Action
So, there’s all this stuff… background information… that the reader needs to know about in order for the plot to move forward. But to give that information to the reader, you can wind up stopping the plot dead in its tracks. Which can be close-the-book boring. We’ll look at ways to give the audience/readers the information they need while still making your narrative interesting and full of dramatic punch.
Materials: Oscar-winner Paul Haggis’s screenplay for the James Bond movie Casino Royale, with some comparison to Ian Fleming’s original novel. David Koepp’s screenplay for Jurassic Park with some comparison to Michael Crichton’s original novel.
3. Point of View and Emotional Development
OK… point of view is vitally important to telling a story. So’s character development. How does your main character’s emotional arc affect how you use POV?
Materials: BAFTA winners Joel and Ethan Coen’s screenplay for True Grit, with some comparison to Charles Portis’ original novel .
4. The Scope of Time and Space and Hitting Emotional Beats
Let’s say you got a story that takes place over a long period of time, over a lot of geographic space. How do you keep a solid emotional core to something that takes place, well… all over the place, and for a long period of time? How do you pace out the emotional beats to keep that story going strong?
Materials: James Vanderbilt’s WGA-nominated screenplay for the David Fincher movie Zodiac.
5. Creating Tension, Apprehension and Dissension
6. Adding Dramatic Layers of Meaning to Your Dialogue
Wait! Did that person really just say that? Wait! Did that really mean what I think it meant? We’ll look at ways to load your scenes with different meanings and different emotional notes.
Materials: John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer-winning stage play (and screenplay for) Doubt.
7. Using Place and Time to Define Drama
Materials: Emmy-winners Matthew Weiner & Robin Veith’s teleplay for the Mad Men episode, “THE WHEEL” and either Greg Mottola’s Independent Spirit Award-nominated script for Adventureland or Alfred Sole and Rosemary Ritvo’s screenplay for Alice, Sweet Alice.
8. Putting Crystallizing Emotional Moments in a Scene
Sometimes, a dramatic moment can occur in a story that rips open a character so you can look deep inside to see what makes them tick. We’ll dissect a few of those scenes, to see how they can work in prose.
Materials: Jenny Lumet’s screenplay for Rachel Getting Married and Tony-winner Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
9. Adding Details to Make a Story Pop
The effect of little things can be huge in a story. We’ll look at ways to choose the right things to get the most dramatic bang.
Materials: Brian Helgeland’s Oscar-nominated screenplay for Mystic River, with some comparison to Dennis Lehane’s original novel.
10. Mining Simple Conflict into Complex Drama
Sometimes, a really simple situation can be a really deep and profound exploration of the human condition. We’ll look at ways to use simple situations and conflicts to load stories with heavy emotional punch.
Materials: J.P. Miller’s teleplay Rabbit Trap and Paddy Chayefsky’s teleplay Marty .
To enroll, click here: http://tinyurl.com/3ctj92f E-mail me at profmike AT mindspring DOT com if you have any specific questions or want any further information. Please note that scholarships are available for greatly reduced tuition. For more information on scholarships, please refer to the Grub Street page here. Deadline to apply for Scholarships is noon on DECEMBER 4, 2014.
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“An eclectic, passionate & relentless mix of acoustic blues, rock & folk. This man plays & sings like wildfire.”
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Why don't we take a random sample of the population to estimate the amount of COVID-19 cases?
Current statistics on number of cases will always be a few days behind reality due to the time between infection and going to get tested, asymptomatic people, etc. But why not take a random sample of a few thousand people people, and test all of them to see how many of them have the virus? Would that not give us a picture of the proportion of people who have the virus?
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Hospitals in my state have a 3-day supply of test kits remaining and just received notice that the next shipment they were expecting will be delayed. – Carey Gregory♦ Mar 25 '20 at 22:45
No answers in comments, please. – Carey Gregory♦ Mar 27 '20 at 18:36
Italy has 60 million people and around 70 thousand (known) cases. That's barely more than 1 in 1000 prevalence. For most countries it's less than this. So, you'd need a huge sample for a good estimate. And those tests/resources are better deployed where suspected cases are, for the time being.
And sensible or not, I've heard this from a colleague, and it's confirmed by the news that Romania's capital Bucharest plans to randomly test a sample of 10,500 people to determine the extent of the virus spread over there.
Manager of the “Matei Bals” Infectious Diseases Institute Adrian Streinu-Cercel has announced that a pilot project for testing 10,500 persons for the novel coronavirus will start in Bucharest within a scientific study to detect those infected with SARS CoV-2 virus, from the desire to thus prevent the severe forms of illness.
Streinu-Cercel mentioned that, for a population of approximately 2 million inhabitants, the testing of 9,558 persons is necessary, with a correction of 10% being applied to this number. He also stated that the sample can be resized along the way. In this regard, Streinu-Cercel referred to the recommendations of the World Health Organization, which asked that testing be conducted to detect COVID 19. The manager of the “Matei Bals” Institute showed that it is necessary to test the medical staff and patients, but also the population, in order to know if “it’s healthy, if it is currently infected or went through the infection” with this virus, these three pieces of information completely changing how this pandemic is approached in the near future. [...]
Streinu-Cercel underscored that, in lack of screening, the mild forms can go undetected, generating subsequent forms of severe infections. He also mentioned that the Minister of Health approved this project and stressed that this is a study with “scientific value,” not a simple testing. At the same time, he mentioned that in Bucharest there are 188 people diagnosed positively.
Note that ~200 cases in 2M is 1:10,000.
Ha, ha, the more amusing part is that this turned out to be "fake news!" But it's actually informative to read the "retraction/information" as to why they are not actually doing such a study [obviously: insufficient testing capacity for the proposed sample.]
After the manager of the “Matei Bals” Institute for Infectious Diseases, Adrian Streinu-Cercel and Bucharest mayor Gabriela Firea had announced on Thursday that 10,514 people from 5 different age groups in Bucharest will be tested for the novel Coronavirus, PM Ludovic Orban reacted and said this is not possible.
“We cannot establish the people to be tested randomly. Selecting 10,000 are just stories, there is a priority list for testing, it depends on how the situation and the testing capacity are developing,” the PM told a conference at the Health Ministry’s HQs.
Orban said that the medical staff and those targeted by the epidemiological inquiries are qualifying for testing first, adding that “Romania has not been ready and the testing capacity has been limited”.
The premier said that “the testing capacity in Romania will increase up to 2,000 next week” and will gradually rise, but to select 10,000 people “are just stories”, the more the death toll has been low in Romania.
In older news I see that India conducted a random test on 500 of their citizens. Rather predictably, they all came out negative.
And for some more official objections of the same kind DW reported on Apr 7...
Germany's center for disease control, the Robert Koch Institute, has criticized Germany's methods of testing, complaining for example that too many asymptomatic individuals were being tested. The RKI called for an end to this practice on the grounds that Germany could risk running out of tests. Therefore, asymptomatic people are currently not being recommended for testing.
By the way, if what you want to find out are the proportion of asymptomatic cases, there are some studies (albeit on fairly contained populations) that may have an answer to that, e.g. one on the Diamond Princess (the cruise ship quarantined off Japan):
[Overall:] Our estimated asymptomatic proportion is at 17.9% (95%CrI: 15.5–20.2%), which overlaps with a recently derived estimate of 33.3% (95% confidence interval: 8.3–58.3%) from data of Japanese citizens evacuated from Wuhan.
[Caveat:] Considering that most of the passengers were 60 years and older, the nature of the age distribution may lead to underestimation if older individuals tend to experience more symptoms.
From a 2nd study on the Diamond Princess, it's informative to read the testing strategy/order:
Overall 3,063 PCR tests were performed among [the 3,711] passengers and crew members. Testing started among the elderly passengers, descending by age.
An interesting counterpoint to the healthcare providers' perspective is that economists seem to strongly agree on the need for random testing (or better said, per some comments which corrected the question, population-representative testing) in order to calibrate the length of the lockdown from their perspective, of limiting "economic damage" caused by the lockdowns themselves.
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I heard an admission from a female Italian Dr in the region worst hit that they were too trusting of contact with colleagues without the shields and masks so they were responsible for infecting all the patients who in turn infected the visitors. It was proven airborne in 1 out of 3 toilet use tests with viral samples detected on ceiling fan blades. – Tony Stewart Sunnyskyguy EE75 Mar 26 '20 at 14:51
@DrMcCleod: Your "basic logic" assumption that a test reveals the true prior probability is unfortunately a common statistical fallacy. See journal.sjdm.org/12/12714/jdm12714.html and read cbeleites answer here too. – Fizz Mar 27 '20 at 17:35
@DrMcCleod: the only way to get the kind of test you want is to test 100% of the population! Anything less is a sample, and devising the proper sample requires assumptions about the (distribution of the) illness/infection you actually want to detect! You call that "circular reasoning", but everyone else calls that study design. – Fizz Mar 27 '20 at 18:57
@DrMcCleod You also need to know the prevalence to do a power analysis for a binary outcome. This would tell you that the number of people you need to sample to get a reasonable estimate increases when the prevalence is low. You do this before you do a study to find out whether it's feasible to even do it. This is exactly the argument Fizz is making. – Bryan Krause Mar 30 '20 at 17:03
@BryanKrause: indeed. What should we conclude from India's underpowered study on 500 [random] people, none of whom tested positive? That nobody is infected, so no lockdowns are needed?! Exercise for DrMcCleod: calculate the p-value for India's study. – Fizz Mar 30 '20 at 18:36
Would that not give us a picture of the proportion of people who have the virus?
Yes, but: at the moment, this is probably not worth while in most countries.
As Fizz explained, tests are scarce, so we need to use them where the outcome of the test does make a difference in treatment and/or for containing the disease/slowing down the spread.
Right now, the development of Covid-19 case numbers is quite dynamic in many countries. The percentage we find by testing today will be outdated if not tomorrow then by the end of the week.
In order to get good estimates of a low prevalence, we need to test large numbers of people and we need tests that have both high sensitivity and specificity. Right now, the tests that are used have not undergone a full validation procedure (in order to have them available asap).
One consequence of that is that while we can know that they work sufficiently well to be useful for testing high risk patients, e.g. for some test we may know that sensitivity is better than 94% and specificity is better than 97%. If we test a general population with a prevalence of 1 in 1000 using a test with 97% specificity, we'll get around 30 false positives and 1 true positive (with 94% sensitivity). In other words, rather than measuring the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the general population, we measured 1 - specificity of the test. Unfortunately, we wouldn't know this.
As a rule of thumb, we can measure prevalences that are >> 1 - specificity of the test. So if we expect a prevalence of 1 : 1000, we'd ask for a test that has specificity at least 99.95 % (with that, we'd observe 1.5 positive in 1000). In order to know that a test has a specificity > 99.95 %, we'd need to validate it with at least 10000 truly negative patients all of which would need to be recognized correctly. Right now, the test may have been validated with 100 negative samples. If you want to read more background about this, I have long answers to How accurate are coronavirus tests? and Why are people with COVID-19 symptoms being denied tests in the US?
Sentinel Samples
While we do not have such a random sampling scheme from the population right now, we have something that goes into this direction here in Germany: samples from so-called sentinel practices. Sentinel practices are medical practices throughout the country that send patient samples to a central lab where they are analyzed for a number of viruses as part of influenza surveillance. The tested viruses now include also SARS-CoV-2.
These samples are not a random sample of the population you ask for:
they are taken of patients that show up at the doctor's with acute respiratory disease,
and right now with the further systematic restriction that these are patients that were not thought to be at a particularly high risk of having Covid-19 (those are sent to the SARS-CoV-2 testing).
In week 12 (Mar 16 - 22), 3 of the 193 sentinel samples that were tested for SARS-CoV-2 were positive. That's a prevalence of 1,6 %, 95 % confidence interval roughly being 0.4 - 4 % (in other words, we have an order of magnitude).
I don't have information on the specificity of the SARS-CoV-2 test used for the sentinel samples, but the published data reports two weeks with 0 positive among 191 + 229 = 420 samples, and if we take those as true negatives, specificity would be better than 99 %.
I expect that studies will be done once the first wave of Covid-19 is over and once properly validated antibody tests are available. In contrast to the RNA tests now (which test an active infection), antibody tests can say whether someone had such an infection recently (possibly as recent as right now) or a while ago.
The specificity requirements are the same regardless of whether RNA or antibodies are tested.
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why not take a random sample of a few thousand people people, and test all of them to see how many of them have the virus?
Iceland did it, see https://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2020/03/25/Coronavirus-Iceland-s-mass-testing-finds-half-of-carriers-show-no-symptoms:
As of Sunday night, the country’s health authorities and the biotechnology firm deCode Genetics have tested more than 10,300 people. That might not sound like a large number, compared to the around 350,000 Americans who have been tested for coronavirus according to the COVID Tracking Project, but it is a far higher percentage of tests per capita - a ratio Icelandic authorities have claimed is the highest in the world.
But it is not just the numbers of people being tested that is unusual about Iceland’s approach.
Unlike other countries, where people are only tested if they exhibit symptons of coronavirus or have come into contact with known spreaders, the country is testing thousands of people from the general population who don’t exhibit any symptoms of the virus whatsoever – helping to reveal information about the nature of the pathogen and its symptoms.
This was also done in a city in Italy:
In COVID-19, The University of Padua, Veneto Region and the Red Cross tested the populationof Vò, Italy, 3300 people, to establish the natural history of the virus, the transmission dynamicsand categories of risk. " they found >50 of those who tested positive to be asymptomatic” according to Professor Sergio Romagnani.
The same question was asked on politics.SE: Has there been a random survey of a population for COVID-19?
Update (2020-11-01): More than 2.5 million Slovaks took swab tests on Saturday, with 25,850 testing positive
{1} 2020-03-25 - Stanford COVID-19 Evidence Service - Addressing COVID-19 Face Mask Shortages [v1.2] https://archive.org/details/20200325stanfordcovid19evidenceserviceaddressingcovid19facemaskshortagesv1.2
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I've upvoted your answer, even though it's technically not answering the question why other countries are not doing it and/or what the [theoretical] arguments against random testing for Covid-19, which was the actual question. – Fizz Mar 27 '20 at 16:33
Denmark did this recently and found that 2.7% of Danes living in the Capital region already have antibodies for the disease. This isn't randomized per se as these samples are from people donating blood, but so far it's as good as it gets.
answered Apr 6 '20 at 5:37
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One should perhaps add, that as of now Denmark officially has 802 confirmed cases per 1mln people; meaning 0.08%, which is intriguing indeed. But the article also states that In Central Denmark Region, blood from 244 donors was tested between 2 and 3 April, and no positive tests were found. which per se is incompatible with the 2.7% antibody presence, unless -- and I think this is the cause -- spread is inhomogeneous, and we should recalculate these numbers to the Capital region. – P Marecki Apr 6 '20 at 12:30
ok -- german wikipedia gives the split for 5th of April; de.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19-Pandemie_in_D%C3%A4nemark ; the incidence of confirmed cases in the Capital region is 124 per 100000, so 0.124%; still roughly 20x less than the incidence of (blood donors) with antibodies. – P Marecki Apr 6 '20 at 12:35
blood donors are a healthy population and self selected. – Graham Chiu Apr 11 '20 at 21:40
One technique that is also being trialled is testing wastewater/sewerage for RNA from the SARS-CoV2 virus. This won't help you identify who has the virus, but it could inform a city that had previously eliminated the virus that someone has brought the virus back again.
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It is being done. The Czech Republic is currently preparing such a study }to begin on the 20th April) to find out the number of asymptomatic patients to better predict the future evolution of the number of infected people. A bit older source in English https://news.expats.cz/coronavirus-in-the-czech-republic/czech-covid-19-central-control-team-plans-blanket-testing-in-sample-of-prague-population/ Much more updated information exists in Czech https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/prazdniny-podle-prymuly-v-ceskem-hotelu-s-vylety-po-hradech-a-bez-festivalu-99893
"Testování vzorku 17 tisíc lidí v České republice na protilátky proti koronaviru začne v pondělí 20. dubna, do dalšího pondělí budeme znát výsledky." "Testing of the sample of 17 thousand people in the Czech Republic for antigens against coronavirus will begin on Monday 20th April. By the next Monday we will know the results."
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How Many Calories Does Masturbation Burn? We Did the Math
Jacking off may feel like working out, but don’t flatter yourself — it’s actually one of the least effective ways to burn calories
When it comes to masturbation during the Great Quarantine of 2020, many of us have gone from student filmmaker to Fellini in just a few weeks. Between rubbing one out five times a day, engaging in solo tugs of war that last three hours and graphing our masturbation habits in increasingly specific data viz projects, those among us who are still mustering up a libido seem to be getting plenty of practice.
This is a good thing because it means people are getting off without spreading potentially fatal viruses, but also because masturbation counts as a tiny form of exercise. And when your pandemic days are spent consuming a lifetime’s worth of TV in just a few months — and gaining what’s now being called “the Quarantine 15” in the process — even the slightest offloading of calories can help. As Evan Lawrence, a personal trainer and licensed mental health counselor puts it, “Any activity is good activity.”
There’s just one, um, small problem: How many calories masturbation actually burns is among the great mysteries of human history. Estimates vary wildly and uncertainty abounds — one expert source tells Allure that in terms of caloric exertion, it’s probably closer to chewing gum than anything else. Healthline estimates that the total number of calories burned during masturbation is between five and six, while Women’s Health says that just the orgasm part burns four. Meanwhile, ZALO USA, a vibrator company, concludes based on its own research that women in particular might burn about 18 calories across three minutes when using their toy on themselves. That’s to say nothing of what they’d burn while using their hands — or what a man might burn while jimmying his jimmy.
This kind of variation in masturbation calorie science is nothing short of preposterous. So, since no one’s been able to come up with a stable number, I decided I’d do it myself. (What else was I gonna do? Jerk off? Again?)
Using excessive generalities reminiscent of presidential campaign messaging standards, I began my journey with an inquiry into heart rate, a common metric used to estimate calories burned during physical activity. To that end, Active.com has created a target heart rate calculator, where users punch in their age and “level of exercise,” which is quantified by the percentage of a person’s maximum heart rate.
Finding out the heart rate a person might attain during masturbation was difficult, as believe it or not, there just don’t appear to be many studies on this particular sex act’s fitness benefits. The best I could do was go by one study of just 22 people that was conducted back in 1982. It showed the mean heart rate during a masturbation session clocks in at 118 beats per minute, which, actually, isn’t a terrible workout.
Lawrence says that when he has a client doing cardiovascular exercises, he looks to boost their heart rates between 60 and 70 percent of their maximum heart rate in order to optimize their fitness or weight-loss goals. According to the target heart rate calculator, if you’re 32 — a kind of basic-bitch equivalent for ages, right? — and work out at, say, 63 percent of your maximum heart rate, the target heart rate will be about equal to that mean masturbation heart rate (118 beats per minute).
Then the question becomes how long a person masturbates at that heart rate? That’s impossible to quantify because there’s no “normal” to speak of. But let’s say you’re pinched for time, and you’ve got a go-to fantasy or porn scene at the ready. Masturbating to climax in five or six minutes seems reasonable. The thing is, your heart rate won’t see 118 beats per minute across the entire duration of the act — remember it was a mean measurement, not a median — so I’ll cut the calculation down by half (or three minutes), across which your heart rate might more likely exhibit signs of an in-progress workout as you approach climax.
The average American male at age 32 weighs about 197 pounds, while the average American female weighs 170 pounds. So, if you’re an average, 32-year-old male, and your heart rate is 118 beats per minute over three minutes, this calorie calculator says you’ll burn roughly 31 calories. If you’re the average woman, it’s about 18.
Cross-referencing these figures with an activity calculator, that equates to a three-minute, leisurely bike ride at around 12 mph if you’re a man, or 9 mph if you’re a woman.
However, while sussing out calories by heart rate is one way to do it, Matt DeRosa, another certified personal trainer, doesn’t think it’s the “cleanest indicator of what’s going on physiologically.” Individual heart rates vary and change with age, diet and fitness levels, so it’s nearly impossible to come up with a calorie burn-off count that will apply to everyone equally.
Instead, Lawrence suggests that if such a caloric calculation must be achieved — and, dammit, it must! — a different method, using metabolic equivalents, or METs, might be a better way to go. “One MET is defined as the energy it takes to sit quietly,” according to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “For the average adult, this is about one calorie per every 2.2 pounds of body weight per hour.” While sitting or sleeping, a person who weighs 160 pounds, for example, would burn approximately 70 calories an hour. If you’re burning off three times as much energy per minute, then that counts for 3 METs. “Vigorous-intensity activities burn more than 6 METs,” Harvard says.
The Compendium of Physical Activities, an extensively researched guide to MET values, supported by Arizona State University and the National Cancer Society, says “general, moderate” sexual activity scores a 1.8 on the METs scale. “Passive, light effort, kissing, hugging,” is at the 1.3 mark. It seems only fair to classify masturbation as somewhere between the two, at least METs-wise.
According to METsCalculator.com, which uses the same terminology as the Compendium of Physical Activities’ scale, a 190-pound person —or roughly the average weight of the American male — will burn 5.6 calories across three minutes of this lighter sexual activity. A 170-pound person — like the average American woman — will burn 5.1 calories. At 1.8 METs, during general, moderate sex, the 190-pound person burns 7.76 calories in three minutes, while if you’re 170 pounds, you’re burning 6.94 calories.
Long story short: It doesn’t seem like you can realistically masturbate enough to balance out your increased caloric intake from snacking and the disruption to your exercise routines during the pandemic. Then again, you could try one of those seven-hour-long masturbation endurance “challenges” on Pornhub. Do enough of them, and who knows, you might end up looking like Michael Phelps.
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Reena Aggarwal Appointed to Biden-Harris Transition Team
Reena Aggarwal, Robert E. McDonough Professor of Finance and director, Center for Financial Markets and Policy, is serving on the Biden-Harris …
Office Hours: Brooks Holtom Examines the Financial Impact of Retaining Employees Who Prefer to Leave
Company culture is powerful — so powerful that it can impact sales, profits, and employee morale, whether positively or negatively. Engaged emp…
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Boeing Faces New Challenges Now That FAA Ban Of 737 MAX Is Lifted
Robert Britton is an adjunct professor of marketing at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business where he teaches courses on crisis management. He is a former managing director of advertising and marketing planning for American Airlines, a job he started two weeks after 9/11.
The Dow has Passed 30,000 for the First Time Ever
Today’s historic news “signals that investors are a lot more confident about the future than the present,” says Arthur Dong, professor of practice at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. But he adds that the measure’s rise has little impact on small businesses. “There is disconnect between what happens on Wall Street and Main Street. The pain on Main Street continues to persist.”
ForoMET Global Closed with the Commitment to Strengthen Sustainable Female Entrepreneurship
According to Ricardo Ernst, general director of the Latin American Board of Georgetown University, “if globalization is rain, the umbrella is competitiveness, and entrepreneurship is the most agile way of adapting to globalization. Globalization opens new windows of opportunity and entrepreneurship and ICTs are the best way to take advantage of them “.
The Smart Strategy that’s Helping Women Become CEOs
The researchers, Catherine Tinsley, a professor of management at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and faculty director of GU’s Women’s Leadership Institute, and Kate Purmal, an Institute senior industry fellow, wrote: “Our data suggests corporate boards have been finding a creative way out of this chicken-and-egg dilemma. Specifically, they seem to have relaxed the prior-CEO-experience requirement for women and are using prior corporate board service as a proxy qualification.”
How to Navigate Awkward Political Conversations at Thanksgiving Dinner After a Tense Election
Stress from COVID-19, health care, the economy, racism and the presidential election is threatening American’s mental health, according to the annual “Stress in America” survey from the American Psychological Association. Stress or feeling overwhelmed is the primary reason people cite for being rude, which has the potential to ignite conflict during the holidays, according to Christine Porath, a professor at Georgetown University and the author of “Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace.”
#TradeTalks: The Impact a New Administration Could Have on U.S. Financial Regulation
Georgetown Associate Professor of Finance at the McDonough School of Business Jim Angel joins Jill Malandrino on Nasdaq #TradeTalks to discuss #crypto, the impact a new administration could have on U.S. financial regulation. #FMQ2020
Office Hours: Shiliang (John) Cui Explores How COVID-19 Testing Can Be Incentivized
As COVID-19 cases surge across the country, testing facilities are experiencing longer wait times, which may be discouraging individuals from get…
WTO Must Restore Trust, Says Front-Runner For Top Spot
The other panelists at Monday’s event, including Peterson Institute fellows Anabel González, Chad P. Bown and J. Bradford Jensen, signaled their … [ Subscription required].
Vaccine Distribution Will be an ‘Enormous Logistical Problem’: David Rubenstein
David Rubenstein, co-founder and co-executive chairman of the Carlyle Group, joins CNBC’s “Squawk Box” team to discuss how the market is anticipating vaccine distribution and if he thinks there will be disappointments along the way of the economic recovery. [He spoke of these topics at the Financial Markets Quality conference hosted by the Center for Financial Markets and Policy later that day].
SEC Chairman Clayton to Step Down
James Angel, associate professor of finance at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, told ThinkAdvisor Monday in an email that he doubts “the lame duck Trump administration will try to ram through his [Clayton’s] nomination” to the Southern District of New York post.
Biden to Talk More Softly Toward China, but Keep Trump’s Big Tariff ‘Stick’
“I think it would be impractical for Biden to do any tariff reductions immediately. I don’t think he has the latitude to remove them right away,” said Charles Skuba, a professor at Georgetown and former senior official at the U.S. International Trade Administration . “He also has some chips to play. You could consider the tariffs as a gift to Biden.”
What a Democrat-Controlled SEC Might Look Like and What it Would Mean for Markets
“You will see more climate-related and ESG related policies,” said Jim Angel, associate professor of finance at Georgetown University. “They will look at ESG disclosures, like climate and risk disclosure — how much carbon and greenhouse chemicals are you putting into the air?”
Business Professor on the State of China’s Economy
Arthur Dong, Teaching Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, talked about the state of China’s economy.
Yes, Virtual Presenting Is Weird
An article by Sarah Gershman, adjunct professor: Recently, I worked with a CEO who told me that she dreads giving virtual presentations. “I used to enjoy getting up in front of an audience,” she explained. “I loved working the room. Now, I feel like I’m speaking into a black hole.”
How Much Could Joe Biden Win the Popular Vote by and Still Lose the Electoral College?
David A. Walker, a professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business whose presidential election model predicted the popular vote in 2016 within 0.5%, said the popular-vote margin for Biden would have to reach landslide levels to fully eliminate Trump’s Electoral College advantage.
Analysis: Retail Traders Position for Volatility After U.S. Election
The surge of new retail investors benefits the market in many ways, such as promoting financial literacy and bringing more attention to a wider variety of companies than institutional investors tend to focus on, said James Angel, a finance professor at Georgetown University.
Happy Birthday Dear Bitcoin: Crypto’s First White Paper Turns 12
James Angel, an associate professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, told Coin Telegraph: “It has set in motion a revolution in finance with the rise of DeFi apps, smart contracts, and coin offerings, in addition to a payment revolution that is leading to central bank digital currencies.”
How COVID-19 May Affect Spectator Sports in the Coming Years
Covid-19’s impact on spectator sports this year has been obvious. Marty Conway, a longtime sports executive who teaches sports management and marketing at Georgetown University explains what the impact will be as the pandemic continues, and whether the impact will last when the pandemic ends.
Hedge Funds’ Shot at Stock Secrecy Fades as SEC Drops Revamp
“This shows the value of the public comment process,” said James Angel, a finance professor at Georgetown University who wrote a letter to the SEC opposing the rule change. “More people should monitor what our regulators are proposing and submit comments. The SEC is a political agency, and they do pay attention to public opinion.”
Widening Racial Gap Evident In Jobs Confidence, Economic Optimism
“Historically, during recessions and downturns, inequality increases,” said Rohan Williamson, a finance professor at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business. During the pandemic, the jobs most impacted have been service jobs, he explained—and those jobs are more likely to be held by non-white workers.
Dalkin Continues Appointment with Advisory Group to Global Audit and Assurance Standards Board
James Dalkin, adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, has been re-appointed as the chair of the Consultative Adv…
Why There is No Ethical Reason Not to Vote (Unless You Come Down with COVID-19 on Election Day)
According to a recent study by the 100 Million Project, nonvoters are twice as likely as active voters to say they do not feel they have enough information about candidates and issues to decide how to vote. This group of nonvoters might believe that it is unethical to vote because they are uninformed. In The Ethics of Voting, political philosopher Jason Brennan argues that uninformed citizens have an ethical obligation not to cast votes, because their uninformed votes can produce results that damage our political system.
Morgan Stanley’s Eaton Vance Acquisition Could Mean More Asset Management Mergers Are Coming
Consolidation in the asset management space is due, according to James Angel, an associate professor at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, who says it’s typical for mature industries to seek economies of scale and scope.
Admissions Director Q&A: Shelly Heinrich of Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
The associate dean of MBA admissions and director of marketing at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, Shelly Heinrich, joins us for this edition of our Admissions Director Q&A.
Q&A: Meet Chunky the Georgetown Panda!
You may have seen him in your classes or appearing on Instagram and various locations across the United States visiting fellow Hoyas. Though he may b…
Georgetown Professor on Trump Tax Report: We Should Not Pass Any Final Judgment Until We’ve Actually Seen the Returns
Joining us is Thomas Cooke, professor of business law at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, along with Yahoo Finance’s Sibile Marcellus.
How The Turmoil With TikTok Could Change The Course Of Big Tech
While TikTok’s announcement is a big story, Betsy Sigman, professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, points out that it’s far from a done deal. Partnering with Oracle makes some sense, since Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is one of the only Silicon Valley tech leaders to vocally support Trump. “This could also help position Oracle well for the ongoing period of trade wars between China and the US, and expand into cloud operations and advertising,” Betsy adds.
Rude Work Emails Are Bad for Your Health and on the Rise – Here’s What You Need To Know
In 1998, one-fourth of employees polled said they were treated rudely at least once a week. By 2016 that figure had risen to 62%. Indeed, 98% have reported uncivil behavior of some sort. A number of factors are to blame, says Christine Porath, a leading academic in the field of workplace incivility. These include an increasing sense of isolation, as well as poor communications.
China and U.S. Relations
In January, Chinese and American officials signed a trade pact that keeps commerce between the world’s two largest economies flowing. The agreement came despite the bilateral relationship deteriorating in other areas. Mike Walter talks with Georgetown University business professor, Arthur Dong, about the future of Chinese and U.S. relations.
Former Deutsche Bank Traders to Stand Trial in Test of Spoofing Crackdown
Some critics have questioned whether spoofing should be prosecuted as a crime, instead of a civil regulatory violation handled by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Deutsche Bank paid $30 million in 2018 to settle CFTC claims tied to the traders’ spoofing. Other experts say the Justice Department’s attention is warranted because manipulation affects commodity prices as well as correlated assets, such as stocks. “It is basically lying to people about their willingness to trade and lying about the liquidity in the market,” said James Angel, a finance professor and regulatory expert at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.
Xbox Series S vs PS5: Does the Cheapest Console Always Win?
This means the Xbox Series S will be a “no brainer” purchase for those in the market for a new games console, according to Luc Wathieu, professor of marketing from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. “The Xbox Series S’s price is what I have called in my research a ‘no-brainer price’ – a price so low that it suppresses buyer’s incentives to think deeply about differences in features,” he tells WIRED. “This price will kill most people’s appetite to actively compare the Xbox Series S with other more expensive, feature-rich alternatives, particularly Sony’s upcoming PS5.”
Looming State and Local Government Financial Crisis
Arthur Dong discusses the budget crisis facing some U.S. states exacerbated by COVID-19 with CGTN’s Business Today.
Would Postal Banking Save the Post Office?
“Roughly 6% of the population is unbanked,” meaning they manage their money outside of traditional banks and credit unions, explains James Angel, a professor of finance at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. If the USPS revived postal banking, it could provide “a lifeline” to people who live in banking deserts where banks have closed branches or never opened them at all, he says.
Prof. Brooks Holtom, Professor of Management at Georgetown University
Gill Eapen of the “Scientific Sense” podcast interviewed Brooks Holtom, professor of management at Georgetown University regarding his recent research.
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Earlier Start of Corticosteroids in DMD Linked to Earlier Heart Disease Onset, Study Suggests
by Ana Pamplona, PhD
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Researchers say it is important to carefully assess the timing of the start of corticosteroid treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in children and its potential association with disease outcomes.
The study, “Associations between timing of corticosteroid treatment initiation and clinical outcomes in Duchenne muscular dystrophy,” was published in the journal Neuromuscular Disorders.
DMD is an inherited childhood-onset disease characterized by mutations in the DMD gene that provides instructions for making a protein called dystrophin, located primarily in skeletal muscles used for movement and in the heart muscle. These mutations lead to progressive muscle weakness.
Many children with mutated DMD lose their ability to walk by age 13. In the U.S. in 2010, the prevalence of Duchenne’s was estimated to be around 1.4 per 10,000 boys ages 5 to 9 and 1.02 per 10,000 boys ages 5 to 24. The life expectancy for patients with DMD has been extended due to pharmacological treatment and clinical advances in cardiac and respiratory care.
Corticosteroids and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, which help relax blood vessels, are the most frequently used therapies to modify disease progression in DMD patients.
However, the long-term benefits and risks associated with the use of corticosteroids are unclear, and there are no standard guidelines for when to begin treatment. As a result, the long-term effectiveness of corticosteroids according to when treatment was initiated, mainly in early childhood, has not been well studied.
To address this issue, the authors analyzed the associations between corticosteroid treatment and timing of treatment initiation and five clinical outcomes — age at loss of ambulation; ages at onset of cardiomyopathy, scoliosis, first fractures, and pulmonary function — among males with DMD from the population-based Muscular Dystrophy Surveillance, Tracking, and Research Network (MD STARnet).
MDSTARnet is a multi-state research network effort originally funded in 2002 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). There are surveillance sites in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, western New York state, South Carolina, and the Utah-Nevada region. Georgia recently joined the network.
The population-based surveillance program retrospectively identified and prospectively followed cases of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DBMD) patients born from Jan. 1, 1982, to Dec. 31, 2011, who were diagnosed by age 21 and resided in one of the surveillance areas.
The authors analyzed 726 cases from the surveillance sites. Of these cases, 343 (47.3%, 301 definite and 42 probable) cases did not receive any corticosteroid treatment, 67 (9.2%, 66 definite and 1 probable), and 316 (43.5%, 296 definite and 20 probable) started treatment in early and late childhood, respectively.
The authors found that people with Duchenne’s who started corticosteroid treatment early, at the age of 5 or younger, were more likely to have earlier onset of cardiomyopathy (heart disease) and had a higher risk of a fracture compared to those who initiated treatment in late childhood — older than age 5 — or those without any treatment.
The individuals who began treatment earlier also showed overall decreased respiratory function when compared with patients in the late childhood treatment group. For all outcomes examined, the differences observed between the non-treated and late childhood groups were not statistically significant.
The authors acknowledge several limitations to the study. For example, there were no discriminations made between the the early and late childhood treatment groups for data analysis drug type, dosage regimen, and dosing intervals.
“Because corticosteroids remain a treatment of choice for DMD, continued, careful assessments of the timing of initiating of this treatment are needed. Our study can be a valuable reference for these future studies,” the authors concluded.
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by Ibram X. Kendi
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves.
“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”—The New York Times
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Shelf Awareness • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews
Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.
Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.
Praise for How to Be an Antiracist
“Ibram X. Kendi’s new book, How to Be an Antiracist, couldn’t come at a better time. . . . Kendi has gifted us with a book that is not only an essential instruction manual but also a memoir of the author’s own path from anti-black racism to anti-white racism and, finally, to antiracism. . . . How to Be an Antiracist gives us a clear and compelling way to approach, as Kendi puts it in his introduction, ‘the basic struggle we’re all in, the struggle to be fully human and to see that others are fully human.’ ”—NPR
“Kendi dissects why in a society where so few people consider themselves to be racist the divisions and inequalities of racism remain so prevalent. How to Be an Antiracist punctures the myths of a post-racial America, examining what racism really is—and what we should do about it.”—Time
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Nokia Vitech Compact 2021: 12GB RAM, 64 MP Camera & 6900mAh Battery! My heartfelt greetings to all of our viewers and smartphone lovers around the world. By the grace of almighty, we hope, you are well. Today, we are coming with a new device from one of the top smartphones brand Nokia. It is our pleasure to say that Nokia has announced to launch a new flagship next year. And, guess what, the device name will be Nokia Vitech Compact.
Nokia has its reputation to produce high-quality phones for almost all over a decade. Nokia Vitech Compact will not be an exception too. With an amazing 12GB RAM, triple 64MP cameras, 6900mAh battery, this device is already a dream of many. So, without any further to do, let’s have a take a look at its’ stunning features.
Nokia Vitech Compact 2021 Full Specifications:
Nokia Vitech Compact 2021 Release Date & Price:
Like all the other Nokia devices, this upcoming smartphone will be a high-quality product for sure. It will be something more than you think. This latest flagship coming with a more glorious design, powerful features, and the updated technology that has the ability to win your heart. So let’s start with the display.
The thing to be notified about the display is, it has water-resistant. Besides, it is a metal frame and a bezel display. The size of the display will be 6.4” inches OLED screen. And the resolution of 4k fills the package as a good one. So, you have nothing to complain about. Let’s come to the battery.
If you are the kind of user who uses a phone almost all day long then this device suit you perfectly. Nokia Vitech Compact comes with a massive battery box of 6900 mAh. Also, you will have fast charging facilities as well. Once you charge your phone, you won’t have to worry about getting a low percentage of charge so soon. The phone will run so long until you get tired of using it.
Nowadays, the camera has become a major issue for our young generation. If the camera is dull they don’t even give a second thought to buy it. Keeping your mentality in mind, Nokia Vitech Compact features a triple setup of a 64MP primary lens + 16MP ultra-wide shooter + 8MP depth sensor. Also, it has a single 32MP shooter lens for selfies and video calling.
Talking about memory, this latest device features two variants of storage such as 8GB/ 12GB of RAM and 256GB/ 512GB of onboard storage. Although there is no place for setting a MicroSD card you will have a massive phone memory to download your favorite movies, games, or whatever you want.
The processor is a kind of thing that we should have to concern about in a smartphone. Regarding that, Nokia Vitech Compact is conveying the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ chipset as the processor. On the other hand, this Nokia beauty is running on Android 11 as the operating system.
If you are serious about the security, this smartphone brings you the latest under-display fingerprint scanner upfront and face ID lock as well.
In the network system, the connectivity option includes 5G, 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS, and so on.
The authority hasn’t announced the exact date of launching this device. We can hope that it will be available in the market in the first quarter of the next year 2021.
Just like the releasing date, there is no official information about the price of the phone. But we can predict the price of the Vitech Compact shall begin at $299 ~ RS. 22,192.
So, what do you think? Isn’t it the perfect handset according to your need? Let us know in the comment box.
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Knowing the dry density of soil or pavement is important to evaluate the degree of compaction achieved during the construction process. A field density test is a common test used to determine the field density of the soil or pavement. The principle of field density test is the replacement of soil excavated materials by the sand, the sand density is known so we can calculate the volume of the sand required to fill the hole. By knowing the volume of the hole excavated in soil and the weight of soil, we can calculate the in-situ density. The in-situ density equals the weight of excavated materials divided by the volume of excavated material. Apparatus Sand pouring cylinder equipment
Small sand pouring cylinder equipment: this suitable for fine and medium-grained soil. It consists of a cylinder having a diameter of 100 mm and a length of 380 mm with an inverted funnel at one end and a shutter to open and close for the entry of sand. Also, there will be a metal tray for the excavation of s…
Design a one-way slab for the inside of a building using the span, loads, and other data given in Figure 1. Normal-weight aggregate concrete is specified with a density of 145 pcf. (assuming cover 3/4 in) Figure 1
The minimum thickness for one-way slab simply supported=L/20 using table 1(ACI 9.5.2.1) h=10/20=0.5=6in
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now we will calculate d=(6-3/4(cover)-1/4(estimated as half diameter of reinforcement) d=5 in
now we will calculate dead load concrete density=145pcf, Usually 5 pcf is added to account for the weight of reinforcement, so 150 pcf is used in calculating the weight of a normal-weight concrete member. dd=(6in*ft/12)*1*150/=75 lb/ft LL=200*(1)=200lb/ft Wu=1.2*75+1.6*200=410 lb/ft
maximum moment for simply supported span =(Wu*L^2)/8 =(410*10^2)/8=8/=5,125lb-ft=61,500lb-in
now we can calculate ρ
ρ=(0.85*fc’/fy)*(1-√(1-(2*Rn/0.85*fc’))
Rn=Mu/(ϕ*b*d^2) Rn=(61500)/(0.9*12*(5^2))=227.7
ρ=… Da structure can be called determinate if the equilibrium equation provides enough and sufficient condition for equilibrium. if all forces for a structure can be determined using equilibrium equations only, this structure is determinate, but if the unknown forces are more and cant be determined using equilibrium equations then this structure is indeterminate.in general we can determine if a structure is statically determinate or indeterminate by drawing free body diagram for a structure or part of it and comparing a number of unknown forces and moment component with number of available equation of equilibrium. for coplanar structures, we have three equilibrium equations, if n is the total number of parts and r is the number of unknown forces and moment component then:
r=3*n determinate r>3*n indeterminate
statically indeterminate structure cant be solved using equilibrium equations, so…
Pile cap used to transfer the loads from superstructure to the piling. The pile cap is thick concrete mat rests on piles. It is part of the foundation and used to distribute the loads over the piles. Piles used when the soil bearing is not enough to carry loads of the structure.
Pile cap construction procedure Excavation around piles: After 7 days of the casting of the pile the concrete will gain approximately, 70% of it is compressive strength. The soil around piles will be removed to the required levels and dimension that allows construction of the pile cap. A step shall be made if the excavation is more than 1.5 m to prevent soil collapse. Pile head cutting: Concrete will be removed up to cut off level. If concrete under the cut off level is unsound. It shall be removed, and the pile will be repaired. Pile must be free from cracks and unsound concrete.
Blinding concrete: after completion o…
In a truss system, some members are not carrying any force. This called zero-force member. This member may added to increase truss stability. Identifying these members will simplify the process of analyzing truss. the determination of zero force member can be done by inspecting of truss joints, and there are two casesif we check the joint c for truss shown in figure 1, this joint has no external load, and two members are connected to this joint at a right angle. if we sum force in y-direction Σfy=0, we get FCD=0, similarly in x-direction FCB=0. For joint A, no external load applied to this joint. If we sum forces in y-direction Σfy=0, we get FAB=0. Similarly, in x-direction FAE=0. Figure 1
A quick look at this truss. We can notice joint c and joint d with no external load. Inspecting joint C will be a bit difficult because 4 members are connected to joint c. Starting with joint D. member DF is perpendicular to member DE and CD. if we sum the forces in the y-direction. As showing in fig…
Let consider a slab supported by beams and columns, to begin structural analysis for each member, we need to know the amount of load transferred to this member, the amount of load transferred to any member can be determined using tributary area(loading) concept. the geometry of a structure will determine the shape of the tributary area. figure 1
In a one-way system, slab delivers the load to supports by one-way action. the dimension of slab shall satisfy the following equation to act as one-way slab L2/L1>2. let consider floor system in figure 3, L2/L1 for beam AB L2/L1=15/5=3, therefore slab will transfer the loads to beam in one-way action, tributary area for beam AB, E-f will be as shown in figure 3, loads of 100*2.5=250Lb/ft(linearly distributed over the whole length of the beam, for beam CD, the load will be 100*5=500Lb/ft, beam CD will share loads from both sides because it is lo…
Flaky and elongated aggregates can adversely affect concrete. Flaky and elongated aggregates are difficult to compact. Therefore using flaky and elongated aggregates will reduce concrete workability, which required more amount of water to produce a workable mix. Increasing water content will reduce concrete strength and durability. Moreover, these aggregates are not robust, which leads to lowering concrete strength. Figure 1
The Flakiness Index of aggregates is the percentage by weight of particles whose least dimension (thickness) is less than three- fifths (0.6times) of their mean dimension. This test does not apply to sizes smaller than 6.3mm.
The Elongation index of an aggregate is the percentage by weight of particles whose greatest dimension (length) is greater than nine-fifths (1.8times) their mean dimension. Flakiness and elongation tests are not applicable to sizes smaller than 6.3…
The combination of structural elements and materials called structural system. the structural system may be composed of one or more of the four basic types of structure: Truss: truss used for structure with large span where the depth is not important. a truss consists of slender elements, arranged in a triangular shape, planner truss refers to truss where all elements lie in the same plane frequently used for bridges. space truss is composed of elements extending in three dimensions. Truss converts loads that cause truss to bend into tension and compression forces. due to this advantages truss used fewer materials compared to beam, also it is composed of slender and long elements, Truss can be used to cover spans from 9m(30ft) to 122 m(400ft).
bridge construction:How to become a bridge engineer Figure 1
Cable and arches: cables are used to support long span where the using of truss is not feasible and could lead to a significant increase in …
The cracking moment is the moment corresponding tensile bending stress at which concrete will start to crack. reinforcing steel cross-sectional area is 2% or less of concrete beam cross-section. the area of reinforcing steel is minimal compared to concrete. therefore, it will not cause a major change to concrete beam properties as long as the beam uncracked. bending stress for concrete at distance y from a neutral axis can be calculated using elastic beam theory
f=M.y/I
where f is the bending stress at distance y M is the moment applied to the beam y is the distance from the neutral axis I is the moment of inertia for beam
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bridge construction:How to become a bridge engineer course concrete modulus of rupture is defined as the bending tensile strength at which concrete start to cracks. ACI provides us with the equation for calculating the modulus of rupture
fr=7.5λ√fc’ (in psi) fr=0.7λ√fc’ (in Mpa) where λ is equal 1 for nor…
A structure or one of the members considered in equilibrium when it maintains a balance of force and moment. this required satisfying force and moment equation in three axis.
ΣFx=0, ΣFy=0, ΣFz=0 ΣMx=0, ΣMy=0, ΣMz=0
for a structure in a single plane and since the forces are coplanar the equation of equilibrium reduced to
ΣFx=0 ΣFy=0 ΣMo=0
where ΣFx is the sum of the component of the force in the x-axis, ΣFy is the sum of the component of the force in the y-axis, ΣMo is the algebraic sum of the moment of the component of the forces about an axis perpendicular to x and y-axis and passing through point o. whenever these equations are applied, free body diagram shall be drawn for the structure or it is members, if the analysis required for a member, this member should be isolate…
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Volcanoes - Iceland, like Hawaii, was formed by volcanoes. Although some studies suggest that Polar Bears are sensitive to localized disturbance at maternity den sites Lunn et al.
It revolves completely about every 24 hours, and we call that a day. Physical characteristics Skull, as illustrated by N. This may pose the greatest threat to the species as the vulnerability of pre- and neonatal polar bears is the most sensible to life-long health effects from long-range transported pollution which decreases immunity, survival and reproductive success Letcher et al.
Their seal prey becomes less available, and the bears have to become more active and cover more distance to feed. The polar bear kills the seal by biting its head to crush its skull. Threats [top] Major Threat s: Arctic sea ice loss is matched by Antarctic sea ice gain In fact, the global sea-ice record shows virtually no change throughout the past 30 years, because the quite rapid loss of Arctic sea ice since the satellites were watching has been matched by a near-equally rapid gain of Antarctic sea ice.
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Nevertheless, uncertainty and regional variability in the near-term effects of climate change must be included in Polar Bear management and conservation plans.
Use and Trade [top] Use and Trade: Illegal take of polar bears in Russia, combined with legal subsistence harvest in the U. Polar bears are in danger of extinction as well as many other species.
We remotely released her collar via satellite, and then waited for it to drift back into U. Further, the Parties shall consult with each other on the management of shared Polar Bear subpopulations, and exchange information on research and management programs.
Arctic sea ice loss is three times greater than Antarctic sea ice gain. It is difficult to estimate a global population of polar bears as much of the range has been poorly studied; however, biologists use a working estimate of about 20—25, or 22—31, polar bears worldwide.
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The graph above shows Arctic sea ice extent as of November 5,along with daily ice extent data for four previous years andthe record low year. is shown in blue, in green, in orange, in brown, in purple, and in dotted brown.
Nevertheless enough of the sun's heat had poured over the North Pole during the summer months to cause the largest loss of Arctic sea ice cover since satellite records began in the s.
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Dragon Quest X Could Get A Western Release
By Sickr July 10, 2013
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Dragon Quest X producer Yosuke Saito has explained that the game could be released here in the west. Saito said that if Dragon Quest X did come to North America, Europe and Australia then it would be changed slightly to suit western markets. Saito concluded by saying that they would need to divide the running of it by country or region. Therefore, they are thinking about having separate servers for each country.
“Of course, however, as for whether it’ll be run in the Dragon Quest style in the overseas market, every nation has its own play style and sensibilities, so I don’t think it’ll be a single game worldwide like with Final Fantasy 11.”
“This is just my personal viewpoint, but different countries consume their games at different speeds and the way the communities are run also differ. Even the way people enjoy seasonal events is different, so I think we need to divide the running of it by country or region. So we’re thinking about having separate servers for each country.”
Thanks, Angelixshadow
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noe gets it, while in the states….. my body is ready for no good games, wii would like to play wii mini golf instead.
Angelixshadow says:
Icea, your house is burning right now, the heck are you doing?… ._.
trying to sue them…… there should be a warning if your going to turn on your wii u that your house might catch on fire!!!!! my gamepad started to melt in my hands. it hurt so bad i have second degree burns now…..
Here, take this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXnWfx6bIVE
ahhh it feels…… like….. (puts head down in relief)
aaahhhhhhh!!!! what is this it hurts, im…. in pain!!!!!!
Oh no… Ben is watching… no… get away from me… no… nooooo!!!
Anubis says:
That’s what happens when you try to play little inferno in your house.
thats more safe than having the dust from my wii u catch on fire!!!!!
Niwannabe says:
They didn’t even say the States wasn’t getting it.
Considering how you won’t even play it cause you need to find more stuff to bitch about, it’s not a big loss for you anyway.
your a fucking tool bitch.
blerp2 says:
Wii U actually needs games. Localize it pls.
raddude2 says:
am i first?
doubledareus says:
Not anymore…!
Kefka Palazzo says:
For gods sake bring this over!!!!
Schokodrink says:
YES Please !!!!!!
Kaetsu says:
It would be interesting to have an MMO on the Wii U
RELEASE IT
PLEEEAAASSSEEE
gamerpimp1999 says:
If this does come over you guys should all buy it and support it! The game didn’t very well in Japan.
Simply G says:
Subscription based MMOs are becoming a thing of the past….. Not sure how this would do in the West especially after how it turned out in Japan.
???????????????????? says:
well if square brought this over they would be doing something good for once
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Derpington says:
Ten games and there’s yet to be a good one. lolwut
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Outlawzz says:
I’ve been waiting for this game for more than a year now!!
Cornilius says:
my last MMO was 6 years of WoW. I need another. BRING IT HERE.
Rin Okumura says:
They are trying to separate us again. *sigh*
Thomas A. Hill (@TommoPuppy) says:
Have separate servers for each region to reduce lag, but let players engage with others around the world if they want to. This is what most games do.
Please localize this in the United States and take out the subscription fees. That will not work in North America and have NOA market the hell out of the game.
AdfroMan says:
They should just bring DQM: Terry’s Wonderland to US and Europe instead.
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Americans among hostages at Algerian gas field
[Updated at 7:06 p.m. ET] A claim by hostage-takers in Algeria that they are holding seven Americans is inaccurate, with the real number thought to be as few as three, two U.S. officials said Wednesday.
For more details read our full story here.
[Updated at 3:35 p.m. ET] Islamic militants have released Algerian hostages - but not other hostages - whom the militants had taken at an Algerian gas field near the Libyan border, Algerian State TV has reported.
Foreign hostages - from Norway, Britain, the United States, France and Japan - still reportedly were being held.
Meanwhile, Algerian authorities have received demands from the militants, but the government will not negotiate, the Algerian Interior Minister said in an interview with state television.
[Updated at 2:25 p.m. ET] Americans are among the hostages that Islamists have taken at an Algerian gas field, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Wednesday. She wouldn't say how many people were taken.
North African media outlets report that more than 40 Westerners have been taken hostage by Islamists who are angry over Algiers' support for a French offensive in Mali.
At least one foreigner died and others were kidnapped in the attack on the In Amenas field near the Libyan border in the east, Algeria's Interior Ministry. Algerian media later reported a second person, a British national, was killed as well.
[Updated at 11:54 a.m. ET] At least one foreigner died, six people were injured and an undetermined number of people taken hostage in a terrorist attack on a gas field in eastern Algeria, the interior ministry said Wednesday.
[Initial post at 11:24] A gas field in Algeria was attacked Wednesday morning by "unidentified armed people," who are now occupying the site, BP said.
British nationals are caught up in the incident, the British Foreign Office said. Ireland's foreign minister says there are reports that an Irish citizen also is involved. The office of the French president refused to comment on reports that French citizens also are involved. The In Amenas field is operated by a joint venture of Sonatrach (the Algerian national oil company), BP and Statoil, BP said.
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Cassie Cline
If evil sets out to kill our people it will take whatever means possible. A hammer was responsible for killing more people last year than guns. Just as a guy in China went into a school and killed a lot of students with a knife. So what now outlaw knives?
Jaafar
That is incorrect. In the stabbing incident at the chinese school, all 22 children survived and were only injured. Not one of them died.
FrenchdeclinePASTRY
Algeria- is what happens when it is obvious the French and others NEED it to happen- Once upon a time a group of people legally won an election in Algeria long before Mubarik: that upset the French greatly then and now. FYI
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A new demonic BLACK AMERICA has arisen from both the black antebellum and hip hop nation and is based on stereotypical images of low class ,poverty stricken and criminally prone blacks and has replace the black human population who exterminated during the black holocaust and it is this evil who will ended up tormenting the souls of those who do not have the seal of the living GOD in their forehead. Neither BILL CLINTON(the beast revelation 13) nor will those demons who rule AMERICA from those BLACK AMERICAN churches as well as those falllen angels who have arisen from the hip hop nation will be surprise by ANDRE HIMES miraculous survival in the future , since the they knew what the white feminists as well as those whtes who have a long history of embracing white supremacy did not know.
The FBI yearly report is out 311,591,917 – Jul 2011 population of the U.S. Total weapon deaths by all types of weapons in the U.S.A. 12,664 down from 13,164 in 2010; of those deaths 323 were caused by Rifles of all types which includes assault weapons. Deaths by personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc. were 728. It appears by the FBI numbers show the truth that the administration is using a tragic personal event to push an agenda. Politics Right or left the numbers are posted. Shame on them for exploiting these tragic events.
Thanks for the inspiration!!! 🙂
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Am in TOTAL agreement with @ Truth Seeker.
You gotta have a death wish to even set foot let alone work in one of those Muslim countries if you're an American.
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Kaa’s Eyes Redux
You may remember a while back I posted a beautiful photo of [beautiful] Candice. I wanted to also share this very different ice-eyed photo of her (iam:Candice) from a shoot she did for an Italian photographer at the Tate Modern Art Museum in London. I hope the Kipling title is not too obscure.
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narfette on September 25, 2006 at 11:41 pm said:
gorgeous picture and beautiful tattoos!
Lori on September 25, 2006 at 11:45 pm said:
Stunning photograph!
Robyn on September 26, 2006 at 1:26 am said:
The work on her shoulder/arm is freaking amazing
dandelion on September 26, 2006 at 3:00 am said:
i have no problems with pictures of her – she’s so lovely!
tinaxo on September 26, 2006 at 4:20 am said:
What an amazing shot!! You can’t help but stare! ++
LeaveThePoliticsToMadmen on September 26, 2006 at 4:29 am said:
I love how the freckles on her cheeks are spreadeagle perfect across her upper cheeks and nose. It looks almost like dirt, deep dirt.. the kind that auto mechanics have sometimes… but it looks so clean and icy at the same time. Wonderful effect!
*lightbulb*
Since i can’t stop starring at that picture, its so beaufitul…
.. she reminds me of Demi Moore.. probly fomr her days when she was that close to bald.. but its more her jaw and intense eyes.
Verena on September 26, 2006 at 6:36 am said:
Owen Blcker on September 26, 2006 at 11:43 am said:
Wow, that really is an amazing image not least for the ice-blue eyes.
I love the inkwork too — what does the Tibetan read?
Candice on September 26, 2006 at 1:04 pm said:
Thanks for the lovely comments guys! The tibetan writing on my arm was drawn up for me by a tibetan monk who is quite well known for doing tibetan calligraphy. He does most of the designs for Into You (Alex Binnie’s studio). Its basically a tibetan mantra for protection and good health! All my Tattoo’s were done by my boyfriend Andro who works at London Piercing Studio in SOHO london!
mpatshi on September 26, 2006 at 2:12 pm said:
she is so beautifull!
Stewart on September 26, 2006 at 2:45 pm said:
Am I right in saying that this is the same girl who posed for Lloyds TSB in the UK for their student account?
Overall, a beautiful photo of a beautiful woman.
candycovered on September 26, 2006 at 6:21 pm said:
yaaaaay, go candice !
randomspectator on September 27, 2006 at 1:33 pm said:
Stewart- I’m pretty sure you are right! It makes me smile when I see the big pictures of her on the front of the bank in my dull and straight-laced town :]
Kory on October 24, 2006 at 1:58 am said:
weird i have the same hair cut color and everything!!
kloe on November 1, 2006 at 8:10 am said:
you are so beautiful!
Fitzzz on January 24, 2007 at 1:41 am said:
Very lovly picture
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There Was A Child - Jonathan Dove
In the 2011 Brighton Festival (Sunday 22 May 2011), I took part in a performance of Jonathan Dove's piece, There Was A Child. The Brighton Festival Chorus, Brighton Festival Youth Choir and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra were conducted by Simon Halsey. The soloists were Joan Rodgers and Ben Johnson. The reviews were good: Latest 7, The Argus
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra then performed the work again back in Birmingham a few weeks later (Saturday 18 June 2011), this time with their own City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, and their CBSO Youth Chorus and Children's Chorus, and they were kind enough to invite some BFC tenors to join them for the performance. Six of us went along for the weekend, and had a great time. This time, Toby Spence replaced Ben Johnson as the tenor soloist, with Joan Rodgers once again the soprano. This performance once again received a very positive review: Birmingham Post
The CBSO wisely decided to record this concert - at this stage, there were no specific plans for a release, but it was felt that it was an important opportunity to record the work. A year later, and Signum Classics have released the recording, and it sounds pretty good! As I took part in the concert, I won't comment further however - so far, there's been one review from the Financial Times, which gave it 5 stars (you need to register with the FT to read this, but it's free).
The work's premiere was actually in Norwich on 2 May 2009, in the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, with the CBSO - it was in fact commissioned by Rosemary Pickering, the Norfolk and Norwich Festival and the CBSO. The piece was written as a celebration of the life of Rosemary Pickering's son, Robert, who died tragically aged 19 in a snorkelling accident.
You can find the recording at:
Dove, Jonathan. There Was A Child. Joan Rodgers, Toby Spence, CBSO Chorus, CBSO Youth Choir, CBSO Children's Choir, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Halsey. 2012. Compact Disc. Signum Classics SIGCD285.
Labels: Ben Johnson, Brighton Festival, Brighton Festival Chorus, Brighton Festival Youth Choir, CBSO, CBSO Children's Choir, CBSO Chorus, CBSO Youth Choir, Dove, Joan Rodgers, Signum Classics, Simon Halsey, Toby Spence
Selected CD Reviews
The Van Baerle Trio met while they were studying at the Amsterdam Conservatory in 2004. They have since worked with Menahem Pressler, pianist in the Beaux Arts Trio, and their debut CD is very impressive. They perform two great French works – the first of Saints-Saëns’ two piano trios, and Ravel’s single work for the combination. In between, they play a single movement work by the Dutch composer Theo Loevendie (b.1930), called Ackermusik. This provides an interesting interlude between the two French works, although stylistically it isn’t a great fit. However, they tackle its extremes of dynamics and rhythmic difficulties well. But in the two main works, they really shine. They capture the lightness and spirit required in the Saints-Saëns, yet also show great sensitivity in the delicate slow movement. The Ravel is a beautiful piece, full of richness, almost orchestral colours, and their performance is suitably intense and full. Pianist Hannes Minnaar produces beautifully sonorous playing in the third movement Passacaille, and this is matched by touching, delicate playing from violinist Maria Milstein and cellist Gideon den Herder. Definitely an ensemble to keep an eye on.
Various. Piano Trios. Van Baerle Trio. 2012. Compact Disc. Et'Cetera. KTC 1438.
The Doric String Quartet garnered wonderful reviews for their recording of the String Quartets by Erich Korngold (1897-1957). Following further excellent CDs of Schumann and Walton, they return to Korngold, joined by friends for performances of the Piano Quintet and the Sextet. First, in the Piano Quintet they are joined by the great pianist Kathryn Stott, and clearly have a great time. They avoid over-sentimentalising the already highly romantic music, yet still manage to provide the necessary nostalgic warmth and youthful spirit (the composer was still just 23 when this was composed). In the Sextet, the Dorics are joined by an extra viola (Jennifer Stumm) and cello (Bartholomew LaFollette). This is an even earlier work, from 1914 – yet the child prodigy had already been composing for 8 years by now. If anything, it is even more intense than the Quintet, and the musicians work well together here. Unlike some string sextets, Korngold avoid a heavy, dense texture, and rather chooses to use the instruments contrapuntally much of the time. The slow movement here is particularly tenderly performed. Overall, another impressive release to add to the Dorics’ growing catalogue.
Korngold, Eirch Wolfgang. String Sextet, Piano Quintet. Doric String Quartet, Jennifer Stumm, Bartholomew LaFollette, Kathryn Stott. 2012. Compact Disc. Chandos CHAN 10707.
Ola Gjeilo (b.1978) is a young Norwegian composer, specialising predominantly in choral music, and he is currently the composer in residence with the excellent Phoenix Chorale from Arizona. I was looking forward to this CD, as I had read good things about it. The performances can’t be faulted – the Phoenix Chorale are spot on, with a warm and well blended sound, and perfect intonation throughout. It is the music that is rather beneath their considerable talents. In the whole disc (which includes eleven different works), there is not a single unexpected harmonic change, and the cumulative effect of the saccharin harmonies and relentlessly slow (even turgid) tempi leave one longing for some dissonance and rhythmic interest. Choral music has become trendier of late, with the likes of Eric Whitacre, and Paul Mealor (made popular by the Military Wives). But Whitacre does achieve variety and produces a range of interesting choral effects in his inventive music. Here, the sound world of each piece is pretty much identical, the only interest being the works with added string quartet (the Harrington String Quartet), piano (the composer himself) or tenor saxophone (Ted Belledin). We’re two thirds of the way in before there is a piece with any real drive (Prelude), but this is in fact the shortest track, and then we’re straight back into soporific ‘atmospheric’ territory. A real disappointment.
Gjeilo, Ola. Northern Lights, Choral Works by Ola Gjeilo. Phoenix Chorale, Charles Bruffy. 2012. Hybrid Super Audio Compact Disc. Chandos CHSA 5100.
French baritone Gérard Souzay died in 2004 aged 85. He was recognized as one of the foremost singers of French mélodie but also one of few French singers to excel in German repertoire too. His voice had beautifully rounded quality, never harsh, yet still full of character. The Schwetzingen Festival have been releasing recordings from their archives, and this is a real treat, from a recital in 1960, when Souzay was accompanied by Dalton Baldwin on piano. He performed several Schubert songs (including An die Musik), the Six Monologues for Everyman by Frank Martin, and ended with a set of Strauss songs. In the middle was the French repertoire – Ravel’s Cinq melodies populaires grecques, and Deux mélodies hébraiques, which are particularly touching. His voice was truly in its prime, and this is a wonderful selection to whet your appetite if you don’t already know this truly great singer.
Various. Gérard Souzay, Liederabend 1960. Gérard Souzay, Dalton Baldwin. 2012. Compact Disc. Hänssler Classic CD 93.717.
Next, works by Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) performed by the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Juanjo Mena. First comes the ballet ‘El sombrero de tres picos’ (The Three-cornered Hat). This is great fun, with real atmosphere and folk spirit, energetically performed, with a lovely contribution from soprano Raquel Lojendio. Next comes a wonderfully atmospheric and lively performance of ‘Noches en los jardines de España’ (Nights in the Gardens of Spain), with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet on piano. They finish the programme with ‘Homanajes’ (Tributes), a suite for orchestra written late in his life, and containing tributes to Debussy, Dukas, and lesser known (to us) influences on Falla – the Catalan composer Felipe Pedrell and the conductore Enrique Fernández Arbós. This is very enjoyable, and excellently recorded – a little more abandon in places would have made this a perfect addition to the catalogue, but it’s definitely up there, particularly Bavouzet’s performance in the Noches.
de Falla, Manuel. Nights in the Gardens of Spain, etc. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Raquel Lojendio, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena. 2012. Compact Disc. Chandos CHAN 10694.
Finally, in brief – an excellent re-release of a remastered recording from 1989 of the late, great Sir Charles Mackerras conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, with Raphael Wallfisch playing the Dvořák Cello Concerto, and also Dohnányi’s Konzertstück. Surprisingly fresh recorded sound, combined with assured interpretations from both conductor and soloist, at mid-price this is worth snapping up.
Various. Dvořák Cello Concerto, Dohnányi Konzertstuck. Raphael Wallfisch, London Symphony Orchestra, Charles Mackerras. 2012. Chandos. CHAN 10715X.
(An abridged version of these reviews first appeared in GScene)
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My fellow nationals, let us not hide behind our finger. (I think that’s a Greek expression.) Yes, I’m sure none of us here are racist. But racism against Aboriginal Australians is there, and visitors to Australia regularly manage to chronicle it. (It’s the one dark aspect of Bill Bryson’s otherwise panegyrical Down Under/In A Sunburned Country.) Wishing them all dead is something some Australians say, and it’s a rather more extreme attitude than you’ll hear elsewhere in the New World—even the US, which historically excluded Native Americans from their Manifest Destiny.
Yes, Australians are not as circumspect about how they talk in general, and that means that there’s a lot of talk that can come across as racist, but is often just undeferential or radically egalitarian. But that’s not what we’re talking about here.
There are a couple of issues people might point to, but I don’t think they’re the explanation.
Guilt? No, guilt doesn’t explain contempt.
Embarrassment? Yes, situations in outback Australia are often third-world. I still don’t think that’s cause though; it’s effect. Though not knowing what to do about Aboriginal disadvantage is a challenge that other Australians, with their notions of egalitarianism and a fair go, don’t welcome. After all, Aboriginal Australians were not originally meant to be part of the Aussie fair go.
Land claims? No, that’s just an inconvenience to miners and pastoralists, and after the initial shock of the Mabo judgement, it has settled down into a regimen of arbitration. The initial panic that Aboriginal Australians would be claiming swaths of suburbia and kicking white householders out proved to be fantasy.
Not wanting to be lectured at by left-wing defenders of virtue? There’s some of that ressentiment, and you can see it in the libertarian cause célèbres, such as the racial defamation suits against Andrew Bolt or the threats of same against Bill Leak. But though Bolt and Leak are reactionary and reactive, sneering at “light-skinned” Aboriginal activists or deriding the lack of strong family cohesion in Aboriginal communities doesn’t quite rise to the level of the fantasy genocide OP describes (and I’m pretty sure has not made up).
I think the underlying issue, beyond all the current controversies and cluelessness, was the narrative that got entrenched in the 19th century. That narrative was that Australian Aborigines were the most primitive people on earth, and that they deserved to die out by Darwinian imperative. For decades, the government’s paternalism towards Aborigines was akin to palliative care.
The notion of Aboriginal Australians living a traditional lifestyle was that they were museum pieces and savage; remember, they did not get the vote until 1966, and until then they were wards of the State. The notion of Aboriginal Australians living a Western lifestyle was that they needed to be whitewashed and assimilated, and severed from their savage antecedents; hence the Stolen Generations.
Most people consciously realise that those attitudes are wrong; but the subterranean discomfort is still there. This was all ostensibly ancient history by the time of my childhood, but I have recognised in myself a sense of discomfort around Aboriginal Australians. These archetypes die hard, and they only die in sunlight.
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2. The Howling Woman
This is a continuation of the story that began here: The Old Woman, the Stag and Me. You may like to read that first if you haven’t already, but it isn’t a prerequisite.
As it turned out, it was the materialisation of the myth ‘The Howling Woman’ that finally gave us our omen to leave the village. Here’s how events panned out.
Among the stag’s clients there was a gentle dowager who cried almost all of the time. She had lost her daughter, she said, though there were no records of her ever having one. It was generally surmised among the village folk that what she had lost was in fact her marbles, as a result of her husband coming to grief at a trial for treason and subsequently being hanged. She lived all alone in the years that followed, and most were disdainful towards her with no rational cause. She came to the stag for a finding potion, and begged of him to take her sorrow.
Finding potions weren’t known for their usefulness when dealing with people who didn’t exist, so at first he went down the route of anguish-removal. He tried spells made from Buddhist proverbs, in attempt to align her to the idea that sorrow, like pleasure, was a fleeting thing that must be allowed to come and go like the wind. He tried filling her with warming light, that it might kindle her own inner glow. And he tried an elixir – just two drops per day – made from pure euphoria and tears of joy. It was unheard of for such things to fail, but the daughter remained lost. Putting on a jester performance raised a smile or two, but the sadness in her eyes seemed insurmountable.
Distracted by his lack of success, the stag came to me one evening and asked for help. He brought with him a purple scarf donated to the cause by the dowager herself, and a potion he would ordinarily use for finding things. I put a drop or two into the pool, wrapped the scarf around my wrist and submerged my body into the warm water. The image came to me very quickly. What I saw was a young girl dressed all in black and wandering as slow as a dirge around a waterfall in the park. She had a glassy stare and near transparent skin, but by far the most striking thing about her was the familiarity of her features. I realised that this was no daughter of the dowager, but a younger version of her. This was her maiden, her inner youth, separated from her body and mind and wandering lost.
I told the stag of my deduction just as soon as I had surfaced and sat down to dry by the fire he had kindly lit for me. The old woman had joined us with interest by then, and brought with her enough broth for everyone. After some deliberation, the three of us concluded that we must reconnect our client with her estranged fragment. Unfortunately before we were able to formulate a plan, we were disturbed by a ruckus outside.
A procession of villagers were storming their way up a hill that led to the sparse moor. By the light of their fiery sticks we made out a struggling human figure strapped to a stretcher carried by four men. There was shouting. With no time to lose, the old woman took on her owl form and flew toward the commotion. She reported back later that night that our dowager had been forcibly removed from the village, accused of bringing misfortune upon its residents as a result of her incurable sorrow and lies. They had tied her to a makeshift crucifix on the moor screaming the most eldritch of screams and full of wrath.
The villagers retreated to the bar in a strange mix of celebration and solemnity as soon as their captive had been secured to the cross, but still the old woman hadn’t been able to get near. The screams had taken on a physical force, and vicious winds were howling across the moor. It was hard for her to take a breath let alone fly in a direction of her choosing. She stayed a while though, long enough to see that the dowager was not weakening but growing in strength. Had she known how to direct her inner power she could have broken free from her restraints, but instead it became wild and furious.
Months, she was up there. To this day I don’t know whether the villagers had originally intended to bring her down after a night, or whether they wanted her to catch her death. But certainly no one wanted to visit the moor at all once the deafening, blood-curdling howling began. There were fires too. They emanated from the woman herself and spread outwards. We did what we could by containing the damage within a ten metre radius using an energy field which left us utterly fatigued. The old woman visited her daily, inching closer whenever the flames were quelled, gaining her trust. She simply had to be shown how to harness the power and there was no other way out of this.
Except, of course, to reunite her with her missing fragment. I took it upon myself to hunt down and coax the ghostly young woman from my vision up onto the moor. I befriended her as a cat, and she seemed glad of the company; glad just to be seen. One day I took a risk and told her the situation straight. As luck would have it she was receptive to the truth, but took some convincing that reconnecting with her older self was a smart move. Her older self was the stupid one, she said, that had gone and got her trapped with a man that could give her no children and went and died on her. I reasoned that neither she nor her older self could ever move on if they didn’t reconnect. They could never start a new life. In time, she agreed to come with me to the moor where she successfully became whole again. After that there were no more fires, winds or howls.
Seeing that the dowager had not only survived the ordeal, but also activated and gained control over her inner magic, they came to collect her. She collapsed onto the same stretcher that brought her there and was carried back down the hill and into the stag’s treatment area in our tiny castle. He used many a healing technique on her over the weeks that followed, most prominently a regenerative mask. She remained silent and still for all that time, only moving to take of the old woman’s broth.
By the time we released her from our care her skin had become golden, her once bedraggled grey hair was a mass of miracle, and wings had begun to grow from her shoulder blades. She gave off a scent of magic and promise. And our work was done. The villagers made her their queen and she ruled them well. She was protective and motherly yet fair.
But the village existed only in one of the realms of dream, and a change as big as this one to the workings of our home was enough to force a paradigm shift. We could feel the pressure on the walls of the castle, pushing us up up up through dimensions. The dreamer was waking up, and we were about to be plunged into reality.
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Tietsu says:
This is an extremely solid piece, I feel an episodic novel or just a trickle of short stories could be a goldmine for you. However, unless there is something else between here and the previous installment that I missed I feel that the first paragraph can be gutted and we can just be dropped into things.
When you say the first paragraph, do you mean the note about the previous episode?
Oh, heaven’s no. I was thinking this part:
That part feels to me like a frame that isn’t completed elsewhere and the rest of the story doesn’t suffer without it being there.
Oh I see what you mean. I think I initially put that in to try to tie it to the previous episode, where I closed by saying the characters knew they would someday have to leave the village but they didn’t know under what circumstances. Reading it again, I agree it is perhaps unecessary and even a bit clumsy. Thank you for the feedback.
Unless that is what you meant in which case, yes?
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Ormering
Independently Guernsey FC
'Watching' football on Twitter is OK but take me back in time to football on Ceefax anyday. Tonight's match at the ARS has left me with RSI and a seized index finger thanks to all that swiping.
The match was played in typical Guernsey al fresco dining weather and, judging by Twitter, was a bit of a tense affair at times. Close calls at either end, Chris Tardif saving a penalty and Zico being first to a rebound to net the winner (one of those 'unbelievable Tekkers' moments).
Other results in the Isthmian South today went our way as well:-
Chipstead 3 Herne Bay 4 ; Folkestone 5 Horsham 0 ; Merstham 0 East Grinstead 1 ; Ramsgate 1 Walton Casuals 0 ; Three Bridges 3 Hythe 4 ; Tooting & Mitcham 2 Redhill 2 ; Walton & Hersham 0 Burgess Hill 1 ; Whitstable 1 Worthing 0 ; Whyteleafe 2 Corinthian Casuals 3.
Faversham v Carshalton was abandoned after a serious injury (broken leg) to Carshalton player Jerome Walker, South Park v Sittingbourne was postponed due to SP's pitch being unplayable. Shock of the day was at Merstham where the visitors East Grinstead hardly saw the ball, let alone touched it.
All of which leaves that last play off spot looking a little more achievable and sets us up nicely for the first away game, in what seems like months, at Three Bridges on Tuesday.
Keep it Green
Allez les Verts!!
Just over two years ago they were in the third round (proper!) of the FA Cup.
Now they're embroiled in a relegation dogfight, just 4 points clear of Redhill and the drop-zone. Redhill have 4 games in hand however and the ever more restless fans at the Pilot Field are beginning to hope that Redhill's pitch problems may turn out to be their saviour. Hastings makes for a good day out and that reason alone it is hoped that they stay up. It is also hoped that their fortunes turn around next week following a hiding tomorrow evening.
Kieron Mahon and Luke Winch are named in the provisional squad of 17 for tomorrow's match. It will be pared down to 16 tomorrow but these are the names in the frame:-
Tardif, L Mahon, de la Mare, Cochrane, Strawbridge, J Winch, Steel, Mackay, K Mahon, Black, Loaring, Dyer, Rihoy, Heaume, McGrath, Allen, L Winch.
For visiting supporters tomorrow it will be a case of squeaky bum time at the ARS, especially if the afternoon's results go against them. Home supporters will be hoping our recent run of form continues and we make amends for the 4-1 reverse at Hastings earlier in the season. If you're to the ARS don;'t forget it's an evening kick off due to a small number of Guernsey lads chasing an egg with a lot of others.
Get there early as Dame Mary will be flogging autographed parking clocks from the portaloo behing the goal before kick off.
Tonight's only scheduled Isthmian South match between Redhill and Merstham was postponed as the pitch at Kiln Brow was deemed unfit for play. Yesterday there was no problem with the pitch at the Pilot Field, the locals wished the same could be said of the team as Hastings went down 2-0 to Corinthian Casuals. They ain't a happy bunch at the moment, not surprising given they were in the 3rd round 'proper' of the FA Cup not that far back.
They went out at Middlesbrough, which leads us nicely into to 'BoroEric' Graham who continues his ramble round the rock tomorrow. Eric's setting off from Pembroke at 10am heading for town and would welcome the company if you able to join him for a spell. Most of you will probably be in the Mariners however so keep the door open and and show support when he hobbles by later in the morning. Eric's raising money for the local Autism charity so consider passing on the 6th pint of the morning (and a packet of scratchings) and give him a fiver instead.
Finally great news that Liz Windsor has pulled out all the stops for 'our dear Channel Islands' and is sending Sophie 'Wessex' over for the 70th anniversaary of the liberation celebrations. C&L should splash the cash and get Chris Tarrant over to join her in the back of the knock-off Roller.
An interesting weekend started with news that there are Guernsey connections to a big wad of dosh residing behind numerous smoke screens in HSBC's Swiss private bank. God's representative in St Sampson's was quick to point out the Guernsey finance industry's is fully compliant with all the regulation under the sun - but no word as yet from his mate Gav.
Gav's saying nothing for the time being and any suggestion that that's because he was once a partner at KPMG, who just happened to be HSBC's auditors during this period of frenzied tax avoidance/evasion/planning (take your pick), not to mention money laundering in Central America, is just plain wickedness.
As far as we're concerned the above mentioned have nothing but you're best interests in mind, so vote for them next year. Don't bother with the idiot(s) that think disgorging cruise ship passengers on the Albert Pier though.....
The under 21 Muratti meant that GFC went into the match against Carshalton Athletice with enforced absences in what is a key area for us, mainly the defensive side of things. With the visitors having also seen an upturn in their fortunes of late nobody expected a walk in the park, and it wasn't (fromwhat I can gather from various sources on t'internet at any rate).
Two very well taken goals by Ross Allen and Jamie Dodd and some excellent saves by the Carshalton 'keeper were the highlights of the match. Speaking of which, one of my bugbears is the use of the term 'missed a penalty'. According to some sources Ross Allen missed a penalty against Carshalton, which would be a surprise to anyone seeing footage of the superb save by the Carshalton 'keeper. Highlights are worth a look at www.guernseyfc.com , Carshalton FC's match report can be found here.
Only 5 matches beat the weather in the Isthmian South on Saturday. This was due to overnight snow in places and heavy precipitation generally. The other results were:-
Hastings 2 Whyteleafe 2 ; Herne Bay 2 Folkestone Invicta 2 ; Horsham 3 Three Bridges 4 ; Worthing 1 Walton & Hersham & Hersham 1.
Which leaves us in 9th place, 8 points adrift of the final play off place with a game in hand.
If you don't know already the U21s bet the Crapauds 2-1 after being a goal down after 5 minutes or so, which was bloomin' marvellous.
Finally, wasn't it good to a see a gate of 800+ for the first time in 2015?
Tomorrow, at the ARS, GFC host Carshalton Athletic. The away fixture back at the beginning of December was an important step in the getting the season back on track journey. Click here for a reminder of that evening's events.
Carshalton sit 3 places below us, with 3 points fewer having played a game more. Their last 6 matches have seen 3 wins and 3 defeats. Two of those six games were away from home and both ended in 2-1 defeats, to Chipstead and Hythe. They did beat Folkestone 5-3 at home a couple of weeks ago though.
We have a few faces missing as it's the under 21s Muratti in Jersey. Liam Mahon and Tom de la Mare are playing for the U21s, Gus Mackay is coaching them. Back in the squad are Etienne le Prevost and, making a welcome return after a leg break early in the season, Simon Geall. The squad is:-
Tardif, Machlowski, Geall, Cochrane, Strawbridge, Dodd, Winch (J), Steel, Black, le Prevost (E), Dyer, Loaring, Rihoy, Heaume, McGrath, Allen.
With that squad, and opponents more than capable of a good performance, it's unlikely to be a dull affair so get your arse down the ARS and sing yer 'earts out for the lads.
If you LYFAO last week at the news that Sky had committed themselves to what could amount to a big strain on their cashflow, then got to wondering whether any of the overflow from the coffers of the country's footballing elite would find its way down to the grassroots, here's an idea. Cancel your subscription to Sky Sports.
Just 2 matches beat the elements in the Isthmian South tonight and both saw late winners for the home side. Hythe scored in the 93rd minute to beat Carshalton 2-1 and South Park scored in the 89th minute to defeat Walton & Hersham 1-0.
People sometimes ask me why I left Guernsey all those years ago to move to a town just outside London where property prices aren't too far removed from those on the rock, taxes are much higher and I seem to spend half my waking hours commuting to/from work (at great expense I might add). Well, having been hit by cars on an almost daily basis whilst attempting to cross the road at that notorious accident black spot by the Albion, it didn't take long for Guernsey's medical professional to empty the family coffers of millions built up over the centuries through piracy and tax dodging.
Enough of my own travails. Wasn't it heartening to see Gavin St Pier leading the island's robust defence following Ed Milliband's speech on offshore tax havens the other day? With Gav having no background whatsoever in the tax avoidance industry, the electorate of Guernsey should be truly grateful that he has their collective interest at heart. Fingers crossed it doesn't turn out that HSBC has an operation on the island like it has in Jersey, eh!
I've heard much about the performance of the officials at the ARS yesterday. For the lardy perspective you might want to click here. Seen through green eyed specs via GFC's highlights I thought we were a bit fortunate. Seen through a lard covered lens it looks more than a bit fortunate.
Elsewhere in the Isthmian South it finished:-
Chipstead 2 Carshalton 1 ; faversham 3 East Grinstead 0 ; Folkestone 1 Hastings 0 ; Merstham 3 Burgess Hill 4 ; Ramsgate 0 Herne Bay 2 ; Tooting & Mitcham 4 Walton Casuals 1 ; Walton & Hersham 5 Redhill 0 ; Whitstable 4 Sittingbourne 1 ; Whyteleafe 3 Hythe 2. Matches at South Park and Three Bridges were postponed.
Just three midweek fixtures coming up this week, all on Tuesday: Hythe v Carshalton, Redhill v Folkestone and South Park v Walton & Hersham (still on!).
In the Isthmian south tonight a good win for Worthing, 4-2 away at Chipstead; Merstham scored a last minute winner to beat Horsham 2-1; South Park went to Redhill and conceded a last minute goal, losing 3-2 and Three Bridges were 2-1 winners at home to Ramsgate.
Promotion chasing cash splashers Merstham were watched by the biggest crowd of the night, 151 ensuring the wages bill will be covered again, cough cough.
You can read about our trip to Burgess Hill, with a few pics and a link to a match report here.
There are 5 mid-week matches in the Isthmian South this week. Tomorrow sees Chipstead v Worthing, Merstham v Horsham, Redhill v South Park and Three Bridges v Ramsgate. On Wednesday it's Burgess Hill v Walton & Hersham. A few scores for us to keep an eye on there then, presumably while the other one is roving elsewhere.
The final score suggests a fairly one sided affair todaybut there wasn't much between the two sides, certainly as far as general play was concerned. Burgess Hill took their chances though and defended superbly, a very organised side that seem to have what it takes to acquit themselves well at Step 3. 3-0 could have been 3-3 or 3-4 on another day, more of a story with full colour pictures to follow.
Elsewhere in the Isthmian South today good wins for Carshalton and Corinthian Casuals, as well as Whyteleafe who are shaping up to make the final play-off place their own (long way to go yet though...). Here are the results then:-
Carshalton 5 Folkestone 3 ; Corinthian Casuals 1 Faversham 0 ; East Grinstead 1 Ramsgate 1 ; Hastings 2 Three Bridges 2 ; Horsham 1 Chipstead 2 ; Hythe 2 South Park 0 ; Merstham 0 Herne Bay 0 ; Redhill 0 Whyteleafe 1 ; Sittingbourne 2 Walton & Hersham 1 ; Walton Casuals 3 Whitstable 1.
The defeat means we drop a couple of places in the league but the performance overall serves to reassert the view that our place in this league is merited.
Really looking forward to the trip to Burgess Hill tomorrow, as I'm sure are the coaches and players too. Burgess Hill are having a tremendous season, they're still unbeaten in the league and not a lot of other teams at any level can say that.
They've only dropped points against 5 sides so far and the list of those teams might raise an eyebrow: Redhill, Horsham, Three Bridges, Whitstable, Hythe. The first 3 were back in August, the other 2 in November. They've only scored 4 more goals than us in the league and conceded 49 fewer.
The game is an opportunity for our lads to show their mettle, particularly with thoughts of a possible play-off spot in many minds, and the travelling squad suggests we could be in for a good contest:-
Tardif, Mahon (L), de la Mare, Mackay, Cochrane, Dodd, Winch (J), Steel, Black, Dyer, Loaring, Heaume, Rihoy, McGrath, Allen.
If you're travelling by train you need a ticket to Wivelsfield, not Burgess Hill (or ryde for that matter). The Llama Express will be trundling out of Victoria at 10.16, we expect to pick up GFC's only celebrity fan the Diggler on the way so feel free to bring your calendar along for the dirty one to leave his mark (then flog it on ebay).
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Disappointing to have a second postponement in a few days but good on South Park for consulting with the league, arranging a pitch inspection by the match referee last night, enabling him to make a decision based on what he saw and the forecast for the coming 24 hours. Think it's fair to say he made the right decision as well, been bloomin' freezing in central London all day, never mind the surrounding counties.
Somewhat surprisingly three matches beat the weather in the Isthmian South tonight, although East Grinstead and Redhill are probably wishing they hadn't. Results as follows:-
East Grinstead 0 Whyteleafe 6 ; Horsham 2 Tooting & Mitcham 2 ; Redhill 1 Ramsgate 3.
Meanwhile we departed Ormering Towers for a mooch around Euston, the hightlight being Buxton Brewery's Rednik Stout at the Euston Tap. Very moreish....
Tomorrow, hopefully, we'll see a game of football at South Park. Their match on Saturday was postponed due to a frozen pitch and temperatures don't seem to have changed much since then. We're hearing mixed messages about pitch conditions so keep your eyes and ears peeled to social media and so on before you set off tomorrow.
Form wise they've lost their last 4, we've won our last 5 so the form book is with us. It's a Tuesday evening though so Tony Vance won't have a full squad to choose from and Strawbridge, Dyer, Mahon (L) and Dodd are unable to travel. One Eff and Cockers are available and Knock-Off Nigel Hutton returns after 3 months or so on the injury list.
The squad is, on paper, stronger than the typical mid-week travelling group we've seen this season. Three changes in a defence that was settling in nicely make for a challenge however. Here's the squad:-
Tardif, de la Mare, Cochrane, Mackay, Winch (J), Steel, le Prevost (E), Loaring, Black, Hutton, Rihoy, Heaume, McGrath, Allen.
These are the other scheduled Isthmian South matches tomorrow: Corinthian Casuals v Burgess Hill, Horsham v Tooting & Mitcham, Redhill v Ramsgate.
So fingers crossed for the weather in Surrey, although with reports of 'snow' in St Andrew's this evening the lads may not even make it off the ground.......
Bugger, the match was called off shortly after the above wass published due to the pitch still being frozen!
The mind boggles as to the level of communication between clubs and leagues in the lead upto a match being postponed. Yesterday saw an early pitch inspection, helpfully conducted after the plane had landed at Gatwick, which resulted in the m,atch being called off due to snow on the pitch.
The snow in question seemed to be of the Tate & Lyle variety (other brands of snow are available) and, bearing in mind there were several hours to kick off, there was no further dusting expected and the opposition was only a few miles up the road (having spent a few grand in getting there) the decision to postpone seemed a little hasty.
Intrepid explorer Craig McLoughlin visitied the ground later in the morning, still well ahead of the scheduled kick-off time, when the dusting had all but disappeared. Craig reported that he'd inserted a 6 inch peg into the ground and there was no evidence of a frozen pitch. OK, it was probably just a 3 inch peg but the result would have been the same.
The conspiracy theory espoused by some that this was a convenient way to get to to play our midweek team is clearly not one that we can endorse (!)...... Leagues do need to establish some ground rules regarding to pitch inspections though, along the lines of them being conducted at a time agreed by both teams at the very least.
It may well be that the timing of yesterday's pitch inspection was mutually agreed, in which case it's our own stupid fault. It was probably that Three Bridges arranged an early pitch inspection without being aware of GFC's travel arrangements. In which case the little bit of communication required to ensure mutual agreement would have saved the club a not insignificant amount of money. Then again, maybe the conspiracy theorists were right.
It's not the first time we've had a match postponed due to the weather when the team had already made it to the UK after all. Remember Egham a couple of seasons ago when a pitch inspection was held when GFC were on the way from the airport to the ground in the coach. The pitch, which was apparently fine on Friday and had nothing more than a spit on it overnight, was declared unfit, despite it looking fine to us and the home team (so they were keen to tell us). Anyway Egham got to play our midweek side, won the match and eventually the league title.
No doubt the conspiracy theorists will be keeping an eye on the weather in Reigate over the next few days (in the knowledge that South Park's pitch was frozen again on Saturday.
Not us at Ormering Towers though.
A sausage, a wrap and a mild mannered janitor.
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NOAA Teacher at Sea Blog
30 YEARS of NEW FRONTIERS
Tag: samples
Kathy Schroeder: Retrieving the Longline, September 30, 2019
NOAA Teacher at Sea
Kathy Schroeder
Aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II
Mission: Shark/Red Snapper Longline Survey
Geographic Area of Cruise: Gulf of Mexico
Weather Data from the Bridge
Longitude: 85.34274
Temperature: 85°F
Wind Speeds: E 5 mph
Science and Technology Log
Retrieving the Longline
One hour after the last highflyer is entered into the water it is time to retrieve the longline. The ship pulls alongside the first highflyer and brings it on board. Two people carry the highflyer to the stern of the ship. The longline is then re-attached to a large reel so that the mainline can be spooled back onto the ship. As the line comes back on board one scientist takes the gangion removes the tag and coils it back into the barrel. The bait condition and/or catch are added into the computer system by a second scientist. If there is a fish on the hook then it is determined if the fish can be brought on board by hand or if the cradle needs to be lowered into the water to bring up the species.
Retrieving the high flyer on the well deck
Protective eye wear must be worn at all times, but if a shark is being brought up in the cradle we must all also put on hard hats due to the crane being used to move the cradle. Once a fish is on board two scientists are responsible for weighing and taking three measurements: pre-caudal, fork, and total length in mm. Often, a small fin clip is taken for genetics and if it is a shark, depending on the size, a dart or rototag is inserted into the shark either at the base of the dorsal fin or on the fin itself. The shark tag is recorded and the species is then put back into the ocean. Once all 100 gangions, weights and highflyers are brought on board it is time to cleanup and properly store the samples.
Taking the measurements on a sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) Measurements: 1080 precaudal, 1200 fork, 1486 total (4’10”)l, 20.2 kg (44.5 lbs)
Placing a rototag in a Gulf smooth-hound (Mustelus sinusmexicanus)
Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) on the cradle getting ready for a dart tag
Data station for recording measurements, weight, sex, and tag numbers
Fish Data: Some species of snapper, grouper and tile fish that are brought on board will have their otoliths removed for ageing, a gonad sample taken for reproduction studies and a muscle sample for feeding studies and genetics. These are stored and sent back to the lab for further processing.
red snapper (Lutganidae campechanus) samples: gonad (top), muscle (middle), otoliths (bottom)
Personal Log
It has been a busy last few days. We have caught some really cool species like king snake eels (Ophichthus rex), gulper sharks (Centrophorus granulosus), yellow edge grouper (Hyporthodus flavolimbatus) and golden tile fish (Lopholaatilus chamaeleontiiceps). There have been thousands of moon jelly fish (Aurelia aurita) the size of dinner plates and larger all around the boat when we are setting and retrieving the longline. They look so peaceful and gentle just floating along with the current. When we were by the Florida-Alabama line there were so many oil rigs out in the distant. It was very interesting learning about them and seeing their lights glowing. One of them actually had a real fire to burn off the gases. There were also a couple sharks that swam by in our ship lights last night. One of the best things we got to witness was a huge leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) that came up for a breath of air about 50 feet from the ship.
yellow edge grouper (Hyporthodus flavolimbatus) 891 mm (2′ 11″), 9.2 kg (20.3 pounds)
king snake eel (Ophichthus rex)
Anne Krauss: The Reel Whirl’d, September 15, 2018
Anne Krauss
Geographic Area of Cruise: Western North Atlantic Ocean/Gulf of Mexico
Weather Data from the Air
Conditions at 0634
Altitude: 9585 meters
Outside Temperature: -38 ℃
Distance to Destination: 362 km
Tail Wind: 0 km/h
Ground Speed: 837 km/h
(While NOAA Ship Oregon II has many capabilities, flight isn’t one of them. These were the conditions on my flight home.)
The idea of placing an elementary school teacher on a Shark/Red Snapper Longline Survey seems like a reality show premise, and I couldn’t believe that it was my surreal reality. Several times a day, I took a moment to appreciate my surroundings and the amazing opportunity to get so close to my favorite creatures: sharks!
Anyone who knows me is aware of my obsession with sharks. Seeing several sharks up close was a hallowed, reverential experience. Reading about sharks, studying them through coursework, and seeing them on TV or in an aquarium is one thing. Being only a few feet away from a large tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) or a great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran) is quite another. Seeing the sharks briefly out of the water provided a quick glimpse of their sinewy, efficient design…truly a natural work of art. Regardless of size, shape, or species, the sharks were powerful, feisty, and awe-inspiring. The diversity in design is what makes sharks so fascinating!
Even just a quick peek of this tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) reveals her strong muscles and powerful, flexible design.
This female tiger shark was large enough to require the shark cradle. The reinforced netting on the cradle provided support for the 10.5 foot shark.
The shape of this sandbar shark’s (Carcharhinus plumbeus) head and eye is quite different from the tiger shark’s distinct design.
Even in the dark, the shape of the great hammerhead’s (Sphyrna mokarran) cephalofoil is unmistakable.
I envied the remora, or sharksucker, that was attached to one of the sharks we caught. Imagine being able to observe what the shark had been doing, prior to encountering the bait on our longline fishing gear. What did the shark and its passenger think of their strange encounter with us? Where would the shark swim off to once it was released back into the water? If only sharks could talk. I had many questions about how the tagging process impacts sharks. As we started catching and tagging sharks, I couldn’t help but think of a twist on the opening of MTV’s The Real World: “…To find out what happens…when sharks stop being polite…and start getting reeled.”
Sadly for my curiosity, sharks have yet to acquire the ability to communicate verbally, despite their many advantageous adaptations over millions of years. To catch a glimpse of their actions in their watery world, scientists sometimes attach cameras to their fins or enlist the help of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to learn more. The secret lives of sharks… reality TV at its finest.
Underwater camera footage is beginning to reveal the answers to many of the questions my Kindergarten-5th grade students have about sharks:
How deep can sharks swim?
How big can sharks get? How old can sharks get?
Do sharks sleep? Do sharks stop swimming when they sleep? Can sharks ever stop swimming?
Do sharks have friends? Do sharks hunt cooperatively or alone?
Is the megalodon (Carcharocles megalodon) still swimming around down there? (This is a very common question among kids!)
The answers vary by species, but an individual shark can reveal quite a bit of information about shark biology and behavior. Tagging sharks can provide insight about migratory patterns and population distribution. This information can help us to better understand, manage, and protect shark populations.
These tools are used to weigh (scales on bottom right), collect samples (scissors and vials), remove hooks (pliers, plus other instruments not pictured), apply tags (leather punch, piercing implement, and tags), and record data (clipboard and data sheet).
Using several low-tech methods, a great deal of information could be gleaned from our very brief encounters with the sharks we caught and released. In a very short amount of time, the following information was collected and recorded:
• hook number (which of the 100 longline circle hooks the shark was caught on)
• genus and species name (we recorded scientific and common names)
• four measurements on various points of the shark’s body (sometimes lasers were used on the larger sharks)
• weight (if it was possible to weigh the shark: this was harder to do with the larger, heavier sharks)
• whether the shark was male or female, noting observations about its maturity (if male)
• fin clip samples (for genetic information)
• photographs of the shark (we also filmed the process with a GoPro camera that was mounted to a scientist’s hardhat)
• applying a tag on or near the shark’s first dorsal fin; the tag number was carefully recorded on the data sheet
• additional comments about the shark
Finally, the hook was removed from the shark’s mouth, and the shark was released back into the water (we watched carefully to make sure it swam off successfully)!
Longline fishing uses 100 numbered hooks. When a fish is caught, it’s important to record the hook number it was caught on.
Depending on the shark’s size, we either attached a swivel tag (on left and middle, sometimes called a Rototag or fin tag; used for smaller sharks) or a dart tag (on right, sometimes called an “M” tag; used for larger sharks).
For more information on shark tagging: https://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/Narragansett/sharks/tagging.html
Other fish were retained for scientific samples. Yellowedge grouper (Epinephelus flavolimbatus), blueline tilefish (Caulolatilus microps), and red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) were some of species we caught and sampled. Specific samples from specific species were requested from various organizations. Generally, we collected five different samples:
• fin clips: provide genetic information
• liver: provides information about the health of the fish, such as the presence of toxins
• muscle tissue: can also provide information about the health of the fish
• gonads: provide information about reproduction
• otoliths: These bony structures are found in the inner ear. Similar to tree rings, counting the annual growth rings on the otoliths can help scientists estimate the age of the fish.
Samples were taken from this yellowedge grouper (Epinephelus flavolimbatus).
Samples were preserved and stored in vials, jars, and plastic sample bags, including a Whirl-Pak. These bags and containers were carefully numbered and labeled, corresponding with the information on the data sheets. Other information was noted about the fish, including maturity and stomach contents. Sometimes, photos were taken to further document the fish.
This Whirl-Pak sample bag will be used to store samples from a bony fish. To close it, the yellow tabs are held tight and the bag is whirled around until it closes.
A tissue sample containing muscle from a fish was placed inside the Whirl-Pak and frozen. Later, it will be studied at a lab.
Thinking of the Oregon II as my floating classroom, I looked for analogous activities that mirrored my elementary students’ school day. Many key parts of the elementary school day could be found on board.
Sometimes, my students struggle to tell the time with analog clocks. The ship uses military time, so this 24-hour clock would probably cause some perplexed looks at first! We usually ate dinner between 1700-1800.
Physical Education: Fitness equipment could be found in three locations on the ship.
Health: To stay energized for the twelve-hour shifts, it was important to get enough sleep, make healthy food choices, and stay hydrated. With lots of exercise, fresh air, and plenty of water, protein, and vegetables, I felt amazing. To sample some local flavors, I tried a different hot sauce or Southern-style seasoning at every meal.
There wasn’t a nurse’s office, but first aid and trained medical personnel were available if needed.
Some fresh paint for the ship.
Fresh NOAA blue stripes echoed the sky and surrounding water.
Art and music: While I was there, the ship received a fresh coat of paint. Many people on board enjoyed creative pursuits in their free time. We listened to and talked about music while deploying the longline gear.
With my young readers and writers in mind, I applied my literacy lens to many of the ship’s activities. Literacy was the thread that ran through many of our daily tasks, and literacy was the cornerstone of every career on board. Several ship personnel described the written exams they’d taken to advance in their chosen careers. Reading and writing were used in everything from the recipes and daily menu prepared by Second Cook Arlene Beahm and Chief Steward Valerie McCaskill in the galley to the navigation logs maintained by Ensign Chelsea Parrish on the ship’s bridge.
The menu changed every day. You could also make your own salad, sandwiches, and snacks. If you had to work through mealtime, you could ‘save-a-meal,’ and write down your food choices to eat later. This was kind of like indicating your lunch choice at school. Instead of a cafeteria, food was prepared and cooked in the ship’s galley.
Library: The ship had a small library on board. To pass the time, many people enjoyed reading. (And for my students who live vicariously through YouTube: that sign at the bottom does say, ‘No YouTube’! Computers were available in the lab, but streaming wasn’t allowed.)
I often start the school year off with some lessons on reading and following directions. In the school setting, this is done to establish routines and expectations, as well as independence. On the ship, reading and following directions was essential for safety! Throughout the Oregon II, I encountered lots of printed information and many safety signs. Some of the signs included pictures, but many of them did not. This made me think of my readers who rely on pictures for comprehension. Some important safety information was shared verbally during our training and safety drills, but some of it could only be accessed through reading.
Without a visual aid, the reader must rely on the printed words. In this environment, skipping words, misreading words, or misunderstanding the meaning of the text could result in unsafe conditions.
On a watertight door, for example, overlooking the opposite meanings of ‘open’ and ‘closed’ could have very serious consequences.
Not being able to read the sign or the words ‘open’ and ‘closed’ could result in a scary situation.
Thomas Jefferson collected fossils and owned a megalodon tooth. The Carcharocles megalodon tooth was found in South Carolina. One of the reasons why Jefferson supported expeditions to lands west of the Mississippi? He believed that a herd of mammoths might still be roaming there. Jefferson didn’t believe that animal species could go extinct, so he probably liked the idea that the megalodon was still swimming around somewhere! (There’s no scientific evidence to support the idea that either Thomas Jefferson or the megalodon are still around.)
If Sharks Disappeared written and illustrated by Lily Williams
This picture book acknowledges the scariness of sharks, but explains that a world without sharks would be even scarier. Shown through the eyes of a curious young girl and her family, the book highlights the important role that sharks play in the ocean food web. As apex predators, sharks help to keep the ocean healthy and balanced.
The book includes some mind-blowing facts, such as the concept that sharks existed on Earth before trees. Through easy-to-follow examples of cause and effect, the author and illustrator explores complex, sophisticated concepts such as overfishing, extinction, and trophic cascade. The glossary includes well-selected words that are important to know and understand about the environment. Additional information is provided about shark finning and ways to help save sharks. An author’s note, bibliography, and additional sources are also included.
If Sharks Disappeared written and illustrated by Lily Williams; Published by Roaring Brook Press, New York, 2017
Posted on April 7, 2011 March 5, 2012
Nathan Pierantoni, Thursday 4.7.11
NOAA Teacher at Sea: Nathan Pierantoni
University of Miami Ship R/V Walton Smith
South Florida Bimonthly Hydrographic Survey
Florida Bay, in transit from Dry Tortugas to Key West.
Thursday, April 7 2011
1400 hrs Local Time
Barometric pressure = 1017 Millibars
Visibility = good
Wind SE 16 knots
Dr. Neslon was very gracious and gave me free reign to learn as much as I could while aboard the R/V Walton Smith. Water sampling requires the most manpower and it is most common thing we are doing for this cruise, and therefore I have been involved in many vertical casts of the CTD. CTD stands for Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth, and when I refer to “the CTD” I am referring to the hefty apparatus that is pictured below, sitting on the fantail (the open deck at the stern of the ship). The procedure is as follows: as we get to our stations along our survey route, the boat stops and the we don our hardhats and life jackets and go out to the fantail,. We then lower the safety lines and prepare for a cast. Next, the captain goes to the stern of the upper deck where there is a winch cabin, from where he can pilot the ship and control the cast. The CTD is attached to a cable and is raised and lowered via an A-frame. The scientists give signals to the captain, and together, the device is lowered into the water where it does its work.
The CTD is actually a dual-purpose piece of equipment. It has sensors that measure conductivity (salinity), temperature, depth, chlorophyll, and dissolved oxygen. These sensors are built into a unit at the base of the apparatus and are protected by a metal cage.Above the sensor array is a rosette of tubes, which are able to collect water samples. Each tube holds 10 L of water, and our CDT has 12 tubes, called Nisken Bottles. The whole thing is electronically linked to the science deck through its cable, and in addition to the 2 scientists on deck who deploy the device, there is a CTD operator inside who monitors water parameter changes as the CTD goes from the surface to the bottom. This scientist is in communication with the captain in the winch cabin, and as the device returns to the surface the scientist is able to fire the Niskin bottles so that they fill with water. For example, we just finished a 340m CDT sample, and Nelson fired the CTD at three depths, 338 m, 70m, and 2 m. On the way down he was able to determine ‘where’ in the water column he wanted to collect his samples, because he was able to ‘watch’ the water parameters change on his computer monitor as the data from the CTD’s sensors streamed in. Interestingly, they fire two bottles at each depth in case one of them fails. It’s just another way to prevent against errors that would be too time consuming and thus too costly to fix. Once at the surface, the scientists and the winch operator guide the CTD back aboard the ship, and secure it to the deck.
While data from the sensors is logged and converted electronically to graphs, the chemical oceanographer begins her work. Cheryl Brown, aka ‘CB’ is an ocean scientist who I have had the pleasure of working with on the day shift. Cheryl works for the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, a University of Miami institute that receives funding through NOAA. She participates in a variety of water quality projects, and spends about 25% of her time at sea. The other 75% of her work is in the lab, where she has multiple responsibilities that include filtration, data processing, and plotting of the samples from her fieldwork. This is common to most areas of field science, where for every hour of fieldwork yields at least double the time in the lab. CB has a degree in marine science, and specialized in marine invertebrates before finding her way to Miami.
The responsibilities on the chemistry deck are numerous. For each CDT deployment, there are a variety of samples that must be prepared from the water collected by the CTD. Each of this same series of samples is required for each depth of water that has been tested. On average, three depths are sampled per CTD deployment, but on this cruise some casts have collected water from four depths, and some have only collected water from the surface. The water from each depth is transferred to a bottle, which has been rinsed three times to avoid contamination, and brought into the wet lab. From there, a nutrient samples, chlorophyll samples, and dissolved CO2 samples are taken.
A nutrient sample is a general measure of ocean health, and includes many of the same samples that might be taken in a home aquarium, like ammonia, nitrates, and nitrites. To prepare the sample, we manually filter 50 ml of seawater into a sterile container, and preserve it with chloroform. It is then placed into the lab cooler. Finally, the time, location, depth, sample number, and collection number are logged.
The next step is to prepare a chlorophyll sample, and this is done with another process. In order to increase accuracy, two-200 ml samples are filtered through a small pad that is connected to a vacuum system. The water passes through the filter and is discarded, but the dissolved chlorophyll stays behind. Both small filters are placed into one vial, and the vial is stored in a liquid nitrogen container on deck. Then the samples are logged.
At some of our stations we have collected dissolved CO2 samples. This measure is also an important measure of ocean health, because CO2 is important to the photosynthetic processes that many reef organisms require. To collect a CO2 sample, a sterile flask is filled to the top with seawater, and 2 microliters of Mercury Chloride (HgCl2) are added. These samples are also logged.
This entire process gets repeated for each depth of water that was brought up in the tubes on the CTD. In the end, a whole lot of lab methods are practiced in a very short amount of time. You can imagine that as the week has gone on, these tasks have become easier and easier. At first, we were running stations about every half an hour, and the seas were quite rough. The amount of work to do in short intervals was a little bit overwhelming, but Cheryl let us all know that is would get easier as the week went on, and we she was right! As I finish up this log and we steam from the Tortugas back to the Keys I am looking forward to perfecting my CTD technique before we finish off the week!
It’s been really inspiring to get to know more about the people I am working with. Everyone here is very passionate about the work they are doing, and it is clear that if it weren’t for the love of the job they wouldn’t be out here bobbing around in the ocean! It is also interesting to hear about the different routes that people have taken to get here. This morning during breakfast I had the chance to talk at length with Cheryl about her recent Peace Corps experience. She was sent to the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu for 27 months to do environmental work and to help facilitate a bank that was going to make micro-loans to women in business. When she got there, plans changed, and she ended up living on a small island called Paama. The island was 2 miles x 7 miles and has 21 villages spread around the coast. What had been an environmental mission turned into an educational one, and she ultimately spent her time on Paama rebuilding a primary school that had been destroyed by a cyclone. She had a canoe specially built for her so she could move about roadless island, and while on Paama she had to adapt to the lifestyle that sounds a lot like backcountry camping to me! Ultimately she had to jump islands on small planes, bargain with shipping captains and work with the entire community to get the school completed.
As I listened to Cheryl tell her story, enthralled by the adventure and romance of her experience, I was reminded of how lucky we are in America to have the education system that we have. It is my hope for my students and colleagues that you all really take advantage of the resources, facilities, and especially the technology what we probably take for granted at times. As I learn more about the future of oceanography I have been especially interested in the direction it is moving, toward space. As more and more remote sensing capabilities are developed, the need for ground proofing will also increase. What is clear to me is that oceanography, like all fields of science, will require dedicated researchers who are passionate about their work and skilled in technology, math, and engineering. There is only one place to get these skills, and its at school, and it requires practice, time, and patience. Thanks to Cheryl’s work, students in that small village on the coast of Paama are able to work toward their education. I challenge everyone at Heights Middle School, myself included, to do their personal best to taking advantage of all of the resources we have in order that our students will become the problem solvers of tomorrow!
I’ll keep posting pictures when I can, and I’m excited to come back to school on Monday!
Here is a shot from the CTD monitor inside the ship. The operator can see what is going on on deck, and follow the ater parameters at the same time.
CTD Monitor inside the ship
In this shot Cheryl and I are preparing to Launch the CTD. I am signaling the winch operator.
Launching the CTD
Another shot of the fantail, and you can see the CTD controlled by a cable via the A-frame.
Here is the CTD collecting a surface sample.
Collecting a Surface Sample
Here I am in the process of collecting water out of a Niskin bottle, so that I can take it inside for preparation. Notice the instrumentation on the bottom of the CTD.
Collecting Water out of a Niskin bottle
Here is a shot of Cheryl getting started in the lab on the sample preparation.
I like this shot, it shows a clean filter pad and a ‘dirty’ one. The pad attached to the vacuum has just finished filtering 200 ml of seawater. The materials on the pad will be analyzed back in Cheryl’s lab on land.
Here is a shot of Nelson Melo. He has been operating the CTD during the day, and he is holding a graph that charted Chlorophyll, temperature, O2, and salinity. This CTD was launched to a depth of 340 m.
Nelson Melo
Nelson’s work (which I described in my Tuesday log) and the data Cheryl pulls out of the samples we’ve collected will help to refine scientist’s capabilities for remote sensing in oceanography. I think its pretty significant that the latest issue of the scientific journal
Oceanography Journal
Oceanography has a satellite on it. This is the direction that ocean science has headed!
Nice Sunset! Almost as good as our New Mexico sunsets!
Donna Knutson, September 12, 2010
NOAA Teacher at Sea Donna Knutson
NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette
Mission: Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey
Geograpical Area: Hawaii
Pearl and Hermes
Me on the “Big Eyes”.
Mission and Geographical Area:
The Oscar Elton Sette is on a mission called HICEAS, which stands for Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey. This cruise will try to locate all marine mammals in the Exclusive Economic Zone called the “EEZ” of Hawaiian waters. The expedition will cover the waters out to 200 nautical miles of the Hawaiian Islands.
Also part of the mission is to collect data such as conductivity for measuring salinity, temperature, depth, chlorophyll abundance. Seabirds sittings will also be documented.
Jay, a steward, checking out the action!
Science and Technology:
Latitude: 27○ 40.6’ N
Longitude: 175○ 48.7’ W
Clouds: 3/8 Cu, Ci
Visibility: 10 N.M.
Wind: 12 Knots
Wave height: 1-2 ft.
Water Temperature: 27.5○ C
Air Temperature: 27.0○ C
Sea Level Pressure: 1021.2 mb
A busy flying bridge.
Pearl and Hermes is the name of an atoll named after two English whaling ships, the Pearl and Hermes, which ran into the surrounding reef in 1822. The twenty by twelve mile atoll is under water most of the time. It has a rich history including shipwrecks, over harvesting of oysters, a military site for war practice, and finally conservation.
Atolls are the remnants of ancient volcanoes. Over millions of years, volcanic eruptions spill magma onto the sea floor. The lava eventually becomes higher than sea level creating an island. With the surface exposed, the now dead volcanoes began to shrink and erode. Over time the island becomes very flat and barely above the water. Corals grow in shallow water around the boundaries of the island. Eventually the island erodes away only leaving the coral reefs around them and a large lagoon in the middle. Through the actions of wind and waves, sand and coral debris come together to make up small islands called islets in a few places where the original large island used to be.
Ernesto and Allan ready to shoot for biopsy samples.
In 2003 the Pearl and Hermes reef measured 300,000 acres. This area is home to thirty three species of stony coral. The islets provide a needed stopping and resting area for seals, turtles and birds. About 160,000 seabirds of seventeen different species nest at Pearl and Hermes.
The ocean surrounding Pearl and Hermes had never been properly surveyed for cetaceans. The HICEAS cruise discovered the water is also rich in wildlife, particularly cetaceans. The beaked whale is one of these cetaceans. There are twenty different species of beaked whales, but the two found in these waters were the Curvier’s and Blainville’s Beaked Whales.
One way to tell them all apart from each other is their teeth. The males all have different sizes, shapes and positions of their teeth in their bottom jaw. The females and juveniles do not have teeth and need to be identified by other means such as the shape of their beak (rostrum). Curvier’s Beaked whale has virtually no beak, the melon of the head slopes smoothly onto a short thick beak. It has a sort of “fish face”. The Blainville’s Beaked Whale has a moderately long beak. The melon for the head is small and flat.
Yvonne and Sussanah listening in.
Blainville’s and Curvier’s Beaked Whales seem to have opposite coloring. The Curvier’s Beaked Whale has a white face and the white coloring continues on to the top of back. The Blainville’s Beaked Whale has the dark gray color on the back and the lighter grey on the underside.
Size is another difference between the whales. The Blainville’s Beaked Whale is smaller with adult males measuring up to fourteen feet six inches and the Curvier’s whale at twenty three feet. All male beaked whales are smaller than the females, but not by much and that is unusual compared to the other species mentioned in previous logs.
Personal Log:
Eddie looking at whales.
The past two days we have been circumnavigating the Pearl and Hermes Atoll. There are only two other “land masses” before we reach the top of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. This region has more animals than anticipated. The science crew of the Sette had 16 sittings and 17 biopsy samples to report. It was a very exciting couple of days. The little boat was launched both mornings and was traveling around the atoll also, but at a closer distance to the coral on its own mission.
In addition to the sightings, Yvonne Barkley, Sussanah Calderan and Niky where listening attentively to the sounds picked up by the array. The array has four mini-mircophones housed in a long rubber cable that picks up various sound frequencies. The acousticians are inside the ship recording and analyzing the sounds they hear. Working together really paid off! A lot of ocean was covered and many animals were discovered.
Beaked Whales
I brought a plastic lawn chair up on the flying bridge because even though I want to write, I don’t want to miss out on any of the action. I wasn’t the only one who wanted a look at the animals, the second steward Jay came up to also take a look through the “big eyes”. I can’t imagine a boat that has a friendlier, more supporting crew!
Bottlenose Dolphin
Some of the sightings included Bottlenose Dolphins, the Curvier’s Beaked Whale, the Blainsville’s Beaked Whale and Sperm Whales (mentioned in log #3), Spinner Dolphins, and Rough Toothed Dolphins (mentioned in log#2).
To me the most exciting part of the two day survey was when the Bottlenose Dolphins were swimming in front of the bow. At one time there were sixteen abreast. All sizes of dolphins playing and “singing” right in front of us! Their whistles were much louder than I ever imagined!
The dolphins were jumping over each other and swimming on their sides and on their backs belly up. It almost seemed to be a contest on silliness. It makes your heart warm when they look you in the eye and seem to want your attention. They had my attention the whole time they swam there! I had to get up on tip toe just to look over the edge as they were so close to the rush of water caused by the ship. The group was traveling and frolicking effortlessly in front of a ship going ten knots! I stayed on tiptoe until the last dolphin drifted away to join the rest of the pack.
The Bottlenose Dolphin is definitely the friendliest, playful cetacean I have seen for far!
Peggy Deichstetter, September 5, 2010
Peggy Deichstetter
Aboard Oregon II
Mission: Longline Shark and Red Snapper Survey
Geographical area of cruise: Gulf of Mexico
Well, I think this coffee has done away with my caffeine habit. I’m down to a half cup diluted with water and that is only because I needed to wake up. I’ve noticed that most of the people on this ship are tea drinkers. Now, I know why.
our shark
Our watch began with sailing to the next plankton station. A squall began, so it was time to get my raingear on. During the squall birds seemed to be attracted to the ship. Toward the end of the storm a little warbler landed on deck. He kept trying to find a place to land away from people. Finally, he was so tired, he landed at my feet. After a few seconds he flew to the edge of the stern. He contently waited out the storm there.
I asked Laurie, one of the marine biologists if she had any ideas on why the birds were following us. Apparently, there was a birder on the last trip that explained because we are close to shore (one of my favorite spots, Corpus Christi) the insect were attracted to our lights and the birds are attracted to the insects.
Again we had problems with the plankton tow. After they got the equipment fixed another squall started and the deployment of the equipment was delayed, once again, until the end of the storm.
Taking Samples
We finally got to the Shark Station. Not too exciting tonight. We only caught two dogfish sharks. I didn’t even take pictures because it paled to what we have all ready done.
We are at the last Shark Station for our watch. I guess we saved the best for last. Hook number 82 gave an 16 foot Sand Shark,. Too big to be brought on deck, she was measured and weighed in her basket. Tissue samples were taken and she was tagged before we let her go. Exciting!!!!
Shark in basket
Story Miller, July 24, 2010
NOAA Teacher at Sea: Story Miller
NOAA Ship: Oscar Dyson
Mission: Summer Pollock III
Geographical Area: Bering Sea
View from the Deck
Time: 1837 ADT
Latitude: 62°11N
Longitude:177°52W
Wind: 15.1 knots (approx. 17.4 mph)
Direction: 156° (SW)
Sea Temperature: 8.3°C (approx. 47°F)
Air Temperature: 7.4°C (approx. 45.3°F)
Barometric Pressure (mb): 1007
Wave Swells: 4 – 5 feet
Wave Height: 1 – 2 feet
Combined: 5 – 6 feet
Scientific Log:
Today started out with the launching of another CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth) and XBT to measure the salinity and temperature of the ocean. On average we typically deploy a little more than one per day, depending on whether we are wanting to hit key locations. Today when we launched two and contrasted locations where there were pollock to locations where there weren’t so we could better analyze how sea temperature affects where the pollock prefer to hang out.
Survey Tech, Robert Spina, taking samples from the CTD
We attempted to launch the Cam-Trawl this morning but as is typical with new equipment, we encountered some problems once it was in the water. And as my students have learned, sometimes it’s necessary to make modifications and try the science experiment again! Even the pro’s must go through the Scientific Method multiple times before they can publish their findings!
Ovaries of a female Walleye Pollock
At approximately 1030 we deployed the AWT and went fishing for more pollock. This time we were able to gather a variety of different ages between the years 1-3. Once the fish are dumped from the codend, they are placed on a type of conveyor belt that allows us to do a preliminary sort through the fish. For example, jellyfish are commonly caught in the net and so we place them in a separate bucket to measure later. Sometimes we accidently catch other fish in the net, this is called bycatch, and they too need to be separated. At the end of the conveyor belt another person weighs baskets of fish and records the weights in the computer. Afterward, we take a random sample of about 400 fish and sex them. This sample is used to determine how many fish of each size are in the sample. Unfortunately we do not have a way to identify the sex of the fish without having to cut into them to see. In addition to measuring, weighing, and sexing the fish, we again took samples of pollock stomachs and otoliths. We conducted two fish hauls during my shift and we will probably do two more tonight.
Testes of a male Walleye Pollock
When we finish collecting the data we must clean the lab. The best part of this cleanup is that the dissected fish become food for the numerous Northern Fulmars trailing our ship and then the lab is simply hosed down, including the computers! We clean the lab after every fishing event because if the fish scales dry out, they become impossible to remove, much like cereal crusted in a bowl! Not to mention all the fish parts would become unbearable stinky when we have a rare, sunny, warm day!
Pollock stomach contents: Amphipods (dark) and some type of fish.
When I walked outside to observe the activity on the deck (where the fishing nets are located in the back of the ship) the fog was very thick. Of course, living in Dutch Harbor, I have become accustomed to such conditions but being out on the boat gave me an entirely new feeling. The boat rocked calmly, pitching every-so-often and overall there was an eerie silence among the crashing of the waves. The fog creeped aboard the boat drifting like fingers into every space available and subtly created a chill when it brushed against your neck. I can understand why sailors are prone to superstitious beliefs.
Northern Fulmars trailing the boat on the starboard side.
Later, the weather cleared into a gorgeous blue sky and the golden sun glistened on the water. I had an exciting day as I was allowed to launch an XBT and able to advance my skills in fish dissecting as I extracted stomachs and otoliths along with my regular fish duties of sorting, sexing, and measuring.
Today was a full day of work and when I when I walked into the mess hall for supper, I could not believe my eyes. There is nothing better than having a chef aboard a ship that cares for his crew. There was turkey, ham, bread dressing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, candied yams, salmon tetrazzini, brown gravy, Tom Yumm Soup, dinner rolls, and corn bread! In addition, we had the lovely view of food art as our chef Ray Capati created a swan out of an apple, bouquets of baby bok choy and celery, “water lilies” made of grapefruit or oranges and mixed with flowers, and palm trees made of carrots and green bell peppers! I feel like I’m eating in a 5-star restaurant aboard the Oscar Dyson!
Ray Capati behind another fantastic, aesthetically pleasing buffet!
Animals Spotted Today:
Today is known by the “birders” from the US Fish and Wildlife folks as the Day of the Jaeger because we were able to see all three species: Longtail, Parasitic, and Pomarine!
Northern Fulmars
Black-legged Kittiwake
Thickbilled Murre
Slaty-backed Gull
Least Auklet
Slaty-backed Gull (Russian seagull)
Jellyfish (Chrysaora Melanaster)
Walleye Pollock
Rock Sole
Silver Salmon (Coho)
Arrowtooth Flounder
Digested shrimps, euphausiids, amphipods, and copepods from pollock stomachs!
Something to Ponder:
Random samples are important in scientific observations because we want to obtain a general idea of what is in the ocean. Imagine if a scientist only selected the largest pollock caught in the codend. How would that skew the data samples and the information given to the public about the pollock in the ocean?
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Norwich Finally Agree Deal For Burnley Centre Back
Date: 3rd September 2020 at 8:56pm
Norwich City have finally agreed a deal to sign centre back, Ben Gibson according to Sun journalist, Alan Nixon.
Burnley to flog Ben Gibson to Norwichafter months ‘striking’ following row with Sean Dyche | @reluctantnicko https://t.co/pR48dyPkC8
— The Sun Football ⚽ (@TheSunFootball) September 3, 2020
According to Mr Nixon, the Canaries have won the race for Gibson’s signature, “having come up with a deal to take on his wages after failing with lower offers in the window.”
Gibson has reportedly spoken to both Nottingham Forest and his boyhood club, Middlesbrough but both of City’s Championship competitors were offering lesser terms, with Norwich’s offer being permanent rather than a loan.
The detail will no doubt come soon enough but I have read other reports (below) suggesting that it will be an initial season-long loan with an agreement to buy. Having parachute payments from their recent relegation is clearly helping the Canaries to pay what is likely to be a hefty salary. I have read reports in which a figure of £45k per week was being mentioned.
NORWICH. Agreed a deal with Burnley for defender Ben Gibson. Will be a season long loan. Norwich paying 70% of his wages and a £2m loan fee. #Ncfc #BurnleyFc
— David Smith (@DavidSJourno) September 3, 2020
The slightly off-putting thing here is that Nixon says the player has been “striking” after a bust-up with Burnley manager, Sean Dyche. That is the first I’ve heard of that but if true, it doesn’t necessarily mean that Gibson is a bad apple. After all, don’t all get on with everyone at our workplace, do we?
If this report is accurate and 27-year-old Gibson is about to sign, I would say he is the final piece of the jigsaw and that this summer’s recruitment has been, at least on paper, very good indeed.
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Hunter Yeats says:
Indeed very good transfer window Mr. Tuckster.
Our squad is stronger and better fit for the Premier League than it was 12 months ago.
The Tuckster says:
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Google Indonesia’s list of top 10 most searched movies in 2019
Captain Marvel. (Photo: Prive. Doc)
IO, Jakarta – Google Indonesia recently released its list of the top 10 trending searched movies in Google Indonesia throughout 2019 in SCBD, Jakarta Selatan on Rabu (11/12/2019). Four out of the ten most searched films in Google Indonesia throughout the year were national movies. The Top 10 Google Indonesia movie searches of 2019 are:
Joker (USA)
Joker. (Photo: Prive. Doc)
Joker from Warner Bros Pictures simultaneously premiered in cinemas all across Indonesia on 2 October 2019. The movie tells the story of the eponymous Joker, Batman’s nemesis, and how he came to be. Joaquin Phoenix plays Arthur Fleck, a stand-up comedian with psychological issues since a young age. In fact, Arthur Fleck frequently suffers from bullying all his life, whether from his colleagues or his neighbors. Finally, he cracked under the constant onslaught and transformed into Joker, one of the most-feared criminals in Gotham City.
Captain Marvel (USA)
Captain Marvel is adapted from the Marvel comics titled Carol Danvers Roy Thomas and Gene Colan. It garnered a profit of more than USD 455 million globally, making it the movie with a female lead character with the biggest profit rate of all time.
Shazam! (USA)
Shazam! tells the story of shy young Billy Batson (Angel Asher), who found one day that he can connect with the ancient Egyptian wizard Shazam, who lent him powers. By saying the wizard’s name, Billy transforms into a strong adult man in a red, white, and yellow costume. Billy calls his alter ego “Shazam” too. The wizard gave Billy six powers to battle evil when in the “Shazam” form: the wisdom of King Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlas, the powers of Zeus (lightning and magic), the courage of Achilles, and the speed and flight ability of Mercury. In the sequel, Shazam the superhero will battle Black Adam (Dwayne Johnson).
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (USA)
Within two weeks of showing, the movie earned USD 174.5 million or equal to IDR 2,5 trillion globally. This exceeds the earnings of both John Wick 2 (USD 171,5 million or IDR 2.4 trillion) and the first John Wick movie (USD 88 million or IDR 1.2 trillion).
Bumi Manusia (“Human Earth”) (Indonesia)
Hanung Bramantyo’s Bumi Manusia is a successful adaptation of Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s classic novel of the same name. It entered the Indonesian box office in 2019 with a total of 1,316,583 watchers.
Gundala (Indonesia)
Slightly under Bumi Manusia, the modernized Indonesian superhero movie Gundala also garnered the interest of 1,699,433 watchers. It is the tale of Sancaka, who has been living in the streets after his parents abandoned him. With such a difficult life, he survives by caring only for himself. However, when the city worsened and injustice spreads out throughout the country, Sancaka must decide whether he would continue to ignore the world and live for himself or rise to become the hero of the oppressed.
Perempuan Tanah Jahanam (“Woman from Accursed Land”) (Indonesia)
This movie was watched by 1,795,068 watchers in its cinematic run. Perempuan Tanah Jahanam tells the story of Maya (Tara Basro), a luckless tollgate maid who was attacked by a stranger at work. Fleeing her run of bad luck in the city, she and her best friend, Dini (Marissa Anita), went back to her hometown because she was told that her family recently died and left her a lot of money. When she arrived at the village, Maya became haunted by a number of dead children. Even worse, the entire living members of the village targeted her life for an unknown hellish purpose.
Avengers: Endgame (USA)
Avengers: Endgame kicked Avatar from its position as the world’s all-time best-selling film. In its press release on 20 July 2019, Disney announced that Endgame’s earnings have exceeded that of Avatar’s on the 13th week of its release. Avatar stayed at the top of the world’s box office for 10 years with total earnings of USD 2.761 billion or IDR 37.8 trillion. On the other hand, Avengers: Endgame earned USD 2.789 billion or IDR 38.1 trillion by 21 July 2019.
Spider-Man: Far from Home (USA)
Captain Marvel initially was the third most watched film in 2019, but the half-alien superhero was defeated by the nerdy webslinger Spider-Man through Spider-Man: Far from Home. The only movie standing between it and Avengers: Endgame for most watched movie of the years is the Disney animated remake of The Lion King. Spider-Man: Far from Home is currently the 8th-most earnings movie in Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Keluarga Cemara (“The Casuarina Family”) (Indonesia)
Keluarga Cemara was especially included in the Okinawa International Film Festival 2019 in Okinawa, Japan, on 18-21 April 2019. The movie, which recorded the struggles of Abah (“Daddy”), Emak (“Mommy”), Euis, and Ara to return to their comfortable life and maintain their unity after their bankruptcy, touched the heart of many Okinawan movie lovers in the festival. (nhn)
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WikiLeaks founder Julien Assange faces ruling on extradition to US
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will learn on Monday whether a British judge has approved his extradition to the United States to face charges including espionage over the release of secret U.S. military documents.
U.S. authorities accuse Australian-born Assange, 49, of 18 counts of conspiring to hack government computers and of breaching a secrecy law by releasing vast troves of confidential military records and diplomatic cables over a decade ago.
If extradited and then found guilty of espionage, Assange could go to prison for 30 to 40 years, his lawyers say, though prosecutors say he would face no more than 63 months in jail.
Whoever loses Monday’s ruling is likely to appeal to London’s High Court and the case could go the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court, further delaying the final outcome.
U.S. prosecutors and Western security officials see Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, as a reckless and dangerous enemy of the state whose actions put at risk the lives of agents whose names were in the material.
Supporters regard him as an anti-establishment hero who has been victimised because he exposed U.S. wrongdoing in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and say his prosecution is an assault on journalism and free speech.
Assange’s legal team said in its closing written submission to Judge Vanessa Baraitser that the prosecution had been politically motivated “during a unique period of U.S. history under the (U.S. President Donald) Trump administration.”
The legal team representing the United States has challenged that assertion, saying U.S. federal prosecutors are forbidden to consider political opinion in making their decisions.
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WikiLeaks published a U.S. military video in 2010 showing a 2007 attack by Apache helicopters in Baghdad that killed a dozen people, including two Reuters news staff. It then released thousands of secret classified files and diplomatic cables.
The legal saga began soon afterwards when Sweden sought Assange’s extradition from Britain over allegations of sex crimes. When he lost that case in 2012, he fled to the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he spent seven years, during which he fathered two children.
When he was finally dragged out in April 2019, he was jailed for breaching British bail conditions although the Swedish case against him had been dropped. Last June, the U.S. Justice Department formally asked Britain to extradite him.
Assange’s legal team say the charges are politically motivated, his mental health is at risk, conditions in U.S. prisons breach Britain’s human rights laws, and he and his lawyers were spied on while he was in the Ecuadorean embassy.
The U.S. legal team has said many of Assange’s defence arguments are issues that should be addressed in a trial and have no bearing on extradition.
There is also a possibility that Joe Biden might reverse the decision to prosecute Assange after Biden succeeds Trump as president later this month.
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Beretta Reported To Be Looking At Central Georgia
August 28, 2013 by John Richardson 3 Comments
The Thomaston (GA) Times is reporting that Beretta was scouting central Georgia as a potential spot for relocation. The Thomaston-Upson Industrial Development Authority had reported last week that a prospect codenamed Project Clover had toured the area and the Central Georgia Business and Technology Park. They confirmed it was a firearms company.
Later in a joint meeting between the Upson County commissioners and town councils for Thomaston and Yatesville, the head of the county commission said the Project Clover was actually Beretta.
During a joint meeting of the Upson County Board of Commissioners (BOC) and the Thomaston and Yatesville city councils Tuesday night, Commission Chairman Rusty Blackston and Mayor Hays Arnold, both members of TUIDA, told the crowd the potential industry is Beretta Firearms.
“We had a very good prospect that, in my impression, is very interested in Upson County,” said Blackston. “They said we could go ahead and make it known to the public who they are. Beretta Firearms is looking to move to Upson County, which would be an impact of approximately 400 to 450 jobs on startup. That would put us on the global market.”
“Let’s make it clear, they have not decided on Thomaston-Upson County,” cautioned Arnold. “But, we are extremely high-ranking on their list at this point in time.”
The executive director of the TUIDA, Kyle Fletcher, said that Beretta was given an overview of the community on everything ranging from healthcare to the new fine arts auditorium. She especially emphasized the employee training opportunities offered through Southern Crescent Technical College’s Training Facility. According to their website, the college does offer programs in CNC Technology and Machine Tool Technology.
Thomaston and Upson County are located almost in the middle of a triangle formed by Atlanta to the north, Macon to the east, and Columbus to the west.
It should be pointed out that even if Beretta does open operations in Georgia they are not likely to stop production for the foreseeable future in Maryland despite that state’s laws. Jeff Reh has stated many times that Beretta has certain obligations to the US military for production of the M9 pistol that would be disrupted if they moved that plant. Beretta has also stated that with the passage of Maryland’s new gun laws that they shelved any plans for expansion of the Accokeek plant.
It was long thought that Beretta would probably do any expansion near their existing operations in Spotsylvania, Virginia. However, plans for a Virginia Railway Express station and a mixed-use development which are adjacent to the Spotsylvania operation have caused Beretta to look elsewhere.
(Jeff) Reh said he understands why Spotsylvania officials chose that site for the VRE station, and why they approved the mixed-use development. But he said Beretta doesn’t want to expand in an area that will be densely populated.
He said the company doesn’t plan to close its existing distribution center but is looking elsewhere for an expansion that could mean a $10 million investment and 50 new jobs.
Reh didn’t offer specifics about the expansion, but according to a letter he wrote to Spotsylvania officials in 2011, the company has plans for a new facility for “the manufacturing of industrial components and testing, either below ground or above ground, of firearms manufactured by Beretta U.S.A. Corp.”
Reh said the company is looking for about 100 acres for the expansion and is considering sites in seven states with laws friendly to firearms manufacturers and the Second Amendment: Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Texas. He said he was looking at sites in the Warrenton area this week and has met previously with Caroline County officials.
West Virginia would have been on the list except for Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV).
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3 thoughts on “Beretta Reported To Be Looking At Central Georgia”
FightinBluHen51 says:
Now that is funny.
Us MD folk have been told Beretta was not leaving, but would not be expanding in the state.
Good for them. Quite frankly, I wish I could follow.
Bring it on Beretta to Upson Co.,Ga. We in Yatesville, Thomaston, and Upson Co. would welcome your family to our family. God bless and Semper Fi.
Beretta chose Tennessee, it was announced yesterday.
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Jaguar XE SV Project 8 prototype spotted at Nurburgring (video)
Brett Davis Sep 04, 2017
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Jaguar has been spotted out and about on the Nurburgring thrashing a prototype version of the almighty Jaguar XE SV Project 8, potentially gunning for a lap record in the production sedan category.
The current production sedan lap record at the legendary circuit is in the hands of the Alfa Romeo Giulia QV, which, funnily enough, competes in the same mid-size sedan segment as this Jag seen here. Could Jaguar overtake the Italian thoroughbred?
Well, the car certainly has the credentials to surpass plenty of records. It already wins in the power wars, with its 5.0-litre supercharged V8 generating an Earth-vibrating 441kW. This is the most powerful engine fitted to a production mid-size premium sedan, and actually the most powerful engine fitted to any production Jaguar, ever.
Out on the Nurburgring the prototype displays a distinct rigour despite all that power going to the rear wheels only. There is, of course, a lot of aero wizardry going on, with a large rear wing integrated into the boot lid, along with a very low and sharp splitter at the front.
From the back you can spot the widened track, which no doubt helps the XE brace the road and improve stability over the regular XE. Some thick, track-ready tyres also help put that power to the ground. The extent of the extra width in tyres and track are supported by pumped out wheel arches.
Jaguar is planning to launch only 300 examples of the Project 8 onto the market. It will be built by Jaguar Land Rover’s Special Vehicle Operations division, just like the Project 7 muscle car based on the F-Type. The open-top sports car was available in Australia, in very limited numbers, which means there is some hope for the XE SV to head Down Under at some point. Check out the video below to see how she goes.
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Patrick Bateman on Nauru? The bizarre prison travelogue of Roman Quaedvlieg
By Tim Robertson
11.Sep.18
The former Commissioner of Australian Border Force, Roman Quaedvlieg, took time out of pouring petrol on the au pair scandal last week to pen his reflections on a far bigger scandal that is somehow not really a scandal at all. Initially self-published, then re-posted on Meanjin, Quaedvlieg wrote about a trip he took to Nauru in the second half of 2015:
I laced my Nike Flyknit trainers in my room, ensuring I set the air-conditioning to the highest fan setting and the lowest possible temperature before I headed off on a 7km run back through the Anibare Bay Area. Experience had taught me that if I didn’t cool off quickly after running in high heat and humidity that I’d still be sweating profusely when getting ready for the early evening BBQ dinner […] As I showered, first in cold water and then in warm water to keep my skin pores open and breathing, I was searching for a word, a phrase, that could adequately describe the overall impression of my observations of Nauru so far.
The tone and voice, the obligatory brand-check, the tedious, pointless details and the strange obsession with personal grooming seemed familiar. Compare it to, say, this passage:
I worked out heavily at the gym after leaving the office today but the tension has returned, so I do ninety abdominal crunches, a hundred and fifty push-ups, and then I run in place for twenty minutes while listening to the new Huey Lewis CD. I take a hot shower and afterwards use a new facial scrub by Caswell-Massey and a body wash by Greune, then a body moisturizer by Lubriderm and a Neutrogena facial cream.
Roman Quaedvlieg reads like Patrick Bateman.
The verbosity that makes American Psycho almost unreadable in parts permeates every paragraph of Quaedvlieg’s reminiscences. A cargo vessel bobs ‘like a cork in a turbulent tub while fluro-vested peons affixed cargo netting’. He’s not attentive; rather his ‘ears pricked up at the occasional synaesthetic colouring in the otherwise monochrome solilophy’. And he doesn’t just think through a problem, he tries ‘to dissolve a cognitive knot’.
There are times when Quaedvlieg, like Bateman – slaves to their consuming compulsion for tedium – abandons any semblance of narrative altogether and, instead, just starts making lists. Quaedvlieg’s ‘dreamy reverie’ (anyone who uses adjectives so liberally is bound to strike upon a tautology or two) includes ‘Paul Gauguin, Thor Heyerdahl, Somerset Maugham, James A. Michener and the Reverend Missionary John Williams’ (yeah, we get it, you’re an Intellectual). The answer to one of his questions is punctuated with the ‘usual words’: ‘Corruption, profligacy, elitism, political, fraudulent, poor investments, bankruptcy.’ Dogs aren’t just dogs, they’re ‘semi-domesticated, mangy, dingo-esque, yapping and biting at the lower legs’. Dinner includes: ‘Buffet salads and breads, tropical fruits, marinated BBQ meats, and a modest selection of Australian beer, wine and soft drinks.’ The ‘least professional’ security contingent are recognisable by their ‘bellicosity, tightly tailored shirts, muscularity on display, “special forces” watches, cargo-pant trouser legs tucked into steel-toed Magnum boots, webbed utility belts cluttered with accoutrements, and lanyards tucked pre-emptively into their epaulettes in the event of a physical confrontation.’ Okay, enough.
Quaedvlieg also possesses the most Batemanesque trait of all; he is self-referential without being self-reflective. When he spots two refugee men holding hands and is told that they’re the only two openly gay men on the island, he writes:
They had consciously chosen to live overtly as a gay couple and for their perceived sin they had been harassed often and assaulted occasionally. They walked into the Capelle & Partner supermarket with empty woven bags, I presumed to buy ingredients for dinner.
Well, one can’t question his powers of presumption. But there’s a cold detachment in the way he juxtaposes the two realties of their daily lives: the constant threat of violence and the most mundane of tasks are placed side by side, as if of equal value and significance. This would be bad enough were he just an impartial observer, but he’s not.
It’s never entirely clear what role he sees himself playing in the horror show all around him. On the first day, looking out over Nauru’s once rich phosphate deposits, Quaedvlieg observes a ‘barren landscape of spires bearing testament to the callous greed of colonialism.’ He wakes the next morning ‘still thinking about the history of colonisation of Nauru’. But it’s a history that extends until the present day; the small island nation is still essentially an Australian colony. Nauru is still economically dependent on its larger neighbour and, in return, is made to warehouse the refugees the Australian government sees as superfluous. Does Quaedvlieg not recognise this and see that he is, by extension, a very significant cog in the colonial wheel? Or does he see himself as a kind of morally superior observer like John Flory, ‘the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature’, in Burmese Days?
Speckled throughout his over-wrought prose, Quaedvlieg makes some frank admissions about the conditions on Nauru: ‘the hospital was a veritable ruin’; Fly Camp, village-style accommodation for those granted refugee status, ‘was jolting in its squalidness’ and the atmosphere at processing centre ‘was dangerously reminiscent of the prisons I had been in’ and its population showed the ‘unsettling signs of the volatility of an incarcerated population’. But these conditions, although regularly refuted by the government, have been described in far greater detail elsewhere. Quaedvlieg isn’t providing anything new here.
As he’s preparing to leave Nauru, the fearless Commissioner pushes his way through the throng and engages in conversation with a Nauruan he spots leaning against a fence in the distance:
He was employed by the Australian OPC contractor to deliver material and food to Fly Camp and was its dedicated liaison officer. I asked him about the attacks on the camp by locals and he smiled wryly as he told me of the provocations. I asked him about drugs in the camp and he asked me what I wanted and how much.
I asked him about the availability of alcohol in the camp and he told me it depended on the reliability of contraband shipments, but he showed me an area off a slope at the edge of the camp where thousands of bottles and cans lay discarded. I asked him about prostitution and he pointed at three teenage Nauruan girls seated waiting on the other side of the road for me to leave.
Is this passage meant to imply that the refugees are not guilt free? That they’re not innocent victims? That they bear some responsibility for the squalid situation they’ve found themselves in?
Quaedvlieg, whose quick-cast aspersions disingenuously question the character of refugees, doesn’t once probe his own moral culpability in the cruelty that surrounds him. That sort of self-examination – which he seems incapable of – would be worth reading; instead, he’s indulged his undergraduate literary fantasies and produced a prison island travelogue, in which he – the very important, very capable high official – is at the centre (‘I instinctively switched into a state of hyper-alert as the first perceptions hit my sense, my sixth sense screaming’) and the prisoners and lowly officials are mere props in his world.
Image: American Psycho – This is Not and Exit / flickr
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Roman (self-romanticiser, heading for a midlife breakdown?) doesn’t assume, he “presumes”; it doesn’t occur to him that the Nauruan liaison officer might have been having him on (Nauruan sense of humour vs. RQ’s apparently complete lack of one) when asked about drugs; and that liaison guy, easily identifiable by the community (it’s a small island with a smallish population) would be tarred and feathered and run out of town for indicating that three girls in the line of vision were available as prostitutes. Nor does it seem to have crossed RQ’s mind that the “peons” and suchlik island types are actually able to read, write, and use the Internet: the Nauruan Facebook commentary on his now notorious published rant is a great read. Although, in this year of celebrating 50 years of Independence, your remark about the Republic of Nauru still being a sort of Australian dependency – well, that’ll hurt! Anyway, RQ’s blather (he’s come rather late to the crusader party, hasn’t he?) is yet another racist insult to the Nauruan community from Australia, and in that regard it harms everyone including the detainees. Geez, his writing is weird! Thanks for yours!
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August Poetry Postcard Fest 2014 Afterword
2014 Postcard Afterword
471. Killing Gato
It has become a ritual for me to write about my experience with the August Poetry Postcard Fest on September 1 each year. That September is my birth month lends it a little more glow in my mind, but there is always a feeling of melancholy with this month. Summer is not over, but the light has changed, the days, shorter, and many people call Labor Day the end of summer. The 80 degree days forecast for late this week may change some of this, but the change in light and day length are here to stay and my mind tries to hang on to summer for as long as possible.
For each poem this August I used a line by Denise Levertov for the epigraph. Starting postcard poems with quotes from other poets is now an established part of my postcard method. This is a great way to be exposed to a poet’s work and that Levertov lived about a ten minute walk from where I now live, makes it (in my mind) a necessity to have a deeper experience with her work. She had such a spiritual pull, especially toward the end of her life, when she lived in Seattle and wrote poems about The Mountain and that’s inspiring, but I am not inspired by her more overt religious overtones and references.
The postcards always reflect what’s happening in my life and in addition to my long trip (17 days) to Mexico for the 14th Subud World Congress, I visited Charles Potts in Walla Walla at the end of the month. The August Poetry Postcard Fest now actually starts in mid-July, which is a huge break for me, as a two-year old tends to have an agenda that is sometimes counter to the alone time needed to do something like the postcard fest properly. Gato Barbieri’s gnarly tone on tenor saxophone colored the first poem, (471. Killing Gato) which was written during a time in which I was listening to Carla Bley’s Escalator Over the Hill double cd in the car for a week or so.
472. Dos Rodillas Artificiales
My ongoing investigation into proprioception combined with my late Dad’s Mother showing up in my dream, a potent combination for poetry. That Dad had two knees replaced makes my investigation of the correspondence between though patterns and physiology especially poignant right now and is reflected in 472. Dos Rodillas Artificiales.
473. More Listening Than Longing
473. More Listening Than Longing combines the deep Levertov understanding of the organic poem with Lissa Wolsak’s notion of deepening our own personal gesture and is informed by scene glimpsed walking around my Hillman City neighborhood.
474. Ghost Training
474. Ghost Training goes again to process. Jack Spicer and Denise Levertov did not especially care for one another, and one brief encounter was enough to spur a poem or two by each, but their poetics, the notion of receiving, seemed to me to have a lot in common.
The ongoing Israeli offensive into Gaza captured a good deal of my Facebook energy, as I have two friends who seem to have an excuse for everything Israel does, which I find unfortunate and enabling the slaughter of civilians and, just today, the ongoing seizure of Palestinian land. (See: THIS LINK).
475. Counterstroke
This issue started to show up in 475. Counterstroke, which refers to Levertov’s legendary activism. In her case the USAmerican War in Vietnam was the incursion to oppose and criticize.
476. Logic of Ordnance
It continued more deliberately in 476. Logic of Ordnance and in a poem a little later in the series.
477. Still Echoing (Lennie Tristano)
477. Still Echoing was inspired by the music of Jazz pianist Lennie Tristano and a book I was reading at the time by Peter Ind on his experience with Tristano and about Tristano’s visionary nature. I did post about the book here and I do see the similarities between Levetov’s organic approach, the real improvised gesture as displayed by Tristano and other Jazz musicians and other 50s flowerings of spontaneity such as the Gestalt approach to psychic wholeness, Comedy Improv and other expressions of life ensconced in the moment. The postcard project is an outgrowth of those ways of engaging reality in, I think, a deeper way than we normally experience in western society.
478. Hipster Cancer
There was a rant against hipsters (478. Hipster Cancer) those who put the appearance of cool over being human. That the image on the card was by Clyfford Still, was telling. The image is an early Still painting, when he appears to have been depicting the drudgery of farm life. The specific example is not as obvious as others in Still’s series, but how the cards and poems find their own symmetry is interesting. Occasionally too, the poems will slip in a line or image from one of the received postcards, but it was often too hard for me to remember to document those occasions. The received postcards then become part of the vast spice rack of language from which I pluck a line or phrase to sweeten the card. In addition to not being able to give proper credit to the source of any quote (& I usually quote or paraphrase the postcard reference) I did not even get the numbering of the cards right! I have corrected that here, though cards are now in the universe with improper numbering, a huge letdown for a perfectionist Virgo!
479. Girl w/ the Green Hair is the first of two collage experiments. My feeling about the use of parenthesis is that it is a more exact transcription of the thought process that happens during composition. In this poem those parenthetical thoughts in part reflect the politically correct culture of Cascadia. I am reminded of Sam Hamill telling a story of someone talking in a disembodied/pseudo intellectual way to Robert Creeley and Creeley’s response was “who did that to you!?!” So, a little fun-poking, part editor’s mind incursion, but also reflecting convictions too. The neo-barroco approach to composition is something that liberated the possibility of parenthetical incursions into the poem and I’ve written about that stance toward poem-making here: https://paulenelson.com/2012/12/06/neo-barroco/.
480. More Dead Air
480. More Dead Air comes from a rent dream (probably that morning or the day before) and is a reference to a recurring dream (nightmare) of panicking over dead air. I have heard other radio professionals have this dream and 8 years after my last professional radio gig, it does come up from time to time.
481. Dispatch From the Fringe is a quote from a Facebook friend (& one time postcard participant) about a link I put on Facebook regarding one take on the situation in Israel/Gaza. (A conflict that troubles me to no end.) The poem itself is almost all quotes, including lines from the baseball game that was playing on the radio. So, it is the other collage poem, or one that was intentionally a collage. To me it is fascinating to see how the poem emerges from wherever it comes from. One could perceive from the title of Robin Blaser’s seminal essay, The Practice of Outside, that the poem’s source is beyond the poet, but when the poem in the moment of composition clicks for me, its source is near the intersection of what is my small “s” self and those systems of which I am a smaller participant in the larger force: my household, neighborhood, city, state, bioregion, country, hemisphere, planet, galaxy. One might say the frequencies of these forces inform the poem and they are just a few. But I knew I had something when I saw the words that becomes the title of 481. See also the videopoem version of this.
482. Corset Warrior Armor is the first of ten poems written in Mexico, during my trip to Mexico City and Puebla to do two things: Visit Casa Azul, the former home of Frida Kahlo and attend the 14th Subud World Congress. My 2007 Frida poem was well-received at the Poems for Peace event at the World Congress and my wife was excited to hear about more Frida poems, since she is sick of that old one. Visiting Casa Azul is something I have wanted to do for a long time, so when I heard that Subud would have its once-in-four-years gathering in Mexico, it became a plan to see her house and I was not disappointed. In addition to the vibe, the truly Mexican feeling of the home, the kitchen, the bright colors, and the vibe that Frida left behind, that of a tremendously courageous and uncompromising woman making her was as she saw fit in a man’s world, the temporary exhibit of her clothing was stunning and eye-opening. The corsets she had to wear to make bearable her pain stemming from the legendary streetcar accident she had as a young woman were on display and anyone with any human feelings could only have empathy for what she had to go through to make it through another day. That she had a photo of butterflies above her bed as the last image she would see before falling asleep tells you a little bit about the personal mythology of one who would not let many things stop her from being the remarkably creative and focused woman she was. (Of course I bought postcards at the gift shop, as I did yesterday at the Seattle Aquarium and at FedEx the week before, though the FedEx cards were of my own design.)
There is a great stolen quote describing Frida near the end of 483. Iniciador which was on the wall at Casa Azul. I think it was around this time that my numbering got off track, with the Congress, the intense focus on historic blockages to my own health and well-being and negotiating a town and culture with very little Spanish. 484. Cricket Speak again has a Frida connection and begins to include more Spanish, a reflection again of the mind at work in the moment, being plunged into a new (to me) and softer culture. I really feel like the sense of competition, so rampant in the casino-capitalist culture of the U.S. was taken down several notches and I learned how to make sure I would not pay an extra 10 pesos for a cab ride (most of the time) and eventually would take the bus to the Congress and back, if I did not walk, taking in the smells and colorful sites of this colonial era town. The poems, I think, give you a better description of Puebla and my experience better than can be said in prose.
485. El Espejo is a reference to my fascination with all the mirrors for sale at the Zocalo. I got one especially good selfie after I bought my new hat and chaleco and have used it as a Facebook profile photo for a while. The mix of cultures and the best parts of those, the wisdom cultures from around the world, is evident in this poem.
486. Tormenta Gigante was indicative of another blessings in Puebla, summer thunderstorms. Marston Gregory, my Subud Seattle brother, mentioned that Puebla was chosen for the World Congress despite the fact that August was the time of their rainy season. Still, living in Cascadia where the locals do seem to be tormented by these events, I loved hearing the thunder and the feeling one gets when the light and sound of such events are not separated by much.
487. Sin Carne comes from a phrase Bhakti Watts had to say over and over to make sure she could maintain a vegetarian diet, which she was almost totally successful in doing. (Sometimes she had to explain that she did not want pollo either.) A Subud Portland member and postcarder! We had a lot to discuss and helped each other navigate the world outside the Congress. She was also witness to my life-changing session of Ontological Kinesiology, of which mudras were a part. The fact that I had a touch of Montezuma’s Revenge also begins to inform the poems at this point.
488. Hold the Thorns reflects my preference for blood oranges over the graphic blood of Christ. Being a good Subud member, I am more than a little suspicious of dogma and though the cathedrals elegant and worth a closer look, including the one on the pyramid in Cholula which in part inspired this poem, the focus on Christ’s death for me has been one of the limitations in Christian art and surely in the mythic aspect. I’d give a few pesos for more representations of Christ challenging the money changers, but what can you do?
489. Bandera de la Mariposa is a reference to an exhibit Bhakti and I saw at Museo Amparo. A beautiful museum in a restored colonial building, the main exhibit featured the work of Pablo Vargas Lugo. A Mexican artist he had several projects on display at the museum, the most striking of which was an exhibit featuring colorful rectangular pieces that were the reproductions of over 50 species of South American butterflies. The colors and patterns, as you can imagine, were beautiful on their own, but the implication that we ought to have as much reverence for these creatures as we do for the symbols of the abstractions we call “nations.” Nanao Sakaki, turning around a poem by Tu Fu, said: “The mountains are rivers are destroyed. The nation remains.” This is the state we have devolved into and Vargas Lugo turns that “conventional wisdom” on its head with this project that works on so many levels. It is the rare bit of “conceptual” art that has real depth and is a comment on ecology that does not come across as didactic in the least. I found this work, and other exhibits he had on display quite inventive and expect to see more from Pablo Vargas Lugo in the future. The first poem inspired by the exhibit contrasted that reverence for the natural world on display at the museum with events back home that flared up in August. I was stunned by bold repression of constitutional rights the Ferguson, Missouri, police displayed in the wake of the murder of Michael Brown, an unarmed young black man. 490. Bronzing Mexican Air continues the references to the ontological kinesiology session and a different Pablo Vargas Lugo exhibit at the museum.
491. Uncommon Speech is one of my favorite postcard poems from 2014. It combines an image from German Montalvo, another Mexican artist whom I met at the Congress. He has made his own collages of the tops of famous works of art paired with the bottoms of fútbol players in another remarkably successful artistic gesture. I have several of his large postcards left and there is one that combines a fútbol player with a famous Magritte image that I may frame. Montalvo was part of a panel discussion on the Future of Design. The card reflects images of Puebla with the intention of the Congress (helping Subud members to exist more often at the noble human level of consciousness) as well as the trouble created by the culture of competition and the unfettered growth required by the demands of capitalism so endemic back home.
492. Star Lings is the first post-Congress poem, written in Seattle and has the softness of domestic life and old images which may now be part of my personal mythology, starlings and Steller’s Jays. That there were horses on the card, which I made myself at the Denver Art Museum, would be an image that would recur later in the month with a visit to the ranch of Walla Walla poet Charles Potts. he raises Appaloosas and they would make quite an impression on my youngest daughter Ella Roque.
By 493. Rose Petals & Chicharrones, I was still thinking about Puebla and Cholula, likely because of the card and the persistence of the experience. I loved feeding pigeons chicharrónes and love saying that word. It was something we’d eat now and then when I was a boy and that we were sever them in a restaurant was beautiful. Bhakti, being sin carne, of course avoided them.
494. Momentarily Non-Local is a sort of Levertov meets Whitman meets the notion of multiple selves. Sam Hamill says I am a “man of a thousand faces” and at least that many selves. Agai Cholula memories but this time palpably from Cascadia. Were I to edit this, I’d take out the word “like.”
495. Hazards is steeped in Buddhism and one of the quotes was directly from a postcard poem that I received, I think, but I can’t find it now! I loved it when Brenda Hillman described her own work as “experimental lyric” because of the notion of song implied by that characterization. I find much of my time in latihan turns to song, from the riffing of Shaker Indian medicine songs to improvised versions of the thousands of tunes that go through an old DJ’s head, music has always been a huge part of my life. I was watching a guy with earbuds walk by me on the ferry today and thought that I’d prefer to have my sense of sound available to me while I am in such a public place. Also, music tends to go through my head quite often from memory, as it did when I was lost in the Olympics. Might be Charlie Christian playing Til Tom Special with Benny Goodman, Carla Bley playing One Banana, Pictures of Matchstick Men by the Status Quo, or Basin Street Blues by Keith Jarrett, recorded live at The Deer Head Inn. A Jazz musician and Subud member I met in Puebla told me he could hear the Jazz rhythms in the work I read at the Congress and it’s a high compliment when that things happens, which is rare and takes a certain kind of ear.
496. The Occasional Chicharrón has more Congress and Puebla reflections, another reference to Vargas Lugo’s butterfly nation flags and the impending USAmerican football season, the advent of which signals the end of summer in many different ways. The intense violence of the game is a contest to the pastoral nature of baseball, which has no clock and is a summer game. George Carlin’s bit on the difference between the two sports comes to mind, but that the U.S. is addicted to violence in every manifestation is a living example of Diane di Prima’s prophetic line, “the only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All other wars are subsumed in it.”
497. Levertov Butterfly Nation is an homage in part to the woman to whom I was paying tribute with every poem I wrote for the 2014 Postcard Fest. I visited her grave on a couple of occasions and sent out at least one card that was made from a picture of her last home, the one on Seward Park Avenue in Seattle. That Levertov is buried not far from Bruce and Brandon Lee is referenced in the poem.
498. Depth Untended became a bioregional poem with the Levertov epigraph I chose for the occasion. (Or that which chose me.) It takes a note David McCloskey sent to me, that a cartographer took offense that he, McCloskey, had the temerity to name ice fields in the bioregion! Cascadia, to me, is (of course, in part) the natural features such as the Olympic Mountains I can see from the back of the Sealth Ferry, the sky dotted with the white of seagulls attempting to mooch fries from tourists, USAmerican football fans streaming in to see their Championship Seahawks begin the defense of their Super Bowl title and the huge white stipe made by the wake of the boat, but it is also the super creative people who made contributions to the culture here. Levertov’s spirituality, McCloskey’s love for the bioregion and his effort to open people up to the concept of a Cascadian culture that sings through us, and many other people who crop up in my work from time to time. Levertov and her methods have yet to be appreciated fully, which might be a huge part of my personal myth given people like her and Lennie Tristano, referenced earlier. I am drawn to these unappreciated, or under-appreciated in Levertov’s case, geniuses.
499. Literary Bruxism combines more personal myth (bruxism) with a Jazz reference, a Southern Cascadia totem (Giant Redwood) along with another line lifted from a postcard I got. This one from Catherine Lewis of Bothell, WA.
500. Passing Lane reflects a life firmly back home into the routine of taking walks in my Hillman City/Seward Park neighborhood, learning the names of local plants (which may not be local) and diving back into the daily competition/domination exercise the locals call “freeway driving.” The last line is a reference to a line from Charles Potts.
501. Hawthorn Presence uses an image I took on my cellphone of the house Levertov lived in, images of my visit with Charles Potts in Walla Walla and one smudge from a Hawthorn berry I put in my pocket while Charles took Mer,Ella and I up to a ridge on the back 750 to see his horses and a 360 view that included Black Snake Ridge.
This is my story and if it is not the longest postcard afterword I have ever done, it feels like it. I am now going to look over the cards I received and make some random notes on them. The depth of my gratitude for this project continues to grow, year after year, and I’m also quite grateful for all the kind notes on Facebook, my blog and elsewhere about how much people appreciate this August respite from the rat race and the plunge into spontaneous composition. I have big plans for year 9 in 2015.
3:39P – 9.4.14
Hillman City (Seattle), WA
2014 Poems
472. Dos Rodillias Artificiales
477. Still Echoing (For Lennie Tristano)
479. Girl w/ the Green Hair
481. Dispatch From the Fringe (See also videopoem version of this.)
482. Corset Warrior Armor
483. Iniciador
484. Cricket Speak
485. El Espejo
486. Tormenta Gigante
487. Sin Carne
488. Hold the Thorns
489. Bandera de la Mariposa
490. Bronzing Mexican Air
491. Uncommon Speech
492. Star Lings
493. Rose Petals & Chicharrones
494. Momentarily Non-Local
495. Hazards
496. The Occasional Chicharrón
497. Levertov Butterfly Nation
498. Depth Untended
499. Literary Bruxism
500. Passing Lane
501. Hawthorn Presence
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Another win for the plastic waste fight
The Nordic council meeting in Reykjavik concluded with a major step forward in the fight against marine plastic pollution, announcing the first formal call for a global treaty to regulate plastic waste management. The detailed action is yet to be figured out and established, but the move should inspire other countries to come together and reach an agreement sooner rather than later.
According to Marco Lambertini, Director General of WWF-International, eight million tons of plastic are being dumped into the oceans every year. Besides the harmful impact on the shore, plastic pollution threatens the numerous seabirds and marine animals, who suffer from indigestion after consuming small plastic particles.
WWF supports the cause and is calling for a nation-wide treaty with a petition in place on their website. They hope to establish transparent reporting mechanisms and set national targets. With about 195,000 supporters already, the goal of 250,000 is certainly close.
We at Poseidon Expeditions have signed already, and encourage you to join us. For a similar cause, we actively participate in the Clean up Svalbard project, reducing beach waste on each of our Arctic landings. Read more about our environmental commitments here.
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How 12 teens invented a solar-powered tent for the homeless.
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Source: https://mashable.com/2017/06/15/diy-girls-solar-powered-tent-homeless/?europe=true&fbclid=IwAR2a_0nCjP5GgS-B0L0YoKYhwXNPizo8oF2HUw6Z6RxZZArUrTvCPyxeK2g#VdSNTeZ1GSqy
As Daniela Orozco picks off excess plastic bordering a 3D-printed box, she recalls how many homeless people she saw on her way to school when she was a high school freshman.
Just one.
Four years later, the number has multiplied. People live on a main thoroughfare near the school, at a nearby park, and below the off-ramps and bridges in her hometown of San Fernando, which is about 20 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. In the San Fernando Valley, homelessness increased 36% to 7,094 people last year, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Agency’s annual count. Daniela and her friends wanted to help, but giving money wasn’t an option.
“Because we come from low-income families ourselves, we can’t give them money,” the high school senior says.
“We wanted to offer something besides money,” her classmate, Veronica Gonzalez, chimes in.
That was the starting point for their invention: a solar-powered tent that folds up into a rollaway backpack. The girls and 10 others from their high school had never done any hands-on engineering work before, but with the help of YouTube, Google, and trial-and-error, they got it done.
They hope that one day, their tent will improve the lives of people experiencing homelessness in their community.
Paulina Martinez zips up the solar-powered tent as the team works on final sewing touches.
Left to right: Kassandra Salazar, Paulina Martinez, and Paola Valtierra, help DIY Girls Executive Director Evelyn Gomez set up the solar-powered tent.
The teen girls from San Fernando High School worked on their invention over the course of a year. Come June 16, they’ll present it at MIT as part of a young inventors conference. The teens, none of whom had coded, soldered, sewn, or 3D-printed before they joined forces, won a $10,000 grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program to develop the invention.
They were recruited by DIY Girls, a nonprofit that teaches girls from low-income communities about engineering, math, and science, to go after the grant.
“I knew I wanted to apply for it, but I needed a team,” says Evelyn Gomez, 29, the executive director of DIY Girls. “I went back to my calculus teacher at my high school and did a hands-on recruitment activity.”
Most of the girls didn’t know each other before, but they quickly became close friends.
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When DIY Girls was founded in 2012, the nonprofit worked with 35 girls in one elementary school classroom. Last year, it served 650 girls in elementary, middle, and high schools throughout Los Angeles County. The small nonprofit even keeps a waitlist because demand for its services is so high.
Hands-on STEM education at schools, especially for girls in low-income communities, is severely lacking, Evelyn says. Women make up just 29% of the science and engineering workforce, according to the National Science Board, a federal agency. Around 6% of female working scientists and engineers are Hispanic or Latina.
Prinsesa Alvarez shows off the solar-powered tent in its rollaway backpack.
When packed up, the tent looks like a “big blue sun,” Prinsesa Alvarez says. A clear opening on the backpack lets sun shine through to charge the solar panels.
I was often the only girl in the class and definitely the only Latina in the class. It felt like kind of imposter syndrome.
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“I studied aerospace engineering. When I was getting my master’s degree, I was often the only girl in the class and definitely the only Latina in the class. It felt like kind of imposter syndrome,” says Evelyn, who got her master’s from UCLA. “It’s such a farfetched idea: You’re going to represent the Latina community in a bad light if you ask a stupid question or you’re going to represent women in a bad light if you ask a stupid question, and of course that’s not true. But I felt that.”
And she doesn’t want the girls working on the tent to ever feel that way. None of their parents are engineers. Some of them will be the first in their families to go to college.
Top image: Daniela Orozco uses pliers to pick off excess plastic from a 3D-printed box that will house wires for the solar panels. Bottom image: Left to right: Paulina Martinez, America Hernandez, and Maggie Mejia, check out the teams’ social media channels.
In the beginning, the team depended on Evelyn for guidance, but they quickly started doing everything on their own. If they had an issue with a solar panel not functioning properly, they watched YouTube videos. If they couldn’t figure out a stitch pattern, they Googled it. The girls even developed their own inspirational hashtag: #wegetitdone.
If your parents miss X amount of bills, you can fall into homelessness, too.
“You’re learning new things you’ve never even heard of or even thought of,” says Chelly Chavez, who learned the programming language C++ to get the technical aspects of the tent to behave. The tent has button-powered lights, two USB ports, a micro-USB port, and the girls have even tested a sanitizing UVC light on a countdown timer.
“We’re just like, ‘how do we do this,’ ‘how do we do this,'” notes Prinsesa Alvarez as she helps Chelly with a mess of wires during a recent team meeting.
The girls work on their project six days a week, getting together even through their winter and spring breaks. They often come home after hours of sewing to find loose needles falling off their clothes. They made two prototypes of the tent, but the first one is now in shreds. They put it through the ringer during quality control tests, tearing it with a knife, dousing it with water, and stomping on it.
“When they were hitting it, my heart dropped,” says Paulina Martinez as she stitches one of the tent’s edges. They destroyed their finished product, just to start again. It was yet another tough engineering lesson the girls would learn.
Left to right: Wendy Samayoa and Prinsesa Alvarez chat about the project over their laptops.
The LED lights the team has been testing before finishing their final product.
Paulina Martinez sews material for the tent.
Left to right: Patricia Cruz and Veronica Gonzalez inspect a 3D-printed box.
Before settling on their tent idea, the team had tossed out other options. They wondered: What could they do about pollution or water quality? But they realized they wanted to invent something that would help their community more directly.
“Because we live here, we see it growing constantly,” Maggie Mejia says of the homeless population. For her, it even hits close to home: “If your parents miss X amount of bills, you can fall into homelessness, too.”
Maggie and the others don’t have concrete plans for the future of their invention after the MIT presentation, but they hope it could eventually be mass-produced.
Maggie Mejia explains why she joined DIY Girls.
The team tested several materials before deciding what to use in their solar-powered tent.
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The $10,000 grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program could only be used on the invention itself, not traveling to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to present the award. So DIY Girls fundraised an additional $15,000 to send the team to MIT, an expense the girls’ families couldn’t otherwise bear.
But they’ve made it, and it’s a success story that could make a really big impact. Already featured by local TV stations and Ryan Seacrest on his morning radio show, the team wants their accomplishment to encourage other girls to pursue STEM careers.
“Me and her, we’re the only two junior girls in our AP Calculus class, which has way more guys than girls,” says Paola Valtierra, pointing to Kassandra Salazar, who dreams of being an astronaut and has a tiny, metal one on her keychain. “But we’re gonna change that.”
The team won a $10,000 grant to invent the solar-powered tent.
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Impact of fractionation on out-of-field survival and DNA damage responses following exposure to intensity modulated radiation fields
Mihaela Ghita, Caroline B. Coffey, Karl T Butterworth, Stephen J McMahon, Giuseppe Schettino, Kevin M Prise
Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology
To limit toxicity to normal tissues adjacent to the target tumour volume, radiotherapy is delivered using fractionated regimes whereby the total prescribed dose is given as a series of sequential smaller doses separated by specific time intervals. The impact of fractionation on out-of-field survival and DNA damage responses was determined in AGO-1522 primary human fibroblasts and MCF-7 breast tumour cells using uniform and modulated exposures delivered using a 225 kVp x-ray source. Responses to fractionated schedules (two equal fractions delivered with time intervals from 4 h to 48 h) were compared to those following acute exposures. Cell survival and DNA damage repair measurements indicate that cellular responses to fractionated non-uniform exposures differ from those seen in uniform exposures for the investigated cell lines. Specifically, there is a consistent lack of repair observed in the out-of-field populations during intervals between fractions, confirming the importance of cell signalling to out-of-field responses in a fractionated radiation schedule, and this needs to be confirmed for a wider range of cell lines and conditions.
Physics in Medicine and Biology
https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/61/2/515
© 2016 Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
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Ghita, M., Coffey, C. B., Butterworth, K. T., McMahon, S. J., Schettino, G., & Prise, K. M. (2016). Impact of fractionation on out-of-field survival and DNA damage responses following exposure to intensity modulated radiation fields. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 61(2), 515-526. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/61/2/515
Ghita, Mihaela ; Coffey, Caroline B. ; Butterworth, Karl T ; McMahon, Stephen J ; Schettino, Giuseppe ; Prise, Kevin M. / Impact of fractionation on out-of-field survival and DNA damage responses following exposure to intensity modulated radiation fields. In: Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2016 ; Vol. 61, No. 2. pp. 515-526.
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Together with Rabbi Yonah Series Premier — Surviving COVID-19, Special Interview with Eli Beer
In the first episode of Together with Rabbi Yonah we speak with the incredible and inspiring Eli Beer about his experience surviving COVID19. Eli is the President of United Hatzalah in Israel, the volunteer paramedic organization.
May 1, 2020 /by rabbiyonah
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My Yom Haatzmaut Prayer for 5780
Thank you God for Israel. Thank you God everyday for the miracle of Israel that my ancestors longed and prayed for. Thank you for the miraculous salvation and the start of the Great redemption of Israel and the world.
God, protect the defenders of our Sacred land armed with rifles and prayer books. Protect Israel from baseless hatred from our enemies and ourselves.
God, Raise up Israel as a light unto the nations bringing peace and salvation to the world.
God, although we are not deserving, we are impatient. The birth pangs of Redemption are painful and we pray for an end of these 2,000 years of waiting.
Lift up our weary spirits. Fulfill your promise today. Gather the rest of your dispersed children of Israel who are spread to four corners of the Earth. Gather those who are spiritually distant. Gather those who have forgotten You. Gather those who don’t know who they really are. Gather those who love You and those who don’t recognize You.
God, You show us the signs of this impending redemption with Israel’s flowering, miraculous technology, and the bountiful harvest. Look God and see what I see — the hills and valleys, study halls and houses of prayer, rising buildings and tech start-ups — Israel is blooming. The barren sand is turning to soil. The fertile land overflowing with ripe fruit and fragrant honey. Your precious and Holy Torah once again emanates from Zion to the rest of the world.
God, make this the appointed time. Sound the great shofar for the redemption. Raise the banner of freedom; raise the banner of liberation; raise the banner of justice; gather us today from the ends of the Earth. Please God, resist being dissuaded by our narrow vision because deep down we know Israel is our spiritual home. You know because You engraved it on our hearts. Our souls yearn for home. Our souls year for redemption. Our souls yearn for peace and unity, for harmony and salvation. Redeem Your people. Why make us wait any longer?
Blessed are You, who gathers together the dispersed People of Israel. Amen, selah.
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Wish You Weren’t Here Roger Waters
Boycott of Waters Launched With Petition, Website and Film
A group calling itself “We Don’t Need no Roger Waters” are calling for a boycott of musician Roger Waters. The Change.org petition wants a worldwide boycott of Waters until he renounces antisemitism and the unjust boycott of the State of Israel. The group has launched a website and Facebook page, and will be releasing a movie this summer.
The former frontman for Pink Floyd has increasingly used his rock-star status to defame and call for the boycott of Israel. He infamously flew a pig drone painted with swastikas and Stars of David at his concerts in 2013. Waters screens anti-Israel film clips during his live shows and viciously attacks any artist that chooses to perform in Israel.
Waters isn’t just anti-Israel, say his detractors, he’s actually a Jew-hater. They are firing back against his supporters by countering that Waters is not just anti-Israel, but actually a racist who espouses bigotry and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.
According to the filmmakers, “Wish You Weren’t Here is a shocking, explosive and compelling film by award winning filmmaker/No.1 NY Times bestselling author Ian Halperin.” The film sets out to answer such questions as is Roger Waters an anti-Semite?
Halperin, who is the son of a Holocaust survivor, traveled for two years researching his story, and the film includes interviews with leading figures such as including Ambassador Ronald S. Lauder, Pope Francis, Haras Rafiq, Palestinian and Israeli leaders, U.S., British and French government officials, The Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, Alan Dershowitz and Dr. Charles Small.
Instead of using music to build bridges and foster peace, it seems that Waters is actually another brick in the wall.
June 12, 2017 /by rabbiyonah
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A Twitter Yizkor: Memorial for Israeli Victims of Terror Launched on Twitter
The double murder of Rabbi Yaakov (44) and Natanel Litman (18) on Friday, November 13th, was quickly overshadowed by the immense and horrific massacres across Paris later that night.
But even without the massacre, the names and stories of Israelis murdered in the past few months get lost behind the next group of names of victims.
Four more Israelis were killed in terror attacks today.
Inspired by the @ParisVictims Twitter account, created by Mashable to publicize the lives of each one of the 129 people killed in the horrific attacks on November 13th, 2015, we have launched @israelivictims to memorialize Israelis killed in terror attacks.
The @parisvictims account has quickly amassed more than 44,000 followers.
If you would like to help with this effort, just contact rabbi @ picoshul.org.
We pray to God that we don’t have to add any more names, and for a quick recovery of all the victims.
May God comfort all the mourners, and Hashem yikom damam.
Rabbi Yaakov (44) a gifted teacher and Natanel Litman (18) a volunteer paramedic HY”D were murdered on Friday, November 13, 2015.
The Litmans were driving to pre-wedding Shabbat celebration for one of their daughters, Sarah Tihyeh. The family car was ambushed by Shadi Ahmed Matawa of Islamic Jihad, and maybe others, near Otniel in the hills south of Hebron.
Five other members of the Litman family were lightly wounded in the shooting, including Noa, three daughters aged 5, 9, and 11, and a 16-year-old son. On Saturday, Noa said an ambulance from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society stopped at the scene of the attack before Magen David Adom paramedics arrived, but left without offering assistance. Dvir, the 16-year-old son, called MDA and also said the Red Crescent ambulance left the scene.
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Ministry of Communication and IT
DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 1884
TO BE ANSWERED ON 18.12.2008
Spectrum for G
SHRI RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR
Will the Minister of COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:-
(a) total availability of spectrum of 3G services with details of bands for auction;
(b) whether Government plans to hold 3G auctions by itself or proposes to avail of services of an external auctioneer for the purpose; and
(c) the steps Government proposes to take to ensure that maximum revenue value is received by it from the spectrum through auction?
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
(SHRI. JYOTIRADITYA M. SCINDIA)
(a) Government has announced detailed guidelines for auction and allotment of spectrum for 3G Telecom Services, on 01.08.08 and certain amendments on 11.09.08. The spectrum will be granted through a controlled simultaneous ascending e-auction to the successful bidder.
Spectrum shall be auctioned in blocks of 2x5 MHz in 2.1 GHz band. The number of blocks to be auctioned varies subject to availability in different telecom service areas. (Details placed at Annexure-I)
(b)&(c) Government has taken a decision to auction 3G spectrum and also to avail the services of a specialized external auctioneer. M/S N.M. Rothschild & Sons (India) Pvt Ltd, Mumbai has been selected for auctioning of 3G spectrum. The auction will be completed by January 2009.
Annexure –I
No. of blocks of spectrum available for auction
Delhi (Metro)
Mumbai (Metro)
Kolkata (Metro)
Uttar Pradesh (E)
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Pope Francis Says Accused Pastors Are Like Jesus on ‘Good Friday’
Bishops who are accused should remain silent like Jesus on Good Friday when the crowds called out for his crucifixion, Pope Francis said Tuesday.
When people insulted Jesus on Good Friday and shouted, “Crucify him,” the pope said in his morning homily at the chapel of the Santa Marta residence, “he remained silent because he had compassion for those people deceived by the powerful.”
“He was silent. He prayed,” Francis said.
“In the same way, the pastor, in difficult times, in times when the devil is unleashed, where the pastor is accused—accused by the Great Accuser through so many people, so many powerful ones—suffers, offers his life and prays,” the pope said.
At the conclusion of the homily, Francis invited the congregation to pray for the bishops. “Take up the Gospel and read, and see Jesus, and where his authority lies. And ask the grace that all pastors may have this authority: an authority that is a grace of the Holy Spirit,” he said.
Tuesday’s homily marked the fourth occasion in two weeks where the pope decried the action of those who accuse bishops, comparing them to the devil, the “Great Accuser.”
Last week, Francis compared Vatican whistleblower Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to Satan, the “Great Accuser,” after Viganò released an 11-page document filled with allegations of the mishandling of serial homosexual abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick by high-ranking prelates, including the pope himself.
In these times “it seems that the Great Accuser has been unleashed and has it in for the bishops,” the pope said.
“It is true, we are all sinners, we bishops,” he said, but the Great Accuser “seeks to unveil sins so that they may be seen, to scandalize the people.”
The pope’s reference to the silence of Jesus before his accusers Tuesday reflects his own option to deny comments to reporters seeking to know whether any of the allegations are true.
When asked directly about the accusation just after their publication, Francis dodged questions from reporters, including when he had learned about McCarrick’s abuse, telling them to read the report and make their own assessment of its credibility.
Since that time, a number of bishops have criticized the pope’s “no comment” media strategy, insisting the allegations are very serious and that Francis has the duty to clarify the facts to provide the “accountability” for which he himself has called.
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Dist panels to curb illegal sand mining in Pune
The committee is expected to meet every month or more frequently and look into complaints of illegal mining of sand and other minerals
Sarang Dastane
PUNE: The state government has directed all district administrations to set up committees to check illegal extraction of sand from rivers. A directive to this effect was issued recently through a government resolution. It states that the district collectors will head the committees comprising superintendent of police or police commissioner, regional transport officer and the district mining officer.
The committee is expected to meet every month or more frequently and look into complaints of illegal mining of sand and other minerals. It will also have to peruse suggestions and observations received regarding such activities.
The district collector will issue directives to the departments concerned to act against the complaints and control the unauthorized businesses.
Sources in the administration said illegal sand mining is rampant in Pune and surrounding districts and that the administration has not been able to contain the activities despite repeated actions. The committees will act as 'watchdogs' and help in restricting illegal extraction of sand, they said.
Illegal mining of sand is rampant in rivers like Bhima, Ghod, Mula, Mutha and Indrayani in the district. Sand is extracted mainly during the night and transported to locations which are far away from residential areas.
District authorities said that they have been taking action through special drives and surprise checks. More than 2,000 cases of illegal extraction and transport of sand have been registered in the district in the last seven months. Also, Rs 4 crore have been recovered in fine from the offenders.
Authorities claimed that more than 70% of the total cases were detected in the past four months. The illegal activities have reduced to some extent because of the drives, they added.
The district administration on Monday seized 30 trucks transporting sand without necessary permits. The action was initiated in Wakad area. A total fine of Rs. 11.70 lakh was recovered from the transporters. The administration has said it will file police cases against those who fail to pay the fine. Officials said the truck drivers had a plan to travel towards Mulshi to avoid action but were caught in Wakad area. The district collector has given powers to sub-divisional officers to initiate action against illegal transport of minerals.
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The subscription series winds up June 4 weekend with an all-Russian program and another premier piano soloist, Vladimir Feltsman. Among the works is Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, which marked the joyful end of World War II.
The Symphony, of course, has an even broader season than the subscription concerts. There’s family fare, pops concerts (including a showcase for Art Garfunkel), holiday shows and the band’s regular work with Lyric Opera and Kansas City Ballet productions.
And one significant sidelight of the season will be the release, expected before Christmas, of the Symphony’s second CD for the audiophile label Reference Recordings.
The disc will be a Benjamin Britten collection. Recorded last June in the Community of Christ Auditorium in Independence, the selections include Britten’s “Sinfonia da Requiem,” the Passacaglia, “Four Sea Interludes” from “Peter Grimes” and the ever-popular “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.”
“It’ll be a great New Year’s present,” Stern said.
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“I could tell you,” he said, “but I’d have to kill you.”
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April 18, 2018 by Frank Siemons
Cloud Connectivity for End-point Security Products
A relatively new feature in Antivirus products has led to an evolution of most traditional Antivirus products: Cloud connectivity.
Many vendors such as CrowdStrike, Symantec, and Palo Alto use their cloud platforms to enable end-point security agents, servers, and devices to obtain real-time threat intelligence data. This connectivity allows its users to make an informed decision on suspicious file or network activity and if possible, to automatically contain a compromised system in its earliest stages.
Without the benefits of a distributed cloud platform, such a service was previously hard to maintain for vendors. Before cloud connectivity, threat intelligence lists would need to be downloaded by every customer individually, and the delay between scheduled updates would mean the data in production was always at least slightly behind the data the vendor had made available.
Real-time Cloud-based Analysis
Imagine a suspicious, outgoing network connection over Telnet to an IP address in a country, which cannot be explained by normal business operations. A Next Generation firewall or a host-based IDS agent could quickly look up the IP or domain in a cloud-based database for any background information. If the vendor has marked the IP as suspicious or even malicious, the connection can be dropped straight away.
The next step in cloud-based threat intelligence is to share sanitized findings of suspicious activity with the vendor, to the benefit of other customers using the same platform.
The latest trend in this area is the addition of Sandboxing. No longer are only certain artifacts such as IP addresses and domains sent to the cloud for analysis, now entire suspicious files can be uploaded. When such a sample file is uploaded, it can be detonated inside the vendor’s isolated cloud platform, or if needed, it can be manually analyzed by a team of malware specialists. This means an informed decision can be made whether the file is malicious or benign based on its behavior, not just on its file characteristics. Although this service has incredible potential, care needs to be taken, because it opens the users of such a cloud-based analysis platform, to some interesting new security risks.
Risks around Security vendors
Anyone following Information Security News would have picked up on the Kaspersky vs. US Government case. Put simply, the US government, like many other governments around the world are claiming Kaspersky’s ties to the Russian government are a risk to the security of its customers. Without going into the politics of this specific case, such a risk could technically exist, because of the significant access anti-virus products have to the systems they are monitoring. To be effective at detection and removal of deeply nested malware, the security agents have rootkit access, which gives the product full access to any file on the system including the file system itself. They also operate by utilizing regularly updated, vendor controlled proprietary (usually closed) signatures to trigger on specific artifacts of these files. It is easy for a vendor to create a signature that would, for instance, scan a file for certain (confidential) keywords such as the term “SECRET.” Recently, cloud features have increased the risk of data exfiltration. Depending on the configuration of the security product, it is often possible to upload matching files to an online environment, controlled by the vendor and their often-unknown partners. This is meant to be for analysis purposes, but who controls the access to the uploaded files and in which jurisdiction do they fall?
Although the above is a hypothetical risk until proven, it is a real risk to consider while deciding on which Antivirus vendor to select and which features on their products to enable. Any organization should always try to control their data flow, especially when it concerns private or confidential data.
Risks around 3rd parties
Some applications use 3rd party Sandboxing or Threat Intelligence lookup tools such as VirusTotal. VirusTotal, these days owned by Google, is basically an enormous database of analyzed malware, often also containing the sample files itself, offered as a downloadable zip file. Although the sheer size of the gathered data has no real competition and remains a treasure-trove of malware information, some risks are commonly known.
A well-documented risk is that actual Malware Authors monitor these analysis platforms to see the effectiveness of their malware, to see which affected targets uploaded it for analysis and to assess the need to modify their malware files and infrastructure.
Another risk, greatly enlarged due to recent progress in automation is that very targeted or simply benign files can contain confidential company data, such as infrastructure information or even login credentials. Manually or automatically uploading these files to a public forum and sharing them with the many VirusTotal partners and basically with the entire public internet, could create a significant risk.
In 2017 Brian Krebs reported on a security breach by Carbon Black. Their security agent would, if the feature was enabled, submit files to VirusTotal automatically which in this situation uploaded benign files containing for instance passwords, for analysis. VirusTotal, in turn, shared the findings and the files itself on their publicly accessible platform for anyone to download. Carbon Black stated that the upload function was not enabled by default. If this is correct, some of the blame falls on the affected companies as well.
Many companies have a policy not to manually upload any files to online services, some even with the threat of instant dismissal. Of course, this policy should also cover automated anti-virus products and the team responsible for their configuration. Automation does allow for thorough large-scale analysis, but it also creates large-scale incidents when anything goes wrong.
When deploying, updating and auditing antivirus products, it is critical to check any cloud functionality and to make sure the enabled features fall within the broader company security policy. If there are any concerns, it is trivial to ensure compliance by creating firewall or proxy rules that block access to certain destinations such as virus total or the vendor’s upload servers.
Cloud features significantly enhance the capability of the entire range of IT security products. Cybersecurity is such a dynamic, and fast-changing environment and malware changes shaped so often that real-time intelligence is needed. It is essential however to control the associated risks, so these great new security features do not create a data breach themselves.
Frank Siemons
Frank Siemons is an Australian security researcher at InfoSec Institute. His trackrecord consists of many years of Systems and Security administration, both in Europe and in Australia.
Currently he holds many certifications such as CISSP and has a Master degree in InfoSys Security at Charles Sturt University. He has a true passion for anything related to pentesting and vulnerability assessment and can be found on au.linkedin.com/in/franksiemons. His Twitter handle is @franksiemons
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Traders' body moves Supreme Court over WhatsApp's new privacy policy
Traders' body CAIT on Saturday filed a petition in the Supreme Court, making a plea to direct WhatsApp to withdraw its new privacy policy. The body issued a statement claiming that the new WhatsApp privacy policy encroaches upon various fundamental rights of the citizens.
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The protests, one of Modi’s toughest political challenges yet, follow an eventful 2020 when the combined fortunes of Ambani and Adani swelled by almost $41 billion, even as millions of Indians lost their jobs to the pandemic that pummeled the $2.9 trillion economy.
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China is obviously getting restless and has flagged the issue of screening all FDI proposals even at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The government has hit back at Beijing in multiple ways, including a ban on several mobile apps, clamping on popular ones such as TikTok, and customs checks of goods being imported from across the border.
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The Commerce Department said US retail sales in the final month of 2020 were up only 2.9 percent from last year, weaker than the 5.8 percent growth seen from December 2018 as stores across the world's largest economy struggled with its massive Covid-19 outbreak.
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The protest was staged to save the livelihoods of nearly 6.5 lakh micro retailers and their 30 lakh dependants, who have been badly hit by the Covid-induced lockdowns, said a statement by the retailers affiliated to the Federation of Retailer Association of India (FRAI).
Two industry associations representing apparel companies and distributors of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies have written to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), urging the market regulator to review and approve Future Group's deal with Reliance Retail Ventures quickly.
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Union Budget 2021: Retailers seek measures to sustain demand uptick and ease cashflow
The Retailers Association of India (RAI) has had detailed discussions with its members and a comprehensive set of suggestions have been submitted to the Central Government for the Union Budget 2021. Apart from various Direct and Indirect Taxes (GST) recommendations, RAI has submitted the following suggestions for the Government to consider and accelerate the formulation and implementation of the National Retail Policy to boost the retail sector and facilitate ease of doing business.
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In a media release, the apex retail industry body Retailers Association of India (RAI) said it has proposed that retailers should be allowed to be registered as micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) so that they too can be entitled for all benefits available to MSMEs. It has also pushed that states should adopt model shops and establishment Act.
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ET Startup Awards 2020 | Need Rs 10,000 crore fund to support startups in India: Piyush Goyal
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HC seeks Future Retail's stand on Amazon plea to set aside court's observations against it
Future Retail says reviewing HC order, Amazon welcomes verdict
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I Section 16. Grand juries — composition — jurisdiction to convene — powers. — That a grand jury shall consist of twelve citizens, any nine of whom concurring may find an indictment or a true bill: Provided, that no grand jury shall be convened except upon an order of a judge of a court having the power to try and determine felonies; but when so assembled such grand jury shall have power to investigate and return indictments for all character and grades of crime; and that the power of grand juries to inquire into the willful misconduct in office of public officers, and to find indictments in connection therewith, shall never be suspended.
Source: Const. of 1875, Art. II, § 28 (Amended November 6, 1900).
(1977) Grand jury cannot report its findings after investigation of a named public official except by indictment. If no indictment is found, an interim "report" should be expunged from the record. Matter of Interim Report of Grand Jury (Mo.), 553 S.W.2d 479.
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Super Lawyers → Lawyer Directory → Personal Injury Attorneys → Florida → Tampa → Robert D. Sparks
Robert D. Sparks
Top Rated Personal Injury Attorney in Tampa, FL
Robert Sparks Attorneys
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Visit: https://www.getserious.com
Education: Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law
Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff (50%),
Attorney Robert D. Sparks is the Founding partner of Robert Sparks Attorneys in Tampa, Florida. A top-rated trial advocate with more than 14 years of legal experience, Mr. Sparks devotes his practice primarily to personal injury & family law.
Through his personal injury practice, Mr. Sparks has achieved considerable success fighting on behalf of those who suffered an injury or loss as the result of someone else's negligence or wrongdoing. Among his most notable successes, Mr. Sparks served as co-counsel on a pedestrian injury case in Hillsborough County. The record-breaking $30 million verdict returned stands as one of the largest verdicts in the country for this type of claim, and it established Mr. Sparks as one of the youngest lawyers in the nation to achieve such an accomplishment.
In addition, Mr. Sparks has helped recover millions of dollars in settlements and awards for those adversely affected by medical malpractice, truck and auto accidents, and other preventable tragedies. He has also earned a membership in the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Furthermore, he has received numerous other awards and honors for his professionalism and service, including Top 100 and Top 40 Under 40 designations from the National Trial Lawyers as well as the 10 Best in Client Satisfaction Award from the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys.
In his family law practice, Mr. Sparks has been equally successful in protecting the rights and best interests of his clients during divorce proceedings while aggressively pursuing the most favorable outcomes on their behalves for their issues involving child custody and support, complex property division, and other related matters.
A 2001 graduate of Saint Leo College, Mr. Sparks obtained his Juris Doctor from Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law in 2005. He is admitted to practice before all Florida state courts as well as before the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. He is also an active member of The Florida Bar and the Hillsborough County Bar Association's Family Law Section, among his other professional affiliations.
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About Robert Sparks
Admitted: 2005, Florida
Professional Webpage: https://www.getserious.com/attorney-profiles/robert-d-sparks...
Honors/Awards:
The National Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers
Expertise’s Best Personal Injury Lawyers in Tampa
Top Verdict's Number 1 Verdicts in Florida (Brain Injury)
Top 10 Car Accident Verdicts in Florida
Honored for Academic and Trial Advocacy, Moot Court Honor Society
2016-2019, Super Lawyers
The National Lawyers Top 40 Under 40
Lawyers of Distinction
Number 2 Verdicts in Florida (Pedestrian Accident)
Top 10 Brain Injury Verdicts in Florida
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America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators
Top Verdicts & Settlements by The National Law Journal (#62 Ming v. Gerelco Traffic Controls)
Top 20 Verdicts in Florida (#11)
Top 10 Personal Injury Verdicts in Florida
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Supreme Court of Florida
Florida Bar Association
Federal Middle District Court of Florida
Hillsborough County Bar Association, Family Law and Criminal Sections
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Verdicts/Settlements:
In December 2017, Givens Givens Sparks personal injury attorneys, Christopher Codling and Robert Sparks, were awarded a $30 million verdict by a Tampa jury on behalf of their client, Stephanie Ming, who suffered permanent and debilitating brain damage after she was hit by a vehicle while walking on the side of the road in 2011. The victim was walking on Christmas Eve when the side passenger mirror of a commercial pick-up truck struck Ms. Ming in the back of the head at a speed of approximately 48 miles per hour. The victim was hospitalized and treated for a head injury, including seven staples at Tampa General Hospital. Following the incident, Ms. Ming began to exhibit symptoms associated with a traumatic brain injury, including memory loss, confusion, and other cognitive issues associated with head trauma. The driver of the truck was a superintendent for Gerelco Traffic Controls, Inc., an engineering and construction company based out of Port. St. Lucie, Florida. Leading up to the trial, Gerelco Traffic Controls, Inc. denied any liability associated with the incident and also denied that the victim had suffered any permanent injuries or damages. “The pure negligence and disregard for their wrong doing and the impact it had on our client’s life was troubling on multiple levels,” said Christopher Codling, lead counsel for the case. “Not only the driver, but also the company that was ultimately accountable for the use and/or misuse of their commercial vehicles, circumvented any responsibility in this matter.” After a five-day jury trial in Hillsborough County where the defendant (Gerelco Traffic Controls, Inc.) ultimately accepted fault for the incident but continued to deny the victim had suffered any permanent injuries, a six-person jury awarded Ms. Ming a $30 million verdict for injuries and damages sustained, including past and future medical expenses, past and future pain and suffering, as well as the impact on her past and future quality of life., 2017
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Tag: British
Fun facts about English football
In England, football has always been considered a national identity, it shows the spirit and position of this country in the world. Football has always been a topic to discuss lively, sometimes bringing joy and regret to me and the British people.
For someone who is knowledgeable about England and football like me, I will reveal more interesting things about this sport. It is noted that a carved image of a ball near the medieval city of Bristol, and the first soccer shoes belonged to Henry VIII, who made a pair for his collection in the year 1526.
At first, football was a rather violent sport compared to today. However, in the past few decades, football has evolved from a violent sport to a sport of speed and technology, attracting the participation of highly qualified players.
The development of football also reflects the social change taking place in England. In the 1970s and 1980s, football fans and police all liked violence, which was the result of non-industrial processes and rising unemployment in the economy. Today, the picture of English football has also become brighter, the football fields from Cambridge Temple Bournemouth have also become more attractive.
Exciting debates broke out in pubs all over the country on the cause of losing the match in penalty shootouts against the Germans. It has been suggested that since the Premier League Football League was established in 1992, television companies have made billions of pounds from buying broadcast rights.
However, instead of sharing the profits, private companies began buying local clubs and hiring foreign players to increase the attractiveness of English football. Therefore, football is no longer funded by people and no longer attracts local talents. Is that why we failed at the shootouts? I don’t think so, but this will be a topic to debate when you come to England next time.
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